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noun
noun
- a space vehicle that is designed to land on the moon or another planet
- A spacecraft, particularly a probe, designed to set down on the surface of another celestial body.
- (mining) A person who waits at the mouth of the shaft to receive the kibble of ore.
- (in combination) A person from a specific land. See highlander, Greenlander.
- One who lands, or who lands something.
- (Internet) Synonym of landing page.
- (slang) An illegal immigrant.
noun
- (astronautics) A manned vehicle that flies through space.
- a spacecraft designed to carry a crew into interstellar space (especially in science fiction)
- (slang) A computer.
- (cellular automata) A finite pattern that reappears after a certain number of generations in the same orientation but in a different position.
- (programming) The operator <=> in certain programming languages, which compares two values and indicates whether the first is lesser than, greater than, or equal to the second.
noun
- a spacecraft designed to transport people and support human life in outer space
- a pilot's seat in an airplane that can be forcibly ejected in the case of an emergency; then the pilot descends by parachute
- a shortened version of a written work
- a dry dehiscent seed vessel or the spore-containing structure of e.g. mosses
- a structure that encloses a body part
- a small container
- a pill in the form of a small rounded gelatinous container with medicine inside
- (pharmacy) A small container containing a dose of medicine.
- (wine) The covering — formerly lead or tin, now often plastic — over the cork at the top of the wine bottle.
- One of the very small rooms for guests in a capsule hotel.
- (physiology) A membranous envelope.
- (anatomy) A membrane that surrounds the eyeball
- (botany) A sporangium, especially in bryophytes.
- A small, shallow evaporating dish, usually of porcelain.
- (anatomy) A tough, fibrous layer surrounding an organ such as the kidney or liver
- A small cup or shell, often of metal, for a percussion cap, cartridge, etc.
- (botany) A type of simple, dehiscent, dry fruit (seed-case) produced by many species of flowering plants, such as poppy, lily, orchid, willow and cotton.
- (astronautics) A detachable part of a rocket or spacecraft (usually in the nose) containing the crew's living space.
- (attributively, figuratively) in a brief, condensed or compact form
verb
noun
- A craft designed for transportation through air or space.
- (biology) A tube or canal that carries fluid in an animal or plant.
- (figurative) A person as a container of qualities or feelings.
- (nautical) Any craft designed for transportation on or in water, such as a ship, boat, or submarine.
- A container of liquid or other substance, such as a glass, goblet, cup, bottle, bowl, or pitcher.
- a craft designed for water transportation
- a tube in which a body fluid circulates
- an object used as a container (especially for liquids)
verb
noun
- (colloquial) An alien spacecraft.
- (especially and originally) Such things as seem to be discrete objects and comparable to aircraft.
- Anything not readily explainable appearing to move through or be suspended in the air.
- an (apparently) flying object whose nature is unknown; especially those considered to have extraterrestrial origins
noun
- a reusable spacecraft with wings for a controlled descent through the Earth's atmosphere
- Any vehicle capable of repeatedly travelling between destinations in outer space carrying people or cargo.
- Any vehicle capable of travelling repeatedly between the Earth's surface and outer space carrying people or cargo.
noun
- (science fiction) A small, fast-moving spacecraft.
- Synonym of water strider.
- A loose-fitting one-piece dress, similar to a shift but with slightly more fitting.
- Any of three species of bird, in the genus Rynchops of the family Laridae, that feed by skimming the surface of water bodies with their bills in flight.
- A sieve-like, slotted spoon.
- A ballet flat shoe.
- Any of several large bivalve shells, sometimes used for skimming milk, such as the sea clam (Spisula solidissima) and large scallops.
- (naval) A sailor in the surface forces, as opposed to a submariner.
- (naval) A surface ship.
- (entomology) Any of the dragonflies in the family Libellulidae.
- A person who skims.
- A device for removing organic matter from an aquarium.
- (crime) A device used to read and record the magnetic code from a credit card for later fraudulent use.
- a rapid superficial reader
- gull-like seabird that flies along the surface of the water with an elongated lower mandible immersed to skim out food
- a stiff hat made of straw with a flat crown
- a cooking utensil used to skim fat from the surface of liquids
verb
verb
noun
- propels bright light high in the sky, or used to propel a lifesaving line or harpoon
- erect European annual often grown as a salad crop to be harvested when young and tender
- a jet engine containing its own propellant and driven by reaction propulsion
- sends a firework display high into the sky
- any vehicle self-propelled by a rocket engine
- Something that travels high in the air or with great speed; especially (sport), a hard shot.
- A blunt lance head used in jousting.
- (South East England, slang) A very physically attractive woman.
- A long vehicle or craft propelled by a rocket engine; a missile or rocket-propelled spacecraft.
- An engine operating similarly to the pyrotechnic, generating thrust by the expulsion of hot gases; a rocket engine.
- (uncountable) A leaf vegetable of species Eruca sativa or Eruca vesicaria.
- (UK slang, originally military) A severe reprimand; a telling-off.
- A cylindrical projectile that can be fired to a great height through combustion, (specifically) a type of firework of this form, typically exploding with light and colour; a skyrocket.
- (slang) An ace (the playing card).
- Rocket larkspur (Consolida regalis, syn. Delphinium consolida).
- (Scotland, slang) A stupid or crazy person.
- (countable) Any plant of the genus Eruca.
noun
- a platform from which rockets or space craft are launched
- the fleshy cushion-like underside of an animal's foot or of a human's finger
- a flat mass of soft material used for protection, stuffing, or comfort
- temporary living quarters
- the large floating leaf of an aquatic plant (as the water lily)
- a number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge
- a block of absorbent material saturated with ink; used to transfer ink evenly to a rubber stamp
- A soft bag or cushion to relieve pressure, support a part, etc.
- (nautical) A piece of timber fixed on a beam to fit the curve of the deck.
- Ellipsis of mouse pad.
- (British, dialectal) A toad.
- (colloquial) A small house, apartment, or mobile home occupied by a single person; such as a bachelor, playboy, etc.
- A menstrual pad; a mass of absorbent material used to absorb menstrual flow.
- Ellipsis of keypad.
- (slang) a tablet PC
- (US) A floating leaf of a water lily or similar plant.
- (cryptography) A random key (originally written on a disposable pad) of the same length as the plaintext.
- A panel or strip of material designed to be sensitive to pressure or touch.
- A cushion-like thickening of the skin on the underside of the toes of animals.
- A flat surface or area from which a helicopter or other aircraft may land or be launched.
- A flattened mass of anything soft, to sit or lie on.
- (British, dialectal) A type of wickerwork basket, especially as used as a measure of fish or other goods.
- An electrical extension cord with a multi-port socket on one end; a "trip cord".
- A cushion used as a saddle without a tree or frame.
- (electronics) The amount by which a signal has been reduced.
- (British dialectal, Australia, Ireland) A path, particularly one unformed or unmaintained; a track made by animals.
- Any cushion-like part of the human body, especially the ends of the fingers.
- A kind of cushion for writing upon, or for blotting, especially one formed of many flat sheets of writing paper; now especially such a block of paper sheets as used to write on.
- (US, slang) A bed.
- (UK, slang) A prison cell.
- The sound of soft footsteps, or a similar noise made by an animal etc.
- The mostly hairless flesh located on the bottom of an animal's foot or paw.
- (cricket) A soft cover for a batsman's leg that protects the player from damage when hit by the ball.
- The effect produced by sustained lower reed notes in a musical piece, most common in blues music.
- A stuffed guard or protection, especially one worn on the legs of horses to prevent bruising.
- An easy-paced horse; a padnag.
- A soft, or small, cushion.
- (music) A synthesizer instrument sound used for sustained background sounds.
verb
- walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud
- line or stuff with soft material
- add padding to
- add details to
- (transitive) To travel along (a road, path etc.).
- To walk with soft steps.
- (intransitive) To travel on foot.
- (transitive) To imbue uniformly with a mordant.
- (transitive) To furnish with a pad or padding.
- (transitive) To increase the size of, especially by adding undesirable filler.
- (transitive) To stuff.
- (transitive, cricket) To deliberately play the ball with the leg pad instead of the bat.
- (intransitive) To walk softly, quietly or steadily, especially without shoes.
- (intransitive) To wear a path by walking.
intj
noun
- (science fiction) A small, relatively maneuverable spacecraft or shuttlecraft.
- (historical) A light, open, American horse-drawn vehicle with four large wheels.
- Any of several small vehicles, especially a small motor car for use on short journeys.
- an open automobile having a front seat and a rumble seat
adj
- (aeronautics, of a part of a rocket) Designed to return to the Earth's atmosphere.
- (programming, of a mutex) Such that the corresponding lock can be reacquired by the locking thread.
- Reentering; pointing inward.
- (music, of a ukulele or similar instrument) Having the strings not ordered according to pitch (having a re-entry).
- (physiology) Of or pertaining to reentry (in the heart).
- (programming) That may be executed more than once at a time either by different threads, or because of recursion.
- (of angles) pointing inward
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noun
adj
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- Initialism of Manned Spacecraft Center.
- Initialism of Modern Standard Chinese.
- Initialism of Munich Security Conference.
- (geology) Initialism of Messinian salinity crisis.
- (military, US) Initialism of Military Sealift Command, an organization that controls the replenishment and military transport ships of the United States Navy.
- (business, finance) Initialism of Melbourne Securities Corporation.
- Initialism of Marine Stewardship Council, used to label fish supplies.
noun
noun
- The platform outside the external hatch of a spacecraft.
- A portico; a covered walk.
- (architecture) A covered entrance to a building, whether taken from the interior, and forming a sort of vestibule within the main wall, or projecting without and with a separate roof. A porch often has chair(s), table(s) and swings.
- a structure attached to the exterior of a building often forming a covered entrance
noun
- (astronautics) A streamlined protective covering used to protect the payload during a rocket-powered launch.
- Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.
- The branching top of a tree; foliage.
- One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate.
- (nautical) One of a set of ropes or cables (rigging) attaching a mast to the sides of a vessel or to another anchor point, serving to support the mast sideways; such rigging collectively.
- That which covers or shelters like a shroud.
- A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt.
- That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.
- a line that suspends the harness from the canopy of a parachute
- burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped
- (nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind
verb
name
noun
- Initialism of single-leg squat.
- Initialism of shit life syndrome.
- (computing) Initialism of second-level support.
- Initialism of sodium lauryl sulphate.
- a caustic detergent useful for removing grease; although commonly included in personal care items (shampoos and toothpastes etc.) it can irritate skin and should not be swallowed
noun
- (astronautics) A rocket firing during such a landing.
- (astronautics) A method of soft-landing a rocket with a well-timed, high-thrust engine burn starting at the last possible second, such that it reaches a vertical speed of zero at precisely or almost precisely at the exact moment that it touches the landing pad and the engine shuts down.
- (astronautics) An instance of such a landing.
noun
noun
- man-made equipment that orbits around the earth or the moon
- any celestial body orbiting around a planet or star
- a person who follows or serves another
- A country, state, office, building etc. which is under the jurisdiction, influence, or domination of another body.
- A moon or other smaller body orbiting a larger one.
- (colloquial, uncountable) Satellite TV; reception of television broadcasts via services that use man-made satellite technology.
- (genetics) A very large array of tandemly repeating, non-coding DNA.
- A man-made apparatus designed to be placed in orbit around a celestial body, generally to relay information, data etc. to Earth.
- A community or town dependent on a larger town or city nearby.
- (grammar) A grammatical construct that takes various forms and may encode a path of movement, a change of state, or the grammatical aspect. Examples: "a bird flew past"; "she turned on the light".
adj
verb
noun
- (cellular automata, rare) A spaceship.
- A period of time spent fishing.
- (uncountable) A card game in which the object is to obtain cards in pairs or sets of four (depending on the variation), by asking the other players for cards of a particular rank.
- A cartilaginous fish (class Chondrichthyes).
- (uncountable, slang, sometimes derogatory, sometimes positive) A (feminine) woman. (See also fishy.)
- An instance of seeking something.
- (cartomancy) The thirty-fourth Lenormand card.
- (nautical) A purchase used to fish the anchor.
- (countable, poker slang) A bad poker player. Compare shark (a good poker player).
- (Newfoundland) Cod; codfish.
- A placoderm (paraphyletic class †Placodermi).
- A jawless fish (paraphyletic infraphylum Agnatha).
- (uncountable) The flesh of the fish used as food.
- (LGBTQ slang, sometimes problematic) A drag queen or transgender woman who looks like a cisgender woman.
- (countable, nautical, military, slang) A torpedo (self-propelled explosive device).
- (prison slang) A new (usually vulnerable) prisoner.
- A bony fish (clade Osteichthyes), including tetrapods.
- (Roman Catholicism) An aquatic or semiaquatic animal suitable for consumption during fasting on Fridays during Lent.
- (Jamaica, offensive, derogatory) A male homosexual; a gay man.
- (countable, slang) An easy victim for swindling.
- (countable) A typically cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills.
- A spiny shark (paraphyletic class †Acanthodii)
- (countable, nautical) A makeshift overlapping longitudinal brace, originally shaped roughly like a fish, used to temporarily repair or extend a spar or mast of a ship.
- any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills
- the flesh of fish used as food
verb
- (nautical, transitive) To repair (a spar or mast) by fastening a beam or other long object (often called a fish) over the damaged part (see Noun above).
- (intransitive, cricket) Of a batsman, to attempt to hit a ball outside off stump and miss it.
- (intransitive, transitive) To hunt fish or other aquatic animals in a body of water, or to collect coral or pearls from the bottom of the sea.
- (transitive) To search (a body of water) for something other than fish.
- (intransitive) To (attempt to) find or get hold of an object by searching among other objects.
- (nautical, transitive) To hoist the flukes of.
- (fishing, transitive) To use as bait when fishing.
- (transitive) To draw or guide (a wire or cable) by means of fish tape.
- (intransitive, followed by "for" or "around for") To talk to people in an attempt to get them to say something, or seek to obtain something by artifice.
- seek indirectly
- catch or try to catch fish or shellfish
noun
- (aeronautics) Initialism of main propulsion system (of the Space Shuttle).
- (medicine) Initialism of myofascial pain syndrome.
- (medicine) Abbreviation of mucopolysaccharidosis.
- (education) Initialism of Master of Professional Studies.
- (business) Initialism of master production schedule.
- Initialism of muscle protein synthesis.
- (chemistry) Abbreviation of methylacetylene propadiene, stabilized stabilized methylacetylene-propadiene mixture.
- a widely distributed system of free and fixed macrophages derived from bone marrow
name
noun
- (astronautics) The process of connecting one spacecraft to another.
- (nautical) The securing of a vessel to the quayside with cables.
- The process of cutting off or trimming the tail or ears of an animal.
- (sexuality, slang, vulgar) The male homosexual sex act involving two men co-joined by their penises, with overlapping foreskins.
- (molecular biology) A method which predicts the preferred orientation of one molecule to a second when bound to each other to form a stable complex.
- the act of securing an arriving vessel with ropes
verb
noun
noun
- a space vehicle that is designed to land on the moon or another planet
- A spacecraft, particularly a probe, designed to set down on the surface of another celestial body.
- (mining) A person who waits at the mouth of the shaft to receive the kibble of ore.
- (in combination) A person from a specific land. See highlander, Greenlander.
- One who lands, or who lands something.
- (Internet) Synonym of landing page.
- (slang) An illegal immigrant.
noun
- (astronautics) A manned vehicle that flies through space.
- a spacecraft designed to carry a crew into interstellar space (especially in science fiction)
- (slang) A computer.
- (cellular automata) A finite pattern that reappears after a certain number of generations in the same orientation but in a different position.
- (programming) The operator <=> in certain programming languages, which compares two values and indicates whether the first is lesser than, greater than, or equal to the second.
noun
- a spacecraft designed to transport people and support human life in outer space
- a pilot's seat in an airplane that can be forcibly ejected in the case of an emergency; then the pilot descends by parachute
- a shortened version of a written work
- a dry dehiscent seed vessel or the spore-containing structure of e.g. mosses
- a structure that encloses a body part
- a small container
- a pill in the form of a small rounded gelatinous container with medicine inside
- (pharmacy) A small container containing a dose of medicine.
- (wine) The covering — formerly lead or tin, now often plastic — over the cork at the top of the wine bottle.
- One of the very small rooms for guests in a capsule hotel.
- (physiology) A membranous envelope.
- (anatomy) A membrane that surrounds the eyeball
- (botany) A sporangium, especially in bryophytes.
- A small, shallow evaporating dish, usually of porcelain.
- (anatomy) A tough, fibrous layer surrounding an organ such as the kidney or liver
- A small cup or shell, often of metal, for a percussion cap, cartridge, etc.
- (botany) A type of simple, dehiscent, dry fruit (seed-case) produced by many species of flowering plants, such as poppy, lily, orchid, willow and cotton.
- (astronautics) A detachable part of a rocket or spacecraft (usually in the nose) containing the crew's living space.
- (attributively, figuratively) in a brief, condensed or compact form
verb
noun
- A craft designed for transportation through air or space.
- (biology) A tube or canal that carries fluid in an animal or plant.
- (figurative) A person as a container of qualities or feelings.
- (nautical) Any craft designed for transportation on or in water, such as a ship, boat, or submarine.
- A container of liquid or other substance, such as a glass, goblet, cup, bottle, bowl, or pitcher.
- a craft designed for water transportation
- a tube in which a body fluid circulates
- an object used as a container (especially for liquids)
verb
noun
- (colloquial) An alien spacecraft.
- (especially and originally) Such things as seem to be discrete objects and comparable to aircraft.
- Anything not readily explainable appearing to move through or be suspended in the air.
- an (apparently) flying object whose nature is unknown; especially those considered to have extraterrestrial origins
noun
- a reusable spacecraft with wings for a controlled descent through the Earth's atmosphere
- Any vehicle capable of repeatedly travelling between destinations in outer space carrying people or cargo.
- Any vehicle capable of travelling repeatedly between the Earth's surface and outer space carrying people or cargo.
noun
- (science fiction) A small, fast-moving spacecraft.
- Synonym of water strider.
- A loose-fitting one-piece dress, similar to a shift but with slightly more fitting.
- Any of three species of bird, in the genus Rynchops of the family Laridae, that feed by skimming the surface of water bodies with their bills in flight.
- A sieve-like, slotted spoon.
- A ballet flat shoe.
- Any of several large bivalve shells, sometimes used for skimming milk, such as the sea clam (Spisula solidissima) and large scallops.
- (naval) A sailor in the surface forces, as opposed to a submariner.
- (naval) A surface ship.
- (entomology) Any of the dragonflies in the family Libellulidae.
- A person who skims.
- A device for removing organic matter from an aquarium.
- (crime) A device used to read and record the magnetic code from a credit card for later fraudulent use.
- a rapid superficial reader
- gull-like seabird that flies along the surface of the water with an elongated lower mandible immersed to skim out food
- a stiff hat made of straw with a flat crown
- a cooking utensil used to skim fat from the surface of liquids
verb
noun
- a platform from which rockets or space craft are launched
- the fleshy cushion-like underside of an animal's foot or of a human's finger
- a flat mass of soft material used for protection, stuffing, or comfort
- temporary living quarters
- the large floating leaf of an aquatic plant (as the water lily)
- a number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge
- a block of absorbent material saturated with ink; used to transfer ink evenly to a rubber stamp
- A soft bag or cushion to relieve pressure, support a part, etc.
- (nautical) A piece of timber fixed on a beam to fit the curve of the deck.
- Ellipsis of mouse pad.
- (British, dialectal) A toad.
- (colloquial) A small house, apartment, or mobile home occupied by a single person; such as a bachelor, playboy, etc.
- A menstrual pad; a mass of absorbent material used to absorb menstrual flow.
- Ellipsis of keypad.
- (slang) a tablet PC
- (US) A floating leaf of a water lily or similar plant.
- (cryptography) A random key (originally written on a disposable pad) of the same length as the plaintext.
- A panel or strip of material designed to be sensitive to pressure or touch.
- A cushion-like thickening of the skin on the underside of the toes of animals.
- A flat surface or area from which a helicopter or other aircraft may land or be launched.
- A flattened mass of anything soft, to sit or lie on.
- (British, dialectal) A type of wickerwork basket, especially as used as a measure of fish or other goods.
- An electrical extension cord with a multi-port socket on one end; a "trip cord".
- A cushion used as a saddle without a tree or frame.
- (electronics) The amount by which a signal has been reduced.
- (British dialectal, Australia, Ireland) A path, particularly one unformed or unmaintained; a track made by animals.
- Any cushion-like part of the human body, especially the ends of the fingers.
- A kind of cushion for writing upon, or for blotting, especially one formed of many flat sheets of writing paper; now especially such a block of paper sheets as used to write on.
- (US, slang) A bed.
- (UK, slang) A prison cell.
- The sound of soft footsteps, or a similar noise made by an animal etc.
- The mostly hairless flesh located on the bottom of an animal's foot or paw.
- (cricket) A soft cover for a batsman's leg that protects the player from damage when hit by the ball.
- The effect produced by sustained lower reed notes in a musical piece, most common in blues music.
- A stuffed guard or protection, especially one worn on the legs of horses to prevent bruising.
- An easy-paced horse; a padnag.
- A soft, or small, cushion.
- (music) A synthesizer instrument sound used for sustained background sounds.
verb
- walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud
- line or stuff with soft material
- add padding to
- add details to
- (transitive) To travel along (a road, path etc.).
- To walk with soft steps.
- (intransitive) To travel on foot.
- (transitive) To imbue uniformly with a mordant.
- (transitive) To furnish with a pad or padding.
- (transitive) To increase the size of, especially by adding undesirable filler.
- (transitive) To stuff.
- (transitive, cricket) To deliberately play the ball with the leg pad instead of the bat.
- (intransitive) To walk softly, quietly or steadily, especially without shoes.
- (intransitive) To wear a path by walking.
intj
noun
- (science fiction) A small, relatively maneuverable spacecraft or shuttlecraft.
- (historical) A light, open, American horse-drawn vehicle with four large wheels.
- Any of several small vehicles, especially a small motor car for use on short journeys.
- an open automobile having a front seat and a rumble seat
noun
adj
noun
- The platform outside the external hatch of a spacecraft.
- A portico; a covered walk.
- (architecture) A covered entrance to a building, whether taken from the interior, and forming a sort of vestibule within the main wall, or projecting without and with a separate roof. A porch often has chair(s), table(s) and swings.
- a structure attached to the exterior of a building often forming a covered entrance
noun
- (astronautics) A streamlined protective covering used to protect the payload during a rocket-powered launch.
- Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.
- The branching top of a tree; foliage.
- One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate.
- (nautical) One of a set of ropes or cables (rigging) attaching a mast to the sides of a vessel or to another anchor point, serving to support the mast sideways; such rigging collectively.
- That which covers or shelters like a shroud.
- A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt.
- That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.
- a line that suspends the harness from the canopy of a parachute
- burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped
- (nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind
verb
noun
- (astronautics) A rocket firing during such a landing.
- (astronautics) A method of soft-landing a rocket with a well-timed, high-thrust engine burn starting at the last possible second, such that it reaches a vertical speed of zero at precisely or almost precisely at the exact moment that it touches the landing pad and the engine shuts down.
- (astronautics) An instance of such a landing.
noun
noun
- man-made equipment that orbits around the earth or the moon
- any celestial body orbiting around a planet or star
- a person who follows or serves another
- A country, state, office, building etc. which is under the jurisdiction, influence, or domination of another body.
- A moon or other smaller body orbiting a larger one.
- (colloquial, uncountable) Satellite TV; reception of television broadcasts via services that use man-made satellite technology.
- (genetics) A very large array of tandemly repeating, non-coding DNA.
- A man-made apparatus designed to be placed in orbit around a celestial body, generally to relay information, data etc. to Earth.
- A community or town dependent on a larger town or city nearby.
- (grammar) A grammatical construct that takes various forms and may encode a path of movement, a change of state, or the grammatical aspect. Examples: "a bird flew past"; "she turned on the light".
adj
verb
noun
- (cellular automata, rare) A spaceship.
- A period of time spent fishing.
- (uncountable) A card game in which the object is to obtain cards in pairs or sets of four (depending on the variation), by asking the other players for cards of a particular rank.
- A cartilaginous fish (class Chondrichthyes).
- (uncountable, slang, sometimes derogatory, sometimes positive) A (feminine) woman. (See also fishy.)
- An instance of seeking something.
- (cartomancy) The thirty-fourth Lenormand card.
- (nautical) A purchase used to fish the anchor.
- (countable, poker slang) A bad poker player. Compare shark (a good poker player).
- (Newfoundland) Cod; codfish.
- A placoderm (paraphyletic class †Placodermi).
- A jawless fish (paraphyletic infraphylum Agnatha).
- (uncountable) The flesh of the fish used as food.
- (LGBTQ slang, sometimes problematic) A drag queen or transgender woman who looks like a cisgender woman.
- (countable, nautical, military, slang) A torpedo (self-propelled explosive device).
- (prison slang) A new (usually vulnerable) prisoner.
- A bony fish (clade Osteichthyes), including tetrapods.
- (Roman Catholicism) An aquatic or semiaquatic animal suitable for consumption during fasting on Fridays during Lent.
- (Jamaica, offensive, derogatory) A male homosexual; a gay man.
- (countable, slang) An easy victim for swindling.
- (countable) A typically cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills.
- A spiny shark (paraphyletic class †Acanthodii)
- (countable, nautical) A makeshift overlapping longitudinal brace, originally shaped roughly like a fish, used to temporarily repair or extend a spar or mast of a ship.
- any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills
- the flesh of fish used as food
verb
- (nautical, transitive) To repair (a spar or mast) by fastening a beam or other long object (often called a fish) over the damaged part (see Noun above).
- (intransitive, cricket) Of a batsman, to attempt to hit a ball outside off stump and miss it.
- (intransitive, transitive) To hunt fish or other aquatic animals in a body of water, or to collect coral or pearls from the bottom of the sea.
- (transitive) To search (a body of water) for something other than fish.
- (intransitive) To (attempt to) find or get hold of an object by searching among other objects.
- (nautical, transitive) To hoist the flukes of.
- (fishing, transitive) To use as bait when fishing.
- (transitive) To draw or guide (a wire or cable) by means of fish tape.
- (intransitive, followed by "for" or "around for") To talk to people in an attempt to get them to say something, or seek to obtain something by artifice.
- seek indirectly
- catch or try to catch fish or shellfish
noun
- (aeronautics) Initialism of main propulsion system (of the Space Shuttle).
- (medicine) Initialism of myofascial pain syndrome.
- (medicine) Abbreviation of mucopolysaccharidosis.
- (education) Initialism of Master of Professional Studies.
- (business) Initialism of master production schedule.
- Initialism of muscle protein synthesis.
- (chemistry) Abbreviation of methylacetylene propadiene, stabilized stabilized methylacetylene-propadiene mixture.
- a widely distributed system of free and fixed macrophages derived from bone marrow
name
noun
- (astronautics) The process of connecting one spacecraft to another.
- (nautical) The securing of a vessel to the quayside with cables.
- The process of cutting off or trimming the tail or ears of an animal.
- (sexuality, slang, vulgar) The male homosexual sex act involving two men co-joined by their penises, with overlapping foreskins.
- (molecular biology) A method which predicts the preferred orientation of one molecule to a second when bound to each other to form a stable complex.
- the act of securing an arriving vessel with ropes
verb
verb
noun
- propels bright light high in the sky, or used to propel a lifesaving line or harpoon
- erect European annual often grown as a salad crop to be harvested when young and tender
- a jet engine containing its own propellant and driven by reaction propulsion
- sends a firework display high into the sky
- any vehicle self-propelled by a rocket engine
- Something that travels high in the air or with great speed; especially (sport), a hard shot.
- A blunt lance head used in jousting.
- (South East England, slang) A very physically attractive woman.
- A long vehicle or craft propelled by a rocket engine; a missile or rocket-propelled spacecraft.
- An engine operating similarly to the pyrotechnic, generating thrust by the expulsion of hot gases; a rocket engine.
- (uncountable) A leaf vegetable of species Eruca sativa or Eruca vesicaria.
- (UK slang, originally military) A severe reprimand; a telling-off.
- A cylindrical projectile that can be fired to a great height through combustion, (specifically) a type of firework of this form, typically exploding with light and colour; a skyrocket.
- (slang) An ace (the playing card).
- Rocket larkspur (Consolida regalis, syn. Delphinium consolida).
- (Scotland, slang) A stupid or crazy person.
- (countable) Any plant of the genus Eruca.
adj
- (aeronautics, of a part of a rocket) Designed to return to the Earth's atmosphere.
- (programming, of a mutex) Such that the corresponding lock can be reacquired by the locking thread.
- Reentering; pointing inward.
- (music, of a ukulele or similar instrument) Having the strings not ordered according to pitch (having a re-entry).
- (physiology) Of or pertaining to reentry (in the heart).
- (programming) That may be executed more than once at a time either by different threads, or because of recursion.
- (of angles) pointing inward