English words for 'work that is left incomplete'
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noun
- (uncountable) Work that has been started, but is not complete.
- a piece of work that is not yet finished
- (countable) A project that has been started but is not complete.
- (uncountable, accounting) A portion of inventory that represents goods which are no longer salable as raw materials, but not yet salable as finished goods, work in process.
- (countable) Something that is in the process of improving.
noun
- an incomplete piece
- a broken piece of a brittle artifact
- a piece broken off or cut off of something else
- (biology) A split piece of an organism that has undergone the asexual reproduction process where the organism splits into one or more pieces, then those pieces become new individuals.
- (computing) An incomplete portion of code.
- A part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part, either physically or not
- (grammar) A sentence not containing a subject or a predicate; a sentence fragment.
- (Internet) A portion of a URL referring to a subordinate resource or anchor (such as a specific point on a web page), introduced by the # sign.
verb
- break or cause to break into pieces
- (intransitive) To break apart.
- (transitive) To cause to be broken into pieces.
- (transitive, computing) To break up and disperse (a file) into non-contiguous areas of a disk.
- (intransitive, biology) Of an organism: to undergo the asexual reproduction process where an organism spilts into one or more pieces, then those pieces become new individuals.
verb
- make up work that was missed due to absence at a later point
- adjust for
- come to terms
- concoct something artificial or untrue
- devise or compose
- form or compose
- apply make-up or cosmetics to one's face to appear prettier
- put in order or neaten
- do or give something to somebody in return
- To apply cosmetics.
- (transitive, intransitive, reflexive) To prepare (someone) for a theatrical performance by means of costume, cosmetics, etc.
- (intransitive) To compensate (for).
- To compile or draw up (a list, document, etc.).
- To draw near to, approach to.
- To invent, to imagine, to concoct
- (transitive, intransitive, reflexive) To apply cosmetics or makeup to (a face, facial feature).
- (transitive) To constitute the components of a whole.
- To invent or fabricate (a story, claim, etc.).
- (transitive, intransitive) To resolve or settle an argument, dispute, conflict, or fight (e.g., with someone).
- To constitute, to compose.
- To put together (a substance, material, garment, medicine, etc.) into a specific form; to assemble.
- To make peace, to settle a dispute.
- (transitive) To compensate for (a deficiency, defect, etc.); to supply (something missing).
- To make social or romantic advances to; to pay court to.
noun
adj
- Not completed; unresolved.
- (of rooms or other indoor spaces) Not having had any finish carpentry and other finishing (such as painting) applied.
- (of objects) Not having had any finish or finishing (such as coating or polishing) applied.
- lacking a surface finish such as paint
- not brought to an end or conclusion
- not brought to the desired final state
adj
adj
noun
adj
noun
adj
noun
noun
- A sheet of paper listing work that is completed, to be completed or in progress.
- (education) A sheet of paper or computerized document on which problems are worked out or solved and the answers are recorded.
- a sheet of paper with multiple columns; used by an accountant to assemble figures for financial statements
- a piece of paper recording work planned or done on a project
verb
noun
- an accumulation of jobs not done or materials not processed that are yet to be dealt with (especially unfilled customer orders for products or services)
- An accumulation or buildup, especially of unfilled orders, unconsumed products or unfinished work.
- something kept back or saved for future use or a special purpose
- the large log at the back of a hearth fire
- A log containing text previously read, as in text-based video games or chat rooms.
- A large log to burn at the back of a fire.
- A reserve source or supply.
verb
adj
- Of a thing: not yet fully developed; imperfect, incomplete, unfinished.
- Of a person: not yet fully grown or mature; lacking experience, like a novice or tyro; immature, inexperienced; hence, of or relating to youth.
- Not having feathers.
- Of a bird: not yet having developed its feathers and wings and become able to fly.
- (of birds) not yet having developed feathers
- young and inexperienced
- (of an arrow) not equipped with feathers
verb
verb
- To do work that would otherwise be left undone.
- To consume something that would otherwise go to waste.
- To provide extra resources that are not met by normal sources.
- To tighten something that is slack so that it is taut.
- (mathematics) To act as a slack variable, converting an inequality into an equality.
verb
- fail to do something; leave something undone
- fail to get a passing grade
- judge unacceptable
- be unsuccessful
- prove insufficient
- become bankrupt or insolvent; fail financially and close
- deteriorate
- stop operating or functioning
- fall short in what is expected
- disappoint, prove undependable to; abandon, forsake
- be unable
- (transitive) To be wanting to, to be insufficient for, to disappoint, to desert; to disappoint one's expectations.
- (transitive) Not to achieve a particular stated goal. (Usage note: The direct object of this word is usually an infinitive.)
- To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence.
- (intransitive) Of a machine, etc.: to cease to operate correctly.
- To become unable to meet one's engagements; especially, to be unable to pay one's debts or discharge one's business obligation; to become bankrupt or insolvent.
- (ambitransitive) To receive one or more non-passing grades in academic pursuits.
- (intransitive) To be unsuccessful.
- (transitive) To give a student a non-passing grade in an academic endeavour.
- (transitive) To neglect.
adj
noun
verb
- fail to do something; leave something undone
- fail to attend to
- give little or no attention to
- leave undone or leave out
- (transitive) To fail to care for or attend to something.
- (transitive) To fail to do or carry out something due to oversight or carelessness.
- (transitive, mathematics) To ignore for the sake of simplifying calculations without significantly affecting accuracy.
- (transitive) To omit to notice; to forbear to treat with attention or respect; to slight.
noun
- failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances
- lack of attention and due care
- willful lack of care and attention
- the state of something that has been unused and neglected
- the trait of neglecting responsibilities and lacking concern
- The act of neglecting.
- Habitual lack of care.
- The state of being neglected.
verb
- To finish a specification that was initially incomplete once enough progress has been made to know all the details.
- To retract or take back.
- To be arranged in steps going backwards.
- To return to a previous place or time.
- (geology, of a shoreline) To recede in an abrupt fashion due to marine transgression.
- To take a step backwards
noun
- (geology) An abrupt subsidence or change in deposition preserved in the sedimentary record due to a marine transgression.
- The process of going back and finishing a specification that was incomplete at the start of a process, once enough progress has been made to know the full details.
- A platform at the rear of a firetruck where a firefighter can stand.
- (figurative) A regression.
- (fluid mechanics) Flow over a backward-facing step.
- A step backwards
noun
- A remainder left over at the end of some process.
- (statistics) The difference between the observed value and the estimated value of the quantity of interest.
- (paranormal) A spiritual presence left behind in a place as a result of a person's death or some other significant event.
- (chiefly in the plural) Payments made to performers, writers and directors when a recorded broadcast is repeated.
- (often plural) a payment that is made to a performer or writer or director of a television show or commercial that is paid for every repeat showing
- something left after other parts have been taken away
adj
adj
- (mining) As yet unworked.
- Sound, uninjured, healthy.
- Used as an intensifier.
- Entire, undivided.
- (of food) From which none of its constituents has been removed.
- acting together as a single undiversified whole
- not injured or harmed
- exhibiting or restored to vigorous good health
- including all components without exception; being one unit or constituting the full amount or extent or duration; complete
- (of siblings) having the same parents
adv
noun
suffix
prefix
noun
adj
character
prep
adj
noun
- a missing piece (as a gap in a manuscript)
- a natural opening or perforation through a bone or a membranous structure
- an interruption in the intensity or amount of something
- An temporary break from work, especially one which is unexpected.
- (anatomy) An opening in an organ.
- A gap in a series, making it incomplete.
- An interruption, break, pause or absence.
- (prosody, phonetics, sometimes uncountable) A syllable break between two vowels, without an intervening consonant.
- (geology) A gap in geological strata.
adj
adj
- Existing as a part or portion; incomplete.
- (botany) Subordinate.
- Biased in favor of a person, side, or point of view, especially when dealing with a competition or dispute.
- (crosswording, of a clue) Having a wordplay element, but no definition.
- (followed by the preposition to) Having a predilection for something.
- (computer science) Describing a property that holds only when an algorithm terminates.
- (mathematics) Of or relating to a partial derivative or partial differential.
- (followed by ‘of’ or ‘to’) having a strong preference or liking for
- being or affecting only a part; not total
- constituting or comprising a part or fraction of a possible whole or entirety
- showing favoritism
noun
- (dentistry) dentures that replace only some of the natural teeth
- (bodybuilding) The condition of not exhausting the amplitude during the repetition of an exercise.
- (forensics) An incomplete fingerprint
- (furry fandom) A fursuit that does not fully cover the wearer's body.
- (programming, Internet) A fragment of a template containing markup.
- (mathematics) A partial derivative: a derivative with respect to one independent variable of a function in multiple variables while holding the other variables constant.
- (music) Any of the sine waves which make up a complex tone; often an overtone or harmonic of the fundamental.
- the derivative of a function of two or more variables with respect to a single variable while the other variables are considered to be constant
- a harmonic with a frequency that is a multiple of the fundamental frequency
verb
adj
noun
- (uncountable) Work that has been started, but is not complete.
- a piece of work that is not yet finished
- (countable) A project that has been started but is not complete.
- (uncountable, accounting) A portion of inventory that represents goods which are no longer salable as raw materials, but not yet salable as finished goods, work in process.
- (countable) Something that is in the process of improving.
noun
- an incomplete piece
- a broken piece of a brittle artifact
- a piece broken off or cut off of something else
- (biology) A split piece of an organism that has undergone the asexual reproduction process where the organism splits into one or more pieces, then those pieces become new individuals.
- (computing) An incomplete portion of code.
- A part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part, either physically or not
- (grammar) A sentence not containing a subject or a predicate; a sentence fragment.
- (Internet) A portion of a URL referring to a subordinate resource or anchor (such as a specific point on a web page), introduced by the # sign.
verb
- break or cause to break into pieces
- (intransitive) To break apart.
- (transitive) To cause to be broken into pieces.
- (transitive, computing) To break up and disperse (a file) into non-contiguous areas of a disk.
- (intransitive, biology) Of an organism: to undergo the asexual reproduction process where an organism spilts into one or more pieces, then those pieces become new individuals.
noun
- A sheet of paper listing work that is completed, to be completed or in progress.
- (education) A sheet of paper or computerized document on which problems are worked out or solved and the answers are recorded.
- a sheet of paper with multiple columns; used by an accountant to assemble figures for financial statements
- a piece of paper recording work planned or done on a project
verb
noun
- an accumulation of jobs not done or materials not processed that are yet to be dealt with (especially unfilled customer orders for products or services)
- An accumulation or buildup, especially of unfilled orders, unconsumed products or unfinished work.
- something kept back or saved for future use or a special purpose
- the large log at the back of a hearth fire
- A log containing text previously read, as in text-based video games or chat rooms.
- A large log to burn at the back of a fire.
- A reserve source or supply.
verb
adj
noun
noun
- A remainder left over at the end of some process.
- (statistics) The difference between the observed value and the estimated value of the quantity of interest.
- (paranormal) A spiritual presence left behind in a place as a result of a person's death or some other significant event.
- (chiefly in the plural) Payments made to performers, writers and directors when a recorded broadcast is repeated.
- (often plural) a payment that is made to a performer or writer or director of a television show or commercial that is paid for every repeat showing
- something left after other parts have been taken away
adj
noun
adj
character
prep
noun
- a missing piece (as a gap in a manuscript)
- a natural opening or perforation through a bone or a membranous structure
- an interruption in the intensity or amount of something
- An temporary break from work, especially one which is unexpected.
- (anatomy) An opening in an organ.
- A gap in a series, making it incomplete.
- An interruption, break, pause or absence.
- (prosody, phonetics, sometimes uncountable) A syllable break between two vowels, without an intervening consonant.
- (geology) A gap in geological strata.
verb
- make up work that was missed due to absence at a later point
- adjust for
- come to terms
- concoct something artificial or untrue
- devise or compose
- form or compose
- apply make-up or cosmetics to one's face to appear prettier
- put in order or neaten
- do or give something to somebody in return
- To apply cosmetics.
- (transitive, intransitive, reflexive) To prepare (someone) for a theatrical performance by means of costume, cosmetics, etc.
- (intransitive) To compensate (for).
- To compile or draw up (a list, document, etc.).
- To draw near to, approach to.
- To invent, to imagine, to concoct
- (transitive, intransitive, reflexive) To apply cosmetics or makeup to (a face, facial feature).
- (transitive) To constitute the components of a whole.
- To invent or fabricate (a story, claim, etc.).
- (transitive, intransitive) To resolve or settle an argument, dispute, conflict, or fight (e.g., with someone).
- To constitute, to compose.
- To put together (a substance, material, garment, medicine, etc.) into a specific form; to assemble.
- To make peace, to settle a dispute.
- (transitive) To compensate for (a deficiency, defect, etc.); to supply (something missing).
- To make social or romantic advances to; to pay court to.
noun
verb
- To do work that would otherwise be left undone.
- To consume something that would otherwise go to waste.
- To provide extra resources that are not met by normal sources.
- To tighten something that is slack so that it is taut.
- (mathematics) To act as a slack variable, converting an inequality into an equality.
verb
- fail to do something; leave something undone
- fail to get a passing grade
- judge unacceptable
- be unsuccessful
- prove insufficient
- become bankrupt or insolvent; fail financially and close
- deteriorate
- stop operating or functioning
- fall short in what is expected
- disappoint, prove undependable to; abandon, forsake
- be unable
- (transitive) To be wanting to, to be insufficient for, to disappoint, to desert; to disappoint one's expectations.
- (transitive) Not to achieve a particular stated goal. (Usage note: The direct object of this word is usually an infinitive.)
- To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence.
- (intransitive) Of a machine, etc.: to cease to operate correctly.
- To become unable to meet one's engagements; especially, to be unable to pay one's debts or discharge one's business obligation; to become bankrupt or insolvent.
- (ambitransitive) To receive one or more non-passing grades in academic pursuits.
- (intransitive) To be unsuccessful.
- (transitive) To give a student a non-passing grade in an academic endeavour.
- (transitive) To neglect.
adj
noun
verb
- fail to do something; leave something undone
- fail to attend to
- give little or no attention to
- leave undone or leave out
- (transitive) To fail to care for or attend to something.
- (transitive) To fail to do or carry out something due to oversight or carelessness.
- (transitive, mathematics) To ignore for the sake of simplifying calculations without significantly affecting accuracy.
- (transitive) To omit to notice; to forbear to treat with attention or respect; to slight.
noun
- failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances
- lack of attention and due care
- willful lack of care and attention
- the state of something that has been unused and neglected
- the trait of neglecting responsibilities and lacking concern
- The act of neglecting.
- Habitual lack of care.
- The state of being neglected.
verb
- To finish a specification that was initially incomplete once enough progress has been made to know all the details.
- To retract or take back.
- To be arranged in steps going backwards.
- To return to a previous place or time.
- (geology, of a shoreline) To recede in an abrupt fashion due to marine transgression.
- To take a step backwards
noun
- (geology) An abrupt subsidence or change in deposition preserved in the sedimentary record due to a marine transgression.
- The process of going back and finishing a specification that was incomplete at the start of a process, once enough progress has been made to know the full details.
- A platform at the rear of a firetruck where a firefighter can stand.
- (figurative) A regression.
- (fluid mechanics) Flow over a backward-facing step.
- A step backwards
adj
- Not completed; unresolved.
- (of rooms or other indoor spaces) Not having had any finish carpentry and other finishing (such as painting) applied.
- (of objects) Not having had any finish or finishing (such as coating or polishing) applied.
- lacking a surface finish such as paint
- not brought to an end or conclusion
- not brought to the desired final state
adj
adj
noun
adj
noun
adj
noun
adj
- Of a thing: not yet fully developed; imperfect, incomplete, unfinished.
- Of a person: not yet fully grown or mature; lacking experience, like a novice or tyro; immature, inexperienced; hence, of or relating to youth.
- Not having feathers.
- Of a bird: not yet having developed its feathers and wings and become able to fly.
- (of birds) not yet having developed feathers
- young and inexperienced
- (of an arrow) not equipped with feathers
verb
adj
- (mining) As yet unworked.
- Sound, uninjured, healthy.
- Used as an intensifier.
- Entire, undivided.
- (of food) From which none of its constituents has been removed.
- acting together as a single undiversified whole
- not injured or harmed
- exhibiting or restored to vigorous good health
- including all components without exception; being one unit or constituting the full amount or extent or duration; complete
- (of siblings) having the same parents
adv
noun
adj
adj
adj
- Existing as a part or portion; incomplete.
- (botany) Subordinate.
- Biased in favor of a person, side, or point of view, especially when dealing with a competition or dispute.
- (crosswording, of a clue) Having a wordplay element, but no definition.
- (followed by the preposition to) Having a predilection for something.
- (computer science) Describing a property that holds only when an algorithm terminates.
- (mathematics) Of or relating to a partial derivative or partial differential.
- (followed by ‘of’ or ‘to’) having a strong preference or liking for
- being or affecting only a part; not total
- constituting or comprising a part or fraction of a possible whole or entirety
- showing favoritism
noun
- (dentistry) dentures that replace only some of the natural teeth
- (bodybuilding) The condition of not exhausting the amplitude during the repetition of an exercise.
- (forensics) An incomplete fingerprint
- (furry fandom) A fursuit that does not fully cover the wearer's body.
- (programming, Internet) A fragment of a template containing markup.
- (mathematics) A partial derivative: a derivative with respect to one independent variable of a function in multiple variables while holding the other variables constant.
- (music) Any of the sine waves which make up a complex tone; often an overtone or harmonic of the fundamental.
- the derivative of a function of two or more variables with respect to a single variable while the other variables are considered to be constant
- a harmonic with a frequency that is a multiple of the fundamental frequency