Fashion - English meaning

verb

Come near or nearer to (someone or something) in distance or time.

Usage examples:

The train approached the main line

noun

A way of dealing with a situation or problem.

Usage examples:

We need a whole new approach to the job

verb

Move towards

verb

Construct (something) by putting parts or material together.

Usage examples:

The ironworks were built in 1736

noun

The proportions of a person's or animal's body.

Usage examples:

She was of medium height and slim build

verb

To make something by putting bricks or other materials together

Usage examples:

Build a house they're building new houses by the river., the birds built their nest in the tree., b…

verb

Cut (a hard material) in order to produce an object, design, or inscription.

Usage examples:

The wood was carved with runes

verb

To make something by cutting into esp. wood or stone, or to cut into the surface of stone, wood, etc.

Usage examples:

[ t ] this totem pole is carved from a single tree trunk., [ i/t ] would you like me to carve (the …

verb

To make something by cutting into a hard material, especially wood or stone, or to cut into a hard material in order to make something

Usage examples:

Carve something out some of the tunnels in the cliff are natural, some were carved out (= cut into …

verb

Cause (light or shadow) to appear on a surface.

Usage examples:

The moon cast a pale light over the cottages

noun

Throw the hooked and baited end of (a fishing line) out into the water.

verb

The actors taking part in a play, film, or other production.

Usage examples:

He draws sensitive performances from his inexperienced cast

noun

A long-bladed hand tool with a bevelled cutting edge and a handle which is struck with a hammer or mallet, used to cut or shape wood, stone, or metal.

Usage examples:

Cut away the tiles with a broad-bladed steel chisel

verb

Cut or shape (something) with a chisel.

Usage examples:

Chisel a hole through the brickwork

noun

A tool with a long metal blade that has a sharp edge for cutting wood, stone, etc.

verb

Build or make (something, typically a building, road, or machine).

Usage examples:

A company that constructs oil rigs

noun

An idea or theory containing various conceptual elements, typically one considered to be subjective and not based on empirical evidence.

Usage examples:

History is largely an ideological construct

verb

Make by combining materials and parts

verb

Create or bring about (an object or a situation) by deliberate use of skill and artifice.

Usage examples:

His opponents contrived a cabinet crisis

verb

To arrange for something to happen or be done by being smart or deceiving others

Usage examples:

[ i ] he somehow contrived to get tickets for the concert., [ t ] the two of them are contriving a …

verb

To arrange a situation or event, or arrange for something to happen, using clever planning

Usage examples:

Couldn't you contrive a meeting between them? i think they'd really like each other., [ + to infini…

noun

A way in which something is usually done.

Usage examples:

To attract the best patrons the movie houses had to ape the conventions and the standards of theatres

noun

A way of doing something or appearing that is considered usual and correct

Usage examples:

[ c ] literary conventions, [ u ] he flouted convention by wearing sneakers with his tuxedo., the d…

noun

A large, formal meeting of people who work in the same industry or belong to the same organization or profession

Usage examples:

A convention of shopping center developers, hold/host a convention madrid will host next year's con…

noun

An enthusiasm for a particular activity or object which appears suddenly and achieves widespread but short-lived popularity.

Usage examples:

The new craze for step aerobics

verb

Make (someone) insane or wildly out of control.

Usage examples:

Crazed by hunger, the population began to turn on the rebels

noun

An activity, object, or idea that is extremely popular, usually for a short time

Usage examples:

The latest craze cycling shorts were the latest craze that year., craze for the craze for health fo…

verb

Bring (something) into existence.

Usage examples:

He created a thirty-acre lake

verb

Bring into existence

verb

To cause something to exist, or to make something new or imaginative

Usage examples:

He created some of the most magnificent works of art ever made., the new hotel is expected to creat…

noun

A traditional and widely accepted way of behaving or doing something that is specific to a particular society, place, or time.

Usage examples:

The old english custom of dancing round the maypole

adjective

Made or done to order; custom-made.

Usage examples:

A custom guitar

noun

A way of behaving or a belief that has been established for a long time among a group of people

Usage examples:

[ c ] it was a time-honored custom of the club that blue chairs were reserved for senior members on…

verb

Invent (something) in order to deceive.

Usage examples:

Officers fabricated evidence

verb

To invent or produce something in order to deceive

Usage examples:

She fabricated charges that her boss was stealing money., that story is a complete fabrication.

verb

To manufacture something

Usage examples:

Techniques for fabricating microchips on circuits are advancing all the time., the company's main b…

noun

An intense and widely shared enthusiasm for something, especially one that is short-lived; a craze.

Usage examples:

Some regard green politics as no more than the latest fad

abbreviation

Flavin adenine dinucleotide, a coenzyme derived from riboflavin and important in various metabolic reactions.

noun

A style or activity that suddenly becomes popular but which usually does not stay popular for very long

Usage examples:

He thought computers would be just a fad.

adjective

Elaborate in structure or decoration.

Usage examples:

The furniture was very fancy

verb

Feel a desire or liking for.

Usage examples:

Do you fancy a drink?

noun

A superficial or transient feeling of liking or attraction.

Usage examples:

This was no passing fancy, but a feeling he would live by

verb

Make or shape (a metal object) by heating it in a fire or furnace and hammering it.

Usage examples:

He forged a great suit of black armour

noun

A blacksmith's workshop; a smithy.

Usage examples:

Culm was the material most widely used in the forges by blacksmiths and large quantities of the sub…

verb

Move forward gradually or steadily.

Usage examples:

He forged through the crowded streets

noun

The visible shape or configuration of something.

Usage examples:

The form, colour, and texture of the tree

verb

Variant spelling of forme.

combining form

Having the form of.

Usage examples:

Cruciform

noun

A rigid structure that surrounds something such as a picture, door, or windowpane.

Usage examples:

His mother stood in the frame of the kitchen door, hands on her hips and a grim expression on her f…

verb

Place (a picture or photograph) in a frame.

Usage examples:

He had had the photo framed

noun

A set of criteria or stated values in relation to which measurements or judgements can be made.

Usage examples:

The observer interprets what he sees in terms of his own cultural frame of reference

noun

A tool with a heavy metal head mounted at right angles at the end of a handle, used for jobs such as breaking things and driving in nails.

Usage examples:

Grip pressure should be firm but not tight - about the way you would grip a hammer's handle while d…

verb

Another term for malleus.

proper noun

A british film company (full name hammer film productions) founded in 1948, known especially for its horror films.

Usage examples:

A hammer horror movie

verb

Chop or cut (something, especially wood or coal) with an axe, pick, or other tool.

Usage examples:

Master carpenters would hew the logs with an axe

abbreviation

(the us department of) health, education, and welfare.

Usage examples:

He was hew secretary 1970–73

verb

Direct one's gaze toward someone or something or in a specified direction.

Usage examples:

People were looking at him

noun

An act of directing one's gaze in order to see someone or something.

Usage examples:

Let me get a closer look

exclamation

Used to call attention to what one is going to say.

Usage examples:

‘look, this is ridiculous.’

verb

Form (something) by putting parts together or combining substances; create.

Usage examples:

My grandmother made a dress for me

noun

The manufacturer or trade name of a product.

Usage examples:

The make, model, and year of his car

verb

Perform or carry out

noun

Mental illness marked by periods of great excitement or euphoria, delusions, and overactivity.

Usage examples:

Many people suffering from mania do not think anything is wrong

combining form

Denoting a specified type of mental abnormality or obsession.

Usage examples:

Kleptomania

noun

A unusually strong and continuing interest in an activity or subject

Usage examples:

He was surprised by his wife’s sudden mania for exercise.

noun

A way in which a thing is done or happens.

Usage examples:

Taking notes in an unobtrusive manner

noun

The way in which something is done

Usage examples:

Please exit the building in an orderly manner., his manner was formal, though friendly., she had a …

verb

Make (something) on a large scale using machinery.

Usage examples:

Firms who manufacture ball bearings

noun

The making of articles on a large scale using machinery.

Usage examples:

The manufacture of armoured vehicles

verb

To produce goods in large numbers, esp. in a factory using machines

Usage examples:

He works for a company that manufactures toys., the president said this is a political crisis manuf…

noun

A particular procedure for accomplishing or approaching something, especially a systematic or established one.

Usage examples:

A method for software maintenance

noun

A way of doing something

Usage examples:

New teaching methods encourage children to think for themselves., automated telephone answering ser…

noun

A particular way of doing something

Usage examples:

Travelling by train is still one of the safest methods of transport., debit cards are becoming the …

noun

A way or manner in which something occurs or is experienced, expressed, or done.

Usage examples:

His preferred mode of travel was a kayak

noun

A way of operating, living, or behaving

Usage examples:

Good teachers get their students into a learning mode., each department has its own mode of operati…

noun

A way of doing something

Usage examples:

Mode of transportation/locomotion/production the bicycle is still a crucial mode of transportation …

noun

A hollow container used to give shape to molten or hot liquid material when it cools and hardens.

Usage examples:

The smith would pour the molten metal into the shaped mould

verb

Form (an object) out of malleable material.

Usage examples:

Mould the figure from white fondant

noun

A furry growth of minute fungi occurring typically in moist warm conditions, especially on food or other organic matter.

Usage examples:

Mould may flourish unhindered

noun

The actual application or use of an idea, belief, or method, as opposed to theories relating to it.

Usage examples:

The principles and practice of teaching

verb

Us spelling of practise.

verb

Perform (an activity) or exercise (a skill) repeatedly or regularly in order to acquire, improve or maintain proficiency in it.

Usage examples:

I need to practise my french

noun

Violent uncontrollable anger.

Usage examples:

Her face was distorted with rage

verb

Feel or express violent uncontrollable anger.

Usage examples:

He raged at the futility of it all

noun

Extreme or violent anger, or a period of feeling such anger

Usage examples:

[ c ] i had never seen him in such a rage before., he raged at me for sending the letter out before…

verb

Create or represent (something) by carving, casting, or other shaping techniques.

Usage examples:

Sculpting human figures from ivory

verb

Create by shaping stone or wood or other material

verb

To create solid objects that represent a thing, person, idea, etc. out of a material such as wood, clay, metal, or stone

Usage examples:

Johnny sculpted an old man's head out of wood., the dripping water had sculpted strange shapes out …

noun

The external form, contours, or outline of someone or something.

Usage examples:

She liked the shape of his nose

verb

Give a particular shape or form to.

Usage examples:

Most caves are shaped by the flow of water through limestone

abbreviation

Supreme headquarters allied powers europe.

noun

A particular procedure by which something is done; a manner or way.

Usage examples:

Different styles of management

verb

Archaic term for stylus (sense 2).

suffix

(forming adjectives and adverbs) in a manner characteristic of.

Usage examples:

Family-style

noun

A set of things working together as parts of a mechanism or an interconnecting network; a complex whole.

Usage examples:

The state railway system

noun

A set of connected items or devices that operate together

Usage examples:

The system of interstate highways, we’re having a new computer system installed., the digestive sys…

noun

A particular set of actions for doing something

Usage examples:

They designed a system that tracks results., a system for (doing) sth the bank has streamlined syst…

noun

An object that one need not, cannot, or does not wish to give a specific name to.

Usage examples:

Look at that metal rail thing over there

A separate and self-contained entity

noun

A device, product, or part of nature that is not named

Usage examples:

There’s a new thing that seals plastic bags., there are some nice things in the stores on sale righ…

noun

A general direction in which something is developing or changing.

Usage examples:

An upward trend in sales and profit margins

verb

Change or develop in a general direction.

Usage examples:

Unemployment has been trending upwards

noun

The general direction of changes or developments

Usage examples:

Fashion trends, the trend is toward working longer hours for less money.

noun

The action of using something or the fact of being used.

Usage examples:

A survey of water usage

noun

The way in which words are used by the people who speak and write a particular language, or an example of such use

Usage examples:

[ c ] we use african-american, which is the current preferred usage., the study tracks credit card …

noun

The process of using something

Usage examples:

The software allows marketers to track the usage patterns of each customer., the plan offers unlimi…

noun

The prevailing fashion or style at a particular time.

Usage examples:

The vogue is to make realistic films

adjective

Popular; fashionable.

Usage examples:

‘citizenship’ was to be the government's vogue word

verb

Dance to music in such a way as to imitate the characteristic poses struck by a model on a catwalk.

Usage examples:

I ‘vogued’ down the street and at parties with my friends.

noun

A method, style, or manner of doing something; an optional or alternative form of action.

Usage examples:

I hated their way of cooking potatoes

adverb

At or to a considerable distance or extent; far (used before an adverb or preposition for emphasis).

Usage examples:

His understanding of what constitutes good writing is way off target

suffix

Equivalent to -ways.

verb

Carve (wood) into an object by repeatedly cutting small slices from it.

Usage examples:

He was sitting at the tent door, whittling a piece of wood with a knife

verb

To slice thin pieces from a piece of wood, or to form something from wood by slicing pieces off it

Usage examples:

[ i ] he likes to whittle.