Wednesday, February 12, 2025

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Number of Pangrams: 1

Maximum Puzzle Score: 261

Number of Answers: 61

Points Needed for Genius: 183

Genius requires between 28 and 52 words. You need at least a 7-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 74% 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 261 was in the 87th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on February 9, 2025.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 61 possible answers rank it in the 93rd percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were more answers than this was on February 9, 2025.
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 7-letter word for genius.
The last time this happened was on February 10, 2025.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 5.2.
For all Bees, the average word length has been 5.3.



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Haven't I seen these words before?

The most common words in the Bee are:

  • noon 191
  • loll 183
  • toot 181
  • naan 167
  • nana 167
  • lilt 134
  • till 134
  • tilt 134
  • tint 133
  • mama 125
  • mamma 125
  • nene 124
  • onto 118
  • toon 118
  • acacia 117
  • acai 117
  • anal 112
  • onion 112
  • boob 109
  • booboo 109
  • anon 108
  • baba 105
  • olio 105
  • papa 103
  • tact 103
  • dodo 102
  • lull 102
  • lulu 102
  • mitt 102
  • poop 101
  • call 100
  • calla 100
  • allay 99
  • ally 99
  • ratatat 99
  • tart 99
  • tartar 99
  • tattoo 99
  • tutu 99
  • attar 98
  • tatty 98
  • ammo 96
  • cocci 96
  • momma 96
  • mono 96
  • moon 96
  • epee 94
  • peep 94
  • loot 92
  • lotto 92


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 97,138 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,449 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*:

  • ament
  • amenta
  • anent
  • anta
  • antae
  • antetype
  • appetent
  • ataman
  • atap
  • atma
  • atman
  • attent
  • emanant
  • emmet
  • empyemata
  • enate
  • enemata
  • etape
  • etna
  • etyma
  • mammate
  • mammet
  • manat
  • matt
  • meatman
  • meatmen
  • menta
  • metate
  • metepa
  • nepeta
  • nett
  • paten
  • pattee
  • patten
  • pattypan
  • paty
  • pennate
  • pentene
  • petnap
  • tammy
  • tampan
  • tannate
  • tapeta
  • tappet
  • tate
  • tenne
  • tenny
  • tenpenny
  • tenty
  • tepa
  • tetany
  • tyee
  • tympan
  • tympana
  • tympany
  • tyne
  • typey
  • typp
  • typy
  • yett

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

ante

noun
  1. A price or cost, as in up the ante.
  2. In poker and other games, the contribution made by all players to the pot before dealing the cards.
verb
  1. To pay the ante in poker. Often used as ante up.
  2. To make an investment in money, effort, or time before knowing one's chances.

antenna

noun
  1. A feeler organ on the head of an insect, crab, or other animal.
  2. An apparatus to receive or transmit electromagnetic waves and convert respectively to or from an electrical signal.
  3. The faculty of intuitive astuteness.
  4. A fragment of an oligosaccharide
  5. The spar to which a lateen sail is attached, which is then hoisted up the mast.

antennae

noun
  1. A feeler organ on the head of an insect, crab, or other animal.
  2. An apparatus to receive or transmit electromagnetic waves and convert respectively to or from an electrical signal.
  3. The faculty of intuitive astuteness.
  4. A fragment of an oligosaccharide
  5. The spar to which a lateen sail is attached, which is then hoisted up the mast.

attempt

noun
  1. The action of trying at something.
  2. An assault or attack, especially an assassination attempt.
verb
  1. To try.
  2. To try to move, by entreaty, by afflictions, or by temptations; to tempt.
  3. To try to win, subdue, or overcome.
  4. To attack; to make an effort or attack upon; to try to take by force.

eaten

verb
  1. To ingest; to be ingested.
  2. To use up.
  3. To cause (someone) to worry.
  4. To take the loss in a transaction.
  5. To be injured or killed by (something such as a firearm or its projectile), especially in the mouth.
  6. To corrode or erode.
  7. To perform oral sex (on a person or body part).
adjective
  1. (especially in combination) That has been consumed by eating

emanate

verb
  1. To come from a source; issue from.
  2. To send or give out; manifest.

empty

noun
  1. (usually plural) A container, especially a bottle, whose contents have been used up, leaving it empty.
verb
  1. To make empty; to void; to remove the contents of.
  2. Of a river, duct, etc: to drain or flow toward an ultimate destination.
adjective
  1. Devoid of content; containing nothing or nobody; vacant.
  2. Containing no elements (as of a string, array, or set), opposed to being null (having no valid value).
  3. Free; clear; devoid; often with of.
  4. Having nothing to carry, emptyhanded; unburdened.
  5. Destitute of effect, sincerity, or sense; said of language.
  6. Unable to satisfy; hollow; vain.
  7. Destitute of reality, or real existence; unsubstantial.
  8. Destitute of, or lacking, sense, knowledge, or courtesy.
  9. (of some female animals, especially cows and sheep) Not pregnant; not producing offspring when expected to do so during the breeding season.
  10. Producing nothing; unfruitful; said of a plant or tree.

entente

noun
  1. An informal alliance or friendly understanding between two states.

manatee

noun
  1. Any of several plant-eating marine mammals, of family Trichechidae, found in tropical regions.

manta

noun
  1. A kind of fabric or blanket used in Latin America and southwestern United States.
noun
  1. Any of several very large pelagic rays of the genus Manta, with winglike pectoral fins, a long tail, and two fins resembling horns that project from the head.

mate

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A fellow, comrade, colleague, partner or someone with whom something is shared, e.g. shipmate, classmate.
  2. (especially of a non-human animal) A breeding partner.
  3. A friend, usually of the same sex.
  4. Friendly term of address to a stranger, usually male, of similar age
  5. In naval ranks, a non-commissioned officer or his subordinate (e.g. Boatswain's Mate, Gunner's Mate, Sailmaker's Mate, etc).
  6. A ship's officer, subordinate to the master on a commercial ship.
  7. A first mate.
  8. A technical assistant in certain trades (e.g. gasfitter's mate, plumber's mate); sometimes an apprentice.
  9. The other member of a matched pair of objects.
  10. A suitable companion; a match; an equal.
verb
  1. To match, fit together without space between.
  2. To copulate.
  3. To pair in order to raise offspring
  4. To arrange in matched pairs.
  5. To introduce (animals) together for the purpose of breeding.
  6. (of an animal) To copulate with.
  7. To marry; to match (a person).
  8. To match oneself against; to oppose as equal; to compete with.
  9. To fit (objects) together without space between.
  10. To move (a space shuttle orbiter) onto the back of an aircraft that can carry it.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The conclusive victory in a game of chess that occurs when an opponent's king is threatened with unavoidable capture.
  2. (by extension) Any losing situation with no escape; utter defeat.
verb
  1. To put the king of an opponent into checkmate.
  2. (by extension) To place in a losing situation that has no escape.
verb
  1. To confuse; to confound.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. The abovementioned plant; the leaves and shoots used for the tea
noun
  1. An evergreen tree, Ilex paraquariensis, native to South America, cultivated for its leaves.
  2. A beverage, resembling tea, made from the dried leaves of this plant.
  3. A cup of this drink.

matey

noun
  1. The conclusive victory in a game of chess that occurs when an opponent's king is threatened with unavoidable capture.
  2. (by extension) Any losing situation with no escape; utter defeat.
noun
  1. A fellow, comrade, colleague, partner or someone with whom something is shared, e.g. shipmate, classmate.
  2. (especially of a non-human animal) A breeding partner.
  3. A friend, usually of the same sex.
  4. Friendly term of address to a stranger, usually male, of similar age
  5. In naval ranks, a non-commissioned officer or his subordinate (e.g. Boatswain's Mate, Gunner's Mate, Sailmaker's Mate, etc).
  6. A ship's officer, subordinate to the master on a commercial ship.
  7. A first mate.
  8. A technical assistant in certain trades (e.g. gasfitter's mate, plumber's mate); sometimes an apprentice.
  9. The other member of a matched pair of objects.
  10. A suitable companion; a match; an equal.
noun
  1. The abovementioned plant; the leaves and shoots used for the tea
noun
  1. A fellow sailor; often used affectedly, especially as a pirate.
adjective
  1. Sociable or friendly.
noun
  1. An evergreen tree, Ilex paraquariensis, native to South America, cultivated for its leaves.
  2. A beverage, resembling tea, made from the dried leaves of this plant.
  3. A cup of this drink.

matte

noun
  1. A decorative border around a picture used to inset and center the contents of a frame.
  2. A background, often painted or created with computers
  3. (pyrometallurgy) The molten metal sulfide phases typically formed during smelting of copper, nickel, and other base metals.
adjective
  1. Dull; not reflective of light.

meant

verb
  1. To intend.
  2. To convey (a meaning).
  3. To have conviction in (something said or expressed); to be sincere in (what one says).
  4. To cause or produce (a given result); to bring about (a given result).
  5. (usually with to) To be of some level of importance.

meat

noun
  1. The flesh (muscle tissue) of an animal used as food.
  2. A type of meat, by anatomic position and provenance.
  3. Food, for animals or humans, especially solid food. See also meat and drink.
  4. A type of food, a dish.
  5. A meal.
  6. Meal; flour.
  7. Any relatively thick, solid part of a fruit, nut etc.
  8. A penis.
  9. The best or most substantial part of something.
  10. The sweet spot of a bat or club (in cricket, golf, baseball etc.).
  11. A meathead.
  12. (Australian Aboriginal) A totem, or (by metonymy) a clan or clansman which uses it.

meaty

adjective
  1. Of, relating to, or containing meat.
  2. Resembling meat in flavour, etc.
  3. Of a person or a body part, large and solid.
  4. Substantial.

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.

mentee

noun
  1. A person who is being mentored

meta

Etymology 1

adjective
  1. Self-referential; structured analogously, but at a higher level.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Boundary marker.
  2. Either of the conical columns at each end of an Ancient Roman circus.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. Metagame; the most effective tactics and strategies used in a competitive video game.
adjective
  1. Prominent in the metagame; effective and frequently used in competitive gameplay.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. Metoidioplasty.

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.

nametape

noun
  1. A kind of nametag that can be sewn onto clothing.

natant

adjective
  1. Floating or swimming (in water)
  2. In a horizontal position, as if swimming

natty

Etymology 1

adjective
  1. Smart and fashionable.

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Knotty.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. Someone whose muscle gains are natural and not aided by the use of steroids.
  2. A national championship
adjective
  1. Natural, as opposed to steroid enhanced.
  2. National

neat

Etymology 1

noun
  1. An artificial intelligence researcher who believes that solutions should be elegant, clear and provably correct. Compare scruffy.
adjective
  1. Clean, tidy; free from dirt or impurities.
  2. Free from contaminants; unadulterated, undiluted. Particularly of liquor and cocktails; see usage below.
  3. Conditions with a liquid reagent or gas performed with no standard solvent or cosolvent.
  4. With all deductions or allowances made; net.
  5. Having a simple elegance or style; clean, trim, tidy, tasteful.
  6. Well-executed or delivered; clever, skillful, precise.
  7. Facile; missing complexity or details in the favor of convenience or simplicity.
  8. Good, excellent, desirable.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A bull or cow.
  2. Cattle collectively.

neaten

verb
  1. To make neat; arrange in an orderly, tidy way; to tidy.

netty

Etymology 1

adjective
  1. Neat, well-groomed, natty.

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Netted: made of or employing a net.
  2. Netlike.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
  2. Any other place or fixture used for urination and defecation: a lavatory; a toilet.

pant

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A quick breathing; a catching of the breath; a gasp.
  2. Eager longing.
  3. A violent palpitation of the heart.
verb
  1. To breathe quickly or in a labored manner, as after exertion or from eagerness or excitement; to respire with heaving of the breast; to gasp.
  2. To long eagerly; to desire earnestly.
  3. To long for (something); to be eager for (something).
  4. Of the heart, to beat with unnatural violence or rapidity; to palpitate.
  5. To sigh; to flutter; to languish.
  6. To heave, as the breast.
  7. To bulge and shrink successively, of iron hulls, etc.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A pair of pants (trousers or underpants).
  2. (used attributively as a modifier) Of or relating to pants.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. (Scotland and northeast England) Any public drinking fountain.

panty

noun
  1. (in the plural) Short trousers for men, or more usually boys.
  2. (usually in the plural, or in compounds) An article of clothing worn as underpants by women.
  3. A helmet cover.

pate

Etymology 1

noun
  1. (somewhat obsolete) The head, particularly the top or crown.
  2. Wit, cleverness, cognitive abilities.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The interior body, or non-rind portion of cheese, described by its texture, density, and color.
noun
  1. A finely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables, sometimes with the addition of alcohol.

patent

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A declaration issued by a government agency declaring someone the inventor of a new invention and having the privilege of stopping others from making, using or selling the claimed invention; a letter patent.
  2. A specific grant of ownership of a piece of property; a land patent.
  3. License; formal permission.
  4. Patent leather: a varnished, high-gloss leather typically used for shoes and accessories.
verb
  1. To successfully register an invention with a government agency; to secure a letter patent.

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Open, unobstructed, expanded.
  2. Explicit and obvious.
  3. (of flour) That is fine, and consists mostly of the inner part of the endosperm.
  4. Open; unconcealed; conspicuous.
  5. Open to public perusal; said of a document conferring some right or privilege.
  6. Protected by a legal patent.

patentee

noun
  1. One to whom a grant is made, or a privilege secured, by patent.

patty

noun
  1. (US, Australia, New Zealand) A flattened portion of ground meat or a vegetarian equivalent, usually round but sometimes square in shape.
  2. A pastry with various fillings and spices baked inside a flaky shell, often tinted golden yellow with an egg yolk mixture or turmeric.

payment

noun
  1. The act of paying.
  2. A sum of money paid in exchange for goods or services.

peat

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Soil formed of dead but not fully decayed plants found in bog areas, often burned as fuel.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A pet, a darling; a woman.

peaty

No Definition Found.

pennant

noun
  1. A flag normally used by naval vessels to represent a special condition.
  2. The winning of a competition, represented by a flag.
  3. A rope or strap to which a purchase is hooked.
  4. A sandstone between coal measures in parts of South Wales

pent

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To enclose in a pen.
noun
  1. Confinement; concealment.
adjective
  1. Confined in a pen, imprisoned.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A pentatonic scale.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A pentacle or pentagram.

pentane

noun
  1. An aliphatic hydrocarbon of chemical formula C5H12; either of the three isomers n-pentane, methyl-butane (isopentane), and di-methyl-propane (neopentane); volatile liquids under normal conditions.

petty

noun
  1. (usually in the plural) A little schoolboy, either in grade or size.
  2. A class or school for young schoolboys.
  3. An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
adjective
  1. Little, small, secondary in rank or importance.
  2. Insignificant, trifling, or inconsiderable.
  3. Narrow-minded, small-minded.
  4. Begrudging in nature, especially over insignificant matters.

tame

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To make (an animal) tame; to domesticate.
  2. To become tame or domesticated.
  3. To make gentle or meek.
adjective
  1. Not or no longer wild; domesticated
  2. (chiefly of animals) Mild and well-behaved; accustomed to human contact
  3. Not exciting.
  4. Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless.
  5. (of a knot) Capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to distribute; to deal out.

tamp

verb
  1. (blasting) To plug up with clay, earth, dry sand, sod, or other material, as a hole bored in a rock.
  2. To drive in or pack down by frequent gentle strokes
  3. To reduce the intensity of.

tapa

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A kind of cloth prepared by the Polynesians from the inner bark of the paper mulberry.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Any appetizer or snack served in the evening as part of tapas.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. Seasoned slices of dried or cured meat in Filipino cuisine.

tape

noun
  1. Flexible material in a roll with a sticky surface on one or both sides; adhesive tape.
  2. Thin and flat paper, plastic or similar flexible material, usually produced in the form of a roll.
  3. Finishing tape, stretched across a track to mark the end of a race.
  4. Magnetic or optical recording media in a roll; videotape or audio tape.
  5. (by extension) Any video or audio recording, regardless of the method used to produce it.
  6. An unthinking, patterned response triggered by a particular stimulus.
  7. (from ticker tape) The series of prices at which a financial instrument trades.
  8. The wrapping of the primary puck-handling surface of a hockey stick
  9. A strong flexible band rotating on pulleys for directing the sheets in a printing machine.
verb
  1. To bind with adhesive tape.
  2. To record, particularly onto magnetic tape.
  3. (passive) To understand, figure out.

tatty

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Potato

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Tattered; dilapidated, distressed, worn-out, torn

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A woven mat or screen hung at a door or window and kept wet to moisten and cool the air as it enters.

team

noun
  1. A set of draught animals, such as two horses in front of a carriage.
  2. Any group of people involved in the same activity, especially sports or work.
  3. A group of animals moving together, especially young ducks.
  4. A royalty or privilege granted by royal charter to a lord of a manor, of having, keeping, and judging in his court, his bondmen, neifes, and villains, and their offspring, or suit, that is, goods and chattels, and appurtenances thereto.
verb
  1. To form a group, as for sports or work.
  2. (by extension) To go together well; to harmonize.
  3. To convey or haul with a team.
  4. To form together into a team.
  5. To give work to a gang under a subcontractor.

teammate

noun
  1. One who is on the same team.

teat

noun
  1. The projection of a mammary gland from which, on female mammals, milk is secreted.
  2. Something resembling a teat, such as a small protuberance or nozzle.
  3. An artificial nipple used for bottle-feeding infants.

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.

teen

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A teenager.
adjective
  1. Of or having to do with teenagers; teenage

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Grief; sorrow; trouble.
  2. Vexation; anger; hate.

Etymology 3

verb
  1. To excite; to provoke; to vex; to afflict; to injure.
  2. To become angry or distressed.

Etymology 4

verb
  1. (provincial) To hedge or fence in; to enclose.

teeny

Etymology 1

adjective
  1. Very small; tiny.

Etymology 2

adjective
  1. Fretful; peevish; cross

teepee

verb
  1. To toilet paper; to throw toilet paper in rolls over a structure, so the structure becomes draped with it.

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.

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.

tenant

noun
  1. One who pays a fee (rent) in return for the use of land, buildings, or other property owned by others.
  2. One who has possession of any place.
  3. One who holds a property by any kind of right, including ownership.
  4. Any of a number of customers serviced through the same instance of an application.
verb
  1. To hold as, or be, a tenant.
  2. To inhabit.

tenement

noun
  1. A building that is rented to multiple tenants, especially a low-rent, run-down one.
  2. Any form of property that is held by one person from another, rather than being owned.
  3. Dwelling; abode; habitation.

tenet

noun
  1. An opinion, belief, or principle that is held as absolute truth by someone or especially an organization.

tent

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A pavilion or portable lodge consisting of skins, canvas, or some strong cloth, stretched and sustained by poles, used for sheltering people from the weather.
  2. The representation of a tent used as a bearing.
  3. A portable pulpit set up outside to accommodate worshippers who cannot fit into a church.
  4. A trouser tent; a piece of fabric, etc. protruding outward like a tent.
verb
  1. To go camping.
  2. To prop up aluminum foil in an inverted "V" (reminiscent of a pop-up tent) over food to reduce splatter, before putting it in the oven.
  3. To form into a tent-like shape.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Attention; regard, care.
  2. Intention; design.
verb
  1. To attend to; to heed
  2. To guard; to hinder.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A roll of lint or linen, or a conical or cylindrical piece of sponge or other absorbent, used chiefly to dilate a natural canal, to keep open the orifice of a wound, or to absorb discharges.
  2. A probe for searching a wound.
verb
  1. (sometimes figurative) To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. A kind of wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain; called also tent wine, and tinta.

tepee

noun
  1. Alternative form of teepee

type

noun
  1. A grouping based on shared characteristics; a class.
  2. An individual considered typical of its class, one regarded as typifying a certain profession, environment, etc.
  3. An individual that represents the ideal for its class; an embodiment.
  4. A letter or character used for printing, historically a cast or engraved block.
  5. Something, often a specimen, selected as an objective anchor to connect a scientific name to a taxon; this need not be representative or typical.
  6. Preferred sort of person; sort of person that one is attracted to.
  7. A blood group.
  8. (corpus linguistics) A word that occurs in a text or corpus irrespective of how many times it occurs, as opposed to a token.
  9. An event or person that prefigures or foreshadows a later event - commonly an Old Testament event linked to Christian times.
  10. A tag attached to variables and values used in determining which kinds of value can be used in which situations; a data type.
  11. The original object, or class of objects, scene, face, or conception, which becomes the subject of a copy; especially, the design on the face of a medal or a coin.
  12. A simple compound, used as a mode or pattern to which other compounds are conveniently regarded as being related, and from which they may be actually or theoretically derived.
  13. A part of the partition of the object domain of a logical theory (which due to the existence of such partition, would be called a typed theory). (Note: this corresponds to the notion of "data type" in computing theory.)
verb
  1. To put text on paper using a typewriter.
  2. To enter text or commands into a computer using a keyboard.
  3. To determine the blood type of.
  4. To represent by a type, model, or symbol beforehand; to prefigure.
  5. To furnish an expression or copy of; to represent; to typify.
  6. To categorize into types.

yenta

noun
  1. A woman who meddles in the business of others; a busybody; a female gossipmonger.
  2. (Jewish) A matchmaker; a woman who specializes in finding spouses.

yente

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