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(v)
(transitive) To show, display, or present; to prove or make evident
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To tell; narrate; to relate in detail.
(transitive) To repeat aloud (some passage, poem or other text previously memorized, or in front of one's eyes), often before an audience.
(transitive) To provide evidence for, or suggest the truth of.
(transitive) To relate (a story or series of events) in speech or writing.
(transitive) To find out definitely; to discover or establish.
(transitive) To pronounce.
(transitive) To set in some sort of order.
To secern.
(idiomatic) To perceive things as different, or to perceive their difference itself; to differentiate, distinguish, discriminate.
(transitive) To show or be the difference or distinction between things.
(transitive) (by extension) To separate (something from other things) in the mind; to discriminate, to distinguish.
To recognize someone or something as different from others based on its characteristics.
(transitive, chiefly literary) To lay upon, as an order or command; to give an injunction to; to direct with authority; to order; to charge.
(transitive) To distinguish; to make or treat as several.
(transitive) To make sure and secure; ensure.
(transitive) To divide (a thing) into separate parts.
(transitive) To declare to be a fact.
(ergative) To rotate, revolve, gyrate (usually quickly); to partially or completely rotate to face another direction.
(n)
(attributive) Denoting the act of shooting an object off the top of a person's head.
(transitive, sometimes with 'of') To point out; to discover; to direct to a knowledge of; to show; to make known.
(transitive) To give public notice of, especially for the first time; to make known.
(transitive) To bring into a relation, association, or connection (between one thing and another).
(transitive) To impart or transmit (information or knowledge) to someone; to make known, to tell.
(transitive, intransitive) To relate details of (an event or incident); to recount, describe (something).
A speaking or noticing of anything, usually in a brief or cursory manner.
(transitive) To establish the identity of someone or something.
To acquire, or attempt to acquire knowledge or an ability to do something.
(transitive or intransitive) To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written.
(transitive) To communicate knowledge to.
(transitive) To state explicitly, or in detail, or as a condition.
(transitive) To represent in words.
(intransitive, with "on" or "about") To make remarks or notes; to express a view regarding.
(transitive) To make known; to show (by speech, writing etc.).
(transitive) To tell (someone) what they must or should do.
To make (someone or oneself) aware of some information; to inform, to notify.
(transitive) To give (someone) notice (of some event).
(transitive, intransitive) To assert or announce formally, officially, explicitly, or emphatically.
(transitive) To make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear of obscurity; to illustrate the meaning of.
(transitive) To instruct or train.
(transitive) To notice with care; to observe; to remark; to heed.
(obsolete) To confess as true; to acknowledge.
(ditransitive) To pass on knowledge to.
To intend.
(transitive) To display, to have somebody see (something).
(transitive) To give advice to; to offer an opinion to, as worthy or expedient to be followed.
(adj)
So named; commonly called.
(intransitive) To communicate with one's voice, to say words out loud.
(transitive, intransitive) To give a written or spoken response, especially to a question, request, accusation or criticism; to answer.
(intransitive) To recite numbers in sequence.
(transitive) To perceive the truth or factuality of; to be certain of; to be certain that.
(transitive) To perceive or detect someone or something with the eyes, or as if by sight.
Expressed in a statement; uttered or written.
(intransitive) To extend the index finger in the direction of something in order to show where it is or to draw attention to it.
(transitive) To converse or debate concerning a particular topic.
(transitive, intransitive) To say something in return; to answer; to reply.
Involving speaking.
(ambitransitive) To make a reply or response to.
(transitive, of a proposition) To have as a necessary consequence; to lead to (something) as a consequence.
(transitive) To create.
The denotation, referent, or idea connected with a word, expression, or symbol.
(transitive) To cause one to experience a memory (of someone or something); to bring to the notice or consideration (of a person).
British standard spelling of emphasize.
(intransitive) To communicate, usually by means of speech.
(transitive) To provide public information about (a product, service etc.) in order to attract public awareness and increase sales.
To request or petition.
To ascertain definitely; to figure out, find out, or conclude by analyzing, calculating, or investigating.
To speak in order for someone to write down the words.
A proverb or maxim.
To try to see, to pay attention to with one’s eyes.
(transitive) To say as an interruption or aside.
To specify each member of a sequence individually in incrementing order.
To assure the accuracy of previous statements.
To assume the existence of; to postulate.
(transitive) To explicitly mention (something) as a possibility for consideration, often to recommend it.
To declare with assurance or plainly and strongly; to state positively.
(ambitransitive) To resolve (a contest, problem, dispute, etc.); to choose, determine, or settle.
(transitive) To do or say again (and again).
To assert positively; to tell with confidence; to aver; to maintain as true.
To reach a partly (or totally) unconfirmed conclusion; to engage in conjecture; to speculate.
To physically place (something or someone somewhere).
(transitive) To evict, especially from a country.
(transitive, intransitive) To communicate (news or information, especially electronically).
To give part of what one has to somebody else to use or consume.
Something actual as opposed to invented.
(transitive) To make (someone) aware of impending danger, evil, etc.
Thought; verbal noun of think.
(ambitransitive) To form letters, words or symbols on a surface in order to communicate.
(transitive) To ponder, to go over in one's mind.
(intransitive, stative) To perceive sounds through the ear.
(transitive) To allow to enter; to grant entrance (to), whether into a place, into the mind, or into consideration
(chiefly US, idiomatic) A warning or call to pay attention; an advisory notice; a notice of what is to happen; a holler.
To give warning to.
(ditransitive) To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere.
(transitive) To accept as true, particularly without absolute certainty (i.e., as opposed to knowing).
(transitive) To trust to the care of.