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noun
- (music) A type of stringed instrument, most often an acoustic guitar, with a flat top (as opposed to an archtop), with strings held in place with pins, and with a complex system of bracing struts on the top.
- (US, navy, informal) An aircraft carrier.
- (US) A short haircut in which the hair is brushed straight up then cut flat across the top.
- (cooking) A grill with a flat cooking surface rather than metal bars.
- a closely cropped haircut; usually for men or boys
- a large warship that carries planes and has a long flat deck for takeoffs and landings
noun
noun
- The string of a musical instrument.
- (engineering) A horizontal member of a truss.
- (aeronautics) The distance between the leading and trailing edge of a wing, measured in the direction of the normal airflow.
- (graph theory) An edge that is not part of a cycle but connects two vertices of the cycle.
- (rail transport) A section of subsidiary railway track that interconnects two primary tracks that cross at different levels, to permit traffic to flow between them.
- (music) A harmonic set of three or more notes that is heard as if sounding simultaneously.
- (nautical) An imaginary line from the luff of a sail to its leech.
- (geometry) A line segment between two points of a curve.
- (anatomy) A cord.
- (computing) A keyboard shortcut that involves two or more distinct keypresses, such as Ctrl+M followed by P.
- a combination of three or more notes that blend harmoniously when sounded together
- a straight line connecting two points on a curve
verb
verb
- (transitive, music) To play (a single string on a musical instrument) by pulling and then releasing it, such as on a guitar.
- (intransitive) To pull or twitch sharply.
- (transitive) To play a string instrument pizzicato.
- (transitive) To remove feathers from (a bird).
- Of a glacier: to transport individual pieces of bedrock by means of gradual erosion through freezing and thawing.
- (transitive) To pull something sharply; to pull something out
- (transitive) To take or remove (someone) quickly from a particular place or situation.
- sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity
- look for and gather
- rip off; ask an unreasonable price
- pull or pull out sharply
- pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion
- strip of feathers
noun
- The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals.
- An instance of plucking or pulling sharply.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang, uncountable) Cheap wine.
- (informal, figurative, uncountable) Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence.
- the act of pulling and releasing a taut cord
- the trait of showing courage and determination in spite of possible loss or injury
noun
- (informal) An electric guitar.
- (informal, sometimes humorous) A domineering, antagonistic woman.
- An ancient military weapon, an axe designed for combat, including (in heraldry) when borne on arms as a mark of prowess.
- (Australia, usually spelt "battleaxe") An allotment of land at the rear of another property, with a long, narrow strip of land connecting it to the roadway.
verb
- sound the strings of (a stringed instrument)
- make a rhythmic sound
- sound with a monotonous hum
- To cause a steady rhythmic vibration, usually by plucking.
- To furnish with thrums; to insert tufts in; to fringe.
- To make a monotonous drumming noise.
- (nautical) To insert short pieces of rope-yarn or spun yarn in.
noun
- a thrumming sound
- (figurative) A spicy taste; a tang.
- (botany) A threadlike part of a flower; a stamen.
- Any short piece of leftover thread or yarn; a tuft or tassel.
- (anatomy) A bundle of minute blood vessels, a plexus.
- (chiefly in the plural) A fringe made of such threads.
- (mining) A shove out of place; a small displacement or fault along a seam.
- The ends of the warp threads in a loom which remain unwoven attached to the loom when the web is cut.
- (nautical) A mat made of canvas and tufts of yarn.
- (nautical, chiefly in the plural) Small pieces of rope yarn used for making mats or mops.
- (botany) A tuft, bundle, or fringe of any threadlike structures, as hairs on a leaf, fibers of a root.
- A thrumming sound; a hum or vibration.
adj
verb
- (music) To pluck the individual strings of a musical instrument or to play such an instrument.
- To remove something from somewhere with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth.
- To harvest a fruit or vegetable for consumption by removing it from the plant to which it is attached; to harvest an entire plant by removing it from the ground.
- To decide upon, from a set of options; to select.
- To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble.
- (ambitransitive) To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points.
- (cricket) To recognise the type of ball being bowled by a bowler by studying the position of the hand and arm as the ball is released.
- To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.
- (American football, informal) To intercept a pass from the offense as a defensive player.
- To take up; especially, to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together.
- To open (a lock) with a wire, lock pick, etc.
- To do anything fastidiously or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care.
- (basketball) To screen.
- To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck.
- To steal; to pilfer.
- (transitive) To seek (a fight or quarrel) where the opportunity arises.
- remove in small bits
- look for and gather
- select carefully from a group
- eat intermittently; take small bites of
- provoke
- pay for something
- pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion
- remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits
- harass with constant criticism
- attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example
- pilfer or rob
- hit lightly with a picking motion
noun
- (music) A tool used for strumming the strings of a guitar; a plectrum.
- A pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.
- (American football) An interception.
- (art, painting) That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.
- A tool used for digging; a pickaxe.
- (Australia) Pasture; feed, for animals.
- (baseball) A good defensive play by an infielder.
- (baseball) A pickoff.
- A tool for unlocking a lock without the original key; a lock pick, picklock.
- (lacrosse) An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
- A comb with long widely spaced teeth, for use with tightly curled hair.
- (nautical, slang) An anchor.
- A choice; ability to choose.
- That which would be picked or chosen first; the best.
- (basketball) A screen.
- (weaving) The blow that drives the shuttle, used in calculating the speed of a loom (in picks per minute); hence, in describing the fineness of a fabric, a weft thread.
- a small thin device (of metal or plastic or ivory) used to pluck a stringed instrument
- the best people or things in a group
- the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving
- a heavy iron tool with a wooden handle and a curved head that is pointed on both ends
- the quantity of a crop that is harvested
- a basketball maneuver; obstructing an opponent with one's body
- the person or thing chosen or selected
- the act of choosing or selecting
- a thin sharp implement used for removing unwanted material
noun
- (music) A small piece of plastic, metal, ivory, etc., for plucking the strings of a guitar, lyre, mandolin, etc.
- (anatomy, zoology) A projection of bone or other stiff tissue, such as the ridges in some insects' stridulatory organs.
- a small thin device (of metal or plastic or ivory) used to pluck a stringed instrument
noun
- (music) A 10-string steel-string acoustic guitar, used in Brazilian folk music.
- A stringed instrument of the violin family, somewhat larger than a violin, played under the chin, and having a deeper tone.
- (music) A berimbau viola, the smallest member of the berimbau used in capoeira music.
- (music) An organ stop having a similar tone.
- (botany) Any of several flowering plants, of the genus Viola, including the violets and pansies.
- A person who plays the viola.
- any of the numerous plants of the genus Viola
- a bowed stringed instrument slightly larger than a violin, tuned a fifth lower
intj
noun
- (music) a bass guitar playing technique in which multiple notes are played rapidly from one string to another.
- The act or process of using a rake; the going over a space with a rake.
- A space gone over with a rake; also, the work done, or the quantity of hay, grain, etc., collected, by going once over a space with a rake.
adj
verb
verb
noun
- (music) A stringed musical instrument, of European origin, usually with a fretted fingerboard and six strings, played with the fingers or a plectrum (guitar pick).
- (music) Any type of musical instrument of the lute family, characterized by a flat back, along with a neck whose upper surface is in the same plane as the soundboard, with strings along the neck and parallel to the soundboard.
- a stringed instrument usually having six strings; played by strumming or plucking
noun
- (music) A guitar technique in which the strings are tapped against the fingerboard
- An act of making a light hit or strike against something.
- The process by which a resource is tapped or exploited.
- (electrical engineering) A connection made to some point between the end terminals of a transformer coil or other component.
- the sound of light blow or knock
verb
verb
- (music) To play a stringed musical instrument by plucking and snapping.
- (intransitive) To have a trace of a regional or foreign accent.
- (intransitive) To have a nasal sound.
- (ambitransitive) To produce or cause to produce a sharp vibrating sound, like a tense string pulled and suddenly let go.
- pronounce with a nasal twang
- twitch or throb with pain
- cause to sound with a twang
- sound with a twang
- pluck (strings of an instrument)
noun
- The sharp, quick sound of a vibrating tight string, for example, of a bow or a musical instrument.
- (vulgar, slang) An annoying or stupid person; especially, a recalcitrant.
- A sharp, pungent taste or flavor; sometimes, a disagreeable one specifically.
- A trace of a regional or foreign accent in someone's voice.
- (music) A particular sharp vibrating sound characteristic of electric guitars.
- (phonetics) The sound quality that appears in the human voice when the epilaryngeal tube is narrowed.
- a sharp vibrating sound (as of a plucked string)
- exaggerated nasality in speech (as in some regional dialects)
verb
- (transitive, music) To press down the string behind a fret.
- (transitive) To make rough, to agitate or disturb; to cause to ripple.
- (transitive) To decorate or ornament, especially with an interlaced or interwoven pattern, or (architecture) with carving or relief (raised) work.
- (transitive, music) # To fit frets on to (a musical instrument).
- (intransitive) To be anxious, to worry.
- (transitive) To cut through with a fretsaw, to create fretwork.
- (intransitive) To be agitated; to rankle; to be in violent commotion.
- (transitive) To form a pattern on; to variegate.
- (transitive) In the form fret out: to squander, to waste.
- (ambitransitive) To gnaw; to consume, to eat away.
- (intransitive, brewing, wine) To have secondary fermentation (fermentation occurring after the conversion of sugar to alcohol in beers and wine) take place.
- (ambitransitive) To be chafed or irritated; to be angry or vexed; to utter peevish expressions through irritation or worry.
- (transitive) To chafe or irritate; to worry.
- To bind, to tie, originally with a loop or ring.
- (ambitransitive) To mine by agitating or eating away at (ore in the bank of a river).
- (intransitive) To be worn away; to chafe; to fray.
- cause annoyance in
- worry unnecessarily or excessively
- provide (a musical instrument) with frets
- become or make sore by or as if by rubbing
- carve a pattern into
- gnaw into; make resentful or angry
- wear away or erode
- cause friction
- remove soil or rock
- be agitated or irritated
- be too tight; rub or press
- decorate with an interlaced design
noun
- Agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or some other cause; a rippling on the surface of water.
- Agitation of the mind marked by complaint and impatience; disturbance of temper; irritation.
- (rare) A channel or passage created by the sea.
- (Northumbria) A fog or mist at sea, or coming inland from the sea.
- (mining, in the plural) The worn sides of riverbanks, where ores or stones containing them accumulate after being washed down from higher ground, which thus indicate to miners the locality of veins of ore.
- (music) One of the pieces of metal, plastic or wood across the neck of a guitar or other string instrument that marks where a finger should be positioned to depress a string as it is played.
- A channel, a strait; a fretum.
- (heraldry) A saltire interlaced with a mascle.
- An ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines, often in relief.
- Herpes; tetter (“any of various pustular skin conditions”).
- an ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines (often in relief)
- agitation resulting from active worry
- a spot that has been worn away by abrasion or erosion
- a small bar of metal across the fingerboard of a musical instrument; when the string is stopped by a finger at the metal bar it will produce a note of the desired pitch
noun
- (music) A technique for playing stringed instrument that produces high-pitched overtones.
- (music) A type of small flute of the fipple family.
- A type of small light green kidney-shaped bean, common in France.
- a French bean variety with light-colored seeds; usually dried
- a small fipple flute with four finger holes and two thumb holes
noun
- a stringed instrument of the guitar family that has long neck and circular body
- (slang, vulgar) The frenulum of the penis.
- Any of various similar musical instruments, such as the Tuvan doshpuluur, with a membrane-like soundboard.
- (mining) A miner's round-nosed shovel.
- (Malaysia) An egg sandwich fried on a flattop and served in a bun as would a burger, ellipsis of egg banjo.
- A stringed musical instrument (chordophone), usually with a round body, a membrane-like soundboard and a fretted neck, played by plucking or strumming the strings.
- (UK, Dagenham) A cul-de-sac with a round end.
- (slang) An object shaped like a banjo, especially a frying pan or a shovel.
verb
verb
- (guitar) To increase the tension on a string at the fret, causing the note to sharpen.
- To bend over.
- To bend to excess; to bend farther than the desired or intended amount.
- (harmonica) To overblow or overdraw in order to create a note that is sharper; to move the point in the mouth where airflow is narrowest forward.
noun
- The portion of a pipeline that curves downward from a higher level to the inflection point where the surface holding the upper part is no longer supporting the pipe.
- (guitar) A note that is played sharp due to overbending.
- An instance of overbending (bending too far).
- The amount by which a material has been overbent.
- (harmonica) A note that is played sharp due to overbending.
noun
- A cord or string, particularly (music) as of a musical instrument.
- (figuratively, often in the plural) That which gives strength or in which strength consists; a supporting factor or member; mainstay.
- (anatomy) A cord or tendon of the body.
- (figuratively) Muscular power, muscle; nerve, nervous energy; vigor, vigorous strength.
- a cord or band of inelastic tissue connecting a muscle with its bony attachment
- possessing muscular strength
verb
adj
noun
noun
- (music) A type of stringed instrument, most often an acoustic guitar, with a flat top (as opposed to an archtop), with strings held in place with pins, and with a complex system of bracing struts on the top.
- (US, navy, informal) An aircraft carrier.
- (US) A short haircut in which the hair is brushed straight up then cut flat across the top.
- (cooking) A grill with a flat cooking surface rather than metal bars.
- a closely cropped haircut; usually for men or boys
- a large warship that carries planes and has a long flat deck for takeoffs and landings
noun
noun
- The string of a musical instrument.
- (engineering) A horizontal member of a truss.
- (aeronautics) The distance between the leading and trailing edge of a wing, measured in the direction of the normal airflow.
- (graph theory) An edge that is not part of a cycle but connects two vertices of the cycle.
- (rail transport) A section of subsidiary railway track that interconnects two primary tracks that cross at different levels, to permit traffic to flow between them.
- (music) A harmonic set of three or more notes that is heard as if sounding simultaneously.
- (nautical) An imaginary line from the luff of a sail to its leech.
- (geometry) A line segment between two points of a curve.
- (anatomy) A cord.
- (computing) A keyboard shortcut that involves two or more distinct keypresses, such as Ctrl+M followed by P.
- a combination of three or more notes that blend harmoniously when sounded together
- a straight line connecting two points on a curve
verb
noun
- (informal) An electric guitar.
- (informal, sometimes humorous) A domineering, antagonistic woman.
- An ancient military weapon, an axe designed for combat, including (in heraldry) when borne on arms as a mark of prowess.
- (Australia, usually spelt "battleaxe") An allotment of land at the rear of another property, with a long, narrow strip of land connecting it to the roadway.
noun
- (music) A small piece of plastic, metal, ivory, etc., for plucking the strings of a guitar, lyre, mandolin, etc.
- (anatomy, zoology) A projection of bone or other stiff tissue, such as the ridges in some insects' stridulatory organs.
- a small thin device (of metal or plastic or ivory) used to pluck a stringed instrument
noun
- (music) A 10-string steel-string acoustic guitar, used in Brazilian folk music.
- A stringed instrument of the violin family, somewhat larger than a violin, played under the chin, and having a deeper tone.
- (music) A berimbau viola, the smallest member of the berimbau used in capoeira music.
- (music) An organ stop having a similar tone.
- (botany) Any of several flowering plants, of the genus Viola, including the violets and pansies.
- A person who plays the viola.
- any of the numerous plants of the genus Viola
- a bowed stringed instrument slightly larger than a violin, tuned a fifth lower
intj
verb
- (music) To pluck the individual strings of a musical instrument or to play such an instrument.
- To remove something from somewhere with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth.
- To harvest a fruit or vegetable for consumption by removing it from the plant to which it is attached; to harvest an entire plant by removing it from the ground.
- To decide upon, from a set of options; to select.
- To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble.
- (ambitransitive) To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points.
- (cricket) To recognise the type of ball being bowled by a bowler by studying the position of the hand and arm as the ball is released.
- To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.
- (American football, informal) To intercept a pass from the offense as a defensive player.
- To take up; especially, to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together.
- To open (a lock) with a wire, lock pick, etc.
- To do anything fastidiously or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care.
- (basketball) To screen.
- To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck.
- To steal; to pilfer.
- (transitive) To seek (a fight or quarrel) where the opportunity arises.
- remove in small bits
- look for and gather
- select carefully from a group
- eat intermittently; take small bites of
- provoke
- pay for something
- pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion
- remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits
- harass with constant criticism
- attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example
- pilfer or rob
- hit lightly with a picking motion
noun
- (music) A tool used for strumming the strings of a guitar; a plectrum.
- A pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.
- (American football) An interception.
- (art, painting) That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.
- A tool used for digging; a pickaxe.
- (Australia) Pasture; feed, for animals.
- (baseball) A good defensive play by an infielder.
- (baseball) A pickoff.
- A tool for unlocking a lock without the original key; a lock pick, picklock.
- (lacrosse) An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
- A comb with long widely spaced teeth, for use with tightly curled hair.
- (nautical, slang) An anchor.
- A choice; ability to choose.
- That which would be picked or chosen first; the best.
- (basketball) A screen.
- (weaving) The blow that drives the shuttle, used in calculating the speed of a loom (in picks per minute); hence, in describing the fineness of a fabric, a weft thread.
- a small thin device (of metal or plastic or ivory) used to pluck a stringed instrument
- the best people or things in a group
- the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving
- a heavy iron tool with a wooden handle and a curved head that is pointed on both ends
- the quantity of a crop that is harvested
- a basketball maneuver; obstructing an opponent with one's body
- the person or thing chosen or selected
- the act of choosing or selecting
- a thin sharp implement used for removing unwanted material
noun
- (music) a bass guitar playing technique in which multiple notes are played rapidly from one string to another.
- The act or process of using a rake; the going over a space with a rake.
- A space gone over with a rake; also, the work done, or the quantity of hay, grain, etc., collected, by going once over a space with a rake.
adj
verb
verb
noun
- (music) A stringed musical instrument, of European origin, usually with a fretted fingerboard and six strings, played with the fingers or a plectrum (guitar pick).
- (music) Any type of musical instrument of the lute family, characterized by a flat back, along with a neck whose upper surface is in the same plane as the soundboard, with strings along the neck and parallel to the soundboard.
- a stringed instrument usually having six strings; played by strumming or plucking
noun
- (music) A guitar technique in which the strings are tapped against the fingerboard
- An act of making a light hit or strike against something.
- The process by which a resource is tapped or exploited.
- (electrical engineering) A connection made to some point between the end terminals of a transformer coil or other component.
- the sound of light blow or knock
verb
noun
- (music) A technique for playing stringed instrument that produces high-pitched overtones.
- (music) A type of small flute of the fipple family.
- A type of small light green kidney-shaped bean, common in France.
- a French bean variety with light-colored seeds; usually dried
- a small fipple flute with four finger holes and two thumb holes
noun
- a stringed instrument of the guitar family that has long neck and circular body
- (slang, vulgar) The frenulum of the penis.
- Any of various similar musical instruments, such as the Tuvan doshpuluur, with a membrane-like soundboard.
- (mining) A miner's round-nosed shovel.
- (Malaysia) An egg sandwich fried on a flattop and served in a bun as would a burger, ellipsis of egg banjo.
- A stringed musical instrument (chordophone), usually with a round body, a membrane-like soundboard and a fretted neck, played by plucking or strumming the strings.
- (UK, Dagenham) A cul-de-sac with a round end.
- (slang) An object shaped like a banjo, especially a frying pan or a shovel.
verb
noun
- A cord or string, particularly (music) as of a musical instrument.
- (figuratively, often in the plural) That which gives strength or in which strength consists; a supporting factor or member; mainstay.
- (anatomy) A cord or tendon of the body.
- (figuratively) Muscular power, muscle; nerve, nervous energy; vigor, vigorous strength.
- a cord or band of inelastic tissue connecting a muscle with its bony attachment
- possessing muscular strength
verb
verb
- (transitive, music) To play (a single string on a musical instrument) by pulling and then releasing it, such as on a guitar.
- (intransitive) To pull or twitch sharply.
- (transitive) To play a string instrument pizzicato.
- (transitive) To remove feathers from (a bird).
- Of a glacier: to transport individual pieces of bedrock by means of gradual erosion through freezing and thawing.
- (transitive) To pull something sharply; to pull something out
- (transitive) To take or remove (someone) quickly from a particular place or situation.
- sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity
- look for and gather
- rip off; ask an unreasonable price
- pull or pull out sharply
- pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion
- strip of feathers
noun
- The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals.
- An instance of plucking or pulling sharply.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang, uncountable) Cheap wine.
- (informal, figurative, uncountable) Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence.
- the act of pulling and releasing a taut cord
- the trait of showing courage and determination in spite of possible loss or injury
verb
- sound the strings of (a stringed instrument)
- make a rhythmic sound
- sound with a monotonous hum
- To cause a steady rhythmic vibration, usually by plucking.
- To furnish with thrums; to insert tufts in; to fringe.
- To make a monotonous drumming noise.
- (nautical) To insert short pieces of rope-yarn or spun yarn in.
noun
- a thrumming sound
- (figurative) A spicy taste; a tang.
- (botany) A threadlike part of a flower; a stamen.
- Any short piece of leftover thread or yarn; a tuft or tassel.
- (anatomy) A bundle of minute blood vessels, a plexus.
- (chiefly in the plural) A fringe made of such threads.
- (mining) A shove out of place; a small displacement or fault along a seam.
- The ends of the warp threads in a loom which remain unwoven attached to the loom when the web is cut.
- (nautical) A mat made of canvas and tufts of yarn.
- (nautical, chiefly in the plural) Small pieces of rope yarn used for making mats or mops.
- (botany) A tuft, bundle, or fringe of any threadlike structures, as hairs on a leaf, fibers of a root.
- A thrumming sound; a hum or vibration.
adj
verb
- (music) To pluck the individual strings of a musical instrument or to play such an instrument.
- To remove something from somewhere with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth.
- To harvest a fruit or vegetable for consumption by removing it from the plant to which it is attached; to harvest an entire plant by removing it from the ground.
- To decide upon, from a set of options; to select.
- To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble.
- (ambitransitive) To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points.
- (cricket) To recognise the type of ball being bowled by a bowler by studying the position of the hand and arm as the ball is released.
- To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.
- (American football, informal) To intercept a pass from the offense as a defensive player.
- To take up; especially, to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together.
- To open (a lock) with a wire, lock pick, etc.
- To do anything fastidiously or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care.
- (basketball) To screen.
- To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck.
- To steal; to pilfer.
- (transitive) To seek (a fight or quarrel) where the opportunity arises.
- remove in small bits
- look for and gather
- select carefully from a group
- eat intermittently; take small bites of
- provoke
- pay for something
- pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion
- remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits
- harass with constant criticism
- attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example
- pilfer or rob
- hit lightly with a picking motion
noun
- (music) A tool used for strumming the strings of a guitar; a plectrum.
- A pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.
- (American football) An interception.
- (art, painting) That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.
- A tool used for digging; a pickaxe.
- (Australia) Pasture; feed, for animals.
- (baseball) A good defensive play by an infielder.
- (baseball) A pickoff.
- A tool for unlocking a lock without the original key; a lock pick, picklock.
- (lacrosse) An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
- A comb with long widely spaced teeth, for use with tightly curled hair.
- (nautical, slang) An anchor.
- A choice; ability to choose.
- That which would be picked or chosen first; the best.
- (basketball) A screen.
- (weaving) The blow that drives the shuttle, used in calculating the speed of a loom (in picks per minute); hence, in describing the fineness of a fabric, a weft thread.
- a small thin device (of metal or plastic or ivory) used to pluck a stringed instrument
- the best people or things in a group
- the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving
- a heavy iron tool with a wooden handle and a curved head that is pointed on both ends
- the quantity of a crop that is harvested
- a basketball maneuver; obstructing an opponent with one's body
- the person or thing chosen or selected
- the act of choosing or selecting
- a thin sharp implement used for removing unwanted material
verb
noun
- (music) A stringed musical instrument, of European origin, usually with a fretted fingerboard and six strings, played with the fingers or a plectrum (guitar pick).
- (music) Any type of musical instrument of the lute family, characterized by a flat back, along with a neck whose upper surface is in the same plane as the soundboard, with strings along the neck and parallel to the soundboard.
- a stringed instrument usually having six strings; played by strumming or plucking
verb
- (music) To play a stringed musical instrument by plucking and snapping.
- (intransitive) To have a trace of a regional or foreign accent.
- (intransitive) To have a nasal sound.
- (ambitransitive) To produce or cause to produce a sharp vibrating sound, like a tense string pulled and suddenly let go.
- pronounce with a nasal twang
- twitch or throb with pain
- cause to sound with a twang
- sound with a twang
- pluck (strings of an instrument)
noun
- The sharp, quick sound of a vibrating tight string, for example, of a bow or a musical instrument.
- (vulgar, slang) An annoying or stupid person; especially, a recalcitrant.
- A sharp, pungent taste or flavor; sometimes, a disagreeable one specifically.
- A trace of a regional or foreign accent in someone's voice.
- (music) A particular sharp vibrating sound characteristic of electric guitars.
- (phonetics) The sound quality that appears in the human voice when the epilaryngeal tube is narrowed.
- a sharp vibrating sound (as of a plucked string)
- exaggerated nasality in speech (as in some regional dialects)
verb
- (transitive, music) To press down the string behind a fret.
- (transitive) To make rough, to agitate or disturb; to cause to ripple.
- (transitive) To decorate or ornament, especially with an interlaced or interwoven pattern, or (architecture) with carving or relief (raised) work.
- (transitive, music) # To fit frets on to (a musical instrument).
- (intransitive) To be anxious, to worry.
- (transitive) To cut through with a fretsaw, to create fretwork.
- (intransitive) To be agitated; to rankle; to be in violent commotion.
- (transitive) To form a pattern on; to variegate.
- (transitive) In the form fret out: to squander, to waste.
- (ambitransitive) To gnaw; to consume, to eat away.
- (intransitive, brewing, wine) To have secondary fermentation (fermentation occurring after the conversion of sugar to alcohol in beers and wine) take place.
- (ambitransitive) To be chafed or irritated; to be angry or vexed; to utter peevish expressions through irritation or worry.
- (transitive) To chafe or irritate; to worry.
- To bind, to tie, originally with a loop or ring.
- (ambitransitive) To mine by agitating or eating away at (ore in the bank of a river).
- (intransitive) To be worn away; to chafe; to fray.
- cause annoyance in
- worry unnecessarily or excessively
- provide (a musical instrument) with frets
- become or make sore by or as if by rubbing
- carve a pattern into
- gnaw into; make resentful or angry
- wear away or erode
- cause friction
- remove soil or rock
- be agitated or irritated
- be too tight; rub or press
- decorate with an interlaced design
noun
- Agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or some other cause; a rippling on the surface of water.
- Agitation of the mind marked by complaint and impatience; disturbance of temper; irritation.
- (rare) A channel or passage created by the sea.
- (Northumbria) A fog or mist at sea, or coming inland from the sea.
- (mining, in the plural) The worn sides of riverbanks, where ores or stones containing them accumulate after being washed down from higher ground, which thus indicate to miners the locality of veins of ore.
- (music) One of the pieces of metal, plastic or wood across the neck of a guitar or other string instrument that marks where a finger should be positioned to depress a string as it is played.
- A channel, a strait; a fretum.
- (heraldry) A saltire interlaced with a mascle.
- An ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines, often in relief.
- Herpes; tetter (“any of various pustular skin conditions”).
- an ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines (often in relief)
- agitation resulting from active worry
- a spot that has been worn away by abrasion or erosion
- a small bar of metal across the fingerboard of a musical instrument; when the string is stopped by a finger at the metal bar it will produce a note of the desired pitch
noun
- The string of a musical instrument.
- (engineering) A horizontal member of a truss.
- (aeronautics) The distance between the leading and trailing edge of a wing, measured in the direction of the normal airflow.
- (graph theory) An edge that is not part of a cycle but connects two vertices of the cycle.
- (rail transport) A section of subsidiary railway track that interconnects two primary tracks that cross at different levels, to permit traffic to flow between them.
- (music) A harmonic set of three or more notes that is heard as if sounding simultaneously.
- (nautical) An imaginary line from the luff of a sail to its leech.
- (geometry) A line segment between two points of a curve.
- (anatomy) A cord.
- (computing) A keyboard shortcut that involves two or more distinct keypresses, such as Ctrl+M followed by P.
- a combination of three or more notes that blend harmoniously when sounded together
- a straight line connecting two points on a curve
verb
verb
- (guitar) To increase the tension on a string at the fret, causing the note to sharpen.
- To bend over.
- To bend to excess; to bend farther than the desired or intended amount.
- (harmonica) To overblow or overdraw in order to create a note that is sharper; to move the point in the mouth where airflow is narrowest forward.
noun
- The portion of a pipeline that curves downward from a higher level to the inflection point where the surface holding the upper part is no longer supporting the pipe.
- (guitar) A note that is played sharp due to overbending.
- An instance of overbending (bending too far).
- The amount by which a material has been overbent.
- (harmonica) A note that is played sharp due to overbending.