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- Varying in quality.
- Not uniform.
- Of a surface, not even; covered with raised spots, pits and grooves.
- Not level or smooth.
- (mathematics, rare) Odd.
- not even or uniform as e.g. in shape or texture
- not divisible by two
- (of a contest or contestants) not fairly matched as opponents
- lacking consistency
- variable and recurring at irregular intervals
- (transitive) To cause to vary irregularly.
- (intransitive) To undulate.
- (intransitive) To be irresolute; to waver.
- (intransitive) To vary irregularly; to swing.
- (rare, figuratively, also literally) To rise and fall as a wave; to be tossed up and down the waves.
- move or sway in a rising and falling or wavelike pattern
- be unstable
- cause to fluctuate or move in a wavelike pattern
- (transitive) To form a pattern on; to variegate.
- (transitive) To make rough, to agitate or disturb; to cause to ripple.
- (transitive, music) To press down the string behind a fret.
- (transitive) To decorate or ornament, especially with an interlaced or interwoven pattern, or (architecture) with carving or relief (raised) work.
- (transitive, music) # To fit frets on to (a musical instrument).
- (intransitive) To be anxious, to worry.
- (transitive) To cut through with a fretsaw, to create fretwork.
- (intransitive) To be agitated; to rankle; to be in violent commotion.
- (transitive) In the form fret out: to squander, to waste.
- (ambitransitive) To gnaw; to consume, to eat away.
- (intransitive, brewing, wine) To have secondary fermentation (fermentation occurring after the conversion of sugar to alcohol in beers and wine) take place.
- (ambitransitive) To be chafed or irritated; to be angry or vexed; to utter peevish expressions through irritation or worry.
- (transitive) To chafe or irritate; to worry.
- To bind, to tie, originally with a loop or ring.
- (ambitransitive) To mine by agitating or eating away at (ore in the bank of a river).
- (intransitive) To be worn away; to chafe; to fray.
- cause annoyance in
- worry unnecessarily or excessively
- provide (a musical instrument) with frets
- become or make sore by or as if by rubbing
- carve a pattern into
- gnaw into; make resentful or angry
- wear away or erode
- cause friction
- remove soil or rock
- be agitated or irritated
- be too tight; rub or press
- decorate with an interlaced design
- Agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or some other cause; a rippling on the surface of water.
- Agitation of the mind marked by complaint and impatience; disturbance of temper; irritation.
- (rare) A channel or passage created by the sea.
- (Northumbria) A fog or mist at sea, or coming inland from the sea.
- (mining, in the plural) The worn sides of riverbanks, where ores or stones containing them accumulate after being washed down from higher ground, which thus indicate to miners the locality of veins of ore.
- (music) One of the pieces of metal, plastic or wood across the neck of a guitar or other string instrument that marks where a finger should be positioned to depress a string as it is played.
- A channel, a strait; a fretum.
- (heraldry) A saltire interlaced with a mascle.
- An ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines, often in relief.
- Herpes; tetter (“any of various pustular skin conditions”).
- an ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines (often in relief)
- agitation resulting from active worry
- a spot that has been worn away by abrasion or erosion
- a small bar of metal across the fingerboard of a musical instrument; when the string is stopped by a finger at the metal bar it will produce a note of the desired pitch
- An incongruous mixture.
- (countable, figuratively, by extension) A jester; a fool.
- (uncountable) A jester's multicoloured clothes.
- a garment made of motley (especially a court jester's costume)
- a multicolored woolen fabric woven of mixed threads in 14th to 17th century England
- a collection containing a variety of sorts of things
- (transitive) To arrange.
- (UK, slang) To provide (somebody) with a necessity, or a solution to a problem.
- (transitive) To clarify by reviewing mentally.
- (transitive) To fix (a problem).
- (transitive) To separate from the remainder of a group; often construed with from.
- (transitive) To organise or separate into groups, as a collection of items, so as to make tidy.
- (transitive, British, slang) To take action to stop someone who has been causing trouble, often by physically attacking them.
- punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience
- make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear
- arrange or order by classes or categories
- (transitive) to alternate; to intermingle or vary
- (intransitive) to swap or change places
- (transitive) to mutually give and receive (something); to exchange
- (transport) To act as or carry out an interchange (noun, senses 2, 3).
- (transitive) to switch (each of two things)
- cause to change places
- put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items
- give to, and receive from, one another
- reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action)
- (countable) A highway junction in which traffic may change from one road to another without crossing a stream of traffic.
- A back-and-forth interaction; an exchange.
- (countable) A junction in which traffic may merge to enter or diverge to exit a limited-access highway to access a surface street, without crossing traffic on the main highway.
- (countable, uncountable) An act of interchanging.
- (rail transport, countable) A connection between two or more lines, services or modes of transport; a station at which such a connection can be made.
- mutual interaction; the activity of reciprocating or exchanging (especially information)
- a junction of highways on different levels that permits traffic to move from one to another without crossing traffic streams
- the act of changing one thing for another thing
- reciprocal transfer of equivalent sums of money (especially the currencies of different countries)
- Not perfect,
- (botany) Unisexual: having either male (with stamens) or female (with pistil) flowers, but not with both.
- (taxonomy) Known or expected to be polyphyletic, as of a form taxon.
- (grammar, of a tense or verb form) Representing a continuing or repeated action.
- wanting in moral strength, courage, or will; having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings
- not perfect; defective or inadequate
- (transitive) To alter slightly.
- (transitive, slang) To throw shade, to subtly insult someone.
- (transitive) To darken, particularly in drawing.
- (intransitive, rare) To shield oneself from light.
- (intransitive, baseball, of a defensive player) To move slightly from one's normal fielding position.
- To win by a narrow margin.
- (intransitive) To vary or approach something slightly, particularly in color.
- (transitive, graphical user interface) To reduce (a window) so that only its title bar is visible.
- (transitive) To shield (someone or something) from light.
- represent the effect of shade or shadow on
- protect from light, heat, or view
- vary slightly
- pass from one quality such as color to another by a slight degree
- cast a shadow over
- (figuratively, in the plural) An aspect that is reminiscent of something.
- (countable) A postage stamp showing an obvious difference in colour/color to the original printing and needing a separate catalogue/catalog entry.
- (uncountable) Darkness where light, particularly sunlight, is blocked.
- (historical) A candle-shade.
- (countable) A cover around or above a light bulb, a lampshade.
- A very small degree of a quantity, or variety of meaning
- (figuratively) A subtle variation in a concept.
- (countable) Something that blocks light, particularly in a window.
- (chiefly literary and fantasy) A ghost or specter; a spirit.
- (countable) A variety of a color, in particular one obtained by adding black (compare tint).
- (uncountable, originally LGBTQ slang) Subtle insults.
- relative darkness caused by light rays being intercepted by an opaque body
- protective covering that protects something from direct sunlight
- a subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude
- a representation of the effect of shadows in a picture or drawing (as by shading or darker pigment)
- a mental representation of some haunting experience
- a position of relative inferiority
- a protective ornamental covering for a lamp, used to screen a light bulb from direct view
- a slight amount or degree of difference
- a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color
- (transitive) To arrange logically.
- (transitive) To establish someone in a business or position.
- (transitive) To matchmake; to arrange a date between two people.
- (transitive) To found; to start (a business, scheme)
- (sports, transitive) To create a goalscoring opportunity (for).
- (informal, transitive, criminology) To trick or lure (someone) in order to entrap them.
- (transitive) To arrange for an outcome; to tamper or rig.
- (intransitive) To level to rise in one part of a body of water, especially a shallow one, because of a storm surge caused by persistent wind.
- (boxing) To deceive an opponent and capitalize on their reactions with a certain technique or maneuver.
- (transitive) To provide the money or other support that someone needs for an important task or activity.
- (intransitive) To gel or harden.
- (transitive) To trap or ensnare.
- To profess openly; to make pretensions.
- (intransitive) To prepare or get ready.
- To cause to take flight; to flush into the air.
- (transitive) To make (someone) proud or conceited (often in passive).
- (transitive) To make ready for use.
- (transitive) To cause to happen.
- equip with sails or masts
- set up or found
- take or catch as if in a snare or trap
- put into a proper or systematic order
- place
- arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events
- begin, or enable someone else to begin, a venture by providing the means, logistics, etc.
- make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc
- arrange the outcome of by means of deceit
- get ready for a particular purpose or event
- create by putting components or members together
- produce
- erect and fasten
- construct, build, or erect
- set up for use
- (geology) A geological feature consisting of symmetrical anticlines that intersect where each one reaches its apex.
- (informal) A person's head.
- (by extension) Any erection resembling the dome or cupola of a building, such as the upper part of a furnace, the vertical steam chamber on the top of a boiler, etc.
- (by extension) Anything shaped like an upset bowl, often used as a cover.
- (architecture) A structural element resembling the hollow upper half of a sphere.
- (crystallography) A prism formed by planes parallel to a lateral axis which meet above in a horizontal edge, like the roof of a house; also, one of the planes of such a form.
- (sewing) A press stud or snap fastener.
- (slang) head, oral sex
- a hemispherical roof
- informal terms for a human head
- a stadium that has a roof
- a concave shape whose distinguishing characteristic is that the concavity faces downward
- (countable) Proper or equal share.
- (countable, chiefly in the plural) Size.
- (mathematics, countable) A statement of equality between two ratios.
- The relation of one part to another or to the whole with respect to magnitude, quantity, or degree.
- (uncountable) Harmonious relation of parts to each other or to the whole.
- (countable) A quantity of something that is part of the whole amount or number.
- the relation between things (or parts of things) with respect to their comparative quantity, magnitude, or degree
- balance among the parts of something
- the quotient obtained when the magnitude of a part is divided by the magnitude of the whole
- harmonious arrangement or relation of parts or elements within a whole (as in a design)
- magnitude or extent
- (fishing, uncountable) Underwater terrain or objects (such as a dead tree or a submerged car) that tend to attract fish
- A body, such as a political party, with a cohesive purpose or outlook.
- A cohesive whole built up of distinct parts.
- The overall form or organization of something.
- (computing) Several pieces of data treated as a unit.
- The underlying shape of a solid.
- A set of rules defining behaviour.
- (logic) A set along with a collection of finitary functions and relations.
- the complex composition of knowledge as elements and their combinations
- a particular complex anatomical part of a living thing and its construction and arrangement
- the people in a society considered as a system organized by a characteristic pattern of relationships
- a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts
- the manner of construction of something and the arrangement of its parts
- (transitive) To make confusing or obscure.
- (transitive, photography) To make dim or obscure.
- (transitive) To cover with or as if with fog.
- (transitive) To disperse insecticide into (a forest canopy) so as to collect organisms.
- (transitive, photography) To spoil (film) via exposure to light other than in the normal process of taking a photograph.
- (intransitive) To become obscured in condensation or water.
- (intransitive) To become covered with or as if with fog.
- (transitive) To obscure in condensation or water.
- (intransitive) To become covered with the kind of grass called fog.
- (transitive) To pasture cattle on the fog (of), or aftergrass, of; to eat off the fog from (a field).
- (intransitive, photography) To become dim or obscure.
- make less visible or unclear
- (uncountable) A thick cloud that forms near the ground; the obscurity of such a cloud.
- (Scotland) Moss.
- (UK, dialect) Tall and decaying grass left standing after the cutting or grazing season.
- A new growth of grass appearing on a field that has been mowed or grazed.
- (uncountable) A mist or film clouding a surface.
- (photography) A silver deposit or other blur on a negative or developed photographic image.
- (figurative) A state of mind characterized by lethargy and confusion.
- (computer graphics) Distance fog.
- confusion characterized by lack of clarity
- an atmosphere in which visibility is reduced because of a cloud of some substance
- droplets of water vapor suspended in the air near the ground
- Unevenly or irregularly.
- In a rough manner; without kindness, softness, or gentleness.
- Without precision or exactness; imprecisely but close to in quantity or amount; approximately.
- with roughness or violence (‘rough’ is an informal variant for ‘roughly’)
- (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
- with rough motion as over a rough surface
- Any lath laid without actual measurement between two gauged laths.
- A batten laid lengthwise between two rafters as a bearing for laths laid crosswise.
- Any of a series of laths nailed to the timbers to raise the sheet lathing above their surface to afford a key for plastering.
- One of many laths used in preparing one side of a partition or framed wall, when the other side has been covered in and finished.
- (transitive) To modify.
- (transitive) To settle an insurance claim.
- (intransitive) To change to fit circumstances.
- (transitive) To improve or rectify.
- alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard
- adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions
- place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel or straight
- make correspondent or conformable
- decide how much is to be paid on an insurance claim
- (transitive) to begin to reduce to shape; to mark out roughly; to lay out.
- (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.
- 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
- (anatomy) The long bone in the forearm, on the side of the thumb.
- Anything resembling a radius, such as the spoke of a wheel, the movable arm of a sextant, or one of the radiating lines of a spider's web.
- (graph theory) The minimum eccentricity of any vertex, for a given graph.
- (zoology) The lighter bone (or fused portion of bone) in the forelimb of an animal.
- (geometry) The length of this line segment.
- (geometry) A line segment between any point of a circle or sphere and its center.
- (entomology) One of the major veins of the insect wing, between the subcosta and the media; the vein running along the costal edge of the discal cell.
- the outer and slightly shorter of the two bones of the human forearm
- a circular region whose area is indicated by the length of its radius
- support consisting of a radial member of a wheel joining the hub to the rim
- a straight line from the center to the perimeter of a circle (or from the center to the surface of a sphere)
- the length of a line segment between the center and circumference of a circle or sphere
- The basic unit of money in Kyrgyzstan.
- A central idea or point; gist.
- The basic unit of money in Uzbekistan.
- A quantity of money.
- (rare or literary) The utmost degree; the greatest or most perfect realization (of some concept).
- A type of administrative district used in China, Mongolia, and Russia. In Mongolia, a sum is smaller than a province. In China, it is only used in Inner Mongolia, where it is equivalent to a township.
- A summary; the principal points or thoughts when viewed together; the substance.
- (often plural) An arithmetic computation, especially one posed to a student as an exercise (not necessarily limited to addition).
- A quantity obtained by addition or aggregation.
- a quantity of money
- the whole amount
- the final aggregate
- a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets
- a quantity obtained by the addition of a group of numbers
- the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
- (transitive) To bring something out of shape, to misshape.
- (transitive) To give a false or misleading account of; pervert.
- (intransitive, ergative) To become misshapen.
- form into a spiral shape
- make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story
- alter the shape of (something) by stress
- twist and press out of shape
- affect as in thought or feeling
- Inconsistent, irregular, or intermittent.
- Asymmetric in shape.
- Other, by another.
- Opposite in direction or position.
- Alternating.
- (organic chemistry) Heterocyclic: a cyclic compound with multiple elements in its ring. The non-carbon atoms are known as heteroatoms.
- Across, spanning multiple distinct kinds of the root, different.
- (transplantation) Outside; Synonym of xeno-.
- Varied, heterogeneous; a set that has variety with respect to the root.
- (chemistry) A heterogeneous mixture.
- (LGBTQ) Straight, heterosexual.
- (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 fill or obstruct (something) so that it is not possible to pass.
- (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 prevent (something from happening or someone from doing something).
- (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
- obstruct
- 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
- (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
- (transitive) To contort.
- (transitive, slang) To cheat someone or ruin their chances in a game or other situation.
- (ambitransitive, vulgar, slang) To have sexual intercourse with.
- (colloquial, transitive) To give up on, to abandon, delay, to not think about someone or something.
- (transitive) To connect or assemble pieces using a screw.
- (soccer, transitive) To miskick (a ball) by hitting it with the wrong part of the foot.
- (billiards, snooker, pool) To screw back.
- (transitive) To extort or practice extortion upon; to oppress by unreasonable or extortionate exactions; to put the screws on.
- (colloquial, transitive, imperative, mildly vulgar) Used to express great displeasure with, or contemptuous dismissal of, someone or something.
- cause to penetrate, as with a circular motion
- have sexual intercourse with
- defeat someone through trickery or deceit
- tighten or fasten by means of screwing motions
- turn like a screw
- (vulgar, slang) A casual sexual partner.
- (nautical) A ship's propeller.
- A (usually) metal fastener consisting of a partially or completely threaded shank, sometimes with a threaded point, and a head used to both hold the top material and to drive the screw either directly into a soft material or into a prepared hole.
- An Archimedes screw.
- (informal, in the plural, with "the") Rheumatism.
- (vulgar, slang) Sexual intercourse; the act of screwing.
- (mathematics) A straight line in space with which a definite linear magnitude termed the pitch is associated. It is used to express the displacement of a rigid body, which may always be made to consist of a rotation about an axis combined with a translation parallel to that axis.
- (slang, derogatory) A prison guard.
- (snooker, billiards) Backspin.
- (slang, derogatory) An extortioner; a sharp bargainer; a skinflint.
- An amphipod crustacean.
- A simple machine, a helical inclined plane.
- A steam vessel propelled by a screw instead of wheels.
- The motion of screwing something; a turn or twist to one side.
- a simple machine of the inclined-plane type consisting of a spirally threaded cylindrical rod that engages with a similarly threaded hole
- someone who guards prisoners
- a propeller with several angled blades that rotates to push against water or air
- slang for sexual intercourse
- a fastener with a tapered threaded shank and a slotted head
- (transitive) To mark with irregular lines or letters; to scribble on.
- (intransitive) To scribble.
- (intransitive) To move with difficulty by making rapid movements back and forth with the hands or paws.
- (transitive) To gather hastily.
- (intransitive) To scrape or scratch powerfully with hands or claws.
- write down quickly without much attention to detail
- feel searchingly
- (transitive) To make by altering or fitting something else; to produce by change of form or character.
- (transitive) To fit by alteration; to modify or remodel for a different purpose; to adjust.
- (intransitive) To make oneself comfortable to a new thing.
- (transitive) To make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit.
- adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions
- make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose
- (woodworking) Any scantling smaller than a batten.
- A colored or gilded border.
- (anatomy) A fascia; a band of fibres; applied especially to certain bands of white matter in the brain.
- (engineering, drafting, CAD) A rounded relief or cut at an edge, especially an inside edge, added for a finished appearance and to break sharp edges.
- (heraldry) An ordinary equal in breadth to one quarter of the chief, to the lowest portion of which it corresponds in position.
- (construction) A heavy bead of waterproofing compound or sealant material generally installed at the point where vertical and horizontal surfaces meet.
- (architecture) The space between two flutings in a shaft.
- The raised moulding around the muzzle of a gun.
- A thin strip of any material, in various technical uses.
- (UK) A premium cut of meat, especially beef, taken from below the lower back of the animal, considered to be lean and tender; also called tenderloin.
- (architecture) A thin featureless moulding/molding used as separation between broader decorative mouldings.
- The thread of a screw.
- A strip or compact piece of meat or fish from which any bones and skin and feathers have been removed.
- The loins of a horse, beginning at the place where the hinder part of the saddle rests.
- a longitudinal slice or boned side of a fish
- a boneless steak cut from the tenderloin of beef
- lace having a square mesh
- a narrow headband or strip of ribbon worn as a headband
- a bundle of sensory nerve fibers going to the thalamus
- fastener consisting of a narrow strip of welded metal used to join steel members
- (horse-riding) Harmony and proportion of movement, as in a well-managed horse.
- The act or state of declining or sinking.
- (music) A progression of at least two chords which conclude a piece of music, section or musical phrases within it. Sometimes referred to analogously as musical punctuation.
- (speech) A fall in inflection of a speaker’s voice, such as at the end of a sentence.
- (military) A chant that is sung by military personnel while running or marching; a jody call.
- The measure or beat of movement.
- (horseracing) The number of strides per second of a racehorse, measured when the same foot/hoof strikes the ground
- (fencing) The rhythm and sequence of a series of actions.
- (dance) A dance move which ends a phrase.
- (music) A cadenza, or closing embellishment; a pause before the end of a strain, which the performer may fill with a flight of fancy.
- Balanced, rhythmic flow.
- (heraldry) Cadency.
- (software engineering) The frequency of regular product releases.
- (running) The number of steps per minute.
- The general inflection or modulation of the voice, or of any sound.
- (cycling) The number of revolutions per minute of the cranks or pedals of a bicycle.
- the close of a musical section
- (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
- a recurrent rhythmical series
- (mathematics, algebra) Whose coefficients are complex numbers; defined over the field of complex numbers.
- Made up of multiple parts; composite; not simple.
- (geometry) A curve, polygon or other figure that crosses or intersects itself.
- (mathematics, mathematical analysis, of a function) Whose range is a subset of the complex numbers.
- Not simple, easy, or straightforward; complicated.
- (mathematics, of a number) Having the form a + bi, where a and b are real numbers and i is (by definition) the imaginary square root of −1.
- difficult to analyze or understand
- complicated in structure; consisting of interconnected parts
- (psychology) A group of emotionally charged ideas or mental factors, unconsciously associated by the individual with a particular subject, arising from repressed instincts, fears, or desires and often resulting in mental abnormality.
- (taxonomy) A group of closely related species, often distinguished only with difficulty by traditional morphological methods.
- (linguistics) A multimorphemic word, one with several parts, one with affixes.
- A collection of buildings with a common purpose, such as a university or military base.
- An organized cluster of thunderstorms.
- (chemistry) A structure consisting of a central atom or molecule weakly connected to surrounding atoms or molecules, as for example coordination compounds in inorganic chemistry and protein complexes in biochemistry.
- (mathematics) A complex number.
- A fixed mental tendency or obsession.
- A cluster of wildfires burning in the same vicinity.
- An assemblage of related things; a collection.
- A network of interconnected systems.
- a conceptual whole made up of complicated and related parts
- a compound described in terms of the central atom to which other atoms are bound or coordinated
- a whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures
- (psychoanalysis) a combination of emotions and impulses that have been rejected from awareness but still influence a person's behavior
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- Varying in quality.
- Not uniform.
- Of a surface, not even; covered with raised spots, pits and grooves.
- Not level or smooth.
- (mathematics, rare) Odd.
- not even or uniform as e.g. in shape or texture
- not divisible by two
- (of a contest or contestants) not fairly matched as opponents
- lacking consistency
- variable and recurring at irregular intervals
- (transitive) To cause to vary irregularly.
- (intransitive) To undulate.
- (intransitive) To be irresolute; to waver.
- (intransitive) To vary irregularly; to swing.
- (rare, figuratively, also literally) To rise and fall as a wave; to be tossed up and down the waves.
- move or sway in a rising and falling or wavelike pattern
- be unstable
- cause to fluctuate or move in a wavelike pattern
- (transitive) To form a pattern on; to variegate.
- (transitive) To make rough, to agitate or disturb; to cause to ripple.
- (transitive, music) To press down the string behind a fret.
- (transitive) To decorate or ornament, especially with an interlaced or interwoven pattern, or (architecture) with carving or relief (raised) work.
- (transitive, music) # To fit frets on to (a musical instrument).
- (intransitive) To be anxious, to worry.
- (transitive) To cut through with a fretsaw, to create fretwork.
- (intransitive) To be agitated; to rankle; to be in violent commotion.
- (transitive) In the form fret out: to squander, to waste.
- (ambitransitive) To gnaw; to consume, to eat away.
- (intransitive, brewing, wine) To have secondary fermentation (fermentation occurring after the conversion of sugar to alcohol in beers and wine) take place.
- (ambitransitive) To be chafed or irritated; to be angry or vexed; to utter peevish expressions through irritation or worry.
- (transitive) To chafe or irritate; to worry.
- To bind, to tie, originally with a loop or ring.
- (ambitransitive) To mine by agitating or eating away at (ore in the bank of a river).
- (intransitive) To be worn away; to chafe; to fray.
- cause annoyance in
- worry unnecessarily or excessively
- provide (a musical instrument) with frets
- become or make sore by or as if by rubbing
- carve a pattern into
- gnaw into; make resentful or angry
- wear away or erode
- cause friction
- remove soil or rock
- be agitated or irritated
- be too tight; rub or press
- decorate with an interlaced design
- Agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or some other cause; a rippling on the surface of water.
- Agitation of the mind marked by complaint and impatience; disturbance of temper; irritation.
- (rare) A channel or passage created by the sea.
- (Northumbria) A fog or mist at sea, or coming inland from the sea.
- (mining, in the plural) The worn sides of riverbanks, where ores or stones containing them accumulate after being washed down from higher ground, which thus indicate to miners the locality of veins of ore.
- (music) One of the pieces of metal, plastic or wood across the neck of a guitar or other string instrument that marks where a finger should be positioned to depress a string as it is played.
- A channel, a strait; a fretum.
- (heraldry) A saltire interlaced with a mascle.
- An ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines, often in relief.
- Herpes; tetter (“any of various pustular skin conditions”).
- an ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines (often in relief)
- agitation resulting from active worry
- a spot that has been worn away by abrasion or erosion
- a small bar of metal across the fingerboard of a musical instrument; when the string is stopped by a finger at the metal bar it will produce a note of the desired pitch
- An incongruous mixture.
- (countable, figuratively, by extension) A jester; a fool.
- (uncountable) A jester's multicoloured clothes.
- a garment made of motley (especially a court jester's costume)
- a multicolored woolen fabric woven of mixed threads in 14th to 17th century England
- a collection containing a variety of sorts of things
- (transitive) To arrange.
- (UK, slang) To provide (somebody) with a necessity, or a solution to a problem.
- (transitive) To clarify by reviewing mentally.
- (transitive) To fix (a problem).
- (transitive) To separate from the remainder of a group; often construed with from.
- (transitive) To organise or separate into groups, as a collection of items, so as to make tidy.
- (transitive, British, slang) To take action to stop someone who has been causing trouble, often by physically attacking them.
- punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience
- make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear
- arrange or order by classes or categories
- (transitive) to alternate; to intermingle or vary
- (intransitive) to swap or change places
- (transitive) to mutually give and receive (something); to exchange
- (transport) To act as or carry out an interchange (noun, senses 2, 3).
- (transitive) to switch (each of two things)
- cause to change places
- put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items
- give to, and receive from, one another
- reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action)
- (countable) A highway junction in which traffic may change from one road to another without crossing a stream of traffic.
- A back-and-forth interaction; an exchange.
- (countable) A junction in which traffic may merge to enter or diverge to exit a limited-access highway to access a surface street, without crossing traffic on the main highway.
- (countable, uncountable) An act of interchanging.
- (rail transport, countable) A connection between two or more lines, services or modes of transport; a station at which such a connection can be made.
- mutual interaction; the activity of reciprocating or exchanging (especially information)
- a junction of highways on different levels that permits traffic to move from one to another without crossing traffic streams
- the act of changing one thing for another thing
- reciprocal transfer of equivalent sums of money (especially the currencies of different countries)
- Not perfect,
- (botany) Unisexual: having either male (with stamens) or female (with pistil) flowers, but not with both.
- (taxonomy) Known or expected to be polyphyletic, as of a form taxon.
- (grammar, of a tense or verb form) Representing a continuing or repeated action.
- wanting in moral strength, courage, or will; having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings
- not perfect; defective or inadequate
- (transitive) To alter slightly.
- (transitive, slang) To throw shade, to subtly insult someone.
- (transitive) To darken, particularly in drawing.
- (intransitive, rare) To shield oneself from light.
- (intransitive, baseball, of a defensive player) To move slightly from one's normal fielding position.
- To win by a narrow margin.
- (intransitive) To vary or approach something slightly, particularly in color.
- (transitive, graphical user interface) To reduce (a window) so that only its title bar is visible.
- (transitive) To shield (someone or something) from light.
- represent the effect of shade or shadow on
- protect from light, heat, or view
- vary slightly
- pass from one quality such as color to another by a slight degree
- cast a shadow over
- (figuratively, in the plural) An aspect that is reminiscent of something.
- (countable) A postage stamp showing an obvious difference in colour/color to the original printing and needing a separate catalogue/catalog entry.
- (uncountable) Darkness where light, particularly sunlight, is blocked.
- (historical) A candle-shade.
- (countable) A cover around or above a light bulb, a lampshade.
- A very small degree of a quantity, or variety of meaning
- (figuratively) A subtle variation in a concept.
- (countable) Something that blocks light, particularly in a window.
- (chiefly literary and fantasy) A ghost or specter; a spirit.
- (countable) A variety of a color, in particular one obtained by adding black (compare tint).
- (uncountable, originally LGBTQ slang) Subtle insults.
- relative darkness caused by light rays being intercepted by an opaque body
- protective covering that protects something from direct sunlight
- a subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude
- a representation of the effect of shadows in a picture or drawing (as by shading or darker pigment)
- a mental representation of some haunting experience
- a position of relative inferiority
- a protective ornamental covering for a lamp, used to screen a light bulb from direct view
- a slight amount or degree of difference
- a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color
- (transitive) To arrange logically.
- (transitive) To establish someone in a business or position.
- (transitive) To matchmake; to arrange a date between two people.
- (transitive) To found; to start (a business, scheme)
- (sports, transitive) To create a goalscoring opportunity (for).
- (informal, transitive, criminology) To trick or lure (someone) in order to entrap them.
- (transitive) To arrange for an outcome; to tamper or rig.
- (intransitive) To level to rise in one part of a body of water, especially a shallow one, because of a storm surge caused by persistent wind.
- (boxing) To deceive an opponent and capitalize on their reactions with a certain technique or maneuver.
- (transitive) To provide the money or other support that someone needs for an important task or activity.
- (intransitive) To gel or harden.
- (transitive) To trap or ensnare.
- To profess openly; to make pretensions.
- (intransitive) To prepare or get ready.
- To cause to take flight; to flush into the air.
- (transitive) To make (someone) proud or conceited (often in passive).
- (transitive) To make ready for use.
- (transitive) To cause to happen.
- equip with sails or masts
- set up or found
- take or catch as if in a snare or trap
- put into a proper or systematic order
- place
- arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events
- begin, or enable someone else to begin, a venture by providing the means, logistics, etc.
- make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc
- arrange the outcome of by means of deceit
- get ready for a particular purpose or event
- create by putting components or members together
- produce
- erect and fasten
- construct, build, or erect
- set up for use
- (geology) A geological feature consisting of symmetrical anticlines that intersect where each one reaches its apex.
- (informal) A person's head.
- (by extension) Any erection resembling the dome or cupola of a building, such as the upper part of a furnace, the vertical steam chamber on the top of a boiler, etc.
- (by extension) Anything shaped like an upset bowl, often used as a cover.
- (architecture) A structural element resembling the hollow upper half of a sphere.
- (crystallography) A prism formed by planes parallel to a lateral axis which meet above in a horizontal edge, like the roof of a house; also, one of the planes of such a form.
- (sewing) A press stud or snap fastener.
- (slang) head, oral sex
- a hemispherical roof
- informal terms for a human head
- a stadium that has a roof
- a concave shape whose distinguishing characteristic is that the concavity faces downward
- (countable) Proper or equal share.
- (countable, chiefly in the plural) Size.
- (mathematics, countable) A statement of equality between two ratios.
- The relation of one part to another or to the whole with respect to magnitude, quantity, or degree.
- (uncountable) Harmonious relation of parts to each other or to the whole.
- (countable) A quantity of something that is part of the whole amount or number.
- the relation between things (or parts of things) with respect to their comparative quantity, magnitude, or degree
- balance among the parts of something
- the quotient obtained when the magnitude of a part is divided by the magnitude of the whole
- harmonious arrangement or relation of parts or elements within a whole (as in a design)
- magnitude or extent
- (fishing, uncountable) Underwater terrain or objects (such as a dead tree or a submerged car) that tend to attract fish
- A body, such as a political party, with a cohesive purpose or outlook.
- A cohesive whole built up of distinct parts.
- The overall form or organization of something.
- (computing) Several pieces of data treated as a unit.
- The underlying shape of a solid.
- A set of rules defining behaviour.
- (logic) A set along with a collection of finitary functions and relations.
- the complex composition of knowledge as elements and their combinations
- a particular complex anatomical part of a living thing and its construction and arrangement
- the people in a society considered as a system organized by a characteristic pattern of relationships
- a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts
- the manner of construction of something and the arrangement of its parts
- (transitive) To make confusing or obscure.
- (transitive, photography) To make dim or obscure.
- (transitive) To cover with or as if with fog.
- (transitive) To disperse insecticide into (a forest canopy) so as to collect organisms.
- (transitive, photography) To spoil (film) via exposure to light other than in the normal process of taking a photograph.
- (intransitive) To become obscured in condensation or water.
- (intransitive) To become covered with or as if with fog.
- (transitive) To obscure in condensation or water.
- (intransitive) To become covered with the kind of grass called fog.
- (transitive) To pasture cattle on the fog (of), or aftergrass, of; to eat off the fog from (a field).
- (intransitive, photography) To become dim or obscure.
- make less visible or unclear
- (uncountable) A thick cloud that forms near the ground; the obscurity of such a cloud.
- (Scotland) Moss.
- (UK, dialect) Tall and decaying grass left standing after the cutting or grazing season.
- A new growth of grass appearing on a field that has been mowed or grazed.
- (uncountable) A mist or film clouding a surface.
- (photography) A silver deposit or other blur on a negative or developed photographic image.
- (figurative) A state of mind characterized by lethargy and confusion.
- (computer graphics) Distance fog.
- confusion characterized by lack of clarity
- an atmosphere in which visibility is reduced because of a cloud of some substance
- droplets of water vapor suspended in the air near the ground
- Any lath laid without actual measurement between two gauged laths.
- A batten laid lengthwise between two rafters as a bearing for laths laid crosswise.
- Any of a series of laths nailed to the timbers to raise the sheet lathing above their surface to afford a key for plastering.
- One of many laths used in preparing one side of a partition or framed wall, when the other side has been covered in and finished.
- (transitive) To modify.
- (transitive) To settle an insurance claim.
- (intransitive) To change to fit circumstances.
- (transitive) To improve or rectify.
- alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard
- adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions
- place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel or straight
- make correspondent or conformable
- decide how much is to be paid on an insurance claim
- (transitive) to begin to reduce to shape; to mark out roughly; to lay out.
- (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.
- 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
- (anatomy) The long bone in the forearm, on the side of the thumb.
- Anything resembling a radius, such as the spoke of a wheel, the movable arm of a sextant, or one of the radiating lines of a spider's web.
- (graph theory) The minimum eccentricity of any vertex, for a given graph.
- (zoology) The lighter bone (or fused portion of bone) in the forelimb of an animal.
- (geometry) The length of this line segment.
- (geometry) A line segment between any point of a circle or sphere and its center.
- (entomology) One of the major veins of the insect wing, between the subcosta and the media; the vein running along the costal edge of the discal cell.
- the outer and slightly shorter of the two bones of the human forearm
- a circular region whose area is indicated by the length of its radius
- support consisting of a radial member of a wheel joining the hub to the rim
- a straight line from the center to the perimeter of a circle (or from the center to the surface of a sphere)
- the length of a line segment between the center and circumference of a circle or sphere
- The basic unit of money in Kyrgyzstan.
- A central idea or point; gist.
- The basic unit of money in Uzbekistan.
- A quantity of money.
- (rare or literary) The utmost degree; the greatest or most perfect realization (of some concept).
- A type of administrative district used in China, Mongolia, and Russia. In Mongolia, a sum is smaller than a province. In China, it is only used in Inner Mongolia, where it is equivalent to a township.
- A summary; the principal points or thoughts when viewed together; the substance.
- (often plural) An arithmetic computation, especially one posed to a student as an exercise (not necessarily limited to addition).
- A quantity obtained by addition or aggregation.
- a quantity of money
- the whole amount
- the final aggregate
- a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets
- a quantity obtained by the addition of a group of numbers
- the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
- (transitive) To bring something out of shape, to misshape.
- (transitive) To give a false or misleading account of; pervert.
- (intransitive, ergative) To become misshapen.
- form into a spiral shape
- make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story
- alter the shape of (something) by stress
- twist and press out of shape
- affect as in thought or feeling
- (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 fill or obstruct (something) so that it is not possible to pass.
- (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 prevent (something from happening or someone from doing something).
- (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
- obstruct
- 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
- (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
- (transitive) To contort.
- (transitive, slang) To cheat someone or ruin their chances in a game or other situation.
- (ambitransitive, vulgar, slang) To have sexual intercourse with.
- (colloquial, transitive) To give up on, to abandon, delay, to not think about someone or something.
- (transitive) To connect or assemble pieces using a screw.
- (soccer, transitive) To miskick (a ball) by hitting it with the wrong part of the foot.
- (billiards, snooker, pool) To screw back.
- (transitive) To extort or practice extortion upon; to oppress by unreasonable or extortionate exactions; to put the screws on.
- (colloquial, transitive, imperative, mildly vulgar) Used to express great displeasure with, or contemptuous dismissal of, someone or something.
- cause to penetrate, as with a circular motion
- have sexual intercourse with
- defeat someone through trickery or deceit
- tighten or fasten by means of screwing motions
- turn like a screw
- (vulgar, slang) A casual sexual partner.
- (nautical) A ship's propeller.
- A (usually) metal fastener consisting of a partially or completely threaded shank, sometimes with a threaded point, and a head used to both hold the top material and to drive the screw either directly into a soft material or into a prepared hole.
- An Archimedes screw.
- (informal, in the plural, with "the") Rheumatism.
- (vulgar, slang) Sexual intercourse; the act of screwing.
- (mathematics) A straight line in space with which a definite linear magnitude termed the pitch is associated. It is used to express the displacement of a rigid body, which may always be made to consist of a rotation about an axis combined with a translation parallel to that axis.
- (slang, derogatory) A prison guard.
- (snooker, billiards) Backspin.
- (slang, derogatory) An extortioner; a sharp bargainer; a skinflint.
- An amphipod crustacean.
- A simple machine, a helical inclined plane.
- A steam vessel propelled by a screw instead of wheels.
- The motion of screwing something; a turn or twist to one side.
- a simple machine of the inclined-plane type consisting of a spirally threaded cylindrical rod that engages with a similarly threaded hole
- someone who guards prisoners
- a propeller with several angled blades that rotates to push against water or air
- slang for sexual intercourse
- a fastener with a tapered threaded shank and a slotted head
- (transitive) To mark with irregular lines or letters; to scribble on.
- (intransitive) To scribble.
- (intransitive) To move with difficulty by making rapid movements back and forth with the hands or paws.
- (transitive) To gather hastily.
- (intransitive) To scrape or scratch powerfully with hands or claws.
- write down quickly without much attention to detail
- feel searchingly
- (transitive) To make by altering or fitting something else; to produce by change of form or character.
- (transitive) To fit by alteration; to modify or remodel for a different purpose; to adjust.
- (intransitive) To make oneself comfortable to a new thing.
- (transitive) To make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit.
- adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions
- make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose
- (woodworking) Any scantling smaller than a batten.
- A colored or gilded border.
- (anatomy) A fascia; a band of fibres; applied especially to certain bands of white matter in the brain.
- (engineering, drafting, CAD) A rounded relief or cut at an edge, especially an inside edge, added for a finished appearance and to break sharp edges.
- (heraldry) An ordinary equal in breadth to one quarter of the chief, to the lowest portion of which it corresponds in position.
- (construction) A heavy bead of waterproofing compound or sealant material generally installed at the point where vertical and horizontal surfaces meet.
- (architecture) The space between two flutings in a shaft.
- The raised moulding around the muzzle of a gun.
- A thin strip of any material, in various technical uses.
- (UK) A premium cut of meat, especially beef, taken from below the lower back of the animal, considered to be lean and tender; also called tenderloin.
- (architecture) A thin featureless moulding/molding used as separation between broader decorative mouldings.
- The thread of a screw.
- A strip or compact piece of meat or fish from which any bones and skin and feathers have been removed.
- The loins of a horse, beginning at the place where the hinder part of the saddle rests.
- a longitudinal slice or boned side of a fish
- a boneless steak cut from the tenderloin of beef
- lace having a square mesh
- a narrow headband or strip of ribbon worn as a headband
- a bundle of sensory nerve fibers going to the thalamus
- fastener consisting of a narrow strip of welded metal used to join steel members
- (horse-riding) Harmony and proportion of movement, as in a well-managed horse.
- The act or state of declining or sinking.
- (music) A progression of at least two chords which conclude a piece of music, section or musical phrases within it. Sometimes referred to analogously as musical punctuation.
- (speech) A fall in inflection of a speaker’s voice, such as at the end of a sentence.
- (military) A chant that is sung by military personnel while running or marching; a jody call.
- The measure or beat of movement.
- (horseracing) The number of strides per second of a racehorse, measured when the same foot/hoof strikes the ground
- (fencing) The rhythm and sequence of a series of actions.
- (dance) A dance move which ends a phrase.
- (music) A cadenza, or closing embellishment; a pause before the end of a strain, which the performer may fill with a flight of fancy.
- Balanced, rhythmic flow.
- (heraldry) Cadency.
- (software engineering) The frequency of regular product releases.
- (running) The number of steps per minute.
- The general inflection or modulation of the voice, or of any sound.
- (cycling) The number of revolutions per minute of the cranks or pedals of a bicycle.
- the close of a musical section
- (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
- a recurrent rhythmical series
- (mathematics, algebra) Whose coefficients are complex numbers; defined over the field of complex numbers.
- Made up of multiple parts; composite; not simple.
- (geometry) A curve, polygon or other figure that crosses or intersects itself.
- (mathematics, mathematical analysis, of a function) Whose range is a subset of the complex numbers.
- Not simple, easy, or straightforward; complicated.
- (mathematics, of a number) Having the form a + bi, where a and b are real numbers and i is (by definition) the imaginary square root of −1.
- difficult to analyze or understand
- complicated in structure; consisting of interconnected parts
- (psychology) A group of emotionally charged ideas or mental factors, unconsciously associated by the individual with a particular subject, arising from repressed instincts, fears, or desires and often resulting in mental abnormality.
- (taxonomy) A group of closely related species, often distinguished only with difficulty by traditional morphological methods.
- (linguistics) A multimorphemic word, one with several parts, one with affixes.
- A collection of buildings with a common purpose, such as a university or military base.
- An organized cluster of thunderstorms.
- (chemistry) A structure consisting of a central atom or molecule weakly connected to surrounding atoms or molecules, as for example coordination compounds in inorganic chemistry and protein complexes in biochemistry.
- (mathematics) A complex number.
- A fixed mental tendency or obsession.
- A cluster of wildfires burning in the same vicinity.
- An assemblage of related things; a collection.
- A network of interconnected systems.
- a conceptual whole made up of complicated and related parts
- a compound described in terms of the central atom to which other atoms are bound or coordinated
- a whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures
- (psychoanalysis) a combination of emotions and impulses that have been rejected from awareness but still influence a person's behavior
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- Unevenly or irregularly.
- In a rough manner; without kindness, softness, or gentleness.
- Without precision or exactness; imprecisely but close to in quantity or amount; approximately.
- with roughness or violence (‘rough’ is an informal variant for ‘roughly’)
- (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
- with rough motion as over a rough surface