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noun
- camp for training military recruits
- (chiefly Canada, US, colloquial) Initial, basic indoctrination, physical fitness training and basic instruction in service-related subjects for new recruits in the armed forces (army, Air Force, navy and Marine Corps).
- (chiefly Canada, US) A short, intensive, quasi-military program generally aimed at young offenders as an alternative to a jail term.
- (chiefly Canada, US, idiomatic) Any short, often intensive course of training.
verb
- establish or set up a camp
- To set up a camp.
- To live in a tent or similar temporary accommodation.
- give an artificially banal or sexual quality to
- live in or as if in a tent
- (transitive, video games) Ellipsis of corpse camp.
- (transitive, video games) To stay beside (something) to gain an advantage.
- (intransitive, sports, video games) To stay in an advantageous location.
- To behave in a camp manner.
- (transitive) To afford rest or lodging for.
- (Australia, intransitive) Of stock animals, to assemble or rest temporarily at a particular place.
noun
- An outdoor place acting as temporary accommodation in tents or other simple structures.
- a penal institution (often for forced labor)
- temporary lodgings in the country for travelers or vacationers
- shelter for persons displaced by war or political oppression or for religious beliefs
- an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose
- something that is considered amusing not because of its originality but because of its unoriginality
- temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers
- a group of people living together in a camp
- a site where care and activities are provided for children during the summer months
- (Australia) A site where kangaroos and other macropods rest during the day.
- A place of politically motivated confinement in outdoorsy conditions, usually also leading to slave labor and death.
- (British India) Anywhere that a colonist stayed when away from their permanent residence; such places collectively.
- (prison slang) Any prison or prison camp.
- The company or body of persons encamped.
- A single hut or shelter.
- (agriculture, catachresis) Misconstruction of clamp (“mound of earth in which potatoes and other vegetables are stored”).
- (uncommon) Clipping of campus
- (slang, Falkland Islands) The areas of the Falkland Islands situated outside the capital and largest settlement, Stanley.
- A base of a military group, not necessarily temporary.
- (slang, Anglo-Argentines) The pampas, which are the vast grassy areas situated in the rural areas beyond Argentine cities such as Buenos Aires.
- An organised event, often taking place in tents or temporary accommodation.
- A group of people with the same strong ideals or political leanings.
- An electoral constituency of the legislative assembly of the Falkland Islands that comprises all territory more than 3.5 miles from the spire of the Christ Church Cathedral in Stanley.
- An online game, in some cases roleplay, in which people compete against each other, usually in a structure similar to that of a competition show.
- An affected, exaggerated, or intentionally tasteless style.
adj
noun
- the act of encamping and living in tents in a camp
- (often military) A place where people (such as displaced people, soldiers, or travellers) encamp, that is, stay in tents or other temporary structures; a camp or campsite.
- temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers
- a site where people on holiday can pitch a tent
- (by extension) A meeting (especially an annual meeting or important conference) of an outdoorsy group of people, such as military veterans or scouts of the scouting movement.
- (by extension, archaeology) An enclosed or fortified prehistoric site, especially a European Iron Age hill-fort.
- (figurative) A place where people or things stay temporarily.
- (uncountable) The act of encamping or setting up a camp; also, the state of being encamped or in a camp.
noun
- Any temporary encampment.
- An encampment for the night, usually without tents or covering.
- (zoology) A structure formed by migratory ants out of their own bodies to protect the queen and larvae.
- A temporary shelter constructed generally for a few nights.
- temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers
- a site where people on holiday can pitch a tent
verb
noun
- (military, derogatory and demeaning) A new and naive boot camp inductee.
- (intransitive, dialectal) A noise, rattling.
- (US) A stack of wood, especially cut to a regular length; also used as a measure of wood, typically four by eight feet.
- (dialectal) A sharp or sudden move; a jerk or tug.
- Straw, hay etc. stored in a stack for winter fodder, commonly protected with thatch.
- a stack of hay
- a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (‘rick’ and ‘wrick’ are British)
verb
- (transitive, dialectal) To pierce with a hook by means of a sudden jerk or pull.
- To slightly sprain or strain the neck, back, ankle etc; to wrench.
- (intransitive, dialectal) To raffle.
- To heap up (hay, etc.) in ricks.
- (transitive, dialectal) To scold.
- (intransitive, dialectal) To grumble.
- (intransitive, dialectal) To rattle, jingle, make a noise; to chatter.
- twist suddenly so as to sprain
- pile in ricks
noun
- Any temporary dwelling; a hut, tent, or booth.
- (by extension) Any house of worship, especially a Mormon meetinghouse.
- (originally Methodism) A temporary place of worship, especially a tent, for a tent meeting, as with a venue for revival meetings.
- (figuratively) Any abode or dwelling place, or especially the human body as the temporary dwelling place of the soul, or life.
- (Roman Catholicism) A small ornamented cupboard or box used for the reserved sacrament of the Eucharist, normally located in an especially prominent place in a church.
- (nautical) A hinged device allowing for the easy folding of a mast 90 degrees from perpendicular, as for transporting the boat on a trailer, or passing under a bridge.
- (biblical) The portable tent used before the construction of the temple, where the shekinah (presence of God) was believed to dwell.
- Any portable shrine used in heathen or idolatrous worship.
- (by extension) The Jewish Temple at Jerusalem (as continuing the functions of the earlier tabernacle).
- A sukkah, the booth or 'tabernacle' used during the Jewish Feast of Sukkot.
- (Judaism) the place of worship for a Jewish congregation
verb
noun
verb
- (camping, transitive) To set up a recreational vehicle (RV) at a campsite, typically by leveling the RV and connecting it to electric, water, or sewer hookups.
- (transitive) To dig up weeds with a spud.
- (drilling, transitive) To begin drilling an oil well; to drill by moving the drill bit and shaft up and down, or by raising and dropping a bit.
- (roofing, transitive) To remove the roofing aggregate and most of the bituminous top coating by scraping and chipping.
- initiate drilling operations, as for petroleum
- produce buds, branches, or germinate
name
noun
- A tool, similar to a spade, used for digging out weeds etc.
- A barking spud; a long-handled tool for removing bark from logs.
- (informal) A potato.
- A movable post through a sleeve in the hull of a work barge to anchor it to the bottom of a body of water.
- (film, television) A short central rod in a lighting fixture, for attachment to the light.
- A digging fork with three broad prongs.
- (slang, usually in the plural) A testicle.
- (plumbing) A type of short nut (fastener) threaded on both ends.
- (informal) A hole in a sock.
- a sharp hand shovel for digging out roots and weeds
- an edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Ireland
noun
- An area on a campsite intended for occupation by a single tent, caravan or similar.
- (sports, UK, Australia, New Zealand) The field on which cricket, soccer, rugby, gridiron or field hockey is played. (In cricket, the pitch is in the centre of the field; see cricket pitch.) (Not often used in the US or Canada, where "field" is the preferred word.)
- An effort to sell or promote something.
- (geology) Pitchstone.
- The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate of descent or slope; slant.
- The angle at which an object sits.
- (golf) A short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
- A dark, extremely viscous material still remaining after distilling crude oil or natural tar.
- The distance between evenly spaced objects, e.g. the teeth of a saw or gear, the turns of a screw thread, the centres of holes, or letters in a monospace font.
- Prominence; importance.
- The height a bird reaches in flight, especially a bird of prey preparing to swoop down on its prey.
- (nautical, aviation) The degree to which a vehicle, especially a ship or aircraft, rotates on such an axis, tilting its bow or nose up or down.
- (music) In an a cappella group, the singer responsible for singing a note for the other members to tune themselves by.
- (by extension) The place where a busker performs, a prostitute solicits clients, or an illegal gambling game etc. is set up before the public.
- (cricket) That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.
- (mining) The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.
- (climbing) A section of a climb or rock face; specifically, the climbing distance between belays or stances.
- A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand.
- (now British, regional) A person's or animal's height.
- A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.
- (music, phonetics) The perceived frequency of a sound, note or electromagnetic wave.
- A point or peak; the extreme point of elevation or depression.
- (music) The standard to which a group of musical instruments are tuned or in which a piece is performed, usually by reference to the frequency to which the musical note A above middle C is tuned.
- (baseball) The act of pitching a baseball.
- A level or degree, or (by extension), a peak or highest degree.
- A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.
- An area in a market (or similar) allocated to a particular trader.
- (aviation) A measure of the angle of attack of a propeller.
- (caving) A vertical cave passage, only negotiable by using rope or ladders.
- (rare) The field of battle.
- The most thrust-out point of a headland or cape.
- promotion by means of an argument and demonstration
- abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance)
- a sports field with predetermined dimensions for playing soccer
- the property of sound that varies with variation in the frequency of vibration
- a high approach shot in golf
- a vendor's position (especially on the sidewalk)
- any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue
- the act of throwing a baseball or softball by the pitcher towards home plate, which initiates play by giving the batter a chance to hit it
- an all-fours game in which the first card led is a trump
- degree of deviation from a horizontal plane
- the action or manner of throwing something
verb
- (intransitive) To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.
- To cover or smear with pitch.
- (transitive) To set or fix (a price or value).
- (transitive) To fix or set the tone of.
- (brewing) To add yeast as a step while making beer
- (transitive) To assemble or erect (a tent). Also used figuratively.
- (with on or upon) To fix one's choice.
- (intransitive, Bristol, of snow) To settle and build up, without melting.
- (intransitive) To plunge or fall; especially, to fall forward; to decline or slope.
- (transitive) To set at an angle, especially a downwards one; to cause to tilt.
- (intransitive, baseball) To play baseball in the position of pitcher.
- (intransitive, cricket) To bounce on the playing surface.
- (transitive) To set, face, or pave (an embankment or roadway) with rubble or undressed stones.
- (transitive) To throw away; discard.
- (transitive, golf) To play a short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
- To darken; to blacken; to obscure.
- (transitive) To deliver in a certain tone or style, or with a certain audience in mind.
- (transitive or intransitive, baseball) To throw (the ball) toward a batter at home plate.
- (transitive) To promote, advertise, or attempt to sell.
- (intransitive) To produce a note of a given pitch.
- (transitive) To throw.
- (transitive, card games, slang) To discard (a card) for some gain.
- To attack, or position or assemble for attack.
- (ambitransitive, aviation or nautical) To move so that the front of an aircraft or boat goes alternately up and down.
- heel over
- set to a certain pitch
- sell or offer for sale from place to place
- move abruptly
- fall or plunge forward
- throw or hurl from the mound to the batter, as in baseball
- be at an angle
- set the level or character of
- throw or toss with a light motion
- erect and fasten
- lead (a card) and establish the trump suit
- hit (a golf ball) in a high arc with a backspin
adj
noun
- a rough bed (as at a campsite)
- beds built one above the other
- unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements)
- a message that seems to convey no meaning
- a bed on a ship or train; usually in tiers
- a long trough for feeding cattle
- (nautical) A built-in bed on board ship, often erected in tiers one above the other.
- (Singapore, military, by extension) A dormitory or bunkroom where soldiers sleep.
- One of a series of berths or beds placed in tiers.
- (military) A cot.
- (slang) A specimen of a recreational drug with insufficient active ingredient.
- (US, dialect) A piece of wood placed on a lumberman's sled to sustain the end of heavy timbers.
- (US) A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night.
verb
adj
adj
noun
- A person who camps, especially in a tent etc.
- (video games, derogatory) A person who stays in one spot during a first-person shooting game, to guard an item etc.
- A motor vehicle with a rear compartment for living and sleeping in.
- a recreational vehicle equipped for camping out while traveling
- someone living temporarily in a tent or lodge for recreation
noun
- a place where hoboes camp
- a location marked by an intense competition and struggle for survival
- an impenetrable equatorial forest
- A large, undeveloped, humid forest, especially in a tropical region, that is home to many wild plants and animals; a tropical rainforest.
- (South Asia) Any uncultivated tract of forest or scrub habitat.
- (vulgar slang) A dense mass of pubic hair.
- (music, uncountable) A style of electronic dance music and precursor of drum and bass.
- (figurative) A tangled mess.
- (colloquial) A place where people behave ruthlessly, unconstrained by law or morality.
- (slang) An area where hobos camp together.
- (golf slang) Dense rough.
adj
noun
- (by extension) A camp of troops employing such an enclosure.
- (by extension) An improvised stockade, particularly those similarly located and constructed.
- (by extension) Any wild and barbed barrier, evocative of a briar or thorn patch.
- (historical) A fence of the type once commonly improvised in northeastern Africa from thornbushes.
verb
verb
noun
noun
- a camper equipped with living quarters
- a procession (of wagons or mules or camels) traveling together in single file
- (Australia, British, New Zealand, South Africa) A furnished vehicle towed behind a car, etc., and used as a dwelling when stationary.
- (collective) A group of camels.
- A convoy or procession of travellers, their cargo and vehicles, and any pack animals, especially camels crossing a desert.
verb
noun
- a camper equipped with living quarters
- any creative group active in the innovation and application of new concepts and techniques in a given field (especially in the arts)
- the leading units moving at the head of an army
- (Great Britain) a closed railroad car that carries baggage or freight
- a truck with an enclosed cargo space
- (aerospace) A large towable vehicle equipped for the repair of structures that cannot easily be moved.
- (mining) A shovel used in cleansing ore.
- (British) An enclosed railway vehicle for transport of goods, such as a boxcar/box van.
- Clipping of vanguard.
- A wing with which the air is beaten.
- A fan or other contrivance, such as a sieve, for winnowing grain.
- A covered motor vehicle used to carry goods or (normally less than ten) persons, usually roughly cuboid in shape, Depending on the type of van, it can be bigger or smaller than a pickup truck and SUV, and longer and higher than a car but relatively smaller than a truck/lorry or a bus.
verb
noun
- camp for training military recruits
- (chiefly Canada, US, colloquial) Initial, basic indoctrination, physical fitness training and basic instruction in service-related subjects for new recruits in the armed forces (army, Air Force, navy and Marine Corps).
- (chiefly Canada, US) A short, intensive, quasi-military program generally aimed at young offenders as an alternative to a jail term.
- (chiefly Canada, US, idiomatic) Any short, often intensive course of training.
noun
- the act of encamping and living in tents in a camp
- (often military) A place where people (such as displaced people, soldiers, or travellers) encamp, that is, stay in tents or other temporary structures; a camp or campsite.
- temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers
- a site where people on holiday can pitch a tent
- (by extension) A meeting (especially an annual meeting or important conference) of an outdoorsy group of people, such as military veterans or scouts of the scouting movement.
- (by extension, archaeology) An enclosed or fortified prehistoric site, especially a European Iron Age hill-fort.
- (figurative) A place where people or things stay temporarily.
- (uncountable) The act of encamping or setting up a camp; also, the state of being encamped or in a camp.
noun
- Any temporary encampment.
- An encampment for the night, usually without tents or covering.
- (zoology) A structure formed by migratory ants out of their own bodies to protect the queen and larvae.
- A temporary shelter constructed generally for a few nights.
- temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers
- a site where people on holiday can pitch a tent
verb
noun
- (military, derogatory and demeaning) A new and naive boot camp inductee.
- (intransitive, dialectal) A noise, rattling.
- (US) A stack of wood, especially cut to a regular length; also used as a measure of wood, typically four by eight feet.
- (dialectal) A sharp or sudden move; a jerk or tug.
- Straw, hay etc. stored in a stack for winter fodder, commonly protected with thatch.
- a stack of hay
- a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (‘rick’ and ‘wrick’ are British)
verb
- (transitive, dialectal) To pierce with a hook by means of a sudden jerk or pull.
- To slightly sprain or strain the neck, back, ankle etc; to wrench.
- (intransitive, dialectal) To raffle.
- To heap up (hay, etc.) in ricks.
- (transitive, dialectal) To scold.
- (intransitive, dialectal) To grumble.
- (intransitive, dialectal) To rattle, jingle, make a noise; to chatter.
- twist suddenly so as to sprain
- pile in ricks
noun
- Any temporary dwelling; a hut, tent, or booth.
- (by extension) Any house of worship, especially a Mormon meetinghouse.
- (originally Methodism) A temporary place of worship, especially a tent, for a tent meeting, as with a venue for revival meetings.
- (figuratively) Any abode or dwelling place, or especially the human body as the temporary dwelling place of the soul, or life.
- (Roman Catholicism) A small ornamented cupboard or box used for the reserved sacrament of the Eucharist, normally located in an especially prominent place in a church.
- (nautical) A hinged device allowing for the easy folding of a mast 90 degrees from perpendicular, as for transporting the boat on a trailer, or passing under a bridge.
- (biblical) The portable tent used before the construction of the temple, where the shekinah (presence of God) was believed to dwell.
- Any portable shrine used in heathen or idolatrous worship.
- (by extension) The Jewish Temple at Jerusalem (as continuing the functions of the earlier tabernacle).
- A sukkah, the booth or 'tabernacle' used during the Jewish Feast of Sukkot.
- (Judaism) the place of worship for a Jewish congregation
verb
noun
noun
- An area on a campsite intended for occupation by a single tent, caravan or similar.
- (sports, UK, Australia, New Zealand) The field on which cricket, soccer, rugby, gridiron or field hockey is played. (In cricket, the pitch is in the centre of the field; see cricket pitch.) (Not often used in the US or Canada, where "field" is the preferred word.)
- An effort to sell or promote something.
- (geology) Pitchstone.
- The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate of descent or slope; slant.
- The angle at which an object sits.
- (golf) A short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
- A dark, extremely viscous material still remaining after distilling crude oil or natural tar.
- The distance between evenly spaced objects, e.g. the teeth of a saw or gear, the turns of a screw thread, the centres of holes, or letters in a monospace font.
- Prominence; importance.
- The height a bird reaches in flight, especially a bird of prey preparing to swoop down on its prey.
- (nautical, aviation) The degree to which a vehicle, especially a ship or aircraft, rotates on such an axis, tilting its bow or nose up or down.
- (music) In an a cappella group, the singer responsible for singing a note for the other members to tune themselves by.
- (by extension) The place where a busker performs, a prostitute solicits clients, or an illegal gambling game etc. is set up before the public.
- (cricket) That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.
- (mining) The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.
- (climbing) A section of a climb or rock face; specifically, the climbing distance between belays or stances.
- A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand.
- (now British, regional) A person's or animal's height.
- A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.
- (music, phonetics) The perceived frequency of a sound, note or electromagnetic wave.
- A point or peak; the extreme point of elevation or depression.
- (music) The standard to which a group of musical instruments are tuned or in which a piece is performed, usually by reference to the frequency to which the musical note A above middle C is tuned.
- (baseball) The act of pitching a baseball.
- A level or degree, or (by extension), a peak or highest degree.
- A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.
- An area in a market (or similar) allocated to a particular trader.
- (aviation) A measure of the angle of attack of a propeller.
- (caving) A vertical cave passage, only negotiable by using rope or ladders.
- (rare) The field of battle.
- The most thrust-out point of a headland or cape.
- promotion by means of an argument and demonstration
- abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance)
- a sports field with predetermined dimensions for playing soccer
- the property of sound that varies with variation in the frequency of vibration
- a high approach shot in golf
- a vendor's position (especially on the sidewalk)
- any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue
- the act of throwing a baseball or softball by the pitcher towards home plate, which initiates play by giving the batter a chance to hit it
- an all-fours game in which the first card led is a trump
- degree of deviation from a horizontal plane
- the action or manner of throwing something
verb
- (intransitive) To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.
- To cover or smear with pitch.
- (transitive) To set or fix (a price or value).
- (transitive) To fix or set the tone of.
- (brewing) To add yeast as a step while making beer
- (transitive) To assemble or erect (a tent). Also used figuratively.
- (with on or upon) To fix one's choice.
- (intransitive, Bristol, of snow) To settle and build up, without melting.
- (intransitive) To plunge or fall; especially, to fall forward; to decline or slope.
- (transitive) To set at an angle, especially a downwards one; to cause to tilt.
- (intransitive, baseball) To play baseball in the position of pitcher.
- (intransitive, cricket) To bounce on the playing surface.
- (transitive) To set, face, or pave (an embankment or roadway) with rubble or undressed stones.
- (transitive) To throw away; discard.
- (transitive, golf) To play a short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
- To darken; to blacken; to obscure.
- (transitive) To deliver in a certain tone or style, or with a certain audience in mind.
- (transitive or intransitive, baseball) To throw (the ball) toward a batter at home plate.
- (transitive) To promote, advertise, or attempt to sell.
- (intransitive) To produce a note of a given pitch.
- (transitive) To throw.
- (transitive, card games, slang) To discard (a card) for some gain.
- To attack, or position or assemble for attack.
- (ambitransitive, aviation or nautical) To move so that the front of an aircraft or boat goes alternately up and down.
- heel over
- set to a certain pitch
- sell or offer for sale from place to place
- move abruptly
- fall or plunge forward
- throw or hurl from the mound to the batter, as in baseball
- be at an angle
- set the level or character of
- throw or toss with a light motion
- erect and fasten
- lead (a card) and establish the trump suit
- hit (a golf ball) in a high arc with a backspin
adj
noun
- a rough bed (as at a campsite)
- beds built one above the other
- unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements)
- a message that seems to convey no meaning
- a bed on a ship or train; usually in tiers
- a long trough for feeding cattle
- (nautical) A built-in bed on board ship, often erected in tiers one above the other.
- (Singapore, military, by extension) A dormitory or bunkroom where soldiers sleep.
- One of a series of berths or beds placed in tiers.
- (military) A cot.
- (slang) A specimen of a recreational drug with insufficient active ingredient.
- (US, dialect) A piece of wood placed on a lumberman's sled to sustain the end of heavy timbers.
- (US) A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night.
verb
adj
noun
- a place where hoboes camp
- a location marked by an intense competition and struggle for survival
- an impenetrable equatorial forest
- A large, undeveloped, humid forest, especially in a tropical region, that is home to many wild plants and animals; a tropical rainforest.
- (South Asia) Any uncultivated tract of forest or scrub habitat.
- (vulgar slang) A dense mass of pubic hair.
- (music, uncountable) A style of electronic dance music and precursor of drum and bass.
- (figurative) A tangled mess.
- (colloquial) A place where people behave ruthlessly, unconstrained by law or morality.
- (slang) An area where hobos camp together.
- (golf slang) Dense rough.
adj
verb
- establish or set up a camp
- To set up a camp.
- To live in a tent or similar temporary accommodation.
- give an artificially banal or sexual quality to
- live in or as if in a tent
- (transitive, video games) Ellipsis of corpse camp.
- (transitive, video games) To stay beside (something) to gain an advantage.
- (intransitive, sports, video games) To stay in an advantageous location.
- To behave in a camp manner.
- (transitive) To afford rest or lodging for.
- (Australia, intransitive) Of stock animals, to assemble or rest temporarily at a particular place.
noun
- An outdoor place acting as temporary accommodation in tents or other simple structures.
- a penal institution (often for forced labor)
- temporary lodgings in the country for travelers or vacationers
- shelter for persons displaced by war or political oppression or for religious beliefs
- an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose
- something that is considered amusing not because of its originality but because of its unoriginality
- temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers
- a group of people living together in a camp
- a site where care and activities are provided for children during the summer months
- (Australia) A site where kangaroos and other macropods rest during the day.
- A place of politically motivated confinement in outdoorsy conditions, usually also leading to slave labor and death.
- (British India) Anywhere that a colonist stayed when away from their permanent residence; such places collectively.
- (prison slang) Any prison or prison camp.
- The company or body of persons encamped.
- A single hut or shelter.
- (agriculture, catachresis) Misconstruction of clamp (“mound of earth in which potatoes and other vegetables are stored”).
- (uncommon) Clipping of campus
- (slang, Falkland Islands) The areas of the Falkland Islands situated outside the capital and largest settlement, Stanley.
- A base of a military group, not necessarily temporary.
- (slang, Anglo-Argentines) The pampas, which are the vast grassy areas situated in the rural areas beyond Argentine cities such as Buenos Aires.
- An organised event, often taking place in tents or temporary accommodation.
- A group of people with the same strong ideals or political leanings.
- An electoral constituency of the legislative assembly of the Falkland Islands that comprises all territory more than 3.5 miles from the spire of the Christ Church Cathedral in Stanley.
- An online game, in some cases roleplay, in which people compete against each other, usually in a structure similar to that of a competition show.
- An affected, exaggerated, or intentionally tasteless style.
adj
noun
- (by extension) A camp of troops employing such an enclosure.
- (by extension) An improvised stockade, particularly those similarly located and constructed.
- (by extension) Any wild and barbed barrier, evocative of a briar or thorn patch.
- (historical) A fence of the type once commonly improvised in northeastern Africa from thornbushes.
verb
noun
- a camper equipped with living quarters
- a procession (of wagons or mules or camels) traveling together in single file
- (Australia, British, New Zealand, South Africa) A furnished vehicle towed behind a car, etc., and used as a dwelling when stationary.
- (collective) A group of camels.
- A convoy or procession of travellers, their cargo and vehicles, and any pack animals, especially camels crossing a desert.
verb
noun
- a camper equipped with living quarters
- any creative group active in the innovation and application of new concepts and techniques in a given field (especially in the arts)
- the leading units moving at the head of an army
- (Great Britain) a closed railroad car that carries baggage or freight
- a truck with an enclosed cargo space
- (aerospace) A large towable vehicle equipped for the repair of structures that cannot easily be moved.
- (mining) A shovel used in cleansing ore.
- (British) An enclosed railway vehicle for transport of goods, such as a boxcar/box van.
- Clipping of vanguard.
- A wing with which the air is beaten.
- A fan or other contrivance, such as a sieve, for winnowing grain.
- A covered motor vehicle used to carry goods or (normally less than ten) persons, usually roughly cuboid in shape, Depending on the type of van, it can be bigger or smaller than a pickup truck and SUV, and longer and higher than a car but relatively smaller than a truck/lorry or a bus.
verb
adj
noun
- A person who camps, especially in a tent etc.
- (video games, derogatory) A person who stays in one spot during a first-person shooting game, to guard an item etc.
- A motor vehicle with a rear compartment for living and sleeping in.
- a recreational vehicle equipped for camping out while traveling
- someone living temporarily in a tent or lodge for recreation
verb
- establish or set up a camp
- To set up a camp.
- To live in a tent or similar temporary accommodation.
- give an artificially banal or sexual quality to
- live in or as if in a tent
- (transitive, video games) Ellipsis of corpse camp.
- (transitive, video games) To stay beside (something) to gain an advantage.
- (intransitive, sports, video games) To stay in an advantageous location.
- To behave in a camp manner.
- (transitive) To afford rest or lodging for.
- (Australia, intransitive) Of stock animals, to assemble or rest temporarily at a particular place.
noun
- An outdoor place acting as temporary accommodation in tents or other simple structures.
- a penal institution (often for forced labor)
- temporary lodgings in the country for travelers or vacationers
- shelter for persons displaced by war or political oppression or for religious beliefs
- an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose
- something that is considered amusing not because of its originality but because of its unoriginality
- temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers
- a group of people living together in a camp
- a site where care and activities are provided for children during the summer months
- (Australia) A site where kangaroos and other macropods rest during the day.
- A place of politically motivated confinement in outdoorsy conditions, usually also leading to slave labor and death.
- (British India) Anywhere that a colonist stayed when away from their permanent residence; such places collectively.
- (prison slang) Any prison or prison camp.
- The company or body of persons encamped.
- A single hut or shelter.
- (agriculture, catachresis) Misconstruction of clamp (“mound of earth in which potatoes and other vegetables are stored”).
- (uncommon) Clipping of campus
- (slang, Falkland Islands) The areas of the Falkland Islands situated outside the capital and largest settlement, Stanley.
- A base of a military group, not necessarily temporary.
- (slang, Anglo-Argentines) The pampas, which are the vast grassy areas situated in the rural areas beyond Argentine cities such as Buenos Aires.
- An organised event, often taking place in tents or temporary accommodation.
- A group of people with the same strong ideals or political leanings.
- An electoral constituency of the legislative assembly of the Falkland Islands that comprises all territory more than 3.5 miles from the spire of the Christ Church Cathedral in Stanley.
- An online game, in some cases roleplay, in which people compete against each other, usually in a structure similar to that of a competition show.
- An affected, exaggerated, or intentionally tasteless style.
adj
noun
- Any temporary encampment.
- An encampment for the night, usually without tents or covering.
- (zoology) A structure formed by migratory ants out of their own bodies to protect the queen and larvae.
- A temporary shelter constructed generally for a few nights.
- temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers
- a site where people on holiday can pitch a tent
verb
verb
- (camping, transitive) To set up a recreational vehicle (RV) at a campsite, typically by leveling the RV and connecting it to electric, water, or sewer hookups.
- (transitive) To dig up weeds with a spud.
- (drilling, transitive) To begin drilling an oil well; to drill by moving the drill bit and shaft up and down, or by raising and dropping a bit.
- (roofing, transitive) To remove the roofing aggregate and most of the bituminous top coating by scraping and chipping.
- initiate drilling operations, as for petroleum
- produce buds, branches, or germinate
name
noun
- A tool, similar to a spade, used for digging out weeds etc.
- A barking spud; a long-handled tool for removing bark from logs.
- (informal) A potato.
- A movable post through a sleeve in the hull of a work barge to anchor it to the bottom of a body of water.
- (film, television) A short central rod in a lighting fixture, for attachment to the light.
- A digging fork with three broad prongs.
- (slang, usually in the plural) A testicle.
- (plumbing) A type of short nut (fastener) threaded on both ends.
- (informal) A hole in a sock.
- a sharp hand shovel for digging out roots and weeds
- an edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Ireland
verb
noun
noun
- An area on a campsite intended for occupation by a single tent, caravan or similar.
- (sports, UK, Australia, New Zealand) The field on which cricket, soccer, rugby, gridiron or field hockey is played. (In cricket, the pitch is in the centre of the field; see cricket pitch.) (Not often used in the US or Canada, where "field" is the preferred word.)
- An effort to sell or promote something.
- (geology) Pitchstone.
- The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate of descent or slope; slant.
- The angle at which an object sits.
- (golf) A short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
- A dark, extremely viscous material still remaining after distilling crude oil or natural tar.
- The distance between evenly spaced objects, e.g. the teeth of a saw or gear, the turns of a screw thread, the centres of holes, or letters in a monospace font.
- Prominence; importance.
- The height a bird reaches in flight, especially a bird of prey preparing to swoop down on its prey.
- (nautical, aviation) The degree to which a vehicle, especially a ship or aircraft, rotates on such an axis, tilting its bow or nose up or down.
- (music) In an a cappella group, the singer responsible for singing a note for the other members to tune themselves by.
- (by extension) The place where a busker performs, a prostitute solicits clients, or an illegal gambling game etc. is set up before the public.
- (cricket) That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.
- (mining) The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.
- (climbing) A section of a climb or rock face; specifically, the climbing distance between belays or stances.
- A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand.
- (now British, regional) A person's or animal's height.
- A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.
- (music, phonetics) The perceived frequency of a sound, note or electromagnetic wave.
- A point or peak; the extreme point of elevation or depression.
- (music) The standard to which a group of musical instruments are tuned or in which a piece is performed, usually by reference to the frequency to which the musical note A above middle C is tuned.
- (baseball) The act of pitching a baseball.
- A level or degree, or (by extension), a peak or highest degree.
- A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.
- An area in a market (or similar) allocated to a particular trader.
- (aviation) A measure of the angle of attack of a propeller.
- (caving) A vertical cave passage, only negotiable by using rope or ladders.
- (rare) The field of battle.
- The most thrust-out point of a headland or cape.
- promotion by means of an argument and demonstration
- abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance)
- a sports field with predetermined dimensions for playing soccer
- the property of sound that varies with variation in the frequency of vibration
- a high approach shot in golf
- a vendor's position (especially on the sidewalk)
- any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue
- the act of throwing a baseball or softball by the pitcher towards home plate, which initiates play by giving the batter a chance to hit it
- an all-fours game in which the first card led is a trump
- degree of deviation from a horizontal plane
- the action or manner of throwing something
verb
- (intransitive) To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.
- To cover or smear with pitch.
- (transitive) To set or fix (a price or value).
- (transitive) To fix or set the tone of.
- (brewing) To add yeast as a step while making beer
- (transitive) To assemble or erect (a tent). Also used figuratively.
- (with on or upon) To fix one's choice.
- (intransitive, Bristol, of snow) To settle and build up, without melting.
- (intransitive) To plunge or fall; especially, to fall forward; to decline or slope.
- (transitive) To set at an angle, especially a downwards one; to cause to tilt.
- (intransitive, baseball) To play baseball in the position of pitcher.
- (intransitive, cricket) To bounce on the playing surface.
- (transitive) To set, face, or pave (an embankment or roadway) with rubble or undressed stones.
- (transitive) To throw away; discard.
- (transitive, golf) To play a short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
- To darken; to blacken; to obscure.
- (transitive) To deliver in a certain tone or style, or with a certain audience in mind.
- (transitive or intransitive, baseball) To throw (the ball) toward a batter at home plate.
- (transitive) To promote, advertise, or attempt to sell.
- (intransitive) To produce a note of a given pitch.
- (transitive) To throw.
- (transitive, card games, slang) To discard (a card) for some gain.
- To attack, or position or assemble for attack.
- (ambitransitive, aviation or nautical) To move so that the front of an aircraft or boat goes alternately up and down.
- heel over
- set to a certain pitch
- sell or offer for sale from place to place
- move abruptly
- fall or plunge forward
- throw or hurl from the mound to the batter, as in baseball
- be at an angle
- set the level or character of
- throw or toss with a light motion
- erect and fasten
- lead (a card) and establish the trump suit
- hit (a golf ball) in a high arc with a backspin
adj
adj
noun
- A person who camps, especially in a tent etc.
- (video games, derogatory) A person who stays in one spot during a first-person shooting game, to guard an item etc.
- A motor vehicle with a rear compartment for living and sleeping in.
- a recreational vehicle equipped for camping out while traveling
- someone living temporarily in a tent or lodge for recreation