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noun
- The act of something happening; occurrence.
- The falling of a point on a line, or a line on a plane.
- The striking of radiation or a projectile upon a surface.
- The manner of falling; bearing or onus, as of a tax that falls unequally.
- The extent or the relative frequency of something happening.
- A measure of the rate of new occurrence of a given medical condition in a population within a specified period of time.
noun
- something that people do or cause to happen
- a legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body
- a subdivision of a play or opera or ballet
- a short performance that is part of a longer program
- a manifestation of insincerity
verb
- perform an action, or work out or perform (an action)
- behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself
- play a role or part
- discharge one's duties
- pretend to have certain qualities or state of mind
- be suitable for theatrical performance
- have an effect or outcome; often the one desired or expected
- be engaged in an activity, often for no particular purpose other than pleasure
- behave unnaturally or affectedly
- perform on a stage or theater
noun
- the act of disturbing something or someone; setting something in motion
- activity that is a malfunction, intrusion, or interruption
- an unhappy and worried mental state
- a disorderly outburst or tumult
- a noisy fight
- (psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness
- electrical or acoustic activity that can disturb communication
verb
- To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
- To embroider with thread.
- To cause to ferment.
- To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
- To shape, form, or improve a material.
- Followed by with. General use, said of either fellow employees or instruments or clients.
- To pull off; to wear, perform, etc. successfully or to advantage.
- Followed by as. Said of one's job title
- To behave in a certain way when handled
- To exhaust, by working.
- Followed by in (or at, etc.) Said of one's workplace (building), or one's department, or one's trade (sphere of business).
- To ferment.
- To set into action.
- Followed by for. Said of a company or individual who employs.
- To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
- To provoke or excite; to influence.
- To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
- To cause to work.
- To effect by gradual degrees;
- To influence.
- To move in an agitated manner.
- To cause (someone) to feel (something); to do unto somebody (something, whether good or bad).
- To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
- To effect by gradual degrees.
- To operate in or through; as, to work the phones.
noun
- The staging of events to appear as real.
- The result of a particular manner of production.
- Sustained effort to overcome obstacles and achieve a result.
- The equipment needed to inject a drug (syringes, needles, swabs etc.)
- Ore before it is dressed.
- A measure of energy expended in moving an object; most commonly, force times distance. No work is done if the object does not move.
- Something produced using the specified material or tool.
- One's employer.
- Something on which effort is expended.
- effort expended on a particular task.
- The place where one is employed.
- A fortification.
- A measure of energy that is usefully extracted from a process.
- A literary, artistic, or intellectual production.
- labour, occupation, job.
verb
- cause to happen or to occur as a consequence
- take something or somebody with oneself somewhere
- cause to come into a particular state or condition
- go or come after and bring or take back
- bring into a different state
- be accompanied by
- advance or set forth in court
- bestow a quality on
- be sold for a certain price
- attract the attention of
- induce or persuade
verb
- cause to happen or to occur as a consequence
- participate in games or sport
- act or have an effect in a specified way or with a specific effect or outcome
- play on an instrument
- play a role or part
- be at play; be engaged in playful activity; amuse oneself in a way characteristic of children
- replay (as a melody)
- perform music on (a musical instrument)
- pretend to have certain qualities or state of mind
- move or seem to move quickly, lightly, or irregularly
- bet or wager (money)
- engage in recreational activities rather than work; occupy oneself in a diversion
- pretend to be somebody in the framework of a game or playful activity
- emit recorded sound
- perform on a certain location
- put (a card or piece) into play during a game, or act strategically as if in a card game
- engage in an activity as if it were a game rather than take it seriously
- behave in a certain way
- cause to emit recorded audio or video
- manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination
- use to one's advantage
- consider not very seriously
- be received or accepted or interpreted in a specific way
- behave carelessly or indifferently
- cause to move or operate freely within a bounded space
- perform on a stage or theater
- be performed or presented for public viewing
- discharge or direct or be discharged or directed as if in a continuous stream
- make bets
- stake on the outcome of an issue
- shoot or hit in a particular manner
- use or move
- employ in a game or in a specific position
- contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle
- exhaust by allowing to pull on the line
noun
- a dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage
- a theatrical performance of a drama
- a preset plan of action in team sports
- a deliberate coordinated movement requiring dexterity and skill
- a state in which action is feasible
- utilization or exercise
- an attempt to get something
- activity by children that is guided more by imagination than by fixed rules
- (in games or plays or other performances) the time during which play proceeds
- the removal of constraints
- a weak and tremulous light
- verbal wit or mockery (often at another's expense but not to be taken seriously)
- movement or space for movement
- gay or light-hearted recreational activity for diversion or amusement
- (game) the activity of doing something in an agreed succession
- the act of playing for stakes in the hope of winning (including the payment of a price for a chance to win a prize)
- the act using a sword (or other weapon) vigorously and skillfully
noun
- the act of damaging something or someone
- any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.; the condition of an injury
- psychological suffering
- feelings of mental or physical pain
- a damage or loss
adj
- suffering from physical injury especially that suffered in battle
- damaged; used of inanimate objects or their value
verb
verb
- cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner
- have or possess, either in a concrete or an abstract sense
- have as a feature
- go through (mental or physical states or experiences)
- have ownership or possession of
- cause to move; cause to be in a certain position or condition
- serve oneself to, or consume regularly
- have a personal or business relationship with someone
- organize or be responsible for
- have left
- be confronted with
- undergo
- suffer from; be ill with
- receive willingly something given or offered
- get something; come into possession of
- undergo (as of injuries and illnesses)
- achieve a point or goal
- cause to be born
- have sex with; archaic use
noun
verb
- cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner
- give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally
- engage in
- give certain properties to something
- make or cause to be or to become
- create or manufacture a man-made product
- make, formulate, or derive in the mind
- compel or make somebody or something to act in a certain way
- create by artistic means
- earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages
- create or design, often in a certain way
- to compose or represent
- reach a goal
- be or be capable of being changed or made into
- make by shaping or bringing together constituents
- perform, produce, or carry out
- make by combining materials and parts
- change from one form into another
- act in a certain way so as to acquire
- charge with a function; charge to be
- achieve a point or goal
- reach a destination, either real or abstract
- institute, enact, or establish
- carry out or commit
- form by assembling individuals or constituents
- organize or be responsible for
- put in order or neaten
- head into a specified direction
- have a bowel movement
- undergo fabrication or creation
- be suitable for
- add up to
- amount to
- constitute the essence of
- appear to begin an activity
- proceed along a path
- reach in time
- gather and light the materials for
- prepare for eating by applying heat
- induce to have sex
- assure the success of
- represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like
- consider as being
- calculate as being
- cause to be enjoyable or pleasurable
- favor the development of
- develop into
- behave in a certain manner
- eliminate urine
noun
verb
- cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner
- come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
- enter or assume a certain state or condition
- cause to move; cause to be in a certain position or condition
- receive a specified treatment (abstract)
- reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress
- go or come after and bring or take back
- go through (mental or physical states or experiences)
- take vengeance on or get even
- achieve a point or goal
- succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase
- come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes)
- be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness
- communicate with a place or person; establish communication with, as if by telephone
- give certain properties to something
- move into a desired direction of discourse
- grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of
- attract and fix
- reach with a blow or hit in a particular spot
- reach by calculation
- acquire as a result of some effort or action
- purchase
- perceive by hearing
- suffer from the receipt of
- receive as a retribution or punishment
- leave immediately; used usually in the imperative form
- reach and board
- irritate
- evoke an emotional response
- apprehend and reproduce accurately
- earn or achieve a base by being walked by the pitcher
- overcome or destroy
- be a mystery or bewildering to
- take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
- undergo (as of injuries and illnesses)
- make (offspring) by reproduction
noun
verb
- cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner
- give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally
noun
- events that provide the generative force that is the origin of something
- a justification for something existing or happening
- a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end
- any entity that produces an effect or is responsible for events or results
- a comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy
verb
- cause to undertake a certain action
- take somebody somewhere
- produce as a result or residue
- tend to or result in
- travel in front of; go in advance of others
- stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point
- be in charge of
- be ahead of others; be the first
- be conducive to
- lead, as in the performance of a composition
- lead, extend, or afford access
- move ahead (of others) in time or space
- cause something to pass or lead somewhere
- preside over
noun
- an advantage held by a competitor in a race
- evidence pointing to a possible solution
- a position of being the initiator of something and an example that others will follow (especially in the phrase `take the lead')
- the angle between the direction a gun is aimed and the position of a moving target (correcting for the flight time of the missile)
- the introductory section of a story
- (sports) the score by which a team or individual is winning
- an actor who plays a principal role
- (baseball) the position taken by a base runner preparing to advance to the next base
- an indication of potential opportunity
- a news story of major importance
- the timing of ignition relative to the position of the piston in an internal-combustion engine
- restraint consisting of a rope (or light chain) used to restrain an animal
- thin strip of metal used to separate lines of type in printing
- a jumper that consists of a short piece of wire
- the playing of a card to start a trick in bridge
noun
noun
- The act of affecting or acting upon.
- The state of being affected, especially: a change in, or alteration of, the emotional state of a person or other animal, caused by a subjective affect (a subjective feeling or emotion), which arises in response to a stimulus which may result from either thought or perception.
- An attribute; a quality or property; a condition.
- An emotion; a feeling or natural impulse acting upon and swaying the mind.
- A feeling of love or strong attachment.
verb
- cause to happen, occur or exist
- bring forth or yield
- create or manufacture a man-made product
- bring out for display
- cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques
- bring onto the market or release
- come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes)
noun
verb
- To cause, to bring (a non-object) about by an action, behavior, or event, to occasion.
- To bring into existence; (sometimes in particular:)
- In theatre, to be the first performer of a role; to originate a character.
- To confer or invest with a rank or title of nobility, to appoint, ordain or constitute.
- To make or produce from other (e.g. raw, unrefined or scattered) materials or combinable elements or ideas; to design or invest with a new form, shape, function, etc.
- To make a fuss, complain; to shout.
- To be or do something creative, imaginative, originative.
- To bring into existence out of nothing, without the prior existence of the materials or elements used.
verb
- to cause or order to be taken, directed, or transmitted to another place
- cause to go somewhere
- cause to be directed or transmitted to another place
- transport commercially
- assign to a station
- transfer
- cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution
- broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television
noun
- An occurrence or state of affairs which causes some event or reaction; a motive or reason.
- Something which causes something else; a cause.
- Need; requirement, necessity.
- The time when something happens.
- A reason or excuse; a motive; a persuasion.
- A special event or function.
- A particular happening; an instance or time when something occurred.
- A favorable opportunity; a convenient or timely chance.
verb
verb
- To be going on, to be occurring; Only used in what gives?
- To lead (onto or into).
- To carry out (a physical interaction) with (something).
- To cause (someone) to have; produce in (someone); effectuate.
- To communicate or announce (advice, tidings, etc.); to pronounce or utter (an opinion, a judgment, a shout, etc.).
- To grant power, permission, destiny, etc. (especially to a person); to allot; to allow.
- To allow or admit by way of supposition; to concede.
- To cause (a sensation or feeling) to exist in.
- To cause (a disease or condition) in, or to transmit (a disease or condition) to.
- To devote or apply (oneself).
- To cause; to make; used with the infinitive.
- To pledge.
- To exhibit as a product or result; to produce; to yield.
- To exceed expectations.
- To pass (something) into (someone's hand, etc.).
- To estimate or predict (a duration or probability) for (something).
- To provide (something) to (someone), to allow or afford.
- To make a present or gift of.
- To transfer one's possession or holding of (something) to (someone).
- To attribute; to assign; to adjudge.
- To yield or collapse under pressure or force.
- To provide, as, a service or a broadcast.
noun
verb
- cause to happen or be responsible for
- be the cause or source of
- end resistance, as under pressure or force
- give or supply
- give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another
- give in, as to influence or pressure
- move in order to make room for someone for something
- be willing to concede
- be fatally overwhelmed
- bring in
- be flexible under stress of physical force
- cease opposition; stop fighting
- consent reluctantly
noun
noun
- The act of interfering with something, or something that interferes.
- The illegal obstruction of an opponent in some ball games.
- An effect caused by the superposition of two systems of waves.
- In United States patent law, an inter partes proceeding to determine the priority issues of multiple patent applications; a priority contest.
- The interruption of the line between an attacked piece and its defender by sacrificially interposing a piece.
- The situation where a person who knows two languages inappropriately transfers lexical items or structures from one to the other.
- A distortion on a broadcast signal due to atmospheric or other effects.
verb
verb
- give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally
- engage in
- carry out or perform an action
- get (something) done
- proceed or get along
- carry out or practice; as of jobs and professions
- be sufficient; be adequate, either in quality or quantity
- create or design, often in a certain way
- behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself
- spend time in prison or in a labor camp
- carry on or function
- arrange attractively
- travel or traverse (a distance)
noun
noun
noun
- An event or happening; something that happens
- A published collection of papers presented at an academic conference, or representing the acts of a learned society.
- A measure or step taken in a course of business; a transaction
- The act of one who proceeds, or who prosecutes a design or transaction
- Progress or movement from one thing to another.
- Any legal action, especially one that is not a lawsuit.
noun
- An event that initiates others, or incites a response.
- An electronic transducer allowing a drum, cymbal, etc. to control an electronic drum unit or similar device.
- An event, experience or other stimulus that initiates a traumatic memory or a strong reaction in a person.
- An SQL procedure that may be initiated when a record is inserted, updated or deleted; typically used to maintain referential integrity.
- A concept or image that upsets somebody by sparking a negative emotional response.
- A similar device used to activate any mechanism.
- A pulse in an electronic circuit that initiates some component.
- A text string that, when received by a player, will cause the player to execute a certain command.
- A device that manually lengthens (or sometimes shortens) the slide or tubing of a brass instrument, allowing the pitch range to be altered while playing.
- A finger-operated lever used to fire a gun.
verb
verb
- To cause, to result in.
- To let be or do without interference.
- To cause or allow (something) to remain as available; to refrain from taking (something) away; to stop short of consuming or otherwise depleting (something) entirely.
- To transfer possession of after death.
- To give leave to; allow; permit; let; grant.
- To produce leaves or foliage.
- To put; to place; to deposit; to deliver, with a sense of withdrawing oneself.
- To give (something) to someone; to deliver (something) to a repository; to deposit.
- To depart; to go away from a certain place or state.
- To transfer responsibility or attention of (something) (to someone); to stop being concerned with.
- To depart from; to end one's connection or affiliation with.
- To end one's membership in (a group); to terminate one's affiliation with (an organization); to stop participating in (a project).
noun
- The action of the batsman not attempting to play at the ball.
- The arrangement of balls in play that remains after a shot is made (which determines whether the next shooter — who may be either the same player, or an opponent — has good options, or only poor ones).
- Permission to be absent; time away from one's work.
- Permission.
verb
- To cause (someone) to come to a particular place, condition, or course of action; to attract (a person).
- To cause (something); to bring (something) about as a consequence.
- To take (air, smoke etc.) into the lungs; to inhale.
- To provoke or attract (a particular response or reaction).
- To hit (the ball) with the toe of the club so that it is deflected toward the left.
- To take (water) from a well or other source.
- To strike (the cue ball) below the center so as to give it a backward rotation which causes it to take a backward direction on striking another ball.
- To receive (a salary); to withdraw (money) from a bank etc.
- To elicit information from (someone); to induce (a person) to speak on some subject. (Now frequently in passive.)
- To pull out, unsheathe (a sword, firearm etc.).
- To make (wire) by pulling it through an aperture; to stretch (metal) into a wire.
- To move steadily in a particular direction or into a specific position.
- To extract (a tooth).
- To take or be dealt a playing card from the deck. See also draw out.
- To pull (something) in a particular manner or direction.
- To call forth (something) from a person, to elicit.
- To take or be dealt (a card) from the deck; to have (a particular hand) as a result of this.
- To make a shot that lands gently in the house (the circular target) without knocking out other stones.
- To attract (something) by means of a physical force, especially magnetism or gravity; (figurative) to act as an inducement or enticement.
- To come to, towards (a particular moment in time); to approach (a time).
- To produce (a shape, figure, picture etc.) with pencil, crayon, chalk, or other implement.
- To conduct (a lottery); to select (the numbers) for a lottery; to win (a prize) in a lottery.
- To depict (something) linguistically; to portray in words.
- To produce a visual representation of (a person or thing) by lines and marks with pencil, pen, paints etc.
- To drag (a person, thing, or part of the body), especially along the ground.
- To move (a part of one's body) in a particular direction.
- To stretch or elongate.
- To deduce or infer (a conclusion); to make (a deduction).
- To draw up, compose (a document).
- To have a draught; to allow air to be passed through in order to allow for combustion.
- To induce (the mind, eyes, attention etc.) to be directed at or focused on something.
- To become contracted; to shrink.
- To pull (a curtain, blinds etc.) open or closed.
- To assume a specific position or attitude.
- To require (a depth of water) for floating.
- To pull back (the string of a bow) in preparation for shooting.
- To pull (one's face, features) out of shape, from emotion etc.
- Of a sail, to fill with wind.
- To select (an item) at random to decide which of a group of people will receive or undergo something; to select (a person) by this process.
- To disembowel (someone); to remove the viscera from (an animal), especially before cooking.
- To end a game in a draw (with neither side winning).
- To steep; to leave (tea) temporarily in water to allow the flavour to increase.
- To run (a bath).
- To produce an image of something by artistic means; to make drawings.
- To pull (a belt or other item) so that it tightens or wraps around something more closely.
- To take (something) from a particular source, especially of information; to derive.
- To pull (a plough, vehicle etc.); to cause (something) to move forwards by pulling it.
- To extract (juice, fluids etc.) from something by pressure, osmosis or similar.
- To play (a short-length ball directed at the leg stump) with an inclined bat so as to deflect the ball between the legs and the wicket.
- To consume (power).
noun
- A dry stream bed that drains surface water only during periods of heavy rain or flooding.
- The act of drawing.
- The act of pulling back the strings in preparation of firing.
- Something that attracts e.g. a crowd.
- Cannabis.
- The spin or twist imparted to a ball etc. by a drawing stroke.
- The procedure by which the result of a lottery is determined.
- A shot that is intended to land gently in the house (the circular target) without knocking out other stones; cf. takeout.
- A bag of cannabis.
- Draft in the sense of the flow through a flue of gasses (smoke) resulting from a combustion process, possibly adjustable with a damper.
- The result of a two-innings match in which at least one side did not complete all their innings before time ran out (as distinguished from a tie).
- A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the left. See hook, slice, fade.
- In a commission-based job, an advance on future (potential) commissions given to an employee by the employer.
- A situation in which one or more players has four cards of the same suit or four out of five necessary cards for a straight and requires a further card to make their flush or straight.
- The result of a contest that neither side has won; a tie.
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