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adj
- Strenuous; diligent.
- (said of an action or an utterance) Serious, sincere, ingenuous.
- (with a positive sense) Focused in the pursuit of an objective; honestly eager to obtain or do.
- (said of a person or a person's character) Possessing or characterised by seriousness.
- Serious; weighty; of a serious, weighty, or important nature; important.
- Intent; focused; showing a lot of concentration.
- characterized by a firm and humorless belief in the validity of your opinions
- not distracted by anything unrelated to the goal
- sincerely earnest
noun
verb
noun
noun
- a diligent effort
- a verbal or written request for assistance or employment or admission to a school
- liquid preparation having a soothing or antiseptic or medicinal action when applied to the skin
- the action of putting something into operation
- the work of applying something
- a program that gives a computer instructions that provide the user with tools to accomplish a task
- the act of bringing something to bear; using it for a particular purpose
- (bureaucracy, law) A petition, entreaty, or other request, with the adposition for denoting the subject matter.
- A verbal or written request for assistance or employment or admission to a school, course or similar.
- The substance applied.
- The act of requesting, claiming, or petitioning something.
- (computing theory) The substitution of a specific value for the parameter in the abstraction, in lambda calculus.
- The act of applying as a means; the employment of means to accomplish an end; specific use.
- The act of directing or referring something to a particular case, to discover or illustrate agreement or disagreement, fitness, or correspondence.
- A kind of needlework; appliqué.
- Diligence; close thought or attention.
- (computing) A computer program or the set of software that the end user perceives as a single entity as a tool for a well-defined purpose. (Also called: application program; application software.)
- The act of physically applying or laying on.
noun
- a diligent effort
- The qualities of a hard worker, including conscientiousness, determination, and perseverance.
- persevering determination to perform a task
- conscientiousness in paying proper attention to a task; giving the degree of care required in a given situation
- (Scots law) The process by which persons, lands, or effects are seized for debt; process for enforcing the attendance of witnesses or the production of writings.
- Steady application; industry; careful work involving long-term effort.
- (historical) A four-wheeled public stage-coach, widely used in France before the general establishment of the railways.
- Carefulness, in particular, the necessary care appropriate to a particular task or responsibility.
adv
adv
verb
- To attempt to accomplish a great deal with a frenzied effort.
- To move noisily, quickly, and dramatically, becoming the center of attention.
- To tear apart in a violent, destructive, and/or chaotic manner.
- To storm excessivly; to fume and rage violently.
- To swirl quickly and violently.
- To cause an uproar.
- (ambitransitive, of the weather) To be violent, with winds of 119 km/h (74 miles per hour) or greater, usually accompanied by rain, lightning, and thunder.
- To chase violently or rush after and force along.
noun
- (cocktails) A sweet alcoholic drink made with rum, lemon juice (or sometimes other fruit juice), and either passion fruit syrup or fassionola.
- (in particular, meteorology) A severe tropical cyclone in the North Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, or in the eastern North Pacific off the west coast of Mexico, with winds of 119 km/h (74 miles per hour) or greater accompanied by rain, lightning, and thunder that sometimes moves into temperate latitudes.
- (sports, aerial freestyle skiing) "full—triple-full—full" – an acrobatic maneuver consisting of three flips and five twists, with one twist on the first flip, three twists on the second flip, one twist on the third flip
- A severe tropical cyclone; an intense storm rotating around a central eye.
- (figurative) A great forceful onrush.
- a severe tropical cyclone usually with heavy rains and winds moving at 63-136 knots (12 on the Beaufort scale)
verb
- put out considerable effort
- administer an anesthetic drug to
- thrust or extend out
- prepare and issue for public distribution or sale
- be sexually active
- deprive of the oxygen necessary for combustion
- cause to be out on a fielding play
- put out, as of a candle or a light
- retire
- to cause inconvenience or discomfort to
- (baseball and cricket) To cause a player on offense to be out.
- (boxing and medicine) Synonym of knock out: to render unconscious.
- To extinguish (fire).
- To expel.
- To cause someone to be out of sorts; to annoy, impose, inconvenience, or disturb.
- (intransitive, originally US slang) To consent to having sex.
- To turn off (light).
- To broadcast, to publish.
- To remove from office.
- (intransitive) To go out, to head out, especially (sailing) to set sail.
- (sports) To knock out: to eliminate from a competition.
- (transitive) To place outside, to remove, particularly
- To dislocate (a joint).
- (transitive) To blind (eyes).
- To produce, to emit.
adj
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To work very hard.
- (transitive) To work on or shape with tools, e.g., hand-tooled leather.
- (transitive) To equip with tools.
- (transitive, slang) To put down another person (possibly in a subtle, hidden way), and in that way to use him or her to meet a goal.
- (transitive, volleyball) To intentionally attack the ball so that it deflects off a blocker out of bounds.
- (intransitive, slang) To travel in a vehicle; to ride or drive.
- furnish with tools
- work with a tool
- ride in a car with no particular goal and just for the pleasure of it
- drive
noun
- A person or group which is used or controlled, usually unwittingly, by another person or group, a pawn.
- (vulgar, informal) A penis, notably with a sexual or erotic connotation.
- Anything that aids someone to perform an operation; an instrument; a means.
- Any piece of equipment used in a profession, such as a craftsman's.
- Any physical device meant to ease or do a task.
- (computing) A piece of software used to develop software or hardware, or to perform low-level operations.
- (slang, Canada, US, MTE, MLE, and possibly wider) A handgun.
- (by extension, vulgar, slang, derogatory) An obnoxious or uptight person.
- (baseball) A particular skill pertaining to baseball (such as hitting, running, etc.).
- the means whereby some act is accomplished
- obscene terms for penis
- an implement used in the practice of a vocation
- a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else
noun
- A propensity to work hard and get things done; ability to hustle.
- A scam or swindle.
- (slang) An act of prostitution.
- (informal) An activity, especially to achieve a desired goal or make money.
- (prison slang) An activity, such as prostitution or reselling stolen items, that a prisoner uses to earn money in prison.
- A state of busy activity.
- (preceded by a definite article) A type of disco dance, commonly danced to the Van McCoy song The Hustle (1975).
- a rapid active commotion
- a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property
verb
- (transitive) To bundle; to stow something quickly.
- (intransitive) To rush or hurry.
- (informal) To be a prostitute; to exchange use of one's body for sexual purposes for money.
- To play deliberately badly at a game or sport in an attempt to encourage players to challenge one.
- (informal) To sell sex; to work as a pimp.
- (informal) To work.
- (informal) To put a lot of effort into one's work.
- To dance the hustle, a disco dance.
- (transitive) To con, swindle, or deceive, especially financially.
- (informal) To obtain by illicit or forceful action.
- (informal) To serve (a clientele) as a prostitute.
- To push someone roughly; to crowd; to jostle.
- sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity
- cause to move furtively and hurriedly
- move or cause to move energetically or busily
- get by trying hard
- pressure or urge someone into an action
adv
verb
adv
noun
verb
- work doggedly or persistently
- walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud
- strike heavily, especially with the fist or a bat
- (intransitive, by extension) To work slowly and deliberately at a tedious task.
- (intransitive) To walk slowly or doggedly, encountering resistance.
- To strike something with a heavy blow, especially a ball with a bat.
noun
- (countable, cricket) An aggressive shot played with little skill.
- (countable) A book or other media that is difficult to get through due to dullness, density, or lack of narrative momentum.
- (countable, uncountable, chiefly British, Australia and Canada, by extension) A hard, persistent effort, session of work, or period.
- (countable, uncountable, chiefly British, Australia and Canada) A long, tedious walk or march.
verb
- To work hard.
- To form a felt-like texture, similar to the way beaver fur is used for felt-making.
- (backgammon) After being doubled, to immediately double the stakes again, a move that keeps the doubling cube on one’s own side of the board.
- (slang) To spot a beard in a game of beaver.
- (logging, slang) To cut a continuous ring around a tree that one is felling.
- work hard on something
noun
- (countable, backgammon) A move in response to being doubled, in which one immediately doubles the stakes again, keeping the doubling cube on one’s own side of the board.
- Butter.
- Alternative letter-case form of Beaver (“member of the youngest wing of the Scout movement”).
- Beaver cloth, a heavy felted woollen cloth, used chiefly for making overcoats.
- Alternative spelling of bevor (“part of a helmet”).
- A brown colour, like that of a beaver.
- (chiefly Canada, US, slang, countable) The pubic hair near a vulva or a vulva itself; (attributively) denoting films or literature featuring nude women.
- (Canada, US) Beaver pelts as an article of exchange or as a standard of value.
- (US, offensive, slang) A woman, especially one who is sexually attractive.
- (countable) A semiaquatic rodent of the genus Castor, having a wide, flat tail and webbed feet, native to the Northern Hemisphere.
- (countable, slang) A beard or a bearded person.
- (countable) A hat, of various shapes, made from a felted beaver fur (or later of silk), fashionable in Europe between 1550 and 1850.
- The fur of the beaver.
- (uncountable, historical, slang) A game, in which points are scored by spotting beards.
- a movable piece of armor on a medieval helmet used to protect the lower face
- the soft brown fur of the beaver
- a hat made with the fur of a beaver (or similar material)
- a full beard
- large semiaquatic rodent with webbed hind feet and a broad flat tail; construct complex dams and underwater lodges
- a man's hat with a tall crown; usually covered with silk or with beaver fur
verb
- work hard
- remove, harvest, or recover by digging
- remove the inner part or the core of
- get the meaning of something
- turn up, loosen, or remove earth
- thrust down or into
- create by digging
- poke or thrust abruptly
- (transitive) To get by digging; to take from the ground; often with up.
- (mining) To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.
- (volleyball) To defend against an attack hit by the opposing team by successfully passing the ball
- To thrust; to poke.
- (figurative) To investigate, to research, often followed by out or up.
- (transitive, intransitive) To move hard-packed earth out of the way, especially downward to make a hole with a shovel. Or to drill, or the like, through rocks, roads, or the like. More generally, to make any similar hole by moving material out of the way.
noun
- the act of digging
- the site of an archeological exploration
- an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect
- the act of touching someone suddenly with your finger or elbow
- a small gouge (as in the cover of a book)
- An archeological or paleontological investigation, or the site where such an investigation is taking place.
- The occupation of digging for gold.
- (music, slang) A rare or interesting vinyl record bought second-hand.
- (medicine, colloquial) Digoxin.
- (cricket) An innings.
- A thrust; a poke.
- (volleyball) A defensive pass of the ball that has been attacked by the opposing team.
- A cutting, sarcastic remark.
verb
- work hard
- act as a servant for older boys, in British public schools
- exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress
- (intransitive, UK, Ireland, education, historical, colloquial) Of a younger student, to act as a servant for senior students in many British boarding schools.
- (transitive, UK, Ireland, education, historical, colloquial) To have (a younger student) act as a servant in this way.
noun
- finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking
- offensive term for a homosexual man
- (US, vulgar, derogatory, offensive) An annoying person.
- (education, historical, colloquial) A younger student acting as a servant for senior students.
- (US, technical) In textile inspections, a rough or coarse defect in the woven fabric.
- (US, Canada, vulgar, usually offensive, sometimes endearing) A homosexual man.
- (UK, Ireland, colloquial) A cigarette.
- (slang, offensive, usually derogatory) An effeminate or unusual homosexual man.
verb
- work hard
- make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together
- reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading
- press or grind with a crushing noise
- created by grinding
- dance by rotating the pelvis in an erotically suggestive way, often while in contact with one's partner such that the dancers' legs are interlaced
- shape or form by grinding
- (transitive) To reduce to smaller pieces by crushing with lateral motion.
- (sports, intransitive) To slide the flat portion of a skateboard or snowboard across an obstacle such as a railing.
- (slang, Hawaii) To eat.
- (slang) To dance in a sexually suggestive way with both partners in very close proximity, often pressed against each other.
- To produce mechanically and repetitively as if by turning a crank.
- (slang) To rub one's body against another's in a sexual way; to frottage.
- To move with much difficulty or friction; to grate.
- (transitive) To shape with the force of friction.
- (metalworking) To remove material by rubbing with an abrasive surface.
- (transitive) To operate by turning a crank.
- To instill through repetitive teaching.
- (video games) To repeat a task a large number of times in a row to achieve a specific goal.
- (intransitive, slang) To work or study hard; to hustle or drudge.
- (transitive, slang) To annoy or irritate (a person); to grind one's gears.
- (intransitive) To become ground, pulverized, or polished by friction.
- (transitive) To oppress, hold down or weaken.
- (slang, intransitive) To rotate the hips erotically.
noun
- an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious
- the act of grinding to a powder or dust
- the grade of particle fineness to which a substance is ground
- hard monotonous routine work
- A specific degree of pulverization of coffee beans.
- A grinding trick on a skateboard or snowboard.
- (uncountable, slang) Hustle; hard work.
- A traditional communal pilot whale hunt in the Faroe Islands.
- Something that has been reduced to powder, something that has been ground.
- (uncountable, music) Clipping of grindcore (“subgenre of heavy metal”).
- A tedious and laborious task.
- The act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by friction.
verb
noun
- an organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action (particularly via labor unions) or the leaders of this movement
- concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child
- productive work (especially physical work done for wages)
- a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages
- any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted
- (chiefly American spelling) Alternative spelling of labour.
verb
- work hard
- strive and make an effort to reach a goal
- undergo the efforts of childbirth
- To suffer the pangs of childbirth.
- To be oppressed with difficulties or disease; to do one's work under conditions which make it especially hard or wearisome; to move slowly, as against opposition, or under a burden.
- (transitive) To belabour, to emphasise or expand upon (a point in a debate, etc).
- (nautical) To pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent sea.
- (intransitive) To toil, to work.
noun
- An effort expended on a particular task; toil, work.
- an organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action (particularly via labor unions) or the leaders of this movement
- concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child
- productive work (especially physical work done for wages)
- a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages
- any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted
- (uncountable) Workers in general; the working class, the workforce; sometimes specifically the labour movement, organised labour.
- (historical) A traditional unit of area in Mexico and Texas, equivalent to 177.1 acres or 71.67 ha.
- The time period during which a mother gives birth.
- (uncountable) A political party or force aiming or claiming to represent the interests of labour.
- (uncommon, zoology) A group of moles.
- That which requires hard work for its accomplishment; that which demands effort.
- (medicine, obstetrics) The act or process of a mother giving birth.
- (nautical) The pitching or tossing of a vessel which results in the straining of timbers and rigging.
verb
noun
- (glassblowing, blow molding) The excess material which adheres to the top, base, or rim of a glass object when it is cut or knocked off from a blowpipe or punty, or from the mold-filling process. Typically removed after annealing as part of the finishing process (e.g. scored and snapped off).
- A spot; a defilement.
- (glassblowing) The metallic oxide from a blowpipe which has adhered to a glass object.
- Confusion, turmoil.
- Hard work.
- (glassblowing) The glass circling the tip of a blowpipe or punty, such as the residual glass after detaching a blown vessel, or the lower part of a gather.
verb
noun
verb
noun
noun
- someone extremely diligent or skillful
- a cruel wicked and inhuman person
- an evil supernatural being
- Any of various hesperiid butterflies of the genera Notocrypta and Udaspes.
- (in the plural) A person's fears or anxieties.
- (now chiefly historical) A false god or idol; a Satanic divinity.
- (Greek mythology) A tutelary deity or spirit intermediate between the major Olympian gods and mankind, especially a deified hero or the entity which supposedly guided Socrates, telling him what not to do.
- (card games) A type of patience or solitaire (card game) played in the UK and/or US.
- A source (especially personified) of great evil or wickedness; a destructive feeling or character flaw.
- A hypothetical entity with special abilities postulated for the sake of a thought experiment in philosophy or physics.
- A person's inner spirit or genius; a guiding or creative impulse.
- A very wicked or malevolent person; also (in weakened sense) a mischievous person, especially a child.
- (computing) Alternative spelling of daemon.
- Someone with great strength, passion or skill for a particular activity, pursuit etc.; an enthusiast.
- A spirit not considered to be inherently evil; a (non-Christian) deity or supernatural being.
- (physics) Acronym of distinct electron motion particle: a quasiparticle, a type of massless neutral electron excitation associated with superconductivity.
- An evil being resident in or working for Hell; a devil.
adj
- Thorough, careful, or vigilant in one’s task performance; painstaking.
- characterized by extreme care and great effort
- Influenced by conscience; principled; governed by a strict regard to the dictates of conscience, or by the known or supposed rules of right and wrong (said of a person).
- guided by or in accordance with conscience or sense of right and wrong
adj
- extremely scrupulous and conscientious
- concerned with sacred matters or religion or the church
- of or relating to clergy bound by monastic vows
- having or showing belief in and reverence for a deity
- (Christianity) Belonging or pertaining to a religious order.
- Concerning religion.
- Committed to the practice or adherence of religion.
- Highly dedicated, as one would be to a religion.
noun
noun
- great and constant diligence and attention
- complete attention; intense mental effort
- bringing together military forces
- the spatial property of being crowded together
- increase in density
- strengthening the concentration (as of a solute in a mixture) by removing diluting material
- the strength of a solution; number of molecules of a substance in a given volume
- The direction of attention to a specific object.
- (physical chemistry) The amount of solute in a solution measured in suitable units (e.g., parts per million (ppm))
- The matching game pelmanism.
- The act, process or product of reducing the volume of a liquid, as by evaporation.
- The act or process of removing the dress of ore and of reducing the valuable part to smaller compass, as by currents of air or water.
- A field or course of study on which one focuses, especially as a student in a college or university.
- The act, process or ability of concentrating; the process of becoming concentrated, or the state of being concentrated.
- The proportion of a substance in a whole.
adj
noun
- (countable, paraphilia, informal) A character or an individual with large body parts, usually the erogenous zones, with extremely exaggerated sizes, as the object of paraphilic arousal.
- (wrestling) Alternative form of hiper.
- (uncountable, informal) Clipping of hyperthyroidism.
- (uncountable, science fiction, informal) Clipping of hyperspace.
- (countable, bodybuilding, informal) Clipping of hyperextension.
- (uncountable, paraphilia, informal) A paraphilia involving large, exaggerated body parts, or excessive amount of expelled substances, like bodily fluids.
- (uncountable, informal) Clipping of hypersexuality.
verb
noun
- (uncountable) The tendency to work persistently.
- (archaeology) A typological classification of stone tools, associated with a technocomplex.
- (in the singular, economics) The sector of the economy consisting of large-scale enterprises.
- (countable, business, economics) Businesses of the same type, considered as a whole; trade.
- (uncountable, economics) Businesses that produce goods as opposed to services.
- (Europe software patent law) Automated production of material goods.
- persevering determination to perform a task
- the organized action of making of goods and services for sale
- the people or companies engaged in a particular kind of commercial enterprise
noun
noun
- a diligent effort
- a verbal or written request for assistance or employment or admission to a school
- liquid preparation having a soothing or antiseptic or medicinal action when applied to the skin
- the action of putting something into operation
- the work of applying something
- a program that gives a computer instructions that provide the user with tools to accomplish a task
- the act of bringing something to bear; using it for a particular purpose
- (bureaucracy, law) A petition, entreaty, or other request, with the adposition for denoting the subject matter.
- A verbal or written request for assistance or employment or admission to a school, course or similar.
- The substance applied.
- The act of requesting, claiming, or petitioning something.
- (computing theory) The substitution of a specific value for the parameter in the abstraction, in lambda calculus.
- The act of applying as a means; the employment of means to accomplish an end; specific use.
- The act of directing or referring something to a particular case, to discover or illustrate agreement or disagreement, fitness, or correspondence.
- A kind of needlework; appliqué.
- Diligence; close thought or attention.
- (computing) A computer program or the set of software that the end user perceives as a single entity as a tool for a well-defined purpose. (Also called: application program; application software.)
- The act of physically applying or laying on.
noun
- a diligent effort
- The qualities of a hard worker, including conscientiousness, determination, and perseverance.
- persevering determination to perform a task
- conscientiousness in paying proper attention to a task; giving the degree of care required in a given situation
- (Scots law) The process by which persons, lands, or effects are seized for debt; process for enforcing the attendance of witnesses or the production of writings.
- Steady application; industry; careful work involving long-term effort.
- (historical) A four-wheeled public stage-coach, widely used in France before the general establishment of the railways.
- Carefulness, in particular, the necessary care appropriate to a particular task or responsibility.
noun
- A propensity to work hard and get things done; ability to hustle.
- A scam or swindle.
- (slang) An act of prostitution.
- (informal) An activity, especially to achieve a desired goal or make money.
- (prison slang) An activity, such as prostitution or reselling stolen items, that a prisoner uses to earn money in prison.
- A state of busy activity.
- (preceded by a definite article) A type of disco dance, commonly danced to the Van McCoy song The Hustle (1975).
- a rapid active commotion
- a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property
verb
- (transitive) To bundle; to stow something quickly.
- (intransitive) To rush or hurry.
- (informal) To be a prostitute; to exchange use of one's body for sexual purposes for money.
- To play deliberately badly at a game or sport in an attempt to encourage players to challenge one.
- (informal) To sell sex; to work as a pimp.
- (informal) To work.
- (informal) To put a lot of effort into one's work.
- To dance the hustle, a disco dance.
- (transitive) To con, swindle, or deceive, especially financially.
- (informal) To obtain by illicit or forceful action.
- (informal) To serve (a clientele) as a prostitute.
- To push someone roughly; to crowd; to jostle.
- sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity
- cause to move furtively and hurriedly
- move or cause to move energetically or busily
- get by trying hard
- pressure or urge someone into an action
noun
- someone extremely diligent or skillful
- a cruel wicked and inhuman person
- an evil supernatural being
- Any of various hesperiid butterflies of the genera Notocrypta and Udaspes.
- (in the plural) A person's fears or anxieties.
- (now chiefly historical) A false god or idol; a Satanic divinity.
- (Greek mythology) A tutelary deity or spirit intermediate between the major Olympian gods and mankind, especially a deified hero or the entity which supposedly guided Socrates, telling him what not to do.
- (card games) A type of patience or solitaire (card game) played in the UK and/or US.
- A source (especially personified) of great evil or wickedness; a destructive feeling or character flaw.
- A hypothetical entity with special abilities postulated for the sake of a thought experiment in philosophy or physics.
- A person's inner spirit or genius; a guiding or creative impulse.
- A very wicked or malevolent person; also (in weakened sense) a mischievous person, especially a child.
- (computing) Alternative spelling of daemon.
- Someone with great strength, passion or skill for a particular activity, pursuit etc.; an enthusiast.
- A spirit not considered to be inherently evil; a (non-Christian) deity or supernatural being.
- (physics) Acronym of distinct electron motion particle: a quasiparticle, a type of massless neutral electron excitation associated with superconductivity.
- An evil being resident in or working for Hell; a devil.
noun
- great and constant diligence and attention
- complete attention; intense mental effort
- bringing together military forces
- the spatial property of being crowded together
- increase in density
- strengthening the concentration (as of a solute in a mixture) by removing diluting material
- the strength of a solution; number of molecules of a substance in a given volume
- The direction of attention to a specific object.
- (physical chemistry) The amount of solute in a solution measured in suitable units (e.g., parts per million (ppm))
- The matching game pelmanism.
- The act, process or product of reducing the volume of a liquid, as by evaporation.
- The act or process of removing the dress of ore and of reducing the valuable part to smaller compass, as by currents of air or water.
- A field or course of study on which one focuses, especially as a student in a college or university.
- The act, process or ability of concentrating; the process of becoming concentrated, or the state of being concentrated.
- The proportion of a substance in a whole.
noun
- (uncountable) The tendency to work persistently.
- (archaeology) A typological classification of stone tools, associated with a technocomplex.
- (in the singular, economics) The sector of the economy consisting of large-scale enterprises.
- (countable, business, economics) Businesses of the same type, considered as a whole; trade.
- (uncountable, economics) Businesses that produce goods as opposed to services.
- (Europe software patent law) Automated production of material goods.
- persevering determination to perform a task
- the organized action of making of goods and services for sale
- the people or companies engaged in a particular kind of commercial enterprise
verb
- work hard
- strive and make an effort to reach a goal
- undergo the efforts of childbirth
- To suffer the pangs of childbirth.
- To be oppressed with difficulties or disease; to do one's work under conditions which make it especially hard or wearisome; to move slowly, as against opposition, or under a burden.
- (transitive) To belabour, to emphasise or expand upon (a point in a debate, etc).
- (nautical) To pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent sea.
- (intransitive) To toil, to work.
noun
- An effort expended on a particular task; toil, work.
- an organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action (particularly via labor unions) or the leaders of this movement
- concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child
- productive work (especially physical work done for wages)
- a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages
- any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted
- (uncountable) Workers in general; the working class, the workforce; sometimes specifically the labour movement, organised labour.
- (historical) A traditional unit of area in Mexico and Texas, equivalent to 177.1 acres or 71.67 ha.
- The time period during which a mother gives birth.
- (uncountable) A political party or force aiming or claiming to represent the interests of labour.
- (uncommon, zoology) A group of moles.
- That which requires hard work for its accomplishment; that which demands effort.
- (medicine, obstetrics) The act or process of a mother giving birth.
- (nautical) The pitching or tossing of a vessel which results in the straining of timbers and rigging.
verb
- To attempt to accomplish a great deal with a frenzied effort.
- To move noisily, quickly, and dramatically, becoming the center of attention.
- To tear apart in a violent, destructive, and/or chaotic manner.
- To storm excessivly; to fume and rage violently.
- To swirl quickly and violently.
- To cause an uproar.
- (ambitransitive, of the weather) To be violent, with winds of 119 km/h (74 miles per hour) or greater, usually accompanied by rain, lightning, and thunder.
- To chase violently or rush after and force along.
noun
- (cocktails) A sweet alcoholic drink made with rum, lemon juice (or sometimes other fruit juice), and either passion fruit syrup or fassionola.
- (in particular, meteorology) A severe tropical cyclone in the North Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, or in the eastern North Pacific off the west coast of Mexico, with winds of 119 km/h (74 miles per hour) or greater accompanied by rain, lightning, and thunder that sometimes moves into temperate latitudes.
- (sports, aerial freestyle skiing) "full—triple-full—full" – an acrobatic maneuver consisting of three flips and five twists, with one twist on the first flip, three twists on the second flip, one twist on the third flip
- A severe tropical cyclone; an intense storm rotating around a central eye.
- (figurative) A great forceful onrush.
- a severe tropical cyclone usually with heavy rains and winds moving at 63-136 knots (12 on the Beaufort scale)
verb
- put out considerable effort
- administer an anesthetic drug to
- thrust or extend out
- prepare and issue for public distribution or sale
- be sexually active
- deprive of the oxygen necessary for combustion
- cause to be out on a fielding play
- put out, as of a candle or a light
- retire
- to cause inconvenience or discomfort to
- (baseball and cricket) To cause a player on offense to be out.
- (boxing and medicine) Synonym of knock out: to render unconscious.
- To extinguish (fire).
- To expel.
- To cause someone to be out of sorts; to annoy, impose, inconvenience, or disturb.
- (intransitive, originally US slang) To consent to having sex.
- To turn off (light).
- To broadcast, to publish.
- To remove from office.
- (intransitive) To go out, to head out, especially (sailing) to set sail.
- (sports) To knock out: to eliminate from a competition.
- (transitive) To place outside, to remove, particularly
- To dislocate (a joint).
- (transitive) To blind (eyes).
- To produce, to emit.
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- (intransitive) To work very hard.
- (transitive) To work on or shape with tools, e.g., hand-tooled leather.
- (transitive) To equip with tools.
- (transitive, slang) To put down another person (possibly in a subtle, hidden way), and in that way to use him or her to meet a goal.
- (transitive, volleyball) To intentionally attack the ball so that it deflects off a blocker out of bounds.
- (intransitive, slang) To travel in a vehicle; to ride or drive.
- furnish with tools
- work with a tool
- ride in a car with no particular goal and just for the pleasure of it
- drive
noun
- A person or group which is used or controlled, usually unwittingly, by another person or group, a pawn.
- (vulgar, informal) A penis, notably with a sexual or erotic connotation.
- Anything that aids someone to perform an operation; an instrument; a means.
- Any piece of equipment used in a profession, such as a craftsman's.
- Any physical device meant to ease or do a task.
- (computing) A piece of software used to develop software or hardware, or to perform low-level operations.
- (slang, Canada, US, MTE, MLE, and possibly wider) A handgun.
- (by extension, vulgar, slang, derogatory) An obnoxious or uptight person.
- (baseball) A particular skill pertaining to baseball (such as hitting, running, etc.).
- the means whereby some act is accomplished
- obscene terms for penis
- an implement used in the practice of a vocation
- a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else
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noun
verb
- work doggedly or persistently
- walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud
- strike heavily, especially with the fist or a bat
- (intransitive, by extension) To work slowly and deliberately at a tedious task.
- (intransitive) To walk slowly or doggedly, encountering resistance.
- To strike something with a heavy blow, especially a ball with a bat.
noun
- (countable, cricket) An aggressive shot played with little skill.
- (countable) A book or other media that is difficult to get through due to dullness, density, or lack of narrative momentum.
- (countable, uncountable, chiefly British, Australia and Canada, by extension) A hard, persistent effort, session of work, or period.
- (countable, uncountable, chiefly British, Australia and Canada) A long, tedious walk or march.
verb
- To work hard.
- To form a felt-like texture, similar to the way beaver fur is used for felt-making.
- (backgammon) After being doubled, to immediately double the stakes again, a move that keeps the doubling cube on one’s own side of the board.
- (slang) To spot a beard in a game of beaver.
- (logging, slang) To cut a continuous ring around a tree that one is felling.
- work hard on something
noun
- (countable, backgammon) A move in response to being doubled, in which one immediately doubles the stakes again, keeping the doubling cube on one’s own side of the board.
- Butter.
- Alternative letter-case form of Beaver (“member of the youngest wing of the Scout movement”).
- Beaver cloth, a heavy felted woollen cloth, used chiefly for making overcoats.
- Alternative spelling of bevor (“part of a helmet”).
- A brown colour, like that of a beaver.
- (chiefly Canada, US, slang, countable) The pubic hair near a vulva or a vulva itself; (attributively) denoting films or literature featuring nude women.
- (Canada, US) Beaver pelts as an article of exchange or as a standard of value.
- (US, offensive, slang) A woman, especially one who is sexually attractive.
- (countable) A semiaquatic rodent of the genus Castor, having a wide, flat tail and webbed feet, native to the Northern Hemisphere.
- (countable, slang) A beard or a bearded person.
- (countable) A hat, of various shapes, made from a felted beaver fur (or later of silk), fashionable in Europe between 1550 and 1850.
- The fur of the beaver.
- (uncountable, historical, slang) A game, in which points are scored by spotting beards.
- a movable piece of armor on a medieval helmet used to protect the lower face
- the soft brown fur of the beaver
- a hat made with the fur of a beaver (or similar material)
- a full beard
- large semiaquatic rodent with webbed hind feet and a broad flat tail; construct complex dams and underwater lodges
- a man's hat with a tall crown; usually covered with silk or with beaver fur
verb
- work hard
- remove, harvest, or recover by digging
- remove the inner part or the core of
- get the meaning of something
- turn up, loosen, or remove earth
- thrust down or into
- create by digging
- poke or thrust abruptly
- (transitive) To get by digging; to take from the ground; often with up.
- (mining) To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.
- (volleyball) To defend against an attack hit by the opposing team by successfully passing the ball
- To thrust; to poke.
- (figurative) To investigate, to research, often followed by out or up.
- (transitive, intransitive) To move hard-packed earth out of the way, especially downward to make a hole with a shovel. Or to drill, or the like, through rocks, roads, or the like. More generally, to make any similar hole by moving material out of the way.
noun
- the act of digging
- the site of an archeological exploration
- an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect
- the act of touching someone suddenly with your finger or elbow
- a small gouge (as in the cover of a book)
- An archeological or paleontological investigation, or the site where such an investigation is taking place.
- The occupation of digging for gold.
- (music, slang) A rare or interesting vinyl record bought second-hand.
- (medicine, colloquial) Digoxin.
- (cricket) An innings.
- A thrust; a poke.
- (volleyball) A defensive pass of the ball that has been attacked by the opposing team.
- A cutting, sarcastic remark.
verb
- work hard
- act as a servant for older boys, in British public schools
- exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress
- (intransitive, UK, Ireland, education, historical, colloquial) Of a younger student, to act as a servant for senior students in many British boarding schools.
- (transitive, UK, Ireland, education, historical, colloquial) To have (a younger student) act as a servant in this way.
noun
- finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking
- offensive term for a homosexual man
- (US, vulgar, derogatory, offensive) An annoying person.
- (education, historical, colloquial) A younger student acting as a servant for senior students.
- (US, technical) In textile inspections, a rough or coarse defect in the woven fabric.
- (US, Canada, vulgar, usually offensive, sometimes endearing) A homosexual man.
- (UK, Ireland, colloquial) A cigarette.
- (slang, offensive, usually derogatory) An effeminate or unusual homosexual man.
verb
- work hard
- make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together
- reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading
- press or grind with a crushing noise
- created by grinding
- dance by rotating the pelvis in an erotically suggestive way, often while in contact with one's partner such that the dancers' legs are interlaced
- shape or form by grinding
- (transitive) To reduce to smaller pieces by crushing with lateral motion.
- (sports, intransitive) To slide the flat portion of a skateboard or snowboard across an obstacle such as a railing.
- (slang, Hawaii) To eat.
- (slang) To dance in a sexually suggestive way with both partners in very close proximity, often pressed against each other.
- To produce mechanically and repetitively as if by turning a crank.
- (slang) To rub one's body against another's in a sexual way; to frottage.
- To move with much difficulty or friction; to grate.
- (transitive) To shape with the force of friction.
- (metalworking) To remove material by rubbing with an abrasive surface.
- (transitive) To operate by turning a crank.
- To instill through repetitive teaching.
- (video games) To repeat a task a large number of times in a row to achieve a specific goal.
- (intransitive, slang) To work or study hard; to hustle or drudge.
- (transitive, slang) To annoy or irritate (a person); to grind one's gears.
- (intransitive) To become ground, pulverized, or polished by friction.
- (transitive) To oppress, hold down or weaken.
- (slang, intransitive) To rotate the hips erotically.
noun
- an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious
- the act of grinding to a powder or dust
- the grade of particle fineness to which a substance is ground
- hard monotonous routine work
- A specific degree of pulverization of coffee beans.
- A grinding trick on a skateboard or snowboard.
- (uncountable, slang) Hustle; hard work.
- A traditional communal pilot whale hunt in the Faroe Islands.
- Something that has been reduced to powder, something that has been ground.
- (uncountable, music) Clipping of grindcore (“subgenre of heavy metal”).
- A tedious and laborious task.
- The act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by friction.
verb
noun
- an organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action (particularly via labor unions) or the leaders of this movement
- concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child
- productive work (especially physical work done for wages)
- a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages
- any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted
- (chiefly American spelling) Alternative spelling of labour.
verb
- work hard
- strive and make an effort to reach a goal
- undergo the efforts of childbirth
- To suffer the pangs of childbirth.
- To be oppressed with difficulties or disease; to do one's work under conditions which make it especially hard or wearisome; to move slowly, as against opposition, or under a burden.
- (transitive) To belabour, to emphasise or expand upon (a point in a debate, etc).
- (nautical) To pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent sea.
- (intransitive) To toil, to work.
noun
- An effort expended on a particular task; toil, work.
- an organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action (particularly via labor unions) or the leaders of this movement
- concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child
- productive work (especially physical work done for wages)
- a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages
- any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted
- (uncountable) Workers in general; the working class, the workforce; sometimes specifically the labour movement, organised labour.
- (historical) A traditional unit of area in Mexico and Texas, equivalent to 177.1 acres or 71.67 ha.
- The time period during which a mother gives birth.
- (uncountable) A political party or force aiming or claiming to represent the interests of labour.
- (uncommon, zoology) A group of moles.
- That which requires hard work for its accomplishment; that which demands effort.
- (medicine, obstetrics) The act or process of a mother giving birth.
- (nautical) The pitching or tossing of a vessel which results in the straining of timbers and rigging.
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noun
- (glassblowing, blow molding) The excess material which adheres to the top, base, or rim of a glass object when it is cut or knocked off from a blowpipe or punty, or from the mold-filling process. Typically removed after annealing as part of the finishing process (e.g. scored and snapped off).
- A spot; a defilement.
- (glassblowing) The metallic oxide from a blowpipe which has adhered to a glass object.
- Confusion, turmoil.
- Hard work.
- (glassblowing) The glass circling the tip of a blowpipe or punty, such as the residual glass after detaching a blown vessel, or the lower part of a gather.
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- Strenuous; diligent.
- (said of an action or an utterance) Serious, sincere, ingenuous.
- (with a positive sense) Focused in the pursuit of an objective; honestly eager to obtain or do.
- (said of a person or a person's character) Possessing or characterised by seriousness.
- Serious; weighty; of a serious, weighty, or important nature; important.
- Intent; focused; showing a lot of concentration.
- characterized by a firm and humorless belief in the validity of your opinions
- not distracted by anything unrelated to the goal
- sincerely earnest
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verb
adj
- Thorough, careful, or vigilant in one’s task performance; painstaking.
- characterized by extreme care and great effort
- Influenced by conscience; principled; governed by a strict regard to the dictates of conscience, or by the known or supposed rules of right and wrong (said of a person).
- guided by or in accordance with conscience or sense of right and wrong
adj
- extremely scrupulous and conscientious
- concerned with sacred matters or religion or the church
- of or relating to clergy bound by monastic vows
- having or showing belief in and reverence for a deity
- (Christianity) Belonging or pertaining to a religious order.
- Concerning religion.
- Committed to the practice or adherence of religion.
- Highly dedicated, as one would be to a religion.
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- (countable, paraphilia, informal) A character or an individual with large body parts, usually the erogenous zones, with extremely exaggerated sizes, as the object of paraphilic arousal.
- (wrestling) Alternative form of hiper.
- (uncountable, informal) Clipping of hyperthyroidism.
- (uncountable, science fiction, informal) Clipping of hyperspace.
- (countable, bodybuilding, informal) Clipping of hyperextension.
- (uncountable, paraphilia, informal) A paraphilia involving large, exaggerated body parts, or excessive amount of expelled substances, like bodily fluids.
- (uncountable, informal) Clipping of hypersexuality.