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noun
- a motive for living
- the condition of living or the state of being alive
- the experience of being alive; the course of human events and activities
- a characteristic state or mode of living
- the course of existence of an individual; the actions and events that occur in living
- the period during which something is functional (as between birth and death)
- the period between birth and the present time
- the period from the present until death
- a living person
- animation and energy in action or expression
- living things collectively
- the organic phenomenon that distinguishes living organisms from nonliving ones
- an account of the series of events making up a person's life
- a prison term lasting as long as the prisoner lives
adj
- Necessary to the continuation of life; being the seat of life; being that on which life depends.
- Containing life; living.
- Invigorating or life-giving.
- Very important.
- Necessary to continued existence.
- Capable of living; in a state to live; viable.
- Relating to the recording of life events.
- Relating to, or characteristic of life.
verb
- To live; to reside.
- To abide; to remain; to continue.
- To be in a given state.
- To linger on a particular thought, idea, etc.; to remain fixated on something.
noun
- In a petrol engine, the period of time the ignition points are closed to let current flow through the ignition coil in between each spark. This is measured as an angle in degrees around the camshaft in the distributor which controls the points, for example in a 4-cylinder engine it might be 55° (spark at 90° intervals, points closed for 55° between each).
- A brief pause in the motion of part of a mechanism to allow an operation to be completed.
- A planned delay in a timed control program.
- A period of time in which a system or component remains in a given state.
adj
- Having life; living; not dead.
- Carrying electrical current; energized.
- In a state of action; in force or operation; existent.
- Susceptible, sensitive; easy to impress; having keen feelings, as opposed to apathy.
- Synonym of live
- Out of all living creatures.
- Sprightly; lively; brisk.
- Busy with activity of many living beings; swarming; thronged; busy.
verb
- To live; reside
- To incline forward, aft, or to one side by means of stays.
- To put off; defer; postpone; delay; keep back.
- To brace or support with a stay or stays
- To remain in a particular place, especially for a definite or short period of time; sojourn; abide.
- To stop; detain; keep back; delay; hinder.
- To continue to have a particular quality.
- To change; tack; go about; be in stays, as a ship.
- To hold out, as in a race or contest; last or persevere to the end; to show staying power.
- To restrain; withhold; check; stop.
- To hold the attention of.
- To cause to cease; to put an end to.
- To prop; support; sustain; hold up; steady.
- To support from sinking; to sustain with strength; to satisfy in part or for the time.
- To tack; put on the other tack.
noun
- A guy, rope, or wire supporting or stabilizing a platform, such as a bridge, a pole, such as a tentpole, the mast of a derrick, or other structural element.
- Continuance or a period of time spent in a place; abode for an indefinite time.
- A piece of stiff material, such as plastic or whalebone, used to stiffen a piece of clothing.
- A corset.
- Restraint of passion; prudence; moderation; caution; steadiness; sobriety.
- A fixed state; fixedness; stability; permanence.
- A strong rope or wire supporting a mast, and leading from one masthead down to some other, or other part of the vessel.
- The transverse piece in a chain-cable link.
- A prop; a support.
- A postponement, especially of an execution or other punishment.
- A station or fixed anchorage for vessels.
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adj
- Of a living being, having lived for most of the expected years.
- A grammatical intensifier, often used in describing something positive, and combined with another adjective.
- Having been used and thus no longer new or unused.
- Former, previous.
- Of an object, concept, relationship, etc., having existed for a relatively long period of time.
- That is no longer in existence.
- Having existed or lived for the specified time.
- Tiresome after prolonged repetition.
- Of a species or language, belonging to a lineage that is distantly related others
- Obsolete; out-of-date.
- Said of subdued colors, particularly reds, pinks and oranges, as if they had faded over time.
- Being a graduate or alumnus of a school, especially a public school.
- Indicating affection.
- Of a perishable item, having existed for most of, or more than, its shelf life.
- Familiar.
noun
verb
- To live or experience (a particular way of life).
- To guide or conduct, as by accompanying, going before, showing, influencing, directing with authority, etc.; to have precedence or preeminence; to be first or chief; — used in most of the senses of the transitive verb.
- To guide or conduct in a certain course, or to a certain place or end, by making the way known; to show the way, especially by going with or going in advance of, to lead a pupil; to guide somebody somewhere or to bring somebody somewhere by means of instructions.
- To direct; to counsel; to instruct
- To conduct or direct with authority; to have direction or charge of; to command, especially a military or business unit.
- To guide or conduct oneself in, through, or along (a certain course); hence, to proceed in the way of; to follow the path or course of; to pass; to spend. Also, to cause (one) to proceed or follow in (a certain course).
- To go or to be in advance of; to precede; hence, to be foremost or chief among.
- To step off base and move towards the next base.
- To draw or direct by influence, whether good or bad; to prevail on; to induce; to entice; to allure
- To be ahead of others, e.g., in a race.
- Lead climb.
- To produce (with to).
- To guide or conduct with the hand, or by means of some physical contact connection.
- To place leads between the lines of.
- To aim in front of a moving target, in order that the shot may hit the target as it passes.
- To cover, fill, or affect with lead.
- To have the highest interim score in a game.
- To tend or reach in a certain direction, or to a certain place.
- To lead off or out, to go first; to begin.
- To be more advanced in technology or business than others.
- To begin a game, round, or trick, with
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noun
- The excess above a right angle in the angle between two consecutive cranks, as of a compound engine, on the same shaft.
- A plummet or mass of lead attached to a line, used in sounding depth at sea or (dated) to estimate velocity in knots.
- The advance of the current phase in an alternating circuit beyond that of the electromotive force producing it.
- Information obtained by a detective or police officer that allows him or her to discover further details about a crime or incident.
- Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs.
- The situation where a runner steps away from a base while waiting for the pitch to be thrown.
- In a steam engine, the width of port opening which is uncovered by the valve, for the admission or release of steam, at the instant when the piston is at end of its stroke.
- An important news story that appears on the front page of a newspaper or at the beginning of a news broadcast
- The announcement by one voice part of a theme to be repeated by the other parts.
- The act of leading or conducting; guidance; direction, course
- The action of a tooth, such as a tooth of a wheel, in impelling another tooth or a pallet.
- bullets; ammunition.
- A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing.
- In a barbershop quartet, the person who sings the melody, usually the second tenor
- The actor who plays the main role; lead actor.
- A lode.
- Information obtained by a news reporter about an issue or subject that allows him or her to discover more details.
- Precedence; advance position; also, the measure of precedence; the state of being ahead in a race; the highest score in a game in an incomplete game.
- The main role in a play or film; the lead role.
- A heavy, pliable, inelastic metal element, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished; both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic number 82, symbol Pb (from Latin plumbum).
- A mark or a short passage in one voice part, as of a canon, serving as a cue for the entrance of others.
- An insulated metallic wire for electrical devices and equipment.
- The act or right of playing first in a game or round; the card suit, or piece, so played
- The distance of haul, as from a cutting to an embankment.
- The angle between the line joining the brushes of a continuous-current dynamo and the diameter symmetrical between the poles.
- Vertical space in advance of a row or between rows of text. Also known as leading.
- The person in charge of a project or a work shift etc.
- A rope, leather strap, or similar device with which to lead an animal; a leash
- The player who throws the first two rocks for a team.
- A thin cylinder of graphite used in pencils.
- The course of a rope from end to end.
- The axial distance a screw thread travels in one revolution. It is equal to the pitch times the number of starts.
- A roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates.
- A channel of open water in an ice field.
- Hypothesis that has not been pursued
- Potential opportunity for a sale or transaction, a potential customer.
- A teaser; a lead-in; the start of a newspaper column, telling who, what, when, where, why and how. (Sometimes spelled as lede for this usage to avoid ambiguity.)
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- a particular environment or walk of life
- any spherically shaped artifact
- the geographical area in which one nation is very influential
- a particular aspect of life or activity
- a solid figure bounded by a spherical surface (including the space it encloses)
- a three-dimensional closed surface such that every point on the surface is equidistant from the center
- the apparent surface of the imaginary sphere on which celestial bodies appear to be projected
noun
- a particular environment or walk of life
- a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed
- a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought
- somewhere (away from a studio or office or library or laboratory) where practical work is done or data is collected
- a branch of knowledge
- the space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it
- a particular kind of commercial enterprise
- a piece of land prepared for playing a game
- extensive tract of level open land
- (mathematics) a set of elements such that addition and multiplication are commutative and associative and multiplication is distributive over addition and there are two elements 0 and 1
- a region in which active military operations are in progress
- all of the horses in a particular horse race
- all the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event
- a geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found
- (computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information
- the area that is visible (as through an optical instrument)
- a place where planes take off and land
verb
noun
- 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
- people in general; especially a distinctive group of people with some shared interest
- the content of a particular field of knowledge
noun
- a particular environment or walk of life
- the (usually elliptical) path described by one celestial body in its revolution about another
- an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control:
- the path of an electron around the nucleus of an atom
- the bony cavity in the skull containing the eyeball
verb
noun
- a particular environment or walk of life
- a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography)
- a subject of study
- a part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve
- a part of a structure having some specific characteristic or function
- the extent of a 2-dimensional surface enclosed within a boundary
verb
- To give a satisfactory reason for; to explain.
- To give a satisfactory evaluation for financial transactions, money received etc.
- To consider that.
- To give a satisfactory evaluation for (one's actions, behaviour etc.); to answer for.
- To estimate, consider (something to be as described).
- To establish the location for someone.
- To cause the death, capture, or destruction of someone or something (+ for).
noun
- A reason, grounds, consideration, motive; a person's sake.
- A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; a reason of an action to be done.
- Authorization as a specific registered user in accessing a system.
- A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review.
- An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.
- A bank account.
- Profit; advantage.
- A record of events; a relation or narrative.
- Importance; worth; value; esteem; judgement.
verb
- To live.
- To inspire (scripture).
- To take in needed gases and expel waste gases in a similar way.
- To exhale or expel (something) in the manner of breath.
- To exercise; to tire by brisk exercise.
- To inhale (a gas) to sustain life.
- To draw air into (inhale), and expel air from (exhale), the lungs in order to extract oxygen and excrete waste gases.
- To passionately devote much of one's life to (an activity, etc.).
- To whisper quietly.
- To give an impression of, to exude.
- To expel air from the lungs, exhale.
- To pass like breath; noiselessly or gently; to emanate; to blow gently.
- To draw something into the lungs.
- To exchange gases with the environment.
- To stop, to give (a horse) an opportunity to catch its breath.
verb
- become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style
- settle into a position, usually on a surface or ground
- bring to an end; settle conclusively
- settle conclusively; come to terms
- take up residence and become established
- come to terms
- go under
- become resolved, fixed, established, or quiet
- establish or develop as a residence
- come to rest
- arrange or fix in the desired order
- accept despite lack of complete satisfaction
- end a legal dispute by arriving at a settlement
- dispose of; make a financial settlement
- become clear by the sinking of particles
- cause to become clear by forming a sediment (of liquids)
- sink down or precipitate
- fix firmly
- get one's revenge for a wrong or an injury
- make final; put the last touches on; put into final form
- form a community
- come as if by falling
noun
verb
- become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style
- take root and begin to grow
- come into existence, originate
- cheer for
- plant by the roots
- dig with the snout
- cause to take roots
noun
- (botany) the usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes; absorbs water and mineral salts; usually it anchors the plant to the ground
- the place where something begins, where it springs into being
- (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
- a number that, when multiplied by itself some number of times, equals a given number
- the set of values that give a true statement when substituted into an equation
- someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
- a simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes
- the embedded part of a bodily structure such as a tooth, nail, or hair
noun
- the act of populating (causing to live in a place)
- the people who inhabit a territory or state
- a group of organisms of the same species inhabiting a given area
- (statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn
- the number of inhabitants (either the total number or the number of a particular race or class) in a given place (country or city etc.)
verb
- cause to become alive again
- raise the level or amount of something
- raise from a lower to a higher position
- cause to be heard or known; express or utter
- collect funds for a specific purpose
- cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques
- look after a child until it is an adult
- summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic
- move upwards
- construct, build, or erect
- call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)
- create a disturbance, especially by making a great noise
- raise in rank or condition
- increase the level of
- give a promotion to or assign to a higher position
- cause to puff up with a leaven
- bid (one's partner's suit) at a higher level
- bet more than the previous player
- cause to assemble or enlist in the military
- put forward for consideration or discussion
- pronounce (vowels) by bringing the tongue closer to the roof of the mouth
- activate or stir up
- establish radio communications with
- multiply (a number) by itself a specified number of times: 8 is 2 raised to the power 3
- bring (a surface or a design) into relief and cause to project
- invigorate or heighten
- put an end to
noun
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noun
- the justification for some act or belief
- (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires
- (sports) the team that is trying to prevent the other team from scoring
- the defendant and his legal advisors collectively
- an organization of defenders that provides resistance against attack
- the speech act of answering an attack on your assertions
- a structure used to defend against attack
- a defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him
- (military) military action or resources protecting a country against potential enemies
- protection from harm
- the act of defending someone or something against attack or injury
noun
- the justification for some act or belief
- (military) military action or resources protecting a country against potential enemies
- protection from harm
- (sports) the team that is trying to prevent the other team from scoring
- (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires
- the defendant and his legal advisors collectively
- the speech act of answering an attack on your assertions
- an organization of defenders that provides resistance against attack
- a structure used to defend against attack
- a defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him
- the act of defending someone or something against attack or injury
verb
- To live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer.
- To cause to move or go; to send; to transfer from one person, place, or condition to another.
- To depart, to cease, to come to an end.
- To spend.
- To go from one person to another.
- To put through a sieve.
- To be tolerated as a substitute for something else, to "do".
- To reject; to pass up.
- To happen.
- In turn-based games, to decline to play in one's turn.
- To proceed without hindrance or opposition.
- To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure.
- To utter; to pronounce; to pledge.
- To die.
- To cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance.
- In euchre, to decline to make the trump.
- To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed.
- To put in circulation; to give currency to.
- To decline something that is offered or available.
- To move or be moved from one place to another.
- To change from one state to another (without the implication of progression).
- To continue.
- To elapse, to be spent.
- To progress from one state to another; to advance.
- To be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance.
- To cause to advance by stages of progress; to carry on with success through an ordeal, examination, or action; specifically, to give legal or official sanction to; to ratify; to enact; to approve as valid and just.
- To move (the ball or puck) to a teammate.
- To kick (the ball) with precision rather than at full force.
- To go by without noticing; to omit attention to; to take no note of; to disregard.
- To eliminate (something) from the body by natural processes.
- To be accepted by others as a member of a race, sex, or other group to which one does not belong or would not have originally appeared to belong; especially to be considered white although one has black ancestry, or a woman although one was assigned male at birth or vice versa.
- To make a lunge or swipe.
- To throw the ball, generally downfield, towards a teammate.
- To decline or not attempt to answer a question.
- To advance through all the steps or stages necessary to become valid or effective; to obtain the formal sanction of (a legislative body).
- To make a judgment on or upon a person or case.
- To achieve a successful outcome from.
- To go past, by, over, or through; to proceed from one side to the other of; to move past.
noun
- A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over, or along anything.
- Success in an examination or similar test.
- Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.
- An intentional walk.
- The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the waiting staff.
- A sexual advance.
- An attempt.
- A run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process.
- A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit or admission
- The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.
- A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.
- A passing of two trains in the same direction on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other overtake it.
- A channel connecting a river or body of water to the sea, for example at the mouth (delta) of a river.
- The act of overtaking; an overtaking manoeuvre.
- The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.
- An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise impracticable barrier such as a mountain range; a passageway; a defile; a ford.
- A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).
- A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
- A thrust; a sally of wit.
- An act of declining to play one's turn in a game, often by saying the word "pass".
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