Monday, August 5, 2024

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 219

Number of Answers: 54

Points Needed for Genius: 153

Genius requires between 24 and 46 words. You need at least a 6-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 75% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangram, you only need 68% of the remaining points to reach genius.

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How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 219 was in the 74th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on August 1, 2024.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 54 possible answers rank it in the 84th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were more answers than this was on August 1, 2024.
The highest number of answers was 81 on June 8, 2019.
The lowest number of answers was 16 on March 27, 2023.

It takes a 6-letter word for genius.
The last time this happened was on August 4, 2024.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 5.1.
For all Bees, the average word length has been 5.3.



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The most common words in the Bee are:

  • noon 176
  • loll 171
  • toot 161
  • naan 158
  • nana 158
  • lilt 128
  • till 128
  • tilt 128
  • tint 119
  • mama 113
  • mamma 113
  • nene 108
  • acacia 107
  • acai 107
  • anal 105
  • onto 104
  • toon 104
  • anon 101
  • boob 101
  • booboo 101
  • onion 100
  • lull 99
  • lulu 99
  • olio 99
  • papa 97
  • call 96
  • calla 96
  • poop 95
  • allay 93
  • ally 93
  • baba 93
  • dodo 93
  • mitt 93
  • tatty 93
  • ratatat 91
  • tact 91
  • tart 91
  • tartar 91
  • attar 90
  • nanny 90
  • cocci 89
  • mono 89
  • moon 89
  • radar 89
  • tutu 89
  • loon 88
  • tattoo 88
  • array 87
  • epee 87
  • peep 87


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 88,841 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,188 unique words.
Below are the distributions of the lengths of these words.



Valid dictionary words not in today's official answers

You may be wondering why these words aren't here*:

  • coempt
  • coempted
  • comedo
  • comm
  • commo
  • compo
  • compt
  • compted
  • comte
  • deme
  • demode
  • demoded
  • dotcom
  • emmet
  • meed
  • metope
  • modemed
  • mome
  • motmot
  • mott
  • motte
  • pommee
  • pomo
  • popedom
  • tomcod
  • tommed
  • toom

*Because the New York Times considers them obscure or offensive.

come

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Coming, arrival; approach.
  2. Semen
  3. Female ejaculatory discharge.
verb
  1. To move from further away to nearer to.
  2. To arrive.
  3. To appear, to manifest itself.
  4. (with an infinitive) To begin to have an opinion or feeling.
  5. (with an infinitive) To do something by chance, without intending to do it.
  6. To take a position relative to something else in a sequence.
  7. To achieve orgasm; to cum; to ejaculate.
  8. (with close) To approach a state of being or accomplishment.
  9. (with to) To take a particular approach or point of view in regard to something.
  10. (fossil word) To become, to turn out to be.
  11. To be supplied, or made available; to exist.
  12. To carry through; to succeed in.
  13. Happen.
  14. (with from or sometimes of) To have as an origin, originate.
  15. (of grain) To germinate.
  16. To pretend to be; to behave in the manner of.
preposition
  1. Used to indicate a point in time at or after which a stated event or situation occurs.
interjection
  1. An exclamation to express annoyance.
  2. An exclamation to express encouragement, or to precede a request.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The punctuation mark ⟨,⟩ used to indicate a set off parts of a sentence or between elements of a list.
  2. A similar-looking subscript diacritical mark.
  3. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Polygonia, having a comma-shaped white mark on the underwings, especially Polygonia c-album and Polygonia c-aureum of North Africa, Europe, and Asia.
  4. A difference in the calculation of nearly identical intervals by different ways.
  5. A delimiting marker between items in a genetic sequence.
  6. In Ancient Greek rhetoric, a short clause, something less than a colon, originally denoted by comma marks. In antiquity it was defined as a combination of words having no more than eight syllables in all. It was later applied to longer phrases, e.g. the Johannine comma.
  7. A brief interval.

comet

noun
  1. A celestial body consisting mainly of ice, dust and gas in a (usually very eccentric) orbit around the Sun and having a "tail" of matter blown back from it by the solar wind as it approaches the Sun.
  2. A celestial phenomenon with the appearance given by the orbiting celestial body.
  3. Any of several species of hummingbird found in the Andes.

commode

noun
  1. A low chest of drawers on short legs.
  2. A stand for a washbowl and jug.
  3. A chair containing a chamber pot.
  4. A toilet.
  5. A kind of woman's headdress, raising the hair and fore part of the cap to a great height.

comp

noun
  1. Clipping of comprehensive layout, a graphic design showing final proposed layout of text and images.
  2. Clipping of comprehensive examination.
  3. Clipping of complimentary ticket or item.
verb
  1. To accompany, in music.
  2. To compose (a visual design); to make a composite.
  3. To provide someone with (a complimentary item, such as a ticket).
  4. To provide a complimentary item, such as a ticket to (someone).
noun
  1. (in bibliographies) Abbreviation of compiled.
noun
  1. Something suitable for comparison.
noun
  1. (grammar) A construction showing a relative quality, in English usually formed by adding more or appending -er. For example, the comparative of green is greener; of evil, more evil.
  2. (grammar) A word in the comparative form.
  3. (chiefly in the plural) Data used to make a comparison.
  4. An equal; a rival; a compeer.
  5. One who makes comparisons; one who affects wit.
noun
  1. Comparison.
  2. An instruction or command that compares two values.
  3. Illustration by comparison; simile.
noun
  1. The act or principle of compensating.
  2. Something which is regarded as an equivalent; something which compensates for loss.
  3. The extinction of debts of which two persons are reciprocally debtors by the credits of which they are reciprocally creditors; the payment of a debt by a credit of equal amount.
  4. A recompense or reward for service.
  5. An equivalent stipulated for in contracts for the sale of real estate, in which it is customary to provide that errors in description, etc., shall not avoid, but shall be the subject of compensation.
  6. The relationship between air temperature outside a building and a calculated target temperature for provision of air or water to contained rooms or spaces for the purpose of efficient heating. In building control systems the compensation curve is defined to a compensator for this purpose.
  7. The ability of one part of the brain to overfunction in order to take over the function of a damaged part (e.g. following a stroke).
noun
  1. The action of competing.
  2. A contest for a prize or award.
  3. The competitors in such a contest.
noun
  1. The act or process of compiling or gathering together from various sources.
  2. That which is compiled; especially, a book or document composed of materials gathering from other books or documents.
  3. Translation of source code into object code by a compiler.
verb
  1. To put together; to assemble; to make by gathering things from various sources.
  2. To construct, build.
  3. To use a compiler to process source code and produce executable code.
  4. To be successfully processed by a compiler into executable code.
  5. To contain or comprise.
  6. To write; to compose.
noun
  1. One who compiles.
  2. A computer program which transforms source code into object code.
adjective
  1. In the nature of a compliment.
  2. Free; provided at no charge.
  3. With respect to the closing of a letter, formal and professional.
noun
  1. A mixture of different components.
  2. A structural material that gains its strength from a combination of complementary materials.
  3. A plant belonging to the family Asteraceae, syn. Compositae.
  4. A function of a function.
  5. (chiefly law enforcement) A drawing, photograph, etc. that combines several separate pictures or images.
noun
  1. A (nonzero) natural number that is expressible as the product of two (or more) natural numbers other than itself and 1.
noun
  1. The act of putting together; assembly.
  2. A mixture or compound; the result of composing.
  3. The proportion of different parts to make a whole.
  4. The general makeup of a thing or person.
  5. An agreement or treaty used to settle differences; later especially, an agreement to stop hostilities; a truce.
  6. A payment of money in order to clear a liability or obligation; a settling or fine.
  7. An agreement or compromise by which a creditor or group of creditors accepts partial payment from a debtor.
  8. An essay.
  9. The formation of compound words from separate words.
  10. A work of music, literature or art.
  11. Typesetting.
  12. Applying a function to the result of another.
  13. The compounding of two velocities or forces into a single equivalent velocity or force.
  14. Consistency; accord; congruity.
  15. Synthesis as opposed to analysis.
  16. The arrangement and flow of elements in a picture.
  17. Way to combine simple objects or data types into more complex ones.
noun
  1. A person who sets type; a typesetter.
  2. One who, or that which, composes or sets in order.
noun
  1. A normal secondary school, accepting pupils of all abilities; replaced the secondary modern schools and grammar schools
noun
  1. The chief accountant of a company or government.
noun
  1. A person employed to perform computations; one who computes.
  2. (by restriction) A male computer, where the female computer is called a computress.
  3. A programmable electronic device that performs mathematical calculations and logical operations, especially one that can process, store and retrieve large amounts of data very quickly; now especially, a small one for personal or home use employed for manipulating text or graphics, accessing the Internet, or playing games or media.
noun
  1. The study of computers and their architecture, languages, and applications, in all aspects, as well as the mathematical structures that relate to computers and computation.

comped

verb
  1. To accompany, in music.
  2. To compose (a visual design); to make a composite.
  3. To provide someone with (a complimentary item, such as a ticket).
  4. To provide a complimentary item, such as a ticket to (someone).
verb
  1. To put together; to assemble; to make by gathering things from various sources.
  2. To construct, build.
  3. To use a compiler to process source code and produce executable code.
  4. To be successfully processed by a compiler into executable code.
  5. To contain or comprise.
  6. To write; to compose.

compete

verb
  1. To be in battle or in a rivalry with another for the same thing, position, or reward; to contend
  2. To be in a position in which it is possible to win or triumph.
  3. To take part in a contest, game or similar event

competed

verb
  1. To be in battle or in a rivalry with another for the same thing, position, or reward; to contend
  2. To be in a position in which it is possible to win or triumph.
  3. To take part in a contest, game or similar event

compote

noun
  1. A dessert made of fruit cooked in sugary syrup.
  2. A dish used for serving fruit.

deem

noun
  1. An opinion, a judgment, a surmise.
verb
  1. To judge, to pass judgment on; to doom, to sentence.
  2. To adjudge, to decree.
  3. To dispense (justice); to administer (law).
  4. (ditransitive) To hold in belief or estimation; to adjudge as a conclusion; to regard as being; to evaluate according to one's beliefs; to account.
  5. To think, judge, or have or hold as an opinion; to decide or believe on consideration; to suppose.

deemed

verb
  1. To judge, to pass judgment on; to doom, to sentence.
  2. To adjudge, to decree.
  3. To dispense (justice); to administer (law).
  4. (ditransitive) To hold in belief or estimation; to adjudge as a conclusion; to regard as being; to evaluate according to one's beliefs; to account.
  5. To think, judge, or have or hold as an opinion; to decide or believe on consideration; to suppose.
adjective
  1. An accreditation awarded to higher educational institutions in India.

demo

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A demonstration or visual explanation.
  2. A recording of a song meant to demonstrate its overall sound for the purpose of getting it published or recorded more fully.
  3. An example of a product used for demonstration and then sold at a discount.
  4. A march or gathering to make a political protest.
  5. An edition of limited functionality to give the user an example of how the program works.
  6. A non-interactive audiovisual computer program developed by enthusiasts to demonstrate the capabilities of the machine. See demoscene.
  7. A democrat.
  8. (collective) A demographic group.
  9. Demolition.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To record a demo version of a song, usually not intended for commercial release.
  2. To demonstrate.

Etymology 3

verb
  1. To demolish (especially a house or fixture).

demoed

verb
  1. To record a demo version of a song, usually not intended for commercial release.
  2. To demonstrate.
verb
  1. To demolish (especially a house or fixture).

demote

verb
  1. To lower the rank or status of.
  2. To relegate.

demoted

verb
  1. To lower the rank or status of.
  2. To relegate.

dome

noun
  1. A structural element resembling the hollow upper half of a sphere; a cupola
  2. Anything shaped like an upset bowl, often used as a cover
  3. Head (uppermost part of one's body)
  4. Head, oral sex
  5. A building; a house; an edifice
  6. Any erection resembling the dome or cupola of a building, such as the upper part of a furnace, the vertical steam chamber on the top of a boiler, etc.
  7. A prism formed by planes parallel to a lateral axis which meet above in a horizontal edge, like the roof of a house; also, one of the planes of such a form
verb
  1. To give a domed shape to.
  2. To perform fellatio on.

domed

adjective
  1. In the form of a dome.

doom

noun
  1. Destiny, especially terrible.
  2. An undesirable fate; an impending severe occurrence or danger that seems inevitable.
  3. A feeling of danger, impending danger, darkness or despair.
  4. A law.
  5. A judgment or decision.
  6. A sentence or penalty for illegal behaviour.
  7. Death.
  8. (sometimes capitalized) The Last Judgment; or, an artistic representation thereof.
verb
  1. To pronounce sentence or judgment on; to condemn.
  2. To destine; to fix irrevocably the ill fate of.
  3. To judge; to estimate or determine as a judge.
  4. To ordain as a penalty; hence, to mulct or fine.
  5. To assess a tax upon, by estimate or at discretion.

doomed

verb
  1. To pronounce sentence or judgment on; to condemn.
  2. To destine; to fix irrevocably the ill fate of.
  3. To judge; to estimate or determine as a judge.
  4. To ordain as a penalty; hence, to mulct or fine.
  5. To assess a tax upon, by estimate or at discretion.
adjective
  1. Assured to suffer death, failure, or a similarly negative outcome.

emcee

noun
  1. A rapper.
  2. Initialism of main colour.
  3. Initialism of matching colour.
  4. Initialism of movie clip.
  5. Initialism of mail code.
  6. Initialism of main character.
  7. Initialism of military cross.
  8. Initialism of Member of Congress.
  9. Initialism of medical college.
  10. Initialism of Mars-crosser.
  11. Initialism of medium coeli, the midheaven or highest point in the sky. Contrasted to Imum Coeli.
noun
  1. A medical facility, such as a hospital, especially one for the treatment and diagnosis of outpatients.
  2. (by extension) A hospital session to diagnose or treat patients.
  3. A school, or a session of a school or class, in which medicine or surgery is taught by the examination and treatment of patients in the presence of the pupils.
  4. A group practice of several physicians.
  5. A meeting for the diagnosis of problems, or training, on a particular subject.
  6. A temporary office arranged on a regular basis to allow politicians to meet their constituents.
  7. A series of workouts used to build skills of practitioners regardless of team affiliation.
  8. One confined to bed by sickness.
  9. One who receives baptism on a sickbed.
verb
  1. To act as the master of ceremonies (for).
  2. To rap as part of a hip-hop performance.
noun
  1. A large medical facility, usually in a building with multiple floors, where seriously ill or injured patients are given extensive medical and/or surgical treatment.
  2. A building founded for the long-term care of its residents, such as an almshouse. The residents may have no physical ailments, but simply need financial support.
  3. A place of lodging.
noun
  1. Someone who acts as a host at a formal event.
  2. Someone who conducts a programme of varied entertainment, for example by introducing performers to the audience.
  3. A rapper.
noun
  1. Dichloromethane
noun
  1. A viral infection of the skin or (occasionally) mucous membranes, caused by Molluscum contagiosum virus (MCV), a DNA poxvirus.
noun
  1. A group of individuals whose primary interests and activities involve motorcycles.
noun
  1. A place used as a hospital on board a ship, on a spaceship (in science fiction).
  2. A room or area for the treatment of the sick or injured in a school.

emceed

verb
  1. To act as the master of ceremonies (for).
  2. To rap as part of a hip-hop performance.

emote

noun
  1. A virtual action, presented to other users as reported speech, rather than a direct message.
  2. (Twitch-speak) Short for emoticon.
verb
  1. To display emotions openly, especially while acting.
  2. To induce an emotion in.
  3. To perform a virtual action, presented to other users as reported speech, rather than sending a direct message.

emoted

verb
  1. To display emotions openly, especially while acting.
  2. To induce an emotion in.
  3. To perform a virtual action, presented to other users as reported speech, rather than sending a direct message.

meet

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A sports competition, especially for track and field (a track meet) or swimming (a swim meet).
  2. A gathering of riders, horses and hounds for foxhunting; a field meet for hunting.
  3. A meeting of two trains in opposite directions on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other cross.
  4. A meeting.
  5. The greatest lower bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the symbol ∧.
  6. An act of French kissing someone.
verb
  1. To make contact (with) while in proximity.
  2. (Of groups) To come together.
  3. To make physical or perceptual contact.
  4. To satisfy; to comply with.
  5. To balance or come out correct.
  6. To perceive; to come to a knowledge of; to have personal acquaintance with; to experience; to suffer.
  7. To be mixed with, to be combined with aspects of.

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Suitable; right; proper.

meme

noun
  1. Any unit of cultural information, such as a practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another in a comparable way to the transmission of genes.
  2. Something, usually humorous, which is copied and circulated online with slight adaptations, including quizzes, basic pictures, video templates etc.
  3. A myth circulating as truth; something ineffective presented as effective, or similar.
verb
  1. To turn into a meme; to use a meme, especially to achieve something in real life.
  2. To create and use humorous memes.
  3. To joke around.

memo

noun
  1. A short note; a memorandum.
  2. A record of partial results that can be reused later without recomputation.
verb
  1. To record something; to make a note of something.
  2. To send someone a note about something, for the record.

mete

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To measure.
  2. (usually with “out”) To dispense, measure (out), allot (especially punishment, reward etc.).

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A boundary or other limit; a boundary-marker; mere.

Etymology 3

adjective
  1. Suitable; right; proper.

meted

verb
  1. To measure.
  2. (usually with “out”) To dispense, measure (out), allot (especially punishment, reward etc.).

mode

Etymology 1

noun
  1. One of several ancient Greek scales.
  2. One of several common scales in modern Western music, one of which corresponds to the modern major scale and one to the natural minor scale.
  3. A particular means of accomplishing something.
  4. A particular state of being, or frame of mind.
  5. The most frequently occurring value in a distribution
  6. A state of a system that is represented by an eigenfunction of that system.
  7. One of various related sets of rules for processing data; more generally, any state of the system associated with certain behaviours.
  8. A series of settings on a device used for a specific purpose.
  9. A variation in gameplay, such as a difficulty level.
  10. (grammar) A verb form that depends on how its containing clause relates to the speaker’s or writer’s wish, intent, or assertion about reality.
  11. That which exists only as a quality of substance.
  12. In lace-making, a small decorative piece inserted into a pattern.
  13. The openwork between the solid parts of a pattern.
  14. A woman's mantle with a hood.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Style or fashion; popular trend.

modem

noun
  1. A device that encodes digital computer signals into analog/analogue telephone signals and vice versa and allows computers to communicate over a phone line.
verb
  1. To transmit by modem.

mood

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A mental or emotional state, composure.
  2. Emotional character (of a work of music, literature, or other art).
  3. A sullen, gloomy or angry mental state; a bad mood.
  4. A disposition to do something, a state of mind receptive or disposed to do something.
  5. A prevalent atmosphere, attitude, or feeling.
  6. A familiar, relatable feeling, experience, or thing.
  7. Courage, heart, valor; also vim and vigor.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. (grammar) A verb form that depends on how its containing clause relates to the speaker’s or writer’s wish, intent, or assertion about reality.

mooed

verb
  1. Of a cow or bull, to make its characteristic lowing sound.

moot

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A moot court.
  2. A system of arbitration in many areas of Africa in which the primary goal is to settle a dispute and reintegrate adversaries into society rather than assess penalties.
  3. A gathering of Rovers, usually in the form of a camp lasting 2 weeks.
  4. A social gathering of pagans, normally held in a public house.
  5. An assembly (usually for decision-making in a locality).
  6. A ring for gauging wooden pins.
adjective
  1. Subject to discussion (originally at a moot); arguable, debatable, unsolved or impossible to solve.
  2. Being an exercise of thought; academic.
  3. Having no practical impact or relevance.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A whisper, or an insinuation, also gossip or rumors.
  2. (rural) Talk.
verb
  1. To bring up as a subject for debate, to propose.
  2. To discuss or debate.
  3. To make or declare irrelevant.
  4. To argue or plead in a supposed case.
  5. To talk or speak.
  6. To say, utter, also insinuate.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. Vagina.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. The stump of a tree; the roots and bottom end of a felled tree.
verb
  1. To take root and begin to grow.
  2. To turn up soil or dig up roots, especially an animal with the snout.

mooted

verb
  1. To bring up as a subject for debate, to propose.
  2. To discuss or debate.
  3. To make or declare irrelevant.
  4. To argue or plead in a supposed case.
  5. To talk or speak.
  6. To say, utter, also insinuate.
verb
  1. To take root and begin to grow.
  2. To turn up soil or dig up roots, especially an animal with the snout.
adjective
  1. Made, or proven to be, moot.

mope

noun
  1. A dull, spiritless person.
  2. (pornography industry) A bottom feeder who "mopes" around a pornography studio hoping for his big break and often does bit parts in exchange for room and board and meager pay.
verb
  1. To carry oneself in a depressed, lackadaisical manner; to give oneself up to low spirits; to pout, sulk.
  2. To make spiritless and stupid.

moped

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To carry oneself in a depressed, lackadaisical manner; to give oneself up to low spirits; to pout, sulk.
  2. To make spiritless and stupid.
adjective
  1. Melancholic, dejected.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A lightweight, two-wheeled vehicle equipped with a small motor and pedals, designed to go no faster than some specified speed limit.

mopped

verb
  1. To rub, scrub, clean or wipe with a mop, or as if with a mop.
  2. To make a wry expression with the mouth.

moppet

noun
  1. A child. Often used lovingly or in an affectionate way.
  2. A rag baby; a puppet made of cloth.
  3. A long-haired pet dog.

mote

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A small particle; a speck.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. May or might.
  2. Must.
  3. Forming subjunctive expressions of wish: may.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A meeting for discussion.
  2. A body of persons who meet for discussion, especially about the management of affairs.
  3. A place of meeting for discussion.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. A tiny computer for remote sensing; a component element of smartdust.

motet

noun
  1. A composition adapted to sacred words in the elaborate polyphonic church style; an anthem.

motto

noun
  1. A sentence, phrase, or word, forming part of an heraldic achievement.
  2. A sentence, phrase, or word, prefixed to an essay, discourse, chapter, canto, or the like, suggestive of its subject matter; a short, suggestive expression of a guiding principle; a maxim.
  3. A paper packet containing a sweetmeat, cracker, etc., together with a scrap of paper bearing a motto.

poem

noun
  1. A literary piece written in verse.
  2. A piece of writing in the tradition of poetry, an instance of poetry.
  3. A piece of poetic writing, that is with an intensity or depth of expression or inspiration greater than is usual in prose.

pome

noun
  1. A type of fruit in which the often edible flesh arises from the swollen base of the flower and not from the carpels.
  2. A ball of silver or other metal, filled with hot water and used by a Roman Catholic priest in cold weather to warm his hands during the service.
verb
  1. To grow to a head, or form a head in growing.

pomp

noun
  1. Show of magnificence; parade; display; power.
  2. A procession distinguished by ostentation and splendor; a pageant.
verb
  1. To make a pompous display; to conduct.

pompom

noun
  1. A decorative ball made of pieces of soft fabric bound at the centre, most notably used in cheerleading.

teem

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To be stocked to overflowing.
  2. To be prolific; to abound; to be rife.
  3. To bring forth young, as an animal; to produce fruit, as a plant; to bear; to be pregnant; to conceive; to multiply.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To empty.
  2. To pour (especially with rain)
  3. To pour, as steel, from a melting pot; to fill, as a mould, with molten metal.

Etymology 3

verb
  1. To think fit.

teemed

verb
  1. To be stocked to overflowing.
  2. To be prolific; to abound; to be rife.
  3. To bring forth young, as an animal; to produce fruit, as a plant; to bear; to be pregnant; to conceive; to multiply.
verb
  1. To empty.
  2. To pour (especially with rain)
  3. To pour, as steel, from a melting pot; to fill, as a mould, with molten metal.
verb
  1. To think fit.

temp

noun
  1. Abbreviation of tempore.
noun
  1. A temporary employee, usually in an office.
  2. A temporary storage location.
verb
  1. To work as a temporary employee.
noun
  1. A measure of cold or heat, often measurable with a thermometer.
  2. An elevated body temperature, as present in fever and many illnesses.
  3. A property of macroscopic amounts of matter that serves to gauge the average intensity of the random actual motions of the individually mobile particulate constituents. http//arxiv.org/pdf/physics/0004055
  4. The state or condition of being tempered or moderated.
  5. The balance of humours in the body, or one's character or outlook as considered determined from this; temperament.
adjective
  1. Not permanent; existing only for a period or periods of time.
  2. Existing only for a short time or short times; transient, ephemeral.

temped

verb
  1. To work as a temporary employee.

tempo

noun
  1. A frequency or rate.
  2. A move which is part of one's own plan or strategy and forces, e.g. by means of a check or attacking a piece, the opponent to make a move which is not bad but of no use for him (the player gains a tempo, the opponent loses a tempo), or equivalently a player achieves the same result in fewer moves by one approach rather than another.
  3. The timing advantage of being on lead, thus being first to initiate a strategy to develop tricks for one's side.
  4. The timing of a particular event – earlier or later than in an alternative situation (as in chess example)
  5. The number of beats per minute in a piece of music; also, an indicative term denoting approximate rate of speed in written music (examples: allegro, andante)
  6. The steady pace set by the frontmost riders.
  7. A small truck or cargo van with three or four wheels, commonly used for commercial transport and deliveries (particularly in Asian and African countries): a genericized trademark, originally associated with the manufacturer Vidal & Sohn Tempo-Werke GmbH.
  8. A rapid rate of play by the offense resulting from reducing the amount of time which elapses after one play ends and the next starts.

tempt

verb
  1. To provoke someone to do wrong, especially by promising a reward; to entice.
  2. To attract; to allure.
  3. To provoke something; to court.

tempted

verb
  1. To provoke someone to do wrong, especially by promising a reward; to entice.
  2. To attract; to allure.
  3. To provoke something; to court.

tome

noun
  1. One in a series of volumes.
  2. A large or scholarly book.

totem

noun
  1. Any natural object or living creature that serves as an emblem of a tribe, clan or family.
  2. The representation of such object or creature.
  3. The clan whose kinship is defined in reference to such an object or creature.
  4. An arbitrarily chosen object serving as a reminder to check whether one is awake or not, to aid in having lucid dreams.

memed

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