English words for 'the act of adding one thing to another'
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noun
- the act of adding one thing to another
- (uncountable) The act of adding anything.
- the arithmetic operation of summing; calculating the sum of two or more numbers
- something added to what you already have
- a suburban area laid out in streets and lots for a future residential area
- a quantity that is added
- a component that is added to something to improve it
- (organic chemistry) an organic reaction where two or more molecules combine to form a larger one (the adduct).
- (music) A dot at the right side of a note as an indication that its sound is to be lengthened one half.
- (chiefly law) A title annexed to a person's name to identify him or her more precisely.
- (uncountable, arithmetic) The arithmetic operation of adding.
- (heraldry) Something added to a coat of arms, as a mark of honour.
- Anything that is added.
noun
- the act of putting one thing into another
- The act of inserting, or something inserted.
- a message (spoken or written) that is introduced or inserted
- (atomic weapons) The process of going from subcritical to prompt critical.
- (anatomy) The distal end of attachment of a muscle to a bone that will be moved by the muscle.
- (genetics) The addition of a nucleotide to a chromosome by mutation.
noun
- the act of putting one thing into another
- a basic or elementary instructional text
- a new proposal
- formally making a person known to another or to the public
- the act of beginning something new
- the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new
- the first section of a communication
- A means, such as a personal letter, of presenting one person to another.
- A written or oral explanation of what constitutes the basis of an issue.
- An initial section of a book or article, which introduces the subject material.
- The act or process of introducing.
noun
- the act of putting one thing into another
- Copulation: usually the first moment of initial entry of a penis into a vagina, mouth or anus.
- Putting one thing into another; introduction (into); insertion
- (law, Scotland) An intermeddling with the affairs of another, either on legal grounds or without authority.
- The state of being allowed to enter; admittance
- The act of allowing to enter; admission
noun
- the act of changing one thing for another thing
- the act of putting one thing or person in the place of another:
- a mutual expression of views (especially an unpleasant one)
- (chess) the capture by both players (usually on consecutive moves) of pieces of equal value
- chemical process in which one atom or ion or group changes places with another
- (sports) an unbroken sequence of several successive strokes
- a workplace that serves as a telecommunications facility where lines from telephones can be connected together to permit communication
- (chess) gaining (or losing) a rook in return for a knight or bishop
- a workplace for buying and selling; open only to members
- the act of giving something in return for something received
- reciprocal transfer of equivalent sums of money (especially the currencies of different countries)
- (finance) The difference between the values of money in different places.
- (usually with "the") The loss of a minor piece (typically a bishop or knight) and associated capture of the more advantageous rook.
- (telephony) A central office.
- A conversation.
- (law, England and Wales, Northern Ireland) Clipping of exchange of contracts.
- (biochemistry) The transfer of substances or elements like gas, amino-acids, ions etc. sometimes through a surface like a membrane.
- An act of exchanging or trading.
- A place for conducting trading.
- (telephony) The portion of a telephone number that represents (or formerly represented) a central office.
- (chess) The loss of one piece and associated capture of another.
verb
- put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items
- exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category
- change over, change around, as to a new order or sequence
- exchange a penalty for a less severe one
- give to, and receive from, one another
- hand over one and receive another, approximately equivalent
- (transitive) To trade or barter.
- (transitive, figurative) To mutually direct at each other.
- (law, England and Wales, Northern Ireland) Clipping of exchange contracts.
- (transitive) To replace with, as a substitute.
- (transitive) To recommend and get recommendations.
noun
- the act of changing one thing for another thing
- mutual interaction; the activity of reciprocating or exchanging (especially information)
- a junction of highways on different levels that permits traffic to move from one to another without crossing traffic streams
- reciprocal transfer of equivalent sums of money (especially the currencies of different countries)
- (countable) A highway junction in which traffic may change from one road to another without crossing a stream of traffic.
- A back-and-forth interaction; an exchange.
- (countable) A junction in which traffic may merge to enter or diverge to exit a limited-access highway to access a surface street, without crossing traffic on the main highway.
- (countable, uncountable) An act of interchanging.
- (rail transport, countable) A connection between two or more lines, services or modes of transport; a station at which such a connection can be made.
verb
- cause to change places
- put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items
- give to, and receive from, one another
- reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action)
- (intransitive) to swap or change places
- (transitive) to mutually give and receive (something); to exchange
- (transport) To act as or carry out an interchange (noun, senses 2, 3).
- (transitive) to switch (each of two things)
- (transitive) to alternate; to intermingle or vary
noun
- the act of grafting something onto something else
- (surgery) tissue or organ transplanted from a donor to a recipient; in some cases the patient can be both donor and recipient
- the practice of offering something (usually money) in order to gain an illicit advantage
- (horticulture) A branch or portion of a tree growing from such a shoot.
- (uncountable) Illicit profit by corrupt means, especially in public life.
- (horticulture) A small shoot or scion of a tree inserted in another tree, the stock of which is to support and nourish it. The two unite and become one tree, but the graft determines the kind of fruit.
- A narrow spade used in digging drainage trenches.
- (uncountable, slang) A criminal’s special branch of practice.
- (uncountable, British, colloquial) Work; labor requiring effort.
- (countable, slang) A cut of the take (money).
- (uncountable, US, politics) A bribe, especially on an ongoing basis.
- (countable) A con job.
- (uncountable) Corruption in official life.
- (surgery) A portion of living tissue used in the operation of autoplasty.
- The depth of the blade of a digging tool such as a spade or shovel.
- (countable, British, colloquial) A job or trade.
verb
- cause to grow together parts from different plants
- place the organ of a donor into the body of a recipient
- (transitive) To join (one thing) to another as if by grafting, so as to bring about a close union.
- (transitive) To insert (a graft) in a branch or stem of another tree; to propagate by insertion in another stock; also, to insert a graft upon.
- (intransitive) To insert scions (grafts) from one tree, or kind of tree, etc., into another; to practice grafting.
- To obtain illegal gain from bribery or similar corrupt practices.
- (chemistry) To form a graft polymer
- (transitive, surgery) To implant a portion of (living flesh or akin) in a lesion so as to form an organic union.
- (transitive, nautical) To cover, as a ring bolt, block strap, splicing, etc., with a weaving of small cord or rope yarns.
- (colloquial, intransitive) To work hard.
noun
- the act of grafting something onto something else
- (carpentry) A scarfing or endwise attachment of one timber to another.
- (nautical) The act or method of weaving a cover for a ring, rope end, etc.
- (surgery) The transplanting of a portion of flesh, hair or skin to a denuded surface; autoplasty.
- (horticulture) The act, art, or process of inserting grafts.
verb
noun
- an act of joining or adjoining things
- The act of joining; the thing joined or added.
- (category theory, strictly) A natural isomorphism between a pair of functors satisfying certain conditions, whose existence implies a close relationship between the functors and between their (co)domains; the natural isomorphism, functors, and their (co)domains thought of as a single object.
- (mathematics, chiefly algebra and number theory) The process of adjoining elements to an algebraic structure (usually a ring or field); the result of such a process.
- (law) The joining of personal property owned by one to that owned by another.
- (formally, given two categories 𝒞 and 𝒟 and (covariant) functors F:𝒞→𝒟 and G:𝒟→𝒞) A natural isomorphism Φ: operatorname Hom_( mathcal )C(G·,·)→ operatorname Hom_( mathcal )D(·,F·) (where the hom-functors are understood as bifunctors from 𝒟^( operatorname )op×𝒞 to mathbf Set). See Adjoint functors on Wikipedia.Wikipedia.
- (category theory, loosely) A relationship between a pair of categories that makes the pair, in a weak sense, equivalent.
noun
- an act of joining or adjoining things
- the state of being joined together
- something that joins or connects
- the place where two or more things come together
- the shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made
- (programming) In the Raku programming language, a construct representing a composite of several values connected by an operator.
- (radio, television) A point in time between two unrelated consecutive broadcasts.
- The boundary between two physically different materials, especially between conductors, semiconductors, or metals.
- The act of joining, or the state of being joined.
- (rail transport) A place where two or more railways or railroads meet.
- (computing, Microsoft Windows) A kind of symbolic link to a directory.
- (electronics) electrical junction: a point or area where multiple conductors or semiconductors make physical contact.
- (nautical) The place where a distributary departs from the main stream.
- A place where two things meet, especially where two roads meet.
verb
noun
- the act of enclosing something inside something else
- a structure consisting of an area that has been enclosed for some purpose
- a naturally enclosed space
- something (usually a supporting document) that is enclosed in an envelope with a covering letter
- (uncountable) The act of enclosing, i.e. the insertion or inclusion of an item in a letter or package.
- (religion) The area of a convent, monastery, etc where access is restricted to community members.
- (countable) An area, domain, or amount of something partially or entirely enclosed by barriers.
- (uncountable, British History) The post-feudal process of subdivision of common lands for individual ownership.
- (countable) Something that is enclosed, i.e. inserted into a letter or similar package.
- (uncountable, by extension) The act of restricting access to ideas, works of art or technologies using patents or intellectual property laws.
- (uncountable) The act of separating and surrounding an area, domain, or amount of something with a barrier.
noun
- the act of enclosing something inside something else
- The act of enveloping.
- That which envelops; a covering.
- (fencing) An action to seize the opponent's blade in one line and lead it (without losing contact) through a full circle to end in the same line.
- (military) An offensive action in which an attacking force moves over or around the enemy and attacks from the rear; see also pincer movement.
noun
- someone who appends or joins one thing to another
- someone who assigns labels to the grammatical constituents of textual matter
- a computer program that attaches labels to the grammatical constituents of textual matter
- (in the plural) Sheets of tin or other plate which run below the gauge.
- (computing theory) A program or algorithm that adds tags for purposes of categorization, e.g. grammatical information to words in a document, or genres to songs in a music collection.
- A person who writes graffiti using a specific mark
- That which is pointed like a tag.
- (slang) The penis.
- A device for removing taglocks from sheep.
- The player who tries to catch others in the game of tag.
noun
- a mistake that results from taking one thing to be another
- an act causing a disorderly combination of elements with identities lost and distinctions blended
- a feeling of embarrassment that leaves you confused
- disorder resulting from a failure to behave predictably
- a mental state characterized by a lack of clear and orderly thought and behavior
- Lack of understanding due to dementia.
- (collective) A group of wildebeest.
- The act of mistaking one thing for another or conflating distinct things.
- A lack of clarity or order.
- The state of being confused; misunderstanding.
noun
- the placement of one thing on top of another
- The placing of one thing on top of another.
- (geology) the principle that in a series of stratified sedimentary rocks the lowest stratum is the oldest
- (geology) the deposition of one geological stratum on another
- (geometry) the placement of one object ideally in the position of another one in order to show that the two coincide
- (geology) The deposition of one stratum over another; the principle that in a series of sedimentary strata, the lower strata are the older.
- (quantum mechanics) The situation in quantum mechanics where two or more quantum states are added together (superposed) to yield another valid quantum state.
noun
- the act of combining things to form a new whole
- a group of people (often temporary) having a common purpose
- a sequence of numbers or letters that opens a combination lock
- the act of arranging elements into specified groups without regard to order
- a coordinated sequence of chess moves
- a collection of things that have been combined; an assemblage of separate parts or qualities
- an alliance of people or corporations or countries for a special purpose (formerly to achieve some antisocial end but now for general political or economic purposes)
- An object formed by combining.
- Synonym of combinations (A one-piece suit of underwear).
- (motorcycling) A motorcycle and sidecar.
- (billiards) A shot where the cue ball hits a ball that strikes another ball on the table.
- (chess) An advantageous sequence of forcing or nearly forcing moves, often initiated with a sacrifice.
- The act of combining, the state of being combined or the result of combining.
- (mathematics) One or more elements selected from a set without regard to the order of selection.
- A sequence of numbers or letters used to open a combination lock.
- An association or alliance of people for some common purpose.
- (boxing, martial arts) A rapid sequence of punches or strikes in boxing or other combat sports.
noun
verb
noun
- The act or process by which one thing is embedded in another.
- (differential topology) An immersion which is also a topological embedding; equivalently, a diffeomorphism whose image is a submanifold of its codomain.
- (machine learning, artificial intelligence) A representation of a unit of text (such as a word or token) as a vector, which encodes the context in which it is used.
- (mathematical analysis) A map between metric spaces which preserves distances up to some scaling factor (called the distortion).
- (topology) A continuous map which is also a homeomorphism between its domain and its image (considered with the subspace topology induced by its codomain).
- (category theory) An injective morphism in a concrete category which is also initial.
- (field theory, Galois theory) A ring homomorphism between fields (the name deriving from the fact that all such maps are injective).
verb
noun
- the act of increasing something
- a change resulting in an increase
- a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important
- a quantity that is added
- the amount by which something increases
- Offspring, progeny.
- For a quantity, the act or process of becoming larger.
- (knitting, crochet) The creation of one or more new stitches; see Increase (knitting).
- An amount by which a quantity is increased.
verb
- make bigger or more
- become bigger or greater in amount
- (intransitive) (of a quantity, etc.) To become larger or greater, to greaten.
- (astronomy, intransitive) To become more nearly full; to show more of the surface; to wax.
- To multiply by the production of young; to be fertile, fruitful, or prolific.
- (transitive) To make (a quantity, etc.) larger.
noun
- the act of increasing something
- An increase.
- (especially US, taxation) A phenomenon whereby the growth in market value of an asset or investment is not taxed under certain circumstances, generally involving buying and holding until the buyer's death, followed by inheritance.
- (exercise) A workout movement wherein one leg stands on an elevated surface and lifts in the concentric part the rest of the body up onto it to target – depending on angle and starting distance of the other leg and weights applied by the arms – the femoral and gluteal muscles variously.
adj
noun
- the act of putting two things together with no space between them
- the event of something coming in contact with the body
- the feel of mechanical action
- the faculty by which external objects or forces are perceived through contact with the body (especially the hands)
- deftness in handling matters
- a slight attack of illness
- the act of soliciting money (as a gift or loan)
- a slight but appreciable amount
- a communicative interaction
- a distinguishing style
- a suggestion of some quality
- the sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin
- The ability to perform a task well; aptitude.
- (slang) An act of borrowing or stealing something; a request for money.
- (Australian rules football) A disposal of the ball during a game, i.e. a kick or a handball.
- A little bit; a small amount.
- Form; standard of performance.
- (chiefly Australia) touch football (a variant of rugby league that does not involve tackling)
- The part of a sports field beyond the touchlines or goal-lines.
- (shipbuilding) The broadest part of a plank worked top and but, or of one worked anchor-stock fashion (that is, tapered from the middle to both ends); also, the angles of the stern timbers at the counters.
- A single stroke on a drawing or a picture.
- (uncountable, in set phrases) A relationship of close communication or understanding.
- (bell-ringing) A set of changes less than the total possible on seven bells, i.e. less than 5,040.
- An act of touching, especially with the hand or finger.
- The faculty or sense of perception by physical contact.
- The children's game of tag.
- The style or technique with which one plays a musical instrument.
- A distinguishing feature or characteristic.
- (music) The particular or characteristic mode of action, or the resistance of the keys of an instrument to the fingers.
- (slang) The extent to which a person is interested or affected; the amount of outlay on something.
verb
- color lightly
- cause to be in brief contact with
- to extend as far as
- comprehend
- make a more or less disguised reference to
- consume
- be in direct physical contact with; make contact
- tamper with
- make physical contact with, come in contact with
- affect emotionally
- have an effect upon
- perceive via the tactile sense
- deal with; usually used with a form of negation
- be relevant to
- be equal to in quality or ability
- (intransitive) Of a ship or its passengers: to land, to make a short stop (at).
- (transitive, slang) To obtain money from, usually by borrowing (from a friend).
- To have sexual intercourse with
- (nautical) To keep the ship as near (the wind) as possible.
- (transitive) To make intimate physical contact with a person.
- (transitive) To make physical contact with; to bring the hand, finger or other part of the body into contact with.
- (transitive, now historical) To lay hands on (someone suffering from scrofula) as a form of cure, as formerly practised by English and French monarchs.
- (transitive) To affect emotionally; to bring about tender or painful feelings in.
- (transitive, in negative constructions) To be on the level of; to approach in excellence or quality.
- To try; to prove, as with a touchstone.
- (transitive) To cause to be briefly in physical contact with something.
- To perform, as a tune; to play.
- (nautical) To bring (a sail) so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.
- (intransitive) To make physical contact with a thing.
- (transitive) To physically disturb; to interfere with, molest, or attempt to harm through contact.
- (transitive, Scottish history) To give royal assent to by touching it with the sceptre.
- To strike; to manipulate; to play on.
- (transitive) To begin to consume, or otherwise use.
- (transitive) To come into (involuntary) contact with; to meet or intersect.
- (intransitive) To come into physical contact, or to be in physical contact.
- (intransitive) To deal with in speech or writing; briefly to speak or write (on or upon something).
- (transitive, reflexive or rarely intransitive) To sexually excite with the fingers; to finger or masturbate.
- (transitive) To imbue or endow with a specific quality.
- (transitive, always passive) To disturb the mental functions of; to make somewhat insane; often followed with "in the head".
- (transitive) To physically affect in specific ways implied by context.
- (transitive, computing) To mark (a file or document) as having been modified.
- To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush.
- (intransitive, nautical) To be brought, as a sail, so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.
- To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly.
- (transitive) To come close to; to approach.
- (transitive) To concern, to have to do with.
noun
adj
prep
verb
noun
- the act of changing one thing or position for another
- a qualitative change
- the act of moving from one place to another
- an event in which something is displaced without rotation
- a woman's sleeveless undergarment
- (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
- a crew of workers who work for a specific period of time
- the key on the typewriter keyboard that shifts from lower-case letters to upper-case letters
- a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist
- the time period during which you are at work
- (historical) A type of women's undergarment of dress length worn under dresses or skirts, a slip or chemise.
- (music) In violin-playing, any position of the left hand except that nearest the nut.
- (computing) A control code or character used to change between different character sets.
- An act of shifting; a slight movement or change.
- (baseball) An infield shift.
- A movement to do something, a beginning.
- (construction) The extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed in courses so as to break joints.
- (computing) An instance of the use of such a code or character.
- A simple straight-hanging, loose-fitting dress.
- (US) The gear mechanism in a motor vehicle.
- A period of time in which one's consciousness resides in another reality, usually achieved through meditation or other means.
- Alternative spelling of Shift (“a modifier button of computer keyboards”).
- (British slang) be done; ruined
- (Ireland, crude slang, often with the definite article, usually uncountable) The act of kissing passionately.
- (genetics) A mutation in which the DNA or RNA from two different sources (such as viruses or bacteria) combine.
- A change of workers, now specifically a set group of workers or period of working time.
- (mining) A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.
- (computing) A bit shift.
verb
- change gears
- change place or direction
- move around
- make a shift in or exchange of
- change in quality
- move very slightly
- move and exchange for another
- use a shift key on a keyboard
- move abruptly
- move sideways or in an unsteady way
- lay aside, abandon, or leave for another
- change phonetically as part of a systematic historical change
- move from one setting or context to another
- (transitive, sometimes figurative) To move from one place to another; to redistribute.
- (typewriters) To move the keys of a typewriter over in order to type capital letters or special characters.
- (ergative, figurative) To change in form or character; switch.
- (computer keyboards) To switch to a character entry mode for capital letters or special characters.
- (intransitive) To use meditation or other means to change the reality that one's consciousness resides in.
- (intransitive, India) To change residence; to leave and live elsewhere.
- (transitive, computing) To manipulate a binary number by moving all of its digits left or right; compare rotate.
- (Ireland, vulgar, slang, transitive) To engage in sexual petting with.
- (intransitive) To practice indirect or evasive methods; to contrive.
- (intransitive) To hurry; to move quickly.
- (intransitive) To change gears (in an automobile).
- (Minecraft, video games) To crouch in game, especially if the shift key is pressed to initiate crouching.
- (Nigeria, slang) To steal or kidnap.
- (transitive, computing) To remove (the first value from an array).
- (transitive) To dispose of, remove.
- (intransitive, sometimes reflexive and figurative) To change position; to move.
- (intransitive, music) In violin-playing, to move the left hand from its original position next to the nut.
noun
- the act of changing one thing or position for another
- an event in which one thing is substituted for another
- hairpiece consisting of a tress of false hair; used by women to give shape to a coiffure
- railroad track having two movable rails and necessary connections; used to turn a train from one track to another or to store rolling stock
- a flexible implement used as an instrument of punishment
- a basketball maneuver; two defensive players shift assignments so that each guards the player usually guarded by the other
- control consisting of a mechanical or electrical or electronic device for making or breaking or changing the connections in a circuit
- A device to turn electric current on and off or direct its flow.
- (telecommunications) A system of specialized relays, computer hardware, or other equipment which allows the interconnection of a calling party's telephone line with any called party's line.
- (especially BDSM) One who is willing to take either a submissive or a dominant role in a sexual relationship.
- (historical) A separate mass or tress of hair, or of some substance (such as jute) made to resemble hair, formerly worn on the head by women.
- (sports) A play in which the ball (or equivalent) is moved from one side of the playing area to the other.
- A change or exchange.
- (music) Synonym of rute.
- (genetics) A mechanism within DNA that activates or deactivates a gene.
- (computer science) A command line notation allowing specification of optional behavior.
- (rail transport, US, Philippines) A movable section of railroad track which allows the train to be directed down one of two destination tracks; (set of) points.
- (computing, programming) A programming construct that takes different actions depending on the value of an expression.
- (multiplicity slang) The process of the currently fronting headmate changing; an instance of this.
- (computing, networking) A networking device connecting multiple wires, allowing them to communicate simultaneously, when possible. Compare to the less efficient hub device that solely duplicates network packets to each wire.
- (card games) A variant of crazy eights where one card, such as an ace, reverses the direction of play.
- A long, slender woody plant stem or a flexible, thin rod used as a whip to administer corporal punishment in the United States.
- (slang, metonymic) A Glock pistol equipped with a Glock switch.
- (firearms, slang) Synonym of Glock switch.
verb
- cause to go on or to be engaged or set in operation
- make a shift in or exchange of
- exchange or give (something) in exchange for
- flog with or as if with a flexible rod
- change over, change around, as to a new order or sequence
- lay aside, abandon, or leave for another
- reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action)
- (slang, intransitive) To get angry suddenly; to quickly or unreasonably become enraged.
- To be swung or whisked.
- (ecclesiastical) To shift to another circuit.
- (sports, transitive) To move (the ball or equivalent) from one side of the playing area to the other.
- (intransitive) To take on the opposite role (leader vs. follower) in a partner dance.
- (transitive, in modern times Southern US) To whip or hit with a switch.
- (transitive) To change (something) to the specified state using a switch.
- (intransitive) To change places, tasks, etc.
- To trim.
- To turn from one railway track to another; to transfer by a switch; generally with off, from, etc.
- To swing or whisk.
- (transitive) To exchange.
adj
noun
- the act of changing one thing or position for another
- Corporal punishment by use of a switch (twig or twigs).
- Back-and-forth movement of an animal's tail, etc.
- The movement of a locomotive from one track to another.
- The transference of an investment from one fund to another.
- (computing, networking) The process of transferring data packets from one device to another in a network, or from one network to another.
- Change from one product or service provider to another.
verb
noun
- The act of stuffing something with another thing.
- (US, finance, law) A tax loophole whereby a corporation acquires property that will result in a loss of revenue, purely in order to reduce its tax liability.
- (Internet) The insertion of many copies of a word into a web page in an attempt to increase its search engine ranking.
- The matter used to stuff hollow objects such as pillows and saddles.
- (slang, vulgar) An act of penetrative sexual intercourse.
- (slang) Severe defeat.
- A mixture of oil and tallow used in softening and dressing leather.
- Any of many food items used to stuff another.
- a mixture of seasoned ingredients used to stuff meats and vegetables
- padding put in mattresses and cushions and upholstered furniture
verb
noun
- the act of linking things together
- a mechanical system of rods or springs or pivots that transmits power or motion
- an associative relation
- (genetics) traits that tend to be inherited together as a consequence of an association between their genes; all of the genes of a given chromosome are linked (where one goes they all go)
- A connection or relation between things or ideas.
- A mechanical device that connects things.
- (genetics) The property of genes of being inherited together.
- (software compilation) The act or result of linking: the combination of multiple object files into one executable, library, or object file.
- (linguistics) A set of definitely related languages for which no proto-language can be derived, typically a group of languages within a family that have formed a sprachbund.
- (US, politics, historical) A United States foreign policy, during the 1970s détente in the Cold War, of persuading the Soviet Union to co-operate in restraining revolutions in the Third World in return for nuclear and economic concessions.
noun
- the act or fact of interposing one thing between or among others
- (law) a proceeding that permits a person to enter into a lawsuit already in progress; admission of person not an original party to the suit so that person can protect some right or interest that is allegedly affected by the proceedings
- the act of intervening (as to mediate a dispute, etc.)
- a policy of intervening in the affairs of other countries
- care provided to improve a situation (especially medical procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury)
- (medicine) An action taken or procedure performed; an operation.
- (US, law) A legal motion through which a person or entity who has not been named as a party to a case seeks to have the court order that they be made a party.
- An orchestrated attempt to convince somebody with an addiction or other psychological problem to seek professional help and/or change their behavior.
- The action of intervening; interfering in some course of events.
noun
- the act of contacting one thing with another
- a connection made via the internet to another website
- a conspicuous success
- (physics) a brief event in which two or more bodies come together
- a dose of a narcotic drug
- a murder carried out by an underworld syndicate
- (baseball) when a batter strikes a pitched ball into fair territory and arrives safely on base (without an error or a fielder's choice being made by the defense)
- (Internet) A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server.
- Something very successful, such as a song, film, or video game, that receives widespread recognition and acclaim.
- (baseball) The complete play, when the batter reaches base without the benefit of a walk, error, or fielder’s choice.
- (backgammon) A game won after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than a gammon.
- A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.
- (backgammon) A move that throws one of the opponent's men back to the entering point.
- In the game of Battleship, a correct guess at where one's opponent ship is.
- An attack on a location, person or people.
- (figuratively) A blow; a calamitous or damaging occurrence.
- A collision of a projectile with the target.
- (computing, Internet) A match found by searching a computer system or search engine
- An approximately correct answer in a test set.
- A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything.
- (colloquial) A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.
verb
- reach a destination, either real or abstract
- cause to experience suddenly
- hit against; come into sudden contact with
- hit the intended target or goal
- affect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely
- make a strategic, offensive, assault against an enemy, opponent, or a target
- deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument
- drive something violently into a location
- cause to move by striking
- kill intentionally and with premeditation
- hit with a missile from a weapon
- produce by manipulating keys or strings of musical instruments
- pay unsolicited and usually unwanted sexual attention to
- encounter by chance
- reach a point in time, or a certain state or level
- (backgammon) To take up, or replace by a piece belonging to the opposing player; said of a single unprotected piece on a point.
- (transitive) To affect negatively.
- (transitive, US, slang) To have sex with.
- (figurative, ambitransitive) To affect someone, as if dealing a blow to that person.
- (figuratively) To attack.
- (transitive, slang) To kill a person, usually on the instructions of a third party.
- To guess; to light upon or discover.
- (intransitive, baseball) To come up to bat.
- (intransitive) To meet or reach what was aimed at or desired; to succeed, often by luck.
- (transitive, colloquial) To switch on or switch off (lights).
- (transitive, informal) To reach or achieve.
- (transitive) To activate a button or key by pressing and releasing it.
- (transitive) To administer a blow to, directly or with a weapon or missile.
- (transitive) To come into contact with forcefully and suddenly.
- (transitive, military) To attack, especially amphibiously.
- (transitive, informal) To encounter an obstacle or other difficulty.
- (transitive) To manage to touch (a target) in the right place.
- (transitive, US, slang) To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana.
- (transitive, music, informal) To commence playing.
- (transitive, card games) In blackjack, to deal a card to.
- (transitive, colloquial) To briefly visit.
- (transitive, bodybuilding) To work out.
- (intransitive) To strike against something.
- (transitive, bodybuilding) (of an exercise) to affect, to work a body part.
- (transitive, computing, programming) To use; to connect to.
adj
pron
noun
adj
verb
noun
- The act of merging separate things, or the result thereof.
- (physics) A nuclear reaction in which nuclei combine to form more massive nuclei with the concomitant release of energy.
- (cytology) The process by which two distinct lipid bilayers merge their hydrophobic core, resulting in one interconnected structure.
- (genetics) The result of the hybridation of two genes which originally coded for separate proteins.
- (music) A style of music that blends disparate genres; especially different types of jazz and reggae.
- A style of cooking that combines ingredients and techniques from different countries or cultures
- The act of melting or liquefying something by heating it.
- (fiction) The act of two characters merging into one, typically more powerful, being; or the merged being itself.
- an occurrence that involves the production of a union
- correction of an unstable part of the spine by joining two or more vertebrae; usually done surgically but sometimes done by traction or immobilization
- a nuclear reaction in which nuclei combine to form more massive nuclei with the simultaneous release of energy
- the combining of images from the two eyes to form a single visual percept
- the state of being combined into one body
- the act of fusing (or melting) together
- the merging of adjacent sounds or syllables or words
verb
noun
- the act of putting something somewhere
- a partial payment made at the time of purchase; the balance to be paid later
- a facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping
- a payment given as a guarantee that an obligation will be met
- the natural process of laying down a deposit of something
- the phenomenon of sediment or gravel accumulating
- money deposited in a bank or some similar institution
- money given as security for an article acquired for temporary use
- matter that has been deposited by some natural process
- (law) Bailment of personal property to be kept gratuitously for the bailor (depositor) and without any benefit to the bailee (depositary), e.g. for storage, carriage, repair, etc.
- (geology) Sediment or rock that is not native to its present location or is different from the surrounding material. Sometimes refers to ore or gems.
- A place of deposit; a depository.
- (banking) Money placed in a bank account, as for safekeeping or to earn interest.
- A sum of money given as a security for a borrowed item, which will be given back when the item is returned, e.g. a bottle deposit or can deposit
- Anything left behind on a surface.
- (finance) A sum of money or other asset given as an initial payment, to show good faith, or to reserve something for purchase.
verb
- put into a bank account
- put, fix, force, or implant
- put (something somewhere) firmly
- (transitive) To put money or funds into an account.
- To lay aside; to rid oneself of.
- To lay up or away for safekeeping; to put up; to store.
- To entrust one's assets to the care of another. Sometimes done as collateral.
- (transitive) To lay down; to place; to put.
noun
- the act of putting something somewhere
- the natural process of laying down a deposit of something
- the act of deposing someone; removing a powerful person from a position or office
- (law) a pretrial interrogation of a witness; usually conducted in a lawyer's office
- (chemistry) The production of a thin film of material onto an existing surface.
- (meteorology) The formation of snow or frost directly from water vapor.
- The removal of someone from office.
- (physics) The transformation of a gas into a solid without an intermediate liquid phase (reverse of sublimation)
- (religion) The formal placement of relics in a church or shrine, and the feast day commemorating it.
- (law) The process of taking sworn testimony out of court; the testimony so taken.
- The act of depositing material, especially by a natural process; the resultant deposit.
adj
- Forming a constituent part of something else.
- Extremely important; essential.
- Having the power or authority to appoint someone to office.
- (biochemistry) Of an enzyme: continuously produced at a constant rate.
- Having the power or authority to constitute, establish or enact something.
- constitutional in the structure of something (especially your physical makeup)
noun
- An addition or extra, something that is added to something else.
- (Scots law) An increase of stipend obtained by a parish minister by an action raised in the Court of Teinds against the titular and heritors.
- (music) A compositional technique where the composer lengthens the melody by lengthening its note values.
- (medicine) A surgical procedure to enlarge a body part, as breast augmentation.
- (medicine) The stage of a disease during which symptoms increase or continue.
- The act or process of augmenting.
- (heraldry) A particular mark of honour, granted by the sovereign in consideration of some noble action, or by favour; and either quartered with the family arms, or on an escutcheon or canton.
- the act of augmenting
- the statement of a theme in notes of greater duration (usually twice the length of the original)
- the amount by which something becomes greater
prefix
- When one entity is put into another, or one entity affects the other.
- To do the root.
- hypothetical, fictional
- Uniform, or made to be the same as.
- A fellow kind of the root.
- Together: the root is done together.
- Synchronous or simultaneous with the root.
- Found with. What is found with the root.
- Intensifying the root.
- Belonging to the same group indicated by the root.
- Mutuality, indicating a reciprocal relationship or influence
- related to conlangs, conworlds, etc.
- To surround or adorn with
- From, coming from the root.
- constructed, artificial
- Having commonality, having the same property indicated by the root.
- Unite: to unite into a collection indicated by the root word.
noun
- The act of moving from one thing to another.
- Development, increase, evolution.
- (mathematics) A sequence obtained by adding or multiplying each term by a constant.
- (music, countable) A chord progression.
- The act of moving forward or proceeding in a course; motion onward.
- (exercise) The process of making an exercise more strenuous by manipulating the details of its performance like loaded weight, range of motion, angle, speed.
- a movement forward
- the act of moving forward (as toward a goal)
- a series with a definite pattern of advance
noun
- an event in which one thing is substituted for another
- the act of changing the arrangement of a given number of elements
- act of changing the lineal order of objects in a group
- complete change in character or condition
- (mathematics, combinatorics) An ordering of a finite set of distinct elements.
- (music) A transformation of a set's prime form, by applying one or more of certain operations, specifically, transposition, inversion, and retrograde.
- (mathematics) A one-to-one mapping from a finite set to itself.
- One of the ways something exists, or the ways a set of objects can be ordered.
noun
- an event in which one thing is substituted for another
- a person or thing that takes or can take the place of another
- filling again by supplying what has been used up
- a person who follows next in order
- someone who takes the place of another person
- the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another
- A person or thing that takes the place of another; a substitute.
- The removal of an edge of crystal, by one plane or more.
- The act of replacing something.
noun
- an event in which one thing is substituted for another
- the act of putting one thing or person in the place of another:
- The act of substituting or the state of being substituted.
- (linguistics) The expansion of the lexicon of a language by native means in correspondence to a foreign term.
- (chemistry, especially organic chemistry) The replacement of an atom, or group of atoms, in a compound, with another.
- A substitute or replacement.
noun
- an event in which one thing is substituted for another
- (music) playing in a different key from the key intended; moving the pitch of a piece of music upwards or downwards
- the act of reversing the order or place of
- (electricity) a rearrangement of the relative positions of power lines in order to minimize the effects of mutual capacitance and inductance
- (genetics) a kind of mutation in which a chromosomal segment is transferred to a new position on the same or another chromosome
- any abnormal position of the organs of the body
- (mathematics) the transfer of a quantity from one side of an equation to the other along with a change of sign
- (chess) A sequence of moves resulting in a position that may also be reached by another, more common sequence.
- (European Union) An incorporation of the provisions of a European Union directive into a Member State's domestic law.
- (especially mathematics) The act or process of transposing or interchanging.
- (music) A shift of a piece of music to a different musical key by adjusting all the notes of the work equally either up or down in pitch.
verb
verb
- put or add together
- gather in a mass, sum, or whole
- join for a common purpose or in a common action
- add together from different sources
- mix together different elements
- have or possess in combination
- combine so as to form a whole; mix
- (transitive) To have two or more things or properties that function together.
- (card games) In the game of casino, to play a card which will take two or more cards whose aggregate number of pips equals those of the card played.
- (transitive) To bring (two or more things or activities) together; to unite.
- (intransitive) To come together; to unite.
noun
- an occurrence that results in things being united
- harvester that heads and threshes and cleans grain while moving across the field
- a consortium of independent organizations formed to limit competition by controlling the production and distribution of a product or service
- Ellipsis of combine car, a type of railway car that combines passenger and freight functions.
- Especially, a joint enterprise of whatever legal form for a purpose of business or in any way promoting the interests of the participants, sometimes with monopolistic or fraudulent intentions.
- (American football) A test match in which applicants play in the hope of earning a position on a professional football team.
- (art) An artwork falling between painting and sculpture, having objects embedded into a painted surface.
- An industrial conglomeration in a socialist country, particularly in the former Soviet bloc.
- Ellipsis of combine harvester.
verb
- put or add together
- make more intense, stronger, or more marked
- calculate principal and interest
- create by mixing or combining
- combine so as to form a whole; mix
- (intransitive, finance) To increase in value with interest, where the interest is earned on both the principal sum and prior earned interest.
- (intransitive) To come to terms of agreement; to settle by a compromise.
- (transitive) To settle amicably; to adjust by agreement.
- (transitive) To form (a resulting mixture) by combining different elements, ingredients, or parts; to mingle with something else.
- (horse racing, intransitive) Of a horse: to fail to maintain speed.
- (transitive, see usage notes) To worsen a situation.
- (transitive, law) To settle by agreeing on less than the claim, or on different terms than those stipulated.
adj
- composed of more than one part
- composed of many distinct individuals united to form a whole or colony
- consisting of two or more substances or ingredients or elements or parts
- (mathematics) Dealing with numbers of various denominations of quantity, or with processes more complex than the simple process.
- (music) An octave higher than originally (i.e. a compound major second is equivalent to a major ninth).
- Composed of elements; not simple.
noun
- an enclosure of residences and other building (especially in the Orient)
- (chemistry) a substance formed by chemical union of two or more elements or ingredients in definite proportion by weight
- a word (as anthropology, kilocycle, builder) consisting of any of various combinations of words, combining forms, or affixes.
- a whole formed by a union of two or more elements or parts
- (chemistry) A substance formed by chemical bonding of two or more elements in definite proportions by weight.
- (linguistics) A lexeme that consists of more than one stem.
- Anything made by combining several things.
- An enclosure within which workers, prisoners, or soldiers are confined.
- (linguistics) A lexeme that consists of more than one stem or affix, e.g. "bookshop", "high school" or "non-standard".
- Ellipsis of compound exercise.
- (rail transport) A compound locomotive, a steam locomotive with both high-pressure and low-pressure cylinders.
- An enclosure for secure storage.
- (law) A legal procedure whereby a criminal or delinquent avoids prosecution in a court in exchange for his payment to the authorities of a financial penalty or fine.
- (by extension, Philippines) A group of buildings where members of the same extended family live together.
- A group of buildings situated close together, e.g. for a school or block of offices.
noun
- That which appertains; an appendage to something else; an addition.
- The state or quality of being an appurtenance.
- (law) A subordinate interest in land which benefits a principal estate, which cannot be detached from or held separately to that estate; an appurtenant interest.
- (grammar) A modifier that is appended or prepended to another word to coin a new word that expresses belonging.
- (in the plural) Equipment used for some specific task; gear.
- equipment consisting of miscellaneous articles needed for a particular operation or sport etc.
- a supplementary component that improves capability
noun
- The combination of several actions into one.
- The act or process of consolidating, making firm, or uniting; the state of being consolidated.
- (medicine) A solidification into a firm dense mass. It is usually applied to induration (swelling or hardening of normally soft tissue) of a normally aerated lung.
- the act of combining into an integral whole
- combining into a solid mass
- something that has consolidated into a compact mass
noun
- the work of applying something
- a verbal or written request for assistance or employment or admission to a school
- liquid preparation having a soothing or antiseptic or medicinal action when applied to the skin
- the action of putting something into operation
- a program that gives a computer instructions that provide the user with tools to accomplish a task
- a diligent effort
- the act of bringing something to bear; using it for a particular purpose
- (bureaucracy, law) A petition, entreaty, or other request, with the adposition for denoting the subject matter.
- A verbal or written request for assistance or employment or admission to a school, course or similar.
- The substance applied.
- The act of requesting, claiming, or petitioning something.
- (computing theory) The substitution of a specific value for the parameter in the abstraction, in lambda calculus.
- The act of applying as a means; the employment of means to accomplish an end; specific use.
- The act of directing or referring something to a particular case, to discover or illustrate agreement or disagreement, fitness, or correspondence.
- A kind of needlework; appliqué.
- Diligence; close thought or attention.
- (computing) A computer program or the set of software that the end user perceives as a single entity as a tool for a well-defined purpose. (Also called: application program; application software.)
- The act of physically applying or laying on.
noun
verb
noun
- the work of applying something
- the act of concealing the existence of something by obstructing the view of it
- a natural object that covers or envelops
- the act of protecting something by covering it
- an artifact that covers something else (usually to protect or shelter or conceal it)
- (countable) That which covers or conceals; a cover; something spread or laid over or wrapped about another.
- (topology, of a given open set U) A collection of sets U_i such that their union contains U; such a collection with the additional property that every U_i is open; such a collection with the additional property that every U_i is contained in U.
- (uncountable) Action of the verb to cover.
- (topology) A special kind of map that establishes a relationship between two topological spaces in the sense that, under the action of the map, the one looks locally like several copies of the second: Formally, a continuous map π:E→X between topological spaces such that there exists, for every point x in X, a discrete space D_x and an open neighborhood U of x such that π⁻¹(U)= displaystyle ⨆_(d∈D_x)V_d and π|_(V_d):V_d→U is a homeomorphism for every d∈D_x. See Covering space on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
verb
noun
- something added to another thing but not an essential part of it
- a construction that can be used to extend the meaning of a word or phrase but is not one of the main constituents of a sentence
- a person who is an assistant or subordinate to another
- An appendage; something attached to something else in a subordinate capacity.
- (education) Ellipsis of adjunct professor.
- (music) A key or scale closely related to another as principal; a relative or attendant key.
- (palaeography) A graphic element that modifies another, such as (in Linear B script) a small syllabogram that is attached to a logogram as an abbreviation of an adjective that modifies that logogram (rather than as a phonetic complement that disambiguates the logogram).
- (syntax, X-bar theory) A constituent which is both the daughter and the sister of an X-bar.
- A person associated with another, usually in a subordinate position; a colleague.
- (rhetoric) Symploce.
- (grammar) A phrase within a clause or sentence that is grammatically dispensable but not semantically so, modifying the meaning.
- (brewing) An unmalted grain or grain product that supplements the main mash ingredient.
- (category theory) One of a pair of morphisms which relate to each other through a pair of adjoint functors.
adj
verb
noun
- Increase by something added; that which is added; augmentation from without.
- (medicine) The invasion, approach, or commencement of a disease; a fit or paroxysm.
- Access; admittance.
- The act of coming to or reaching a throne, an office, or dignity.
- A group of plants of the same species collected at a single location, often held in genebanks.
- A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined.
- (law) The act by which one power becomes party to engagements already in force between other powers.
- (law) A mode of acquiring property, by which the owner of a corporeal substance which receives an addition by growth, or by labor, has a right to the part or thing added, or the improvement (provided the thing is not changed into a different species).
- Such augmentation that adds to the collections of a museum or archive; a thing thus added.
- (Scotland) Complicity, concurrence or assent in some action.
- Agreement.
- agreeing with or consenting to (often unwillingly)
- the act of attaining or gaining access to a new office or right or position (especially the throne)
- something added to what you already have
- (civil law) the right to all of that which your property produces whether by growth or improvement
- a process of increasing by addition (as to a collection or group)
- the right to enter
verb
noun
- the act of adding one thing to another
- (uncountable) The act of adding anything.
- the arithmetic operation of summing; calculating the sum of two or more numbers
- something added to what you already have
- a suburban area laid out in streets and lots for a future residential area
- a quantity that is added
- a component that is added to something to improve it
- (organic chemistry) an organic reaction where two or more molecules combine to form a larger one (the adduct).
- (music) A dot at the right side of a note as an indication that its sound is to be lengthened one half.
- (chiefly law) A title annexed to a person's name to identify him or her more precisely.
- (uncountable, arithmetic) The arithmetic operation of adding.
- (heraldry) Something added to a coat of arms, as a mark of honour.
- Anything that is added.
noun
- the act of putting one thing into another
- The act of inserting, or something inserted.
- a message (spoken or written) that is introduced or inserted
- (atomic weapons) The process of going from subcritical to prompt critical.
- (anatomy) The distal end of attachment of a muscle to a bone that will be moved by the muscle.
- (genetics) The addition of a nucleotide to a chromosome by mutation.
noun
- the act of putting one thing into another
- a basic or elementary instructional text
- a new proposal
- formally making a person known to another or to the public
- the act of beginning something new
- the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new
- the first section of a communication
- A means, such as a personal letter, of presenting one person to another.
- A written or oral explanation of what constitutes the basis of an issue.
- An initial section of a book or article, which introduces the subject material.
- The act or process of introducing.
noun
- the act of putting one thing into another
- Copulation: usually the first moment of initial entry of a penis into a vagina, mouth or anus.
- Putting one thing into another; introduction (into); insertion
- (law, Scotland) An intermeddling with the affairs of another, either on legal grounds or without authority.
- The state of being allowed to enter; admittance
- The act of allowing to enter; admission
noun
- the act of changing one thing for another thing
- the act of putting one thing or person in the place of another:
- a mutual expression of views (especially an unpleasant one)
- (chess) the capture by both players (usually on consecutive moves) of pieces of equal value
- chemical process in which one atom or ion or group changes places with another
- (sports) an unbroken sequence of several successive strokes
- a workplace that serves as a telecommunications facility where lines from telephones can be connected together to permit communication
- (chess) gaining (or losing) a rook in return for a knight or bishop
- a workplace for buying and selling; open only to members
- the act of giving something in return for something received
- reciprocal transfer of equivalent sums of money (especially the currencies of different countries)
- (finance) The difference between the values of money in different places.
- (usually with "the") The loss of a minor piece (typically a bishop or knight) and associated capture of the more advantageous rook.
- (telephony) A central office.
- A conversation.
- (law, England and Wales, Northern Ireland) Clipping of exchange of contracts.
- (biochemistry) The transfer of substances or elements like gas, amino-acids, ions etc. sometimes through a surface like a membrane.
- An act of exchanging or trading.
- A place for conducting trading.
- (telephony) The portion of a telephone number that represents (or formerly represented) a central office.
- (chess) The loss of one piece and associated capture of another.
verb
- put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items
- exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category
- change over, change around, as to a new order or sequence
- exchange a penalty for a less severe one
- give to, and receive from, one another
- hand over one and receive another, approximately equivalent
- (transitive) To trade or barter.
- (transitive, figurative) To mutually direct at each other.
- (law, England and Wales, Northern Ireland) Clipping of exchange contracts.
- (transitive) To replace with, as a substitute.
- (transitive) To recommend and get recommendations.
noun
- the act of changing one thing for another thing
- mutual interaction; the activity of reciprocating or exchanging (especially information)
- a junction of highways on different levels that permits traffic to move from one to another without crossing traffic streams
- reciprocal transfer of equivalent sums of money (especially the currencies of different countries)
- (countable) A highway junction in which traffic may change from one road to another without crossing a stream of traffic.
- A back-and-forth interaction; an exchange.
- (countable) A junction in which traffic may merge to enter or diverge to exit a limited-access highway to access a surface street, without crossing traffic on the main highway.
- (countable, uncountable) An act of interchanging.
- (rail transport, countable) A connection between two or more lines, services or modes of transport; a station at which such a connection can be made.
verb
- cause to change places
- put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items
- give to, and receive from, one another
- reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action)
- (intransitive) to swap or change places
- (transitive) to mutually give and receive (something); to exchange
- (transport) To act as or carry out an interchange (noun, senses 2, 3).
- (transitive) to switch (each of two things)
- (transitive) to alternate; to intermingle or vary
noun
- the act of grafting something onto something else
- (surgery) tissue or organ transplanted from a donor to a recipient; in some cases the patient can be both donor and recipient
- the practice of offering something (usually money) in order to gain an illicit advantage
- (horticulture) A branch or portion of a tree growing from such a shoot.
- (uncountable) Illicit profit by corrupt means, especially in public life.
- (horticulture) A small shoot or scion of a tree inserted in another tree, the stock of which is to support and nourish it. The two unite and become one tree, but the graft determines the kind of fruit.
- A narrow spade used in digging drainage trenches.
- (uncountable, slang) A criminal’s special branch of practice.
- (uncountable, British, colloquial) Work; labor requiring effort.
- (countable, slang) A cut of the take (money).
- (uncountable, US, politics) A bribe, especially on an ongoing basis.
- (countable) A con job.
- (uncountable) Corruption in official life.
- (surgery) A portion of living tissue used in the operation of autoplasty.
- The depth of the blade of a digging tool such as a spade or shovel.
- (countable, British, colloquial) A job or trade.
verb
- cause to grow together parts from different plants
- place the organ of a donor into the body of a recipient
- (transitive) To join (one thing) to another as if by grafting, so as to bring about a close union.
- (transitive) To insert (a graft) in a branch or stem of another tree; to propagate by insertion in another stock; also, to insert a graft upon.
- (intransitive) To insert scions (grafts) from one tree, or kind of tree, etc., into another; to practice grafting.
- To obtain illegal gain from bribery or similar corrupt practices.
- (chemistry) To form a graft polymer
- (transitive, surgery) To implant a portion of (living flesh or akin) in a lesion so as to form an organic union.
- (transitive, nautical) To cover, as a ring bolt, block strap, splicing, etc., with a weaving of small cord or rope yarns.
- (colloquial, intransitive) To work hard.
noun
- the act of grafting something onto something else
- (carpentry) A scarfing or endwise attachment of one timber to another.
- (nautical) The act or method of weaving a cover for a ring, rope end, etc.
- (surgery) The transplanting of a portion of flesh, hair or skin to a denuded surface; autoplasty.
- (horticulture) The act, art, or process of inserting grafts.
verb
noun
- an act of joining or adjoining things
- The act of joining; the thing joined or added.
- (category theory, strictly) A natural isomorphism between a pair of functors satisfying certain conditions, whose existence implies a close relationship between the functors and between their (co)domains; the natural isomorphism, functors, and their (co)domains thought of as a single object.
- (mathematics, chiefly algebra and number theory) The process of adjoining elements to an algebraic structure (usually a ring or field); the result of such a process.
- (law) The joining of personal property owned by one to that owned by another.
- (formally, given two categories 𝒞 and 𝒟 and (covariant) functors F:𝒞→𝒟 and G:𝒟→𝒞) A natural isomorphism Φ: operatorname Hom_( mathcal )C(G·,·)→ operatorname Hom_( mathcal )D(·,F·) (where the hom-functors are understood as bifunctors from 𝒟^( operatorname )op×𝒞 to mathbf Set). See Adjoint functors on Wikipedia.Wikipedia.
- (category theory, loosely) A relationship between a pair of categories that makes the pair, in a weak sense, equivalent.
noun
- an act of joining or adjoining things
- the state of being joined together
- something that joins or connects
- the place where two or more things come together
- the shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made
- (programming) In the Raku programming language, a construct representing a composite of several values connected by an operator.
- (radio, television) A point in time between two unrelated consecutive broadcasts.
- The boundary between two physically different materials, especially between conductors, semiconductors, or metals.
- The act of joining, or the state of being joined.
- (rail transport) A place where two or more railways or railroads meet.
- (computing, Microsoft Windows) A kind of symbolic link to a directory.
- (electronics) electrical junction: a point or area where multiple conductors or semiconductors make physical contact.
- (nautical) The place where a distributary departs from the main stream.
- A place where two things meet, especially where two roads meet.
verb
noun
- the act of enclosing something inside something else
- a structure consisting of an area that has been enclosed for some purpose
- a naturally enclosed space
- something (usually a supporting document) that is enclosed in an envelope with a covering letter
- (uncountable) The act of enclosing, i.e. the insertion or inclusion of an item in a letter or package.
- (religion) The area of a convent, monastery, etc where access is restricted to community members.
- (countable) An area, domain, or amount of something partially or entirely enclosed by barriers.
- (uncountable, British History) The post-feudal process of subdivision of common lands for individual ownership.
- (countable) Something that is enclosed, i.e. inserted into a letter or similar package.
- (uncountable, by extension) The act of restricting access to ideas, works of art or technologies using patents or intellectual property laws.
- (uncountable) The act of separating and surrounding an area, domain, or amount of something with a barrier.
noun
- the act of enclosing something inside something else
- The act of enveloping.
- That which envelops; a covering.
- (fencing) An action to seize the opponent's blade in one line and lead it (without losing contact) through a full circle to end in the same line.
- (military) An offensive action in which an attacking force moves over or around the enemy and attacks from the rear; see also pincer movement.
noun
- someone who appends or joins one thing to another
- someone who assigns labels to the grammatical constituents of textual matter
- a computer program that attaches labels to the grammatical constituents of textual matter
- (in the plural) Sheets of tin or other plate which run below the gauge.
- (computing theory) A program or algorithm that adds tags for purposes of categorization, e.g. grammatical information to words in a document, or genres to songs in a music collection.
- A person who writes graffiti using a specific mark
- That which is pointed like a tag.
- (slang) The penis.
- A device for removing taglocks from sheep.
- The player who tries to catch others in the game of tag.
noun
- a mistake that results from taking one thing to be another
- an act causing a disorderly combination of elements with identities lost and distinctions blended
- a feeling of embarrassment that leaves you confused
- disorder resulting from a failure to behave predictably
- a mental state characterized by a lack of clear and orderly thought and behavior
- Lack of understanding due to dementia.
- (collective) A group of wildebeest.
- The act of mistaking one thing for another or conflating distinct things.
- A lack of clarity or order.
- The state of being confused; misunderstanding.
noun
- the placement of one thing on top of another
- The placing of one thing on top of another.
- (geology) the principle that in a series of stratified sedimentary rocks the lowest stratum is the oldest
- (geology) the deposition of one geological stratum on another
- (geometry) the placement of one object ideally in the position of another one in order to show that the two coincide
- (geology) The deposition of one stratum over another; the principle that in a series of sedimentary strata, the lower strata are the older.
- (quantum mechanics) The situation in quantum mechanics where two or more quantum states are added together (superposed) to yield another valid quantum state.
noun
- the act of combining things to form a new whole
- a group of people (often temporary) having a common purpose
- a sequence of numbers or letters that opens a combination lock
- the act of arranging elements into specified groups without regard to order
- a coordinated sequence of chess moves
- a collection of things that have been combined; an assemblage of separate parts or qualities
- an alliance of people or corporations or countries for a special purpose (formerly to achieve some antisocial end but now for general political or economic purposes)
- An object formed by combining.
- Synonym of combinations (A one-piece suit of underwear).
- (motorcycling) A motorcycle and sidecar.
- (billiards) A shot where the cue ball hits a ball that strikes another ball on the table.
- (chess) An advantageous sequence of forcing or nearly forcing moves, often initiated with a sacrifice.
- The act of combining, the state of being combined or the result of combining.
- (mathematics) One or more elements selected from a set without regard to the order of selection.
- A sequence of numbers or letters used to open a combination lock.
- An association or alliance of people for some common purpose.
- (boxing, martial arts) A rapid sequence of punches or strikes in boxing or other combat sports.
noun
verb
noun
- The act or process by which one thing is embedded in another.
- (differential topology) An immersion which is also a topological embedding; equivalently, a diffeomorphism whose image is a submanifold of its codomain.
- (machine learning, artificial intelligence) A representation of a unit of text (such as a word or token) as a vector, which encodes the context in which it is used.
- (mathematical analysis) A map between metric spaces which preserves distances up to some scaling factor (called the distortion).
- (topology) A continuous map which is also a homeomorphism between its domain and its image (considered with the subspace topology induced by its codomain).
- (category theory) An injective morphism in a concrete category which is also initial.
- (field theory, Galois theory) A ring homomorphism between fields (the name deriving from the fact that all such maps are injective).
verb
noun
- the act of increasing something
- a change resulting in an increase
- a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important
- a quantity that is added
- the amount by which something increases
- Offspring, progeny.
- For a quantity, the act or process of becoming larger.
- (knitting, crochet) The creation of one or more new stitches; see Increase (knitting).
- An amount by which a quantity is increased.
verb
- make bigger or more
- become bigger or greater in amount
- (intransitive) (of a quantity, etc.) To become larger or greater, to greaten.
- (astronomy, intransitive) To become more nearly full; to show more of the surface; to wax.
- To multiply by the production of young; to be fertile, fruitful, or prolific.
- (transitive) To make (a quantity, etc.) larger.
noun
- the act of increasing something
- An increase.
- (especially US, taxation) A phenomenon whereby the growth in market value of an asset or investment is not taxed under certain circumstances, generally involving buying and holding until the buyer's death, followed by inheritance.
- (exercise) A workout movement wherein one leg stands on an elevated surface and lifts in the concentric part the rest of the body up onto it to target – depending on angle and starting distance of the other leg and weights applied by the arms – the femoral and gluteal muscles variously.
adj
noun
- the act of putting two things together with no space between them
- the event of something coming in contact with the body
- the feel of mechanical action
- the faculty by which external objects or forces are perceived through contact with the body (especially the hands)
- deftness in handling matters
- a slight attack of illness
- the act of soliciting money (as a gift or loan)
- a slight but appreciable amount
- a communicative interaction
- a distinguishing style
- a suggestion of some quality
- the sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin
- The ability to perform a task well; aptitude.
- (slang) An act of borrowing or stealing something; a request for money.
- (Australian rules football) A disposal of the ball during a game, i.e. a kick or a handball.
- A little bit; a small amount.
- Form; standard of performance.
- (chiefly Australia) touch football (a variant of rugby league that does not involve tackling)
- The part of a sports field beyond the touchlines or goal-lines.
- (shipbuilding) The broadest part of a plank worked top and but, or of one worked anchor-stock fashion (that is, tapered from the middle to both ends); also, the angles of the stern timbers at the counters.
- A single stroke on a drawing or a picture.
- (uncountable, in set phrases) A relationship of close communication or understanding.
- (bell-ringing) A set of changes less than the total possible on seven bells, i.e. less than 5,040.
- An act of touching, especially with the hand or finger.
- The faculty or sense of perception by physical contact.
- The children's game of tag.
- The style or technique with which one plays a musical instrument.
- A distinguishing feature or characteristic.
- (music) The particular or characteristic mode of action, or the resistance of the keys of an instrument to the fingers.
- (slang) The extent to which a person is interested or affected; the amount of outlay on something.
verb
- color lightly
- cause to be in brief contact with
- to extend as far as
- comprehend
- make a more or less disguised reference to
- consume
- be in direct physical contact with; make contact
- tamper with
- make physical contact with, come in contact with
- affect emotionally
- have an effect upon
- perceive via the tactile sense
- deal with; usually used with a form of negation
- be relevant to
- be equal to in quality or ability
- (intransitive) Of a ship or its passengers: to land, to make a short stop (at).
- (transitive, slang) To obtain money from, usually by borrowing (from a friend).
- To have sexual intercourse with
- (nautical) To keep the ship as near (the wind) as possible.
- (transitive) To make intimate physical contact with a person.
- (transitive) To make physical contact with; to bring the hand, finger or other part of the body into contact with.
- (transitive, now historical) To lay hands on (someone suffering from scrofula) as a form of cure, as formerly practised by English and French monarchs.
- (transitive) To affect emotionally; to bring about tender or painful feelings in.
- (transitive, in negative constructions) To be on the level of; to approach in excellence or quality.
- To try; to prove, as with a touchstone.
- (transitive) To cause to be briefly in physical contact with something.
- To perform, as a tune; to play.
- (nautical) To bring (a sail) so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.
- (intransitive) To make physical contact with a thing.
- (transitive) To physically disturb; to interfere with, molest, or attempt to harm through contact.
- (transitive, Scottish history) To give royal assent to by touching it with the sceptre.
- To strike; to manipulate; to play on.
- (transitive) To begin to consume, or otherwise use.
- (transitive) To come into (involuntary) contact with; to meet or intersect.
- (intransitive) To come into physical contact, or to be in physical contact.
- (intransitive) To deal with in speech or writing; briefly to speak or write (on or upon something).
- (transitive, reflexive or rarely intransitive) To sexually excite with the fingers; to finger or masturbate.
- (transitive) To imbue or endow with a specific quality.
- (transitive, always passive) To disturb the mental functions of; to make somewhat insane; often followed with "in the head".
- (transitive) To physically affect in specific ways implied by context.
- (transitive, computing) To mark (a file or document) as having been modified.
- To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush.
- (intransitive, nautical) To be brought, as a sail, so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.
- To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly.
- (transitive) To come close to; to approach.
- (transitive) To concern, to have to do with.
noun
adj
prep
verb
noun
- the act of changing one thing or position for another
- a qualitative change
- the act of moving from one place to another
- an event in which something is displaced without rotation
- a woman's sleeveless undergarment
- (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
- a crew of workers who work for a specific period of time
- the key on the typewriter keyboard that shifts from lower-case letters to upper-case letters
- a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist
- the time period during which you are at work
- (historical) A type of women's undergarment of dress length worn under dresses or skirts, a slip or chemise.
- (music) In violin-playing, any position of the left hand except that nearest the nut.
- (computing) A control code or character used to change between different character sets.
- An act of shifting; a slight movement or change.
- (baseball) An infield shift.
- A movement to do something, a beginning.
- (construction) The extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed in courses so as to break joints.
- (computing) An instance of the use of such a code or character.
- A simple straight-hanging, loose-fitting dress.
- (US) The gear mechanism in a motor vehicle.
- A period of time in which one's consciousness resides in another reality, usually achieved through meditation or other means.
- Alternative spelling of Shift (“a modifier button of computer keyboards”).
- (British slang) be done; ruined
- (Ireland, crude slang, often with the definite article, usually uncountable) The act of kissing passionately.
- (genetics) A mutation in which the DNA or RNA from two different sources (such as viruses or bacteria) combine.
- A change of workers, now specifically a set group of workers or period of working time.
- (mining) A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.
- (computing) A bit shift.
verb
- change gears
- change place or direction
- move around
- make a shift in or exchange of
- change in quality
- move very slightly
- move and exchange for another
- use a shift key on a keyboard
- move abruptly
- move sideways or in an unsteady way
- lay aside, abandon, or leave for another
- change phonetically as part of a systematic historical change
- move from one setting or context to another
- (transitive, sometimes figurative) To move from one place to another; to redistribute.
- (typewriters) To move the keys of a typewriter over in order to type capital letters or special characters.
- (ergative, figurative) To change in form or character; switch.
- (computer keyboards) To switch to a character entry mode for capital letters or special characters.
- (intransitive) To use meditation or other means to change the reality that one's consciousness resides in.
- (intransitive, India) To change residence; to leave and live elsewhere.
- (transitive, computing) To manipulate a binary number by moving all of its digits left or right; compare rotate.
- (Ireland, vulgar, slang, transitive) To engage in sexual petting with.
- (intransitive) To practice indirect or evasive methods; to contrive.
- (intransitive) To hurry; to move quickly.
- (intransitive) To change gears (in an automobile).
- (Minecraft, video games) To crouch in game, especially if the shift key is pressed to initiate crouching.
- (Nigeria, slang) To steal or kidnap.
- (transitive, computing) To remove (the first value from an array).
- (transitive) To dispose of, remove.
- (intransitive, sometimes reflexive and figurative) To change position; to move.
- (intransitive, music) In violin-playing, to move the left hand from its original position next to the nut.
noun
- the act of changing one thing or position for another
- an event in which one thing is substituted for another
- hairpiece consisting of a tress of false hair; used by women to give shape to a coiffure
- railroad track having two movable rails and necessary connections; used to turn a train from one track to another or to store rolling stock
- a flexible implement used as an instrument of punishment
- a basketball maneuver; two defensive players shift assignments so that each guards the player usually guarded by the other
- control consisting of a mechanical or electrical or electronic device for making or breaking or changing the connections in a circuit
- A device to turn electric current on and off or direct its flow.
- (telecommunications) A system of specialized relays, computer hardware, or other equipment which allows the interconnection of a calling party's telephone line with any called party's line.
- (especially BDSM) One who is willing to take either a submissive or a dominant role in a sexual relationship.
- (historical) A separate mass or tress of hair, or of some substance (such as jute) made to resemble hair, formerly worn on the head by women.
- (sports) A play in which the ball (or equivalent) is moved from one side of the playing area to the other.
- A change or exchange.
- (music) Synonym of rute.
- (genetics) A mechanism within DNA that activates or deactivates a gene.
- (computer science) A command line notation allowing specification of optional behavior.
- (rail transport, US, Philippines) A movable section of railroad track which allows the train to be directed down one of two destination tracks; (set of) points.
- (computing, programming) A programming construct that takes different actions depending on the value of an expression.
- (multiplicity slang) The process of the currently fronting headmate changing; an instance of this.
- (computing, networking) A networking device connecting multiple wires, allowing them to communicate simultaneously, when possible. Compare to the less efficient hub device that solely duplicates network packets to each wire.
- (card games) A variant of crazy eights where one card, such as an ace, reverses the direction of play.
- A long, slender woody plant stem or a flexible, thin rod used as a whip to administer corporal punishment in the United States.
- (slang, metonymic) A Glock pistol equipped with a Glock switch.
- (firearms, slang) Synonym of Glock switch.
verb
- cause to go on or to be engaged or set in operation
- make a shift in or exchange of
- exchange or give (something) in exchange for
- flog with or as if with a flexible rod
- change over, change around, as to a new order or sequence
- lay aside, abandon, or leave for another
- reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action)
- (slang, intransitive) To get angry suddenly; to quickly or unreasonably become enraged.
- To be swung or whisked.
- (ecclesiastical) To shift to another circuit.
- (sports, transitive) To move (the ball or equivalent) from one side of the playing area to the other.
- (intransitive) To take on the opposite role (leader vs. follower) in a partner dance.
- (transitive, in modern times Southern US) To whip or hit with a switch.
- (transitive) To change (something) to the specified state using a switch.
- (intransitive) To change places, tasks, etc.
- To trim.
- To turn from one railway track to another; to transfer by a switch; generally with off, from, etc.
- To swing or whisk.
- (transitive) To exchange.
adj
noun
- the act of changing one thing or position for another
- Corporal punishment by use of a switch (twig or twigs).
- Back-and-forth movement of an animal's tail, etc.
- The movement of a locomotive from one track to another.
- The transference of an investment from one fund to another.
- (computing, networking) The process of transferring data packets from one device to another in a network, or from one network to another.
- Change from one product or service provider to another.
verb
noun
- The act of stuffing something with another thing.
- (US, finance, law) A tax loophole whereby a corporation acquires property that will result in a loss of revenue, purely in order to reduce its tax liability.
- (Internet) The insertion of many copies of a word into a web page in an attempt to increase its search engine ranking.
- The matter used to stuff hollow objects such as pillows and saddles.
- (slang, vulgar) An act of penetrative sexual intercourse.
- (slang) Severe defeat.
- A mixture of oil and tallow used in softening and dressing leather.
- Any of many food items used to stuff another.
- a mixture of seasoned ingredients used to stuff meats and vegetables
- padding put in mattresses and cushions and upholstered furniture
verb
noun
- the act of linking things together
- a mechanical system of rods or springs or pivots that transmits power or motion
- an associative relation
- (genetics) traits that tend to be inherited together as a consequence of an association between their genes; all of the genes of a given chromosome are linked (where one goes they all go)
- A connection or relation between things or ideas.
- A mechanical device that connects things.
- (genetics) The property of genes of being inherited together.
- (software compilation) The act or result of linking: the combination of multiple object files into one executable, library, or object file.
- (linguistics) A set of definitely related languages for which no proto-language can be derived, typically a group of languages within a family that have formed a sprachbund.
- (US, politics, historical) A United States foreign policy, during the 1970s détente in the Cold War, of persuading the Soviet Union to co-operate in restraining revolutions in the Third World in return for nuclear and economic concessions.
noun
- the act or fact of interposing one thing between or among others
- (law) a proceeding that permits a person to enter into a lawsuit already in progress; admission of person not an original party to the suit so that person can protect some right or interest that is allegedly affected by the proceedings
- the act of intervening (as to mediate a dispute, etc.)
- a policy of intervening in the affairs of other countries
- care provided to improve a situation (especially medical procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury)
- (medicine) An action taken or procedure performed; an operation.
- (US, law) A legal motion through which a person or entity who has not been named as a party to a case seeks to have the court order that they be made a party.
- An orchestrated attempt to convince somebody with an addiction or other psychological problem to seek professional help and/or change their behavior.
- The action of intervening; interfering in some course of events.
noun
- the act of contacting one thing with another
- a connection made via the internet to another website
- a conspicuous success
- (physics) a brief event in which two or more bodies come together
- a dose of a narcotic drug
- a murder carried out by an underworld syndicate
- (baseball) when a batter strikes a pitched ball into fair territory and arrives safely on base (without an error or a fielder's choice being made by the defense)
- (Internet) A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server.
- Something very successful, such as a song, film, or video game, that receives widespread recognition and acclaim.
- (baseball) The complete play, when the batter reaches base without the benefit of a walk, error, or fielder’s choice.
- (backgammon) A game won after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than a gammon.
- A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.
- (backgammon) A move that throws one of the opponent's men back to the entering point.
- In the game of Battleship, a correct guess at where one's opponent ship is.
- An attack on a location, person or people.
- (figuratively) A blow; a calamitous or damaging occurrence.
- A collision of a projectile with the target.
- (computing, Internet) A match found by searching a computer system or search engine
- An approximately correct answer in a test set.
- A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything.
- (colloquial) A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.
verb
- reach a destination, either real or abstract
- cause to experience suddenly
- hit against; come into sudden contact with
- hit the intended target or goal
- affect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely
- make a strategic, offensive, assault against an enemy, opponent, or a target
- deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument
- drive something violently into a location
- cause to move by striking
- kill intentionally and with premeditation
- hit with a missile from a weapon
- produce by manipulating keys or strings of musical instruments
- pay unsolicited and usually unwanted sexual attention to
- encounter by chance
- reach a point in time, or a certain state or level
- (backgammon) To take up, or replace by a piece belonging to the opposing player; said of a single unprotected piece on a point.
- (transitive) To affect negatively.
- (transitive, US, slang) To have sex with.
- (figurative, ambitransitive) To affect someone, as if dealing a blow to that person.
- (figuratively) To attack.
- (transitive, slang) To kill a person, usually on the instructions of a third party.
- To guess; to light upon or discover.
- (intransitive, baseball) To come up to bat.
- (intransitive) To meet or reach what was aimed at or desired; to succeed, often by luck.
- (transitive, colloquial) To switch on or switch off (lights).
- (transitive, informal) To reach or achieve.
- (transitive) To activate a button or key by pressing and releasing it.
- (transitive) To administer a blow to, directly or with a weapon or missile.
- (transitive) To come into contact with forcefully and suddenly.
- (transitive, military) To attack, especially amphibiously.
- (transitive, informal) To encounter an obstacle or other difficulty.
- (transitive) To manage to touch (a target) in the right place.
- (transitive, US, slang) To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana.
- (transitive, music, informal) To commence playing.
- (transitive, card games) In blackjack, to deal a card to.
- (transitive, colloquial) To briefly visit.
- (transitive, bodybuilding) To work out.
- (intransitive) To strike against something.
- (transitive, bodybuilding) (of an exercise) to affect, to work a body part.
- (transitive, computing, programming) To use; to connect to.
adj
pron
noun
adj
verb
noun
- The act of merging separate things, or the result thereof.
- (physics) A nuclear reaction in which nuclei combine to form more massive nuclei with the concomitant release of energy.
- (cytology) The process by which two distinct lipid bilayers merge their hydrophobic core, resulting in one interconnected structure.
- (genetics) The result of the hybridation of two genes which originally coded for separate proteins.
- (music) A style of music that blends disparate genres; especially different types of jazz and reggae.
- A style of cooking that combines ingredients and techniques from different countries or cultures
- The act of melting or liquefying something by heating it.
- (fiction) The act of two characters merging into one, typically more powerful, being; or the merged being itself.
- an occurrence that involves the production of a union
- correction of an unstable part of the spine by joining two or more vertebrae; usually done surgically but sometimes done by traction or immobilization
- a nuclear reaction in which nuclei combine to form more massive nuclei with the simultaneous release of energy
- the combining of images from the two eyes to form a single visual percept
- the state of being combined into one body
- the act of fusing (or melting) together
- the merging of adjacent sounds or syllables or words
verb
noun
- the act of putting something somewhere
- a partial payment made at the time of purchase; the balance to be paid later
- a facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping
- a payment given as a guarantee that an obligation will be met
- the natural process of laying down a deposit of something
- the phenomenon of sediment or gravel accumulating
- money deposited in a bank or some similar institution
- money given as security for an article acquired for temporary use
- matter that has been deposited by some natural process
- (law) Bailment of personal property to be kept gratuitously for the bailor (depositor) and without any benefit to the bailee (depositary), e.g. for storage, carriage, repair, etc.
- (geology) Sediment or rock that is not native to its present location or is different from the surrounding material. Sometimes refers to ore or gems.
- A place of deposit; a depository.
- (banking) Money placed in a bank account, as for safekeeping or to earn interest.
- A sum of money given as a security for a borrowed item, which will be given back when the item is returned, e.g. a bottle deposit or can deposit
- Anything left behind on a surface.
- (finance) A sum of money or other asset given as an initial payment, to show good faith, or to reserve something for purchase.
verb
- put into a bank account
- put, fix, force, or implant
- put (something somewhere) firmly
- (transitive) To put money or funds into an account.
- To lay aside; to rid oneself of.
- To lay up or away for safekeeping; to put up; to store.
- To entrust one's assets to the care of another. Sometimes done as collateral.
- (transitive) To lay down; to place; to put.
noun
- the act of putting something somewhere
- the natural process of laying down a deposit of something
- the act of deposing someone; removing a powerful person from a position or office
- (law) a pretrial interrogation of a witness; usually conducted in a lawyer's office
- (chemistry) The production of a thin film of material onto an existing surface.
- (meteorology) The formation of snow or frost directly from water vapor.
- The removal of someone from office.
- (physics) The transformation of a gas into a solid without an intermediate liquid phase (reverse of sublimation)
- (religion) The formal placement of relics in a church or shrine, and the feast day commemorating it.
- (law) The process of taking sworn testimony out of court; the testimony so taken.
- The act of depositing material, especially by a natural process; the resultant deposit.
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- An addition or extra, something that is added to something else.
- (Scots law) An increase of stipend obtained by a parish minister by an action raised in the Court of Teinds against the titular and heritors.
- (music) A compositional technique where the composer lengthens the melody by lengthening its note values.
- (medicine) A surgical procedure to enlarge a body part, as breast augmentation.
- (medicine) The stage of a disease during which symptoms increase or continue.
- The act or process of augmenting.
- (heraldry) A particular mark of honour, granted by the sovereign in consideration of some noble action, or by favour; and either quartered with the family arms, or on an escutcheon or canton.
- the act of augmenting
- the statement of a theme in notes of greater duration (usually twice the length of the original)
- the amount by which something becomes greater
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- The act of moving from one thing to another.
- Development, increase, evolution.
- (mathematics) A sequence obtained by adding or multiplying each term by a constant.
- (music, countable) A chord progression.
- The act of moving forward or proceeding in a course; motion onward.
- (exercise) The process of making an exercise more strenuous by manipulating the details of its performance like loaded weight, range of motion, angle, speed.
- a movement forward
- the act of moving forward (as toward a goal)
- a series with a definite pattern of advance
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- an event in which one thing is substituted for another
- the act of changing the arrangement of a given number of elements
- act of changing the lineal order of objects in a group
- complete change in character or condition
- (mathematics, combinatorics) An ordering of a finite set of distinct elements.
- (music) A transformation of a set's prime form, by applying one or more of certain operations, specifically, transposition, inversion, and retrograde.
- (mathematics) A one-to-one mapping from a finite set to itself.
- One of the ways something exists, or the ways a set of objects can be ordered.
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- an event in which one thing is substituted for another
- a person or thing that takes or can take the place of another
- filling again by supplying what has been used up
- a person who follows next in order
- someone who takes the place of another person
- the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another
- A person or thing that takes the place of another; a substitute.
- The removal of an edge of crystal, by one plane or more.
- The act of replacing something.
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- an event in which one thing is substituted for another
- the act of putting one thing or person in the place of another:
- The act of substituting or the state of being substituted.
- (linguistics) The expansion of the lexicon of a language by native means in correspondence to a foreign term.
- (chemistry, especially organic chemistry) The replacement of an atom, or group of atoms, in a compound, with another.
- A substitute or replacement.
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- an event in which one thing is substituted for another
- (music) playing in a different key from the key intended; moving the pitch of a piece of music upwards or downwards
- the act of reversing the order or place of
- (electricity) a rearrangement of the relative positions of power lines in order to minimize the effects of mutual capacitance and inductance
- (genetics) a kind of mutation in which a chromosomal segment is transferred to a new position on the same or another chromosome
- any abnormal position of the organs of the body
- (mathematics) the transfer of a quantity from one side of an equation to the other along with a change of sign
- (chess) A sequence of moves resulting in a position that may also be reached by another, more common sequence.
- (European Union) An incorporation of the provisions of a European Union directive into a Member State's domestic law.
- (especially mathematics) The act or process of transposing or interchanging.
- (music) A shift of a piece of music to a different musical key by adjusting all the notes of the work equally either up or down in pitch.
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- That which appertains; an appendage to something else; an addition.
- The state or quality of being an appurtenance.
- (law) A subordinate interest in land which benefits a principal estate, which cannot be detached from or held separately to that estate; an appurtenant interest.
- (grammar) A modifier that is appended or prepended to another word to coin a new word that expresses belonging.
- (in the plural) Equipment used for some specific task; gear.
- equipment consisting of miscellaneous articles needed for a particular operation or sport etc.
- a supplementary component that improves capability
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- The combination of several actions into one.
- The act or process of consolidating, making firm, or uniting; the state of being consolidated.
- (medicine) A solidification into a firm dense mass. It is usually applied to induration (swelling or hardening of normally soft tissue) of a normally aerated lung.
- the act of combining into an integral whole
- combining into a solid mass
- something that has consolidated into a compact mass
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- the work of applying something
- a verbal or written request for assistance or employment or admission to a school
- liquid preparation having a soothing or antiseptic or medicinal action when applied to the skin
- the action of putting something into operation
- a program that gives a computer instructions that provide the user with tools to accomplish a task
- a diligent effort
- the act of bringing something to bear; using it for a particular purpose
- (bureaucracy, law) A petition, entreaty, or other request, with the adposition for denoting the subject matter.
- A verbal or written request for assistance or employment or admission to a school, course or similar.
- The substance applied.
- The act of requesting, claiming, or petitioning something.
- (computing theory) The substitution of a specific value for the parameter in the abstraction, in lambda calculus.
- The act of applying as a means; the employment of means to accomplish an end; specific use.
- The act of directing or referring something to a particular case, to discover or illustrate agreement or disagreement, fitness, or correspondence.
- A kind of needlework; appliqué.
- Diligence; close thought or attention.
- (computing) A computer program or the set of software that the end user perceives as a single entity as a tool for a well-defined purpose. (Also called: application program; application software.)
- The act of physically applying or laying on.
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verb
noun
- the work of applying something
- the act of concealing the existence of something by obstructing the view of it
- a natural object that covers or envelops
- the act of protecting something by covering it
- an artifact that covers something else (usually to protect or shelter or conceal it)
- (countable) That which covers or conceals; a cover; something spread or laid over or wrapped about another.
- (topology, of a given open set U) A collection of sets U_i such that their union contains U; such a collection with the additional property that every U_i is open; such a collection with the additional property that every U_i is contained in U.
- (uncountable) Action of the verb to cover.
- (topology) A special kind of map that establishes a relationship between two topological spaces in the sense that, under the action of the map, the one looks locally like several copies of the second: Formally, a continuous map π:E→X between topological spaces such that there exists, for every point x in X, a discrete space D_x and an open neighborhood U of x such that π⁻¹(U)= displaystyle ⨆_(d∈D_x)V_d and π|_(V_d):V_d→U is a homeomorphism for every d∈D_x. See Covering space on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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- something added to another thing but not an essential part of it
- a construction that can be used to extend the meaning of a word or phrase but is not one of the main constituents of a sentence
- a person who is an assistant or subordinate to another
- An appendage; something attached to something else in a subordinate capacity.
- (education) Ellipsis of adjunct professor.
- (music) A key or scale closely related to another as principal; a relative or attendant key.
- (palaeography) A graphic element that modifies another, such as (in Linear B script) a small syllabogram that is attached to a logogram as an abbreviation of an adjective that modifies that logogram (rather than as a phonetic complement that disambiguates the logogram).
- (syntax, X-bar theory) A constituent which is both the daughter and the sister of an X-bar.
- A person associated with another, usually in a subordinate position; a colleague.
- (rhetoric) Symploce.
- (grammar) A phrase within a clause or sentence that is grammatically dispensable but not semantically so, modifying the meaning.
- (brewing) An unmalted grain or grain product that supplements the main mash ingredient.
- (category theory) One of a pair of morphisms which relate to each other through a pair of adjoint functors.
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- Increase by something added; that which is added; augmentation from without.
- (medicine) The invasion, approach, or commencement of a disease; a fit or paroxysm.
- Access; admittance.
- The act of coming to or reaching a throne, an office, or dignity.
- A group of plants of the same species collected at a single location, often held in genebanks.
- A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined.
- (law) The act by which one power becomes party to engagements already in force between other powers.
- (law) A mode of acquiring property, by which the owner of a corporeal substance which receives an addition by growth, or by labor, has a right to the part or thing added, or the improvement (provided the thing is not changed into a different species).
- Such augmentation that adds to the collections of a museum or archive; a thing thus added.
- (Scotland) Complicity, concurrence or assent in some action.
- Agreement.
- agreeing with or consenting to (often unwillingly)
- the act of attaining or gaining access to a new office or right or position (especially the throne)
- something added to what you already have
- (civil law) the right to all of that which your property produces whether by growth or improvement
- a process of increasing by addition (as to a collection or group)
- the right to enter
verb
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- put or add together
- gather in a mass, sum, or whole
- join for a common purpose or in a common action
- add together from different sources
- mix together different elements
- have or possess in combination
- combine so as to form a whole; mix
- (transitive) To have two or more things or properties that function together.
- (card games) In the game of casino, to play a card which will take two or more cards whose aggregate number of pips equals those of the card played.
- (transitive) To bring (two or more things or activities) together; to unite.
- (intransitive) To come together; to unite.
noun
- an occurrence that results in things being united
- harvester that heads and threshes and cleans grain while moving across the field
- a consortium of independent organizations formed to limit competition by controlling the production and distribution of a product or service
- Ellipsis of combine car, a type of railway car that combines passenger and freight functions.
- Especially, a joint enterprise of whatever legal form for a purpose of business or in any way promoting the interests of the participants, sometimes with monopolistic or fraudulent intentions.
- (American football) A test match in which applicants play in the hope of earning a position on a professional football team.
- (art) An artwork falling between painting and sculpture, having objects embedded into a painted surface.
- An industrial conglomeration in a socialist country, particularly in the former Soviet bloc.
- Ellipsis of combine harvester.
verb
- put or add together
- make more intense, stronger, or more marked
- calculate principal and interest
- create by mixing or combining
- combine so as to form a whole; mix
- (intransitive, finance) To increase in value with interest, where the interest is earned on both the principal sum and prior earned interest.
- (intransitive) To come to terms of agreement; to settle by a compromise.
- (transitive) To settle amicably; to adjust by agreement.
- (transitive) To form (a resulting mixture) by combining different elements, ingredients, or parts; to mingle with something else.
- (horse racing, intransitive) Of a horse: to fail to maintain speed.
- (transitive, see usage notes) To worsen a situation.
- (transitive, law) To settle by agreeing on less than the claim, or on different terms than those stipulated.
adj
- composed of more than one part
- composed of many distinct individuals united to form a whole or colony
- consisting of two or more substances or ingredients or elements or parts
- (mathematics) Dealing with numbers of various denominations of quantity, or with processes more complex than the simple process.
- (music) An octave higher than originally (i.e. a compound major second is equivalent to a major ninth).
- Composed of elements; not simple.
noun
- an enclosure of residences and other building (especially in the Orient)
- (chemistry) a substance formed by chemical union of two or more elements or ingredients in definite proportion by weight
- a word (as anthropology, kilocycle, builder) consisting of any of various combinations of words, combining forms, or affixes.
- a whole formed by a union of two or more elements or parts
- (chemistry) A substance formed by chemical bonding of two or more elements in definite proportions by weight.
- (linguistics) A lexeme that consists of more than one stem.
- Anything made by combining several things.
- An enclosure within which workers, prisoners, or soldiers are confined.
- (linguistics) A lexeme that consists of more than one stem or affix, e.g. "bookshop", "high school" or "non-standard".
- Ellipsis of compound exercise.
- (rail transport) A compound locomotive, a steam locomotive with both high-pressure and low-pressure cylinders.
- An enclosure for secure storage.
- (law) A legal procedure whereby a criminal or delinquent avoids prosecution in a court in exchange for his payment to the authorities of a financial penalty or fine.
- (by extension, Philippines) A group of buildings where members of the same extended family live together.
- A group of buildings situated close together, e.g. for a school or block of offices.
adj
- Forming a constituent part of something else.
- Extremely important; essential.
- Having the power or authority to appoint someone to office.
- (biochemistry) Of an enzyme: continuously produced at a constant rate.
- Having the power or authority to constitute, establish or enact something.
- constitutional in the structure of something (especially your physical makeup)