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prefatory
prologise
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introductory
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proemium
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base
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oncoming
precompose
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head
let her rip
prefatial
inchoate
raise
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prologist
bongcloud
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set off
preem
ready
forestory
forebook
lead
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prolog
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prelusion
prepositional
monologize
propaedeutic
execute
premise
institute
auspicate
get
preluder
preface
break
curtain-raise
foresing
inceptual
go
make up
explication
descant
inchoative aspect
prompt
prelusory
intro
inchoative
forecaddie
kick off
break into
set forward
extend
proem
get on
initiate
hole
make
stage
forespeech
get ready
loop
starter
lay a foundation
deploy
prooemion
musicmaking
cofeature
commence
fire up
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prefatorial
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entrée
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make as if
head
let her rip
inchoate
raise
bongcloud
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ready
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monologize
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premise
institute
auspicate
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verb
noun
- A speech or section used as an introduction, especially to a play or novel.
- A component of a computer program that prepares the computer to execute a routine.
- One who delivers a prologue.
- An individual time trial before a stage race, used to determine which rider wears the leader's jersey on the first stage.
verb
- produce or introduce on the stage
- give something useful or necessary to
- present for acceptance or rejection
- agree freely
- put forward for consideration
- offer verbally
- make available for sale
- propose a payment
- present as an act of worship
- mount or put up
- make available; provide
- ask (someone) to marry you
- threaten to do something
noun
verb
- To give as its foundation or starting point; to lay the foundation of.
- To be located (at a particular place).
- To act as a base; to be the person supporting the flyer.
- To freebase.
adj
- Low in place or position.
- Morally reprehensible, immoral; cowardly.
- Not held by honourable service.
- Not considered precious or noble.
- Not classical or correct.
- Alloyed with inferior metal; debased.
noun
- A basic but essential component or ingredient.
- Foundation: a cosmetic cream to make the face appear uniform.
- A topological space, looked at in relation to one of its covering spaces, fibrations, or bundles.
- The smallest kind of cannon.
- A line in a survey which, being accurately determined in length and position, serves as the origin from which to compute the distances and positions of any points or objects connected with it by a system of triangles.
- The forces and relations of production that produce the necessities and amenities of life.
- The name of the controlling terminal of a bipolar transistor (BJT).
- Something from which other things extend; a foundation.
- A safe zone in the children's games of tag and hide-and-go-seek.
- The lowest side of a triangle or other polygon, or the lowest face of a cone, pyramid or other polyhedron laid flat.
- freebase cocaine
- A nucleotide's nucleobase in the context of a DNA or RNA biopolymer.
- The starting point of a logical deduction or thought; basis.
- In hand-to-hand balance, the person who supports the flyer; the person that remains in contact with the ground.
- A group of voters who almost always support a single party's candidates for elected office.
- A substance used as a mordant in dyeing.
- A material that holds paint or other materials together; a binder.
- A number raised to the power of an exponent.
- A supporting, lower or bottom component of a structure or object.
- Any of a class of generally water-soluble compounds, having bitter taste, that turn red litmus blue, and react with acids to form salts.
- The end of a leaf, petal or similar organ where it is attached to its support.
- A kind of skirt (often of velvet or brocade, but sometimes of mail or other armour) which hung from the middle to about the knees, or lower.
- A sequence of elements not jointly stabilized by any nontrivial group element.
- The lowermost part of a column, between the shaft and the pedestal or pavement.
- A morpheme (or morphemes) that serves as a basic foundation on which affixes can be attached.
- Synonym of radix.
- The game of prisoners' bars.
- The lowest third of a shield or escutcheon.
- The lower part of the field. See escutcheon.
- The place where decisions for an organization are made; headquarters.
- A permanent structure for housing military personnel and material.
- One of the four places that a runner can stand without being subject to being tagged out when the ball is in play.
- The set of sets from which a topology is generated.
verb
- To come at the beginning or front of; to commence.
- To be in command of. (See also head up.)
- 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
verb
noun
adj
verb
- To open, initiate.
- To remove or break up (a blockade), either by withdrawing the ships or forces employed in enforcing it, or by driving them away or dispersing them.
- To cause something to come to the surface of water.
- To create, increase or develop.
- To establish contact with (e.g., by telephone or radio).
- To cause (a dead person) to live again; to resurrect.
- To increase the nominal value of (a cheque, money order, etc.) by fraudulently changing the writing or printing in which the sum payable is specified.
- To create; to constitute (a use, or a beneficial interest in property).
- To collect or amass.
- To relinquish (a siege), or cause this to be done.
- To mention (a question, issue) for discussion.
- To promote.
- To produce a vowel with the tongue positioned closer to the roof of the mouth.
- To instantiate and transmit (an exception, by throwing it, or an event).
- To bring up; to grow.
- To respond to a bet by increasing the amount required to continue in the hand.
- To exponentiate, to involute.
- To make (bread, etc.) light, as by yeast or leaven.
- To bring into being; to produce; to cause to arise, come forth, or appear.
- To form by the accumulation of materials or constituent parts; to build up; to erect.
- To extract (a subject or other verb argument) out of an inner clause.
- To cause (the land or any other object) to seem higher by drawing nearer to it.
- To cause to rise; to lift or elevate.
noun
verb
noun
verb
- To begin; to cause; to initiate.
- To put into an angry mood; to start (a person) ranting or sulking, etc.
- To leave; to begin a journey or trip.
- To enhance by emphasizing differences.
- To offset, to compensate for: to reduce the effect of, by having a contrary effect.
- To deface or soil the next sheet; said of the ink on a freshly printed sheet, when another sheet comes in contact with it before it has had time to dry.
- To cause to explode, let off.
verb
- To lead off or out, to go first; to begin.
- 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 live or experience (a particular way of life).
- To be more advanced in technology or business than others.
- To begin a game, round, or trick, with
adj
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.)
verb
- To start, launch or run
- To run, usually successfully.
- Coordinate term: murder
- To carry out; to put into effect.
- To perform.
- To kill, especially as punishment for a capital crime.
- To carry out, to perform an act; to put into effect or cause to become legally binding or valid (as a contract) by so doing.
verb
- To set forth beforehand, or as introductory to the main subject; to offer previously, as something to explain or aid in understanding what follows.
- To make a premise.
- To state or assume something as a proposition to an argument.
- To send before the time, or beforehand; hence, to cause to be before something else; to employ previously.
noun
- Any of the first propositions of a syllogism, from which the conclusion is deduced.
- A proposition antecedently supposed or proved; something previously stated or assumed as the basis of further argument; a condition; a supposition.
- A piece of real estate; a building and its adjuncts.
- The fundamental concept that drives the plot of a film or other story.
- Matters previously stated or set forth; especially, that part in the beginning of a deed, the office of which is to express the grantor and grantee, and the land or thing granted or conveyed, and all that precedes the habendum; the thing demised or granted.
verb
- To begin (doing something or to do something).
- To be. Used to form the passive of verbs.
- To bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal); to effect retribution.
- To cause to become; to bring about.
- To kill.
- To receive.
- To be able, be permitted, or have the opportunity (to do something desirable or ironically implied to be desirable).
- To getter.
- To obtain; to acquire.
- To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).
- To have. See usage notes.
- To adopt, assume, arrive at, or progress towards (a certain position, location, state).
- To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).
- To cause to do.
- To fetch, bring, take.
- To become, or cause oneself to become.
- To understand. (compare get it)
- To catch out, trick successfully.
- To find as an answer.
- To hear completely; catch.
- To be told; be the recipient of (a question, comparison, opinion, etc.).
- Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose.
- To go, to leave; to scram.
- To become ill with or catch (a disease).
- To measure.
- To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.
- To perplex, stump.
- To cause to come or go or move.
noun
verb
noun
verb
- To begin or end.
- To go down, in terms of temperature, indicating that the most dangerous part of the illness has passed.
- To become deeper at puberty.
- To terminate the execution of a program before normal completion.
- To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
- To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily; to go on break.
- To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change gait.
- To demote; to reduce the military rank of.
- To counter-attack.
- To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
- To open (a safe) without using the correct key, combination, or the like.
- To become audible suddenly.
- To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
- To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
- To turn an animal into a beast of burden.
- Of prices on the stock exchange: to fall suddenly.
- To cause the shell of (an egg) to crack, so that the inside (yolk) is accessible.
- To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
- To ruin financially.
- To disclose or make known an item of news, a band, etc.
- To change a steady state abruptly.
- To surpass or do better than (a specific number); to do better than (a record), setting a new record.
- To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
- To end the run of (a play).
- To render (a game) unchallenging by altering its rules or exploiting loopholes or weaknesses in them in a way that gives a player an unfair advantage.
- To cause (some feature of a program or piece of software) to stop functioning properly; to cause a regression.
- To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
- To (attempt to) disengage and flee to; to make a run for.
- To suddenly become.
- To win a game (against one's opponent) as receiver.
- To make the first shot; to scatter the balls from the initial neat arrangement.
- To demulsify.
- To end (a connection); to disconnect.
- To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
- To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
- To arrive.
- To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
- To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately) hit something else beneath.
- To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.
- To crack or fracture (bone) under a physical strain.
- To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
- To alter in type due to emotion or strain: in men, generally to go up, in women, sometimes to go down; to crack.
- To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
- To end.
- To remove one of the two men on (a point).
- To suspend the execution of a program during debugging so that the state of the program can be investigated.
- To violate; to fail to adhere to.
- To cause, or allow the occurrence of, a line break.
- To B-boy; to breakdance.
noun
- The transition area between a singer's vocal registers; the passaggio.
- A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
- An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast, or sports game.
- A place where waves break (that is, where waves pitch or spill forward creating white water).
- A sharp bit or snaffle.
- The number of points scored by one player in one visit to the table.
- An area along a river that features steep banks, bluffs, or gorges (e.g., Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, US).
- A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as rhythmic dance music.
- A temporary split with a romantic partner.
- The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is, to move from its lower to its upper register.
- A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
- A keystroke or other signal that causes a program to terminate or suspend execution.
- A scheduled interval of days or weeks between periods of school instruction; a holiday.
- A rest or pause, usually from work.
- The counter-attack.
- A short holiday.
- An instance of breaking something into two or more pieces.
- A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
- A sudden fall in prices on the stock exchange.
- The beginning (of the morning).
- A game won by the receiving player(s).
- An act of escaping.
- The first shot in a game of billiards.
- The curve imparted to the ball's motion on the green due to slope or grass texture.
- A time for students to talk or play between lessons.
- The separation between lines, paragraphs or pages of a written text.
- The start of a horse race.
- A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
verb
- be sounded, played, or expressed
- 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
- 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
- give support (to) or make a choice (of) one out of a group or number
- stop operating or functioning
adj
noun
verb
- To initiate; to cause or lead to.
- To show or tell an actor/person the words they should be saying, or actions they should be doing.
- To lead (someone) toward what they should say or do.
noun
- A suggestion for inspiration given to an author.
- A sequence of characters that is displayed to indicate that a computer is ready to receive input.
- A reminder or cue.
- Textual input given to a large language model in order to have it generate a desired output.
adj
verb
- To start; to launch.
- To make the first kick in a game or part of a game.
- To suddenly become more active.
- To shut down or turn off suddenly.
- To force the weaning of a bovine cow's calf by restricting the calf's access to its mother's udders. Used figuratively or literally.
- To be overcome with anger, to start an argument or a fight.
- To dismiss; to expel; to remove from a position.
- To have a fight or argument start.
- To die or quit permanently.
verb
- open or straighten out; unbend
- extend in scope or range or area
- stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point
- span an interval of distance, space or time
- make available; provide
- thrust or extend out
- reach outward in space
- offer verbally
- extend one's limbs or muscles, or the entire body
- expand the influence of
- lengthen in time; cause to be or last longer
- extend or stretch out to a greater or the full length
- cause to move at full gallop
- use to the utmost; exert vigorously or to full capacity
- prolong the time allowed for payment of
- continue or extend
- increase in quantity or bulk by adding a cheaper substance
verb
- To write or compose.
- To earn, to gain (money, points, membership or status).
- To defecate or urinate.
- To constitute.
- To proceed (in a direction).
- To pay, to cover (an expense); chiefly used after expressions of inability.
- Of water, to flow toward land; to rise.
- To develop into; to prove to be.
- To prepare (food); to cook (food).
- To tend; to contribute; to have effect; with for or against.
- To force to do.
- To move at (a speed).
- To bring about; to effect or produce by means of some action.
- To indicate or suggest to be.
- To enact; to establish.
- To create (the universe), especially (in Christianity) from nothing.
- To form or formulate in the mind.
- To cause to appear to be; to represent as.
- To recognise, identify, spot.
- To take the virginity of.
- To perform a feat.
- To induct into the Mafia or a similar organization (as a made man).
- To gain sufficient audience to warrant its existence.
- To cover neatly with bedclothes.
- To cause to be.
- To build, construct, produce, or originate.
- To behave, to act.
- To cover (a given distance) by travelling.
- To interpret.
- To add up to, have a sum of.
- To cause (to do something); to compel (to do something).
- To arrive at a destination, usually at or by a certain time.
- To appoint; to name.
- To bring into success.
- To have sexual intercourse with.
noun
- A person's character or disposition.
- Quantity produced, especially of materials.
- A made basket.
- The camera was of German make.
- A home-made project
- Origin (of a manufactured article); manufacture; production.
- Brand or kind; model.
- Identification or recognition (of identity), especially from police records or evidence.
- Turn to declare the trump for a hand (in bridge), or to shuffle the cards.
- Past, present, or future target of seduction (usually female).
- A software utility for automatically building large applications, or an implementation of this utility.
- The closing of an electrical circuit.
- Mate; a spouse or companion; a match.
- A promotion.
- Manner or style of construction (style of how a thing is made); form.
verb
- To produce on a stage, to perform a play.
- To demonstrate in a deceptive manner.
- To orchestrate; to carry out.
- To place in position to prepare for use.
- To determine what stage (a disease, etc.) has progressed to
- To jettison a spent stage of a multistage rocket or other launch vehicle and light the engine(s) of the stage above it.
noun
- A platform; a surface, generally elevated, upon which show performances or other public events are given.
- One of the portions of a device (such as a rocket or thermonuclear weapon) which are used or activated in a particular order, one after another.
- A floor or storey of a house.
- The number of an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc.
- A stagecoach, an enclosed horsedrawn carriage used to carry passengers.
- A place where anything is publicly exhibited, or a remarkable affair occurs; the scene.
- The succession of rock strata laid down in a single age on the geologic time scale.
- A phase.
- The place on a microscope where the slide is located for viewing.
- An internship.
- A platform, often floating, serving as a kind of wharf.
- A level; one of the sequential areas making up the game.
- A floor elevated for the convenience of mechanical work, etc.; scaffolding; staging.
noun
noun
- The opening so formed.
- A complete circuit for an electric current.
- A quasigroup with an identity element.
- A ring road or beltway.
- A loop-shaped intrauterine device.
- A small, narrow opening; a loophole.
- A flexible region in a protein's secondary structure.
- A place at a terminus where trains or trams can turn round and go back the other way without having to reverse; a balloon loop, turning loop, or reversing loop.
- An aerobatic maneuver in which an aircraft flies a circular path in a vertical plane.
- An endless strip of tape or film allowing continuous repetition.
- A length of thread, line or rope that is doubled over to make an opening.
- An edge that begins and ends on the same vertex.
- A shape produced by a curve that bends around and crosses itself.
- A programmed sequence of instructions that is repeated until or while a particular condition is satisfied.
- A path that starts and ends at the same point.
- A bus or rail route, walking route, etc. that starts and ends at the same point.
verb
- To move in a loop.
- To move something in a loop.
- To place in a loop.
- To join electrical components to complete a circuit.
- To fly an aircraft in a loop.
- To duplicate the route of a pipeline.
- To form something into a loop.
- To create an error in a computer program so that it runs in an endless loop and the computer freezes up.
- To fasten or encircle something with a loop.
- To form a loop.
noun
- Someone who starts, or who starts something.
- A player in the lineup of players that a team fields at the beginning of a game.
- A short length of rope formerly used for casual chastisement in the Navy.
- A railway signal controlling the starting of trains from a station or some other location, more fully called a starter signal or starting signal.
- A yeast culture used to start a fermentation process.
- A device that initiates the flow of high voltage electricity in a fluorescent lamp.
- The first course of a meal, consisting of a small, usually savoury, dish.
- A dog that rouses game.
- The person who starts a race by firing a gun or waving a flag.
- A starting pitcher.
- An electric motor that starts an internal combustion engine.
- A person employed to take new players to the first tee at suitable intervals, and to provide them with caddies and equipment.
- Something with which to begin; a first property, etc.
English words for 'serve as a prelude or opening to'
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inspecting
first-come-first-served basis
without notice
accidental ingestion
man's looks
bullseye
anhydrous
fingerboard
handheld scanner
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patronage.
home-based care
we.
magnanimous person
bloc
Terrible
high voltage
draught beer
weapons and armour
my humble self
to climb.
regressive.
mutton.
very greatly or intensely.
Consecutively
To chew
fever
to lose one's presence of mind
to squander
ordnance
a short time ago
robot
various.
castle town
putting up
eating
fishery
Christian
allegiance
to bundle
to be unsettled
standing still
uprising
bruise
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