(business) A commercial document issued by a buyer to a seller, indicating the type, quantities and agreed prices for products or services the seller will provide to the buyer.

To express an emotion, belief, or stance overtly and make it an important part of one's public life.

(philosophy, uncountable) The study of the assumptions, foundations, and implications of science, including such questions as what distinguishes science from non-science, what are the aims of science, or what is a successful scientific explanation of a phenomenon.

(idiomatic) Money exchanged for goods of low value.

A monstrosity; a malformation; an abnormal organism.

plural of mode of thought

(transitive) To form (a word) from letters; say the letters in a word. / (transitive, when writing or editing) To replace an acronym with its expansion.

(idiomatic, slang) A piece of machinery that is not worth more than its scrap value, often an old car.

(transitive) To question and listen attentively in order to discover a person's opinion, intent, or preference, especially by using indirect conversational remarks.

(computer science, computational linguistics) The collection of words from an unprocessed text without regard to grammar.