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- of a path e.g.
- marked by repeated turns and bends
- Chiefly of a staircase: helical, spiral.
- (not comparable, music) Of a horn or wind instrument: blown to make a sound.
- (comparable) Causing one to be breathless or out of breath.
- Moving in a sinuous or twisting manner.
- (figurative) Of speech, writing, etc.: not direct or to the point; rambling, roundabout.
- Sinuous, turning, or twisting in form.
- the act of winding or twisting
- (especially in the plural) A curving, sinuous, or twisting form.
- (agriculture, chiefly attributive) The act of winnowing (“subjecting food grain to a current of air to separate the grain from the chaff”).
- (music) The act of blowing air through a wind instrument or (chiefly) a horn to make a sound.
- (lutherie) Synonym of lapping (“lengths of fine silk, metal wire, or whalebone wrapped tightly around the stick of the bow of a string instrument adjacent to the leather part of the bow grip at the heel”).
- Sometimes followed by up: the act of hoisting something using a winch or a similar device.
- The act of twisting something, or coiling or wrapping something around another thing.
- (especially in the plural) A curving, sinuous, or twisting movement; twists and turns.
- Something wound around another thing.
- (figurative, chiefly in the plural) Twists and turns in an occurrence, in thinking, or some other thing; also, moral crookedness; craftiness, shiftiness.
- Chiefly followed by up: the act of tightening the spring of a clockwork or other mechanism.
- (British, nautical) The act or process of turning a boat or ship in a certain direction.
- (electrical engineering) A length of wire wound around the armature of an electric motor or the core of an electrical transformer.
- (horticulture) A garden with paths between such flowerbeds.
- an ornamental flower garden; beds and paths are arranged to form a pattern
- (theater, by extension) That part of a theater audience seated in the parterre, sometimes regarded as belonging to a lower social class.
- (US, New York) An apartment balcony.
- (British) The part of the ground-floor section behind the stalls and underneath the galleries; the pit.
- The part of the ground-floor section nearest the orchestra and the stage; the stalls.
- (theater) A part of the section of theater seats located on the ground floor, on the same level as the orchestra.
- (horticulture) A flowerbed, particularly an elevated one.
- seating at the rear of the main floor (beneath the balconies)
- (horticulture) A maze formed by paths separated by high hedges.
- (anatomy) A complex structure in the inner ear which contains the organs of hearing and balance, consisting of bony cavities (the bony labyrinth) filled with fluid and lined with sensitive membranes (the membranous labyrinth).
- (zoology) An accessory respiratory organ of certain fish.
- A complicated irregular network of passages or paths, especially underground or covered, in which it is difficult to find one's way.
- Any of various satyrine butterflies of the genus Neope.
- (by extension) Anything complicated and confusing in structure, arrangement, or character.
- A structure similar to a maze, but containing only one path with no branches, as distinguished from a maze which contains multiple branching paths
- a complex system of interconnecting cavities; concerned with hearing and equilibrium
- complex system of paths or tunnels in which it is easy to get lost
- A path cut through woodland.
- The behaviour in the motion of a vehicle, such as oscillation.
- (Canada) Electoral district or constituency.
- The act of one who rides; a mounted excursion.
- (historical) Any of the three administrative divisions of Yorkshire and some other northern counties of England.
- (historical) A festival procession.
- the sport of sitting on the back of a horse while controlling its movements
- travel by being carried on horseback
- A walk or passage in a garden or park, bordered by rows of trees or bushes.
- (informal, rare) A group of clowns; the collective noun for clowns.
- A narrow street or passageway, especially one through the middle of a block giving access to the rear of lots of buildings.
- (bowling) An establishment where bowling is played.
- (tennis) The extra area between the sidelines or tramlines on a tennis court that is used for doubles matches.
- A marble (small ball used in games).
- The space between two rows of compositors' stands in a printing office.
- (baseball) The area between the outfielders.
- (bowling) An elongated wooden strip of floor along which a bowling ball is rolled.
- (perspective drawing) Any passage having the entrance represented as wider than the exit, so as to give the appearance of length.
- A passageway between rows of pews in a church.
- a narrow street with walls on both sides
- a lane down which a bowling ball is rolled toward pins
- a path set aside for walking
- the act of walking somewhere
- manner of walking
- a slow gait of a horse in which two feet are always on the ground
- careers in general
- the act of traveling by foot
- (baseball) an advance to first base by a batter who receives four balls
- A distance walked.
- (Caribbean, Belize, Guyana, Jamaica) An area of an estate planted with fruit-bearing trees.
- (historical) An enclosed area in which a gamecock is confined to prepare him for fighting.
- (colloquial) Something very easily accomplished; a walk in the park.
- A trip made by walking.
- (poker) A situation where all players fold to the big blind, as their first action (instead of calling or raising), once they get their cards.
- (figurative) A person's conduct or course in life.
- A manner of walking; a person's style of walking.
- In coffee, coconut, and other plantations, the space between them.
- (sports) An Olympic Games track event requiring that the heel of the leading foot touch the ground before the toe of the trailing foot leaves the ground.
- (baseball) An award of first base to a batter following four balls being thrown by the pitcher; known in the rules as a "base on balls".
- (historical) A place for keeping and training puppies for dogfighting.
- A path, sidewalk/pavement or other maintained place on which to walk.
- (graph theory) A sequence of alternating vertices and edges, where each edge's endpoints are the preceding and following vertices in the sequence. Compare path, trail.
- make walk
- use one's feet to advance; advance by steps
- take a walk; go for a walk; walk for pleasure
- be or act in association with
- obtain a base on balls
- walk at a pace
- give a base on balls to
- live or behave in a specified manner
- traverse or cover by walking
- accompany or escort
- (machining, intransitive, of a tool, such as a drill bit or reamer) To tend to move radially while feeding axially, whether tending toward on-center or tending toward off-center. Walking may be desirable (e.g., when a reamer walks into concentricity) or undesirable (e.g., when a twist drill walks into eccentricity.)
- (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) Of an object, to go missing or be stolen.
- (transitive) To traverse by walking (or analogous gradual movement).
- (intransitive) To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct oneself.
- (informal, transitive) To move (a guest) to another hotel if their confirmed reservation is not available on the day of check-in.
- (intransitive) To move on the feet by alternately setting each foot (or pair or group of feet, in the case of animals with four or more feet) forward, with at least one foot on the ground at all times. Compare run.
- (transitive) To cause something to move in such a way.
- (transitive) To take for a walk or accompany on a walk.
- (transitive, baseball) To allow a batter to reach base by pitching four balls.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To leave, resign.
- (intransitive, cricket, of a batsman) To walk off the field, as if given out, after the fielding side appeals and before the umpire has ruled; done as a matter of sportsmanship when the batsman believes he is out.
- (intransitive, colloquial, law) To "walk free", i.e. to win, or avoid, a criminal court case, particularly when actually guilty.
- (intransitive) Of an object or machine, to move by shifting between two positions, as if it were walking.
- (transitive, historical) To put, keep, or train (a puppy) in a walk, or training area for dogfighting.
- (transitive) To push (a vehicle) alongside oneself as one walks.
- (intransitive, baseball, of a batter) To reach base by being pitched four balls.
- (transitive, aviation) To operate the left and right throttles of (an aircraft) in alternation.
- (transitive) To full; to beat (cloth) to give it the consistency of felt.
- (intransitive) To go restlessly about; said of things or persons expected to remain quiet, such as a sleeping person, or the spirit of a dead person.
- (transitive) To travel (a distance) by walking.
- (paintball) To pull (a trigger) rapid-fire by alternating two fingers.
- A garden plot.
- (countable) The bottom of a body of water, such as an ocean, sea, lake, or river.
- A shaped piece of timber to hold a cask clear of a ship’s floor; a pallet.
- A piece of music, normally instrumental, over which a radio DJ talks.
- A deposit of ore, coal, etc.
- (uncountable, usually after a preposition) Sleep; rest; getting to sleep.
- (uncountable) Time spent in a bed.
- (masonry) A course of stone or brick in a wall.
- The superficial earthwork, or ballast, of a railroad.
- (uncountable, usually after a preposition) The time for going to sleep or resting in bed; bedtime.
- Clipping of bedroom.
- (countable, geology) The smallest division of a geologic formation or stratigraphic rock series marked by well-defined divisional planes (bedding planes) separating it from layers above and below.
- An area where a large number of oysters, mussels, other sessile shellfish, or a large amount of seaweed is found.
- (countable) A piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, on which to rest or sleep.
- (US, Canada, automotive) The platform of a truck, trailer, wagon, railcar, or other vehicle that supports the load to be hauled.
- (usually after a preposition) One's place of sleep or rest.
- (figurative) Marriage.
- (trampoline) The taut surface of a trampoline.
- A foundation or supporting surface formed of a fluid.
- (figurative, uncountable) Sexual activity.
- A place, or flat surface or layer, on which something else rests or is laid.
- (masonry) The horizontal surface of a building stone.
- A prepared spot in which to spend the night.
- (computing) The flat surface of a scanner on which a document is placed to be scanned.
- (masonry) The lower surface of a brick, slate, or tile.
- (darts) Any of the sections of a dartboard with a point value, delimited by a wire.
- a stratum of ore or coal thick enough to be mined with profit
- a depression forming the ground under a body of water
- (geology) a stratum of rock (especially sedimentary rock)
- a plot of ground in which plants are growing
- the flat surface of a printing press on which the type form is laid in the last stage of producing a newspaper or magazine or book etc.
- a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep
- single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance
- a foundation of earth or rock supporting a road or railroad track
- (intransitive, hunting) Of large game animals: to be at rest.
- (transitive) To place in a bed.
- (transitive) To dress or prepare the surface of (stone) so it can serve as a bed.
- (ambitransitive) To have sex (with).
- (intransitive) To go to bed; to put oneself to sleep.
- (transitive) To lay or put in any hollow place, or place of rest and security, surrounded or enclosed; to embed.
- (transitive) To set out (plants) in a garden bed.
- (transitive) To furnish with a bed or bedding.
- (transitive) To set in a soft matrix, as paving stones in sand, or tiles in cement.
- (transitive) To lay flat; to lay in order; to place in a horizontal or recumbent position.
- To settle, as machinery.
- put to bed
- have sexual intercourse with
- place (plants) in a prepared bed of soil
- furnish with a bed
- prepare for sleep
- (Midlands) A passageway between terraced houses that provides a means of entering a back garden or yard.
- (uncountable) Permission to enter.
- A small group formed within a church, especially Episcopal, for simple dinner and fellowship, and to help facilitate new friendships
- (linear algebra) A term at any position in a matrix.
- A record made in a log, diary or anything similarly organized; (computing) a datum in a database.
- The act of entering.
- A doorway that provides a means of entering a building.
- An item in a list, such as an article in a dictionary or encyclopedia.
- The exhibition or depositing of a ship's papers at the customhouse, to procure licence to land goods; or the giving an account of a ship's cargo to the officer of the customs, and obtaining his permission to land the goods.
- (hunting) The introduction of new hounds into a pack.
- (insurance) The start of an insurance contract.
- (law) The act of taking possession.
- A small room immediately inside the front door of a house or other building, often having an access to a stairway and leading on to other rooms
- (music) The point when a musician starts to play or sing; entrance.
- something that provides access (to get in or get out)
- something (manuscripts or architectural plans and models or estimates or works of art of all genres etc.) submitted for the judgment of others (as in a competition)
- an item inserted in a written record
- the act of beginning something new
- the act of entering
- a written record of a commercial transaction
- a path or strip (as cut by one course of mowing)
- endless loop of flexible material between two rotating shafts or pulleys
- a band to tie or buckle around the body (usually at the waist)
- ammunition (usually of small caliber) loaded in flexible linked strips for use in a machine gun
- a vigorous blow
- the act of hitting vigorously
- an elongated region where a specific condition or characteristic is found
- A quick drink of liquor.
- (baseball) The part of the strike zone at the height of the batter's waist.
- (weaponry) A device that holds and feeds cartridges into a belt-fed weapon.
- A powerful blow, often made with a fist or heavy object.
- A band used as a restraint for safety purposes, such as a seat belt.
- (usually capitalized) A geographical region known for a particular product, feature or demographic (Corn Belt, Bible Belt, Black Belt, Green Belt).
- (military, nautical) A band of armor along the sides of a warship, protecting the ship's vital spaces.
- (astronomy) A collection of small bodies (such as asteroids) which orbit a star.
- A band that is used in a machine to help transfer motion or power.
- (astronomy) One of certain girdles or zones on the surface of the planets Jupiter and Saturn, supposed to be of the nature of clouds.
- (geography, geology) A mostly-continuous, often curvilinear structure expressed on the surface or in the subsurface of a terrestrial planet or other solid planemo, such as a mountain belt, a fold and thrust belt, or an ore belt.
- (music) A vocal tone produced by singing with chest voice above the break (or passaggio), in a range typically sung in head voice.
- A trophy in the shape of a belt, generally awarded for martial arts.
- Anything that resembles a belt, or that encircles or crosses like a belt; a strip or stripe.
- (clothing) A band worn around the waist to hold clothing to one's body (usually pants), hold weapons (such as a gun or sword), or serve as a decorative piece of clothing.
- deliver a blow to
- sing loudly and forcefully
- fasten with a belt
- (transitive, informal, normally belt out) To scream or sing in a loud, strong manner.
- (transitive) To drink quickly, often in gulps.
- (transitive) To invest (a person) with a belt as part of a formal ceremony such as knighthood.
- (transitive) To fasten a belt on; to encircle with a belt.
- (transitive, colloquial) To hit someone or something, especially forcefully; to bash.
- (transitive) To hit with a belt.
- (transitive, baseball) To hit a pitched ball a long distance, usually for a home run.
- (intransitive) To move, run, drive, etc., very fast.
- (transitive) To encircle; to surround.
- Direction, path.
- A sentence of dialogue, especially in a play, movie, or the like.
- (geometry) An infinitely extending one-dimensional figure that has no curvature; one that has length but not breadth or thickness.
- A procession, either physical or conceptual, which results from the application or effect of a given rationale or other controlling principles of belief, opinion, practice, or phenomenon.
- A written or printed row of letters, words, numbers, or other text, especially a row of words extending across a page or column, or a blank in place of such text.
- The longer fiber(s) of flax.
- (geography) A circle of latitude or of longitude, as represented on a map.
- A long tape or ribbon marked with units for measuring; a tape measure.
- (graph theory) An edge of a graph.
- (cricket) The horizontal path of a ball towards the batsman (see also length).
- (genetics) A population of cells derived from a single cell and containing the same genetic makeup.
- A verse (in poetry).
- (geography, 'the line' or 'equinoctial line') The equator.
- Course of conduct, thought, occupation, or policy; method of argument; department of industry, trade, or intellectual activity.
- A rope, cord, string, thread, or cable, of any thickness.
- Any of an ill-defined set of units of length, varying according to the country, discipline, industry, and date of application, commonly with no indication of the intended magnitude:
- A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen; any path, curved or straight.
- (soccer) The goal line.
- (South Korean idol fandom) A group of people born in a certain year (liners).
- (fencing) The position in which the fencers hold their swords.
- One fortieth of an inch.
- The exterior limit of a figure or territory: a boundary, contour, or outline; a demarcation.
- (music) One of the straight horizontal and parallel prolonged strokes on and between which the notes are placed.
- (geometry, informal) A line segment; a continuous finite segment of such a figure.
- A set of products or services sold by a business, or by extension, the business itself.
- (Australian rules football) A set of positions in a team which play in a similar position on the field; in a traditional team, consisting of three players and acting as one of six such sets in the team.
- A hose, tube, or pipe, of any size.
- A threadlike crease or wrinkle marking the face, hand, or body; hence, a characteristic mark.
- (historical) A maxwell, a unit of magnetic flux.
- (engineering) Proper relative position or adjustment (of parts, not as to design or proportion, but with reference to smooth working).
- (military, nautical) Ellipsis of line of battle.
- (perfusion line) a set composed of a spike, a drip chamber, a clamp, a Y-injection site, a three-way stopcock and a catheter.
- One sixteenth of an inch.
- The official, stated position (or set of positions) of an individual or group, particularly a political or religious faction.
- A more-or-less straight sequence of people, objects, etc., either arranged as a queue or column and often waiting to be processed or dealt with, or arranged abreast of one another in a row (and contrasted with a column), as in a military formation.
- The wire connecting one telegraphic station with another, a telephone or internet cable between two points: a telephone or network connection.
- (informal) A portion or serving of a powdery recreational drug, especially cocaine, formed into a line on a flat surface in preparation for snorting.
- (stock exchange) A number of shares taken by a jobber.
- A letter, a written form of communication.
- (slang) Information about or understanding of something. (Mostly restricted to the expressions get a line on, have a line on, and give a line on.)
- (baseball, slang, 1800s, with "the") The batter's box.
- A series or succession of ancestors or descendants of a given person; a family or race; compare lineage.
- (historical) A tsarist-era Russian unit of measure, approximately equal to one tenth of an English inch, used especially when measuring the calibre of firearms.
- (medicine, colloquial) A vascular catheter.
- (advertising) Ellipsis of agate line (one fourteenth of an inch).
- One twelfth of an inch.
- (especially military) A trench or rampart, or the non-physical demarcation of the extent of the territory occupied by specified forces.
- That which was measured by a line, such as a field or any piece of land set apart; hence, allotted place of abode.
- A clothesline.
- (automotive) A particular path taken by a vehicle when driving a bend or corner in the road.
- Lineament; feature; figure (of one's body).
- (music) A series of notes forming a certain part (such as the bass or melody) of a greater work.
- (ice hockey) A group of forwards that play together.
- A lie or exaggeration, especially one told to gain another's approval or prevent losing it.
- (military) The regular infantry of an army, as distinguished from militia, guards, volunteer corps, cavalry, artillery, etc.
- A connected series of public conveyances, as a roadbed or railway track; and hence, an established arrangement for forwarding merchandise, etc.; a railroad line, railway line, Elizabeth Line etc.
- the road consisting of railroad track and roadbed
- a slight depression or fold in the smoothness of a surface
- a pipe used to transport liquids or gases
- (often plural) a means of communication or access
- a commercial organization serving as a common carrier
- text consisting of a row of words written across a page or computer screen
- a formation of people or things one beside another
- a fortified position (especially one marking the most forward position of troops)
- the hereditary derivation of an individual
- a conceptual separation or distinction
- the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
- persuasive but insincere talk that is usually intended to deceive or impress
- a particular kind of product or merchandise
- a mark that is long relative to its width
- a conductor for transmitting electrical or optical signals or electric power
- a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence
- the maximum credit that a customer is allowed
- mechanical system in a factory whereby an article is conveyed through sites at which successive operations are performed on it
- a spatial location defined by a real or imaginary unidimensional extent
- a course of reasoning aimed at demonstrating a truth or falsehood; the methodical process of logical reasoning
- a single frequency (or very narrow band) of radiation in a spectrum
- space for one line of print (one column wide and 1/14 inch deep) used to measure advertising
- a connected series of events or actions or developments
- acting in conformity
- in games or sports; a mark indicating positions or bounds of the playing area
- a short personal letter
- something (as a cord or rope) that is long and thin and flexible
- a length (straight or curved) without breadth or thickness; the trace of a moving point
- a formation of people or things one behind another
- a telephone connection
- (transitive) To fill or supply (something), as a purse with money.
- (transitive) To form a line along.
- (rail transport) To align (one or more switches) to direct a train onto a particular track.
- (transitive) To track (wild bees) to their nest by following their line of flight.
- (transitive) To place (objects) into a line (usually used with "up"); to form into a line; to align.
- (transitive) To place persons or things along the side of for security or defense; to strengthen by adding; to fortify.
- (transitive) To mark with a line or lines; to cover with lines.
- (transitive) To measure.
- (transitive) To cover the inner surface of (something), originally especially with linen.
- (intransitive, baseball) To hit a line drive; to hit a line drive which is caught for an out. Compare fly and ground.
- fill plentifully
- make a mark or lines on a surface
- cover the interior of
- mark with lines
- reinforce with fabric
- be in line with; form a line along
- To tread, as a path.
- (intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
- To make a sound when struck.
- To be in agitation or doubt.
- To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
- simple past tense of beat
- (military, intransitive) To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
- (intransitive, MLE, MTE, slang, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse.
- (transitive, slang) To rob; to cheat or scam.
- (transitive) To arrive at a place before someone.
- (intransitive) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
- (intransitive) To move with pulsation or throbbing.
- (transitive) To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
- (especially colloquial) past participle of beat
- To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
- To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and lesser intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; said of instruments, tones, or vibrations not perfectly in unison.
- (transitive) To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do or be better than (someone); to excel in a particular, competitive event.
- (transitive) To indicate by beating or drumming.
- (transitive) To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting.
- (transitive) To hit; to strike.
- (transitive, UK, in haggling for a price of a buyer) To persuade the seller to reduce a price.
- move rhythmically
- move with or as if with a regular alternating motion
- strike (a part of one's own body) repeatedly, as in great emotion or in accompaniment to music
- make a rhythmic sound
- move with a thrashing motion
- produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly
- wear out completely
- stir vigorously
- avoid paying
- hit repeatedly
- be superior
- make a sound like a clock or a timer
- shape by beating
- be a mystery or bewildering to
- indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks
- glare or strike with great intensity
- come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
- make by pounding or trampling
- sail with much tacking or with difficulty
- strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting
- give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression
- beat through cleverness and wit
- move with a flapping motion
- (music) The rhythm signalled by a conductor or other musician to the members of a group of musicians.
- (slang) A makeup look; compare beat one's face.
- The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
- A rhythm.
- A pulsation or throb.
- (journalism) The primary focus of a reporter's stories (such as police/courts, education, city government, business etc.).
- (authorship) A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.
- (music) A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is the basic time unit of a piece.
- The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency
- (hunting) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.
- A stroke; a blow.
- (fencing) A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
- The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
- A beatnik.
- the sound of stroke or blow
- a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior
- a regular route for a sentry or policeman
- the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart
- a single pulsation of an oscillation produced by adding two waves of different frequencies; has a frequency equal to the difference between the two oscillations
- the act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing
- (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
- a regular rate of repetition
- a stroke or blow
- the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music
- move along a winding path
- move smoothly and sinuously, like a snake
- form a snake-like pattern
- (transitive, Australia, slang) To steal slyly.
- (US, informal) To drag or draw, as a snake from a hole; often with out.
- (African-American Vernacular, MLE) To inform; to rat; often with out.
- (intransitive) To follow or move in a winding route.
- (nautical) To wind round spirally, as a large rope with a smaller, or with cord, the small rope lying in the spaces between the strands of the large one; to worm.
- (transitive) To clean using a plumbing snake.
- something long, thin, and flexible that resembles a snake
- a long flexible steel coil for dislodging stoppages in curved pipes
- limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous
- a deceitful or treacherous person
- (finance, historical) Ellipsis of snake in the tunnel.
- (African-American Vernacular, MLE, MTE) An informer; a rat.
- A tool for unclogging plumbing.
- Ellipsis of snake game.
- Any of the suborder Serpentes of legless reptile with long, thin bodies and fork-shaped tongues.
- (mathematics) A series of Bézier curves.
- (slang) Trouser snake; the penis.
- Ellipsis of black snake (“firework that creates a trail of ash”).
- (UK, Australia) A flavoured jube (confectionary) in the shape of a snake.
- (cartomancy) The seventh Lenormand card.
- (figurative) A person who acts deceitfully for personal or social gain; a treacherous person.
- A tool to aid cable pulling.
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- (horticulture) A garden with paths between such flowerbeds.
- an ornamental flower garden; beds and paths are arranged to form a pattern
- (theater, by extension) That part of a theater audience seated in the parterre, sometimes regarded as belonging to a lower social class.
- (US, New York) An apartment balcony.
- (British) The part of the ground-floor section behind the stalls and underneath the galleries; the pit.
- The part of the ground-floor section nearest the orchestra and the stage; the stalls.
- (theater) A part of the section of theater seats located on the ground floor, on the same level as the orchestra.
- (horticulture) A flowerbed, particularly an elevated one.
- seating at the rear of the main floor (beneath the balconies)
- (horticulture) A maze formed by paths separated by high hedges.
- (anatomy) A complex structure in the inner ear which contains the organs of hearing and balance, consisting of bony cavities (the bony labyrinth) filled with fluid and lined with sensitive membranes (the membranous labyrinth).
- (zoology) An accessory respiratory organ of certain fish.
- A complicated irregular network of passages or paths, especially underground or covered, in which it is difficult to find one's way.
- Any of various satyrine butterflies of the genus Neope.
- (by extension) Anything complicated and confusing in structure, arrangement, or character.
- A structure similar to a maze, but containing only one path with no branches, as distinguished from a maze which contains multiple branching paths
- a complex system of interconnecting cavities; concerned with hearing and equilibrium
- complex system of paths or tunnels in which it is easy to get lost
- A path cut through woodland.
- The behaviour in the motion of a vehicle, such as oscillation.
- (Canada) Electoral district or constituency.
- The act of one who rides; a mounted excursion.
- (historical) Any of the three administrative divisions of Yorkshire and some other northern counties of England.
- (historical) A festival procession.
- the sport of sitting on the back of a horse while controlling its movements
- travel by being carried on horseback
- A walk or passage in a garden or park, bordered by rows of trees or bushes.
- (informal, rare) A group of clowns; the collective noun for clowns.
- A narrow street or passageway, especially one through the middle of a block giving access to the rear of lots of buildings.
- (bowling) An establishment where bowling is played.
- (tennis) The extra area between the sidelines or tramlines on a tennis court that is used for doubles matches.
- A marble (small ball used in games).
- The space between two rows of compositors' stands in a printing office.
- (baseball) The area between the outfielders.
- (bowling) An elongated wooden strip of floor along which a bowling ball is rolled.
- (perspective drawing) Any passage having the entrance represented as wider than the exit, so as to give the appearance of length.
- A passageway between rows of pews in a church.
- a narrow street with walls on both sides
- a lane down which a bowling ball is rolled toward pins
- a path set aside for walking
- the act of walking somewhere
- manner of walking
- a slow gait of a horse in which two feet are always on the ground
- careers in general
- the act of traveling by foot
- (baseball) an advance to first base by a batter who receives four balls
- A distance walked.
- (Caribbean, Belize, Guyana, Jamaica) An area of an estate planted with fruit-bearing trees.
- (historical) An enclosed area in which a gamecock is confined to prepare him for fighting.
- (colloquial) Something very easily accomplished; a walk in the park.
- A trip made by walking.
- (poker) A situation where all players fold to the big blind, as their first action (instead of calling or raising), once they get their cards.
- (figurative) A person's conduct or course in life.
- A manner of walking; a person's style of walking.
- In coffee, coconut, and other plantations, the space between them.
- (sports) An Olympic Games track event requiring that the heel of the leading foot touch the ground before the toe of the trailing foot leaves the ground.
- (baseball) An award of first base to a batter following four balls being thrown by the pitcher; known in the rules as a "base on balls".
- (historical) A place for keeping and training puppies for dogfighting.
- A path, sidewalk/pavement or other maintained place on which to walk.
- (graph theory) A sequence of alternating vertices and edges, where each edge's endpoints are the preceding and following vertices in the sequence. Compare path, trail.
- make walk
- use one's feet to advance; advance by steps
- take a walk; go for a walk; walk for pleasure
- be or act in association with
- obtain a base on balls
- walk at a pace
- give a base on balls to
- live or behave in a specified manner
- traverse or cover by walking
- accompany or escort
- (machining, intransitive, of a tool, such as a drill bit or reamer) To tend to move radially while feeding axially, whether tending toward on-center or tending toward off-center. Walking may be desirable (e.g., when a reamer walks into concentricity) or undesirable (e.g., when a twist drill walks into eccentricity.)
- (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) Of an object, to go missing or be stolen.
- (transitive) To traverse by walking (or analogous gradual movement).
- (intransitive) To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct oneself.
- (informal, transitive) To move (a guest) to another hotel if their confirmed reservation is not available on the day of check-in.
- (intransitive) To move on the feet by alternately setting each foot (or pair or group of feet, in the case of animals with four or more feet) forward, with at least one foot on the ground at all times. Compare run.
- (transitive) To cause something to move in such a way.
- (transitive) To take for a walk or accompany on a walk.
- (transitive, baseball) To allow a batter to reach base by pitching four balls.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To leave, resign.
- (intransitive, cricket, of a batsman) To walk off the field, as if given out, after the fielding side appeals and before the umpire has ruled; done as a matter of sportsmanship when the batsman believes he is out.
- (intransitive, colloquial, law) To "walk free", i.e. to win, or avoid, a criminal court case, particularly when actually guilty.
- (intransitive) Of an object or machine, to move by shifting between two positions, as if it were walking.
- (transitive, historical) To put, keep, or train (a puppy) in a walk, or training area for dogfighting.
- (transitive) To push (a vehicle) alongside oneself as one walks.
- (intransitive, baseball, of a batter) To reach base by being pitched four balls.
- (transitive, aviation) To operate the left and right throttles of (an aircraft) in alternation.
- (transitive) To full; to beat (cloth) to give it the consistency of felt.
- (intransitive) To go restlessly about; said of things or persons expected to remain quiet, such as a sleeping person, or the spirit of a dead person.
- (transitive) To travel (a distance) by walking.
- (paintball) To pull (a trigger) rapid-fire by alternating two fingers.
- A garden plot.
- (countable) The bottom of a body of water, such as an ocean, sea, lake, or river.
- A shaped piece of timber to hold a cask clear of a ship’s floor; a pallet.
- A piece of music, normally instrumental, over which a radio DJ talks.
- A deposit of ore, coal, etc.
- (uncountable, usually after a preposition) Sleep; rest; getting to sleep.
- (uncountable) Time spent in a bed.
- (masonry) A course of stone or brick in a wall.
- The superficial earthwork, or ballast, of a railroad.
- (uncountable, usually after a preposition) The time for going to sleep or resting in bed; bedtime.
- Clipping of bedroom.
- (countable, geology) The smallest division of a geologic formation or stratigraphic rock series marked by well-defined divisional planes (bedding planes) separating it from layers above and below.
- An area where a large number of oysters, mussels, other sessile shellfish, or a large amount of seaweed is found.
- (countable) A piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, on which to rest or sleep.
- (US, Canada, automotive) The platform of a truck, trailer, wagon, railcar, or other vehicle that supports the load to be hauled.
- (usually after a preposition) One's place of sleep or rest.
- (figurative) Marriage.
- (trampoline) The taut surface of a trampoline.
- A foundation or supporting surface formed of a fluid.
- (figurative, uncountable) Sexual activity.
- A place, or flat surface or layer, on which something else rests or is laid.
- (masonry) The horizontal surface of a building stone.
- A prepared spot in which to spend the night.
- (computing) The flat surface of a scanner on which a document is placed to be scanned.
- (masonry) The lower surface of a brick, slate, or tile.
- (darts) Any of the sections of a dartboard with a point value, delimited by a wire.
- a stratum of ore or coal thick enough to be mined with profit
- a depression forming the ground under a body of water
- (geology) a stratum of rock (especially sedimentary rock)
- a plot of ground in which plants are growing
- the flat surface of a printing press on which the type form is laid in the last stage of producing a newspaper or magazine or book etc.
- a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep
- single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance
- a foundation of earth or rock supporting a road or railroad track
- (intransitive, hunting) Of large game animals: to be at rest.
- (transitive) To place in a bed.
- (transitive) To dress or prepare the surface of (stone) so it can serve as a bed.
- (ambitransitive) To have sex (with).
- (intransitive) To go to bed; to put oneself to sleep.
- (transitive) To lay or put in any hollow place, or place of rest and security, surrounded or enclosed; to embed.
- (transitive) To set out (plants) in a garden bed.
- (transitive) To furnish with a bed or bedding.
- (transitive) To set in a soft matrix, as paving stones in sand, or tiles in cement.
- (transitive) To lay flat; to lay in order; to place in a horizontal or recumbent position.
- To settle, as machinery.
- put to bed
- have sexual intercourse with
- place (plants) in a prepared bed of soil
- furnish with a bed
- prepare for sleep
- (Midlands) A passageway between terraced houses that provides a means of entering a back garden or yard.
- (uncountable) Permission to enter.
- A small group formed within a church, especially Episcopal, for simple dinner and fellowship, and to help facilitate new friendships
- (linear algebra) A term at any position in a matrix.
- A record made in a log, diary or anything similarly organized; (computing) a datum in a database.
- The act of entering.
- A doorway that provides a means of entering a building.
- An item in a list, such as an article in a dictionary or encyclopedia.
- The exhibition or depositing of a ship's papers at the customhouse, to procure licence to land goods; or the giving an account of a ship's cargo to the officer of the customs, and obtaining his permission to land the goods.
- (hunting) The introduction of new hounds into a pack.
- (insurance) The start of an insurance contract.
- (law) The act of taking possession.
- A small room immediately inside the front door of a house or other building, often having an access to a stairway and leading on to other rooms
- (music) The point when a musician starts to play or sing; entrance.
- something that provides access (to get in or get out)
- something (manuscripts or architectural plans and models or estimates or works of art of all genres etc.) submitted for the judgment of others (as in a competition)
- an item inserted in a written record
- the act of beginning something new
- the act of entering
- a written record of a commercial transaction
- a path or strip (as cut by one course of mowing)
- endless loop of flexible material between two rotating shafts or pulleys
- a band to tie or buckle around the body (usually at the waist)
- ammunition (usually of small caliber) loaded in flexible linked strips for use in a machine gun
- a vigorous blow
- the act of hitting vigorously
- an elongated region where a specific condition or characteristic is found
- A quick drink of liquor.
- (baseball) The part of the strike zone at the height of the batter's waist.
- (weaponry) A device that holds and feeds cartridges into a belt-fed weapon.
- A powerful blow, often made with a fist or heavy object.
- A band used as a restraint for safety purposes, such as a seat belt.
- (usually capitalized) A geographical region known for a particular product, feature or demographic (Corn Belt, Bible Belt, Black Belt, Green Belt).
- (military, nautical) A band of armor along the sides of a warship, protecting the ship's vital spaces.
- (astronomy) A collection of small bodies (such as asteroids) which orbit a star.
- A band that is used in a machine to help transfer motion or power.
- (astronomy) One of certain girdles or zones on the surface of the planets Jupiter and Saturn, supposed to be of the nature of clouds.
- (geography, geology) A mostly-continuous, often curvilinear structure expressed on the surface or in the subsurface of a terrestrial planet or other solid planemo, such as a mountain belt, a fold and thrust belt, or an ore belt.
- (music) A vocal tone produced by singing with chest voice above the break (or passaggio), in a range typically sung in head voice.
- A trophy in the shape of a belt, generally awarded for martial arts.
- Anything that resembles a belt, or that encircles or crosses like a belt; a strip or stripe.
- (clothing) A band worn around the waist to hold clothing to one's body (usually pants), hold weapons (such as a gun or sword), or serve as a decorative piece of clothing.
- deliver a blow to
- sing loudly and forcefully
- fasten with a belt
- (transitive, informal, normally belt out) To scream or sing in a loud, strong manner.
- (transitive) To drink quickly, often in gulps.
- (transitive) To invest (a person) with a belt as part of a formal ceremony such as knighthood.
- (transitive) To fasten a belt on; to encircle with a belt.
- (transitive, colloquial) To hit someone or something, especially forcefully; to bash.
- (transitive) To hit with a belt.
- (transitive, baseball) To hit a pitched ball a long distance, usually for a home run.
- (intransitive) To move, run, drive, etc., very fast.
- (transitive) To encircle; to surround.
- Direction, path.
- A sentence of dialogue, especially in a play, movie, or the like.
- (geometry) An infinitely extending one-dimensional figure that has no curvature; one that has length but not breadth or thickness.
- A procession, either physical or conceptual, which results from the application or effect of a given rationale or other controlling principles of belief, opinion, practice, or phenomenon.
- A written or printed row of letters, words, numbers, or other text, especially a row of words extending across a page or column, or a blank in place of such text.
- The longer fiber(s) of flax.
- (geography) A circle of latitude or of longitude, as represented on a map.
- A long tape or ribbon marked with units for measuring; a tape measure.
- (graph theory) An edge of a graph.
- (cricket) The horizontal path of a ball towards the batsman (see also length).
- (genetics) A population of cells derived from a single cell and containing the same genetic makeup.
- A verse (in poetry).
- (geography, 'the line' or 'equinoctial line') The equator.
- Course of conduct, thought, occupation, or policy; method of argument; department of industry, trade, or intellectual activity.
- A rope, cord, string, thread, or cable, of any thickness.
- Any of an ill-defined set of units of length, varying according to the country, discipline, industry, and date of application, commonly with no indication of the intended magnitude:
- A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen; any path, curved or straight.
- (soccer) The goal line.
- (South Korean idol fandom) A group of people born in a certain year (liners).
- (fencing) The position in which the fencers hold their swords.
- One fortieth of an inch.
- The exterior limit of a figure or territory: a boundary, contour, or outline; a demarcation.
- (music) One of the straight horizontal and parallel prolonged strokes on and between which the notes are placed.
- (geometry, informal) A line segment; a continuous finite segment of such a figure.
- A set of products or services sold by a business, or by extension, the business itself.
- (Australian rules football) A set of positions in a team which play in a similar position on the field; in a traditional team, consisting of three players and acting as one of six such sets in the team.
- A hose, tube, or pipe, of any size.
- A threadlike crease or wrinkle marking the face, hand, or body; hence, a characteristic mark.
- (historical) A maxwell, a unit of magnetic flux.
- (engineering) Proper relative position or adjustment (of parts, not as to design or proportion, but with reference to smooth working).
- (military, nautical) Ellipsis of line of battle.
- (perfusion line) a set composed of a spike, a drip chamber, a clamp, a Y-injection site, a three-way stopcock and a catheter.
- One sixteenth of an inch.
- The official, stated position (or set of positions) of an individual or group, particularly a political or religious faction.
- A more-or-less straight sequence of people, objects, etc., either arranged as a queue or column and often waiting to be processed or dealt with, or arranged abreast of one another in a row (and contrasted with a column), as in a military formation.
- The wire connecting one telegraphic station with another, a telephone or internet cable between two points: a telephone or network connection.
- (informal) A portion or serving of a powdery recreational drug, especially cocaine, formed into a line on a flat surface in preparation for snorting.
- (stock exchange) A number of shares taken by a jobber.
- A letter, a written form of communication.
- (slang) Information about or understanding of something. (Mostly restricted to the expressions get a line on, have a line on, and give a line on.)
- (baseball, slang, 1800s, with "the") The batter's box.
- A series or succession of ancestors or descendants of a given person; a family or race; compare lineage.
- (historical) A tsarist-era Russian unit of measure, approximately equal to one tenth of an English inch, used especially when measuring the calibre of firearms.
- (medicine, colloquial) A vascular catheter.
- (advertising) Ellipsis of agate line (one fourteenth of an inch).
- One twelfth of an inch.
- (especially military) A trench or rampart, or the non-physical demarcation of the extent of the territory occupied by specified forces.
- That which was measured by a line, such as a field or any piece of land set apart; hence, allotted place of abode.
- A clothesline.
- (automotive) A particular path taken by a vehicle when driving a bend or corner in the road.
- Lineament; feature; figure (of one's body).
- (music) A series of notes forming a certain part (such as the bass or melody) of a greater work.
- (ice hockey) A group of forwards that play together.
- A lie or exaggeration, especially one told to gain another's approval or prevent losing it.
- (military) The regular infantry of an army, as distinguished from militia, guards, volunteer corps, cavalry, artillery, etc.
- A connected series of public conveyances, as a roadbed or railway track; and hence, an established arrangement for forwarding merchandise, etc.; a railroad line, railway line, Elizabeth Line etc.
- the road consisting of railroad track and roadbed
- a slight depression or fold in the smoothness of a surface
- a pipe used to transport liquids or gases
- (often plural) a means of communication or access
- a commercial organization serving as a common carrier
- text consisting of a row of words written across a page or computer screen
- a formation of people or things one beside another
- a fortified position (especially one marking the most forward position of troops)
- the hereditary derivation of an individual
- a conceptual separation or distinction
- the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
- persuasive but insincere talk that is usually intended to deceive or impress
- a particular kind of product or merchandise
- a mark that is long relative to its width
- a conductor for transmitting electrical or optical signals or electric power
- a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence
- the maximum credit that a customer is allowed
- mechanical system in a factory whereby an article is conveyed through sites at which successive operations are performed on it
- a spatial location defined by a real or imaginary unidimensional extent
- a course of reasoning aimed at demonstrating a truth or falsehood; the methodical process of logical reasoning
- a single frequency (or very narrow band) of radiation in a spectrum
- space for one line of print (one column wide and 1/14 inch deep) used to measure advertising
- a connected series of events or actions or developments
- acting in conformity
- in games or sports; a mark indicating positions or bounds of the playing area
- a short personal letter
- something (as a cord or rope) that is long and thin and flexible
- a length (straight or curved) without breadth or thickness; the trace of a moving point
- a formation of people or things one behind another
- a telephone connection
- (transitive) To fill or supply (something), as a purse with money.
- (transitive) To form a line along.
- (rail transport) To align (one or more switches) to direct a train onto a particular track.
- (transitive) To track (wild bees) to their nest by following their line of flight.
- (transitive) To place (objects) into a line (usually used with "up"); to form into a line; to align.
- (transitive) To place persons or things along the side of for security or defense; to strengthen by adding; to fortify.
- (transitive) To mark with a line or lines; to cover with lines.
- (transitive) To measure.
- (transitive) To cover the inner surface of (something), originally especially with linen.
- (intransitive, baseball) To hit a line drive; to hit a line drive which is caught for an out. Compare fly and ground.
- fill plentifully
- make a mark or lines on a surface
- cover the interior of
- mark with lines
- reinforce with fabric
- be in line with; form a line along
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- To tread, as a path.
- (intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
- To make a sound when struck.
- To be in agitation or doubt.
- To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
- simple past tense of beat
- (military, intransitive) To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
- (intransitive, MLE, MTE, slang, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse.
- (transitive, slang) To rob; to cheat or scam.
- (transitive) To arrive at a place before someone.
- (intransitive) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
- (intransitive) To move with pulsation or throbbing.
- (transitive) To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
- (especially colloquial) past participle of beat
- To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
- To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and lesser intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; said of instruments, tones, or vibrations not perfectly in unison.
- (transitive) To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do or be better than (someone); to excel in a particular, competitive event.
- (transitive) To indicate by beating or drumming.
- (transitive) To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting.
- (transitive) To hit; to strike.
- (transitive, UK, in haggling for a price of a buyer) To persuade the seller to reduce a price.
- move rhythmically
- move with or as if with a regular alternating motion
- strike (a part of one's own body) repeatedly, as in great emotion or in accompaniment to music
- make a rhythmic sound
- move with a thrashing motion
- produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly
- wear out completely
- stir vigorously
- avoid paying
- hit repeatedly
- be superior
- make a sound like a clock or a timer
- shape by beating
- be a mystery or bewildering to
- indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks
- glare or strike with great intensity
- come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
- make by pounding or trampling
- sail with much tacking or with difficulty
- strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting
- give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression
- beat through cleverness and wit
- move with a flapping motion
- (music) The rhythm signalled by a conductor or other musician to the members of a group of musicians.
- (slang) A makeup look; compare beat one's face.
- The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
- A rhythm.
- A pulsation or throb.
- (journalism) The primary focus of a reporter's stories (such as police/courts, education, city government, business etc.).
- (authorship) A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.
- (music) A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is the basic time unit of a piece.
- The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency
- (hunting) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.
- A stroke; a blow.
- (fencing) A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
- The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
- A beatnik.
- the sound of stroke or blow
- a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior
- a regular route for a sentry or policeman
- the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart
- a single pulsation of an oscillation produced by adding two waves of different frequencies; has a frequency equal to the difference between the two oscillations
- the act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing
- (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
- a regular rate of repetition
- a stroke or blow
- the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music
- move along a winding path
- move smoothly and sinuously, like a snake
- form a snake-like pattern
- (transitive, Australia, slang) To steal slyly.
- (US, informal) To drag or draw, as a snake from a hole; often with out.
- (African-American Vernacular, MLE) To inform; to rat; often with out.
- (intransitive) To follow or move in a winding route.
- (nautical) To wind round spirally, as a large rope with a smaller, or with cord, the small rope lying in the spaces between the strands of the large one; to worm.
- (transitive) To clean using a plumbing snake.
- something long, thin, and flexible that resembles a snake
- a long flexible steel coil for dislodging stoppages in curved pipes
- limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous
- a deceitful or treacherous person
- (finance, historical) Ellipsis of snake in the tunnel.
- (African-American Vernacular, MLE, MTE) An informer; a rat.
- A tool for unclogging plumbing.
- Ellipsis of snake game.
- Any of the suborder Serpentes of legless reptile with long, thin bodies and fork-shaped tongues.
- (mathematics) A series of Bézier curves.
- (slang) Trouser snake; the penis.
- Ellipsis of black snake (“firework that creates a trail of ash”).
- (UK, Australia) A flavoured jube (confectionary) in the shape of a snake.
- (cartomancy) The seventh Lenormand card.
- (figurative) A person who acts deceitfully for personal or social gain; a treacherous person.
- A tool to aid cable pulling.
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- of a path e.g.
- marked by repeated turns and bends
- Chiefly of a staircase: helical, spiral.
- (not comparable, music) Of a horn or wind instrument: blown to make a sound.
- (comparable) Causing one to be breathless or out of breath.
- Moving in a sinuous or twisting manner.
- (figurative) Of speech, writing, etc.: not direct or to the point; rambling, roundabout.
- Sinuous, turning, or twisting in form.
- the act of winding or twisting
- (especially in the plural) A curving, sinuous, or twisting form.
- (agriculture, chiefly attributive) The act of winnowing (“subjecting food grain to a current of air to separate the grain from the chaff”).
- (music) The act of blowing air through a wind instrument or (chiefly) a horn to make a sound.
- (lutherie) Synonym of lapping (“lengths of fine silk, metal wire, or whalebone wrapped tightly around the stick of the bow of a string instrument adjacent to the leather part of the bow grip at the heel”).
- Sometimes followed by up: the act of hoisting something using a winch or a similar device.
- The act of twisting something, or coiling or wrapping something around another thing.
- (especially in the plural) A curving, sinuous, or twisting movement; twists and turns.
- Something wound around another thing.
- (figurative, chiefly in the plural) Twists and turns in an occurrence, in thinking, or some other thing; also, moral crookedness; craftiness, shiftiness.
- Chiefly followed by up: the act of tightening the spring of a clockwork or other mechanism.
- (British, nautical) The act or process of turning a boat or ship in a certain direction.
- (electrical engineering) A length of wire wound around the armature of an electric motor or the core of an electrical transformer.