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noun
- A strong or offensive taste; especially, a taste of something extraneous to the thing itself.
- A sharp, twanging sound; an unpleasant tone; a twang.
- (uncountable) Sexual intercourse with a woman
- A refreshingly sharp aroma or flavor.
- (by extension) Anything resembling a tongue in form or position, such as the tongue of a buckle.
- (firearms) The projecting part of the breech of a musket barrel, by which the barrel is secured to the stock.
- (zoology) Any of a group of saltwater fish from the family Acanthuridae, especially the genus Zebrasoma.
- (countable) The vagina or vulva.
- The part of a sword blade to which the handle is fastened.
- A projecting part of an object by means of which it is secured to a handle, or to some other part.
- (figuratively) A sharp, specific flavor or tinge.
- (rare) knotted wrack, Ascophyllum nodosum (coarse blackish seaweed)
- The part of a knife, fork, file, or other instrument or hand tool, which is inserted into the handle.
- (games) A shuffleboard paddle.
- any of various kelps especially of the genus Laminaria
- the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth
- brown algae seaweed with serrated edges
- a common rockweed used in preparing kelp and as manure
- any of various coarse seaweeds
- a tart spicy quality
verb
noun
- Personal preference; liking; predilection.
- A kind of narrow and thin silk ribbon.
- The sense that consists in the perception and interpretation of this sensation.
- (figuratively) A small amount of experience with something that gives a sense of its quality as a whole.
- (countable and uncountable) A person's implicit set of preferences, especially esthetic, though also culinary, sartorial, etc.
- One of the sensations produced by the tongue in response to certain chemicals; the quality of giving this sensation.
- A small sample of food, drink, or recreational drugs.
- a strong liking
- delicate discrimination (especially of esthetic values)
- a brief experience of something
- the faculty of distinguishing sweet, sour, bitter, and salty properties in the mouth
- the sensation that results when taste buds in the tongue and throat convey information about the chemical composition of a soluble stimulus
- a small amount eaten or drunk
- a kind of sensing; distinguishing substances by means of the taste buds
verb
- have a distinctive or characteristic taste
- To try by eating a little; to eat a small quantity of.
- (transitive) To sample the flavor of something orally.
- (intransitive, copulative) To have a taste; to excite a particular sensation by which flavor is distinguished.
- (transitive) To identify (a flavor) by sampling something orally.
- To take sparingly.
- (transitive, figurative) To experience.
- experience briefly
- perceive by the sense of taste
- distinguish flavors
- take a sample of
- have flavor; taste of something
adj
noun
- A sharp, pungent taste or flavor; sometimes, a disagreeable one specifically.
- The sharp, quick sound of a vibrating tight string, for example, of a bow or a musical instrument.
- (vulgar, slang) An annoying or stupid person; especially, a recalcitrant.
- A trace of a regional or foreign accent in someone's voice.
- (music) A particular sharp vibrating sound characteristic of electric guitars.
- (phonetics) The sound quality that appears in the human voice when the epilaryngeal tube is narrowed.
- a sharp vibrating sound (as of a plucked string)
- exaggerated nasality in speech (as in some regional dialects)
verb
- (intransitive) To have a trace of a regional or foreign accent.
- (music) To play a stringed musical instrument by plucking and snapping.
- (intransitive) To have a nasal sound.
- (ambitransitive) To produce or cause to produce a sharp vibrating sound, like a tense string pulled and suddenly let go.
- pronounce with a nasal twang
- twitch or throb with pain
- cause to sound with a twang
- sound with a twang
- pluck (strings of an instrument)
adj
adv
noun
verb
noun
- the particular preference that you have
- an expression of some desire or inclination
- a specific feeling of desire
- (usually plural) a polite expression of desire for someone's welfare
- An expression of such a desire, often connected with ideas of magic and supernatural power.
- The thing desired or longed for.
- A desire, hope, or longing for something or for something to happen.
- (Sussex) A water meadow.
verb
- to hope, to desire or to prefer to have something, or to do something
- make or express a wish
- order politely; express a wish for
- feel or express a desire or hope concerning the future or fortune of
- invoke upon
- (transitive) To recommend; to seek confidence or favour on behalf of.
- (transitive) To desire; to want.
- (intransitive, followed by for) To hope (for a particular outcome), even if that outcome is unlikely to occur or cannot occur.
- (ditransitive) To bestow (a thought or gesture) towards (someone or something).
- (intransitive, followed by to and an infinitive) To request or desire to do an activity.
noun
- Refinement in taste or discrimination.
- Fineness or elegance of construction or appearance.
- Something appealing, usually a pleasing food, especially a choice dish of a certain culture suggesting rarity and refinement.
- Tact and propriety; the need for such tact.
- Frailty of health or fitness.
- The quality of being delicate.
- refined taste; tact
- the quality of being beautiful and delicate in appearance
- lack of physical strength
- lightness in movement or manner
- something considered choice to eat
- slenderness
- subtly skillful handling of a situation
noun
- (figurative) One’s personal preference.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cup, coffee.
- (ice hockey, baseball, slang) The situation where a minor league player comes up to the major league team for a short period of time.
- (euphemistic) An invitation to have sex.
- (informal) How cheap something is.
noun
- the property of having a harsh unpleasant taste
- the taste experience when quinine or coffee is taken into the mouth
- English term for a dry sharp-tasting ale with strong flavor of hops (usually on draft)
- (usually in the plural bitters) A liquid or powder, made from bitter herbs, used in mixed drinks or as a tonic.
- A type of beer heavily flavored with hops.
- (nautical) A turn of a cable about the bitts.
- (computing, informal, in combination) A hardware system whose architecture is based around units of the specified number of bits (binary digits).
adj
- very difficult to accept or bear
- expressive of severe grief or regret
- proceeding from or exhibiting great hostility or animosity
- causing a sharp and acrid taste experience
- marked by strong resentment or cynicism
- causing a sharply painful or stinging sensation; used especially of cold
- harsh or corrosive in tone
- Cynical and resentful.
- Harsh, piercing, acerbic or stinging.
- Hateful or hostile.
- Having an acrid taste (usually from a basic substance).
adv
verb
noun
- the property of having a harsh unpleasant taste
- the taste experience when quinine or coffee is taken into the mouth
- a rough and bitter manner
- a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will
- The quality of having a bitter taste.
- Harsh cold.
- The quality of eliciting a bitter, humiliating or harsh feeling.
- The quality of feeling bitter; acrimony, resentment; the quality of exhibiting such feelings.
verb
- have a distinctive or characteristic taste
- kiss lightly
- press (the lips) together and open (the lips) noisily, as in eating
- deliver a hard blow to
- have an element suggestive (of something)
- (intransitive) To have a particular taste; used with of.
- To slap or hit someone.
- To make a smacking sound.
- To kiss with a close compression of the lips, so as to make a sound when they separate.
- (transitive) To get the flavor of.
- (intransitive) To indicate or suggest something; used with of.
- (especially outside of North America) To strike a child (usually on the buttocks) as a form of discipline. (normal U.S. and Canadian term spank)
- To wetly separate the lips, making a noise, after tasting something or in expectation of a treat.
noun
- a sailing ship (usually rigged like a sloop or cutter) used in fishing and sailing along the coast
- the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth
- a blow from a flat object (as an open hand)
- the act of smacking something; a blow delivered with an open hand
- street names for heroin
- an enthusiastic kiss
- (Northern England) A form of fried potato; a scallop.
- A slight trace of something; a smattering.
- A quick, sharp noise, as of the lips when suddenly separated, or of a whip.
- The sound of a loud kiss.
- A small sailing vessel, commonly rigged as a sloop, used chiefly in the coasting and fishing trade and often called a fishing smack
- A distinct flavor, especially if slight.
- (slang, uncountable) Heroin.
- A sharp blow; a slap. See also: spank.
- (collective) A group of jellyfish.
adv
adj
noun
- (Christianity, specifically, historical) Sometimes Dissident: in the kingdom of Poland, the name for Christians not part of the Roman Catholic Church.
- A person who formally opposes the current political structure, the political group in power, the policies of the political group in power, or current laws.
- (Christianity) One who disagrees or dissents; one who separates from the established religion.
- (Northern Ireland) A member of a paramilitary that has continued actions after the Good Friday Agreement or other ceasefire.
- a person who dissents from some established policy
adj
- Offensive to good taste.
- (criminal law) Generally unacceptable for public broadcasting but not legally obscene.
- Not in keeping with conventional moral values; improper, immodest, or unseemly.
- offending against sexual mores in conduct or appearance
- offensive to good taste especially in sexual matters
- not in keeping with accepted standards of what is right or proper in polite society
noun
- (slang) Personal preference.
- (mathematics, physics) The rate of motion or action, specifically the magnitude of the velocity; the rate distance is traversed in a given time.
- The state of moving quickly or the capacity for rapid motion.
- (photography) The largest size of the lens opening at which a lens can be used.
- (photography) The sensitivity to light of film, plates or sensor.
- (finance, uncountable) A third-order measure of derivative price sensitivity, expressed as the rate of change of gamma with respect to changes in the underlying asset price.
- (photography) The ratio of the focal length to the diameter of a photographic objective.
- (slang, uncountable) Amphetamine or any amphetamine-based drug (especially methamphetamine) used as a stimulant, especially illegally.
- (photography) The duration of exposure, the time during which a camera shutter is open (shutter speed).
- a rate (usually rapid) at which something happens
- the ratio of the focal length to the diameter of a (camera) lens system
- changing location rapidly
- a central nervous system stimulant that increases energy and decreases appetite; used to treat narcolepsy and some forms of depression
- distance travelled per unit time
intj
verb
- To cause to make haste; to dispatch with celerity; to drive at full speed; hence, to hasten; to hurry.
- (intransitive, slang) To be under the influence of stimulant drugs, especially amphetamines.
- (transitive) To increase the rate at which something occurs.
- To hasten to a conclusion; to expedite.
- (intransitive) To go fast.
- (intransitive) To exceed the speed limit.
- travel at an excessive or illegal velocity
- cause to move faster
- move faster
- move hurridly
- move very fast
adj
verb
noun
- Something opposite or contrary to something else.
- The breast of a horse; that part of a horse between the shoulders and under the neck.
- A telltale; a contrivance attached to an engine, printing press, or other machine, for the purpose of counting the revolutions or the pulsations.
- A table or board on which money is counted and over which business is transacted.
- A shop tabletop on which goods are examined, weighed or measured.
- An object (now especially a small disc) used in counting or keeping count, or as a marker in games, etc.
- (typography) The enclosed or partly closed negative space of a glyph.
- The piece of a shoe or a boot around the heel of the foot (above the heel of the shoe/boot).
- (nautical) The overhanging stern of a vessel above the waterline, below and somewhat forward of the stern proper.
- (grammar) A class of word used along with numbers to count objects and events, typically mass nouns. Although rare and optional in English (e.g. "20 head of cattle"), they are numerous and required in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.
- counterattack
- In a bathroom, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, which holds the washbasin.
- A reckoner; someone who collects data by counting; an enumerator.
- (programming) A variable, memory location, etc. whose contents are incremented to keep a count.
- In a kitchen, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, designed to be used for food preparation.
- (historical) The prison attached to a city court; a compter.
- (martial arts) A proactive defensive hold or move in reaction to a hold or move by one's opponent.
- (music) Alternative form of contra Formerly used to designate any under part which served for contrast to a principal part, but now used as equivalent to countertenor.
- (Internet) A hit counter.
- One who counts.
- (curling) Any stone lying closer to the center than any of the opponent's stones.
- game equipment (as a piece of wood, plastic, or ivory) used for keeping a count or reserving a space in various card or board games
- (computer science) a register whose contents go through a regular series of states (usually states indicating consecutive integers)
- a piece of leather forming the back of a shoe or boot
- table consisting of a horizontal surface over which business is transacted
- a calculator that keeps a record of the number of times something happens
- a person who counts things
- a piece of furniture that stands at the side of a dining room; has shelves and drawers
- a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one)
- a return punch (especially by a boxer)
adj
adv
verb
noun
- Something opposite or contrary to something else.
- (mathematics) An additive inverse.
- An antonym.
- An opponent.
- A person or thing that is entirely different from or the reverse of someone or something else; used to show contrast between two people or two things.
- a relation of direct opposition
- something inverted in sequence or character or effect
- a contestant that you are matched against
- a word that expresses a meaning opposed to the meaning of another word, in which case the two words are antonyms of each other
adj
- Extremely different; inconsistent; contrary; repugnant; antagonistic.
- Facing in the other direction.
- Located directly across from something else, or from each other.
- Of either of two complementary or mutually exclusive things.
- (botany) Of leaves and flowers, positioned directly across from each other on a stem.
- characterized by opposite extremes; completely opposed
- the other one of a complementary pair
- moving or facing away from each other
- altogether different in nature or quality or significance
- being directly across from each other; facing
- of leaves etc.; growing in pairs on either side of a stem
adv
prep
adj
verb
noun
- Aesthetic discrimination; taste, appreciation.
- The condition of understanding.
- The ability to perceive differences that exist.
- The ability to distinguish between things.
- Discretion in judging objectively.
- Perceptiveness.
- The ability to make wise judgements; sagacity.
- The act of distinguishing between things.
- The ability to distinguish; judgement.
- perception of that which is obscure
- the cognitive condition of someone who understands
- the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations
- delicate discrimination (especially of esthetic values)
- the trait of judging wisely and objectively
noun
- (colloquial) One's preference.
- (UK) A unit of measure of cement equal to 94 pounds.
- (informal) A large number or amount.
- (vulgar) The scrotum.
- (mathematics) A collection of objects, disregarding order, but (unlike a set) in which elements may be repeated.
- The quantity of game bagged in a hunt.
- A soft container made out of cloth, paper, thin plastic, etc. and open at the top, used to hold food, commodities, and other goods.
- A small envelope that contains drugs, especially narcotics.
- An udder, especially the pendulous one of a dairy cow.
- (baseball) First, second, or third base.
- A container made of leather, plastic, or other material, usually with a handle or handles, in which you carry personal items, or clothes or other things that you need for travelling. Includes shopping bags, schoolbags, suitcases, briefcases, handbags, backpacks, etc.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) £1000, a grand.
- (chiefly in the plural) A dark circle under the eye, caused by lack of sleep, drug addiction etc.
- (preceded by the) A breathalyzer, so named because it formerly had a plastic bag over the end to measure a set amount of breath.
- (US, gay slang, derogatory) A fellow gay man.
- (countable, uncountable) In certain phrases: money.
- A sac in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance.
- (now historical) A pouch tied behind a man's head to hold the back-hair of a wig; a bag wig.
- (derogatory) An ugly woman.
- (baseball) The cloth-covered pillow used for first, second, and third base.
- (usually in the plural) The human female breast.
- a portable rectangular container for carrying clothes
- a container used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women)
- an ugly or ill-tempered woman
- the quantity of game taken in a particular period (usually by one person)
- a place that the runner must touch before scoring
- a flexible container with a single opening
- an activity that you like or at which you are superior
- the quantity that a bag will hold
- mammary gland of bovids (cows and sheep and goats)
verb
- (nautical, intransitive) To drop away from the correct course.
- (informal) To catch or kill, especially when fishing or hunting.
- (Australia, slang) To criticise sarcastically.
- To forget, ignore, or get rid of.
- (transitive) To furnish or load with a bag.
- (transitive, medicine) To provide with artificial ventilation via a bag valve mask (BVM) resuscitator.
- (slang) To arrest.
- (transitive, medicine) To fit with a bag to collect urine.
- To hang like an empty bag.
- (transitive) To put into a bag.
- (slang, African-American Vernacular) To laugh uncontrollably.
- (slang, African-American Vernacular) To take a woman away with one as a romantic or sexual interest.
- (slang) To steal.
- To gain possession of something, or to make first claim on something.
- hang loosely, like an empty bag
- put into a bag
- bulge out; form a bulge outward, or be so full as to appear to bulge
- take unlawfully
- capture or kill, as in hunting
adj
noun
- A person who likes or tends to express a contradicting viewpoint, especially from one held by a majority of people, usually because of nonconformity or spite.
- (finance) A financial investor who tends to have an opinion of market trends at variance with most others.
- an investor who deliberately decides to go against the prevailing wisdom of other investors
noun
- An affected, exaggerated, or intentionally tasteless style.
- (Australia) A site where kangaroos and other macropods rest during the day.
- A place of politically motivated confinement in outdoorsy conditions, usually also leading to slave labor and death.
- (British India) Anywhere that a colonist stayed when away from their permanent residence; such places collectively.
- (prison slang) Any prison or prison camp.
- The company or body of persons encamped.
- An outdoor place acting as temporary accommodation in tents or other simple structures.
- A single hut or shelter.
- (agriculture, catachresis) Misconstruction of clamp (“mound of earth in which potatoes and other vegetables are stored”).
- (uncommon) Clipping of campus
- (slang, Falkland Islands) The areas of the Falkland Islands situated outside the capital and largest settlement, Stanley.
- A base of a military group, not necessarily temporary.
- (slang, Anglo-Argentines) The pampas, which are the vast grassy areas situated in the rural areas beyond Argentine cities such as Buenos Aires.
- An organised event, often taking place in tents or temporary accommodation.
- A group of people with the same strong ideals or political leanings.
- An electoral constituency of the legislative assembly of the Falkland Islands that comprises all territory more than 3.5 miles from the spire of the Christ Church Cathedral in Stanley.
- An online game, in some cases roleplay, in which people compete against each other, usually in a structure similar to that of a competition show.
- a penal institution (often for forced labor)
- temporary lodgings in the country for travelers or vacationers
- shelter for persons displaced by war or political oppression or for religious beliefs
- an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose
- something that is considered amusing not because of its originality but because of its unoriginality
- temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers
- a group of people living together in a camp
- a site where care and activities are provided for children during the summer months
adj
verb
- (transitive, video games) Ellipsis of corpse camp.
- To set up a camp.
- (transitive, video games) To stay beside (something) to gain an advantage.
- (intransitive, sports, video games) To stay in an advantageous location.
- To behave in a camp manner.
- To live in a tent or similar temporary accommodation.
- (transitive) To afford rest or lodging for.
- (Australia, intransitive) Of stock animals, to assemble or rest temporarily at a particular place.
- establish or set up a camp
- give an artificially banal or sexual quality to
- live in or as if in a tent
noun
- An extreme dislike of something, or hostility to something.
- The act of repelling or the condition of being repelled.
- (physics) The repulsive force acting between bodies of the same electric charge or magnetic polarity.
- intense aversion
- the act of repulsing or repelling an attack; a successful defensive stand
- the force by which bodies repel one another
adj
- Opposed; contrary; opposing one's interests or desire.
- (not comparable) Opposite; confronting.
- Unfavorable; antagonistic in purpose or effect; hostile; actively opposing one's interests or wishes; contrary to one's welfare; acting against; working in an opposing direction.
- contrary to your interests or welfare
- in an opposing direction
noun
- An attitude or a feeling of distaste or aversion.
- (Internet) An individual vote showing disapproval of, or lack of support for, something posted on the Internet.
- (usually in the plural) Something that a person dislikes (has or feels aversion to).
- a feeling of aversion or antipathy
- an inclination to withhold approval from some person or group
verb
noun
- an inclination or liking for things involving conflict or difficulty or unpleasantness
- an appetite for food
- an enlarged and muscular saclike organ of the alimentary canal; the principal organ of digestion
- the region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis
- (figuratively) A desire, an appetite (for something abstract).
- (informal) The belly.
- An organ in animals that stores food in the process of digestion.
- The part of a garment that covers a person's stomach.
verb
adj
- Of or relating to the showing or giving of preference.
- Of or relating to a voting system in which the voters are allowed to indicate on their ballots their preference (usually their first and second choices) between two or more candidates, so that if no candidate receives a majority of first choices the one receiving the greatest number of first and second choices together is the winner.
- manifesting partiality
noun
- doing something in opposition to another way of doing it that you don't like
- extreme conservatism in political or social matters
- (chemistry) a process in which one or more substances are changed into others
- a bodily process occurring due to the effect of some antecedent stimulus or agent
- a response that reveals a person's feelings or attitude
- an idea evoked by some experience
- (mechanics) the equal and opposite force that is produced when any force is applied to a body
- (Misesian praxeology, Austrian economics) Unpurposeful behavior.
- (politics) Reactionary politics; a period in which reactionary thought or politics is resurgent or dominant.
- (Internet) An icon or emoji appended to a posted message by a user to express their feeling about it.
- (chemistry) A transformation in which one or more substances is converted into another by combination or decomposition.
- An action or statement in response to a stimulus or other event.
noun
- Alternate, or responsive ideas or opinions; juxtaposition.
- (music, singing) Alternate, or responsive singing by a choir split into two parts; a piece sung or chanted in this manner.
- (phonetics) Synonym of apophony (“contrastive vowel modification”).
- alternate (responsive) singing by a choir in two parts
- a verse or song to be chanted or sung in response
noun
- an inclination to criticize opposing opinions or shocking behavior
- a small margin
- the property of being narrow; having little width
- a restriction of range or scope
- (uncountable) The state of being narrow.
- (countable) A constriction; a narrow passage or place; an instance or aspect of being narrow, or having a limited scope or extent.
adv
adj
verb
adj
- adverse or antagonistic; disagreeing or opposing
- Producing a clash or series of clashes.
- mismatched, inharmonious, discordant or dissonant, not fitting well together (especially in regards to aesthetics, colors, clothing, or sounds)
- conflicting, contrasting, or contrary; inconsonant, incompatible, or irreconcilable
- sharply and harshly discordant
noun
verb
noun
- A strong or offensive taste; especially, a taste of something extraneous to the thing itself.
- A sharp, twanging sound; an unpleasant tone; a twang.
- (uncountable) Sexual intercourse with a woman
- A refreshingly sharp aroma or flavor.
- (by extension) Anything resembling a tongue in form or position, such as the tongue of a buckle.
- (firearms) The projecting part of the breech of a musket barrel, by which the barrel is secured to the stock.
- (zoology) Any of a group of saltwater fish from the family Acanthuridae, especially the genus Zebrasoma.
- (countable) The vagina or vulva.
- The part of a sword blade to which the handle is fastened.
- A projecting part of an object by means of which it is secured to a handle, or to some other part.
- (figuratively) A sharp, specific flavor or tinge.
- (rare) knotted wrack, Ascophyllum nodosum (coarse blackish seaweed)
- The part of a knife, fork, file, or other instrument or hand tool, which is inserted into the handle.
- (games) A shuffleboard paddle.
- any of various kelps especially of the genus Laminaria
- the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth
- brown algae seaweed with serrated edges
- a common rockweed used in preparing kelp and as manure
- any of various coarse seaweeds
- a tart spicy quality
verb
noun
- Personal preference; liking; predilection.
- A kind of narrow and thin silk ribbon.
- The sense that consists in the perception and interpretation of this sensation.
- (figuratively) A small amount of experience with something that gives a sense of its quality as a whole.
- (countable and uncountable) A person's implicit set of preferences, especially esthetic, though also culinary, sartorial, etc.
- One of the sensations produced by the tongue in response to certain chemicals; the quality of giving this sensation.
- A small sample of food, drink, or recreational drugs.
- a strong liking
- delicate discrimination (especially of esthetic values)
- a brief experience of something
- the faculty of distinguishing sweet, sour, bitter, and salty properties in the mouth
- the sensation that results when taste buds in the tongue and throat convey information about the chemical composition of a soluble stimulus
- a small amount eaten or drunk
- a kind of sensing; distinguishing substances by means of the taste buds
verb
- have a distinctive or characteristic taste
- To try by eating a little; to eat a small quantity of.
- (transitive) To sample the flavor of something orally.
- (intransitive, copulative) To have a taste; to excite a particular sensation by which flavor is distinguished.
- (transitive) To identify (a flavor) by sampling something orally.
- To take sparingly.
- (transitive, figurative) To experience.
- experience briefly
- perceive by the sense of taste
- distinguish flavors
- take a sample of
- have flavor; taste of something
adj
noun
- A sharp, pungent taste or flavor; sometimes, a disagreeable one specifically.
- The sharp, quick sound of a vibrating tight string, for example, of a bow or a musical instrument.
- (vulgar, slang) An annoying or stupid person; especially, a recalcitrant.
- A trace of a regional or foreign accent in someone's voice.
- (music) A particular sharp vibrating sound characteristic of electric guitars.
- (phonetics) The sound quality that appears in the human voice when the epilaryngeal tube is narrowed.
- a sharp vibrating sound (as of a plucked string)
- exaggerated nasality in speech (as in some regional dialects)
verb
- (intransitive) To have a trace of a regional or foreign accent.
- (music) To play a stringed musical instrument by plucking and snapping.
- (intransitive) To have a nasal sound.
- (ambitransitive) To produce or cause to produce a sharp vibrating sound, like a tense string pulled and suddenly let go.
- pronounce with a nasal twang
- twitch or throb with pain
- cause to sound with a twang
- sound with a twang
- pluck (strings of an instrument)
noun
- the particular preference that you have
- an expression of some desire or inclination
- a specific feeling of desire
- (usually plural) a polite expression of desire for someone's welfare
- An expression of such a desire, often connected with ideas of magic and supernatural power.
- The thing desired or longed for.
- A desire, hope, or longing for something or for something to happen.
- (Sussex) A water meadow.
verb
- to hope, to desire or to prefer to have something, or to do something
- make or express a wish
- order politely; express a wish for
- feel or express a desire or hope concerning the future or fortune of
- invoke upon
- (transitive) To recommend; to seek confidence or favour on behalf of.
- (transitive) To desire; to want.
- (intransitive, followed by for) To hope (for a particular outcome), even if that outcome is unlikely to occur or cannot occur.
- (ditransitive) To bestow (a thought or gesture) towards (someone or something).
- (intransitive, followed by to and an infinitive) To request or desire to do an activity.
noun
- Refinement in taste or discrimination.
- Fineness or elegance of construction or appearance.
- Something appealing, usually a pleasing food, especially a choice dish of a certain culture suggesting rarity and refinement.
- Tact and propriety; the need for such tact.
- Frailty of health or fitness.
- The quality of being delicate.
- refined taste; tact
- the quality of being beautiful and delicate in appearance
- lack of physical strength
- lightness in movement or manner
- something considered choice to eat
- slenderness
- subtly skillful handling of a situation
noun
- (figurative) One’s personal preference.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cup, coffee.
- (ice hockey, baseball, slang) The situation where a minor league player comes up to the major league team for a short period of time.
- (euphemistic) An invitation to have sex.
- (informal) How cheap something is.
noun
- the property of having a harsh unpleasant taste
- the taste experience when quinine or coffee is taken into the mouth
- English term for a dry sharp-tasting ale with strong flavor of hops (usually on draft)
- (usually in the plural bitters) A liquid or powder, made from bitter herbs, used in mixed drinks or as a tonic.
- A type of beer heavily flavored with hops.
- (nautical) A turn of a cable about the bitts.
- (computing, informal, in combination) A hardware system whose architecture is based around units of the specified number of bits (binary digits).
adj
- very difficult to accept or bear
- expressive of severe grief or regret
- proceeding from or exhibiting great hostility or animosity
- causing a sharp and acrid taste experience
- marked by strong resentment or cynicism
- causing a sharply painful or stinging sensation; used especially of cold
- harsh or corrosive in tone
- Cynical and resentful.
- Harsh, piercing, acerbic or stinging.
- Hateful or hostile.
- Having an acrid taste (usually from a basic substance).
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- the property of having a harsh unpleasant taste
- the taste experience when quinine or coffee is taken into the mouth
- a rough and bitter manner
- a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will
- The quality of having a bitter taste.
- Harsh cold.
- The quality of eliciting a bitter, humiliating or harsh feeling.
- The quality of feeling bitter; acrimony, resentment; the quality of exhibiting such feelings.
noun
- (slang) Personal preference.
- (mathematics, physics) The rate of motion or action, specifically the magnitude of the velocity; the rate distance is traversed in a given time.
- The state of moving quickly or the capacity for rapid motion.
- (photography) The largest size of the lens opening at which a lens can be used.
- (photography) The sensitivity to light of film, plates or sensor.
- (finance, uncountable) A third-order measure of derivative price sensitivity, expressed as the rate of change of gamma with respect to changes in the underlying asset price.
- (photography) The ratio of the focal length to the diameter of a photographic objective.
- (slang, uncountable) Amphetamine or any amphetamine-based drug (especially methamphetamine) used as a stimulant, especially illegally.
- (photography) The duration of exposure, the time during which a camera shutter is open (shutter speed).
- a rate (usually rapid) at which something happens
- the ratio of the focal length to the diameter of a (camera) lens system
- changing location rapidly
- a central nervous system stimulant that increases energy and decreases appetite; used to treat narcolepsy and some forms of depression
- distance travelled per unit time
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- To cause to make haste; to dispatch with celerity; to drive at full speed; hence, to hasten; to hurry.
- (intransitive, slang) To be under the influence of stimulant drugs, especially amphetamines.
- (transitive) To increase the rate at which something occurs.
- To hasten to a conclusion; to expedite.
- (intransitive) To go fast.
- (intransitive) To exceed the speed limit.
- travel at an excessive or illegal velocity
- cause to move faster
- move faster
- move hurridly
- move very fast
noun
- Something opposite or contrary to something else.
- The breast of a horse; that part of a horse between the shoulders and under the neck.
- A telltale; a contrivance attached to an engine, printing press, or other machine, for the purpose of counting the revolutions or the pulsations.
- A table or board on which money is counted and over which business is transacted.
- A shop tabletop on which goods are examined, weighed or measured.
- An object (now especially a small disc) used in counting or keeping count, or as a marker in games, etc.
- (typography) The enclosed or partly closed negative space of a glyph.
- The piece of a shoe or a boot around the heel of the foot (above the heel of the shoe/boot).
- (nautical) The overhanging stern of a vessel above the waterline, below and somewhat forward of the stern proper.
- (grammar) A class of word used along with numbers to count objects and events, typically mass nouns. Although rare and optional in English (e.g. "20 head of cattle"), they are numerous and required in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.
- counterattack
- In a bathroom, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, which holds the washbasin.
- A reckoner; someone who collects data by counting; an enumerator.
- (programming) A variable, memory location, etc. whose contents are incremented to keep a count.
- In a kitchen, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, designed to be used for food preparation.
- (historical) The prison attached to a city court; a compter.
- (martial arts) A proactive defensive hold or move in reaction to a hold or move by one's opponent.
- (music) Alternative form of contra Formerly used to designate any under part which served for contrast to a principal part, but now used as equivalent to countertenor.
- (Internet) A hit counter.
- One who counts.
- (curling) Any stone lying closer to the center than any of the opponent's stones.
- game equipment (as a piece of wood, plastic, or ivory) used for keeping a count or reserving a space in various card or board games
- (computer science) a register whose contents go through a regular series of states (usually states indicating consecutive integers)
- a piece of leather forming the back of a shoe or boot
- table consisting of a horizontal surface over which business is transacted
- a calculator that keeps a record of the number of times something happens
- a person who counts things
- a piece of furniture that stands at the side of a dining room; has shelves and drawers
- a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one)
- a return punch (especially by a boxer)
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noun
- Something opposite or contrary to something else.
- (mathematics) An additive inverse.
- An antonym.
- An opponent.
- A person or thing that is entirely different from or the reverse of someone or something else; used to show contrast between two people or two things.
- a relation of direct opposition
- something inverted in sequence or character or effect
- a contestant that you are matched against
- a word that expresses a meaning opposed to the meaning of another word, in which case the two words are antonyms of each other
adj
- Extremely different; inconsistent; contrary; repugnant; antagonistic.
- Facing in the other direction.
- Located directly across from something else, or from each other.
- Of either of two complementary or mutually exclusive things.
- (botany) Of leaves and flowers, positioned directly across from each other on a stem.
- characterized by opposite extremes; completely opposed
- the other one of a complementary pair
- moving or facing away from each other
- altogether different in nature or quality or significance
- being directly across from each other; facing
- of leaves etc.; growing in pairs on either side of a stem
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- Aesthetic discrimination; taste, appreciation.
- The condition of understanding.
- The ability to perceive differences that exist.
- The ability to distinguish between things.
- Discretion in judging objectively.
- Perceptiveness.
- The ability to make wise judgements; sagacity.
- The act of distinguishing between things.
- The ability to distinguish; judgement.
- perception of that which is obscure
- the cognitive condition of someone who understands
- the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations
- delicate discrimination (especially of esthetic values)
- the trait of judging wisely and objectively
noun
- (colloquial) One's preference.
- (UK) A unit of measure of cement equal to 94 pounds.
- (informal) A large number or amount.
- (vulgar) The scrotum.
- (mathematics) A collection of objects, disregarding order, but (unlike a set) in which elements may be repeated.
- The quantity of game bagged in a hunt.
- A soft container made out of cloth, paper, thin plastic, etc. and open at the top, used to hold food, commodities, and other goods.
- A small envelope that contains drugs, especially narcotics.
- An udder, especially the pendulous one of a dairy cow.
- (baseball) First, second, or third base.
- A container made of leather, plastic, or other material, usually with a handle or handles, in which you carry personal items, or clothes or other things that you need for travelling. Includes shopping bags, schoolbags, suitcases, briefcases, handbags, backpacks, etc.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) £1000, a grand.
- (chiefly in the plural) A dark circle under the eye, caused by lack of sleep, drug addiction etc.
- (preceded by the) A breathalyzer, so named because it formerly had a plastic bag over the end to measure a set amount of breath.
- (US, gay slang, derogatory) A fellow gay man.
- (countable, uncountable) In certain phrases: money.
- A sac in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance.
- (now historical) A pouch tied behind a man's head to hold the back-hair of a wig; a bag wig.
- (derogatory) An ugly woman.
- (baseball) The cloth-covered pillow used for first, second, and third base.
- (usually in the plural) The human female breast.
- a portable rectangular container for carrying clothes
- a container used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women)
- an ugly or ill-tempered woman
- the quantity of game taken in a particular period (usually by one person)
- a place that the runner must touch before scoring
- a flexible container with a single opening
- an activity that you like or at which you are superior
- the quantity that a bag will hold
- mammary gland of bovids (cows and sheep and goats)
verb
- (nautical, intransitive) To drop away from the correct course.
- (informal) To catch or kill, especially when fishing or hunting.
- (Australia, slang) To criticise sarcastically.
- To forget, ignore, or get rid of.
- (transitive) To furnish or load with a bag.
- (transitive, medicine) To provide with artificial ventilation via a bag valve mask (BVM) resuscitator.
- (slang) To arrest.
- (transitive, medicine) To fit with a bag to collect urine.
- To hang like an empty bag.
- (transitive) To put into a bag.
- (slang, African-American Vernacular) To laugh uncontrollably.
- (slang, African-American Vernacular) To take a woman away with one as a romantic or sexual interest.
- (slang) To steal.
- To gain possession of something, or to make first claim on something.
- hang loosely, like an empty bag
- put into a bag
- bulge out; form a bulge outward, or be so full as to appear to bulge
- take unlawfully
- capture or kill, as in hunting
noun
- An affected, exaggerated, or intentionally tasteless style.
- (Australia) A site where kangaroos and other macropods rest during the day.
- A place of politically motivated confinement in outdoorsy conditions, usually also leading to slave labor and death.
- (British India) Anywhere that a colonist stayed when away from their permanent residence; such places collectively.
- (prison slang) Any prison or prison camp.
- The company or body of persons encamped.
- An outdoor place acting as temporary accommodation in tents or other simple structures.
- A single hut or shelter.
- (agriculture, catachresis) Misconstruction of clamp (“mound of earth in which potatoes and other vegetables are stored”).
- (uncommon) Clipping of campus
- (slang, Falkland Islands) The areas of the Falkland Islands situated outside the capital and largest settlement, Stanley.
- A base of a military group, not necessarily temporary.
- (slang, Anglo-Argentines) The pampas, which are the vast grassy areas situated in the rural areas beyond Argentine cities such as Buenos Aires.
- An organised event, often taking place in tents or temporary accommodation.
- A group of people with the same strong ideals or political leanings.
- An electoral constituency of the legislative assembly of the Falkland Islands that comprises all territory more than 3.5 miles from the spire of the Christ Church Cathedral in Stanley.
- An online game, in some cases roleplay, in which people compete against each other, usually in a structure similar to that of a competition show.
- a penal institution (often for forced labor)
- temporary lodgings in the country for travelers or vacationers
- shelter for persons displaced by war or political oppression or for religious beliefs
- an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose
- something that is considered amusing not because of its originality but because of its unoriginality
- temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers
- a group of people living together in a camp
- a site where care and activities are provided for children during the summer months
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- (transitive, video games) Ellipsis of corpse camp.
- To set up a camp.
- (transitive, video games) To stay beside (something) to gain an advantage.
- (intransitive, sports, video games) To stay in an advantageous location.
- To behave in a camp manner.
- To live in a tent or similar temporary accommodation.
- (transitive) To afford rest or lodging for.
- (Australia, intransitive) Of stock animals, to assemble or rest temporarily at a particular place.
- establish or set up a camp
- give an artificially banal or sexual quality to
- live in or as if in a tent
noun
- An extreme dislike of something, or hostility to something.
- The act of repelling or the condition of being repelled.
- (physics) The repulsive force acting between bodies of the same electric charge or magnetic polarity.
- intense aversion
- the act of repulsing or repelling an attack; a successful defensive stand
- the force by which bodies repel one another
noun
- An attitude or a feeling of distaste or aversion.
- (Internet) An individual vote showing disapproval of, or lack of support for, something posted on the Internet.
- (usually in the plural) Something that a person dislikes (has or feels aversion to).
- a feeling of aversion or antipathy
- an inclination to withhold approval from some person or group
verb
noun
- an inclination or liking for things involving conflict or difficulty or unpleasantness
- an appetite for food
- an enlarged and muscular saclike organ of the alimentary canal; the principal organ of digestion
- the region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis
- (figuratively) A desire, an appetite (for something abstract).
- (informal) The belly.
- An organ in animals that stores food in the process of digestion.
- The part of a garment that covers a person's stomach.
verb
noun
- doing something in opposition to another way of doing it that you don't like
- extreme conservatism in political or social matters
- (chemistry) a process in which one or more substances are changed into others
- a bodily process occurring due to the effect of some antecedent stimulus or agent
- a response that reveals a person's feelings or attitude
- an idea evoked by some experience
- (mechanics) the equal and opposite force that is produced when any force is applied to a body
- (Misesian praxeology, Austrian economics) Unpurposeful behavior.
- (politics) Reactionary politics; a period in which reactionary thought or politics is resurgent or dominant.
- (Internet) An icon or emoji appended to a posted message by a user to express their feeling about it.
- (chemistry) A transformation in which one or more substances is converted into another by combination or decomposition.
- An action or statement in response to a stimulus or other event.
noun
- Alternate, or responsive ideas or opinions; juxtaposition.
- (music, singing) Alternate, or responsive singing by a choir split into two parts; a piece sung or chanted in this manner.
- (phonetics) Synonym of apophony (“contrastive vowel modification”).
- alternate (responsive) singing by a choir in two parts
- a verse or song to be chanted or sung in response
noun
- an inclination to criticize opposing opinions or shocking behavior
- a small margin
- the property of being narrow; having little width
- a restriction of range or scope
- (uncountable) The state of being narrow.
- (countable) A constriction; a narrow passage or place; an instance or aspect of being narrow, or having a limited scope or extent.
noun
- Personal preference; liking; predilection.
- A kind of narrow and thin silk ribbon.
- The sense that consists in the perception and interpretation of this sensation.
- (figuratively) A small amount of experience with something that gives a sense of its quality as a whole.
- (countable and uncountable) A person's implicit set of preferences, especially esthetic, though also culinary, sartorial, etc.
- One of the sensations produced by the tongue in response to certain chemicals; the quality of giving this sensation.
- A small sample of food, drink, or recreational drugs.
- a strong liking
- delicate discrimination (especially of esthetic values)
- a brief experience of something
- the faculty of distinguishing sweet, sour, bitter, and salty properties in the mouth
- the sensation that results when taste buds in the tongue and throat convey information about the chemical composition of a soluble stimulus
- a small amount eaten or drunk
- a kind of sensing; distinguishing substances by means of the taste buds
verb
- have a distinctive or characteristic taste
- To try by eating a little; to eat a small quantity of.
- (transitive) To sample the flavor of something orally.
- (intransitive, copulative) To have a taste; to excite a particular sensation by which flavor is distinguished.
- (transitive) To identify (a flavor) by sampling something orally.
- To take sparingly.
- (transitive, figurative) To experience.
- experience briefly
- perceive by the sense of taste
- distinguish flavors
- take a sample of
- have flavor; taste of something
adj
verb
- have a distinctive or characteristic taste
- kiss lightly
- press (the lips) together and open (the lips) noisily, as in eating
- deliver a hard blow to
- have an element suggestive (of something)
- (intransitive) To have a particular taste; used with of.
- To slap or hit someone.
- To make a smacking sound.
- To kiss with a close compression of the lips, so as to make a sound when they separate.
- (transitive) To get the flavor of.
- (intransitive) To indicate or suggest something; used with of.
- (especially outside of North America) To strike a child (usually on the buttocks) as a form of discipline. (normal U.S. and Canadian term spank)
- To wetly separate the lips, making a noise, after tasting something or in expectation of a treat.
noun
- a sailing ship (usually rigged like a sloop or cutter) used in fishing and sailing along the coast
- the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth
- a blow from a flat object (as an open hand)
- the act of smacking something; a blow delivered with an open hand
- street names for heroin
- an enthusiastic kiss
- (Northern England) A form of fried potato; a scallop.
- A slight trace of something; a smattering.
- A quick, sharp noise, as of the lips when suddenly separated, or of a whip.
- The sound of a loud kiss.
- A small sailing vessel, commonly rigged as a sloop, used chiefly in the coasting and fishing trade and often called a fishing smack
- A distinct flavor, especially if slight.
- (slang, uncountable) Heroin.
- A sharp blow; a slap. See also: spank.
- (collective) A group of jellyfish.
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- (Christianity, specifically, historical) Sometimes Dissident: in the kingdom of Poland, the name for Christians not part of the Roman Catholic Church.
- A person who formally opposes the current political structure, the political group in power, the policies of the political group in power, or current laws.
- (Christianity) One who disagrees or dissents; one who separates from the established religion.
- (Northern Ireland) A member of a paramilitary that has continued actions after the Good Friday Agreement or other ceasefire.
- a person who dissents from some established policy
adj
- Offensive to good taste.
- (criminal law) Generally unacceptable for public broadcasting but not legally obscene.
- Not in keeping with conventional moral values; improper, immodest, or unseemly.
- offending against sexual mores in conduct or appearance
- offensive to good taste especially in sexual matters
- not in keeping with accepted standards of what is right or proper in polite society
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- A person who likes or tends to express a contradicting viewpoint, especially from one held by a majority of people, usually because of nonconformity or spite.
- (finance) A financial investor who tends to have an opinion of market trends at variance with most others.
- an investor who deliberately decides to go against the prevailing wisdom of other investors
adj
- Opposed; contrary; opposing one's interests or desire.
- (not comparable) Opposite; confronting.
- Unfavorable; antagonistic in purpose or effect; hostile; actively opposing one's interests or wishes; contrary to one's welfare; acting against; working in an opposing direction.
- contrary to your interests or welfare
- in an opposing direction
adj
- Of or relating to the showing or giving of preference.
- Of or relating to a voting system in which the voters are allowed to indicate on their ballots their preference (usually their first and second choices) between two or more candidates, so that if no candidate receives a majority of first choices the one receiving the greatest number of first and second choices together is the winner.
- manifesting partiality
noun
- Something opposite or contrary to something else.
- (mathematics) An additive inverse.
- An antonym.
- An opponent.
- A person or thing that is entirely different from or the reverse of someone or something else; used to show contrast between two people or two things.
- a relation of direct opposition
- something inverted in sequence or character or effect
- a contestant that you are matched against
- a word that expresses a meaning opposed to the meaning of another word, in which case the two words are antonyms of each other
adj
- Extremely different; inconsistent; contrary; repugnant; antagonistic.
- Facing in the other direction.
- Located directly across from something else, or from each other.
- Of either of two complementary or mutually exclusive things.
- (botany) Of leaves and flowers, positioned directly across from each other on a stem.
- characterized by opposite extremes; completely opposed
- the other one of a complementary pair
- moving or facing away from each other
- altogether different in nature or quality or significance
- being directly across from each other; facing
- of leaves etc.; growing in pairs on either side of a stem
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- adverse or antagonistic; disagreeing or opposing
- Producing a clash or series of clashes.
- mismatched, inharmonious, discordant or dissonant, not fitting well together (especially in regards to aesthetics, colors, clothing, or sounds)
- conflicting, contrasting, or contrary; inconsonant, incompatible, or irreconcilable
- sharply and harshly discordant