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verb
- (intransitive) To arise from the trunk or a larger branch of a tree.
- (intransitive) To produce branches.
- (transitive, colloquial) To discipline (a union member) at a branch meeting.
- (intransitive, computing) To jump to a different location in a program, especially as the result of a conditional statement.
- (transitive) To strip of branches.
- (ambitransitive) To (cause to) divide into separate parts or subdivisions.
- grow and send out branches or branch-like structures
- divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork
noun
- Any of the parts of something that divides like the branch of a tree.
- (graph theory) A path of vertices of degree 2, ending at vertices whose degree is not 2.
- An area in business or of knowledge, research.
- (nautical) A certificate given by Trinity House to a pilot qualified to take navigational control of a ship in British waters.
- (computing) A sequence of code that is conditionally executed.
- The woody part of a tree arising from the trunk and usually dividing.
- A line of family descent, in distinction from some other line or lines from the same stock; any descendant in such a line.
- A location of an organization with several locations.
- (chiefly Southern US) A creek or stream which flows into a larger river.
- (computing) A group of related files in a source control system, including for example source code, build scripts, and media such as images.
- (Mormonism) A local congregation of the LDS Church that is not large enough to form a ward; see Wikipedia article on ward in LDS church.
- (geometry) One of the portions of a curve that extends outwards to an indefinitely great distance.
- (rail transport) A branch line.
- a natural consequence of development
- a division of a stem, or secondary stem arising from the main stem of a plant
- a division of some larger or more complex organization
- any projection that is thought to resemble a human arm
- a stream or river connected to a larger one
- a part of a forked or branching shape
verb
noun
- The wood of these trees.
- A rotating spiked drum used to open and clean cotton heads.
- Any of various deciduous trees or shrubs in the genus Salix, in the willow family Salicaceae, found primarily on moist soils in cooler zones in the northern hemisphere.
- (baseball, slang, 1800s) The baseball bat.
- (cricket, colloquial) A cricket bat.
- any of numerous deciduous trees and shrubs of the genus Salix
- a textile machine having a system of revolving spikes for opening and cleaning raw textile fibers
verb
noun
- A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree.
- (horticulture) A woody plant distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, being usually less than six metres tall; a horticultural rather than strictly botanical category.
- A mechanical attachment, usually a metallic socket with a screw thread, such as the mechanism by which a camera is attached to a tripod stand.
- (historical) A shrub or branch, properly, a branch of ivy (sacred to Bacchus), hung out at vintners' doors, or as a tavern sign; hence, a tavern sign, and symbolically, the tavern itself.
- (Canada) The wild forested areas of Canada; upcountry.
- (New Zealand) An area of New Zealand covered in forest, especially native forest.
- A thick washer or hollow cylinder of metal.
- (baseball) Amateurish behavior, short for bush league behavior
- (Australia) The countryside area of Australia that is less arid and less remote than the outback; loosely, areas of natural flora even within conurbations.
- A piece of copper, screwed into a gun, through which the venthole is bored.
- (often with "the") Tracts of land covered in natural vegetation that are largely undeveloped and uncultivated.
- (slang, vulgar) A person's pubic hair, especially a woman's.
- (hunting) The tail, or brush, of a fox.
- (Canada) A wood lot or bluff on a farm.
- dense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes
- hair growing in the pubic area
- a large wilderness area
- a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems
adj
adv
verb
noun
verb
- (transitive) To place in a tree.
- (intransitive) To take refuge in a tree.
- (transitive) To chase (an animal or person) up a tree.
- (transitive) To place upon a shoe tree; to fit with a shoe tree; to stretch upon a shoe tree.
- plant with trees
- chase an animal up a tree
- force a person or an animal into a position from which they cannot escape
- stretch (a shoe) on a shoetree
noun
- Any structure or construct having branches representing divergence or possible choices.
- (chemistry) A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal from solution.
- An object made from a tree trunk and having multiple hooks or storage platforms.
- (cartomancy) The fifth Lenormand card.
- (computing theory) A recursive data structure in which each node has zero or more nodes as children, but does not share children with other nodes.
- A device used to hold or stretch a shoe open.
- (uncountable, mathematics) Alternative letter-case form of TREE.
- Any other plant (such as a large shrub or herb) that is reminiscent of the above in form and size.
- (archaic outside Christianity) A cross or gallows.
- A perennial woody plant taller and larger than a shrub with a wooden trunk and, at some distance from the ground, having leaves and branches.
- The structural frame of a saddle.
- (graphical user interface) A display or listing of entries or elements such that there are primary and secondary entries shown, usually linked by drawn lines or by indenting to the right.
- (graph theory) A connected graph with no cycles or, if the graph is finite, equivalently a connected graph with n vertices and n−1 edges.
- The structure or wooden frame used in the construction of a saddle used in horse riding.
- (often in the plural, slang) Marijuana.
- a figure that branches from a single root
- a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms
verb
- (intransitive) To form buds.
- (transitive) To graft by inserting a bud under the bark of another tree.
- (intransitive) To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn.
- (intransitive) To reproduce by splitting off buds.
- (transitive) To put forth as a bud.
- (intransitive) To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise.
- start to grow or develop
- develop buds
noun
- (informal, rare) Brother.
- (US, Canada, Australia, slang, usually in the plural) Cannabis that has been taken from the flowering part of the plant intended to be smoked.
- A small rounded body in the process of splitting from an organism, which may grow into a genetically identical new organism.
- A weaned calf in its first year, so called because the horns are then beginning to bud.
- (figuratively) Something that has begun to develop.
- (informal, chiefly Canada) Synonym of guy, term of address for a man or person.
- (US, Canada, Australia, slang, uncountable) Marijuana.
- (informal, Canada, US) Buddy, friend.
- A newly sprouted leaf or blossom that has not yet unfolded.
- a swelling on a plant stem consisting of overlapping immature leaves or petals
- a partially opened flower
noun
- The trunk or stem of a tree.
- Alternative form of boll (old unit of measure).
- Any of several varieties of friable earthy clay, usually coloured red by iron oxide, and composed essentially of hydrous silicates of alumina, or more rarely of magnesia.
- (Scotland) An aperture with a shutter in the wall of a house, to admit air or light.
- (Scotland) A small closet.
- The shade of reddish brown which resembles this clay.
- the main stem of a tree; usually covered with bark; the bole is usually the part that is commercially useful for lumber
- a soft oily clay used as a pigment (especially a reddish brown pigment)
adj
- (botany, of branches or roots) Growing at an angle that is neither vertical nor horizontal.
- (grammar) Pertaining to the oblique case (non-nominative).
- Not straightforward; indirect; by implication; (sometimes even) obscure, ambiguous, or confusing.
- Disingenuous; underhand; morally corrupt.
- (music) Employing oblique motion, motion or progression in which one part (voice) stays on the same note while another ascends or descends.
- Not direct in descent; not following the line of father and son; collateral.
- Not erect or perpendicular; not parallel to, or at right angles from, the base.
- (botany, of leaves) Having the base of the blade asymmetrical, with one side lower than the other.
- (grammar, of speech or narration) Indirect; employing the actual words of the speaker but as related by a third person, having the first person in pronoun and verb converted into the third person and adverbs of present time into the past, etc.
- slanting or inclined in direction or course or position — neither parallel nor perpendicular nor right-angled
- indirect in departing from the accepted or proper way; misleading
noun
verb
- (military) To march in a direction oblique to the line of the column or platoon; — formerly accomplished by oblique steps, now by direct steps, the men half-facing either to the right or left.
- (intransitive) To deviate from a perpendicular line; to become askew.
- (transitive, computing) To slant (text, etc.) at an angle.
adj
noun
- (countable) A garden decorated with such art.
- (countable) One such shrub or tree.
- (uncountable) Art or practice of trimming shrubs or trees in artistic or ornamental shapes, e.g. of animals.
- a garden having shrubs clipped or trimmed into decorative shapes especially of animals
- making decorative shapes by trimming shrubs or trees
verb
- (transitive, of trees) To plant in a line.
- to appear in a lineout
- (baseball) To become out by hitting a line drive which is caught.
- (transitive, by extension) To generally and briefly predict or describe (something).
- to take part in a sports event
- (transitive, of a number, name, etc. on a list) To remove from effective inclusion on a list by crossing an item off.
- To form a contrasting border to another colour.
- (transitive, of a church leader) To chant each line of a hymn before the congregation must sing it, as an aid for those worshippers who can not read out of a hymnbook.
- (intransitive) To line up; to form a line.
- (intransitive) To move or hurry away.
- (transitive) To outline (something) to be finished later (often by lining in the drawing.
- (transitive) To create (something, e.g. parking spaces, lanes in a road) by marking lines on asphalt.
noun
verb
- (intransitive, of plants) To grow across a surface rather than upwards.
- To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn.
- To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable.
- To slip, or to become slightly displaced.
- (intransitive) To move slowly and quietly in a particular direction.
- (intransitive) To move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground.
- (intransitive) To make small gradual changes, usually in a particular direction.
- To have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin of the body; to crawl.
- To move in a stealthy or secret manner; to move imperceptibly or clandestinely; to steal in; to insinuate itself or oneself.
- (intransitive, African-American Vernacular, slang) To covertly have sex (with a person other than one's primary partner); to cheat with.
- show submission or fear
- to go stealthily or furtively
- move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground
- grow or spread, often in such a way as to cover (a surface)
noun
- (informal, derogatory) Someone creepy (annoyingly unpleasant), especially one who is strange or eccentric.
- (geology) The imperceptible downslope movement of surface rock.
- A slight displacement of an object; the slight movement of something.
- (informal, derogatory, especially) A person who engages in sexually inappropriate behaviour or sexual harassment.
- (materials science) An increase in strain with time; the gradual flow or deformation of a material under stress.
- A relatively small gradual change, variation or deviation (from a planned value) in a measure.
- (agriculture) A barrier with small openings used to keep large animals out while allowing smaller animals to pass through.
- (publishing) In sewn books, the tendency of pages on the inside of a quire to stand out farther than those on the outside of it.
- The movement of something that creeps (like worms or snails).
- (uncountable) The gradual expansion or proliferation of something beyond its original goals or boundaries, considered negatively.
- a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body
- a pen that is fenced so that young animals can enter but adults cannot
- a slow longitudinal movement or deformation
- someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric
noun
- A plant that has been shaped in this manner.
- A latticework used to shape or train the branches of a tree or shrub into a two-dimensional ornamental or useful design, as along a wall or fence.
- A row of plants that have been shaped in this manner.
- a trellis on which ornamental shrub or fruit tree is trained to grow flat
verb
noun
- (figuratively) The larger branches of a tree that determine its shape.
- (literally) The arrangement of support beams that represent a building's general shape and size.
- (software engineering) A reusable piece of code (and, sometimes, other utilities) providing a standard environment within which an application can be implemented.
- (figuratively) A basic conceptual structure.
- (grammar) An established and structured system of rules and principles used for analyzing and describing the structure of a language.
- (literally) A support structure comprising joined parts or conglomerated particles and intervening open spaces of similar or larger size.
- a hypothetical description of a complex entity or process
- the underlying structure
- a structure supporting or containing something
verb
- (transitive) To trim up, as trees.
- (transitive) To flatter.
- (of people, intransitive, reflexive) To spend time making oneself attractive and admiring one's appearance, e.g. in front of a mirror.
- (intransitive) To show off, posture, or smarm.
- (transitive, more generally) To improve the appearance of; groom; prettify.
- (of birds, ambitransitive) To groom; to trim or dress the feathers with the beak.
- (transitive) To pin; fasten.
- (transitive) To comb; to make orderly.
- dress or groom with elaborate care
- pride or congratulate (oneself) for an achievement
- clean with one's bill
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To produce leaves; put forth foliage.
- (informal, transitive, uncommon) To play a prank on someone by throwing a large clump or collection of leaves at them.
- (transitive) To divide (a vegetable) into separate leaves.
- look through a book or other written material
- produce leaves, of plants
- turn over pages
noun
- A sheet of any substance beaten or rolled until very thin.
- A flat section used to extend the size of a table.
- (programming, x86) A particular value of the EAX register when a program runs the CPUID instruction; each leaf represents a different category of information returned about the processor.
- (plural leaves or leafs) A moveable panel, e.g. of a bridge or door, originally one that hinged but now also applied to other forms of movement.
- (publishing, bookbinding, advertising) A sheet of a book, magazine, etc. (consisting of two pages, one on each face of the leaf).
- Anything resembling the leaf of a plant.
- One of the teeth of a pinion, especially when small.
- The layer of fat supporting the kidneys of a pig, leaf fat.
- (slang, uncountable) Cannabis.
- (botany) A foliage leaf or any of the many and often considerably different structures it can specialise into.
- One of the individual flat or curved strips of metal, typically made of spring steel, that make up a leaf spring.
- (4chan slang, Internet slang, humorous, sometimes pejorative, plural leafs) A Canadian person.
- The usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants.
- (computing, mathematics) In a tree, a node that has no descendants.
- (in the plural) Tea leaves.
- the main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants
- a sheet of any written or printed material (especially in a manuscript or book)
- hinged or detachable flat section (as of a table or door)
noun
- tree (as opposed to shrub)
- a framework that supports climbing plants
- any of various rotating shafts that serve as axes for larger rotating parts
- A spindle of a wheel.
- A bar for supporting cutting tools.
- An axis or shaft supporting a rotating part on a lathe.
- A shady sitting place or pergola usually in a park or garden, surrounded by climbing shrubs, vines or other vegetation.
- A grove of trees.
noun
- The trunk or stem of a tree.
- Alternative form of boll (old unit of measure).
- Any of several varieties of friable earthy clay, usually coloured red by iron oxide, and composed essentially of hydrous silicates of alumina, or more rarely of magnesia.
- (Scotland) An aperture with a shutter in the wall of a house, to admit air or light.
- (Scotland) A small closet.
- The shade of reddish brown which resembles this clay.
- the main stem of a tree; usually covered with bark; the bole is usually the part that is commercially useful for lumber
- a soft oily clay used as a pigment (especially a reddish brown pigment)
verb
- (intransitive) To arise from the trunk or a larger branch of a tree.
- (intransitive) To produce branches.
- (transitive, colloquial) To discipline (a union member) at a branch meeting.
- (intransitive, computing) To jump to a different location in a program, especially as the result of a conditional statement.
- (transitive) To strip of branches.
- (ambitransitive) To (cause to) divide into separate parts or subdivisions.
- grow and send out branches or branch-like structures
- divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork
noun
- Any of the parts of something that divides like the branch of a tree.
- (graph theory) A path of vertices of degree 2, ending at vertices whose degree is not 2.
- An area in business or of knowledge, research.
- (nautical) A certificate given by Trinity House to a pilot qualified to take navigational control of a ship in British waters.
- (computing) A sequence of code that is conditionally executed.
- The woody part of a tree arising from the trunk and usually dividing.
- A line of family descent, in distinction from some other line or lines from the same stock; any descendant in such a line.
- A location of an organization with several locations.
- (chiefly Southern US) A creek or stream which flows into a larger river.
- (computing) A group of related files in a source control system, including for example source code, build scripts, and media such as images.
- (Mormonism) A local congregation of the LDS Church that is not large enough to form a ward; see Wikipedia article on ward in LDS church.
- (geometry) One of the portions of a curve that extends outwards to an indefinitely great distance.
- (rail transport) A branch line.
- a natural consequence of development
- a division of a stem, or secondary stem arising from the main stem of a plant
- a division of some larger or more complex organization
- any projection that is thought to resemble a human arm
- a stream or river connected to a larger one
- a part of a forked or branching shape
verb
noun
- A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree.
- (horticulture) A woody plant distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, being usually less than six metres tall; a horticultural rather than strictly botanical category.
- A mechanical attachment, usually a metallic socket with a screw thread, such as the mechanism by which a camera is attached to a tripod stand.
- (historical) A shrub or branch, properly, a branch of ivy (sacred to Bacchus), hung out at vintners' doors, or as a tavern sign; hence, a tavern sign, and symbolically, the tavern itself.
- (Canada) The wild forested areas of Canada; upcountry.
- (New Zealand) An area of New Zealand covered in forest, especially native forest.
- A thick washer or hollow cylinder of metal.
- (baseball) Amateurish behavior, short for bush league behavior
- (Australia) The countryside area of Australia that is less arid and less remote than the outback; loosely, areas of natural flora even within conurbations.
- A piece of copper, screwed into a gun, through which the venthole is bored.
- (often with "the") Tracts of land covered in natural vegetation that are largely undeveloped and uncultivated.
- (slang, vulgar) A person's pubic hair, especially a woman's.
- (hunting) The tail, or brush, of a fox.
- (Canada) A wood lot or bluff on a farm.
- dense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes
- hair growing in the pubic area
- a large wilderness area
- a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems
adj
adv
noun
- A plant that has been shaped in this manner.
- A latticework used to shape or train the branches of a tree or shrub into a two-dimensional ornamental or useful design, as along a wall or fence.
- A row of plants that have been shaped in this manner.
- a trellis on which ornamental shrub or fruit tree is trained to grow flat
verb
noun
- (figuratively) The larger branches of a tree that determine its shape.
- (literally) The arrangement of support beams that represent a building's general shape and size.
- (software engineering) A reusable piece of code (and, sometimes, other utilities) providing a standard environment within which an application can be implemented.
- (figuratively) A basic conceptual structure.
- (grammar) An established and structured system of rules and principles used for analyzing and describing the structure of a language.
- (literally) A support structure comprising joined parts or conglomerated particles and intervening open spaces of similar or larger size.
- a hypothetical description of a complex entity or process
- the underlying structure
- a structure supporting or containing something
noun
- tree (as opposed to shrub)
- a framework that supports climbing plants
- any of various rotating shafts that serve as axes for larger rotating parts
- A spindle of a wheel.
- A bar for supporting cutting tools.
- An axis or shaft supporting a rotating part on a lathe.
- A shady sitting place or pergola usually in a park or garden, surrounded by climbing shrubs, vines or other vegetation.
- A grove of trees.
verb
- (intransitive) To arise from the trunk or a larger branch of a tree.
- (intransitive) To produce branches.
- (transitive, colloquial) To discipline (a union member) at a branch meeting.
- (intransitive, computing) To jump to a different location in a program, especially as the result of a conditional statement.
- (transitive) To strip of branches.
- (ambitransitive) To (cause to) divide into separate parts or subdivisions.
- grow and send out branches or branch-like structures
- divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork
noun
- Any of the parts of something that divides like the branch of a tree.
- (graph theory) A path of vertices of degree 2, ending at vertices whose degree is not 2.
- An area in business or of knowledge, research.
- (nautical) A certificate given by Trinity House to a pilot qualified to take navigational control of a ship in British waters.
- (computing) A sequence of code that is conditionally executed.
- The woody part of a tree arising from the trunk and usually dividing.
- A line of family descent, in distinction from some other line or lines from the same stock; any descendant in such a line.
- A location of an organization with several locations.
- (chiefly Southern US) A creek or stream which flows into a larger river.
- (computing) A group of related files in a source control system, including for example source code, build scripts, and media such as images.
- (Mormonism) A local congregation of the LDS Church that is not large enough to form a ward; see Wikipedia article on ward in LDS church.
- (geometry) One of the portions of a curve that extends outwards to an indefinitely great distance.
- (rail transport) A branch line.
- a natural consequence of development
- a division of a stem, or secondary stem arising from the main stem of a plant
- a division of some larger or more complex organization
- any projection that is thought to resemble a human arm
- a stream or river connected to a larger one
- a part of a forked or branching shape
verb
noun
- The wood of these trees.
- A rotating spiked drum used to open and clean cotton heads.
- Any of various deciduous trees or shrubs in the genus Salix, in the willow family Salicaceae, found primarily on moist soils in cooler zones in the northern hemisphere.
- (baseball, slang, 1800s) The baseball bat.
- (cricket, colloquial) A cricket bat.
- any of numerous deciduous trees and shrubs of the genus Salix
- a textile machine having a system of revolving spikes for opening and cleaning raw textile fibers
verb
noun
- A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree.
- (horticulture) A woody plant distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, being usually less than six metres tall; a horticultural rather than strictly botanical category.
- A mechanical attachment, usually a metallic socket with a screw thread, such as the mechanism by which a camera is attached to a tripod stand.
- (historical) A shrub or branch, properly, a branch of ivy (sacred to Bacchus), hung out at vintners' doors, or as a tavern sign; hence, a tavern sign, and symbolically, the tavern itself.
- (Canada) The wild forested areas of Canada; upcountry.
- (New Zealand) An area of New Zealand covered in forest, especially native forest.
- A thick washer or hollow cylinder of metal.
- (baseball) Amateurish behavior, short for bush league behavior
- (Australia) The countryside area of Australia that is less arid and less remote than the outback; loosely, areas of natural flora even within conurbations.
- A piece of copper, screwed into a gun, through which the venthole is bored.
- (often with "the") Tracts of land covered in natural vegetation that are largely undeveloped and uncultivated.
- (slang, vulgar) A person's pubic hair, especially a woman's.
- (hunting) The tail, or brush, of a fox.
- (Canada) A wood lot or bluff on a farm.
- dense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes
- hair growing in the pubic area
- a large wilderness area
- a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems
adj
adv
verb
noun
verb
- (transitive) To place in a tree.
- (intransitive) To take refuge in a tree.
- (transitive) To chase (an animal or person) up a tree.
- (transitive) To place upon a shoe tree; to fit with a shoe tree; to stretch upon a shoe tree.
- plant with trees
- chase an animal up a tree
- force a person or an animal into a position from which they cannot escape
- stretch (a shoe) on a shoetree
noun
- Any structure or construct having branches representing divergence or possible choices.
- (chemistry) A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal from solution.
- An object made from a tree trunk and having multiple hooks or storage platforms.
- (cartomancy) The fifth Lenormand card.
- (computing theory) A recursive data structure in which each node has zero or more nodes as children, but does not share children with other nodes.
- A device used to hold or stretch a shoe open.
- (uncountable, mathematics) Alternative letter-case form of TREE.
- Any other plant (such as a large shrub or herb) that is reminiscent of the above in form and size.
- (archaic outside Christianity) A cross or gallows.
- A perennial woody plant taller and larger than a shrub with a wooden trunk and, at some distance from the ground, having leaves and branches.
- The structural frame of a saddle.
- (graphical user interface) A display or listing of entries or elements such that there are primary and secondary entries shown, usually linked by drawn lines or by indenting to the right.
- (graph theory) A connected graph with no cycles or, if the graph is finite, equivalently a connected graph with n vertices and n−1 edges.
- The structure or wooden frame used in the construction of a saddle used in horse riding.
- (often in the plural, slang) Marijuana.
- a figure that branches from a single root
- a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms
verb
- (intransitive) To form buds.
- (transitive) To graft by inserting a bud under the bark of another tree.
- (intransitive) To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn.
- (intransitive) To reproduce by splitting off buds.
- (transitive) To put forth as a bud.
- (intransitive) To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise.
- start to grow or develop
- develop buds
noun
- (informal, rare) Brother.
- (US, Canada, Australia, slang, usually in the plural) Cannabis that has been taken from the flowering part of the plant intended to be smoked.
- A small rounded body in the process of splitting from an organism, which may grow into a genetically identical new organism.
- A weaned calf in its first year, so called because the horns are then beginning to bud.
- (figuratively) Something that has begun to develop.
- (informal, chiefly Canada) Synonym of guy, term of address for a man or person.
- (US, Canada, Australia, slang, uncountable) Marijuana.
- (informal, Canada, US) Buddy, friend.
- A newly sprouted leaf or blossom that has not yet unfolded.
- a swelling on a plant stem consisting of overlapping immature leaves or petals
- a partially opened flower
verb
- (transitive, of trees) To plant in a line.
- to appear in a lineout
- (baseball) To become out by hitting a line drive which is caught.
- (transitive, by extension) To generally and briefly predict or describe (something).
- to take part in a sports event
- (transitive, of a number, name, etc. on a list) To remove from effective inclusion on a list by crossing an item off.
- To form a contrasting border to another colour.
- (transitive, of a church leader) To chant each line of a hymn before the congregation must sing it, as an aid for those worshippers who can not read out of a hymnbook.
- (intransitive) To line up; to form a line.
- (intransitive) To move or hurry away.
- (transitive) To outline (something) to be finished later (often by lining in the drawing.
- (transitive) To create (something, e.g. parking spaces, lanes in a road) by marking lines on asphalt.
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- (intransitive, of plants) To grow across a surface rather than upwards.
- To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn.
- To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable.
- To slip, or to become slightly displaced.
- (intransitive) To move slowly and quietly in a particular direction.
- (intransitive) To move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground.
- (intransitive) To make small gradual changes, usually in a particular direction.
- To have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin of the body; to crawl.
- To move in a stealthy or secret manner; to move imperceptibly or clandestinely; to steal in; to insinuate itself or oneself.
- (intransitive, African-American Vernacular, slang) To covertly have sex (with a person other than one's primary partner); to cheat with.
- show submission or fear
- to go stealthily or furtively
- move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground
- grow or spread, often in such a way as to cover (a surface)
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- (informal, derogatory) Someone creepy (annoyingly unpleasant), especially one who is strange or eccentric.
- (geology) The imperceptible downslope movement of surface rock.
- A slight displacement of an object; the slight movement of something.
- (informal, derogatory, especially) A person who engages in sexually inappropriate behaviour or sexual harassment.
- (materials science) An increase in strain with time; the gradual flow or deformation of a material under stress.
- A relatively small gradual change, variation or deviation (from a planned value) in a measure.
- (agriculture) A barrier with small openings used to keep large animals out while allowing smaller animals to pass through.
- (publishing) In sewn books, the tendency of pages on the inside of a quire to stand out farther than those on the outside of it.
- The movement of something that creeps (like worms or snails).
- (uncountable) The gradual expansion or proliferation of something beyond its original goals or boundaries, considered negatively.
- a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body
- a pen that is fenced so that young animals can enter but adults cannot
- a slow longitudinal movement or deformation
- someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric
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- (transitive) To trim up, as trees.
- (transitive) To flatter.
- (of people, intransitive, reflexive) To spend time making oneself attractive and admiring one's appearance, e.g. in front of a mirror.
- (intransitive) To show off, posture, or smarm.
- (transitive, more generally) To improve the appearance of; groom; prettify.
- (of birds, ambitransitive) To groom; to trim or dress the feathers with the beak.
- (transitive) To pin; fasten.
- (transitive) To comb; to make orderly.
- dress or groom with elaborate care
- pride or congratulate (oneself) for an achievement
- clean with one's bill
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- (intransitive) To produce leaves; put forth foliage.
- (informal, transitive, uncommon) To play a prank on someone by throwing a large clump or collection of leaves at them.
- (transitive) To divide (a vegetable) into separate leaves.
- look through a book or other written material
- produce leaves, of plants
- turn over pages
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- A sheet of any substance beaten or rolled until very thin.
- A flat section used to extend the size of a table.
- (programming, x86) A particular value of the EAX register when a program runs the CPUID instruction; each leaf represents a different category of information returned about the processor.
- (plural leaves or leafs) A moveable panel, e.g. of a bridge or door, originally one that hinged but now also applied to other forms of movement.
- (publishing, bookbinding, advertising) A sheet of a book, magazine, etc. (consisting of two pages, one on each face of the leaf).
- Anything resembling the leaf of a plant.
- One of the teeth of a pinion, especially when small.
- The layer of fat supporting the kidneys of a pig, leaf fat.
- (slang, uncountable) Cannabis.
- (botany) A foliage leaf or any of the many and often considerably different structures it can specialise into.
- One of the individual flat or curved strips of metal, typically made of spring steel, that make up a leaf spring.
- (4chan slang, Internet slang, humorous, sometimes pejorative, plural leafs) A Canadian person.
- The usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants.
- (computing, mathematics) In a tree, a node that has no descendants.
- (in the plural) Tea leaves.
- the main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants
- a sheet of any written or printed material (especially in a manuscript or book)
- hinged or detachable flat section (as of a table or door)
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- (botany, of branches or roots) Growing at an angle that is neither vertical nor horizontal.
- (grammar) Pertaining to the oblique case (non-nominative).
- Not straightforward; indirect; by implication; (sometimes even) obscure, ambiguous, or confusing.
- Disingenuous; underhand; morally corrupt.
- (music) Employing oblique motion, motion or progression in which one part (voice) stays on the same note while another ascends or descends.
- Not direct in descent; not following the line of father and son; collateral.
- Not erect or perpendicular; not parallel to, or at right angles from, the base.
- (botany, of leaves) Having the base of the blade asymmetrical, with one side lower than the other.
- (grammar, of speech or narration) Indirect; employing the actual words of the speaker but as related by a third person, having the first person in pronoun and verb converted into the third person and adverbs of present time into the past, etc.
- slanting or inclined in direction or course or position — neither parallel nor perpendicular nor right-angled
- indirect in departing from the accepted or proper way; misleading
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- (military) To march in a direction oblique to the line of the column or platoon; — formerly accomplished by oblique steps, now by direct steps, the men half-facing either to the right or left.
- (intransitive) To deviate from a perpendicular line; to become askew.
- (transitive, computing) To slant (text, etc.) at an angle.
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- (countable) A garden decorated with such art.
- (countable) One such shrub or tree.
- (uncountable) Art or practice of trimming shrubs or trees in artistic or ornamental shapes, e.g. of animals.
- a garden having shrubs clipped or trimmed into decorative shapes especially of animals
- making decorative shapes by trimming shrubs or trees