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- (computing) Initialism of Windows Search Service.
- (computing) Initialism of Windows Server System.
- (computing) Initialism of Windows Storage Server.
- (computing) Initialism of Web Security Service.
- (computing) Windows SharePoint Services, former name of Microsoft SharePoint Foundation
- (electronics) Initialism of Wavelength Selective Switching.
- (computing) Initialism of WS-Security (meaning Web Services Security).
- (computing) Initialism of Windows Sound System.
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- (computing, architecture) Initialism of search-oriented architecture.
- (computing, architecture) Initialism of service-oriented architecture.
- Initialism of state of the art.
- (electronics) Initialism of safe operating area (“the current conditions over which a device can be expected to operate without self-damage”)
- (business, accounting, banking) Initialism of statement of account.
- (electronics) Initialism of semiconductor optical amplifier (“a device that amplifies an optical signal directly”)
- (UK, census) Initialism of super output area.
- Initialism of sudden-onset aggression
- (computing, networks) Initialism of start of authority, a record that identifies the authoritative name server for a specific DNS database segment.
- (psychology) Initialism of stimulus onset asynchrony (“the time interval between the onset of a first stimulus and the onset of a second stimulus”)
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- (UK) Initialism of Society of Ancients, an international society based in the UK.
- (US) Initialism of Sarbanes-Oxley Act, officially titled the Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act of 2002.
- (US) Initialism of Society of Actuaries, one of the two main professional societies of actuaries in the United States.
- (US) Initialism of School of the Americas, a US Army training facility subsequently officially known as the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation.
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- (computing) An application that searches for, and retrieves, data based on some criteria, especially one that searches the Internet for documents containing specified words.
- a computer program that retrieves documents or files or data from a database or from a computer network (especially from the internet)
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- (computing) Initialism of Windows Update.
- Initialism of Webster University.
- Initialism of Winthrop University.
- Initialism of World University.
- Initialism of Willamette University.
- (military, politics) Initialism of Weather Underground.
- Initialism of Washburn University.
- Initialism of Waynesburg University.
- Initialism of Washington University.
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- (networking) Initialism of Session Description Protocol.
- (Finnish politics) Initialism of Social Democratic Party of Finland (“Suomen sosialidemokraattinen puolue”).
- (Singaporean politics) Initialism of Singapore Democratic Party
- (UK politics, historical, 1981–1988) Initialism of Social Democratic Party, a centre-left political party in the United Kingdom.
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- (nuclear energy) Initialism of molten salt reactor.
- (countable, The X-Files fandom slang) Mulder/Scully romance; a fanfic involving a romantic relationship between the characters Fox Mulder and Dana Scully of the The X-Files.
- (space science, US, NASA) Initialism of Mars Sample Return mission.
- (uncountable, fandom slang) Such fan fiction collectively.
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- search for on the computer
- indicate the fingering for the playing of musical scores for keyboard instruments
- feel or handle with the fingers
- examine by touch
- (transitive, sex) To use the fingers to penetrate or sexually stimulate one's own or another person's vulva, vagina, or anus.
- (transitive) To identify or point out; to blame for something.
- (transitive, Internet) To query (a user's status) using the Finger protocol.
- (transitive, music) To provide instructions in written music as to which fingers are to be used to produce particular notes or passages.
- (transitive) To poke, probe, feel, or fondle with a finger or fingers.
- (transitive) To report to or identify for the authorities; to inform on.
- (transitive, music) To use specified finger positions in producing notes on a musical instrument.
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- any of the terminal members of the hand (sometimes excepting the thumb)
- one of the parts of a glove that provides covering for a finger or thumb
- the length of breadth of a finger used as a linear measure
- (aviation) Synonym of jet bridge: the narrow elevated walkway connecting a plane to an airport.
- (historical) Synonym of digit: former units of measure notionally based on its width but variously standardized, (especially) the English digit of ¹⁄₁₆ foot (about 1.9 cm).
- (fashion) A part of a glove intended to cover a finger.
- (originally US) An informal measure of alcohol based on its height in a given glass compared to the width of the pourer's fingers while holding it.
- Something similar in function or agency to the human finger, (usually) with regard to touching, grasping, or pointing.
- (US, rare slang) A criminal who scouts for prospective victims and targets or who performs reconnaissance before a crime.
- (botany) Various protruding plant structures, as a banana from its hand.
- (historical) The teeth parallel to the blade of a scythe, fitted to a wooden frame called a crade.
- Something similar in shape to the human finger, particularly:
- The projections of a reaper or mower which similarly separate the stalks for cutting.
- One of the slender bony structures before the pectoral fins of gurnards and sea robins (Triglidae).
- (especially in the phrase 'give someone the finger') An obscene or insulting gesture made by raising one's middle finger towards someone with the palm of one's hand facing inwards.
- One of the supporting structures of wings in birds, bats, etc. evolved from earlier toes or fingers.
- (cooking) Finger-shaped pieces of food.
- (computing theory) A leaf in a finger tree data structure.
- (figurative) That which points; an indicator, as of guilt, blame, or suspicion.
- (historical) A unit of length notionally based on the length of an adult human's middle finger, standardized as 4½ inches (11.43 cm).
- (nautical) Clipping of finger pier (“a shorter, narrower pier projecting from a larger dock”).
- (UK slang) A person.
- (vulgar) An act of fingering (inserting a finger into someone's vagina or rectum for sexual pleasure).
- (chemistry) A tube extending from a sealed system, or sometimes into one in the case of a cold finger.
- (radio) Any of the individual receivers used in a rake receiver to decode signal components.
- Something similarly extending, (especially) from a larger body, particularly:
- (zoology) Similar or similar-looking extremities in other animals, particularly:
- (informal, rare) Someone skilled in the use of their fingers, (especially) a pickpocket.
- (historical) Synonym of digit: ¹⁄₁₂ the observed diameter of the sun or moon, (especially) with regard to eclipses.
- (anatomy) A slender jointed extremity of the human hand, (often) exclusive of the thumb.
- (US, rare slang) An informer to the police, (especially) one who identifies a criminal during a lineup.
- The lower, smaller segment of an arthropod claw.
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- (computing, Microsoft Windows) Initialism of device context.
- (computing) Initialism of disconnection.
- (roleplaying games) Initialism of difficulty class.
- (law) Initialism of district court.
- (UK, pensions) Initialism of defined contributions.
- (business) Initialism of distribution center.
- (electricity) Initialism of direct current.
- (degree) Initialism of doctor of chiropractic.
- (law enforcement) Initialism of detective constable, a police rank used in Commonwealth countries.
- (banking) Initialism of debit card.
- (Kenya) Initialism of district commissioner.
- (prison) Initialism of disciplinary control.
- an electric current that flows in one direction steadily
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- Ellipsis of DC Comics: Initialism of Detective Comics.
- (aviation) Initialism of Douglas Commercial, used in the names of airliners designed by the Douglas Aircraft Company.
- Initialism of District of Columbia, a federal district of the United States of America.
- (informal) Abbreviation of Discord.
- Initialism of Dubai City, to distinguish it from Dubai Emirate.
- Initialism of Dreamcast, a home videogaming console from SEGA.
- Initialism of Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles; clipping of DCHP.
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- (computing, Internet) A match found by searching a computer system or search engine
- (Internet) A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server.
- Something very successful, such as a song, film, or video game, that receives widespread recognition and acclaim.
- (baseball) The complete play, when the batter reaches base without the benefit of a walk, error, or fielder’s choice.
- (backgammon) A game won after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than a gammon.
- A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.
- (backgammon) A move that throws one of the opponent's men back to the entering point.
- In the game of Battleship, a correct guess at where one's opponent ship is.
- An attack on a location, person or people.
- (figuratively) A blow; a calamitous or damaging occurrence.
- A collision of a projectile with the target.
- An approximately correct answer in a test set.
- A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything.
- (colloquial) A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.
- the act of contacting one thing with another
- a connection made via the internet to another website
- a conspicuous success
- (physics) a brief event in which two or more bodies come together
- a dose of a narcotic drug
- a murder carried out by an underworld syndicate
- (baseball) when a batter strikes a pitched ball into fair territory and arrives safely on base (without an error or a fielder's choice being made by the defense)
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- (backgammon) To take up, or replace by a piece belonging to the opposing player; said of a single unprotected piece on a point.
- (transitive) To affect negatively.
- (transitive, US, slang) To have sex with.
- (figurative, ambitransitive) To affect someone, as if dealing a blow to that person.
- (figuratively) To attack.
- (transitive, slang) To kill a person, usually on the instructions of a third party.
- To guess; to light upon or discover.
- (intransitive, baseball) To come up to bat.
- (intransitive) To meet or reach what was aimed at or desired; to succeed, often by luck.
- (transitive, colloquial) To switch on or switch off (lights).
- (transitive, informal) To reach or achieve.
- (transitive) To activate a button or key by pressing and releasing it.
- (transitive) To administer a blow to, directly or with a weapon or missile.
- (transitive) To come into contact with forcefully and suddenly.
- (transitive, military) To attack, especially amphibiously.
- (transitive, informal) To encounter an obstacle or other difficulty.
- (transitive) To manage to touch (a target) in the right place.
- (transitive, US, slang) To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana.
- (transitive, music, informal) To commence playing.
- (transitive, card games) In blackjack, to deal a card to.
- (transitive, colloquial) To briefly visit.
- (transitive, bodybuilding) To work out.
- (intransitive) To strike against something.
- (transitive, bodybuilding) (of an exercise) to affect, to work a body part.
- (transitive, computing, programming) To use; to connect to.
- reach a destination, either real or abstract
- cause to experience suddenly
- hit against; come into sudden contact with
- hit the intended target or goal
- affect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely
- make a strategic, offensive, assault against an enemy, opponent, or a target
- deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument
- drive something violently into a location
- cause to move by striking
- kill intentionally and with premeditation
- hit with a missile from a weapon
- produce by manipulating keys or strings of musical instruments
- pay unsolicited and usually unwanted sexual attention to
- encounter by chance
- reach a point in time, or a certain state or level
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- (computing) Ellipsis of Windows NT.
- (Christianity) Initialism of New Testament.
- Initialism of the Northwest Territories: a territory of Canada.
- Initialism of National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty (of the United Kingdom).
- Abbreviation of East Nusa Tenggara: a province of Indonesia.
- Initialism of New Territories (of Hong Kong).
- Initialism of the Northern Territory: a territory of Australia.
- (stock ticker symbol) Abbreviation of Nortel.
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- (music) Initialism of neighbor tone.
- (chemistry) Abbreviation of nanotube.
- (organic chemistry) Initialism of neurotensin.
- Initialism of neurotypical.
- an organization concerned to preserve historic monuments and buildings and places of historical interest or natural beauty; founded in 1895 and supported by endowment and private subscription
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- (computing, Microsoft Windows) A section of the registry.
- The bees of one hive; a swarm of bees.
- An itchy, red, swollen area of the skin; singular or attributive form of hives.
- A structure, whether artificial or natural, for housing a swarm of honeybees.
- A place swarming with busy occupants; a crowd.
- a structure that provides a natural habitation for bees; as in a hollow tree
- a man-made receptacle that houses a swarm of bees
- a teeming multitude
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- (transitive) To collect (bees) into a hive.
- (transitive) To store (something other than bees) in, or as if in, a hive.
- (entomology) Of insects: to enter or possess a hive.
- (intransitive) To form a hive-like entity.
- (intransitive) To take lodging or shelter together; to reside in a collective body.
- move together in a hive or as if in a hive
- store, like bees
- gather into a hive
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- (computing) Initialism of Windows Resource Protection (for system files and the registry).
- (computing) Initialism of Winsock Redirect Protocol.
- (computing) Initialism of Wireless Routing Protocol, a protocol for mobile ad hoc networks.
- (computing) Initialism of Workflow Resource Planning, a class of the ERP system.
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- a computer program that prowls the internet looking for publicly accessible resources that can be added to a database; the database can then be searched with a search engine
- a skillet made of cast iron
- predatory arachnid with eight legs, two poison fangs, two feelers, and usually two silk-spinning organs at the back end of the body; they spin silk to make cocoons for eggs or traps for prey
- (sports) The network of wires separating the areas of a dartboard.
- (cycling) A part of a crank, to which the chainrings are attached.
- (cooking) Implement for moving food in and out of hot oil for deep frying, with a circular metal mesh attached to a long handle; a spider skimmer
- A bit for turning fasteners with 8-pointed heads.
- (fly fishing, England) A soft-hackle fly.
- (photography) A support for a camera tripod, preventing it from sliding.
- (bowls) A competition in which several participants are spread evenly around the edges of the green, who all make one bowl towards the central jack at the same time; the winner being the person whose bowl ends up closest to the jack.
- (music) Part of a resonator instrument that transmits string vibrations from the bridge to a resonator cone at multiple points.
- (slang) A man who persistently approaches or accosts a woman in a public social setting, particularly in a bar.
- (mathematics) A spider graph or spider tree.
- (chiefly Australia and New Zealand) A float (drink) made by mixing ice-cream and a soda or fizzy drink (such as lemonade).
- (cooking, US, UK, chiefly historical and now dialectal) A cast-iron frying pan with three legs, once common in open-hearth cookery.
- A skeleton or frame with radiating arms or members, often connected by crosspieces, such as a casting forming the hub and spokes to which the rim of a fly wheel or large gear is bolted; the body of a piston head; or a frame for strengthening a core or mould for a casting.
- (snooker, billiards) A stick with a convex arch-shaped notched head used to support the cue when the cue ball is out of reach at normal extension.
- Any of various eight-legged, predatory arthropods, of the order Araneae, most of which spin webs to catch prey.
- (slang) A spindly person.
- (slang, uncountable) Heroin.
- (Internet) A program which follows links on the World Wide Web in order to gather information.
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- a computer program that prowls the internet looking for publicly accessible resources that can be added to a database; the database can then be searched with a search engine
- someone who leads a wandering unsettled life
- One who wanders, who travels aimlessly.
- (colloquial) The wandering albatross, Diomedea exulans.
- Any of various far-migrating nymphalid butterflies of the genus Danaus.
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- (intransitive) To be locatable in a search of the Internet.
- Of a cricket ball: to move as in a googly.
- (transitive) To bowl (a cricket ball) so that it performs a googly (“a ball by a leg-break bowler that spins from off to leg (to a right-handed batsman), unlike a normal leg-break delivery”).
- Of a bowler: to bowl or deliver a googly.
- To search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine.
- (by extension) To search for (something) on the Internet using any comprehensive search engine.
- search the internet (for information) using the Google search engine
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- (graphical user interface, very rare) Acronym of window-icon-mouse program.
- (astronomy, physics) Acronym of weakly interacting massive particle.
- (graphical user interface) Acronym of window, icon, menu, pointer, a graphical interface paradigm.
- a hypothetical subatomic particle of large mass that interacts weakly with ordinary matter through gravitation; postulated as a constituent of the dark matter of the universe
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- (computer science) Initialism of information retrieval.
- (business) Initialism of investor relations.
- (software compilation) Initialism of intermediate representation.
- (disability sport) Initialism of indoor rowing.
- (physics) Initialism of infrared radiation.
- (law enforcement) Initialism of incident report.
- (Ohio, rare) Initialism of interstate route.
- (aviation) Initialism of inertial reference.
- (politics) Initialism of international relations.
- (business) Initialism of industrial relations.
- (sports) Initialism of injured reserve.
- (pharmacology) Initialism of immediate release.
- (physics) Abbreviation of infrared.
- a board of the British government that administers and collects major direct taxes
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- (computing) Initialism of content management system.
- (computing) Initialism of Conversational Monitor System.
- (education) Initialism of career management skills.
- (materials science) Initialism of carbon microsphere.
- Initialism of congenital myasthenic syndrome.
- (computing) Initialism of color management system.
- (telecommunications) Initialism of call management system.
- (video games) Initialism of construction and management simulation, a style of game that involves planning and managing a population of citizens in a town or similar, without direct control of characters.
- (physics, atom) Initialism of compact muon solenoid.
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- Initialism of British Computer Society.
- Abbreviation of Baja California Sur: a state of Mexico.
- Initialism of best-case scenario.
- Initialism of Behavior Change Specialist.
- (stock ticker symbol) Abbreviation of Barclays.
- (American football, historical) Initialism of Bowl Championship Series, replaced after the 2013 season by the College Football Playoff.
- (linguistics) Initialism of Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian treated commonly (Serbo-Croatian).
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- an operation that determines whether one or more of a set of items has a specified property
- the examination of alternative hypotheses
- the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone
- boarding and inspecting a ship on the high seas
- an investigation seeking answers
- An attempt to find something.
- The act of searching in general.
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- (computing, architecture) Initialism of search-oriented architecture.
- (computing, architecture) Initialism of service-oriented architecture.
- Initialism of state of the art.
- (electronics) Initialism of safe operating area (“the current conditions over which a device can be expected to operate without self-damage”)
- (business, accounting, banking) Initialism of statement of account.
- (electronics) Initialism of semiconductor optical amplifier (“a device that amplifies an optical signal directly”)
- (UK, census) Initialism of super output area.
- Initialism of sudden-onset aggression
- (computing, networks) Initialism of start of authority, a record that identifies the authoritative name server for a specific DNS database segment.
- (psychology) Initialism of stimulus onset asynchrony (“the time interval between the onset of a first stimulus and the onset of a second stimulus”)
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- (UK) Initialism of Society of Ancients, an international society based in the UK.
- (US) Initialism of Sarbanes-Oxley Act, officially titled the Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act of 2002.
- (US) Initialism of Society of Actuaries, one of the two main professional societies of actuaries in the United States.
- (US) Initialism of School of the Americas, a US Army training facility subsequently officially known as the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation.
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- (networking) Initialism of Session Description Protocol.
- (Finnish politics) Initialism of Social Democratic Party of Finland (“Suomen sosialidemokraattinen puolue”).
- (Singaporean politics) Initialism of Singapore Democratic Party
- (UK politics, historical, 1981–1988) Initialism of Social Democratic Party, a centre-left political party in the United Kingdom.
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- (computing, Microsoft Windows) Initialism of device context.
- (computing) Initialism of disconnection.
- (roleplaying games) Initialism of difficulty class.
- (law) Initialism of district court.
- (UK, pensions) Initialism of defined contributions.
- (business) Initialism of distribution center.
- (electricity) Initialism of direct current.
- (degree) Initialism of doctor of chiropractic.
- (law enforcement) Initialism of detective constable, a police rank used in Commonwealth countries.
- (banking) Initialism of debit card.
- (Kenya) Initialism of district commissioner.
- (prison) Initialism of disciplinary control.
- an electric current that flows in one direction steadily
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- Ellipsis of DC Comics: Initialism of Detective Comics.
- (aviation) Initialism of Douglas Commercial, used in the names of airliners designed by the Douglas Aircraft Company.
- Initialism of District of Columbia, a federal district of the United States of America.
- (informal) Abbreviation of Discord.
- Initialism of Dubai City, to distinguish it from Dubai Emirate.
- Initialism of Dreamcast, a home videogaming console from SEGA.
- Initialism of Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles; clipping of DCHP.
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- (computing, Internet) A match found by searching a computer system or search engine
- (Internet) A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server.
- Something very successful, such as a song, film, or video game, that receives widespread recognition and acclaim.
- (baseball) The complete play, when the batter reaches base without the benefit of a walk, error, or fielder’s choice.
- (backgammon) A game won after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than a gammon.
- A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.
- (backgammon) A move that throws one of the opponent's men back to the entering point.
- In the game of Battleship, a correct guess at where one's opponent ship is.
- An attack on a location, person or people.
- (figuratively) A blow; a calamitous or damaging occurrence.
- A collision of a projectile with the target.
- An approximately correct answer in a test set.
- A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything.
- (colloquial) A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.
- the act of contacting one thing with another
- a connection made via the internet to another website
- a conspicuous success
- (physics) a brief event in which two or more bodies come together
- a dose of a narcotic drug
- a murder carried out by an underworld syndicate
- (baseball) when a batter strikes a pitched ball into fair territory and arrives safely on base (without an error or a fielder's choice being made by the defense)
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- (backgammon) To take up, or replace by a piece belonging to the opposing player; said of a single unprotected piece on a point.
- (transitive) To affect negatively.
- (transitive, US, slang) To have sex with.
- (figurative, ambitransitive) To affect someone, as if dealing a blow to that person.
- (figuratively) To attack.
- (transitive, slang) To kill a person, usually on the instructions of a third party.
- To guess; to light upon or discover.
- (intransitive, baseball) To come up to bat.
- (intransitive) To meet or reach what was aimed at or desired; to succeed, often by luck.
- (transitive, colloquial) To switch on or switch off (lights).
- (transitive, informal) To reach or achieve.
- (transitive) To activate a button or key by pressing and releasing it.
- (transitive) To administer a blow to, directly or with a weapon or missile.
- (transitive) To come into contact with forcefully and suddenly.
- (transitive, military) To attack, especially amphibiously.
- (transitive, informal) To encounter an obstacle or other difficulty.
- (transitive) To manage to touch (a target) in the right place.
- (transitive, US, slang) To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana.
- (transitive, music, informal) To commence playing.
- (transitive, card games) In blackjack, to deal a card to.
- (transitive, colloquial) To briefly visit.
- (transitive, bodybuilding) To work out.
- (intransitive) To strike against something.
- (transitive, bodybuilding) (of an exercise) to affect, to work a body part.
- (transitive, computing, programming) To use; to connect to.
- reach a destination, either real or abstract
- cause to experience suddenly
- hit against; come into sudden contact with
- hit the intended target or goal
- affect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely
- make a strategic, offensive, assault against an enemy, opponent, or a target
- deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument
- drive something violently into a location
- cause to move by striking
- kill intentionally and with premeditation
- hit with a missile from a weapon
- produce by manipulating keys or strings of musical instruments
- pay unsolicited and usually unwanted sexual attention to
- encounter by chance
- reach a point in time, or a certain state or level
noun
- (computing, Microsoft Windows) A section of the registry.
- The bees of one hive; a swarm of bees.
- An itchy, red, swollen area of the skin; singular or attributive form of hives.
- A structure, whether artificial or natural, for housing a swarm of honeybees.
- A place swarming with busy occupants; a crowd.
- a structure that provides a natural habitation for bees; as in a hollow tree
- a man-made receptacle that houses a swarm of bees
- a teeming multitude
verb
- (transitive) To collect (bees) into a hive.
- (transitive) To store (something other than bees) in, or as if in, a hive.
- (entomology) Of insects: to enter or possess a hive.
- (intransitive) To form a hive-like entity.
- (intransitive) To take lodging or shelter together; to reside in a collective body.
- move together in a hive or as if in a hive
- store, like bees
- gather into a hive
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- a computer program that prowls the internet looking for publicly accessible resources that can be added to a database; the database can then be searched with a search engine
- a skillet made of cast iron
- predatory arachnid with eight legs, two poison fangs, two feelers, and usually two silk-spinning organs at the back end of the body; they spin silk to make cocoons for eggs or traps for prey
- (sports) The network of wires separating the areas of a dartboard.
- (cycling) A part of a crank, to which the chainrings are attached.
- (cooking) Implement for moving food in and out of hot oil for deep frying, with a circular metal mesh attached to a long handle; a spider skimmer
- A bit for turning fasteners with 8-pointed heads.
- (fly fishing, England) A soft-hackle fly.
- (photography) A support for a camera tripod, preventing it from sliding.
- (bowls) A competition in which several participants are spread evenly around the edges of the green, who all make one bowl towards the central jack at the same time; the winner being the person whose bowl ends up closest to the jack.
- (music) Part of a resonator instrument that transmits string vibrations from the bridge to a resonator cone at multiple points.
- (slang) A man who persistently approaches or accosts a woman in a public social setting, particularly in a bar.
- (mathematics) A spider graph or spider tree.
- (chiefly Australia and New Zealand) A float (drink) made by mixing ice-cream and a soda or fizzy drink (such as lemonade).
- (cooking, US, UK, chiefly historical and now dialectal) A cast-iron frying pan with three legs, once common in open-hearth cookery.
- A skeleton or frame with radiating arms or members, often connected by crosspieces, such as a casting forming the hub and spokes to which the rim of a fly wheel or large gear is bolted; the body of a piston head; or a frame for strengthening a core or mould for a casting.
- (snooker, billiards) A stick with a convex arch-shaped notched head used to support the cue when the cue ball is out of reach at normal extension.
- Any of various eight-legged, predatory arthropods, of the order Araneae, most of which spin webs to catch prey.
- (slang) A spindly person.
- (slang, uncountable) Heroin.
- (Internet) A program which follows links on the World Wide Web in order to gather information.
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- a computer program that prowls the internet looking for publicly accessible resources that can be added to a database; the database can then be searched with a search engine
- someone who leads a wandering unsettled life
- One who wanders, who travels aimlessly.
- (colloquial) The wandering albatross, Diomedea exulans.
- Any of various far-migrating nymphalid butterflies of the genus Danaus.
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- (computing) An application that searches for, and retrieves, data based on some criteria, especially one that searches the Internet for documents containing specified words.
- a computer program that retrieves documents or files or data from a database or from a computer network (especially from the internet)
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- (intransitive) To be locatable in a search of the Internet.
- Of a cricket ball: to move as in a googly.
- (transitive) To bowl (a cricket ball) so that it performs a googly (“a ball by a leg-break bowler that spins from off to leg (to a right-handed batsman), unlike a normal leg-break delivery”).
- Of a bowler: to bowl or deliver a googly.
- To search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine.
- (by extension) To search for (something) on the Internet using any comprehensive search engine.
- search the internet (for information) using the Google search engine
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- (computer science) Initialism of information retrieval.
- (business) Initialism of investor relations.
- (software compilation) Initialism of intermediate representation.
- (disability sport) Initialism of indoor rowing.
- (physics) Initialism of infrared radiation.
- (law enforcement) Initialism of incident report.
- (Ohio, rare) Initialism of interstate route.
- (aviation) Initialism of inertial reference.
- (politics) Initialism of international relations.
- (business) Initialism of industrial relations.
- (sports) Initialism of injured reserve.
- (pharmacology) Initialism of immediate release.
- (physics) Abbreviation of infrared.
- a board of the British government that administers and collects major direct taxes
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- (computing) Initialism of content management system.
- (computing) Initialism of Conversational Monitor System.
- (education) Initialism of career management skills.
- (materials science) Initialism of carbon microsphere.
- Initialism of congenital myasthenic syndrome.
- (computing) Initialism of color management system.
- (telecommunications) Initialism of call management system.
- (video games) Initialism of construction and management simulation, a style of game that involves planning and managing a population of citizens in a town or similar, without direct control of characters.
- (physics, atom) Initialism of compact muon solenoid.
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- (computing) An application that searches for, and retrieves, data based on some criteria, especially one that searches the Internet for documents containing specified words.
- a computer program that retrieves documents or files or data from a database or from a computer network (especially from the internet)
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- search for on the computer
- indicate the fingering for the playing of musical scores for keyboard instruments
- feel or handle with the fingers
- examine by touch
- (transitive, sex) To use the fingers to penetrate or sexually stimulate one's own or another person's vulva, vagina, or anus.
- (transitive) To identify or point out; to blame for something.
- (transitive, Internet) To query (a user's status) using the Finger protocol.
- (transitive, music) To provide instructions in written music as to which fingers are to be used to produce particular notes or passages.
- (transitive) To poke, probe, feel, or fondle with a finger or fingers.
- (transitive) To report to or identify for the authorities; to inform on.
- (transitive, music) To use specified finger positions in producing notes on a musical instrument.
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- any of the terminal members of the hand (sometimes excepting the thumb)
- one of the parts of a glove that provides covering for a finger or thumb
- the length of breadth of a finger used as a linear measure
- (aviation) Synonym of jet bridge: the narrow elevated walkway connecting a plane to an airport.
- (historical) Synonym of digit: former units of measure notionally based on its width but variously standardized, (especially) the English digit of ¹⁄₁₆ foot (about 1.9 cm).
- (fashion) A part of a glove intended to cover a finger.
- (originally US) An informal measure of alcohol based on its height in a given glass compared to the width of the pourer's fingers while holding it.
- Something similar in function or agency to the human finger, (usually) with regard to touching, grasping, or pointing.
- (US, rare slang) A criminal who scouts for prospective victims and targets or who performs reconnaissance before a crime.
- (botany) Various protruding plant structures, as a banana from its hand.
- (historical) The teeth parallel to the blade of a scythe, fitted to a wooden frame called a crade.
- Something similar in shape to the human finger, particularly:
- The projections of a reaper or mower which similarly separate the stalks for cutting.
- One of the slender bony structures before the pectoral fins of gurnards and sea robins (Triglidae).
- (especially in the phrase 'give someone the finger') An obscene or insulting gesture made by raising one's middle finger towards someone with the palm of one's hand facing inwards.
- One of the supporting structures of wings in birds, bats, etc. evolved from earlier toes or fingers.
- (cooking) Finger-shaped pieces of food.
- (computing theory) A leaf in a finger tree data structure.
- (figurative) That which points; an indicator, as of guilt, blame, or suspicion.
- (historical) A unit of length notionally based on the length of an adult human's middle finger, standardized as 4½ inches (11.43 cm).
- (nautical) Clipping of finger pier (“a shorter, narrower pier projecting from a larger dock”).
- (UK slang) A person.
- (vulgar) An act of fingering (inserting a finger into someone's vagina or rectum for sexual pleasure).
- (chemistry) A tube extending from a sealed system, or sometimes into one in the case of a cold finger.
- (radio) Any of the individual receivers used in a rake receiver to decode signal components.
- Something similarly extending, (especially) from a larger body, particularly:
- (zoology) Similar or similar-looking extremities in other animals, particularly:
- (informal, rare) Someone skilled in the use of their fingers, (especially) a pickpocket.
- (historical) Synonym of digit: ¹⁄₁₂ the observed diameter of the sun or moon, (especially) with regard to eclipses.
- (anatomy) A slender jointed extremity of the human hand, (often) exclusive of the thumb.
- (US, rare slang) An informer to the police, (especially) one who identifies a criminal during a lineup.
- The lower, smaller segment of an arthropod claw.
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- an operation that determines whether one or more of a set of items has a specified property
- the examination of alternative hypotheses
- the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone
- boarding and inspecting a ship on the high seas
- an investigation seeking answers
- An attempt to find something.
- The act of searching in general.