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verb
- To act as a substitute.
- To furnish or equip with.
- To fill up, or keep full.
- To serve instead of; to take the place of.
- To fill temporarily; to serve as substitute for another in, as a vacant place or office; to occupy; to have possession of.
- To provide (something), to make (something) available for use.
- To compensate for, or make up a deficiency of.
adv
noun
adv
verb
verb
- To act as a replacement.
- To make a cover version of (a song that was originally recorded by another artist).
- To defend (mark) a particular player or area.
- To discuss thoroughly; to provide coverage of.
- To set upon all of, so as to completely conceal.
- To be upon all of, so as to completely conceal.
- To provide insurance coverage for.
- To traverse or put behind a certain distance.
- To deal with or include someone or something.
- To be enough money for.
- To invest (oneself with something); to bring upon (oneself).
- To have as an assignment or responsibility.
- To protect using an aimed firearm and the threat of firing; or to protect using continuous, heaving fire at or in the direction of the enemy so as to force the enemy to remain in cover; or to threaten using an aimed firearm.
- To be over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
- To place something over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
- To extend over a given period of time or range, to occupy, to stretch over a given area.
- To copulate with (said of certain male animals such as dogs and horses).
- To protect or control (a piece or square).
noun
- The top sheet of a bed.
- A persona maintained by a spy or undercover operative; cover story.
- The front and back of a book, magazine, CD package, etc.
- A cloth or similar material, often fitted, placed over an item such as a car or sofa or food to protect it from dust, rain, insects, etc. when not being used.
- A collection (or family) of subsets of a given set, whose union contains every element of said original set.
- Area or situation which screens a person or thing from view.
- An envelope complete with stamps and postmarks etc.
- A solid object, including terrain, that provides protection from enemy fire.
- The portion of a slate, tile, or shingle that is hidden by the overlap of the course above.
- An insurance contract; coverage by an insurance contract.
- A setting at a restaurant table or formal dinner.
- A new performance or rerecording of a previously recorded song; a cover version; a cover song.
- The distance between reinforcing steel and the exterior of concrete.
- A fielding position on the off side, between point and mid off, about 30° forward of square; a fielder in this position.
- A cover charge.
- In a steam engine, the lap of a slide valve.
- A lid.
- In commercial law, a buyer’s purchase on the open market of goods similar or identical to the goods contracted for after a seller has breached a contract of sale by failure to deliver the goods contracted for.
adj
noun
- A substitute (usually of a person, position or role).
- A politician or person of influence campaigning for a presidential candidate.
- Any of a range of Unicode codepoints which are used in pairs in UTF-16 to represent characters beyond the Basic Multilingual Plane.
- An ersatz good.
- A deputy for a bishop in granting licences for marriage.
- A person or animal that acts as a substitute for the social or pastoral role of another, such as a surrogate parent.
- A judicial officer of limited jurisdiction, who administers matters of probate and intestate succession and, in some cases, adoptions.
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verb
noun
verb
- To supplant, or take the place of something or someone; to substitute.
- To move something, or someone, especially to forcibly move people from their homeland.
- To put out of place; to disarrange.
- To repress.
- To have a weight equal to that of the water displaced.
- To replace, on account of being superior to or more suitable than that which is being replaced.
noun
- One appointed as the substitute of others, and empowered to act for them, in their name or their behalf; a substitute in office.
- A member of the Chamber of Deputies, formerly called Corps Législatif.
- a member of Dáil Éireann, or the title of a member of Dáil Éireann. (Normally capitalised in both cases).
- a law enforcement officer who works for the county sheriff's office; a deputy sheriff or sheriff's deputy; the entry level rank in such an agency.
- A person employed to install and remove props, brattices, etc. and to clear gas, for the safety of the miners.
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verb
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- The transfer of substances or elements like gas, amino-acids, ions etc. sometimes through a surface like a membrane.
- The fourth through sixth digits of a ten-digit phone number (the first three before the introduction of area codes).
- The loss of a minor piece (typically a bishop or knight) and associated capture of the more advantageous rook.
- A telephone exchange.
- A conversation.
- An act of exchanging or trading.
- The difference between the values of money in different places.
- A place for conducting trading.
- The loss of one piece and associated capture of another.
noun
- A substitution.
- Something added to fill a gap.
- An intermediate result that must be stored temporarily during the course of a sparse matrix computation.
- A temporary replacement for another, especially at a job.
- A musical embellishment (usually percussion) that is added to connect musical phrases.
- A product category that is used to complete a range or variety of a product line.
- Something added to increase the size of something; padding or filler.
- A question or puzzle in which one is expected to fill in a missing part of something.
noun
- A substitute; an alternative; one designated to take the place of another, if necessary, in performing some duty.
- A replacement of equal or greater value or function.
- A proportion derived from another proportion by interchanging the means.
- That which alternates with something else; vicissitude.
- Figures or tinctures that succeed each other by turns.
verb
- To vary by turns.
- To perform by turns, or in succession; to cause to succeed by turns; to interchange regularly.
- To perform an alternation (removal of alternate vertices) on (a polytope or tessellation); to remove vertices (from a face or edge) as part of an alternation.
- To happen, succeed, or act by turns; to follow reciprocally in place or time; followed by with.
adj
- Other; alternative.
- Distributed singly at different heights of the stem, and at equal intervals as respects angular divergence
- Designating the members in a series, which regularly intervene between the members of another series, as the odd or even numbers of the numerals; every other; every second.
- Happening by turns; one following the other in succession of time or place; first one and then the other (repeatedly)
noun
- A substitute or analogue.
- Someone who represents others as a member of a legislative or governing body.
- One who speaks for or acts on behalf of another in a particular (especially official) capacity.
- An heir.
- A member of a particular class.
- Something representing or standing for another; a symbol, an embodiment.
- A company agent who visits potential purchasers; a salesman.
- Something (especially a living organism) regarded as typical of its class; a type.
- Specifically, a member of the United States House of Representatives.
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- Acting in an indirect way.
- Expensive to the extent of being paid through a loan.
- Of an indirect ancestral relationship, as opposed to lineal descendency.
- Parallel, along the same vein, side by side.
- Being aside from the main subject, target, or goal.
- Relating to a collateral in the sense of an obligation or security.
- Corresponding; accompanying, concomitant.
- Having the phloem and xylem adjacent.
- Coming or directed along the side.
noun
- Printed materials or content of electronic media used to enhance sales of products (short form of collateral material).
- A security or guarantee (usually an asset) pledged for the repayment of a loan if one cannot procure enough funds to repay.
- A thinner blood vessel providing an alternate route to blood flow in case the main vessel becomes occluded.
- A branch of a bodily part or system of organs.
verb
- To disguise as something else.
- To set or unset (certain bits, or binary digits, within a value) by means of a bitmask.
- To bewilder; confuse.
- To conceal from view or knowledge; to cover; to hide.
- To conceal or disguise one's autism.
- To prepare tea in a teapot; alternative to brew.
- To disable (an interrupt, etc.) by setting or unsetting the associated bit.
- To cover (the face or something else), in order to conceal the identity or protect against injury; to cover with a mask or visor.
- To conceal; also, to intervene in the line of.
- (brewing) To mix malt with hot water to yield wort.
- To take part as a masker in a masquerade.
- to cover or shield a part of a design or picture in order to prevent reproduction or to safeguard the surface from the colors used when working with an air brush or painting
- To mash.
- To cover or keep in check.
- To wear a mask.
- To be infused or steeped.
noun
- The mesh of a net; a net; net-bag.
- A cover, or partial cover, for the face, used for disguise or protection.
- That which disguises; a pretext or subterfuge.
- A person wearing a mask.
- A pattern of bits used in bitwise operations; bitmask.
- A two-color (black and white) bitmap generated from an image, used to create transparency in the image.
- mesh
- The lower lip of the larva of a dragonfly, modified so as to form a prehensile organ.
- In a permanent fortification, a redoubt which protects the caponiere.
- A festive entertainment of dancing or other diversions, where all wear masks; a masquerade.
- Mash.
- The head of a fox, shown face-on and cut off immediately behind the ears.
- A social phenomenon where autistic people learn, practice, and perform certain behaviors and suppress others in order to appear more neurotypical.
- A flat covering used to block off an unwanted portion of a scene or image.
- A grotesque head or face, used to adorn keystones and other prominent parts, to spout water in fountains, and the like.
- A screen for a battery.
verb
noun
- Substitute.
- A formerly nonexistent character that was at some point mistakenly encoded into a character set standard, which might have since become used opportunistically for some genuine purpose.
- Remnant; the remains of a(n).
- Perceived or listed but not real.
- Abandoned.
- A covert (and deniable) agent.
- Transparent or translucent.
- An unwanted image similar to and overlapping or adjacent to the main one on a television screen, caused by the transmitted image being received both directly and via reflection.
- Of cryptid, supernatural or extraterrestrial nature.
- White or pale.
- A game in which players take turns to add a letter to a possible word, trying not to complete a word.
- A dead person whose identity is stolen by another. See ghosting.
- A nonexistent person invented to obtain some fraudulent benefit.
- An understudy.
- The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death.
- Someone whose identity cannot be established because there are no records of him/her.
- An image of a file or hard disk.
- Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image.
- A false image formed in a telescope, camera, or other optical device by reflection from the surfaces of one or more lenses.
- The faint image that remains after an attempt to remove graffiti.
- An opponent in a racing game that follows a previously recorded route, allowing players to compete against previous best times.
- An unresponsive user on IRC, resulting from the user's client disconnecting without notifying the server.
- A ghostwriter.
- An unphysical state in a gauge theory.
verb
- To copy a file or hard drive image.
- To provide the speaking or singing voice for another actor, who is lip-syncing.
- To forcibly disconnect an IRC user who is using one's reserved nickname.
- To gray out (a visual item) to indicate that it is unavailable.
- To perform an act of ghosting: to break up with someone without warning or explanation; to ignore someone, especially on social media.
- To kill.
- To ghostwrite.
- To imbue with a ghost-like hue or effect.
- To sail seemingly without wind.
- To appear or move without warning, quickly and quietly; to slip.
- To transfer (a prisoner) to another prison without the prior knowledge of other inmates.
verb
- To be tolerated as a substitute for something else, to "do".
- To cause to move or go; to send; to transfer from one person, place, or condition to another.
- To depart, to cease, to come to an end.
- To spend.
- To go from one person to another.
- To put through a sieve.
- To reject; to pass up.
- To happen.
- In turn-based games, to decline to play in one's turn.
- To proceed without hindrance or opposition.
- To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure.
- To utter; to pronounce; to pledge.
- To die.
- To cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance.
- In euchre, to decline to make the trump.
- To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed.
- To put in circulation; to give currency to.
- To live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer.
- To decline something that is offered or available.
- To move or be moved from one place to another.
- To change from one state to another (without the implication of progression).
- To continue.
- To elapse, to be spent.
- To progress from one state to another; to advance.
- To be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance.
- To cause to advance by stages of progress; to carry on with success through an ordeal, examination, or action; specifically, to give legal or official sanction to; to ratify; to enact; to approve as valid and just.
- To move (the ball or puck) to a teammate.
- To kick (the ball) with precision rather than at full force.
- To go by without noticing; to omit attention to; to take no note of; to disregard.
- To eliminate (something) from the body by natural processes.
- To be accepted by others as a member of a race, sex, or other group to which one does not belong or would not have originally appeared to belong; especially to be considered white although one has black ancestry, or a woman although one was assigned male at birth or vice versa.
- To make a lunge or swipe.
- To throw the ball, generally downfield, towards a teammate.
- To decline or not attempt to answer a question.
- To advance through all the steps or stages necessary to become valid or effective; to obtain the formal sanction of (a legislative body).
- To make a judgment on or upon a person or case.
- To achieve a successful outcome from.
- To go past, by, over, or through; to proceed from one side to the other of; to move past.
noun
- A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over, or along anything.
- Success in an examination or similar test.
- Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.
- An intentional walk.
- The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the waiting staff.
- A sexual advance.
- An attempt.
- A run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process.
- A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit or admission
- The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.
- A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.
- A passing of two trains in the same direction on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other overtake it.
- A channel connecting a river or body of water to the sea, for example at the mouth (delta) of a river.
- The act of overtaking; an overtaking manoeuvre.
- The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.
- An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise impracticable barrier such as a mountain range; a passageway; a defile; a ford.
- A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).
- A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
- A thrust; a sally of wit.
- An act of declining to play one's turn in a game, often by saying the word "pass".
verb
- To act as substitute for (another theatrical performer in a certain role, etc).
- To get a two-base hit.
- To serve a second role or have a second purpose.
- To turn sharply, following a winding course.
- To increase by 100%, to become twice as large in size.
- To fold over so as to make two folds.
- To operate as a double agent.
- To be the double of; to exceed by twofold; to contain or be worth twice as much as.
- (often followed by together or up) To join or couple.
- To be capable of performing (upon an additional instrument).
- To play (both one part and another, in the same play, etc).
- To double down.
- To multiply by two.
- (sometimes followed by up) To clench (a fist).
- To make a call that will double certain scoring points if the preceding bid becomes the contract.
- To transmit simultaneously on the same channel as another station, either unintentionally or deliberately, causing interference.
- To multiply the strength or effect of by two.
- To duplicate (a part) either in unison or at the octave above or below it.
- To unite, as ranks or files, so as to form one from each two.
- To repeat exactly; copy.
- To sail around (a headland or other point).
- To go or march at twice the normal speed.
- To cause (a ball) to rebound from a cushion before entering the pocket.
adj
- Folded in two; composed of two layers.
- Having two aspects; ambiguous.
- False, deceitful, or hypocritical.
- Stooping; bent over.
- Of flowers, having more than the normal number of petals.
- Of twice the quantity.
- Of time, twice as fast.
- Made up of two matching or complementary elements.
- Of a family relationship, related on both the maternal and paternal sides of a family.
- Designed for two users.
- Of an instrument, sounding an octave lower.
adv
noun
- The narrow outermost ring on a dartboard.
- Twice the number, amount, size, etc.
- A ghostly apparition of a living person; a doppelgänger.
- A two-base hit.
- A strike in which the object ball is struck so as to make it rebound against the cushion to an opposite pocket.
- Playing the same part on two instruments, alternately.
- A sharp turn, especially a return on one's own tracks.
- Synonym of double-quick (“fast marching pace”)
- A bet on two horses in different races in which any winnings from the first race are placed on the horse in the later race.
- A double-precision floating-point number.
- A former French coin worth one-sixth of a sou.
- A call that increases certain scoring points if the last preceding bid becomes the contract.
- A double feast.
- A redundant item for which an identical item already exists.
- A tile that has the same value (i.e., the same number of pips) on both sides.
- A person who resembles and stands in for another person, often for safety purposes
- Two competitions, usually one league and one cup, won by the same team in a single season.
- A drink with two portions of alcohol.
- A hit on this ring.
- A boat for two scullers.
- The feat of scoring twice in one game.
- The feat of winning two events in a single meet or competition.
- A copper coin worth one-eighth of a penny.
noun
noun
- An imitation.
- A comic who does impressions.
- An entity that mimics another entity, such as a disease that resembles another disease in its signs and symptoms; see the great imitator.
- A mime.
verb
- To imitate, especially in order to ridicule.
- To take on the appearance of another, for protection or camouflage.
adj
noun
- An agent or substitute authorized to act for another person.
- A proximity mine; a mine that explodes when something approaches within a certain distance.
- The authority to act for another, especially when written.
- A measurement of one physical quantity that is used as an indicator of the value of another
- The written appointment of a proctor in suits in the ecclesiastical courts
- An interface for a service, especially for one that is remote, resource-intensive, or otherwise difficult to use directly.
verb
- To serve as a proxy for.
- To function as a server for a client device, but pass on the requests to another server for service.
adj
noun
- A reserve or substitute.
- reinforcements
- A copy of a file or record, stored separately from the original, that can be used to recover the original if it is destroyed or damaged.
- An accumulation of material caused by a (partial) obstruction or (complete) blockage of the flow or movement of the material, or an accumulation of material that causes an overflow due to the flow being greater than the maximum possible flow.
adj
verb
- To put into an opposing position; to reverse.
- To revolve or rotate around a centre.
- To process; to complete work on (something), especially with a view to sending it on in a finished state.
- To turn so as to be facing in the opposite direction.
- To make (a ship, airplane etc.) ready for departure.
- To change one's opinion or attitude (especially when becoming hostile etc.).
noun
noun
noun
- The opposite or reverse.
- Free verbal interchange of thoughts or views; conversation; chat.
- One of a pair of terms that name or describe a relationship from opposite perspectives; converse antonym; relational antonym.
- Of a proposition or theorem of the form: given that "If A is true, then B is true", then "If B is true, then A is true.".
verb
adj
noun
adj
- Acting in a remote and superior manner; aloof.
- Of or relating to the town of Olympia in Elis, Greece; Olympic.
- Of or relating to the ancient Olympic Games held at Olympia; Olympic.
- Of or relating to the modern Olympic Games; Olympic.
- Celestial, heavenly; also, godlike.
- Of or relating to Mount Olympus, the highest mountain in Greece; or (Greek mythology) the Greek gods and goddesses who were believed to live there.
noun
- A sportsperson competing in the ancient Olympic Games.
- A sportsperson competing in the modern Olympic Games.
- In the Platonist theology of Plethon, a god in one group of supercelestial gods, the other group of such gods being the Tartareans or Titans.
- Any of the 12 principal gods and goddesses of the Greek pantheon (Zeus, Hera, Poseidon, Ares, Hermes, Hephaestus, Aphrodite, Athena, Apollo, Artemis, Demeter, and Hades); (specifically) preceded by the: Zeus, the supreme ruler of the Greek deities.
- A person with superior talents or towering achievements.
- An inhabitant of the city of Olympia, the capital of Washington, United States.
verb
noun
- A plant introduced in a place outside its native range but is not persistently naturalized.
- A person (especially a child) who is homeless and without means of support; also, a person excluded from society; an outcast.
- A very thin person.
- Something found, especially if without an owner; something which comes along, as it were, by chance.
- A small flag used as a signal.
- Something (such as clouds or smoke) carried aloft by the wind.
verb
- To act in response.
- To act upon each other; to exercise a reciprocal or a reverse effect, as two or more chemical agents; to act in opposition.
- To post a reaction (icon or emoji indicating how one feels about a posted message).
- To return an impulse or impression; to resist the action of another body by an opposite force
- To cause chemical agents to react; to cause one chemical agent to react with another.
noun
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