v
(transitive) To curtail.
n
(rare) Continuous growth; an accretion.
n
The act of increasing by natural growth; especially the increase of organic bodies by the internal accession of parts; organic growth.
v
(intransitive) To make an addition; to augment; to increase; to add on.
v
(intransitive) To put an expansion onto a building, usually a home.
v
(rare) To form; model; cause to conform.
v
(transitive, rare) To add an ampersand to.
n
An officer who has the care or inspection of weights and measures.
v
(transitive) To plastically deform (steel) as part of a certain process in order to improve its strength.
v
(transitive, idiomatic, informal) Of an item, to fix or build it; often in a rough and ready fashion.
v
(transitive, rare) To give shape to; form.
v
To give body or shape to something.
v
Alternative spelling of break the mold [(figuratively) To depart from a traditional pattern; to defy convention.]
v
(transitive, psychology) To focus one's emotional energies on someone or something.
n
(medicine, colloquial) Short for coarctation. [(medicine) A congenital stricture or narrowing of a short section of the aorta.]
v
(transitive) To penetrate every part of; to permeate.
adj
(archaic) Condensed; compact; dense.
n
Something constructed from parts.
n
The act or result of construing the meaning of something.
v
(transitive, computing) To perform currying upon.
v
(intransitive) To become changed in shape or misshapen.
n
(uncountable) The process of developing; growth, directed change.
v
(now rare) To build, construct.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To form; to shape.
n
In particular: the arising of emergent structure in complex systems.
v
(transitive) To stress, give emphasis or extra weight to (something).
v
(obsolete, transitive) To form; to fashion.
v
(intransitive) To assume form; to come into existence; to be caused or produced.
n
Something that enhances.
v
(transitive) To cause something to change or transform.
v
(transitive) To furnish with, as, or in a fixture.
v
To abridge, reduce, contract.
v
(transitive) To assume (a certain shape or visible structure).
v
(transitive, obsolete) To metamorphose; change the shape of; transform.
v
(transitive) To make fine distinctions concerning.
v
(transitive) To shape; to form.
v
(transitive) To fix firmly or set securely or deeply.
v
(transitive) To mark or stamp (something) using pressure.
v
(transitive) To constitute the components of a whole.
v
(transitive) To summarize.
v
(transitive, poetic, archaic) To give external form to.
n
An act or instance of marking text with an overline.
v
Obsolete form of pierce. [(transitive) To puncture; to break through.]
v
(transitive) To trace out (a graph or diagram).
v
To compact partially in preparation for full compaction or extrusion.
n
Development, increase, evolution.
v
(surveying) To draw to a scale; to lay down the lines and angles of, with scale and protractor; to plot.
v
(ecology, intransitive) to spread into new habitats, migrate.
adj
Having a straight margin / edge
adj
Having been or containing reinforcement.
v
(Northern England, Scotland, rare) To create or make.
n
Obsolete spelling of shape [The status or condition of something]
adj
Taking up only a limited amount of space or room; compact.
v
(transitive) To form a statue of; to make into a statue.
adj
Positioned immediately above or on top of something else; overlying.
v
(idiomatic) To take shape
v
(intransitive, often figuratively) To take a definite form.
v
(obsolete) To be, or cause to be, transparent; to appear, or cause to appear, or be seen, through something.
adj
Sufficiently compact to be taken conveniently with one when travelling.
v
To manipulate a display so as to magnify or shrink it.
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