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Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: The body of binding rules and regulations, customs and standards established in a community by its legislative and judicial authorities.

Example: entrapment is against the law

Definition: A binding regulation or custom established in a community in this way.

Example: A new law forbids driving on that road.

Definition: (more generally) A rule, such as:

Definition: The control and order brought about by the observance of such rules.

Example: It was a territory without law, marked by violence.

Definition: A person or group that act(s) with authority to uphold such rules and order (for example, one or more police officers).

Example: Here comes the law — run!

Definition: The profession that deals with such rules (as lawyers, judges, police officers, etc).

Example: He is studying for a career in law.

Definition: Jurisprudence, the field of knowledge which encompasses these rules.

Example: She went to university to study law.

Definition: Litigation, legal action (as a means of maintaining or restoring order, redressing wrongs, etc).

Example: They were quick to go to law.

Definition: An allowance of distance or time (a head start) given to a weaker (human or animal) competitor in a race, to make the race more fair.

Definition: One of two metaphysical forces ruling the world in some fantasy settings, also called order, and opposed to chaos.

Definition: An oath sworn before a court, especially disclaiming a debt. (Chiefly in the phrases "wager of law", "wage one's law", "perform one's law", "lose one's law".)

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To work as a lawyer; to practice law.

Definition: To prosecute or sue (someone), to litigate.

Definition: To rule over (with a certain effect) by law; govern.

Definition: To enforce the law.

Definition: To subject to legal restrictions.

Phonetic: "/ɔv/"

Part Of Speech: preposition

Definition: Expressing distance or motion.

Definition: Expressing separation.

Definition: Expressing origin.

Definition: Expressing agency.

Definition: Expressing composition, substance.

Definition: Introducing subject matter.

Definition: Having partitive effect.

Definition: Expressing possession.

Definition: Forming the "objective genitive".

Definition: Expressing qualities or characteristics.

Definition: Expressing a point in time.

Phonetic: "/ɹɪˈsɪpɹək(ə)l/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: The number obtained by dividing 1 by another given number; the result of exchanging the numerator and the denominator of a fraction.

Example: 0.5 is the reciprocal of 2.

Definition: (grammar) A construction expressing mutual action.

Phonetic: "/ɹɪˈsɪpɹək(ə)l/"

Part Of Speech: adjective

Definition: Of a feeling, action or such: mutual, uniformly felt or done by each party towards the other or others; two-way.

Example: reciprocal love; reciprocal duties

Definition: Mutually interchangeable.

Definition: (grammar) expressing mutual action, applied to pronouns and verbs; also in a broad sense: reflexive

Definition: Used to denote different kinds of mutual relation; often with reference to the substitution of reciprocals for given quantities.

Definition: Done, given, felt, or owed in return

Example: a reciprocal invitation to lunch

Phonetic: "/pɹəˈpɔːʃənz/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: A quantity of something that is part of the whole amount or number.

Definition: Harmonious relation of parts to each other or to the whole.

Definition: Proper or equal share.

Definition: The relation of one part to another or to the whole with respect to magnitude, quantity, or degree.

Example: the proportion of the parts of a building, or of the body

Definition: A statement of equality between two ratios.

Definition: The "rule of three", in which three terms are given to find a fourth.

Definition: (chiefly in the plural) Size.

Phonetic: "/pɹəˈpɔːʃənz/"

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To divide into proper shares; to apportion.

Definition: To form symmetrically.

Definition: To set or render in proportion.

Definition: To correspond to.

Phonetic: "/pɹəˈpɔːʃənz/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: A person's figure.

Definition: (flags) The measurements of a flag, described using a ratio.