winnow
cull out
pile
single out
pick
pick over
draw
extract
general
sort
category
empanel
impanel
panel
choose one's fighter
multiselect
for example
weed out
count
cherry-pick
collection
eclectic
eight
interclassify
group
pick through
three
five
nine
umbrella
three-cornered
flower
lump
include
fleet
collocate
prioritize
chunk
pick out
typical
select
roll call
subitemset
genus
margin
every
R Us
choose
take
best of the bunch
number
intragrouping
outgroup
decade
favourite
target market
race
universal
spectrum
selectome
plump
ennead
eclecticist
go
four
regroup
elite
chooser
à la carte
qualitative analysis
lump together
class
numero uno
ingroup
abstraction
type
mixed bag
abstract entity
swell the ranks
pooling
two
octet
kind
variety
item
sort out
form
quintuple
reverse configure
weed
subtype
twosome
add
intracohort
picklist
set
general
eclectic
umbrella
three-cornered
typical
intragrouping
favourite
universal
elite
à la carte
quintuple
intracohort
every
pile
category
collection
flower
fleet
lump
roll call
subitemset
genus
margin
best of the bunch
decade
target market
race
eclectic
spectrum
selectome
ennead
eclecticist
chooser
qualitative analysis
class
numero uno
abstraction
type
mixed bag
abstract entity
sort
pooling
octet
kind
variety
item
form
subtype
twosome
picklist
set
winnow
cull out
single out
pick
pick over
draw
extract
sort
empanel
impanel
panel
choose one's fighter
multiselect
weed out
count
cherry-pick
interclassify
group
pick through
lump
include
collocate
prioritize
chunk
pick out
select
choose
take
number
outgroup
plump
go
regroup
lump together
ingroup
swell the ranks
sort out
reverse configure
weed
add
noun
- A group or list of related items up for consideration, especially in some kind of selection process.
- A large building, or mass of buildings.
- One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.
- The head of an arrow or spear.
- A list or league
- A mass formed in layers.
- A large amount of money.
- A bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be worked over into bars or other shapes by rolling or hammering at a welding heat; a fagot.
- A beam, pole, or pillar, driven completely into the ground.
- A large stake, or piece of pointed timber, steel etc., driven into the earth or sea-bed for the support of a building, a pier, or other superstructure, or to form a cofferdam, etc.
- A mass of things heaped together; a heap.
- Hair, especially when very fine or short; the fine underfur of certain animals. (Formerly countable, now treated as a collective singular.)
- An atomic pile; an early form of nuclear reactor.
- A vertical series of alternate disks of two dissimilar metals (especially copper and zinc), laid up with disks of cloth or paper moistened with acid water between them, for producing a current of electricity; a voltaic pile, or galvanic pile.
- The raised hairs, loops or strands of a fabric; the nap of a cloth.
- A hemorrhoid.
- A funeral pile; a pyre.
verb
- To add something to a great number.
- (of vehicles) To create a hold-up.
- To place (guns, muskets, etc.) together in threes so that they can stand upright, supporting each other.
- To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.
- To give a pile to; to make shaggy.
- To lay or throw into a pile or heap; to heap up; to collect into a mass; to accumulate
- To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load.
verb
- select carefully from a group
- look for and gather
- harass with constant criticism
- provoke
- remove in small bits
- remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits
- pilfer or rob
- pay for something
- pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion
- attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example
- hit lightly with a picking motion
- eat intermittently; take small bites of
noun
- the person or thing chosen or selected
- the quantity of a crop that is harvested
- the best people or things in a group
- the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving
- a small thin device (of metal or plastic or ivory) used to pluck a stringed instrument
- a thin sharp implement used for removing unwanted material
- a heavy iron tool with a wooden handle and a curved head that is pointed on both ends
- a basketball maneuver; obstructing an opponent with one's body
- the act of choosing or selecting
verb
- select or take in from a given group or region
- cause to move by pulling
- get or derive
- make a mark or lines on a surface
- make, formulate, or derive in the mind
- bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a cover
- represent by making a drawing of, as with a pencil, chalk, etc. on a surface
- take liquid out of a container or well
- give a description of
- elicit responses, such as objections, criticism, applause, etc.
- suck in or take (air)
- move or go steadily or gradually
- remove (a commodity) from (a supply source)
- choose at random
- earn or achieve a base by being walked by the pitcher
- bring or lead someone to a certain action or condition
- to obtain a liquid from somewhere
- write a legal document or paper
- engage in drawing
- move or pull so as to cover or uncover something
- allow a draft
- require a specified depth for floating
- pull (a person) apart with four horses tied to his extremities, so as to execute him
- cause to move in a certain direction by exerting a force upon, either physically or in an abstract sense
- take in, also metaphorically
- direct toward itself or oneself by means of some psychological power or physical attributes
- thread on or as if on a string
- stretch back a bowstring (on an archer's bow)
- pass over, across, or through
- finish a game with an equal number of points, goals, etc.
- shrink
- reduce the diameter of (a wire or metal rod) by pulling it through a die
- steep; pass through a strainer
- remove the entrails of
- flatten, stretch, or mold metal or glass, by rolling or by pulling it through a die or by stretching
- cause to localize at one point
noun
- a gully that is shallower than a ravine
- an entertainer who attracts large audiences
- the finish of a contest in which the score is tied and the winner is undecided
- anything (straws or pebbles etc.) taken or chosen at random
- a playing card or cards dealt or taken from the pack
- a golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer
- (American football) the quarterback moves back as if to pass and then hands the ball to the fullback who is running toward the line of scrimmage
- poker in which a player can discard cards and receive substitutes from the dealer
- the act of drawing or hauling something
verb
- To select parts of a whole
- To determine (a root of a number).
- To take by selection; to choose out; to cite or quote, as a passage from a book.
- To draw out; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.
- To withdraw by expression, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process. Compare abstract (transitive verb).
noun
- A decoction, solution, or infusion made by drawing out from any substance that which gives it its essential and characteristic virtue
- Something that is extracted or drawn out.
- Ancestry; descent.
- A draft or copy of writing; a certified copy of the proceedings in an action and the judgment therein, with an order for execution.
- Any substance extracted is such a way, and characteristic of that from which it is obtained
- A solid preparation obtained by evaporating a solution of a drug, etc., or the fresh juice of a plant (distinguished from an abstract).
- A portion of a book or document, incorporated distinctly in another work; a citation; a quotation.
adj
noun
- a general officer of the highest rank
- the head of a religious order or congregation
- a fact about the whole (as opposed to particular)
adj
- not specialized or limited to one class of things
- prevailing among and common to the general public
- somewhat indefinite
- of worldwide scope or applicability
verb
verb
- To separate items into different categories according to certain criteria that determine their sorts.
- To join or associate with others, especially with others of the same kind or species; to agree.
- To suit; to fit; to be in accord; to harmonize.
- To fix (a problem) or handle (a task).
- To arrange into some sequence, usually numerically, alphabetically or chronologically.
- To attack physically.
- To geld.
- To conjoin; to put together in distribution; to class.
noun
- An act of sorting.
- A type.
- An algorithm for sorting a list of items into a particular sequence.
- A piece of metal type used to print one letter, character, or symbol in a particular size and style.
- Manner; form of being or acting.
- A general type.
- A person evaluated in a certain way (bad, good, strange, etc.).
- A good-looking woman.
noun
- A group, often named or numbered, to which items are assigned based on similarity or defined criteria.
- A collection of objects, together with a transitively closed collection of composable arrows between them, such that every object has an identity arrow, and such that arrow composition is associative.
verb
noun
- sheet that forms a distinct (usually flat and rectangular) section or component of something
- a committee appointed to judge a competition
- (law) a group of people summoned for jury service (from whom a jury will be chosen)
- a group of people gathered for a special purpose as to plan or discuss an issue or judge a contest etc
- a soft pad placed under a saddle
- a piece of cloth that is generally triangular or tapering; used in making garments or umbrellas or sails
- (computer science) a small temporary window in a graphical user interface that appears in order to request information from the user; after the information has been provided the user dismisses the box with `okay' or `cancel'
- electrical device consisting of a flat insulated surface that contains switches and dials and meters for controlling other electrical devices
verb
- To determine the number of (objects in a group).
- To reckon in, to include in consideration.
- To be an example of something: often followed by as and an indefinite noun.
- To be of significance; to matter.
- To consider something as an example of something or as having some quality; to account, to regard as.
- To recite numbers in sequence.
- To amount to, to number in total.
noun
- The act of counting or tallying a quantity.
- A charge of misconduct brought in a legal proceeding.
- The male ruler of a county.
- A nobleman holding a rank intermediate between dukes and barons.
- A countdown.
- Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Tanaecia. Other butterflies in this genus are called earls and viscounts.
- The result of a tally that reveals the number of items in a set; a quantity counted.
- The number of balls and strikes, respectively, on a batter's in-progress plate appearance.
adj
verb
- To pick out the best or most desirable items from a list or group, especially to obtain some advantage or to present something in the best possible light.
- To position oneself near the opponent's goal to attempt to receive an errant or intentional pass for an easy score, as in basketball or versions of soccer where offsides are not enforced.
- To select only evidence which supports an argument, and reject or ignore contradictory evidence.
- To broadcast selected programming from another network.
noun
- Multiple related objects associated as a group.
- A set of college exams generally taken at the start of the term.
- A set of sets; used because such a thing is in general too large to comply with the formal definition of a set.
- The jurisdiction of a collector of excise.
- The activity of collecting.
- The quality of being collected; calm composure.
- A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for donations.
- A set of items or amount of material procured or gathered together.
- Debt collection.
verb
noun
noun
- The best examples or representatives of a group.
- Something that flows, such as a river.
- A reproductive structure in angiosperms (flowering plants), often conspicuously colourful and typically including sepals, petals, and either or both stamens and/or a pistil.
- A cut flower; the stem of a flowering plant with the blossom or blossoms attached, used for decoration, as a gift, etc.
- Of plants, a state of bearing blooms.
- A figure of speech; an ornament of style.
- Ornamental type used chiefly for borders around pages, cards, etc.
- A delicate, fragile, or oversensitive person.
- The vulva, especially the labia majora.
- The best state of things; the prime.
- A colorful, conspicuous structure associated with angiosperms, frequently scented and attracting various insects, and which may or may not be used for sexual reproduction.
- A plant that bears flowers, especially a plant that is small and lacks wood.
verb
noun
- Any group of associated items.
- A number of vessels in company, especially war vessels; also, the collective naval force of a country, etc.
- Any command of vessels exceeding a squadron in size, or a rear admiral's command, composed of five sail-of-the-line, with any number of smaller vessels.
- An arm of the sea; a run of water, such as an inlet or a creek.
- A location, as on a navigable river, where barges are secured.
- A large, coordinated group of people.
- A group of vessels or vehicles.
verb
- To flee, to escape, to speed away.
- To pass over rapidly; to skim the surface of.
- To cause to slip down the barrel of a capstan or windlass, as a rope or chain.
- To hasten over; to cause to pass away lightly, or in mirth and joy.
- To move up a rope, so as to haul to more advantage; especially to draw apart the blocks of a tackle.
- To move or change in position.
- To take the cream from; to skim.
- To evanesce, disappear, die out.
adj
noun
- A group with common attributes.
- A taxon at this rank.
- A natural number representing any of several related measures of the complexity of a given manifold or graph.
- A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below family (Lat. familia) and above species.
- Within a definition, a broader category of the defined concept.
- A type of tuning or intonation, used within an Ancient Greek tetrachord.
noun
- The edge defining inclusion in or exclusion from a set or group.
- A permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits.
- The edge or border of any flat surface.
- The yield or profit; the selling price minus the cost of production.
- margin of victory
- That which is ancillary; periphery.
- The edge of the paper, typically left blank when printing but sometimes used for annotations etc.
- A difference or ratio between results, characteristics, scores.
- Collateral security deposited with a broker, to compensate the broker in the event of loss in the speculative buying and selling of stocks, commodities, etc.
verb
verb
- pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives
- carry out
- require (time or space)
- take somebody somewhere
- get into one's hands, take physically
- take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect
- interpret something in a certain way; convey a particular meaning or impression
- take something or somebody with oneself somewhere
- take into one's possession
- travel or go by means of a certain kind of transportation, or a certain route
- receive willingly something given or offered
- assume, as of positions or roles
- take into consideration for exemplifying purposes
- require as useful, just, or proper
- experience or feel or submit to
- make a film or photograph of something
- remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract
- serve oneself to, or consume regularly
- accept or undergo, often unwillingly
- make use of or accept for some purpose
- conquer by force
- occupy or take on
- admit into a group or community
- ascertain or determine by measuring, computing or take a reading from a dial
- be a student of a certain subject
- take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs
- head into a specified direction
- point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards
- be seized or affected in a specified way
- have with oneself; have on one's person
- engage for service under a term of contract
- receive or obtain regularly
- buy, select
- to get into a position of having, e.g., safety, comfort
- have sex with; archaic use
- lay claim to; as of an idea
- be designed to hold or take
- be capable of holding or containing
- develop a habit
- proceed along in a vehicle
- obtain by winning
- be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness
noun
verb
- put into a group
- add up in number or quantity
- give numbers to
- enumerate
- determine the number or amount of
- place a limit on the number of
noun
- the property possessed by a sum or total or indefinite quantity of units or individuals
- a concept of quantity involving zero and units
- a short performance that is part of a longer program
- the number is used in calling a particular telephone
- a symbol used to represent a number
- one of a series published periodically
- a select company of people
- a numeral or string of numerals that is used for identification and may be attached to accounts, memberships, etc.
- a clothing measurement
- a numbered item in a series
- the grammatical category for the forms of nouns and pronouns and verbs that are used depending on the number of entities involved (singular or dual or plural)
- an item of clothing
noun
- A group, set, or series of ten
- Any of the sets of ten sequential braille characters with predictable patterns.
- A period of ten days, (history) particularly those in the ancient Egyptian, Coptic, and French Revolutionary calendars.
- A series of prayers counted on a rosary, typically consisting of an Our Father, followed by ten Hail Marys, and concluding with a Glory Be and sometimes the Fatima Prayer.
- A period of ten years , particularly such a period beginning with a year ending in 0 and ending with a year ending in 9.
- A set of resistors, capacitors, etc. connected so as to provide even increments between one and ten times a base electrical resistance.
- The interval between any two quantities having a ratio of 10 to 1.
- A set of ten electronic devices used to represent digits.
adj
- Belonging to a category whose members are all preferred or liked over nonmembers.
- Preferred or liked above all others (unless qualified).
noun
- A short curl dangling over the temples, fashionable in the reign of Charles II.
- A person who is preferred or trusted above all others.
- A contestant or competitor thought most likely to win.
- A bookmark in a web browser.
- A person or thing who enjoys special regard or favour.
verb
noun
- A group or category distinguished from others on the basis of shared characteristics or qualities, for example social qualities.
- Subspecies.
- A race condition.
- A breed or strain of domesticated animal.
- A progressive movement toward a goal.
- Competitive action of any kind, especially when prolonged; hence, career; course of life.
- A population geographically separated from others of its species that develops significantly different characteristics; a mating group.
- A fast-moving current of water, such as that which powers a mill wheel.
- A water channel, esp. one built to lead water to or from a point where it is utilised.
- An infraspecific rank, a pathotype, pathovar, etc.
- A large group of people distinguished from others on the basis of common physical characteristics, such as skin color or hair type.
- A contest between people, animals, vehicles, etc. where the goal is to be the first to reach some objective. Example: Several horses run in a horse race, and the first one to reach the finishing post wins
- A large group of sentient beings distinguished from others on the basis of a common heritage (compare species, subspecies).
- The bushings of a rolling element bearing which contacts the rolling elements.
- A rhizome or root, especially of ginger.
- A large group of people distinguished from others on the basis of a common heritage (compare ethnic group). See Wikipedia's article on historical definitions of race.
- Swift progress; rapid motion; an instance of moving or driving at high speed.
verb
adj
- applicable to or common to all members of a group or set
- of worldwide scope or applicability
- adapted to various purposes, sizes, forms, operations
noun
- (linguistics) a grammatical rule (or other linguistic feature) that is found in all languages
- (logic) a proposition that asserts something of all members of a class
- a behavioral convention or pattern characteristic of all members of a particular culture or of all human beings
- coupling that connects two rotating shafts allowing freedom of movement in all directions
verb
- give support (to) or make a choice (of) one out of a group or number
- change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
- follow a procedure or take a course
- move away from a place into another direction
- enter or assume a certain state or condition
- be awarded; be allotted
- have a particular form
- stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point
- follow a certain course
- be abolished or discarded
- be or continue to be in a certain condition
- make a certain noise or sound
- perform as expected when applied
- to be spent or finished
- progress by being changed
- continue to live and avoid dying
- pass, fare, or elapse; of a certain state of affairs or action
- pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
- be in the right place or situation
- be ranked or compare
- begin or set in motion
- have a turn; make one's move in a game
- be contained in
- be sounded, played, or expressed
- blend or harmonize
- lead, extend, or afford access
- be the right size or shape; fit correctly or as desired
- go through in search of something; search through someone's belongings in an unauthorized way
- be spent
- stop operating or functioning
adj
noun
num
- Describing a set or group with four elements.
- A numerical value equal to 4; the number after three and before five; two plus two. This many dots (••••)
noun
- The crew rowing in a four boat.
- Anything measuring four units, as length.
- The digit or figure 4; an occurrence thereof.
- A regatta event for four boats.
- A person who is four years old.
- An event in which the batsmen run four times between the wickets or, more often, a batsman hits a ball which bounces on the ground before passing over a boundary, resulting in an award of 4 runs for the batting team. If the ball does not bounce before passing over the boundary, a six is awarded instead.
- A power forward.
- The shell itself.
noun
- A group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes.
- One of the sections into which a Methodist church or congregation is divided, supervised by a class leader.
- A group of students in a regularly scheduled meeting with a teacher.
- A rank in the classification of organisms, below phylum and above order; a taxon of that rank.
- A grouping of data values in an interval, often used for computation of a frequency distribution.
- A group of students who commenced or completed their education during a particular year. A school class.
- A collection of sets definable by a shared property.
- Best of its kind.
- A set of objects having the same behavior (but typically differing in state), or a template defining such a set in terms of its common properties, functions, etc.
- The division of society into classes.
- Admirable behavior; elegance.
- A category of seats in an airplane, train or other means of mass transportation.
- A group of people subject to be conscripted in the same military draft, or more narrowly those persons actually conscripted in a particular draft.
- A social grouping, based on job, wealth, etc. In Britain, society is commonly split into three main classes: upper class, middle class and working class.
- A series of lessons covering a single subject.
verb
- To assign to a class; to classify.
- To be grouped or classed.
- To divide into classes, as students; to form into, or place in, a class or classes.
adj
noun
- a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples
- a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance
- the act of withdrawing or removing something
- the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances
- an abstract painting
- preoccupation with something to the exclusion of all else
noun
- A grouping based on shared characteristics; a class.
- Preferred sort of person; sort of person that one is attracted to.
- A part of the partition of the object domain of a logical theory (which due to the existence of such partition, would be called a typed theory). (Note: this corresponds to the notion of "data type" in computing theory.)
- Text printed with such type, or imitating its characteristics.
- A simple compound, used as a mode or pattern to which other compounds are conveniently regarded as being related, and from which they may be actually or theoretically derived.
- An individual that represents the ideal for its class; an embodiment.
- A word that occurs in a text or corpus irrespective of how many times it occurs, as opposed to a token.
- The original object, or class of objects, scene, face, or conception, which becomes the subject of a copy; especially, the design on the face of a medal or a coin.
- Such types collectively, or a set of type of one font or size.
- A symbol, emblem, or example of something.
- An individual considered typical of its class, one regarded as typifying a certain profession, environment, etc.
- Something, often a specimen, selected as an objective anchor to connect a scientific name to a taxon; this need not be representative or typical.
- An event or person that prefigures or foreshadows a later event - commonly an Old Testament event linked to Christian times.
- A tag attached to variables and values used in determining which kinds of value can be used in which situations; a data type.
- A blood group.
verb
noun
- a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality
- a collection containing a variety of sorts of things
- noticeable heterogeneity
- (biology) a taxonomic category consisting of members of a species that differ from others of the same species in minor but heritable characteristics
- a show consisting of a series of short unrelated performances
- a difference that is usually pleasant
noun
- a whole individual unit; especially when included in a list or collection
- a distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list
- a small part that can be considered separately from the whole
- an isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole
- an individual instance of a type of symbol
adv
verb
- To organise or separate into groups, as a collection of items, so as to make tidy.
- To provide (somebody) with a necessity, or a solution to a problem.
- To fix, as a problem.
- To separate from the remainder of a group; often construed with from.
- To clarify by reviewing mentally.
- To arrange.
- To attack physically.
noun
- a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality
- the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something
- a perceptual structure
- any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline)
- alternative names for the body of a human being
- the spatial arrangement of something as distinct from its substance
- the visual appearance of something or someone
- a printed document with spaces in which to write
- (biology) a group of organisms within a species that differ in trivial ways from similar groups
- an arrangement of the elements in a composition or discourse
- a particular mode in which something is manifested
- (physical chemistry) a distinct state of matter in a system; matter that is identical in chemical composition and physical state and separated from other material by the phase boundary
- a body of students who are taught together
- an ability to perform well
- a life-size dummy used to display clothes
- a mold for setting concrete
verb
verb
- To pilfer the best items from a collection.
- To systematically remove materials from a library collection based on a set of criteria.
- To remove unwanted vegetation from a cultivated area.
noun
- Any plant unwanted at the place where and at the time when it is growing.
- Tobacco.
- Underbrush; low shrubs.
- A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which befalls those who are about to give birth, are giving birth, or have recently given birth or miscarried or aborted.
- Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless.
- A puny person; one who has little physical strength.
- Cannabis.
- Lymphangitis in a horse.
- A weak horse, which is therefore unfit to breed from.
adj
noun
- A collection of various objects for a particular purpose.
- 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)
- A group of people, usually meeting socially.
- The manner, state, or quality of setting or fitting; fit.
- The pattern of a tartan, etc.
- 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.
adj
- Fixed in one’s opinion.
- Fixed in a certain style.
- Ready, prepared.
- Rigid, solidified.
- Prearranged.
- Fixed in position.
- Intent, determined (to do something).
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.
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