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- a cutting tool with a sharp edge
- a list of particulars (as a playbill or bill of fare)
- horny projecting mouth of a bird
- the entertainment offered at a public presentation
- a sign posted in a public place as an advertisement
- an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution
- a piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank)
- a brim that projects to the front to shade the eyes
- a statute in draft before it becomes law
- an itemized statement of money owed for goods shipped or services rendered
- (US, Canada) A piece of paper money; a banknote.
- (slang, UK) One hundred pounds sterling.
- A document, originally sealed; a formal statement or official memorandum. (Now obsolete except with certain qualifying words; bill of health, bill of sale etc.)
- A cutting instrument, with hook-shaped point, and fitted with a handle, used in pruning, etc.; a billhook.
- A written list or inventory. (Now obsolete except in specific senses or set phrases; bill of lading, bill of goods, etc.)
- Somebody armed with a bill; a billman.
- A writing that binds the signer or signers to pay a certain sum at a future day or on demand, with or without interest, as may be stated in the document; a bill of exchange. In the United States, it is usually called a note, a note of hand, or a promissory note.
- A pickaxe or mattock.
- A written note of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, with the price or charge owing; an invoice.
- A draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law.
- Any of various bladed or pointed hand weapons, originally designating an Anglo-Saxon sword, and later a weapon of infantry, especially in the 14th and 15th centuries, commonly consisting of a broad, heavy, double-edged, hook-shaped blade, with a short pike at the back and another at the top, attached to the end of a long staff.
- (nautical) The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke (also called the peak).
- A set of items presented together.
- A beaklike projection, especially a promontory.
- (slang, India) A written note of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, listing the price or charge paid; a receipt.
- The bell, or boom, of the bittern.
- A paper, written or printed, and posted up or given away, to advertise something, as a lecture, a play, or the sale of goods
- (zootomy) The beak of a bird, especially when small or flattish; sometimes also used with reference to a platypus, turtle, or other animal.
- (slang, Canada, US) One hundred dollars.
- Of a cap or hat: the brim or peak, serving as a shade to keep sun off the face and out of the eyes.
- (UK, Eton College) A list of pupils to be disciplined for breaking school rules.
verb
- publicize or announce by placards
- demand payment
- advertise especially by posters or placards
- (transitive) To charge; to send a bill to.
- (transitive) To dig, chop, etc., with a bill.
- (ambitransitive, UK, slang) To roll up a marijuana cigarette.
- to stroke bill against bill, with reference to doves; to caress in fondness
- (transitive) To advertise by a bill or public notice.
noun
- a cutting tool with a sharp edge
- Rare form of bill hook (“sharply pointed spike on honeyguide hatchlings' mandibles”).
- Rare form of bill hook (“spiked hook used in shops for hanging papers”).
- (weaponry) A medieval polearm, fitted to a long handle, sometimes with an L-shaped tine or a spike protruding from the side or the end of the blade for tackling the opponent; a bill.
- An agricultural hand tool often with a curved or hooked end to the blade used for pruning or cutting thick, woody plants.
- (often written as bill-hook) A part of the knotting mechanism in a reaper-binder or baler (agricultural machinery).
verb
noun
- The part of a knife blade that abuts upon the end of the handle.
- A large cushion or pillow, usually cylindrical in shape.
- (military, historical) A block of wood on the carriage of a siege gun, upon which the breech of the gun rests when arranged for transportation.
- A short, horizontal structural timber between a post and a beam for enlarging the bearing area of the post and/or reducing the span of the beam.
- A pad, quilt, or anything used to hinder pressure, support part of the body, or make a bandage sit easy upon a wounded part; a compress.
- The perforated plate in a punching machine on which anything rests when being punched.
- (architecture) The rolls forming the ends or sides of the Ionic capital.
- A beam in the middle of a railway truck, supporting the body of the car.
- The metallic end of a pocketknife handle.
- (figurative) That which supports or promotes; a catalyst.
- (vehicles, agriculture) A small spacer located on top of the axle of horse-drawn wagons that gives the front wheels enough clearance to turn.
- A wide-bladed cold chisel designed to split and shape bricks.
- a pillow that is often put across a bed underneath the regular pillows
verb
noun
- hand tool having a toothed blade for cutting
- a power tool for cutting wood
- a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people
- A musical saw.
- A tool with a toothed blade used for cutting hard substances, in particular wood or metal.
- Such a tool with an abrasive coating instead of teeth.
- (whist) The situation where two partners agree to trump a suit alternately, playing that suit to each other for the express purpose.
- A sawtooth wave.
verb
- cut with a saw
- (intransitive) To make a motion back and forth similar to cutting something with a saw.
- (colloquial, nonstandard) past participle of see
- (transitive) To form or produce (something) by cutting with a saw.
- simple past of see
- (intransitive) To be cut with a saw.
- (transitive) To cut (something) with a saw.
noun
- The sharp edge of the blade of a knife or other cutting tool.
- the sharp cutting side of the blade of a knife
- (idiomatic, by extension, often with "on the") The forefront, or position of greatest advancement in some field.
- the position of greatest importance or advancement; the leading position in any movement or field
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- a short knife with a pointed blade used for piercing or stabbing
- a character used in printing to indicate a second cross reference or footnote when the asterisk has already been used
- A timber placed diagonally in a ship's frame.
- (American football, basketball) A point scored near the end of the game (clutch time) to take or increase the scorer's team lead, so that they are likely to win.
- (weaponry) A stabbing weapon, similar to a sword but with a short, double-edged blade.
- (typography) The typographical mark †.
verb
noun
- a short knife with a pointed blade used for piercing or stabbing
- a particularly difficult or baffling question or problem
- a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf
- an adhesive label
- A wooden strip placed between courses of lumber to allow air circulation and to create a gap so the unit can be picked up with a forklift (also kiln sticker).
- (US, politics) A paster.
- (music) A small wooden rod in an organ which connects (in part) a key and a pallet, so as to communicate motion by pushing.
- (Internet) A cartoonish illustration of a character that represents an emotion or action, often accompanied by text, that may be superimposed on a digital image.
- An adhesive label or decal.
- A brand, label, or company, especially one making and distributing records.
- (military slang, World War I– World War II, if not earlier) A bayonet.
- One who sticks to something, or does not give up; a stayer.
- (by extension) The listed price (also sticker price).
- Something or someone that sticks (pierces, or adheres).
- (informal) A burr or seed pod that catches in fur or clothing.
- A price tag.
verb
noun
- edge tool used as a cutting instrument; has a pointed blade with a sharp edge and a handle
- a weapon with a handle and blade with a sharp point
- any long thin projection that is transient
- Any blade-like part in a tool or a machine designed for cutting, such as that of a chipper.
- A utensil or a tool designed for cutting, consisting of a flat piece of hard material, usually steel or other metal (the blade), usually sharpened on one edge, attached to a handle. The blade may be pointed for piercing.
- A weapon designed with the aforementioned specifications intended for slashing or stabbing but too short to be called a sword; a dagger.
verb
- use a knife on
- (transitive) To positively ignore, especially in order to denigrate; compare cut.
- (transitive) To cut with a knife.
- (transitive) To betray, especially in the context of a political slate.
- (transitive) To use a knife to injure or kill by stabbing, slashing, or otherwise using the sharp edge of the knife as a weapon.
- (intransitive) To cut through as if with a knife.
noun
- The (typically sharp-edged) part of a knife, sword, razor, or other tool with which it cuts.
- Ellipsis of razor blade.
- (sailing) The rudder, daggerboard, or centerboard of a vessel.
- Thin plate, foil.
- (mathematics) An exterior product of vectors. (The product may have more than two factors. Also, a scalar counts as a 0-blade, a vector as a 1-blade; an exterior product of k vectors may be called a k-blade.)
- (climbing) Synonym of knifeblade.
- (ultimate frisbee) A throw characterized by a tight parabolic trajectory due to a steep lateral attitude.
- (athletics, informal) An artificial foot used by amputee athletes, shaped like an upside-down question mark.
- A bulldozer or surface-grading machine with mechanically adjustable blade that is nominally perpendicular to the forward motion of the vehicle.
- (archaeology) A piece of prepared, sharp-edged stone, often flint, at least twice as long as it is wide; a long flake of ground-edge stone or knapped vitreous stone.
- (architecture, in the plural) The principal rafters of a roof.
- (uncountable, music) The quality of singing with a pure, resonant sound; especially of a countertenor.
- The part of a key that is inserted into the lock.
- (botany) The thin, flat part of a plant leaf, attached to a stem (petiole).
- A cut of beef from near the shoulder blade (part of the chuck).
- (slang, chiefly US) A homosexual, usually male.
- (computing) Ellipsis of blade server.
- (metonymic) A sword or knife.
- (photography) One of a series of small plates that make up the aperture or the shutter of a camera.
- (slang, chiefly US) An area of a city which is commonly known for prostitution.
- (biology) The four large shell plates on the sides, and the five large ones of the middle, of the carapace of the sea turtle, which yield the best tortoise shell.
- The flat functional end or piece of a propeller, oar, hockey stick, chisel, screwdriver, skate, etc.
- A flat bone, especially the shoulder blade.
- (chiefly phonetics, phonology) The part of the tongue just behind the tip, used to make laminal consonants.
- The narrow leaf of a grass or cereal.
- something long and thin resembling a blade of grass
- a cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard
- flat surface that rotates and pushes against air or water
- a cut of beef from the shoulder blade
- a broad flat body part (as of the shoulder or tongue)
- especially a leaf of grass or the broad portion of a leaf as distinct from the petiole
- the flat part of a tool or weapon that (usually) has a cutting edge
- a dashing young man
- the part of the skate that slides on the ice
verb
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- use a knife on
- stab or pierce
- poke or thrust abruptly
- (transitive) To thrust in a stabbing motion.
- (transitive) To pierce folded sheets, near their back edges, for the passage of thread or wire.
- (transitive) To pierce or to wound (somebody) with a (usually pointed) tool or weapon, especially a knife or dagger.
- (intransitive) To cause a sharp, painful sensation (often used with at).
- (transitive, figurative) To injure secretly or by malicious falsehood or slander.
- (transitive) To roughen a brick wall with a pick so as to hold plaster.
- (intransitive) To recklessly hit with the tip of a (usually pointed) object, such as a weapon or finger (often used with at).
- (transitive, oil industry) To guide the end of a pipe into a coupling when making up a connection.
noun
- informal words for any attempt or effort
- a strong blow with a knife or other sharp pointed instrument
- a sudden sharp feeling
- A bacterial culture made by inoculating a solid medium, such as gelatin, with the puncture of a needle or wire.
- (industrial relations) Clipping of establishment.
- Criticism.
- (music) A single staccato chord that adds dramatic impact to a composition.
- An act of stabbing or thrusting with an object.
- (aviation, slang) The horizontal or vertical stabilizer of an aircraft.
- (informal) An attempt.
- A wound made by stabbing.
- Pain inflicted on a person's feelings.
adj
noun
- a large sharp knife with a handle shaped to fit the grip
- A knife optimized for use in hunting animals, usually with a substantial belly and sometimes with a back edge that is partially serrated for sawing; fixed-blade and folding versions are both popular, and tasks such as field dressing, skinning, and bushcraft are anticipated.
noun
- A Swiss Army knife or similar tool.
- An oscillating power tool that can perform multiple functions with different attachments.
- Any similar tool with some other central implement (such as shears) or with no central implement, but sharing the themes otherwise.
- Any of a class of folding or telescoping tools with a plier head as the central implement and with sets of peripheral implements (typically knife blades, screwdrivers, files, saws, can openers, bottle openers, scissors, and so on).
- Any of a class of monolithic tools with various holes and edges that act as the multiple implements.
- A portable hand tool that combines several individual functions in a single assembly or body.
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verb
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- A kind of cutting tool, used to cut the teeth of a gear.
- (historical) The flat projection or iron shelf at the side of a fire grate, where things are put to be kept warm.
- A male ferret.
- A rounded peg used as a target in several games, especially in quoits.
- (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) The top cooking surface on a cooker; a cooktop. It typically comprises several cooking elements (often four), also known as 'rings'.
- The hub of a wheel.
- a shelf beside an open fire where something can be kept warm
- (folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous
- (folklore) a small grotesque supernatural creature that makes trouble for human beings
- a hard steel edge tool used to cut gears
verb
noun
- A squarish, heavy knife used by butchers for hacking through bones, etc.
- a butcher's knife having a large square blade
- (figurative) The act of eliminating someone or something, especially when done by someone with a history of other eliminations; a dismissal, rejection, or removal.
- (geometry) A line segment that bisects the perimeter of a triangle and has one endpoint at the midpoint of one of the triangle's three sides.
- (rowing) A type of oar blade with an asymmetric, mostly rectangular shape that resembles a cleaving knife.
- (music, Bahamas) A type of clave, or rhythm stick, a concussive musical instrument used in traditional Bahamian music.
noun
- a large heavy knife used as a weapon or for cutting vegetation
- A sword-like tool used for cutting large plants with a chopping motion, or used as a weapon.
- A small stringed instrument from Madeira, Portugal, having a double bulged body, traditionally of wood, with a small rib and four metallic strings, sometimes attached by wooden pegs.
verb
noun
- a large heavy knife used as a weapon or for cutting vegetation
- A type of modest-sized, open, outboard-powered, fishing boat common throughout much of the developing world, including Central America, the Caribbean, parts of Africa, the Middle East, and much of Asia.
- (East Africa, South Africa) A large broad-bladed knife.
- Any of various edible freshwater fish of the genus Pangasius, native to southeast Asia, especially an iridescent shark, Pangasius hypophthalmus, now reclassified as Pangasianodon hypophthalmus.
- A small inflatable motorboat used in Latin America.
adj
- used of a knife or other blade; not sharp
- devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment
- characterized by directness in manner or speech; without subtlety or evasion
- having a broad or rounded end
- Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; opposed to acute.
- Hard to impress or penetrate.
- Having a thick edge or point; not sharp.
- Slow or deficient in feeling: insensitive.
- Abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious; wanting in the forms of civility; rough in manners or speech.
verb
- make dull or blunt
- make less sharp
- make numb or insensitive
- make less intense
- make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation
- To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to make blunt.
- (figuratively) To repress or weaken; to impair the force, keenness, or susceptibility, of
noun
noun
- a knife that can be fixed to the end of a rifle and used as a weapon
- (engineering) A pin which plays in and out of holes made to receive it, and which thus serves to engage or disengage parts of the machinery.
- (military) A blade mounted to the end of a long gun, originally with a handle inserted into the bore, now usually attached underbarrel.
verb
noun
- An unsharpened portion of a knife blade at the base of the blade, near the handle of the knife.
- The region of a knife where such a portion is, or would be if it existed; the region may be arranged as a grip, guard, or combination thereof (a finger choil), or it may be a notch demarking the end of the sharpened edge (a sharpening choil).
- (on fixed-blade knives) The portion where the heel meets the bolster.
- (on folding knives) The indentation of a pocket-knife blade where it joins the tang.
noun
- a large edge tool that cuts sheet metal by passing a blade through it
- A cutting tool similar to scissors, but often larger.
- (physics) a deformation of an object in which parallel planes remain parallel but are shifted in a direction parallel to themselves
- (aviation, meteorology, countable) A specific instance of wind shear.
- (aviation, meteorology, uncountable) The phenomenon of wind shear.
- (physics) Forces that push in opposite directions.
- The act of shearing, or something removed by shearing.
- (geology) The response of a rock to deformation usually by compressive stress, resulting in particular textures.
- (mathematics) A transformation that displaces every point in a direction parallel to some given line by a distance proportional to the point's distance from the line.
- (metalworking) A large machine use for cutting sheet metal.
verb
- shear the wool from
- become deformed by forces tending to produce a shearing strain
- cut with shears
- cut or cut through with shears
- (Scotland) To reap, as grain.
- (figurative) To deprive of property; to fleece.
- (mining, intransitive) To make a vertical cut in coal.
- (intransitive, transitive) To remove the fleece from (a sheep, llama, etc.) by clipping.
- (physics) To deform because of forces pushing in opposite directions.
- (engineering) (also 'shear off') To break or suddenly separate because of excessive force, eg. a bolt.
- (mathematics) To transform by displacing every point in a direction parallel to some given line by a distance proportional to the point’s distance from the line.
- To cut the hair of (a person).
- (aviation, meteorology, intransitive, of wind) To change in direction or speed.
- To cut, originally with a sword or other bladed weapon, now usually with shears, or as if using shears.
adj
verb
- give a fine, sharp edge to a knife or razor
- urge to attack someone
- put or set (seeds, seedlings, or plants) into the ground
- equip with sails or masts
- set in type
- arrange attractively
- alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard
- put into a certain state; cause to be in a certain state
- fix conclusively or authoritatively
- become gelatinous
- disappear beyond the horizon
- set to a certain position or cause to operate correctly
- insert (a nail or screw below the surface, as into a countersink)
- put into a certain place or abstract location
- produce fruit
- make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc
- put into a position that will restore a normal state
- get ready for a particular purpose or event
- locate
- adapt for performance in a different way
- decide upon or fix definitely
- establish as the highest level or best performance
- fix in a border
- apply or start
- estimate
- (transitive, volleyball) To direct (the ball) to a teammate for an attack.
- (transitive) To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle.
- (intransitive, country dancing) To acknowledge a dancing partner by facing him or her and moving first to one side and then to the other, while she or he does the opposite.
- (transitive) To put in a specified condition or state; to cause to be.
- (transitive, bridge) To defeat a contract.
- To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to assign.
- (transitive) To punch (a nail) into wood so that its head is below the surface.
- (transitive) To introduce or describe.
- (transitive) To put (something) down, to rest.
- To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.
- (UK, education) To divide a class group in a subject according to ability
- (intransitive, of fruit) To be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to germinate or form.
- (ambitransitive) To fit music to words.
- To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state.
- (transitive) To compile, to make (a puzzle or challenge).
- (transitive) To arrange (type).
- (ambitransitive) To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant.
- To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare.
- (transitive) To locate (a play, etc.); to assign a backdrop to, geographically or temporally.
- (transitive) To adjust.
- To extend and bring into position; to spread.
- (transitive) To prepare (a stage or film set).
- (transitive) To arrange with dishes and cutlery, to set the table.
- To cause (a domestic fowl) to sit on eggs to brood.
- (intransitive, now dialectal) To sit or lie (easily etc.) on the stomach; to be digested in a certain manner.
- (intransitive) To solidify.
- (transitive) To attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place.
- (transitive) To start (a fire).
- To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote.
- (intransitive, Southern US, Midwestern US, dialects) To rest or lie somewhere, on something, etc.; to occupy a certain place.
- To apply oneself; to undertake earnestly.
- (transitive) To fit (someone) up in a situation.
- (transitive) To determine or settle.
- (transitive) To devise and assign (work) to.
- To have a certain direction of motion; to flow; to move on; to tend.
- (intransitive, Southern US, Midwestern US, dialects) To sit (be in a seated position).
- To hunt game with the aid of a setter.
- (intransitive) Of a heavenly body, to disappear below the horizon of a planet, etc, as the latter rotates.
- To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to variegate with objects placed here and there.
- (masonry) To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure.
- (transitive, botany) To produce after pollination.
- (hunting, ambitransitive) Of a dog, to indicate the position of game.
- To place or fix in a setting.
- (Scotland) To suit; to become.
adj
- determined or decided upon as by an authority
- situated in a particular spot or position
- set down according to a plan
- fixed and unmoving
- converted to solid form (as concrete)
- (usually followed by ‘to’ or ‘for’) on the point of or strongly disposed
- being below the horizon
- Intent, determined (to do something).
- Rigid, solidified.
- Fixed in one’s opinion.
- Fixed in position.
- Ready, prepared.
- (of hair) Fixed in a certain style.
- Prearranged.
noun
- an unofficial association of people or groups
- a group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so used
- several exercises intended to be done in series
- (mathematics) an abstract collection of numbers or symbols
- (psychology) being temporarily ready to respond in a particular way
- a relatively permanent inclination to react in a particular way
- the process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization
- the act of putting something in position
- the descent of a heavenly body below the horizon
- a unit of play in tennis or squash
- any electronic equipment that receives or transmits radio or tv signals
- representation consisting of the scenery and other properties used to identify the location of a dramatic production
- The full number of eggs set under a hen.
- The pattern of a tartan, etc.
- The amount by which the teeth of a saw protrude to the side in order to create the kerf.
- A collection of various objects for a particular purpose.
- (horticulture) A small tuber or bulb used instead of seed, particularly onion sets and potato sets.
- A rudimentary fruit.
- (engineering) A permanent change of shape caused by excessive strain, as from compression, tension, bending, twisting, etc.
- A matching collection of similar things. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 2, Noun.)
- (music) A musical performance by a band, disc jockey, etc., consisting of several musical pieces.
- (volleyball) A complete series of points, forming part of a match.
- (exercise) A group of repetitions of a single exercise performed one after the other without rest.
- A young plant fit for setting out; a slip; shoot.
- A device for receiving broadcast radio waves (or, more recently, broadcast data); a radio or television.
- (tennis) A complete series of games, forming part of a match.
- A group of people, usually meeting socially or connected through some shared interest, activity, attribute, etc.
- A young oyster when first attached.
- The scenery for a film or play.
- (poker, slang) Three of a kind, especially if two cards are in one's hand and the third is on the board. Compare trips (“three of a kind, especially with two cards on the board and one in one's hand”).
- The setting of the sun or other luminary; (by extension) the close of the day.
- (music) A drum kit, a drum set.
- (piledriving) A piece placed temporarily upon the head of a pile when the latter cannot otherwise be reached by the weight, or hammer.
- An object made up of several parts.
- A tool for dressing forged iron.
- A punch for setting nails in wood.
- (volleyball) The act of directing the ball to a teammate for an attack.
- Collectively, the crop of young oysters in any locality.
- (UK, education) A class group in a subject where pupils are divided by ability.
- (literally and figuratively) General movement; direction; drift; tendency.
- Alternative form of sett (“piece of quarried stone”).
- A bias of mind; an attitude or pattern of behaviour.
- Alternative form of sett (“a hole made and lived in by a badger”).
- (dance) The initial or basic formation of dancers.
- (colloquial) The manner, state, or quality of setting or fitting; fit.
- (in plural, “sets”, mathematics, informal) Set theory.
- (set theory) A collection of zero or more objects, possibly infinite in size, and disregarding any order or repetition of the objects which may be contained within it.
- the general locations and area where a movie’s, a film’s, or a video’s scenery is arranged to be filmed also including places for actors, assorted crew, director, producers which are typically not filmed.
- A series or group of something. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 4, Noun)
- The camber of a curved roofing tile.
- Alternative form of sett (“pattern of threads and yarns”).
noun
- A blade of a sword, knife, etc.
- Temper; natural disposition; inclination.
- The metric, carat, or pearl grain of ¹⁄₄ carat used for measuring precious stones and pearls, now exactly 50 mg.
- An iron fish spear or harpoon, with a number of points half-barbed inwardly.
- (uncountable) A linear texture of a material or surface.
- (countable, uncountable) The crops from which grain is harvested.
- (photography, videography) Visual texture in processed photographic film due to the presence of small particles of a metallic silver, or dye clouds, developed from silver halide that have received enough photons.
- One of the branches of a valley or river.
- (botany) A rounded prominence on the back of a sepal, as in the common dock.
- (in the plural) The remains of grain, etc., after brewing or distillation; hence, any residuum.
- (historical) The French grain of ¹⁄₉₂₁₆ livre, equivalent to 53.11 mg at metricization and equal to exactly 54.25 mg from 1812–1839 as part of the mesures usuelles.
- (countable) A single particle of a substance.
- (dialectal, anatomy) The fangs of a tooth.
- (materials) A region within a material having a single crystal structure or direction.
- (countable) A single seed of grass food crops.
- (dialectal, anatomy) The groin; crotch.
- A branch of a tree; a stalk or stem of a plant; an offshoot.
- (countable, chiefly historical) Any of various small units of length originally notionally based on a grain's width, variously standardized at different places and times.
- (uncountable) The harvested seeds of various grass food crops eg: wheat, corn, barley.
- The hair side of a piece of leather, or the marking on that side.
- (dialectal) A fork in a river valley or ravine.
- (founding) A thin piece of metal, used in a mould to steady a core.
- (uncountable) Similar seeds from any food crop, e.g., buckwheat, amaranth, quinoa.
- (countable, historical) The carat grain of ¹⁄₄ carat as a measure of gold purity, creating a 96-point scale between 0% and 100% purity.
- An arm of a cross.
- A reddish dye made from the coccus insect, or kermes; hence, a red color of any tint or hue, as crimson, scarlet, etc.; sometimes used by the poets as equivalent to Tyrian purple.
- (dialectal) The branch of a family; clan.
- (astronautics) The solid piece of fuel in an individual solid-fuel rocket engine.
- The English grain of ¹⁄₅₇₆₀ troy pound or ¹⁄₇₀₀₀ pound avoirdupois, now exactly 64.79891 mg.
- (dialectal) A branch or arm of a stream, inlet, or sea.
- the physical composition of something (especially with respect to the size and shape of the small constituents of a substance)
- the direction, texture, or pattern of fibers found in wood or leather or stone or in a woven fabric
- the smallest possible unit of anything
- a cereal grass
- foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses
- a weight unit used for pearls or diamonds: 50 mg or 1/4 carat
- 1/60 dram; equals an avoirdupois grain or 64.799 milligrams
- the side of leather from which the hair has been removed
- dry seed-like fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e.g. wheat, barley, Indian corn
- a relatively small granular particle of a substance
- 1/7000 pound; equals a troy grain or 64.799 milligrams
verb
- (transitive) To make granular; to form into grains.
- (transitive) To feed grain to.
- To texture a surface in imitation of the grain of a substance such as wood.
- (tanning) To soften leather.
- To yield fruit.
- (tanning) To remove the hair or fat from a skin.
- (intransitive) To form grains, or to assume a granular form, as the result of crystallization; to granulate.
- paint (a surface) to make it look like stone or wood
- thoroughly work in
- become granular
- form into grains
noun
- A broad, flat knife.
- A slicing cucumber.
- A piece of software that converts a model into a series of thin layers for 3D printing.
- Someone or something that slices.
- (cooking) A machine that cuts meats, also named a deli slicer.
- (computing) A kind of data filter used in data visualization.
- a machine for cutting; usually with a revolving blade
- knife especially designed for slicing particular foods, as cheese
- a golfer whose shots typically curve right (for right-handed golfers)
noun
- an edge tool with a flat steel blade with a cutting edge
- A part of some ploughs, next to the ploughshare, that helps cut into the soil and deal with obstructions such as rocks, roots, and stems.
- Gravel.
- (usually in the plural) Coarse flour; bran; the coarser part of bran or flour.
- A cutting tool used to remove parts of stone, wood or metal by pushing or pounding the back when the sharp edge is against the material. It consists of a slim, oblong block of metal with a sharp wedge or bevel formed on one end and sometimes a handle at the other end; there are hand tool versions (the original type) and versions as bits for power tools.
- A part of any of various tools or devices that has an analogous purpose, cutting raw material or a workpiece during the process that the tool or device performs.
verb
- engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud
- carve with a chisel
- deprive somebody of something by deceit
- (transitive, figurative) To make small changes to (something), bit by bit, resulting in change over time.
- (ambitransitive, informal) To beg or pressure somebody into giving up (something); to haggle excessively; to cheat; to obtain something from (someone) by cheating.
- (intransitive) To use a chisel.
- (transitive) To work something with a chisel.
noun
noun
- (MLE) Knife.
- A quick movement to evade something.
- (informal, Scotland) A shirtfront; the front of a jumper or T-shirt.
- A bow or curtsey.
- (Korean or Cantonese contexts) Synonym of congee.
- Alternative form of juke (“roadside cafe or bar, esp. with dancing”).
- (MLE) Sexual intercourse.
- a Chinese rice gruel eaten for breakfast
- a small roadside establishment in the southeastern United States where you can eat and drink and dance to music provided by a jukebox
verb
noun
- a large knife with one or more folding blades
- a dive in which the diver bends to touch the ankles before straightening out
- Alternative spelling of jack-knife.
- (statistics) A resampling method that applies estimators to all subsamples that each omit a single different group (possibly of a single datapoint) of the original sample to provide a sample distribution of the estimate.
verb
noun
- A bar for supporting cutting tools.
- A spindle of a wheel.
- An axis or shaft supporting a rotating part on a lathe.
- A shady sitting place or pergola usually in a park or garden, surrounded by climbing shrubs, vines or other vegetation.
- A grove of trees.
- tree (as opposed to shrub)
- a framework that supports climbing plants
- any of various rotating shafts that serve as axes for larger rotating parts
noun
- A tool for chopping.
- A kick on the shins in football of any type.
- A gouge or notch made by such a blow.
- A hacking blow.
- (derogatory) One who is professionally successful despite producing mediocre work. (Usually applied to persons in a creative field.)
- (military, slang) An airplane of poor quality or in poor condition.
- (derogatory, authorship) An untalented writer.
- A dry cough.
- (slang, military) Time check, as for example upon synchronization of wristwatches.
- (colloquial) A trick, shortcut, skill, or novel method to increase productivity, efficiency, or ease.
- A person, often a journalist, hired to do routine work.
- (curling) The foothold traditionally cut into the ice from which the person who throws the rock pushes off for delivery.
- (computing, slang) A video game or any computer software that has been altered from its original state.
- (politics, slightly derogatory) A political agitator.
- (computing, slang) An expedient, temporary solution, such as a small patch or change to code, meant to be replaced with a more elegant solution at a later date; a workaround.
- A horse for hire, especially one which is old and tired.
- A small ball usually made of woven cotton or suede and filled with rice, sand or some other filler, for use in hackeysack.
- A hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough.
- (now chiefly Canada, US, colloquial) A vehicle let for hire; originally, a hackney cab, now typically a taxicab.
- A food-rack for cattle.
- (derogatory) A talented writer-for-hire, paid to put others' thoughts into felicitous language.
- (derogatory) Someone who is available for hire; hireling, mercenary.
- (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) A practical joke that showcases cleverness and creativity.
- (falconry) A board upon which the falcon's food is placed; used by extension for the state of partial freedom in which they are kept before being trained.
- (computing, slang) An interesting technical achievement, particularly in computer programming.
- A hearse.
- (slang) The driver of a taxicab (hackney cab).
- (ice hockey) The act of striking an opponent with one's hockey stick, typically on the leg but occasionally and more seriously on the back, arm, head, etc.
- (baseball) A swing of the bat at a pitched ball by the batter, particularly a choppy, ungraceful one that misses the ball such as at a fastball.
- A grating in a mill race.
- (informal) An improvised device or solution to a problem.
- (uncountable, slang, naval) Confinement of an officer to their stateroom as a punishment.
- (UK, student politics, derogatory) A person who frequently canvasses for votes, either directly or by appearing to continuously act with the ulterior motive of furthering their political career.
- A rack used to dry something, such as bricks, fish, or cheese.
- (figuratively) A try, an attempt.
- (computing, slang) The illegal accessing of a computer network.
- a horse kept for hire
- a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money
- one who works hard at boring tasks
- a tool (as a hoe or pick or mattock) used for breaking up the surface of the soil
- a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends
- a saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc.
- an old or over-worked horse
- a mediocre and disdained writer
intj
verb
- (computing) To accomplish a difficult programming task.
- To use as a hack; to let out for hire.
- To play hackeysack.
- To drive a hackney cab.
- (ice hockey) To make a flailing attempt to hit the puck with a hockey stick.
- (transitive, slang, computing, by extension) To gain unauthorized access to a computer or online account belonging to (a person or organisation).
- (transitive) To strike lightly as part of tapotement massage.
- (falconry) To keep (young hawks) in a state of partial freedom, before they are trained.
- (intransitive, video games) To cheat by using unauthorized modifications.
- (transitive, colloquial, by extension) To apply a trick, shortcut, skill, or novel method to something to increase productivity, efficiency or ease.
- (baseball) To swing at a pitched ball.
- (computing) To make a quick code change to patch a computer program, often one that, while being effective, is inelegant or makes the program harder to maintain.
- (intransitive) To cough noisily.
- (equestrianism) To ride a horse at a regular pace; to ride on a road (as opposed to riding cross-country etc.).
- To withstand or put up with a difficult situation.
- (transitive) To chop or cut down in a rough manner.
- (computing, slang, transitive) To work with something on an intimately technical level.
- To use frequently and indiscriminately, so as to render trite and commonplace.
- To strike in a frantic movement.
- To lay (bricks) on a rack to dry.
- (transitive, slang, computing) To hack into; to gain unauthorized access to (a computer system, e.g., a website, or network) by manipulating code.
- (soccer and rugby) To kick (a player) on the shins.
- (ice hockey) To strike an opponent with one's hockey stick, typically on the leg but occasionally and more seriously on the back, arm, head, etc.
- significantly cut up a manuscript
- cut with a hacking tool
- kick on the shins
- cut away
- be able to manage or manage successfully
- cough spasmodically
- fix a computer program piecemeal until it works
- kick on the arms
noun
- a cutting implement; a tool for cutting
- a boat for communication between ship and shore
- someone who carves the meat
- someone who cuts or carves stone
- someone whose work is cutting (as e.g. cutting cloth for garments)
- a sailing vessel with a single mast set further back than the mast of a sloop
- (television) A flag or similar instrument for blocking light.
- An animal yielding inferior meat, with little or no external fat and marbling.
- (Maine) An active child.
- (cricket) A ball that moves sideways in the air, or off the pitch, because it has been cut.
- (MLE) A knife.
- (informal) A person who practices self-injury by making cuts in the flesh.
- A light sleigh drawn by one horse.
- A foretooth; an incisor.
- A motorized vessel used in law enforcement purpose
- (wrestling) A three-quarters facelock bulldog move in which the attacker drives the opponent's head into the mat while falling onto their back.
- (medicine, colloquial, slang, humorous or derogatory) A surgeon.
- (slang) A ten-pence piece. So named because it is the coin most often sharpened by prison inmates to use as a weapon.
- (nautical) A ship's boat, used for transport ship-to-ship or ship-to-shore.
- (nautical) A single-masted, fore-and-aft rigged, sailing vessel with at least two headsails, and a mast set further aft than that of a sloop.
- (intactivism, derogatory) A supporter of infant circumcision or female genital mutilation; pro-circumcisionist.
- A person or device that cuts (in various senses).
- (baseball) A cut fastball.
noun
noun
verb
noun
- a cutting tool with a sharp edge
- a list of particulars (as a playbill or bill of fare)
- horny projecting mouth of a bird
- the entertainment offered at a public presentation
- a sign posted in a public place as an advertisement
- an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution
- a piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank)
- a brim that projects to the front to shade the eyes
- a statute in draft before it becomes law
- an itemized statement of money owed for goods shipped or services rendered
- (US, Canada) A piece of paper money; a banknote.
- (slang, UK) One hundred pounds sterling.
- A document, originally sealed; a formal statement or official memorandum. (Now obsolete except with certain qualifying words; bill of health, bill of sale etc.)
- A cutting instrument, with hook-shaped point, and fitted with a handle, used in pruning, etc.; a billhook.
- A written list or inventory. (Now obsolete except in specific senses or set phrases; bill of lading, bill of goods, etc.)
- Somebody armed with a bill; a billman.
- A writing that binds the signer or signers to pay a certain sum at a future day or on demand, with or without interest, as may be stated in the document; a bill of exchange. In the United States, it is usually called a note, a note of hand, or a promissory note.
- A pickaxe or mattock.
- A written note of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, with the price or charge owing; an invoice.
- A draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law.
- Any of various bladed or pointed hand weapons, originally designating an Anglo-Saxon sword, and later a weapon of infantry, especially in the 14th and 15th centuries, commonly consisting of a broad, heavy, double-edged, hook-shaped blade, with a short pike at the back and another at the top, attached to the end of a long staff.
- (nautical) The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke (also called the peak).
- A set of items presented together.
- A beaklike projection, especially a promontory.
- (slang, India) A written note of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, listing the price or charge paid; a receipt.
- The bell, or boom, of the bittern.
- A paper, written or printed, and posted up or given away, to advertise something, as a lecture, a play, or the sale of goods
- (zootomy) The beak of a bird, especially when small or flattish; sometimes also used with reference to a platypus, turtle, or other animal.
- (slang, Canada, US) One hundred dollars.
- Of a cap or hat: the brim or peak, serving as a shade to keep sun off the face and out of the eyes.
- (UK, Eton College) A list of pupils to be disciplined for breaking school rules.
verb
- publicize or announce by placards
- demand payment
- advertise especially by posters or placards
- (transitive) To charge; to send a bill to.
- (transitive) To dig, chop, etc., with a bill.
- (ambitransitive, UK, slang) To roll up a marijuana cigarette.
- to stroke bill against bill, with reference to doves; to caress in fondness
- (transitive) To advertise by a bill or public notice.
noun
- a cutting tool with a sharp edge
- Rare form of bill hook (“sharply pointed spike on honeyguide hatchlings' mandibles”).
- Rare form of bill hook (“spiked hook used in shops for hanging papers”).
- (weaponry) A medieval polearm, fitted to a long handle, sometimes with an L-shaped tine or a spike protruding from the side or the end of the blade for tackling the opponent; a bill.
- An agricultural hand tool often with a curved or hooked end to the blade used for pruning or cutting thick, woody plants.
- (often written as bill-hook) A part of the knotting mechanism in a reaper-binder or baler (agricultural machinery).
verb
noun
- The part of a knife blade that abuts upon the end of the handle.
- A large cushion or pillow, usually cylindrical in shape.
- (military, historical) A block of wood on the carriage of a siege gun, upon which the breech of the gun rests when arranged for transportation.
- A short, horizontal structural timber between a post and a beam for enlarging the bearing area of the post and/or reducing the span of the beam.
- A pad, quilt, or anything used to hinder pressure, support part of the body, or make a bandage sit easy upon a wounded part; a compress.
- The perforated plate in a punching machine on which anything rests when being punched.
- (architecture) The rolls forming the ends or sides of the Ionic capital.
- A beam in the middle of a railway truck, supporting the body of the car.
- The metallic end of a pocketknife handle.
- (figurative) That which supports or promotes; a catalyst.
- (vehicles, agriculture) A small spacer located on top of the axle of horse-drawn wagons that gives the front wheels enough clearance to turn.
- A wide-bladed cold chisel designed to split and shape bricks.
- a pillow that is often put across a bed underneath the regular pillows
verb
noun
- hand tool having a toothed blade for cutting
- a power tool for cutting wood
- a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people
- A musical saw.
- A tool with a toothed blade used for cutting hard substances, in particular wood or metal.
- Such a tool with an abrasive coating instead of teeth.
- (whist) The situation where two partners agree to trump a suit alternately, playing that suit to each other for the express purpose.
- A sawtooth wave.
verb
- cut with a saw
- (intransitive) To make a motion back and forth similar to cutting something with a saw.
- (colloquial, nonstandard) past participle of see
- (transitive) To form or produce (something) by cutting with a saw.
- simple past of see
- (intransitive) To be cut with a saw.
- (transitive) To cut (something) with a saw.
noun
- The sharp edge of the blade of a knife or other cutting tool.
- the sharp cutting side of the blade of a knife
- (idiomatic, by extension, often with "on the") The forefront, or position of greatest advancement in some field.
- the position of greatest importance or advancement; the leading position in any movement or field
adj
noun
- a short knife with a pointed blade used for piercing or stabbing
- a character used in printing to indicate a second cross reference or footnote when the asterisk has already been used
- A timber placed diagonally in a ship's frame.
- (American football, basketball) A point scored near the end of the game (clutch time) to take or increase the scorer's team lead, so that they are likely to win.
- (weaponry) A stabbing weapon, similar to a sword but with a short, double-edged blade.
- (typography) The typographical mark †.
verb
noun
- a short knife with a pointed blade used for piercing or stabbing
- a particularly difficult or baffling question or problem
- a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf
- an adhesive label
- A wooden strip placed between courses of lumber to allow air circulation and to create a gap so the unit can be picked up with a forklift (also kiln sticker).
- (US, politics) A paster.
- (music) A small wooden rod in an organ which connects (in part) a key and a pallet, so as to communicate motion by pushing.
- (Internet) A cartoonish illustration of a character that represents an emotion or action, often accompanied by text, that may be superimposed on a digital image.
- An adhesive label or decal.
- A brand, label, or company, especially one making and distributing records.
- (military slang, World War I– World War II, if not earlier) A bayonet.
- One who sticks to something, or does not give up; a stayer.
- (by extension) The listed price (also sticker price).
- Something or someone that sticks (pierces, or adheres).
- (informal) A burr or seed pod that catches in fur or clothing.
- A price tag.
verb
noun
- edge tool used as a cutting instrument; has a pointed blade with a sharp edge and a handle
- a weapon with a handle and blade with a sharp point
- any long thin projection that is transient
- Any blade-like part in a tool or a machine designed for cutting, such as that of a chipper.
- A utensil or a tool designed for cutting, consisting of a flat piece of hard material, usually steel or other metal (the blade), usually sharpened on one edge, attached to a handle. The blade may be pointed for piercing.
- A weapon designed with the aforementioned specifications intended for slashing or stabbing but too short to be called a sword; a dagger.
verb
- use a knife on
- (transitive) To positively ignore, especially in order to denigrate; compare cut.
- (transitive) To cut with a knife.
- (transitive) To betray, especially in the context of a political slate.
- (transitive) To use a knife to injure or kill by stabbing, slashing, or otherwise using the sharp edge of the knife as a weapon.
- (intransitive) To cut through as if with a knife.
noun
- The (typically sharp-edged) part of a knife, sword, razor, or other tool with which it cuts.
- Ellipsis of razor blade.
- (sailing) The rudder, daggerboard, or centerboard of a vessel.
- Thin plate, foil.
- (mathematics) An exterior product of vectors. (The product may have more than two factors. Also, a scalar counts as a 0-blade, a vector as a 1-blade; an exterior product of k vectors may be called a k-blade.)
- (climbing) Synonym of knifeblade.
- (ultimate frisbee) A throw characterized by a tight parabolic trajectory due to a steep lateral attitude.
- (athletics, informal) An artificial foot used by amputee athletes, shaped like an upside-down question mark.
- A bulldozer or surface-grading machine with mechanically adjustable blade that is nominally perpendicular to the forward motion of the vehicle.
- (archaeology) A piece of prepared, sharp-edged stone, often flint, at least twice as long as it is wide; a long flake of ground-edge stone or knapped vitreous stone.
- (architecture, in the plural) The principal rafters of a roof.
- (uncountable, music) The quality of singing with a pure, resonant sound; especially of a countertenor.
- The part of a key that is inserted into the lock.
- (botany) The thin, flat part of a plant leaf, attached to a stem (petiole).
- A cut of beef from near the shoulder blade (part of the chuck).
- (slang, chiefly US) A homosexual, usually male.
- (computing) Ellipsis of blade server.
- (metonymic) A sword or knife.
- (photography) One of a series of small plates that make up the aperture or the shutter of a camera.
- (slang, chiefly US) An area of a city which is commonly known for prostitution.
- (biology) The four large shell plates on the sides, and the five large ones of the middle, of the carapace of the sea turtle, which yield the best tortoise shell.
- The flat functional end or piece of a propeller, oar, hockey stick, chisel, screwdriver, skate, etc.
- A flat bone, especially the shoulder blade.
- (chiefly phonetics, phonology) The part of the tongue just behind the tip, used to make laminal consonants.
- The narrow leaf of a grass or cereal.
- something long and thin resembling a blade of grass
- a cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard
- flat surface that rotates and pushes against air or water
- a cut of beef from the shoulder blade
- a broad flat body part (as of the shoulder or tongue)
- especially a leaf of grass or the broad portion of a leaf as distinct from the petiole
- the flat part of a tool or weapon that (usually) has a cutting edge
- a dashing young man
- the part of the skate that slides on the ice
verb
noun
- a large sharp knife with a handle shaped to fit the grip
- A knife optimized for use in hunting animals, usually with a substantial belly and sometimes with a back edge that is partially serrated for sawing; fixed-blade and folding versions are both popular, and tasks such as field dressing, skinning, and bushcraft are anticipated.
noun
- A Swiss Army knife or similar tool.
- An oscillating power tool that can perform multiple functions with different attachments.
- Any similar tool with some other central implement (such as shears) or with no central implement, but sharing the themes otherwise.
- Any of a class of folding or telescoping tools with a plier head as the central implement and with sets of peripheral implements (typically knife blades, screwdrivers, files, saws, can openers, bottle openers, scissors, and so on).
- Any of a class of monolithic tools with various holes and edges that act as the multiple implements.
- A portable hand tool that combines several individual functions in a single assembly or body.
noun
verb
noun
- A kind of cutting tool, used to cut the teeth of a gear.
- (historical) The flat projection or iron shelf at the side of a fire grate, where things are put to be kept warm.
- A male ferret.
- A rounded peg used as a target in several games, especially in quoits.
- (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) The top cooking surface on a cooker; a cooktop. It typically comprises several cooking elements (often four), also known as 'rings'.
- The hub of a wheel.
- a shelf beside an open fire where something can be kept warm
- (folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous
- (folklore) a small grotesque supernatural creature that makes trouble for human beings
- a hard steel edge tool used to cut gears
verb
noun
- A squarish, heavy knife used by butchers for hacking through bones, etc.
- a butcher's knife having a large square blade
- (figurative) The act of eliminating someone or something, especially when done by someone with a history of other eliminations; a dismissal, rejection, or removal.
- (geometry) A line segment that bisects the perimeter of a triangle and has one endpoint at the midpoint of one of the triangle's three sides.
- (rowing) A type of oar blade with an asymmetric, mostly rectangular shape that resembles a cleaving knife.
- (music, Bahamas) A type of clave, or rhythm stick, a concussive musical instrument used in traditional Bahamian music.
noun
- a large heavy knife used as a weapon or for cutting vegetation
- A sword-like tool used for cutting large plants with a chopping motion, or used as a weapon.
- A small stringed instrument from Madeira, Portugal, having a double bulged body, traditionally of wood, with a small rib and four metallic strings, sometimes attached by wooden pegs.
verb
noun
- a large heavy knife used as a weapon or for cutting vegetation
- A type of modest-sized, open, outboard-powered, fishing boat common throughout much of the developing world, including Central America, the Caribbean, parts of Africa, the Middle East, and much of Asia.
- (East Africa, South Africa) A large broad-bladed knife.
- Any of various edible freshwater fish of the genus Pangasius, native to southeast Asia, especially an iridescent shark, Pangasius hypophthalmus, now reclassified as Pangasianodon hypophthalmus.
- A small inflatable motorboat used in Latin America.
noun
- a knife that can be fixed to the end of a rifle and used as a weapon
- (engineering) A pin which plays in and out of holes made to receive it, and which thus serves to engage or disengage parts of the machinery.
- (military) A blade mounted to the end of a long gun, originally with a handle inserted into the bore, now usually attached underbarrel.
verb
noun
- An unsharpened portion of a knife blade at the base of the blade, near the handle of the knife.
- The region of a knife where such a portion is, or would be if it existed; the region may be arranged as a grip, guard, or combination thereof (a finger choil), or it may be a notch demarking the end of the sharpened edge (a sharpening choil).
- (on fixed-blade knives) The portion where the heel meets the bolster.
- (on folding knives) The indentation of a pocket-knife blade where it joins the tang.
noun
- a large edge tool that cuts sheet metal by passing a blade through it
- A cutting tool similar to scissors, but often larger.
- (physics) a deformation of an object in which parallel planes remain parallel but are shifted in a direction parallel to themselves
- (aviation, meteorology, countable) A specific instance of wind shear.
- (aviation, meteorology, uncountable) The phenomenon of wind shear.
- (physics) Forces that push in opposite directions.
- The act of shearing, or something removed by shearing.
- (geology) The response of a rock to deformation usually by compressive stress, resulting in particular textures.
- (mathematics) A transformation that displaces every point in a direction parallel to some given line by a distance proportional to the point's distance from the line.
- (metalworking) A large machine use for cutting sheet metal.
verb
- shear the wool from
- become deformed by forces tending to produce a shearing strain
- cut with shears
- cut or cut through with shears
- (Scotland) To reap, as grain.
- (figurative) To deprive of property; to fleece.
- (mining, intransitive) To make a vertical cut in coal.
- (intransitive, transitive) To remove the fleece from (a sheep, llama, etc.) by clipping.
- (physics) To deform because of forces pushing in opposite directions.
- (engineering) (also 'shear off') To break or suddenly separate because of excessive force, eg. a bolt.
- (mathematics) To transform by displacing every point in a direction parallel to some given line by a distance proportional to the point’s distance from the line.
- To cut the hair of (a person).
- (aviation, meteorology, intransitive, of wind) To change in direction or speed.
- To cut, originally with a sword or other bladed weapon, now usually with shears, or as if using shears.
adj
noun
- A blade of a sword, knife, etc.
- Temper; natural disposition; inclination.
- The metric, carat, or pearl grain of ¹⁄₄ carat used for measuring precious stones and pearls, now exactly 50 mg.
- An iron fish spear or harpoon, with a number of points half-barbed inwardly.
- (uncountable) A linear texture of a material or surface.
- (countable, uncountable) The crops from which grain is harvested.
- (photography, videography) Visual texture in processed photographic film due to the presence of small particles of a metallic silver, or dye clouds, developed from silver halide that have received enough photons.
- One of the branches of a valley or river.
- (botany) A rounded prominence on the back of a sepal, as in the common dock.
- (in the plural) The remains of grain, etc., after brewing or distillation; hence, any residuum.
- (historical) The French grain of ¹⁄₉₂₁₆ livre, equivalent to 53.11 mg at metricization and equal to exactly 54.25 mg from 1812–1839 as part of the mesures usuelles.
- (countable) A single particle of a substance.
- (dialectal, anatomy) The fangs of a tooth.
- (materials) A region within a material having a single crystal structure or direction.
- (countable) A single seed of grass food crops.
- (dialectal, anatomy) The groin; crotch.
- A branch of a tree; a stalk or stem of a plant; an offshoot.
- (countable, chiefly historical) Any of various small units of length originally notionally based on a grain's width, variously standardized at different places and times.
- (uncountable) The harvested seeds of various grass food crops eg: wheat, corn, barley.
- The hair side of a piece of leather, or the marking on that side.
- (dialectal) A fork in a river valley or ravine.
- (founding) A thin piece of metal, used in a mould to steady a core.
- (uncountable) Similar seeds from any food crop, e.g., buckwheat, amaranth, quinoa.
- (countable, historical) The carat grain of ¹⁄₄ carat as a measure of gold purity, creating a 96-point scale between 0% and 100% purity.
- An arm of a cross.
- A reddish dye made from the coccus insect, or kermes; hence, a red color of any tint or hue, as crimson, scarlet, etc.; sometimes used by the poets as equivalent to Tyrian purple.
- (dialectal) The branch of a family; clan.
- (astronautics) The solid piece of fuel in an individual solid-fuel rocket engine.
- The English grain of ¹⁄₅₇₆₀ troy pound or ¹⁄₇₀₀₀ pound avoirdupois, now exactly 64.79891 mg.
- (dialectal) A branch or arm of a stream, inlet, or sea.
- the physical composition of something (especially with respect to the size and shape of the small constituents of a substance)
- the direction, texture, or pattern of fibers found in wood or leather or stone or in a woven fabric
- the smallest possible unit of anything
- a cereal grass
- foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses
- a weight unit used for pearls or diamonds: 50 mg or 1/4 carat
- 1/60 dram; equals an avoirdupois grain or 64.799 milligrams
- the side of leather from which the hair has been removed
- dry seed-like fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e.g. wheat, barley, Indian corn
- a relatively small granular particle of a substance
- 1/7000 pound; equals a troy grain or 64.799 milligrams
verb
- (transitive) To make granular; to form into grains.
- (transitive) To feed grain to.
- To texture a surface in imitation of the grain of a substance such as wood.
- (tanning) To soften leather.
- To yield fruit.
- (tanning) To remove the hair or fat from a skin.
- (intransitive) To form grains, or to assume a granular form, as the result of crystallization; to granulate.
- paint (a surface) to make it look like stone or wood
- thoroughly work in
- become granular
- form into grains
noun
- A broad, flat knife.
- A slicing cucumber.
- A piece of software that converts a model into a series of thin layers for 3D printing.
- Someone or something that slices.
- (cooking) A machine that cuts meats, also named a deli slicer.
- (computing) A kind of data filter used in data visualization.
- a machine for cutting; usually with a revolving blade
- knife especially designed for slicing particular foods, as cheese
- a golfer whose shots typically curve right (for right-handed golfers)
noun
- an edge tool with a flat steel blade with a cutting edge
- A part of some ploughs, next to the ploughshare, that helps cut into the soil and deal with obstructions such as rocks, roots, and stems.
- Gravel.
- (usually in the plural) Coarse flour; bran; the coarser part of bran or flour.
- A cutting tool used to remove parts of stone, wood or metal by pushing or pounding the back when the sharp edge is against the material. It consists of a slim, oblong block of metal with a sharp wedge or bevel formed on one end and sometimes a handle at the other end; there are hand tool versions (the original type) and versions as bits for power tools.
- A part of any of various tools or devices that has an analogous purpose, cutting raw material or a workpiece during the process that the tool or device performs.
verb
- engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud
- carve with a chisel
- deprive somebody of something by deceit
- (transitive, figurative) To make small changes to (something), bit by bit, resulting in change over time.
- (ambitransitive, informal) To beg or pressure somebody into giving up (something); to haggle excessively; to cheat; to obtain something from (someone) by cheating.
- (intransitive) To use a chisel.
- (transitive) To work something with a chisel.
noun
noun
- (MLE) Knife.
- A quick movement to evade something.
- (informal, Scotland) A shirtfront; the front of a jumper or T-shirt.
- A bow or curtsey.
- (Korean or Cantonese contexts) Synonym of congee.
- Alternative form of juke (“roadside cafe or bar, esp. with dancing”).
- (MLE) Sexual intercourse.
- a Chinese rice gruel eaten for breakfast
- a small roadside establishment in the southeastern United States where you can eat and drink and dance to music provided by a jukebox
verb
noun
- a large knife with one or more folding blades
- a dive in which the diver bends to touch the ankles before straightening out
- Alternative spelling of jack-knife.
- (statistics) A resampling method that applies estimators to all subsamples that each omit a single different group (possibly of a single datapoint) of the original sample to provide a sample distribution of the estimate.
verb
noun
- A bar for supporting cutting tools.
- A spindle of a wheel.
- An axis or shaft supporting a rotating part on a lathe.
- A shady sitting place or pergola usually in a park or garden, surrounded by climbing shrubs, vines or other vegetation.
- A grove of trees.
- tree (as opposed to shrub)
- a framework that supports climbing plants
- any of various rotating shafts that serve as axes for larger rotating parts
noun
- A tool for chopping.
- A kick on the shins in football of any type.
- A gouge or notch made by such a blow.
- A hacking blow.
- (derogatory) One who is professionally successful despite producing mediocre work. (Usually applied to persons in a creative field.)
- (military, slang) An airplane of poor quality or in poor condition.
- (derogatory, authorship) An untalented writer.
- A dry cough.
- (slang, military) Time check, as for example upon synchronization of wristwatches.
- (colloquial) A trick, shortcut, skill, or novel method to increase productivity, efficiency, or ease.
- A person, often a journalist, hired to do routine work.
- (curling) The foothold traditionally cut into the ice from which the person who throws the rock pushes off for delivery.
- (computing, slang) A video game or any computer software that has been altered from its original state.
- (politics, slightly derogatory) A political agitator.
- (computing, slang) An expedient, temporary solution, such as a small patch or change to code, meant to be replaced with a more elegant solution at a later date; a workaround.
- A horse for hire, especially one which is old and tired.
- A small ball usually made of woven cotton or suede and filled with rice, sand or some other filler, for use in hackeysack.
- A hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough.
- (now chiefly Canada, US, colloquial) A vehicle let for hire; originally, a hackney cab, now typically a taxicab.
- A food-rack for cattle.
- (derogatory) A talented writer-for-hire, paid to put others' thoughts into felicitous language.
- (derogatory) Someone who is available for hire; hireling, mercenary.
- (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) A practical joke that showcases cleverness and creativity.
- (falconry) A board upon which the falcon's food is placed; used by extension for the state of partial freedom in which they are kept before being trained.
- (computing, slang) An interesting technical achievement, particularly in computer programming.
- A hearse.
- (slang) The driver of a taxicab (hackney cab).
- (ice hockey) The act of striking an opponent with one's hockey stick, typically on the leg but occasionally and more seriously on the back, arm, head, etc.
- (baseball) A swing of the bat at a pitched ball by the batter, particularly a choppy, ungraceful one that misses the ball such as at a fastball.
- A grating in a mill race.
- (informal) An improvised device or solution to a problem.
- (uncountable, slang, naval) Confinement of an officer to their stateroom as a punishment.
- (UK, student politics, derogatory) A person who frequently canvasses for votes, either directly or by appearing to continuously act with the ulterior motive of furthering their political career.
- A rack used to dry something, such as bricks, fish, or cheese.
- (figuratively) A try, an attempt.
- (computing, slang) The illegal accessing of a computer network.
- a horse kept for hire
- a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money
- one who works hard at boring tasks
- a tool (as a hoe or pick or mattock) used for breaking up the surface of the soil
- a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends
- a saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc.
- an old or over-worked horse
- a mediocre and disdained writer
intj
verb
- (computing) To accomplish a difficult programming task.
- To use as a hack; to let out for hire.
- To play hackeysack.
- To drive a hackney cab.
- (ice hockey) To make a flailing attempt to hit the puck with a hockey stick.
- (transitive, slang, computing, by extension) To gain unauthorized access to a computer or online account belonging to (a person or organisation).
- (transitive) To strike lightly as part of tapotement massage.
- (falconry) To keep (young hawks) in a state of partial freedom, before they are trained.
- (intransitive, video games) To cheat by using unauthorized modifications.
- (transitive, colloquial, by extension) To apply a trick, shortcut, skill, or novel method to something to increase productivity, efficiency or ease.
- (baseball) To swing at a pitched ball.
- (computing) To make a quick code change to patch a computer program, often one that, while being effective, is inelegant or makes the program harder to maintain.
- (intransitive) To cough noisily.
- (equestrianism) To ride a horse at a regular pace; to ride on a road (as opposed to riding cross-country etc.).
- To withstand or put up with a difficult situation.
- (transitive) To chop or cut down in a rough manner.
- (computing, slang, transitive) To work with something on an intimately technical level.
- To use frequently and indiscriminately, so as to render trite and commonplace.
- To strike in a frantic movement.
- To lay (bricks) on a rack to dry.
- (transitive, slang, computing) To hack into; to gain unauthorized access to (a computer system, e.g., a website, or network) by manipulating code.
- (soccer and rugby) To kick (a player) on the shins.
- (ice hockey) To strike an opponent with one's hockey stick, typically on the leg but occasionally and more seriously on the back, arm, head, etc.
- significantly cut up a manuscript
- cut with a hacking tool
- kick on the shins
- cut away
- be able to manage or manage successfully
- cough spasmodically
- fix a computer program piecemeal until it works
- kick on the arms
noun
- a cutting implement; a tool for cutting
- a boat for communication between ship and shore
- someone who carves the meat
- someone who cuts or carves stone
- someone whose work is cutting (as e.g. cutting cloth for garments)
- a sailing vessel with a single mast set further back than the mast of a sloop
- (television) A flag or similar instrument for blocking light.
- An animal yielding inferior meat, with little or no external fat and marbling.
- (Maine) An active child.
- (cricket) A ball that moves sideways in the air, or off the pitch, because it has been cut.
- (MLE) A knife.
- (informal) A person who practices self-injury by making cuts in the flesh.
- A light sleigh drawn by one horse.
- A foretooth; an incisor.
- A motorized vessel used in law enforcement purpose
- (wrestling) A three-quarters facelock bulldog move in which the attacker drives the opponent's head into the mat while falling onto their back.
- (medicine, colloquial, slang, humorous or derogatory) A surgeon.
- (slang) A ten-pence piece. So named because it is the coin most often sharpened by prison inmates to use as a weapon.
- (nautical) A ship's boat, used for transport ship-to-ship or ship-to-shore.
- (nautical) A single-masted, fore-and-aft rigged, sailing vessel with at least two headsails, and a mast set further aft than that of a sloop.
- (intactivism, derogatory) A supporter of infant circumcision or female genital mutilation; pro-circumcisionist.
- A person or device that cuts (in various senses).
- (baseball) A cut fastball.
noun
- edge tool used as a cutting instrument; has a pointed blade with a sharp edge and a handle
- a weapon with a handle and blade with a sharp point
- any long thin projection that is transient
- Any blade-like part in a tool or a machine designed for cutting, such as that of a chipper.
- A utensil or a tool designed for cutting, consisting of a flat piece of hard material, usually steel or other metal (the blade), usually sharpened on one edge, attached to a handle. The blade may be pointed for piercing.
- A weapon designed with the aforementioned specifications intended for slashing or stabbing but too short to be called a sword; a dagger.
verb
- use a knife on
- (transitive) To positively ignore, especially in order to denigrate; compare cut.
- (transitive) To cut with a knife.
- (transitive) To betray, especially in the context of a political slate.
- (transitive) To use a knife to injure or kill by stabbing, slashing, or otherwise using the sharp edge of the knife as a weapon.
- (intransitive) To cut through as if with a knife.
verb
- use a knife on
- stab or pierce
- poke or thrust abruptly
- (transitive) To thrust in a stabbing motion.
- (transitive) To pierce folded sheets, near their back edges, for the passage of thread or wire.
- (transitive) To pierce or to wound (somebody) with a (usually pointed) tool or weapon, especially a knife or dagger.
- (intransitive) To cause a sharp, painful sensation (often used with at).
- (transitive, figurative) To injure secretly or by malicious falsehood or slander.
- (transitive) To roughen a brick wall with a pick so as to hold plaster.
- (intransitive) To recklessly hit with the tip of a (usually pointed) object, such as a weapon or finger (often used with at).
- (transitive, oil industry) To guide the end of a pipe into a coupling when making up a connection.
noun
- informal words for any attempt or effort
- a strong blow with a knife or other sharp pointed instrument
- a sudden sharp feeling
- A bacterial culture made by inoculating a solid medium, such as gelatin, with the puncture of a needle or wire.
- (industrial relations) Clipping of establishment.
- Criticism.
- (music) A single staccato chord that adds dramatic impact to a composition.
- An act of stabbing or thrusting with an object.
- (aviation, slang) The horizontal or vertical stabilizer of an aircraft.
- (informal) An attempt.
- A wound made by stabbing.
- Pain inflicted on a person's feelings.
adj
verb
- give a fine, sharp edge to a knife or razor
- urge to attack someone
- put or set (seeds, seedlings, or plants) into the ground
- equip with sails or masts
- set in type
- arrange attractively
- alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard
- put into a certain state; cause to be in a certain state
- fix conclusively or authoritatively
- become gelatinous
- disappear beyond the horizon
- set to a certain position or cause to operate correctly
- insert (a nail or screw below the surface, as into a countersink)
- put into a certain place or abstract location
- produce fruit
- make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc
- put into a position that will restore a normal state
- get ready for a particular purpose or event
- locate
- adapt for performance in a different way
- decide upon or fix definitely
- establish as the highest level or best performance
- fix in a border
- apply or start
- estimate
- (transitive, volleyball) To direct (the ball) to a teammate for an attack.
- (transitive) To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle.
- (intransitive, country dancing) To acknowledge a dancing partner by facing him or her and moving first to one side and then to the other, while she or he does the opposite.
- (transitive) To put in a specified condition or state; to cause to be.
- (transitive, bridge) To defeat a contract.
- To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to assign.
- (transitive) To punch (a nail) into wood so that its head is below the surface.
- (transitive) To introduce or describe.
- (transitive) To put (something) down, to rest.
- To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.
- (UK, education) To divide a class group in a subject according to ability
- (intransitive, of fruit) To be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to germinate or form.
- (ambitransitive) To fit music to words.
- To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state.
- (transitive) To compile, to make (a puzzle or challenge).
- (transitive) To arrange (type).
- (ambitransitive) To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant.
- To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare.
- (transitive) To locate (a play, etc.); to assign a backdrop to, geographically or temporally.
- (transitive) To adjust.
- To extend and bring into position; to spread.
- (transitive) To prepare (a stage or film set).
- (transitive) To arrange with dishes and cutlery, to set the table.
- To cause (a domestic fowl) to sit on eggs to brood.
- (intransitive, now dialectal) To sit or lie (easily etc.) on the stomach; to be digested in a certain manner.
- (intransitive) To solidify.
- (transitive) To attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place.
- (transitive) To start (a fire).
- To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote.
- (intransitive, Southern US, Midwestern US, dialects) To rest or lie somewhere, on something, etc.; to occupy a certain place.
- To apply oneself; to undertake earnestly.
- (transitive) To fit (someone) up in a situation.
- (transitive) To determine or settle.
- (transitive) To devise and assign (work) to.
- To have a certain direction of motion; to flow; to move on; to tend.
- (intransitive, Southern US, Midwestern US, dialects) To sit (be in a seated position).
- To hunt game with the aid of a setter.
- (intransitive) Of a heavenly body, to disappear below the horizon of a planet, etc, as the latter rotates.
- To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to variegate with objects placed here and there.
- (masonry) To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure.
- (transitive, botany) To produce after pollination.
- (hunting, ambitransitive) Of a dog, to indicate the position of game.
- To place or fix in a setting.
- (Scotland) To suit; to become.
adj
- determined or decided upon as by an authority
- situated in a particular spot or position
- set down according to a plan
- fixed and unmoving
- converted to solid form (as concrete)
- (usually followed by ‘to’ or ‘for’) on the point of or strongly disposed
- being below the horizon
- Intent, determined (to do something).
- Rigid, solidified.
- Fixed in one’s opinion.
- Fixed in position.
- Ready, prepared.
- (of hair) Fixed in a certain style.
- Prearranged.
noun
- an unofficial association of people or groups
- a group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so used
- several exercises intended to be done in series
- (mathematics) an abstract collection of numbers or symbols
- (psychology) being temporarily ready to respond in a particular way
- a relatively permanent inclination to react in a particular way
- the process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization
- the act of putting something in position
- the descent of a heavenly body below the horizon
- a unit of play in tennis or squash
- any electronic equipment that receives or transmits radio or tv signals
- representation consisting of the scenery and other properties used to identify the location of a dramatic production
- The full number of eggs set under a hen.
- The pattern of a tartan, etc.
- The amount by which the teeth of a saw protrude to the side in order to create the kerf.
- A collection of various objects for a particular purpose.
- (horticulture) A small tuber or bulb used instead of seed, particularly onion sets and potato sets.
- A rudimentary fruit.
- (engineering) A permanent change of shape caused by excessive strain, as from compression, tension, bending, twisting, etc.
- A matching collection of similar things. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 2, Noun.)
- (music) A musical performance by a band, disc jockey, etc., consisting of several musical pieces.
- (volleyball) A complete series of points, forming part of a match.
- (exercise) A group of repetitions of a single exercise performed one after the other without rest.
- A young plant fit for setting out; a slip; shoot.
- A device for receiving broadcast radio waves (or, more recently, broadcast data); a radio or television.
- (tennis) A complete series of games, forming part of a match.
- A group of people, usually meeting socially or connected through some shared interest, activity, attribute, etc.
- A young oyster when first attached.
- The scenery for a film or play.
- (poker, slang) Three of a kind, especially if two cards are in one's hand and the third is on the board. Compare trips (“three of a kind, especially with two cards on the board and one in one's hand”).
- The setting of the sun or other luminary; (by extension) the close of the day.
- (music) A drum kit, a drum set.
- (piledriving) A piece placed temporarily upon the head of a pile when the latter cannot otherwise be reached by the weight, or hammer.
- An object made up of several parts.
- A tool for dressing forged iron.
- A punch for setting nails in wood.
- (volleyball) The act of directing the ball to a teammate for an attack.
- Collectively, the crop of young oysters in any locality.
- (UK, education) A class group in a subject where pupils are divided by ability.
- (literally and figuratively) General movement; direction; drift; tendency.
- Alternative form of sett (“piece of quarried stone”).
- A bias of mind; an attitude or pattern of behaviour.
- Alternative form of sett (“a hole made and lived in by a badger”).
- (dance) The initial or basic formation of dancers.
- (colloquial) The manner, state, or quality of setting or fitting; fit.
- (in plural, “sets”, mathematics, informal) Set theory.
- (set theory) A collection of zero or more objects, possibly infinite in size, and disregarding any order or repetition of the objects which may be contained within it.
- the general locations and area where a movie’s, a film’s, or a video’s scenery is arranged to be filmed also including places for actors, assorted crew, director, producers which are typically not filmed.
- A series or group of something. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 4, Noun)
- The camber of a curved roofing tile.
- Alternative form of sett (“pattern of threads and yarns”).
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adj
- used of a knife or other blade; not sharp
- devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment
- characterized by directness in manner or speech; without subtlety or evasion
- having a broad or rounded end
- Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; opposed to acute.
- Hard to impress or penetrate.
- Having a thick edge or point; not sharp.
- Slow or deficient in feeling: insensitive.
- Abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious; wanting in the forms of civility; rough in manners or speech.
verb
- make dull or blunt
- make less sharp
- make numb or insensitive
- make less intense
- make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation
- To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to make blunt.
- (figuratively) To repress or weaken; to impair the force, keenness, or susceptibility, of