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noun
- (UK) An adjustable spanner used by plumbers.
- (physics) In screw theory, a screw assembled from force and torque vectors arising from application of Newton's laws to a rigid body.
- A violent emotional change caused by separation.
- (US, Canada, Philippines) A hand tool for making rotational adjustments, such as fitting nuts and bolts, or fitting pipes.
- An injury caused by a violent twisting or pulling of a limb; strain, sprain.
- A movement that twists or pulls violently; a tug.
- In coursing, the act of bringing the hare round at less than a right angle, worth half a point in the recognised code of points for judging.
- A distorting change from the original meaning.
- a hand tool that is used to hold or twist a nut or bolt
- a jerky pulling movement
- a sharp strain on muscles or ligaments
verb
- (transitive) To pull or twist violently.
- (transitive) To rack with pain; to make hurt or distressed.
- (transitive) To use a wrench; to twist with a wrench.
- (transitive) To distort the original meaning of; to misrepresent.
- (transitive) To injure (a joint) by pulling or twisting.
- (transitive) To deprive by means of a violent pull or twist.
- twist and compress, as if in pain or anguish
- twist suddenly so as to sprain
- twist or pull violently or suddenly, especially so as to remove (something) from that to which it is attached or from where it originates
- make a sudden twisting motion
noun
- Ellipsis of wire gauze
- Mist or haze
- A thin fabric with a loose, open weave.
- (medicine) A similar bleached cotton fabric used as a surgical dressing.
- A thin woven metal or plastic mesh.
- a net of transparent fabric with a loose open weave
- (medicine) bleached cotton cloth of plain weave used for bandages and dressings
verb
noun
- (plumbing) A type of short nut (fastener) threaded on both ends.
- A tool, similar to a spade, used for digging out weeds etc.
- A barking spud; a long-handled tool for removing bark from logs.
- (informal) A potato.
- A movable post through a sleeve in the hull of a work barge to anchor it to the bottom of a body of water.
- (film, television) A short central rod in a lighting fixture, for attachment to the light.
- A digging fork with three broad prongs.
- (slang, usually in the plural) A testicle.
- (informal) A hole in a sock.
- a sharp hand shovel for digging out roots and weeds
- an edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Ireland
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verb
- (camping, transitive) To set up a recreational vehicle (RV) at a campsite, typically by leveling the RV and connecting it to electric, water, or sewer hookups.
- (transitive) To dig up weeds with a spud.
- (drilling, transitive) To begin drilling an oil well; to drill by moving the drill bit and shaft up and down, or by raising and dropping a bit.
- (roofing, transitive) To remove the roofing aggregate and most of the bituminous top coating by scraping and chipping.
- initiate drilling operations, as for petroleum
- produce buds, branches, or germinate
noun
- (engineering, textiles) A wire for changing a loop from one needle to another, as in narrowing, etc.
- (linguistics) A word whose meaning changes depending on the situation, as by deixis.
- A shiftworker.
- (nautical) An assistant to the ship's cook in washing, soaking, and shifting the salt provisions.
- (cycling) A component used by the rider to control the gearing mechanisms and select the desired gear ratio, usually connected to the derailleur by a mechanical actuation cable.
- (engineering) A control device (usually a lever or button) for shifting gears in a gearbox, or an arrangement for shifting a belt sidewise from one pulley to another.
- (mining, historical) A person employed to repair the horseways and other passages, and keep them unobstructed.
- One who, or that which, shifts or changes.
- (mythology, science fiction, fantasy) A shape-shifter; a person or other being capable of changing their physical form, especially a lycanthrope.
- (spirituality) Ellipsis of reality shifter.
- (US, Pennsylvania) A switcher or shunter: a railroad locomotive used for shunting.
- (especially Australia) A spanner with an adjustable jaw size.
- a stagehand responsible for moving scenery
- a mechanical device for engaging and disengaging gears
noun
- (idiomatic, informal, loosely, Australia, New Zealand) An open-end adjustable spanner with a worm-drive thumbwheel. When the term adjustable spanner or adjustable wrench is used, this type (branded with any of many brands) is usually the type meant.
- (informal) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: any spanner made by the namesake company, which makes many tools.
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- (transitive) To sharpen by rubbing on a strap; to strop.
- sharpen with a strap
- (transitive) To fasten or bind with a strap.
- (transitive) To beat or chastise with a strap; to whip, to lash.
- (transitive) To slap or stroke the muscled areas of a horse with a cloth or pad, a form of massage meant to improve muscle tone.
- secure (a sprained joint) with a strap
- beat severely with a whip or rod
- tie with a strap
noun
- an elongated leather strip (or a strip of similar material) for binding things together or holding something in position
- A strap worn on the shoulder.
- (botany) The flat part of the corolla in ligulate florets, as those of the white circle in the daisy.
- Something made of such a strip, or of a part of one, or a combination of two or more for a particular use.
- (finance) An investment strategy involving simultaneous trade with one put and two call options on the same security at the same strike price, similar to but more bullish than a straddle.
- (journalism) Synonym of strapline.
- A strip of thick leather used in flogging.
- A piece of leather, or strip of wood covered with a suitable material, used to hone the sharpened edge of a razor; a strop.
- (nautical) A piece of rope or metal passing around a block and used for fastening it to anything.
- (carpentry, machinery) A band, plate, or loop of metal for clasping and holding timbers or parts of a machine.
- (slang, professional wrestling, with "the") A championship belt, or by extension, the title.
- (slang, LGBTQ) A strap-on.
- A long, narrow, pliable strip of leather, cloth, or the like.
- (slang) A gun, normally a personal firearm such as a pistol or machine pistol.
- (botany) The leaf, exclusive of its sheath, in some grasses.
- hanger consisting of a loop of leather suspended from the ceiling of a bus or train; passengers hold onto it
- a band that goes over the shoulder and supports a garment or bag
- whip consisting of a strip of leather used in flogging
noun
- A thin piece of material, sometimes tapered, used for alignment or support.
- (computing) A small library that transparently intercepts and modifies calls to an API, usually for compatibility purposes.
- (informal, often derogatory) A person characterised by both male and female traits, or by ambiguous male-female traits; a hermaphrodite.
- A kind of shallowly cutting plow used in tillage to break the ground and clear it of weeds.
- (crime) A thin device inserted into a card reader by a criminal to facilitate fraud.
- A wedge.
- A small metal device used to pick open a lock.
- (informal, often derogatory) A transsexual person, especially a trans woman; (loosely) a drag queen or transvestite.
- a thin wedge of material (wood or metal or stone) for driving into crevices
verb
- (ambitransitive) To fit one or more shims to a piece of machinery or other assembly; to adjust (something) by using shims.
- To adjust the homogeneity of a magnetic field (after the mechanical devices once used for the purpose).
- (computing, transitive) To intercept and modify calls to (an API), usually for compatibility purposes.
- (ambitransitive) To attack a point-of-sale card reader with a shim.
noun
- A strap; more specifically a piece of leather or a substitute (notably canvas), or strip of wood covered with a suitable material, for honing a razor.
- (nautical) A piece of rope spliced into a circular wreath, and put round a block for hanging it.
- (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) A bad mood or temper. A tantrum.
- (slang) A poor-quality or unsaleable diamond.
- a leather strap used to sharpen razors
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noun
- A thin strip of an osier (“long, pliable twig from a plant, usually a willow”) used in basketmaking.
- A tangle, a weave, a web.
- A quantity of thread, yarn, etc., wound on a reel then removed and loosely knotted into an oblong shape; a skein of cotton is formed by eighty turns of thread around a reel with a fifty-four inch diameter.
- (UK, dialectal, ornithology, collective) A group of wildfowl (for example, geese or swans) in flight.
- (sports) A winning streak.
- (ichthyology) The membrane of a fish ovary.
- coils of worsted yarn
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noun
- (topology) Ellipsis of trefoil knot.
- A symbol having the shape of such leaves, especially when used as an architectural ornament.
- Any of several plants of the pea family, having compound, trifoliate leaves; especially one of the genus Trifolium.
- any of several Old World herbs of the genus Medicago having small flowers and trifoliate compound leaves
- an architectural ornament in the form of three arcs arranged in a circle
- a plant of the genus Trifolium
noun
- A piece of flexible wire in which tufted fabric is twisted and which is used to clean out the stem of a tobacco pipe or other narrow tube. It can be also used for arts and crafts.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pipe, cleaner.
- cleaning implement consisting of a flexible tufted wire that is used to clean a pipe stem
noun
- usually coiled
- a wispy white cloud (usually of fine ice crystals) at a high altitude (4 to 8 miles)
- a slender flexible animal appendage as on barnacles or crinoids or many insects; often tactile
- (zoology) A thin tendril-like appendage.
- (meteorology) A principal high-level cloud type, typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments, wisps, or narrow bands.
- (botany) A tendril.
adj
- Having hanging additions or appendages.
- Of a legislature, lacking a majority political party.
- (computing, colloquial) Of a computer or similar device, receiving power but not functioning as desired; working very slowly or not at all. The condition is often corrected by rebooting the computer.
- Suspended by hanging.
- (colloquial, of a person, slightly vulgar) Having a large penis (often well hung).
- (law) Of a jury, unable to reach a unanimous verdict in a trial.
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- (machining) Ellipsis of machine taper.
- A slender wax candle.
- Someone who works with tape or tapes.
- (by extension) A small light.
- A thin stick used for lighting candles, either a wax-coated wick or a slow-burning wooden rod.
- The portion of an object with such a form.
- A tapering form; gradual diminution of thickness and/or cross section in an elongated object.
- (weaving) One who operates a tape machine.
- A cone-shaped item for stretching the hole for an ear gauge (piercing).
- (figurative) Gradual reduction over time.
- the property possessed by a shape that narrows toward a point (as a wedge or cone)
- a convex shape that narrows toward a point
- a loosely woven cord (in a candle or oil lamp) that draws fuel by capillary action up into the flame
- stick of wax with a wick in the middle
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- (informal) Ellipsis of square yard, a unit of area; common with textiles.
- (nautical) A long tapered timber hung on a mast to which is bent a sail, and may be further qualified as a square, lateen, or lug yard. The first is hung at right angles to the mast, the last two hang obliquely.
- (finance) 10⁹, A short scale billion; a long scale thousand millions or milliard.
- A unit of length equal to 3 feet in the US customary and British imperial systems of measurement, equal to precisely 0.9144 m since 1959 (US) or 1963 (UK).
- (US, Canada, Australia) The property surrounding one's house, typically dominated by one's lawn.
- (slang, drugs) One hundred, usually referring to currency or money's worth.
- (US, slang, uncommon) 100 dollars.
- A place where moose or deer herd together in winter for pasture, protection, etc.
- (obsolete outside of fossil forms) A tall, slender, hollow receptacle or tool.
- Units of similar composition or length in other systems.
- An enclosed outdoors area designated for a specific purpose, e.g. on farms, railways etc.
- (informal) Ellipsis of cubic yard, a unit of volume; common in mining and earthmoving.
- (nautical) Any spar carried aloft.
- (Jamaica, MLE) One’s house or home.
- A small, usually uncultivated area adjoining or (now especially) within the precincts of a house or other building.
- a unit of volume (as for sand or gravel)
- a unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride
- the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100
- an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines
- the enclosed land around a house or other building
- a tract of land enclosed for particular activities (sometimes paved and usually associated with buildings)
- an enclosure for animals (as chicken or livestock)
- a long horizontal spar tapered at the end and used to support and spread a square sail or lateen
- a tract of land where logs are accumulated
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noun
- A cover or sheath; a fingerstall.
- (nautical, historical) A wooden bed frame, slung by its corners from a beam, in which officers slept before the introduction of bunks.
- (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) A bed for infants or small children, with high, often slatted, often moveable sides.
- A pen, coop, or similar shelter for small domestic animals, such as sheep or pigeons.
- (Canada, US, Philippines) A simple bed, especially one for portable or temporary purposes.
- A small, crudely-formed boat.
- a small bed that folds up for storage or transport
- a sheath worn to protect a finger
- baby bed with high sides made of slats
adj
- Capable of being moulded; malleable, flexible, pliant.
- (figurative, derogatory) Inferior or not the real thing.
- Of or pertaining to the inelastic, non-brittle, deformation of a material.
- Made of plastic.
- (informal, birdwatching, of a species or individual bird) Introduced, rather than native or naturally vagrant.
- (biology) Capable of adapting to varying conditions; characterized by environmental adaptability.
- (figurative, informal, of a person) Fake, insincere, especially in a shallow and conformist way pretending to smoothness and glossy flawlessness.
- (informal, birdwatching, of an individual bird) Escaped from captivity, rather than wild.
- capable of being influenced or formed
- capable of being molded or modeled (especially of earth or clay or other soft material)
- forming or capable of forming or molding or fashioning
noun
- (slang, countable) An instance of plastic surgery.
- (slang) Synonym of Plastic Paddy.
- (colloquial, metonymic) Credit or debit cards used in place of cash to buy goods and services.
- A synthetic, solid, hydrocarbon-based polymer, whether thermoplastic or thermosetting.
- (figurative, slang) Insincerity; fakeness; a person who is fake or arrogant, or believes that they are better than the rest of the population; a narcissistic, affected person.
- a card (usually plastic) that assures a seller that the person using it has sufficient means of payment and that the issuer will see to it that the seller receives payment for the merchandise delivered
- generic name for certain synthetic or semisynthetic materials that can be molded or extruded into objects or films or filaments or used for making e.g. coatings and adhesives
verb
- (transitive) To pierce folded sheets, near their back edges, for the passage of thread or wire.
- (transitive) To thrust in a stabbing motion.
- (transitive) To pierce or to wound (somebody) with a (usually pointed) tool or weapon, especially a knife or dagger.
- (intransitive) To cause a sharp, painful sensation (often used with at).
- (transitive, figurative) To injure secretly or by malicious falsehood or slander.
- (transitive) To roughen a brick wall with a pick so as to hold plaster.
- (intransitive) To recklessly hit with the tip of a (usually pointed) object, such as a weapon or finger (often used with at).
- (transitive, oil industry) To guide the end of a pipe into a coupling when making up a connection.
- use a knife on
- stab or pierce
- poke or thrust abruptly
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- A bacterial culture made by inoculating a solid medium, such as gelatin, with the puncture of a needle or wire.
- (industrial relations) Clipping of establishment.
- Criticism.
- (music) A single staccato chord that adds dramatic impact to a composition.
- An act of stabbing or thrusting with an object.
- (aviation, slang) The horizontal or vertical stabilizer of an aircraft.
- (informal) An attempt.
- A wound made by stabbing.
- Pain inflicted on a person's feelings.
- informal words for any attempt or effort
- a strong blow with a knife or other sharp pointed instrument
- a sudden sharp feeling
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- (historical) A peasant who performed labour in exchange for the right to live in a cottage.
- (informal) A cotter pin.
- (mechanical engineering) A pin or wedge inserted through a slot to hold machine parts together.
- a medieval English villein
- fastener consisting of a wedge or pin inserted through a slot to hold two other pieces together
- a peasant farmer in the Scottish Highlands
verb
- (transitive) To adorn with narrow strips or braids of some decorative material.
- (transitive) To beat; to lash; to make stripes on.
- (transitive) To add alcohol, poison, a drug or anything else potentially harmful to (food or drink).
- (transitive) To cover intricately with bands, strips, or the like, so as to resemble lace.
- (transitive) To interweave items.
- (transitive, figuratively) To intersperse or diversify with something.
- (transitive, cycling) To interweave the spokes of a bicycle wheel.
- (ergative) To fasten (something) with laces.
- make by braiding or interlacing
- spin, wind, or twist together
- add alcohol to (beverages)
- draw through eyes or holes
- do lacework
noun
- (countable) A cord or ribbon passed through eyelets in a shoe or garment, pulled tight and tied to fasten the shoe or garment firmly.
- A snare or gin, especially one made of interwoven cords; a net.
- (uncountable) A light fabric containing patterns of holes, usually built up from a single thread.
- a delicate decorative fabric woven in an open web of symmetrical patterns
- a cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment)
noun
- (spinning) One of the combs of closely ranged steel pins which divide the ribbons of flax fiber or wool into fewer parallel filaments.
- A two-wheeled frame for transporting timber.
- (figuratively) The flesh under or about the chin; a wattle.
- (British) A rivulet, small stream.
- (zootomy) A breathing organ of fish and other aquatic animals.
- (animal anatomy) The fleshy flap that hangs below the beak of a fowl; a wattle.
- (British) A ravine.
- (mycology) One of the radial folds on the underside of the cap of a mushroom, the surface of which bears the spore-producing organs.
- Alternative form of jill (“a female ferret”).
- A drink measure for spirits and wine, approximately a quarter of a pint, but varying regionally.
- (of a fish) A gill slit or gill cover.
- a British imperial capacity unit (liquid or dry) equal to 5 fluid ounces or 142.066 cubic centimeters
- respiratory organ of aquatic animals that breathe oxygen dissolved in water
- any of the radiating leaflike spore-producing structures on the underside of the cap of a mushroom or similar fungus
- a United States liquid unit equal to 4 fluid ounces
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- (Commonwealth, UK, Ireland) A hand tool for adjusting nuts and bolts.
- (rare) One who, or that which, spans.
- (graph theory) A (usually sparse) graph whose shortest path distances approximate those in a dense graph or other metric space.
- (UK, Ireland, mildly derogatory) A stupid or unintelligent person; one prone to making mistakes, especially in language.
- (UK, Ireland) A problem, dilemma or obstacle; something unexpected or troublesome (in the phrase spanner in the works)
- (weaponry) A hand tool shaped like a small crank handle, for winding the spring of a wheel lock on a musket.
- (Canada, US) Any of certain types of such a tool that have a pin or hook to engage the driven object.
- a hand tool that is used to hold or twist a nut or bolt
noun
- Ellipsis of fidget spinner.
- (Australia, prison, slang) A mentally disturbed or eccentric person; weirdo.
- (fishing) A type of lure consisting of wire, a rotating blade, a weighted body, and one or more hooks.
- Agent noun of spin; someone or something who spins.
- (often vulgar, slang, film) Primarily in the adult film industry, an woman with a tiny frame, usually very thin and small-breasted.
- An ornamental hubcap that spins independently of the wheel
- (slang) A record turntable or CD player.
- (Australia, New Zealand) The coin thrower in a game of two-up.
- A device that is spun in games to choose a number or symbol.
- (pinball) A flat target mounted on an axis so that a ball passing through can make it spin around, usually awarding a certain number of points for every revolution it completes.
- (politics, slang) A spin doctor.
- (slang) A disc jockey.
- (cricket) A spin bowler.
- (Jamaica) A kind of dumpling, shaped by "spinning" it in the hands.
- (surfing) A manoeuvre in which the surfer makes a complete 360° turn while riding a surfboard.
- A dolphin (Stenella longirostris).
- (computing, graphical user interface) An input control for entering a number, with accompanying arrowed buttons that increase or decrease the value.
- A conical fairing near the hub of some aircraft propellers or turbofan fans.
- A spinneret.
- A Eurasian nightjar (Caprimulgus europaeus).
- fisherman's lure; revolves when drawn through the water
- board game equipment that consists of a dial and an arrow that is spun to determine the next move in the game
- someone who spins (who twists fibers into threads)
noun
- (UK) An adjustable spanner used by plumbers.
- (physics) In screw theory, a screw assembled from force and torque vectors arising from application of Newton's laws to a rigid body.
- A violent emotional change caused by separation.
- (US, Canada, Philippines) A hand tool for making rotational adjustments, such as fitting nuts and bolts, or fitting pipes.
- An injury caused by a violent twisting or pulling of a limb; strain, sprain.
- A movement that twists or pulls violently; a tug.
- In coursing, the act of bringing the hare round at less than a right angle, worth half a point in the recognised code of points for judging.
- A distorting change from the original meaning.
- a hand tool that is used to hold or twist a nut or bolt
- a jerky pulling movement
- a sharp strain on muscles or ligaments
verb
- (transitive) To pull or twist violently.
- (transitive) To rack with pain; to make hurt or distressed.
- (transitive) To use a wrench; to twist with a wrench.
- (transitive) To distort the original meaning of; to misrepresent.
- (transitive) To injure (a joint) by pulling or twisting.
- (transitive) To deprive by means of a violent pull or twist.
- twist and compress, as if in pain or anguish
- twist suddenly so as to sprain
- twist or pull violently or suddenly, especially so as to remove (something) from that to which it is attached or from where it originates
- make a sudden twisting motion
noun
- Ellipsis of wire gauze
- Mist or haze
- A thin fabric with a loose, open weave.
- (medicine) A similar bleached cotton fabric used as a surgical dressing.
- A thin woven metal or plastic mesh.
- a net of transparent fabric with a loose open weave
- (medicine) bleached cotton cloth of plain weave used for bandages and dressings
verb
noun
- (plumbing) A type of short nut (fastener) threaded on both ends.
- A tool, similar to a spade, used for digging out weeds etc.
- A barking spud; a long-handled tool for removing bark from logs.
- (informal) A potato.
- A movable post through a sleeve in the hull of a work barge to anchor it to the bottom of a body of water.
- (film, television) A short central rod in a lighting fixture, for attachment to the light.
- A digging fork with three broad prongs.
- (slang, usually in the plural) A testicle.
- (informal) A hole in a sock.
- a sharp hand shovel for digging out roots and weeds
- an edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Ireland
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- (camping, transitive) To set up a recreational vehicle (RV) at a campsite, typically by leveling the RV and connecting it to electric, water, or sewer hookups.
- (transitive) To dig up weeds with a spud.
- (drilling, transitive) To begin drilling an oil well; to drill by moving the drill bit and shaft up and down, or by raising and dropping a bit.
- (roofing, transitive) To remove the roofing aggregate and most of the bituminous top coating by scraping and chipping.
- initiate drilling operations, as for petroleum
- produce buds, branches, or germinate
noun
- (engineering, textiles) A wire for changing a loop from one needle to another, as in narrowing, etc.
- (linguistics) A word whose meaning changes depending on the situation, as by deixis.
- A shiftworker.
- (nautical) An assistant to the ship's cook in washing, soaking, and shifting the salt provisions.
- (cycling) A component used by the rider to control the gearing mechanisms and select the desired gear ratio, usually connected to the derailleur by a mechanical actuation cable.
- (engineering) A control device (usually a lever or button) for shifting gears in a gearbox, or an arrangement for shifting a belt sidewise from one pulley to another.
- (mining, historical) A person employed to repair the horseways and other passages, and keep them unobstructed.
- One who, or that which, shifts or changes.
- (mythology, science fiction, fantasy) A shape-shifter; a person or other being capable of changing their physical form, especially a lycanthrope.
- (spirituality) Ellipsis of reality shifter.
- (US, Pennsylvania) A switcher or shunter: a railroad locomotive used for shunting.
- (especially Australia) A spanner with an adjustable jaw size.
- a stagehand responsible for moving scenery
- a mechanical device for engaging and disengaging gears
noun
- (idiomatic, informal, loosely, Australia, New Zealand) An open-end adjustable spanner with a worm-drive thumbwheel. When the term adjustable spanner or adjustable wrench is used, this type (branded with any of many brands) is usually the type meant.
- (informal) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: any spanner made by the namesake company, which makes many tools.
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- A thin piece of material, sometimes tapered, used for alignment or support.
- (computing) A small library that transparently intercepts and modifies calls to an API, usually for compatibility purposes.
- (informal, often derogatory) A person characterised by both male and female traits, or by ambiguous male-female traits; a hermaphrodite.
- A kind of shallowly cutting plow used in tillage to break the ground and clear it of weeds.
- (crime) A thin device inserted into a card reader by a criminal to facilitate fraud.
- A wedge.
- A small metal device used to pick open a lock.
- (informal, often derogatory) A transsexual person, especially a trans woman; (loosely) a drag queen or transvestite.
- a thin wedge of material (wood or metal or stone) for driving into crevices
verb
- (ambitransitive) To fit one or more shims to a piece of machinery or other assembly; to adjust (something) by using shims.
- To adjust the homogeneity of a magnetic field (after the mechanical devices once used for the purpose).
- (computing, transitive) To intercept and modify calls to (an API), usually for compatibility purposes.
- (ambitransitive) To attack a point-of-sale card reader with a shim.
noun
- A strap; more specifically a piece of leather or a substitute (notably canvas), or strip of wood covered with a suitable material, for honing a razor.
- (nautical) A piece of rope spliced into a circular wreath, and put round a block for hanging it.
- (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) A bad mood or temper. A tantrum.
- (slang) A poor-quality or unsaleable diamond.
- a leather strap used to sharpen razors
verb
noun
- A thin strip of an osier (“long, pliable twig from a plant, usually a willow”) used in basketmaking.
- A tangle, a weave, a web.
- A quantity of thread, yarn, etc., wound on a reel then removed and loosely knotted into an oblong shape; a skein of cotton is formed by eighty turns of thread around a reel with a fifty-four inch diameter.
- (UK, dialectal, ornithology, collective) A group of wildfowl (for example, geese or swans) in flight.
- (sports) A winning streak.
- (ichthyology) The membrane of a fish ovary.
- coils of worsted yarn
verb
noun
- (topology) Ellipsis of trefoil knot.
- A symbol having the shape of such leaves, especially when used as an architectural ornament.
- Any of several plants of the pea family, having compound, trifoliate leaves; especially one of the genus Trifolium.
- any of several Old World herbs of the genus Medicago having small flowers and trifoliate compound leaves
- an architectural ornament in the form of three arcs arranged in a circle
- a plant of the genus Trifolium
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- A piece of flexible wire in which tufted fabric is twisted and which is used to clean out the stem of a tobacco pipe or other narrow tube. It can be also used for arts and crafts.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pipe, cleaner.
- cleaning implement consisting of a flexible tufted wire that is used to clean a pipe stem
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- usually coiled
- a wispy white cloud (usually of fine ice crystals) at a high altitude (4 to 8 miles)
- a slender flexible animal appendage as on barnacles or crinoids or many insects; often tactile
- (zoology) A thin tendril-like appendage.
- (meteorology) A principal high-level cloud type, typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments, wisps, or narrow bands.
- (botany) A tendril.
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- (machining) Ellipsis of machine taper.
- A slender wax candle.
- Someone who works with tape or tapes.
- (by extension) A small light.
- A thin stick used for lighting candles, either a wax-coated wick or a slow-burning wooden rod.
- The portion of an object with such a form.
- A tapering form; gradual diminution of thickness and/or cross section in an elongated object.
- (weaving) One who operates a tape machine.
- A cone-shaped item for stretching the hole for an ear gauge (piercing).
- (figurative) Gradual reduction over time.
- the property possessed by a shape that narrows toward a point (as a wedge or cone)
- a convex shape that narrows toward a point
- a loosely woven cord (in a candle or oil lamp) that draws fuel by capillary action up into the flame
- stick of wax with a wick in the middle
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- (informal) Ellipsis of square yard, a unit of area; common with textiles.
- (nautical) A long tapered timber hung on a mast to which is bent a sail, and may be further qualified as a square, lateen, or lug yard. The first is hung at right angles to the mast, the last two hang obliquely.
- (finance) 10⁹, A short scale billion; a long scale thousand millions or milliard.
- A unit of length equal to 3 feet in the US customary and British imperial systems of measurement, equal to precisely 0.9144 m since 1959 (US) or 1963 (UK).
- (US, Canada, Australia) The property surrounding one's house, typically dominated by one's lawn.
- (slang, drugs) One hundred, usually referring to currency or money's worth.
- (US, slang, uncommon) 100 dollars.
- A place where moose or deer herd together in winter for pasture, protection, etc.
- (obsolete outside of fossil forms) A tall, slender, hollow receptacle or tool.
- Units of similar composition or length in other systems.
- An enclosed outdoors area designated for a specific purpose, e.g. on farms, railways etc.
- (informal) Ellipsis of cubic yard, a unit of volume; common in mining and earthmoving.
- (nautical) Any spar carried aloft.
- (Jamaica, MLE) One’s house or home.
- A small, usually uncultivated area adjoining or (now especially) within the precincts of a house or other building.
- a unit of volume (as for sand or gravel)
- a unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride
- the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100
- an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines
- the enclosed land around a house or other building
- a tract of land enclosed for particular activities (sometimes paved and usually associated with buildings)
- an enclosure for animals (as chicken or livestock)
- a long horizontal spar tapered at the end and used to support and spread a square sail or lateen
- a tract of land where logs are accumulated
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- A cover or sheath; a fingerstall.
- (nautical, historical) A wooden bed frame, slung by its corners from a beam, in which officers slept before the introduction of bunks.
- (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) A bed for infants or small children, with high, often slatted, often moveable sides.
- A pen, coop, or similar shelter for small domestic animals, such as sheep or pigeons.
- (Canada, US, Philippines) A simple bed, especially one for portable or temporary purposes.
- A small, crudely-formed boat.
- a small bed that folds up for storage or transport
- a sheath worn to protect a finger
- baby bed with high sides made of slats
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- (spinning) One of the combs of closely ranged steel pins which divide the ribbons of flax fiber or wool into fewer parallel filaments.
- A two-wheeled frame for transporting timber.
- (figuratively) The flesh under or about the chin; a wattle.
- (British) A rivulet, small stream.
- (zootomy) A breathing organ of fish and other aquatic animals.
- (animal anatomy) The fleshy flap that hangs below the beak of a fowl; a wattle.
- (British) A ravine.
- (mycology) One of the radial folds on the underside of the cap of a mushroom, the surface of which bears the spore-producing organs.
- Alternative form of jill (“a female ferret”).
- A drink measure for spirits and wine, approximately a quarter of a pint, but varying regionally.
- (of a fish) A gill slit or gill cover.
- a British imperial capacity unit (liquid or dry) equal to 5 fluid ounces or 142.066 cubic centimeters
- respiratory organ of aquatic animals that breathe oxygen dissolved in water
- any of the radiating leaflike spore-producing structures on the underside of the cap of a mushroom or similar fungus
- a United States liquid unit equal to 4 fluid ounces
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- (transitive) To sharpen by rubbing on a strap; to strop.
- sharpen with a strap
- (transitive) To fasten or bind with a strap.
- (transitive) To beat or chastise with a strap; to whip, to lash.
- (transitive) To slap or stroke the muscled areas of a horse with a cloth or pad, a form of massage meant to improve muscle tone.
- secure (a sprained joint) with a strap
- beat severely with a whip or rod
- tie with a strap
noun
- an elongated leather strip (or a strip of similar material) for binding things together or holding something in position
- A strap worn on the shoulder.
- (botany) The flat part of the corolla in ligulate florets, as those of the white circle in the daisy.
- Something made of such a strip, or of a part of one, or a combination of two or more for a particular use.
- (finance) An investment strategy involving simultaneous trade with one put and two call options on the same security at the same strike price, similar to but more bullish than a straddle.
- (journalism) Synonym of strapline.
- A strip of thick leather used in flogging.
- A piece of leather, or strip of wood covered with a suitable material, used to hone the sharpened edge of a razor; a strop.
- (nautical) A piece of rope or metal passing around a block and used for fastening it to anything.
- (carpentry, machinery) A band, plate, or loop of metal for clasping and holding timbers or parts of a machine.
- (slang, professional wrestling, with "the") A championship belt, or by extension, the title.
- (slang, LGBTQ) A strap-on.
- A long, narrow, pliable strip of leather, cloth, or the like.
- (slang) A gun, normally a personal firearm such as a pistol or machine pistol.
- (botany) The leaf, exclusive of its sheath, in some grasses.
- hanger consisting of a loop of leather suspended from the ceiling of a bus or train; passengers hold onto it
- a band that goes over the shoulder and supports a garment or bag
- whip consisting of a strip of leather used in flogging
noun
- Ellipsis of fidget spinner.
- (Australia, prison, slang) A mentally disturbed or eccentric person; weirdo.
- (fishing) A type of lure consisting of wire, a rotating blade, a weighted body, and one or more hooks.
- Agent noun of spin; someone or something who spins.
- (often vulgar, slang, film) Primarily in the adult film industry, an woman with a tiny frame, usually very thin and small-breasted.
- An ornamental hubcap that spins independently of the wheel
- (slang) A record turntable or CD player.
- (Australia, New Zealand) The coin thrower in a game of two-up.
- A device that is spun in games to choose a number or symbol.
- (pinball) A flat target mounted on an axis so that a ball passing through can make it spin around, usually awarding a certain number of points for every revolution it completes.
- (politics, slang) A spin doctor.
- (slang) A disc jockey.
- (cricket) A spin bowler.
- (Jamaica) A kind of dumpling, shaped by "spinning" it in the hands.
- (surfing) A manoeuvre in which the surfer makes a complete 360° turn while riding a surfboard.
- A dolphin (Stenella longirostris).
- (computing, graphical user interface) An input control for entering a number, with accompanying arrowed buttons that increase or decrease the value.
- A conical fairing near the hub of some aircraft propellers or turbofan fans.
- A spinneret.
- A Eurasian nightjar (Caprimulgus europaeus).
- fisherman's lure; revolves when drawn through the water
- board game equipment that consists of a dial and an arrow that is spun to determine the next move in the game
- someone who spins (who twists fibers into threads)
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- (transitive) To sharpen by rubbing on a strap; to strop.
- sharpen with a strap
- (transitive) To fasten or bind with a strap.
- (transitive) To beat or chastise with a strap; to whip, to lash.
- (transitive) To slap or stroke the muscled areas of a horse with a cloth or pad, a form of massage meant to improve muscle tone.
- secure (a sprained joint) with a strap
- beat severely with a whip or rod
- tie with a strap
noun
- an elongated leather strip (or a strip of similar material) for binding things together or holding something in position
- A strap worn on the shoulder.
- (botany) The flat part of the corolla in ligulate florets, as those of the white circle in the daisy.
- Something made of such a strip, or of a part of one, or a combination of two or more for a particular use.
- (finance) An investment strategy involving simultaneous trade with one put and two call options on the same security at the same strike price, similar to but more bullish than a straddle.
- (journalism) Synonym of strapline.
- A strip of thick leather used in flogging.
- A piece of leather, or strip of wood covered with a suitable material, used to hone the sharpened edge of a razor; a strop.
- (nautical) A piece of rope or metal passing around a block and used for fastening it to anything.
- (carpentry, machinery) A band, plate, or loop of metal for clasping and holding timbers or parts of a machine.
- (slang, professional wrestling, with "the") A championship belt, or by extension, the title.
- (slang, LGBTQ) A strap-on.
- A long, narrow, pliable strip of leather, cloth, or the like.
- (slang) A gun, normally a personal firearm such as a pistol or machine pistol.
- (botany) The leaf, exclusive of its sheath, in some grasses.
- hanger consisting of a loop of leather suspended from the ceiling of a bus or train; passengers hold onto it
- a band that goes over the shoulder and supports a garment or bag
- whip consisting of a strip of leather used in flogging
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- (transitive) To pierce folded sheets, near their back edges, for the passage of thread or wire.
- (transitive) To thrust in a stabbing motion.
- (transitive) To pierce or to wound (somebody) with a (usually pointed) tool or weapon, especially a knife or dagger.
- (intransitive) To cause a sharp, painful sensation (often used with at).
- (transitive, figurative) To injure secretly or by malicious falsehood or slander.
- (transitive) To roughen a brick wall with a pick so as to hold plaster.
- (intransitive) To recklessly hit with the tip of a (usually pointed) object, such as a weapon or finger (often used with at).
- (transitive, oil industry) To guide the end of a pipe into a coupling when making up a connection.
- use a knife on
- stab or pierce
- poke or thrust abruptly
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- A bacterial culture made by inoculating a solid medium, such as gelatin, with the puncture of a needle or wire.
- (industrial relations) Clipping of establishment.
- Criticism.
- (music) A single staccato chord that adds dramatic impact to a composition.
- An act of stabbing or thrusting with an object.
- (aviation, slang) The horizontal or vertical stabilizer of an aircraft.
- (informal) An attempt.
- A wound made by stabbing.
- Pain inflicted on a person's feelings.
- informal words for any attempt or effort
- a strong blow with a knife or other sharp pointed instrument
- a sudden sharp feeling
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- (historical) A peasant who performed labour in exchange for the right to live in a cottage.
- (informal) A cotter pin.
- (mechanical engineering) A pin or wedge inserted through a slot to hold machine parts together.
- a medieval English villein
- fastener consisting of a wedge or pin inserted through a slot to hold two other pieces together
- a peasant farmer in the Scottish Highlands
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- (transitive) To adorn with narrow strips or braids of some decorative material.
- (transitive) To beat; to lash; to make stripes on.
- (transitive) To add alcohol, poison, a drug or anything else potentially harmful to (food or drink).
- (transitive) To cover intricately with bands, strips, or the like, so as to resemble lace.
- (transitive) To interweave items.
- (transitive, figuratively) To intersperse or diversify with something.
- (transitive, cycling) To interweave the spokes of a bicycle wheel.
- (ergative) To fasten (something) with laces.
- make by braiding or interlacing
- spin, wind, or twist together
- add alcohol to (beverages)
- draw through eyes or holes
- do lacework
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- (countable) A cord or ribbon passed through eyelets in a shoe or garment, pulled tight and tied to fasten the shoe or garment firmly.
- A snare or gin, especially one made of interwoven cords; a net.
- (uncountable) A light fabric containing patterns of holes, usually built up from a single thread.
- a delicate decorative fabric woven in an open web of symmetrical patterns
- a cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment)
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- (Commonwealth, UK, Ireland) A hand tool for adjusting nuts and bolts.
- (rare) One who, or that which, spans.
- (graph theory) A (usually sparse) graph whose shortest path distances approximate those in a dense graph or other metric space.
- (UK, Ireland, mildly derogatory) A stupid or unintelligent person; one prone to making mistakes, especially in language.
- (UK, Ireland) A problem, dilemma or obstacle; something unexpected or troublesome (in the phrase spanner in the works)
- (weaponry) A hand tool shaped like a small crank handle, for winding the spring of a wheel lock on a musket.
- (Canada, US) Any of certain types of such a tool that have a pin or hook to engage the driven object.
- a hand tool that is used to hold or twist a nut or bolt
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- Having hanging additions or appendages.
- Of a legislature, lacking a majority political party.
- (computing, colloquial) Of a computer or similar device, receiving power but not functioning as desired; working very slowly or not at all. The condition is often corrected by rebooting the computer.
- Suspended by hanging.
- (colloquial, of a person, slightly vulgar) Having a large penis (often well hung).
- (law) Of a jury, unable to reach a unanimous verdict in a trial.
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- Capable of being moulded; malleable, flexible, pliant.
- (figurative, derogatory) Inferior or not the real thing.
- Of or pertaining to the inelastic, non-brittle, deformation of a material.
- Made of plastic.
- (informal, birdwatching, of a species or individual bird) Introduced, rather than native or naturally vagrant.
- (biology) Capable of adapting to varying conditions; characterized by environmental adaptability.
- (figurative, informal, of a person) Fake, insincere, especially in a shallow and conformist way pretending to smoothness and glossy flawlessness.
- (informal, birdwatching, of an individual bird) Escaped from captivity, rather than wild.
- capable of being influenced or formed
- capable of being molded or modeled (especially of earth or clay or other soft material)
- forming or capable of forming or molding or fashioning
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- (slang, countable) An instance of plastic surgery.
- (slang) Synonym of Plastic Paddy.
- (colloquial, metonymic) Credit or debit cards used in place of cash to buy goods and services.
- A synthetic, solid, hydrocarbon-based polymer, whether thermoplastic or thermosetting.
- (figurative, slang) Insincerity; fakeness; a person who is fake or arrogant, or believes that they are better than the rest of the population; a narcissistic, affected person.
- a card (usually plastic) that assures a seller that the person using it has sufficient means of payment and that the issuer will see to it that the seller receives payment for the merchandise delivered
- generic name for certain synthetic or semisynthetic materials that can be molded or extruded into objects or films or filaments or used for making e.g. coatings and adhesives