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starting gate
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seed
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noun
noun
- The entering upon; the beginning, or that with which the beginning is made; the commencement; initiation.
- The act of taking possession, as of property, or of office.
- The place of entering, as a gate or doorway.
- The right to go in.
- The bow, or entire wedgelike forepart of a vessel, below the water line.
- The action of entering, or going in.
- The beginning of a musician's playing or singing; entry.
- The causing to be entered upon a register, as a ship or goods, at a customhouse; an entering.
- The angle which the bow of a vessel makes with the water at the water line.
verb
verb
noun
- An instance of starting.
- The beginning point of a race, a board game, etc.
- An appearance in a sports game, horserace, etc., from the beginning of the event.
- The curved or inclined front and bottom of a water wheel bucket.
- The arm, or level, of a gin, drawn around by a horse.
- An initial advantage over somebody else; a head start.
- A handle, especially that of a plough.
- A young plant germinated in a pot to be transplanted later.
- A projection or protrusion; that which pokes out.
- The beginning of an activity.
- A sudden involuntary movement.
verb
- To begin.
- To flinch or draw back.
- To awaken suddenly.
- To put or raise (a question, an objection); to put forward (a subject for discussion).
- To disturb and cause to move suddenly; to startle; to alarm; to rouse; to cause to flee or fly.
- To break away, to come loose.
- To put into play.
- To move suddenly from its place or position; to displace or loosen; to dislocate.
- To pour out; to empty; to tap and begin drawing from.
- To set in motion.
- To have its origin (at), begin.
- To bring onto being or into view; to originate; to invent.
- To jerk suddenly in surprise.
- To start one's periods (menstruation).
- To begin an activity.
- To ready the operation of a vehicle or machine.
adj
noun
- The beginning.
- An area where armies are engaged in conflict, especially the line of contact.
- A major military subdivision of the Soviet Army.
- A grill (jewellery worn on front teeth).
- The foremost side of something or the end that faces the direction it normally moves.
- A seafront or coastal promenade.
- A person or institution acting as the public face of some other, covert group.
- A field of activity.
- The lateral space occupied by an element measured from the extremity of one flank to the extremity of the other flank.
- An act, show, façade, persona: an intentional and false impression of oneself.
- The most conspicuous part.
- That which covers the foremost part of the head: a front piece of false hair worn by women.
- The side of a building with the main entrance.
- When a combat situation does not exist or is not assumed, the direction toward which the command is faced.
- The direction of the enemy.
- The interface or transition zone between two airmasses of different density, often resulting in precipitation. Since the temperature distribution is the most important regulator of atmospheric density, a front almost invariably separates airmasses of different temperature.
adj
- Closest or nearest, of a set of futures contracts which expire at particular times, or of the times they expire; (typically, the front month or front year is the next calender month or year after the current one).
- Located at or near the front.
- Pronounced with the highest part of the body of the tongue toward the front of the mouth, near the hard palate (most often describing a vowel).
verb
- To face up to, to meet head-on, to confront.
- To provide money or financial assistance in advance to.
- To deceive or attempt to deceive someone with false or disingenuous appearances (on).
- To appear before.
- To move (a word or clause) to the start of a sentence (or series of adjectives, etc).
- To pronounce with the tongue in a front position.
- To adorn with, at the front; to put on the front.
- To assume false or disingenuous appearances.
- Of an alter in dissociative identity disorder: to be the currently actively presenting member of (a system), in control of the patient's body.
- To act as a front (for); to cover (for).
- To lead or be the spokesperson of (a campaign, organisation etc.).
- To face, be opposite to.
noun
noun
adj
- Inoperative, disabled.
- On the side furthest from the kerb (the right-hand side if one drives on the left).
- Inappropriate; untoward.
- Circumstanced.
- Cancelled; not happening.
- Disgusting, repulsive, abhorrent.
- Presently unavailable.
- Started on the way.
- Rancid, rotten, gone bad.
- Less than normal, in temperament or in result.
- The off front wheel came loose.
- Not fitted; not being worn.
- Designating a time when one is not performing to the best of one's abilities.
- In, or towards the half of the field away from the batsman's legs; the right side for a right-handed batsman.
- Far; off to the side.
- Designating a time when one is not strictly attentive to business or affairs, or is absent from a post, and, hence, a time when affairs are not urgent.
verb
adv
- Offstage.
- Used in various other ways specific to individual idiomatic phrases, e.g. bring off, show off, put off, tell off, etc. See the entry for the individual phrase.
- Into a state of non-operation or non-existence.
- So as to remove or separate, or be removed or separated.
- In a direction away from the speaker or other reference point.
prep
- Placed after a number (of products or parts, as if a unit), in commerce or engineering.
- Removed or subtracted from.
- Used to indicate the location or direction of one thing relative to another, implying adjacency or accessibility via.
- Out of the possession of.
- Detached, separated, excluded or disconnected from; away from a position of attachment or connection to.
- Used to express location at sea relative to land or mainland.
- No longer wanting or taking.
- Not positioned upon, or away from a position upon.
verb
- To enter upon, begin.
- To move to a position allowing fluid to flow.
- To bring up, broach.
- To make accessible to customers or clients.
- To bet before any other player has in a particular betting round in a game of poker.
- To spread; to expand into an open or loose position.
- To move to a position preventing electricity from flowing.
- To become open.
- To make something accessible or allow for passage by moving from a shut position.
- To turn on; to switch on.
- To make (an open space, etc.) by clearing away an obstacle or obstacles, in order to allow for passage, access, or visibility.
- To begin a side's innings as one of the first two batsmen.
- To make (a bed) ready for a patient by folding back the bedcovers.
- To start (a campaign).
- To begin conducting business.
- To reveal one's hand.
- To load into memory for viewing or editing.
adj
- Not fulfilled.
- Made public, usable with a free licence and without proprietary components.
- Having a free variable.
- Having component words separated by spaces, as opposed to being joined together or hyphenated; for example, time slot as opposed to timeslot or time-slot.
- Public
- Mild (of the weather); free from frost or snow.
- With open access, of open science, or both.
- Candid, ingenuous, not subtle in character.
- Resulting from an incision, puncture or any other process by which the skin no longer protects an internal part of the body.
- In current use; mapped to part of memory.
- Of a note, played without pressing the string against the fingerboard.
- Actively conducting or prepared to conduct business.
- Able to have something pass through or along it.
- not covered, showing what is inside
- To be in a position preventing electricity from flowing.
- Uttered, as a consonant, with the oral passage simply narrowed without closure.
- Source code of a computer program that is not within the text of a macro being generated.
- To be in a position allowing fluid to flow.
- Of a note, played without closing any finger-hole, key or valve.
- Able to be accessed (physically).
- Uttered with a relatively wide opening of the articulating organs; said of vowels.
- That ends in a vowel; not having a coda.
- Not physically drawn together, closed, folded or contracted; extended.
- Receptive.
- Which is part of a predefined collection of subsets of X, that defines a topological space on X.
- Written or sent with the intention that it may made public or referred to at any trial, rather than by way of confidential private negotiation for a settlement.
- Not settled or adjusted; not decided or determined; not closed or withdrawn from consideration.
- Not of a quality to prevent communication, as by closing waterways, blocking roads, etc.; hence, not frosty or inclement; mild; used of the weather or the climate.
- Whose first and last vertices are different.
noun
noun
- The beginning; the first stage of anything.
- A rudimentary plant contained in the seed.
- In the reproductive cycle, the stage after the fertilization of the egg that precedes the development into a fetus.
- In viviparous animals, the young animal's earliest stages in the mother's body
- In humans, usually the cell growth up to the end of the seventh week in the mother's body
- An organism in the earlier stages of development before it emerges from the egg, or before metamorphosis.
adj
adj
verb
- To initiate something.
- To fire a weapon.
- To spark a response, especially a negative emotional response, in (someone).
- To activate; to become active.
noun
- An electronic transducer allowing a drum, cymbal, etc. to control an electronic drum unit or similar device.
- An event, experience or other stimulus that initiates a traumatic memory or a strong reaction in a person.
- An SQL procedure that may be initiated when a record is inserted, updated or deleted; typically used to maintain referential integrity.
- A concept or image that upsets somebody by sparking a negative emotional response.
- A similar device used to activate any mechanism.
- An event that initiates others, or incites a response.
- A pulse in an electronic circuit that initiates some component.
- A text string that, when received by a player, will cause the player to execute a certain command.
- A device that manually lengthens (or sometimes shortens) the slide or tubing of a brass instrument, allowing the pitch range to be altered while playing.
- A finger-operated lever used to fire a gun.
verb
- To open, initiate.
- To remove or break up (a blockade), either by withdrawing the ships or forces employed in enforcing it, or by driving them away or dispersing them.
- To cause something to come to the surface of water.
- To create, increase or develop.
- To establish contact with (e.g., by telephone or radio).
- To cause (a dead person) to live again; to resurrect.
- To increase the nominal value of (a cheque, money order, etc.) by fraudulently changing the writing or printing in which the sum payable is specified.
- To create; to constitute (a use, or a beneficial interest in property).
- To collect or amass.
- To relinquish (a siege), or cause this to be done.
- To mention (a question, issue) for discussion.
- To promote.
- To produce a vowel with the tongue positioned closer to the roof of the mouth.
- To instantiate and transmit (an exception, by throwing it, or an event).
- To bring up; to grow.
- To respond to a bet by increasing the amount required to continue in the hand.
- To exponentiate, to involute.
- To make (bread, etc.) light, as by yeast or leaven.
- To bring into being; to produce; to cause to arise, come forth, or appear.
- To form by the accumulation of materials or constituent parts; to build up; to erect.
- To extract (a subject or other verb argument) out of an inner clause.
- To cause (the land or any other object) to seem higher by drawing nearer to it.
- To cause to rise; to lift or elevate.
noun
verb
- To debut.
- To become bent or curved.
- To defer (to something).
- To give a direction, indication, or command to by bowing.
- To play music on (a stringed) instrument using a bow.
- To make something bend or curve.
- To exercise powerful or controlling influence over; to bend, figuratively; to turn; to incline.
- To bend oneself as a gesture of respect or deference.
noun
- Any instrument consisting of an elastic rod, with ends connected by a string, employed for giving reciprocating motion to a drill, or for preparing and arranging hair, fur, etc., used by hatters.
- The part of a key that is not inserted into the lock and that is used to turn the key.
- The U-shaped piece which goes around the neck of an ox and fastens it to the yoke.
- A curved bend in a rod or planar surface, or in a linear formation such as a river (see oxbow).
- A crude sort of quadrant formerly used for taking the sun's altitude at sea.
- Two pieces of wood which form the arched forward part of a saddletree.
- A type of knot with two loops, used to tie together two cords such as shoelaces or apron strings, and frequently used as decoration, such as in gift-wrapping.
- Anything bent or curved, such as a rainbow.
- The front of a boat or ship.
- A weapon made of a curved piece of wood or other flexible material whose ends are connected by a string, used for shooting arrows.
- Either of the arms of a pair of spectacles, running from the side of the lens to behind the wearer's ear.
- The rower that sits in the seat closest to the bow of the boat.
- A stringed instrument (chordophone), consisting of a stick with a single taut cord stretched between the ends, most often played by plucking.
- A rod with horsehair (or an artificial substitute) stretched between the ends, used for playing various stringed musical instruments.
- A gesture, usually showing respect, made by inclining the head or bending forward at the waist; a reverence
noun
- The opening so formed.
- A complete circuit for an electric current.
- A quasigroup with an identity element.
- A ring road or beltway.
- A loop-shaped intrauterine device.
- A small, narrow opening; a loophole.
- A flexible region in a protein's secondary structure.
- A place at a terminus where trains or trams can turn round and go back the other way without having to reverse; a balloon loop, turning loop, or reversing loop.
- An aerobatic maneuver in which an aircraft flies a circular path in a vertical plane.
- An endless strip of tape or film allowing continuous repetition.
- A length of thread, line or rope that is doubled over to make an opening.
- An edge that begins and ends on the same vertex.
- A shape produced by a curve that bends around and crosses itself.
- A programmed sequence of instructions that is repeated until or while a particular condition is satisfied.
- A path that starts and ends at the same point.
- A bus or rail route, walking route, etc. that starts and ends at the same point.
verb
- To move in a loop.
- To move something in a loop.
- To place in a loop.
- To join electrical components to complete a circuit.
- To fly an aircraft in a loop.
- To duplicate the route of a pipeline.
- To form something into a loop.
- To create an error in a computer program so that it runs in an endless loop and the computer freezes up.
- To fasten or encircle something with a loop.
- To form a loop.
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adj
noun
- The commencement or initial stages of a business, especially of one which requires great exertion.
- A heavy fall of rain or snow; cloudburst.
- The lower edge of a fire-clay lining piece.
- The setting about of an action; development; progress.
- An attack; an attack or onset of a disease, fit, or episode.
- A mysterious disease or ailment.
- Advent, arrival, approach; onset
verb
noun
- A precursor.
- A fragment of coral.
- The initial position of a competitor or team in a tournament. (seed position)
- Initialization state of a pseudorandom number generator (PRNG). (seed number)
- An amount of seeds that cannot be readily counted.
- Any small seed-like fruit.
- Semen.
- The competitor or team occupying a given seed. (seed position)
- Any propagative portion of a plant which may be sown, such as true seeds, seed-like fruits, tubers, or bulbs.
- Commercial message in a creative format placed on relevant sites on the Internet. (seed idea or seed message)
- Race; generation; birth.
- A small bubble formed in imperfectly fused glass.
- A fertilized and ripened ovule, containing an embryonic plant.
verb
- To grow to maturity.
- To produce seed.
- To cover thinly with something scattered; to ornament with seedlike decorations.
- To allocate a seeding to a competitor.
- To plant or sow an area with seeds.
- To leave (files) available for others to download through peer-to-peer file sharing protocols (e.g. BitTorrent).
- To be qualified to compete, especially in a quarter-final, semi-final, or final.
- To ejaculate inside the penetratee during intercourse, especially in the rectum.
- To start; to provide, assign or determine the initial resources for, position of, state of.
verb
noun
- The act of approaching or entering; an advance.
- Connection to or communication with a computer program or to the Internet.
- An outburst of an emotion; a paroxysm; a fit of passion.
- Complicity or assent.
- Admission to sexual intercourse.
- A way or means of approaching or entering; an entrance; a passage.
- The right or ability of approaching or entering; admittance; admission; accessibility.
- An onset, attack, or fit of disease; an ague fit.
- The right of a noncustodial parent to visit their child.
- The quality of being easy to approach or enter.
- The process of locating data in memory.
verb
noun
- The act of founding, fixing, establishing, or beginning to erect.
- The result of the work to begin something; that which stabilizes and allows an enterprise or system to develop.
- The lowest and supporting part or member of a wall, including the base course and footing courses; in a frame house, the whole substructure of masonry.
- A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution, and constituting a permanent fund; endowment.
- A basis for social bodies or intellectual disciplines.
- That which is founded, or established by endowment; an endowed institution or charity.
- Cosmetic cream roughly skin-colored, designed to make the face appear uniform in color and texture.
- That upon which anything is founded; that on which anything stands, and by which it is supported; the lowest and supporting layer of a superstructure; underbuilding.
- In solitaire or patience games, one of the piles of cards that the player attempts to build, usually holding all cards of a suit in ascending order.
adj
verb
- To start; to begin (an action or process).
- To move through space (especially to or through a place). (May be used of tangible things like people or cars, or intangible things like moods or information.)
- To change (from one value to another) in the meaning of wend.
- To elapse, to pass; to slip away. (Compare go by.)
- To be spent or used up.
- To belong (somewhere).
- To (begin to) date or have sex with (a particular race).
- To make the (specified) sound.
- To fit.
- To urinate or defecate.
- To tend (toward a result).
- To be lost.
- To have (final) authority; to be authoritative.
- I woke up just before the clock went.
- To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.
- Let's go halves on this.
- Synonyms: crumble, collapse, disintegrate, give way
- To continuously or habitually be in a state.
- I went at him with a knife.
- To be in general; to be usually; often in comparison to others of the same group.
- To enjoy. (Compare go for.)
- To attend.
- To be sold.
- To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.
- Synonyms: become, turn, change into
- To move or travel in order to do something, or to do something while moving.
- To proceed (often in a specified manner, indicating the perceived quality of an event or state).
- To apply oneself; to undertake; to have as one's goal or intention. (Compare be going to.)
- To navigate (to a file or folder on a computer, a site on the internet, a memory, etc).
- To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.
- To sound; to make a noise.
- To leave; to move away.
- To extend (from one point in time or space to another).
- To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
- To come to (a certain condition or state).
- To work (through or over), especially mentally.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:urinate, see also Thesaurus:defecate
- To attack.
- To say (something, aloud or to oneself). (Often used in present tense.)
- To date.
- Yesterday was the second-wettest day on record; you have to go all the way back to 1896 to find a day when more rain fell.
- Synonyms: function, work, operate
- To break down or decay.
- To be accepted.
- We've only gone twenty miles today.
- To be valid.
- To have a certain record.
- To take a turn, especially in a game.
- To make an effort, to subject oneself (to something).
- To be out.
- To resort (to).
- To move (a particular distance, or in a particular fashion).
- To yield or weigh.
- Those babies go five tons apiece.
- To be discarded or disposed of.
- To follow or proceed according to (a course or path).
- To lead (to a place); to give access to.
- To be expressed or composed (a certain way).
- Anything goes around here.
- Why don’t you go with us?
- Let's go this way for a while.
- To end or disappear. (Compare go away.)
- To fight or attack.
- How long can you go without water?
- To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay.
- To proceed (especially to do something foolish).
- To collapse or give way, to break apart.
- Expressing encouragement or approval.
- To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.)
- To move or travel through time (either literally—in a fictional or hypothetical situation in which time travel is possible—or in one's mind or knowledge of the historical record). (See also go back.)
- To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.
- To die.
- To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).
- To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.
- To travel or pass along.
- To be compatible, especially of colors or food and drink.
noun
- A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).
- An attempt, a try.
- An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved.
- Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance.
- The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above thirty-one.
- An act; the working or operation.
- A period of activity.
- Synonym: green light
- A strategic board game, originally from China and today also popular in Japan and Korea, in which two players (black and white) attempt to control the largest area of the board with their counters.
- Synonyms: attempt, bash, shot, stab, try
- The act of going.
adj
verb
- To start, launch or run
- To run, usually successfully.
- Coordinate term: murder
- To carry out; to put into effect.
- To perform.
- To kill, especially as punishment for a capital crime.
- To carry out, to perform an act; to put into effect or cause to become legally binding or valid (as a contract) by so doing.
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