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Cypher

See Cipher.

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Manner of action 27

Add 76% connected

To give by way of increased possession (to any one); to bestow (on).

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Approximate 76% connected

Approaching; proximate; nearly resembling.

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Average 76% connected

That service which a tenant owed his lord, to be done by the work beasts of the tenant, as the carriage of wheat, turf, etc.

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Budget 76% connected

A bag or sack with its contents; hence, a stock or store; an accumulation; as, a budget of inventions.

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Capitalize 76% connected

To convert into capital, or to use as capital.

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Contain 76% connected

To hold within fixed limits; to comprise; to include; to inclose; to hold.

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Deduct 76% connected

To lead forth or out.

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Differentiate 76% connected

To distinguish or mark by a specific difference; to effect a difference in, as regards classification; to develop differential characteristics in; to…

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Divide 76% connected

To part asunder (a whole); to sever into two or more parts or pieces; to sunder; to separate into parts.

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Estimate 76% connected

To judge and form an opinion of the value of, from imperfect data, -- either the extrinsic (money), or intrinsic (moral), value; to fix the worth of…

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Extract 76% connected

To draw out or forth; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.; as, to extract a tooth from its socket,…

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Factor 76% connected

One who transacts business for another; an agent; a substitute; especially, a mercantile agent who buys and sells goods and transacts business for ot…

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Fraction 76% connected

The act of breaking, or state of being broken, especially by violence.

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Gauge 76% connected

To measure or determine with a gauge.

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Guess 76% connected

To form an opinion concerning, without knowledge or means of knowledge; to judge of at random; to conjecture.

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Integrate 76% connected

To form into one whole; to make entire; to complete; to renew; to restore; to perfect.

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Interpolate 76% connected

To renew; to carry on with intermission.

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Judge 76% connected

A public officer who is invested with authority to hear and determine litigated causes, and to administer justice between parties in courts held for…

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Miscalculate 76% connected

To calculate erroneously; to judge wrongly.

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Misestimate 76% connected

To estimate erroneously.

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Multiply 76% connected

To increase in number; to make more numerous; to add quantity to.

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Process 76% connected

The act of proceeding; continued forward movement; procedure; progress; advance.

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Prorate 76% connected

To divide or distribute proportionally; to assess pro rata.

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Resolve 76% connected

To separate the component parts of; to reduce to the constituent elements; -- said of compound substances; hence, sometimes, to melt, or dissolve.

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Solve 76% connected

To explain; to resolve; to unfold; to clear up (what is obscure or difficult to be understood); to work out to a result or conclusion; as, to solve a…

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Subtract 76% connected

To withdraw, or take away, as a part from the whole; to deduct; as, subtract 5 from 9, and the remainder is 4.

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Survey 76% connected

To inspect, or take a view of; to view with attention, as from a high place; to overlook; as, to stand on a hill, and survey the surrounding country.

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Broader term 6

Code 76% connected

A body of law, sanctioned by legislation, in which the rules of law to be specifically applied by the courts are set forth in systematic form; a comp…

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Commoner 76% connected

One of the common people; one having no rank of nobility.

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Digit 76% connected

One of the terminal divisions of a limb appendage; a finger or toe.

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Figure 76% connected

The form of anything; shape; outline; appearance.

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Message 76% connected

Any notice, word, or communication, written or verbal, sent from one person to another.

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Reason 76% connected

A thought or a consideration offered in support of a determination or an opinion; a just ground for a conclusion or an action; that which is offered…

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Narrower term 4

Jackanapes 76% connected

A monkey; an ape.

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Nihil 76% connected

Nothing.

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Squirt 76% connected

To drive or eject in a stream out of a narrow pipe or orifice; as, to squirt water.

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Whippersnapper 76% connected

A diminutive, insignificant, or presumptuous person.

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Derivationally related 10

Cipher 74% connected

A character [0] which, standing by itself, expresses nothing, but when placed at the right hand of a whole number, increases its value tenfold.

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Cipher 74% connected

A character [0] which, standing by itself, expresses nothing, but when placed at the right hand of a whole number, increases its value tenfold.

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Computation 74% connected

The act or process of computing; calculation; reckoning.

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Computation 74% connected

The act or process of computing; calculation; reckoning.

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Computer 74% connected

One who computes.

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Computer 74% connected

One who computes.

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Reckoner 74% connected

One who reckons or computes; also, a book of calculations, tables, etc., to assist in reckoning.

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Reckoner 74% connected

One who reckons or computes; also, a book of calculations, tables, etc., to assist in reckoning.

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Zero 74% connected

A cipher; nothing; naught.

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Zero 74% connected

A cipher; nothing; naught.

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Synonym 18

Aught 92% connected

Alt. of Aucht

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Calculate 92% connected

To ascertain or determine by mathematical processes, usually by the ordinary rules of arithmetic; to reckon up; to estimate; to compute.

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Cipher 92% connected

A character [0] which, standing by itself, expresses nothing, but when placed at the right hand of a whole number, increases its value tenfold.

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Code 92% connected

A body of law, sanctioned by legislation, in which the rules of law to be specifically applied by the courts are set forth in systematic form; a comp…

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Compute 92% connected

To determine calculation; to reckon; to count.

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Cryptograph 92% connected

Cipher; something written in cipher.

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Figure 92% connected

The form of anything; shape; outline; appearance.

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Inscribe 92% connected

To write or engrave; to mark down as something to be read; to imprint.

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Naught 92% connected

Nothing.

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Nil 92% connected

Will not.

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Nix 92% connected

One of a class of water spirits, commonly described as of a mischievous disposition.

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Nobody 92% connected

No person; no one; not anybody.

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Nonentity 92% connected

Nonexistence; the negation of being.

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Nothing 92% connected

Not anything; no thing (in the widest sense of the word thing); -- opposed to anything and something.

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Nought 92% connected

See Naught.

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Null 92% connected

Of no legal or binding force or validity; of no efficacy; invalid; void; nugatory; useless.

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Reckon 92% connected

To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.

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Zero 92% connected

A cipher; nothing; naught.

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