do
make
immerse
throw oneself into
practice
commit
step in
take
preengage
winsomely
involve
engagingly
re-engage
bash and grab
book
set about
have
get in on the act
powerslam
interareal
hold
performatively
stim
work
interpose
interject
come off
make do
tread
beseek
execute
chillax
conduct
absorb
act
interposingly
participantly
party and play
be
call balls and strikes
think about
complicitous
deal with
give a good account of oneself
go down the road
stimulate
practise
steer
wing
asbestinite
give someone a ring
make a move
intercome
pull the trigger
crawl
proceed
clear the decks
counterthrow
draw in
accompletive
at play
improv
transact
backbend
ambagiously
provide
make like
about
assertively
bully
magnoperate
corporealize
participatively
middleman
exert
go in for
befitting
in earnest
earnest
participatingly
set
confront
play the odds
pass through
position
sommelier
fish to fry
apostatical
behovefully
apostatic
enact
atactically
formalize
act out
in the game
intervene
interareal
complicitous
accompletive
befitting
apostatical
apostatic
winsomely
engagingly
performatively
interposingly
participantly
ambagiously
assertively
participatively
in earnest
participatingly
behovefully
atactically
steer
asbestinite
fish to fry
do
make
immerse
throw oneself into
practice
commit
step in
take
preengage
involve
re-engage
bash and grab
book
set about
have
get in on the act
powerslam
hold
stim
work
interpose
interject
come off
make do
tread
beseek
execute
chillax
conduct
absorb
act
party and play
be
call balls and strikes
think about
deal with
give a good account of oneself
go down the road
stimulate
practise
wing
give someone a ring
make a move
intercome
pull the trigger
crawl
proceed
clear the decks
counterthrow
draw in
improv
transact
backbend
provide
make like
bully
magnoperate
corporealize
middleman
exert
go in for
earnest
set
confront
play the odds
pass through
position
sommelier
enact
formalize
act out
intervene
verb
- engage in
- carry out or perform an action
- get (something) done
- proceed or get along
- give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally
- 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
verb
- engage in
- give certain properties to something
- make or cause to be or to become
- cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner
- give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally
- 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
- engage in or perform
- perform an act, usually with a negative connotation
- make a set of changes permanent
- give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause
- cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution
- confer a trust upon
- make an investment
- transfer to another place so something can be kept or preserved
verb
- To perform (a role).
- To participate in.
- 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 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 receive or accept (something) as payment or compensation.
- 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 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
verb
- engage for a performance
- arrange for and reserve (something for someone else) in advance
- record a charge in a police register
- register in a hotel booker
noun
- a written work or composition that has been published (printed on pages bound together)
- physical objects consisting of a number of pages bound together
- a compilation of the known facts regarding something or someone
- a written version of a play or other dramatic composition; used in preparing for a performance
- a record in which commercial accounts are recorded
- a collection of playing cards satisfying the rules of a card game
- a collection of rules or prescribed standards on the basis of which decisions are made
- a major division of a long written composition
- a number of sheets (ticket or stamps etc.) bound together on one edge
verb
- To undertake or perform (an action or activity).
- To be afflicted with, suffer from.
- To consider a court proceeding that has been completed; to begin deliberations on a case.
- To believe, buy, be taken in by.
- To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of.
- To obtain.
- To include as a part, ingredient, or feature.
- See have to.
- To defeat in a fight; take.
- To accept as a romantic partner.
- To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is not a verb argument.)
- Used to state the existence or presence of someone in a specified relationship with the subject.
- To cause to, by a command, request or invitation.
- To cause to be.
- To be able to speak (a language).
- To hold, as something at someone's disposal.
- Used as an interrogative verb before a pronoun to form a tag question, echoing a previous use of 'have' as an auxiliary verb or, in certain cases, main verb. (For further discussion, see the appendix English tag questions.)
- To trick, to deceive.
- To experience, go through, undergo.
- To allow; to tolerate.
- To depict as being.
- To inflict punishment or retribution on.
- To make an observation of (a bird species).
- To possess, own.
- To engage in sexual intercourse with.
- To get a reading, measurement, or result from an instrument or calculation.
- To consume or use up (a particular substance or resource, especially food or drink).
- Used in forming the perfect aspect.
- To host someone; to take in as a guest.
- To be scheduled to attend, undertake or participate in.
- To give birth to.
noun
adj
verb
- To take place, to occur.
- To detain.
- In a food or drink order at an informal restaurant etc., requesting that a component normally included in that order be omitted.
- To have and keep possession of something.
- Not to move; to halt; to stop.
- To be or remain valid; to apply (usually in the third person).
- To contain or store.
- To be in possession of illicit drugs for sale.
- To organise an event or meeting (usually in passive voice).
- To accept, as an opinion; to be the adherent of, openly or privately; to persist in, as a purpose; to maintain; to sustain.
- To win one's own service game.
- To cause to wait or delay.
- To maintain in being or action; to carry on; to prosecute, as a course of conduct or an argument; to continue; to sustain.
- To bind (someone) to a consequence of his or her actions.
- To maintain, to consider, to opine.
- To grasp or grip.
- To reserve.
- To bear, carry, or manage.
- To keep oneself in a particular state.
- To remain continent; to control an excretory bodily function.
- Not to give way; not to part or become separated; to remain unbroken or unsubdued.
- To impose restraint upon; to limit in motion or action; to bind legally or morally; to confine; to restrain.
noun
- The property of maintaining the shape of styled hair.
- The part of an object one is intended to grasp, or anything one can use for grasping with hands or feet.
- Power over someone or something.
- A place where animals are held for safety
- An act or instance of holding.
- Keep a firm hold on the handlebars.
- A position or grip used to control the opponent.
- The wager amount, the total hold.
- A fruit machine feature allowing one or more of the reels to remain fixed while the others spin.
- The cargo area of a ship or aircraft (often holds or cargo hold).
- The ability to persist.
- An exercise involving holding a position for a set time
- An order that something is to be reserved or delayed, limiting or preventing how it can be dealt with.
- Something reserved or kept.
- A grasp or grip.
- The percentage the house wins on a gamble, the house or bookmaker's hold.
- As of Monday night the total Melbourne Cup hold was $848,015
- The House Hold on the game is 10,000, this is the amount of decision or risk the house wishes to assume.
- The queueing system on telephones and similar communication systems which maintains a connection when all lines are busy.
- A statistic awarded to a relief pitcher who is not still pitching at the end of the game and who records at least one out and maintains a lead for his team.
- An instance of holding one's service game, as opposed to being broken.
- A region of airspace reserved for aircraft being kept in a holding pattern.
verb
- To set into action.
- 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 cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
- 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.
- 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
- To proceed, to behave (in a certain manner).
- To beat or press with the feet.
- To work a lever, treadle, etc., with the foot or the feet.
- To crush grapes with one's feet to make wine
- To step or walk upon.
- To copulate; said of (especially male) birds.
- To step or walk (on or across something); to trample.
- To go through or accomplish by walking, dancing, etc.
- To copulate with.
- To crush under the foot; to trample in contempt or hatred; to subdue.
noun
- A step taken with the foot.
- The grooves carved into the face of a tire, used to give the tire traction.
- The chalaza of a bird's egg; the treadle.
- The grooves on the bottom of a shoe or other footwear, used to give grip or traction.
- A bruise or abrasion produced on the foot or ankle of a horse that interferes, or strikes its feet together.
- The horizontal part of a step in a flight of stairs.
- The top of the banquette, on which soldiers stand to fire over the parapet.
- The act of avian copulation in which the male bird mounts the female by standing on her back.
- A manner of stepping.
- The sound made when someone or something is walking.
verb
verb
- To perform.
- To run, usually successfully.
- Coordinate term: murder
- To carry out; to put into effect.
- To kill, especially as punishment for a capital crime.
- To carry out, to perform an act; to put into effect or cause to become legally binding or valid (as a contract) by so doing.
- To start, launch or run
verb
- To behave.
- To carry out (something organized)
- To direct, as the leader in the performance of a musical composition.
- To serve as a medium for conveying; to transmit (heat, light, electricity, etc.)
- To lead; to direct; to be in charge of (people or tasks)
- To act as a conductor (as of heat, electricity, etc.); to carry.
noun
verb
- To engross or engage wholly; to occupy fully.
- in receiving sound energy without repercussion or echo.
- taking in radiant energy and converting it to a different form of energy, like heat.
- To take in energy and convert it, as
- To suck up; to drink in; to imbibe, like a sponge or as the lacteals of the body; to chemically take in.
- To occupy or consume time.
- To assume or pay for as part of a commercial transaction.
- To include so that it no longer has separate existence; to overwhelm; to cause to disappear as if by swallowing up; to incorporate; to assimilate; to take in and use up.
- Assimilate mentally.
- To accept or purchase in quantity.
- To be absorbed, or sucked in; to sink in.
- To defray the costs.
- in receiving a physical impact or vibration without recoil.
verb
- To do something.
- Of a play: to be acted out (well or badly).
- To perform a theatrical role.
- To play (a role).
- To convey an appearance of being.
- To map via a homomorphism to a group of automorphisms (of).
- To feign.
- To have an effect (on).
- To behave in a certain manner for an indefinite length of time.
- To do something that causes a change binding on the doer.
noun
- A product of a legislative body, a statute.
- A display of behaviour.
- A display of behaviour meant to deceive.
- A division of a theatrical performance.
- Something done once and for all, as distinguished from a work.
- Any organized activity.
- A performer or performers in a show.
- A formal or official record of something done.
- The process of doing something.
- A thesis maintained in public, in some English universities, by a candidate for a degree, or to show the proficiency of a student.
- Something done, a deed.
verb
- To occur, to take place.
- Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by a noun or noun phrase.
- Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by an adjective.
- Used to link a subject to a measurement.
- Used to express future action as well as what is due to, intended to, or should happen.
- Used to state the age of a subject in years.
- Used to form the continuous aspect.
- To occupy a place.
- Used to indicate that the subject and object are the same.
- To exist.
- Used to indicate that the values on either side of an equation are the same.
- Used to indicate that the subject plays the role of the predicate nominal.
- Used to indicate the time of day.
- Used to link two noun clauses, the first of which is a day of the week, recurring date, month, or other specific time (on which the event of the main clause took place), and the second of which is a period of time indicating how long ago that day was.
- To exist or behave in a certain way.
- Elliptical form of "be here", "go to and return from" or similar, also extending to certain other senses of "go".
- To tend to do, often do; marks the habitual aspect.
- Used to form the passive voice.
- Used to form the perfect aspect with certain intransitive verbs; this was more common in archaic use, especially with verbs indicating motion. "He is finished", and "He is gone" are common, but "He is come" is archaic.
- Used to indicate that the subject is an instance of the predicate nominal.
- Used to indicate passage of time since the occurrence of an event.
- To exist; to have real existence, to be alive.
- Used to indicate weather, air quality, or the like.
noun
adj
verb
- To behave in a certain way towards.
- To be in charge of, act on, or dispose of.
- To consider, as an example.
- To handle verbally or in some form of artistic expression; to address or discuss as a subject.
- To come to terms with; to overcome any difficulties presented by.
- To take action with respect to (someone or something).
verb
- To put into practice; to carry out; to act upon; to commit; to execute; to do.
- To make use of; to employ.
- To teach or accustom by practice; to train.
- To repeat (an activity) as a way of improving one's skill in that activity.
- To perform or observe in a habitual fashion.
- To pursue (a career, especially law, fine art or medicine).
- To repeat an activity in this way.
noun
- A suggestion about a course of action.
- The castrated male of cattle, especially one raised for beef production.
verb
- To conduct oneself; to take or pursue a course of action.
- To be directed and governed; to take a direction, or course; to obey the helm.
- To direct a group of animals.
- To direct a conversation.
- To guide the course of a vessel, vehicle, aircraft etc. (by means of a device such as a rudder, paddle, or steering wheel).
- To castrate (a male calf).
- To direct or send an object into a specific place
- To maneuver or manipulate a person or group into a place or course of action.
verb
- To act or speak extemporaneously; to improvise; to wing it.
- To throw.
- To add a wing (extra part) to.
- To furnish with wings.
- To injure slightly (as with a gunshot), especially in the wing or arm.
- To traverse by flying.
- To transport with, or as if with, wings; to bear in flight, or speedily.
- To fly.
noun
- A fin at the side of a ray or similar fish
- One of the broad, thin, anterior lobes of the foot of a pteropod, used as an organ in swimming.
- A panel of a car which encloses the wheel area, especially the front wheels.
- An appendage of an animal's (bird, bat, insect) body that enables it to fly
- Anything that agitates the air as a wing does, or is put in winglike motion by the action of the air, such as a fan or vane for winnowing grain, the vane or sail of a windmill, etc.
- A larger formation of two or more groups, which in turn control two or more squadrons.
- Passage by flying; flight.
- A platform on either side of the bridge of a vessel, normally found in pairs.
- Either of the two side petals of a papilionaceous flower.
- A player occupying such a position, also called a winger
- A part of something that is lesser in size than the main body, such as an extension from the main building.
- A cosmetic effect where eyeliner curves outward and ends at a point.
- That part of the hold or orlop of a vessel which is nearest the sides. In a fleet, one of the extremities when the ships are drawn up in line, or when forming the two sides of a triangle.
- A faction of a political movement. Usually implies a position apart from the mainstream center position.
- Any membranaceous expansion, such as that along the sides of certain stems, or of a fruit of the kind called samara.
- Limb or instrument of flight; means of flight or of rapid motion.
- An ornament worn on the shoulder; a small epaulet or shoulder knot.
- A unit of command consisting of two or more squadrons and itself being a sub-unit of a group or station.
- A position in several field games on either side of the field.
- One of the large pectoral fins of a flying fish.
- The insignia of a qualified pilot or aircrew member.
- Part of an aircraft that produces the lift for rising into the air.
- A side shoot of a tree or plant; a branch growing up by the side of another.
- One of the unseen areas on the side of the stage in a theatre.
- A protruding piece of material on a menstrual pad to hold it in place and prevent leakage.
- Human arm.
- On the enneagram, one of the two adjacent types to an enneatype that forms an individual's subtype of his or her enneatype.
- A portable shelter consisting of a fabric roof on a frame, like a tent without sides.
- A háček.
noun
verb
- To take action.
- To depart from a place; to set off.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see make, move.
- To initiate a conversation or perform an action intended to engage the willing attention of a person in whom one has a romantic or sexual interest; to approach someone of romantic or sexual appeal in hopes of escalating to a romantic or sexual encounter or relationship.
verb
- To act in a servile manner.
- To visit files or web sites in order to index them for searching.
- To swim using the crawl stroke.
- To move forward slowly, with frequent stops.
- To creep; to move slowly on hands and knees, or by dragging the body along the ground.
- To move over (an area) slowly, with frequent stops.
- To move over (an area) on hands and knees.
- Followed by with: see crawl with.
- To feel a swarming sensation.
noun
- A rapid swimming stroke with alternate overarm strokes and a fluttering kick.
- A very slow pace.
- The act of moving slowly on hands and knees, etc.
- A piece of horizontally or vertically scrolling text overlaid on the main image.
- The act of sequentially visiting a series of similar establishments (i.e., a bar crawl).
- A pen or enclosure of stakes and hurdles for holding fish.
verb
- To be transacted; to take place; to occur.
- To come from; to have as its source or origin.
- To go on in an orderly or regulated manner; to begin and carry on a series of acts or measures; to act methodically
- To take an academic degree.
- To be applicable or effective; to be valid.
- To move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to carry on
- To pass from one point, topic, or stage, to another.
- To begin and carry on a legal process.
prep_phrase
verb
- To act to prepare for something.
- To make a living; earn money for necessities.
- To give what is needed or desired, especially basic needs.
- To furnish (with), cause to be present.
- To make possible or attainable.
- To appoint to an ecclesiastical benefice before it is vacant. See provisor.
- To establish as a previous condition; to stipulate.
prep
- Concerned with; engaged in; intent on.
- Concerning; with regard to; on account of; on the subject of; to affect.
- In or near, as in mental faculties or (literally) in the possession of; under the control of; at one's command; in one's makeup.
- In a circle around; all round; on every side of; on the outside of.
- Within or in the immediate neighborhood of; in contiguity or proximity to; near, as to place.
- Over or upon different parts of; through or over in various directions; here and there in; to and fro in; throughout.
- See about to.
- On one's person; nearby the person.
- Have you much hay about? = Have you much in the process of making?
adv
- To the opposite tack: see go about.
- Indicating unproductive or unstructured activity.
- Near; in the vicinity.
- From one place or position to another in succession; indicating repeated movement or activity.
- Nearly; approximately; with close correspondence in quality, manner, degree, quantity, or time; almost.
- On all sides; around.
- Here and there; around; in one place and another; up and down.
- To a reversed order; half round; facing in the opposite direction; from a contrary point of view.
adj
verb
intj
adj
noun
- A noisy, blustering, tyrannical person, more insolent than courageous; one who is threatening and quarrelsome.
- The small scrum in the Eton College field game.
- A standoff between two players from the opposing teams, who repeatedly hit each other's hockey sticks and then attempt to acquire the ball, as a method of resuming the game in certain circumstances. Also called bully-off.
- A hired thug.
- A miner's hammer.
- A sex worker’s minder.
- A companion; mate (male or female).
- A person who is intentionally physically or emotionally cruel to others, especially to those whom they perceive as being vulnerable or of less power or privilege.
- Bully beef.
- Any of various small freshwater or brackishwater fish of the family Eleotridae; sleeper gobies. , Gobiomorphus cotidianus]]
adj
verb
- To suit; to become.
- To devise and assign (work) to.
- To have a certain direction of motion; to flow; to move on; to tend.
- To arrange with dishes and cutlery, to set the table.
- To direct (the ball) to a teammate for an attack.
- To place or fix in a setting.
- To extend and bring into position; to spread.
- To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant.
- To prepare (a stage or film set).
- To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure.
- To defeat a contract.
- To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.
- To put (something) down, to rest.
- To produce after pollination.
- To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle.
- To acknowledge a dancing partner by facing him or her and moving first to one side and then to the other, while she or he does the opposite.
- To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote.
- To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state.
- To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare.
- To punch (a nail) into wood so that its head is below the surface.
- To hunt game with the aid of a setter.
- To sit (be in a seated position).
- To arrange (type).
- To be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to germinate or form.
- To introduce or describe.
- To solidify.
- To rest or lie somewhere, on something, etc.; to occupy a certain place.
- To apply oneself; to undertake earnestly.
- Of a heavenly body, to disappear below the horizon of a planet, etc, as the latter rotates.
- Of a dog, to indicate the position of game.
- To fit (someone) up in a situation.
- To put in a specified condition or state; to cause to be.
- To adjust.
- To compile, to make (a puzzle or challenge).
- To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to assign.
- To determine or settle.
- To fit music to words.
- To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to variegate with objects placed here and there.
- To start (a fire).
- To divide a class group in a subject according to ability
- To locate (a play, etc.); to assign a backdrop to, geographically or temporally.
- To attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place.
adj
- Fixed in one’s opinion.
- Fixed in a certain style.
- Ready, prepared.
- Rigid, solidified.
- Prearranged.
- Fixed in position.
- Intent, determined (to do something).
noun
- A punch for setting nails in wood.
- The full number of eggs set under a hen.
- The initial or basic formation of dancers.
- A device for receiving broadcast radio waves (or, more recently, broadcast data); a radio or television.
- A young oyster when first attached.
- The act of directing the ball to a teammate for an attack.
- The setting of the sun or other luminary; (by extension) the close of the day.
- The scenery for a film or play.
- Set theory.
- the general locations and area where a movie’s, a film’s, or a video’s scenery is arranged to be filmed also including places for actors, assorted crew, director, producers which are typically not filmed.
- A complete series of games, forming part of a match.
- A group of repetitions of a single exercise performed one after the other without rest.
- The amount the teeth of a saw protrude to the side in order to create the kerf.
- A rudimentary fruit.
- An object made up of several parts.
- General movement; direction; drift; tendency.
- A piece placed temporarily upon the head of a pile when the latter cannot otherwise be reached by the weight, or hammer.
- The camber of a curved roofing tile.
- A drum kit, a drum set.
- A class group in a subject where pupils are divided by ability.
- A bias of mind; an attitude or pattern of behaviour.
- A collection of zero or more objects, possibly infinite in size, and disregarding any order or repetition of the objects which may be contained within it.
- A musical performance by a band, disc jockey, etc., consisting of several musical pieces.
- Three of a kind, especially if two cards are in one's hand and the third is on the board. Compare trips (“three of a kind, especially with two cards on the board and one in one's hand”).
- A young plant fit for setting out; a slip; shoot.
- A small tuber or bulb used instead of seed, particularly onion sets and potato sets.
- Collectively, the crop of young oysters in any locality.
- A series or group of something. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 4, Noun)
- A group of people, usually meeting socially.
- The manner, state, or quality of setting or fitting; fit.
- The pattern of a tartan, etc.
- A collection of various objects for a particular purpose.
- A permanent change of shape caused by excessive strain, as from compression, tension, bending, twisting, etc.
- A matching collection of similar things. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 2, Noun.)
- A complete series of points, forming part of a match.
verb
- To engage in confrontation.
- To set a thing side by side with; to compare.
- To deal with.
- To put a thing facing to; to set in contrast to.
- To come up against; to encounter.
- To stand or meet facing, especially in competition, hostility or defiance; to come face to face with
- To bring someone face to face with something.
verb
noun
- A commitment, or a group of commitments, such as options or futures, to buy or sell a given amount of financial instruments, such as securities, currencies or commodities, for a given price.
- The full state of a chess game at any given turn.
- A situation suitable to perform some action.
- The order in which players are seated around the table.
- A status or rank.
- A place or location.
- A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; also called the rule of trial and error.
- An opinion, stand, or stance.
- A posture.
- A place on the playing field, together with a set of duties, assigned to a player.
- A post of employment; a job.
- An amount of securities, commodities, or other financial instruments held by a person, firm, or institution.
adj
adj
verb
verb
- To become involved in a situation, so as to alter or prevent an action.
- To occur, fall, or come between, points of time, or events.
- To say (something) in the middle of a conversation or discussion between other people, or to respond to a situation involving other people.
- To come between, or to be between, persons or things.
- In a suit to which one has not been made a party, to put forward a defense of one's interest in the subject matter.
- To occur or act as an obstacle or delay.
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