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adj
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- (linguistics, rare) Either term of a conjunctive conjunction.
- (logic, linguistics) Either term of a conjunction.
- (linguistics) An adjunct that supplements a sentence with information, connecting the sentence with previous parts of the discourse. Not considered to be an essential part of the propositional content.
adj
- progressing melodically by intervals larger than a major second
- having deep constrictions separating head, thorax, and abdomen, as in insects
- marked by separation of or from usually contiguous elements
- used of distributions, as of statistical or natural populations
- Separate; discontinuous; not connected.
- (botany) Occurring in widely separated geographic areas.
noun
- (logic) One of multiple propositions, any of which, if true, confirm the validity of another proposition (a disjunction).
- The state of being disjointed; disjointedness; a disconnect.
- (botany) A species or population occurring at a distant or separate location, and separated from other members of the same group.
- (linguistics) Any sentence element that is not fully integrated into the clausal structure of the sentence.
- (linguistics) An adverbial that expresses the speaker's or writer's attitude towards, or descriptive statement of, the propositional content of the associated clause or sentence.
- (linguistics, rare) A conjunct of a disjunctive conjunction.
noun
- (music) A passing from one note to another by an interval, especially by a long one, or by one including several other intermediate intervals.
- A small cataract over which fish attempt to jump; a salmon ladder.
- (figuratively) A significant move forward.
- A group of leopards.
- The distance traversed by a leap or jump.
- A trap or snare for fish, made from twigs; a weely.
- Half a bushel.
- (mining) A fault.
- Copulation with, or coverture of, a female beast.
- (figuratively) A large step in reasoning, often one that is not justified by the facts.
- The act of leaping or jumping.
- the distance leaped (or to be leaped)
- an abrupt transition
- a sudden and decisive increase
- a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards
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verb
adj
- (music, of an interval) Having the two notes sound successively.
- (sex, euphemistic) Relating to sexual intercourse.
- (marketing) Relating to horizontal markets
- (biology) Being or relating to the transmission of organisms between biotic and/or abiotic members of an ecosystem that are not in a parent-progeny relationship.
- (wine) Involving wines of the same vintages but from different wineries.
- Perpendicular to the vertical; parallel to the plane of the horizon; level, flat.
- parallel to or in the plane of the horizon or a base line
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adj
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- the musical interval between one note and another four notes away from it
- following the third position; number four in a countable series
- one of four equal parts
- (chiefly US) A quarter, one of four equal parts of a whole.
- (astronomy, rare) One sixtieth of a third or tierce.
- (in the singular) The person or thing in the fourth position.
- (in the singular) The fourth gear of an engine.
- (music) A musical interval which spans four degrees of the diatonic scale, for example C to F (C D E F).
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- the musical interval between one note and another three notes away from it
- (music) An interval consisting of the first and third notes in a scale.
- the base that must be touched third by a base runner in baseball
- following the second position in an ordering or series
- the third from the lowest forward ratio gear in the gear box of a motor vehicle
- the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed near the third of the bases in the infield (counting counterclockwise from home plate)
- one of three equal parts of a divisible whole
- One of three equal parts of a whole.
- (uncountable) Ellipsis of third gear (of a gearbox).
- (baseball) third base
- A third-class degree, awarded to the lowest achievers in an honours degree programme
- The person or thing in the third position.
- (golf) A handicap of one stroke every third hole.
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- the musical interval between one note and another six notes away from it
- one part in six equal parts
- position six in a countable series of things
- (music) The interval between one note and another, five notes higher in the scale; for example C to A, a major sixth, or C to A flat, a minor sixth.
- (not used in the plural) The person or thing in the sixth position.
- One of six equal parts of a whole.
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- (music) An interval between adjacent notes in a chromatic scale.
- (music) An interval equal to an augmented unison or a minor second, depending on the context and tuning system used.
- The semitone in 12-tone equal temperament, with frequency ratio of the twelfth root of two.
- (music, by extension) Any of the pitches of a chromatic scale.
- the musical interval between adjacent keys on a keyboard instrument
noun
- (music) An interval of one fifth.
- (card games) In piquet, a sequence of five playing cards of the same suit; equivalent to a straight flush in poker
- (music) The E string of a violin.
- (fencing) quinte; the fifth fencer in parrying or attacking position.
- (firefighting) A vehicle used by firefighters that combines the capabilities of a fire engine and a fire truck, having the ability to provide vertical access as well as pump water to fight a fire.
- (US, informal) a quin or quintuplet.
- one of five children born at the same time from the same pregnancy
- the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one
noun
- musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats
- a counter where you can obtain food or drink
- the act of preventing
- a narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background
- (meteorology) a unit of pressure equal to a million dynes per square centimeter
- an obstruction (usually metal) placed at the top of a goal
- a heating element in an electric fire
- a submerged (or partly submerged) ridge in a river or along a shore
- (law) a railing that encloses the part of the courtroom where the judges and lawyers sit and the case is tried
- a rigid piece of metal or wood; usually used as a fastening or obstruction or weapon
- a room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter
- a block of solid substance (such as soap or wax)
- a horizontal rod that serves as a support for gymnasts as they perform exercises
- the body of individuals qualified to practice law in a particular jurisdiction
- (backgammon) The central divider between the inner and outer table of a backgammon board, where stones are placed if they are hit.
- An addition to a military medal, on account of a subsequent act.
- (music) A vertical line across a musical staff dividing written music into sections, typically of equal durational value.
- (by extension, in combination) Premises or a counter serving any type of beverage.
- (heraldry) One of the ordinaries in heraldry; a diminutive of a fess.
- (slang, hip-hop, chiefly in the plural) Hip-hop lyrics, especially ones written and delivered skillfully.
- (recreational drugs) A small, tablet-shaped dose of Xanax, typically containing two milligrams and able to be split into quarters.
- (countable, uncountable, metallurgy) A solid metal object with uniform (round, square, hexagonal, octagonal or rectangular) cross-section; in the US its smallest dimension is ¹⁄₄ inch or greater, a piece of thinner material being called a strip.
- (architecture) A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town.
- (slang) A measure of drugs, typically one ounce.
- (programming, derived from fubar) A metasyntactic variable representing an unspecified entity, often the second in a series, following foo.
- (sports) A horizontal pole that must be crossed in the high jump and pole vault.
- A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length.
- (US, Philippines, law, usually with the) The bar exam, the legal licensing exam.
- A broad shaft, band, or stripe.
- A business selling alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises, or the premises themselves; a public house.
- (physics) A similar sign indicating that the charge on a particle is the negative of its usual value (and that consequently the particle is in fact an antiparticle).
- (UK, Parliament) A dividing line (physical or notional) in the chamber of a legislature beyond which only members and officials may pass.
- An establishment offering cosmetic services.
- A counter, or simply a cabinet, from which alcoholic drinks are served in a private house or a hotel room.
- (by extension, slang, chiefly in the plural) Something well-said or well-written.
- (farriery) The part of the crust of a horse's hoof which is bent inwards towards the frog at the heel on each side, and extends into the centre of the sole.
- Anything that obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier.
- (typography) Any of various lines used as punctuation or diacritics, such as the pipe ⟨|⟩, fraction bar (as in 12), and strikethrough (as in Ⱥ), formerly (obsolete) including oblique marks such as the slash.
- A long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar chart.
- An informal establishment selling food to be consumed on the premises.
- (mathematics) The sign indicating that the characteristic of a logarithm is negative, conventionally placed above the digit(s) to show that it applies to the characteristic only and not to the mantissa.
- (figurative) Any level of achievement regarded as a challenge to be overcome; a standard or expectation.
- A non-SI unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals, slightly less than atmospheric pressure at sea level.
- (UK, law) The railing surrounding the part of a courtroom in which the judges, lawyers, defendants and witnesses stay.
- A linear shoaling landform feature within a body of water; a formation extending across the mouth of a river or harbor or off a beach, and which may obstruct navigation. (FM 55-501).
- (farriery, in the plural) The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed.
- The counter of such premises.
- (soccer, most codes) The crossbar.
- (law, metonymic, "the Bar", "the bar") Collectively, lawyers or the legal profession; specifically applied to barristers in some countries, but including all lawyers in others.
- A city gate, in some British place names.
- (mining) A drilling or tamping rod.
- (mining) A vein or dike crossing a lode.
- An official order or pronouncement that prohibits some activity.
- A cuboid piece of any solid commodity.
- (geography, nautical, hydrology) A ridge or succession of ridges of sand or other substance; especially:
- (telecommunications, electronics) One of an array of bar-shaped symbols that display the level of something, such as wireless signal strength or battery life remaining.
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noun
- musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats
- measuring instrument having a sequence of marks at regular intervals; used as a reference in making measurements
- the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule
- a container of some standard capacity that is used to obtain fixed amounts of a substance
- any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal
- (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
- a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated
- how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify
- a statute in draft before it becomes law
- A standard against which something can be judged; a criterion.
- The size of someone or something, as ascertained by measuring. (Now chiefly in make to measure.)
- (poetry) The manner of ordering and combining the quantities, or long and short syllables; meter; rhythm; hence, a metrical foot.
- Any of various standard units of capacity.
- (now chiefly cooking) A receptacle or vessel of a standard size, capacity etc. as used to deal out specific quantities of some substance.
- (in the plural) Actions designed to achieve some purpose; plans.
- A piece of legislation.
- (mathematics, measure theory) A function which obeys a particular set of formal conditions, created to generalize and rigorize the notions of length, volume, and probability. Formally, a non-negative, countably additive set function on a sigma-algebra; see Measure (mathematics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- A ruler, measuring stick, or graduated tape used to take measurements.
- An (unspecified) portion or quantity.
- (geology) A bed or stratum.
- A unit of measurement.
- A limit that cannot be exceeded; a bound. (Now chiefly in set phrases.)
- (music) A musical designation consisting of all notes and or rests delineated by two vertical bars; an equal and regular division of the whole of a composition; a bar.
verb
- determine the measurements of something or somebody, take measurements of
- have certain dimensions
- evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of
- express as a number or measure or quantity
- (rare) To traverse, cross, pass along; to travel over.
- To obtain or set apart; to mark in even increments.
- To judge, value, or appraise.
- (often with out or off) To allot or distribute by measure; to set off or apart by measure; often with.
- (stative) To be of (a certain size), to have (a certain measurement)
- To estimate the unit size of something.
- (transitive) To regulate or control (one's actions, speech, etc.), as if one were carefully measuring their length or quantity.
- To ascertain the quantity of a unit of material via calculated comparison with respect to a standard.
- To adjust by a rule or standard.
adj
- (music) Of an interval: having the two notes sound simultaneously.
- In a two-dimensional Cartesian co-ordinate system, describing the axis y oriented normal (perpendicular, at right angles) to the horizontal axis x.
- Standing, pointing, or moving straight up or down; parallel to the local direction of gravity; along the direction of a plumb line; perpendicular to something horizontal.
- (wine tasting) Involving different vintages of the same wine type from the same winery.
- (marketing) Of or pertaining to vertical markets.
- In a three-dimensional co-ordinate system, describing the axis z oriented normal (perpendicular, orthogonal) to the basic plane xy.
- at right angles to the plane of the horizon or a base line
- of or relating to different levels in a hierarchy (as levels of social class or income group)
- upright in position or posture
- relating to or involving all stages of a business from production to distribution
noun
- A vertical geometrical figure; a perpendicular.
- (marketing) A vertical market.
- An individual slat in a set of vertical blinds.
- A vertical component of a structure.
- (politics) A command structure for exertion of political power.
- A vertex or zenith.
- something that is oriented vertically
- a vertical structural member as a post or stake
noun
- a rapid series of ascending or descending notes on the musical scale
- A method of playing an electric guitar in which a metal bar is held at right angles across the strings and rapidly moved up and down, creating a smooth, lush sound.
- (music) Either a continuous sliding from one pitch to another ("true" glissando), or an incidental scale played while moving from one melodic note to another ("effective" glissando).
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- the musical interval between one note and another seven notes away from it
- one part in seven equal parts
- position seven in a countable series of things
- (music) A tone of the seventh degree from a given tone, the interval between two such tones, or the two tones sounding in unison.
- The person or thing in the seventh position.
- One of seven equal parts of a whole.
adj
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- the musical interval between one note and another five notes away from it
- one part in five equal parts
- position five in a countable series of things
- a quantity of liquor equal to one fifth of a United States gallon
- (music) The musical interval between one note and another five scale degrees higher (the fifth note in a scale)
- (ellipsis) The fifth gear of a transmission.
- (ellipsis or nominalization) The person or thing in the fifth position.
- The fifth voice in a polyphonic melody.
- (US) A quantity of liquor equal to one-fifth of an American gallon, or, more commonly, 750 milliliters (that is, three quarters of a liter).
- One of five equal parts of a whole: one-fifth.
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- (music, countable) A pause of a specified length in a piece of music.
- A projection from the right side of the cuirass of armour, serving to support the lance.
- (uncountable) That which remains.
- (uncountable, of a person or animal) Relief from work or activity by sleeping; sleep.
- (snooker, countable) A stick with a U-, V- or X-shaped head used to support the tip of a cue when the cue ball is otherwise out of reach.
- Those not included in a proposition or description; the remainder; others.
- A place where one may rest, either temporarily, as in an inn, or permanently, as, in an abode.
- (euphemistic, uncountable) A final position after death. Also, death itself: "Not alone, not alone would I go to my rest in the heart of the love..." -- George William Russell ("Love")
- (music, countable) A written symbol indicating such a pause in a musical score such as in sheet music.
- (countable) Any relief from exertion; a state of quiet and relaxation.
- (uncountable) Peace; freedom from worry, anxiety, annoyances; tranquility.
- (physics, uncountable) Absence of motion.
- (UK, finance) A surplus held as a reserved fund by a bank to equalize its dividends, etc.; in the Bank of England, the balance of assets above liabilities.
- (countable) Any object designed to be used to support something else.
- (uncountable, of an object or concept) A state of inactivity; a state of little or no motion; a state of completion.
- The striking of a balance at regular intervals in a running account. Often, specifically, the intervals after which compound interest is added to capital.
- (poetry) A short pause in reading poetry; a caesura.
- a state of inaction
- something left after other parts have been taken away
- a support on which things can be put
- a pause for relaxation
- freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility)
- a musical notation indicating a silence of a specified duration
- euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb)
verb
- (transitive, intransitive, reflexive) To lean, lie, or lay.
- (intransitive) To come to a pause or an end; end.
- (no object, with complement) To continue to be, remain, be left in a certain way.
- To be satisfied; to acquiesce.
- (intransitive) To sleep; slumber.
- (intransitive) To stay, remain, be situated, or belong to.
- (intransitive) To lie dormant.
- (intransitive) To be free from that which harasses or disturbs; be quiet or still; be undisturbed.
- (intransitive) To cease from action, motion, work, or performance of any kind; stop; desist; be without motion.
- (intransitive) To rely or depend on.
- (intransitive) To sleep the final sleep; sleep in death; die; be dead.
- (transitive, reflexive, copulative) To put into a state of rest.
- (intransitive, transitive, law, US) To complete one's active advocacy in a trial or other proceeding, and thus to wait for the outcome (however, one is still generally available to answer questions, etc.)
- have a place in relation to something else
- take a short break from one's activities in order to relax
- rest on or as if on a pillow
- stay the same; remain in a certain state
- be inherent or innate in
- not move; be in a resting position
- sit, as on a branch
- give a rest to
- be at rest
- be inactive, refrain from acting
- put something in a resting position, as for support or steadying
noun
- taking a series of rhythmical steps (and movements) in time to music
- an artistic form of nonverbal communication
- a party of people assembled for dancing
- a party for social dancing
- A social gathering where dancing is the main activity.
- (figurative) A battle of wits, especially one commonly fought between two rivals.
- A piece of music with a particular dance rhythm.
- (uncountable) The art, profession, and study of dancing.
- A sequence of rhythmic steps or movements usually performed to music, for pleasure or as a form of social interaction.
- (uncountable) Ellipsis of electronic dance music.
- (beekeeping) A repetitive movement used in communication between worker honey bees.
- (heraldry) A normally horizontal stripe called a fess that has been modified to zig-zag across the center of a coat of arms from dexter to sinister.
verb
- move in a pattern; usually to musical accompaniment; do or perform a dance
- move in a graceful and rhythmical way
- skip, leap, or move up and down or sideways
- (beekeeping, of a worker honey bee) To make a repetitive movement in order to communicate to other worker honey bees.
- (intransitive) To move with rhythmic steps or movements, especially in time to music.
- (figurative, euphemistic) To kick and convulse from the effects of being hanged.
- (intransitive) To leap or move lightly and rapidly.
- (figurative, euphemistic) To make love or have sex.
- (transitive) To perform the steps to.
- (transitive) To cause to dance, or move nimbly or merrily about.
noun
- taking a series of rhythmical steps (and movements) in time to music
- (genetics) a mutation that drastically changes the phenotype of an organism or species
- an abrupt transition
- a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards
- (geology) the leaping movement of sand or soil particles as they are transported in a fluid medium over an uneven surface
- A leap, jump or dance.
- (biology) The act of jumping, or hopping, using all legs simultaneously (although the contribution to motion is typically made chiefly by the hind legs).
- (geology, fluid mechanics) The transport of loose particles by a fluid (such as wind or flowing water).
- (biology) A sudden change from one generation to the next; a mutation.
- Beating or palpitation.
- Any abrupt transition.
noun
- (music) The reversal of an interval; the move of one pitch in an interval up or down an octave.
- (grammar) Deviation from standard word order, as for example by putting the predicate before the subject. It takes place in questions with auxiliary verbs; in normal, affirmative clauses beginning with a negative particle, for the purpose of emphasis; and in other rhetorical devices or unusual situations.
- (meteorology) A situation where air temperature increases with altitude (the ground being colder than the surrounding air).
- The act of being in an inverted state; being upside down, inside out, or in a reverse sequence.
- A section of a roller coaster where passengers are temporarily turned upside down.
- (algebra) An operation on a group, analogous to negation.
- (music) The position of a chord which has a note other than the root as its bass note.
- (biochemistry) The catalytic action of invertase.
- (genetics) A segment of DNA in the context of a chromosome that is reversed in orientation relative to a reference karyotype or genome.
- The action of inverting.
- (music) The flipping of a melody or contrapuntal line so that high notes become low and vice versa; the reversal of a pitch contour.
- the reversal of the normal order of words
- a chemical process in which the direction of optical rotation of a substance is reversed from dextrorotatory to levorotary or vice versa
- the layer of air near the earth is cooler than an overlying layer
- a term formerly used to mean taking on the gender role of the opposite sex
- abnormal condition in which an organ is turned inward or inside out (as when the upper part of the uterus is pulled into the cervical canal after childbirth)
- the act of turning inside out
- turning upside down; setting on end
- (counterpoint) a variation of a melody or part in which ascending intervals are replaced by descending intervals and vice versa
- (genetics) a kind of mutation in which the order of the genes in a section of a chromosome is reversed
noun
- (music) Progression from dissonance to consonance; a chord to which such progression is made.
- A strong will; the state of being resolute.
- A statement of intent, a vow.
- (narratology) The moment in which the conflict ends and the outcome of the action is clear.
- (mathematics) The act or process of resolving: solving.
- (homological algebra, of a given module (or, generally, object in an abelian category) M) An exact sequence of modules (or, objects in the same category as M) either terminating in M or such that M is the homology at degree zero. See Resolution (algebra).
- (medicine) In a pathological process, the phase during which pathogens and damaged tissues are removed by macrophages.
- (computing) The number of pixels in an image being stored or displayed.
- (sciences) The separation of the constituent parts (of a spectrum etc).
- The act of discerning detail.
- (computing) The process of determining the meaning of a symbol or address; the process of executing a link to it.
- A formal statement adopted by an assembly, or during any other formal meeting.
- (sciences) The degree of fineness of such a separation.
- (computing, photography) The degree of fineness with which an image can be recorded or produced, often expressed as the number of pixels per unit of length (typically an inch).
- A firm decision or an official decision.
- the trait of being resolute
- analysis into clear-cut components
- the subsidence of swelling or other signs of inflammation (especially in a lung)
- a statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem
- a decision to do something or to behave in a certain manner
- a formal expression by a meeting; agreed to by a vote
- (music) a dissonant chord is followed by a consonant chord
- (computer science) the number of pixels per square inch on a computer-generated display; the greater the resolution, the better the picture
- finding a solution to a problem
- the ability of a microscope or telescope to measure the angular separation of images that are close together
- something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making
noun
- a musical interval of two semitones
- a sequence of foot movements that make up a particular dance
- the distance covered by a step
- a mark of a foot or shoe on a surface
- relative position in a graded series
- support consisting of a place to rest the foot while ascending or descending a stairway
- any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal
- the sound of a step of someone walking
- the act of changing location by raising the foot and setting it down
- a short distance
- a solid block joined to the beams in which the heel of a ship's mast or capstan is fixed
- (colloquial) A stepchild.
- (glassblowing) The button joining a glass's stem to its foot.
- Stepping (style of dance)
- (machines) One of a series of offsets, or parts, resembling the steps of stairs, as one of the series of parts of a cone pulley on which the belt runs.
- (nautical) A framing in wood or iron which is intended to receive an upright shaft; specifically, a block of wood, or a solid platform upon the keelson, supporting the heel of the mast.
- (in the plural) A walk; passage.
- A distinct part of a process; stage; phase.
- An advance or movement made from one foot to the other; a pace.
- Proceeding; measure; action; act.
- (in the plural) A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position.
- The part of a spade, digging stick or similar tool that a digger's foot rests against and presses on when digging; an ear, a foot-rest.
- (kinematics) A change of position effected by a motion of translation.
- (slang, primarily Netherlands) Kick scooter.
- A print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track.
- A gait; manner of walking.
- (machines) A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves.
- The space passed over by one movement of the foot in walking or running.
- A small space or distance.
- (colloquial) A stepsibling.
- A rest, or one of a set of rests, for the foot in ascending or descending, as a stair, or a rung of a ladder.
- A running board where passengers step to get on and off the bus.
- (programming) A constant difference between consecutive values in a series.
- (music) The interval between two contiguous degrees of the scale.
verb
- place (a ship's mast) in its step
- put down or press the foot, place the foot
- move with one's feet in a specific manner
- treat badly
- measure (distances) by pacing
- shift or move by taking a step
- walk a short distance to a specified place or in a specified manner
- furnish with steps
- move or proceed as if by steps into a new situation
- cause (a computer) to execute a single command
- (transitive, nautical) To fix the foot of (a mast) in its step; to erect.
- To dance.
- (intransitive) To walk; to go on foot; especially, to walk a little distance.
- (intransitive, slang) To be confrontational.
- (intransitive) To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely.
- (transitive) To set, as the foot.
- (intransitive, slang, African-American Vernacular) To depart.
- (transitive) To advance a process gradually, one step at a time.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To move mentally; to go in imagination.
- (intransitive) To move the foot in walking; to advance or recede by raising and moving one of the feet to another resting place, or by moving both feet in succession.
noun
- a musical interval of two semitones
- (music) (in the diatonic scale) An interval of a major second.
- the elastic tension of living muscles, arteries, etc. that facilitate response to stimuli
- the quality of a person's voice
- a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound
- the quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
- (linguistics) a pitch or change in pitch of the voice that serves to distinguish words in tonal languages
- a steady sound without overtones
- (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound)
- the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people
- a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color
- (music) A specific pitch.
- The shade or quality of a colour.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang) a gun
- (language, literature) The manner in which speech or writing is expressed, especially the aspects of diction (word choice), connotation, emotiveness, and register.
- (painting) The favourable effect of a picture produced by the combination of light and shade, or of colours.
- (music) (in a Gregorian chant) A recitational melody.
- The character of a sound, especially the timbre of an instrument or voice.
- The definition and firmness of a muscle or organ; see also: tonus.
- (language, linguistics) The pitch of a word's sound that distinguishes a difference in meaning, as for example in Chinese.
- The general character, atmosphere, mood, or vibe (of a situation, place, etc.).
- (biology) Normal tension or responsiveness to stimuli.
- (biology) The state of a living body or of any of its organs or parts in which the functions are healthy and performed with due vigor.
- (Chiefly in the form lower/raise the tone of something) The quality of being respectable or admirable.
verb
- vary the pitch of one's speech
- give a healthy elasticity to
- utter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically
- change to a color image
- change the color or tone of
- (transitive) to change the colour of
- (transitive) to make (something) firmer
- (transitive) to give a particular tone to
- (transitive) to utter with an affected tone.
pron
noun
- a musical interval of two semitones
- (music) The musical interval equal (exactly or approximately) to a frequency ratio of 8/7, 9/8, or 10/9, depending on the tuning system used. In meantone tunings (including twelve-tone equal temperament), there is only one whole tone, though tuning systems that are not meantone have a "major tone" of 9/8 and a "minor tone" of 10/9.
noun
- a recurrent rhythmical series
- the close of a musical section
- (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
- (horse-riding) Harmony and proportion of movement, as in a well-managed horse.
- The act or state of declining or sinking.
- (music) A progression of at least two chords which conclude a piece of music, section or musical phrases within it. Sometimes referred to analogously as musical punctuation.
- (speech) A fall in inflection of a speaker’s voice, such as at the end of a sentence.
- (military) A chant that is sung by military personnel while running or marching; a jody call.
- The measure or beat of movement.
- (horseracing) The number of strides per second of a racehorse, measured when the same foot/hoof strikes the ground
- (fencing) The rhythm and sequence of a series of actions.
- (dance) A dance move which ends a phrase.
- (music) A cadenza, or closing embellishment; a pause before the end of a strain, which the performer may fill with a flight of fancy.
- Balanced, rhythmic flow.
- (heraldry) Cadency.
- (software engineering) The frequency of regular product releases.
- (running) The number of steps per minute.
- The general inflection or modulation of the voice, or of any sound.
- (cycling) The number of revolutions per minute of the cranks or pedals of a bicycle.
verb
noun
- a musical rest equal in duration to four beats in common time
- (music) A pause or interval of silence equal in duration to two half rests or one half of a breve rest. In common or 4/4 time, its duration is four beats.
- (music) A symbol used in musical notation drawn as a solid rectangle directly below the line above the middle line of a staff whose height is half the distance between lines.
noun
- (music) A difference in the calculation of nearly identical intervals by different ways.
- (figurative) A brief interval.
- (Romanian typography) A similar-looking subscript diacritical mark.
- (typography) The punctuation mark ⟨,⟩ used to indicate a set of parts of a sentence or between elements of a list.
- (entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Polygonia, having a comma-shaped white mark on the underwings, especially Polygonia c-album and Polygonia c-aureum of North Africa, Europe, and Asia.
- (genetics) A delimiting marker between items in a genetic sequence.
- (rhetoric) In Ancient Greek rhetoric, a short clause, something less than a colon, originally denoted by comma marks. In antiquity it was defined as a combination of words having no more than eight syllables in all. It was later applied to longer phrases, e.g. the Johannine comma.
- anglewing butterfly with a comma-shaped mark on the underside of each hind wing
- a punctuation mark (‘,’) used to indicate the separation of elements within the grammatical structure of a sentence
verb
adj
- (music) Employing oblique motion, motion or progression in which one part (voice) stays on the same note while another ascends or descends.
- (grammar) Pertaining to the oblique case (non-nominative).
- Not straightforward; indirect; by implication; (sometimes even) obscure, ambiguous, or confusing.
- Disingenuous; underhand; morally corrupt.
- (botany, of branches or roots) Growing at an angle that is neither vertical nor horizontal.
- Not direct in descent; not following the line of father and son; collateral.
- Not erect or perpendicular; not parallel to, or at right angles from, the base.
- (botany, of leaves) Having the base of the blade asymmetrical, with one side lower than the other.
- (grammar, of speech or narration) Indirect; employing the actual words of the speaker but as related by a third person, having the first person in pronoun and verb converted into the third person and adverbs of present time into the past, etc.
- slanting or inclined in direction or course or position — neither parallel nor perpendicular nor right-angled
- indirect in departing from the accepted or proper way; misleading
noun
verb
- (military) To march in a direction oblique to the line of the column or platoon; — formerly accomplished by oblique steps, now by direct steps, the men half-facing either to the right or left.
- (intransitive) To deviate from a perpendicular line; to become askew.
- (transitive, computing) To slant (text, etc.) at an angle.
noun
- (music) A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once.
- (sugar manufacture) A charge of syrup in the pans.
- (informal) A song, typically one on an album, that is not worth listening to.
- A wheeled basket chiefly used in textile factories.
- A skipper; the master or captain of a ship, or other person in authority.
- (radio) skywave propagation
- (video games) A trick allowing the player to proceed to a later section of the game without playing through a section that was intended to be mandatory.
- (Trinity College, Dublin, historical) A college servant.
- (Commonwealth, UK, Ireland) A large container for waste, designed to be lifted onto the back of a truck to remove it along with its contents, or to be picked up by hydraulic arms so that its contents can be dumped into the truck.
- (scouting, informal) The scoutmaster of a troop of scouts (youth organization).
- The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.
- (Australia, slang) An Australian of Anglo-Celtic descent.
- A person who attempts to disappear so as not to be found.
- (UK, Scotland, dialect) A skep, or basket, such as a creel or a handbasket.
- (curling) The player who calls the shots and traditionally throws the last two rocks.
- The captain of a sports team.
- (bowls) The captain of a bowls team, who directs the team's tactics and rolls the side's last wood, so as to be able to retrieve a difficult situation if necessary.
- (steelmaking) A skip car.
- (mining) A transportation container in a mine, usually for ore or mullock.
- A beehive made of woven straw, wicker, etc.
- (slang) A skip-level manager; the boss of one's boss.
- A leaping or jumping movement; the action of one who skips.
- a mistake resulting from neglect
- a gait in which steps and hops alternate
verb
- (intransitive) To skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface.
- (knitting, crochet) To pass by a stitch as if it were not there, continuing with the next stitch.
- (printing) To have insufficient ink transfer.
- To jump rope.
- To cause the stylus to jump back to the previous loop of the record's groove, continuously repeating that part of the sound, as a result of excessive scratching or wear. (of a phonograph record)
- To leap lightly over.
- (transitive) To disregard, miss or omit part of a continuation (some item or stage).
- (intransitive) To move by hopping on alternate feet.
- (intransitive) To leap about lightly.
- (transitive, informal) Not to attend (some event, especially a class or a meeting).
- (transitive, informal) To leave, especially in a sudden and covert manner.
- (transitive) To place an item in a skip (etymology 2, sense 1).
- (transitive) To throw (something), making it skim, ricochet, or bounce over a surface.
- intentionally fail to attend
- jump lightly
- leave suddenly
- bound off one point after another
- cause to skip over a surface
- bypass
noun
- (music) A musical rhythm twice as fast as the overall beat, with this pattern of note lengths: 3/16 3/16 1/4 3/16 3/16.
- (dance) A dance step pattern with six steps.
- (military) A fast marching pace of 180 steps per minute, 36 inches in length for the Marine Corps and Navy, 30 inches in length for the Army. It is not really double the speed of quick time as quick time is 112-120 steps per minute.
- A rate of pay that is twice the normal rate (for reasons such as working on a holiday or working hazardous duty).
- a doubled wage (for working overtime)
- a fast marching pace (180 steps/min) or slow jog
adv
adj
- (of a melody) Having periods of silence scattered throughout; not regularly continuous.
- (of land) Uneven.
- (of a promise, etc) Breached; violated; not kept.
- (of a person) Completely defeated and dispirited; shattered; destroyed.
- (meteorology, of the sky) Five-eighths to seven-eighths obscured by clouds; incompletely covered by clouds.
- (sports, video games, of a tactic or option) Overpowered; overly powerful; giving a player too much power.
- (of an electronic connection) Disconnected, no longer open or carrying traffic.
- (of skin) Split or ruptured.
- (of language) Grammatically non-standard, especially as a result of being produced by a non-native speaker.
- Having no money; bankrupt, broke.
- (of sleep) Interrupted; not continuous.
- Non-functional; not functioning properly.
- (colloquial, US, of a situation) Not having gone in the way intended; saddening.
- (of a line) Dashed; made up of short lines with small gaps between each one and the next.
- Fragmented; in separate pieces.
- (informal) Badly designed or implemented.
- (of a bone or body part) Fractured; having the bone in pieces.
- subdued or brought low in condition or status
- (especially of promises or contracts) having been violated or disregarded
- physically and forcibly separated into pieces or cracked or split
- thrown into a state of disarray or confusion
- not continuous in space, time, or sequence or varying abruptly
- out of working order (‘busted’ is an informal substitute for ‘broken’)
- imperfectly spoken or written
- tamed or trained to obey
- topographically very uneven
- lacking a part or parts
- weakened and infirm
- discontinuous
- destroyed financially
verb
verb
- (music) To smoothly pass from one note to another by bending the pitch upwards or downwards.
- (transitive) To subtly direct a facial expression at (someone).
- (intransitive) To pass along smoothly or unobservedly; to move gently onward without friction or hindrance.
- (intransitive) To move on a low-friction surface.
- (intransitive, finance) To decrease in amount or value.
- (regional) To ride down snowy hills upon a toboggan or similar object for recreation.
- (intransitive, slang) To go; to move from one place or to another.
- (intransitive, baseball) To drop down and skid into a base.
- (transitive) To pass or put imperceptibly; to slip.
- (intransitive) To lose one’s balance on a slippery surface.
- (soccer) To kick so that the ball slides along the ground with little or no turning.
- (ergative) To (cause to) move in continuous contact with a surface.
- to pass or move unobtrusively or smoothly
- move smoothly along a surface
- move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner
noun
- (geology) A small dislocation in beds of rock along a line of fissure.
- A lever that can be moved in two directions.
- (Australia, informal) Removable rank insignia worn on epaulettes of army uniform.
- Synonym of slider (“movable part of a zip fastener that opens or closes the row of teeth”).
- A pocket in one's pants (trousers).
- (sciences) A flat, usually rectangular piece of glass or similar material on which a prepared sample may be viewed through a microscope Generally referred to as a microscope slide.
- (phonetics) A sound which, by a gradual change in the position of the vocal organs, passes imperceptibly into another sound.
- A clasp or brooch for a belt, etc.
- (baseball) The act of dropping down and skidding into a base
- (photography) A transparent plate bearing an image to be projected to a screen.
- (footwear) A sandal that is backless and open-toed.
- A valve that works by sliding, such as in a trombone.
- (by extension, computing) A page of a computer presentation package such as PowerPoint.
- An inclined plane on which heavy bodies slide by the force of gravity, especially one constructed on a mountainside for conveying logs by sliding them down.
- An item of play equipment that children can climb up and then slide down again.
- (music, guitar) A hand-held device made of smooth, hard material, used in the practice of slide guitar.
- A surface of ice, snow, butter, etc. on which someone can slide for amusement or as a practical joke.
- The act of sliding; smooth, even passage or progress.
- (music) A grace consisting of two or more small notes moving by conjoint degrees, and leading to a principal note either above or below.
- (traditional Irish music and dance) A lively dance from County Kerry, in 12/8 time.
- (vulgar slang) A promiscuous woman, slut.
- The falling of large amounts of rubble, earth and stones down the slope of a hill or mountain; avalanche.
- A mechanism, or portion of one, consisting of a part which slides on or against a guide.
- (speech therapy) A voluntary stutter used as a technique to control stuttering in one's speech.
- a transparency mounted in a frame; viewed with a slide projector
- (music) rapid sliding up or down the musical scale
- a small flat rectangular piece of glass on which specimens can be mounted for microscopic study
- (geology) the descent of a large mass of earth or rocks or snow etc.
- plaything consisting of a sloping chute down which children can slide
- sloping channel through which things can descend
- the act of moving smoothly along a surface while remaining in contact with it
adj
- (of musical intervals) reduction by a semitone of any perfect or minor musical interval
- (of an organ or body part) diminished in size or strength as a result of disease or injury or lack of use
- impaired by diminution
- made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth)
- (music) reduced by a semitone
- made to seem less important, impressive, or valuable
- lessened, reduced
verb
adj
noun
adv
noun
- a musical rest having the time value of half a whole rest or equal in duration to two beats in common time
- (music) A pause or interval of silence equal in duration to two quarter rests or one half of a whole rest. In common or 4/4 time, its duration is two beats.
- (music) A symbol used in musical notation drawn as a solid rectangle directly above the middle line of a staff whose height is half the distance between lines.
noun
- rhythm as given by division into parts of equal duration
- any of various measuring instruments for measuring a quantity
- the basic unit of length adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites (approximately 1.094 yards)
- (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
- A device that measures things.
- A parking meter or similar device for collecting payment.
- US standard spelling of metre (“the rhythm or measure in language”).
- (American spelling) A line above or below a hanging net, to which the net is attached in order to strengthen it.
- US standard spelling of metre (“unit of measure”).
verb
noun
- rhythm as given by division into parts of equal duration
- the basic unit of length adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites (approximately 1.094 yards)
- (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
- The basic unit of length in the International System of Units (SI: Système International d'Unités), equal to the distance travelled by light in a vacuum in 1/299 792 458 seconds. The metre is equal to 39+⁴⁷⁄₁₂₇ (approximately 39.37) imperial inches.
- (UK, Canada) The rhythm or measure in language (especially verse) and musical composition.
verb
noun
- rhythm as given by division into parts of equal duration
- the fourth coordinate that is required (along with three spatial dimensions) to specify a physical event
- a suitable moment
- an instance or single occasion for some event
- an indefinite period (usually marked by specific attributes or activities)
- a person's experience on a particular occasion
- the period of time a prisoner is imprisoned
- a period of time considered as a resource under your control and sufficient to accomplish something
- a reading of a point in time as given by a clock
- the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past
- (uncountable, slang) The serving of a prison sentence.
- (uncountable) The feeling of the passage of events and their relative duration, as experienced by an individual.
- (countable) A numerical indication of a particular moment.
- (uncountable with possessive) A person's youth or young adulthood, as opposed to the present day.
- (countable) An experience.
- (only in singular, sports and figuratively) Time out; temporary, limited suspension of play.
- (uncountable) A quantity of availability of duration.
- (UK, in public houses) Closing time.
- (countable) A measurement of a quantity of time; a numerical or general indication of a length of progression.
- (uncountable) The duration of time of a given day that has passed; the moment, as indicated by a clock or similar device.
- (uncountable) Tempo; a measured rate of movement.
- (uncountable) Rhythmical division, meter.
- (physics, uncountable, reductionist definition) The property of a system which allows it to have more than one distinct configuration.
- (countable) The measurement under some system of region of day or moment.
- (physics, usually uncountable) A dimension of spacetime with the opposite metric signature to space dimensions; the fourth dimension.
- (music, uncountable) The measured duration of sounds.
- (countable) An instance or occurrence.
- (jazz) (uncountable) A straight rhythmic pattern, free from fills, breaks and other embellishments.
- (countable) A particular moment or hour; the appropriate moment or hour for something (especially with prepositional phrase or imperfect subjunctive).
- (countable) An era; (articulated, sometimes in the plural) the current era, the current state of affairs.
- (slang, MLE) Clipping of a long time.
- (countable) A ratio of comparison (see also usage notes and prepositional sense at 'times').
- (with possessives) The end of someone’s life, conceived by the speaker as having been predestined.
- (uncountable) The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present and past events.
- (physics, uncountable) Change associated with the second law of thermodynamics; the physical and psychological result of increasing entropy.
- The hour of childbirth.
verb
- assign a time for an activity or event
- set the speed, duration, or execution of
- regulate or set the time of
- measure the time or duration of an event or action or the person who performs an action in a certain period of time
- adjust so that a force is applied and an action occurs at the desired time
- To regulate as to time; to accompany, or agree with, in time of movement.
- (transitive) To measure or record the time, duration, or rate of something.
- (transitive) To choose when something commences or its duration.
- To measure, as in music or harmony.
intj
noun
- The tempo or speed of a beat, song or repetitive event.
- A regular quantitative change in a variable (notably natural) process.
- The variation of strong and weak elements (such as duration, accent) of sounds, notably in speech or music, over time; a beat or meter.
- Controlled repetition of a phrase, incident or other element as a stylistic figure in literature and other narrative arts; the effect it creates.
- A flow, repetition or regularity.
- The musical instruments which provide rhythm (mainly; not or less melody) in a musical ensemble.
- A person's natural feeling for rhythm.
- A specifically defined pattern of such variation.
- the arrangement of spoken words alternating stressed and unstressed elements
- recurring at regular intervals
- (architecture) the repetitive use of a group of visual elements to establish a recognizable pattern
- natural family planning in which ovulation is assumed to occur 14 days before the onset of a period (the fertile period would be assumed to extend from day 10 through day 18 of her cycle)
- the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music
- an interval during which a recurring sequence of events occurs
verb
verb
- (music) To increase an interval, especially the largest interval in a triad, by a half step (chromatic semitone).
- (intransitive, reflexive) To grow; to increase; to become greater.
- (grammar, transitive) To add an augment to.
- (music) To slow the tempo or meter, e.g. for a dramatic or stately passage.
- (transitive) To increase; to make larger or supplement.
- grow or intensify
- enlarge or increase
noun
- An increase.
- (Bantu languages) In some languages, an additional vowel prepended to the noun prefix.
- (Indo-European languages) In some languages, a prefix *é- (अ- (a-) in Sanskrit, ἐ- (e-) in Greek) indicating a past tense of a verb.
- (Celtic languages) Especially Old Irish, a preverb, usually ro-, used to give a verb a resultative or potential meaning.
noun
- (music) A passing from one note to another by an interval, especially by a long one, or by one including several other intermediate intervals.
- A small cataract over which fish attempt to jump; a salmon ladder.
- (figuratively) A significant move forward.
- A group of leopards.
- The distance traversed by a leap or jump.
- A trap or snare for fish, made from twigs; a weely.
- Half a bushel.
- (mining) A fault.
- Copulation with, or coverture of, a female beast.
- (figuratively) A large step in reasoning, often one that is not justified by the facts.
- The act of leaping or jumping.
- the distance leaped (or to be leaped)
- an abrupt transition
- a sudden and decisive increase
- a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards
adj
verb
noun
- the musical interval between one note and another four notes away from it
- following the third position; number four in a countable series
- one of four equal parts
- (chiefly US) A quarter, one of four equal parts of a whole.
- (astronomy, rare) One sixtieth of a third or tierce.
- (in the singular) The person or thing in the fourth position.
- (in the singular) The fourth gear of an engine.
- (music) A musical interval which spans four degrees of the diatonic scale, for example C to F (C D E F).
adj
adv
verb
noun
- the musical interval between one note and another three notes away from it
- (music) An interval consisting of the first and third notes in a scale.
- the base that must be touched third by a base runner in baseball
- following the second position in an ordering or series
- the third from the lowest forward ratio gear in the gear box of a motor vehicle
- the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed near the third of the bases in the infield (counting counterclockwise from home plate)
- one of three equal parts of a divisible whole
- One of three equal parts of a whole.
- (uncountable) Ellipsis of third gear (of a gearbox).
- (baseball) third base
- A third-class degree, awarded to the lowest achievers in an honours degree programme
- The person or thing in the third position.
- (golf) A handicap of one stroke every third hole.
adj
adv
verb
adj
noun
adv
noun
- the musical interval between one note and another six notes away from it
- one part in six equal parts
- position six in a countable series of things
- (music) The interval between one note and another, five notes higher in the scale; for example C to A, a major sixth, or C to A flat, a minor sixth.
- (not used in the plural) The person or thing in the sixth position.
- One of six equal parts of a whole.
adj
verb
noun
- (music) An interval between adjacent notes in a chromatic scale.
- (music) An interval equal to an augmented unison or a minor second, depending on the context and tuning system used.
- The semitone in 12-tone equal temperament, with frequency ratio of the twelfth root of two.
- (music, by extension) Any of the pitches of a chromatic scale.
- the musical interval between adjacent keys on a keyboard instrument
noun
- (music) An interval of one fifth.
- (card games) In piquet, a sequence of five playing cards of the same suit; equivalent to a straight flush in poker
- (music) The E string of a violin.
- (fencing) quinte; the fifth fencer in parrying or attacking position.
- (firefighting) A vehicle used by firefighters that combines the capabilities of a fire engine and a fire truck, having the ability to provide vertical access as well as pump water to fight a fire.
- (US, informal) a quin or quintuplet.
- one of five children born at the same time from the same pregnancy
- the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one
noun
- musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats
- a counter where you can obtain food or drink
- the act of preventing
- a narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background
- (meteorology) a unit of pressure equal to a million dynes per square centimeter
- an obstruction (usually metal) placed at the top of a goal
- a heating element in an electric fire
- a submerged (or partly submerged) ridge in a river or along a shore
- (law) a railing that encloses the part of the courtroom where the judges and lawyers sit and the case is tried
- a rigid piece of metal or wood; usually used as a fastening or obstruction or weapon
- a room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter
- a block of solid substance (such as soap or wax)
- a horizontal rod that serves as a support for gymnasts as they perform exercises
- the body of individuals qualified to practice law in a particular jurisdiction
- (backgammon) The central divider between the inner and outer table of a backgammon board, where stones are placed if they are hit.
- An addition to a military medal, on account of a subsequent act.
- (music) A vertical line across a musical staff dividing written music into sections, typically of equal durational value.
- (by extension, in combination) Premises or a counter serving any type of beverage.
- (heraldry) One of the ordinaries in heraldry; a diminutive of a fess.
- (slang, hip-hop, chiefly in the plural) Hip-hop lyrics, especially ones written and delivered skillfully.
- (recreational drugs) A small, tablet-shaped dose of Xanax, typically containing two milligrams and able to be split into quarters.
- (countable, uncountable, metallurgy) A solid metal object with uniform (round, square, hexagonal, octagonal or rectangular) cross-section; in the US its smallest dimension is ¹⁄₄ inch or greater, a piece of thinner material being called a strip.
- (architecture) A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town.
- (slang) A measure of drugs, typically one ounce.
- (programming, derived from fubar) A metasyntactic variable representing an unspecified entity, often the second in a series, following foo.
- (sports) A horizontal pole that must be crossed in the high jump and pole vault.
- A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length.
- (US, Philippines, law, usually with the) The bar exam, the legal licensing exam.
- A broad shaft, band, or stripe.
- A business selling alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises, or the premises themselves; a public house.
- (physics) A similar sign indicating that the charge on a particle is the negative of its usual value (and that consequently the particle is in fact an antiparticle).
- (UK, Parliament) A dividing line (physical or notional) in the chamber of a legislature beyond which only members and officials may pass.
- An establishment offering cosmetic services.
- A counter, or simply a cabinet, from which alcoholic drinks are served in a private house or a hotel room.
- (by extension, slang, chiefly in the plural) Something well-said or well-written.
- (farriery) The part of the crust of a horse's hoof which is bent inwards towards the frog at the heel on each side, and extends into the centre of the sole.
- Anything that obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier.
- (typography) Any of various lines used as punctuation or diacritics, such as the pipe ⟨|⟩, fraction bar (as in 12), and strikethrough (as in Ⱥ), formerly (obsolete) including oblique marks such as the slash.
- A long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar chart.
- An informal establishment selling food to be consumed on the premises.
- (mathematics) The sign indicating that the characteristic of a logarithm is negative, conventionally placed above the digit(s) to show that it applies to the characteristic only and not to the mantissa.
- (figurative) Any level of achievement regarded as a challenge to be overcome; a standard or expectation.
- A non-SI unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals, slightly less than atmospheric pressure at sea level.
- (UK, law) The railing surrounding the part of a courtroom in which the judges, lawyers, defendants and witnesses stay.
- A linear shoaling landform feature within a body of water; a formation extending across the mouth of a river or harbor or off a beach, and which may obstruct navigation. (FM 55-501).
- (farriery, in the plural) The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed.
- The counter of such premises.
- (soccer, most codes) The crossbar.
- (law, metonymic, "the Bar", "the bar") Collectively, lawyers or the legal profession; specifically applied to barristers in some countries, but including all lawyers in others.
- A city gate, in some British place names.
- (mining) A drilling or tamping rod.
- (mining) A vein or dike crossing a lode.
- An official order or pronouncement that prohibits some activity.
- A cuboid piece of any solid commodity.
- (geography, nautical, hydrology) A ridge or succession of ridges of sand or other substance; especially:
- (telecommunications, electronics) One of an array of bar-shaped symbols that display the level of something, such as wireless signal strength or battery life remaining.
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noun
- musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats
- measuring instrument having a sequence of marks at regular intervals; used as a reference in making measurements
- the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule
- a container of some standard capacity that is used to obtain fixed amounts of a substance
- any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal
- (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
- a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated
- how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify
- a statute in draft before it becomes law
- A standard against which something can be judged; a criterion.
- The size of someone or something, as ascertained by measuring. (Now chiefly in make to measure.)
- (poetry) The manner of ordering and combining the quantities, or long and short syllables; meter; rhythm; hence, a metrical foot.
- Any of various standard units of capacity.
- (now chiefly cooking) A receptacle or vessel of a standard size, capacity etc. as used to deal out specific quantities of some substance.
- (in the plural) Actions designed to achieve some purpose; plans.
- A piece of legislation.
- (mathematics, measure theory) A function which obeys a particular set of formal conditions, created to generalize and rigorize the notions of length, volume, and probability. Formally, a non-negative, countably additive set function on a sigma-algebra; see Measure (mathematics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- A ruler, measuring stick, or graduated tape used to take measurements.
- An (unspecified) portion or quantity.
- (geology) A bed or stratum.
- A unit of measurement.
- A limit that cannot be exceeded; a bound. (Now chiefly in set phrases.)
- (music) A musical designation consisting of all notes and or rests delineated by two vertical bars; an equal and regular division of the whole of a composition; a bar.
verb
- determine the measurements of something or somebody, take measurements of
- have certain dimensions
- evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of
- express as a number or measure or quantity
- (rare) To traverse, cross, pass along; to travel over.
- To obtain or set apart; to mark in even increments.
- To judge, value, or appraise.
- (often with out or off) To allot or distribute by measure; to set off or apart by measure; often with.
- (stative) To be of (a certain size), to have (a certain measurement)
- To estimate the unit size of something.
- (transitive) To regulate or control (one's actions, speech, etc.), as if one were carefully measuring their length or quantity.
- To ascertain the quantity of a unit of material via calculated comparison with respect to a standard.
- To adjust by a rule or standard.
noun
- a rapid series of ascending or descending notes on the musical scale
- A method of playing an electric guitar in which a metal bar is held at right angles across the strings and rapidly moved up and down, creating a smooth, lush sound.
- (music) Either a continuous sliding from one pitch to another ("true" glissando), or an incidental scale played while moving from one melodic note to another ("effective" glissando).
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verb
noun
- the musical interval between one note and another seven notes away from it
- one part in seven equal parts
- position seven in a countable series of things
- (music) A tone of the seventh degree from a given tone, the interval between two such tones, or the two tones sounding in unison.
- The person or thing in the seventh position.
- One of seven equal parts of a whole.
adj
noun
- the musical interval between one note and another five notes away from it
- one part in five equal parts
- position five in a countable series of things
- a quantity of liquor equal to one fifth of a United States gallon
- (music) The musical interval between one note and another five scale degrees higher (the fifth note in a scale)
- (ellipsis) The fifth gear of a transmission.
- (ellipsis or nominalization) The person or thing in the fifth position.
- The fifth voice in a polyphonic melody.
- (US) A quantity of liquor equal to one-fifth of an American gallon, or, more commonly, 750 milliliters (that is, three quarters of a liter).
- One of five equal parts of a whole: one-fifth.
adj
verb
noun
- (music, countable) A pause of a specified length in a piece of music.
- A projection from the right side of the cuirass of armour, serving to support the lance.
- (uncountable) That which remains.
- (uncountable, of a person or animal) Relief from work or activity by sleeping; sleep.
- (snooker, countable) A stick with a U-, V- or X-shaped head used to support the tip of a cue when the cue ball is otherwise out of reach.
- Those not included in a proposition or description; the remainder; others.
- A place where one may rest, either temporarily, as in an inn, or permanently, as, in an abode.
- (euphemistic, uncountable) A final position after death. Also, death itself: "Not alone, not alone would I go to my rest in the heart of the love..." -- George William Russell ("Love")
- (music, countable) A written symbol indicating such a pause in a musical score such as in sheet music.
- (countable) Any relief from exertion; a state of quiet and relaxation.
- (uncountable) Peace; freedom from worry, anxiety, annoyances; tranquility.
- (physics, uncountable) Absence of motion.
- (UK, finance) A surplus held as a reserved fund by a bank to equalize its dividends, etc.; in the Bank of England, the balance of assets above liabilities.
- (countable) Any object designed to be used to support something else.
- (uncountable, of an object or concept) A state of inactivity; a state of little or no motion; a state of completion.
- The striking of a balance at regular intervals in a running account. Often, specifically, the intervals after which compound interest is added to capital.
- (poetry) A short pause in reading poetry; a caesura.
- a state of inaction
- something left after other parts have been taken away
- a support on which things can be put
- a pause for relaxation
- freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility)
- a musical notation indicating a silence of a specified duration
- euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb)
verb
- (transitive, intransitive, reflexive) To lean, lie, or lay.
- (intransitive) To come to a pause or an end; end.
- (no object, with complement) To continue to be, remain, be left in a certain way.
- To be satisfied; to acquiesce.
- (intransitive) To sleep; slumber.
- (intransitive) To stay, remain, be situated, or belong to.
- (intransitive) To lie dormant.
- (intransitive) To be free from that which harasses or disturbs; be quiet or still; be undisturbed.
- (intransitive) To cease from action, motion, work, or performance of any kind; stop; desist; be without motion.
- (intransitive) To rely or depend on.
- (intransitive) To sleep the final sleep; sleep in death; die; be dead.
- (transitive, reflexive, copulative) To put into a state of rest.
- (intransitive, transitive, law, US) To complete one's active advocacy in a trial or other proceeding, and thus to wait for the outcome (however, one is still generally available to answer questions, etc.)
- have a place in relation to something else
- take a short break from one's activities in order to relax
- rest on or as if on a pillow
- stay the same; remain in a certain state
- be inherent or innate in
- not move; be in a resting position
- sit, as on a branch
- give a rest to
- be at rest
- be inactive, refrain from acting
- put something in a resting position, as for support or steadying
noun
- taking a series of rhythmical steps (and movements) in time to music
- an artistic form of nonverbal communication
- a party of people assembled for dancing
- a party for social dancing
- A social gathering where dancing is the main activity.
- (figurative) A battle of wits, especially one commonly fought between two rivals.
- A piece of music with a particular dance rhythm.
- (uncountable) The art, profession, and study of dancing.
- A sequence of rhythmic steps or movements usually performed to music, for pleasure or as a form of social interaction.
- (uncountable) Ellipsis of electronic dance music.
- (beekeeping) A repetitive movement used in communication between worker honey bees.
- (heraldry) A normally horizontal stripe called a fess that has been modified to zig-zag across the center of a coat of arms from dexter to sinister.
verb
- move in a pattern; usually to musical accompaniment; do or perform a dance
- move in a graceful and rhythmical way
- skip, leap, or move up and down or sideways
- (beekeeping, of a worker honey bee) To make a repetitive movement in order to communicate to other worker honey bees.
- (intransitive) To move with rhythmic steps or movements, especially in time to music.
- (figurative, euphemistic) To kick and convulse from the effects of being hanged.
- (intransitive) To leap or move lightly and rapidly.
- (figurative, euphemistic) To make love or have sex.
- (transitive) To perform the steps to.
- (transitive) To cause to dance, or move nimbly or merrily about.
noun
- taking a series of rhythmical steps (and movements) in time to music
- (genetics) a mutation that drastically changes the phenotype of an organism or species
- an abrupt transition
- a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards
- (geology) the leaping movement of sand or soil particles as they are transported in a fluid medium over an uneven surface
- A leap, jump or dance.
- (biology) The act of jumping, or hopping, using all legs simultaneously (although the contribution to motion is typically made chiefly by the hind legs).
- (geology, fluid mechanics) The transport of loose particles by a fluid (such as wind or flowing water).
- (biology) A sudden change from one generation to the next; a mutation.
- Beating or palpitation.
- Any abrupt transition.
noun
- (music) The reversal of an interval; the move of one pitch in an interval up or down an octave.
- (grammar) Deviation from standard word order, as for example by putting the predicate before the subject. It takes place in questions with auxiliary verbs; in normal, affirmative clauses beginning with a negative particle, for the purpose of emphasis; and in other rhetorical devices or unusual situations.
- (meteorology) A situation where air temperature increases with altitude (the ground being colder than the surrounding air).
- The act of being in an inverted state; being upside down, inside out, or in a reverse sequence.
- A section of a roller coaster where passengers are temporarily turned upside down.
- (algebra) An operation on a group, analogous to negation.
- (music) The position of a chord which has a note other than the root as its bass note.
- (biochemistry) The catalytic action of invertase.
- (genetics) A segment of DNA in the context of a chromosome that is reversed in orientation relative to a reference karyotype or genome.
- The action of inverting.
- (music) The flipping of a melody or contrapuntal line so that high notes become low and vice versa; the reversal of a pitch contour.
- the reversal of the normal order of words
- a chemical process in which the direction of optical rotation of a substance is reversed from dextrorotatory to levorotary or vice versa
- the layer of air near the earth is cooler than an overlying layer
- a term formerly used to mean taking on the gender role of the opposite sex
- abnormal condition in which an organ is turned inward or inside out (as when the upper part of the uterus is pulled into the cervical canal after childbirth)
- the act of turning inside out
- turning upside down; setting on end
- (counterpoint) a variation of a melody or part in which ascending intervals are replaced by descending intervals and vice versa
- (genetics) a kind of mutation in which the order of the genes in a section of a chromosome is reversed
noun
- (music) Progression from dissonance to consonance; a chord to which such progression is made.
- A strong will; the state of being resolute.
- A statement of intent, a vow.
- (narratology) The moment in which the conflict ends and the outcome of the action is clear.
- (mathematics) The act or process of resolving: solving.
- (homological algebra, of a given module (or, generally, object in an abelian category) M) An exact sequence of modules (or, objects in the same category as M) either terminating in M or such that M is the homology at degree zero. See Resolution (algebra).
- (medicine) In a pathological process, the phase during which pathogens and damaged tissues are removed by macrophages.
- (computing) The number of pixels in an image being stored or displayed.
- (sciences) The separation of the constituent parts (of a spectrum etc).
- The act of discerning detail.
- (computing) The process of determining the meaning of a symbol or address; the process of executing a link to it.
- A formal statement adopted by an assembly, or during any other formal meeting.
- (sciences) The degree of fineness of such a separation.
- (computing, photography) The degree of fineness with which an image can be recorded or produced, often expressed as the number of pixels per unit of length (typically an inch).
- A firm decision or an official decision.
- the trait of being resolute
- analysis into clear-cut components
- the subsidence of swelling or other signs of inflammation (especially in a lung)
- a statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem
- a decision to do something or to behave in a certain manner
- a formal expression by a meeting; agreed to by a vote
- (music) a dissonant chord is followed by a consonant chord
- (computer science) the number of pixels per square inch on a computer-generated display; the greater the resolution, the better the picture
- finding a solution to a problem
- the ability of a microscope or telescope to measure the angular separation of images that are close together
- something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making
noun
- a musical interval of two semitones
- a sequence of foot movements that make up a particular dance
- the distance covered by a step
- a mark of a foot or shoe on a surface
- relative position in a graded series
- support consisting of a place to rest the foot while ascending or descending a stairway
- any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal
- the sound of a step of someone walking
- the act of changing location by raising the foot and setting it down
- a short distance
- a solid block joined to the beams in which the heel of a ship's mast or capstan is fixed
- (colloquial) A stepchild.
- (glassblowing) The button joining a glass's stem to its foot.
- Stepping (style of dance)
- (machines) One of a series of offsets, or parts, resembling the steps of stairs, as one of the series of parts of a cone pulley on which the belt runs.
- (nautical) A framing in wood or iron which is intended to receive an upright shaft; specifically, a block of wood, or a solid platform upon the keelson, supporting the heel of the mast.
- (in the plural) A walk; passage.
- A distinct part of a process; stage; phase.
- An advance or movement made from one foot to the other; a pace.
- Proceeding; measure; action; act.
- (in the plural) A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position.
- The part of a spade, digging stick or similar tool that a digger's foot rests against and presses on when digging; an ear, a foot-rest.
- (kinematics) A change of position effected by a motion of translation.
- (slang, primarily Netherlands) Kick scooter.
- A print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track.
- A gait; manner of walking.
- (machines) A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves.
- The space passed over by one movement of the foot in walking or running.
- A small space or distance.
- (colloquial) A stepsibling.
- A rest, or one of a set of rests, for the foot in ascending or descending, as a stair, or a rung of a ladder.
- A running board where passengers step to get on and off the bus.
- (programming) A constant difference between consecutive values in a series.
- (music) The interval between two contiguous degrees of the scale.
verb
- place (a ship's mast) in its step
- put down or press the foot, place the foot
- move with one's feet in a specific manner
- treat badly
- measure (distances) by pacing
- shift or move by taking a step
- walk a short distance to a specified place or in a specified manner
- furnish with steps
- move or proceed as if by steps into a new situation
- cause (a computer) to execute a single command
- (transitive, nautical) To fix the foot of (a mast) in its step; to erect.
- To dance.
- (intransitive) To walk; to go on foot; especially, to walk a little distance.
- (intransitive, slang) To be confrontational.
- (intransitive) To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely.
- (transitive) To set, as the foot.
- (intransitive, slang, African-American Vernacular) To depart.
- (transitive) To advance a process gradually, one step at a time.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To move mentally; to go in imagination.
- (intransitive) To move the foot in walking; to advance or recede by raising and moving one of the feet to another resting place, or by moving both feet in succession.
noun
- a musical interval of two semitones
- (music) (in the diatonic scale) An interval of a major second.
- the elastic tension of living muscles, arteries, etc. that facilitate response to stimuli
- the quality of a person's voice
- a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound
- the quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
- (linguistics) a pitch or change in pitch of the voice that serves to distinguish words in tonal languages
- a steady sound without overtones
- (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound)
- the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people
- a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color
- (music) A specific pitch.
- The shade or quality of a colour.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang) a gun
- (language, literature) The manner in which speech or writing is expressed, especially the aspects of diction (word choice), connotation, emotiveness, and register.
- (painting) The favourable effect of a picture produced by the combination of light and shade, or of colours.
- (music) (in a Gregorian chant) A recitational melody.
- The character of a sound, especially the timbre of an instrument or voice.
- The definition and firmness of a muscle or organ; see also: tonus.
- (language, linguistics) The pitch of a word's sound that distinguishes a difference in meaning, as for example in Chinese.
- The general character, atmosphere, mood, or vibe (of a situation, place, etc.).
- (biology) Normal tension or responsiveness to stimuli.
- (biology) The state of a living body or of any of its organs or parts in which the functions are healthy and performed with due vigor.
- (Chiefly in the form lower/raise the tone of something) The quality of being respectable or admirable.
verb
- vary the pitch of one's speech
- give a healthy elasticity to
- utter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically
- change to a color image
- change the color or tone of
- (transitive) to change the colour of
- (transitive) to make (something) firmer
- (transitive) to give a particular tone to
- (transitive) to utter with an affected tone.
pron
noun
- a musical interval of two semitones
- (music) The musical interval equal (exactly or approximately) to a frequency ratio of 8/7, 9/8, or 10/9, depending on the tuning system used. In meantone tunings (including twelve-tone equal temperament), there is only one whole tone, though tuning systems that are not meantone have a "major tone" of 9/8 and a "minor tone" of 10/9.
noun
- a recurrent rhythmical series
- the close of a musical section
- (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
- (horse-riding) Harmony and proportion of movement, as in a well-managed horse.
- The act or state of declining or sinking.
- (music) A progression of at least two chords which conclude a piece of music, section or musical phrases within it. Sometimes referred to analogously as musical punctuation.
- (speech) A fall in inflection of a speaker’s voice, such as at the end of a sentence.
- (military) A chant that is sung by military personnel while running or marching; a jody call.
- The measure or beat of movement.
- (horseracing) The number of strides per second of a racehorse, measured when the same foot/hoof strikes the ground
- (fencing) The rhythm and sequence of a series of actions.
- (dance) A dance move which ends a phrase.
- (music) A cadenza, or closing embellishment; a pause before the end of a strain, which the performer may fill with a flight of fancy.
- Balanced, rhythmic flow.
- (heraldry) Cadency.
- (software engineering) The frequency of regular product releases.
- (running) The number of steps per minute.
- The general inflection or modulation of the voice, or of any sound.
- (cycling) The number of revolutions per minute of the cranks or pedals of a bicycle.
verb
noun
- a musical rest equal in duration to four beats in common time
- (music) A pause or interval of silence equal in duration to two half rests or one half of a breve rest. In common or 4/4 time, its duration is four beats.
- (music) A symbol used in musical notation drawn as a solid rectangle directly below the line above the middle line of a staff whose height is half the distance between lines.
noun
- (music) A difference in the calculation of nearly identical intervals by different ways.
- (figurative) A brief interval.
- (Romanian typography) A similar-looking subscript diacritical mark.
- (typography) The punctuation mark ⟨,⟩ used to indicate a set of parts of a sentence or between elements of a list.
- (entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Polygonia, having a comma-shaped white mark on the underwings, especially Polygonia c-album and Polygonia c-aureum of North Africa, Europe, and Asia.
- (genetics) A delimiting marker between items in a genetic sequence.
- (rhetoric) In Ancient Greek rhetoric, a short clause, something less than a colon, originally denoted by comma marks. In antiquity it was defined as a combination of words having no more than eight syllables in all. It was later applied to longer phrases, e.g. the Johannine comma.
- anglewing butterfly with a comma-shaped mark on the underside of each hind wing
- a punctuation mark (‘,’) used to indicate the separation of elements within the grammatical structure of a sentence
verb
noun
- (music) A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once.
- (sugar manufacture) A charge of syrup in the pans.
- (informal) A song, typically one on an album, that is not worth listening to.
- A wheeled basket chiefly used in textile factories.
- A skipper; the master or captain of a ship, or other person in authority.
- (radio) skywave propagation
- (video games) A trick allowing the player to proceed to a later section of the game without playing through a section that was intended to be mandatory.
- (Trinity College, Dublin, historical) A college servant.
- (Commonwealth, UK, Ireland) A large container for waste, designed to be lifted onto the back of a truck to remove it along with its contents, or to be picked up by hydraulic arms so that its contents can be dumped into the truck.
- (scouting, informal) The scoutmaster of a troop of scouts (youth organization).
- The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.
- (Australia, slang) An Australian of Anglo-Celtic descent.
- A person who attempts to disappear so as not to be found.
- (UK, Scotland, dialect) A skep, or basket, such as a creel or a handbasket.
- (curling) The player who calls the shots and traditionally throws the last two rocks.
- The captain of a sports team.
- (bowls) The captain of a bowls team, who directs the team's tactics and rolls the side's last wood, so as to be able to retrieve a difficult situation if necessary.
- (steelmaking) A skip car.
- (mining) A transportation container in a mine, usually for ore or mullock.
- A beehive made of woven straw, wicker, etc.
- (slang) A skip-level manager; the boss of one's boss.
- A leaping or jumping movement; the action of one who skips.
- a mistake resulting from neglect
- a gait in which steps and hops alternate
verb
- (intransitive) To skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface.
- (knitting, crochet) To pass by a stitch as if it were not there, continuing with the next stitch.
- (printing) To have insufficient ink transfer.
- To jump rope.
- To cause the stylus to jump back to the previous loop of the record's groove, continuously repeating that part of the sound, as a result of excessive scratching or wear. (of a phonograph record)
- To leap lightly over.
- (transitive) To disregard, miss or omit part of a continuation (some item or stage).
- (intransitive) To move by hopping on alternate feet.
- (intransitive) To leap about lightly.
- (transitive, informal) Not to attend (some event, especially a class or a meeting).
- (transitive, informal) To leave, especially in a sudden and covert manner.
- (transitive) To place an item in a skip (etymology 2, sense 1).
- (transitive) To throw (something), making it skim, ricochet, or bounce over a surface.
- intentionally fail to attend
- jump lightly
- leave suddenly
- bound off one point after another
- cause to skip over a surface
- bypass
noun
- (music) A musical rhythm twice as fast as the overall beat, with this pattern of note lengths: 3/16 3/16 1/4 3/16 3/16.
- (dance) A dance step pattern with six steps.
- (military) A fast marching pace of 180 steps per minute, 36 inches in length for the Marine Corps and Navy, 30 inches in length for the Army. It is not really double the speed of quick time as quick time is 112-120 steps per minute.
- A rate of pay that is twice the normal rate (for reasons such as working on a holiday or working hazardous duty).
- a doubled wage (for working overtime)
- a fast marching pace (180 steps/min) or slow jog
adv
noun
- a musical rest having the time value of half a whole rest or equal in duration to two beats in common time
- (music) A pause or interval of silence equal in duration to two quarter rests or one half of a whole rest. In common or 4/4 time, its duration is two beats.
- (music) A symbol used in musical notation drawn as a solid rectangle directly above the middle line of a staff whose height is half the distance between lines.
noun
- rhythm as given by division into parts of equal duration
- any of various measuring instruments for measuring a quantity
- the basic unit of length adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites (approximately 1.094 yards)
- (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
- A device that measures things.
- A parking meter or similar device for collecting payment.
- US standard spelling of metre (“the rhythm or measure in language”).
- (American spelling) A line above or below a hanging net, to which the net is attached in order to strengthen it.
- US standard spelling of metre (“unit of measure”).
verb
noun
- rhythm as given by division into parts of equal duration
- the basic unit of length adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites (approximately 1.094 yards)
- (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
- The basic unit of length in the International System of Units (SI: Système International d'Unités), equal to the distance travelled by light in a vacuum in 1/299 792 458 seconds. The metre is equal to 39+⁴⁷⁄₁₂₇ (approximately 39.37) imperial inches.
- (UK, Canada) The rhythm or measure in language (especially verse) and musical composition.
verb
noun
- rhythm as given by division into parts of equal duration
- the fourth coordinate that is required (along with three spatial dimensions) to specify a physical event
- a suitable moment
- an instance or single occasion for some event
- an indefinite period (usually marked by specific attributes or activities)
- a person's experience on a particular occasion
- the period of time a prisoner is imprisoned
- a period of time considered as a resource under your control and sufficient to accomplish something
- a reading of a point in time as given by a clock
- the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past
- (uncountable, slang) The serving of a prison sentence.
- (uncountable) The feeling of the passage of events and their relative duration, as experienced by an individual.
- (countable) A numerical indication of a particular moment.
- (uncountable with possessive) A person's youth or young adulthood, as opposed to the present day.
- (countable) An experience.
- (only in singular, sports and figuratively) Time out; temporary, limited suspension of play.
- (uncountable) A quantity of availability of duration.
- (UK, in public houses) Closing time.
- (countable) A measurement of a quantity of time; a numerical or general indication of a length of progression.
- (uncountable) The duration of time of a given day that has passed; the moment, as indicated by a clock or similar device.
- (uncountable) Tempo; a measured rate of movement.
- (uncountable) Rhythmical division, meter.
- (physics, uncountable, reductionist definition) The property of a system which allows it to have more than one distinct configuration.
- (countable) The measurement under some system of region of day or moment.
- (physics, usually uncountable) A dimension of spacetime with the opposite metric signature to space dimensions; the fourth dimension.
- (music, uncountable) The measured duration of sounds.
- (countable) An instance or occurrence.
- (jazz) (uncountable) A straight rhythmic pattern, free from fills, breaks and other embellishments.
- (countable) A particular moment or hour; the appropriate moment or hour for something (especially with prepositional phrase or imperfect subjunctive).
- (countable) An era; (articulated, sometimes in the plural) the current era, the current state of affairs.
- (slang, MLE) Clipping of a long time.
- (countable) A ratio of comparison (see also usage notes and prepositional sense at 'times').
- (with possessives) The end of someone’s life, conceived by the speaker as having been predestined.
- (uncountable) The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present and past events.
- (physics, uncountable) Change associated with the second law of thermodynamics; the physical and psychological result of increasing entropy.
- The hour of childbirth.
verb
- assign a time for an activity or event
- set the speed, duration, or execution of
- regulate or set the time of
- measure the time or duration of an event or action or the person who performs an action in a certain period of time
- adjust so that a force is applied and an action occurs at the desired time
- To regulate as to time; to accompany, or agree with, in time of movement.
- (transitive) To measure or record the time, duration, or rate of something.
- (transitive) To choose when something commences or its duration.
- To measure, as in music or harmony.
intj
noun
- The tempo or speed of a beat, song or repetitive event.
- A regular quantitative change in a variable (notably natural) process.
- The variation of strong and weak elements (such as duration, accent) of sounds, notably in speech or music, over time; a beat or meter.
- Controlled repetition of a phrase, incident or other element as a stylistic figure in literature and other narrative arts; the effect it creates.
- A flow, repetition or regularity.
- The musical instruments which provide rhythm (mainly; not or less melody) in a musical ensemble.
- A person's natural feeling for rhythm.
- A specifically defined pattern of such variation.
- the arrangement of spoken words alternating stressed and unstressed elements
- recurring at regular intervals
- (architecture) the repetitive use of a group of visual elements to establish a recognizable pattern
- natural family planning in which ovulation is assumed to occur 14 days before the onset of a period (the fertile period would be assumed to extend from day 10 through day 18 of her cycle)
- the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music
- an interval during which a recurring sequence of events occurs
verb
verb
- (music) To smoothly pass from one note to another by bending the pitch upwards or downwards.
- (transitive) To subtly direct a facial expression at (someone).
- (intransitive) To pass along smoothly or unobservedly; to move gently onward without friction or hindrance.
- (intransitive) To move on a low-friction surface.
- (intransitive, finance) To decrease in amount or value.
- (regional) To ride down snowy hills upon a toboggan or similar object for recreation.
- (intransitive, slang) To go; to move from one place or to another.
- (intransitive, baseball) To drop down and skid into a base.
- (transitive) To pass or put imperceptibly; to slip.
- (intransitive) To lose one’s balance on a slippery surface.
- (soccer) To kick so that the ball slides along the ground with little or no turning.
- (ergative) To (cause to) move in continuous contact with a surface.
- to pass or move unobtrusively or smoothly
- move smoothly along a surface
- move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner
noun
- (geology) A small dislocation in beds of rock along a line of fissure.
- A lever that can be moved in two directions.
- (Australia, informal) Removable rank insignia worn on epaulettes of army uniform.
- Synonym of slider (“movable part of a zip fastener that opens or closes the row of teeth”).
- A pocket in one's pants (trousers).
- (sciences) A flat, usually rectangular piece of glass or similar material on which a prepared sample may be viewed through a microscope Generally referred to as a microscope slide.
- (phonetics) A sound which, by a gradual change in the position of the vocal organs, passes imperceptibly into another sound.
- A clasp or brooch for a belt, etc.
- (baseball) The act of dropping down and skidding into a base
- (photography) A transparent plate bearing an image to be projected to a screen.
- (footwear) A sandal that is backless and open-toed.
- A valve that works by sliding, such as in a trombone.
- (by extension, computing) A page of a computer presentation package such as PowerPoint.
- An inclined plane on which heavy bodies slide by the force of gravity, especially one constructed on a mountainside for conveying logs by sliding them down.
- An item of play equipment that children can climb up and then slide down again.
- (music, guitar) A hand-held device made of smooth, hard material, used in the practice of slide guitar.
- A surface of ice, snow, butter, etc. on which someone can slide for amusement or as a practical joke.
- The act of sliding; smooth, even passage or progress.
- (music) A grace consisting of two or more small notes moving by conjoint degrees, and leading to a principal note either above or below.
- (traditional Irish music and dance) A lively dance from County Kerry, in 12/8 time.
- (vulgar slang) A promiscuous woman, slut.
- The falling of large amounts of rubble, earth and stones down the slope of a hill or mountain; avalanche.
- A mechanism, or portion of one, consisting of a part which slides on or against a guide.
- (speech therapy) A voluntary stutter used as a technique to control stuttering in one's speech.
- a transparency mounted in a frame; viewed with a slide projector
- (music) rapid sliding up or down the musical scale
- a small flat rectangular piece of glass on which specimens can be mounted for microscopic study
- (geology) the descent of a large mass of earth or rocks or snow etc.
- plaything consisting of a sloping chute down which children can slide
- sloping channel through which things can descend
- the act of moving smoothly along a surface while remaining in contact with it
verb
- (music) To increase an interval, especially the largest interval in a triad, by a half step (chromatic semitone).
- (intransitive, reflexive) To grow; to increase; to become greater.
- (grammar, transitive) To add an augment to.
- (music) To slow the tempo or meter, e.g. for a dramatic or stately passage.
- (transitive) To increase; to make larger or supplement.
- grow or intensify
- enlarge or increase
noun
- An increase.
- (Bantu languages) In some languages, an additional vowel prepended to the noun prefix.
- (Indo-European languages) In some languages, a prefix *é- (अ- (a-) in Sanskrit, ἐ- (e-) in Greek) indicating a past tense of a verb.
- (Celtic languages) Especially Old Irish, a preverb, usually ro-, used to give a verb a resultative or potential meaning.
adj
noun
adv
adj
noun
- (linguistics, rare) Either term of a conjunctive conjunction.
- (logic, linguistics) Either term of a conjunction.
- (linguistics) An adjunct that supplements a sentence with information, connecting the sentence with previous parts of the discourse. Not considered to be an essential part of the propositional content.
adj
- progressing melodically by intervals larger than a major second
- having deep constrictions separating head, thorax, and abdomen, as in insects
- marked by separation of or from usually contiguous elements
- used of distributions, as of statistical or natural populations
- Separate; discontinuous; not connected.
- (botany) Occurring in widely separated geographic areas.
noun
- (logic) One of multiple propositions, any of which, if true, confirm the validity of another proposition (a disjunction).
- The state of being disjointed; disjointedness; a disconnect.
- (botany) A species or population occurring at a distant or separate location, and separated from other members of the same group.
- (linguistics) Any sentence element that is not fully integrated into the clausal structure of the sentence.
- (linguistics) An adverbial that expresses the speaker's or writer's attitude towards, or descriptive statement of, the propositional content of the associated clause or sentence.
- (linguistics, rare) A conjunct of a disjunctive conjunction.
adj
- (music, of an interval) Having the two notes sound successively.
- (sex, euphemistic) Relating to sexual intercourse.
- (marketing) Relating to horizontal markets
- (biology) Being or relating to the transmission of organisms between biotic and/or abiotic members of an ecosystem that are not in a parent-progeny relationship.
- (wine) Involving wines of the same vintages but from different wineries.
- Perpendicular to the vertical; parallel to the plane of the horizon; level, flat.
- parallel to or in the plane of the horizon or a base line
noun
adj
noun
adv
adj
- (music) Of an interval: having the two notes sound simultaneously.
- In a two-dimensional Cartesian co-ordinate system, describing the axis y oriented normal (perpendicular, at right angles) to the horizontal axis x.
- Standing, pointing, or moving straight up or down; parallel to the local direction of gravity; along the direction of a plumb line; perpendicular to something horizontal.
- (wine tasting) Involving different vintages of the same wine type from the same winery.
- (marketing) Of or pertaining to vertical markets.
- In a three-dimensional co-ordinate system, describing the axis z oriented normal (perpendicular, orthogonal) to the basic plane xy.
- at right angles to the plane of the horizon or a base line
- of or relating to different levels in a hierarchy (as levels of social class or income group)
- upright in position or posture
- relating to or involving all stages of a business from production to distribution
noun
- A vertical geometrical figure; a perpendicular.
- (marketing) A vertical market.
- An individual slat in a set of vertical blinds.
- A vertical component of a structure.
- (politics) A command structure for exertion of political power.
- A vertex or zenith.
- something that is oriented vertically
- a vertical structural member as a post or stake
adj
- (music) Employing oblique motion, motion or progression in which one part (voice) stays on the same note while another ascends or descends.
- (grammar) Pertaining to the oblique case (non-nominative).
- Not straightforward; indirect; by implication; (sometimes even) obscure, ambiguous, or confusing.
- Disingenuous; underhand; morally corrupt.
- (botany, of branches or roots) Growing at an angle that is neither vertical nor horizontal.
- Not direct in descent; not following the line of father and son; collateral.
- Not erect or perpendicular; not parallel to, or at right angles from, the base.
- (botany, of leaves) Having the base of the blade asymmetrical, with one side lower than the other.
- (grammar, of speech or narration) Indirect; employing the actual words of the speaker but as related by a third person, having the first person in pronoun and verb converted into the third person and adverbs of present time into the past, etc.
- slanting or inclined in direction or course or position — neither parallel nor perpendicular nor right-angled
- indirect in departing from the accepted or proper way; misleading
noun
verb
- (military) To march in a direction oblique to the line of the column or platoon; — formerly accomplished by oblique steps, now by direct steps, the men half-facing either to the right or left.
- (intransitive) To deviate from a perpendicular line; to become askew.
- (transitive, computing) To slant (text, etc.) at an angle.
adj
- (of a melody) Having periods of silence scattered throughout; not regularly continuous.
- (of land) Uneven.
- (of a promise, etc) Breached; violated; not kept.
- (of a person) Completely defeated and dispirited; shattered; destroyed.
- (meteorology, of the sky) Five-eighths to seven-eighths obscured by clouds; incompletely covered by clouds.
- (sports, video games, of a tactic or option) Overpowered; overly powerful; giving a player too much power.
- (of an electronic connection) Disconnected, no longer open or carrying traffic.
- (of skin) Split or ruptured.
- (of language) Grammatically non-standard, especially as a result of being produced by a non-native speaker.
- Having no money; bankrupt, broke.
- (of sleep) Interrupted; not continuous.
- Non-functional; not functioning properly.
- (colloquial, US, of a situation) Not having gone in the way intended; saddening.
- (of a line) Dashed; made up of short lines with small gaps between each one and the next.
- Fragmented; in separate pieces.
- (informal) Badly designed or implemented.
- (of a bone or body part) Fractured; having the bone in pieces.
- subdued or brought low in condition or status
- (especially of promises or contracts) having been violated or disregarded
- physically and forcibly separated into pieces or cracked or split
- thrown into a state of disarray or confusion
- not continuous in space, time, or sequence or varying abruptly
- out of working order (‘busted’ is an informal substitute for ‘broken’)
- imperfectly spoken or written
- tamed or trained to obey
- topographically very uneven
- lacking a part or parts
- weakened and infirm
- discontinuous
- destroyed financially
verb
adj
- (of musical intervals) reduction by a semitone of any perfect or minor musical interval
- (of an organ or body part) diminished in size or strength as a result of disease or injury or lack of use
- impaired by diminution
- made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth)
- (music) reduced by a semitone
- made to seem less important, impressive, or valuable
- lessened, reduced