Crossword Clue: "Messages to the office staff" - 16 Possible Answers Explained

Crossword Clue: Messages to the office staff

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Quick Answer List

level (5 letters)
space (5 letters)
radio (5 letters)
error (5 letters)
guide (5 letters)
prime (5 letters)
organ (5 letters)
stick (5 letters)
clerk (5 letters)
email (5 letters)
queue (5 letters)
verge (5 letters)
quota (5 letters)
crook (5 letters)
telex (5 letters)
facer (5 letters)

Detailed Explanations

level (5 letters)

Definition:

The same height at all places; parallel to a flat ground.
At the same height as some reference; constructed as level with.
Unvaried in frequency.
Unvaried in volume.
Calm.
In the same position or rank.
Straightforward; direct; clear.
Well balanced; even; just; steady; impartial.
(phonetics) Of even tone; without rising or falling inflection; monotonic.
(physics) Perpendicular to a gravitational force.
A tool for finding whether a surface is level, or for creating a horizontal or vertical line of reference.
Hand me the level so I can tell if this is correctly installed.
A distance relative to a given reference elevation.
Degree or amount.
Achievement or qualification.
(computer science) Distance from the root node of a tree structure.
(video games) One of several discrete segments of a game, generally increasing in difficulty and representing different locations in the game world.
(roleplaying games, video games) A numeric value that quantifies a character, ability, or item's experience and power.
A floor of a multi-storey building.
(Britain) An area of almost perfectly flat land.
(Singapore, education) A school grade or year.
(statistics) One of the specific values which may be taken by a categorical variable.
To adjust so as to make as flat or perpendicular to the ground as possible.
To destroy by reducing to ground level; to raze.
(roleplaying games, video games) To progress to the next level.
To aim or direct (a weapon, a stare, an accusation, etc).
To direct or impose (a penalty, fine, etc) at or upon (someone).
(sports) To make the score of a game equal.
(figurative) To bring to a common level or plane, in respect of rank, condition, character, privilege, etc.
To adjust or adapt to a certain level.
(usually with "with") To speak honestly and openly with.
A surname from French.

Match Types: Meaning

Frequency: Found in 23 puzzles

space (5 letters)

Definition:

(heading) Of time.
(now rare, archaic) Free time; leisure, opportunity.
A specific (specified) period of time.
An undefined period of time (without qualifier, especially a short period); a while.
(heading) Unlimited or generalized extent, physical or otherwise.
Distance between things.
Physical extent across two or three dimensions (sometimes for or to do something).
Physical extent in all directions, seen as an attribute of the universe (now usually considered as a part of space-time), or a mathematical model of this.
The near-vacuum in which planets, stars and other celestial objects are situated; the universe beyond the earth's atmosphere.
The physical and psychological area one needs within which to live or operate; personal freedom.
(heading) A bounded or specific extent, physical or otherwise.
A (chiefly empty) area or volume with set limits or boundaries.
(music) A position on the staff or stave bounded by lines.
A gap in text between words, lines etc., or a digital character used to create such a gap.
(letterpress typography) A piece of metal type used to separate words, cast lower than other type so as not to take ink, especially one that is narrower than one en (compare quad).
A gap; an empty place.
(geometry) A set of points, each of which is uniquely specified by a number (the dimensionality) of coordinates.
(countable, mathematics) A generalized construct or set whose members have some property in common; typically there will be a geometric metaphor allowing these members to be viewed as "points". Often used with a restricting modifier describing the members (e.g. vector space), or indicating the inventor of the construct (e.g. Hilbert space).
(countable, figuratively) A field, area, or sphere of activity or endeavour.
Anything analogous to a physical space in which one can interact, such as an online chat room.
(obsolete, intransitive) To roam, walk, wander.
(transitive) To set some distance apart.
To insert or utilise spaces in a written text.
To space out (become distracted, lose focus).
(transitive, science fiction) To eject into outer space, usually without a space suit.
(intransitive, science fiction) To travel into and through outer space.
A surname.

Match Types: Meaning

Frequency: Found in 21 puzzles

radio (5 letters)

Definition:

(uncountable) The technology that allows for the transmission of sound or other signals by modulation of electromagnetic waves.
(countable) A device that can capture (receive) the signal sent over radio waves and render the modulated signal as sound.
(countable) On-board entertainment system in a car, usually including a radio receiver as well as the capability to play audio from recorded media.
(countable) A device that can transmit radio signals.
(Internet, uncountable) The continuous broadcasting of sound via the Internet in the style of traditional radio.
(transitive, intransitive) To use two-way radio to transmit (a message) (to another radio or other radio operator).
(transitive) To order or assist (to a location), using telecommunications.

Match Types: Meaning

Frequency: Found in 16 puzzles

error (5 letters)

Definition:

(uncountable) The state, quality, or condition of being wrong.
(countable) A mistake; an accidental wrong action or a false statement not made deliberately.
(countable, uncountable) Sin; transgression.
(computing, countable) A failure to complete a task, usually involving a premature termination.
(statistics, countable) The difference between a measured or calculated value and a true one.
(baseball, countable) A play which is scored as having been made incorrectly.
(appellate law, uncountable) One or more mistakes in a trial that could be grounds for review of the judgement.
Any alteration in the DNA chemical structure occurring during DNA replication, recombination or repairing.
(linguistics) An unintentional deviation from the inherent rules of a language variety made by a second language learner.
(computing) To function improperly due to an error, especially accompanied by error message.
(telecommunications) To show or contain an error or fault.
(nonstandard) To err.

Match Types: Meaning

Frequency: Found in 17 puzzles

guide (5 letters)

Definition:

Someone who guides, especially someone hired to show people around a place or an institution and offer information and explanation, or to lead them through dangerous terrain.
A document or book that offers information or instruction; guidebook.
A sign that guides people; guidepost.
Any marking or object that catches the eye to provide quick reference.
A device that guides part of a machine, or guides motion or action.
A blade or channel for directing the flow of water to the buckets in a water wheel.
A grooved director for a probe or knife in surgery.
(printing, dated) A strip or device to direct the compositor's eye to the line of copy being set.
(occult) A spirit believed to speak through a medium.
(military) A member of a group marching in formation who sets the pattern of movement or alignment for the rest.
to serve as a guide for someone or something; to lead or direct in a way; to conduct in a course or path.
to steer or navigate, especially a ship or as a pilot.
to exert control or influence over someone or something.
to supervise the education or training of someone.
(intransitive) to act as a guide.
A village in Blackburn with Darwen borough, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD7025).
A county of Hainan, Qinghai, China.

Match Types: Meaning

Frequency: Found in 16 puzzles

prime (5 letters)

Definition:

First in importance, degree, or rank.
First in time, order, or sequence.
First in excellence, quality, or value.
(mathematics, lay) Having exactly two integral factors: itself and unity (1 in the case of integers).
(mathematics, technical) Such that if it divides a product, it divides one of the multiplicands.
(mathematics) Having its complement closed under multiplication: said only of ideals.
Marked or distinguished by the prime symbol.
Early; blooming; being in the first stage.
(obsolete) Lecherous, lewd, lustful.
(historical) The first hour of daylight; the first canonical hour.
(Christianity) The religious service appointed to this hour.
(obsolete) The early morning generally.
(now rare) The earliest stage of something.
The most active, thriving, or successful stage or period.
The chief or best individual or part.
Something which is first in importance or rank: a prime defense company, mortgage lender, etc.
(music) The first note or tone of a musical scale.
(fencing) The first defensive position, with the sword hand held at head height, and the tip of the sword at head height.
(algebra, number theory) A prime element of a mathematical structure, particularly a prime number.
(card games) A four-card hand containing one card of each suit in the game of primero; the opposite of a flush in poker.
(backgammon) Six consecutive blocks, which prevent the opponent's pieces from passing.
The symbol ′ used to indicate feet, minutes, derivation and other measures and mathematical operations.
(chemistry, obsolete) Any number expressing the combining weight or equivalent of any particular element; so called because these numbers were respectively reduced to their lowest relative terms on the fixed standard of hydrogen as 1.
An inch, as composed of twelve seconds in the duodecimal system.
(obsolete) The priming in a flintlock.
A feather, from the wing of the cock ostrich, that is of the palest possible shade.
(transitive) To fill or prepare the chamber of a mechanism for its main work.
(transitive) To apply a coat of primer paint to.
(obsolete, intransitive) To be renewed.
(intransitive) To serve as priming for the charge of a gun.
(intransitive, of a steam boiler) To work so that foaming occurs from too violent ebullition, which causes water to become mixed with, and be carried along with, the steam that is formed.
To apply priming to (a musket or cannon); to apply a primer to (a metallic cartridge).
To prepare; to make ready; to instruct beforehand; to coach.
(UK, dialect, obsolete) To trim or prune.
(mathematics) To mark with a prime mark.
(cycling) An intermediate sprint within a race, usually offering a prize and/or points.
A surname.
(film) Contraction of prime lens, a film lens. [(photography) A photographic lens with a constant focal length, as opposed to a zoom lens.]

Match Types: Meaning

Frequency: Found in 15 puzzles

organ (5 letters)

Definition:

The larger part of an organism, composed of tissues that perform similar functions.
(by extension) A body of an organization dedicated to the performing of certain functions.
(music) A musical instrument that has multiple pipes which play when a key is pressed (the pipe organ), or an electronic instrument designed to replicate such.
An official magazine, newsletter, or similar publication of an organization.
A government organization; agency; authority.
(slang) The penis.
(historical, military) An Asian form of mitrailleuse.
(obsolete, transitive) To supply with an organ or organs; to fit with organs.
A surname.
A census-designated place in Doña Ana County, New Mexico, United States.
Short for organ pipe cactus. [A cactus (family Cactaceae) (Stenocereus thurberi, syn. Glandulicereus thurberi), widespread in Mexico.]

Match Types: Meaning

Frequency: Found in 13 puzzles

stick (5 letters)

Definition:

An elongated piece of wood or similar material, typically put to some use, for example as a wand or baton.
A small, thin branch from a tree or bush; a twig; a branch.
A relatively long, thin piece of wood, of any size.
(US) A timber board, especially a two by four (inches).
A cane or walking stick (usually wooden, metal or plastic) to aid in walking.
A cudgel or truncheon (usually of wood, metal or plastic), especially one carried by police or guards.
(carpentry) The vertical member of a cope-and-stick joint.
(nautical) A mast or part of a mast of a ship; also, a yard.
(figuratively) A piece (of furniture, especially if wooden).
Any roughly cylindrical (or rectangular) unit of a substance.
(chiefly Canada, US) A small rectangular block, with a length several times its width, which contains by volume one half of a cup of shortening (butter, margarine or lard).
A standard rectangular strip of chewing gum.
(slang) A cigarette (usually a tobacco cigarette, less often a marijuana cigarette).
Material or objects attached to a stick or the like.
A bunch of something wrapped around or attached to a stick.
(archaic) A scroll that is rolled around (mounted on, attached to) a stick.
(military) The structure to which a set of bombs in a bomber aircraft are attached and which drops the bombs when it is released. The bombs themselves and, by extension, any load of similar items dropped in quick succession such as paratroopers or containers.
A tool, control, or instrument shaped somewhat like a stick.
(US, colloquial) A manual transmission, a vehicle equipped with a manual transmission, so called because of the stick-like, i.e. twig-like, control (the gear shift) with which the driver of such a vehicle controls its transmission.
(US, colloquial, uncountable) Vehicles, collectively, equipped with manual transmissions.
(aviation) The control column of an aircraft; a joystick. (By convention, a wheel-like control mechanism with a handgrip on opposite sides, similar to the steering wheel of an automobile, can also be called the "stick", although "yoke" or "control wheel" is more commonly seen.)
(aviation, uncountable) Use of the stick to control the aircraft.
(video games) A joystick.
(computing) A memory stick.
(slang) A handgun.
(dated, letterpress typography) A composing stick, the tool used by compositors to assemble lines of type.
(jazz, slang) The clarinet.
(sports) A stick-like item:
(sports, generically) A long thin implement used to control a ball or puck in sports like hockey, polo, and lacrosse.
(horse racing) The short whip carried by a jockey.
(boardsports) A board as used in board sports, such as a surfboard, snowboard, or skateboard.
(golf) The pole bearing a small flag that marks the hole.
(US, slang, uncountable) The cue used in billiards, pool, snooker, etc.
The game of pool, or an individual pool game.
(sports, uncountable) Ability; specifically:
(golf) The long-range driving ability of a golf club.
(baseball) The potential hitting power of a specific bat.
(baseball) General hitting ability.
(field hockey or ice hockey) The potential accuracy of a hockey stick, implicating also the player using it.
(slang, dated) A person or group of people. (Perhaps, in some senses, because people are, broadly speaking, tall and thin, like pieces of wood.)
A thin or wiry person; particularly a flat-chested woman.
(magic) An assistant planted in the audience.
(gambling) A shill or house player.
A stiff, stupidly obstinate person.
(military aviation, from joystick) A fighter pilot.
(military, South Africa) A small group of (infantry) soldiers.
Encouragement or punishment, or (resulting) vigour or other improved behavior.
(figurative) A negative stimulus or a punishment. (This sense derives from the metaphor of using a stick, a long piece of wood, to poke or beat a beast of burden to compel it to move forward.)
(slang, uncountable) Corporal punishment; beatings.
(slang) Vigor; spirit; effort, energy, intensity.
(slang) Vigorous driving of a car; gas.
A measure.
(obsolete) An English Imperial unit of length equal to 2 inches.
(archaic, rare) A quantity of eels, usually 25.
(carpentry) To cut a piece of wood to be the stick member of a cope-and-stick joint.
(transitive, printing, slang, dated) To compose; to set, or arrange, in a composing stick.
(transitive) To furnish or set with sticks.
To hit with a stick.
(uncountable) The tendency to stick (remain stuck), stickiness.
(motor racing) The traction of tires on the road surface.
(uncountable) That which sticks (remains attached to another surface).
(fishing) The amount of fishing line resting on the water surface before a cast; line stick.
(countable) A thrust with a pointed instrument; a stab.
(intransitive) To become or remain attached; to adhere.
(intransitive) To jam; to stop moving.
(transitive) To tolerate, to endure, to stick with.
(intransitive) To persist.
(intransitive) Of snow, to remain frozen on landing.
(intransitive) To remain loyal; to remain firm.
(dated, intransitive) To hesitate, to be reluctant; to refuse (in negative phrases).
(dated, intransitive) To be puzzled (at something), have difficulty understanding.
(dated, intransitive) To cause difficulties, scruples, or hesitation.
(transitive) To attach with glue or as if by gluing.
(transitive) To place, set down (quickly or carelessly).
(transitive) To press (something with a sharp point) into something else.
(transitive, now only in dialects) To stab.
(transitive) To fix on a pointed instrument; to impale.
(transitive, archaic) To adorn or deck with things fastened on as by piercing.
(transitive, gymnastics) To perform (a landing) perfectly.
(botany, transitive) To propagate plants by cuttings.
(transitive, joinery) To run or plane (mouldings) in a machine, in contradistinction to working them by hand. Such mouldings are said to be stuck.
(dated, transitive) To bring to a halt; to stymie; to puzzle.
(transitive, slang, dated) To impose upon; to compel to pay; sometimes, to cheat.
(intransitive, US, slang) To have sexual intercourse with.
(intransitive, blackjack, chiefly UK) To stand pat: to cease taking any more cards and finalize one's hand.
(informal) Likely to stick; sticking, sticky.
(Britain) Criticism or ridicule.
(Ireland) A member of the Official IRA.
(music) The Chapman Stick, an electric musical instrument devised by Emmett Chapman.

Match Types: Meaning

Frequency: Found in 13 puzzles

clerk (5 letters)

Definition:

One who occupationally provides assistance by working with records, accounts, letters, etc.; an office worker.
A salesclerk; a person who serves customers in a store or market.
A law clerk.
An employee at a hotel who deals with guests.
The chief legal advisor of a legislature or legislative chamber, who is usually also responsible for keeping minutes of sittings.
(Quakerism) A facilitator of a Quaker meeting for business affairs.
(archaic) In the Church of England, the layman that assists in the church service, especially in reading the responses (also called parish clerk).
(dated) A cleric or clergyman (the legal title for clergy of the Church of England is "Clerk in Holy Orders", still used in legal documents and cherished by some of their number).
(obsolete) A scholar.
To act as a clerk, to perform the duties or functions of a clerk.
A surname.

Match Types: Meaning

Frequency: Found in 10 puzzles

email (5 letters)

Definition:

(uncountable) A system for transferring messages from one computer to another, usually through a network.
(uncountable) A quantity of messages sent through an email system.
(countable) A message sent through an email system.
(countable, informal) An email address.
(transitive) To send an email or emails to.
(transitive, ditransitive) To send (something) through email.
(intransitive) To send, or compose and send, an email or emails.
(obsolete, rare) Enamel (“an opaque, glossy coating”).

Match Types: Meaning

Frequency: Found in 7 puzzles

queue (5 letters)

Definition:

(Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, less common in North America) A line of people, vehicles or other objects, usually one to be dealt with in sequence (i.e., the one at the front end is dealt with first, the one behind is dealt with next, and so on), and which newcomers join at the opposite end (the back).
A waiting list or other means of organizing people or objects into a first-come-first-served order.
(computing) A data structure in which objects are added to one end, called the tail, and removed from the other, called the head (in the case of a FIFO queue). The term can also refer to a LIFO queue or stack where these ends coincide.
(heraldry) An animal's tail.
(now historical) A men's hairstyle with a braid or ponytail at the back of the head, such as that worn by men in Imperial China.
(intransitive) To put oneself or itself at the end of a waiting line.
(intransitive) To arrange themselves into a physical waiting queue.
(computing, transitive) To add to a queue data structure.
To fasten the hair into a queue.

Match Types: Meaning

Frequency: Found in 7 puzzles

verge (5 letters)

Definition:

A rod or staff of office, e.g. of a verger.
(UK, historical) The stick or wand with which persons were formerly admitted tenants, by holding it in the hand and swearing fealty to the lord. Such tenants were called tenants by the verge.
An edge or border.
(UK, Australia, New Zealand) The grassy area between the footpath and the street; a tree lawn; a grassed strip running alongside either side of an outback road.
(figuratively) An extreme limit beyond which something specific will happen.
(obsolete) The phallus.
(zoology) The external male organ of certain mollusks, worms, etc.
An old measure of land: a virgate or yardland.
A circumference; a circle; a ring.
(architecture) The shaft of a column, or a small ornamental shaft.
(architecture) The eaves or edge of the roof that projects over the gable of a roof.
(horology) The spindle of a watch balance, especially one with pallets, as in the old vertical escapement.
(intransitive) To be or come very close; to border; to approach.
To bend or incline; to tend downward; to slope.
A surname.

Match Types: Meaning

Frequency: Found in 6 puzzles

quota (5 letters)

Definition:

A proportional part or share; the share or proportion assigned to each in a division.
A prescribed number or percentage that may serve as, for example, a maximum, a minimum, or a goal.
(business, economics) A restriction on the import of something to a specific quantity.

Match Types: Meaning

Frequency: Found in 7 puzzles

crook (5 letters)

Definition:

A bend; turn; curve; curvature; a flexure.
A bending of the knee; a genuflection.
A bent or curved part; a curving piece or portion (of anything).
(obsolete) A lock or curl of hair.
(obsolete) A support beam consisting of a post with a cross-beam resting upon it; a bracket or truss consisting of a vertical piece, a horizontal piece, and a strut.
A specialized staff with a semi-circular bend (a "hook") at one end used by shepherds to control their herds.
A bishop's standard staff of office.
An artifice; a trick; a contrivance.
A person who steals, lies, cheats or does other dishonest or illegal things; a criminal.
A pothook.
(music) A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.
(transitive) To bend, or form into a hook.
(intransitive) To become bent or hooked.
To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist.
(Australia, New Zealand, slang) Bad, unsatisfactory, not up to standard.
(Australia, New Zealand, slang) Ill, sick.
(Australia, New Zealand, slang) Annoyed, angry; upset.
A town in County Durham, England.
A village in South Lakeland district, Cumbria, England.
A statutory town in Logan County, Colorado, United States, named after George Crook
An unincorporated community in Osage County, Missouri, United States, so named because of a local merchant's business practices (thus being derived from crook (thief)).
A surname.

Match Types: Meaning

Frequency: Found in 4 puzzles

telex (5 letters)

Definition:

A network of teletypes.
A teletype message sent through such a network.
A teletype device connected to such a network.
(transitive) To send a message over a telex network.
A convention for encoding Vietnamese text for transmission across telex systems.
(computing) Input method for Vietnamese text based on this convention.
Alternative letter-case form of telex in its various senses. [A network of teletypes.]

Match Types: Meaning

Frequency: Found in 4 puzzles

facer (5 letters)

Definition:

An unexpected and stunning blow or defeat.
(obsolete) A blow in the face, as in boxing; hence, any severe or stunning check or defeat, as in controversy.
(obsolete) One who faces; one who puts on a false show; a bold-faced person.
A surname.

Match Types: Meaning

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Crossword Clue: “Messages to the office staff” – 16 Possible Answers Explained