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verb
- To compensate (for).
- To constitute the components of a whole.
- To draw near to, approach to.
- To apply cosmetics.
- To make peace, to settle a dispute.
- To resolve or settle an argument, dispute, conflict, or fight (e.g., with someone).
- To make social or romantic advances to; to pay court to.
- To invent, to imagine, to concoct
- To constitute, to compose.
- To prepare (someone) for a theatrical performance by means of costume, cosmetics, etc.
- To put together (a substance, material, garment, medicine, etc.) into a specific form; to assemble.
- To compensate for (a deficiency, defect, etc.); to supply (something missing).
- To invent or fabricate (a story, claim, etc.).
- To apply cosmetics or makeup to (a face, facial feature).
- To compile or draw up (a list, document, etc.).
verb
- make a compensation for
- give money, usually in exchange for goods or services
- convey, as of a compliment, regards, attention, etc.; bestow
- cancel or discharge a debt
- bring in
- do or give something to somebody in return
- dedicate
- be worth it
- render
- bear (a cost or penalty), in recompense for some action
- discharge or settle
noun
noun
prep
- In exchange for.
- In contrast or comparison with.
- In a contrary direction to.
- In competition with, versus.
- In front of; before (a background).
- Close to, alongside.
- In opposition to.
- In physical opposition to; in collision with.
- As protection from.
- Contrary to; in conflict with.
- In anticipation of; in preparation for (a particular time, event etc.).
- To be paid now in contrast to the following amount to be paid later under specified circumstances, usually that a movie is made or has started filming.
- As counterbalance to.
- In physical contact with, so as to abut or be supported by.
- Of betting odds, denoting a worse-than-even chance.
- As a charge on.
verb
- To obtain meals, or meals and lodgings, statedly for compensation
- To step or climb onto or otherwise enter a ship, aircraft, train or other conveyance.
- To capture an enemy ship by going alongside and grappling her, then invading her with a boarding party
- To receive meals and lodging in exchange for money.
- To cover with boards or boarding.
- To provide someone with meals and lodging, usually in exchange for money.
- Antonyms: alight, disembark
- To hit (someone) with a wooden board.
- To write something on a board, especially a blackboard or whiteboard.
noun
- A rebound.
- The wall that surrounds an ice hockey rink.
- A container for holding pre-dealt cards that is used to allow multiple sets of players to play the same cards.
- Paper made thick and stiff like a board, for book covers, etc.; pasteboard.
- The distance a sailing vessel runs between tacks when working to windward.
- A relatively long, wide and thin piece of any material, usually wood or similar, often for use in construction or furniture-making.
- A device (e.g., switchboard) containing electrical switches and other controls and designed to control lights, sound, telephone connections, etc.
- A committee that manages the business of an organization, e.g., a board of directors.
- Regular meals or the amount paid for them in a place of lodging.
- The side of a ship.
- A level or stage having a particular layout.
- A flat surface with markings for playing a board game.
verb
- To receive or accept (something) as payment or compensation.
- To accept (zero or more arguments).
- To seize or capture.
- To remove.
- To go.
- To become; to be affected in a specified way.
- To obtain money from, especially by swindling.
- To catch the ball; especially as a wicket-keeper and after the batsman has missed or edged it.
- To receive or accept (something) (especially something given or bestowed, awarded, etc).
- To proceed to fill.
- To participate in.
- To let in (water).
- To move into.
- To catch or get possession of (fish or game).
- To assume (a form).
- To go into, through, or along.
- To apply oneself to the study of.
- To deal with.
- To begin to grow after being grafted or planted; to (literally or figuratively) take root, take hold.
- To capture or win (a piece or trick) in a game.
- To have sex with.
- To accept or be given (rightly or wrongly); assume (especially as if by right).
- To obtain for use by payment or lease.
- To experience or feel.
- To carry or lead (something or someone).
- To suffer; to endure (a hardship or damage).
- An intensifier.
- To require.
- To fill, to use up (time or space).
- To avail oneself of.
- To escort or conduct (a person).
- To catch or contract (an illness, etc).
- To receive into some relationship.
- To assume or suppose; to reckon; to regard or consider.
- To catch; to engage.
- To grasp or grip.
- To transport or carry; to convey to another place.
- To submit to; to endure (without ill humor, resentment, or physical failure).
- To exact.
- To receive or acquire (property) by law (e.g. as an heir).
- To remove or end by death; to kill.
- To captivate or charm; to gain or secure the interest or affection of.
- To believe, to accept the statements of.
- To cause to change to a specified state or condition.
- To lead (to a place); to serve as a means of reaching.
- To subtract.
- To bind oneself by.
- To undergo; to put oneself into, to be subjected to.
- To partake of (food or drink); to consume.
- To perform (a role).
- To make (a photograph, film, or other reproduction of something).
- To assume and undertake the duties of (a job, an office, etc).
- To write down; to get in, or as if in, writing.
- To come upon or catch (in a particular state or situation).
- To appropriate or transfer into one's own possession, sometimes by physically carrying off.
- To accept and follow (advice, etc).
- To use as a means of transportation.
- To admit (a penis or the penis of) into one’s bodily cavity.
- To obtain or receive regularly by (paid) subscription.
- To conclude or form (a decision or an opinion) in the mind.
- To select or choose; to pick.
- To derive (as a title); to obtain from a source.
- To practice; perform; execute; carry out; do.
- To decline to swing at (a pitched ball); to refrain from hitting at, and allow to pass.
- To get or accept (something) into one's possession.
- To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
- To draw, derive, or deduce (a meaning from something).
- To ascertain or determine by measurement, examination or inquiry.
- To receive (medicine) into one's body, e.g. by inhalation or swallowing; to ingest.
- To have the intended effect.
- To regard in a specified way.
- To absorb or be impregnated by (dye, ink, etc); to be susceptible to being treated by (polish, etc).
- To adopt (select) as one's own.
- To consider in a particular way, or to consider as an example.
- To pass (or attempt to pass) through or around.
- To defeat (someone or something) in a fight.
- To adhere or be absorbed properly.
- To have to be used with (a certain grammatical form, etc).
- To understand (especially in a specified way).
- To have and use one's recourse to.
noun
- A visible (facial) response to something, especially something unexpected; a facial gesture in response to an event.
- An approach, a (distinct) treatment.
- An interpretation or view, opinion or assessment; perspective; a statement expressing such a position.
- A scene recorded (filmed) at one time, without an interruption or break; a recording of such a scene.
- A recording of a musical performance made during an uninterrupted single recording period.
- An instance of successful inoculation/vaccination.
- The or an act of taking.
- A catch of the ball (in cricket, especially one by the wicket-keeper).
- The quantity of copy given to a compositor at one time.
- Money that is taken in, (legal or illegal) proceeds, income; (in particular) profits.
- The or a quantity of fish, game animals or pelts, etc which have been taken at one time; catch.
verb
- To pay for.
- To acquire (something) accidentally; to catch (a disease).
- To collect and detain (a suspect).
- To lift; to grasp and raise.
- To clean up; to return to an organized state.
- To point out the behaviour, habits, or actions of (a person) in a critical manner; used with on.
- To meet and seduce somebody for romantic purposes, especially in a social situation.
- To receive calls; to function correctly.
- To record; to notch up.
- To learn, to grasp; to begin to understand; to realize.
- To promote somebody who was previously passed over.
- To collect an object, especially in passing.
- To answer a telephone.
- To take control (physically) of something.
- To mark, to defend against an opposition player by following them closely.
- To behave in a manner that results in a foul.
- To restart or resume.
- To receive (a radio signal or the like).
- To notice, detect or discern; to pick up on
- To improve, increase, or speed up.
- To reduce the despondency of.
- To obtain and publish a story, news item, etc.
- To collect a passenger.
verb
- To collect payments.
- To get; particularly, get from someone.
- To infer; to conclude.
- To accumulate (a number of similar or related objects), particularly for a hobby or recreation.
- To gather together; amass.
- To come together in a group or mass.
- To collide with or crash into (another vehicle or obstacle).
adv
noun
adj
noun
noun
- Repayment; compensation for loss or injury.
- An obligation or duty upon an individual to incur the losses of another.
- The right of an injured party to shift the loss onto the party responsible for the loss.
- Security from damage, loss, or penalty.
- A principle of insurance which provides that when a loss occurs, the insured should be restored to the approximate financial condition occupied before the loss occurred, no better, no worse.
noun
- Compensation thus determined and paid; a reparative payment.
- Blood money, the monetary value assigned to a person, set according to their rank, used to determine the compensation paid by the perpetrator of a crime to the victim in the case of injury or to the victim's kindred in the case of homicide.
verb
- To repay or refund (an excess received).
- To call in a previous artillery fire mission with the same ammunition and method either on the coordinates or adjusted either because destruction of the target was insufficient or missed.
- To refill (a prescription).
- To strike the hours, as a watch does.
- To commit fraud in an election by voting more than once for the same candidate.
- To happen again; recur.
- To echo the words of (a person).
- To do or say again (and again).
noun
verb
- To refund; to repay; to pay back
- To place again.
- To put in a new or different place.
- To take over the position or role from.
- To take the place of; to be used instead of
- To restore to a former place, position, condition, etc.; to put back
- To supply or substitute an equivalent for
- To demolish (a building) and build an updated form of that building in its place.
verb
- become due for repayment
- develop and reach maturity; undergo maturation
- develop and work out fully in one's mind
- cause to ripen or develop fully
- grow old or older
- cause to ripen and discharge pus
adj
- characteristic of maturity
- having reached full natural growth or development
- fully developed or matured and ready to be eaten or used
- (of birds) having developed feathers or plumage; often used in combination
adj
verb
noun
- Payment responsibility.
- A measurement of illicit drugs (usually marijuana) sold in ten dollar bags.
- A defensive formation with six defensive backs, one of whom is a dimeback.
- An assist.
- A coin worth one-tenth of a Canadian dollar.
- Ten dollars.
- A beautiful woman (10 on a 10-point scale).
- A playing card with the rank of ten.
- A coin worth one-tenth of a U.S. dollar.
- A small amount of money.
- A thousand dollars.
- A ten year prison sentence.
verb
noun
- A payment or other recompense for something done.
- Importance, claim to notice, regard.
- Something considered as a reason or ground for a (possible) decision.
- The tendency to consider others.
- The thought process of considering, of taking multiple or specified factors into account (with of being the main corresponding adposition).
- A matter of inducement for something promised; something valuable given as recompense for a promise, which causes the promise to become binding as a contract.
verb
- To stake or pledge upon the outcome of an event; to wager.
- To be sure of something; to be able to count on something.
- To place money into the pot in order to require others do the same, usually only used for the first person to place money in the pot on each round.
prep
noun
- A degree of certainty.
- A candidate (for elections and pageants).
- A wager, an agreement between two parties that a stake (usually money) will be paid by the loser to the winner (the winner being the one who correctly forecast the outcome of an event).
intj
noun
- That which is given to make an exchange equal, or to make up for the deficiency of value in one of the things exchanged; compensation; recompense.
- A tyre.
- A torture device used on the feet or legs, such as a Spanish boot.
- The act or process of removing or firing someone (dismissing them from a job or other post).
- The inflated flag leaf sheath of a wheat plant.
- A crust end-piece of a loaf of bread.
- A parking enforcement device used to immobilize a car until it can be towed or a fine is paid; a wheel clamp.
- The act or process of bootstrapping; the starting or re-starting of a computing device.
- An unattractive person, ugly woman.
- The luggage storage compartment of a sedan or saloon car.
- Profit, plunder.
- A hard plastic case for a long firearm, typically moulded to the shape of the gun and intended for use in a vehicle.
- A heavy shoe that covers part of the leg.
- A recently arrived recruit; a rookie.
- A linear amplifier used with CB radio.
- A bootleg recording.
- A bobbled ball.
- A blow with the foot; a kick.
- A flexible cover of rubber or plastic, which may be preformed to a particular shape and used to protect a shaft, lever, switch, or opening from dust, dirt, moisture, etc.
- A rubber bladder on the leading edge of an aircraft’s wing, which is inflated periodically to remove ice buildup; a deicing boot.
- A kind of sports shoe worn by players of certain games such as cricket and football.
- A black person.
verb
- To disconnect forcibly; to eject from an online service, conversation, etc.
- To bootstrap; to start a system, e.g. a computer, by invoking its boot process or bootstrap.
- To apply corporal punishment (compare slippering).
- To vomit.
- To eject; kick out.
- To kick.
- To shoot, to kill by gunfire.
- To start or restart a computer or other electronic system; to bootstrap.
- To put boots on, especially for riding.
- To step on the accelerator of a vehicle for faster acceleration than usual or to drive faster than usual.
verb
- To cover the expense of; to pay for.
- To have or maintain a position, order, or rank; to be in a particular relation.
- To be valid.
- Of a ship or its captain, to steer, sail (in a specified direction, for a specified destination etc.).
- To be placed in an upright or vertical orientation.
- To be consistent; to agree; to accord.
- To remain without ruin or injury.
- To place in an upright or standing position.
- To maintain one's ground; to be acquitted; not to fail or yield; to be safe.
- To appear in court.
- To stop asking for more cards; to keep one's hand as it has been dealt so far.
- To be positioned to gain or lose.
- To undergo; withstand; hold up.
- To support oneself on the feet in an erect position.
- To remain motionless.
- To be present, to have welled up.
- To occupy or hold a place; to be set, placed, fixed, located, or situated.
- To measure when erect on the feet.
- To be a candidate (in an election).
- To act as an umpire.
- To oppose, usually as a team, in competition.
- To tolerate.
- To maintain an invincible or permanent attitude; to be fixed, steady, or firm; to take a position in resistance or opposition.
- To rise to one’s feet; to stand up.
noun
- A designated spot where someone or something may stand or wait.
- A particular grove or other group of trees or shrubs.
- A single set, as of arms.
- The act of standing.
- A contiguous group of trees sufficiently uniform in age-class distribution, composition, and structure, and growing on a site of sufficiently uniform quality, to be a distinguishable unit.
- A small building, booth, or stage, as in a bandstand or hamburger stand.
- An advertisement filling an entire billboard, comprising many sheets of paper.
- A partnership.
- A defensive position or effort.
- A young tree, usually reserved when other trees are cut; also, a tree growing or standing upon its own root, in distinction from one produced from a scion set in a stock, either of the same or another kind of tree.
- The platform on which a witness testifies in court; the witness stand or witness box.
- An area of raised seating for waiters at the stock exchange.
- A device to hold something upright or aloft.
- A period of performance in a given location or venue.
- A standstill, a motionless state, as of someone confused, or a hunting dog who has found game.
- Grandstand. (often in the plural)
- A type of supernatural ability from the anime and manga series JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, named for the fact that they appear to 'stand' next to their user.
- A location or position where one may stand.
- A resolute, unwavering position; firm opinion; action for a purpose in the face of opposition.
verb
- To receive as profit.
- To form a netting or network; to knit.
- To yield as profit for.
- To enclose or cover with a net.
- To score (a goal).
- To catch in a trap, or by stratagem.
- To catch by means of a net.
- To fully hedge a position.
- To hit the ball into the net.
adv
adj
- Final; end.
- Free from extraneous substances; pure; unadulterated; neat.
- Remaining after expenses or deductions.
noun
- A conductor that interconnects two or more component terminals.
- The amount remaining after expenses are deducted; profit.
- Any set of polygons joined edge to edge that, when folded along the edges between adjoining polygons so that the outer edges touch, form a given polyhedron.
- A device made from such mesh, generally used for trapping something.
- Anything that has the appearance of such a device.
- The area of the court close to the net (mesh stretched to divide the court).
- A mesh of string, cord or rope.
- A system that interconnects a number of users, locations etc. allowing transport or communication between them.
- A framework backed by a mesh, serving as the goal in hockey, soccer, lacrosse, etc.
- A trap.
- A device made from such mesh, used for catching fish, butterflies, etc.
- A mesh stretched to divide the court in tennis, badminton, volleyball, etc.
verb
- To pay to the extent of what is claimed or due.
- To do enough for; to meet the needs of; to fulfill the wishes or requirements of.
- To cause (a sentence) to be true when the sentence is interpreted in one's universe.
- To answer or discharge (a claim, debt, legal demand, etc.); to give compensation for.
noun
- A sum of money or price paid for obtaining a benefit, favor, or privilege, as for admission to a copyhold, or for obtaining or renewing a lease.
- Something that is fine; fine particles.
- A final agreement concerning lands or rents between persons, as the lord and his vassal.
- A drink that must be taken during a meal or as part of a drinking game, following an announcement that anyone who has done some (usually outrageous) deed is to be fined; similar to I have never; commonly associated with swaps; very similar to a sconce at Oxford University, though a fine is the penalty itself rather than the act of issuing it.
- The end of a musical composition.
- A fee levied as punishment for breaking the law.
- Fine champagne; French brandy.
- The location in a musical score that indicates the end of the piece, particularly when the piece ends somewhere in the middle of the score due to a section of the music being repeated.
adj
- Of superior quality.
- Consisting of especially minute particulates; made up of particularly small pieces.
- Being acceptable, adequate, passable, or satisfactory.
- Made of slender or thin filaments.
- Impressively bad, inappropriate, or unsatisfactory.
- An answer often used to cover an unnecessary explanation, rather to avoid conflict or an argument. Saying "I'm fine" can be used to avoid inquiry when the speaker is not really okay.
- Of a particular grade of quality, usually between very good and very fine, and below mint.
- Particularly slender; especially thin, narrow, or of small girth.
- Having a (specified) proportion of pure metal in its composition.
- Good-looking, attractive.
- Subtle, delicately balanced or discriminated.
- Sunny and not raining.
- Behind the batsman and at a small angle to the line between the wickets.
- Delicate; subtle; exquisite; artful; dexterous.
verb
- To issue a fine as punishment to (someone).
- To make finer, purer, or cleaner; to purify or clarify.
- To become finer, purer, or cleaner.
- To make finer, or less coarse, as in bulk, texture, etc.
- To clarify (wine and beer) by filtration.
- To change by fine gradations.
- To pay a fine.
adv
noun
- a partial payment made at the time of purchase; the balance to be paid later
- the phenomenon of sediment or gravel accumulating
- matter that has been deposited by some natural process
- the natural process of laying down a deposit of something
- money deposited in a bank or some similar institution
- money given as security for an article acquired for temporary use
- a payment given as a guarantee that an obligation will be met
- a facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping
- the act of putting something somewhere
verb
verb
- to make payment in respect of (a cheque, banker's draft, etc.)
- to think of highly, to respect highly; to show respect for; to recognise the importance or spiritual value of
- to confer (bestow) an honour or privilege upon (someone)
- to conform to, abide by, act in accordance with (an agreement, treaty, promise, request, or the like)
noun
- a privilege
- recognition of importance or value; respect; veneration (of someone, usually for being morally upright or successful)
- a token of praise or respect; something that represents praiseworthiness or respect, such as a prize or award given by the state to a citizen
- the center point of the upper half of an armorial escutcheon (compare honour point)
- the state of being morally upright, honest, noble, virtuous, and magnanimous; excellence of character; the perception of such a state; favourable reputation; dignity
- (courses for) an honours degree: a university qualification of the highest rank
- a cause of respect and fame; a glory; an excellency; an ornament.
- a seigniory or lordship held of the king, on which other lordships and manors depended
- the privilege of going first
- In bridge, an ace, king, queen, jack, or ten especially of the trump suit. In some other games, an ace, king, queen or jack.
- the right to play one's ball before one's opponent.
verb
- To gain as compensation or reparation, usually by formal legal process
- To obtain a positive judgement; to win in a lawsuit.
- To regain one's composure, balance etc.
- to salvage, to extricate, to rescue (a thing or person)
- To get better, to regain health or prosperity.
- To replenish to, resume (a good state of mind or body).
- To cover again.
- To add a new roof membrane or steep-slope covering over an existing one.
- To get back, to regain (a physical thing; in astronomy and navigation, sight of a thing or a signal).
noun
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