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verb
- To nail down: to make certain, or confirm.
- To stud or boss with nails, or as if with nails.
- To expose as a sham.
- To catch.
- Of a male, to engage in sexual intercourse with.
- To spike, as a cannon.
- To hit (a target) effectively with some weapon.
- To accomplish (a task) completely and successfully.
- To fix (an object) to another object using a nail.
- To drive a nail.
noun
- A spike-shaped metal fastener used for joining wood or similar materials. The nail is generally driven through two or more layers of material by means of impacts from a hammer or other device. It is then held in place by friction.
- The terminal horny plate on the beak of ducks, and other allied birds.
- The basal thickened portion of the anterior wings of certain hemiptera.
- A round pedestal on which merchants once carried out their business, such as the four nails outside The Exchange, Bristol.
- An archaic English unit of length equivalent to ¹⁄₂₀ of an ell or ¹⁄₁₆ of a yard (2+¹⁄₄ inches or 5.715 cm).
- The thin, horny plate at the ends of fingers and toes on humans and some other animals.
- The claw of a bird or other animal.
verb
- be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something
- examine so as to determine accuracy, quality, or condition
- make an examination or investigation
- lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits
- stop for a moment, as if out of uncertainty or caution
- put a check mark on or near or next to
- slow the growth or development of
- be verified or confirmed; pass inspection
- be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics
- block or impede (a player from the opposing team) in ice hockey
- develop (a child's or animal's) behavior by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control
- consign for shipment on a vehicle
- hand over something to somebody as for temporary safekeeping
- abandon the intended prey, turn, and pursue an inferior prey
- stop in a chase especially when scent is lost
- mark into squares or draw squares on; draw crossed lines on
- decline to initiate betting
- hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of
- place into check
- write out a check on a bank account
- find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort
- verify by consulting a source or authority
- arrest the motion (of something) abruptly
- make cracks or chinks in
- become fractured; break or crack on the surface only
noun
- a written order directing a bank to pay money
- an appraisal of the state of affairs
- the bill in a restaurant
- the state of inactivity following an interruption
- additional proof that something that was believed (some fact or hypothesis or theory) is correct
- the act of inspecting or verifying
- a mark indicating that something has been noted or completed etc.
- something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress
- a mark left after a small piece has been chopped or broken off of something
- a textile pattern of squares or crossed lines (resembling a checkerboard)
- the act of restraining power or action or limiting excess
- obstructing an opponent in ice hockey
- (chess) a direct attack on an opponent's king
verb
- be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something
- perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight
- perceive (an idea or situation) mentally
- perceive or be contemporaneous with
- imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind
- deem to be
- get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally
- see or watch
- come together
- find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort
- go to see for professional or business reasons
- go to see for a social visit
- go to see a place, as for entertainment
- take charge of or deal with
- receive as a specified guest
- date regularly; have a steady relationship with
- see and understand, have a good eye
- deliberate or decide
- observe as if with an eye
- observe, check out, and look over carefully or inspect
- undergo or live through a difficult experience
- conduct someone someplace
- match or meet
- make sense of; assign a meaning to
noun
verb
- be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something
- exercise authoritative control or power over
- lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits
- handle and cause to function
- maintain influence over (others or oneself) skillfully, usually to one's advantage
- check or regulate (a scientific experiment) by conducting a parallel experiment or comparing with another standard
- place under restrictions; limit access to by law
- verify by using a duplicate register for comparison
- have a firm understanding or knowledge of; be on top of
noun
- power to direct or determine
- a relation of constraint of one entity (thing or person or group) by another
- (physiology) regulation or maintenance of a function or action or reflex etc
- a standard against which other conditions can be compared in a scientific experiment
- the activity of managing or exerting control over something
- the state that exists when one person or group has power over another
- discipline in personal and social activities
- great skillfulness and knowledge of some subject or activity
- a mechanism that controls the operation of a machine
- a spiritual agency that is assumed to assist the medium during a seance
- the economic policy of controlling or limiting or curbing prices or wages etc.
adj
verb
- be aware of
- make a record of; set down in permanent form
- register electronically
- indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments
noun
- anything (such as a document or a phonograph record or a photograph) providing permanent evidence of or information about past events
- sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove; used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove
- the number of wins versus losses and ties a team has had
- the sum of recognized accomplishments
- a compilation of the known facts regarding something or someone
- an extreme attainment; the best (or worst) performance ever attested (as in a sport)
- a document that can serve as legal evidence of a transaction
- a list of crimes for which an accused person has been previously convicted
verb
- be aware of
- record in writing; enter into a book of names or events or transactions
- record in a public office or in a court of law
- enroll to vote
- indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments
- have one's name listed as a candidate for several parties
- show in one's face
- manipulate the registers of an organ
- send by registered mail
- enter into someone's consciousness
noun
- an official written record of names or events or transactions
- (music) the timbre that is characteristic of a certain range and manner of production of the human voice or of different pipe organ stops or of different musical instruments
- a book in which names and transactions are listed
- (computer science) memory device that is the part of computer memory that has a specific address and that is used to hold information of a specific kind
- an air passage (usually in the floor or a wall of a room) for admitting or excluding heated air from the room
- a regulator (as a sliding plate) for regulating the flow of air into a furnace or other heating device
- a cashbox with an adding machine to register transactions; used in shops to add up the bill
verb
- To make sure of, to see to.
- As a transitive verb, often in the imperative; chiefly takes relative clause as direct object.
- To look at a pitch as a batter without swinging at it.
- To give an appearance of being.
- To express or manifest by a look.
- To face or present a view.
- To expect or anticipate.
- As an intransitive verb, often with "at".
- To search for, to try to find.
- To appear, to seem.
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noun
abbrev
verb
verb
intj
- An exclamation of pleasure or approval, usually transcribed with an exclamation point.
- Response that confirms that the user is paying attention.
- Used to ask for more information with a request.
adv
particle
- Answer to a question presuming one answer when all answers are correct.
- Used to indicate disagreement or dissent in reply to a negative statement.
- Used to show agreement or acceptance.
noun
adv
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adj
verb
adj
- accurately placed or thrown
- devoted (sometimes fanatically) to a cause or concept or truth
- conforming to definitive criteria
- worthy of being depended on
- not pretended; sincerely felt or expressed
- rightly so called
- determined with reference to the earth's axis rather than the magnetic poles
- having a legally established claim
- in tune; accurate in pitch
- accurately fitted; level
adv
adj
- persuaded of; very sure
- involving advantage or good
- formally laid down or imposed
- impossible to deny or disprove
- greater than zero
- having a positive charge
- marked by excessive confidence
noun
- the primary form of an adjective or adverb; denotes a quality without qualification, comparison, or relation to increase or diminution
- a film showing a photographic image whose tones correspond to those of the original subject
adj
- characterized by or displaying affirmation or acceptance or certainty etc.
- indicating existence or presence of a suspected condition or pathogen
- of or relating to positivism
- reckoned, situated or tending in the direction which naturally or arbitrarily is taken to indicate increase or progress or onward motion
verb
- To be sure of something; to be able to count on something.
- To stake or pledge upon the outcome of an event; to wager.
- To place money into the pot in order to require others do the same, usually only used for the first person to place money in the pot on each round.
noun
- A degree of certainty.
- A candidate (for elections and pageants).
- A wager, an agreement between two parties that a stake (usually money) will be paid by the loser to the winner (the winner being the one who correctly forecast the outcome of an event).
intj
- Expression of general agreement or acceptance.
- Exclamation of joy at good fortune.
- Exclamation indicating acceptance of a challenge or an absurd proposal.
prep
verb
verb
- To do with certainty; indicates that the speaker is certain that the subject will have executed the predicate.
- To do as a requirement; indicates that the sentence subject is required as an imperative or directive to execute the sentence predicate, with failure to do so resulting in a failure or negative consequence.
- To become musty.
- Used to indicate that something that is very likely, probable, or certain to be true.
- To make musty.
noun
verb
- To be valid.
- To have or maintain a position, order, or rank; to be in a particular relation.
- Of a ship or its captain, to steer, sail (in a specified direction, for a specified destination etc.).
- To be placed in an upright or vertical orientation.
- To be consistent; to agree; to accord.
- To remain without ruin or injury.
- To place in an upright or standing position.
- To maintain one's ground; to be acquitted; not to fail or yield; to be safe.
- To appear in court.
- To stop asking for more cards; to keep one's hand as it has been dealt so far.
- To be positioned to gain or lose.
- To undergo; withstand; hold up.
- To support oneself on the feet in an erect position.
- To remain motionless.
- To be present, to have welled up.
- To occupy or hold a place; to be set, placed, fixed, located, or situated.
- To measure when erect on the feet.
- To be a candidate (in an election).
- To act as an umpire.
- To oppose, usually as a team, in competition.
- To tolerate.
- To cover the expense of; to pay for.
- To maintain an invincible or permanent attitude; to be fixed, steady, or firm; to take a position in resistance or opposition.
- To rise to one’s feet; to stand up.
noun
- A designated spot where someone or something may stand or wait.
- A particular grove or other group of trees or shrubs.
- A single set, as of arms.
- The act of standing.
- A contiguous group of trees sufficiently uniform in age-class distribution, composition, and structure, and growing on a site of sufficiently uniform quality, to be a distinguishable unit.
- A small building, booth, or stage, as in a bandstand or hamburger stand.
- An advertisement filling an entire billboard, comprising many sheets of paper.
- A partnership.
- A defensive position or effort.
- A young tree, usually reserved when other trees are cut; also, a tree growing or standing upon its own root, in distinction from one produced from a scion set in a stock, either of the same or another kind of tree.
- The platform on which a witness testifies in court; the witness stand or witness box.
- An area of raised seating for waiters at the stock exchange.
- A device to hold something upright or aloft.
- A period of performance in a given location or venue.
- A standstill, a motionless state, as of someone confused, or a hunting dog who has found game.
- Grandstand. (often in the plural)
- A type of supernatural ability from the anime and manga series JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, named for the fact that they appear to 'stand' next to their user.
- A location or position where one may stand.
- A resolute, unwavering position; firm opinion; action for a purpose in the face of opposition.
verb
- To be or become aware of.
- To experience an emotion or other mental state.
- To search by sense of touch.
- To think, believe, or have an impression concerning.
- To find one's way (literally or figuratively) by touching or using cautious movements.
- To seem (through touch or otherwise).
- To sympathise; to have the sensibilities moved or affected.
- To understand.
- To become aware of through the skin; to use the sense of touch on.
- To experience an emotion or other mental state about.
- To experience the consequences of.
- To receive information by touch or by any neurons other than those responsible for sight, smell, taste, or hearing.
noun
verb
- To be valid.
- 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 start; to begin (an action or process).
- 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 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.
adj
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
noun
- The first term of a ratio, i.e. the term a in the ratio a:b, the other being the consequent.
- An ancestor.
- Previous principles, conduct, history, etc.
- Any thing that precedes another thing, especially the cause of the second thing.
- A word, phrase or clause referred to by a pronoun.
- The first of two subsets of a sequent, consisting of all the sequent's formulae which are valuated as true.
- The conditional part of a hypothetical proposition, i.e. p→q, where p is the antecedent, and q is the consequent.
verb
- To make certain; to finalize.
- To clasp; to interlock.
- To embrace passionately.
- To hold firmly; to clench.
- To bend and hammer the point of (a nail) so it cannot be removed.
- To set closely together; to close tightly.
- To fasten securely or permanently.
noun
- Any of several fastenings.
- A passionate embrace.
- The act or process of holding fast; that which serves to hold fast.
- The act of one or both fighters holding onto the other to prevent being hit or engage in standup grappling.
- A hitch or bend by which a rope is made fast to the ring of an anchor, or the breeching of a ship's gun to the ringbolts.
adj
- Not to be doubted or denied; established as a fact.
- Unfailing; infallible.
- Known but not specifically named; indeterminate; indefinite; one or some; sometimes used independently as a noun, and meaning certain persons; see also "one".
- Fixed or stated; regular; determinate.
- Sure, positive, not doubting.
- Actually existing; sure to happen; inevitable.
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