concern
be-all and end-all
significance
secondary
everything
part
place importance on
srs bsns
desideratum
after all
order of the day
environment
first love
operative
father
granddaddy
importance
pertinent
clou
pivot
side issue
grist for the mill
feature
commodity
favorite
favourite
fuel
big deal
plurisignify
interest
accent
put ahead
desire
botherance
take seriously
inconvenience
goodness
best friend
bad
good
province
pill to swallow
intrigue
behalf
red flag
unfavorite
matter
mother
ticket
quintessentiality
must-have
make a difference
mattering
irritation
just the ticket
particularism
import
prototype
aspect
apropos
define
enhancer
best-kept secret
incitant
foil
temple
bend someone's ear
inclemency
signifier
-ent
sharp end
the thing
turd in the punchbowl
focal point
jewel in the crown
encouragement
personal
what the doctor ordered
go in for
whatabouts
live one
disputatious
business-friendly
a boon or a bane
concernment
act on
territory
value
action
boon or bane
centre of attention
life-source
center of attention
centre
center
beast
bee in one's bonnet
operative
pertinent
apropos
personal
disputatious
business-friendly
after all
concern
be-all and end-all
significance
secondary
everything
part
srs bsns
desideratum
order of the day
environment
first love
father
granddaddy
importance
clou
pivot
side issue
grist for the mill
commodity
favorite
favourite
fuel
big deal
interest
accent
desire
botherance
inconvenience
goodness
best friend
bad
good
province
pill to swallow
behalf
red flag
unfavorite
matter
mother
ticket
quintessentiality
must-have
mattering
irritation
just the ticket
particularism
prototype
enhancer
best-kept secret
incitant
foil
temple
inclemency
signifier
sharp end
the thing
turd in the punchbowl
focal point
jewel in the crown
encouragement
what the doctor ordered
whatabouts
live one
a boon or a bane
concernment
territory
value
action
centre of attention
life-source
center of attention
centre
center
beast
aspect
bee in one's bonnet
place importance on
feature
plurisignify
put ahead
take seriously
intrigue
make a difference
import
aspect
define
bend someone's ear
go in for
act on
noun
- Anything secondary or of lesser importance.
- One who occupies a subordinate or auxiliary place; a delegate deputy.
- A radar return generated by the response of an aircraft's transponder to an interrogation signal broadcast by a radar installation, containing additional encoded identification and situational data not available from a simple primary return.
- The defensive backs.
- An inductive coil or loop that is magnetically powered by a primary in a transformer or similar.
- Any flight feather attached to the ulna (forearm) of a bird.
- A satellite.
- An act of issuing more stock by an already publicly traded corporation.
- The second stage of a multistage thermonuclear weapon, which generates a fusion explosion when imploded as an indirect result of the fission explosion of the primary, and which, in a few extremely large weapons, itself implodes a fusion tertiary.
- A secondary circle.
- A secondary school.
adj
- Produced by alteration or deposition subsequent to the formation of the original rock mass.
- Derived from a parent compound by replacement of two atoms of hydrogen by organic radicals
- Developed by pressure or other causes.
- Dependent or consequent upon another disease, or occurring in the second stage of a disease.
- Related to secondary education, i.e. schooling between the ages of (approximately) 11 and 18.
- Of less than primary importance.
- Originating from a deputy or delegated person or body
- Representing a reversion to an ancestral state.
- Formed by mixing primary colors.
- Next in order to the first or primary; of second place in origin, rank, etc.
- Pertaining to the second joint of the wing of a bird.
- Relating to the manufacture of goods from raw materials.
noun
- that which concerns a person with regard to a particular role or situation
- something determined in relation to something that includes it
- something less than the whole of a human artifact
- a portion of a natural object
- the extended spatial location of something
- the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group
- an actor's portrayal of someone in a play
- assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group
- one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole
- a line of scalp that can be seen when sections of hair are combed in opposite directions
- the melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music
- the effort contributed by a person in bringing about a result
- an item that is an instance of some type
verb
- go one's own way; move apart
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- depart for someplace
- move or break apart
- force, take, or pull apart
adv
noun
- The surroundings of, and influences on, a particular item of interest.
- The set of variables and their values in a namespace that an operating system associates with a process.
- All the elements that affect a system or its inputs and outputs.
- A particular political or social setting, arena or condition.
- The environment of a function at a point during the execution of a program is the set of identifiers in the function's scope and their bindings at that point.
- The natural world or ecosystem.
- The software and/or hardware existing on any particular computer system.
noun
- Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind.
- The founder of a discipline or science.
- A member of a church council.
- The archived older version of a file that immediately precedes the current version, and was itself derived from the grandfather.
- A term of respectful address for a priest.
- Something inanimate that begets.
- A person who plays the role of a father in some way.
- A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor.
- A (generally human) male who begets a child.
- A term of respectful address for an elderly man.
verb
noun
- Something or someone having a paramount significance in a certain situation.
- An element of a set to be sorted that is chosen as a midpoint, so as to divide the other elements into two groups to be dealt with recursively.
- Any of a row of captioned elements used to navigate to subpages, rather like tabs.
- A quarterback.
- The officer or soldier who simply turns in his place while the company or line moves around him in wheeling.
- A circle runner.
- A shift during a general election in a political candidate's messaging to reflect plans and values more moderate than those advocated during the primary.
- A player with responsibility for co-ordinating their team in a particular jam.
- An element of a matrix that is used as a focus for row operations, such as dividing the row by the pivot, or adding multiples of the row to other rows making all other values in the pivot column 0.
- A pivot table.
- A thing on which something turns; specifically a metal pointed pin or short shaft in machinery, such as the end of an axle or spindle.
- Act of turning on one foot.
verb
verb
- To ascribe the greatest importance to something within a certain context.
- To appear, to make an appearance.
- To star, to contain.
noun
- An individual measurable property or characteristic of a phenomenon being observed; the input of a model.
- A beneficial capability of a piece of software.
- Any of the physical constituents of the face (eyes, nose, etc.).
- The act of being featured in a piece of music.
- Characteristic forms or shapes of parts. For example, a hole, boss, slot, cut, chamfer, or fillet.
- A long, prominent article or item in the media, or the department that creates them; frequently used technically to distinguish content from news.
- Something discerned from physical evidence that helps define, identify, characterize, and interpret an archeological site.
- An important or main item.
- The elements into which linguistic units can be broken down.
- The cast or structure of anything, or of any part of a thing, as of a landscape, a picture, a treaty, or an essay; any marked peculiarity or characteristic.
noun
- Something useful or valuable.
- Raw materials, agricultural and other primary products as objects of large-scale trading in specialized exchanges.
- Undifferentiated goods characterized by a low profit margin, as distinguished from branded products.
- Anything which has both a use-value and an exchange-value.
- Anything movable (a good) that is bought and sold.
noun
- Condition or quality of exciting concern or being of importance.
- A great attention and concern from someone or something; intellectual curiosity.
- An involvement, claim, right, share, stake in or link with a financial, business, or other undertaking or endeavor.
- The price paid for obtaining, or price received for providing, money or goods in a credit transaction, calculated as a fraction of the amount or value of what was borrowed.
- Any excess over and above an exact equivalent
- The persons interested in any particular business or measure, taken collectively.
- Something or someone one is interested in.
- Attention that is given to or received from someone or something.
verb
noun
- Emphasis or importance in general.
- A special emphasis of a tone, even in the weaker part of the measure.
- The rhythmical accent, which marks phrases and sections of a period.
- A very small gemstone set into a piece of jewellery.
- A manner of pronunciation suggesting that the speaker is from a different region; a foreign accent.
- Emphasis laid on a part of an artistic design or composition; an emphasized detail, in particular a detail in sharp contrast to its surroundings.
- A word; a significant tone or sound.
- A mark used to represent this special emphasis.
- Stress laid on certain syllables of a verse.
- A regularly recurring stress upon the tone to mark the beginning, and, more feebly, the third part of the measure.
- Expressions in general; speech.
- A higher-pitched or stronger (louder or longer) articulation of a particular syllable of a word or phrase in order to distinguish it from the others or to emphasize it.
- Modulation of the voice in speaking; the manner of speaking or pronouncing; a peculiar or characteristic modification of the voice, expressing emotion; tone.
- A prime symbol.
- A mark or character used in writing, in order to indicate the place of the spoken accent, or to indicate the nature or quality of the vowel marked.
- A distinctive manner of producing a sign language, such as someone who does not normally use a certain sign language might have when using it.
- The distinctive manner of pronouncing a language associated with a particular region, social group, etc., whether of a native speaker or a foreign speaker; the phonetic and phonological aspects of a dialect.
verb
noun
- Something that is bad; a harm or evil.
- Error; mistake.
- An item (or kind of item) of merchandise with negative value; an unwanted good.
verb
adj
- Good, superlative, excellent, cool.
- Not covered by funds on account.
- Not suitable or fitting.
- Not appropriate, of manners etc.
- Spoiled, rotten, overripe.
- Bold and daring.
- Malodorous; foul.
- Stop being bad, or you will get a spanking!
- Unfavorable; negative; not good.
- Unskilled; of limited ability; not good.
- Unhealthy; liable to cause health problems.
- Of poor physical appearance.
- False; counterfeit; illegitimate.
- Not behaving; behaving badly; misbehaving; mischievous or disobedient.
- Evil; wicked.
- Severe, urgent.
- Overly promiscuous, licentious.
- Very attractive; hot, sexy.
- Faulty; not functional.
- Tricky; stressful; unpleasant.
- Sickly, unhealthy, unwell.
adv
intj
noun
- that which is pleasing or valuable or useful
- benefit
- moral excellence or admirableness
- a raw material that is sold in large quantities, usually to other businesses for manufacturing or production purposes
adj
- having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified
- morally admirable
adj
- having the normally expected amount
- deserving of esteem and respect
- promoting or enhancing well-being
- agreeable or pleasing
- of moral excellence
- having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude
- thorough
- with or in a close or intimate relationship
- financially safe
- most suitable or right for a particular purpose
- resulting favorably
- exerting force or influence
- capable of pleasing
- appealing to the mind
- in excellent physical condition
- tending to promote physical well-being; beneficial to health
- not forged
- not left to spoil
- generally admired
adv
noun
- An area of activity, responsibility or knowledge; the proper concern of a particular person or concept.
- The parts of a country outside its capital city.
- An area outside Italy which is administered by a Roman governor.
- An area under the jurisdiction of an archbishop, typically comprising a number of adjacent dioceses.
- A region of the earth or of a continent; a district or country.
- An administrative subdivision of certain countries, including Canada and China.
- An area under the jurisdiction of a provincial within a monastic order.
verb
- To arouse the interest of; to fascinate.
- To have clandestine or illicit intercourse.
- To conceive or carry out a secret plan intended to harm; to form a plot or scheme.
- To fill with artifice and duplicity; to complicate.
noun
- A complicated or clandestine plot or scheme intended to effect some purpose by secret artifice; conspiracy; stratagem.
- The plot of a play, poem or romance; the series of complications in which a writer involves their imaginary characters.
- Clandestine intercourse between persons; illicit intimacy; a liaison or affair.
noun
- An affair, condition, or subject, especially one of concern or (especially when preceded by the) one that is problematic.
- Matter made up of normal particles, not antiparticles.
- Aristotelian: undeveloped potentiality subject to change and development; formlessness. Matter receives form, and becomes substance.
- The basic structural component of the universe, usually having mass and volume.
- An approximate amount or extent.
- Printed material, especially in books or magazines.
- A kind of substance.
verb
noun
- a condition that is the inspiration for an activity or situation
- a woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother)
- a stringy slimy substance consisting of yeast cells and bacteria; forms during fermentation and is added to cider or wine to produce vinegar
- a term of address for an elderly woman
- a term of address for a mother superior
verb
noun
- the appropriate or desirable thing
- a commercial document showing that the holder is entitled to something (as to ride on public transportation or to enter a public entertainment)
- a label written or printed on paper, cardboard, or plastic that is attached to something to indicate its owner, nature, price, etc.
- a summons issued to an offender (especially to someone who violates a traffic regulation)
- a list of candidates nominated by a political party to run for election to public offices
verb
noun
- A things or person that annoys
- A condition of morbid excitability or oversensitiveness of an organ or part of the body; a state in which the application of ordinary stimuli produces pain or excessive or vitiated action.
- The state of being irritated
- The act of irritating or annoying
- a state of inflammation or painful reaction to allergy or cell-lining damage.
verb
- To be of importance to (someone or something).
- To be important or crucial to (that something happen).
- To be incumbent on (someone to do something).
- To mean, signify.
- To be important; to be significant; to be of consequence.
- To load a file into a software application from another version or system.
- To bring (something) in from a foreign country, especially for sale or trade.
noun
noun
- An instance of a category or a concept that combines its most representative attributes.
- An original form or object which is a basis for other forms or objects (particularly manufactured items), or for its generalizations and models.
- An early sample or model built to test a concept or process.
- A type of race car, a racing sports car not based on a production car. A 4-wheeled cockpit-seating car built especially for racing on sports car circuits, that does not use the silhouette related to a consumer road car.
- A declaration of a function that specifies the name, return type, and parameters, but none of the body or actual code.
verb
verb
noun
- Position or situation with regard to seeing; that position which enables one to look in a particular direction; position in relation to the points of the compass.
- One's appearance or expression.
- A grammatical quality of a verb which determines the relationship of the speaker to the internal temporal flow of the event which the verb describes, or whether the speaker views the event from outside as a whole, or from within as it is unfolding.
- In aspect-oriented programming, a feature or component that can be applied to parts of a program independent of any inheritance hierarchy.
- The way something appears when viewed from a certain direction or perspective.
- The way something appears when considered from a certain point of view.
- The relative position of heavenly bodies as they appear to an observer on earth; the angular relationship between points in a horoscope.
- Any specific feature, part, or element of something.
- The personified manifestation of a deity that represents one or more of its characteristics or functions.
- The visual indication of a colour light (or mechanical) signal as displayed to the driver. With colour light signals this would be red, yellow or green.
- Prospect; outlook.
- A phase or a partial, but significant view or description of something.
verb
- To express the essential nature of something.
- To describe, explain, or make definite and clear; used to request the listener or other person to elaborate or explain more clearly his or her intended meaning of a word or expression.
- To establish the referent of a term or notation.
- To determine with precision; to mark out with distinctness; to ascertain or exhibit clearly.
- To demark sharply the outlines or limits of an area or concept.
- To state the meaning of a word, phrase, sign, or symbol.
noun
noun
- anything that serves by contrast to call attention to another thing's good qualities
- a piece of thin and flexible sheet metal
- a device consisting of a flat or curved piece (as a metal plate) so that its surface reacts to the water it is passing through
- picture consisting of a positive photograph or drawing on a transparent base; viewed with a projector
- a light slender flexible sword tipped by a button
verb
noun
- Anything regarded as important or minutely cared for.
- Any place regarded as holding a religious presence.
- A gesture wherein the forefingers are outstretched and touch pad to pad while the other fingers are clasped together.
- The slightly flatter region, on either side of the human head, behind of the eye and forehead, above the zygomatic arch, and forward of the ear.
- A contrivance used in a loom for keeping the web stretched transversely.
- Synonym of synagogue, especially a non-Orthodox synagogue.
- As opposed to an LDS meetinghouse, a church closed to non-Mormons and necessary for particular rituals.
- A house of worship dedicated to a polytheistic faith.
- A Buddhist monastery, as opposed to a Shinto shrine.
- A meeting house of the Oddfellows fraternity; its members.
- Either of the sidepieces on a set of spectacles, extending backwards from the hinge toward the ears and, usually, turning down around them.
- Any place seen as an important centre for some activity.
verb
noun
- The degree of importance given to something.
- The relative darkness or lightness of a color in (a specific area of) a painting etc.
- The valuable ingredients to be obtained by treating a mass or compound; specifically, the precious metals contained in rock, gravel, etc.
- The relative duration of a musical note.
- That which is valued or highly esteemed, such as one's morals, morality, or belief system.
- The amount (of money or goods or services) that is considered to be a fair equivalent for something else.
- The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable.
- Any definite numerical quantity or other mathematical object, determined by being measured, computed, or otherwise defined.
- Precise meaning; import.
verb
noun
- the most important or interesting work or activity in a specific area or field
- something done (usually as opposed to something said)
- the state of being active
- a military engagement
- a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings)
- the series of events that form a plot
- the trait of being active and energetic and forceful
- the operating part that transmits power to a mechanism
- a judicial proceeding brought by one party against another; one party prosecutes another for a wrong done or for protection of a right or for prevention of a wrong
- an act by a government body or supranational organization
- In firearms terminology, the mechanism that handles the ammunition (loads, locks, fires, and extracts the cartridges).
verb
noun
- the object upon which interest and attention focuses
- an area that is approximately central within some larger region
- a point equidistant from the ends of a line or the extremities of a figure
- a place where some particular activity is concentrated
- the sweet central portion of a piece of candy that is enclosed in chocolate or some other covering
- the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
- a cluster of nerve cells governing a specific bodily process
- a building dedicated to a particular activity
verb
noun
- the object upon which interest and attention focuses
- an area that is approximately central within some larger region
- the piece of ground in the outfield directly ahead of the catcher
- a building dedicated to a particular activity
- a point equidistant from the ends of a line or the extremities of a figure
- the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
- a cluster of nerve cells governing a specific bodily process
- the middle of a military or naval formation
- (basketball) the person who plays center on a basketball team
- (football) the person who plays center on the line of scrimmage and snaps the ball to the quarterback
- a place where some particular activity is concentrated
- politically moderate persons; centrists
- (ice hockey) the person who plays center on a hockey team
- the sweet central portion of a piece of candy that is enclosed in chocolate or some other covering
- mercantile establishment consisting of a carefully landscaped complex of shops representing leading merchandisers; usually includes restaurants and a convenient parking area; a modern version of the traditional marketplace
- the position on a hockey team of the player who participates in the face off at the beginning of the game
- (American football) the position of the player on the line of scrimmage who puts the ball in play
- a position on a basketball team of the player who participates in the jump that starts the game
adj
adj
verb
noun
- A thing or matter, especially a difficult or unruly one.
- Someone who is particularly impressive, especially athletically or physically.
- A monstrously unusual and dangerous animal.
- Any animal other than a human; usually only applied to land vertebrates, especially large or dangerous four-footed ones.
- Anything regarded as larger or more powerful than one of its normal size or strength.
- A person who behaves in a violent, antisocial or uncivilized manner.
- A domestic animal, especially a bovine farm animal.
- A sex offender.
- Something unpleasant and difficult.
verb
- to engage in sexual intercourse, particularly in an illicit context
- to impose arduous exercises, either as training or as punishment.
adj
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