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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
noun
noun
adj
- Of fundamental importance; crucial, pivotal.
- Having a bright red color (from the color of a Catholic cardinal's cassock).
- Of or relating to the cardinal directions (north, south, east and west).
- Describing a "natural" number used to indicate quantity (e.g., zero, one, two, three), as opposed to an ordinal number indicating relative position.
noun
- One of the officials appointed by the pope in the Roman Catholic Church, ranking only below the pope and the patriarchs, constituting the special college which elects the pope. (See Wikipedia article on Catholic cardinals.)
- Any of various related passerine birds of the family Cardinalidae (See Wikipedia article on cardinals) and other similar birds that were once considered to be related.
- A deep red color, somewhat less vivid than scarlet, the traditional colour of a Catholic cardinal's cassock. (same as cardinal red)
- A woman's short cloak with a hood, originally made of scarlet cloth.
- Any of a genus of songbirds of the finch family, Cardinalis.
adj
- essential or central; of great importance or relevance.
- Pertaining to, made by, or prepared for an instrument, especially a musical instrument (rather than the human voice).
- Applied to a case expressing means or agency, generally indicated in English by by or with with the objective.
- Serving as an instrument, medium, means, or agency.
noun
noun
noun
noun
- a critically important or characteristic component
- the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object
- miscellaneous unspecified objects
- informal terms for personal possessions
- senseless talk
- unspecified qualities required to do or be something
- information in some unspecified form
verb
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
noun
noun
- Significance, importance.
- The practice of importing.
- Something brought in from an exterior source, especially for sale or trade.
- A foreigner playing in a sports league.
verb
- To be incumbent on (someone to do something).
- To mean, signify.
- To be important; to be significant; to be of consequence.
- To load a file into a software application from another version or system.
- To bring (something) in from a foreign country, especially for sale or trade.
- To be important or crucial to (that something happen).
- To be of importance to (someone or something).
adj
- Of a role: significant; major; meaty.
- Carrying more fat than usual on one's body; plump; not lean or thin.
- Bountiful.
- Abounding in riches; affluent; fortunate.
- Fertile; productive.
- Thick; large.
- Rich; producing a large income; desirable.
- Oily; greasy; unctuous; rich (said of food).
- Being a shot in which the ground is struck before the ball.
- Bulbous; rotund.
noun
- Such tissue as food: the fatty portion of (or trimmings from) meat cuts.
- A specialized animal tissue with high lipid content, used for long-term storage of energy: fat tissue.
- That part of an organization deemed wasteful.
- A fat person.
- The best or richest productions; the best part.
- A lipid that is solid at room temperature, which fat tissue contains and which is also found in the blood circulation; sometimes, a refined substance chemically resembling such naturally occurring lipids.
- An erection.
- A beef cattle fattened for sale.
- A poorly played shot where the ball is struck by the top part of the club head. (see also thin, shank, toe)
noun
- Relative importance.
- A bulge: something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from a form.
- The state of being prominent: widely known or eminent.
- Autonomous height; relative height or prime factor; a concept used in the categorization of hills and mountains.
- A gaseous projection, often loop-shaped, springing from the surface of the Sun or a star.
adj
noun
noun
- relative importance
- the property of relative size or extent (whether large or small)
- a number assigned to the ratio of two quantities; two quantities are of the same order of magnitude if one is less than 10 times as large as the other; the number of magnitudes that the quantities differ is specified to within a power of 10
noun
- the relative importance granted to something
- the vertical force exerted by a mass as a result of gravity
- sports equipment used in calisthenic exercises and weightlifting; it is not attached to anything and is raised and lowered by use of the hands and arms
- an artifact that is heavy
- an oppressive feeling of heavy force
- a system of units used to express the weight of something
- a unit used to measure weight
- (statistics) a coefficient assigned to elements of a frequency distribution in order to represent their relative importance
verb
noun
- Prominence; importance.
- A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.
- A measure of the angle of attack of a propeller.
- The angle at which an object sits.
- The standard to which a group of musical instruments are tuned or in which a piece is performed, usually by reference to the frequency to which the musical note A above middle C is tuned.
- In an a cappella group, the singer responsible for singing a note for the other members to tune themselves by.
- An area on a campsite intended for occupation by a single tent, caravan or similar.
- The degree to which a vehicle, especially a ship or aircraft, rotates on such an axis, tilting its bow or nose up or down. Compare with roll, yaw, and heave.
- The field on which cricket, soccer, rugby, gridiron or field hockey is played. (In cricket, the pitch is in the centre of the field; see cricket pitch.) (Not often used in the US or Canada, where "field" is the preferred word.)
- A point or peak; the extreme point of elevation or depression.
- A level or degree, or (by extension), a peak or highest degree.
- The most thrust-out point of a headland or cape.
- The height a bird reaches in flight, especially a bird of prey preparing to swoop down on its prey.
- The distance between evenly spaced objects, e.g. the teeth of a saw or gear, the turns of a screw thread, the centres of holes, or letters in a monospace font.
- The act of pitching a baseball.
- A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.
- The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate of descent or slope; slant.
- A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand.
- The field of battle.
- A section of a climb or rock face; specifically, the climbing distance between belays or stances.
- That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.
- The perceived frequency of a sound or note.
- A dark, extremely viscous material remaining in still after distilling crude oil and tar.
- Pitchstone.
- An effort to sell or promote something.
- The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.
- A vertical cave passage, only negotiable by using rope or ladders.
- The place where a busker performs, a prostitute solicits clients, or an illegal gambling game etc. is set up before the public.
- An area in a market (or similar) allocated to a particular trader.
- A person's or animal's height.
verb
- To fix or set the tone of.
- To play baseball in the position of pitcher.
- To throw away; discard.
- To play a short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
- To set or fix.
- To deliver in a certain tone or style, or with a certain audience in mind.
- To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.
- To attack, or position or assemble for attack.
- To darken; to blacken; to obscure.
- To cover or smear with pitch.
- To throw.
- To promote, advertise, or attempt to sell.
- To assemble or erect (a tent).
- To move so that the front of an aircraft or boat goes alternatively up and down.
- To bounce on the playing surface.
- To settle and build up, without melting.
- To discard for some gain.
- To throw (the ball) toward a batter at home plate.
- To fix one's choice.
- To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones.
- To produce a note of a given pitch.
- To plunge or fall; especially, to fall forward; to decline or slope.
adj
noun
noun
- The degree of importance given to something.
- The relative darkness or lightness of a color in (a specific area of) a painting etc.
- The valuable ingredients to be obtained by treating a mass or compound; specifically, the precious metals contained in rock, gravel, etc.
- The relative duration of a musical note.
- That which is valued or highly esteemed, such as one's morals, morality, or belief system.
- The amount (of money or goods or services) that is considered to be a fair equivalent for something else.
- The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable.
- Any definite numerical quantity or other mathematical object, determined by being measured, computed, or otherwise defined.
- Precise meaning; import.
verb
noun
- A significant feature of something.
- Constituent substance.
- The concentrated form of a plant or drug obtained through a distillation process.
- A being; especially, a purely spiritual being.
- An extract or concentrate obtained from a plant or other matter used for flavouring, or as a restorative.
- The true nature of anything, not accidental or illusory.
- The inherent nature of a thing or idea.
- Fragrance, a perfume.
phrase
adj
adj
- Most important; essential.
- Not imaginary; real; actual; true; veritable.
- Having a substance; actually existing.
- Corporeal; material; firm.
- Possessed of goods or an estate; moderately wealthy.
- Satisfying; having sufficient substance to be nourishing or filling.
- Large in size, quantity, or value; ample; significant.
- Having good substance; strong; stout; solid; firm.
noun
adj
- Critical or crucial; decisive.
- Pertaining to any of several supposedly critical years of a person's life.
- Climactic.
- Relating to a period of physiological change during middle age; especially, menopausal.
noun
- The period of life that leads up to and follows the end of menstruation in women; the menopause.
- A critical stage or decisive point; a turning point.
- 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
- Foremost in rank or importance.
- Of, relating to, or intended for the head.
- Coming from in front.
- Placed at the top or the front.
verb
- To be in command of. (See also head up.)
- To come at the beginning or front of; to commence.
- To form a head.
- To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head.
- To strike with the head; as in soccer, to head the ball
- To go in front of.
- To get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose.
- To move in a specified direction.
- To check or restrain.
- To remove the head from a fish.
- To originate; to spring; to have its course, as a river.
- To cut off the top of; to lop off.
- To set on the head.
noun
- A heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs.
- The end of a hammer, axe, golf club, or similar implement used for striking other objects.
- The end of a pool table opposite the end where the balls have been racked.
- A headdress; a covering for the head.
- A milling head, a part of a milling machine that houses the spindle.
- The end of a rectangular table furthest from the entrance; traditionally considered a seat of honor.
- The uppermost part of a valley.
- The antlers of a deer.
- Mental or emotional aptitude or skill.
- A headache; especially one resulting from intoxication.
- The part of a disk drive responsible for reading and writing data.
- The headstock of a guitar.
- The leafy top part of a tree.
- The top edge of a sail.
- A clump of seeds, leaves or flowers; a capitulum.
- The rounded part of a bone fitting into a depression in another bone to form a ball-and-socket joint.
- The toilet of a ship.
- An ear of wheat, barley, or other small cereal.
- A machine element which reads or writes electromagnetic signals to or from a storage medium.
- Tiles laid at the eaves of a house.
- The end of a nail, screw, bolt, or similar fastener which is opposite the point; usually blunt and relatively wide.
- A drum head, the membrane which is hit to produce sound.
- Headway; progress.
- Mind; one's own thoughts.
- Topic; subject.
- The end of an abscess where pus collects.
- The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
- The glans penis.
- The top part of a lacrosse stick that holds the ball.
- Deposits near the top of a geological succession.
- The source of a river; the end of a lake where a river flows into it.
- The foam that forms on top of beer or other carbonated beverages.
- A headmaster or headmistress.
- Denouement; crisis.
- The end cap of a cylindrically-shaped pressure vessel.
- A person with an extensive knowledge of hip hop.
- The end cap of a cask or other barrel.
- A buildup of fluid pressure, often quantified as pressure head.
- Leader; chief; mastermind.
- Fellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex.
- The cylinder head, a platform above the cylinders in an internal combustion engine, containing the valves and spark plugs.
- An individual person.
- The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.
- The bow of a vessel.
- A morpheme that determines the category of a compound or the word that determines the syntactic type of the phrase of which it is a member.
- The sharp end of an arrow, spear, or pointer.
- The difference in elevation between two points in a column of fluid, and the resulting pressure of the fluid at the lower point.
- The population of game.
- The principal melody or theme of a piece.
- A single animal.
- The place of honour, or of command; the most important or foremost position; the front.
- A headland.
- More generally, energy in a mass of fluid divided by its weight.
adj
- Very important; noteworthy: having importance or significance in history.
- Synonym of historical: of, concerning, or in accordance with recorded history or the past generally (See usage notes.)
- Old-fashioned, untouched by modernity.
- Various grammatical tenses and moods specially used in retelling past events.
noun
- The essential part of anything; the most vital part.
- Physical matter; material.
- Material possessions; estate; property; resources.
- Hypostasis.
- Drugs (illegal narcotics)
- Substantiality; solidity; firmness.
- A form of matter that has constant chemical composition and characteristic properties.
verb
adj
- of current relevance
- highly reverberant
- charged with an explosive
- elastic; rebounds readily
- abounding with life and energy
- in current use or ready for use
- charged or energized with electricity
- capable of erupting
adv
verb
- be an inhabitant of or reside in
- lead a certain kind of life; live in a certain style
- continue to live and avoid dying
- support oneself
- have life, be alive
- have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations
- pursue a positive and satisfying existence
adj
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
noun
- A critical value, factor, etc.
- In breakdancing, a kind of airflare move in which the dancer hops from one hand to the other.
adj
- Inclined to find fault or criticize.
- Relating to criticism or careful analysis, such as literary or film criticism.
- Of a patient condition involving unstable vital signs and a prognosis that predicts the condition could worsen; or, a patient condition that requires urgent treatment in an intensive care or critical care medical facility.
- Likely to go out of control if disturbed, that is, opposite of stable.
- Of the point (in temperature, reagent concentration etc.) where a nuclear or chemical reaction becomes self-sustaining.
- Extremely important.
- Of a temperature that is equal to the temperature of the critical point of a substance, i.e. the temperature above which the substance cannot be liquefied.
- Pertaining to, or indicating, a crisis or turning point.
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