To elect as a fellow member of a group, such as a committee. / To commandeer, appropriate or take over. / To absorb or assimilate into an established group.

(baseball, of the ball) While in the air, without having touched the ground. / (idiomatic) Spontaneously or extemporaneously; done as one goes, or during another activity.

In earnest; sincerely; with one's full feeling.

(idiomatic) To become extinct. / (idiomatic) To cease gradually.

An arm of the Baltic Sea that separates the European countries of Estonia and Finland. On its eastern end, the Neva at the Russian city of St. Petersburg empties into it.

(business) The highest-ranking corporate officer or executive officer of a corporation, company, or agency, responsible for carrying out the policies of the board of directors on a day-to-day basis; CEO.

(law, transitive) To make a decision in an official capacity regarding some matter.

(Britain, slang) a fist / (Britain, slang) a punch (blow with a fist)

To leave, exit or escape from; to become free of. / To circumvent some obligation.

(physics) A quantity that measures an object or substance's resistance to being deformed elastically (i.e. non-permanently) when a stress is applied to it, defined as the ratio of stress to strain.