1. To distribute by lot.
2. To distribute, or parcel out in parts or portions; or to distribute to each individual concerned; to assign as a share or lot; to set apart as one's share; to bestow on; to grant; to appoint.
1. To name to a committee for a temporary task; SYN. name, nominate, constitute.
2. To assign a duty, responsibility or obligation to; SYN. charge.
3. To furnish.
1. To take possession of without permission; SYN. seize, take over.
2. Apt; suitable.
3. To take exclusively; assign to special use; steal.
1. To value; to make a valuation or official estimate of for the purpose of taxation.
2. To apportion a sum to be paid by (a person, a community, or an estate), in the nature of a tax, fine, etc.; to impose a tax upon (a person, an estate, or an income) according to a rate or apportionment.
3. To determine and impose a tax or fine upon (a person, community, estate, or income); to tax.
4. To fix or determine the rate or amount of.
1. To give out; SYN. allot, portion.
2. To select something or someone for a specific purpose; SYN. specify, set apart.
3. To transfer one's right to.
4. Allot; appoint; select; attribute; transfer legally
(Irregular preterit, past participle: cast).
1. To assign the roles of (a movie or a play) to actors.
2. To deposit.
3. To make by pouring into a cast or mold; SYN. mold, mould.
4. To select to play, sing, or dance a part in a play, movie, musical, opera, or ballet.
1. To appoint to an office, function, or dignity
2. Set up, establish: as enact; found; to give due or lawful form to (2); to legally process
3. Make up, form, compose
1. To delineate the form or outline of:; SYN. delineate.
2. To determine the nature of.
3. To give a definition for the meaning of a word.
Appeal a lawsuit; justify a lawsuit; deploy military troops
To assign a designation to; SYN. denominate.
To decree or designate beforehand; SYN. fate, doom, designate.
1. To assign to a specific task.
2. To provide details for.
3. To clean and enhance in great detail (usually said of cars).
1. To conclude after a calculation, investigation, experiment, or study; SYN. find, find out, ascertain.
2. To find out or learn with certainty; SYN. check, find out, see, ascertain, watch, learn.
3. To fix conclusively or authoritatively; SYN. set.
4. To fix in scope; fix the boundaries of; the tree determines the border of the property.
5. To shape or influence; give direction to; SYN. shape, influence, regulate.
1. To appropriate by vow; to set apart or dedicate by a solemn act; to consecrate.
2. To give up wholly; to addict; to direct the attention of wholly or compound; to attach; -- often with a reflexive pronoun.
To act out; represent or perform as if in a play; SYN. reenact, act out.
1. To set up or found; SYN. set up, found, launch.
2. To set up or lay the groundwork for; SYN. found, plant, constitute, institute.
3. To use as a basis for; found on; SYN. base, ground, found.
4. To bring about; SYN. give.
1. To kill, preserve, and harden (tissue) in order to prepare for microscopic study; in cytology.
2. To set or place definitely.
To restrict or confine, as to area, extent, time, etc.; SYN. circumscribe, confine.
1. To designate, as by a mark; to select; as, the ringleaders were marked out for punishment.
2. To obliterate or cancel with a mark; as, to mark out an item in an account.
To designate, as by a mark; to select.
1. To authorize as a rabbi
2. To invest with ministerial or priestly authority
3. To issue an order.
4. To consecrate (a clerical posts); SYN. consecrate, order.
5. To order by virtue of superior authority; decree; SYN. enact.
1. To lay down authoritatively as a guide, direction, or rule of action; to impose as a peremptory order; to dictate; to appoint; to direct.
2. To direct, as a remedy to be used by a patient; as, the doctor prescribed quinine.
1. To describe the qualities or peculiarities of; SYN. characterize.
2. To make fit or prepared; SYN. dispose.
3. To pronounce fit.
4. To prove capable or fit; meet requirements; SYN. measure up.
5. To make more specific; SYN. restrict.
(Homonym: chute).
(Irregular preterit, past participle: shot).
1. To fire a shot from a gun.
2. To emit (as light, flame, or fumes) suddenly and forcefully.
3. To hit with a missile from a weapon; SYN. hit, pip.
4. To send forth suddenly, intensely, swiftly.
5. To kill by firing a bullet; SYN. pip.
6. To produce buds, branches, or germinate; of plants; SYN. spud, germinate, pullulate, bourgeon, burgeon forth, sprout.
7. To cause a shooting pain.