adv
Subject to agreement by others and finalization of details, especially an ad referendum contract.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To name.
adj
Of or relating to animadversion.
n
One who performs appraisals.
n
The act or process of arbitrating.
n
An appraisal or evaluation.
adj
Abbreviation of auxiliary. [Helping; giving assistance or support.]
n
(law) An answer to any action.
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a question that can only be responded to with a set number of answers (typically 'yes' and 'no')
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(law) The end or close of a pleading, for example, the formal ending of an indictment, "against the peace", etc.
v
Obsolete spelling of con (“direct or steer a ship”) [(rare) To study or examine carefully, especially in order to gain knowledge of; to learn, or learn by heart.]
n
One who conducts or leads; a guide; a director.
n
(obsolete) The act of comparing two or more things together; comparison.
adj
Alternative form of constitutive [having the power or authority to constitute, establish or enact something]
adj
Alternative form of constitutive [having the power or authority to constitute, establish or enact something]
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A form of design research where the researcher observes a user doing his/her normal activities and discusses what is happening.
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(countable) An agreement of situations or objects with an expected outcome.
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Alternative form of decision making [The process of reaching a decision.]
adj
Directly pointing out; specifying.
n
Alternative form of demonstrator. [One who demonstrates anything, or proves beyond doubt.]
adj
Designated; appointed; chosen.
n
The writer of a treatise or dissertation.
n
A lengthy, formal discourse that analyses or explains some topic; (loosely) a dissertation or treatise.
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A set of rules or guidelines that one has to follow in a particular situation; etymologically, a set of things that one should do or not do in such situation.
adj
(archaic) Educational; instructive.
adj
Annotated with endnotes.
n
questions and answers (as a form of catechism etc.)
n
An assessment, such as an annual personnel performance review used as the basis for a salary increase or bonus, or a summary of a particular situation.
adj
Relating to an examination.
n
(law) A copy or transcript attested to be correct by the seal of an officer having custody of the original.
n
(authorship) An essay or speech in which any topic is discussed in detail.
n
Alternative form of fact-checking [The investigating of an issue with regards to the validity or veracity of its stated facts.]
n
Alternative form of fact-finding [The determination of factual information.]
n
(law, civil law) Anything stated and made certain.
n
Critical assessment of a process or activity or of their results.
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The act of pointing out with or as if with the finger; indication.
adj
(archaic) informative; educational
adj
Alternative form of inspectorial [Of or pertaining to an inspector or to inspection.]
adj
Of or pertaining to an inspector or to inspection.
adj
Conveying knowledge, information or instruction.
n
A hint; an obscure or indirect suggestion or notice; a remote or ambiguous reference.
n
(Canada, US, film, informal) Any character who serves to provide exposition, such as explaining how an elaborate murder was committed, sparing the writers from having to convey it indirectly.
n
(idiomatic, chiefly US, Canada) An opinion or viewpoint on a single subject or a few particular subjects which is frequently expressed by a person or organization.
n
A question that suggests the answer or that contains the information for which the examiner is looking.
n
Alternative spelling of learned borrowing [(linguistics) A word or other linguistic form borrowed from one language into another on purpose instead of through normal language contact, especially one from a classical language.]
n
(set phrase) Advice from another person or information derived from experience that provides valuable long-term guidance for one's future decisions and conduct in life.
n
(obsolete) The act of guiding or a means of guidance; direction, guidance, instruction.
n
(management) A formal declaration of the overall goal or purpose of an organization.
n
A watchword or slogan; a statement of policy, a plan.
v
To intentionally give someone or something the same name or a derivation of the same name as another person, place, or thing.
n
The practice of casually mentioning famous or important people or the titles of their works, subtly implying familiarity or association, in order to impress others.
v
(transitive) To name (somebody) after somebody else.
adj
Written or executed by a notary.
n
The claim that a writer or speaker makes about a controversial issue.
n
(advertising) One of four archetypal dramatic structures of commercials, characterized by an emotionally neutral beginning with an enormous leap in positive emotions generated by seeing the branded product in use.
n
Alternative form of prepositor [Scholar appointed to inspect other scholars; a monitor.]
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(grammar) The present tense.
n
(medicine) The symptoms and other possible indications of disease, trauma, etc., that are exhibited by a patient who has sought, or has otherwise come to, the attention of a physician.
n
A question to be answered, schoolwork exercise.
n
(obsolete) A magazine, repository, or handbook.
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A proposition, especially on an election-day ballot.
n
One who, or that which, prototypes.
v
To name in, or as, a proverb.
n
A subject or topic for consideration or investigation.
n
(law) An issue that has not been predetermined and authoritatively answered by the law.
n
One who receives a (supposedly) psychic reading, such as a cold reading or a tarot reading.
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To represent; to act as a representative for.
v
(transitive) To form or image again in consciousness, as an object of cognition or apprehension (something presentative, which was originally apprehended by direct presentation).
n
(semiotics) A representation; a thing serving to represent something.
adj
Appearing or acting for another; representing.
n
The act of representing.
n
Something representing or standing for another; a symbol, an embodiment.
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(now rare) A depiction or representation.
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A formal statement adopted by an assembly, or during any other formal meeting.
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A book of liturgical responses
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A report of a respondent of a survey or an interview about his internal state or perception, such as of pain, contrasting to measurement using a measuring device and to observations made by other people.
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A presentation of opinion or position.
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(law) A formal statement that the author has a serious intention of doing something under specified conditions, and at a specified time
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The formulation of a strategy.
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(figuratively, in the plural) The conditions and limitations in a contract collectively.
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A human, animal or an inanimate object that is being examined, treated, analysed, etc.
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A summary of the main points, especially (law) a judge's recapitulation of the evidence given to a jury before it withdraws to consider its verdict.
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(linguistics) A speech act that takes up a topic raised by a previous speaker.
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A person who estimates the value of something; an appraiser.
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An account or description from a particular point of view, especially as contrasted with another account.
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A form of mission statement, issued by a company or organization, in which its intentions for the future are stated
v
(transitive, intransitive, informal) To use the pronoun "y'all" (to).
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