overset
cast off
overformat
uniquify
double-space
microcopy
stylization
jumboize
microrecord
overprint
dimension
redefine
expand
overedit
typography
set
compactify
decompactify
narrowing conversion
overspace
rechunk
overwiden
reflowable
file down
overshorten
pie
graticulation
flow
scansion
blank
antique
overlengthen
respace
spacefiller
typeset
overbound
lay
misorganize
templatic
miniaturise
miniaturize
overcode
incalculable
compact
penalty copy
cut up
numeric promotion
compress
massage
size
trimming
overtag
pack together
clipping
typescript
puff up
trim
covariance
pi
digest
clear
widen
opaque
respacing
amplify
leaded type
overdesign
redimension
ravioli code
resize
condense
contract
textualize
increase
bulky waste
prebreak
narrow
downsize
outsize
overprogram
justifying space
slot
subdivide
overdefine
sizer
markup
demagnify
spaceband
cancel
hyperfragment
overpackage
quasisymmetry
overannotate
overorganize
enlengthen
reflowable
antique
templatic
incalculable
stylization
microrecord
typography
narrowing conversion
graticulation
blank
spacefiller
penalty copy
numeric promotion
trimming
clipping
typescript
trim
covariance
respacing
leaded type
ravioli code
bulky waste
justifying space
slot
sizer
markup
spaceband
cancel
quasisymmetry
overset
cast off
overformat
uniquify
double-space
microcopy
jumboize
overprint
dimension
redefine
expand
overedit
set
compactify
decompactify
overspace
rechunk
overwiden
file down
overshorten
pie
flow
scansion
overlengthen
respace
typeset
overbound
lay
misorganize
miniaturise
miniaturize
overcode
compact
cut up
compress
massage
size
overtag
pack together
puff up
pi
digest
clear
widen
opaque
amplify
overdesign
redimension
resize
condense
contract
textualize
increase
prebreak
narrow
downsize
outsize
overprogram
subdivide
overdefine
demagnify
hyperfragment
overpackage
overannotate
overorganize
enlengthen
verb
verb
- To mark, cut or shape something to specified dimensions.
- To specify the size of (an array or similar data structure); to allocate.
noun
- A measure of spatial extent in a particular direction, such as height, width or breadth, or depth.
- A universe or plane of existence.
- The number of independent coordinates needed to specify uniquely the location of a point in a space; also, any of such independent coordinates.
- A construct whereby objects or individuals can be distinguished.
- The number of elements of any basis of a vector space.
- One of the physical properties that are regarded as fundamental measures of a physical quantity, such as mass, length and time.
- A single aspect of a given thing.
- Any of the independent ranges of indices in a multidimensional array.
verb
- To change (something) from a smaller form or size to a larger one; to spread out or lay open.
- To become, by rewriting, a longer, yet equivalent sum of terms.
- To feel generous or optimistic.
- To multiply both the numerator and the denominator of a fraction by the same natural number yielding a fraction of equal value
- To change or grow from smaller to larger in form, number, or size.
- To rewrite (an expression) as a longer, yet equivalent sum of terms.
- To increase the extent, number, volume or scope of (something).
- To express (something) at length and/or in detail.
- To increase in extent, number, volume or scope.
- To speak or write at length or in detail.
verb
- To arrange (type).
- 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 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 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.
verb
- (of printing types) To reduce to confusion; to jumble.
- To go around (a corner) in a guarded manner.
- To hit in the face with a pie, either for comic effect or as a means of protest (see also pieing).
noun
- A disorderly mess of spilt type.
- A traditional Spanish unit of length, equivalent to about 27.9 cm.
- A pizza.
- The vulva.
- A type of pastry that consists of an outer crust and a filling.
- A paper plate covered in cream, shaving foam or custard that is thrown or rubbed in someone’s face for comical purposes, to raise money for charity, or as a form of political protest; a custard pie; a cream pie.
- The whole of a wealth or resource, to be divided in parts.
- The smallest unit of currency in South Asia, equivalent to ¹⁄₁₉₂ of a rupee or ¹⁄₁₂ of an anna.
- A pie chart.
- An especially badly bowled ball.
- Any of various other, non-pastry dishes that maintain the general concept of a shell with a filling.
verb
- To arrange (text in a wordprocessor, etc.) so that it wraps neatly into a designated space; to reflow.
- To rise, as the tide; opposed to ebb.
- To move as a fluid from one position to another.
- To have or be in abundance; to abound, so as to run or flow over.
- To move or match smoothly, gracefully, or continuously.
- To hang loosely and wave.
- To allow (a liquid) to flow.
- To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood.
- To discharge excessive blood from the uterus.
- To proceed; to issue forth.
- To cover with varnish.
noun
- The ability to skilfully rap along to a beat.
- The sequence of steps taken in a piece of software to perform some action.
- A formalization of the idea of the motion of particles in a fluid, as a group action of the real numbers on a set.
- A morass or marsh.
- The amount of a fluid that moves or the rate of fluid movement.
- A mental state characterized by concentration, focus and enjoyment of a given task.
- The movement of a real or figurative fluid.
- The emission of blood during menstruation.
- A flow pipe, carrying liquid away from a boiler or other central plant (compare with return pipe which returns fluid to central plant).
- Movement in people or things characterized with a continuous motion, involving either a non solid mass or a multitude.
- The rising movement of the tide.
- Smoothness or continuity.
noun
- A space to be filled in on a form or template.
- Infertile semen.
- A vacant space, place, or period; a void [since the 17th century].
- A dash written in place of an omitted letter or word
- Blank verse .
- Provisional words printed in italics (instead of blank spaces) in a bill before Parliament, being matters of practical detail, of which the final form will be settled in Committee .
- A domino without points on one or both of its divisions.
- An empty form without substance; anything insignificant; nothing at all .
- A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on which no prize is indicated [since the 16th century].
- A document, paper, or form with spaces left blank to be filled up at the pleasure of the person to whom it is given (e.g. a blank charter, ballot, form, contract, etc.), or as the event may determine; a blank form .
- The white spot in the centre of a target; hence (figuratively) the object to which anything is directed or aimed, the range of such aim .
- An unprinted leaf of a book [20th century].
- The ¹ / ₂₃₀₄₀₀ of a grain [17th century].
- Any article of glass on which subsequent processing is required [since the 19th century].
- An empty space in one's memory; a forgotten item or memory [since the 18th century].
- The shaved wax ready for placing on a recording machine for making wax records with a stylus [20th century].
- The space character; the character resulting from pressing the space-bar on a keyboard.
- A sample for a control experiment that does not contain any of the analyte of interest, in order to deliberately produce a non-detection to verify that a detection is distinguishable from it.
verb
- To make void; to erase.
- To ignore (a person) deliberately.
- To prevent from scoring; for example, in a sporting event.
- To become blank.
- To be temporarily unable to remember.
- To render ineffective by blanketing with turbulent airflow, such as from aircraft wake or reverse thrust.
adj
- Lacking characteristics which give variety; uniform.
- Free from writing, printing, or marks; having an empty space to be filled in
- Utterly confounded or discomfited.
- Empty; void; without result; fruitless.
- Absolute; downright; sheer.
- Devoid of thoughts, memory, or inspiration.
- Of ammunition: having propellant but no bullets; unbulleted.
- Without expression, usually due to incomprehension.
adj
- Designating a style of type.
- Belonging to former times, not modern, out of date, old-fashioned.
- Embossed without gilt.
- Having existed in ancient times, descended from antiquity; used especially in reference to Greece and Rome.
noun
- An old object perceived as having value because of its aesthetic or historical significance.
- A style of type of thick and bold face in which all lines are of equal or nearly equal thickness.
- An object of ancient times.
- The style or manner of ancient times, used especially of Greek and Roman art.
- An old person.
verb
verb
- To place (new type) properly in the cases.
- To take a position; to come or go.
- To place down in a position of rest, or in a horizontal position.
- To don or put on (tefillin (phylacteries)).
- To have sex with.
- To place and arrange (pages) for a form upon the imposing stone.
- To impose (a burden, punishment, command, tax, etc.).
- To produce and deposit an egg.
- To lie: to rest in a horizontal position on a surface.
- To apply; to put.
- To deposit (a stake) as a wager; to stake; to risk.
- To bet (that something is or is not the case).
- To point; to aim.
- To be in a horizontal position; to lie (from confusion with lie).
- To present or offer.
- simple past tense of lie when pertaining to position.
- To state; to allege.
- To impute; to charge; to allege.
- To put the strands of (a rope, a cable, etc.) in their proper places and twist or unite them.
- To install certain building materials, laying one thing on top of another.
- To prepare (a plan, project etc.); to set out, establish (a law, principle).
noun
- The direction a rope is twisted.
- A casual sexual partner.
- A lake.
- A ballad or sung poem; a short poem or narrative, usually intended to be sung.
- What was I, just another lay you can toss aside as you go on to your next conquest?
- Arrangement or relationship; layout.
- An act of sexual intercourse.
- A share of the profits in a business.
- A lyrical, narrative poem written in octosyllabic couplets that often deals with tales of adventure and romance.
- The laying of eggs.
adj
verb
- To use a particular code or set of codes too much.
- To use as an overcode for.
- To code too many things or include too many codes in a coding system.
- To act as an overcode for.
noun
- An established code (signifier) that also acts as a new code, either representing additional (related) meanings, or dividing into various nuances of the original meaning.
- A code used to represent multiple (possibly unrelated) data items.
- Inventory that can no longer be sold (such as items that are past their sell-by date).
verb
- make more compact by or as if by pressing
- have the property of being packable or of compacting easily
- compress into a wad
- squeeze or press together
adj
noun
- a small cosmetics case with a mirror; to be carried in a woman's purse
- a signed written agreement between two or more parties (nations) to perform some action
- a small and economical car
adj
verb
- To cut into smaller pieces, parts, or sections.
- To lacerate; to wound by multiple lacerations; to injure or damage by cutting, or as if by cutting.
- To move aggressively in front of another vehicle while driving.
- To behave like a clown or jokester (a cut-up); to misbehave; to act in a playful, comical, boisterous, or unruly manner to elicit laughter, attention, etc.
- Comprise a particular selection of runners.
- To distress mentally or emotionally.
- To disintegrate; to break into pieces.
adj
verb
- To adjust the size of; to make a certain size.
- To apply glue or other primer to a surface which is to be painted.
- To take the height of men, in order to place them in the ranks according to their stature.
- To take a greater size; to increase in size.
- To sift (pieces of ore or metal) in order to separate the finer from the coarser parts.
- To approximate the dimensions, estimate the size of.
noun
- An instrument consisting of a number of perforated gauges fastened together at one end by a rivet, used for measuring the size of pearls
- The dimensions or magnitude of a thing; how big something is.
- A thin, weak glue used as primer for paper or canvas intended to be painted upon.
- A number of edges in a graph.
- Wallpaper paste.
- The thickened crust on coagulated blood.
- A specific set of dimensions for a manufactured article, especially clothing.
- Any viscous substance, such as gilder's varnish.
noun
- cutting down to the desired size or shape
- a state of arrangement or appearance
- a decoration or adornment typically on the edge of a garment
- attitude of an aircraft in flight when allowed to take its own orientation
adj
- thin and fit
- characterized by order and neatness; free from disorder
- neat and smart in appearance
- severely simple in line or design
verb
- remove the edges from and cut down to the desired size
- decorate, as with ornaments
- cut down on; make a reduction in
- balance in flight by regulating the control surfaces
- be in equilibrium during a flight
- decorate (food), as with parsley or other ornamental foods
- cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
- cut closely
- adjust (sails on a ship) so that the wind is optimally used
verb
adj
- Not part of the usual font character set; especially, non-Roman type or symbols as opposed to standard alphanumeric Roman type.
- Pious.
noun
- The 16th letter of the Classical and Modern Greek alphabets and the seventeenth in Old Greek.
- Piaster.
- An irrational and transcendental constant representing the ratio of the circumference of a Euclidean circle to its diameter; approximately 3.14159265358979323846264338327950; usually written π.
- pica (conventionally, 12 points = 1 pica, 6 picas ≈ 1 inch).
- Metal type that has been spilled, mixed together, or disordered.
verb
- To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application.
- To think over and arrange methodically in the mind; to reduce to a plan or method; to receive in the mind and consider carefully; to get an understanding of; to comprehend.
- To undergo digestion.
- To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook.
- To separate (the food) in its passage through the alimentary canal into the nutritive and nonnutritive elements; to prepare, by the action of the digestive juices, for conversion into blood; to convert into chyme.
- To expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations.
noun
- Any collection of articles, as an Internet mailing list including a week's postings, or a magazine arranging a collection of writings.
- That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles
- A compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged; a summary of laws.
- The result of applying a hash function to a message.
verb
- To style (an element within a document) so that it is not permitted to float at a given position.
- To remove obstructions, impediments or other unwanted items from.
- To remove from suspicion, especially of having committed a crime.
- To pass without interference; to miss.
- To finish or complete (a stage, challenge, or game).
- To leave abruptly; to clear off or clear out.
- To disengage oneself from incumbrances, distress, or entanglements; to become free.
- To exceed a stated mark.
- To obtain approval or authorisation in respect of.
- To hit, kick, head, punch etc. (a ball, puck) away in order to defend one's goal.
- To remove (items or material) so as to leave something unobstructed or open.
- To obtain a clearance.
- To eliminate ambiguity or doubt from (a matter); to clarify or resolve; to clear up.
- To earn a profit of; to net.
- To obtain permission to use (a sample of copyrighted audio) in another track.
- To become free from obstruction or obscurement; to become transparent.
- To approve or authorise for a particular purpose or action; to give clearance to.
- To reset or unset; to return to an empty state or to zero.
- Of a check or financial transaction, to go through as payment; to be processed so that the money is transferred.
adv
- Not near something or touching it.
- All the way; entirely.
- Free (or separate) from others.
- In a clear manner; plainly.
noun
- A person who is free from the influence of engrams.
- The completion of a stage or challenge, or of the whole game.
- Full extent; distance between extreme limits; especially; the distance between the nearest surfaces of two bodies, or the space between walls.
adj
- Free of obstacles.
- Good, the best.
- Free of ambiguity or doubt; easily understood.
- Without clouds.
- Without defects or blemishes, such as freckles or knots.
- Of the sky, such that less than one eighth of its area is obscured by clouds.
- Distinct, sharp, well-marked.
- Transparent in colour.
- Possessing little or no perceptible stimulus.
- Unmixed; entirely pure.
- Without diminution; in full; net.
- Showing a green aspect, allowing a train to proceed past it.
- Better than, superior to.
- Easily or distinctly heard; audible.
- Able to perceive clearly; keen; acute; penetrating; discriminating.
- Free from the influence of engrams; see Clear (Scientology).
- Without a thickening ingredient.
- Not clouded with passion; serene; cheerful.
- Free of guilt, or suspicion.
- Bright; luminous; not dark or obscured.
verb
noun
adj
- Neither reflecting nor emitting light.
- Allowing little light to pass through, not translucent or transparent.
- Obtuse, stupid.
- Describes a type for which higher-level callers have no knowledge of data values or their representations; all operations are carried out by the type's defined abstract operators.
- Unclear, unintelligible, hard to get or explain the meaning of.
verb
- To enlarge by addition or commenting; to treat copiously by adding particulars, illustrations, etc.; to expand.
- To add content that is not present in the source text to the target text, usually to improve the fluency of the translation.
- To increase the amplitude of something, especially of an electric current.
- To render larger, more extended, or more intense.
verb
- make or become more narrow or restricted
- enter into a contractual arrangement
- engage by written agreement
- squeeze or press together
- be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness
- become smaller or draw together
- make smaller
- compress or concentrate
- reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
noun
noun
- A space in memory or on disk etc. in which a particular type of object can be stored.
- The inside of the "rim" or semicircular copy desk, occupied by the supervisor of the copy editors.
- A broad, flat, wooden bar, a slat, especially as used to secure a door, window, etc.
- The vagina.
- A channel opening in the stator or rotor of a rotating machine for ventilation and insertion of windings.
- The track of an animal, especially a deer; spoor.
- A crack or fissure in a glacier or snowfield; a chasm; a crevasse.
- A rectangular area directly in front of the net and extending toward the blue line.
- A period of time within a schedule or sequence.
- A narrow depression, perforation, or aperture; especially, one for the reception of a piece fitting or sliding in it.
- A metal bolt or wooden bar, especially as a crosspiece.
- An implement for barring, bolting, locking or securing a door, box, gate, lid, window or the like.
- The barrel or tube of a wave.
- A slot machine designed for gambling.
- The area between the last offensive lineman on either side of the center and the wide receiver on that side.
- In a flying display, the fourth position; after the leader and two wingmen.
- The allocated time for an aircraft's departure or arrival at an airport's runway.
verb
- To kick the ball between the posts for a goal; to score a goal by doing this.
- To fall, or cause to fall, into a crevasse.
- To assign something or someone into a slot (gap in a schedule or sequence)
- To put something (such as a coin) into a slot (narrow aperture)
- To create a slot (narrow aperture or groove), as for example by cutting or machining.
- To put something where it belongs.
- To kill.
noun
- The suppression on striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages.
- A cancellation (US); (nonstandard in some kinds of English).
- The page thus suppressed.
- A control message posted to Usenet that serves to cancel a previously posted message.
- The page that replaces it.
verb
- To cross out something with lines etc.
- To offset or equalize something.
- To kill.
- To remove a common factor from both the numerator and denominator of a fraction, or from both sides of an equation.
- To cease to provide financial or moral support to (someone deemed unacceptable). Compare cancel culture.
- To invalidate or annul something.
- To stop production of a programme.
- To mark something (such as a used postage stamp) so that it can't be reused.
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