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noun
- people in general; especially a distinctive group of people with some shared interest
- everything that exists anywhere
- all of your experiences that determine how things appear to you
- the 3rd planet from the sun; the planet we live on
- people in general considered as a whole
- a part of the earth that can be considered separately
- the concerns of this life as distinguished from heaven and the afterlife
- all of the living human inhabitants of the earth
adj
noun
- people in general; especially a distinctive group of people with some shared interest
- a particular environment or walk of life
- territory over which rule or control is exercised
- (mathematics) the set of values of the independent variable for which a function is defined
- the content of a particular field of knowledge
noun
- A specific group of persons; especially one who shares a common interest.
- An instrument of observation, whose graduated limb consists of an entire circle. When fixed to a wall in an observatory, it is called a mural circle; when mounted with a telescope on an axis and in Y's, in the plane of the meridian, a meridian or transit circle; when involving the principle of reflection, like the sextant, a reflecting circle; and when that of repeating an angle several times continuously along the graduated limb, a repeating circle.
- A two-dimensional geometric figure, a disk, consisting of the set of all those points of a plane at a distance less than or equal to a fixed distance (radius) from a given point.
- A form of argument in which two or more unproved statements are used to prove each other; inconclusive reasoning.
- A line comprising two semicircles of 30 yards radius centred on the wickets joined by straight lines parallel to the pitch used to enforce field restrictions in a one-day match.
- A bagginess of the skin below the eyes from lack of sleep.
- A series ending where it begins, and repeating itself.
- A territorial division or district.
- Any thin three-dimensional equivalent of the geometric figures.
- Any shape, curve or arrangement of objects that approximates to or resembles the geometric figures.
- A two-dimensional geometric figure, a line, consisting of the set of all those points in a plane that are equally distant from a given point (center).
- A curve that more or less forms part or all of a circle.
- The orbit of an astronomical body.
- A ritual circle that is cast three times deosil and closes three times widdershins either in the air with a wand or literally with stones or other items used for worship.
- A traffic circle or roundabout.
verb
noun
- The interaction between a group of people who share a common interest.
- Interaction with other people via a social network
- The use of social contacts to network.
- The use of Internet communities to network and communicate using shared interests, related skills, or geographical location between consumers and businesses.
noun
- A group of people united or at least characterised by a common interest.
- A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order.
- A fiddle.
- The so-called lower orders of people; the populace, vulgar.
- Several things collected or closely pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other.
verb
- To carry excessive sail in the hope of moving faster.
- To press together or collect in numbers
- To press forward; to advance by pushing.
- To push, to press, to shove.
- To approach another ship too closely when it has right of way.
- To fill by pressing or thronging together
- To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.
- To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram.
noun
- A group of people who share views or a specific characteristic.
- Military unit composed of several regiments (or battalions) and including soldiers from different arms of service.
- A group of people organized for a common purpose.
- Coordinated online harassment, disruption or influencing, especially organized by an antagonistic website or community.
verb
noun
- A group of people within a larger group having a particular common characteristic.
- A small part of the whole.
- A required aspect or component of a cause of action. A deed is regarded as a violation of law only if each element can be proved.
- Atmospheric forces such as strong winds and rains.
- Any one of the simplest chemical substances that cannot be decomposed in a chemical reaction or by any chemical means and made up of atoms all having the same number of protons.
- An orbital element; one of the parameters needed to uniquely specify a particular orbit.
- One of the four basic building blocks of matter in theories of ancient philosophers and alchemists: water, earth, fire, and air.
- A basic, simple substance out of which something is made, raw material.
- The basic principles of a field of knowledge, basics, fundamentals, rudiments.
- One of the objects in a set.
- One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based.
- A small but present amount of a quality, a hint.
- One of the conceptual objects in a markup language, usually represented in text by tags.
- A factor, one of the conditions contributing to a result.
- Any of the teeth of a zip fastener.
- A component in electrical equipment, often in the form of a coil, having a high resistance, thereby generating heat when a current is passed through it.
- An infinitesimal interval of a quantity, a differential.
- The bread and wine taken at Holy Communion.
- A place or state of being that an individual or object is best suited to.
- One of the entries of a matrix.
noun
- A group of people having an obsession with or intense admiration for a particular activity, idea, person or thing.
- The veneration, devotion, and religious rites given to a deity (especially in a historical polytheistic context), or (in a Christian context) to a saint.
- A group, sect or movement following an unorthodox religious or philosophical system of beliefs, especially one in which members remove and exclude themselves from greater society, including family members not part of the cult, and show extreme devotion to a charismatic leader.
adj
noun
- the common people generally
- the property of a body that causes it to have weight in a gravitational field
- (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
- an ill-structured collection of similar things (objects or people)
- a body of matter without definite shape
- the property of something that is great in magnitude
verb
adj
noun
noun
- A self-enclosed group of like-minded individuals.
- An organizational unit that has poor interaction with other units, negatively affecting overall performance.
- A structure in the information system that is poorly networked with other structures, with data exchange hampered.
- In Microsoft Windows operating systems, a kernel object for isolating groups of threads.
- A vertical building, usually cylindrical, used for the production of silage.
- An underground bunker used to hold missiles which may be launched.
- from the shape, a building used for the storage of grain.
verb
noun
- A person, especially as one among many.
- The spirit or essence of anything.
- The spirit or essence of a person usually thought to consist of one's thoughts and personality, often believed to live on after the person's death.
- A kind of submanifold involved in the soul theorem of Riemannian geometry.
- Soul music.
- An individual life.
- Life, energy, vigor.
verb
noun
- Any group of people with common interests.
- The state of being well arranged.
- A group of religious adherents, especially monks or nuns, set apart within their religion by adherence to a particular rule or set of principles.
- The overall power of the rate law of a chemical reaction, expressed as a polynomial function of concentrations of reactants and products.
- A number of things or persons arranged in a fixed or suitable place, or relative position; a rank; a row; a grade; especially, a rank or class in society; a distinct character, kind, or sort.
- A position in an arrangement, disposition, or sequence.
- A request for some product or service; a commission to purchase, sell, or supply goods.
- The disposition of a column and its component parts, and of the entablature resting upon it, in classical architecture; hence (since the column and entablature are the characteristic features of classical architecture) a style or manner of architectural design.
- The number of vertices in a graph.
- The cardinality, or number of elements in a set, group, or other structure regardable as a set.
- The sequence in which a side’s batsmen bat; the batting order.
- A written direction to furnish someone with money or property; compare money order, postal order.
- An association of knights.
- Arrangement, disposition, or sequence.
- A decoration, awarded by a government, a dynastic house, or a religious body to an individual, usually for distinguished service to a nation or to humanity.
- A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below class and above family; a taxon at that rank.
- Conformity with law or decorum; freedom from disturbance; general tranquillity; public quiet.
- A command.
- An ecclesiastical rank or position, usually for the sake of ministry, (especially, when plural) holy orders.
- A power of polynomial function in an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc.
- For given group G and element g ∈ G, the smallest positive natural number n, if it exists, such that (using multiplicative notation), gⁿ = e, where e is the identity element of G; if no such number exists, the element is said to be of infinite order (or sometimes zero order).
- A partially ordered set.
- The relation on a partially ordered set that determines that it is, in fact, a partially ordered set.
- The sum of the exponents on the variables in a monomial, or the highest such among all monomials in a polynomial.
verb
noun
- A strong connection between people or groups of people.
- A twist tie, a piece of wire embedded in paper, strip of plastic with ratchets, or similar object which is wound around something and tightened.
- A horizontal wooden or concrete structural member that supports and ties together rails.
- A necktie (item of clothing consisting of a strip of cloth tied around the neck). See also bow tie, black tie.
- A structural member firmly holding two pieces together.
- A tiewig.
- The situation in which two or more participants in a competition are placed equally.
- A curved line connecting two notes of the same pitch denoting that they should be played as a single note with the combined length of both notes.
- A meeting between two players or teams in a competition.
- The situation at the end of all innings of a match where both sides have the same total of runs (different from a draw).
- A knot of hair, as at the back of a wig.
- A knot; a fastening.
- A lace-up shoe.
- A connection between two vertices.
- One or more equal values or sets of equal values in the data set.
- A curved line connecting two letters (⁀), used in the IPA to denote a coarticulation, as for example /d͡ʒ/.
- A bearing and distance between a lot corner or point and a benchmark or iron off site.
- An equalizer, a run, goal, point, etc which causes participants in a competition to be placed equally or have the same score(s).
verb
- To have the same score or position as another in a competition or ordering.
- To unite (musical notes) with a line or slur in the notation.
- To secure (something) by string or the like.
- To twist (a string, rope, or the like) around itself securely.
- In the Perl programming language, to extend (a variable) so that standard operations performed upon it invoke custom functionality instead.
- To attach or fasten (one thing to another) by string or the like.
- To have the same score or position as (another) in a competition or ordering.
- To form (a knot or the like) in a string or the like.
noun
- A group of people from a locality, or sharing a collective aim, interest, etc.
- A homogeneous mass of rock, not layered and without an obvious crystal structure.
adj
- Very large or bulky and heavy and solid.
- Outstanding, beautiful.
- Not having an obvious crystalline structure.
- Having any mass.
- Having a large mass.
- To a very great extent; total, utter.
- Of particularly exceptional quality or value; awesome.
- Affecting a large portion of the body, or severe.
- Homogenous, unstructured.
- Very large in size or extent.
noun
- A group of people with shared characteristics.
- A race or lineage; offspring or issue.
- All animals or plants of the same species or subspecies.
verb
- To produce offspring sexually; to bear young.
- To arrange the mating of specific animals.
- To produce or obtain by any natural process.
- To have birth; to be produced, developed or multiplied.
- To yield or result in.
- To ejaculate inside; to attempt to impregnate.
- Of animals, to mate.
- To take care of in infancy and through childhood; to bring up.
- To propagate or grow plants trying to give them certain qualities.
- To give birth to; to be the native place of.
- To educate; to instruct; to bring up
- To keep animals and have them reproduce in a way that improves the next generation’s qualities.
noun
- a place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated
- a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government
- a group of organisms of the same type living or growing together
- a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country
- (microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell
noun
- A group of people having a common purpose or opinion; a mass.
- A person.
- A human being, regarded as marginalized or oppressed.
- A corpse.
- The largest or most important part of anything, as distinct from its appendages or accessories.
- The content of a letter, message, or other printed or electronic document, as distinct from signatures, salutations, headers, and so on.
- A bodysuit.
- A three-dimensional object, such as a cube or cone.
- An organisation, company or other authoritative group.
- The fleshly or corporeal nature of a human, as opposed to the spirit or soul.
- A unified collection of details, knowledge or information.
- The code of a subroutine, contrasted to its signature and parameters.
- Comparative viscosity, solidity or substance (in wine, colours etc.).
- The torso, the main structure of a human or animal frame excluding the extremities (limbs, head, tail).
- Any physical object or material thing.
- The shank of a type, or the depth of the shank (by which the size is indicated).
- The physical structure of a human or animal seen as one single organism.
- Substance; physical presence.
- What's a body gotta do to get a drink around here?
- An agglomeration of some substance, especially one that would be otherwise uncountable.
verb
phrase
noun
- A common person.
- Layperson, someone who is not an ordained cleric or member of the clergy.
- A generally ignorant person.
- Lay-sister or lay-brother, person received into a convent of monks, following the vows, but not being member of the order.
- A person who is untrained or lacks knowledge of a subject.
- Someone who is not a professional in a given field.
noun
- Any set of people with a shared characteristic.
- The slice of bread in the middle of a club sandwich.
- A black clover shape (♣), one of the four symbols used to mark the suits of playing cards.
- A heavy object, often a kind of stick, intended for use as a bludgeoning weapon or a plaything.
- An association of members joining together for some common purpose, especially sports or recreation.
- An establishment that provides staged entertainment, often with food and drink, such as a nightclub.
- A playing card marked with such a symbol.
- A club sandwich.
- An implement to hit the ball in certain ball games, such as golf.
- A joint charge of expense, or any person's share of it; a contribution to a common fund.
verb
- To combine into a club-shaped mass.
- To turn the breech of (a musket) uppermost, so as to use it as a club.
- To hit with a club.
- To join together to form a group.
- To go to nightclubs.
- To throw, or allow to fall, into confusion.
- To unite, or contribute, for the accomplishment of a common end.
- To raise, or defray, by a proportional assessment.
- We went clubbing in Ibiza.
- To pay an equal or proportionate share of a common charge or expense.
- To drift in a current with an anchor out.
noun
- a formal association of people with similar interests
- small house at the entrance to the grounds of a country mansion; usually occupied by a gatekeeper or gardener
- a small (rustic) house used as a temporary shelter
- any of various Native American dwellings
- a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers
verb
noun
- a group of people having a religion, ethnic, profession, or other particular characteristic in common
- a group of people living in a particular local area
- common ownership
- a group of nations having common interests
- agreement as to goals
- a district where people live; occupied primarily by private residences
- (ecology) a group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other
noun
- A group or bunch (of people or things).
- The claw of a predatory animal or bird.
- An important or critical situation.
- A brood of chickens or a sitting of eggs.
- A device to interrupt power transmission, commonly used to separate the engine and gearbox in a car.
- A fastener that attaches to the back of a tack pin to secure an accessory to clothing. (See Clutch (pin fastener).)
- A small handbag or purse with no straps or handle.
- Any device for gripping an object, as at the end of a chain or tackle.
- A grip, especially one seen as rapacious or evil.
- The pedal in a car that disengages power and torque transmission from the engine (through the drivetrain) to the drive wheels.
- A difficult maneuver
adj
verb
noun
noun
- A group of people, usually meeting socially.
- A punch for setting nails in wood.
- The full number of eggs set under a hen.
- The initial or basic formation of dancers.
- A device for receiving broadcast radio waves (or, more recently, broadcast data); a radio or television.
- A young oyster when first attached.
- The act of directing the ball to a teammate for an attack.
- The setting of the sun or other luminary; (by extension) the close of the day.
- The scenery for a film or play.
- Set theory.
- the general locations and area where a movie’s, a film’s, or a video’s scenery is arranged to be filmed also including places for actors, assorted crew, director, producers which are typically not filmed.
- A complete series of games, forming part of a match.
- A group of repetitions of a single exercise performed one after the other without rest.
- The amount the teeth of a saw protrude to the side in order to create the kerf.
- A rudimentary fruit.
- An object made up of several parts.
- General movement; direction; drift; tendency.
- A piece placed temporarily upon the head of a pile when the latter cannot otherwise be reached by the weight, or hammer.
- The camber of a curved roofing tile.
- A drum kit, a drum set.
- A class group in a subject where pupils are divided by ability.
- A bias of mind; an attitude or pattern of behaviour.
- A collection of zero or more objects, possibly infinite in size, and disregarding any order or repetition of the objects which may be contained within it.
- A musical performance by a band, disc jockey, etc., consisting of several musical pieces.
- Three of a kind, especially if two cards are in one's hand and the third is on the board. Compare trips (“three of a kind, especially with two cards on the board and one in one's hand”).
- A young plant fit for setting out; a slip; shoot.
- A small tuber or bulb used instead of seed, particularly onion sets and potato sets.
- Collectively, the crop of young oysters in any locality.
- A series or group of something. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 4, Noun)
- The manner, state, or quality of setting or fitting; fit.
- The pattern of a tartan, etc.
- A collection of various objects for a particular purpose.
- A permanent change of shape caused by excessive strain, as from compression, tension, bending, twisting, etc.
- A matching collection of similar things. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 2, Noun.)
- A complete series of points, forming part of a match.
verb
- To devise and assign (work) to.
- To have a certain direction of motion; to flow; to move on; to tend.
- To arrange with dishes and cutlery, to set the table.
- To direct (the ball) to a teammate for an attack.
- To place or fix in a setting.
- To extend and bring into position; to spread.
- To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant.
- To prepare (a stage or film set).
- To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure.
- To defeat a contract.
- To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.
- To put (something) down, to rest.
- To produce after pollination.
- To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle.
- To acknowledge a dancing partner by facing him or her and moving first to one side and then to the other, while she or he does the opposite.
- To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote.
- To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state.
- To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare.
- To punch (a nail) into wood so that its head is below the surface.
- To hunt game with the aid of a setter.
- To sit (be in a seated position).
- To arrange (type).
- To be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to germinate or form.
- To introduce or describe.
- To solidify.
- To rest or lie somewhere, on something, etc.; to occupy a certain place.
- To apply oneself; to undertake earnestly.
- Of a heavenly body, to disappear below the horizon of a planet, etc, as the latter rotates.
- Of a dog, to indicate the position of game.
- To fit (someone) up in a situation.
- To put in a specified condition or state; to cause to be.
- To adjust.
- To compile, to make (a puzzle or challenge).
- To suit; to become.
- To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to assign.
- To determine or settle.
- To fit music to words.
- To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to variegate with objects placed here and there.
- To start (a fire).
- To divide a class group in a subject according to ability
- To locate (a play, etc.); to assign a backdrop to, geographically or temporally.
- To attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place.
adj
noun
noun
- A socially cohesive group of people within a society
- An ethnic group larger than a band or clan (and which may contain clans) but smaller than a nation (and which in turn may be contained within a nation). The tribe is often the basis of ethnic identity.
- A hierarchal rank between family and genus.
- A family of animals descended from some particular female progenitor, through the female line.
- A tribal nation or people.
- The collective noun for various animals.
- A group of apes who live and work together.
- A nation or people in an area considered culturally primitive, such as Africa, Australia or Native America.
verb
noun
noun
- an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose
- temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers
- a group of people living together in a camp
- temporary lodgings in the country for travelers or vacationers
- a penal institution (often for forced labor)
- something that is considered amusing not because of its originality but because of its unoriginality
- shelter for persons displaced by war or political oppression or for religious beliefs
- a site where care and activities are provided for children during the summer months
verb
- live in or as if in a tent
- establish or set up a camp
- give an artificially banal or sexual quality to
adj
noun
- an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose
- a large indefinite quantity
- a complete collection of similar things
- a convenient package or parcel (as of cigarettes or film)
- an association of criminals
- a group of hunting animals
- a cream that cleanses and tones the skin
- a sheet or blanket (either dry or wet) to wrap around the body for its therapeutic effect
- a bundle (especially one carried on the back)
verb
- arrange in a container
- fill to capacity
- compress into a wad
- carry, as on one's back
- set up a committee or legislative body with one's own supporters so as to influence the outcome
- have with oneself; have on one's person
- press tightly together or cram
- hike with a backpack
- press down tightly
- seal with packing
- have the property of being packable or of compacting easily
- load with a pack
- treat the body or any part of it by wrapping it, as with blankets or sheets, and applying compresses to it, or stuffing it to provide cover, containment, or therapy, or to absorb blood
noun
adj
verb
noun
- A group or company of people, originally especially one having hostile intent; a throng, a crowd.
- A group of people summoned to help law enforcement.
- A search party.
- A criminal gang.
- A group of (especially young) people seen as constituting a peer group or band of associates; a gang, a group of friends.
noun
- A group of people or things.
- A maze-like pattern.
- A looping of a piece of string or of any other long, flexible material that cannot be untangled without passing one or both ends of the material through its loops.
- A tangled clump.
- Any knob, lump, swelling, or protuberance.
- A kind of epaulet; a shoulder knot.
- One of a variety of shore birds; red-breasted sandpiper (variously Calidris canutus or Tringa canutus).
- A bond of union; a connection; a tie.
- A non-self-intersecting closed curve in (e.g., three-dimensional) space that is an abstraction of a knot (in sense 1 above).
- A unit of speed, equal to one nautical mile per hour. (From the practice of counting the number of knots in the log-line (as it is paid out) in a standard time. Traditionally spaced at one every ¹⁄₁₂₀ of a mile.)
- Local swelling in a tissue area, especially skin, often due to injury.
- The bulbus glandis.
- The whorl left in lumber by the base of a branch growing out of the tree's trunk.
- A difficult situation.
- A tightened and contracted part of a muscle that feels like a hard lump under the skin.
- A node.
- A unit of indicated airspeed, calibrated airspeed, or equivalent airspeed, which varies in its relation to the unit of speed so as to compensate for the effects of different ambient atmospheric conditions on aircraft performance.
- In omegaverse fiction, a bulbus glandis-like structure on the penis of a male alpha, which ties him to an omega during intercourse.
- A nautical mile.
- The point on which the action of a story depends; the gist of a matter.
- A protuberant joint in a plant.
- The swelling of the bulbus glandis in members of the dog family, Canidae.
verb
adv
noun
- Such people collectively; one's circle of acquaintances (with plural concord).
- A person or persons with whom one is acquainted.
- A state of being acquainted with a person; originally indicating friendship, intimacy, but now suggesting a slight knowledge less deep than that of friendship; acquaintanceship.
- Personal knowledge (with a specific subject etc.).
noun
- A group of people or things.
- A meeting or get-together; a party or social function.
- A section, a group of bifolios, or sheets of paper, stacked together and folded in half.
- The collection of produce, items, goods, etc.; the practice of collecting food from nature.
- A tumor or boil suppurated or maturated; an abscess.
- A charitable contribution; a collection.
adj
noun
- A number of things or persons being in some relation to one another.
- A column in the periodic table of chemical elements.
- An element of an espresso machine from which hot water pours into the portafilter.
- A (usually small) group of people who perform music together.
- An air force formation.
- A number of users with the same rights with respect to accession, modification, and execution of files, computers and peripherals.
- A subset of a culture or of a society.
- A functional group.
- A small number (up to about fifty) of galaxies that are near each other.
- A collection of formations or rock strata.
- A number of eighth, sixteenth, etc., notes joined at the stems; sometimes rather indefinitely applied to any ornament made up of a few short notes.
- A set with an associative binary operation, under which there exists an identity element, and such that each element has an inverse.
- A commercial organization.
- A set of teams playing each other in the same division, while not during the same period playing any teams that belong to other sets in the division.
verb
noun
- A woman, or women considered as a group.
- The part of a spinning wheel from which fibre is drawn to be spun.
- A device to which a bundle of natural fibres (often wool, flax, or cotton) are attached for temporary storage, before being drawn off gradually to spin thread. A traditional distaff is a staff with flax fibres tied loosely to it (as indicated by the etymology of the word), but modern distaffs are often made of cords weighted with beads, and attached to the wrist.
- A race for female horses only.
- Anything traditionally done by or considered of importance to women only.
adj
noun
- a group of people (often temporary) having a common purpose
- a collection of things that have been combined; an assemblage of separate parts or qualities
- a coordinated sequence of chess moves
- a sequence of numbers or letters that opens a combination lock
- an alliance of people or corporations or countries for a special purpose (formerly to achieve some antisocial end but now for general political or economic purposes)
- the act of arranging elements into specified groups without regard to order
- the act of combining things to form a new whole
English words for 'people in general; especially a distinctive group of people with some shared interest'
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