| know | | |
| n. (cognition) | 1. know | the fact of being aware of information that is known to few people.; "he is always in the know" |
| ~ knowing | a clear and certain mental apprehension. |
| v. (cognition) | 2. cognise, cognize, know | be cognizant or aware of a fact or a specific piece of information; possess knowledge or information about.; "I know that the President lied to the people"; "I want to know who is winning the game!"; "I know it's time" |
| ~ keep track | keep informed of fully aware.; "I keep track of the stock market developments" |
| ~ know | be aware of the truth of something; have a belief or faith in something; regard as true beyond any doubt.; "I know that I left the key on the table"; "Galileo knew that the earth moves around the sun" |
| ~ agnise, agnize, realize, recognize, realise, recognise | be fully aware or cognizant of. |
| v. (cognition) | 3. know | know how to do or perform something.; "She knows how to knit"; "Does your husband know how to cook?" |
| ~ be on the ball, be with it, know the score, know what's going on, know what's what | be well-informed. |
| ~ master, control | have a firm understanding or knowledge of; be on top of.; "Do you control these data?" |
| ~ get the hang, master | be or become completely proficient or skilled in.; "She mastered Japanese in less than two years" |
| v. (cognition) | 4. know | be aware of the truth of something; have a belief or faith in something; regard as true beyond any doubt.; "I know that I left the key on the table"; "Galileo knew that the earth moves around the sun" |
| ~ cognise, cognize, know | be cognizant or aware of a fact or a specific piece of information; possess knowledge or information about.; "I know that the President lied to the people"; "I want to know who is winning the game!"; "I know it's time" |
| ~ foreknow, foresee, previse, anticipate | realize beforehand. |
| v. (cognition) | 5. know | be familiar or acquainted with a person or an object.; "She doesn't know this composer"; "Do you know my sister?"; "We know this movie"; "I know him under a different name"; "This flower is known as a Peruvian Lily" |
| ~ know | perceive as familiar.; "I know this voice!" |
| v. (cognition) | 6. experience, know, live | have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations.; "I know the feeling!"; "have you ever known hunger?"; "I have lived a kind of hell when I was a drug addict"; "The holocaust survivors have lived a nightmare"; "I lived through two divorces" |
| ~ taste | experience briefly.; "The ex-slave tasted freedom shortly before she died" |
| ~ live over, relive | experience again, often in the imagination.; "He relived the horrors of war" |
| ~ experience, go through, see | go or live through.; "We had many trials to go through"; "he saw action in Viet Nam" |
| v. (cognition) | 7. acknowledge, know, recognise, recognize | accept (someone) to be what is claimed or accept his power and authority.; "The Crown Prince was acknowledged as the true heir to the throne"; "We do not recognize your gods" |
| ~ accept | consider or hold as true.; "I cannot accept the dogma of this church"; "accept an argument" |
| v. (cognition) | 8. know | have fixed in the mind.; "I know Latin"; "This student knows her irregular verbs"; "Do you know the poem well enough to recite it?" |
| ~ have down | have (something) mastered.; "She has the names of the fifty states down pat" |
| v. (contact) | 9. bang, be intimate, bed, bonk, do it, eff, fuck, get it on, get laid, have a go at it, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, have sex, hump, jazz, know, lie with, love, make love, make out, roll in the hay, screw, sleep together, sleep with | have sexual intercourse with.; "This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm"; "Adam knew Eve"; "Were you ever intimate with this man?" |
| ~ neck, make out | kiss, embrace, or fondle with sexual passion.; "The couple were necking in the back seat of the car" |
| ~ have, take | have sex with; archaic use.; "He had taken this woman when she was most vulnerable" |
| ~ fornicate | have sex without being married. |
| ~ copulate, mate, couple, pair | engage in sexual intercourse.; "Birds mate in the Spring" |
| v. (cognition) | 10. know | know the nature or character of.; "we all knew her as a big show-off" |
| ~ agnise, agnize, realize, recognize, realise, recognise | be fully aware or cognizant of. |
| v. (cognition) | 11. know | be able to distinguish, recognize as being different.; "The child knows right from wrong" |
| ~ differentiate, distinguish, secern, secernate, severalise, severalize, tell apart, separate, tell | mark as different.; "We distinguish several kinds of maple" |
| v. (cognition) | 12. know | perceive as familiar.; "I know this voice!" |
| ~ know | be familiar or acquainted with a person or an object.; "She doesn't know this composer"; "Do you know my sister?"; "We know this movie"; "I know him under a different name"; "This flower is known as a Peruvian Lily" |
| ~ recall, recollect, remember, call back, call up, retrieve, think | recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection.; "I can't remember saying any such thing"; "I can't think what her last name was"; "can you remember her phone number?"; "Do you remember that he once loved you?"; "call up memories" |
| loop | | |
| n. (artifact) | 1. cringle, eyelet, grommet, grummet, loop | fastener consisting of a metal ring for lining a small hole to permit the attachment of cords or lines. |
| ~ fastening, holdfast, fastener, fixing | restraint that attaches to something or holds something in place. |
| n. (shape) | 2. loop | anything with a round or oval shape (formed by a curve that is closed and does not intersect itself). |
| ~ band | a thin flat strip or loop of flexible material that goes around or over something else, typically to hold it together or as a decoration. |
| ~ belt | endless loop of flexible material between two rotating shafts or pulleys. |
| ~ drip loop | a downward hanging loop in a line that runs to a building.; "when it rained water would fall from the drip loop before it reached the building" |
| ~ running noose, slip noose, noose | a loop formed in a cord or rope by means of a slipknot; it binds tighter as the cord or rope is pulled. |
| ~ lobe | the enhanced response of an antenna in a given direction as indicated by a loop in its radiation pattern. |
| ~ jordan curve, simple closed curve | a closed curve that does not intersect itself. |
| ~ bight | a loop in a rope. |
| n. (process) | 3. iteration, loop | (computer science) a single execution of a set of instructions that are to be repeated.; "the solution took hundreds of iterations" |
| ~ physical process, process | a sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states.; "events now in process"; "the process of calcification begins later for boys than for girls" |
| ~ computer science, computing | the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures. |
| n. (group) | 4. loop | an inner circle of advisors (especially under President Reagan).; "he's no longer in the loop" |
| ~ clique, coterie, ingroup, inner circle, camp, pack | an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose. |
| n. (communication) | 5. loop | the basic pattern of the human fingerprint. |
| ~ fingerprint | a print made by an impression of the ridges in the skin of a finger; often used for biometric identification in criminal investigations. |
| n. (communication) | 6. loop | a computer program that performs a series of instructions repeatedly until some specified condition is satisfied. |
| ~ computer program, computer programme, programme, program | (computer science) a sequence of instructions that a computer can interpret and execute.; "the program required several hundred lines of code" |
| n. (cognition) | 7. loop, loop topology | the topology of a network whose components are serially connected in such a way that the last component is connected to the first component. |
| ~ network topology, topology | the configuration of a communication network. |
| n. (artifact) | 8. loop | an intrauterine device in the shape of a loop. |
| ~ intrauterine device, iud | contraceptive device consisting of a piece of bent plastic or metal that is inserted through the vagina into the uterus. |
| n. (artifact) | 9. closed circuit, loop | a complete electrical circuit around which current flows or a signal circulates. |
| ~ circuit, electric circuit, electrical circuit | an electrical device that provides a path for electrical current to flow. |
| ~ parallel circuit, shunt circuit | a closed circuit in which the current divides into two or more paths before recombining to complete the circuit. |
| n. (act) | 10. loop, loop-the-loop | a flight maneuver; aircraft flies a complete circle in the vertical plane. |
| ~ inside loop | a loop consisting of a climb followed by inverted flight followed by a dive that returns to horizontal flight. |
| ~ outside loop | a loop consisting of a dive followed by inverted flight followed by a climb that returns to horizontal flight. |
| ~ airplane maneuver, flight maneuver | a maneuver executed by an aircraft. |
| v. (motion) | 11. loop | move in loops.; "The bicycle looped around the tree" |
| ~ circle, circulate | move in circles. |
| v. (creation) | 12. intertwine, loop | make a loop in.; "loop a rope" |
| ~ entwine, knit | tie or link together. |
| ~ crochet, hook | make a piece of needlework by interlocking and looping thread with a hooked needle.; "She sat there crocheting all day" |
| ~ noose | make a noose in or of. |
| v. (motion) | 13. loop | fly loops, perform a loop.; "the stunt pilot looped his plane" |
| ~ circle, circulate | move in circles. |
| v. (contact) | 14. coil, curl, loop | wind around something in coils or loops. |
| ~ twine, wrap, wind, roll | arrange or or coil around.; "roll your hair around your finger"; "Twine the thread around the spool"; "She wrapped her arms around the child" |
| v. (contact) | 15. loop | fasten or join with a loop.; "He looped the watch through his belt" |
| ~ tie, bind | fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord.; "They tied their victim to the chair" |
| needlefish | | |
| n. (animal) | 1. billfish, gar, needlefish | elongate European surface-dwelling predacious fishes with long toothed jaws; abundant in coastal waters. |
| ~ teleost, teleost fish, teleostan | a bony fish of the subclass Teleostei. |
| ~ belonidae, family belonidae | ferocious fishes of warm regions resembling but unrelated to the freshwater gars. |
| ~ timucu | found in warm waters of western Atlantic. |
| n. (animal) | 2. needlefish, pipefish | fish with long tubular snout and slim body covered with bony plates. |
| ~ family syngnathidae, syngnathidae | pipefishes. |
| ~ dwarf pipefish, syngnathus hildebrandi | small (4 inches) fish found off the Florida Gulf Coast. |
| ~ cosmocampus profundus, deepwater pipefish | a fish 8 inches long; found from eastern Florida to western Caribbean. |
| ~ sea horse, seahorse | small fish with horse-like heads bent sharply downward and curled tails; swim in upright position. |
| ~ teleost, teleost fish, teleostan | a bony fish of the subclass Teleostei. |
| widow | | |
| n. (person) | 1. widow, widow woman | a woman whose husband is dead especially one who has not remarried. |
| ~ dowager | a widow holding property received from her deceased husband. |
| ~ war widow | a woman whose husband has died in war. |
| ~ adult female, woman | an adult female person (as opposed to a man).; "the woman kept house while the man hunted" |
| v. (change) | 2. widow | cause to be without a spouse.; "The war widowed many women in the former Yugoslavia" |
| ~ leave behind, leave | be survived by after one's death.; "He left six children"; "At her death, she left behind her husband and 11 cats" |
| widower | | |
| n. (person) | 1. widower, widowman | a man whose wife is dead especially one who has not remarried. |
| ~ adult male, man | an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman).; "there were two women and six men on the bus" |
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