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noun
- formal and explicit approval
- a writ from a court commanding police to perform specified acts
- a type of security issued by a corporation (usually together with a bond or preferred stock) that gives the holder the right to purchase a certain amount of common stock at a stated price
- a written assurance that some product or service will be provided or will meet certain specifications
verb
noun
- the act of providing approval and support
- customers collectively
- a communication that indicates lack of respect by patronizing the recipient
- (politics) granting favors or giving contracts or making appointments to office in return for political support
- the business given to a commercial establishment by its customers
verb
noun
- the act of providing approval and support
- an accumulation caused by clogging or a stoppage
- someone who takes the place of another (as when things get dangerous or difficult)
- a musical part (vocal or instrumental) that supports or provides background for other musical parts
- (computer science) a copy of a file or directory on a separate storage device
noun
- The act of approving a bill etc.
- The act of passing a ball etc. to another player.
- A form of juggling where several people pass props between each other, usually clubs or rings.
- The ability of a person to be regarded as a member of an identity group or category different from their own.
- The fact of going past; a movement from one place to another or a change from one state to another.
- Death, dying; the end of something.
adj
noun
- The official approval of a bill or act by a parliament.
- An incident or episode.
- A gambling game for two players using three dice, in which the object is to throw a double over ten.
- A movement in classical dressage, in which the horse performs a very collected, energetic, and elevated trot that has a longer period of suspension between each foot fall than a working trot.
- A fee paid for passing or for being conveyed between places.
- The act of passing; movement across or through.
- Part of a path or journey.
- A paragraph or section of text or music with particular meaning.
- A passageway or corridor.
- The right to pass from one place to another.
- Serial passage.
- A strait or other narrow waterway.
- The advance of time.
- The vagina.
- The use of tight brushwork to link objects in separate spatial plains. Commonly seen in Cubist works.
- An underground cavity, formed by water or falling rocks, which is much longer than it is wide.
adj
verb
noun
- the act of accepting with approval; favorable reception
- the mental attitude that something is believable and should be accepted as true
- the state of being acceptable and accepted
- (contract law) words signifying consent to the terms of an offer (thereby creating a contract)
- a time draft drawn on and accepted by a bank
- a disposition to tolerate or accept people or situations
- the act of taking something that is offered
noun
- the act of accepting with approval; favorable reception
- a legal proceeding that creates a parent-child relation between persons not related by blood; the adopted child is entitled to all privileges belonging to a natural child of the adoptive parents (including the right to inherit)
- the appropriation (of ideas or words etc) from another source
noun
- the act of allowing
- an amount allowed or granted (as during a given period)
- a sum granted as reimbursement for expenses
- an amount added or deducted on the basis of qualifying circumstances
- a permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits
- a reserve fund created by a charge against profits in order to provide for changes in the value of a company's assets
verb
noun
- An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved.
- A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).
- An attempt, a try.
- Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance.
- The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above thirty-one.
- An act; the working or operation.
- A period of activity.
- Synonym: green light
- A strategic board game, originally from China and today also popular in Japan and Korea, in which two players (black and white) attempt to control the largest area of the board with their counters.
- Synonyms: attempt, bash, shot, stab, try
- The act of going.
adj
verb
- To move through space (especially to or through a place). (May be used of tangible things like people or cars, or intangible things like moods or information.)
- To change (from one value to another) in the meaning of wend.
- To elapse, to pass; to slip away. (Compare go by.)
- To be spent or used up.
- To belong (somewhere).
- To (begin to) date or have sex with (a particular race).
- To make the (specified) sound.
- To fit.
- To urinate or defecate.
- To tend (toward a result).
- To be lost.
- To have (final) authority; to be authoritative.
- I woke up just before the clock went.
- To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.
- Let's go halves on this.
- Synonyms: crumble, collapse, disintegrate, give way
- To continuously or habitually be in a state.
- I went at him with a knife.
- To be in general; to be usually; often in comparison to others of the same group.
- To enjoy. (Compare go for.)
- To attend.
- To be sold.
- To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.
- Synonyms: become, turn, change into
- To move or travel in order to do something, or to do something while moving.
- To proceed (often in a specified manner, indicating the perceived quality of an event or state).
- To apply oneself; to undertake; to have as one's goal or intention. (Compare be going to.)
- To navigate (to a file or folder on a computer, a site on the internet, a memory, etc).
- To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.
- To sound; to make a noise.
- To leave; to move away.
- To extend (from one point in time or space to another).
- To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
- To come to (a certain condition or state).
- To start; to begin (an action or process).
- To work (through or over), especially mentally.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:urinate, see also Thesaurus:defecate
- To attack.
- To say (something, aloud or to oneself). (Often used in present tense.)
- To date.
- Yesterday was the second-wettest day on record; you have to go all the way back to 1896 to find a day when more rain fell.
- Synonyms: function, work, operate
- To break down or decay.
- To be accepted.
- We've only gone twenty miles today.
- To be valid.
- To have a certain record.
- To take a turn, especially in a game.
- To make an effort, to subject oneself (to something).
- To be out.
- To resort (to).
- To move (a particular distance, or in a particular fashion).
- To yield or weigh.
- Those babies go five tons apiece.
- To be discarded or disposed of.
- To follow or proceed according to (a course or path).
- To lead (to a place); to give access to.
- To be expressed or composed (a certain way).
- Anything goes around here.
- Why don’t you go with us?
- Let's go this way for a while.
- To end or disappear. (Compare go away.)
- To fight or attack.
- How long can you go without water?
- To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay.
- To proceed (especially to do something foolish).
- To collapse or give way, to break apart.
- Expressing encouragement or approval.
- To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.)
- To move or travel through time (either literally—in a fictional or hypothetical situation in which time travel is possible—or in one's mind or knowledge of the historical record). (See also go back.)
- To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.
- To die.
- To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).
- To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.
- To travel or pass along.
- To be compatible, especially of colors or food and drink.
noun
- a formal expression by a meeting; agreed to by a vote
- a statement that is emphatic and explicit (spoken or written)
- (law) unsworn statement that can be admitted in evidence in a legal transaction
- a statement of taxable goods or of dutiable properties
- (contract bridge) the highest bid becomes the contract setting the number of tricks that the bidder must make
- a formal public statement
noun
- a formal expression by a meeting; agreed to by a vote
- the ability of a microscope or telescope to measure the angular separation of images that are close together
- the trait of being resolute
- finding a solution to a problem
- something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making
- analysis into clear-cut components
- (computer science) the number of pixels per square inch on a computer-generated display; the greater the resolution, the better the picture
- the subsidence of swelling or other signs of inflammation (especially in a lung)
- (music) a dissonant chord is followed by a consonant chord
- a statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem
- a decision to do something or to behave in a certain manner
noun
- A solemn or formal observance; proceeding according to due form; the formality which is necessary to render a thing done valid.
- A feast day of the highest rank celebrating a mystery of faith such as the Trinity, an event in the life of Jesus, the Virgin Mary, or another important saint.
- An instance or example of solemn behavior; a rite or ceremony performed with reverence.
- The quality of being deeply serious and sober or solemn.
noun
- An act of complying.
- The tendency of conforming with or agreeing to the wishes of others.
- A measure of the extension or displacement of a loaded structure; its flexibility
- The state of being compliant.
- The department of a business that ensures all government regulations are complied with.
- The accuracy with which a patient follows an agreed treatment plan
adj
- Approved by authority; authorized.
- Discharging an office or function.
- Relating to an office; especially, to a subordinate executive officer or attendant.
- True, real, beyond doubt.
- Of or pertaining to an office or public trust.
- Derived from the proper office or officer, or from the proper authority; made or communicated by virtue of authority
- Dubious but recognized by authorities as truth and/or canon.
- Listed in a national pharmacopeia.
- Relating to an ecclesiastical judge appointed by a bishop, chapter, archdeacon, etc., with charge of the spiritual jurisdiction.
- Sanctioned by the pharmacopoeia; appointed to be used in medicine; officinal.
noun
adj
- approved
- amphibious
- avancé (fast)
- Asian
- asked
- Australian
- arterial
- alto
- auxiliary
- adjusted
- asymmetric
- accepted
- astragal
- anterior
- American
- arctic
- atomic
- Absolute
- absent
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verb
noun
- apprentice
- absorbance; absorbancy
- accusative case
- amphibian
- attack
- August
- author
- automobile
- application
- Amos, the book of
- adjutant
- accumulator
- acre; acres
- Angstrom
- ana; anna
- April
- anode
- answer
- artificer
- air branch
- atomic weight
- associate; association
- academy; academician
- age; aged
- airman
- assault, as on a badge
- air
- administration
- admiral
- alfa
- amateur
- aqua
- annus (a year)
- Artillery
- amplitude
- absolute temperature
- address
- adult
- acid
- aircraft; airplane
- article
- Atlantic
- arctic
- army
- accommodation
- America; Americanization
- ambassador
- alto
prep
verb
name
adj
- All right, acceptable, permitted.
- In good health or a good emotional state.
- Satisfactory, reasonably good; not exceptional.
- Satisfied (with); willing to accept a state of affairs.
noun
intj
- Used to indicate acknowledgement or acceptance.
- Used to dismiss a dialog box or confirm a prompt.
- Used to introduce a sentence in order to draw attention to the importance of what is being said.
- Used in turn-taking, serving as a request to the speaker to grant the turn to the interrupter.
adv
verb
- approve and express assent, responsibility, or obligation
- mark with one's signature; write one's name (on)
- be engaged by a written agreement
- engage by written agreement
- communicate silently and non-verbally by signals or signs
- place signs, as along a road
- communicate in sign language
- make the sign of the cross over someone in order to call on God for protection; consecrate
adj
noun
- a perceptible indication of something not immediately apparent (as a visible clue that something has happened)
- a public display of a message
- any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message
- structure displaying a board on which advertisements can be posted
- (astrology) one of 12 equal areas into which the zodiac is divided
- (medicine) any objective evidence of the presence of a disorder or disease
- having an indicated pole (as the distinction between positive and negative electric charges)
- an event that is experienced as indicating important things to come
- a gesture that is part of a sign language
- a fundamental linguistic unit linking a signifier to that which is signified
- a character indicating a relation between quantities
verb
- To yield assent to; to approve.
- To make a stipulation by way of settling differences or determining a price; to exchange promises; to come to terms or to a common resolve; to promise.
- To consent to a contract or to an element of a contract.
- To be in harmony about an opinion, statement, or action; to have a consistent idea between two or more people.
- To suit or be adapted in its effects; to do well.
- To give assent; to accede
- To correspond to (another word) in a grammatical category, such as gender, number, case, or person.
- To resemble; to coincide; to correspond.
verb
noun
- An order by the League of Nations to a member nation to establish a government responsible for a conquered territory, as the colonies of Germany after World War I.
- A period during which a government is in power.
- Such a territory.
- An official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept; an authorization.
- The order or authority to do something, as granted to a politician by the electorate.
noun
- The act or practice of admitting.
- The cost or fee associated with attendance or entry.
- The granting of an argument or position not fully proved; the act of acknowledging something asserted; acknowledgement; concession.
- Permission to enter, or the entrance itself; admittance; entrance; access
- A fact, point, or statement admitted; as, admission made out of court are received in evidence
- Declaration of the bishop that he approves of the presentee as a fit person to serve the cure of the church to which he is presented.
- Acquiescence or concurrence in a statement made by another, and distinguishable from a confession in that an admission presupposes prior inquiry by another, but a confession may be made without such inquiry.
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