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verb
noun
- The issues of a periodical over a period of one year.
- (economics) The total supply of money in circulation or, less frequently, total amount of credit extended, within a specified national market or worldwide.
- A bound book.
- (computing) An accessible storage area with a single file system, typically resident on a single partition of a hard disk.
- Strength of sound: how loud it is.
- (cinematography) A sound stage film set that has walls of video monitors, substituting for an actual background, set structures, providing a changeable video matte painting. A set with a form of projected background, similar to legacy traditional rear projection and front projection sets.
- (bodybuilding) The total of weight worked by a muscle in one training session, the weight of every single repetition summed up.
- Quantity.
- (climbing, bouldering) A modular foothold attached to a climbing wall used for gripping, often in triangular, pyramidal, or angular shapes.
- A rounded mass or convolution.
- (cinematography) A green/blue-screen chromakey visual effects (“VFX”) sound stage surrounded by a multitude of filming cameras, to allow for virtual camera changes in post production, by filming the whole 3-D volume of a chromakey film set.
- (graph theory) The sum of the degrees of a set of vertices.
- (in the plural, by extension) A great amount (of meaning) about something.
- A three-dimensional measure of space that comprises a length, a width and a height. It is measured in units of cubic centimeters in metric, cubic inches or cubic feet in English measurement.
- A single book of a publication issued in multi-book format, such as an encyclopedia.
- the magnitude of sound (usually in a specified direction)
- a relative amount
- the amount of 3-dimensional space occupied by an object
- physical objects consisting of a number of pages bound together
- a publication that is one of a set of several similar publications
- the property of something that is great in magnitude
verb
noun
- The bulging part of a barrel or cask.
- (slang, uncountable) Stupid talk or writing; nonsense.
- (nautical) The lowest inner part of a ship's hull, where water accumulates.
- (nautical) The rounded portion of a ship's hull, forming a transition between the bottom and the sides.
- (uncountable) The water accumulated in the bilge; bilge water.
- water accumulated in the bilge of a ship
- where the sides of the vessel curve in to form the bottom
verb
noun
- (informal, Internet) Clipping of podcast.
- A tapered, cylindrical body of ore or minerals.
- (botany) A seed case for legumes (e.g. peas, beans, peppers); a seedpod.
- A lie-flat business or first class seat.
- (by extension) A group of people who regularly interact.
- A straight channel or groove in the body of certain forms of, usually tapered, augers and boring-bits.
- A nicotine cartridge.
- (collective, zoology) A group of whales, dolphins, seals, porpoises or hippopotami.
- A subsection of a prison, containing a number of inmates.
- (broadcasting) A set of commercials to be shown together.
- (informal) Clipping of isopod.
- In rugby union, a small group (usually 3 or 4) of forwards working together as a group in open play.
- A small section of a larger office, compartmentalised for a specific purpose.
- A small vehicle, especially used in emergency situations.
- A very small room or space for one person to inhabit, as in a capsule hotel.
- A self-contained unit, container, or enclosure that holds, protects, or transports something.
- a detachable container of fuel on an airplane
- a several-seeded dehiscent fruit as e.g. of a leguminous plant
- the vessel that contains the seeds of a plant (not the seeds themselves)
- a group of aquatic mammals
verb
noun
- (cycling) The peloton; the main group of riders formed during a race.
- (US, informal) A considerable amount.
- (forestry) A group of logs tied together for skidding.
- (geology, mining) An unusual concentration of ore in a lode or a small, discontinuous occurrence or patch of ore in the wallrock.
- (informal) An unmentioned amount; a number.
- An informal body of friends.
- A group of similar things, either growing together, or in a cluster or clump, usually fastened together.
- (textiles) The reserve yarn on the filling bobbin to allow continuous weaving between the time of indication from the midget feeler until a new bobbin is put in the shuttle.
- (smoking) An unfinished cigar, before the wrapper leaf is added.
- A protuberance; a hunch; a knob or lump; a hump.
- a grouping of a number of similar things
- any collection in its entirety
- an informal body of friends
verb
- (intransitive) To enlarge; to swell up.
- (transitive, draughts) To remove an opponent's piece as a forfeit for deliberately not taking a piece (often signalled by blowing on it).
- (intransitive) To bluster or swell with anger, arrogance, or pride; to storm; to take offense.
- (transitive) To treat with arrogance and insolence; to chide or rebuke rudely; to bully, to hector.
- (intransitive) To say in a huffy manner.
- (transitive) To inhale psychoactive inhalants.
- (intransitive) To breathe heavily.
- inhale recreational drugs
- blow hard and loudly
noun
verb
- (intransitive, nautical) To swell out.
- To push with the horns; to butt.
- To spring or rear up.
- (intransitive, baseball) To intentionally hit a ball softly with a hands-spread batting stance.
- (transitive, baseball) To intentionally hit softly with a hands-spread batting stance.
- (intransitive, aviation) To perform (the second half of) an outside loop.
- (rare, of a cat) To headbutt affectionately.
- hit a ball in such a way so as to make it go a short distance
- to strike, thrust or shove against
noun
- (by extension) Any large pilot-commanded pitch-down motion of an aircraft, often producing negative G-forces and resulting in a large negative change in flightpath angle.
- (baseball, softball) The act of bunting.
- A push or shove; a butt.
- (countable, uncountable) A fungus (Ustilago foetida) affecting the ear of cereals, filling the grains with a foetid dust.
- (aviation) The second half of an outside loop, from level flight to inverted flight.
- (baseball, softball) A ball that has been intentionally hit softly so as to be difficult to field, sometimes with a hands-spread batting stance or with a close-hand, choked-up hand position. No swinging action is involved.
- (nautical) The middle part, cavity, or belly of a sail; the part of a furled sail which is at the center of the yard.
- disease of wheat characterized by replacement of the grains with greasy masses of smelly smut spores
- similar to Tilletia caries
- fungus that destroys kernels of wheat by replacing them with greasy masses of smelly spores
- (baseball) the act of hitting a baseball or softball lightly by holding the bat in a stationary position rather than swinging it
verb
- (intransitive) To become distended; to swell up.
- To fill soft substance with gas, water, etc.; to cause to swell.
- (intransitive, veterinary medicine) To get an overdistended rumen, talking of a ruminant.
- To increase to an excessive amount.
- To fill with vanity or conceit.
- To cause to become distended.
- become bloated or swollen or puff up
- make bloated or swollen
noun
verb
noun
- The part of anything which resembles (either closely or abstractly) the human belly in protuberance or in concavity; often, the fundus (innermost part).
- The lower fuselage of an airplane.
- The main curved portion of a knife blade.
- The abdomen (especially a fat one).
- stomach (an organ in animals that stores food in the process of digestion)
- (anatomy, countable) uterus (a reproductive organ of therian mammals in which the young are conceived and develop until birth)
- (architecture) The hollow part of a curved or bent timber, the convex part of which is the back.
- the region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis
- the hollow inside of something
- a protruding abdomen
- the underpart of the body of certain vertebrates such as snakes or fish
- a part that bulges deeply
verb
- swell or protrude outwards
- (intransitive) (of a container, etc.) To have the surface stretched by something pushing out; to swell; to belly.
- cause to bulge or swell outwards
- bulge out; form a bulge outward, or be so full as to appear to bulge
- bulge outward
- (intransitive) To stick out from a surface without breaking it.
- (intransitive) To bilge, as a ship; to founder.
noun
- something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings
- (colloquial) The outline of the penis visible through clothing.
- An object which is sticking out from a surface; a swelling, protuberant part; a bending outward, especially when caused by pressure.
- The bilge or protuberant part of a cask.
- (figurative) A sudden rise in value or quantity.
- (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) A rounded fleshy mass, such as on a camel or zebu.
- (nautical) The bilge of a vessel.
verb
noun
- a small or medium size container for holding or carrying things
- an enclosed space
- (anatomy) saclike structure in any of various animals (as a marsupial or gopher or pelican)
- (botany) A silicle, or short pod, as of the shepherd's purse.
- A bulkhead in the hold of a vessel, to prevent grain etc. from shifting.
- A small bag usually closed with a drawstring.
- (zoology) An organic pocket in which a marsupial carries its young.
- Any pocket or bag-shaped object, such as a cheek pouch.
- A cyst or sac containing fluid.
verb
- swell or protrude outwards
- extend out or project in space
- bulge outward
- (intransitive) To extend from, above or beyond a surface or boundary; to bulge outward; to stick out.
- (transitive) To cause to extend from a surface or boundary; to cause to stick out.
- (transitive) To thrust out, as through a narrow orifice or from confinement; to cause to come forth.
verb
- (intransitive) To grow plump; to swell out.
- (intransitive) To favor or decide in favor of. [with for ‘something’]
- (transitive) To cast or let drop (something) all at once, suddenly and heavily.
- (transitive) To make plump; to fill (out) or support; often with up.
- (intransitive) To give a plumper (kind of vote).
- (intransitive) To drop or fall suddenly or heavily, all at once.
- (transitive) To give (a vote), as a plumper.
- drop sharply
- make fat or plump
- set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise
- give support (to) or make a choice (of) one out of a group or number
adj
adv
noun
noun
adj
verb
verb
- to swell or cause to enlarge
- make large
- fill with gas or air
- cause to burst with a violent release of energy
- get very angry and fly into a rage
- burst and release energy as through a violent chemical or physical reaction
- exaggerate or make bigger
- add details to
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blow, up.
- (transitive) To inflate or fill with air, either by literally blowing or by using a pump.
- (transitive, also figuratively) To cause (something or someone) to explode, or to destroy (something) or maim or kill (someone) by means of an explosion.
- (intransitive, cycling) To succumb to oxygen debt and lose the ability to maintain pace in a race.
- (intransitive, also figuratively) To explode or be destroyed by explosion.
- (of a hangout) To overwhelm (a place) with traffic or volume by revealing its existence to others.
- (transitive) To enlarge or zoom in on.
- (intransitive, mathematics, said of a function) To increase without bound as a function argument or parameter approaches a certain value; to tend toward infinity; to approach infinity as a limit.
- (intransitive, slang) To become much more fat or rotund in a short space of time.
- (of a cell phone, pager, or similar) To receive a large number of calls, texts, or notifications, to the point of being rendered temporarily unusable or exasperating the recipient.
- (intransitive, slang) To suddenly get very angry, to lose one's temper.
- (transitive, figuratively) To represent something as being more important or serious than it actually is; to inflate; to exaggerate.
- (of a cell phone, pager, or similar) To bombard with a large number of calls, texts, or notifications, to the point of rendering temporarily unusable or exasperating the recipient.
- (intransitive, slang, of a device, machine, system, or establishment) To be overwhelmed by unexpectedly high demand, usage, activity, traffic volume, etc.
- (slang, colloquial) To cause a malodorous smell by flatulation, defecation, etc.
- (of a hangout) To be overwhelmed with traffic or volume.
- (intransitive) To fail disastrously.
- (transitive, slang, of a device, machine, system, or establishment) To overwhelm through unexpectedly high demand, activity, usage, traffic volume, etc.
- (intransitive, of a storm) To begin; to gather; to form.
- (slang, intransitive) To become popular very quickly.
- (sports) To blow the whistle.
verb
- to swell or cause to enlarge
- To swell with air; to be dilated or inflated.
- To cause to swell or dilate; to inflate.
- make proud or conceited
- speak in a blustering or scornful manner
- breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted
- suck in or take (air)
- smoke and exhale strongly
- praise extravagantly
- blow hard and loudly
- To inflate with pride, flattery, self-esteem, etc.; often with up.
- To blow as an expression of scorn.
- (intransitive) To emit smoke, gas, etc., in puffs.
- To praise with exaggeration; to flatter; to call public attention to by praises; to praise unduly.
- To drive with a puff, or with puffs.
- To repel with words; to blow at contemptuously.
- To breathe in a swelling, inflated, or pompous manner; hence, to assume importance.
- (intransitive) To pant.
adj
noun
- a short light gust of air
- exaggerated praise (as for promotional purposes)
- a soft spherical object made from fluffy fibers; for applying powder to the skin
- a slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke)
- bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together
- thick cushion used as a seat
- forceful exhalation through the nose or mouth
- a light inflated pastry or puff shell
- (uncountable) The ability to breathe easily while exerting oneself.
- A puffball.
- (uncountable, slang) The drug cannabis.
- (countable) A flamboyant or alluring statement of praise.
- (countable) A small quantity of gas or smoke in the air.
- (countable) A sudden but small gust of wind, smoke, etc.
- (genetics) A region of a chromosome exhibiting a local increase in diameter.
- A portion of fabric gathered up so as to be left full in the middle.
- (derogatory, chiefly Northern England, slang) Synonym of poof: a gay man; especially one who is effeminate.
- (informal, countable) An act of inhaling smoke from a cigarette, cigar or pipe.
- A powder puff.
- (countable) A sharp exhalation of a small amount of breath through the mouth.
- (countable) A light cake filled with cream, cream cheese, etc.
verb
- to swell or cause to enlarge
- (intransitive) To swell due to injury or illness.
- make larger or distend
- praise extravagantly
- become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger
- (figurative, intransitive) To become proud. (Often written as puffed up with pride.)
- (transitive) To inflate with air.
- (transitive, intransitive) To fluff up, such as an animal raising its fur or feathers to appear larger or conserve body heat.
verb
- (intransitive) To grow in size; to swell or expand.
- cause to bulge or swell outwards
- (intransitive) To appear or seem to be, as to bulk or extent.
- (intransitive) To gain body mass by means of diet, exercise, etc.
- (transitive) To put or hold in bulk.
- stick out or up
- to gain size and weight by means of exercise and diet
adj
noun
- (uncountable, transport) Unpackaged goods when transported in large volumes, e.g. coal, ore, or grain.
- (bodybuilding) Excess body mass, especially muscle.
- Majority, balance.
- (countable) A cargo or any items moved or communicated in the manner of cargo.
- The major part of something.
- Size, specifically, volume.
- (brane cosmology) A hypothetical higher-dimensional space within which our own four-dimensional universe may exist.
- Gist.
- Any huge body or structure.
- Dietary fibre.
- (bodybuilding) A period where one tries to gain muscle.
- the property resulting from being or relating to the greater in number of two parts; the main part
- the property of something that is great in magnitude
- the property possessed by a large mass
verb
- (figurative) To swell; to puff up.
- (figurative, transitive) To represent something as being more important, better, or worse than it actually is; to exaggerate.
- (transitive) To enlarge an object by pushing air (or a gas) into it; to raise or expand abnormally
- (transitive, computing) To decompress (data) that was previously deflated.
- (intransitive) To enlarge by filling with air (or a gas).
- become inflated
- cause prices to rise by increasing the available currency or credit
- increase the amount or availability of, creating a rise in value
- fill with gas or air
- exaggerate or make bigger
verb
adj
noun
verb
noun
- The bulb-shaped underground portion of a plant such as a tulip, consisting of a shortened stem and many fleshy scale leaves, from which the rest of the plant may be regrown.
- Any solid object rounded at one end and tapering on the other, possibly attached to a larger object at the tapered end.
- (nautical) A bulbous protuberance at the forefoot of certain vessels to reduce turbulence.
- A light bulb (not necessarily bulbous in shape).
- anything with a round shape resembling a teardrop
- electric lamp consisting of a transparent or translucent glass housing containing a wire filament (usually tungsten) that emits light when heated by electricity
- lower or hindmost part of the brain; continuous with spinal cord; (‘bulb’ is an old term for medulla oblongata)
- a modified bud consisting of a thickened globular underground stem serving as a reproductive structure
- a rounded dilation or expansion in a canal or vessel or organ
- a rounded part of a cylindrical instrument (usually at one end)
verb
noun
noun
- That which plumps or swells out something else.
- One who plumps or swells out something else.
- A downright, unqualified lie.
- (chiefly in the plural) A small ball or pad carried in the mouth to fill out the cheeks.
- (politics) In elections, a vote given to one candidate only, when two or more are to be elected, thus giving the candidate an advantage over the others.
- (Internet slang) An obese woman, especially in pornography.
- A voter who plumps their vote.
adj
verb
- (intransitive) To belly; to billow, swell or bulge.
- To enclose or carry in the bosom; to keep with care; to take to heart; to cherish.
- To conceal; to hide from view; to embosom.
- (transitive) To belly; to cause to billow, swell or bulge.
- hide in one's bosom
- hold (someone) tightly in your arms, usually with fondness
adj
noun
- A breast, one of a woman's breasts
- The protected interior or inner part of something; the area enclosed as by an embrace.
- A depression round the eye of a millstone.
- Any thing or place resembling the breast; a supporting surface; an inner recess; the interior.
- The seat of one's inner thoughts, feelings, etc.; one's secret feelings; desire.
- The part of a dress etc. covering the chest; a neckline.
- a person's breast or chest
- the chest considered as the place where secret thoughts are kept
- a close affectionate and protective acceptance
- the locus of feelings and intuitions
- either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman
- cloth that covers the chest or breasts
verb
- (intransitive) To grow larger.
- (nautical) To get more astern or parallel with the vessel's course; to draw aft; said of the wind.
- (law) To extend the time allowed for compliance with (an order or rule).
- (transitive) To increase the capacity of; to expand; to give free scope or greater scope to; also, to dilate, as with joy, affection, etc.
- (transitive) To make (something) larger.
- (intransitive) To speak or write at length upon or on (some subject); expand; elaborate
- make larger
- make large
- become larger or bigger
- add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing
verb
- (intransitive, transitive) To rise; to swell; to grow; to increase.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see run, up.
- To run (towards someone or something); to hasten to a destination.
- (transitive) To string up; to hang.
- (cricket) Of a bowler, to run, or walk up to the bowling crease in order to bowl a ball.
- To thrust up, as anything long and slender.
- (idiomatic, transitive) To bring (a flag) to the top of its flag pole.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang, sometimes reflexive) To accumulate money, drugs, etc.
- (idiomatic) To accumulate (a debt).
- (aviation, transitive) To warm up and test an airplane before a flight.
- (with to) To approach (an event or point in time).
- (transitive) To take to a destination or before an authority.
- (idiomatic, transitive) To make something, usually an item of clothing, very quickly.
- make by sewing together quickly
- accumulate, sometimes as a debt
- pile up (debts or scores)
- raise by using ropes and pulleys
- fasten by sewing; do needlework
noun
adj
- Distended, swollen, or inflated.
- (automotive) Given a hot rod blower.
- Panting and out of breath.
- Under the influence of drugs, especially marijuana.
- Having failed.
- (of glass) Formed by blowing.
- Covered with the eggs and larvae of flies; flyblown.
- being moved or acted upon by moving air or vapor
- breathing laboriously or convulsively
verb
verb
- To cause (something) to stick out or swell; to extrude; also, to cause (someone or something) to be covered in swellings.
- To make (a design on a coin, an ornament on an object, etc.) stand out from a surface.
- To decorate (something) with bosses (“ornamental convex protuberances”); to boss; hence, to decorate (something) richly.
- To decorate or mark (something) with a design or symbol in relief.
- To represent (a subject) on an object in relief; also, of a design or subject: to stand out on (an object) in relief.
- To cause (something) to be prominent or stand out.
- raise in a relief
verb
noun
- The edible head or curd of a cauliflower plant.
- The swelling of a cauliflower ear.
- Brassica oleracea var. botrytis, an annual variety of cabbage, of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable.
- a plant having a large edible head of crowded white flower buds
- compact head of white undeveloped flowers
verb
- (intransitive) To be full to overflowing; to bristle.
- (intransitive) To be present or available in large numbers or quantities; to be plentiful.
- (intransitive) To revel in.
- (intransitive) To be highly productive.
- To be copiously supplied. [with in or with ‘something’]
- be in a state of movement or action
- be abundant or plentiful; exist in large quantities
verb
noun
- (anatomy) Specifically, the urinary bladder.
- A sealed plastic bag that contains wine and is usually packaged in a cask.
- (figurative) Anything inflated, empty, or unsound.
- A container in the form of a flexible bag.
- The inflatable bag inside various balls used in sports, such as footballs and rugby balls.
- (botany) A hollow, inflatable organ of a plant.
- (zoology) A flexible sac that can expand and contract and that holds liquids or gases.
- a bag that fills with air
- a distensible membranous sac (usually containing liquid or gas)
noun
- The act of swelling; increase in size.
- A long series of ocean waves, generally produced by wind, and lasting after the wind has ceased.
- (music) A gradual crescendo followed by diminuendo.
- (music) A device for controlling the volume of a pipe organ.
- A bulge or protuberance.
- The front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end.
- Increase of power in style, or of rhetorical force.
- (music) A division in a pipe organ, usually the largest enclosed division.
- (geology) An upward protrusion of strata from whose central region the beds dip quaquaversally at a low angle.
- A hillock or similar raised area of terrain.
- (informal) A person of high social standing; an important person.
- the undulating movement of the surface of the open sea
- a crescendo followed by a decrescendo
- a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance
- a rounded elevation (especially one on an ocean floor)
verb
- (intransitive) To become bigger, especially due to being engorged.
- To protuberate; to bulge out.
- (transitive) To cause to grow gradually in force or loudness.
- To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant.
- (intransitive) To grow gradually in force or loudness.
- (transitive) To cause to become bigger.
- (transitive) To raise to arrogance; to puff up; to inflate.
- To be elated; to rise arrogantly.
- (intransitive) To be raised to arrogance.
- come up (as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things)
- come up, as of a liquid
- expand abnormally
- increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity
- cause to become swollen
- become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger
adv
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verb
noun
- (aviation) An airship constructed with a non-rigid lifting agent container.
- (slang) An obese person.
- (film, television) A soundproof cover for a video camera.
- A person similar to the cartoon character Colonel Blimp; a pompous, reactionary British man.
- (by extension) Any large airborne inflatable.
- a small nonrigid airship used for observation or as a barrage balloon
verb
- (by extension) Of a thing: to increase in size; to expand, to spread out, to swell.
- Of a stag: to remove the velvet (“skin and fine fur”) from (its antlers) by rubbing them against something; to velvet.
- (figuratively) To make (someone or something) appear positive and highly respected.
- To make (something, such as a surface) bright, shiny, and smooth by, or (by extension) as if by, rubbing; to polish, to shine.
- To become bright, glossy, and smooth; to brighten, to gleam, to shine forth.
- Of a person's body: to grow large or stout; to fatten, to fill out.
- polish and make shiny
noun
- (uncountable) The making of something bright, shiny, and smooth by, or (by extension) as if by, rubbing; (countable) an instance of this; a burnishing, a polishing, a shining.
- A shiny layer applied to a surface or other thing.
- A shine of something which has been polished; a lustre, a polish.
- the property of being smooth and shiny
verb
- (intransitive) To increase, to grow.
- (figuratively, transitive) To get more use than expected from a limited resource.
- (figuratively, transitive) To make inaccurate by exaggeration.
- (physics, transitive) To make a pulse or particle bunch longer by applying dispersion to it.
- (nautical) To sail by the wind under press of canvas.
- (transitive) To increase.
- (transitive) To make great demands on the capacity or resources of something.
- (intransitive) To extend physically, especially from a limit point and/or to a limit point.
- (intransitive, transitive) To extend one’s limbs or another part of the body, for example in order to improve the elasticity of one's muscles.
- (transitive) To pull tight.
- (intransitive) To lengthen when pulled.
- (transitive) To lengthen by pulling.
- become longer by being stretched and pulled
- extend the scope or meaning of; often unduly
- extend or stretch out to a greater or the full length
- extend one's body or limbs
- corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones
- make long or longer by pulling and stretching
- occupy a large, elongated area
- pull in opposite directions
- extend one's limbs or muscles, or the entire body
- increase in quantity or bulk by adding a cheaper substance
- lie down comfortably
noun
- Ellipsis of stretch limousine.
- A segment or length of material.
- (informal) Term of address for a tall person.
- The ability to lengthen when pulled.
- A segment of a journey or route.
- (baseball) A long reach in the direction of the ball with a foot remaining on the base by a first baseman in order to catch the ball sooner.
- (slang) A jail or prison term of one year's duration.
- (horse racing) The homestretch, the final straight section of the track leading to the finish.
- (Ireland) Extended daylight hours, especially said of the evening in springtime when compared to the shorter winter days.
- (slang) A jail or prison term.
- A course of thought which diverts from straightforward logic, or requires extraordinary belief or exaggeration.
- (baseball) A quick pitching delivery used when runners are on base where the pitcher slides his leg instead of lifting it.
- (sports) The period of the season between the trade deadline and the beginning of the playoffs.
- An act of stretching.
- A length of time.
- A single uninterrupted sitting; a turn.
- an unbroken period of time during which you do something
- the capacity for being stretched
- exercise designed to extend the limbs and muscles to their full extent
- the act of physically reaching or thrusting out
- extension to or beyond the ordinary limit
- a large and unbroken expanse or distance
- a straightaway section of a racetrack
adj
verb
- bulge out; form a bulge outward, or be so full as to appear to bulge
- hang loosely, like an empty bag
- put into a bag
- take unlawfully
- capture or kill, as in hunting
- (nautical, intransitive) To drop away from the correct course.
- (informal) To catch or kill, especially when fishing or hunting.
- (Australia, slang) To criticise sarcastically.
- To forget, ignore, or get rid of.
- (transitive) To furnish or load with a bag.
- (transitive, medicine) To provide with artificial ventilation via a bag valve mask (BVM) resuscitator.
- (slang) To arrest.
- (transitive, medicine) To fit with a bag to collect urine.
- To hang like an empty bag.
- (transitive) To put into a bag.
- (slang, African-American Vernacular) To laugh uncontrollably.
- (slang, African-American Vernacular) To take a woman away with one as a romantic or sexual interest.
- (slang) To steal.
- To gain possession of something, or to make first claim on something.
noun
- a portable rectangular container for carrying clothes
- a container used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women)
- an ugly or ill-tempered woman
- the quantity of game taken in a particular period (usually by one person)
- a place that the runner must touch before scoring
- a flexible container with a single opening
- an activity that you like or at which you are superior
- the quantity that a bag will hold
- mammary gland of bovids (cows and sheep and goats)
- (UK) A unit of measure of cement equal to 94 pounds.
- (informal) A large number or amount.
- (vulgar) The scrotum.
- (mathematics) A collection of objects, disregarding order, but (unlike a set) in which elements may be repeated.
- The quantity of game bagged in a hunt.
- A soft container made out of cloth, paper, thin plastic, etc. and open at the top, used to hold food, commodities, and other goods.
- A small envelope that contains drugs, especially narcotics.
- An udder, especially the pendulous one of a dairy cow.
- (colloquial) One's preference.
- (baseball) First, second, or third base.
- A container made of leather, plastic, or other material, usually with a handle or handles, in which you carry personal items, or clothes or other things that you need for travelling. Includes shopping bags, schoolbags, suitcases, briefcases, handbags, backpacks, etc.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) £1000, a grand.
- (chiefly in the plural) A dark circle under the eye, caused by lack of sleep, drug addiction etc.
- (preceded by the) A breathalyzer, so named because it formerly had a plastic bag over the end to measure a set amount of breath.
- (US, gay slang, derogatory) A fellow gay man.
- (countable, uncountable) In certain phrases: money.
- A sac in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance.
- (now historical) A pouch tied behind a man's head to hold the back-hair of a wig; a bag wig.
- (derogatory) An ugly woman.
- (baseball) The cloth-covered pillow used for first, second, and third base.
- (usually in the plural) The human female breast.
verb
- (intransitive) To become thick or thicker.
- (intransitive) To become fertile and fruitful.
- (transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to be fat or fatter.
- (intransitive, of a person or animal) To become fat or fatter.
- (transitive) To make (soil) fertile and fruitful.
- (transitive) To make thick or thicker (often something containing paper, especially money).
- make fat or plump
verb
- (transitive) To batter, bruise; to cause to bulge or swell.
- (transitive) To pass a bribe to (someone).
- (UK, Australia, transitive, informal) To put, throw, or place something without care; to chuck.
- (transitive) To plug, as with a bung.
- give a tip or gratuity to in return for a service, beyond the compensation agreed on
- close with a cork or stopper
adj
noun
- (slang) A bribe.
- A stopper, alternative to a cork, often made of rubber, used to prevent fluid passing through the neck of a bottle, vat, a hole in a vessel etc.
- (slang) The human anus.
- The orifice in the bilge of a cask through which it is filled; bung-hole.
- The cecum or anus, especially of livestock.
- a plug used to close a hole in a barrel or flask
noun
adj
verb
noun
- That which plumps or swells out something else.
- One who plumps or swells out something else.
- A downright, unqualified lie.
- (chiefly in the plural) A small ball or pad carried in the mouth to fill out the cheeks.
- (politics) In elections, a vote given to one candidate only, when two or more are to be elected, thus giving the candidate an advantage over the others.
- (Internet slang) An obese woman, especially in pornography.
- A voter who plumps their vote.
adj
noun
- The act of swelling; increase in size.
- A long series of ocean waves, generally produced by wind, and lasting after the wind has ceased.
- (music) A gradual crescendo followed by diminuendo.
- (music) A device for controlling the volume of a pipe organ.
- A bulge or protuberance.
- The front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end.
- Increase of power in style, or of rhetorical force.
- (music) A division in a pipe organ, usually the largest enclosed division.
- (geology) An upward protrusion of strata from whose central region the beds dip quaquaversally at a low angle.
- A hillock or similar raised area of terrain.
- (informal) A person of high social standing; an important person.
- the undulating movement of the surface of the open sea
- a crescendo followed by a decrescendo
- a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance
- a rounded elevation (especially one on an ocean floor)
verb
- (intransitive) To become bigger, especially due to being engorged.
- To protuberate; to bulge out.
- (transitive) To cause to grow gradually in force or loudness.
- To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant.
- (intransitive) To grow gradually in force or loudness.
- (transitive) To cause to become bigger.
- (transitive) To raise to arrogance; to puff up; to inflate.
- To be elated; to rise arrogantly.
- (intransitive) To be raised to arrogance.
- come up (as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things)
- come up, as of a liquid
- expand abnormally
- increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity
- cause to become swollen
- become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger
adv
adj
verb
noun
verb
noun
- The issues of a periodical over a period of one year.
- (economics) The total supply of money in circulation or, less frequently, total amount of credit extended, within a specified national market or worldwide.
- A bound book.
- (computing) An accessible storage area with a single file system, typically resident on a single partition of a hard disk.
- Strength of sound: how loud it is.
- (cinematography) A sound stage film set that has walls of video monitors, substituting for an actual background, set structures, providing a changeable video matte painting. A set with a form of projected background, similar to legacy traditional rear projection and front projection sets.
- (bodybuilding) The total of weight worked by a muscle in one training session, the weight of every single repetition summed up.
- Quantity.
- (climbing, bouldering) A modular foothold attached to a climbing wall used for gripping, often in triangular, pyramidal, or angular shapes.
- A rounded mass or convolution.
- (cinematography) A green/blue-screen chromakey visual effects (“VFX”) sound stage surrounded by a multitude of filming cameras, to allow for virtual camera changes in post production, by filming the whole 3-D volume of a chromakey film set.
- (graph theory) The sum of the degrees of a set of vertices.
- (in the plural, by extension) A great amount (of meaning) about something.
- A three-dimensional measure of space that comprises a length, a width and a height. It is measured in units of cubic centimeters in metric, cubic inches or cubic feet in English measurement.
- A single book of a publication issued in multi-book format, such as an encyclopedia.
- the magnitude of sound (usually in a specified direction)
- a relative amount
- the amount of 3-dimensional space occupied by an object
- physical objects consisting of a number of pages bound together
- a publication that is one of a set of several similar publications
- the property of something that is great in magnitude
verb
noun
- The bulging part of a barrel or cask.
- (slang, uncountable) Stupid talk or writing; nonsense.
- (nautical) The lowest inner part of a ship's hull, where water accumulates.
- (nautical) The rounded portion of a ship's hull, forming a transition between the bottom and the sides.
- (uncountable) The water accumulated in the bilge; bilge water.
- water accumulated in the bilge of a ship
- where the sides of the vessel curve in to form the bottom
verb
noun
- (informal, Internet) Clipping of podcast.
- A tapered, cylindrical body of ore or minerals.
- (botany) A seed case for legumes (e.g. peas, beans, peppers); a seedpod.
- A lie-flat business or first class seat.
- (by extension) A group of people who regularly interact.
- A straight channel or groove in the body of certain forms of, usually tapered, augers and boring-bits.
- A nicotine cartridge.
- (collective, zoology) A group of whales, dolphins, seals, porpoises or hippopotami.
- A subsection of a prison, containing a number of inmates.
- (broadcasting) A set of commercials to be shown together.
- (informal) Clipping of isopod.
- In rugby union, a small group (usually 3 or 4) of forwards working together as a group in open play.
- A small section of a larger office, compartmentalised for a specific purpose.
- A small vehicle, especially used in emergency situations.
- A very small room or space for one person to inhabit, as in a capsule hotel.
- A self-contained unit, container, or enclosure that holds, protects, or transports something.
- a detachable container of fuel on an airplane
- a several-seeded dehiscent fruit as e.g. of a leguminous plant
- the vessel that contains the seeds of a plant (not the seeds themselves)
- a group of aquatic mammals
verb
noun
- (cycling) The peloton; the main group of riders formed during a race.
- (US, informal) A considerable amount.
- (forestry) A group of logs tied together for skidding.
- (geology, mining) An unusual concentration of ore in a lode or a small, discontinuous occurrence or patch of ore in the wallrock.
- (informal) An unmentioned amount; a number.
- An informal body of friends.
- A group of similar things, either growing together, or in a cluster or clump, usually fastened together.
- (textiles) The reserve yarn on the filling bobbin to allow continuous weaving between the time of indication from the midget feeler until a new bobbin is put in the shuttle.
- (smoking) An unfinished cigar, before the wrapper leaf is added.
- A protuberance; a hunch; a knob or lump; a hump.
- a grouping of a number of similar things
- any collection in its entirety
- an informal body of friends
verb
- (intransitive) To enlarge; to swell up.
- (transitive, draughts) To remove an opponent's piece as a forfeit for deliberately not taking a piece (often signalled by blowing on it).
- (intransitive) To bluster or swell with anger, arrogance, or pride; to storm; to take offense.
- (transitive) To treat with arrogance and insolence; to chide or rebuke rudely; to bully, to hector.
- (intransitive) To say in a huffy manner.
- (transitive) To inhale psychoactive inhalants.
- (intransitive) To breathe heavily.
- inhale recreational drugs
- blow hard and loudly
noun
verb
- (intransitive, nautical) To swell out.
- To push with the horns; to butt.
- To spring or rear up.
- (intransitive, baseball) To intentionally hit a ball softly with a hands-spread batting stance.
- (transitive, baseball) To intentionally hit softly with a hands-spread batting stance.
- (intransitive, aviation) To perform (the second half of) an outside loop.
- (rare, of a cat) To headbutt affectionately.
- hit a ball in such a way so as to make it go a short distance
- to strike, thrust or shove against
noun
- (by extension) Any large pilot-commanded pitch-down motion of an aircraft, often producing negative G-forces and resulting in a large negative change in flightpath angle.
- (baseball, softball) The act of bunting.
- A push or shove; a butt.
- (countable, uncountable) A fungus (Ustilago foetida) affecting the ear of cereals, filling the grains with a foetid dust.
- (aviation) The second half of an outside loop, from level flight to inverted flight.
- (baseball, softball) A ball that has been intentionally hit softly so as to be difficult to field, sometimes with a hands-spread batting stance or with a close-hand, choked-up hand position. No swinging action is involved.
- (nautical) The middle part, cavity, or belly of a sail; the part of a furled sail which is at the center of the yard.
- disease of wheat characterized by replacement of the grains with greasy masses of smelly smut spores
- similar to Tilletia caries
- fungus that destroys kernels of wheat by replacing them with greasy masses of smelly spores
- (baseball) the act of hitting a baseball or softball lightly by holding the bat in a stationary position rather than swinging it
verb
- (intransitive) To become distended; to swell up.
- To fill soft substance with gas, water, etc.; to cause to swell.
- (intransitive, veterinary medicine) To get an overdistended rumen, talking of a ruminant.
- To increase to an excessive amount.
- To fill with vanity or conceit.
- To cause to become distended.
- become bloated or swollen or puff up
- make bloated or swollen
noun
verb
noun
- The part of anything which resembles (either closely or abstractly) the human belly in protuberance or in concavity; often, the fundus (innermost part).
- The lower fuselage of an airplane.
- The main curved portion of a knife blade.
- The abdomen (especially a fat one).
- stomach (an organ in animals that stores food in the process of digestion)
- (anatomy, countable) uterus (a reproductive organ of therian mammals in which the young are conceived and develop until birth)
- (architecture) The hollow part of a curved or bent timber, the convex part of which is the back.
- the region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis
- the hollow inside of something
- a protruding abdomen
- the underpart of the body of certain vertebrates such as snakes or fish
- a part that bulges deeply
verb
- swell or protrude outwards
- (intransitive) (of a container, etc.) To have the surface stretched by something pushing out; to swell; to belly.
- cause to bulge or swell outwards
- bulge out; form a bulge outward, or be so full as to appear to bulge
- bulge outward
- (intransitive) To stick out from a surface without breaking it.
- (intransitive) To bilge, as a ship; to founder.
noun
- something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings
- (colloquial) The outline of the penis visible through clothing.
- An object which is sticking out from a surface; a swelling, protuberant part; a bending outward, especially when caused by pressure.
- The bilge or protuberant part of a cask.
- (figurative) A sudden rise in value or quantity.
- (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) A rounded fleshy mass, such as on a camel or zebu.
- (nautical) The bilge of a vessel.
verb
noun
- a small or medium size container for holding or carrying things
- an enclosed space
- (anatomy) saclike structure in any of various animals (as a marsupial or gopher or pelican)
- (botany) A silicle, or short pod, as of the shepherd's purse.
- A bulkhead in the hold of a vessel, to prevent grain etc. from shifting.
- A small bag usually closed with a drawstring.
- (zoology) An organic pocket in which a marsupial carries its young.
- Any pocket or bag-shaped object, such as a cheek pouch.
- A cyst or sac containing fluid.
verb
- swell or protrude outwards
- extend out or project in space
- bulge outward
- (intransitive) To extend from, above or beyond a surface or boundary; to bulge outward; to stick out.
- (transitive) To cause to extend from a surface or boundary; to cause to stick out.
- (transitive) To thrust out, as through a narrow orifice or from confinement; to cause to come forth.
verb
- (intransitive) To grow plump; to swell out.
- (intransitive) To favor or decide in favor of. [with for ‘something’]
- (transitive) To cast or let drop (something) all at once, suddenly and heavily.
- (transitive) To make plump; to fill (out) or support; often with up.
- (intransitive) To give a plumper (kind of vote).
- (intransitive) To drop or fall suddenly or heavily, all at once.
- (transitive) To give (a vote), as a plumper.
- drop sharply
- make fat or plump
- set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise
- give support (to) or make a choice (of) one out of a group or number
adj
adv
noun
verb
- to swell or cause to enlarge
- make large
- fill with gas or air
- cause to burst with a violent release of energy
- get very angry and fly into a rage
- burst and release energy as through a violent chemical or physical reaction
- exaggerate or make bigger
- add details to
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blow, up.
- (transitive) To inflate or fill with air, either by literally blowing or by using a pump.
- (transitive, also figuratively) To cause (something or someone) to explode, or to destroy (something) or maim or kill (someone) by means of an explosion.
- (intransitive, cycling) To succumb to oxygen debt and lose the ability to maintain pace in a race.
- (intransitive, also figuratively) To explode or be destroyed by explosion.
- (of a hangout) To overwhelm (a place) with traffic or volume by revealing its existence to others.
- (transitive) To enlarge or zoom in on.
- (intransitive, mathematics, said of a function) To increase without bound as a function argument or parameter approaches a certain value; to tend toward infinity; to approach infinity as a limit.
- (intransitive, slang) To become much more fat or rotund in a short space of time.
- (of a cell phone, pager, or similar) To receive a large number of calls, texts, or notifications, to the point of being rendered temporarily unusable or exasperating the recipient.
- (intransitive, slang) To suddenly get very angry, to lose one's temper.
- (transitive, figuratively) To represent something as being more important or serious than it actually is; to inflate; to exaggerate.
- (of a cell phone, pager, or similar) To bombard with a large number of calls, texts, or notifications, to the point of rendering temporarily unusable or exasperating the recipient.
- (intransitive, slang, of a device, machine, system, or establishment) To be overwhelmed by unexpectedly high demand, usage, activity, traffic volume, etc.
- (slang, colloquial) To cause a malodorous smell by flatulation, defecation, etc.
- (of a hangout) To be overwhelmed with traffic or volume.
- (intransitive) To fail disastrously.
- (transitive, slang, of a device, machine, system, or establishment) To overwhelm through unexpectedly high demand, activity, usage, traffic volume, etc.
- (intransitive, of a storm) To begin; to gather; to form.
- (slang, intransitive) To become popular very quickly.
- (sports) To blow the whistle.
verb
- to swell or cause to enlarge
- To swell with air; to be dilated or inflated.
- To cause to swell or dilate; to inflate.
- make proud or conceited
- speak in a blustering or scornful manner
- breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted
- suck in or take (air)
- smoke and exhale strongly
- praise extravagantly
- blow hard and loudly
- To inflate with pride, flattery, self-esteem, etc.; often with up.
- To blow as an expression of scorn.
- (intransitive) To emit smoke, gas, etc., in puffs.
- To praise with exaggeration; to flatter; to call public attention to by praises; to praise unduly.
- To drive with a puff, or with puffs.
- To repel with words; to blow at contemptuously.
- To breathe in a swelling, inflated, or pompous manner; hence, to assume importance.
- (intransitive) To pant.
adj
noun
- a short light gust of air
- exaggerated praise (as for promotional purposes)
- a soft spherical object made from fluffy fibers; for applying powder to the skin
- a slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke)
- bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together
- thick cushion used as a seat
- forceful exhalation through the nose or mouth
- a light inflated pastry or puff shell
- (uncountable) The ability to breathe easily while exerting oneself.
- A puffball.
- (uncountable, slang) The drug cannabis.
- (countable) A flamboyant or alluring statement of praise.
- (countable) A small quantity of gas or smoke in the air.
- (countable) A sudden but small gust of wind, smoke, etc.
- (genetics) A region of a chromosome exhibiting a local increase in diameter.
- A portion of fabric gathered up so as to be left full in the middle.
- (derogatory, chiefly Northern England, slang) Synonym of poof: a gay man; especially one who is effeminate.
- (informal, countable) An act of inhaling smoke from a cigarette, cigar or pipe.
- A powder puff.
- (countable) A sharp exhalation of a small amount of breath through the mouth.
- (countable) A light cake filled with cream, cream cheese, etc.
verb
- to swell or cause to enlarge
- (intransitive) To swell due to injury or illness.
- make larger or distend
- praise extravagantly
- become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger
- (figurative, intransitive) To become proud. (Often written as puffed up with pride.)
- (transitive) To inflate with air.
- (transitive, intransitive) To fluff up, such as an animal raising its fur or feathers to appear larger or conserve body heat.
verb
- (intransitive) To grow in size; to swell or expand.
- cause to bulge or swell outwards
- (intransitive) To appear or seem to be, as to bulk or extent.
- (intransitive) To gain body mass by means of diet, exercise, etc.
- (transitive) To put or hold in bulk.
- stick out or up
- to gain size and weight by means of exercise and diet
adj
noun
- (uncountable, transport) Unpackaged goods when transported in large volumes, e.g. coal, ore, or grain.
- (bodybuilding) Excess body mass, especially muscle.
- Majority, balance.
- (countable) A cargo or any items moved or communicated in the manner of cargo.
- The major part of something.
- Size, specifically, volume.
- (brane cosmology) A hypothetical higher-dimensional space within which our own four-dimensional universe may exist.
- Gist.
- Any huge body or structure.
- Dietary fibre.
- (bodybuilding) A period where one tries to gain muscle.
- the property resulting from being or relating to the greater in number of two parts; the main part
- the property of something that is great in magnitude
- the property possessed by a large mass
verb
- (figurative) To swell; to puff up.
- (figurative, transitive) To represent something as being more important, better, or worse than it actually is; to exaggerate.
- (transitive) To enlarge an object by pushing air (or a gas) into it; to raise or expand abnormally
- (transitive, computing) To decompress (data) that was previously deflated.
- (intransitive) To enlarge by filling with air (or a gas).
- become inflated
- cause prices to rise by increasing the available currency or credit
- increase the amount or availability of, creating a rise in value
- fill with gas or air
- exaggerate or make bigger
verb
adj
noun
verb
noun
- The bulb-shaped underground portion of a plant such as a tulip, consisting of a shortened stem and many fleshy scale leaves, from which the rest of the plant may be regrown.
- Any solid object rounded at one end and tapering on the other, possibly attached to a larger object at the tapered end.
- (nautical) A bulbous protuberance at the forefoot of certain vessels to reduce turbulence.
- A light bulb (not necessarily bulbous in shape).
- anything with a round shape resembling a teardrop
- electric lamp consisting of a transparent or translucent glass housing containing a wire filament (usually tungsten) that emits light when heated by electricity
- lower or hindmost part of the brain; continuous with spinal cord; (‘bulb’ is an old term for medulla oblongata)
- a modified bud consisting of a thickened globular underground stem serving as a reproductive structure
- a rounded dilation or expansion in a canal or vessel or organ
- a rounded part of a cylindrical instrument (usually at one end)
verb
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To belly; to billow, swell or bulge.
- To enclose or carry in the bosom; to keep with care; to take to heart; to cherish.
- To conceal; to hide from view; to embosom.
- (transitive) To belly; to cause to billow, swell or bulge.
- hide in one's bosom
- hold (someone) tightly in your arms, usually with fondness
adj
noun
- A breast, one of a woman's breasts
- The protected interior or inner part of something; the area enclosed as by an embrace.
- A depression round the eye of a millstone.
- Any thing or place resembling the breast; a supporting surface; an inner recess; the interior.
- The seat of one's inner thoughts, feelings, etc.; one's secret feelings; desire.
- The part of a dress etc. covering the chest; a neckline.
- a person's breast or chest
- the chest considered as the place where secret thoughts are kept
- a close affectionate and protective acceptance
- the locus of feelings and intuitions
- either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman
- cloth that covers the chest or breasts
verb
- (intransitive) To grow larger.
- (nautical) To get more astern or parallel with the vessel's course; to draw aft; said of the wind.
- (law) To extend the time allowed for compliance with (an order or rule).
- (transitive) To increase the capacity of; to expand; to give free scope or greater scope to; also, to dilate, as with joy, affection, etc.
- (transitive) To make (something) larger.
- (intransitive) To speak or write at length upon or on (some subject); expand; elaborate
- make larger
- make large
- become larger or bigger
- add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing
verb
- (intransitive, transitive) To rise; to swell; to grow; to increase.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see run, up.
- To run (towards someone or something); to hasten to a destination.
- (transitive) To string up; to hang.
- (cricket) Of a bowler, to run, or walk up to the bowling crease in order to bowl a ball.
- To thrust up, as anything long and slender.
- (idiomatic, transitive) To bring (a flag) to the top of its flag pole.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang, sometimes reflexive) To accumulate money, drugs, etc.
- (idiomatic) To accumulate (a debt).
- (aviation, transitive) To warm up and test an airplane before a flight.
- (with to) To approach (an event or point in time).
- (transitive) To take to a destination or before an authority.
- (idiomatic, transitive) To make something, usually an item of clothing, very quickly.
- make by sewing together quickly
- accumulate, sometimes as a debt
- pile up (debts or scores)
- raise by using ropes and pulleys
- fasten by sewing; do needlework
noun
verb
- To cause (something) to stick out or swell; to extrude; also, to cause (someone or something) to be covered in swellings.
- To make (a design on a coin, an ornament on an object, etc.) stand out from a surface.
- To decorate (something) with bosses (“ornamental convex protuberances”); to boss; hence, to decorate (something) richly.
- To decorate or mark (something) with a design or symbol in relief.
- To represent (a subject) on an object in relief; also, of a design or subject: to stand out on (an object) in relief.
- To cause (something) to be prominent or stand out.
- raise in a relief
verb
noun
- The edible head or curd of a cauliflower plant.
- The swelling of a cauliflower ear.
- Brassica oleracea var. botrytis, an annual variety of cabbage, of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable.
- a plant having a large edible head of crowded white flower buds
- compact head of white undeveloped flowers
verb
- (intransitive) To be full to overflowing; to bristle.
- (intransitive) To be present or available in large numbers or quantities; to be plentiful.
- (intransitive) To revel in.
- (intransitive) To be highly productive.
- To be copiously supplied. [with in or with ‘something’]
- be in a state of movement or action
- be abundant or plentiful; exist in large quantities
verb
noun
- (anatomy) Specifically, the urinary bladder.
- A sealed plastic bag that contains wine and is usually packaged in a cask.
- (figurative) Anything inflated, empty, or unsound.
- A container in the form of a flexible bag.
- The inflatable bag inside various balls used in sports, such as footballs and rugby balls.
- (botany) A hollow, inflatable organ of a plant.
- (zoology) A flexible sac that can expand and contract and that holds liquids or gases.
- a bag that fills with air
- a distensible membranous sac (usually containing liquid or gas)
verb
noun
- (aviation) An airship constructed with a non-rigid lifting agent container.
- (slang) An obese person.
- (film, television) A soundproof cover for a video camera.
- A person similar to the cartoon character Colonel Blimp; a pompous, reactionary British man.
- (by extension) Any large airborne inflatable.
- a small nonrigid airship used for observation or as a barrage balloon
verb
- (by extension) Of a thing: to increase in size; to expand, to spread out, to swell.
- Of a stag: to remove the velvet (“skin and fine fur”) from (its antlers) by rubbing them against something; to velvet.
- (figuratively) To make (someone or something) appear positive and highly respected.
- To make (something, such as a surface) bright, shiny, and smooth by, or (by extension) as if by, rubbing; to polish, to shine.
- To become bright, glossy, and smooth; to brighten, to gleam, to shine forth.
- Of a person's body: to grow large or stout; to fatten, to fill out.
- polish and make shiny
noun
- (uncountable) The making of something bright, shiny, and smooth by, or (by extension) as if by, rubbing; (countable) an instance of this; a burnishing, a polishing, a shining.
- A shiny layer applied to a surface or other thing.
- A shine of something which has been polished; a lustre, a polish.
- the property of being smooth and shiny
verb
- (intransitive) To increase, to grow.
- (figuratively, transitive) To get more use than expected from a limited resource.
- (figuratively, transitive) To make inaccurate by exaggeration.
- (physics, transitive) To make a pulse or particle bunch longer by applying dispersion to it.
- (nautical) To sail by the wind under press of canvas.
- (transitive) To increase.
- (transitive) To make great demands on the capacity or resources of something.
- (intransitive) To extend physically, especially from a limit point and/or to a limit point.
- (intransitive, transitive) To extend one’s limbs or another part of the body, for example in order to improve the elasticity of one's muscles.
- (transitive) To pull tight.
- (intransitive) To lengthen when pulled.
- (transitive) To lengthen by pulling.
- become longer by being stretched and pulled
- extend the scope or meaning of; often unduly
- extend or stretch out to a greater or the full length
- extend one's body or limbs
- corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones
- make long or longer by pulling and stretching
- occupy a large, elongated area
- pull in opposite directions
- extend one's limbs or muscles, or the entire body
- increase in quantity or bulk by adding a cheaper substance
- lie down comfortably
noun
- Ellipsis of stretch limousine.
- A segment or length of material.
- (informal) Term of address for a tall person.
- The ability to lengthen when pulled.
- A segment of a journey or route.
- (baseball) A long reach in the direction of the ball with a foot remaining on the base by a first baseman in order to catch the ball sooner.
- (slang) A jail or prison term of one year's duration.
- (horse racing) The homestretch, the final straight section of the track leading to the finish.
- (Ireland) Extended daylight hours, especially said of the evening in springtime when compared to the shorter winter days.
- (slang) A jail or prison term.
- A course of thought which diverts from straightforward logic, or requires extraordinary belief or exaggeration.
- (baseball) A quick pitching delivery used when runners are on base where the pitcher slides his leg instead of lifting it.
- (sports) The period of the season between the trade deadline and the beginning of the playoffs.
- An act of stretching.
- A length of time.
- A single uninterrupted sitting; a turn.
- an unbroken period of time during which you do something
- the capacity for being stretched
- exercise designed to extend the limbs and muscles to their full extent
- the act of physically reaching or thrusting out
- extension to or beyond the ordinary limit
- a large and unbroken expanse or distance
- a straightaway section of a racetrack
adj
verb
- bulge out; form a bulge outward, or be so full as to appear to bulge
- hang loosely, like an empty bag
- put into a bag
- take unlawfully
- capture or kill, as in hunting
- (nautical, intransitive) To drop away from the correct course.
- (informal) To catch or kill, especially when fishing or hunting.
- (Australia, slang) To criticise sarcastically.
- To forget, ignore, or get rid of.
- (transitive) To furnish or load with a bag.
- (transitive, medicine) To provide with artificial ventilation via a bag valve mask (BVM) resuscitator.
- (slang) To arrest.
- (transitive, medicine) To fit with a bag to collect urine.
- To hang like an empty bag.
- (transitive) To put into a bag.
- (slang, African-American Vernacular) To laugh uncontrollably.
- (slang, African-American Vernacular) To take a woman away with one as a romantic or sexual interest.
- (slang) To steal.
- To gain possession of something, or to make first claim on something.
noun
- a portable rectangular container for carrying clothes
- a container used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women)
- an ugly or ill-tempered woman
- the quantity of game taken in a particular period (usually by one person)
- a place that the runner must touch before scoring
- a flexible container with a single opening
- an activity that you like or at which you are superior
- the quantity that a bag will hold
- mammary gland of bovids (cows and sheep and goats)
- (UK) A unit of measure of cement equal to 94 pounds.
- (informal) A large number or amount.
- (vulgar) The scrotum.
- (mathematics) A collection of objects, disregarding order, but (unlike a set) in which elements may be repeated.
- The quantity of game bagged in a hunt.
- A soft container made out of cloth, paper, thin plastic, etc. and open at the top, used to hold food, commodities, and other goods.
- A small envelope that contains drugs, especially narcotics.
- An udder, especially the pendulous one of a dairy cow.
- (colloquial) One's preference.
- (baseball) First, second, or third base.
- A container made of leather, plastic, or other material, usually with a handle or handles, in which you carry personal items, or clothes or other things that you need for travelling. Includes shopping bags, schoolbags, suitcases, briefcases, handbags, backpacks, etc.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) £1000, a grand.
- (chiefly in the plural) A dark circle under the eye, caused by lack of sleep, drug addiction etc.
- (preceded by the) A breathalyzer, so named because it formerly had a plastic bag over the end to measure a set amount of breath.
- (US, gay slang, derogatory) A fellow gay man.
- (countable, uncountable) In certain phrases: money.
- A sac in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance.
- (now historical) A pouch tied behind a man's head to hold the back-hair of a wig; a bag wig.
- (derogatory) An ugly woman.
- (baseball) The cloth-covered pillow used for first, second, and third base.
- (usually in the plural) The human female breast.
noun
- The act of swelling; increase in size.
- A long series of ocean waves, generally produced by wind, and lasting after the wind has ceased.
- (music) A gradual crescendo followed by diminuendo.
- (music) A device for controlling the volume of a pipe organ.
- A bulge or protuberance.
- The front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end.
- Increase of power in style, or of rhetorical force.
- (music) A division in a pipe organ, usually the largest enclosed division.
- (geology) An upward protrusion of strata from whose central region the beds dip quaquaversally at a low angle.
- A hillock or similar raised area of terrain.
- (informal) A person of high social standing; an important person.
- the undulating movement of the surface of the open sea
- a crescendo followed by a decrescendo
- a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance
- a rounded elevation (especially one on an ocean floor)
verb
- (intransitive) To become bigger, especially due to being engorged.
- To protuberate; to bulge out.
- (transitive) To cause to grow gradually in force or loudness.
- To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant.
- (intransitive) To grow gradually in force or loudness.
- (transitive) To cause to become bigger.
- (transitive) To raise to arrogance; to puff up; to inflate.
- To be elated; to rise arrogantly.
- (intransitive) To be raised to arrogance.
- come up (as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things)
- come up, as of a liquid
- expand abnormally
- increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity
- cause to become swollen
- become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger
adv
adj
verb
- (intransitive) To become thick or thicker.
- (intransitive) To become fertile and fruitful.
- (transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to be fat or fatter.
- (intransitive, of a person or animal) To become fat or fatter.
- (transitive) To make (soil) fertile and fruitful.
- (transitive) To make thick or thicker (often something containing paper, especially money).
- make fat or plump
verb
- (transitive) To batter, bruise; to cause to bulge or swell.
- (transitive) To pass a bribe to (someone).
- (UK, Australia, transitive, informal) To put, throw, or place something without care; to chuck.
- (transitive) To plug, as with a bung.
- give a tip or gratuity to in return for a service, beyond the compensation agreed on
- close with a cork or stopper
adj
noun
- (slang) A bribe.
- A stopper, alternative to a cork, often made of rubber, used to prevent fluid passing through the neck of a bottle, vat, a hole in a vessel etc.
- (slang) The human anus.
- The orifice in the bilge of a cask through which it is filled; bung-hole.
- The cecum or anus, especially of livestock.
- a plug used to close a hole in a barrel or flask
adj
- Distended, swollen, or inflated.
- (automotive) Given a hot rod blower.
- Panting and out of breath.
- Under the influence of drugs, especially marijuana.
- Having failed.
- (of glass) Formed by blowing.
- Covered with the eggs and larvae of flies; flyblown.
- being moved or acted upon by moving air or vapor
- breathing laboriously or convulsively