| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Noun | 1. Signifies an entity that eases, based on the verb ease.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (ease) | 1. Move gently or carefully; "He eased himself into the chair".[Wordnet]. 2. Lessen pain or discomfort; alleviate; "ease the pain in your legs".[Wordnet]. 3. Make easier.[Wordnet]. 4. Lessen the intensity of or calm; "The news eased my conscience".[Wordnet]. 5. Make easier; "you could facilitate the process by sharing your knowledge".[Wordnet]. 6. To free from anything that pains, disquiets, or oppresses; to relieve from toil or care; to give rest, repose, or tranquility to; -- often with of; as, to ease of pain; ease the body or mind.[Websters]. 7. To render less painful or oppressive; to mitigate; to alleviate.[Websters]. 8. To release from pressure or restraint; to move gently; to lift slightly; to shift a little; as, to ease a bar or nut in machinery.[Websters]. 9. To entertain; to furnish with accommodations.[Websters]. 10. Base verb from the following inflections: easing, eased, eases, easer, easers, easingly and easedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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"EASER" is a common misspelling or typo for: easier, easter, eased, teaser, eraser, easers, ceaser, leaser, weaser. |
Specialty Definition: EASER
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Mining | One of a number of holes surrounding a cut and fired immediately after it. (references) | ||
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Common Expressions: ease
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| At ease | 1: Free from pain, trouble, or anxiety. ``His soul shall dwell at ease.'' --Ps. xxv. 12. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| 2: Socially at ease. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | |||
| 3: Without strain or anxiety. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | |||
| 4: Free from worry or anxiety; "by the time the child faced the actual problem of reading she was familiar and at ease with all the elements words". Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | |||
| 5: In a relaxed position, of soldiers; "the soldiers were standing at ease". Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | |||
| At Ease | Right At Ease was an alternative to the Macintosh desktop developed by Apple Computer in the early 1990s. It provided a simple environment for new Macintosh users which was especially helpful in allowing novice Macintosh users to work independently without supervision. At Ease sits on top of the Finder desktop, providing a simple tab panel oriented graphical user interface where applications and documents are represented by icons on large buttons. (references) | ||
| Chapel of ease | A chapel of ease is a church building other than the main church of a parish which is more accessible to some parishioners than the main church. Such a chapel may exist, for example, when a parish covers several dispersed villages. (references) | ||
| Ease of use | Ease of use refers to the property of a product or thing that a user can operate without having to overcome a steep learning curve. Things with high ease of use will be intuitive to the average user in the target market for the product. The term is often used as a goal during the design of a product, as well as being used for marketing purposes. Put simply, things with "high ease of use" are easy to use. (references) | ||
| Ease off | 1: Reduce pressure or intensity. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| 2: Become less intense. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | |||
| Ease on Down the Road | Ease On Down the Road was a 1978 duet between soul singers and former Motown alums Diana Ross & Michael Jackson. (references) | ||
| Ease programming language | Ease is a general purpose parallel programming language, combining the process constructs of CSP and the distributed data structures of Linda. (references) | ||
| Ease up | 1: Reduce pressure or intensity. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| 2: Become less intense. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | |||
| 3: Move in order to make room for someone for something. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | |||
| Ill at ease | 1: Not at ease, disquieted; suffering; anxious. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| 2: Socially uncomfortable; unsure and constrained in manner; "ill at ease among eddies of people he didn't know". Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | |||
| No Longer at Ease | No Longer At Ease is a 1960 novel by Nigerian author Chinua Achebe. It is the story of an Ibo (also spelled Igbo) man, Obi Okonkwo, who leaves his village for a British education and a job in the Nigerian colonial civil service, but who struggles to adapt to a Western lifestyle and ends up taking a bribe. The novel is the sequel to Achebe's Things Fall Apart, which concerned the struggle of Obi Okonkwo's father against the changes brought by the English. (references) | ||
| To set at ease | To quiet; to tranquilize; as, to set the heart at ease. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| To stand at ease | (Mil.), to stand in a comfortable attitude in one's place in the ranks. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| With ease | Easily; without much effort. Syn: Rest; quiet; repose; comfortableness; tranquility; facility; easiness; readiness. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
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Specialty Expressions: EASER
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Easer holes | Mining | Holes drilled around the cut to enlarge the cut area so that the trimmers may break out the ground to the required dimensions. The positioning and number of the easer holes will depend upon the pattern of the cut shots. (references) | |
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Abbreviations & Acronyms: ease
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | ||||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field | |
| EASE | English | European Association for Special Education | N/A | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | Top | |||
Topics by Level of Interest: ease | ||||
| Topics sorted by level of Interest | Level (1=low, 600=high) | Topics sorted Alphabetically | Level (1=low, 600=high) | |
| Ease | 150 | All Saints Chapel of Ease (Anglican) | 4 | |
| Ease of Doing Business Index | 102 | At Ease | 7 | |
| Ease on Down the Road | 20 | Chapel of ease | 6 | |
| Ease Down the Road | 12 | Ease | 150 | |
| No Longer at Ease | 9 | Ease (programming language) | 7 | |
| Ease (programming language) | 7 | Ease Down the Road | 12 | |
| At Ease | 7 | Ease of Doing Business Index | 102 | |
| Chapel of ease | 6 | Ease of movement | 2 | |
| Little Heart's Ease | 5 | Ease of use | 3 | |
| All Saints Chapel of Ease (Anglican) | 4 | Ease on Down the Road | 20 | |
| Ease of use | 3 | Ease Up | 2 | |
| How Can I Ease the Pain | 3 | How Can I Ease the Pain | 3 | |
| Ease of movement | 2 | Little Heart's Ease | 5 | |
| Ease Up | 2 | No Longer at Ease | 9 | |
Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses). | ||||
