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noun
- The highest or the greatest part of something, especially forming a point.
- The top of the food chain.
- The moment of greatest success, expansion, etc.
- The end or edge of a vein nearest the surface.
- A conical priest cap.
- The highest point in a plane or solid figure, relative to a base line or plane.
- The end of a leaf, petal or similar organ opposed to the end where it is attached to its support.
- The growing point of a shoot.
- The deepest part of a tooth's root.
- A diacritic in Middle Vietnamese that indicates /ŋ͡m/.
- A diacritic in Classical Latin that resembles and gave rise to the acute.
- The lowest part of the human heart.
- The point on the celestial sphere toward which the Sun appears to move relative to nearby stars.
- A sharp upward point formed by two strokes that meet at an acute angle, as in "W", uppercase "A", and closed-top "4", or by a tapered stroke, as in lowercase "t".
- The lowest point on a pendant drop of a liquid.
verb
- give a point to
- indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively
- be oriented
- direct into a position for use
- direct the course; determine the direction of travelling
- be a signal for or a symptom of
- sail close to the wind
- mark (Hebrew words) with diacritics
- mark with diacritics
- mark (a psalm text) to indicate the points at which the music changes
- be positionable in a specified manner
- intend (something) to move towards a certain goal
- indicate the presence of (game) by standing and pointing with the muzzle
- repair the joints of bricks
noun
- a geometric element that has position but no extension
- the precise location of something; a spatially limited location
- a brief version of the essential meaning of something
- an isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole
- a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process
- an instant of time
- the object of an activity
- a V shape
- a very small circular shape
- the unit of counting in scoring a game or contest
- a promontory extending out into a large body of water
- a distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list
- a style in speech or writing that arrests attention and has a penetrating or convincing quality or effect
- an outstanding characteristic
- sharp end
- any of 32 horizontal directions indicated on the card of a compass
- a linear unit used to measure the size of type; approximately 1/72 inch
- one percent of the total principal of a loan; it is paid at the time the loan is made and is independent of the interest on the loan
- a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
- a V-shaped mark at one end of an arrow pointer
- the dot at the left of a decimal fraction
- the property of a shape that tapers to a sharp tip
- a distinguishing or individuating characteristic
- the gun muzzle's direction
- a wall socket
- a contact in the distributor; as the rotor turns its projecting arm contacts them and current flows to the spark plugs
verb
noun
noun
- A critical stage or decisive point; a turning point.
- The period of life that leads up to and follows the end of menstruation in women; the menopause.
- A period in human life in which some great change is supposed to take place, calculated in different ways by different authorities (often identified as every seventh or ninth year).
adj
noun
noun
verb
- To point out.
- To decide that, to discover that, to form the opinion that.
- To successfully pass to or shoot the ball into.
- To discover game.
- To discover by study or experiment direct to an object or end.
- To encounter or discover something being searched for; to locate.
- To arrive at, as a conclusion; to determine as true; to establish.
- To determine or judge.
- To attain to; to arrive at; to acquire.
- To encounter or discover by accident; to happen upon.
- Locate on behalf of another
- To gain, as the object of desire or effort.
noun
noun
- A sharp point.
- One of a pair of elongated pointed teeth that extend outside the mouth of an animal such as walrus, elephant or wild boar, and which continue to grow throughout the animal's life.
- A tusk shell.
- A fish, the torsk (Brosme brosme).
- The share of a plough.
- A small projection on a (tusk) tenon.
- A projecting member like a tenon, and serving the same or a similar purpose, but composed of several steps, or offsets, called teeth.
verb
noun
- A general description giving the most important points.
- a speech sound which behaves as a single segment, but which makes an internal transition from one quality, place, or manner to another.
- A line on a map or chart delineating those points which have the same altitude or other plotted quantity: a contour line or isopleth.
- An outline, boundary or border, usually of curved shape.
verb
noun
noun
- A position of secondary importance.
- The back seat of an automobile, van, or bus.
- In a house of legislature following the model of the Westminster system (such as the UK House of Commons), any bench behind either of the front benches and occupied by rank-and-file members.
- The back pew of a church.
- The back row of a classroom.
- A back bench in a courtroom.
- A group of top-level journalists who jointly review submissions and decide on the layout and emphasis of the newspaper.
- A bench at the back of a room or seating area.
adj
adj
- Primary; most important; first level in importance.
- Chosen or assumed among a branch of possible values of a multi-valued function so that the function is single-valued.
noun
- The chief administrator of a school.
- A diapason, a type of organ stop on a pipe organ.
- The construction that gives shape and strength to a roof, generally a truss of timber or iron; or, loosely, the most important member of a piece of framing.
- A dancer at the highest rank within a professional dance company, particularly a ballet company.
- The primary participant in a crime.
- The first two long feathers of a hawk's wing.
- A security principal.
- A legal person that authorizes another (the agent) to act on their behalf; or on whose behalf an agent or gestor in a negotiorum gestio acts.
- The chief executive and chief academic officer of a university or college.
- The money originally invested or loaned, on which basis interest and returns are calculated.
- A partner or owner of a business.
- One of the turrets or pinnacles of waxwork and tapers with which the posts and centre of a funeral hearse were formerly crowned
noun
- A critical point marking a change in course or development.
- The topographical boundary dividing two adjacent catchment basins, such as a ridge or a crest.
- A region of land within which water flows down into a specified body, such as a river, lake, sea, or ocean; a drainage basin.
- The time after which material of more adult nature (violence, swear words, sex) may be broadcast on television or radio, either one laid down by law or one contrived from convention (e.g. when children are not watching)
adj
noun
- The base; the fundamental part; basic aspect.
- Low-lying land near a river with alluvial soil.
- The far end of somewhere.
- A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon.
- A submissive in sadomasochistic sexual activity.
- The buttocks or anus.
- Low-lying land; a valley or hollow.
- The second half of an inning, the home team's turn at bat.
- A cargo vessel, a ship.
- A man who prefers the receptive role in anal sex with men.
- Character, reliability, staying power, dignity, integrity or sound judgment.
- Certain parts of a vessel, particularly the cargo hold or the portion of the ship that is always underwater.
- A garment worn to cover the body below the torso.
- An abyss.
- The lowest part of anything.
- Spirits poured into a glass before adding soda water.
- The lowest part of a container.
- The bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, or sea.
verb
- To pour spirits into (a glass to be topped up with soda water).
- To establish or found (something) on or upon.
- To lie on the bottom of; to underlie, to lie beneath.
- To reach the bottom of something.
- To fall to the lowest point.
- To be the submissive partner in a BDSM relationship.
- To reach or strike against the bottom of something, so as to impede free action.
- To furnish (something) with a bottom.
- To be anally penetrated in gay sex.
adj
noun
noun
- A high point.
- The vertical distance from the ground to the highest part of a standing person or animal (withers in the case of a horse).
- The highest point or maximum degree.
- The distance of something above the ground or some other chosen level.
- A quality of vowels, indicating the vertical position of the tongue relative to the roof of the mouth; in practice, the first formant, associated with the height of the tongue.
- A mountain, especially a very high one.
- The amplitude of a sine function
- The distance from the base of something to the top.
- An area of land at the top of a cliff.
noun
- The highest point.
- An upright member, generally ending in a small spire, used to finish a buttress, to constitute a part in a proportion, as where pinnacles flank a gable or spire.
- Coordinate term: sea stack
- A tall, sharp and craggy rock or mountain.
- An all-time high; a point of greatest achievement or success.
verb
noun
noun
- The highest point.
- A pizza having a large number of the most common toppings, such as pepperoni, bell peppers, onions, mushrooms, olives, etc.
- Anything from which all skin, bones, and other parts which are not eaten have been removed, such as a skinless fish fillet.
- A breast of chicken or duck with the wing bone attached.
adj
- Dominant, having power over all others.
- Greatest, most excellent, extreme, most superior, highest, or utmost.
- Situated at the highest part or point.
verb
noun
- The highest point.
- The point, in any trajectory of an object in space, where it is farthest from the Earth.
- The point, in an orbit about the Earth, that is farthest from the Earth: the apoapsis of an Earth orbiter.
- The point, in an orbit about any planet, that is farthest from the planet: the apoapsis of any satellite.
noun
- A central point of activity, relating to a specific task.
- A mass of organic matter decomposing and giving off heat from microbial metabolic action.
- A garden bed using such a heat-generating mass; a hotbox.
- A bed shared by workers, sailors, or soldiers operating in shifts or watches (named for the idea that it is still warm when the next occupant gets into it).
verb
noun
- A central idea or point; gist.
- The basic unit of money in Uzbekistan.
- The utmost degree.
- A summary; the principal points or thoughts when viewed together; the amount; the substance; compendium.
- A quantity of money.
- The basic unit of money in Kyrgyzstan.
- A type of administrative district used in China, Mongolia, and Russia. In Mongolia, a sum is smaller than a province. In China, it is only used in Inner Mongolia, where it is equivalent to a township.
- An arithmetic computation, especially one posed to a student as an exercise (not necessarily limited to addition).
- A quantity obtained by addition or aggregation.
verb
verb
- To point; to aim.
- To take a position; to come or go.
- To place down in a position of rest, or in a horizontal position.
- To don or put on (tefillin (phylacteries)).
- To have sex with.
- To place (new type) properly in the cases.
- To place and arrange (pages) for a form upon the imposing stone.
- To impose (a burden, punishment, command, tax, etc.).
- To produce and deposit an egg.
- To lie: to rest in a horizontal position on a surface.
- To apply; to put.
- To deposit (a stake) as a wager; to stake; to risk.
- To bet (that something is or is not the case).
- To be in a horizontal position; to lie (from confusion with lie).
- To present or offer.
- simple past tense of lie when pertaining to position.
- To state; to allege.
- To impute; to charge; to allege.
- To put the strands of (a rope, a cable, etc.) in their proper places and twist or unite them.
- To install certain building materials, laying one thing on top of another.
- To prepare (a plan, project etc.); to set out, establish (a law, principle).
adj
- Non-professional; not being a member of an organized institution.
- Not trumps.
- Not belonging to the clergy, but associated with them.
noun
- The direction a rope is twisted.
- A casual sexual partner.
- A lake.
- A ballad or sung poem; a short poem or narrative, usually intended to be sung.
- What was I, just another lay you can toss aside as you go on to your next conquest?
- Arrangement or relationship; layout.
- An act of sexual intercourse.
- A share of the profits in a business.
- A lyrical, narrative poem written in octosyllabic couplets that often deals with tales of adventure and romance.
- The laying of eggs.
noun
- A crucial or decisive point or situation; a turning point.
- A traumatic or stressful change in a person's life.
- A sudden change in the course of a disease, usually at which point the patient is expected to either recover or die.
- A point in a drama at which a conflict reaches a peak before being resolved.
- An unstable situation, in political, social, economic or military affairs, especially one involving an impending abrupt change.
noun
noun
- Highest point or degree.
- The absolute height of a location, usually measured from sea level.
- The angular distance of a heavenly body above our Earth's horizon.
- Height of rank or excellence; superiority.
- A vertical distance.
- The distance measured perpendicularly from a figure's vertex to the opposite side of the vertex.
noun
- The central or most important element of something; a focal element.
- The individual who is the focus of a study or review, when the study or review is based on that individual's interactions with others.
- A sign or similar type of marketing material designed to draw attention to special deals.
- An object that is used to focus concentration when performing magic.
- A representative of a group or class of people within an organizational system.
- An exemplar of a concept.
- A major point of interest; an attraction.
adj
verb
- To aim at.
- To depend upon; to pivot around, to have as a central subject.
- To power up, to put into operation, to start, to activate (an appliance, light, mechanism, functionality etc.).
- To fill with enthusiasm; to intoxicate, give pleasure to ( + to an object of interest or excitement).
- To start operating; to power up, to become on.
- To take drugs.
- To cause to take up drugs, especially hallucinogens.
- To set a flow of fluid or gas running by rotating a tap or valve.
- To violently rebel against; to suddenly attack.
- To sexually arouse.
noun
- A sharp point or pointed end.
- A point made by the intersection of two curved lines or curved structures, a common motif in Gothic architecture.
- Any of the pointed parts of a canine tooth or molar.
- A point of transition.
- A flap of a valve of a heart or blood vessel.
- A boundary between zodiacal signs and houses.
- A point of a curve where the curve is continuous but has no derivative, but such that it has a derivative at every nearby point.
- An important moment when a decision is made that will determine future events.
verb
noun
- The major part of something.
- A hypothetical higher-dimensional space within which our own four-dimensional universe may exist.
- Unpackaged goods when transported in large volumes, e.g. coal, ore or grain.
- Dietary fibre.
- Size, specifically, volume.
- a cargo or any items moved or communicated in the manner of cargo.
- Excess body mass, especially muscle.
- A period where one tries to gain muscle.
- Any huge body or structure.
adj
verb
adj
- being at a peak or culminating point
- constituting the full quantity or extent; complete
- complete in extent or degree and in every particular
- filled to satisfaction with food or drink
- having the normally expected amount
- having ample fabric
noun
adj
verb
- beat for the purpose of cleaning and thickening
- make (a garment) fuller by pleating or gathering
- increase in phase
adv
noun
- Emphasis or importance in general.
- A special emphasis of a tone, even in the weaker part of the measure.
- The rhythmical accent, which marks phrases and sections of a period.
- A very small gemstone set into a piece of jewellery.
- A manner of pronunciation suggesting that the speaker is from a different region; a foreign accent.
- Emphasis laid on a part of an artistic design or composition; an emphasized detail, in particular a detail in sharp contrast to its surroundings.
- A word; a significant tone or sound.
- A mark used to represent this special emphasis.
- Stress laid on certain syllables of a verse.
- A regularly recurring stress upon the tone to mark the beginning, and, more feebly, the third part of the measure.
- Expressions in general; speech.
- A higher-pitched or stronger (louder or longer) articulation of a particular syllable of a word or phrase in order to distinguish it from the others or to emphasize it.
- Modulation of the voice in speaking; the manner of speaking or pronouncing; a peculiar or characteristic modification of the voice, expressing emotion; tone.
- A prime symbol.
- A mark or character used in writing, in order to indicate the place of the spoken accent, or to indicate the nature or quality of the vowel marked.
- A distinctive manner of producing a sign language, such as someone who does not normally use a certain sign language might have when using it.
- The distinctive manner of pronouncing a language associated with a particular region, social group, etc., whether of a native speaker or a foreign speaker; the phonetic and phonological aspects of a dialect.
verb
verb
- aim, point, or direct
- cause to continue in a certain state, position, or activity
- have or hold in one's hands or grip
- organize or be responsible for
- have or possess, either in a concrete or an abstract sense
- keep in mind or convey as a conviction or view
- maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings)
- to close within bounds, or otherwise limit or deprive of free movement
- secure and keep for possible future use or application
- have rightfully; of rights, titles, and offices
- be the physical support of; carry the weight of
- contain or hold; have within
- have room for; hold without crowding
- remain in a certain state, position, or condition
- support or hold in a certain manner
- be valid, applicable, or true
- assert or affirm
- have as a major characteristic
- be capable of holding or containing
- arrange for and reserve (something for someone else) in advance
- protect against a challenge or attack
- bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted
- hold the attention of
- remain committed to
- resist or confront with resistance
- be pertinent or relevant or applicable
- stop dealing with
- lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits
- keep from departing
- take and maintain control over, often by violent means
- cause to come to an abrupt stop
- cover as for protection against noise or smell
- drink alcohol without showing ill effects
- declare to be
- be in accord; be in agreement
- keep from exhaling or expelling
noun
- the act of grasping
- understanding of the nature or meaning or quality or magnitude of something
- power by which something or someone is affected or dominated
- time during which some action is awaited
- a state of being confined (usually for a short time)
- a stronghold
- a cell in a jail or prison
- the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it
- the space in a ship or aircraft for storing cargo
adj
noun
- assets available for use in the production of further assets
- wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value
- a seat of government
- one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis
- a center that is associated more than any other with some activity or product
- the upper part of a column that supports the entablature
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