inbuild
rate
embattle
fortress
strike
redoubt
fortification
counterseal
set
starch
sanction
line
strengthen
steel
grit
sand
backbone
gumption
explanation
fortificant
guts
moxie
qila
fort
flack
justify
inkle
fortifyingly
interpretation
declaring
thicken
declarative
mound
bulwark
valedict
substantiate
copromotional
note to self
unificatory
reinforcingly
insense
sericitize
elucidate
mizzle
knuckle
see the light of day
obsignation
indulge
fort up
disclude
concrete
gratify
capitalizer
pander
eclaircise
ministry
toughness
sealing
promo
declaratory
up the pole
come in
proselytory
quartermaster
support
kythe
hold
picket
flagship
beacon
rereinforce
amp
concretive
divulge
applotment
strengthening
crimp
centripetal
token
cry
unifying
clitorial
apportioning
intensate
protest
electricize
unsecret
secrete
revelation
maledict
stump
codirection
state
tonification
trade away
yieldy
certification
demystificatory
declarative
copromotional
unificatory
declaratory
proselytory
concretive
centripetal
unifying
clitorial
yieldy
demystificatory
fortifyingly
reinforcingly
fortification
starch
redoubt
grit
sand
backbone
gumption
explanation
fortificant
guts
moxie
qila
interpretation
declaring
valedict
note to self
obsignation
capitalizer
ministry
toughness
sealing
applotment
strengthening
apportioning
revelation
codirection
tonification
certification
inbuild
rate
embattle
fortress
strike
redoubt
counterseal
set
sanction
line
strengthen
steel
fort
flack
justify
inkle
thicken
mound
bulwark
substantiate
insense
sericitize
elucidate
mizzle
knuckle
see the light of day
indulge
fort up
disclude
concrete
gratify
pander
eclaircise
promo
come in
quartermaster
support
kythe
hold
picket
flagship
beacon
rereinforce
amp
divulge
crimp
token
cry
intensate
protest
electricize
unsecret
secrete
maledict
stump
state
trade away
verb
- To ratify.
- To ascertain the exact rate of the gain or loss of (a chronometer) as compared with true time.
- To berate, scold.
- To assign or be assigned a particular rank or level.
- To evaluate a property's value for the purposes of local taxation.
- To evaluate or estimate the value of.
- To have position (in a certain class).
- To deserve; to be worth.
- To have value or standing.
- To determine the limits of safe functioning for a machine or electrical device.
- To consider or regard.
- To like; to think highly of.
noun
- A class into which ships were assigned based on condition, size etc.; by extension, rank.
- The price of (an individual) thing; cost.
- The gain or loss of a timepiece in a unit of time.
- The relative speed of change or progress.
- The proportional relationship between one amount, value etc. and another.
- A set price or charge for all examples of a given case, commodity, service etc.
- A wage calculated in relation to a unit of time.
- Any of various taxes, especially those levied by a local authority.
- Speed.
verb
noun
verb
- To make and ratify.
- To hit.
- To give, as a blow; to impel, as with a blow; to give a force to; to dash; to cast.
- To create an impression.
- To cut off (a mortar joint, etc.) even with the face of the wall, or inward at a slight angle.
- To affect by a sudden impression or impulse.
- To sound by percussion, with blows, or as if with blows.
- To haul down or lower (a flag, mast, etc.)
- To make a sudden impression upon, as if by a blow; to affect with some strong emotion.
- To balance (a ledger or account).
- To dismantle and take away (a theater set; a tent; etc.).
- To hit upon, or light upon, suddenly.
- To cause or produce by a stroke, or suddenly, as by a stroke.
- To become attached to something; said of the spat of oysters.
- To stroke or pass lightly; to wave.
- To act suddenly, especially in a violent or criminal way.
- To impress, seem or appear (to).
- To capitulate; to signal a surrender by hauling down the colours.
- To level (a measure of grain, salt, etc.) with a straight instrument, scraping off what is above the level of the top.
- To impinge upon.
- To discover a source of something, often a buried raw material such as ore (especially gold) or crude oil.
- To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to penetrate.
- To touch; to act by appulse.
- To manufacture, as by stamping.
- To deliver a quick blow or thrust; to give blows.
- To cause to sound by one or more beats; to indicate or notify by audible strokes. Of a clock, to announce (an hour of the day), usually by one or more sounds.
- To cause to ignite by friction.
- To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate.
- To set off on a walk or trip.
- To score a goal.
- To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate.
- To punish; to afflict; to smite.
- To carry out a violent or illegal action.
- To unfasten, to loosen (chains, bonds, etc.).
- To stop working as a protest to achieve better working conditions.
noun
- A nibble on the bait by a fish.
- In an option contract, the price at which the holder buys or sells if they choose to exercise the option.
- The strike plate of a door.
- A cancellation postmark.
- An iron pale or standard in a gate or fence.
- The primary face of a hammer, opposite the peen.
- An instrument with a straight edge for levelling a measure of grain, salt, etc., scraping off what is above the level of the top; a strickle.
- A status resulting from a batter swinging and missing a pitch, or not swinging at a pitch when the ball goes in the strike zone, or hitting a foul ball that is not caught.
- The status of being the batsman that the bowler is bowling at.
- The act of knocking down all ten pins in on the first roll of a frame.
- An old English measure of corn equal to the bushel.
- A blow or application of physical force against something.
- A work stoppage (or otherwise concerted stoppage of an activity) as a form of protest.
- The compass direction of the line of intersection between a rock layer and the surface of the Earth.
- The discovery of a source of something.
- A puddler's stirrer.
noun
- The act of fortifying; the art or science of fortifying places to strengthen defence against an enemy.
- A jagged pattern sometimes seen during an attack of migraine.
- That which fortifies; especially, a work or works erected to defend a place against attack; a fortified place; a fortress; a fort; a castle.
- An increase in effectiveness, as by adding ingredients.
verb
- To solidify.
- 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 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 suit; to become.
- 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.
noun
- Fortitude.
- Carbohydrates, as with grain and potato based foods.
- A stiff, formal manner; formality.
- Any of various starch-like substances used as a laundry stiffener
- A widely diffused vegetable substance, found especially in seeds, bulbs and tubers, as extracted (e.g. from potatoes, corn, rice, etc.) in the form of a white, glistening, granular or powdery substance, without taste or smell, and giving a very peculiar creaking sound when rubbed between the fingers. It is used as a food, in the production of commercial grape sugar, for stiffening linen in laundries, in making paste, etc.
verb
adj
verb
- To ratify; to make valid.
- To penalize (a state etc.) with sanctions.
- To give official authorization or approval to; to countenance.
noun
- An approval, by an authority, generally one that makes something valid.
- A penalty, punishment, or some coercive measure, intended to ensure compliance; especially one adopted by several nations, or by an international body.
- A law, treaty, or contract, or a clause within a law, treaty, or contract, specifying any of the above.
verb
- To place persons or things along the side of for security or defense; to strengthen by adding; to fortify.
- To reinforce (the back of a book) with glue and glued scrap material such as fabric or paper.
- To mark with a line or lines; to cover with lines.
- To fill or supply (something), as a purse with money.
- To place (objects) into a line (usually used with "up"); to form into a line; to align.
- To align (one or more switches) to direct a train onto a particular track.
- To read or repeat line by line.
- To form a line along.
- To track (wild bees) to their nest by following their line of flight.
- To hit a line drive; to hit a line drive which is caught for an out. Compare fly and ground.
- To measure.
- To cover the inner surface of (something), originally especially with linen.
noun
- A circle of latitude or of longitude, as represented on a map.
- A sentence of dialogue, especially in a play, movie, or the like.
- A set of positions in a team which play in a similar position on the field; in a traditional team, consisting of three players and acting as one of six such sets in the team.
- A verse (in poetry).
- One fortieth of an inch.
- The goal line.
- An edge of a graph.
- A series of notes forming a certain part (such as the bass or melody) of a greater work.
- An infinitely extending one-dimensional figure that has no curvature; one that has length but not breadth or thickness.
- A maxwell, a unit of magnetic flux.
- The equator.
- A vascular catheter.
- A written or printed row of letters, words, numbers, or other text, especially a row of words extending across a page or column, or a blank in place of such text.
- A particular path taken by a vehicle when driving a bend or corner in the road.
- A long tape or ribbon marked with units for measuring; a tape measure.
- The position in which the fencers hold their swords.
- a set composed of a spike, a drip chamber, a clamp, a Y-injection site, a three-way stopcock and a catheter.
- A hose or pipe, of any size.
- A letter, a written form of communication.
- A line segment; a continuous finite segment of such a figure.
- A trench or rampart, or the non-physical demarcation of the extent of the territory occupied by specified forces.
- A connected series of public conveyances, as a roadbed or railway track; and hence, an established arrangement for forwarding merchandise, etc.
- A threadlike crease or wrinkle marking the face, hand, or body; hence, a characteristic mark.
- A more-or-less straight sequence of people, objects, etc., either arranged as a queue or column and often waiting to be processed or dealt with, or arranged abreast of one another in a row (and contrasted with a column), as in a military formation.
- The regular infantry of an army, as distinguished from militia, guards, volunteer corps, cavalry, artillery, etc.
- A lie or exaggeration, especially one told to gain another's approval or prevent losing it.
- A tsarist-era Russian unit of measure, approximately equal to one tenth of an English inch, used especially when measuring the calibre of firearms.
- A population of cells derived from a single cell and containing the same genetic makeup.
- The official, stated position (or set of positions) of an individual or group, particularly a political or religious faction.
- Direction, path.
- A group of people born in a certain year (liners).
- Proper relative position or adjustment (of parts, not as to design or proportion, but with reference to smooth working).
- The batter's box.
- A series or succession of ancestors or descendants of a given person; a family or race; compare lineage.
- The exterior limit of a figure or territory: a boundary, contour, or outline; a demarcation.
- That which was measured by a line, such as a field or any piece of land set apart; hence, allotted place of abode.
- Course of conduct, thought, occupation, or policy; method of argument; department of industry, trade, or intellectual activity.
- A rope, cord, string, or thread, of any thickness.
- Any of an ill-defined set of units of length, varying according to the country, discipline, industry, and date of application, commonly with no indication of the intended magnitude
- One of the straight horizontal and parallel prolonged strokes on and between which the notes are placed.
- The wire connecting one telegraphic station with another, a telephone or internet cable between two points: a telephone or network connection.
- One sixteenth of an inch.
- One twelfth of an inch.
- A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen; any path, curved or straight.
- A clothesline.
- The horizontal path of a ball towards the batsman (see also length).
- Information about or understanding of something. (Mostly restricted to the expressions get a line on, have a line on, and give a line on.)
- Lineament; feature; figure (of one's body).
- A number of shares taken by a jobber.
- A small path-shaped portion or serving of a powdery illegal drug, especially cocaine.
- A group of forwards that play together.
- A set of products or services sold by a business, or by extension, the business itself.
verb
- To make strong or stronger; to add strength to; to increase the strength of; to fortify.
- To empower; to give moral strength to; to encourage; to enhearten.
- To reinforce, to add to, to support (someone or something)
- To grow strong or stronger.
- To substantiate; to corroborate (a belief, argument, etc.)
- To augment; to improve; to intensify.
verb
- To harden or strengthen; to nerve or make obdurate; to fortify against.
- To cause to resemble steel in appearance.
- To steelify; to turn iron into steel.
- To edge, cover, or point with steel.
- To sharpen with a honing steel.
- To press with a flat iron.
- To electroplate an item, particularly an engraving plate, with a layer of iron.
adj
- Made of steel.
- Similar to steel in color, strength, or the like; steely.
- Of or belonging to the manufacture or trade in steel.
- Engraved on steel.
noun
- Extreme hardness or resilience.
- Varieties of this metal.
- The gray hue of this metal; steel-gray, or steel blue.
- A honing steel, a tool used to sharpen or hone metal blades.
- An artificial metal produced from iron, harder and more elastic than elemental iron; used figuratively as a symbol of hardness.
- Armor.
- An engraving plate
- Pieces used to strengthen, support, or expand an item of clothing.
- A type of slide used while playing the steel guitar.
- Projectiles.
- Bladed or pointed weapons, as swords, javelins, daggers.
- A fringe of beads or decoration of this metal.
- A sewing needle; a knitting needle; a sharp metal stylus.
- A piece used for striking sparks from flint.
- A flat iron.
noun
- fortitude and determination
- a central cohesive source of support and stability
- the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord
- the part of a book's cover that encloses the inner side of the book's pages and that faces outward when the book is shelved
- the part of a network that connects other networks together
noun
noun
verb
- To prove; to ratify; to confirm.
- To absolve, and declare to be free of blame or sin.
- To be a good, acceptable reason for; warrant.
- To qualify (oneself) as a surety by taking oath to the ownership of sufficient property.
- To arrange (text) on a page or a computer screen such that the left and right ends of all lines within paragraphs are aligned.
- To provide an acceptable explanation for.
- To give reasons for one’s actions; to make an argument to prove that one is in the right.
- To show (a person) to have had a sufficient legal reason for an act that has been made the subject of a charge or accusation.
noun
- The power of explaining.
- A sense given by an interpreter; an exposition or explanation given; meaning.
- heritage interpretation
- An assignment of a truth value to each propositional symbol of a propositional calculus.
- An act or process of applying general principles or formulae to the explanation of the results obtained in special cases.
- An approximation that allows aspects of a mathematical theory to be discussed in ordinary language.
- An act of interpreting or explaining something unclear; a translation; a version.
- The discipline or study of translating one spoken or signed language into another (as opposed to translation, which concerns itself with written language).
- An artist's way of expressing his thought or embodying his conception of nature.
verb
- To fortify with a mound; add a barrier, rampart, etc. to.
- To form a mound.
- To force or pile into a mound or mounds.
noun
- The mons veneris.
- Elevated area of dirt upon which the pitcher stands to pitch.
- A natural elevation appearing as if thrown up artificially; a regular and isolated hill, hillock, or knoll.
- A ball or globe forming part of the regalia of an emperor or other sovereign. It is encircled with bands, enriched with precious stones, and surmounted with a cross.
- An artificial hill or elevation of earth; a raised bank; an embankment thrown up for defense
verb
noun
verb
verb
- To yield.
- To apply pressure, or rub or massage with one's knuckles.
- To strike or punch.
- To land on the knuckle of a curve of a slope, after a jump off a ramp that precedes the slope.
- To touch one's forehead as a mark of respect.
- To bend the fingers.
noun
- The rounded point where a flat changes to a slope on a piste.
- A cut of meat.
- The curved part of the cushion at the entrance to the pockets on a cue sports table.
- A mechanical joint.
- The kneejoint of a quadruped, especially of a calf; formerly used of the kneejoint of a human being.
- Any of the joints between the phalanges of the fingers.
- A contrivance, usually of brass or iron, and furnished with points, worn to protect the hand, to add force to a blow, and to disfigure the person struck; a knuckle duster.
- A convex portion of a vessel's figure where a sudden change of shape occurs, as in a canal boat, where a nearly vertical side joins a nearly flat bottom.
verb
- To solidify: to change from being abstract to being concrete (actual, real).
- To cover with or encase in concrete (building material).
adj
- Made of concrete, a building material.
- Being or applying to actual things, not abstract qualities or categories.
- Real, actual, tangible.
- Particular, specific, rather than general.
- United by coalescence of separate particles, or liquid, into one mass or solid.
noun
- An extract of herbal materials that has a semi-solid consistency, especially when such materials are partly aromatic.
- Specifically, a building material created by mixing cement, water, and aggregate such as gravel and sand.
- Sugar boiled down from cane juice to a solid mass.
- A dessert of frozen custard with various toppings.
- A term designating both a quality and the subject in which it exists; a concrete term.
noun
noun
- A ministration
- Government department, at the administrative level normally headed by a minister (or equivalent rank, e.g. secretary of state), who holds it as portfolio, especially in a constitutional monarchy, but also as a polity
- The clergy of nonapostolic Protestant churches.
- The complete body of government ministers (whether or not they are in cabinet) under the leadership of a head of government (such as a prime minister)
- Work of a spiritual or charitable nature.
- The active practice and education of the minister of a particular religion or faith.
verb
- To give in; to yield.
- To begin transmitting.
- To enter.
- To finish a race or similar competition in a particular position, such as first place, second place, or the like.
- To finish a race or similar competition in first place.
- To become fashionable.
- To have a strong enough signal to be able to be received well.
- To join or enter; to begin playing with a group.
- To rise.
- To become relevant, applicable, or useful.
- To arrive.
- To fully develop.
- To become available.
- To surrender; to turn oneself in.
- To function in the indicated manner.
adj
verb
noun
verb
- To verify; to make good; to substantiate; to establish; to sustain.
- To keep from falling.
- To be designed (said of machinery, electronics, or computers, or their parts, accessories, peripherals, or programming) to function compatibly with or provide the capacity for.
- To help, particularly financially.
- To back a cause, party, etc., mentally or with concrete aid.
- To serve, as in a customer-oriented mindset; to give support to.
- To answer questions and resolve problems regarding something sold.
- To be accountable for, or involved with, but not responsible for.
- To assume and carry successfully, as the part of an actor; to represent or act; to sustain.
noun
- An actor playing a subordinate part with a star.
- Answers to questions and resolution of problems regarding something sold.
- Evidence.
- Something which supports.
- An accompaniment in music.
- Compatibility and functionality for a given product or feature.
- Horizontal, vertical or rotational support of structures: movable, hinged, fixed.
- Financial or other help.
- A set whose elements are at least partially included in a given fuzzy set (i.e., whose grade of membership in that fuzzy set is strictly greater than zero).
- in relation to a function, the set of points where the function is not zero, or the closure of that set.
verb
- To reserve.
- To detain.
- To take place, to occur.
- 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 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 enclose or fortify with pickets or pointed stakes.
- To tether to, or as if to, a picket.
- To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket.
- To protest, organized by a labour union, typically in front of the location of employment.
noun
- A type of punishment by which an offender had to rest his or her entire body weight on the top of a small stake.
- One of the soldiers or troops placed on a line forward of a position to warn against an enemy advance; or any unit (for example, an aircraft or ship) performing a similar function.
- A protester positioned outside an office, workplace etc. during a strike (usually in plural); also the protest itself.
- The card game piquet.
- A stake driven into the ground.
- A tool in mountaineering that is driven into the snow and used as an anchor or to arrest falls.
- A sentry.
verb
- To act as a beacon.
- To furnish with a beacon or beacons.
- To give light to, as a beacon; to light up; to illumine.
noun
- That which gives notice of danger, or keeps people on the correct path.
- An electronic device that broadcasts a signal to nearby portable devices, enabling smartphones etc. to perform actions when in physical proximity to the beacon.
- A signal fire to notify of the approach of an enemy, or to give any notice, commonly of warning.
- A high hill or other easily distinguishable object near the shore which can serve as guidance for seafarers.
- A signal or conspicuous mark erected on an eminence near the shore, or moored in shoal water, as a guide to mariners.
- A post or buoy placed over a shoal or bank to warn vessels of danger; also a signal mark on land. (FM 55-501)
noun
verb
- To impress (seamen or soldiers); to entrap, to decoy.
- To gash the flesh, e.g. of a raw fish, to make it crisper when cooked.
- To press into small ridges or folds, to pleat, to corrugate.
- to hold using a crimp
- To bend or mold leather into shape.
- To fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened.
- To style hair into a crimp, to form hair into tight curls, to make it kinky.
- To pinch and hold; to seize.
noun
- One who infringes sub-section 1 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1854, applied to a person other than the owner, master, etc., who engages seamen without a license from the Board of Trade.
- A small hold with little surface area.
- The natural curliness of wool fibres.
- Hair that is shaped so it bends back and forth in many short kinks.
- A grip on such a hold.
- A fastener or a fastening method that secures parts by bending metal around a joint and squeezing it together, often with a tool that adds indentations to capture the parts.
- An agent who procures seamen, soldiers, etc., especially by decoying, entrapping, impressing, or seducing them.
verb
adj
- Done as an indication or a pledge.
- Perfunctory or merely symbolic; done or existing for appearance's sake, or to minimally comply with a requirement.
- He was hired as the company's token black person.
- Included in minimal numbers in order to create an impression or illusion of diversity, especially ethnic or gender diversity.
noun
- An object or disclosure to attest or authenticate the bearer or an instruction.
- An atomic piece of data, such as a word, for which a meaning may be inferred during parsing.
- A lexeme; a basic, grammatically indivisible unit of a language such as a keyword, operator or identifier.
- A keepsake.
- A piece of stamped metal or plastic, etc., used as a substitute for money; a voucher that can be exchanged for goods or services.
- Support for a belief; grounds for an opinion.
- A minor attempt for appearance's sake, or to minimally comply with a requirement.
- A meaningless placeholder used as a substitute for sensitive data.
- A conceptual object that can be possessed by a computer, process, etc. in order to regulate a turn-taking system such as a token ring network.
- A physical object used for exchange between drivers and signalmen on single track lines.
- A particular thing to which a concept applies.
- A single example of a certain word in a text or corpus.
- An extraordinary event serving as evidence of supernatural power.
- Something serving as an expression of something else.
- A small physical object, often designed to give the appearance of a common thing, used to represent a person or character in a board game or other situation.
- A characteristic sign of a disease or of a bodily disorder, a symptom; a sign of a bodily condition, recovery, or health.
- Ten and a half quires, or, commonly, 250 sheets, of paper printed on both sides; also, in some cases, the same number of sheets printed on one side, or half the number printed on both sides.
- Something given or shown as a symbol or guarantee of authority or right; a sign of authenticity, of power, good faith.
- A member of a group of people that is included within a larger group to comply with a legal or social requirement.
- A tally.
- A seal guaranteeing the quality of an item.
- A bit of leather having a peculiar mark designating a particular miner. Each hewer sent one of these with each corf or tub he had hewn.
- A thin bed of coal indicating the existence of a thicker seam at no great distance.
- A piece of metal given beforehand to each person in the congregation who is permitted to partake of the Lord's Supper.
- In a loom, a colored signal to show the weaver which shuttle to use.
verb
- To make oral and public proclamation of; to notify or advertise by outcry, especially things lost or found, goods to be sold, auctioned, etc.
- To utter inarticulate sounds, as animals do.
- To shed tears; to weep.
- To shout, scream, yell.
- To cause to do something, or bring to some state, by crying or weeping.
- To utter loudly; to call out; to declare publicly.
- Hence, to publish the banns of, as for marriage.
noun
adj
noun
verb
verb
- To affirm (something).
- to make a solemn written declaration, in due form, on behalf of the holder, against all parties liable for any loss or damage to be sustained by non-acceptance or non-payment of (a bill or note). This should be made by a notary public, whose seal it is the usual practice to affix.
- To object to.
- To make a strong objection.
- To call as a witness in affirming or denying, or to prove an affirmation; to appeal to.
noun
verb
verb
- To campaign.
- To stop, confuse, or puzzle.
- To get a batsman out stumped.
- To bowl down the stumps of (a wicket).
- To walk heavily or clumsily, plod, trudge.
- To reduce to a stump; to truncate or cut off a part of.
- To strike unexpectedly; to stub, as the toe against something fixed.
- To travel over (a state, a district, etc.) giving speeches for electioneering purposes.
- To baffle; to make unable to find an answer to a question or problem.
noun
- One of three small wooden posts which together with the bails make the wicket and that the fielding team attempt to hit with the ball.
- The remains of something that has been cut off; especially the remains of a tree, the remains of a limb.
- A leg.
- An artists’ drawing tool made of rolled paper used to smudge or blend marks made with charcoal, Conté crayon, pencil or other drawing media.
- A wooden or concrete pole used to support a house.
- The place or occasion at which a campaign takes place; the husting.
- A place or occasion at which a person harangues or otherwise addresses a group in a manner suggesting political oration.
- A pin in a tumbler lock which forms an obstruction to throwing the bolt except when the gates of the tumblers are properly arranged, as by the key.
- A pin or projection in a lock to form a guide for a movable piece.
verb
noun
- A complete description of a system, consisting of parameters that determine all properties of the system.
- Pomp, ceremony, or dignity.
- Condition of prosperity or grandeur; wealthy or prosperous circumstances; social importance.
- Any sovereign polity; a national or city-state government.
- A chair with a canopy above it, often standing on a dais; a seat of dignity; also, the canopy itself.
- A political division of a federation retaining a notable degree of autonomy, as in the United States, Mexico, Nigeria, or India.
- A society larger than a tribe. A society large enough to form a state in the sense of a government.
- The lexical aspect (aktionsart) of verbs or predicates that do not change over time.
- Rank; condition; quality.
- A mess; disorder.
- The stable condition of a processor during a particular clock cycle.
- The set of all parameters relevant to a computation.
- The values of all parameters at some point in a computation.
- The physical property of matter as solid, liquid, gas or plasma.
- A condition; a set of circumstances applying at any given time.
- An element of the range of the random variables that define a random process.
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adj
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