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adj
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- a brisk and lively tempo
- a musical composition or musical passage to be performed quickly in a brisk lively manner
- (music, more traditionally) An expressive mark indicating that a passage is to be played in a lively or happy manner, not necessarily quickly.
- (music) A tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played in a quick, lively tempo, faster than allegretto but slower than presto.
- (music) A passage having this mark.
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- (transitive) To reduce the velocity, speed, or tempo of something.
- (intransitive) To decelerate.
- (transitive, intransitive, figuratively) To become less intense, enthusiastic, etc., usually with a positive connotation, implying that one is stripped of exaggerated or unnecessary eagerness.
- cause to proceed more slowly
- become slow or slower
- reduce the speed of
- lose velocity; move more slowly
- become less tense, rest, or take one's ease
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- (informal) Rate of motion; speed.
- (slang) Clipping of battery.
- (UK, Scotland, dialect) Manner; rate; condition; state of health.
- (Caribbean, MLE) Clipping of batty (“buttocks or anus”).
- A club made of wood or aluminium used for striking the ball in sports such as baseball, softball and cricket.
- (UK, Scotland, dialect) A stroke of work.
- Any flying mammal of the order Chiroptera, usually small and nocturnal, insectivorous or frugivorous.
- A sheet of cotton used for filling quilts or comfortables; batting.
- A turn at hitting the ball with a bat in a game.
- (mining) Shale or bituminous shale.
- A part of a brick with one whole end.
- (two-up) The piece of wood on which the spinner places the coins and then uses for throwing them.
- A club, made of wood like a baseball bat or otherwise, used as a weapon
- (derogatory) An old woman.
- A stroke; a sharp blow.
- (Kent, Sussex) A rough walking stick.
- A player rated according to skill in batting.
- nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate
- the club used in playing cricket
- a small racket with a long handle used for playing squash
- a club used for hitting a ball in various games
- (baseball) a turn trying to get a hit
verb
- (transitive) To flutter
- (intransitive) To take a turn at hitting a ball with a bat in sports like cricket, baseball and softball, as opposed to fielding.
- (intransitive) To strike or swipe as though with a bat.
- (intransitive, usually with ‘around’ or ‘about’) To flit quickly from place to place.
- (US, UK, dialect) To wink.
- (transitive) To hit with a bat or (figuratively) as if with a bat.
- strike with, or as if with a baseball bat
- have a turn at bat
- wink briefly
- use a bat
- beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight
verb
- (transitive) To measure the speed of.
- (ambitransitive, chiefly African-American Vernacular and LGBTQ slang) To expose or attack someone, typically in a targeted and insulting manner.
- (transitive, informal, with as) To recognize; to assess, register.
- (British, slang) To falsify the reading of the odometer of a vehicle.
- (transitive, informal) To identify (someone) as having some attribute (for example, being trans or gay).
- (transitive, slang) To hit (someone) heavily.
- (transitive, British, New Zealand, Australia, slang) To beat a video game.
- (transitive) To ornament (e.g. the side of a stocking) with figured work.
- (transitive, informal) To notice; to take notice of (someone or something).
- (transitive) To measure the duration of.
- measure the time or duration of an event or action or the person who performs an action in a certain period of time
noun
- (British) The odometer of a motor vehicle.
- (slang) A face; the head.
- A large beetle, especially the European dung beetle (Geotrupes stercorarius).
- (uncountable) A luck-based patience or solitaire card game with the cards laid out to represent the face of a clock.
- The seed head of a dandelion.
- A time clock.
- (computing, informal) A CPU clock cycle, or T-state.
- (attributive) A common noun relating to an instrument that measures or keeps track of time.
- A chronometer, an instrument that measures time, particularly the time of day.
- A pattern near the heel of a sock or stocking.
- (electronics) An electrical signal that synchronizes timing among digital circuits of semiconductor chips or modules.
- a timepiece that shows the time of day
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verb
- (transitive) To cause to speed up.
- (ambitransitive, US, prison slang, of a male prisoner) Synonym of gun down (“to masturbate while making sustained eye contact with someone — typically a female prison officer — as a form of intimidation”).
- Nonstandard spelling of going to.
- To seek to attack someone; to take aim at someone; used with for.
- (informal) (gunning for something or gunning to do something) make a great effort.
- To practice fowling or hunting small game; chiefly in participial form: to go gunning.
- (informal) To offer vigorous support to (a person or cause).
- shoot with a gun
noun
- A very portable, short firearm, for hand use, which fires bullets or projectiles, such as a handgun, revolver, pistol, or Derringer.
- (colloquial, metonymic) A person who carries or uses a gun (rifle, shotgun or handgun), particularly with reference to how quickly the person can draw and fire the gun.
- A device for shooting projectiles or ditto (a shooter), functioning through stored energy: a firearm, cannon, harpoon gun/spear gun, raygun, etc, not a bow and arrow, or slingshot.
- A device or tool that projects a substance.
- (surfing) A long surfboard designed for surfing big waves (not the same as a longboard, a gun has a pointed nose and is generally a little narrower).
- (television) An electron gun.
- A device or tool that applies something rather than projecting it.
- (figurative) A firearm or cannon used for saluting or signalling.^(21-gun salute)
- (military) A cannon with a 6-inch/155mm minimum nominal bore diameter and tube length 30 calibers or more.
- Any implement designed to fire a projectile from a tube.
- (cellular automata) A pattern that "fires" out other patterns.
- (military) A cannon with relatively long barrel, operating with relatively low angle of fire, and having a high muzzle velocity.
- (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Someone excellent, surpassingly wonderful, skilful, or cool.
- A less portable, long firearm that fires bullets or projectiles; a rifle, either manual, automatic or semi-automatic; a flintlock, musket or shotgun.
- (nautical, in the plural) Violent blasts of wind.
- (colloquial, usually in the plural) The biceps.
- the discharge of a firearm as signal or as a salute in military ceremonies
- a person who shoots a gun (as regards their ability)
- a weapon that discharges a missile at high velocity (especially from a metal tube or barrel)
- a pedal that controls the throttle valve
- a professional killer who uses a gun
- large but transportable armament
- a hand-operated pump that resembles a pistol; forces grease into parts of a machine
verb
adj
- at a slow tempo
- Taking a long time to move or go a short distance, or to perform an action; not quick in motion; proceeding at a low speed.
- Not happening in a short time; spread over a comparatively long time.
- (informal, somewhat derogatory) Of reduced intellectual capacity; not quick to comprehend.
- (of a period of time) Not busy; lacking activity.
- Not hasty; not tending to hurry; acting with deliberation or caution.
- Lacking spirit; deficient in liveliness or briskness.
- (of a clock or the like) Behind in time; indicating a time earlier than the true time.
- slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity
- (used of timepieces) indicating a time earlier than the correct time
- so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness
- (of business) not active or brisk
- not moving quickly; taking a comparatively long time
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- Abbreviation of acceleration (in feet per second).
- Abbreviation of atmosphere.
- Abbreviation of axis.
- Abbreviation of accommodation.
- Abbreviation of age.
- Abbreviation of aunt.
- Abbreviation of argent.
- Abbreviation of area.
- Abbreviation of altitude; altitude intercept.
- Abbreviation of act; acting.
- Abbreviation of abbreviation.
- Abbreviation of aviation; aviator.
- Abbreviation of annealing.
- Abbreviation of afternoon.
- Abbreviation of audit; auditor.
- Abbreviation of adjutant.
- Abbreviation of adult.
- Abbreviation of account.
- Abbreviation of answer.
- Abbreviation of attendance.
- Abbreviation of alto.
- Abbreviation of arc.
- Abbreviation of anthracite.
- Abbreviation of anode.
- Abbreviation of assist; assists.
- Abbreviation of adjective.
- Abbreviation of activity.
- Abbreviation of amateur.
- Abbreviation of are or ares.
- Abbreviation of ampere.
- Abbreviation of acre; acres; acreage.
- Abbreviation of acronym.
- Abbreviation of apprentice.
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- Abbreviation of artery; arterial blood.
- (linguistics, by extension) Abbreviation of transitive.
- Abbreviation of acting.
- Abbreviation of argent.
- Abbreviation of accidental.
- Abbreviation of absent.
- Abbreviation of abundant.
- Abbreviation of ante (“before”).
- Abbreviation of anterior.
- Abbreviation of annus (“a year”).
- Abbreviation of aerial.
- Abbreviation of accepted.
- Abbreviation of alto.
- Abbreviation of anonymous.
- Abbreviation of aqua.
- Abbreviation of available.
- Abbreviation of active.
- Abbreviation of amateur.
- Abbreviation of automatic.
- Abbreviation of absolute.
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- (uncountable) Tempo; a measured rate of movement.
- (uncountable, slang) The serving of a prison sentence.
- (uncountable) The feeling of the passage of events and their relative duration, as experienced by an individual.
- (countable) A numerical indication of a particular moment.
- (uncountable with possessive) A person's youth or young adulthood, as opposed to the present day.
- (countable) An experience.
- (only in singular, sports and figuratively) Time out; temporary, limited suspension of play.
- (uncountable) A quantity of availability of duration.
- (UK, in public houses) Closing time.
- (countable) A measurement of a quantity of time; a numerical or general indication of a length of progression.
- (uncountable) The duration of time of a given day that has passed; the moment, as indicated by a clock or similar device.
- (uncountable) Rhythmical division, meter.
- (physics, uncountable, reductionist definition) The property of a system which allows it to have more than one distinct configuration.
- (countable) The measurement under some system of region of day or moment.
- (physics, usually uncountable) A dimension of spacetime with the opposite metric signature to space dimensions; the fourth dimension.
- (music, uncountable) The measured duration of sounds.
- (countable) An instance or occurrence.
- (jazz) (uncountable) A straight rhythmic pattern, free from fills, breaks and other embellishments.
- (countable) A particular moment or hour; the appropriate moment or hour for something (especially with prepositional phrase or imperfect subjunctive).
- (countable) An era; (articulated, sometimes in the plural) the current era, the current state of affairs.
- (slang, MLE) Clipping of a long time.
- (countable) A ratio of comparison (see also usage notes and prepositional sense at 'times').
- (with possessives) The end of someone’s life, conceived by the speaker as having been predestined.
- (uncountable) The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present and past events.
- (physics, uncountable) Change associated with the second law of thermodynamics; the physical and psychological result of increasing entropy.
- The hour of childbirth.
- the fourth coordinate that is required (along with three spatial dimensions) to specify a physical event
- a suitable moment
- an instance or single occasion for some event
- an indefinite period (usually marked by specific attributes or activities)
- rhythm as given by division into parts of equal duration
- a person's experience on a particular occasion
- the period of time a prisoner is imprisoned
- a period of time considered as a resource under your control and sufficient to accomplish something
- a reading of a point in time as given by a clock
- the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past
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- To regulate as to time; to accompany, or agree with, in time of movement.
- (transitive) To measure or record the time, duration, or rate of something.
- (transitive) To choose when something commences or its duration.
- To measure, as in music or harmony.
- assign a time for an activity or event
- set the speed, duration, or execution of
- regulate or set the time of
- measure the time or duration of an event or action or the person who performs an action in a certain period of time
- adjust so that a force is applied and an action occurs at the desired time
noun
- (by extension) Movement at a slow pace.
- (cinematography) A technique of film, photography, and video in which time is stretched in order to allow the visibility of things normally happening too fast to be conveniently examined.
- a movie that apparently takes place at a slower than normal speed; achieved by taking the film at a faster rate
verb
- (transitive) To move at (a speed).
- To enact; to establish.
- (transitive) To add up to, have a sum of.
- (transitive) To prepare (food); to cook (food).
- To perform a feat.
- (ditransitive, of a fact) To indicate or suggest to be.
- (ditransitive, second object is a verb) To cause (to do something); to compel (to do something).
- To build, construct, produce, or originate.
- (transitive) To have sexual intercourse with.
- To develop into; to prove to be.
- (transitive) To earn, to gain (money, points, membership or status).
- (intransitive) To tend; to contribute; to have effect; with for or against.
- (intransitive, now mostly colloquial) To behave, to act.
- (ditransitive, second object is an adjective or participle) To cause to be.
- (transitive, slang) To induct into the Mafia or a similar organization (as a made man).
- (transitive, usually stressed) To bring into success.
- To constitute.
- (intransitive) Of water, to flow toward land; to rise.
- (transitive, US slang, crime, law enforcement) To recognise, identify, spot.
- (transitive, colloquial) To arrive at a destination, usually at or by a certain time.
- (religious) To create (the universe), especially (in Christianity) from nothing.
- To cause to appear to be; to represent as.
- (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) To defecate or urinate.
- To form or formulate in the mind.
- (intransitive) To gain sufficient audience to warrant its existence.
- (ditransitive, second object is a verb, can be stressed for emphasis or clarity) To force to do.
- (transitive) To cover (a given distance) by travelling.
- To bring about; to effect or produce by means of some action.
- (transitive, construed with of, typically interrogative) To interpret.
- (transitive, backgammon) To establish two or more men on (a point) so that it cannot be captured.
- (transitive) To pay, to cover (an expense); chiefly used after expressions of inability.
- To write or compose.
- To appoint; to name.
- (transitive, of a bed) To cover neatly with bedclothes.
- (transitive, euphemistic) To take the virginity of.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To proceed (in a direction).
- act in a certain way so as to acquire
- reach a destination, either real or abstract
- prepare for eating by applying heat
- amount to
- institute, enact, or establish
- reach in time
- eliminate urine
- give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally
- represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like
- achieve a point or goal
- induce to have sex
- add up to
- calculate as being
- create by artistic means
- compel or make somebody or something to act in a certain way
- perform, produce, or carry out
- appear to begin an activity
- charge with a function; charge to be
- form by assembling individuals or constituents
- be or be capable of being changed or made into
- give certain properties to something
- undergo fabrication or creation
- have a bowel movement
- cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner
- put in order or neaten
- proceed along a path
- make or cause to be or to become
- change from one form into another
- to compose or represent
- earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages
- consider as being
- develop into
- make, formulate, or derive in the mind
- make by combining materials and parts
- create or design, often in a certain way
- constitute the essence of
- favor the development of
- behave in a certain manner
- carry out or commit
- head into a specified direction
- engage in
- reach a goal
- cause to be enjoyable or pleasurable
- gather and light the materials for
- organize or be responsible for
- assure the success of
- be suitable for
- make by shaping or bringing together constituents
- create or manufacture a man-made product
noun
- (card games) Turn to declare the trump for a hand (in bridge), or to shuffle the cards.
- Manner or style of construction (style of how a thing is made).
- (UK, dialectal) Mate; a spouse or companion; a match.
- (uncountable) Quantity produced, especially of materials.
- (slang, usually in phrase "easy make") Past, present, or future target of seduction (usually female).
- Brand; marque; manufacturer; maker.
- (slang) Identification: recognition (of identity), especially from police records or evidence.
- (physics) The closing of an electrical circuit.
- Origin (of a manufactured article); manufacture; production.
- A homemade project, particularly one demonstrated on television.
- (computing) A software utility for automatically building large applications, or an implementation of this utility.
- A person's character or disposition.
- (basketball) A made basket.
- (slang, military) A promotion.
- the act of mixing cards haphazardly
- a recognizable kind
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- In mend one's pace: to adjust (a pace or speed), especially to match that of someone or something else; also, to quicken or speed up (a pace).
- To remove fault or sin from (someone, or their behaviour or character); to improve morally, to reform.
- To add fuel to (a fire).
- To correct or put right (an error, a fault, etc.); to rectify, to remedy.
- To physically repair (something that is broken, defaced, decayed, torn, or otherwise damaged).
- To put (something) in a better state; to ameliorate, to improve, to reform, to set right.
- (chiefly Scotland) To become morally improved or reformed.
- Of a person: to become healthy again; to recover from illness.
- Of an illness: to become less severe; also, of an injury or wound, or an injured body part: to get better, to heal.
- (archaic except UK, regional) To restore (someone or something) to a healthy state; to cure, to heal.
- heal or recover
- restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken
noun
- (uncountable) Chiefly in on the mend: improvement in health; recovery from illness.
- (countable) An act of repairing.
- (countable) A place in a thing (such as a tear in clothing) which has been repaired.
- sewing that repairs a worn or torn hole (especially in a garment)
- the act of putting something in working order again
noun
- Initialism of feet per second (“a measure of speed”).
- (pensions) Initialism of final pensionable salary.
- (video games) Initialism of first-person shooter.
- (poker) Initialism of fancy play syndrome, the act of playing in a reckless way.
- Initialism of frequently posted suggestions.
- Initialism of foot-pound-second (“a system of units”).
- Initialism of free phone service.
- (film, television, computing) Initialism of frames per second.
- an agency in the General Services Administration that is a security organization to provide a safe environment where Federal agencies can conduct their business
name
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- Speed.
- Any of various taxes, especially those levied by a local authority.
- (horology) The gain or loss of a timepiece in a unit of time.
- A wage calculated in relation to a unit of time.
- The relative speed of change or progress.
- A set price or charge for all examples of a given case, commodity, service etc.
- The price of (an individual) thing; cost.
- (nautical) A class into which ships were assigned based on condition, size etc.; by extension, rank.
- The proportional relationship between one amount, value etc. and another.
- amount of a charge or payment relative to some basis
- a quantity or amount or measure considered as a proportion of another quantity or amount or measure
- the relative speed of progress or change
- a magnitude or frequency relative to a time unit
verb
- (transitive, informal) To like; to think highly of.
- (transitive) To ratify.
- (transitive) To assign or be assigned a particular rank or level.
- (transitive) To determine the limits of safe functioning for a machine or electrical device.
- (intransitive) To have position (in a certain class).
- (transitive, horse racing) To take action to slow down the pace of the horse one is riding.
- (intransitive) To have value or standing.
- (transitive, chiefly British) To evaluate a property's value for the purposes of local taxation.
- (transitive) To ascertain the exact rate of the gain or loss of (a chronometer) as compared with true time.
- (transitive) To deserve; to be worth.
- (transitive) To consider or regard.
- (transitive) To evaluate or estimate the value of.
- be worthy of or have a certain rating
- assign a rank or rating to
- estimate the value of
verb
- (transitive) To follow at speed.
- (transitive) To decorate (metal) by engraving or embossing.
- (transitive) To seek to attain.
- (transitive) To place piping or wiring in a groove encased within a wall or floor, or in a hidden space encased by a wall.
- (transitive) To consume another beverage immediately after drinking hard liquor, typically something better tasting or less harsh such as soda or beer; to use a drink as a chaser.
- (transitive, nautical) To pursue a vessel in order to destroy, capture or interrogate her.
- (transitive) To cut (the thread of a screw).
- (transitive) To groove; indent.
- (transitive, baseball) To produce enough offense to cause the pitcher to be removed.
- (transitive) To persistently pursue someone as a sexual or romantic partner.
- (transitive, cricket) To attempt to win by scoring the required number of runs in the final innings.
- (transitive, baseball) To swing at a pitch outside of the strike zone, typically an outside pitch.
- (transitive) To hunt.
- pursue someone sexually or romantically
- go after with the intent to catch
- cut a groove into
- cut a furrow into a column
noun
- The act of one who chases another; a pursuit.
- (architecture) A trench or channel or other encasement structure for encasing (archaically spelled enchasing) drainpipes or wiring; a hollow space in the wall of a building encasing ventilation ducts, chimney flues, wires, cables or plumbing.
- (real tennis) A division of the floor of a gallery, marked by a figure or otherwise; the spot where a ball falls, and between which and the dedans the adversary must drive the ball in order to gain a point.
- (British) A large country estate where game may be shot or hunted.
- Anything being chased, especially a vessel in time of war.
- The part of a gun in front of the trunnions.
- A hunt; the act of hunting; the pursuit of game.
- (real tennis) The occurrence of a second bounce by the ball in certain areas of the court, giving the server the chance, later in the game, to "play off" the chase from the receiving end and possibly win the point.
- (nautical) Any of the guns that fire directly ahead or astern; either a bow chase or stern chase.
- (printing) A rectangular steel or iron frame into which pages or columns of type are locked for printing or plate-making.
- A groove cut in an object; a slot: the chase for the quarrel on a crossbow.
- (uncountable) A children's game where one player chases another.
- (music) A series of brief improvised jazz solos by a number of musicians taking turns.
- The cavity of a mold.
- (cycling) One or more riders who are ahead of the peloton and trying to join the race or stage leaders.
- (shipbuilding) A kind of joint by which an overlap joint is changed to a flush joint by means of a gradually deepening rabbet, as at the ends of clinker-built boats.
- a rectangular metal frame used in letterpress printing to hold together the pages or columns of composed type that are printed at one time
- the act of pursuing in an effort to overtake or capture
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noun
- (music) The act of diminishing the rate of speed.
- (acoustics) The distance by which one wave is behind another.
- (music) A suspension which resolves upwards.
- (colloquial, derogatory, offensive) Extreme stupidity.
- The extent to which anything is retarded; the result of any retarding or delay; mental, social, or physical slowness.
- That which retards; an obstacle; an obstruction.
- (physics) Deceleration; reduction in the magnitude of velocity.
- (psychology) Ellipsis of mental retardation.
- (telegraphy) A decrease in the speed of telegraph signalling.
- any agent that retards or delays or hinders
- the extent to which something is delayed or held back
- the act of slowing down or falling behind
- lack of normal development of intellectual capacities
- a decrease in rate of change
verb
- (transitive) To run at too slow a speed.
- (transitive, sometimes figurative) To haul or drag along (especially something heavy); to carry; to pull.
- (intransitive, horse-racing) To pull toward the inside rail ("lugging in") or the outside rail ("lugging out") during a race.
- (transitive, nautical) To carry an excessive amount of sail for the conditions prevailing.
- carry with difficulty
- obstruct
noun
- A lugworm.
- (UK) An ear or ear lobe.
- (automotive) A lug nut.
- A large, clumsy, awkward man; a fool.
- (electrical engineering) A device for terminating an electrical conductor to facilitate the mechanical connection; to the conductor it may be crimped to form a cold weld, soldered or have pressure from a screw.
- A part of something which sticks out, used as a handle or support.
- A wood box used for transporting fruit or vegetables.
- (harness) The leather loop or ear by which a shaft is held up.
- The act of hauling or dragging.
- Anything that moves slowly.
- A loop (or protuberance) found on both arms of a hinge, featuring a hole for the axis of the hinge.
- That which is hauled or dragged.
- A ridge or other protuberance on the surface of a body to increase traction or provide a hold for holding and moving it.
- (UK, dialect) A rod or pole.
- (slang) A request for money, as for political purposes.
- (informal) A pull or drag on a cigarette.
- (nautical) A lugsail.
- marine worms having a row of tufted gills along each side of the back; often used for fishing bait
- a projecting piece that is used to lift or support or turn something
- a sail with four corners that is hoisted from a yard that is oblique to the mast
noun
- (running) The number of steps per minute.
- (horse-riding) Harmony and proportion of movement, as in a well-managed horse.
- The act or state of declining or sinking.
- (music) A progression of at least two chords which conclude a piece of music, section or musical phrases within it. Sometimes referred to analogously as musical punctuation.
- (speech) A fall in inflection of a speaker’s voice, such as at the end of a sentence.
- (military) A chant that is sung by military personnel while running or marching; a jody call.
- The measure or beat of movement.
- (horseracing) The number of strides per second of a racehorse, measured when the same foot/hoof strikes the ground
- (fencing) The rhythm and sequence of a series of actions.
- (dance) A dance move which ends a phrase.
- (music) A cadenza, or closing embellishment; a pause before the end of a strain, which the performer may fill with a flight of fancy.
- Balanced, rhythmic flow.
- (heraldry) Cadency.
- (software engineering) The frequency of regular product releases.
- The general inflection or modulation of the voice, or of any sound.
- (cycling) The number of revolutions per minute of the cranks or pedals of a bicycle.
- the close of a musical section
- (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
- a recurrent rhythmical series
verb
adj
- at a rapid tempo
- hurried and brief
- unrestrained by convention or morality
- (of a photographic lens or emulsion) causing a shortening of exposure time
- securely fixed in place
- (of surfaces) conducive to rapid speeds
- resistant to destruction or fading
- (used of timepieces) indicating a time ahead of or later than the correct time
- acting or moving or capable of acting or moving quickly
- unwavering in devotion to friend or vow or cause
- Of a place, characterised by business, hustle and bustle, etc.
- Firm against attack; fortified by nature or art; impregnable; strong.
- Causing unusual rapidity of play or action.
- (computing, of a piece of hardware) Able to transfer data in a short period of time.
- Deep or sound (of sleep); fast asleep (of people).
- Moving with great speed, or capable of doing so; swift, rapid; light.
- (nuclear physics, of a neutron) Having a kinetic energy between 1 million and 20 million electron volts; often used to describe the energy state of free neutrons at the moment of their release by a nuclear fission or nuclear fusion reaction (i.e., before the neutrons have been slowed down by anything).
- (of dyes or colours) Not running or fading when subjected to detrimental conditions such as wetness or intense light; permanent.
- (of photographic film) More sensitive to light than average.
- Ahead of the correct time or schedule.
- (of people) Steadfast, with unwavering feeling. (Now mostly in set phrases like fast friend(s).)
noun
adv
- quickly or rapidly (often used as a combining form)
- firmly or closely
- Immediately following in place or time; close, very near .
- Quickly, with great speed; within a short time .
- In a firm or secure manner, securely; in such a way as not to be moved; safe, sound .
- Ahead of the correct time or schedule.
- (of sleeping) Deeply or soundly .
verb
- abstain from certain foods, as for religious or medical reasons
- abstain from eating
- (transitive, sciences) To cause (a person or animal) to abstain, especially from eating.
- (intransitive) To practice religious abstinence, especially from food.
- (intransitive) To reduce or limit one's nutrition intake for medical or health reasons, to diet.
intj
noun
adj
verb
noun
- Speed or velocity in general.
- (collective) A group of donkeys.
- A manner of walking, running or dancing; the rate or style of how someone moves with their feet.
- A step taken with the foot.
- Any of various gaits of a horse, specifically a 2-beat, lateral gait.
- The distance covered in a step (or sometimes two), either vaguely or according to various specific set measurements.
- (cricket) A measure of the hardness of a pitch and of the tendency of a cricket ball to maintain its speed after bouncing.
- Easter.
- a unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride
- the distance covered by a step
- a step in walking or running
- the rate of moving (especially walking or running)
- the rate of some repeating event
- the relative speed of progress or change
adj
prep
verb
verb
adj
noun
- (informal) Rate of motion; speed.
- (slang) Clipping of battery.
- (UK, Scotland, dialect) Manner; rate; condition; state of health.
- (Caribbean, MLE) Clipping of batty (“buttocks or anus”).
- A club made of wood or aluminium used for striking the ball in sports such as baseball, softball and cricket.
- (UK, Scotland, dialect) A stroke of work.
- Any flying mammal of the order Chiroptera, usually small and nocturnal, insectivorous or frugivorous.
- A sheet of cotton used for filling quilts or comfortables; batting.
- A turn at hitting the ball with a bat in a game.
- (mining) Shale or bituminous shale.
- A part of a brick with one whole end.
- (two-up) The piece of wood on which the spinner places the coins and then uses for throwing them.
- A club, made of wood like a baseball bat or otherwise, used as a weapon
- (derogatory) An old woman.
- A stroke; a sharp blow.
- (Kent, Sussex) A rough walking stick.
- A player rated according to skill in batting.
- nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate
- the club used in playing cricket
- a small racket with a long handle used for playing squash
- a club used for hitting a ball in various games
- (baseball) a turn trying to get a hit
verb
- (transitive) To flutter
- (intransitive) To take a turn at hitting a ball with a bat in sports like cricket, baseball and softball, as opposed to fielding.
- (intransitive) To strike or swipe as though with a bat.
- (intransitive, usually with ‘around’ or ‘about’) To flit quickly from place to place.
- (US, UK, dialect) To wink.
- (transitive) To hit with a bat or (figuratively) as if with a bat.
- strike with, or as if with a baseball bat
- have a turn at bat
- wink briefly
- use a bat
- beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight
noun
- Abbreviation of acceleration (in feet per second).
- Abbreviation of atmosphere.
- Abbreviation of axis.
- Abbreviation of accommodation.
- Abbreviation of age.
- Abbreviation of aunt.
- Abbreviation of argent.
- Abbreviation of area.
- Abbreviation of altitude; altitude intercept.
- Abbreviation of act; acting.
- Abbreviation of abbreviation.
- Abbreviation of aviation; aviator.
- Abbreviation of annealing.
- Abbreviation of afternoon.
- Abbreviation of audit; auditor.
- Abbreviation of adjutant.
- Abbreviation of adult.
- Abbreviation of account.
- Abbreviation of answer.
- Abbreviation of attendance.
- Abbreviation of alto.
- Abbreviation of arc.
- Abbreviation of anthracite.
- Abbreviation of anode.
- Abbreviation of assist; assists.
- Abbreviation of adjective.
- Abbreviation of activity.
- Abbreviation of amateur.
- Abbreviation of are or ares.
- Abbreviation of ampere.
- Abbreviation of acre; acres; acreage.
- Abbreviation of acronym.
- Abbreviation of apprentice.
adj
- Abbreviation of artery; arterial blood.
- (linguistics, by extension) Abbreviation of transitive.
- Abbreviation of acting.
- Abbreviation of argent.
- Abbreviation of accidental.
- Abbreviation of absent.
- Abbreviation of abundant.
- Abbreviation of ante (“before”).
- Abbreviation of anterior.
- Abbreviation of annus (“a year”).
- Abbreviation of aerial.
- Abbreviation of accepted.
- Abbreviation of alto.
- Abbreviation of anonymous.
- Abbreviation of aqua.
- Abbreviation of available.
- Abbreviation of active.
- Abbreviation of amateur.
- Abbreviation of automatic.
- Abbreviation of absolute.
adv
conj
prep
noun
- (uncountable) Tempo; a measured rate of movement.
- (uncountable, slang) The serving of a prison sentence.
- (uncountable) The feeling of the passage of events and their relative duration, as experienced by an individual.
- (countable) A numerical indication of a particular moment.
- (uncountable with possessive) A person's youth or young adulthood, as opposed to the present day.
- (countable) An experience.
- (only in singular, sports and figuratively) Time out; temporary, limited suspension of play.
- (uncountable) A quantity of availability of duration.
- (UK, in public houses) Closing time.
- (countable) A measurement of a quantity of time; a numerical or general indication of a length of progression.
- (uncountable) The duration of time of a given day that has passed; the moment, as indicated by a clock or similar device.
- (uncountable) Rhythmical division, meter.
- (physics, uncountable, reductionist definition) The property of a system which allows it to have more than one distinct configuration.
- (countable) The measurement under some system of region of day or moment.
- (physics, usually uncountable) A dimension of spacetime with the opposite metric signature to space dimensions; the fourth dimension.
- (music, uncountable) The measured duration of sounds.
- (countable) An instance or occurrence.
- (jazz) (uncountable) A straight rhythmic pattern, free from fills, breaks and other embellishments.
- (countable) A particular moment or hour; the appropriate moment or hour for something (especially with prepositional phrase or imperfect subjunctive).
- (countable) An era; (articulated, sometimes in the plural) the current era, the current state of affairs.
- (slang, MLE) Clipping of a long time.
- (countable) A ratio of comparison (see also usage notes and prepositional sense at 'times').
- (with possessives) The end of someone’s life, conceived by the speaker as having been predestined.
- (uncountable) The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present and past events.
- (physics, uncountable) Change associated with the second law of thermodynamics; the physical and psychological result of increasing entropy.
- The hour of childbirth.
- the fourth coordinate that is required (along with three spatial dimensions) to specify a physical event
- a suitable moment
- an instance or single occasion for some event
- an indefinite period (usually marked by specific attributes or activities)
- rhythm as given by division into parts of equal duration
- a person's experience on a particular occasion
- the period of time a prisoner is imprisoned
- a period of time considered as a resource under your control and sufficient to accomplish something
- a reading of a point in time as given by a clock
- the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past
intj
verb
- To regulate as to time; to accompany, or agree with, in time of movement.
- (transitive) To measure or record the time, duration, or rate of something.
- (transitive) To choose when something commences or its duration.
- To measure, as in music or harmony.
- assign a time for an activity or event
- set the speed, duration, or execution of
- regulate or set the time of
- measure the time or duration of an event or action or the person who performs an action in a certain period of time
- adjust so that a force is applied and an action occurs at the desired time
noun
- (by extension) Movement at a slow pace.
- (cinematography) A technique of film, photography, and video in which time is stretched in order to allow the visibility of things normally happening too fast to be conveniently examined.
- a movie that apparently takes place at a slower than normal speed; achieved by taking the film at a faster rate
noun
- Initialism of feet per second (“a measure of speed”).
- (pensions) Initialism of final pensionable salary.
- (video games) Initialism of first-person shooter.
- (poker) Initialism of fancy play syndrome, the act of playing in a reckless way.
- Initialism of frequently posted suggestions.
- Initialism of foot-pound-second (“a system of units”).
- Initialism of free phone service.
- (film, television, computing) Initialism of frames per second.
- an agency in the General Services Administration that is a security organization to provide a safe environment where Federal agencies can conduct their business
name
adj
adv
noun
noun
- Speed.
- Any of various taxes, especially those levied by a local authority.
- (horology) The gain or loss of a timepiece in a unit of time.
- A wage calculated in relation to a unit of time.
- The relative speed of change or progress.
- A set price or charge for all examples of a given case, commodity, service etc.
- The price of (an individual) thing; cost.
- (nautical) A class into which ships were assigned based on condition, size etc.; by extension, rank.
- The proportional relationship between one amount, value etc. and another.
- amount of a charge or payment relative to some basis
- a quantity or amount or measure considered as a proportion of another quantity or amount or measure
- the relative speed of progress or change
- a magnitude or frequency relative to a time unit
verb
- (transitive, informal) To like; to think highly of.
- (transitive) To ratify.
- (transitive) To assign or be assigned a particular rank or level.
- (transitive) To determine the limits of safe functioning for a machine or electrical device.
- (intransitive) To have position (in a certain class).
- (transitive, horse racing) To take action to slow down the pace of the horse one is riding.
- (intransitive) To have value or standing.
- (transitive, chiefly British) To evaluate a property's value for the purposes of local taxation.
- (transitive) To ascertain the exact rate of the gain or loss of (a chronometer) as compared with true time.
- (transitive) To deserve; to be worth.
- (transitive) To consider or regard.
- (transitive) To evaluate or estimate the value of.
- be worthy of or have a certain rating
- assign a rank or rating to
- estimate the value of
noun
noun
- (music) The act of diminishing the rate of speed.
- (acoustics) The distance by which one wave is behind another.
- (music) A suspension which resolves upwards.
- (colloquial, derogatory, offensive) Extreme stupidity.
- The extent to which anything is retarded; the result of any retarding or delay; mental, social, or physical slowness.
- That which retards; an obstacle; an obstruction.
- (physics) Deceleration; reduction in the magnitude of velocity.
- (psychology) Ellipsis of mental retardation.
- (telegraphy) A decrease in the speed of telegraph signalling.
- any agent that retards or delays or hinders
- the extent to which something is delayed or held back
- the act of slowing down or falling behind
- lack of normal development of intellectual capacities
- a decrease in rate of change
noun
- (running) The number of steps per minute.
- (horse-riding) Harmony and proportion of movement, as in a well-managed horse.
- The act or state of declining or sinking.
- (music) A progression of at least two chords which conclude a piece of music, section or musical phrases within it. Sometimes referred to analogously as musical punctuation.
- (speech) A fall in inflection of a speaker’s voice, such as at the end of a sentence.
- (military) A chant that is sung by military personnel while running or marching; a jody call.
- The measure or beat of movement.
- (horseracing) The number of strides per second of a racehorse, measured when the same foot/hoof strikes the ground
- (fencing) The rhythm and sequence of a series of actions.
- (dance) A dance move which ends a phrase.
- (music) A cadenza, or closing embellishment; a pause before the end of a strain, which the performer may fill with a flight of fancy.
- Balanced, rhythmic flow.
- (heraldry) Cadency.
- (software engineering) The frequency of regular product releases.
- The general inflection or modulation of the voice, or of any sound.
- (cycling) The number of revolutions per minute of the cranks or pedals of a bicycle.
- the close of a musical section
- (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
- a recurrent rhythmical series
verb
noun
adj
verb
noun
- Speed or velocity in general.
- (collective) A group of donkeys.
- A manner of walking, running or dancing; the rate or style of how someone moves with their feet.
- A step taken with the foot.
- Any of various gaits of a horse, specifically a 2-beat, lateral gait.
- The distance covered in a step (or sometimes two), either vaguely or according to various specific set measurements.
- (cricket) A measure of the hardness of a pitch and of the tendency of a cricket ball to maintain its speed after bouncing.
- Easter.
- a unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride
- the distance covered by a step
- a step in walking or running
- the rate of moving (especially walking or running)
- the rate of some repeating event
- the relative speed of progress or change
adj
prep
verb
verb
- (transitive) To reduce the velocity, speed, or tempo of something.
- (intransitive) To decelerate.
- (transitive, intransitive, figuratively) To become less intense, enthusiastic, etc., usually with a positive connotation, implying that one is stripped of exaggerated or unnecessary eagerness.
- cause to proceed more slowly
- become slow or slower
- reduce the speed of
- lose velocity; move more slowly
- become less tense, rest, or take one's ease
verb
- (transitive) To measure the speed of.
- (ambitransitive, chiefly African-American Vernacular and LGBTQ slang) To expose or attack someone, typically in a targeted and insulting manner.
- (transitive, informal, with as) To recognize; to assess, register.
- (British, slang) To falsify the reading of the odometer of a vehicle.
- (transitive, informal) To identify (someone) as having some attribute (for example, being trans or gay).
- (transitive, slang) To hit (someone) heavily.
- (transitive, British, New Zealand, Australia, slang) To beat a video game.
- (transitive) To ornament (e.g. the side of a stocking) with figured work.
- (transitive, informal) To notice; to take notice of (someone or something).
- (transitive) To measure the duration of.
- measure the time or duration of an event or action or the person who performs an action in a certain period of time
noun
- (British) The odometer of a motor vehicle.
- (slang) A face; the head.
- A large beetle, especially the European dung beetle (Geotrupes stercorarius).
- (uncountable) A luck-based patience or solitaire card game with the cards laid out to represent the face of a clock.
- The seed head of a dandelion.
- A time clock.
- (computing, informal) A CPU clock cycle, or T-state.
- (attributive) A common noun relating to an instrument that measures or keeps track of time.
- A chronometer, an instrument that measures time, particularly the time of day.
- A pattern near the heel of a sock or stocking.
- (electronics) An electrical signal that synchronizes timing among digital circuits of semiconductor chips or modules.
- a timepiece that shows the time of day
verb
- (transitive) To cause to speed up.
- (ambitransitive, US, prison slang, of a male prisoner) Synonym of gun down (“to masturbate while making sustained eye contact with someone — typically a female prison officer — as a form of intimidation”).
- Nonstandard spelling of going to.
- To seek to attack someone; to take aim at someone; used with for.
- (informal) (gunning for something or gunning to do something) make a great effort.
- To practice fowling or hunting small game; chiefly in participial form: to go gunning.
- (informal) To offer vigorous support to (a person or cause).
- shoot with a gun
noun
- A very portable, short firearm, for hand use, which fires bullets or projectiles, such as a handgun, revolver, pistol, or Derringer.
- (colloquial, metonymic) A person who carries or uses a gun (rifle, shotgun or handgun), particularly with reference to how quickly the person can draw and fire the gun.
- A device for shooting projectiles or ditto (a shooter), functioning through stored energy: a firearm, cannon, harpoon gun/spear gun, raygun, etc, not a bow and arrow, or slingshot.
- A device or tool that projects a substance.
- (surfing) A long surfboard designed for surfing big waves (not the same as a longboard, a gun has a pointed nose and is generally a little narrower).
- (television) An electron gun.
- A device or tool that applies something rather than projecting it.
- (figurative) A firearm or cannon used for saluting or signalling.^(21-gun salute)
- (military) A cannon with a 6-inch/155mm minimum nominal bore diameter and tube length 30 calibers or more.
- Any implement designed to fire a projectile from a tube.
- (cellular automata) A pattern that "fires" out other patterns.
- (military) A cannon with relatively long barrel, operating with relatively low angle of fire, and having a high muzzle velocity.
- (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Someone excellent, surpassingly wonderful, skilful, or cool.
- A less portable, long firearm that fires bullets or projectiles; a rifle, either manual, automatic or semi-automatic; a flintlock, musket or shotgun.
- (nautical, in the plural) Violent blasts of wind.
- (colloquial, usually in the plural) The biceps.
- the discharge of a firearm as signal or as a salute in military ceremonies
- a person who shoots a gun (as regards their ability)
- a weapon that discharges a missile at high velocity (especially from a metal tube or barrel)
- a pedal that controls the throttle valve
- a professional killer who uses a gun
- large but transportable armament
- a hand-operated pump that resembles a pistol; forces grease into parts of a machine
verb
adj
- at a slow tempo
- Taking a long time to move or go a short distance, or to perform an action; not quick in motion; proceeding at a low speed.
- Not happening in a short time; spread over a comparatively long time.
- (informal, somewhat derogatory) Of reduced intellectual capacity; not quick to comprehend.
- (of a period of time) Not busy; lacking activity.
- Not hasty; not tending to hurry; acting with deliberation or caution.
- Lacking spirit; deficient in liveliness or briskness.
- (of a clock or the like) Behind in time; indicating a time earlier than the true time.
- slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity
- (used of timepieces) indicating a time earlier than the correct time
- so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness
- (of business) not active or brisk
- not moving quickly; taking a comparatively long time
adv
noun
verb
- (transitive) To move at (a speed).
- To enact; to establish.
- (transitive) To add up to, have a sum of.
- (transitive) To prepare (food); to cook (food).
- To perform a feat.
- (ditransitive, of a fact) To indicate or suggest to be.
- (ditransitive, second object is a verb) To cause (to do something); to compel (to do something).
- To build, construct, produce, or originate.
- (transitive) To have sexual intercourse with.
- To develop into; to prove to be.
- (transitive) To earn, to gain (money, points, membership or status).
- (intransitive) To tend; to contribute; to have effect; with for or against.
- (intransitive, now mostly colloquial) To behave, to act.
- (ditransitive, second object is an adjective or participle) To cause to be.
- (transitive, slang) To induct into the Mafia or a similar organization (as a made man).
- (transitive, usually stressed) To bring into success.
- To constitute.
- (intransitive) Of water, to flow toward land; to rise.
- (transitive, US slang, crime, law enforcement) To recognise, identify, spot.
- (transitive, colloquial) To arrive at a destination, usually at or by a certain time.
- (religious) To create (the universe), especially (in Christianity) from nothing.
- To cause to appear to be; to represent as.
- (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) To defecate or urinate.
- To form or formulate in the mind.
- (intransitive) To gain sufficient audience to warrant its existence.
- (ditransitive, second object is a verb, can be stressed for emphasis or clarity) To force to do.
- (transitive) To cover (a given distance) by travelling.
- To bring about; to effect or produce by means of some action.
- (transitive, construed with of, typically interrogative) To interpret.
- (transitive, backgammon) To establish two or more men on (a point) so that it cannot be captured.
- (transitive) To pay, to cover (an expense); chiefly used after expressions of inability.
- To write or compose.
- To appoint; to name.
- (transitive, of a bed) To cover neatly with bedclothes.
- (transitive, euphemistic) To take the virginity of.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To proceed (in a direction).
- act in a certain way so as to acquire
- reach a destination, either real or abstract
- prepare for eating by applying heat
- amount to
- institute, enact, or establish
- reach in time
- eliminate urine
- give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally
- represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like
- achieve a point or goal
- induce to have sex
- add up to
- calculate as being
- create by artistic means
- compel or make somebody or something to act in a certain way
- perform, produce, or carry out
- appear to begin an activity
- charge with a function; charge to be
- form by assembling individuals or constituents
- be or be capable of being changed or made into
- give certain properties to something
- undergo fabrication or creation
- have a bowel movement
- cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner
- put in order or neaten
- proceed along a path
- make or cause to be or to become
- change from one form into another
- to compose or represent
- earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages
- consider as being
- develop into
- make, formulate, or derive in the mind
- make by combining materials and parts
- create or design, often in a certain way
- constitute the essence of
- favor the development of
- behave in a certain manner
- carry out or commit
- head into a specified direction
- engage in
- reach a goal
- cause to be enjoyable or pleasurable
- gather and light the materials for
- organize or be responsible for
- assure the success of
- be suitable for
- make by shaping or bringing together constituents
- create or manufacture a man-made product
noun
- (card games) Turn to declare the trump for a hand (in bridge), or to shuffle the cards.
- Manner or style of construction (style of how a thing is made).
- (UK, dialectal) Mate; a spouse or companion; a match.
- (uncountable) Quantity produced, especially of materials.
- (slang, usually in phrase "easy make") Past, present, or future target of seduction (usually female).
- Brand; marque; manufacturer; maker.
- (slang) Identification: recognition (of identity), especially from police records or evidence.
- (physics) The closing of an electrical circuit.
- Origin (of a manufactured article); manufacture; production.
- A homemade project, particularly one demonstrated on television.
- (computing) A software utility for automatically building large applications, or an implementation of this utility.
- A person's character or disposition.
- (basketball) A made basket.
- (slang, military) A promotion.
- the act of mixing cards haphazardly
- a recognizable kind
verb
- In mend one's pace: to adjust (a pace or speed), especially to match that of someone or something else; also, to quicken or speed up (a pace).
- To remove fault or sin from (someone, or their behaviour or character); to improve morally, to reform.
- To add fuel to (a fire).
- To correct or put right (an error, a fault, etc.); to rectify, to remedy.
- To physically repair (something that is broken, defaced, decayed, torn, or otherwise damaged).
- To put (something) in a better state; to ameliorate, to improve, to reform, to set right.
- (chiefly Scotland) To become morally improved or reformed.
- Of a person: to become healthy again; to recover from illness.
- Of an illness: to become less severe; also, of an injury or wound, or an injured body part: to get better, to heal.
- (archaic except UK, regional) To restore (someone or something) to a healthy state; to cure, to heal.
- heal or recover
- restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken
noun
- (uncountable) Chiefly in on the mend: improvement in health; recovery from illness.
- (countable) An act of repairing.
- (countable) A place in a thing (such as a tear in clothing) which has been repaired.
- sewing that repairs a worn or torn hole (especially in a garment)
- the act of putting something in working order again
verb
- (transitive) To follow at speed.
- (transitive) To decorate (metal) by engraving or embossing.
- (transitive) To seek to attain.
- (transitive) To place piping or wiring in a groove encased within a wall or floor, or in a hidden space encased by a wall.
- (transitive) To consume another beverage immediately after drinking hard liquor, typically something better tasting or less harsh such as soda or beer; to use a drink as a chaser.
- (transitive, nautical) To pursue a vessel in order to destroy, capture or interrogate her.
- (transitive) To cut (the thread of a screw).
- (transitive) To groove; indent.
- (transitive, baseball) To produce enough offense to cause the pitcher to be removed.
- (transitive) To persistently pursue someone as a sexual or romantic partner.
- (transitive, cricket) To attempt to win by scoring the required number of runs in the final innings.
- (transitive, baseball) To swing at a pitch outside of the strike zone, typically an outside pitch.
- (transitive) To hunt.
- pursue someone sexually or romantically
- go after with the intent to catch
- cut a groove into
- cut a furrow into a column
noun
- The act of one who chases another; a pursuit.
- (architecture) A trench or channel or other encasement structure for encasing (archaically spelled enchasing) drainpipes or wiring; a hollow space in the wall of a building encasing ventilation ducts, chimney flues, wires, cables or plumbing.
- (real tennis) A division of the floor of a gallery, marked by a figure or otherwise; the spot where a ball falls, and between which and the dedans the adversary must drive the ball in order to gain a point.
- (British) A large country estate where game may be shot or hunted.
- Anything being chased, especially a vessel in time of war.
- The part of a gun in front of the trunnions.
- A hunt; the act of hunting; the pursuit of game.
- (real tennis) The occurrence of a second bounce by the ball in certain areas of the court, giving the server the chance, later in the game, to "play off" the chase from the receiving end and possibly win the point.
- (nautical) Any of the guns that fire directly ahead or astern; either a bow chase or stern chase.
- (printing) A rectangular steel or iron frame into which pages or columns of type are locked for printing or plate-making.
- A groove cut in an object; a slot: the chase for the quarrel on a crossbow.
- (uncountable) A children's game where one player chases another.
- (music) A series of brief improvised jazz solos by a number of musicians taking turns.
- The cavity of a mold.
- (cycling) One or more riders who are ahead of the peloton and trying to join the race or stage leaders.
- (shipbuilding) A kind of joint by which an overlap joint is changed to a flush joint by means of a gradually deepening rabbet, as at the ends of clinker-built boats.
- a rectangular metal frame used in letterpress printing to hold together the pages or columns of composed type that are printed at one time
- the act of pursuing in an effort to overtake or capture
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- (transitive) To run at too slow a speed.
- (transitive, sometimes figurative) To haul or drag along (especially something heavy); to carry; to pull.
- (intransitive, horse-racing) To pull toward the inside rail ("lugging in") or the outside rail ("lugging out") during a race.
- (transitive, nautical) To carry an excessive amount of sail for the conditions prevailing.
- carry with difficulty
- obstruct
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- A lugworm.
- (UK) An ear or ear lobe.
- (automotive) A lug nut.
- A large, clumsy, awkward man; a fool.
- (electrical engineering) A device for terminating an electrical conductor to facilitate the mechanical connection; to the conductor it may be crimped to form a cold weld, soldered or have pressure from a screw.
- A part of something which sticks out, used as a handle or support.
- A wood box used for transporting fruit or vegetables.
- (harness) The leather loop or ear by which a shaft is held up.
- The act of hauling or dragging.
- Anything that moves slowly.
- A loop (or protuberance) found on both arms of a hinge, featuring a hole for the axis of the hinge.
- That which is hauled or dragged.
- A ridge or other protuberance on the surface of a body to increase traction or provide a hold for holding and moving it.
- (UK, dialect) A rod or pole.
- (slang) A request for money, as for political purposes.
- (informal) A pull or drag on a cigarette.
- (nautical) A lugsail.
- marine worms having a row of tufted gills along each side of the back; often used for fishing bait
- a projecting piece that is used to lift or support or turn something
- a sail with four corners that is hoisted from a yard that is oblique to the mast
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- a brisk and lively tempo
- a musical composition or musical passage to be performed quickly in a brisk lively manner
- (music, more traditionally) An expressive mark indicating that a passage is to be played in a lively or happy manner, not necessarily quickly.
- (music) A tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played in a quick, lively tempo, faster than allegretto but slower than presto.
- (music) A passage having this mark.
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- at a slow tempo
- Taking a long time to move or go a short distance, or to perform an action; not quick in motion; proceeding at a low speed.
- Not happening in a short time; spread over a comparatively long time.
- (informal, somewhat derogatory) Of reduced intellectual capacity; not quick to comprehend.
- (of a period of time) Not busy; lacking activity.
- Not hasty; not tending to hurry; acting with deliberation or caution.
- Lacking spirit; deficient in liveliness or briskness.
- (of a clock or the like) Behind in time; indicating a time earlier than the true time.
- slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity
- (used of timepieces) indicating a time earlier than the correct time
- so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness
- (of business) not active or brisk
- not moving quickly; taking a comparatively long time
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- at a rapid tempo
- hurried and brief
- unrestrained by convention or morality
- (of a photographic lens or emulsion) causing a shortening of exposure time
- securely fixed in place
- (of surfaces) conducive to rapid speeds
- resistant to destruction or fading
- (used of timepieces) indicating a time ahead of or later than the correct time
- acting or moving or capable of acting or moving quickly
- unwavering in devotion to friend or vow or cause
- Of a place, characterised by business, hustle and bustle, etc.
- Firm against attack; fortified by nature or art; impregnable; strong.
- Causing unusual rapidity of play or action.
- (computing, of a piece of hardware) Able to transfer data in a short period of time.
- Deep or sound (of sleep); fast asleep (of people).
- Moving with great speed, or capable of doing so; swift, rapid; light.
- (nuclear physics, of a neutron) Having a kinetic energy between 1 million and 20 million electron volts; often used to describe the energy state of free neutrons at the moment of their release by a nuclear fission or nuclear fusion reaction (i.e., before the neutrons have been slowed down by anything).
- (of dyes or colours) Not running or fading when subjected to detrimental conditions such as wetness or intense light; permanent.
- (of photographic film) More sensitive to light than average.
- Ahead of the correct time or schedule.
- (of people) Steadfast, with unwavering feeling. (Now mostly in set phrases like fast friend(s).)
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- quickly or rapidly (often used as a combining form)
- firmly or closely
- Immediately following in place or time; close, very near .
- Quickly, with great speed; within a short time .
- In a firm or secure manner, securely; in such a way as not to be moved; safe, sound .
- Ahead of the correct time or schedule.
- (of sleeping) Deeply or soundly .
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- abstain from certain foods, as for religious or medical reasons
- abstain from eating
- (transitive, sciences) To cause (a person or animal) to abstain, especially from eating.
- (intransitive) To practice religious abstinence, especially from food.
- (intransitive) To reduce or limit one's nutrition intake for medical or health reasons, to diet.