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verb
- (transitive) To obstruct or block.
- (intransitive) To become denser or more crowded with objects.
- (intransitive) To finish; to come to an end.
- To grapple; to engage in close combat.
- (ambitransitive) To move a thing, or part of a thing, nearer to another so that the gap or opening between the two is removed.
- (Philippines, Quebec, Greece, Cyprus) To turn off; to switch off.
- (transitive) To perform as the final act at (a show etc.).
- (transitive) To put out of use or operation.
- (transitive, baseball, pitching) To make the final outs, usually three, of a game.
- (transitive, intransitive, especially sports) To angle (a club, bat or other hitting implement) downwards and/or (for a right-hander) anticlockwise of straight.
- (intransitive) To cease operation or cease to be available.
- (transitive, intransitive, electricity, of a switch, fuse or circuit breaker) To move to a position allowing electricity to flow.
- (transitive, intransitive, engineering, gas and liquid flow, of valve or damper) To move to a position preventing fluid from flowing.
- (surveying) To have a vector sum of 0; that is, to form a closed polygon.
- (figuratively, transitive, intransitive) To make or become unreceptive.
- (ergative, marketing) To conclude (a sale).
- (intransitive) To do the tasks (putting things away, locking doors, etc.) required to prepare a store or other establishment to shut down for the night.
- (ergative, computing) To terminate an application, window, file or database connection, etc.
- (intransitive, of a business, market etc.) To cease trading for the day, or permanently.
- (transitive, finance) To cancel or reverse (a trading position).
- (chiefly figurative) To come or gather around; to enclose.
- (transitive) To end or conclude.
- come to a close
- draw near
- change one's body stance so that the forward shoulder and foot are closer to the intended point of impact
- be priced or listed when trading stops
- unite or bring into contact or bring together the edges of
- cease to operate or cause to cease operating
- move so that an opening or passage is obstructed; make shut
- complete a business deal, negotiation, or an agreement
- cause a window or an application to disappear on a computer desktop
- fill or stop up
- come together, as if in an embrace
- become closed
- bar access to
- finish a game in baseball by protecting a lead
- finish or terminate (meetings, speeches, etc.)
- engage at close quarters
- bring together all the elements or parts of
adj
- (archaic outside certain phrases) Physically narrow or confined.
- At little distance; near in space or time.
- Intimate or immediate in personal relationship.
- Nearly equal; almost evenly balanced; almost exactly matching.
- Carefully done, detailed.
- Accurate; precise.
- (Ireland, UK, weather) Hot, humid, with no wind.
- Tight, with little space separating components or elements.
- (linguistics, phonetics, of a vowel) Articulated with the tongue body relatively close to the hard palate.
- Strictly confined; carefully guarded.
- Tightly restricted in availability.
- Almost, but not quite (getting to an answer, goal, or other state); near.
- (law) Of a corporation or other business entity, closely held.
- Attentive; undeviating; strict.
- (in particular) Almost resulting in disaster.
- (heraldry, of a bird) With its wings at its side, closed, held near to its body (typically also statant); (of wings) in this posture.
- Short.
- Oppressive; without motion or ventilation; causing a feeling of lassitude.
- Involving a tight connection; involving frequent communication, shared or cooperative activity, etc.
- Marked, evident.
- Adhering strictly to a standard or original; exact or nearly so.
- not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances
- close in relevance or relationship
- confined to specific persons
- crowded
- strictly confined or guarded
- at or within a short distance in space or time or having elements near each other
- lacking fresh air
- inclined to secrecy or reticence about divulging information
- (of a contest or contestants) evenly matched
- of textiles
- marked by fidelity to an original
- used of hair or haircuts
- fitting closely but comfortably
- rigorously attentive; strict and thorough
- giving or spending with reluctance
adv
noun
- (chiefly British) A street that ends in a dead end.
- A cathedral close.
- (music) The conclusion of a strain of music; cadence.
- An end or conclusion.
- (aviation, travel) The time when check-in staff will no longer accept passengers for a flight.
- The manner of shutting; the union of parts; junction.
- (Scotland) The common staircase in a tenement.
- (music) A double bar marking the end.
- (sales) The point at the end of a sales pitch when the consumer is asked to buy.
- (Scotland) A very narrow alley between two buildings, often overhung by one of the buildings above the ground floor.
- (law) The interest which one may have in a piece of ground, even though it is not enclosed
- A grapple in wrestling.
- the last section of a communication
- the temporal end; the concluding time
- the concluding part of any performance
verb
noun
- (historical) The lists in a tournament.
- (historical, in the plural) A martial exercise of the 15th and 16th centuries.
- (grammar) A node (in government and binding theory) said to intervene between other nodes A and B if it is a potential governor for B, c-commands B, and does not c-command A.
- An obstacle or impediment.
- (physiology) A separation between two areas of the body where specialized cells allow the entry of certain substances but prevent the entry of others.
- A structure that bars passage.
- A boundary or limit.
- any condition that makes it difficult to make progress or to achieve an objective
- a structure or object that impedes free movement
- anything serving to maintain separation by obstructing vision or access
verb
adj
noun
verb
- (transitive) To block, obstruct
- To enter (something), making it full.
- To occupy fully, to take up all of.
- (of containers, cavities, or the like)
- (transitive, slang, vulgar, of a male) To have sexual intercourse with (a female).
- (transitive, slang, vulgar, of a male) To ejaculate inside someone or something.
- (transitive) To satisfy or obey (an order, request, or requirement).
- (transitive) To install someone, or be installed, in (a position or office), eliminating a vacancy.
- To become pervaded with something.
- (transitive) To supply fully with food; to feed; to satisfy.
- (transitive) To treat (a tooth) by adding a dental filling to it.
- To add contents to (a container, cavity, or the like) so that it is full.
- (transitive, nautical) To trim (a yard) so that the wind blows on the after side of the sails.
- appoint someone to (a position or a job)
- become full
- assume, as of positions or roles
- plug with a substance
- fill to satisfaction
- eat until one is sated
- occupy the whole of
- make full, also in a metaphorical sense
- fill, satisfy or meet a want or need or condition or restriction
noun
- Inexpensive material used to occupy empty spaces, especially in construction.
- The filling of a container or area.
- (archaeology) Soil and/or human-created debris discovered within a cavity or cut in the layers and exposed by excavation; fill soil.
- (music) A short passage, riff, or rhythmic sound that helps to keep the listener's attention during a break between the phrases of a melody.
- An amount that fills a container.
- (film, television) Ellipsis of fill light.
- (after a possessive) A sufficient or more than sufficient amount.
- (weaving) The weft yarn.
- (crosswording) The answers in a crossword puzzle that are not part of the theme.
- An embankment, as in railroad construction, to fill a hollow or ravine; also, the place which is to be filled.
- One of the thills or shafts of a carriage.
- any material that fills a space or container
- a quantity sufficient to satisfy
verb
- (transitive) To obstruct or surround.
- (transitive, finance) To offset the risk associated with.
- (ambitransitive) To avoid verbal commitment.
- (intransitive, finance) To reduce one's exposure to risk.
- (transitive) To enclose with a hedge or hedges.
- (intransitive) To construct or repair a hedge.
- hinder or restrict with or as if with a hedge
- avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
- enclose or bound in with or as it with a hedge or hedges
- minimize loss or risk
noun
- A barrier (often consisting of a line of persons or objects) to protect someone or something from harm.
- (linguistics, especially applied linguistics and pragmatics) A noncommittal or intentionally ambiguous statement.
- (UK, Ireland, attributive, figurative) With indication of a person's upbringing, or professional activities, taking place by the side of the road; being third-rate, poor, shoddy.
- (finance) Contract or arrangement reducing one's exposure to risk (for example the risk of price movements or interest rate movements).
- (UK, West Country, chiefly Devon and Cornwall) A mound of earth, stone- or turf-faced, often topped with bushes, used as a fence between any two portions of land.
- A thicket of bushes or other shrubbery, especially one planted as a fence between two portions of land, or to separate the parts of a garden.
- any technique designed to reduce or eliminate financial risk; for example, taking two positions that will offset each other if prices change
- a fence formed by a row of closely planted shrubs or bushes
- an intentionally noncommittal or ambiguous statement
verb
- (transitive) To remove or clear a block or obstruction from.
- (transitive) To free or make available.
- (transitive) To enable communication again, via telephone, instant messaging, etc., with (somebody previously blocked).
- (intransitive, card games) In whist, to throw away a high card so as not to interrupt one's partner's long suit.
- play the cards of (a suit) so that the last trick on which a hand can follow suit will be taken by a higher card in the hand of a partner who has the remaining cards of a combined holding
- clear or remove an obstruction from
- make (assets) available
noun
verb
- (transitive, sometimes figurative) To block up; to cause something to be blocked.
- obstruct
- (baseball, intransitive) To hold the bat higher (farther from the knob) than is normal.
- (intransitive) To (temporarily) lose one's power of speech, because of strong emotion.
- (transitive) To cause (a person) temporarily to lose the power of speech, because of strong emotion.
- (intransitive, often imperative) To cease talking.
verb
- (transitive) To delay or obstruct.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To cost money.
- To reverse, go backwards.
- (transitive) To remove from or allow distance.
- (transitive) To install or position behind a boundary or surface, or in a recess.
- slow down the progress of; hinder
- cost a certain amount
- hold back to a later time
verb
- (transitive) To destroy or disable something.
- (intransitive, of rain) To fall sometimes connoting hard, as if to smash something, other times light and dispersed.
- (intransitive) To smash, or break into tiny pieces.
- (transitive) To violently break something into pieces.
- (transitive) To dispirit or emotionally defeat.
- (intransitive, agriculture) Of seeds: to disperse (become dispersed) upon ripening.
- break into many pieces
- cause to break into many pieces
- damage or destroy
noun
verb
- (transitive) To hinder or prevent.
- (US, law, transitive) To prohibit (a person or company that has been convicted of criminal acts in connection with a government program) from future participation in that program.
- (transitive) To exclude or shut out; to bar.
- bar temporarily; from school, office, etc.
- prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; to protect from or to keep away anything undesirable; to ward off
- prevent from entering; keep out
verb
- (transitive, by extension) To impede or disrupt.
- (transitive) To cause a short circuit in.
- (transitive, by extension) To force termination of an ongoing process before its natural conclusion, by bypassing one or more intermediary steps.
- (transitive, computing) To terminate a loop before the declared termination condition is met, or a conditional before all conditions have been tested for.
- (intransitive) To undergo a short circuit.
- (transitive) To bypass, especially by overhastiness.
noun
verb
- (transitive) To hinder; obstruct; disconcert; foil.
- (intransitive, of the eye) To quail.
- (transitive) To deceive; cheat.
- (transitive) To draw back from; shrink; avoid; elude; deny, as from fear.
- (intransitive) To fly off; to turn aside.
- (intransitive) To shrink; start back; give way; flinch; turn aside or fly off.
- turn pale, as if in fear
noun
verb
- (transitive) To fill or obstruct (something) so that it is not possible to pass.
- (transitive) To prevent (something from happening or someone from doing something).
- obstruct
- (transitive) To shape or sketch out roughly.
- (transitive) To bar (impose a ban on a person or bot, etc.) from connecting via telephone, instant messaging, etc., or from accessing an online account or service, or similar.
- (transitive) To shape, stretch, or mould knitted items, hats, books (and book covers), shoes, etc.
- (intransitive, cricket) To play a block shot.
- (transitive, sports) To impede (an opponent or opponent’s play).
- (transitive) To bar (a message or communication), or bar connection with (an online account or service, a designated telephone number, IP address, etc.).
- (transitive, cricket) To hit with a block.
- (programming, intransitive) To wait for some condition to become true.
- (transitive) To prevent (something or someone) from passing.
- (intransitive) To experience mental block or creative block.
- (transitive, theater) To specify the positions and movements of the actors for (a section of a play or film).
- shut out from view or get in the way so as to hide from sight
- stop from happening or developing
- hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of
- run on a block system
- shape into a block or blocks
- interfere with or prevent the reception of signals
- block passage through
- support, secure, or raise with a block
- impede the movement of (an opponent or a ball)
- stamp or emboss a title or design on a book with a block
- render unsuitable for passage
- be unable to remember
- shape by using a block
- prohibit the conversion or use of (assets)
- interrupt the normal function of by means of anesthesia
noun
- (computing, social media) A temporary or permanent ban that prevents access to an online account or service, or connection to or from a designated telephone number, IP address, or similar.
- A wig block: a simplified head model upon which wigs are worn.
- A chopping block: a cuboid base for cutting or beheading.
- A cuboid or approximately cuboid building.
- (slang) The human head.
- Interference or obstruction of cognitive processes.
- (programming) A region of code in a program that acts as a single unit, such as a function or loop.
- (UK) Solitary confinement.
- (cricket) A shot played by holding the bat vertically in the path of the ball, so that it loses momentum and drops to the ground.
- A contiguous group of urban lots of property, typically several acres in extent, not crossed by public streets.
- (gymnastics) The portion of the movement where a gymnast pushes off the vault.
- A cellblock.
- (sports) An action to interfere with the movement of an opposing player or of the object of play (ball, puck).
- (chemistry) A portion of a macromolecule, comprising many units, that has at least one feature not present in adjacent portions.
- The distance from one street to another in a city or suburb that is built (approximately) to a grid pattern.
- A physical area or extent of something, often rectangular or approximately rectangular.
- (falconry) The perch on which a bird of prey is kept.
- (viticulture) A discrete group of vines in a vineyard, often distinguished from others by variety, clone, canopy training method, irrigation infrastructure, or some combination thereof.
- (cricket) The position of a player or bat when guarding the wicket.
- (cricket) The popping crease.
- A section of split logs used as fuel.
- (backgammon) Any point on the board where two or more men rest, and consequently an opponent may not land.
- (rail transport) A section of a railroad where the block system is used.
- (volleyball) A defensive play by one or more players meant to deflect a spiked ball back to the hitter’s court.
- A set of sheets (of paper) joined together at one end, forming a cuboid shape.
- A logical extent or region; a grouping or apportionment of like things treated together as a unit.
- (cricket) A blockhole.
- Misspelling of bloc.
- A case or frame housing one or more sheaves (pulleys), used with ropes to increase or redirect force, for example as part of lifting gear or a sailing ship's rigging. See also block and tackle.
- (education) A yeargroup at Eton College.
- (philately) A joined group of four (or in some cases nine) postage stamps, forming a roughly square shape.
- (computing) A logical data storage unit containing one or more physical sectors.
- (computing) A contiguous range of Unicode code points used to encode characters of a specific type; can be of any size evenly divisible by 16, up to 65,536 (a full plane).
- A mould on which hats, bonnets, etc., are shaped.
- A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.
- (cellular automata) In Conway's Game of Life, a still life consisting of four living cells arranged in a two-by-two square.
- Something that prevents something from passing.
- (cryptography) A fixed-length group of bits making up part of a message.
- a number or quantity of related things dealt with as a unit
- a simple machine consisting of a wheel with a groove in which a rope can run to change the direction or point of application of a force applied to the rope
- the act of obstructing or deflecting someone's movements
- (computer science) a sector or group of sectors that function as the smallest data unit permitted
- housing in a large building that is divided into separate units
- an obstruction in a pipe or tube
- a metal casting containing the cylinders and cooling ducts of an engine
- a three-dimensional shape with six square or rectangular sides
- a rectangular area in a city surrounded by streets and usually containing several buildings
- a solid piece of something (usually having flat rectangular sides)
- a platform from which an auctioneer sells
- an inability to remember or think of something you normally can do; often caused by emotional tension
verb
- (transitive) To stifle or suppress.
- (transitive) To kill someone by squeezing the throat so as to cut off the oxygen supply; to choke, suffocate or throttle.
- (intransitive) To be killed by strangulation, or become strangled.
- (intransitive) To be stifled, choked, or suffocated in any manner.
- kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air
- prevent the progress or free movement of
- constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing
- suppress in order to conceal or hide
- struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake
- die from strangulation
noun
verb
- (transitive, idiomatic) To block, suppress, restrain (something).
- To hold an official inquiry regarding (something); to deliberate about (something).
- (idiomatic, informal) To restrain (a person).
- (euphemistic) To insert (something) into one's vagina or anus from below.
- To be a member of (something).
- (idiomatic) To take no action on (something); to hold (something) in reserve without actually using.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see sit, on.
verb
- (transitive) To have something be held back or impeded.
- (transitive) To grasp mentally: perceive and understand.
- (transitive) To become infected by (an illness).
- (intransitive) To get pregnant.
- (transitive) To take or replenish something necessary, such as breath or sleep.
- (transitive) To reach (someone) with a strike, blow, weapon etc.
- (transitive) To reproduce or echo a spirit or idea faithfully.
- (intransitive, agriculture) To germinate and set down roots.
- (transitive) To attract and hold (a faculty or organ of sense).
- (transitive) To grip or entangle.
- (transitive) To travel by means of.
- (transitive, rare) To become pregnant. (Only in past tense or as participle.)
- (transitive, intransitive) To receive or be affected by (wind, water, fire etc.).
- (transitive) To be hit by something.
- (intransitive) To spread by infection or similar means.
- (intransitive) To be held back or impeded.
- (transitive) To entrap or trip up a person; to deceive.
- (transitive, of fire) To spread or be conveyed to.
- (transitive) To overtake or catch up to; to be in time for.
- (intransitive) To serve well or poorly for catching, especially for catching fish.
- (transitive, computing) To handle an exception.
- (transitive, intransitive, baseball) To play (a specific period of time) as the catcher.
- (transitive, cricket) To end a player's innings by catching a hit ball before the first bounce.
- (transitive) To be touched or affected by (something) through exposure.
- (transitive, rowing) To grip (the water) with one's oars at the beginning of the stroke.
- (transitive) To be the victim of (something unpleasant, painful etc.).
- (intransitive) To make a grasping or snatching motion (at).
- (transitive, surfing) To contact a wave in such a way that one can ride it back to shore.
- (transitive) To unpleasantly discover unexpectedly; to unpleasantly surprise (someone doing something).
- To notice.
- (intransitive) To engage with some mechanism; to stick, to succeed in interacting with something or initiating some process.
- (transitive, informal) To take in; to watch or listen to (an entertainment).
- (transitive) To charm or entrance.
- (transitive) To capture or snare (someone or something which would rather escape).
- (transitive) To acquire, as though by infection; to take on through sympathy or influence.
- (transitive) To seize or intercept an object moving through the air (or, sometimes, some other medium).
- grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of
- get or regain something necessary, usually quickly or briefly
- reach in time
- hear, usually without the knowledge of the speakers
- catch up with and possibly overtake
- to hook or entangle
- suffer from the receipt of
- perceive with the senses quickly, suddenly, or momentarily
- cause to become accidentally or suddenly caught, ensnared, or entangled
- attract; cause to be enamored
- perceive by hearing
- be struck or affected by
- apprehend and reproduce accurately
- come down with
- be the catcher
- attract and fix
- detect a blunder or misstep
- start burning
- succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase
- become aware of
- capture as if by hunting, snaring, or trapping
- check oneself during an action
- spread or be communicated
- delay or hold up; prevent from proceeding on schedule or as planned
- reach with a blow or hit in a particular spot
- see or watch
- take hold of so as to seize or restrain or stop the motion of
- discover or come upon accidentally, suddenly, or unexpectedly; catch somebody doing something or in a certain state
- take in and retain
noun
- (countable, music) The refrain; a line or lines of a song which are repeated from verse to verse.
- (countable) A fragment of music or poetry.
- (countable) The act of seizing or capturing.
- (countable) The act of catching an object in motion, especially a ball.
- (countable) A stopping mechanism, especially a clasp which stops something from opening.
- (countable) The act of noticing, understanding or hearing.
- Passing opportunities seized; snatches.
- (countable) Something which is captured or caught.
- (countable, cricket, baseball) The act of catching a hit ball before it reaches the ground, resulting in an out.
- (countable, sometimes noun adjunct) A concealed difficulty, especially in a deal or negotiation.
- (countable, agriculture) A crop which has germinated and begun to grow.
- (countable) A crick; a sudden muscle pain during unaccustomed positioning when the muscle is in use.
- (countable) A hesitation in voice, caused by strong emotion.
- (countable, rowing) The first contact of an oar with the water.
- (countable, cricket) A player in respect of his catching ability; particularly one who catches well.
- A slight remembrance; a trace.
- (countable, music) A type of humorous round in which the voices gradually catch up with one another; usually sung by men and often having bawdy lyrics.
- (uncountable) The game of catching a ball.
- (countable, phonetics) A stoppage of breath, resembling a slight cough.
- (countable, colloquial, by extension) A find, in particular a boyfriend or girlfriend or prospective spouse.
- a cooperative game in which a ball is passed back and forth
- a break or check in the voice (usually a sign of strong emotion)
- a drawback or difficulty that is not readily evident
- anything that is caught (especially if it is worth catching)
- a fastener that fastens or locks a door or window
- the quantity that was caught
- a restraint that checks the motion of something
- the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)
- the act of catching an object with the hands
- a person regarded as a good matrimonial prospect
verb
- (intransitive) To become blocked or obstructed
- (transitive) To hinder or block the passage of something moving, for example a fluid, mixture, traffic, people, etc. (due to an excess of this or due to a partial or complete obstruction), resulting in overfilling or overcrowding.
- become or cause to become obstructed
noun
verb
- (transitive, intransitive) To obstruct, block, or otherwise interfere with (something), for example by clogging (a drain, gun barrel, chimney, etc) or by being in the way of (a gunshot, etc).
- (intransitive, basketball, soccer) To commit a foul.
- (intransitive, baseball) To hit a ball outside of the baselines.
- (transitive, baseball) To hit outside of the baselines.
- (transitive, basketball, soccer) To make contact with an opposing player in order to gain advantage.
- (transitive) To make dirty.
- (intransitive) To become clogged.
- (transitive) To besmirch.
- To come into contact or collide with.
- (intransitive) To become entangled.
- (transitive, nautical) To entangle.
- make unclean
- hit a foul ball
- commit a foul; break the rules
- become or cause to become obstructed
- make impure
- spot, stain, or pollute
- become soiled and dirty
adj
- Covered with, or containing unclean matter; dirty.
- Unpleasant, stormy or rainy. (of the weather)
- (nautical) Entangled and therefore restricting free movement, not clear.
- (baseball) Outside of the base lines; in foul territory.
- Disgusting, repulsive; causing disgust.
- Dishonest or not conforming to the established rules and customs of a game, conflict, test, etc.
- Detestable, unpleasant, loathsome.
- (of words or a way of speaking) Obscene, vulgar or abusive.
- (technical) (with "of") Positioned on, in, or near enough to (a specified area) so as to obstruct it.
- offensively malodorous
- especially of a ship's lines etc
- (of a baseball) not hit between the foul lines
- highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust
- violating accepted standards or rules
- disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter
- (of a manuscript) defaced with changes
- characterized by obscenity
noun
- (bowling) A (usually accidental) contact between a bowler and the lane before the bowler has released the ball.
- (sports) A breach of the rules of a game, especially one involving inappropriate contact with an opposing player in order to gain an advantage; for example, tripping someone up in soccer, or contact of any kind in basketball.
- (baseball) A foul ball, a ball which has been hit outside of the base lines.
- an act that violates the rules of a sport
verb
noun
- (backgammon) The central divider between the inner and outer table of a backgammon board, where stones are placed if they are hit.
- An addition to a military medal, on account of a subsequent act.
- (music) A vertical line across a musical staff dividing written music into sections, typically of equal durational value.
- (by extension, in combination) Premises or a counter serving any type of beverage.
- (heraldry) One of the ordinaries in heraldry; a diminutive of a fess.
- (slang, hip-hop, chiefly in the plural) Hip-hop lyrics, especially ones written and delivered skillfully.
- (recreational drugs) A small, tablet-shaped dose of Xanax, typically containing two milligrams and able to be split into quarters.
- (countable, uncountable, metallurgy) A solid metal object with uniform (round, square, hexagonal, octagonal or rectangular) cross-section; in the US its smallest dimension is ¹⁄₄ inch or greater, a piece of thinner material being called a strip.
- (architecture) A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town.
- (slang) A measure of drugs, typically one ounce.
- (programming, derived from fubar) A metasyntactic variable representing an unspecified entity, often the second in a series, following foo.
- (sports) A horizontal pole that must be crossed in the high jump and pole vault.
- A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length.
- (US, Philippines, law, usually with the) The bar exam, the legal licensing exam.
- A broad shaft, band, or stripe.
- A business selling alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises, or the premises themselves; a public house.
- (physics) A similar sign indicating that the charge on a particle is the negative of its usual value (and that consequently the particle is in fact an antiparticle).
- (UK, Parliament) A dividing line (physical or notional) in the chamber of a legislature beyond which only members and officials may pass.
- An establishment offering cosmetic services.
- A counter, or simply a cabinet, from which alcoholic drinks are served in a private house or a hotel room.
- (by extension, slang, chiefly in the plural) Something well-said or well-written.
- (farriery) The part of the crust of a horse's hoof which is bent inwards towards the frog at the heel on each side, and extends into the centre of the sole.
- Anything that obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier.
- (typography) Any of various lines used as punctuation or diacritics, such as the pipe ⟨|⟩, fraction bar (as in 12), and strikethrough (as in Ⱥ), formerly (obsolete) including oblique marks such as the slash.
- A long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar chart.
- An informal establishment selling food to be consumed on the premises.
- (mathematics) The sign indicating that the characteristic of a logarithm is negative, conventionally placed above the digit(s) to show that it applies to the characteristic only and not to the mantissa.
- (figurative) Any level of achievement regarded as a challenge to be overcome; a standard or expectation.
- A non-SI unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals, slightly less than atmospheric pressure at sea level.
- (UK, law) The railing surrounding the part of a courtroom in which the judges, lawyers, defendants and witnesses stay.
- A linear shoaling landform feature within a body of water; a formation extending across the mouth of a river or harbor or off a beach, and which may obstruct navigation. (FM 55-501).
- (farriery, in the plural) The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed.
- The counter of such premises.
- (soccer, most codes) The crossbar.
- (law, metonymic, "the Bar", "the bar") Collectively, lawyers or the legal profession; specifically applied to barristers in some countries, but including all lawyers in others.
- A city gate, in some British place names.
- (mining) A drilling or tamping rod.
- (mining) A vein or dike crossing a lode.
- An official order or pronouncement that prohibits some activity.
- A cuboid piece of any solid commodity.
- (geography, nautical, hydrology) A ridge or succession of ridges of sand or other substance; especially:
- (telecommunications, electronics) One of an array of bar-shaped symbols that display the level of something, such as wireless signal strength or battery life remaining.
- a counter where you can obtain food or drink
- the act of preventing
- a narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background
- (meteorology) a unit of pressure equal to a million dynes per square centimeter
- an obstruction (usually metal) placed at the top of a goal
- a heating element in an electric fire
- musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats
- a submerged (or partly submerged) ridge in a river or along a shore
- (law) a railing that encloses the part of the courtroom where the judges and lawyers sit and the case is tried
- a rigid piece of metal or wood; usually used as a fastening or obstruction or weapon
- a room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter
- a block of solid substance (such as soap or wax)
- a horizontal rod that serves as a support for gymnasts as they perform exercises
- the body of individuals qualified to practice law in a particular jurisdiction
prep
verb
- (transitive) To preclude or bar from happening, render impossible.
- To anticipate, to act foreseeingly.
- (UK, law) To obstruct or stop up, as a road; to stop the passage of a highway; to intercept on the road, as goods on the way to market.
- To deprive (with of).
- (transitive) To prevent, delay or hinder something by taking precautionary or anticipatory measures; to avert.
- keep from happening or arising; make impossible
- act in advance of; deal with ahead of time
noun
verb
- (transitive, figurative, by extension) To allow anything through that would normally or preferably be blocked.
- (intransitive, figurative, by extension) To pass through when it would normally or preferably be blocked.
- (transitive) To allow fluid or gas to pass through an opening that should be sealed.
- (slang, sometimes euphemistic) To urinate.
- (intransitive) (of a fluid or gas) To pass through an opening that should be sealed.
- (ambitransitive) To disclose secret information surreptitiously or anonymously.
- (slang, US) To bleed.
- tell anonymously
- have an opening that allows light or substances to enter or go out
- enter or escape as through a hole or crack or fissure
- be leaked
noun
- (computing) The gradual loss of a system resource caused by failure to deallocate previously reserved portions.
- A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape.
- (mildly vulgar, slang, especially with the verb "take") An act of urination.
- The person through whom such divulgation, or disclosure, occurs.
- A loss of electricity through imperfect insulation, or the point where it occurs.
- A divulgation, or disclosure, of information previously held secret.
- The entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture.
- soft watery rot in fruits and vegetables caused by fungi
- the discharge of a fluid from some container
- an accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape
- a euphemism for urination
- unauthorized (especially deliberate) disclosure of confidential information
verb
- (transitive) To make (something) unable to be heard by blocking it with some medium.
- (transitive) To keep in, hold back, or repress (something).
- (intransitive, hyperbolic) To smother; to make breathing difficult.
- (transitive, also figuratively) To prevent (a breath, cough, or cry, or the voice, etc.) from being released from the throat.
- (transitive) To prevent (something) from being revealed; to conceal, to hide, to suppress.
- (transitive, agriculture (sericulture)) To treat (a silkworm cocoon) with steam as part of the process of silk production.
- (intransitive) To die of suffocation.
- (transitive) To cause (a dog, horse, or other four-legged mammal) to dislocate or sprain its stifle joint.
- (transitive, also figuratively) To make (an animal or person) unconscious or cause (an animal or person) to die by preventing breathing; to smother, to suffocate.
- (transitive, hyperbolic) To cause (someone) difficulty in breathing, or a choking or gagging feeling.
- suppress in order to conceal or hide
- suppress or constrain so as to lessen in intensity
- impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of
- be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen
noun
- (rare) An act or state of being stifled.
- (zootomy) The joint between the femur and tibia in the hind leg of various four-legged mammals, especially horses, corresponding to the knee in humans.
- (veterinary medicine) A bone disease of this region.
- joint between the femur and tibia in a quadruped; corresponds to the human knee
verb
- (transitive) To prevent (something) from being successful.
- (transitive) To debunk or discredit an idea or rumor.
- (transitive, textile manufacturing) To beat yarn in order to break up slugs and align the threads.
- (transitive) To cut or score; to wound superficially.
- (transitive, Australian rhyming slang) To rape.
- (transitive) To block a wheel or other round object.
- (transitive) To dress (stone) with a pick or pointed instrument.
- hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
- make a small cut or score into
adj
noun
- A line drawn on the ground, as one used in playing hopscotch.
- A block for a wheel or other round object; a chock, wedge, prop, or other support, to prevent slipping.
- Scotch tape.
- Alternative form of Scotch (“whisky”).
- A surface cut or abrasion.
- a slight surface cut (especially a notch that is made to keep a tally)
verb
- (transitive) To remove obstructions, impediments or other unwanted items from.
- (transitive, firearms) To unload a firearm, or undergo an unloading procedure, in order to prevent negligent discharge; for safety reasons, to check whether one's firearm is loaded or unloaded.
- (transitive) To pass without interference; to miss.
- (transitive, computing) To style (an element within a document) so that it is not permitted to float at a given position.
- (transitive, video games) To finish or complete (a stage, challenge, or game).
- (transitive) To approve or authorise for a particular purpose or action; to give clearance to.
- (intransitive) To obtain a clearance.
- (transitive) To obtain permission to use (a sample of copyrighted audio) in another track.
- (intransitive) To leave abruptly; to clear off or clear out.
- (transitive) To remove from suspicion, especially of having committed a crime.
- (transitive, business) To earn a profit of; to net.
- (transitive) To remove (items or material) so as to leave something unobstructed or open.
- (transitive, activities such as jumping or throwing) To exceed a stated mark.
- (transitive) To obtain approval or authorisation in respect of.
- (transitive, computing) To reset or unset; to return to an empty state or to zero.
- (intransitive) Of a check or financial transaction, to go through as payment; to be processed so that the money is transferred.
- To disengage oneself from incumbrances, distress, or entanglements; to become free.
- (transitive) To eliminate ambiguity or doubt from (a matter); to clarify or resolve; to clear up.
- (intransitive) To become free from obstruction or obscurement; to become transparent.
- (transitive, intransitive, sports) To hit, kick, head, punch etc. (a ball, puck) away in order to defend one's goal.
- go away or disappear
- free from payment of customs duties, as of a shipment
- make a way or path by removing objects
- remove the occupants of
- settle, as of a debt
- go unchallenged; be approved
- make as a net profit
- be debited and credited to the proper bank accounts
- clear from impurities, blemishes, pollution, etc.
- sell to get rid of
- rid of instructions or data
- free (the throat) by making a rasping sound
- make clear, bright, light, or translucent
- grant authorization or clearance for
- earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages
- remove (people) from a building
- become clear
- yield as a net profit
- remove debris from
- make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear
- pronounce not guilty of criminal charges
- pass by, over, or under without making contact
- pass an inspection or receive authorization
- rid of obstructions
adj
- Possessing little or no perceptible stimulus.
- (MLE) Better than, superior to.
- (meteorology) Of the sky, such that less than one eighth of its area is obscured by clouds.
- (MLE) Good, the best.
- Able to perceive straightforwardly; keen; acute; penetrating; discriminating.
- Transparent in colour.
- Unmixed; entirely pure.
- Without clouds.
- Bright; luminous; not dark or obscured.
- Distinct, sharp, well-marked.
- (figuratively) Free of guilt, or suspicion.
- (of a soup) Without a thickening ingredient.
- (of a railway signal) Showing a green aspect, allowing a train to proceed past it.
- Without diminution; in full; net.
- Not clouded with passion; serene; cheerful.
- Free of ambiguity or doubt; easily understood.
- Free of obstacles.
- (Scientology) Free from the influence of engrams; see Clear (Scientology).
- Without defects or blemishes, such as freckles or knots.
- Easily or distinctly heard; audible.
- freed from any question of guilt
- free from contact or proximity or connection
- (especially of a title) free from any encumbrance or limitation that presents a question of fact or law
- allowing light to pass through
- clear of charges or deductions
- clear and distinct to the senses; easily perceptible
- free of restrictions or qualifications
- free from flaw or blemish or impurity
- readily apparent to the mind
- free from clouds or mist or haze
- (of sound or color) free from anything that dulls or dims
- characterized by freedom from troubling thoughts (especially guilt)
- easily deciphered
- free from confusion or doubt
- affording free passage or view
- characterized by ease and quickness in perceiving
- accurately stated or described
adv
noun
- (Scientology) A person who is free from the influence of engrams.
- (carpentry) Full extent; distance between extreme limits; especially; the distance between the nearest surfaces of two bodies, or the space between walls.
- (video games) The completion of a stage or challenge, or of the whole game.
- a clear or unobstructed space or expanse of land or water
- the state of being free of suspicion
verb
- (transitive) To avert or prevent.
- (lacrosse) To, while in possession of the ball, move the free hand or the hand and arm holding the butt end of the stick laterally into a defending player's body or stick.
- (transitive) To parry, or turn aside.
- prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; to protect from or to keep away anything undesirable; to ward off
- avert, turn away, or repel
verb
- (transitive) To hinder from liberty of movement; to impede; to obstruct.
- (transitive) To involve in difficulties concerning money matters; to encumber with debt; to beset with urgent claims or demands.
- (transitive) to humiliate; to disrupt somebody's composure or comfort with acting publicly or freely; to abash.
- (transitive, formal) To perplex mentally; confuse, disconcert; catch off guard.
- hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of
- cause to be embarrassed; cause to feel self-conscious
verb
- (transitive) To impede; detain.
- (figurative) To highlight, as if lifting up for display.
- (idiomatic) To fulfil or complete one's part of an agreement.
- (transitive) To support or lift.
- To keep up; not to fall behind; not to lose ground.
- (of a work) To continue to be seen as favorable, to avoid seeming dated.
- (idiomatic) To withstand; to stand up to; to survive.
- (idiomatic) To detain by threatening, usually with a weapon, in order to commit robbery.
- (idiomatic) To maintain composure despite hardship.
- (intransitive, informal) To wait or delay.
- resist or confront with resistance
- be the physical support of; carry the weight of
- cause to be slowed down or delayed
- hold up something as an example; hold up one's achievements for admiration
- rob at gunpoint or by means of some other threat
- resist or withstand wear, criticism, etc.
- continue to live and avoid dying
verb
noun
verb
adj
- (of another person) So hated or offensive as to be absolutely shunned, ignored, or ostracized.
- Without interest to one of the senses; dull; flat.
- (not comparable) Broken or inoperable.
- (usually not comparable) Devoid of living things; barren.
- (usually not comparable) No longer living; deceased. (Also used as a noun.)
- Experiencing pins and needles (paresthesia).
- (of a place) Lacking usual activity; unexpectedly quiet or empty of people.
- (not comparable) No longer used or required.
- Past, bygone, vanished.
- (not comparable) Exact; on the dot.
- (not comparable) Full and complete (usually applied to nouns involving lack of motion, sound, activity, or other signs of life).
- (not comparable, sports) Not in play.
- (rare, especially religion, often with "to") Indifferent to; having no obligation toward; no longer subject to or ruled by (sin, guilt, pleasure, etc).
- (literal or hyperbolic) Doomed; marked for death; as good as dead.
- (of a battery) Unable to emit power, being discharged (flat) or faulty.
- (not comparable, baseball, slang, 1800s) Tagged out.
- Unproductive; fallow.
- (linguistics) Of a syllable in languages such as Thai and Burmese: ending abruptly.
- (acoustics) Constructed so as not to reflect or transmit sound; soundless; anechoic.
- (engineering) Intentionally designed so as not to impart motion or power.
- Without emotion; impassive.
- (not comparable, golf, of a golf ball) Lying so near the hole that the player is certain to hole it in the next stroke.
- (law) Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property.
- (hyperbolic) Dying of laughter.
- Stationary; static; immobile or immovable.
- (hyperbolic) Figuratively, not alive; lacking life.
- Utterly exhausted.
- (not comparable, of a machine, device, or electrical circuit) Completely inactive; currently without power; without a signal; not live.
- Expresses shock, second-hand embarrassment, etc.
- unerringly accurate
- out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown
- drained of electric charge; discharged
- not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heat
- no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life
- physically inactive
- lacking resilience or bounce
- devoid of physical sensation; numb
- no longer having force or relevance
- (followed by ‘to’) not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive
- the complete stoppage of an action
- devoid of activity
- not circulating or flowing
- not surviving in active use
- lacking acoustic resonance
- not yielding a return
- very tired
adv
noun
- (bodybuilding, colloquial) Clipping of deadlift.
- (UK) (usually in the plural) Sterile mining waste, often present as many large rocks stacked inside the workings.
- (often with "the") Time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense.
- (with "the") Those who have died: dead people.
- people who are no longer living
- a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense
verb
- (transitive) To restrict or restrain.
- (transitive) To prevent (a pupil) from advancing in a course.
- (intransitive) To stay back; to refrain from approaching.
- (transitive) To hold back; to refuse to give or share.
- secure and keep for possible future use or application
- prevent the action or expression of
- hold back; refuse to hand over or share
verb
- (transitive) To forbid (someone) from doing something.
- (transitive) To forbid (an action or thing) by formal or legal sanction.
- (transitive, US, military) To impede (an enemy); to interrupt or destroy (enemy communications, supply lines etc).
- (transitive, Roman Catholicism) To exclude (someone or somewhere) from participation in church services; to place under a religious interdict.
- destroy by firepower, such as an enemy's line of communication
- command against
noun
- (Scots law) An injunction.
- A papal decree prohibiting the administration of the sacraments from a political entity under the power of a single person (e.g., a king or an oligarchy with similar powers). Extreme unction/Anointing of the Sick is excepted.
- an ecclesiastical censure by the Roman Catholic Church withdrawing certain sacraments and Christian burial from a person or all persons in a particular district
- a court order prohibiting a party from doing a certain activity
verb
- (transitive) To prevent, or refuse to allow, passage or progress.
- (transitive) To fold something back; to fold down.
- (transitive) To adjust to a previous setting.
- (transitive) To cause to reverse direction and retrace one's steps.
- To return to a previous state of being.
- (intransitive) To reverse direction and retrace one's steps.
- hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of
- go back to a previous state
- force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings
- turn inside out or upside down
- retrace one's course
verb
noun
verb
- To stop, check, block; to hinder, impede.
- To stop short and refuse to go on.
- To engage in contradiction; to be in opposition.
- To leave or make balks in.
- (intransitive, sports) To make a deceptive motion to deceive another player.
- To disappoint; to frustrate.
- To omit, miss, or overlook by chance.
- To leave heaped up; to heap up in piles.
- To refuse suddenly.
- refuse to comply
noun
- A hindrance or disappointment; a check.
- A sudden and obstinate stop.
- (fishing) The rope by which fishing nets are fastened together.
- (archaeology) The wall of earth at the edge of an excavation.
- (baseball) An illegal motion by the pitcher, intended to deceive a runner.
- Beam, crossbeam; squared timber; a tie beam of a house, stretching from wall to wall, especially when laid so as to form a loft, "the balks".
- (billiards) The area of the table lying behind the line from which the cue ball is initially shot, and from which a ball in hand must be played.
- (UK dialectal) A small brass ornament fixed at the top of a wand.
- (agriculture) An uncultivated ridge formed in the open field system, caused by the action of ploughing.
- (snooker) The area of the table lying behind the baulk line.
- (badminton) A motion used to deceive the opponent during a serve.
- an illegal pitching motion while runners are on base
- one of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof
- the area on a billiard table behind the balkline
- something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress
verb
- (transitive) To insulate, or make free of external influence.
- (transitive) To insulate an electrical component from a source of electricity.
- (transitive) To place in quarantine or isolation.
- (transitive) To set apart or cut off from others.
- (transitive, chemistry) To separate a substance in pure form from a mixture.
- (intransitive) To self-isolate.
- (transitive, microbiology) To separate a pure strain of bacteria etc. from a mixed culture.
- set apart from others
- separate (experiences) from the emotions relating to them
- place or set apart
- obtain in pure form
adj
noun
verb
- (transitive) To close or block an opening.
- (transitive) To cease; to no longer continue.
- (phonetics, transitive) To pronounce (a phoneme) as a stop.
- (transitive) To cause (something) to come to an end.
- (causative, transitive) To interrupt, prevent or end the activity of someone or something. [with direct object, along with gerund (chiefly UK) or direct object, along with from, along with gerund (chiefly US)]
- (music) To regulate the sounds of (musical strings, etc.) by pressing them against the fingerboard with the finger, or otherwise shortening the vibrating part.
- (transitive, intransitive, photography, often with "up" or "down") To adjust the aperture of a camera lens.
- (transitive) To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing.
- (intransitive) To cease moving.
- (intransitive) Not to continue.
- (intransitive) To stay; to spend a short time; to reside or tarry temporarily.
- (nautical) To make fast; to stopper.
- (finance, transitive) To delay the purchase or sale of (a stock) while agreeing the price for later.
- hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of
- come to a halt, stop moving
- stop from happening or developing
- cause to end
- seize on its way
- have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
- put an end to a state or an activity
- stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments
- render unsuitable for passage
- interrupt a trip
noun
- (tennis) A very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce as little as possible.
- An action of stopping; interruption of travel.
- (photography) A unit of exposure corresponding to a doubling of the brightness of an image.
- (architecture) A member, plain or moulded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts.
- (physics) The squark that is the superpartner of a top quark.
- (UK dialectal) A small well-bucket; a milk-pail.
- A marking on a rabbit's hind foot.
- (music) A knob or pin used to regulate the flow of air in an organ.
- (engineering) A device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for arresting or limiting motion, or for determining the position to which another part shall be brought.
- (photography) A part of a photographic system that reduces the amount of light.
- (soccer) A save; preventing the opposition from scoring a goal
- A symbol used for purposes of punctuation and representing a pause or separating clauses, particularly a full stop, comma, colon or semicolon.
- (fencing) A coup d'arret, or stop thrust.
- (zoology) The depression in a dog’s face between the skull and the nasal bones.
- A device intended to block the path of a moving object
- That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; an obstacle; an impediment.
- (music) One of the vent-holes in a wind instrument, or the place on the wire of a stringed instrument, by the stopping or pressing of which certain notes are produced.
- The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses.
- A (usually marked) place where buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually smaller than a station.
- (photography) An f-stop.
- (linguistics) A consonant sound in which the passage of air is temporarily blocked by the lips, tongue, or glottis.
- (UK, grammar, informal) Ellipsis of full stop.
- the event of something ending
- a brief stay in the course of a journey
- a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens
- a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it
- an obstruction in a pipe or tube
- the state of inactivity following an interruption
- (music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes
- the act of stopping something
- a restraint that checks the motion of something
- a punctuation mark (‘.’) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
- a spot where something halts or pauses
punct
verb
- (transitive) To trap or immobilize something, usually a vehicle, by placing obstacles, usually other vehicles, around it to obstruct its free movement.
- (transitive) To enclose by drawing a box around.
- (transitive, figuratively) To limit someone's freedom of thought, movement, expression, etc.
- enclose or confine as if in a box
verb
- To disable; to impede.
- To walk lame, or unevenly.
- To fetter by tying the legs; to restrict (a horse) with hobbles.
- (figurative) To move or proceed roughly or irregularly.
- strap the foreleg and hind leg together on each side (of a horse) in order to keep the legs on the same side moving in unison
- walk impeded by some physical limitation or injury
- hamper the action or progress of
noun
- (chiefly in the plural) One of the short straps tied between the legs of unfenced horses, allowing them to wander short distances but preventing them from running off.
- (dialect, UK and Newfoundland) An odd job; a piece of casual work.
- An unsteady, off-balance step.
- the uneven manner of walking that results from an injured leg
- a shackle for the ankles or feet
verb
- (transitive) To forcefully diminish the power or influence of; to quell; to squash.
- (transitive, informal) To haggle with (someone) to sell at a lower price.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see beat, down.
- (transitive) To wear (someone) out by repeated actions that overwhelm one's patience or strength.
- (transitive, slang) To severely beat someone up.
- (intransitive) (of the sun) To shine brightly and radiate with intense heat.
- (intransitive) (of rain) To strike with great force.
- dislodge from a position
- persuade the seller to accept a lower price
- shine hard
noun
verb
- (transitive) To repel greatly.
- To cause to turn back; to roll or drive back; to put to flight.
- (intransitive) To be disgusted, shocked, or grossly offended; hence, to feel nausea; used with at.
- (card games) to perform a revolution in Tycoon, reversing the card hierarchy
- (intransitive) To rebel, particularly against authority.
- To turn away; to abandon or reject something; specifically, to turn away, or shrink, with abhorrence.
- cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of
- make revolution
- fill with distaste
noun
verb
- (transitive) to prevent from entering or penetrating.
- (transitive) to cover something, so as to make it impossible to see.
- (idiomatic, transitive) to prevent (a thought) from entering one's mind.
- (transitive) to begin to reduce to shape; to mark out roughly; to lay out.
- plan where and when songs should be inserted into a theatrical production, or plan a theatrical production in general
- indicate roughly
- shield from light
- prevent from entering
verb
noun
- (chess) The act of preventing an opponent's pawn moving by placing a piece in front of it.
- The physical blocking or surrounding of a place, especially a port, in order to prevent commerce and traffic in or out.
- (biology, medicine) Inhibition of the activity (function) of chemical messengers or their receptors, such as (often) receptor antagonism.
- (backgammon) Synonym of prime.
- (nautical) The ships or other forces used to effect a naval blockade.
- (by extension) Any form of formal isolation or inhibition of something, especially with the force of law or arms.
- a war measure that isolates some area of importance to the enemy
- prevents access or progress
verb
- obstruct
- carry with difficulty
- (transitive, sometimes figurative) To haul or drag along (especially something heavy); to carry; to pull.
- (intransitive, horse-racing) To pull toward the inside rail ("lugging in") or the outside rail ("lugging out") during a race.
- (transitive, nautical) To carry an excessive amount of sail for the conditions prevailing.
- (transitive) To run at too slow a speed.
noun
- marine worms having a row of tufted gills along each side of the back; often used for fishing bait
- a projecting piece that is used to lift or support or turn something
- a sail with four corners that is hoisted from a yard that is oblique to the mast
- A lugworm.
- (UK) An ear or ear lobe.
- (automotive) A lug nut.
- A large, clumsy, awkward man; a fool.
- (electrical engineering) A device for terminating an electrical conductor to facilitate the mechanical connection; to the conductor it may be crimped to form a cold weld, soldered or have pressure from a screw.
- A part of something which sticks out, used as a handle or support.
- A wood box used for transporting fruit or vegetables.
- (harness) The leather loop or ear by which a shaft is held up.
- The act of hauling or dragging.
- Anything that moves slowly.
- A loop (or protuberance) found on both arms of a hinge, featuring a hole for the axis of the hinge.
- That which is hauled or dragged.
- A ridge or other protuberance on the surface of a body to increase traction or provide a hold for holding and moving it.
- (UK, dialect) A rod or pole.
- (slang) A request for money, as for political purposes.
- (informal) A pull or drag on a cigarette.
- (nautical) A lugsail.
verb
- obstruct
- treat with grease, fill, and prepare for mounting
- overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself
- press or force
- fill tightly with a material
- fill with a stuffing while cooking
- cram into a cavity
- (transitive, mildly vulgar, often imperative) Used to contemptuously dismiss or reject something. See also stuff it.
- (transitive) To load goods into (a container) for transport.
- (transitive, British, Australia, New Zealand) To break; to destroy.
- To preserve a dead bird or other animal by filling its skin.
- (transitive) To obstruct, as any of the organs; to affect with some obstruction in the organs of sense or respiration.
- (informal) To heavily defeat or get the better of.
- (transitive, cooking) To fill with seasoning.
- (transitive) To fill by packing or crowding something into; to cram with something; to load to excess.
- (transitive, computing) To compress (a file or files) in the StuffIt format, to be unstuffed later.
- (pronominal) To eat, especially in a hearty or greedy manner.
- (transitive) To cut off another competitor in a race by disturbing his projected and committed racing line (trajectory) by an abrupt manoeuvre.
- (transitive) To form or fashion by packing with the necessary material.
- (transitive) To fill a space with (something) in a compressed manner.
- (transitive, vulgar, British, Australia, New Zealand) To sexually penetrate.
- (transitive, used in the passive) To sate.
noun
- the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object
- unspecified qualities required to do or be something
- a critically important or characteristic component
- informal terms for personal possessions
- information in some unspecified form
- senseless talk
- miscellaneous unspecified objects
- (informal) Unspecified things or matters.
- The tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object.
- (informal) Miscellaneous items or objects; (with possessive) personal effects.
- Abstract/figurative substance or character.
- (informal) Used as placeholder, usually for material of unknown type or name.
- (slang) Narcotic drugs, especially heroin.
- (nautical) A melted mass of turpentine, tallow, etc., with which the masts, sides, and bottom of a ship are smeared for lubrication.
- (sometimes euphemistic) Refuse or worthless matter; hence, also, foolish or irrational language.
- Paper stock ground ready for use. When partly ground, it is called half stuff.
verb
noun
verb
- (transitive, by extension) To undermine or thwart oneself or one's position or property, especially deliberately.
- (intransitive) To move hastily, to scurry.
- (transitive, nautical) To cut a hole or holes through the bottom, deck, or sides of (as of a ship), for any purpose.
- (transitive, by extension) To deliberately wreck one's vehicle (of any sort).
- (transitive) To deliberately sink one's ship or boat by any means, usually by order of the vessel's commander or owner.
- to move about or proceed hurriedly
noun
- A broad, shallow basket.
- A quick pace; a short run.
- A container like an open bucket (usually to hold and carry coal).
- (construction) A hatch that provides access to the roof from the interior of a building.
- A small hatch or opening in a boat, sometimes one used for draining water from open deck.
- (automotive) By extension, the bulkhead at the front of the passenger compartment.
- (automotive) A drained trough between the windscreen and bonnet of a motor vehicle, forming the intake to the heating/air-conditioning system, often also containing the windscreen wiper motor.
- an entrance equipped with a hatch; especially a passageway between decks of a ship
- container for coal; shaped to permit pouring the coal onto the fire
verb
- (transitive) To protect or isolate.
- (transitive) To confine in a cloister, voluntarily or not.
- (transitive) To provide with a cloister or cloisters.
- (intransitive) To deliberately withdraw from worldly things.
- (intransitive) To become a Roman Catholic religious.
- surround with a cloister, as of a garden
- surround with a cloister
- seclude from the world in or as if in a cloister
noun
- A place, especially a monastery or convent, devoted to religious seclusion.
- such an arcade fitted with representations of the stages of Christ's Passion.
- such an arcade in a monastery;
- (figuratively) The monastic life.
- residence that is a place of religious seclusion (such as a monastery)
- a courtyard with covered walks (as in religious institutions)
verb
adj
noun
verb
- (transitive, originally) To shut up or out; to prevent from doing something.
- (transitive, law) To repossess a mortgaged property whose owner has failed to make the necessary payments; used with on.
- (transitive, law) To cut off (a mortgager) by a judgment of court from the power of redeeming the mortgaged premises.
- keep from happening or arising; make impossible
- subject to foreclosing procedures; take away the right of mortgagors to redeem their mortgage
verb
- (transitive, intransitive) To damage, harm, impair, undermine, impede.
- (transitive, intransitive) To cause (somebody) emotional pain.
- (transitive, intransitive) To cause (a person or animal) physical pain and/or injury.
- (intransitive, stative) To be painful.
- cause emotional anguish or make miserable
- hurt the feelings of
- be in pain
- cause damage or affect negatively
- give trouble or pain to
- be the source of pain
adj
noun
- An emotional or psychological humiliation or bad experience.
- (engineering) A band on a trip hammer's helve, bearing the trunnions.
- A husk.
- (heraldry) A roundel azure (blue circular spot).
- feelings of mental or physical pain
- the act of damaging something or someone
- any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.; the condition of an injury
- a damage or loss
- psychological suffering
verb
- (transitive) To shut in, enclose, confine; to surround something or someone in a confining way.
- To make the sound expressed by the word hem; to hesitate in speaking.
- (transitive) To put hem on an article of clothing, to edge or put a border on something.
- (sewing, intransitive) To make a hem.
- fold over and sew together to provide with a hem
- utter ‘hem’ or ‘ahem’
intj
noun
- In sheet metal design, a rim or edge folded back on itself to create a smooth edge and to increase strength or rigidity.
- A rim or margin of something.
- (sewing) The border of an article of clothing doubled back and stitched together to finish the edge and prevent it from fraying.
- An utterance or sound of the voice like "hem", often indicative of hesitation or doubt, sometimes used to call attention.
- the utterance of a sound similar to clearing the throat; intended to get attention, express hesitancy, fill a pause, hide embarrassment, warn a friend, etc.
- the edge of a piece of cloth; especially the finished edge that has been doubled under and stitched down
verb
- (transitive) To obstruct or block.
- (intransitive) To become denser or more crowded with objects.
- (intransitive) To finish; to come to an end.
- To grapple; to engage in close combat.
- (ambitransitive) To move a thing, or part of a thing, nearer to another so that the gap or opening between the two is removed.
- (Philippines, Quebec, Greece, Cyprus) To turn off; to switch off.
- (transitive) To perform as the final act at (a show etc.).
- (transitive) To put out of use or operation.
- (transitive, baseball, pitching) To make the final outs, usually three, of a game.
- (transitive, intransitive, especially sports) To angle (a club, bat or other hitting implement) downwards and/or (for a right-hander) anticlockwise of straight.
- (intransitive) To cease operation or cease to be available.
- (transitive, intransitive, electricity, of a switch, fuse or circuit breaker) To move to a position allowing electricity to flow.
- (transitive, intransitive, engineering, gas and liquid flow, of valve or damper) To move to a position preventing fluid from flowing.
- (surveying) To have a vector sum of 0; that is, to form a closed polygon.
- (figuratively, transitive, intransitive) To make or become unreceptive.
- (ergative, marketing) To conclude (a sale).
- (intransitive) To do the tasks (putting things away, locking doors, etc.) required to prepare a store or other establishment to shut down for the night.
- (ergative, computing) To terminate an application, window, file or database connection, etc.
- (intransitive, of a business, market etc.) To cease trading for the day, or permanently.
- (transitive, finance) To cancel or reverse (a trading position).
- (chiefly figurative) To come or gather around; to enclose.
- (transitive) To end or conclude.
- come to a close
- draw near
- change one's body stance so that the forward shoulder and foot are closer to the intended point of impact
- be priced or listed when trading stops
- unite or bring into contact or bring together the edges of
- cease to operate or cause to cease operating
- move so that an opening or passage is obstructed; make shut
- complete a business deal, negotiation, or an agreement
- cause a window or an application to disappear on a computer desktop
- fill or stop up
- come together, as if in an embrace
- become closed
- bar access to
- finish a game in baseball by protecting a lead
- finish or terminate (meetings, speeches, etc.)
- engage at close quarters
- bring together all the elements or parts of
adj
- (archaic outside certain phrases) Physically narrow or confined.
- At little distance; near in space or time.
- Intimate or immediate in personal relationship.
- Nearly equal; almost evenly balanced; almost exactly matching.
- Carefully done, detailed.
- Accurate; precise.
- (Ireland, UK, weather) Hot, humid, with no wind.
- Tight, with little space separating components or elements.
- (linguistics, phonetics, of a vowel) Articulated with the tongue body relatively close to the hard palate.
- Strictly confined; carefully guarded.
- Tightly restricted in availability.
- Almost, but not quite (getting to an answer, goal, or other state); near.
- (law) Of a corporation or other business entity, closely held.
- Attentive; undeviating; strict.
- (in particular) Almost resulting in disaster.
- (heraldry, of a bird) With its wings at its side, closed, held near to its body (typically also statant); (of wings) in this posture.
- Short.
- Oppressive; without motion or ventilation; causing a feeling of lassitude.
- Involving a tight connection; involving frequent communication, shared or cooperative activity, etc.
- Marked, evident.
- Adhering strictly to a standard or original; exact or nearly so.
- not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances
- close in relevance or relationship
- confined to specific persons
- crowded
- strictly confined or guarded
- at or within a short distance in space or time or having elements near each other
- lacking fresh air
- inclined to secrecy or reticence about divulging information
- (of a contest or contestants) evenly matched
- of textiles
- marked by fidelity to an original
- used of hair or haircuts
- fitting closely but comfortably
- rigorously attentive; strict and thorough
- giving or spending with reluctance
adv
noun
- (chiefly British) A street that ends in a dead end.
- A cathedral close.
- (music) The conclusion of a strain of music; cadence.
- An end or conclusion.
- (aviation, travel) The time when check-in staff will no longer accept passengers for a flight.
- The manner of shutting; the union of parts; junction.
- (Scotland) The common staircase in a tenement.
- (music) A double bar marking the end.
- (sales) The point at the end of a sales pitch when the consumer is asked to buy.
- (Scotland) A very narrow alley between two buildings, often overhung by one of the buildings above the ground floor.
- (law) The interest which one may have in a piece of ground, even though it is not enclosed
- A grapple in wrestling.
- the last section of a communication
- the temporal end; the concluding time
- the concluding part of any performance
verb
noun
- (historical) The lists in a tournament.
- (historical, in the plural) A martial exercise of the 15th and 16th centuries.
- (grammar) A node (in government and binding theory) said to intervene between other nodes A and B if it is a potential governor for B, c-commands B, and does not c-command A.
- An obstacle or impediment.
- (physiology) A separation between two areas of the body where specialized cells allow the entry of certain substances but prevent the entry of others.
- A structure that bars passage.
- A boundary or limit.
- any condition that makes it difficult to make progress or to achieve an objective
- a structure or object that impedes free movement
- anything serving to maintain separation by obstructing vision or access
verb
adj
noun
verb
- (transitive) To block, obstruct
- To enter (something), making it full.
- To occupy fully, to take up all of.
- (of containers, cavities, or the like)
- (transitive, slang, vulgar, of a male) To have sexual intercourse with (a female).
- (transitive, slang, vulgar, of a male) To ejaculate inside someone or something.
- (transitive) To satisfy or obey (an order, request, or requirement).
- (transitive) To install someone, or be installed, in (a position or office), eliminating a vacancy.
- To become pervaded with something.
- (transitive) To supply fully with food; to feed; to satisfy.
- (transitive) To treat (a tooth) by adding a dental filling to it.
- To add contents to (a container, cavity, or the like) so that it is full.
- (transitive, nautical) To trim (a yard) so that the wind blows on the after side of the sails.
- appoint someone to (a position or a job)
- become full
- assume, as of positions or roles
- plug with a substance
- fill to satisfaction
- eat until one is sated
- occupy the whole of
- make full, also in a metaphorical sense
- fill, satisfy or meet a want or need or condition or restriction
noun
- Inexpensive material used to occupy empty spaces, especially in construction.
- The filling of a container or area.
- (archaeology) Soil and/or human-created debris discovered within a cavity or cut in the layers and exposed by excavation; fill soil.
- (music) A short passage, riff, or rhythmic sound that helps to keep the listener's attention during a break between the phrases of a melody.
- An amount that fills a container.
- (film, television) Ellipsis of fill light.
- (after a possessive) A sufficient or more than sufficient amount.
- (weaving) The weft yarn.
- (crosswording) The answers in a crossword puzzle that are not part of the theme.
- An embankment, as in railroad construction, to fill a hollow or ravine; also, the place which is to be filled.
- One of the thills or shafts of a carriage.
- any material that fills a space or container
- a quantity sufficient to satisfy
verb
- (transitive) To obstruct or surround.
- (transitive, finance) To offset the risk associated with.
- (ambitransitive) To avoid verbal commitment.
- (intransitive, finance) To reduce one's exposure to risk.
- (transitive) To enclose with a hedge or hedges.
- (intransitive) To construct or repair a hedge.
- hinder or restrict with or as if with a hedge
- avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
- enclose or bound in with or as it with a hedge or hedges
- minimize loss or risk
noun
- A barrier (often consisting of a line of persons or objects) to protect someone or something from harm.
- (linguistics, especially applied linguistics and pragmatics) A noncommittal or intentionally ambiguous statement.
- (UK, Ireland, attributive, figurative) With indication of a person's upbringing, or professional activities, taking place by the side of the road; being third-rate, poor, shoddy.
- (finance) Contract or arrangement reducing one's exposure to risk (for example the risk of price movements or interest rate movements).
- (UK, West Country, chiefly Devon and Cornwall) A mound of earth, stone- or turf-faced, often topped with bushes, used as a fence between any two portions of land.
- A thicket of bushes or other shrubbery, especially one planted as a fence between two portions of land, or to separate the parts of a garden.
- any technique designed to reduce or eliminate financial risk; for example, taking two positions that will offset each other if prices change
- a fence formed by a row of closely planted shrubs or bushes
- an intentionally noncommittal or ambiguous statement
verb
- (transitive) To remove or clear a block or obstruction from.
- (transitive) To free or make available.
- (transitive) To enable communication again, via telephone, instant messaging, etc., with (somebody previously blocked).
- (intransitive, card games) In whist, to throw away a high card so as not to interrupt one's partner's long suit.
- play the cards of (a suit) so that the last trick on which a hand can follow suit will be taken by a higher card in the hand of a partner who has the remaining cards of a combined holding
- clear or remove an obstruction from
- make (assets) available
noun
verb
- (transitive, sometimes figurative) To block up; to cause something to be blocked.
- obstruct
- (baseball, intransitive) To hold the bat higher (farther from the knob) than is normal.
- (intransitive) To (temporarily) lose one's power of speech, because of strong emotion.
- (transitive) To cause (a person) temporarily to lose the power of speech, because of strong emotion.
- (intransitive, often imperative) To cease talking.
verb
- (transitive) To delay or obstruct.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To cost money.
- To reverse, go backwards.
- (transitive) To remove from or allow distance.
- (transitive) To install or position behind a boundary or surface, or in a recess.
- slow down the progress of; hinder
- cost a certain amount
- hold back to a later time
verb
- (transitive) To destroy or disable something.
- (intransitive, of rain) To fall sometimes connoting hard, as if to smash something, other times light and dispersed.
- (intransitive) To smash, or break into tiny pieces.
- (transitive) To violently break something into pieces.
- (transitive) To dispirit or emotionally defeat.
- (intransitive, agriculture) Of seeds: to disperse (become dispersed) upon ripening.
- break into many pieces
- cause to break into many pieces
- damage or destroy
noun
verb
- (transitive) To hinder or prevent.
- (US, law, transitive) To prohibit (a person or company that has been convicted of criminal acts in connection with a government program) from future participation in that program.
- (transitive) To exclude or shut out; to bar.
- bar temporarily; from school, office, etc.
- prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; to protect from or to keep away anything undesirable; to ward off
- prevent from entering; keep out
verb
- (transitive, by extension) To impede or disrupt.
- (transitive) To cause a short circuit in.
- (transitive, by extension) To force termination of an ongoing process before its natural conclusion, by bypassing one or more intermediary steps.
- (transitive, computing) To terminate a loop before the declared termination condition is met, or a conditional before all conditions have been tested for.
- (intransitive) To undergo a short circuit.
- (transitive) To bypass, especially by overhastiness.
noun
verb
- (transitive) To hinder; obstruct; disconcert; foil.
- (intransitive, of the eye) To quail.
- (transitive) To deceive; cheat.
- (transitive) To draw back from; shrink; avoid; elude; deny, as from fear.
- (intransitive) To fly off; to turn aside.
- (intransitive) To shrink; start back; give way; flinch; turn aside or fly off.
- turn pale, as if in fear
noun
verb
- (transitive) To fill or obstruct (something) so that it is not possible to pass.
- (transitive) To prevent (something from happening or someone from doing something).
- obstruct
- (transitive) To shape or sketch out roughly.
- (transitive) To bar (impose a ban on a person or bot, etc.) from connecting via telephone, instant messaging, etc., or from accessing an online account or service, or similar.
- (transitive) To shape, stretch, or mould knitted items, hats, books (and book covers), shoes, etc.
- (intransitive, cricket) To play a block shot.
- (transitive, sports) To impede (an opponent or opponent’s play).
- (transitive) To bar (a message or communication), or bar connection with (an online account or service, a designated telephone number, IP address, etc.).
- (transitive, cricket) To hit with a block.
- (programming, intransitive) To wait for some condition to become true.
- (transitive) To prevent (something or someone) from passing.
- (intransitive) To experience mental block or creative block.
- (transitive, theater) To specify the positions and movements of the actors for (a section of a play or film).
- shut out from view or get in the way so as to hide from sight
- stop from happening or developing
- hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of
- run on a block system
- shape into a block or blocks
- interfere with or prevent the reception of signals
- block passage through
- support, secure, or raise with a block
- impede the movement of (an opponent or a ball)
- stamp or emboss a title or design on a book with a block
- render unsuitable for passage
- be unable to remember
- shape by using a block
- prohibit the conversion or use of (assets)
- interrupt the normal function of by means of anesthesia
noun
- (computing, social media) A temporary or permanent ban that prevents access to an online account or service, or connection to or from a designated telephone number, IP address, or similar.
- A wig block: a simplified head model upon which wigs are worn.
- A chopping block: a cuboid base for cutting or beheading.
- A cuboid or approximately cuboid building.
- (slang) The human head.
- Interference or obstruction of cognitive processes.
- (programming) A region of code in a program that acts as a single unit, such as a function or loop.
- (UK) Solitary confinement.
- (cricket) A shot played by holding the bat vertically in the path of the ball, so that it loses momentum and drops to the ground.
- A contiguous group of urban lots of property, typically several acres in extent, not crossed by public streets.
- (gymnastics) The portion of the movement where a gymnast pushes off the vault.
- A cellblock.
- (sports) An action to interfere with the movement of an opposing player or of the object of play (ball, puck).
- (chemistry) A portion of a macromolecule, comprising many units, that has at least one feature not present in adjacent portions.
- The distance from one street to another in a city or suburb that is built (approximately) to a grid pattern.
- A physical area or extent of something, often rectangular or approximately rectangular.
- (falconry) The perch on which a bird of prey is kept.
- (viticulture) A discrete group of vines in a vineyard, often distinguished from others by variety, clone, canopy training method, irrigation infrastructure, or some combination thereof.
- (cricket) The position of a player or bat when guarding the wicket.
- (cricket) The popping crease.
- A section of split logs used as fuel.
- (backgammon) Any point on the board where two or more men rest, and consequently an opponent may not land.
- (rail transport) A section of a railroad where the block system is used.
- (volleyball) A defensive play by one or more players meant to deflect a spiked ball back to the hitter’s court.
- A set of sheets (of paper) joined together at one end, forming a cuboid shape.
- A logical extent or region; a grouping or apportionment of like things treated together as a unit.
- (cricket) A blockhole.
- Misspelling of bloc.
- A case or frame housing one or more sheaves (pulleys), used with ropes to increase or redirect force, for example as part of lifting gear or a sailing ship's rigging. See also block and tackle.
- (education) A yeargroup at Eton College.
- (philately) A joined group of four (or in some cases nine) postage stamps, forming a roughly square shape.
- (computing) A logical data storage unit containing one or more physical sectors.
- (computing) A contiguous range of Unicode code points used to encode characters of a specific type; can be of any size evenly divisible by 16, up to 65,536 (a full plane).
- A mould on which hats, bonnets, etc., are shaped.
- A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.
- (cellular automata) In Conway's Game of Life, a still life consisting of four living cells arranged in a two-by-two square.
- Something that prevents something from passing.
- (cryptography) A fixed-length group of bits making up part of a message.
- a number or quantity of related things dealt with as a unit
- a simple machine consisting of a wheel with a groove in which a rope can run to change the direction or point of application of a force applied to the rope
- the act of obstructing or deflecting someone's movements
- (computer science) a sector or group of sectors that function as the smallest data unit permitted
- housing in a large building that is divided into separate units
- an obstruction in a pipe or tube
- a metal casting containing the cylinders and cooling ducts of an engine
- a three-dimensional shape with six square or rectangular sides
- a rectangular area in a city surrounded by streets and usually containing several buildings
- a solid piece of something (usually having flat rectangular sides)
- a platform from which an auctioneer sells
- an inability to remember or think of something you normally can do; often caused by emotional tension
verb
- (transitive) To stifle or suppress.
- (transitive) To kill someone by squeezing the throat so as to cut off the oxygen supply; to choke, suffocate or throttle.
- (intransitive) To be killed by strangulation, or become strangled.
- (intransitive) To be stifled, choked, or suffocated in any manner.
- kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air
- prevent the progress or free movement of
- constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing
- suppress in order to conceal or hide
- struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake
- die from strangulation
noun
verb
- (transitive, idiomatic) To block, suppress, restrain (something).
- To hold an official inquiry regarding (something); to deliberate about (something).
- (idiomatic, informal) To restrain (a person).
- (euphemistic) To insert (something) into one's vagina or anus from below.
- To be a member of (something).
- (idiomatic) To take no action on (something); to hold (something) in reserve without actually using.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see sit, on.
verb
- (transitive) To have something be held back or impeded.
- (transitive) To grasp mentally: perceive and understand.
- (transitive) To become infected by (an illness).
- (intransitive) To get pregnant.
- (transitive) To take or replenish something necessary, such as breath or sleep.
- (transitive) To reach (someone) with a strike, blow, weapon etc.
- (transitive) To reproduce or echo a spirit or idea faithfully.
- (intransitive, agriculture) To germinate and set down roots.
- (transitive) To attract and hold (a faculty or organ of sense).
- (transitive) To grip or entangle.
- (transitive) To travel by means of.
- (transitive, rare) To become pregnant. (Only in past tense or as participle.)
- (transitive, intransitive) To receive or be affected by (wind, water, fire etc.).
- (transitive) To be hit by something.
- (intransitive) To spread by infection or similar means.
- (intransitive) To be held back or impeded.
- (transitive) To entrap or trip up a person; to deceive.
- (transitive, of fire) To spread or be conveyed to.
- (transitive) To overtake or catch up to; to be in time for.
- (intransitive) To serve well or poorly for catching, especially for catching fish.
- (transitive, computing) To handle an exception.
- (transitive, intransitive, baseball) To play (a specific period of time) as the catcher.
- (transitive, cricket) To end a player's innings by catching a hit ball before the first bounce.
- (transitive) To be touched or affected by (something) through exposure.
- (transitive, rowing) To grip (the water) with one's oars at the beginning of the stroke.
- (transitive) To be the victim of (something unpleasant, painful etc.).
- (intransitive) To make a grasping or snatching motion (at).
- (transitive, surfing) To contact a wave in such a way that one can ride it back to shore.
- (transitive) To unpleasantly discover unexpectedly; to unpleasantly surprise (someone doing something).
- To notice.
- (intransitive) To engage with some mechanism; to stick, to succeed in interacting with something or initiating some process.
- (transitive, informal) To take in; to watch or listen to (an entertainment).
- (transitive) To charm or entrance.
- (transitive) To capture or snare (someone or something which would rather escape).
- (transitive) To acquire, as though by infection; to take on through sympathy or influence.
- (transitive) To seize or intercept an object moving through the air (or, sometimes, some other medium).
- grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of
- get or regain something necessary, usually quickly or briefly
- reach in time
- hear, usually without the knowledge of the speakers
- catch up with and possibly overtake
- to hook or entangle
- suffer from the receipt of
- perceive with the senses quickly, suddenly, or momentarily
- cause to become accidentally or suddenly caught, ensnared, or entangled
- attract; cause to be enamored
- perceive by hearing
- be struck or affected by
- apprehend and reproduce accurately
- come down with
- be the catcher
- attract and fix
- detect a blunder or misstep
- start burning
- succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase
- become aware of
- capture as if by hunting, snaring, or trapping
- check oneself during an action
- spread or be communicated
- delay or hold up; prevent from proceeding on schedule or as planned
- reach with a blow or hit in a particular spot
- see or watch
- take hold of so as to seize or restrain or stop the motion of
- discover or come upon accidentally, suddenly, or unexpectedly; catch somebody doing something or in a certain state
- take in and retain
noun
- (countable, music) The refrain; a line or lines of a song which are repeated from verse to verse.
- (countable) A fragment of music or poetry.
- (countable) The act of seizing or capturing.
- (countable) The act of catching an object in motion, especially a ball.
- (countable) A stopping mechanism, especially a clasp which stops something from opening.
- (countable) The act of noticing, understanding or hearing.
- Passing opportunities seized; snatches.
- (countable) Something which is captured or caught.
- (countable, cricket, baseball) The act of catching a hit ball before it reaches the ground, resulting in an out.
- (countable, sometimes noun adjunct) A concealed difficulty, especially in a deal or negotiation.
- (countable, agriculture) A crop which has germinated and begun to grow.
- (countable) A crick; a sudden muscle pain during unaccustomed positioning when the muscle is in use.
- (countable) A hesitation in voice, caused by strong emotion.
- (countable, rowing) The first contact of an oar with the water.
- (countable, cricket) A player in respect of his catching ability; particularly one who catches well.
- A slight remembrance; a trace.
- (countable, music) A type of humorous round in which the voices gradually catch up with one another; usually sung by men and often having bawdy lyrics.
- (uncountable) The game of catching a ball.
- (countable, phonetics) A stoppage of breath, resembling a slight cough.
- (countable, colloquial, by extension) A find, in particular a boyfriend or girlfriend or prospective spouse.
- a cooperative game in which a ball is passed back and forth
- a break or check in the voice (usually a sign of strong emotion)
- a drawback or difficulty that is not readily evident
- anything that is caught (especially if it is worth catching)
- a fastener that fastens or locks a door or window
- the quantity that was caught
- a restraint that checks the motion of something
- the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)
- the act of catching an object with the hands
- a person regarded as a good matrimonial prospect
verb
- (intransitive) To become blocked or obstructed
- (transitive) To hinder or block the passage of something moving, for example a fluid, mixture, traffic, people, etc. (due to an excess of this or due to a partial or complete obstruction), resulting in overfilling or overcrowding.
- become or cause to become obstructed
noun
verb
- (transitive, intransitive) To obstruct, block, or otherwise interfere with (something), for example by clogging (a drain, gun barrel, chimney, etc) or by being in the way of (a gunshot, etc).
- (intransitive, basketball, soccer) To commit a foul.
- (intransitive, baseball) To hit a ball outside of the baselines.
- (transitive, baseball) To hit outside of the baselines.
- (transitive, basketball, soccer) To make contact with an opposing player in order to gain advantage.
- (transitive) To make dirty.
- (intransitive) To become clogged.
- (transitive) To besmirch.
- To come into contact or collide with.
- (intransitive) To become entangled.
- (transitive, nautical) To entangle.
- make unclean
- hit a foul ball
- commit a foul; break the rules
- become or cause to become obstructed
- make impure
- spot, stain, or pollute
- become soiled and dirty
adj
- Covered with, or containing unclean matter; dirty.
- Unpleasant, stormy or rainy. (of the weather)
- (nautical) Entangled and therefore restricting free movement, not clear.
- (baseball) Outside of the base lines; in foul territory.
- Disgusting, repulsive; causing disgust.
- Dishonest or not conforming to the established rules and customs of a game, conflict, test, etc.
- Detestable, unpleasant, loathsome.
- (of words or a way of speaking) Obscene, vulgar or abusive.
- (technical) (with "of") Positioned on, in, or near enough to (a specified area) so as to obstruct it.
- offensively malodorous
- especially of a ship's lines etc
- (of a baseball) not hit between the foul lines
- highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust
- violating accepted standards or rules
- disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter
- (of a manuscript) defaced with changes
- characterized by obscenity
noun
- (bowling) A (usually accidental) contact between a bowler and the lane before the bowler has released the ball.
- (sports) A breach of the rules of a game, especially one involving inappropriate contact with an opposing player in order to gain an advantage; for example, tripping someone up in soccer, or contact of any kind in basketball.
- (baseball) A foul ball, a ball which has been hit outside of the base lines.
- an act that violates the rules of a sport
verb
noun
- (backgammon) The central divider between the inner and outer table of a backgammon board, where stones are placed if they are hit.
- An addition to a military medal, on account of a subsequent act.
- (music) A vertical line across a musical staff dividing written music into sections, typically of equal durational value.
- (by extension, in combination) Premises or a counter serving any type of beverage.
- (heraldry) One of the ordinaries in heraldry; a diminutive of a fess.
- (slang, hip-hop, chiefly in the plural) Hip-hop lyrics, especially ones written and delivered skillfully.
- (recreational drugs) A small, tablet-shaped dose of Xanax, typically containing two milligrams and able to be split into quarters.
- (countable, uncountable, metallurgy) A solid metal object with uniform (round, square, hexagonal, octagonal or rectangular) cross-section; in the US its smallest dimension is ¹⁄₄ inch or greater, a piece of thinner material being called a strip.
- (architecture) A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town.
- (slang) A measure of drugs, typically one ounce.
- (programming, derived from fubar) A metasyntactic variable representing an unspecified entity, often the second in a series, following foo.
- (sports) A horizontal pole that must be crossed in the high jump and pole vault.
- A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length.
- (US, Philippines, law, usually with the) The bar exam, the legal licensing exam.
- A broad shaft, band, or stripe.
- A business selling alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises, or the premises themselves; a public house.
- (physics) A similar sign indicating that the charge on a particle is the negative of its usual value (and that consequently the particle is in fact an antiparticle).
- (UK, Parliament) A dividing line (physical or notional) in the chamber of a legislature beyond which only members and officials may pass.
- An establishment offering cosmetic services.
- A counter, or simply a cabinet, from which alcoholic drinks are served in a private house or a hotel room.
- (by extension, slang, chiefly in the plural) Something well-said or well-written.
- (farriery) The part of the crust of a horse's hoof which is bent inwards towards the frog at the heel on each side, and extends into the centre of the sole.
- Anything that obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier.
- (typography) Any of various lines used as punctuation or diacritics, such as the pipe ⟨|⟩, fraction bar (as in 12), and strikethrough (as in Ⱥ), formerly (obsolete) including oblique marks such as the slash.
- A long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar chart.
- An informal establishment selling food to be consumed on the premises.
- (mathematics) The sign indicating that the characteristic of a logarithm is negative, conventionally placed above the digit(s) to show that it applies to the characteristic only and not to the mantissa.
- (figurative) Any level of achievement regarded as a challenge to be overcome; a standard or expectation.
- A non-SI unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals, slightly less than atmospheric pressure at sea level.
- (UK, law) The railing surrounding the part of a courtroom in which the judges, lawyers, defendants and witnesses stay.
- A linear shoaling landform feature within a body of water; a formation extending across the mouth of a river or harbor or off a beach, and which may obstruct navigation. (FM 55-501).
- (farriery, in the plural) The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed.
- The counter of such premises.
- (soccer, most codes) The crossbar.
- (law, metonymic, "the Bar", "the bar") Collectively, lawyers or the legal profession; specifically applied to barristers in some countries, but including all lawyers in others.
- A city gate, in some British place names.
- (mining) A drilling or tamping rod.
- (mining) A vein or dike crossing a lode.
- An official order or pronouncement that prohibits some activity.
- A cuboid piece of any solid commodity.
- (geography, nautical, hydrology) A ridge or succession of ridges of sand or other substance; especially:
- (telecommunications, electronics) One of an array of bar-shaped symbols that display the level of something, such as wireless signal strength or battery life remaining.
- a counter where you can obtain food or drink
- the act of preventing
- a narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background
- (meteorology) a unit of pressure equal to a million dynes per square centimeter
- an obstruction (usually metal) placed at the top of a goal
- a heating element in an electric fire
- musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats
- a submerged (or partly submerged) ridge in a river or along a shore
- (law) a railing that encloses the part of the courtroom where the judges and lawyers sit and the case is tried
- a rigid piece of metal or wood; usually used as a fastening or obstruction or weapon
- a room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter
- a block of solid substance (such as soap or wax)
- a horizontal rod that serves as a support for gymnasts as they perform exercises
- the body of individuals qualified to practice law in a particular jurisdiction
prep
verb
- (transitive) To preclude or bar from happening, render impossible.
- To anticipate, to act foreseeingly.
- (UK, law) To obstruct or stop up, as a road; to stop the passage of a highway; to intercept on the road, as goods on the way to market.
- To deprive (with of).
- (transitive) To prevent, delay or hinder something by taking precautionary or anticipatory measures; to avert.
- keep from happening or arising; make impossible
- act in advance of; deal with ahead of time
noun
verb
- (transitive, figurative, by extension) To allow anything through that would normally or preferably be blocked.
- (intransitive, figurative, by extension) To pass through when it would normally or preferably be blocked.
- (transitive) To allow fluid or gas to pass through an opening that should be sealed.
- (slang, sometimes euphemistic) To urinate.
- (intransitive) (of a fluid or gas) To pass through an opening that should be sealed.
- (ambitransitive) To disclose secret information surreptitiously or anonymously.
- (slang, US) To bleed.
- tell anonymously
- have an opening that allows light or substances to enter or go out
- enter or escape as through a hole or crack or fissure
- be leaked
noun
- (computing) The gradual loss of a system resource caused by failure to deallocate previously reserved portions.
- A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape.
- (mildly vulgar, slang, especially with the verb "take") An act of urination.
- The person through whom such divulgation, or disclosure, occurs.
- A loss of electricity through imperfect insulation, or the point where it occurs.
- A divulgation, or disclosure, of information previously held secret.
- The entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture.
- soft watery rot in fruits and vegetables caused by fungi
- the discharge of a fluid from some container
- an accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape
- a euphemism for urination
- unauthorized (especially deliberate) disclosure of confidential information
verb
- (transitive) To make (something) unable to be heard by blocking it with some medium.
- (transitive) To keep in, hold back, or repress (something).
- (intransitive, hyperbolic) To smother; to make breathing difficult.
- (transitive, also figuratively) To prevent (a breath, cough, or cry, or the voice, etc.) from being released from the throat.
- (transitive) To prevent (something) from being revealed; to conceal, to hide, to suppress.
- (transitive, agriculture (sericulture)) To treat (a silkworm cocoon) with steam as part of the process of silk production.
- (intransitive) To die of suffocation.
- (transitive) To cause (a dog, horse, or other four-legged mammal) to dislocate or sprain its stifle joint.
- (transitive, also figuratively) To make (an animal or person) unconscious or cause (an animal or person) to die by preventing breathing; to smother, to suffocate.
- (transitive, hyperbolic) To cause (someone) difficulty in breathing, or a choking or gagging feeling.
- suppress in order to conceal or hide
- suppress or constrain so as to lessen in intensity
- impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of
- be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen
noun
- (rare) An act or state of being stifled.
- (zootomy) The joint between the femur and tibia in the hind leg of various four-legged mammals, especially horses, corresponding to the knee in humans.
- (veterinary medicine) A bone disease of this region.
- joint between the femur and tibia in a quadruped; corresponds to the human knee
verb
- (transitive) To prevent (something) from being successful.
- (transitive) To debunk or discredit an idea or rumor.
- (transitive, textile manufacturing) To beat yarn in order to break up slugs and align the threads.
- (transitive) To cut or score; to wound superficially.
- (transitive, Australian rhyming slang) To rape.
- (transitive) To block a wheel or other round object.
- (transitive) To dress (stone) with a pick or pointed instrument.
- hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
- make a small cut or score into
adj
noun
- A line drawn on the ground, as one used in playing hopscotch.
- A block for a wheel or other round object; a chock, wedge, prop, or other support, to prevent slipping.
- Scotch tape.
- Alternative form of Scotch (“whisky”).
- A surface cut or abrasion.
- a slight surface cut (especially a notch that is made to keep a tally)
verb
- (transitive) To remove obstructions, impediments or other unwanted items from.
- (transitive, firearms) To unload a firearm, or undergo an unloading procedure, in order to prevent negligent discharge; for safety reasons, to check whether one's firearm is loaded or unloaded.
- (transitive) To pass without interference; to miss.
- (transitive, computing) To style (an element within a document) so that it is not permitted to float at a given position.
- (transitive, video games) To finish or complete (a stage, challenge, or game).
- (transitive) To approve or authorise for a particular purpose or action; to give clearance to.
- (intransitive) To obtain a clearance.
- (transitive) To obtain permission to use (a sample of copyrighted audio) in another track.
- (intransitive) To leave abruptly; to clear off or clear out.
- (transitive) To remove from suspicion, especially of having committed a crime.
- (transitive, business) To earn a profit of; to net.
- (transitive) To remove (items or material) so as to leave something unobstructed or open.
- (transitive, activities such as jumping or throwing) To exceed a stated mark.
- (transitive) To obtain approval or authorisation in respect of.
- (transitive, computing) To reset or unset; to return to an empty state or to zero.
- (intransitive) Of a check or financial transaction, to go through as payment; to be processed so that the money is transferred.
- To disengage oneself from incumbrances, distress, or entanglements; to become free.
- (transitive) To eliminate ambiguity or doubt from (a matter); to clarify or resolve; to clear up.
- (intransitive) To become free from obstruction or obscurement; to become transparent.
- (transitive, intransitive, sports) To hit, kick, head, punch etc. (a ball, puck) away in order to defend one's goal.
- go away or disappear
- free from payment of customs duties, as of a shipment
- make a way or path by removing objects
- remove the occupants of
- settle, as of a debt
- go unchallenged; be approved
- make as a net profit
- be debited and credited to the proper bank accounts
- clear from impurities, blemishes, pollution, etc.
- sell to get rid of
- rid of instructions or data
- free (the throat) by making a rasping sound
- make clear, bright, light, or translucent
- grant authorization or clearance for
- earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages
- remove (people) from a building
- become clear
- yield as a net profit
- remove debris from
- make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear
- pronounce not guilty of criminal charges
- pass by, over, or under without making contact
- pass an inspection or receive authorization
- rid of obstructions
adj
- Possessing little or no perceptible stimulus.
- (MLE) Better than, superior to.
- (meteorology) Of the sky, such that less than one eighth of its area is obscured by clouds.
- (MLE) Good, the best.
- Able to perceive straightforwardly; keen; acute; penetrating; discriminating.
- Transparent in colour.
- Unmixed; entirely pure.
- Without clouds.
- Bright; luminous; not dark or obscured.
- Distinct, sharp, well-marked.
- (figuratively) Free of guilt, or suspicion.
- (of a soup) Without a thickening ingredient.
- (of a railway signal) Showing a green aspect, allowing a train to proceed past it.
- Without diminution; in full; net.
- Not clouded with passion; serene; cheerful.
- Free of ambiguity or doubt; easily understood.
- Free of obstacles.
- (Scientology) Free from the influence of engrams; see Clear (Scientology).
- Without defects or blemishes, such as freckles or knots.
- Easily or distinctly heard; audible.
- freed from any question of guilt
- free from contact or proximity or connection
- (especially of a title) free from any encumbrance or limitation that presents a question of fact or law
- allowing light to pass through
- clear of charges or deductions
- clear and distinct to the senses; easily perceptible
- free of restrictions or qualifications
- free from flaw or blemish or impurity
- readily apparent to the mind
- free from clouds or mist or haze
- (of sound or color) free from anything that dulls or dims
- characterized by freedom from troubling thoughts (especially guilt)
- easily deciphered
- free from confusion or doubt
- affording free passage or view
- characterized by ease and quickness in perceiving
- accurately stated or described
adv
noun
- (Scientology) A person who is free from the influence of engrams.
- (carpentry) Full extent; distance between extreme limits; especially; the distance between the nearest surfaces of two bodies, or the space between walls.
- (video games) The completion of a stage or challenge, or of the whole game.
- a clear or unobstructed space or expanse of land or water
- the state of being free of suspicion
verb
- (transitive) To avert or prevent.
- (lacrosse) To, while in possession of the ball, move the free hand or the hand and arm holding the butt end of the stick laterally into a defending player's body or stick.
- (transitive) To parry, or turn aside.
- prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; to protect from or to keep away anything undesirable; to ward off
- avert, turn away, or repel
verb
- (transitive) To hinder from liberty of movement; to impede; to obstruct.
- (transitive) To involve in difficulties concerning money matters; to encumber with debt; to beset with urgent claims or demands.
- (transitive) to humiliate; to disrupt somebody's composure or comfort with acting publicly or freely; to abash.
- (transitive, formal) To perplex mentally; confuse, disconcert; catch off guard.
- hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of
- cause to be embarrassed; cause to feel self-conscious
verb
- (transitive) To impede; detain.
- (figurative) To highlight, as if lifting up for display.
- (idiomatic) To fulfil or complete one's part of an agreement.
- (transitive) To support or lift.
- To keep up; not to fall behind; not to lose ground.
- (of a work) To continue to be seen as favorable, to avoid seeming dated.
- (idiomatic) To withstand; to stand up to; to survive.
- (idiomatic) To detain by threatening, usually with a weapon, in order to commit robbery.
- (idiomatic) To maintain composure despite hardship.
- (intransitive, informal) To wait or delay.
- resist or confront with resistance
- be the physical support of; carry the weight of
- cause to be slowed down or delayed
- hold up something as an example; hold up one's achievements for admiration
- rob at gunpoint or by means of some other threat
- resist or withstand wear, criticism, etc.
- continue to live and avoid dying
verb
noun
verb
adj
- (of another person) So hated or offensive as to be absolutely shunned, ignored, or ostracized.
- Without interest to one of the senses; dull; flat.
- (not comparable) Broken or inoperable.
- (usually not comparable) Devoid of living things; barren.
- (usually not comparable) No longer living; deceased. (Also used as a noun.)
- Experiencing pins and needles (paresthesia).
- (of a place) Lacking usual activity; unexpectedly quiet or empty of people.
- (not comparable) No longer used or required.
- Past, bygone, vanished.
- (not comparable) Exact; on the dot.
- (not comparable) Full and complete (usually applied to nouns involving lack of motion, sound, activity, or other signs of life).
- (not comparable, sports) Not in play.
- (rare, especially religion, often with "to") Indifferent to; having no obligation toward; no longer subject to or ruled by (sin, guilt, pleasure, etc).
- (literal or hyperbolic) Doomed; marked for death; as good as dead.
- (of a battery) Unable to emit power, being discharged (flat) or faulty.
- (not comparable, baseball, slang, 1800s) Tagged out.
- Unproductive; fallow.
- (linguistics) Of a syllable in languages such as Thai and Burmese: ending abruptly.
- (acoustics) Constructed so as not to reflect or transmit sound; soundless; anechoic.
- (engineering) Intentionally designed so as not to impart motion or power.
- Without emotion; impassive.
- (not comparable, golf, of a golf ball) Lying so near the hole that the player is certain to hole it in the next stroke.
- (law) Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property.
- (hyperbolic) Dying of laughter.
- Stationary; static; immobile or immovable.
- (hyperbolic) Figuratively, not alive; lacking life.
- Utterly exhausted.
- (not comparable, of a machine, device, or electrical circuit) Completely inactive; currently without power; without a signal; not live.
- Expresses shock, second-hand embarrassment, etc.
- unerringly accurate
- out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown
- drained of electric charge; discharged
- not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heat
- no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life
- physically inactive
- lacking resilience or bounce
- devoid of physical sensation; numb
- no longer having force or relevance
- (followed by ‘to’) not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive
- the complete stoppage of an action
- devoid of activity
- not circulating or flowing
- not surviving in active use
- lacking acoustic resonance
- not yielding a return
- very tired
adv
noun
- (bodybuilding, colloquial) Clipping of deadlift.
- (UK) (usually in the plural) Sterile mining waste, often present as many large rocks stacked inside the workings.
- (often with "the") Time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense.
- (with "the") Those who have died: dead people.
- people who are no longer living
- a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense
verb
- (transitive) To restrict or restrain.
- (transitive) To prevent (a pupil) from advancing in a course.
- (intransitive) To stay back; to refrain from approaching.
- (transitive) To hold back; to refuse to give or share.
- secure and keep for possible future use or application
- prevent the action or expression of
- hold back; refuse to hand over or share
verb
- (transitive) To forbid (someone) from doing something.
- (transitive) To forbid (an action or thing) by formal or legal sanction.
- (transitive, US, military) To impede (an enemy); to interrupt or destroy (enemy communications, supply lines etc).
- (transitive, Roman Catholicism) To exclude (someone or somewhere) from participation in church services; to place under a religious interdict.
- destroy by firepower, such as an enemy's line of communication
- command against
noun
- (Scots law) An injunction.
- A papal decree prohibiting the administration of the sacraments from a political entity under the power of a single person (e.g., a king or an oligarchy with similar powers). Extreme unction/Anointing of the Sick is excepted.
- an ecclesiastical censure by the Roman Catholic Church withdrawing certain sacraments and Christian burial from a person or all persons in a particular district
- a court order prohibiting a party from doing a certain activity
verb
- (transitive) To prevent, or refuse to allow, passage or progress.
- (transitive) To fold something back; to fold down.
- (transitive) To adjust to a previous setting.
- (transitive) To cause to reverse direction and retrace one's steps.
- To return to a previous state of being.
- (intransitive) To reverse direction and retrace one's steps.
- hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of
- go back to a previous state
- force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings
- turn inside out or upside down
- retrace one's course
verb
noun
verb
- To stop, check, block; to hinder, impede.
- To stop short and refuse to go on.
- To engage in contradiction; to be in opposition.
- To leave or make balks in.
- (intransitive, sports) To make a deceptive motion to deceive another player.
- To disappoint; to frustrate.
- To omit, miss, or overlook by chance.
- To leave heaped up; to heap up in piles.
- To refuse suddenly.
- refuse to comply
noun
- A hindrance or disappointment; a check.
- A sudden and obstinate stop.
- (fishing) The rope by which fishing nets are fastened together.
- (archaeology) The wall of earth at the edge of an excavation.
- (baseball) An illegal motion by the pitcher, intended to deceive a runner.
- Beam, crossbeam; squared timber; a tie beam of a house, stretching from wall to wall, especially when laid so as to form a loft, "the balks".
- (billiards) The area of the table lying behind the line from which the cue ball is initially shot, and from which a ball in hand must be played.
- (UK dialectal) A small brass ornament fixed at the top of a wand.
- (agriculture) An uncultivated ridge formed in the open field system, caused by the action of ploughing.
- (snooker) The area of the table lying behind the baulk line.
- (badminton) A motion used to deceive the opponent during a serve.
- an illegal pitching motion while runners are on base
- one of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof
- the area on a billiard table behind the balkline
- something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress
verb
- (transitive) To insulate, or make free of external influence.
- (transitive) To insulate an electrical component from a source of electricity.
- (transitive) To place in quarantine or isolation.
- (transitive) To set apart or cut off from others.
- (transitive, chemistry) To separate a substance in pure form from a mixture.
- (intransitive) To self-isolate.
- (transitive, microbiology) To separate a pure strain of bacteria etc. from a mixed culture.
- set apart from others
- separate (experiences) from the emotions relating to them
- place or set apart
- obtain in pure form
adj
noun
verb
- (transitive) To close or block an opening.
- (transitive) To cease; to no longer continue.
- (phonetics, transitive) To pronounce (a phoneme) as a stop.
- (transitive) To cause (something) to come to an end.
- (causative, transitive) To interrupt, prevent or end the activity of someone or something. [with direct object, along with gerund (chiefly UK) or direct object, along with from, along with gerund (chiefly US)]
- (music) To regulate the sounds of (musical strings, etc.) by pressing them against the fingerboard with the finger, or otherwise shortening the vibrating part.
- (transitive, intransitive, photography, often with "up" or "down") To adjust the aperture of a camera lens.
- (transitive) To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing.
- (intransitive) To cease moving.
- (intransitive) Not to continue.
- (intransitive) To stay; to spend a short time; to reside or tarry temporarily.
- (nautical) To make fast; to stopper.
- (finance, transitive) To delay the purchase or sale of (a stock) while agreeing the price for later.
- hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of
- come to a halt, stop moving
- stop from happening or developing
- cause to end
- seize on its way
- have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
- put an end to a state or an activity
- stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments
- render unsuitable for passage
- interrupt a trip
noun
- (tennis) A very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce as little as possible.
- An action of stopping; interruption of travel.
- (photography) A unit of exposure corresponding to a doubling of the brightness of an image.
- (architecture) A member, plain or moulded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts.
- (physics) The squark that is the superpartner of a top quark.
- (UK dialectal) A small well-bucket; a milk-pail.
- A marking on a rabbit's hind foot.
- (music) A knob or pin used to regulate the flow of air in an organ.
- (engineering) A device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for arresting or limiting motion, or for determining the position to which another part shall be brought.
- (photography) A part of a photographic system that reduces the amount of light.
- (soccer) A save; preventing the opposition from scoring a goal
- A symbol used for purposes of punctuation and representing a pause or separating clauses, particularly a full stop, comma, colon or semicolon.
- (fencing) A coup d'arret, or stop thrust.
- (zoology) The depression in a dog’s face between the skull and the nasal bones.
- A device intended to block the path of a moving object
- That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; an obstacle; an impediment.
- (music) One of the vent-holes in a wind instrument, or the place on the wire of a stringed instrument, by the stopping or pressing of which certain notes are produced.
- The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses.
- A (usually marked) place where buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually smaller than a station.
- (photography) An f-stop.
- (linguistics) A consonant sound in which the passage of air is temporarily blocked by the lips, tongue, or glottis.
- (UK, grammar, informal) Ellipsis of full stop.
- the event of something ending
- a brief stay in the course of a journey
- a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens
- a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it
- an obstruction in a pipe or tube
- the state of inactivity following an interruption
- (music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes
- the act of stopping something
- a restraint that checks the motion of something
- a punctuation mark (‘.’) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
- a spot where something halts or pauses
punct
verb
- (transitive) To trap or immobilize something, usually a vehicle, by placing obstacles, usually other vehicles, around it to obstruct its free movement.
- (transitive) To enclose by drawing a box around.
- (transitive, figuratively) To limit someone's freedom of thought, movement, expression, etc.
- enclose or confine as if in a box
verb
- To disable; to impede.
- To walk lame, or unevenly.
- To fetter by tying the legs; to restrict (a horse) with hobbles.
- (figurative) To move or proceed roughly or irregularly.
- strap the foreleg and hind leg together on each side (of a horse) in order to keep the legs on the same side moving in unison
- walk impeded by some physical limitation or injury
- hamper the action or progress of
noun
- (chiefly in the plural) One of the short straps tied between the legs of unfenced horses, allowing them to wander short distances but preventing them from running off.
- (dialect, UK and Newfoundland) An odd job; a piece of casual work.
- An unsteady, off-balance step.
- the uneven manner of walking that results from an injured leg
- a shackle for the ankles or feet
verb
- (transitive) To forcefully diminish the power or influence of; to quell; to squash.
- (transitive, informal) To haggle with (someone) to sell at a lower price.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see beat, down.
- (transitive) To wear (someone) out by repeated actions that overwhelm one's patience or strength.
- (transitive, slang) To severely beat someone up.
- (intransitive) (of the sun) To shine brightly and radiate with intense heat.
- (intransitive) (of rain) To strike with great force.
- dislodge from a position
- persuade the seller to accept a lower price
- shine hard
noun
verb
- (transitive) To repel greatly.
- To cause to turn back; to roll or drive back; to put to flight.
- (intransitive) To be disgusted, shocked, or grossly offended; hence, to feel nausea; used with at.
- (card games) to perform a revolution in Tycoon, reversing the card hierarchy
- (intransitive) To rebel, particularly against authority.
- To turn away; to abandon or reject something; specifically, to turn away, or shrink, with abhorrence.
- cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of
- make revolution
- fill with distaste
noun
verb
- (transitive) to prevent from entering or penetrating.
- (transitive) to cover something, so as to make it impossible to see.
- (idiomatic, transitive) to prevent (a thought) from entering one's mind.
- (transitive) to begin to reduce to shape; to mark out roughly; to lay out.
- plan where and when songs should be inserted into a theatrical production, or plan a theatrical production in general
- indicate roughly
- shield from light
- prevent from entering
verb
noun
- (chess) The act of preventing an opponent's pawn moving by placing a piece in front of it.
- The physical blocking or surrounding of a place, especially a port, in order to prevent commerce and traffic in or out.
- (biology, medicine) Inhibition of the activity (function) of chemical messengers or their receptors, such as (often) receptor antagonism.
- (backgammon) Synonym of prime.
- (nautical) The ships or other forces used to effect a naval blockade.
- (by extension) Any form of formal isolation or inhibition of something, especially with the force of law or arms.
- a war measure that isolates some area of importance to the enemy
- prevents access or progress
verb
- obstruct
- carry with difficulty
- (transitive, sometimes figurative) To haul or drag along (especially something heavy); to carry; to pull.
- (intransitive, horse-racing) To pull toward the inside rail ("lugging in") or the outside rail ("lugging out") during a race.
- (transitive, nautical) To carry an excessive amount of sail for the conditions prevailing.
- (transitive) To run at too slow a speed.
noun
- marine worms having a row of tufted gills along each side of the back; often used for fishing bait
- a projecting piece that is used to lift or support or turn something
- a sail with four corners that is hoisted from a yard that is oblique to the mast
- A lugworm.
- (UK) An ear or ear lobe.
- (automotive) A lug nut.
- A large, clumsy, awkward man; a fool.
- (electrical engineering) A device for terminating an electrical conductor to facilitate the mechanical connection; to the conductor it may be crimped to form a cold weld, soldered or have pressure from a screw.
- A part of something which sticks out, used as a handle or support.
- A wood box used for transporting fruit or vegetables.
- (harness) The leather loop or ear by which a shaft is held up.
- The act of hauling or dragging.
- Anything that moves slowly.
- A loop (or protuberance) found on both arms of a hinge, featuring a hole for the axis of the hinge.
- That which is hauled or dragged.
- A ridge or other protuberance on the surface of a body to increase traction or provide a hold for holding and moving it.
- (UK, dialect) A rod or pole.
- (slang) A request for money, as for political purposes.
- (informal) A pull or drag on a cigarette.
- (nautical) A lugsail.
verb
- obstruct
- treat with grease, fill, and prepare for mounting
- overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself
- press or force
- fill tightly with a material
- fill with a stuffing while cooking
- cram into a cavity
- (transitive, mildly vulgar, often imperative) Used to contemptuously dismiss or reject something. See also stuff it.
- (transitive) To load goods into (a container) for transport.
- (transitive, British, Australia, New Zealand) To break; to destroy.
- To preserve a dead bird or other animal by filling its skin.
- (transitive) To obstruct, as any of the organs; to affect with some obstruction in the organs of sense or respiration.
- (informal) To heavily defeat or get the better of.
- (transitive, cooking) To fill with seasoning.
- (transitive) To fill by packing or crowding something into; to cram with something; to load to excess.
- (transitive, computing) To compress (a file or files) in the StuffIt format, to be unstuffed later.
- (pronominal) To eat, especially in a hearty or greedy manner.
- (transitive) To cut off another competitor in a race by disturbing his projected and committed racing line (trajectory) by an abrupt manoeuvre.
- (transitive) To form or fashion by packing with the necessary material.
- (transitive) To fill a space with (something) in a compressed manner.
- (transitive, vulgar, British, Australia, New Zealand) To sexually penetrate.
- (transitive, used in the passive) To sate.
noun
- the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object
- unspecified qualities required to do or be something
- a critically important or characteristic component
- informal terms for personal possessions
- information in some unspecified form
- senseless talk
- miscellaneous unspecified objects
- (informal) Unspecified things or matters.
- The tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object.
- (informal) Miscellaneous items or objects; (with possessive) personal effects.
- Abstract/figurative substance or character.
- (informal) Used as placeholder, usually for material of unknown type or name.
- (slang) Narcotic drugs, especially heroin.
- (nautical) A melted mass of turpentine, tallow, etc., with which the masts, sides, and bottom of a ship are smeared for lubrication.
- (sometimes euphemistic) Refuse or worthless matter; hence, also, foolish or irrational language.
- Paper stock ground ready for use. When partly ground, it is called half stuff.
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noun
verb
- (transitive, by extension) To undermine or thwart oneself or one's position or property, especially deliberately.
- (intransitive) To move hastily, to scurry.
- (transitive, nautical) To cut a hole or holes through the bottom, deck, or sides of (as of a ship), for any purpose.
- (transitive, by extension) To deliberately wreck one's vehicle (of any sort).
- (transitive) To deliberately sink one's ship or boat by any means, usually by order of the vessel's commander or owner.
- to move about or proceed hurriedly
noun
- A broad, shallow basket.
- A quick pace; a short run.
- A container like an open bucket (usually to hold and carry coal).
- (construction) A hatch that provides access to the roof from the interior of a building.
- A small hatch or opening in a boat, sometimes one used for draining water from open deck.
- (automotive) By extension, the bulkhead at the front of the passenger compartment.
- (automotive) A drained trough between the windscreen and bonnet of a motor vehicle, forming the intake to the heating/air-conditioning system, often also containing the windscreen wiper motor.
- an entrance equipped with a hatch; especially a passageway between decks of a ship
- container for coal; shaped to permit pouring the coal onto the fire
verb
- (transitive) To protect or isolate.
- (transitive) To confine in a cloister, voluntarily or not.
- (transitive) To provide with a cloister or cloisters.
- (intransitive) To deliberately withdraw from worldly things.
- (intransitive) To become a Roman Catholic religious.
- surround with a cloister, as of a garden
- surround with a cloister
- seclude from the world in or as if in a cloister
noun
- A place, especially a monastery or convent, devoted to religious seclusion.
- such an arcade fitted with representations of the stages of Christ's Passion.
- such an arcade in a monastery;
- (figuratively) The monastic life.
- residence that is a place of religious seclusion (such as a monastery)
- a courtyard with covered walks (as in religious institutions)
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adj
noun
verb
- (transitive, originally) To shut up or out; to prevent from doing something.
- (transitive, law) To repossess a mortgaged property whose owner has failed to make the necessary payments; used with on.
- (transitive, law) To cut off (a mortgager) by a judgment of court from the power of redeeming the mortgaged premises.
- keep from happening or arising; make impossible
- subject to foreclosing procedures; take away the right of mortgagors to redeem their mortgage
verb
- (transitive, intransitive) To damage, harm, impair, undermine, impede.
- (transitive, intransitive) To cause (somebody) emotional pain.
- (transitive, intransitive) To cause (a person or animal) physical pain and/or injury.
- (intransitive, stative) To be painful.
- cause emotional anguish or make miserable
- hurt the feelings of
- be in pain
- cause damage or affect negatively
- give trouble or pain to
- be the source of pain
adj
noun
- An emotional or psychological humiliation or bad experience.
- (engineering) A band on a trip hammer's helve, bearing the trunnions.
- A husk.
- (heraldry) A roundel azure (blue circular spot).
- feelings of mental or physical pain
- the act of damaging something or someone
- any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.; the condition of an injury
- a damage or loss
- psychological suffering
verb
- (transitive) To shut in, enclose, confine; to surround something or someone in a confining way.
- To make the sound expressed by the word hem; to hesitate in speaking.
- (transitive) To put hem on an article of clothing, to edge or put a border on something.
- (sewing, intransitive) To make a hem.
- fold over and sew together to provide with a hem
- utter ‘hem’ or ‘ahem’
intj
noun
- In sheet metal design, a rim or edge folded back on itself to create a smooth edge and to increase strength or rigidity.
- A rim or margin of something.
- (sewing) The border of an article of clothing doubled back and stitched together to finish the edge and prevent it from fraying.
- An utterance or sound of the voice like "hem", often indicative of hesitation or doubt, sometimes used to call attention.
- the utterance of a sound similar to clearing the throat; intended to get attention, express hesitancy, fill a pause, hide embarrassment, warn a friend, etc.
- the edge of a piece of cloth; especially the finished edge that has been doubled under and stitched down
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