English words for 'someone whose profession involves using their head to solve problems'
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noun
- a person who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems
- the operator of a railway locomotive
- A soldier engaged in designing or constructing military works for attack or defence, or other engineering works.
- (chiefly historical) A person who operates a steam engine; specifically (nautical), a person employed to operate the steam engine in the engine room of a ship.
- (often derogatory) A person who formulates plots or schemes; a plotter, a schemer.
- (US, firefighting) A person who drives or operates a fire engine (firefighting apparatus).
- Preceded by a qualifying word: a person who uses abilities or knowledge to manipulate events or people.
- Originally, a person engaged in designing, constructing, or maintaining engines or machinery; now (more generally), a person qualified or professionally engaged in any branch of engineering, or studying to do so.
- (chiefly US, rail transport) A person who drives or operates a locomotive; a train driver.
- An honorific title given to engineers before their name.
- A person professionally engaged in the technical design and construction of large-scale private and public works such as bridges, buildings, harbours, railways, roads, etc.; a civil engineer.
verb
- plan and direct (a complex undertaking)
- design as an engineer
- To employ one's abilities and knowledge as an engineer to design, construct, and/or maintain (something, such as a machine or a structure), usually for industrial or public use.
- (specifically) To use genetic engineering to alter or construct (a DNA sequence), or to alter (an organism).
- (rare) To work as an engineer.
- To formulate plots or schemes; to plot, to scheme.
- To plan or achieve (a goal) by contrivance or guile; to finagle, to wangle.
noun
- One who is practical or hardheaded.
- (metallurgy) Residual ore that failed to melt during a smelting process.
- Mylopharodon conocephalus of fresh waters in California.
- Any of several weeds in or formerly classified in the genus Centaurea, especially Russian knapweed (Acroptilon repens).
- A brown diving duck, Aythya australis, native to Australia.
- (historical) A Scottish billon coin circulated in the reigns of Mary and James VI.
- Any of certain saltwater sciaenid (Sciaenidae) fishes.
adj
- Of a person, having skills or knowledge that are practical.
- Being likely to be effective and applicable to a real situation; able to be put to use.
- Relating to, or based on, practice or action rather than theory or hypothesis.
- (film) Light fixtures used for set lighting and seen in the frame of a shot as part of the scenery.
- (theater, not comparable) Of a prop: having some degree of functionality, rather than being a mere imitation.
- concerned with actual use or practice
- being actually such in almost every respect
- having or put to a practical purpose or use
- guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory
noun
- (British) A part of an exam or series of exams in which the candidate has to demonstrate their practical ability
- (theater) A prop that has some degree of functionality, rather than being a mere imitation.
- Laboratory experiment, test or investigation
- (film) A light fixture used for set lighting and seen in the frame of a shot as part of the scenery.
noun
- One who puts a head on something.
- (networking) the first part of a packet or stream, often containing its address and descriptors.
- The rodeo performer who drives the steer toward the heeler to be tied.
- (Ireland, derogatory) A headcase; a nutjob (mentally unbalanced, unpredictable person).
- (informal) A font, text style, or typesetting used for any of the above.
- (masonry) A brick that is laid sideways (on its largest face), for example at the top of a wall or within the brickwork, with its smallest side showing (oriented so that that side is wider than it is tall).
- A headlong fall, jump or dive.
- A machine that separates and gathers the heads of grain etc.
- Text, or other visual information, that goes at the top of a column of information in a table.
- A horizontal structural or finish piece over an opening.
- (programming) Clipping of header file.
- Text, or other visual information, used to mark off a quantity of text, often titling or summarizing it.
- (soccer) The act of hitting the ball with the head.
- (computing) The first part of a file or record that describes its contents.
- A raised tank that supplies water at constant pressure, especially to a central heating and hot water system; a header tank.
- (soccer) Someone who heads the ball.
- A pipe which connects several smaller pipes.
- The upper portion of a page (or other) layout.
- a machine that cuts the heads off grain and moves them into a wagon
- a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about
- (soccer) the act of hitting the ball with your head
- horizontal beam used as a finishing piece over a door or window
- a headlong jump (or fall)
- brick that is laid sideways at the top of a wall
- a framing member crossing and supporting the ends of joists, studs, or rafters so as to transfer their weight to parallel joists, studs, or rafters
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adj
verb
noun
- A person who plans, devises or contrives the achievement of a desired result.
- (Philippines) An honorific given to architects. Usually capitalized or abbreviated as Arch./Ar. before the person's name.
- A professional who designs buildings or other structures, or who prepares plans and superintends construction.
- someone who creates plans to be used in making something (such as buildings)
verb
noun
- a person engaged in one of the learned professions
- A person who belongs to a profession.
- an authority qualified to teach apprentices
- an athlete who plays for pay
- An expert.
- (euphemistic) A prostitute.
- A person who earns their living from a specified activity.
- One of four categories of sociologist propounded by Horowitz: a sociologist who is actively concerned with promoting the profession of sociology.
- A reputation known by name.
adj
- engaged in a profession or engaging in as a profession or means of livelihood
- of or relating to a profession
- characteristic of or befitting a profession or one engaged in a profession
- of or relating to or suitable as a profession
- engaged in by members of a profession
- Of, pertaining to, or in accordance with the (usually high) standards of a profession.
- That is carried out for money, especially as a livelihood.
- (by extension) Expert.
noun
- Someone with experience in a certain field.
- (by extension) A military veteran.
- A person who campaigns for a person running for political office or works, or supports, in an organised and active way towards a goal; an activist.
- A person who has served in a military campaign.
- a politician who is running for public office
noun
- the skilled practice of a practical occupation
- shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception
- skill in an occupation or trade
- a vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer space
- people who perform a particular kind of skilled work
- (nautical) Boats, especially of smaller size than ships. Historically primarily applied to vessels engaged in loading or unloading of other vessels, as lighters, hoys, and barges.
- (countable) A trade or profession as embodied in its practitioners collectively; the members of a trade or handicraft as a body; an association of these; a trade's union, guild, or ‘company’ .
- (countable, fishing) Implements used in catching fish, such as net, line, or hook. Modern use primarily in whaling, as in harpoons, hand-lances, etc. .
- (countable, plural crafts) A branch of skilled work or trade, especially one requiring manual dexterity or artistic skill, but sometimes applied equally to any business, calling or profession; the skilled practice of a practical occupation .
- (nautical, British Royal Navy) Those vessels attendant on a fleet, such as cutters, schooners, and gunboats, generally commanded by lieutenants.
- Ability, skillfulness, especially skill in making plans and carrying them into execution; dexterity in managing affairs, adroitness, practical cunning; ingenuity in constructing, dexterity .
- (figurative) A woman.
- Cunning, art, skill, or dexterity applied to bad purposes; artifice; guile; subtlety; shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception .
- (uncountable) Skill, skilfulness, art, especially the skill needed for a particular profession .
- (countable, plural craft) A vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer space .
verb
noun
- the skilled practice of a practical occupation
- steady winds blowing from east to west above and below the equator
- an equal exchange
- the commercial exchange (buying and selling on domestic or international markets) of goods and services
- the business given to a commercial establishment by its customers
- people who perform a particular kind of skilled work
- a particular instance of buying or selling
- (only as plural) A publication intended for participants in an industry or related group of industries.
- (countable) Those engaged in an industry or group of related industries.
- Short for trade paperback
- (countable) An idea or strategy for an investment on a market.
- (mining) Refuse or rubbish from a mine.
- (countable or uncountable) An occupation in the secondary sector, as opposed to an agricultural, professional or military one.
- (chiefly in the plural) Steady winds blowing from east to west above and below the equator.
- (countable) A particular instance of buying or selling, or a series of related transactions executed as a single investment.
- (uncountable) The buying and selling of goods and services on a market.
- (countable) The skilled practice of a practical occupation.
- (countable) Those who perform a particular kind of skilled work.
- (uncountable, UK) The business given to a commercial establishment by its customers.
- (uncountable, gay slang) A masculine man available for casual sex with men, often for pay. (Compare rough trade.)
- (countable) An instance of bartering items in exchange for one another.
verb
- engage in the trade of
- exchange or give (something) in exchange for
- be traded at a certain price or under certain conditions
- turn in as payment or part payment for a purchase
- do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood
- (transitive, with for) To give (something) in exchange (for).
- (horticulture, transitive or intransitive) To give someone a plant and receive a different one in return.
- (ambitransitive) To engage in trade.
- (transitive) To mutually exchange (something) (with).
- (transitive, with on) To use or exploit a particular aspect, such as a name, reputation, or image, to gain advantage or benefit.
- (intransitive) To have dealings; to be concerned or associated (with).
- (transitive) To recommend and get recommendations.
- (finance, intransitive, copulative) To be traded at a certain price or under certain conditions.
- (ambitransitive) To do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood.
adj
noun
- an intelligent but single-minded expert in a particular technical field or profession
- an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious
- (slang, sometimes derogatory) A person who is intellectual but generally introverted.
- (informal, sometimes derogatory) A member of a subculture revolving around intellectualism, technology, video games, fantasy and science fiction, comic books and assorted media. [from 1980s]
- (informal, sometimes derogatory) One who has an intense, obsessive interest in something.
noun
- someone extremely diligent or skillful
- a cruel wicked and inhuman person
- an evil supernatural being
- Any of various hesperiid butterflies of the genera Notocrypta and Udaspes.
- (in the plural) A person's fears or anxieties.
- (now chiefly historical) A false god or idol; a Satanic divinity.
- (Greek mythology) A tutelary deity or spirit intermediate between the major Olympian gods and mankind, especially a deified hero or the entity which supposedly guided Socrates, telling him what not to do.
- (card games) A type of patience or solitaire (card game) played in the UK and/or US.
- A source (especially personified) of great evil or wickedness; a destructive feeling or character flaw.
- A hypothetical entity with special abilities postulated for the sake of a thought experiment in philosophy or physics.
- A person's inner spirit or genius; a guiding or creative impulse.
- A very wicked or malevolent person; also (in weakened sense) a mischievous person, especially a child.
- (computing) Alternative spelling of daemon.
- Someone with great strength, passion or skill for a particular activity, pursuit etc.; an enthusiast.
- A spirit not considered to be inherently evil; a (non-Christian) deity or supernatural being.
- (physics) Acronym of distinct electron motion particle: a quasiparticle, a type of massless neutral electron excitation associated with superconductivity.
- An evil being resident in or working for Hell; a devil.
noun
- a person who takes a practical approach to problems and is concerned primarily with the success or failure of their actions
- an adherent of philosophical pragmatism
- One who acts in response to particular situations rather than upon abstract ideals; one who is willing to ignore their ideals to accomplish goals.
- One who acts in a practical or straightforward manner; one who is pragmatic; one who values practicality or pragmatism.
- (politics) An advocate of pragmatism.
- (linguistics, uncommon) One who studies pragmatics.
- One who belongs to the philosophic school of pragmatism; one who holds that the meaning of beliefs is the actions they entail, and that the truth of those beliefs consists in the actions they entail, successfully leading a believer to their goals.
adj
noun
- (support) The reassignment of a difficult problem to someone whose job is dedicated to handling such cases.
- The act of escalating.
- A deliberate or premeditated increase in the violence or geographic scope of a conflict.
- An increase or rise, especially to counteract a perceived discrepancy.
- an increase to counteract a perceived discrepancy
noun
- A professional who counsels people, especially on personal problems.
- (US) A children’s supervisor, usually at camp.
- (law) An attorney.
- (politics) A high ranking diplomat, usually just below an ambassador or minister.
- (education) A school counselor, often in a specialty such as careers, education, or health.
- a lawyer who pleads cases in court
- someone who gives advice about problems
- someone who has supervisory duties at a summer camp
suffix
- Someone (possibly implied male) who is an expert in an area or who takes part in an activity.
- Someone (possibly implied male) who has a particular nationality.
- Someone (possibly implied male) who has special characteristics relating to a topic or area.
- A ship which has special characteristics relating to a trade or area.
- Someone (possibly implied male) who is employed or holds a position in an area.
- A man whose name begins with the preceding letter.
noun
- someone whose task is to see that work goes harmoniously
- (grammar) A member of a lexical class of words that joins two or more items (such as words, phrases, or clauses) of equal syntactic importance.
- (sports, chiefly American football) An assistant coach responsible for a particular facet of the game, such as defense.
verb
- Followed by through: to solve a complicated matter, a problem, etc., by working through confusing or difficult matters.
- (also reflexive, often passive voice) To cause (oneself or someone, or their mind, etc.) to feel confused or mystified because they cannot understand a complicated matter, a problem, etc.; to confuse, to mystify, to perplex.
- Often followed by about, over, or or upon: to think deeply in bewilderment to try to work out a complicated matter, a problem, etc.
- To search in a confused or mystified manner.
- To use (one's brain or mind) to try to work out a complicated matter, a problem, etc.; also, to try to work out (a complicated matter, a problem, etc.).
- Often followed by about, over, or upon: to feel confused or mystified because one cannot understand a complicated matter, a problem, etc.
- be a mystery or bewildering to
- be uncertain about; think about without fully understanding or being able to decide
noun
- (countable) Often preceded by a descriptive word: a game or toy, or a problem, requiring some effort to complete or work out, which is intended as a pastime and/or to test one's mental ability.
- (countable) A thing such as a complicated matter or a problem which is difficult to make sense of or understand; also, a person who is difficult to make sense of or understand; an enigma.
- (uncountable) The state of feeling confused or mystified because one cannot understand a complicated matter, a problem, etc.; bewilderment, confusion; (countable) often in in a puzzle: an instance of this.
- a game that tests your ingenuity
- a particularly baffling problem that is said to have a correct solution
noun
- A person who provides services to those engaged in a particular endeavor.
- One who joins a group, movement, or project without being a legitimate member; one who jumps on a bandwagon.
- (chiefly historical) A civilian who follows an army, typically a family member of a soldier or someone who provides services to the soldiers, e.g. prostitution, sale of liquor, cooking and laundry.
- a follower who is not a member of an ingroup
- a prostitute who provides service to military personnel
verb
- To alternate working with someone else in order to accomplish a task directed at (someone).
- (professional wrestling) To wrestle as part of a tag team (sense 1).
- (slang, vulgar) To have sex with (someone) in a group with one or more other people.
- (by extension) To alternate working with someone else in order to accomplish a task.
adj
noun
- a person who works at a specific occupation
- sterile member of a colony of social insects that forages for food and cares for the larvae
- a member of the working class (not necessarily employed)
- a person who acts and gets things done
- One who works: a person who performs labor for a living; traditionally, especially, manual labor.
- (rare) A female ant, bee, termite or wasp.
- A nonreproductive social insect, such as ant, bee, termite, or wasp.
- (computing) A thread performing one instance of a particular task within a program.
verb
- To find an answer or solution to a problem or question; to work out.
- to find out the perpetrator, the motive etc (of crime)
- (transitive) To loosen or separate the parts of.
- (mathematics) To algebraically manipulate an equation or inequality into a form that isolates a chosen variable on one side, so that the other side consists of an expression that may be used to generate solutions.
- (mathematics) To find the values of variables that satisfy a system of equations and/or inequalities.
- settle, as of a debt
- find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of
- find the solution
noun
- A student or recent graduate who works in order to gain experience in their chosen field.
- A person who is interned, forcibly or voluntarily.
- A medical student or recent graduate working in a hospital as a final part of medical training.
- an advanced student or graduate in medicine gaining supervised practical experience
verb
- (of a state, especially a neutral state) To confine or hold (foreign military personnel who stray into the state's territory) within prescribed limits during wartime.
- (transitive) To imprison somebody, usually without trial.
- (transitive, programming) To internalize.
- (intransitive) To work as an intern, usually with little or no pay or other legal prerogatives of employment, and for the purpose of furthering a program of education.
- deprive of freedom
- work as an intern
noun
- A person, usually male, who has duties or skills associated with a specified thing.
- An adult or adolescent male servant. Anyone from a right-hand man (high-ranking assistant) to a low-ranking servant.
- (historical) A vassal; a subject.
- An adult male who has, to an eminent degree, qualities considered masculine, such as strength, integrity, and devotion to family; a mensch.
- A male enthusiast or devotee; a male who is very fond of or devoted to a specified kind of thing.
- (anthropology, archaeology, paleontology) A member of the genus Homo, especially of the species Homo sapiens.
- A term of familiar address often implying on the part of the speaker some degree of authority, impatience, or haste.
- A term of familiar address usually reserved for other adult males. It works both with ones whose name is known and ones whose name is unknown.
- A person, usually male, who can fulfill one's requirements with regard to a specified matter.
- An adult male human.
- A piece or token used in board games such as backgammon.
- A husband.
- (sports) A player on whom another is playing, with the intent of limiting their attacking impact.
- (military slang) A soldier below the rank of a non-commissioned officer.
- A male person, usually an adult; a (generally adult male) sentient being, whether human, supernatural, elf, alien, etc.
- (video games) One of the player's chances to play, lost when the player's character dies or when certain mistakes are made.
- (collective) All human males collectively: mankind.
- An adult male who belongs to a particular group: an employee, a representative, etc.
- A male lover; a boyfriend.
- an adult male person who has a manly character (virile and courageous competent)
- a manservant who acts as a personal attendant to their employer
- a male person who plays a significant role (husband or lover or boyfriend) in the life of a particular woman
- game equipment consisting of an object used in playing certain board games
- an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman)
- all of the living human inhabitants of the earth
- the generic use of the word to refer to any human being
- a man who serves in the armed forces; a member of a military force
- a male subordinate
- any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae characterized by superior intelligence, articulate speech, and erect carriage
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- Someone with special skill or knowledge; an expert.
- Specifically, a musician (or other performer) with masterly ability, technique, or personal style.
- (now historical) An expert in virtù or art objects and antiquities; a connoisseur.
- someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field
- a musician who is a consummate master of technique and artistry
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noun
- a professional who is intent on furthering their career by any possible means and often at the expense of their own integrity
- (derogatory) A person who pursues the advancement of their career at the expense of other values.
- A person who takes a job, especially in the military, for a long time rather than temporarily.
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adj
noun
- an unskilled person who tries to fix or mend
- a musician who plays the violin
- someone who manipulates in a nervous or unconscious manner
- One who fiddles; a cheat.
- A large species of cicada, Macrotristria angularis, of eastern Australia; cherry nose.
- (nautical, slang) The capstan-house on a steamer.
- A burrowing crab of the genus Gelasimus, of many species. The male has one claw very much enlarged, and often holds it in a position similar to that in which a musician holds a fiddle.
- The common European sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucos); so called because it habitually wags its tail up and down resembling the back and forth movement of a fiddler.
- One who fiddles or tweaks.
- One who plays the fiddle.
noun
- a person who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems
- the operator of a railway locomotive
- A soldier engaged in designing or constructing military works for attack or defence, or other engineering works.
- (chiefly historical) A person who operates a steam engine; specifically (nautical), a person employed to operate the steam engine in the engine room of a ship.
- (often derogatory) A person who formulates plots or schemes; a plotter, a schemer.
- (US, firefighting) A person who drives or operates a fire engine (firefighting apparatus).
- Preceded by a qualifying word: a person who uses abilities or knowledge to manipulate events or people.
- Originally, a person engaged in designing, constructing, or maintaining engines or machinery; now (more generally), a person qualified or professionally engaged in any branch of engineering, or studying to do so.
- (chiefly US, rail transport) A person who drives or operates a locomotive; a train driver.
- An honorific title given to engineers before their name.
- A person professionally engaged in the technical design and construction of large-scale private and public works such as bridges, buildings, harbours, railways, roads, etc.; a civil engineer.
verb
- plan and direct (a complex undertaking)
- design as an engineer
- To employ one's abilities and knowledge as an engineer to design, construct, and/or maintain (something, such as a machine or a structure), usually for industrial or public use.
- (specifically) To use genetic engineering to alter or construct (a DNA sequence), or to alter (an organism).
- (rare) To work as an engineer.
- To formulate plots or schemes; to plot, to scheme.
- To plan or achieve (a goal) by contrivance or guile; to finagle, to wangle.
noun
- One who is practical or hardheaded.
- (metallurgy) Residual ore that failed to melt during a smelting process.
- Mylopharodon conocephalus of fresh waters in California.
- Any of several weeds in or formerly classified in the genus Centaurea, especially Russian knapweed (Acroptilon repens).
- A brown diving duck, Aythya australis, native to Australia.
- (historical) A Scottish billon coin circulated in the reigns of Mary and James VI.
- Any of certain saltwater sciaenid (Sciaenidae) fishes.
noun
- One who puts a head on something.
- (networking) the first part of a packet or stream, often containing its address and descriptors.
- The rodeo performer who drives the steer toward the heeler to be tied.
- (Ireland, derogatory) A headcase; a nutjob (mentally unbalanced, unpredictable person).
- (informal) A font, text style, or typesetting used for any of the above.
- (masonry) A brick that is laid sideways (on its largest face), for example at the top of a wall or within the brickwork, with its smallest side showing (oriented so that that side is wider than it is tall).
- A headlong fall, jump or dive.
- A machine that separates and gathers the heads of grain etc.
- Text, or other visual information, that goes at the top of a column of information in a table.
- A horizontal structural or finish piece over an opening.
- (programming) Clipping of header file.
- Text, or other visual information, used to mark off a quantity of text, often titling or summarizing it.
- (soccer) The act of hitting the ball with the head.
- (computing) The first part of a file or record that describes its contents.
- A raised tank that supplies water at constant pressure, especially to a central heating and hot water system; a header tank.
- (soccer) Someone who heads the ball.
- A pipe which connects several smaller pipes.
- The upper portion of a page (or other) layout.
- a machine that cuts the heads off grain and moves them into a wagon
- a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about
- (soccer) the act of hitting the ball with your head
- horizontal beam used as a finishing piece over a door or window
- a headlong jump (or fall)
- brick that is laid sideways at the top of a wall
- a framing member crossing and supporting the ends of joists, studs, or rafters so as to transfer their weight to parallel joists, studs, or rafters
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- A person who plans, devises or contrives the achievement of a desired result.
- (Philippines) An honorific given to architects. Usually capitalized or abbreviated as Arch./Ar. before the person's name.
- A professional who designs buildings or other structures, or who prepares plans and superintends construction.
- someone who creates plans to be used in making something (such as buildings)
verb
noun
- a person engaged in one of the learned professions
- A person who belongs to a profession.
- an authority qualified to teach apprentices
- an athlete who plays for pay
- An expert.
- (euphemistic) A prostitute.
- A person who earns their living from a specified activity.
- One of four categories of sociologist propounded by Horowitz: a sociologist who is actively concerned with promoting the profession of sociology.
- A reputation known by name.
adj
- engaged in a profession or engaging in as a profession or means of livelihood
- of or relating to a profession
- characteristic of or befitting a profession or one engaged in a profession
- of or relating to or suitable as a profession
- engaged in by members of a profession
- Of, pertaining to, or in accordance with the (usually high) standards of a profession.
- That is carried out for money, especially as a livelihood.
- (by extension) Expert.
noun
- Someone with experience in a certain field.
- (by extension) A military veteran.
- A person who campaigns for a person running for political office or works, or supports, in an organised and active way towards a goal; an activist.
- A person who has served in a military campaign.
- a politician who is running for public office
noun
- the skilled practice of a practical occupation
- shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception
- skill in an occupation or trade
- a vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer space
- people who perform a particular kind of skilled work
- (nautical) Boats, especially of smaller size than ships. Historically primarily applied to vessels engaged in loading or unloading of other vessels, as lighters, hoys, and barges.
- (countable) A trade or profession as embodied in its practitioners collectively; the members of a trade or handicraft as a body; an association of these; a trade's union, guild, or ‘company’ .
- (countable, fishing) Implements used in catching fish, such as net, line, or hook. Modern use primarily in whaling, as in harpoons, hand-lances, etc. .
- (countable, plural crafts) A branch of skilled work or trade, especially one requiring manual dexterity or artistic skill, but sometimes applied equally to any business, calling or profession; the skilled practice of a practical occupation .
- (nautical, British Royal Navy) Those vessels attendant on a fleet, such as cutters, schooners, and gunboats, generally commanded by lieutenants.
- Ability, skillfulness, especially skill in making plans and carrying them into execution; dexterity in managing affairs, adroitness, practical cunning; ingenuity in constructing, dexterity .
- (figurative) A woman.
- Cunning, art, skill, or dexterity applied to bad purposes; artifice; guile; subtlety; shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception .
- (uncountable) Skill, skilfulness, art, especially the skill needed for a particular profession .
- (countable, plural craft) A vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer space .
verb
noun
- the skilled practice of a practical occupation
- steady winds blowing from east to west above and below the equator
- an equal exchange
- the commercial exchange (buying and selling on domestic or international markets) of goods and services
- the business given to a commercial establishment by its customers
- people who perform a particular kind of skilled work
- a particular instance of buying or selling
- (only as plural) A publication intended for participants in an industry or related group of industries.
- (countable) Those engaged in an industry or group of related industries.
- Short for trade paperback
- (countable) An idea or strategy for an investment on a market.
- (mining) Refuse or rubbish from a mine.
- (countable or uncountable) An occupation in the secondary sector, as opposed to an agricultural, professional or military one.
- (chiefly in the plural) Steady winds blowing from east to west above and below the equator.
- (countable) A particular instance of buying or selling, or a series of related transactions executed as a single investment.
- (uncountable) The buying and selling of goods and services on a market.
- (countable) The skilled practice of a practical occupation.
- (countable) Those who perform a particular kind of skilled work.
- (uncountable, UK) The business given to a commercial establishment by its customers.
- (uncountable, gay slang) A masculine man available for casual sex with men, often for pay. (Compare rough trade.)
- (countable) An instance of bartering items in exchange for one another.
verb
- engage in the trade of
- exchange or give (something) in exchange for
- be traded at a certain price or under certain conditions
- turn in as payment or part payment for a purchase
- do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood
- (transitive, with for) To give (something) in exchange (for).
- (horticulture, transitive or intransitive) To give someone a plant and receive a different one in return.
- (ambitransitive) To engage in trade.
- (transitive) To mutually exchange (something) (with).
- (transitive, with on) To use or exploit a particular aspect, such as a name, reputation, or image, to gain advantage or benefit.
- (intransitive) To have dealings; to be concerned or associated (with).
- (transitive) To recommend and get recommendations.
- (finance, intransitive, copulative) To be traded at a certain price or under certain conditions.
- (ambitransitive) To do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood.
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- an intelligent but single-minded expert in a particular technical field or profession
- an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious
- (slang, sometimes derogatory) A person who is intellectual but generally introverted.
- (informal, sometimes derogatory) A member of a subculture revolving around intellectualism, technology, video games, fantasy and science fiction, comic books and assorted media. [from 1980s]
- (informal, sometimes derogatory) One who has an intense, obsessive interest in something.
noun
- someone extremely diligent or skillful
- a cruel wicked and inhuman person
- an evil supernatural being
- Any of various hesperiid butterflies of the genera Notocrypta and Udaspes.
- (in the plural) A person's fears or anxieties.
- (now chiefly historical) A false god or idol; a Satanic divinity.
- (Greek mythology) A tutelary deity or spirit intermediate between the major Olympian gods and mankind, especially a deified hero or the entity which supposedly guided Socrates, telling him what not to do.
- (card games) A type of patience or solitaire (card game) played in the UK and/or US.
- A source (especially personified) of great evil or wickedness; a destructive feeling or character flaw.
- A hypothetical entity with special abilities postulated for the sake of a thought experiment in philosophy or physics.
- A person's inner spirit or genius; a guiding or creative impulse.
- A very wicked or malevolent person; also (in weakened sense) a mischievous person, especially a child.
- (computing) Alternative spelling of daemon.
- Someone with great strength, passion or skill for a particular activity, pursuit etc.; an enthusiast.
- A spirit not considered to be inherently evil; a (non-Christian) deity or supernatural being.
- (physics) Acronym of distinct electron motion particle: a quasiparticle, a type of massless neutral electron excitation associated with superconductivity.
- An evil being resident in or working for Hell; a devil.
noun
- a person who takes a practical approach to problems and is concerned primarily with the success or failure of their actions
- an adherent of philosophical pragmatism
- One who acts in response to particular situations rather than upon abstract ideals; one who is willing to ignore their ideals to accomplish goals.
- One who acts in a practical or straightforward manner; one who is pragmatic; one who values practicality or pragmatism.
- (politics) An advocate of pragmatism.
- (linguistics, uncommon) One who studies pragmatics.
- One who belongs to the philosophic school of pragmatism; one who holds that the meaning of beliefs is the actions they entail, and that the truth of those beliefs consists in the actions they entail, successfully leading a believer to their goals.
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- (support) The reassignment of a difficult problem to someone whose job is dedicated to handling such cases.
- The act of escalating.
- A deliberate or premeditated increase in the violence or geographic scope of a conflict.
- An increase or rise, especially to counteract a perceived discrepancy.
- an increase to counteract a perceived discrepancy
noun
- A professional who counsels people, especially on personal problems.
- (US) A children’s supervisor, usually at camp.
- (law) An attorney.
- (politics) A high ranking diplomat, usually just below an ambassador or minister.
- (education) A school counselor, often in a specialty such as careers, education, or health.
- a lawyer who pleads cases in court
- someone who gives advice about problems
- someone who has supervisory duties at a summer camp
noun
- someone whose task is to see that work goes harmoniously
- (grammar) A member of a lexical class of words that joins two or more items (such as words, phrases, or clauses) of equal syntactic importance.
- (sports, chiefly American football) An assistant coach responsible for a particular facet of the game, such as defense.
noun
- A person who provides services to those engaged in a particular endeavor.
- One who joins a group, movement, or project without being a legitimate member; one who jumps on a bandwagon.
- (chiefly historical) A civilian who follows an army, typically a family member of a soldier or someone who provides services to the soldiers, e.g. prostitution, sale of liquor, cooking and laundry.
- a follower who is not a member of an ingroup
- a prostitute who provides service to military personnel
noun
- a person who works at a specific occupation
- sterile member of a colony of social insects that forages for food and cares for the larvae
- a member of the working class (not necessarily employed)
- a person who acts and gets things done
- One who works: a person who performs labor for a living; traditionally, especially, manual labor.
- (rare) A female ant, bee, termite or wasp.
- A nonreproductive social insect, such as ant, bee, termite, or wasp.
- (computing) A thread performing one instance of a particular task within a program.
noun
- A student or recent graduate who works in order to gain experience in their chosen field.
- A person who is interned, forcibly or voluntarily.
- A medical student or recent graduate working in a hospital as a final part of medical training.
- an advanced student or graduate in medicine gaining supervised practical experience
verb
- (of a state, especially a neutral state) To confine or hold (foreign military personnel who stray into the state's territory) within prescribed limits during wartime.
- (transitive) To imprison somebody, usually without trial.
- (transitive, programming) To internalize.
- (intransitive) To work as an intern, usually with little or no pay or other legal prerogatives of employment, and for the purpose of furthering a program of education.
- deprive of freedom
- work as an intern
noun
- A person, usually male, who has duties or skills associated with a specified thing.
- An adult or adolescent male servant. Anyone from a right-hand man (high-ranking assistant) to a low-ranking servant.
- (historical) A vassal; a subject.
- An adult male who has, to an eminent degree, qualities considered masculine, such as strength, integrity, and devotion to family; a mensch.
- A male enthusiast or devotee; a male who is very fond of or devoted to a specified kind of thing.
- (anthropology, archaeology, paleontology) A member of the genus Homo, especially of the species Homo sapiens.
- A term of familiar address often implying on the part of the speaker some degree of authority, impatience, or haste.
- A term of familiar address usually reserved for other adult males. It works both with ones whose name is known and ones whose name is unknown.
- A person, usually male, who can fulfill one's requirements with regard to a specified matter.
- An adult male human.
- A piece or token used in board games such as backgammon.
- A husband.
- (sports) A player on whom another is playing, with the intent of limiting their attacking impact.
- (military slang) A soldier below the rank of a non-commissioned officer.
- A male person, usually an adult; a (generally adult male) sentient being, whether human, supernatural, elf, alien, etc.
- (video games) One of the player's chances to play, lost when the player's character dies or when certain mistakes are made.
- (collective) All human males collectively: mankind.
- An adult male who belongs to a particular group: an employee, a representative, etc.
- A male lover; a boyfriend.
- an adult male person who has a manly character (virile and courageous competent)
- a manservant who acts as a personal attendant to their employer
- a male person who plays a significant role (husband or lover or boyfriend) in the life of a particular woman
- game equipment consisting of an object used in playing certain board games
- an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman)
- all of the living human inhabitants of the earth
- the generic use of the word to refer to any human being
- a man who serves in the armed forces; a member of a military force
- a male subordinate
- any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae characterized by superior intelligence, articulate speech, and erect carriage
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- Someone with special skill or knowledge; an expert.
- Specifically, a musician (or other performer) with masterly ability, technique, or personal style.
- (now historical) An expert in virtù or art objects and antiquities; a connoisseur.
- someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field
- a musician who is a consummate master of technique and artistry
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- a professional who is intent on furthering their career by any possible means and often at the expense of their own integrity
- (derogatory) A person who pursues the advancement of their career at the expense of other values.
- A person who takes a job, especially in the military, for a long time rather than temporarily.
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- an unskilled person who tries to fix or mend
- a musician who plays the violin
- someone who manipulates in a nervous or unconscious manner
- One who fiddles; a cheat.
- A large species of cicada, Macrotristria angularis, of eastern Australia; cherry nose.
- (nautical, slang) The capstan-house on a steamer.
- A burrowing crab of the genus Gelasimus, of many species. The male has one claw very much enlarged, and often holds it in a position similar to that in which a musician holds a fiddle.
- The common European sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucos); so called because it habitually wags its tail up and down resembling the back and forth movement of a fiddler.
- One who fiddles or tweaks.
- One who plays the fiddle.
verb
- Followed by through: to solve a complicated matter, a problem, etc., by working through confusing or difficult matters.
- (also reflexive, often passive voice) To cause (oneself or someone, or their mind, etc.) to feel confused or mystified because they cannot understand a complicated matter, a problem, etc.; to confuse, to mystify, to perplex.
- Often followed by about, over, or or upon: to think deeply in bewilderment to try to work out a complicated matter, a problem, etc.
- To search in a confused or mystified manner.
- To use (one's brain or mind) to try to work out a complicated matter, a problem, etc.; also, to try to work out (a complicated matter, a problem, etc.).
- Often followed by about, over, or upon: to feel confused or mystified because one cannot understand a complicated matter, a problem, etc.
- be a mystery or bewildering to
- be uncertain about; think about without fully understanding or being able to decide
noun
- (countable) Often preceded by a descriptive word: a game or toy, or a problem, requiring some effort to complete or work out, which is intended as a pastime and/or to test one's mental ability.
- (countable) A thing such as a complicated matter or a problem which is difficult to make sense of or understand; also, a person who is difficult to make sense of or understand; an enigma.
- (uncountable) The state of feeling confused or mystified because one cannot understand a complicated matter, a problem, etc.; bewilderment, confusion; (countable) often in in a puzzle: an instance of this.
- a game that tests your ingenuity
- a particularly baffling problem that is said to have a correct solution
verb
- To alternate working with someone else in order to accomplish a task directed at (someone).
- (professional wrestling) To wrestle as part of a tag team (sense 1).
- (slang, vulgar) To have sex with (someone) in a group with one or more other people.
- (by extension) To alternate working with someone else in order to accomplish a task.
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- To find an answer or solution to a problem or question; to work out.
- to find out the perpetrator, the motive etc (of crime)
- (transitive) To loosen or separate the parts of.
- (mathematics) To algebraically manipulate an equation or inequality into a form that isolates a chosen variable on one side, so that the other side consists of an expression that may be used to generate solutions.
- (mathematics) To find the values of variables that satisfy a system of equations and/or inequalities.
- settle, as of a debt
- find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of
- find the solution
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- Of a person, having skills or knowledge that are practical.
- Being likely to be effective and applicable to a real situation; able to be put to use.
- Relating to, or based on, practice or action rather than theory or hypothesis.
- (film) Light fixtures used for set lighting and seen in the frame of a shot as part of the scenery.
- (theater, not comparable) Of a prop: having some degree of functionality, rather than being a mere imitation.
- concerned with actual use or practice
- being actually such in almost every respect
- having or put to a practical purpose or use
- guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory
noun
- (British) A part of an exam or series of exams in which the candidate has to demonstrate their practical ability
- (theater) A prop that has some degree of functionality, rather than being a mere imitation.
- Laboratory experiment, test or investigation
- (film) A light fixture used for set lighting and seen in the frame of a shot as part of the scenery.