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verb
- consider a concept without thinking of a specific example; consider abstractly or theoretically
- (transitive) To consider abstractly; to contemplate separately or by itself; to consider theoretically; to look at as a general quality.
- consider apart from a particular case or instance
- give an abstract (of)
- make off with belongings of others
- (transitive) To separate; to disengage.
- (transitive) To draw off (interest or attention).
- (intransitive, fine arts) To create abstractions.
- (transitive, euphemistic) To steal; to take away; to remove without permission.
- (transitive) To summarize; to abridge; to epitomize.
- (intransitive, rare) To perform the process of abstraction.
- (transitive) To remove; to take away; withdraw.
- (intransitive, computing) To produce an abstraction, usually by refactoring existing code. Generally used with "out".
- To conceptualize an ideal subgroup by means of the generalization of an attribute, as follows: by apprehending an attribute inherent to one individual, then separating that attribute and contemplating it by itself, then conceiving of that attribute as a general quality, then despecifying that conceived quality with respect to several or many individuals, and by then ideating a group composed of those individuals perceived to possess said quality.
- (intransitive, reflexive, literally, figuratively) To withdraw oneself; to retire.
adj
- dealing with a subject in the abstract without practical purpose or intention
- Apart from practice or reality; vague; theoretical; impersonal; not applied.
- existing only in the mind; separated from embodiment
- not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature
- Pertaining comprehensively to, or representing, a class or group of objects, as opposed to any specific object; considered apart from any application to a particular object: general, generic, nonspecific; representational.
- (object-oriented programming, of a class) Being a partial basis for subclasses rather than a complete template for objects.
- (dance) Lacking a story.
- (art, often capitalized) Free from representational qualities, in particular the non-representational styles of the 20ᵗʰ century.
- (music) Absolute.
- Insufficiently factual.
- (grammar) As a noun, denoting a concept or intangible as opposed to an object, place, or person.
- Separately expressing a property or attribute of an object that is considered to be inherent to that object: attributive, ascriptive.
- Not concrete: conceptual, ideal.
- Difficult to understand; abstruse; hard to conceptualize.
noun
- a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance
- The theoretical way of looking at things; something that exists only in idealized form.
- a sketchy summary of the main points of an argument or theory
- An abridgement or summary of a longer publication.
- (art) An abstract work of art.
- (real estate) A summary title of the key points detailing a tract of land, for ownership; abstract of title.
- (medicine) A powdered solid extract of a medicinal substance mixed with lactose.
- Something that concentrates in itself the qualities of a larger item, or multiple items.
- An abstraction; an abstract term; that which is abstract.
- Concentrated essence of a product.
noun
- An idea or notion of an abstract or theoretical nature.
- a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance
- The result of mentally abstracting an idea; the product of any mental process involving a synthesis of: separation, despecification, generalization, and ideation in any of a number of combinations.
- (geology) The merging of two river valleys by the larger of the two deepening and widening so much so, as to assimilate the smaller.
- Absence or absorption of mind; inattention to present objects; preoccupation.
- The act of focusing on one characteristic of an object rather than the object as a whole group of characteristics; the act of separating said qualities from the object or ideas.
- A member of an idealized subgroup when contemplated according to the abstracted quality which defines the subgroup.
- (computing) Hiding implementation details from the interface of a component, to decrease complexity through interdependency and improve modularity; a construct that serves as such.
- (engineering) Removal of water from a river, lake, or aquifer.
- The act of comparing commonality between distinct objects and organizing using those similarities; the act of generalizing characteristics; the product of said generalization.
- Any characteristic of an individual object when that characteristic has been separated from the object and is contemplated alone as a quality having independent existence.
- A separation from worldly objects; a recluse life; the withdrawal from one's senses.
- The act of abstracting, separating, withdrawing, or taking away; withdrawal; the state of being taken away.
- (euphemistic) The taking surreptitiously for one's own use part of the property of another; purloining.
- An idea of an idealistic, unrealistic or visionary nature.
- (chemistry) A separation of volatile parts by the act of distillation.
- (art) An abstract creation, or piece of art; qualities of artwork that are free from representational aspects.
- a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples
- the act of withdrawing or removing something
- an abstract painting
- the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances
- preoccupation with something to the exclusion of all else
noun
- an abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances
- An abstract and general idea; an abstraction.
- (generic programming) A description of supported operations on a type, including their syntax and semantics.
- Understanding retained in the mind, from experience, reasoning and imagination; a generalization (generic, basic form), or abstraction (mental impression), of a particular set of instances or occurrences (specific, though different, recorded manifestations of the concept).
verb
noun
- an abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances
- the act of becoming pregnant; fertilization of an ovum by a spermatozoon
- the event that occurred at the beginning of something
- the creation of something in the mind
- The formation of a conceptus or an implanted embryo.
- The fertilization of an ovum by a sperm to form a zygote.
- The state of being conceived; the beginning.
- The power or faculty of apprehending of forming an idea in the mind; the power of recalling a past sensation or perception; the ability to form mental abstractions.
- The start of pregnancy.
- The act of conceiving.
- An image, idea, or notion formed in the mind; a concept, plan or design.
noun
verb
- create by linking linguistic units
- put together out of artificial or natural components or parts
- reassemble mentally
- draw with suitable instruments and under specified conditions
- make by combining materials and parts
- create by organizing and linking ideas, arguments, or concepts
- (transitive) To build or form (something) by assembling parts.
- (transitive, geometry) To draw (a geometric figure) by following precise specifications and using geometric tools and techniques.
- (transitive, grammar) To build (a sentence, an argument, etc.) by arranging words or ideas.
adj
- Describing the state, aspect, or practice of an abstract concept.
- (chemistry) Of the state of an element at the time it is being generated from some compound or transitioning from one state to another; Newly released from a compound (especially hydrogen and oxygen) by a chemical reaction or electrolysis and possessing heightened reactivity; Newly synthesized (especially protein or RNA) by translation or transcription.
- Emerging; just coming into existence.
- (heraldry) Naissant.
- being born or beginning
adj
- Pertaining to ideas, or to a given idea.
- Existing only in the mind; conceptual, imaginary.
- Optimal; being the best possibility.
- Teaching or relating to the doctrine of idealism.
- Perfect, flawless, having no defects.
- (mathematics) Not actually present, but considered as present when limits at infinity are included.
- of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of the reality of ideas
- conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence; embodying an ideal
- constituting or existing only in the form of an idea or mental image or conception
noun
- (algebra) A subsemigroup with the property that if any semigroup element outside of it is added to any one of its members, the result must lie outside of it.
- (algebra, order theory, lattice theory) A non-empty lower set (of a partially ordered set) which is closed under binary suprema (a.k.a. joins).
- A perfect standard of beauty, intellect etc., or a standard of excellence to aim at.
- (algebra, Lie theory) A Lie subalgebra (subspace that is closed under the Lie bracket) 𝖍 of a given Lie algebra 𝖌 such that the Lie bracket [𝖌,𝖍] is a subset of 𝖍.
- (algebra, ring theory) A two-sided ideal; a subset of a ring which is closed under both left and right multiplication by elements of the ring.
- (set theory) A collection of sets, considered small or negligible, such that every subset of each member and the union of any two members are also members of the collection.
- model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal
- the idea of something that is perfect; something that one hopes to attain
adj
- being of the nature of a notion or concept
- not based on fact; existing only in the imagination
- not based on fact or investigation
- indulging in or influenced by fancy
- Speculative, theoretical, not the result of research.
- (finance) Used to indicate an estimate or a reference amount
- (Maine) Stubborn.
- (informal) Full of ideas or imaginings.
- Of, containing, or being a notion; mental or imaginary.
- (linguistics) Having descriptive value as opposed to a syntactic category.
noun
noun
- an idea or conclusion having general application
- (psychology) transfer of a response learned to one stimulus to a similar stimulus
- reasoning from detailed facts to general principles
- the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances
- The formulation of general concepts from specific instances by abstracting common properties.
- Inductive reasoning from detailed facts to general principles.
noun
- an idea or conclusion having general application
- (psychology) transfer of a response learned to one stimulus to a similar stimulus
- reasoning from detailed facts to general principles
- the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances
- (mathematics) A proof, axiom, problem, or definition that includes another's cases, and also some additional cases; a conclusion reached by inferring from specific cases to more general cases or principles.
- The formulation of general concepts from specific instances by abstracting common properties.
- An oversimplified or exaggerated conception, opinion, or image of the members of a group.
- Inductive reasoning from detailed facts to general principles.
- An act or instance of generalizing; concluding that something true of a subclass is true of the entire class.
noun
- The introduction of a notion, idea or thought into someone's mind.
- (embryology) The attachment of the fertilized ovum to the uterus wall.
- (surgery) The act of inserting a medical implant.
- (anatomy) The way in which an organ, bone, muscle etc. becomes inserted into its set place.
- Planting; securing a plant etc. into the ground.
- (physics) The insertion of ions into the crystal structure of another material through ion bombardment.
- the act of planting or setting in the ground
- (embryology) the organic process whereby a fertilized egg becomes implanted in the lining of the uterus of placental mammals
- a surgical procedure that places something in the human body
noun
- an idea that is implied or suggested
- what you must know in order to determine the reference of an expression
- (semantics) A meaning of a word or phrase that is suggested or implied, as opposed to a denotation, or literal meaning. A characteristic of words or phrases, or of the contexts that words and phrases are used in.
- (logic) The attribute or aggregate of attributes connoted by a term, contrasted with denotation.
noun
- Consideration of an idea; the act of revolving something in the mind.
- (countable, politics) A political upheaval in a government or state characterized by great change.
- (countable, politics) The popular removal and replacement of a government, especially by sudden violent action.
- A round of periodic changes, such as between the seasons of the year.
- A sudden, vast change in a situation, a discipline, or the way of thinking and behaving.
- (astronomy) In the case of celestial bodies, the traversal of one body along an orbit around another body.
- (card games) a rule in Tycoon where if four cards are placed down at once, the card hierarchy is reversed.
- Rotation: the turning of an object around an axis, one complete turn of an object during rotation.
- the overthrow of a government by those who are governed
- a single complete turn (axial or orbital)
- a drastic and far-reaching change in ways of thinking and behaving
noun
- A conclusion to which the mind comes by speculating; mere theory; notion; conjecture.
- (programming) The process of anticipating which branch of code will be chosen and executing it in advance.
- (business, finance) An investment involving higher-than-normal risk in order to obtain a higher-than-normal return.
- The process or act of thinking or meditating on a subject.
- A card game in which the players buy from one another trumps or whole hands, upon a chance of getting the highest trump dealt, which entitles the holder to the pool of stakes.
- (philosophy) The act or process of reasoning a priori from premises given or assumed.
- The act or practice of buying land, goods, shares, etc., in expectation of selling at a higher price, or of selling with the expectation of repurchasing at a lower price; a trading on anticipated fluctuations in price, as distinguished from trading in which the profit expected is the difference between the retail and wholesale prices, or the difference of price in different markets.
- continuous and profound contemplation or musing on a subject or series of subjects of a deep or abstruse nature
- a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence
- a hypothesis that has been formed by speculating or conjecturing (usually with little hard evidence)
- an investment that is very risky but could yield great profits
verb
- (transitive) To casually mention as an idea.
- (transitive) To cook or prepare something quickly.
- (slang) To beat up, thrash.
- (transitive, Internet) To post or upload.
- (transitive) To produce, generate.
- (slang) To vomit.
- (intransitive) To throw something upwards.
- (intransitive) To make a decision based on chance, for example by flipping a coin or rolling a dice.
verb
- perceive (an idea or situation) mentally
- convert into cash; of goods and property
- be fully aware or cognizant of
- earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages
- expand or complete (a part in a piece of baroque music) by supplying the harmonies indicated in the figured bass
- make real or concrete; give reality or substance to
- Non-Oxford British standard spelling of realize.
verb
- perceive (an idea or situation) mentally
- convert into cash; of goods and property
- be fully aware or cognizant of
- earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages
- expand or complete (a part in a piece of baroque music) by supplying the harmonies indicated in the figured bass
- make real or concrete; give reality or substance to
- (mathematics) To obtain an entity from (an abstract group or structure).
- To cause to seem real; to make realistic.
- To become aware of or understand a fact or situation.
- (linguistics) To turn (an abstract linguistic object, especially a phoneme) into a speech sound actually used in a language.
- To convert an asset or property into a more easily usable form such as money.
- Chiefly in Baroque music: to play an accompaniment, harmonies, etc., based on (a figured bass).
- Of an asset or property: to generate (a specific amount of money or interest) when invested or sold.
- Followed by on or upon: to acquire money or a profit from the sale of an asset or property.
- To sense (something) strongly or vividly as if real.
- To become aware of, understand, or appreciate (a fact or situation, especially something which has been true for some time).
- To arrange (a musical work written for a single performer) to be performed by an orchestra; to orchestrate.
- To cause (something) to seem real; to make realistic; specifically, to present (something) clearly to the mind, a person, (archaic) oneself, etc., so that it seems real.
- (reflexive) To achieve (one's) potential.
- To acquire (money, a profit, etc.) by selling an asset or property, through trade, etc.; also (followed by on), to make (money or a profit) on an investment, a venture, etc.
- To convert (an asset or property, especially investments such as bonds, shares, etc.) into a more easily usable form such as money, especially by selling the asset or property.
- (chiefly passive voice, slightly formal) To convert (something imaginary or planned, as a goal or idea) into reality; to bring into real existence, to make real.
- To complete (a musical work which is incomplete or not fully notated).
verb
- perceive (an idea or situation) mentally
- match or meet
- perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight
- make sense of; assign a meaning to
- observe as if with an eye
- deliberate or decide
- be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something
- perceive or be contemporaneous with
- date regularly; have a steady relationship with
- conduct someone someplace
- find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort
- take charge of or deal with
- come together
- see and understand, have a good eye
- go to see for professional or business reasons
- deem to be
- imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind
- go to see for a social visit
- undergo or live through a difficult experience
- go to see a place, as for entertainment
- get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally
- observe, check out, and look over carefully or inspect
- see or watch
- receive as a specified guest
- (gambling, transitive) To respond to another player's bet with a bet of equal value.
- To come to a realization of having been mistaken or misled.
- To examine something closely, or to utilize something, often as a temporary alternative.
- (used in the imperative) Used to emphasise a proposition.
- (by extension) Chiefly followed by that: to ensure that something happens, especially by personally witnessing it.
- To have an interview with; especially, to make a call upon; to visit.
- (used in the imperative) To reference or to study for further details.
- (transitive) To perceive or detect someone or something with the eyes, or as if by sight.
- To determine by trial or experiment; to find out (if or whether).
- To witness or observe by personal experience.
- (transitive) To wait upon; attend, escort.
- (figuratively) To understand.
- To date frequently.
- To form a mental picture of.
- To include as one of something's experiences.
- To watch (a movie) at a cinema, or a show on television etc.
- (transitive) To foresee, predict, or prophesy.
- To visit for a medical appointment.
- (ergative) To be the setting or time of.
noun
- the seat within a bishop's diocese where the bishop's cathedral is located
- The office of a bishop or archbishop.
- Alternative form of cee; the name of the Latin script letter C/c.
- A diocese or archdiocese: a region of a church, generally headed by a bishop or an archbishop.
- A seat; a site; a place where sovereign, autonomous, or autocephalous power is exercised.
intj
verb
- perceive (an idea or situation) mentally
- believe to be the case
- make sense of a language
- know and comprehend the nature or meaning of
- be understanding of
- (transitive, of people) To know the intent, motives or character of; (of events) to know the causes of or reasons for.
- (transitive, usually with clause as object) To comprehend a fact or principle; to regard or come to regard a belief as such.
- (transitive, intransitive, of communication or means of communication: words, statements, signs, etc.) To know the meaning of; to parse or have parsed correctly; to comprehend.
- (transitive, grammar) To regard as present when not.
- (transitive) To believe or infer, to think one grasps sufficiently despite potentially incomplete knowledge.
- (transitive, of a skill, task, profession, etc.) To be thoroughly familiar with; to be able to undertake properly.
- (humorous, rare, obsolete outside circus, acrobatics) To stand underneath, to support.
- (transitive, generally) To know the meaning of.
intj
noun
- giving concrete form to an abstract concept
- a concrete representation of an otherwise nebulous concept
- a new personification of a familiar idea
- (sociology) The ways that knowledge, personality, culture, etc. are modulated by being experienced through a physical body.
- (countable) A physical entity typifying an abstract concept.
- The process of embodying.
verb
- (by extension, often in analytic philosophy) To explain what is entailed by an idea or proposition.
- (intransitive, informal) To give up on something.
- (US) To reconcile at the end of a shift; to compare receipts of items sold to records of credit card, check and cash placed into the drawer, verifying that correct change was given out by the clerk.
- (by extension) To exchange possession of any commodity or idea for cash.
- (US, gambling) To retire; to exchange gambling chips for money when finished gambling.
- choose a simpler life style after questioning personal and career satisfaction goals
verb
- (transitive, idiomatic, of an idea) To consider from a different viewpoint.
- (transitive, figurative) To change drastically in a fundamental way, often for the better; to change to the opposite (opinion or position).
- (intransitive, idiomatic, colloquial) To suddenly change or reverse one's opinion, point of view, stated position, behaviour, etc.
- (transitive, business, management, sports) To reverse an expected outcome (of a game, etc.), usually from a losing outcome to a winning one; to return (a business, department, etc.) to effectiveness, profitability, etc.
- (transitive, idiomatic, colloquial) (often with a unit of time) To produce; to output; to generate.
- (ergative) To physically rotate (usually around a vertical axis) for a half turn (180 degrees), a whole turn (360 degrees), or an indefinite amount.
- (transitive, espionage) To convert (an agent) to work for one's own side.
- turn abruptly and face the other way, either physically or metaphorically
- improve significantly; go from bad to good
- improve dramatically
noun
verb
- (transitive) To propose (an idea) for consideration.
- (transitive, finance) To allow (the exchange value of a currency) to be determined by the markets.
- (transitive, finance) To issue or sell shares in a company (or units in a trust) to members of the public, followed by listing on a stock exchange.
- (intransitive) To drift or wander aimlessly.
- (intransitive, electronics) To be not connected or referenced to a known reference voltage.
- (poker) To perform a float.
- (transitive) To spread plaster over (a surface), using the tool called a float.
- (intransitive, colloquial) Of an idea or scheme, to be viable.
- (transitive) To cause to drift gently through the air, to waft.
- (intransitive) To move in a fluid manner.
- (intransitive) To be capable of floating.
- (transitive) To transport by float (vehicular trailer).
- (intransitive, aviation) To remain airborne, without touching down, for an excessive length of time during landing, due to excessive airspeed during the landing flare.
- (transitive, retail) To prepare a till (cash register) for operation, either by putting a float (cash amount) in the cash drawer to provide change for customers making cash payments or (by extension) by recording the time a till starts being used for card payments if it is card-only
- (transitive, colloquial) To extend a short-term loan to.
- (intransitive) To drift gently through the air.
- To be supported by a liquid of greater density, such that part (of the object or substance) remains above the surface.
- (intransitive) To move in a particular direction with the liquid in which one is floating.
- (intransitive, figurative) To circulate.
- (transitive) To use a float (rasp-like tool) upon.
- (transitive) To cause something to be suspended in a fluid of greater density.
- (computing, publishing, transitive) To cause (an element within a document) to float above or beside others.
- (intransitive)To automatically adjust a parameter as related parameters change.
- (intransitive, of an object or substance) To be supported by a fluid of greater density (than the object).
- (intransitive, finance) (of currencies) To have an exchange value determined by the markets, as opposed to by central fiat.
- move lightly, as if suspended
- allow (currencies) to fluctuate
- put into the water
- be in motion due to some air or water current
- be afloat either on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom
- convert from a fixed point notation to a floating point notation
- set afloat
- make the surface of level or smooth
- circulate or discuss tentatively; test the waters with
noun
- (poker) A maneuver where a player calls on the flop or turn with a weak hand, with the intention of bluffing after a subsequent community card.
- A breakdancing move in which the body is held parallel to the floor while balancing on one or both hands.
- (biology) The gas-filled sac, bag, or body of a siphonophore; a pneumatophore.
- A polishing block used in marble working; a runner.
- (automotive) A car carrier or car transporter truck or truck-and-trailer combination.
- A small sum of money put in a cashier's till, or otherwise secured, at the start of business, to enable change to be made.
- (weaving) A weft thread that passes over two or more warp threads (or less commonly, warp over weft).
- (publishing, digital typesetting) Any object (element) whose location in composition (page makeup, pagination) does not flow within body text but rather floats outside of it, usually anchored loosely (in buoy metaphor) to spots within it (citations, callouts): a figure (image), table, box, pull quote, ornament, or other floated element.
- A tool similar to a rasp, used in various trades.
- An elaborately decorated trailer or vehicle, intended for display in a parade or pageant.
- (knitting) A loose strand of yarn that passes behind one or more stitches when knitting with multiple yarns.
- (transport) A lowboy trailer.
- (insurance) Premiums taken in but not yet paid out.
- A soft beverage with a scoop of ice cream floating in it.
- A buoyant device used to support something in water or another liquid.
- (computing) A visual style on a web page that causes the styled elements to float above or beside others.
- (basketry) A decorative rod that extends over the body of a basket without being attached for part of its length.
- (programming) A floating-point number, especially one that has lower precision than a double.
- (finance) Funds committed to be paid but not yet paid.
- A floating toy made of foam, used in swimming pools.
- A mass of timber or boards fastened together, and conveyed down a stream by the current; a raft.
- A sort of trowel used for finishing concrete surfaces or smoothing plaster.
- (banking) The total amount of checks/cheques or other drafts written against a bank account but not yet cleared and charged against the account.
- (finance, Australia, and other Commonwealth countries?) An offering of shares in a company (or units in a trust) to members of the public, normally followed by a listing on a stock exchange.
- A float board.
- (British) A small vehicle used for local deliveries, especially in the term milk float.
- the time interval between the deposit of a check in a bank and its payment
- an elaborate display mounted on a platform carried by a truck (or pulled by a truck) in a procession or parade
- the number of shares outstanding and available for trading by the public
- an air-filled sac near the spinal column in many fishes that helps maintain buoyancy
- a drink with ice cream floating in it
- something that floats on the surface of water
- a hand tool with a flat face used for smoothing and finishing the surface of plaster or cement or stucco
noun
- The presentation of ideas in an abstract manner.
- The creation, principles, or ideals of abstractions, in particular art.
- a representation having no reference to concrete objects or specific examples
- an abstract genre of art; artistic content depends on internal form rather than pictorial representation
noun
- regarding something abstract as a material thing
- representing a human being as a physical thing deprived of personal qualities or individuality
- The consideration of an abstract thing as if it were concrete, or of an inanimate object as if it were living.
- (linguistics) The transformation of a natural-language statement into a form in which its actions and events are quantifiable variables.
- The consideration of a human being as an impersonal object.
- (programming) A process that makes a computable/addressable object out of a non-computable/addressable one; or a concrete class out of a generic one.
verb
- (transitive, figuratively) To ponder or consider an idea.
- (transitive, figuratively) To test something for suitability.
- (transitive, figuratively, chiefly imperative) To receive an imminent attack.
- (transitive, literally) To test an item of clothing by wearing it, to determine if it is the correct size.
noun
- inventing or contriving an idea or explanation and formulating it mentally
- a substance prepared according to a formula
- the style of expressing yourself
- The act, process, or result of formulating or reducing to a formula.
- (medicine) A medicinal preparation.
- A particular linguistic construction; a turn of phrase.
adv
- (abstract) In this context.
- (abstract) In this matter.
- (abstract) At this point or stage (in a process, argument, narration, etc.)
- (informal) After the name of a person perceived as located close to the speaker, used familiarly to indicate that person.
- (location) In, on, or at this place (a place perceived to be close to the speaker); compare there.
- (as complement of 'be') Notionally at the speaker's location by virtue of happening now.
- (location) To this place; used in place of the literary or archaic hither.
- (informal or dialect) After certain determiners, especially 'this' and 'these', used to emphasise demonstrative sense; see also this here.
- to this place (especially toward the speaker)
- in this circumstance or respect or on this point or detail
- in or at this place; where the speaker or writer is
- at this time; now
adj
intj
- Said to command a person or higher animal to come to the speaker.
- (slang) Used semi-assertively to offer something to the listener.
- Said in response to one's name being called during a roll call, indicating that one is present.
- (informal) Used to attract someone's attention, often in a hostile way.
- (Ireland, British, slang) Used for emphasis at the beginning of a sentence when expressing an opinion or want.
noun
verb
noun
- A fantastical design.
- (literature) The literary genre generally dealing with themes of magic and the supernatural, imaginary worlds and creatures, etc.
- That which comes from one's imagination.
- (slang) The drug gamma-hydroxybutyric acid.
- something many people believe that is false
- imagination unrestricted by reality
- fiction with a large amount of imagination in it
noun
- A theory, idea, or guess; an intuitive impression that something will happen.
- A hunk; a lump; a thick piece.
- A stooped or curled posture; a slouch.
- A push or thrust, as with the elbow.
- A hump; a protuberance.
- an impression that something might be the case
- the act of bending yourself into a humped position
verb
- (transitive) To raise (one's shoulders) (while lowering one's head or bending the top of one's body forward); to curve (one's body) forward (sometimes followed by up).
- (transitive) To thrust a hump or protuberance out of (something); to crook, as the back.
- (intransitive) To walk (somewhere) while hunching one's shoulders.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To have a hunch, or make an intuitive guess.
- (intransitive) To bend the top of one's body forward while raising one's shoulders.
- (transitive) To push or jostle with the elbow; to push or thrust against (someone).
- round one's back by bending forward and drawing the shoulders forward
verb
- To suppose, to imagine (introducing a proposition of uncertain plausibility).
- To solve by a correct conjecture; to conjecture rightly.
- To reach a partly (or totally) unconfirmed conclusion; to engage in conjecture; to speculate.
- (colloquial) To think, conclude, or decide (without a connotation of uncertainty). Usually in first person: "I guess".
- expect, believe, or suppose
- guess correctly; solve by guessing
- judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time)
- put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation
noun
verb
- (figurative, transitive) To analyze an idea in detail by delineating between its parts.
- (literal, transitive) To study an animal's anatomy by cutting it apart; to perform a necropsy or an autopsy.
- (figurative, transitive, derogatory) To decontextualize an idea through overanalysis by delineating between its parts too strongly based on style, usually involving pedantry, at the expense of substance.
- (literal, transitive) To study a plant's or other organism's anatomy similarly.
- (literal, transitive, pathology) Of an infection or foreign material, following the fascia separating muscles or other organs.
- (literal, transitive, anatomy, surgery) To separate muscles, organs, etc. without cutting into them or disrupting their architecture.
- make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features
- cut open or cut apart
verb
- (idiomatic) To offer an idea for consideration.
- (transitive) To cause or experience debilitating muscle or joint pain in (a body part).
- (idiomatic) To dismiss or expel someone from any longer performing duty or attending somewhere.
- (transitive) To put into a state of confusion.
- (idiomatic) To discard; to dispense with something; to throw away.
- (transitive) To emit.
- (transitive) To cause to project.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see throw, out.
- (transitive) To utter carelessly (a remark, suggestion, proposal, etc.).
- (transitive) To outdistance; to leave behind.
- To produce in a haphazard fashion.
- bring forward for consideration or acceptance
- remove from a position or office
- throw or cast away
- force to leave or move out
- cease to consider; put out of judicial consideration
noun
adv
noun
- An idea or notion of an abstract or theoretical nature.
- a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance
- The result of mentally abstracting an idea; the product of any mental process involving a synthesis of: separation, despecification, generalization, and ideation in any of a number of combinations.
- (geology) The merging of two river valleys by the larger of the two deepening and widening so much so, as to assimilate the smaller.
- Absence or absorption of mind; inattention to present objects; preoccupation.
- The act of focusing on one characteristic of an object rather than the object as a whole group of characteristics; the act of separating said qualities from the object or ideas.
- A member of an idealized subgroup when contemplated according to the abstracted quality which defines the subgroup.
- (computing) Hiding implementation details from the interface of a component, to decrease complexity through interdependency and improve modularity; a construct that serves as such.
- (engineering) Removal of water from a river, lake, or aquifer.
- The act of comparing commonality between distinct objects and organizing using those similarities; the act of generalizing characteristics; the product of said generalization.
- Any characteristic of an individual object when that characteristic has been separated from the object and is contemplated alone as a quality having independent existence.
- A separation from worldly objects; a recluse life; the withdrawal from one's senses.
- The act of abstracting, separating, withdrawing, or taking away; withdrawal; the state of being taken away.
- (euphemistic) The taking surreptitiously for one's own use part of the property of another; purloining.
- An idea of an idealistic, unrealistic or visionary nature.
- (chemistry) A separation of volatile parts by the act of distillation.
- (art) An abstract creation, or piece of art; qualities of artwork that are free from representational aspects.
- a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples
- the act of withdrawing or removing something
- an abstract painting
- the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances
- preoccupation with something to the exclusion of all else
noun
- an abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances
- An abstract and general idea; an abstraction.
- (generic programming) A description of supported operations on a type, including their syntax and semantics.
- Understanding retained in the mind, from experience, reasoning and imagination; a generalization (generic, basic form), or abstraction (mental impression), of a particular set of instances or occurrences (specific, though different, recorded manifestations of the concept).
verb
noun
- an abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances
- the act of becoming pregnant; fertilization of an ovum by a spermatozoon
- the event that occurred at the beginning of something
- the creation of something in the mind
- The formation of a conceptus or an implanted embryo.
- The fertilization of an ovum by a sperm to form a zygote.
- The state of being conceived; the beginning.
- The power or faculty of apprehending of forming an idea in the mind; the power of recalling a past sensation or perception; the ability to form mental abstractions.
- The start of pregnancy.
- The act of conceiving.
- An image, idea, or notion formed in the mind; a concept, plan or design.
noun
verb
- create by linking linguistic units
- put together out of artificial or natural components or parts
- reassemble mentally
- draw with suitable instruments and under specified conditions
- make by combining materials and parts
- create by organizing and linking ideas, arguments, or concepts
- (transitive) To build or form (something) by assembling parts.
- (transitive, geometry) To draw (a geometric figure) by following precise specifications and using geometric tools and techniques.
- (transitive, grammar) To build (a sentence, an argument, etc.) by arranging words or ideas.
verb
- consider a concept without thinking of a specific example; consider abstractly or theoretically
- (transitive) To consider abstractly; to contemplate separately or by itself; to consider theoretically; to look at as a general quality.
- consider apart from a particular case or instance
- give an abstract (of)
- make off with belongings of others
- (transitive) To separate; to disengage.
- (transitive) To draw off (interest or attention).
- (intransitive, fine arts) To create abstractions.
- (transitive, euphemistic) To steal; to take away; to remove without permission.
- (transitive) To summarize; to abridge; to epitomize.
- (intransitive, rare) To perform the process of abstraction.
- (transitive) To remove; to take away; withdraw.
- (intransitive, computing) To produce an abstraction, usually by refactoring existing code. Generally used with "out".
- To conceptualize an ideal subgroup by means of the generalization of an attribute, as follows: by apprehending an attribute inherent to one individual, then separating that attribute and contemplating it by itself, then conceiving of that attribute as a general quality, then despecifying that conceived quality with respect to several or many individuals, and by then ideating a group composed of those individuals perceived to possess said quality.
- (intransitive, reflexive, literally, figuratively) To withdraw oneself; to retire.
adj
- dealing with a subject in the abstract without practical purpose or intention
- Apart from practice or reality; vague; theoretical; impersonal; not applied.
- existing only in the mind; separated from embodiment
- not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature
- Pertaining comprehensively to, or representing, a class or group of objects, as opposed to any specific object; considered apart from any application to a particular object: general, generic, nonspecific; representational.
- (object-oriented programming, of a class) Being a partial basis for subclasses rather than a complete template for objects.
- (dance) Lacking a story.
- (art, often capitalized) Free from representational qualities, in particular the non-representational styles of the 20ᵗʰ century.
- (music) Absolute.
- Insufficiently factual.
- (grammar) As a noun, denoting a concept or intangible as opposed to an object, place, or person.
- Separately expressing a property or attribute of an object that is considered to be inherent to that object: attributive, ascriptive.
- Not concrete: conceptual, ideal.
- Difficult to understand; abstruse; hard to conceptualize.
noun
- a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance
- The theoretical way of looking at things; something that exists only in idealized form.
- a sketchy summary of the main points of an argument or theory
- An abridgement or summary of a longer publication.
- (art) An abstract work of art.
- (real estate) A summary title of the key points detailing a tract of land, for ownership; abstract of title.
- (medicine) A powdered solid extract of a medicinal substance mixed with lactose.
- Something that concentrates in itself the qualities of a larger item, or multiple items.
- An abstraction; an abstract term; that which is abstract.
- Concentrated essence of a product.
noun
- an idea or conclusion having general application
- (psychology) transfer of a response learned to one stimulus to a similar stimulus
- reasoning from detailed facts to general principles
- the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances
- The formulation of general concepts from specific instances by abstracting common properties.
- Inductive reasoning from detailed facts to general principles.
noun
- an idea or conclusion having general application
- (psychology) transfer of a response learned to one stimulus to a similar stimulus
- reasoning from detailed facts to general principles
- the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances
- (mathematics) A proof, axiom, problem, or definition that includes another's cases, and also some additional cases; a conclusion reached by inferring from specific cases to more general cases or principles.
- The formulation of general concepts from specific instances by abstracting common properties.
- An oversimplified or exaggerated conception, opinion, or image of the members of a group.
- Inductive reasoning from detailed facts to general principles.
- An act or instance of generalizing; concluding that something true of a subclass is true of the entire class.
noun
- The introduction of a notion, idea or thought into someone's mind.
- (embryology) The attachment of the fertilized ovum to the uterus wall.
- (surgery) The act of inserting a medical implant.
- (anatomy) The way in which an organ, bone, muscle etc. becomes inserted into its set place.
- Planting; securing a plant etc. into the ground.
- (physics) The insertion of ions into the crystal structure of another material through ion bombardment.
- the act of planting or setting in the ground
- (embryology) the organic process whereby a fertilized egg becomes implanted in the lining of the uterus of placental mammals
- a surgical procedure that places something in the human body
noun
- an idea that is implied or suggested
- what you must know in order to determine the reference of an expression
- (semantics) A meaning of a word or phrase that is suggested or implied, as opposed to a denotation, or literal meaning. A characteristic of words or phrases, or of the contexts that words and phrases are used in.
- (logic) The attribute or aggregate of attributes connoted by a term, contrasted with denotation.
noun
- Consideration of an idea; the act of revolving something in the mind.
- (countable, politics) A political upheaval in a government or state characterized by great change.
- (countable, politics) The popular removal and replacement of a government, especially by sudden violent action.
- A round of periodic changes, such as between the seasons of the year.
- A sudden, vast change in a situation, a discipline, or the way of thinking and behaving.
- (astronomy) In the case of celestial bodies, the traversal of one body along an orbit around another body.
- (card games) a rule in Tycoon where if four cards are placed down at once, the card hierarchy is reversed.
- Rotation: the turning of an object around an axis, one complete turn of an object during rotation.
- the overthrow of a government by those who are governed
- a single complete turn (axial or orbital)
- a drastic and far-reaching change in ways of thinking and behaving
noun
- A conclusion to which the mind comes by speculating; mere theory; notion; conjecture.
- (programming) The process of anticipating which branch of code will be chosen and executing it in advance.
- (business, finance) An investment involving higher-than-normal risk in order to obtain a higher-than-normal return.
- The process or act of thinking or meditating on a subject.
- A card game in which the players buy from one another trumps or whole hands, upon a chance of getting the highest trump dealt, which entitles the holder to the pool of stakes.
- (philosophy) The act or process of reasoning a priori from premises given or assumed.
- The act or practice of buying land, goods, shares, etc., in expectation of selling at a higher price, or of selling with the expectation of repurchasing at a lower price; a trading on anticipated fluctuations in price, as distinguished from trading in which the profit expected is the difference between the retail and wholesale prices, or the difference of price in different markets.
- continuous and profound contemplation or musing on a subject or series of subjects of a deep or abstruse nature
- a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence
- a hypothesis that has been formed by speculating or conjecturing (usually with little hard evidence)
- an investment that is very risky but could yield great profits
noun
- giving concrete form to an abstract concept
- a concrete representation of an otherwise nebulous concept
- a new personification of a familiar idea
- (sociology) The ways that knowledge, personality, culture, etc. are modulated by being experienced through a physical body.
- (countable) A physical entity typifying an abstract concept.
- The process of embodying.
noun
- The presentation of ideas in an abstract manner.
- The creation, principles, or ideals of abstractions, in particular art.
- a representation having no reference to concrete objects or specific examples
- an abstract genre of art; artistic content depends on internal form rather than pictorial representation
noun
- regarding something abstract as a material thing
- representing a human being as a physical thing deprived of personal qualities or individuality
- The consideration of an abstract thing as if it were concrete, or of an inanimate object as if it were living.
- (linguistics) The transformation of a natural-language statement into a form in which its actions and events are quantifiable variables.
- The consideration of a human being as an impersonal object.
- (programming) A process that makes a computable/addressable object out of a non-computable/addressable one; or a concrete class out of a generic one.
noun
- inventing or contriving an idea or explanation and formulating it mentally
- a substance prepared according to a formula
- the style of expressing yourself
- The act, process, or result of formulating or reducing to a formula.
- (medicine) A medicinal preparation.
- A particular linguistic construction; a turn of phrase.
noun
- A theory, idea, or guess; an intuitive impression that something will happen.
- A hunk; a lump; a thick piece.
- A stooped or curled posture; a slouch.
- A push or thrust, as with the elbow.
- A hump; a protuberance.
- an impression that something might be the case
- the act of bending yourself into a humped position
verb
- (transitive) To raise (one's shoulders) (while lowering one's head or bending the top of one's body forward); to curve (one's body) forward (sometimes followed by up).
- (transitive) To thrust a hump or protuberance out of (something); to crook, as the back.
- (intransitive) To walk (somewhere) while hunching one's shoulders.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To have a hunch, or make an intuitive guess.
- (intransitive) To bend the top of one's body forward while raising one's shoulders.
- (transitive) To push or jostle with the elbow; to push or thrust against (someone).
- round one's back by bending forward and drawing the shoulders forward
verb
- consider a concept without thinking of a specific example; consider abstractly or theoretically
- (transitive) To consider abstractly; to contemplate separately or by itself; to consider theoretically; to look at as a general quality.
- consider apart from a particular case or instance
- give an abstract (of)
- make off with belongings of others
- (transitive) To separate; to disengage.
- (transitive) To draw off (interest or attention).
- (intransitive, fine arts) To create abstractions.
- (transitive, euphemistic) To steal; to take away; to remove without permission.
- (transitive) To summarize; to abridge; to epitomize.
- (intransitive, rare) To perform the process of abstraction.
- (transitive) To remove; to take away; withdraw.
- (intransitive, computing) To produce an abstraction, usually by refactoring existing code. Generally used with "out".
- To conceptualize an ideal subgroup by means of the generalization of an attribute, as follows: by apprehending an attribute inherent to one individual, then separating that attribute and contemplating it by itself, then conceiving of that attribute as a general quality, then despecifying that conceived quality with respect to several or many individuals, and by then ideating a group composed of those individuals perceived to possess said quality.
- (intransitive, reflexive, literally, figuratively) To withdraw oneself; to retire.
adj
- dealing with a subject in the abstract without practical purpose or intention
- Apart from practice or reality; vague; theoretical; impersonal; not applied.
- existing only in the mind; separated from embodiment
- not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature
- Pertaining comprehensively to, or representing, a class or group of objects, as opposed to any specific object; considered apart from any application to a particular object: general, generic, nonspecific; representational.
- (object-oriented programming, of a class) Being a partial basis for subclasses rather than a complete template for objects.
- (dance) Lacking a story.
- (art, often capitalized) Free from representational qualities, in particular the non-representational styles of the 20ᵗʰ century.
- (music) Absolute.
- Insufficiently factual.
- (grammar) As a noun, denoting a concept or intangible as opposed to an object, place, or person.
- Separately expressing a property or attribute of an object that is considered to be inherent to that object: attributive, ascriptive.
- Not concrete: conceptual, ideal.
- Difficult to understand; abstruse; hard to conceptualize.
noun
- a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance
- The theoretical way of looking at things; something that exists only in idealized form.
- a sketchy summary of the main points of an argument or theory
- An abridgement or summary of a longer publication.
- (art) An abstract work of art.
- (real estate) A summary title of the key points detailing a tract of land, for ownership; abstract of title.
- (medicine) A powdered solid extract of a medicinal substance mixed with lactose.
- Something that concentrates in itself the qualities of a larger item, or multiple items.
- An abstraction; an abstract term; that which is abstract.
- Concentrated essence of a product.
verb
- (transitive) To casually mention as an idea.
- (transitive) To cook or prepare something quickly.
- (slang) To beat up, thrash.
- (transitive, Internet) To post or upload.
- (transitive) To produce, generate.
- (slang) To vomit.
- (intransitive) To throw something upwards.
- (intransitive) To make a decision based on chance, for example by flipping a coin or rolling a dice.
verb
- perceive (an idea or situation) mentally
- convert into cash; of goods and property
- be fully aware or cognizant of
- earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages
- expand or complete (a part in a piece of baroque music) by supplying the harmonies indicated in the figured bass
- make real or concrete; give reality or substance to
- Non-Oxford British standard spelling of realize.
verb
- perceive (an idea or situation) mentally
- convert into cash; of goods and property
- be fully aware or cognizant of
- earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages
- expand or complete (a part in a piece of baroque music) by supplying the harmonies indicated in the figured bass
- make real or concrete; give reality or substance to
- (mathematics) To obtain an entity from (an abstract group or structure).
- To cause to seem real; to make realistic.
- To become aware of or understand a fact or situation.
- (linguistics) To turn (an abstract linguistic object, especially a phoneme) into a speech sound actually used in a language.
- To convert an asset or property into a more easily usable form such as money.
- Chiefly in Baroque music: to play an accompaniment, harmonies, etc., based on (a figured bass).
- Of an asset or property: to generate (a specific amount of money or interest) when invested or sold.
- Followed by on or upon: to acquire money or a profit from the sale of an asset or property.
- To sense (something) strongly or vividly as if real.
- To become aware of, understand, or appreciate (a fact or situation, especially something which has been true for some time).
- To arrange (a musical work written for a single performer) to be performed by an orchestra; to orchestrate.
- To cause (something) to seem real; to make realistic; specifically, to present (something) clearly to the mind, a person, (archaic) oneself, etc., so that it seems real.
- (reflexive) To achieve (one's) potential.
- To acquire (money, a profit, etc.) by selling an asset or property, through trade, etc.; also (followed by on), to make (money or a profit) on an investment, a venture, etc.
- To convert (an asset or property, especially investments such as bonds, shares, etc.) into a more easily usable form such as money, especially by selling the asset or property.
- (chiefly passive voice, slightly formal) To convert (something imaginary or planned, as a goal or idea) into reality; to bring into real existence, to make real.
- To complete (a musical work which is incomplete or not fully notated).
verb
- perceive (an idea or situation) mentally
- match or meet
- perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight
- make sense of; assign a meaning to
- observe as if with an eye
- deliberate or decide
- be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something
- perceive or be contemporaneous with
- date regularly; have a steady relationship with
- conduct someone someplace
- find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort
- take charge of or deal with
- come together
- see and understand, have a good eye
- go to see for professional or business reasons
- deem to be
- imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind
- go to see for a social visit
- undergo or live through a difficult experience
- go to see a place, as for entertainment
- get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally
- observe, check out, and look over carefully or inspect
- see or watch
- receive as a specified guest
- (gambling, transitive) To respond to another player's bet with a bet of equal value.
- To come to a realization of having been mistaken or misled.
- To examine something closely, or to utilize something, often as a temporary alternative.
- (used in the imperative) Used to emphasise a proposition.
- (by extension) Chiefly followed by that: to ensure that something happens, especially by personally witnessing it.
- To have an interview with; especially, to make a call upon; to visit.
- (used in the imperative) To reference or to study for further details.
- (transitive) To perceive or detect someone or something with the eyes, or as if by sight.
- To determine by trial or experiment; to find out (if or whether).
- To witness or observe by personal experience.
- (transitive) To wait upon; attend, escort.
- (figuratively) To understand.
- To date frequently.
- To form a mental picture of.
- To include as one of something's experiences.
- To watch (a movie) at a cinema, or a show on television etc.
- (transitive) To foresee, predict, or prophesy.
- To visit for a medical appointment.
- (ergative) To be the setting or time of.
noun
- the seat within a bishop's diocese where the bishop's cathedral is located
- The office of a bishop or archbishop.
- Alternative form of cee; the name of the Latin script letter C/c.
- A diocese or archdiocese: a region of a church, generally headed by a bishop or an archbishop.
- A seat; a site; a place where sovereign, autonomous, or autocephalous power is exercised.
intj
verb
- perceive (an idea or situation) mentally
- believe to be the case
- make sense of a language
- know and comprehend the nature or meaning of
- be understanding of
- (transitive, of people) To know the intent, motives or character of; (of events) to know the causes of or reasons for.
- (transitive, usually with clause as object) To comprehend a fact or principle; to regard or come to regard a belief as such.
- (transitive, intransitive, of communication or means of communication: words, statements, signs, etc.) To know the meaning of; to parse or have parsed correctly; to comprehend.
- (transitive, grammar) To regard as present when not.
- (transitive) To believe or infer, to think one grasps sufficiently despite potentially incomplete knowledge.
- (transitive, of a skill, task, profession, etc.) To be thoroughly familiar with; to be able to undertake properly.
- (humorous, rare, obsolete outside circus, acrobatics) To stand underneath, to support.
- (transitive, generally) To know the meaning of.
intj
verb
- (by extension, often in analytic philosophy) To explain what is entailed by an idea or proposition.
- (intransitive, informal) To give up on something.
- (US) To reconcile at the end of a shift; to compare receipts of items sold to records of credit card, check and cash placed into the drawer, verifying that correct change was given out by the clerk.
- (by extension) To exchange possession of any commodity or idea for cash.
- (US, gambling) To retire; to exchange gambling chips for money when finished gambling.
- choose a simpler life style after questioning personal and career satisfaction goals
verb
- (transitive, idiomatic, of an idea) To consider from a different viewpoint.
- (transitive, figurative) To change drastically in a fundamental way, often for the better; to change to the opposite (opinion or position).
- (intransitive, idiomatic, colloquial) To suddenly change or reverse one's opinion, point of view, stated position, behaviour, etc.
- (transitive, business, management, sports) To reverse an expected outcome (of a game, etc.), usually from a losing outcome to a winning one; to return (a business, department, etc.) to effectiveness, profitability, etc.
- (transitive, idiomatic, colloquial) (often with a unit of time) To produce; to output; to generate.
- (ergative) To physically rotate (usually around a vertical axis) for a half turn (180 degrees), a whole turn (360 degrees), or an indefinite amount.
- (transitive, espionage) To convert (an agent) to work for one's own side.
- turn abruptly and face the other way, either physically or metaphorically
- improve significantly; go from bad to good
- improve dramatically
noun
verb
- (transitive) To propose (an idea) for consideration.
- (transitive, finance) To allow (the exchange value of a currency) to be determined by the markets.
- (transitive, finance) To issue or sell shares in a company (or units in a trust) to members of the public, followed by listing on a stock exchange.
- (intransitive) To drift or wander aimlessly.
- (intransitive, electronics) To be not connected or referenced to a known reference voltage.
- (poker) To perform a float.
- (transitive) To spread plaster over (a surface), using the tool called a float.
- (intransitive, colloquial) Of an idea or scheme, to be viable.
- (transitive) To cause to drift gently through the air, to waft.
- (intransitive) To move in a fluid manner.
- (intransitive) To be capable of floating.
- (transitive) To transport by float (vehicular trailer).
- (intransitive, aviation) To remain airborne, without touching down, for an excessive length of time during landing, due to excessive airspeed during the landing flare.
- (transitive, retail) To prepare a till (cash register) for operation, either by putting a float (cash amount) in the cash drawer to provide change for customers making cash payments or (by extension) by recording the time a till starts being used for card payments if it is card-only
- (transitive, colloquial) To extend a short-term loan to.
- (intransitive) To drift gently through the air.
- To be supported by a liquid of greater density, such that part (of the object or substance) remains above the surface.
- (intransitive) To move in a particular direction with the liquid in which one is floating.
- (intransitive, figurative) To circulate.
- (transitive) To use a float (rasp-like tool) upon.
- (transitive) To cause something to be suspended in a fluid of greater density.
- (computing, publishing, transitive) To cause (an element within a document) to float above or beside others.
- (intransitive)To automatically adjust a parameter as related parameters change.
- (intransitive, of an object or substance) To be supported by a fluid of greater density (than the object).
- (intransitive, finance) (of currencies) To have an exchange value determined by the markets, as opposed to by central fiat.
- move lightly, as if suspended
- allow (currencies) to fluctuate
- put into the water
- be in motion due to some air or water current
- be afloat either on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom
- convert from a fixed point notation to a floating point notation
- set afloat
- make the surface of level or smooth
- circulate or discuss tentatively; test the waters with
noun
- (poker) A maneuver where a player calls on the flop or turn with a weak hand, with the intention of bluffing after a subsequent community card.
- A breakdancing move in which the body is held parallel to the floor while balancing on one or both hands.
- (biology) The gas-filled sac, bag, or body of a siphonophore; a pneumatophore.
- A polishing block used in marble working; a runner.
- (automotive) A car carrier or car transporter truck or truck-and-trailer combination.
- A small sum of money put in a cashier's till, or otherwise secured, at the start of business, to enable change to be made.
- (weaving) A weft thread that passes over two or more warp threads (or less commonly, warp over weft).
- (publishing, digital typesetting) Any object (element) whose location in composition (page makeup, pagination) does not flow within body text but rather floats outside of it, usually anchored loosely (in buoy metaphor) to spots within it (citations, callouts): a figure (image), table, box, pull quote, ornament, or other floated element.
- A tool similar to a rasp, used in various trades.
- An elaborately decorated trailer or vehicle, intended for display in a parade or pageant.
- (knitting) A loose strand of yarn that passes behind one or more stitches when knitting with multiple yarns.
- (transport) A lowboy trailer.
- (insurance) Premiums taken in but not yet paid out.
- A soft beverage with a scoop of ice cream floating in it.
- A buoyant device used to support something in water or another liquid.
- (computing) A visual style on a web page that causes the styled elements to float above or beside others.
- (basketry) A decorative rod that extends over the body of a basket without being attached for part of its length.
- (programming) A floating-point number, especially one that has lower precision than a double.
- (finance) Funds committed to be paid but not yet paid.
- A floating toy made of foam, used in swimming pools.
- A mass of timber or boards fastened together, and conveyed down a stream by the current; a raft.
- A sort of trowel used for finishing concrete surfaces or smoothing plaster.
- (banking) The total amount of checks/cheques or other drafts written against a bank account but not yet cleared and charged against the account.
- (finance, Australia, and other Commonwealth countries?) An offering of shares in a company (or units in a trust) to members of the public, normally followed by a listing on a stock exchange.
- A float board.
- (British) A small vehicle used for local deliveries, especially in the term milk float.
- the time interval between the deposit of a check in a bank and its payment
- an elaborate display mounted on a platform carried by a truck (or pulled by a truck) in a procession or parade
- the number of shares outstanding and available for trading by the public
- an air-filled sac near the spinal column in many fishes that helps maintain buoyancy
- a drink with ice cream floating in it
- something that floats on the surface of water
- a hand tool with a flat face used for smoothing and finishing the surface of plaster or cement or stucco
verb
- (transitive, figuratively) To ponder or consider an idea.
- (transitive, figuratively) To test something for suitability.
- (transitive, figuratively, chiefly imperative) To receive an imminent attack.
- (transitive, literally) To test an item of clothing by wearing it, to determine if it is the correct size.
verb
noun
- A fantastical design.
- (literature) The literary genre generally dealing with themes of magic and the supernatural, imaginary worlds and creatures, etc.
- That which comes from one's imagination.
- (slang) The drug gamma-hydroxybutyric acid.
- something many people believe that is false
- imagination unrestricted by reality
- fiction with a large amount of imagination in it
verb
- To suppose, to imagine (introducing a proposition of uncertain plausibility).
- To solve by a correct conjecture; to conjecture rightly.
- To reach a partly (or totally) unconfirmed conclusion; to engage in conjecture; to speculate.
- (colloquial) To think, conclude, or decide (without a connotation of uncertainty). Usually in first person: "I guess".
- expect, believe, or suppose
- guess correctly; solve by guessing
- judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time)
- put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation
noun
verb
- (figurative, transitive) To analyze an idea in detail by delineating between its parts.
- (literal, transitive) To study an animal's anatomy by cutting it apart; to perform a necropsy or an autopsy.
- (figurative, transitive, derogatory) To decontextualize an idea through overanalysis by delineating between its parts too strongly based on style, usually involving pedantry, at the expense of substance.
- (literal, transitive) To study a plant's or other organism's anatomy similarly.
- (literal, transitive, pathology) Of an infection or foreign material, following the fascia separating muscles or other organs.
- (literal, transitive, anatomy, surgery) To separate muscles, organs, etc. without cutting into them or disrupting their architecture.
- make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features
- cut open or cut apart
verb
- (idiomatic) To offer an idea for consideration.
- (transitive) To cause or experience debilitating muscle or joint pain in (a body part).
- (idiomatic) To dismiss or expel someone from any longer performing duty or attending somewhere.
- (transitive) To put into a state of confusion.
- (idiomatic) To discard; to dispense with something; to throw away.
- (transitive) To emit.
- (transitive) To cause to project.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see throw, out.
- (transitive) To utter carelessly (a remark, suggestion, proposal, etc.).
- (transitive) To outdistance; to leave behind.
- To produce in a haphazard fashion.
- bring forward for consideration or acceptance
- remove from a position or office
- throw or cast away
- force to leave or move out
- cease to consider; put out of judicial consideration
noun
adv
- (abstract) In this context.
- (abstract) In this matter.
- (abstract) At this point or stage (in a process, argument, narration, etc.)
- (informal) After the name of a person perceived as located close to the speaker, used familiarly to indicate that person.
- (location) In, on, or at this place (a place perceived to be close to the speaker); compare there.
- (as complement of 'be') Notionally at the speaker's location by virtue of happening now.
- (location) To this place; used in place of the literary or archaic hither.
- (informal or dialect) After certain determiners, especially 'this' and 'these', used to emphasise demonstrative sense; see also this here.
- to this place (especially toward the speaker)
- in this circumstance or respect or on this point or detail
- in or at this place; where the speaker or writer is
- at this time; now
adj
intj
- Said to command a person or higher animal to come to the speaker.
- (slang) Used semi-assertively to offer something to the listener.
- Said in response to one's name being called during a roll call, indicating that one is present.
- (informal) Used to attract someone's attention, often in a hostile way.
- (Ireland, British, slang) Used for emphasis at the beginning of a sentence when expressing an opinion or want.
noun
adv
verb
- consider a concept without thinking of a specific example; consider abstractly or theoretically
- (transitive) To consider abstractly; to contemplate separately or by itself; to consider theoretically; to look at as a general quality.
- consider apart from a particular case or instance
- give an abstract (of)
- make off with belongings of others
- (transitive) To separate; to disengage.
- (transitive) To draw off (interest or attention).
- (intransitive, fine arts) To create abstractions.
- (transitive, euphemistic) To steal; to take away; to remove without permission.
- (transitive) To summarize; to abridge; to epitomize.
- (intransitive, rare) To perform the process of abstraction.
- (transitive) To remove; to take away; withdraw.
- (intransitive, computing) To produce an abstraction, usually by refactoring existing code. Generally used with "out".
- To conceptualize an ideal subgroup by means of the generalization of an attribute, as follows: by apprehending an attribute inherent to one individual, then separating that attribute and contemplating it by itself, then conceiving of that attribute as a general quality, then despecifying that conceived quality with respect to several or many individuals, and by then ideating a group composed of those individuals perceived to possess said quality.
- (intransitive, reflexive, literally, figuratively) To withdraw oneself; to retire.
adj
- dealing with a subject in the abstract without practical purpose or intention
- Apart from practice or reality; vague; theoretical; impersonal; not applied.
- existing only in the mind; separated from embodiment
- not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature
- Pertaining comprehensively to, or representing, a class or group of objects, as opposed to any specific object; considered apart from any application to a particular object: general, generic, nonspecific; representational.
- (object-oriented programming, of a class) Being a partial basis for subclasses rather than a complete template for objects.
- (dance) Lacking a story.
- (art, often capitalized) Free from representational qualities, in particular the non-representational styles of the 20ᵗʰ century.
- (music) Absolute.
- Insufficiently factual.
- (grammar) As a noun, denoting a concept or intangible as opposed to an object, place, or person.
- Separately expressing a property or attribute of an object that is considered to be inherent to that object: attributive, ascriptive.
- Not concrete: conceptual, ideal.
- Difficult to understand; abstruse; hard to conceptualize.
noun
- a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance
- The theoretical way of looking at things; something that exists only in idealized form.
- a sketchy summary of the main points of an argument or theory
- An abridgement or summary of a longer publication.
- (art) An abstract work of art.
- (real estate) A summary title of the key points detailing a tract of land, for ownership; abstract of title.
- (medicine) A powdered solid extract of a medicinal substance mixed with lactose.
- Something that concentrates in itself the qualities of a larger item, or multiple items.
- An abstraction; an abstract term; that which is abstract.
- Concentrated essence of a product.
adj
- Describing the state, aspect, or practice of an abstract concept.
- (chemistry) Of the state of an element at the time it is being generated from some compound or transitioning from one state to another; Newly released from a compound (especially hydrogen and oxygen) by a chemical reaction or electrolysis and possessing heightened reactivity; Newly synthesized (especially protein or RNA) by translation or transcription.
- Emerging; just coming into existence.
- (heraldry) Naissant.
- being born or beginning
adj
- Pertaining to ideas, or to a given idea.
- Existing only in the mind; conceptual, imaginary.
- Optimal; being the best possibility.
- Teaching or relating to the doctrine of idealism.
- Perfect, flawless, having no defects.
- (mathematics) Not actually present, but considered as present when limits at infinity are included.
- of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of the reality of ideas
- conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence; embodying an ideal
- constituting or existing only in the form of an idea or mental image or conception
noun
- (algebra) A subsemigroup with the property that if any semigroup element outside of it is added to any one of its members, the result must lie outside of it.
- (algebra, order theory, lattice theory) A non-empty lower set (of a partially ordered set) which is closed under binary suprema (a.k.a. joins).
- A perfect standard of beauty, intellect etc., or a standard of excellence to aim at.
- (algebra, Lie theory) A Lie subalgebra (subspace that is closed under the Lie bracket) 𝖍 of a given Lie algebra 𝖌 such that the Lie bracket [𝖌,𝖍] is a subset of 𝖍.
- (algebra, ring theory) A two-sided ideal; a subset of a ring which is closed under both left and right multiplication by elements of the ring.
- (set theory) A collection of sets, considered small or negligible, such that every subset of each member and the union of any two members are also members of the collection.
- model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal
- the idea of something that is perfect; something that one hopes to attain
adj
- being of the nature of a notion or concept
- not based on fact; existing only in the imagination
- not based on fact or investigation
- indulging in or influenced by fancy
- Speculative, theoretical, not the result of research.
- (finance) Used to indicate an estimate or a reference amount
- (Maine) Stubborn.
- (informal) Full of ideas or imaginings.
- Of, containing, or being a notion; mental or imaginary.
- (linguistics) Having descriptive value as opposed to a syntactic category.