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determine
determine
/dɪˈtɝmɪn/
Meaning:
1. Verb
- To set the boundaries or limits of.
- To ascertain definitely; to figure out, find out, or conclude by analyzing, calculating, or investigating.
- To fix the form or character of; to shape; to prescribe imperatively; to regulate; to settle.
- To fix the course of; to impel and direct; with a remoter object preceded by to.
- To bring to a conclusion, as a question or controversy; to settle authoritative or judicial sentence; to decide.
- To resolve on; to have a fixed intention of; also, to cause to come to a conclusion or decision; to lead.
- To define or limit by adding a differentia.
- To bring to an end; to finish.
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engage
engage
/ɛnˈɡeɪdʒ/
Meaning:
1. Verb
- (heading) To interact socially.
- (heading) To interact antagonistically.
- (heading) To interact contractually.
- (heading) To interact mechanically.
- To enter into (an activity), to participate (construed with in).
- To entangle.
Antonyms: disengage.
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associate
associate
/əˈsoʊsi.ət/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A person united with another or others in an act, enterprise, or business; a partner.
- Somebody with whom one works, coworker, colleague.
- A companion; a comrade.
- One that habitually accompanies or is associated with another; an attendant circumstance.
- A member of an institution or society who is granted only partial status or privileges.
- One of a pair of elements of an integral domain (or a ring) such that the two elements are divisible by each other (or, equivalently, such that each one can be expressed as the product of the other with a unit).
2. Verb
- To join in or form a league, union, or association.
- To spend time socially; keep company.
- (with with) To join as a partner, ally, or friend.
- To connect or join together; combine.
- To connect evidentially, or in the mind or imagination.
- (in deliberative bodies) To endorse.
- To be associative.
- To accompany; to be in the company of.
Synonyms: attach, join, put together, unite.
Antonyms: disassociate.
3. Adjective
- Joined with another or others and having lower status.
- Having partial status or privileges.
- Following or accompanying; concomitant.
- Connected by habit or sympathy.
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identical
identical
/aɪˈdɛntɪkl̩/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- (usually pluralized) Something which has exactly the same properties as something else.
- An identical twin.
2. Adjective
- Bearing full likeness by having precisely the same set of characteristics; indistinguishable.
- Not different or other; not another or others; not different as regards self; selfsame; numerically identical.
- Of twins, sharing the same genetic code.
- Exactly equivalent.
- Approximating or approaching exact equivalence.
Synonyms: same, same, selfsame.
Antonyms: contrasting, different, distinct, non-identical.
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consumption
consumption
/kənˈsʌmp.ʃən/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The act of eating, drinking or using.
- The amount consumed.
- The act of consuming or destroying.
- The wasting away of the human body through disease.
- Pulmonary tuberculosis and other diseases that cause wasting away, lung infection, etc.
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accelerate
accelerate
/æk.ˈsɛl.ə.ˌɹeɪt/
Meaning:
1. Verb
- To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of.
- To quicken the natural or ordinary progression or process of.
- To cause a change of velocity.
- To hasten, as the occurrence of an event.
- To enable a student to finish a course of study in less than normal time.
- To become faster; to begin to move more quickly.
- Grow; increase.
Synonyms: hasten, quicken, speed up, advance, forward, expedite, further.
Antonyms: decelerate, retard, unaccelerate.
2. Adjective
- Accelerated; quickened; hastened; hurried.
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substance
substance
/ˈsʌbstəns/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Physical matter; material.
- The essential part of anything; the most vital part.
- Substantiality; solidity; firmness.
- Material possessions; estate; property; resources.
- A form of matter that has constant chemical composition and characteristic properties.
- Drugs (illegal narcotics)
- Hypostasis.
Synonyms: crux, gist, dope, gear, matter, stuff.
2. Verb
- To give substance to; to make real or substantial.
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consequence
consequence
/ˈkɑnsɪkwəns/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- That which follows something on which it depends; that which is produced by a cause.
- A result of actions, especially if such a result is unwanted or unpleasant.
- A proposition collected from the agreement of other previous propositions; any conclusion which results from reason or argument; inference.
- Chain of causes and effects; consecution.
- Importance with respect to what comes after.
- The power to influence or produce an effect.
- (especially when preceded by “of”) Importance, value, or influence.
Synonyms: aftercome, distinction, implication, moment, rank, repercussion, value.
2. Verb
- To threaten or punish (a child, etc.) with specific consequences for misbehaviour.
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fragment
fragment
/fɹæɡˈmɛnt/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part, either physically or not
- (grammar) A sentence not containing a subject or a predicate.
- An incomplete portion of code.
- A portion of a URL referring to a subordinate resource (such as a specific point on a web page), introduced by the # sign.
2. Verb
- To break apart.
- To cause to be broken into pieces.
- To break up and disperse (a file) into non-contiguous areas of a disk.
Synonyms: fragmentize.
Antonyms: defragment.
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emphasis
emphasis
/ˈɛmfəsɪs/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Special weight or forcefulness given to something considered important.
- Special attention or prominence given to something.
- Prominence given to a syllable or words, by raising the voice or printing in italic or underlined type.
- The phonetic or phonological feature that distinguishes emphatic consonants from other consonants.
- The use of boldface.
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entire
entire
/ənˈtaɪɚ/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The whole of something; the entirety.
- An uncastrated horse; a stallion.
- A complete envelope with stamps and all official markings: (prior to the use of envelopes) a page folded and posted.
- Porter or stout as delivered from the brewery.
2. Adjective
- (sometimes postpositive) Whole; complete.
- Having a smooth margin without any indentation.
- Consisting of a single piece, as a corolla.
- (of a complex function) Complex-differentiable on all of ℂ.
- (of a male animal) Not gelded.
- Morally whole; pure; sheer
- Internal; interior.
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phenomenon
phenomenon
/fɪˈnɑmənɑn/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A thing or being, event or process, perceptible through senses; or a fact or occurrence thereof.
- (by extension) A knowable thing or event (eg by inference, especially in science)
- A kind or type of phenomenon (sense 1 or 2)
- Appearance; a perceptible aspect of something that is mutable.
- A fact or event considered very unusual, curious, or astonishing by those who witness it.
- A wonderful or very remarkable person or thing.
- (chiefly Kantian idealism) An experienced object whose constitution reflects the order and conceptual structure imposed upon it by the human mind (especially by the powers of perception and understanding).
Synonyms: event, legend, marvel, miracle, oddity, wonder, legend, marvel, miracle, phenom, prodigy, wonder.
Antonyms: noumenon, thing-in-itself.
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stretch
stretch
/stɹɛtʃ/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- An act of stretching.
- The ability to lengthen when pulled.
- A course of thought which diverts from straightforward logic, or requires extraordinary belief or exaggeration.
- A segment of a journey or route.
- A segment or length of material.
- A quick pitching delivery used when runners are on base where the pitcher slides his leg instead of lifting it.
- A long reach in the direction of the ball with a foot remaining on the base by a first baseman in order to catch the ball sooner.
- Term of address for a tall person.
- The homestretch, the final straight section of the track leading to the finish.
- A length of time.
- A stretch limousine.
2. Verb
- To lengthen by pulling.
- To lengthen when pulled.
- To pull tight.
- To get more use than expected from a limited resource.
- To make inaccurate by exaggeration.
- To extend physically, especially from limit point to limit point.
- To extend one’s limbs or another part of the body in order to improve the elasticity of one’s muscles
- To extend to a limit point
- To increase.
- To stretch the truth; to exaggerate.
- To sail by the wind under press of canvas.
- To execute by hanging.
- To make great demands on the capacity or resources of something.
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comprehensive
comprehensive
/ˌkɑːm.pɹəˈhɛn.sɪv/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A comprehensive school.
2. Adjective
- Broadly or completely covering; including a large proportion of something.
Synonyms: all-encompassing, exhaustive, thorough.
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suitable
suitable
/ˈsuːtəbl/
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Having sufficient or the required properties for a certain purpose or task; appropriate to a certain occasion.
Synonyms: fit for purpose, up to standard.
Antonyms: unsuitable.
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observe
observe
/əbˈzɝv/
Meaning:
1. Verb
- To notice or view, especially carefully or with attention to detail.
- To follow or obey the custom, practice, or rules (especially of a religion).
- To take note of and celebrate (a holiday or similar occurrence).
- To comment on something; to make an observation.
Synonyms: celebrate.
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claim
claim
/kleɪm/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A demand of ownership made for something.
- The thing claimed.
- The right or ground of demanding.
- A new statement of something one believes to be the truth, usually when the statement has yet to be verified or without valid evidence provided.
- A demand of ownership for previously unowned land.
- A legal demand for compensation or damages.
2. Verb
- To demand ownership of.
- To state a new fact, typically without providing evidence to prove it is true.
- To demand ownership or right to use for land.
- To demand compensation or damages through the courts.
- To be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title; to have a claim.
- To cause the loss of, usually by violent means.
- To proclaim.
- To call or name.
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recognition
recognition
/ˌɹɛkəɡˈnɪʃən/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The act of recognizing or the condition of being recognized (matching a current observation with a memory of a prior observation of the same entity)
- Acceptance as valid or true
- Official acceptance of the status of a new government by that of another country
- Honour, favourable note, or attention
- The propriety consisting for antibodies to bind to some specific antigens and not to others.
- A return of the feu to the superior.
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strike
strike
/stɹaɪk/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A status resulting from a batter swinging and missing a pitch, or not swinging at a pitch when the ball goes in the strike zone, or hitting a foul ball that is not caught.
- The act of knocking down all ten pins in on the first roll of a frame.
- A work stoppage (or otherwise concerted stoppage of an activity) as a form of protest.
- A blow or application of physical force against something.
- In an option contract, the price at which the holder buys or sells if they choose to exercise the option.
- An old English measure of corn equal to the bushel.
- The status of being the batsman that the bowler is bowling at.
- The primary face of a hammer, opposite the peen.
- The compass direction of the line of intersection between a rock layer and the surface of the Earth.
- An instrument with a straight edge for levelling a measure of grain, salt, etc., scraping off what is above the level of the top; a strickle.
- Fullness of measure; hence, excellence of quality.
- An iron pale or standard in a gate or fence.
- (ironworking) A puddler’s stirrer.
- The extortion of money, or the attempt to extort money, by threat of injury; blackmail.
- The discovery of a source of something.
- The strike plate of a door.
Antonyms: industrial peace, lockout.
2. Verb
- (sometimes with out or through) To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate.
- (physical) To have a sharp or sudden effect.
- To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate.
- (personal, social) To have a sharp or severe effect.
- To touch; to act by appulse.
- To take down, especially in the following contexts.
- To set off on a walk or trip.
- To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to penetrate.
- To break forth; to commence suddenly; with into.
- To become attached to something; said of the spat of oysters.
- To make and ratify.
- To level (a measure of grain, salt, etc.) with a straight instrument, scraping off what is above the level of the top.
- To cut off (a mortar joint, etc.) even with the face of the wall, or inward at a slight angle.
- To hit upon, or light upon, suddenly.
- (sugar-making) To lade thickened sugar cane juice from a teache into a cooler.
- To stroke or pass lightly; to wave.
- To advance; to cause to go forward; used only in the past participle.
- To balance (a ledger or account).
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accord
accord
/ə.ˈkɔɹd/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action.
- A harmony in sound, pitch and tone; concord.
- Agreement or harmony of things in general.
- An agreement between parties in controversy, by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated, and which, when executed, prevents a lawsuit.
- An international agreement.
- Assent
- Voluntary or spontaneous impulse to act.
Synonyms: assent, consent, treaty.
2. Verb
- To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust.
- To bring (people) to an agreement; to reconcile, settle, adjust or harmonize.
- To agree or correspond; to be in harmony; to be concordant.
- To agree in pitch and tone.
- To grant as suitable or proper; to concede or award.
- To give consent.
- To arrive at an agreement.
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conduct
conduct
/ˈkɑndʌkt/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The act or method of controlling or directing
- Skillful guidance or management; leadership
- Behaviour; the manner of behaving
- (of a literary work) plot; storyline
- Convoy; escort; person who accompanies another
- Something which carries or conveys anything; a channel; an instrument.
Synonyms: control, guidance, management, bearing, behavior, behaviour, demeanor, demeanour, deportment, action, plot, storyline.
2. Verb
- To lead, or guide; to escort.
- To lead; to direct; to be in charge of (people or tasks)
- (reflexively to conduct oneself) To behave.
- To serve as a medium for conveying; to transmit (heat, light, electricity, etc.)
- To direct, as the leader in the performance of a musical composition.
- To act as a conductor (as of heat, electricity, etc.); to carry.
- To carry out (something organized)
Synonyms: belead, direct, lead, manage, oversee, run, supervise, accompany, belead, escort, guide, lead, steer, act, behave, carry on, carry, convey, transmit.
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convey
convey
/kənˈveɪ/
Meaning:
1. Verb
- To move (something) from one place to another.
- To take or carry (someone) from one place to another.
- To communicate; to make known; to portray.
- To transfer legal rights (to).
- To manage with privacy; to carry out.
- To carry or take away secretly; to steal; to thieve.
Synonyms: express, relay, send, carry, transport, accompany, conduct, escort.
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indicate
indicate
/ˈɪndɪkeɪt/
Meaning:
1. Verb
- To point out; to discover; to direct to a knowledge of; to show; to make known.
- To show or manifest by symptoms; to point to as the proper remedies.
- To signal in a vehicle the desire to turn right or left.
- To investigate the condition or power of, as of steam engine, by means of an indicator.
Synonyms: betoken.
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skyscraper
skyscraper
/ˈskaɪˌskɹeɪpɚ/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A very tall building with a large number of floors.
- A small sail atop a mast of a ship; a triangular skysail.
- Anything very tall or high.
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