WordNet
n. a blend of tobaccos to be smoked in a pipe
v. prove capable or fit; meet requirements [syn: measure up]
pronounce fit or able; "She was qualified to run the marathon"; "They nurses were qualified to administer the injections" [ant: disqualify]
make more specific; "qualify these remarks" [syn: restrict]
make fit or prepared; "Your education qualifies you for this job" [syn: dispose] [ant: disqualify]
specify as a condition or requirement in a contract or agreement; make an express demand or provision in an agreement; "The will stipulates that she can live in the house for the rest of her life"; "The contract stipulates the dates of the payments" [syn: stipulate, condition, specify]
describe or portray the character or the qualities or peculiarities of; "You can characterize his behavior as that of an egotist"; "This poem can be characterized as a lament for a dead lover" [syn: characterize, characterise]
add a modifier to a constituent [syn: modify]
[also: qualified]
n. distinctive manner of oral expression; "he couldn't suppress his contemptuous accent"; "she had a very clear speech pattern" [syn: accent]
Usage examples of "speech pattern".
My sources tell me the delay may be due to some local Monist shenanigans.
In Johnstown this unusual currency would have caused a stir, but Albany was a town built on some two hundred years of high intrigue and trading shenanigans.
Bar Admissions and Discipline, the agency that licenses attorneys, might go after Mort for aiding in these shenanigans if they ever learned about them, but Robbie's explanation protected Dinnerstein against criminal prosecution, at least in our state.
I made a promise I wouldn't breathe a word about your shenanigans.
Maybe some financial shenanigans, some double-dipping into the old well.
I hear towns farther out can get away with all kinds shenanigans on their taxes.
It's not for a few tons of gold, or some stock market shenanigans or a few gray area deals with the PRC however many millionstre involved.
It's not for a few tons of gold, or some stock market shenanigans or a few gray area deals with the PRC however many millions're involved.
Then we’ll examine two headers that reveal some interesting shenanigans.
The original Ladd Devine had not objected much to the unfair 1935 water compact shenanigans, which somewhat damaged his sheep operations by driving many of his herders elsewhere, because he was too busy buying up those herders' momentarily worthless land at bargain-basement prices.
One fer th' Mayor, one fer Saul Newberg, th' wholesal-ah, one fer Patty Shenanigan, one fer -- "
If Belle had given me orders while I was drugged to forget her shenanigans, either the orders had not taken or thirty years of cold sleep had washed out the hypnotic effect.
A few hours at clubs like Septembers or Shenanigans and most of my dates wanted to extend the evening at their place or mine.
Rounding out this nefarious Who's Who of Mila-gro gambling were the two state cops Bruno Martfnez and Granny Smith, who whiled away plenty of time and dollars down there when they weren't above ground keeping a sharp eye out for the heinous shenanigans of pernicious and unruly characters like Joe Mon-dragon, Benny Maestas, and Amarante Cordova.
She found it a witty and ingenious commentary on the dangerous schoolboy shenanigans of superpower gamesmanship.