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n. 1 Something which supports. Often used attributively, as a complement or supplement to. 2 Financial or other help. vb. 1 (senseid en to keep from falling)(context transitive English) To keep from falling. 2 (context transitive English) To answer questions and resolve problems regarding something sold. 3 (senseid en to back a cause, party, etc. mentally or with concrete aid)(context transitive English) To back a cause, party, etc., mentally or with concrete aid. 4 (context transitive English) To help, particularly financially. 5 To verify; to make good; to substantiate; to establish; to sustain. 6 (context transitive English) To serve, as in a customer-oriented mindset; to give support to. 7 (context transitive English) To be designed (said of machinery, electronics, or computers, or their parts or programming) to function compatibly with or to provide the capacity for. 8 (context transitive English) To be accountable for, or involved with, but not responsible for. 9 (context archaic English) To endure without being overcome; bear; undergo; to tolerate. 10 To assume and carry successfully, as the part of an actor; to represent or act; to sustain.
vb. (en-archaic third-person singular of: fashion)
1 (context not comparable English) No longer living. 2 (context hyperbole English) Figuratively, not alive; lacking life 3 (context of another person English) So hated that they are absolutely ignored. 4 Without emotion. 5 Stationary; static. 6 Without interest to one of the senses; dull; flat. 7 Unproductive. 8 (context not comparable of a machine, device, or electrical circuit English) Completely inactive; without power; without a signal. 9 (context not comparable English) broken or inoperable. 10 (context not comparable English) No longer used or required. 11 (context not comparable sports English) Not in play. 12 (context not comparable golf of a golf ball English) Lying so near the hole that the player is certain to hole it in the next stroke. 13 (context not comparable baseball slang 1800s English) Tagged out. 14 (context not comparable English) Full and complete. 15 (context not comparable English) Exact. 16 Experiencing pins and needles (paresthesia). 17 (context informal English) (Certain to be) in big trouble. 18 Constructed so as not to transmit sound; soundless. 19 (context obsolete English) Bringing death; deadly. 20 (context legal English) Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property. 21 (context engineering English) Not imparting motion or power. adv. 1 (lb en degree) exact right. 2 (lb en degree) very, absolutely, extremely, suddenly. 3 As if dead. n. 1 (senseid en time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense)(context in the singular English) Time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense. 2 (context in the plural English) Those who have died. v
1 (context archaic English) Formerly, "be dead" was used instead of "have died" as the perfect tense of "die". 2 (context transitive English) To prevent by disabling; stop. 3 (context transitive English) To make dead; to deaden; to deprive of life, force, or vigour. 4 (context UK transitive slang English) To kill.
vb. (context obsolete English) To form into a body.
n. (context archaic English) A giraffe.
n. (context genetics English) The complete genetic information (either DNA or, in some viruses, RNA) of an organism.
n. (context biology English) The repression of the activity of one protein by another
n. (plural of questioning English)
Usage examples of "questionings".
With that taken care of, I wrote my report on the series of questionings, stressing Betty Short as a habitual liar and the possibility that she acted in a movie sometime in November of '46.
The only ray of hope was the result of my 1/17 FI questionings: Linda Martin/Lorna Martilkova was spotted in a couple of Encino cocktail lounges, and a big push to grab her was being centered in that area.
When Big Bill Koenig was deemed too combustible to work the questionings and was given clerical duties, I was paired with Fritz Vogel.
The DA had also requested a detailed memo on his non-UAES questionings and an update on the overall investigation--which he was late on--eyeballing Danny Upshaw’s performance had cost him an afternoon--he’d been playing operator boss while Dudley was out shaking down the Pinkos Lenny Rolff ratted on.
Once we’re satisfied with the number of witnesses we’ve turned, I want to take over the questionings and go solo on them, kid gloves--more for the sake of the investigation’s security than anything else.
I saw, from the time my enterprise and questionings positively shaped themselves (how best can I express my own distinctive era and surroundings, America, Democracy?
Rollings of eyes: impious questionings of the Creator of the universe.
He therefore walked about until it was time to retire to rest, and in that way escaped alike the suspicions and questionings he might otherwise have encountered.
That way you would altogether avoid questionings, and will attract no more attention than other country people going in to sell their goods.