| lacking |
| 1. v. present participle of lack | |
| 2. n. The absence of something; a lack. | |
| 3. adj. Missing or not having enough of (a good quality, etc). | |
| This cheese is lacking in pungency. | |
| 4. adj. not carrying a firearm | |
| are you packing or lacking? | |
| lack |
| 1. n. (obsolete) A defect or failing; moral or spiritual degeneracy. | |
| 2. n. A deficiency or need (of something desirable or necessary); an absence, want. | |
| 3. v. To be without, to need, to require. | |
| My life lacks excitement. | |
| 4. v. (intransitive) To be short (of or for something). | |
| He'll never lack for company while he's got all that money. | |
| 5. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To be in want. | |
| 6. v. (obsolete) To see the deficiency in (someone or something); to find fault with, to malign, reproach. | |
| moderation |
| 1. n. The state or quality of being moderate; avoidance of extremes | |
| 2. n. An instance of moderating: bringing something away from extremes, especially in a beneficial way | |
| 3. n. The process of moderating a discussion | |
| The moderation of a large online forum can be hard work. | |
| temper |
| 1. n. A tendency to be in a certain type of mood; a habitual way of thinking, behaving or reacting. | |
| to have a good, bad, or calm temper | |
| 2. n. State of mind; mood. | |
| 3. n. A tendency to become angry. | |
| to have a hasty temper | |
| He has quite a temper when dealing with salespeople. | |
| 4. n. Anger; a fit of anger. | |
| an outburst of temper | |
| 5. n. Calmness of mind; moderation; equanimity; composure. | |
| to keep one's temper; to lose one's temper; to recover one's temper | |
| 6. n. (obsolete) Constitution of body; the mixture or relative proportion of the four humours: blood, choler, phlegm, and melancholy. | |
| 7. n. Middle state or course; mean; medium. | |
| 8. n. The state of any compound substance which results from the mixture of various ingredients; due mixture of different qualities. | |
| the temper of mortar | |
| 9. n. The heat treatment to which a metal or other material has been subjected; a material that has undergone a particular heat treatment. | |
| 10. n. The state of a metal or other substance, especially as to its hardness, produced by some process of heating or cooling. | |
| the temper of iron or steel | |
| 11. n. (sugar manufacture, historical) Milk of lime, or other substance, employed in the process formerly used to clarify sugar. | |
| 12. v. To moderate or control. | |
| Temper your language around children. | |
| 13. v. To strengthen or toughen a material, especially metal, by heat treatment; anneal. | |
| Tempering is a heat treatment technique applied to metals, alloys, and glass to achieve greater toughness by increasing the strength of materials and/or ductility. Tempering is performed by a c | |
| 14. v. To sauté spices in ghee or oil to release essential oils for flavouring a dish in South Asian cuisine. | |
| 15. v. To mix clay, plaster or mortar with water to obtain the proper consistency. | |
| 16. v. (music) To adjust, as the mathematical scale to the actual scale, or to that in actual use. | |
| 17. v. (obsolete, Latinism) To govern; to manage. | |
| 18. v. (archaic) To combine in due proportions; to constitute; to compose. | |
| 19. v. (archaic) To mingle in due proportion; to prepare by combining; to modify, as by adding some new element; to qualify, as by an ingredient; hence, to soften; to mollify; to assuage. | |
| 20. v. (obsolete) To fit together; to adjust; to accommodate. | |
| or |
| 1. conj. Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc. each of which could make a passage true. In English, this is the "inclusive or." The "exclusive or" is formed by "either(...) | |
| In Ohio, anyone under the age of 18 who wants a tattoo or body piercing needs the consent of a parent or guardian. | |
| He might get cancer, or be hit by a bus, or God knows what. | |
| 2. conj. (logic) An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms, the inclusive or and the exclusive or. | |
| 3. conj. Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities. | |
| 4. conj. Otherwise (a consequence of the condition that the previous is false). | |
| It's raining! Come inside or you'll catch a cold! | |
| 5. conj. Connects two equivalent names. | |
| The country Myanmar, or Burma | |
| 6. n. (logic, electronics) alternative form of OR | |
| 7. n. (tincture) The gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms. | |
| 8. adj. (tincture) Of gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms. | |
| 9. adv. (obsolete) Early (on). | |
| 10. adv. (obsolete) Earlier, previously. | |
| 11. prep. (now archaic, or dialect) Before; ere. | |
| control |
| 1. v. To exercise influence over; to suggest or dictate the behavior of. | |
| With a simple remote, he could control the toy truck. | |
| 2. v. (transitive, statistics) (construed with for) To design (an experiment) so that the effects of one or more variables are reduced or eliminated. | |
| 3. n. Influence or authority over something. | |
| The government has complete control over the situation. | |
| 4. n. A separate group or subject in an experiment against which the results are compared where the primary variable is low or non-existent. | |
| 5. n. The method and means of governing the performance of any apparatus, machine or system, such as a lever, handle or button. | |
| 6. n. Restraint or ability to contain one's movements or emotions, or self-control. | |
| 7. n. A security mechanism, policy, or procedure that can counter system attack, reduce risks, and resolve vulnerabilities; a safeguard or countermeasure. | |
| 8. n. (project management) A means of monitoring for, and triggering intervention in, activities that are not going according to plan. | |
| 9. n. A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register. | |
| 10. n. (graphical user interface) An interface element that a computer user interacts with, such as a window or a text box. | |
| 11. n. (climatology) Any of the physical factors determining the climate of a place, such as latitude, distribution of land and water, altitude, exposure, prevailing winds, permanent high- or low-barometric- | |
| 12. n. (linguistics) A construction in which the understood subject of a given predicate is determined by an expression in context. See control. | |
