exceedingly; extremely; decisively
domino (game); dominoes; domino effect
playing; play (margin between on and off, gap before pressing button or lever has an effect)
look; glimpse; apparently; seemingly; (arch.) first meeting
one-by-one; separately; in detail
pre-established harmony (Leibniz theory); harmonie préétablie; (events) proceeding in a predictable fashion; turning out the way everyone expected; convention
omniscience and omnipotence
service (bus, train); operation; motion; revolution; movement
no more than; just; only; mere; goes no further than
to operate (e.g. a machine); to handle; to have a good command of (a language); to play proficiently (of a musical instrument); to work (a puppet); to pull the strings of a puppet
to beat by a wide margin (in a race); to tear (off) roughly
we are of equal status in this regard; we are in the same boat; the same to you; the feeling is mutual
apart from that; other than that; leaving that aside; more importantly; more ... than that; but
to go upstream; to go back (in time, to origin); to date back to; to trace back to
desperate; frantic; excited; worked up; heated; eager
to take the form of (esp. in ref. to a spirit, fox, raccoon dog, etc.); to assume the shape of; to disguise oneself as; to change radically; to metamorphose; to improve unexpectedly and dramatically (esp. of an actor, artist, rikishi, etc.)
foreign substance; foreign body; strange object; unusual object; (arch.) dead body; (arch.) corpse
another; one more; not quite; not very good; lacking
to disappear into; to be lost in; to do something under the cover of (confusion, etc.); to be almost indistinguishable; to be confusingly similar; to be diverted from (negative emotions, etc.)
intelligence gathering; information gathering
viewing through a window; passing through a window; going through a window; doing through a window
to become damp; to become moist; to become wet; to lack energy; to be in a slump; to be in low spirits
period; epoch; the times; those days; oldness; ancientness
stubborn person; bonehead; bullethead; pig-headed person
birth; creation; formation
to break into a smile; to smile broadly; to beam
optimism; taking an optimistic view
unobstructed view; perspective; forecast; outlook; insight; foresight
sweet-smelling; fragrant; aromatic; good (reputation, condition, results, etc.); favorable
to read and understand; to take in; to sense from external cues; to read (someone's) mind; to read (calibration, tape, etc.); to scan (bar code)
divergence; ramification; bifurcation; branching off
dead end; cul-de-sac; blind alley; end; end of the road; end point
to be able to manage somehow or another
to make someone realize (e.g. their mistake); to bring (something) home to someone; to teach someone a lesson
grudge; complaint; reproach
one swing; one shake (e.g. of pepper); one sword
settlement; solution; resolution
pretending not to know; pretending not to recognize someone (recognise); feigning ignorance; playing innocent
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; ALS