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adj
- Having a somewhat hysterical tone, using over-emotive language.
- That makes one hold one's breath (with excitement etc.).
- Having no wind; still, calm or airless.
- Not breathing; dead or apparently so.
- Having difficulty breathing; gasping.
- not breathing or able to breathe except with difficulty
- tending to cause suspension of regular breathing
- appearing dead; not breathing or having no perceptible pulse
noun
- A character played by an actor.
- an actor's portrayal of someone in a play
- (marketing, user experience) An imaginary person representing a particular type of client or customer, considered when designing products and services that will appeal to them.
- A social role.
- (psychology) The mask or appearance one presents to the world.
- (Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world
noun
- A pantomime actor.
- A performer of such a farce.
- A person who mimics others in a comical manner.
- A unit of imitation in the theory of symbiosism.
- Any of various papilionid butterflies of the genus Chilasa or Papilio, that mimic other species in appearance.
- A form of acting without words; pantomime.
- A classical theatrical entertainment in the form of farce.
- a performance using gestures and body movements without words
- an actor who communicates entirely by gesture and facial expression
verb
noun
- an actor's portrayal of someone in a play
- a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities)
- good repute
- an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story)
- a written symbol that is used to represent speech
- (genetics) an attribute (structural or functional) that is determined by a gene or group of genes
- the inherent complex of attributes that determines a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions
- a characteristic property that defines the apparent individual nature of something
- a formal recommendation by a former employer to a potential future employer describing the person's qualifications and dependability
- (countable) Quality, position, rank, or capacity; quality or conduct with respect to a certain office or duty.
- (countable) A unique or extraordinary individual; a person characterized by peculiar or notable traits, especially charisma.
- (countable) A written or printed symbol, or letter.
- (countable, computing) One of the basic elements making up a text file or string: a code representing a printing character or a control character.
- (countable) A distinguishing feature; characteristic; trait; nature; phene.
- (countable, informal) A person or individual, especially one who is unknown.
- (uncountable, countable) A complex of traits marking a person, group, breed, or type.
- (uncountable) Strength of mind; resolution; independence; individuality; moral strength.
- (countable) A being involved in the action of a story; a persona.
- (countable, mathematics) An assignment of complex numbers to each element of a group, in particular a finite abelian group. More precisely, a group homomorphism into the group of units of a field (usually ℂ).
verb
noun
- an actor's portrayal of someone in a play
- the effort contributed by a person in bringing about a result
- a portion of a natural object
- assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group
- something determined in relation to something that includes it
- the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group
- one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole
- the melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music
- that which concerns a person with regard to a particular role or situation
- something less than the whole of a human artifact
- the extended spatial location of something
- a line of scalp that can be seen when sections of hair are combed in opposite directions
- an item that is an instance of some type
- A section of land; an area of a country or other territory; region.
- (US) The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions.
- A section of a document.
- (Judaism) In the Hebrew lunisolar calendar, a unit of time equivalent to 3⅓ seconds.
- A unit of relative proportion in a mixture.
- A distinct element of something larger.
- Share, especially of a profit.
- Position or role (especially in a play).
- A group inside a larger group.
- (US) A room in a public building, especially a courtroom.
- A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent; usually in the plural with a collective sense.
- (music) The melody played or sung by a particular instrument, voice, or group of instruments or voices, within a polyphonic piece.
- Each of two contrasting sides of an argument, debate etc.; "hand".
- 3.5 centiliters of one ingredient in a mixed drink.
- (colloquial, euphemistic) A private part; genitalia.
- A fraction of a whole.
- Duty; responsibility.
adv
verb
- force, take, or pull apart
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- go one's own way; move apart
- depart for someplace
- move or break apart
- (intransitive) To be divided in two or separated.
- (intransitive) To leave the company of.
- To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion.
- (transitive) To divide in two.
- To separate or disunite; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder.
- To cut hair with a parting.
- (transitive, Internet) To leave (an IRC channel).
adj
noun
- an actor's portrayal of someone in a play
- normal or customary activity of a person in a particular social setting
- the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group
- what something is used for
- The function or position of something.
- A character or part played by a performer or actor.
- (historical) An ancient unit of quantity, 72 sheets of parchment.
- (grammar) The function of a word in a phrase.
- (object-oriented programming) In the Raku programming language, a code element akin to an interface, used for composition of classes without adding to their inheritance chain.
- Designation that denotes an associated set of responsibilities, knowledge, skills, or privileges
- The expected behaviour of an individual in a society.
adj
adj
- Melodramatic.
- Pruriently detailed and sensationalistic about something shocking or horrifying, especially with regard to violence or sex.
- Ghastly, pale, wan in appearance.
- (botany) Having a brown colour tinged with red.
- Being of a light yellow hue.
- shining with an unnatural red glow as of fire seen through smoke
- glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism
- horrible in fierceness or savagery
- ghastly pale
noun
- A person who makes jokes.
- (slang) A funny person.
- A loser.
- An unspecified, vaguely disreputable person.
- (New Zealand, colloquial) A man.
- (military) A friendly unit that acts as a suspected hostile unit in a military excercise.
- A jester.
- A clause in a contract that undermines its apparent provisions.
- A playing card that features a picture of a joker (that is, a jester) and that may be used as a wild card in some card games.
- (figurative) Something kept in reserve that can be used to gain an advantage; a trump card.
- (chess) A fairy chess piece that moves like the last piece that was moved by the opponent.
- The option, in a pub quiz, of selecting one particular round in which one's team will score double points.
- a person who enjoys telling or playing jokes
- a person who does something thoughtless or annoying
- a playing card that is usually printed with a picture of a jester
- an inconspicuous clause in a document or bill that affects its meaning in a way that is not immediately apparent
noun
- A person who acts in a silly fashion.
- A slapstick performance artist often associated with a circus and usually characterized by bright, oversized clothing, a red nose, face paint, and a brightly colored wig.
- A clownfish.
- A stupid person.
- a rude or vulgar fool
- a person who amuses others by ridiculous behavior
verb
noun
- a witty amusing person who makes jokes
- a printed circuit that can be inserted into expansion slots in a computer to increase the computer's capabilities
- a card certifying the identity of the bearer
- a sign posted in a public place as an advertisement
- a list of dishes available at a restaurant
- a printed or written greeting that is left to indicate that you have visited
- a rectangular piece of stiff paper used to send messages (may have printed greetings or pictures)
- thin cardboard, usually rectangular
- (golf) a record of scores (as in golf)
- one of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes
- (baseball) a list of batters in the order in which they will bat
- A business card.
- (in the plural) Any game using playing cards; a card game.
- Any flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic, etc.
- (nautical) Ellipsis of compass card.
- A roll or sliver of fibre (as of wool) delivered from a carding machine.
- (Philippines, education) Ellipsis of report card.
- A test card.
- A bank card.
- (textiles) A hand-held tool formed similarly to a hairbrush but with bristles of wire or other rigid material. It is used principally with raw cotton, wool, hair, or other natural fibers to prepare these materials for spinning into yarn or thread on a spinning wheel, with a whorl or other hand-held spindle. The card serves to untangle, clean, remove debris from, and lay the fibers straight.
- (computing) A removable electronic device that may be inserted into a powered electronic device to provide additional capability.
- (uncountable) Paper that is thicker and more durable than normal writing or printing paper, but thinner and more flexible than paperboard, used for postcards, playing cards, etc.; card stock.
- (computing) Any of a set of pages or forms that the user can navigate between, and fill with data, in certain user interfaces.
- A list of scheduled events or of performers or contestants; chiefly used in professional wrestling.
- In formal debating, a verbatim citation used as evidence for a point.
- (graph theory) A graph formed from a given graph by deleting one vertex.
- (television) A title card or intertitle: a piece of filmed, printed text edited into the midst of the photographed action at various points, generally to convey character dialogue or descriptive narrative material related to the plot.
- A greeting card.
- Abbreviation of cardinal (“songbird”).
- Any electronic payment (rather than a cash payment using notes, bills or coins).
- (informal) An amusing or entertaining person, often slightly eccentric.
- (cricket) A tabular presentation of the key statistics of an innings or match: batsmen’s scores and how they were dismissed, extras, total score and bowling figures.
- An indicator card.
- A playing card.
- A resource or argument, used to achieve a purpose. (See play the something card.)
- (weaving) A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for warp threads, making part of the Jacquard apparatus of a loom.
verb
- ask someone for identification to determine whether he or she is old enough to consume liquor
- separate the fibers of
- (transitive, US) To check IDs, especially against a minimum age requirement.
- To scrape or tear someone’s flesh using a metal comb, as a form of torture.
- (transitive, golf) To make (a stated score), as recorded on a scoring card.
- (textiles) To use a carding device to disentangle the fibres of wool prior to spinning.
- (transitive) To comb with a card; to cleanse or disentangle by carding.
noun
verb
- move from side to side
- To move continually, especially in gossip; said of the tongue.
- (intransitive, cricket, slang) Of the tail (lower order of the batting lineup): to score more runs than expected.
- To swing from side to side, as an animal's tail, or someone's head to express disagreement or disbelief.
- (UK, Australia, New Zealand, slang) To play truant from school.
noun
- a witty amusing person who makes jokes
- mental ability
- a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter
- (now usually in the plural) Sanity.
- The ability to think quickly; mental cleverness, especially under short time constraints.
- Humour, especially when clever or quick.
- Intellectual ability; faculty of thinking, reasoning.
- Intelligence; common sense.
- A person who tells funny anecdotes or jokes; someone witty.
prep
verb
noun
adj
verb
noun
- (informal) An amusing person.
- A brief musical composition or theme, especially for the piano.
- A brief description of a person or account of an incident; a general presentation or outline.
- (UK) A humorous newspaper article summarizing political events, making heavy use of metaphor, paraphrase and caricature.
- (slang, Ireland) A lookout; vigilant watch for something.
- A rough design, plan, or draft, as a rough draft of a book.
- A rapidly executed freehand drawing that is not intended as a finished work, often consisting of a multitude of overlapping lines.
- A brief, light, or informal literary composition, such as an essay or short story.
- (category theory) A formal specification of a mathematical structure or a data type described in terms of a graph and diagrams (and cones (and cocones)) on it. It can be implemented by means of “models”, which are functors which are graph homomorphisms from the formal specification to categories such that the diagrams become commutative, the cones become limiting (i.e., products), the cocones become colimiting (i.e., sums).
- short descriptive summary (of events)
- a humorous or satirical drawing published in a newspaper or magazine
- a brief literary description
- preliminary drawing for later elaboration
adj
verb
noun
adj
noun
noun
verb
noun
noun
- a whimsically eccentric person
- a hand tool consisting of a rotating shaft with parallel handle
- a bad-tempered person
- an amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant
- (informal) An amateur in science or other technical subjects who persistently advocates flawed theories.
- A fit of temper or passion.
- (now chiefly dialectal) An ailment, ache.
- (rare) A twist or turn in speech; word play consisting in a change of the form or meaning of a word.
- Clipping of crankshaft.
- A twist or turn of the mind; caprice; whim;
- (US, slang) Synonym of methamphetamine.
- (slang) The penis.
- The act of converting power into motion, by turning a crankshaft.
- (informal) An ill-tempered or nasty person.
- A bent piece of an axle or shaft, or an attached arm perpendicular, or nearly so, to the end of a shaft or wheel, used to impart a rotation to a wheel or other mechanical device; also used to change circular into reciprocating motion, or reciprocating into circular motion.
adj
- (used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail
- (dialectal) Hard; difficult.
- Sick; unwell.
- (informal) Strange; weird; odd.
- Full of spirit; brisk; lively; sprightly; overconfident; opinionated.
- (nautical, of a ship) Liable to capsize because of poorly stowed cargo or insufficient ballast.
- (dialectal) Bent; twisted; crooked; distorted; out of repair.
verb
- fasten with a crank
- rotate with a crank
- travel along a zigzag path
- bend into the shape of a crank
- start by cranking
- (intransitive) To be running at a high level of output or effort.
- (transitive) To turn by means of a crank.
- (intransitive, of a crank or similar) To turn.
- (transitive) To cause to spin via other means, as though turned by a crank.
- (intransitive) To act in a cranky manner; to behave unreasonably and irritably, especially through complaining.
- (intransitive) To turn a crank.
noun
- a whimsically eccentric person
- someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction
- usually large hard-shelled seed
- one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens
- half the width of an em
- a small (usually square or hexagonal) metal block with internal screw thread to be fitted onto a bolt
- (slang) A crazy person.
- (US, slang) Monthly expense to keep a venture running.
- (firearms) The tumbler of a gunlock.
- (music, lutherie) On stringed instruments such as guitars and violins, the small piece at the peghead end of the fingerboard that holds the strings at the proper spacing and, in most cases, the proper height.
- (poker, attributive) The best possible hand of a certain type. Compare nuts (“the best possible hand available”).
- (US, slang) The amount of money necessary to set up some venture; set-up costs.
- (vulgar, slang, uncountable) Semen, ejaculate, cum.
- (typography slang) En, a unit of measurement equal to half of the height of the type in use.
- (US, slang) A stash of money owned by an extremely rich investor, sufficient to sustain a high level of consumption if all other money is lost.
- (vulgar, slang, chiefly plural) A testicle, often used in the plural form.
- (colloquial) An extreme enthusiast.
- (climbing) A shaped piece of metal, threaded by a wire loop, which is jammed in a crack in the rockface and used to protect a climb. (Originally, machine nuts [sense #2] were used for this purpose.)
- (slang) The head. [from 19th c.]
- (hardware) A piece of hardware, typically metal and typically hexagonal or square in shape, with a hole through it having internal screw threads, intended to be screwed onto a threaded bolt or other threaded shaft.
- (vulgar, slang, countable) Orgasm, ejaculation; especially release of semen; cumshot
- Alternative form of nuth (“Indian nose ring”).
- (botany, strictly) Such a fruit that is indehiscent.
- (food, loosely) Any of various hard-shelled seeds or hard, dry fruits from various families of plants.
- (nautical) A projection on each side of the shank of an anchor, to secure the stock in place.
- (archaic except in combination with a modifier) A small rounded cake or cookie.
verb
intj
noun
- a whimsically eccentric person
- a pitch with reverse spin that curves toward the side of the plate from which it was thrown
- A screwball comedy.
- (baseball) A pitch thrown with added pressure by the index finger and a twisting wrist motion resulting in a motion to the right when thrown by a right-handed pitcher.
- (US) One who behaves in a crazy manner.
adj
name
- A fictional character from various minstrel show performances who is stereotypically depicted as an unintelligent, violent, and promiscuous Black man.
- (historical) The collective policies and customs of an era of racial oppression in the U.S., especially legalized racial persecution and segregationist practices, prevalent from the late 1800s through the 1960s until challenged by the U.S. civil rights movement.
adj
noun
- (engineering) A double-action planing tool invented by Joseph Whitworth, in which the blade ‘jumps’ to face the other way on the back-stroke.
- (military, historical) A World War II code name for patrols along the British coastline to intercept enemy aircraft, originally intended to warn of invasion in 1940.
- (rail transport) A tool for bending railway rails, by holding the rail with two arms and pushing a screw into the other side.
- barrier preventing blacks from participating in various activities with whites
verb
noun
- an unskilled actor who overacts
- a licensed amateur radio operator
- meat cut from the thigh of a hog (usually smoked)
- (uncountable) Meat from the thigh and/or buttock of a hog cured for food.
- (countable) A thigh and/or buttock of a hog slaughtered for meat; (occasionally) the corresponding cut from some other animal.
- (radio) An amateur radio operator.
- The back of the thigh of humans or certain other animals.
- (anatomy) The region back of the knee joint; the popliteal space; the hock.
- (Internet, informal, uncommon) Electronic mail that is wanted; email that is not spam or junk mail.
- (acting) An overacting or amateurish performer; an actor with an especially showy or exaggerated style.
verb
prep_phrase
noun
- a representation of a person that is exaggerated for comic effect
- A grotesque misrepresentation.
- A pictorial representation of someone in which distinguishing features are exaggerated for comic effect.
- (computing) In facial recognition systems, a face that has been modified to look less like the average face, and thus more distinctive.
verb
adj
noun
- a representation of a person that is exaggerated for comic effect
- something copied or derived from an original
- the doctrine that representations of nature or human behavior should be accurate imitations
- copying (or trying to copy) the actions of someone else
- The act of imitating.
- (attributive) A copy or simulation; something that is not the real thing.
adj
noun
- A character played by an actor.
- an actor's portrayal of someone in a play
- (marketing, user experience) An imaginary person representing a particular type of client or customer, considered when designing products and services that will appeal to them.
- A social role.
- (psychology) The mask or appearance one presents to the world.
- (Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world
noun
- A pantomime actor.
- A performer of such a farce.
- A person who mimics others in a comical manner.
- A unit of imitation in the theory of symbiosism.
- Any of various papilionid butterflies of the genus Chilasa or Papilio, that mimic other species in appearance.
- A form of acting without words; pantomime.
- A classical theatrical entertainment in the form of farce.
- a performance using gestures and body movements without words
- an actor who communicates entirely by gesture and facial expression
verb
noun
- an actor's portrayal of someone in a play
- a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities)
- good repute
- an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story)
- a written symbol that is used to represent speech
- (genetics) an attribute (structural or functional) that is determined by a gene or group of genes
- the inherent complex of attributes that determines a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions
- a characteristic property that defines the apparent individual nature of something
- a formal recommendation by a former employer to a potential future employer describing the person's qualifications and dependability
- (countable) Quality, position, rank, or capacity; quality or conduct with respect to a certain office or duty.
- (countable) A unique or extraordinary individual; a person characterized by peculiar or notable traits, especially charisma.
- (countable) A written or printed symbol, or letter.
- (countable, computing) One of the basic elements making up a text file or string: a code representing a printing character or a control character.
- (countable) A distinguishing feature; characteristic; trait; nature; phene.
- (countable, informal) A person or individual, especially one who is unknown.
- (uncountable, countable) A complex of traits marking a person, group, breed, or type.
- (uncountable) Strength of mind; resolution; independence; individuality; moral strength.
- (countable) A being involved in the action of a story; a persona.
- (countable, mathematics) An assignment of complex numbers to each element of a group, in particular a finite abelian group. More precisely, a group homomorphism into the group of units of a field (usually ℂ).
verb
noun
- an actor's portrayal of someone in a play
- the effort contributed by a person in bringing about a result
- a portion of a natural object
- assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group
- something determined in relation to something that includes it
- the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group
- one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole
- the melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music
- that which concerns a person with regard to a particular role or situation
- something less than the whole of a human artifact
- the extended spatial location of something
- a line of scalp that can be seen when sections of hair are combed in opposite directions
- an item that is an instance of some type
- A section of land; an area of a country or other territory; region.
- (US) The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions.
- A section of a document.
- (Judaism) In the Hebrew lunisolar calendar, a unit of time equivalent to 3⅓ seconds.
- A unit of relative proportion in a mixture.
- A distinct element of something larger.
- Share, especially of a profit.
- Position or role (especially in a play).
- A group inside a larger group.
- (US) A room in a public building, especially a courtroom.
- A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent; usually in the plural with a collective sense.
- (music) The melody played or sung by a particular instrument, voice, or group of instruments or voices, within a polyphonic piece.
- Each of two contrasting sides of an argument, debate etc.; "hand".
- 3.5 centiliters of one ingredient in a mixed drink.
- (colloquial, euphemistic) A private part; genitalia.
- A fraction of a whole.
- Duty; responsibility.
adv
verb
- force, take, or pull apart
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- go one's own way; move apart
- depart for someplace
- move or break apart
- (intransitive) To be divided in two or separated.
- (intransitive) To leave the company of.
- To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion.
- (transitive) To divide in two.
- To separate or disunite; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder.
- To cut hair with a parting.
- (transitive, Internet) To leave (an IRC channel).
adj
noun
- an actor's portrayal of someone in a play
- normal or customary activity of a person in a particular social setting
- the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group
- what something is used for
- The function or position of something.
- A character or part played by a performer or actor.
- (historical) An ancient unit of quantity, 72 sheets of parchment.
- (grammar) The function of a word in a phrase.
- (object-oriented programming) In the Raku programming language, a code element akin to an interface, used for composition of classes without adding to their inheritance chain.
- Designation that denotes an associated set of responsibilities, knowledge, skills, or privileges
- The expected behaviour of an individual in a society.
noun
- A person who makes jokes.
- (slang) A funny person.
- A loser.
- An unspecified, vaguely disreputable person.
- (New Zealand, colloquial) A man.
- (military) A friendly unit that acts as a suspected hostile unit in a military excercise.
- A jester.
- A clause in a contract that undermines its apparent provisions.
- A playing card that features a picture of a joker (that is, a jester) and that may be used as a wild card in some card games.
- (figurative) Something kept in reserve that can be used to gain an advantage; a trump card.
- (chess) A fairy chess piece that moves like the last piece that was moved by the opponent.
- The option, in a pub quiz, of selecting one particular round in which one's team will score double points.
- a person who enjoys telling or playing jokes
- a person who does something thoughtless or annoying
- a playing card that is usually printed with a picture of a jester
- an inconspicuous clause in a document or bill that affects its meaning in a way that is not immediately apparent
noun
- A person who acts in a silly fashion.
- A slapstick performance artist often associated with a circus and usually characterized by bright, oversized clothing, a red nose, face paint, and a brightly colored wig.
- A clownfish.
- A stupid person.
- a rude or vulgar fool
- a person who amuses others by ridiculous behavior
verb
noun
- a witty amusing person who makes jokes
- a printed circuit that can be inserted into expansion slots in a computer to increase the computer's capabilities
- a card certifying the identity of the bearer
- a sign posted in a public place as an advertisement
- a list of dishes available at a restaurant
- a printed or written greeting that is left to indicate that you have visited
- a rectangular piece of stiff paper used to send messages (may have printed greetings or pictures)
- thin cardboard, usually rectangular
- (golf) a record of scores (as in golf)
- one of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes
- (baseball) a list of batters in the order in which they will bat
- A business card.
- (in the plural) Any game using playing cards; a card game.
- Any flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic, etc.
- (nautical) Ellipsis of compass card.
- A roll or sliver of fibre (as of wool) delivered from a carding machine.
- (Philippines, education) Ellipsis of report card.
- A test card.
- A bank card.
- (textiles) A hand-held tool formed similarly to a hairbrush but with bristles of wire or other rigid material. It is used principally with raw cotton, wool, hair, or other natural fibers to prepare these materials for spinning into yarn or thread on a spinning wheel, with a whorl or other hand-held spindle. The card serves to untangle, clean, remove debris from, and lay the fibers straight.
- (computing) A removable electronic device that may be inserted into a powered electronic device to provide additional capability.
- (uncountable) Paper that is thicker and more durable than normal writing or printing paper, but thinner and more flexible than paperboard, used for postcards, playing cards, etc.; card stock.
- (computing) Any of a set of pages or forms that the user can navigate between, and fill with data, in certain user interfaces.
- A list of scheduled events or of performers or contestants; chiefly used in professional wrestling.
- In formal debating, a verbatim citation used as evidence for a point.
- (graph theory) A graph formed from a given graph by deleting one vertex.
- (television) A title card or intertitle: a piece of filmed, printed text edited into the midst of the photographed action at various points, generally to convey character dialogue or descriptive narrative material related to the plot.
- A greeting card.
- Abbreviation of cardinal (“songbird”).
- Any electronic payment (rather than a cash payment using notes, bills or coins).
- (informal) An amusing or entertaining person, often slightly eccentric.
- (cricket) A tabular presentation of the key statistics of an innings or match: batsmen’s scores and how they were dismissed, extras, total score and bowling figures.
- An indicator card.
- A playing card.
- A resource or argument, used to achieve a purpose. (See play the something card.)
- (weaving) A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for warp threads, making part of the Jacquard apparatus of a loom.
verb
- ask someone for identification to determine whether he or she is old enough to consume liquor
- separate the fibers of
- (transitive, US) To check IDs, especially against a minimum age requirement.
- To scrape or tear someone’s flesh using a metal comb, as a form of torture.
- (transitive, golf) To make (a stated score), as recorded on a scoring card.
- (textiles) To use a carding device to disentangle the fibres of wool prior to spinning.
- (transitive) To comb with a card; to cleanse or disentangle by carding.
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- move from side to side
- To move continually, especially in gossip; said of the tongue.
- (intransitive, cricket, slang) Of the tail (lower order of the batting lineup): to score more runs than expected.
- To swing from side to side, as an animal's tail, or someone's head to express disagreement or disbelief.
- (UK, Australia, New Zealand, slang) To play truant from school.
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- a witty amusing person who makes jokes
- mental ability
- a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter
- (now usually in the plural) Sanity.
- The ability to think quickly; mental cleverness, especially under short time constraints.
- Humour, especially when clever or quick.
- Intellectual ability; faculty of thinking, reasoning.
- Intelligence; common sense.
- A person who tells funny anecdotes or jokes; someone witty.
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- (informal) An amusing person.
- A brief musical composition or theme, especially for the piano.
- A brief description of a person or account of an incident; a general presentation or outline.
- (UK) A humorous newspaper article summarizing political events, making heavy use of metaphor, paraphrase and caricature.
- (slang, Ireland) A lookout; vigilant watch for something.
- A rough design, plan, or draft, as a rough draft of a book.
- A rapidly executed freehand drawing that is not intended as a finished work, often consisting of a multitude of overlapping lines.
- A brief, light, or informal literary composition, such as an essay or short story.
- (category theory) A formal specification of a mathematical structure or a data type described in terms of a graph and diagrams (and cones (and cocones)) on it. It can be implemented by means of “models”, which are functors which are graph homomorphisms from the formal specification to categories such that the diagrams become commutative, the cones become limiting (i.e., products), the cocones become colimiting (i.e., sums).
- short descriptive summary (of events)
- a humorous or satirical drawing published in a newspaper or magazine
- a brief literary description
- preliminary drawing for later elaboration
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- a whimsically eccentric person
- a hand tool consisting of a rotating shaft with parallel handle
- a bad-tempered person
- an amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant
- (informal) An amateur in science or other technical subjects who persistently advocates flawed theories.
- A fit of temper or passion.
- (now chiefly dialectal) An ailment, ache.
- (rare) A twist or turn in speech; word play consisting in a change of the form or meaning of a word.
- Clipping of crankshaft.
- A twist or turn of the mind; caprice; whim;
- (US, slang) Synonym of methamphetamine.
- (slang) The penis.
- The act of converting power into motion, by turning a crankshaft.
- (informal) An ill-tempered or nasty person.
- A bent piece of an axle or shaft, or an attached arm perpendicular, or nearly so, to the end of a shaft or wheel, used to impart a rotation to a wheel or other mechanical device; also used to change circular into reciprocating motion, or reciprocating into circular motion.
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- (used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail
- (dialectal) Hard; difficult.
- Sick; unwell.
- (informal) Strange; weird; odd.
- Full of spirit; brisk; lively; sprightly; overconfident; opinionated.
- (nautical, of a ship) Liable to capsize because of poorly stowed cargo or insufficient ballast.
- (dialectal) Bent; twisted; crooked; distorted; out of repair.
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- fasten with a crank
- rotate with a crank
- travel along a zigzag path
- bend into the shape of a crank
- start by cranking
- (intransitive) To be running at a high level of output or effort.
- (transitive) To turn by means of a crank.
- (intransitive, of a crank or similar) To turn.
- (transitive) To cause to spin via other means, as though turned by a crank.
- (intransitive) To act in a cranky manner; to behave unreasonably and irritably, especially through complaining.
- (intransitive) To turn a crank.
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- a whimsically eccentric person
- someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction
- usually large hard-shelled seed
- one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens
- half the width of an em
- a small (usually square or hexagonal) metal block with internal screw thread to be fitted onto a bolt
- (slang) A crazy person.
- (US, slang) Monthly expense to keep a venture running.
- (firearms) The tumbler of a gunlock.
- (music, lutherie) On stringed instruments such as guitars and violins, the small piece at the peghead end of the fingerboard that holds the strings at the proper spacing and, in most cases, the proper height.
- (poker, attributive) The best possible hand of a certain type. Compare nuts (“the best possible hand available”).
- (US, slang) The amount of money necessary to set up some venture; set-up costs.
- (vulgar, slang, uncountable) Semen, ejaculate, cum.
- (typography slang) En, a unit of measurement equal to half of the height of the type in use.
- (US, slang) A stash of money owned by an extremely rich investor, sufficient to sustain a high level of consumption if all other money is lost.
- (vulgar, slang, chiefly plural) A testicle, often used in the plural form.
- (colloquial) An extreme enthusiast.
- (climbing) A shaped piece of metal, threaded by a wire loop, which is jammed in a crack in the rockface and used to protect a climb. (Originally, machine nuts [sense #2] were used for this purpose.)
- (slang) The head. [from 19th c.]
- (hardware) A piece of hardware, typically metal and typically hexagonal or square in shape, with a hole through it having internal screw threads, intended to be screwed onto a threaded bolt or other threaded shaft.
- (vulgar, slang, countable) Orgasm, ejaculation; especially release of semen; cumshot
- Alternative form of nuth (“Indian nose ring”).
- (botany, strictly) Such a fruit that is indehiscent.
- (food, loosely) Any of various hard-shelled seeds or hard, dry fruits from various families of plants.
- (nautical) A projection on each side of the shank of an anchor, to secure the stock in place.
- (archaic except in combination with a modifier) A small rounded cake or cookie.
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- a whimsically eccentric person
- a pitch with reverse spin that curves toward the side of the plate from which it was thrown
- A screwball comedy.
- (baseball) A pitch thrown with added pressure by the index finger and a twisting wrist motion resulting in a motion to the right when thrown by a right-handed pitcher.
- (US) One who behaves in a crazy manner.
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- an unskilled actor who overacts
- a licensed amateur radio operator
- meat cut from the thigh of a hog (usually smoked)
- (uncountable) Meat from the thigh and/or buttock of a hog cured for food.
- (countable) A thigh and/or buttock of a hog slaughtered for meat; (occasionally) the corresponding cut from some other animal.
- (radio) An amateur radio operator.
- The back of the thigh of humans or certain other animals.
- (anatomy) The region back of the knee joint; the popliteal space; the hock.
- (Internet, informal, uncommon) Electronic mail that is wanted; email that is not spam or junk mail.
- (acting) An overacting or amateurish performer; an actor with an especially showy or exaggerated style.
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- a representation of a person that is exaggerated for comic effect
- A grotesque misrepresentation.
- A pictorial representation of someone in which distinguishing features are exaggerated for comic effect.
- (computing) In facial recognition systems, a face that has been modified to look less like the average face, and thus more distinctive.
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- a representation of a person that is exaggerated for comic effect
- something copied or derived from an original
- the doctrine that representations of nature or human behavior should be accurate imitations
- copying (or trying to copy) the actions of someone else
- The act of imitating.
- (attributive) A copy or simulation; something that is not the real thing.
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- Having a somewhat hysterical tone, using over-emotive language.
- That makes one hold one's breath (with excitement etc.).
- Having no wind; still, calm or airless.
- Not breathing; dead or apparently so.
- Having difficulty breathing; gasping.
- not breathing or able to breathe except with difficulty
- tending to cause suspension of regular breathing
- appearing dead; not breathing or having no perceptible pulse
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- Melodramatic.
- Pruriently detailed and sensationalistic about something shocking or horrifying, especially with regard to violence or sex.
- Ghastly, pale, wan in appearance.
- (botany) Having a brown colour tinged with red.
- Being of a light yellow hue.
- shining with an unnatural red glow as of fire seen through smoke
- glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism
- horrible in fierceness or savagery
- ghastly pale