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verb
- (of an aircraft) To separate from the ground on takeoff; to become airborne.
- (nautical, of an anchor) To lift off the sea bottom when being weighed.
- (figurative) To initiate a new venture, or to advance beyond previous achievements.
- (literally) To begin digging in the earth at the start of a new construction, or, originally, for cultivation.
verb
- (intransitive, aviation) To perform a go-around maneuver.
- (intransitive) To visit (a place) or with (somebody).
- (intransitive) To move or spread from person to person.
- (intransitive, slang) To fight or argue; to obsess over something.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, around.
- (intransitive) To be shared with everyone.
- turn on or around an axis or a center
- go around the flank of (an opposing army)
- be sufficient
- avoid something unpleasant or laborious
- become widely known and passed on
noun
- A launch or ascent into the air or into flight, such as of an aircraft, rocket, bird, high-jumper etc.
- the initial ascent of an airplane as it becomes airborne
- The spot from which one takes off; specifically, the place from which a jumper rises in leaping.
- (printing, UK, historical) The removal of sheets from the press.
- (surfing) The initial movement a surfer makes to start riding a wave.
- A quantification, especially of building materials.
- A parody or lampoon of someone or something.
- a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way
- a departure; especially of airplanes
- humorous or satirical mimicry
noun
- (aerospace) Initialism of landing pad.
- Initialism of liquid petroleum or liquified petroleum, a fuel used for cooking.
- Initialism of little person.
- Initialism of liquid propane.
- (programming) Initialism of literate programming.
- (Internet) Abbreviation of landing page.
- (military) Abbreviation of listening post.
- (online gaming, Internet) Initialism of let's play.
- (music, countable) Initialism of long-play.
- Initialism of lactase persistence.
- (mathematics) Abbreviation of linear programming.
- (medicine) Abbreviation of lumbar puncture.
- (finance) Abbreviation of liquidity provider.
- (business, law) Initialism of limited partnership.
- a long-playing phonograph record; designed to be played at 33.3 rpm
name
verb
- (aviation) To taxi down an active runway in the opposite direction to that being used for takeoff.
- To retrace one's steps.
- To repeat or review work already done.
- To exercise a racehorse around the racetrack in the opposite direction to that in which races are run.
- To go back on or withdraw a statement.
- retrace one's course
noun
noun
- (aviation) Clipping of final approach.
- plural of final
- (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, Philippines, sports) A contest that narrows a field of contestants (finalists) to ranked positions, usually in numbered places (1st place or prize, 2nd place or prize, etc.) or a winner and numbered runners-up (1st runner-up, etc.).
verb
noun
- (aviation) A flight maneuver to rapidly lose speed and/or altitude whilst not altering the aircraft's ground track.
- (aviation, uncountable, by extension) The angle between an aircraft's longitudinal axis and its direction of motion relative to the surrounding air.
- (aviation) A flight manoeuvre that uses opposing rudder and aileron inputs to move the aircraft sideways without turning it.
- (aviation) A flight condition where an aircraft's longitudinal axis is not aligned with its direction of motion relative to the surrounding air.
- an unexpected slide
- a flight maneuver; aircraft slides sideways in the air
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noun
adj
name
noun
- (law, politics) Initialism of assembly bill.
- (organic chemistry) Abbreviation of alkylbenzene.
- (medicine) Initialism of antibody.
- (ABDL) Initialism of adult baby.
- Initialism of asymmetric bars.
- Initialism of artificial breeding.
- (Australia, Adelaide, countable) A halal snack pack consisting of doner meat topped with chips, tomato sauce, chilli sauce, barbecue sauce, and garlic sauce.
- (countable) A person with this blood type.
- Initialism of able seaman or able-bodied seaman.
- Initialism of afterburner.
- Initialism of aid to the blind.
- A blood type of the ABO system that has both blood antigens and may receive all blood types, and donate to AB.
- (military, aviation) Initialism of airbase.
- the blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens
- a bachelor's degree in arts and sciences
noun
- (mechanics) A jet jump for lifting water or withdrawing air from a space.
- A lever for removing circuit boards from an electronic chassis.
- That part of the mechanism of a breech-loading firearm which ejects the empty shell.
- ejector seat: a pilot's seat in an airplane that can be forcibly ejected in the case of an emergency; then the pilot descends by parachute.
- One who, or that which, ejects or dispossesses.
- a person who ousts or supplants someone else
- An injector, ejector, steam ejector, steam injector, eductor-jet pump or thermocompressor is a type of pump.
- a mechanism in a firearm that ejects the empty shell case after firing
noun
- An instance of employing a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
- (film) Clipping of jump cut.
- (slang) Any abrupt increase; a sudden rise; a hike
- An instance of reacting to a sudden stimulus by jerking the body.
- (mining) A dislocation in a stratum; a fault.
- (sports, equestrianism) An obstacle that forms part of a showjumping course, and that the horse has to jump over cleanly.
- An instance of causing oneself to fall from an elevated location.
- (US, informal, automotive) Ellipsis of jump-start.
- (theater) Synonym of one-night stand (“single evening's performance”).
- A jumping move in a board game.
- A kind of loose jacket for men.
- The act of jumping; a leap; a spring; a bound.
- An effort; an attempt; a venture.
- An object which causes one to jump; a ramp.
- (architecture) An abrupt interruption of level in a piece of brickwork or masonry.
- An instance of propelling oneself upwards.
- (science fiction) An instance of faster-than-light travel, not observable from ordinary space.
- (with on) An early start or an advantage.
- (mathematics) A discontinuity in the graph of a function, where the function is continuous in a punctured interval of the discontinuity.
- A button (of a joypad, joystick or similar device) used to make a video game character jump (propel itself upwards).
- (programming) A change of the path of execution to a different location.
- (physics, hydrodynamics) An abrupt increase in the height of the surface of a flowing liquid at the location where the flow transitions from supercritical to subcritical, involving an abrupt reduction in flow speed and increase in turbulence.
- a sudden involuntary movement
- descent with a parachute
- an abrupt transition
- a sudden and decisive increase
- the act of jumping; propelling yourself off the ground
- (film) an abrupt transition from one scene to another
verb
- (transitive) To attack suddenly and violently.
- (intransitive, slang) To commit suicide.
- (intransitive, biology, of DNA) To switch locations on chromosomes.
- (transitive) To pass by means of a spring or leap; to overleap.
- (intransitive) To employ a move in certain board games where one game piece is moved from one legal position to another passing over the position of another piece.
- (transitive, smithwork) To join by a buttweld.
- (transitive) To move to a position (in a queue/line) that is further forward.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To increase sharply, to rise, to shoot up.
- (transitive, slang) To engage in sexual intercourse with (a person).
- (transitive) To cause to jump.
- (cycling, intransitive) To increase speed aggressively and without warning.
- (intransitive, programming) To start executing code from a different location, rather than following the program counter.
- (transitive) To move the distance between two opposing subjects.
- To thicken or enlarge by endwise blows; to upset.
- (transitive) To increase the height of a tower crane by inserting a section at the base of the tower and jacking up everything above it.
- To jump-start a car or other vehicle with a dead battery, as with jumper cables.
- (intransitive) To cause oneself to leave an elevated location and fall downward.
- (intransitive) To employ a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
- (transitive) To pass (a traffic light) when it is indicating that one should stop.
- (intransitive) To propel oneself rapidly upward, downward and/or in any horizontal direction such that momentum causes the body to become airborne.
- (quarrying) To bore with a jumper.
- (intransitive) To react to a sudden, often unexpected, stimulus (such as a sharp prick or a loud sound) by jerking the body violently.
- (intransitive, figurative) To shift one's position or attitude, especially suddenly and significantly.
- rise in rank or status
- move forward by leaps and bounds
- increase suddenly and significantly
- cause to jump or leap
- pass abruptly from one state or topic to another
- make a sudden physical attack on
- enter eagerly into
- jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute
- jump down from an elevated point
- be highly noticeable
- go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions
- start (a car engine whose battery is dead) by connecting it to another car's battery
- run off or leave the rails
- move or jump suddenly, as if in surprise or alarm
- bypass
verb
- (aviation, idiomatic) Of an aircraft, to land.
- To write (something).
- (banking, commerce) Of money as deposit, to pay.
- (idiomatic) To drop someone off, or let them out of a vehicle.
- (UK, Ireland) To make prices, or taxes, lower.
- (slang, US) To drink.
- (idiomatic) To place a baby somewhere to sleep.
- To terminate a call on (a telephone); to hang up.
- To add a name to a list.
- (idiomatic) To cease, temporarily or permanently, reading (a book).
- (idiomatic) To insult, belittle, or demean.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see put, down.
- To halt, eliminate, stop, or squelch, often by force.
- (euphemistic) To euthanize (an animal).
- (euphemistic) To execute (a person), especially extrajudicially.
- (idiomatic) To give something as a reason for something else.
- put (an animal) to death
- cause to sit or seat or be in a settled position or place
- remove (cargo, people, etc.) from and leave
- cause to come to the ground
- reduce in worth or character, usually verbally
- put in a horizontal position
- put down in writing; of texts, musical compositions, etc.
- make a record of; set down in permanent form
noun
noun
- (aviation) An instance of an aircraft taking off or landing.
- (bridge) A pattern in which pairs change opponents and boards move from table to table in duplicate bridge.
- (baseball) The deviation of a pitch from ballistic flight.
- Physical motion between points in space.
- (music) Melodic progression, accentual character, tempo or pace.
- (music) A large division of a larger composition.
- (engineering) A system or mechanism for transmitting motion of a definite character, or for transforming motion, such as the wheelwork of a watch.
- Ellipsis of bowel movement (“an act of emptying the bowels”).
- The impression of motion in an artwork, painting, novel etc.
- A trend in various fields or social categories, a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals.
- the driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock)
- a general tendency to change (as of opinion)
- an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object
- a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end
- a euphemism for defecation
- a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals
- a major self-contained part of a symphony or sonata
- a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something
- the act of changing location from one place to another
- the act of changing the location of something
- a change of position that does not entail a change of location
verb
- (aviation) Of an aircraft: to plunge alternately up and down.
- (transitive) To take up in, or as if in, a balloon.
- (intransitive) To increase or expand rapidly.
- (intransitive) To go up or voyage in a balloon.
- (transitive, sports) To strike (a ball) so that it flies high in the air.
- (transitive) To inflate like a balloon.
- become inflated
- ride in a hot-air balloon
noun
- A wide rounded glass with a stem and foot, used for wine, brandy, etc.
- Such an object designed to transport people or equipment through the air.
- (chemistry) A round vessel, usually with a short neck, to hold or receive whatever is distilled; a glass vessel of a spherical form.
- (medicine) A sac inserted into part of the body for therapeutic reasons; such as angioplasty.
- (slang) A woman's breast.
- (slang) A small container for illicit drugs made from a condom or the finger of a latex glove, etc.
- (finance) Synonym of balloon payment.
- (architecture) A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc.
- (pyrotechnics) A bomb or shell.
- A speech bubble.
- (engraving) The outline enclosing words represented as coming from the mouth of a pictured figure.
- Such an object as a child’s toy or party decoration.
- An inflatable buoyant object, often (but not necessarily) round and flexible.
- small thin inflatable rubber bag with narrow neck
- large tough nonrigid bag filled with gas or heated air
adj
- (aviation, of an aircraft) Having a relatively high takeoff weight and payload.
- (of a person) Heavyset: overweight.
- Not raised or leavened.
- (of weather) Hot and humid.
- Of great force, power, or intensity; deep or intense.
- (of any physical thing) Having great weight.
- (oil industry) Of petroleum, having high viscosity.
- (of a topic) Serious, somber.
- (nautical, military) Heavily-armed.
- (of music) Loud, distorted, or intense.
- (of wines or spirits) Having much body or strength.
- (physics) Containing one or more isotopes that are heavier than the normal one.
- (of food) High in fat or protein; difficult to digest.
- Laden with that which is weighty; encumbered; burdened; bowed down, either with an actual burden, or with grief, pain, disappointment, etc.
- (of the eyes) With eyelids difficult to keep open due to tiredness.
- Not easy to bear; burdensome; oppressive.
- Doing the specified activity more intensely than most other people.
- (slang) Armed.
- (finance) Of a market: in which the price of shares is declining.
- Having the heaves.
- Slow; sluggish; inactive; or lifeless, dull, inanimate, stupid.
- Having a maximum takeoff weight exceeding 300,000 tons, as almost all widebodies do, generating high wake turbulence.
- (of a rate of flow) High, great.
- Impeding motion; cloggy; clayey.
- given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors
- of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought
- in an advanced stage of pregnancy
- unusually great in degree or quantity or number
- slow and laborious because of weight
- prodigious
- of relatively large extent and density
- full and loud and deep
- usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it
- of comparatively great physical weight or density
- darkened by clouds
- full of; bearing great weight
- (of an actor or role) being or playing the villain
- (of sleep) deep and complete
- sharply inclined
- dense or inadequately leavened and hence likely to cause distress in the alimentary canal
- (used of soil) compact and fine-grained
- marked by great psychological weight; weighted down especially with sadness or troubles or weariness
- (physics, chemistry) being or containing an isotope with greater than average atomic mass or weight
- requiring or showing effort
- made of fabric having considerable thickness
- large and powerful; especially designed for heavy loads or rough work
- permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter
- of the military or industry; using (or being) the heaviest and most powerful armaments or weapons or equipment
- lacking lightness or liveliness
- of great intensity or power or force
- characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort
adv
noun
- (journalism, slang, chiefly in the plural) A newspaper of the quality press.
- (aviation) A relatively large multi-engined aircraft.
- (slang) A doorman, bouncer or bodyguard.
- (slang) A villain or bad guy; the one responsible for evil or aggressive acts.
- (military, historical) A member of the heavy cavalry.
- A prominent figure; a "major player".
- an actor who plays villainous roles
- a serious (or tragic) role in a play
verb
noun
- (aviation) Aerial descent with the nose pointed down.
- (slang) A seedy bar, nightclub, etc.
- A swim under water.
- plural of diva
- A downward swooping motion.
- A jump or plunge into water.
- A decline.
- (sports) A deliberate fall after a challenge.
- A headfirst jump toward the ground or into another substance.
- a steep nose-down descent by an aircraft
- a headlong plunge into water
- a cheap disreputable nightclub or dance hall
verb
- (sports) To deliberately fall down after a challenge, imitating being fouled, in the hope of getting one's opponent penalised.
- (intransitive) To jump into water head-first.
- (cricket) To leap while fielding to take a brilliant catch which usually results in a wicket and appreciation.
- (intransitive) To jump headfirst toward the ground or into another substance.
- (transitive) To cause to descend, dunk; to plunge something into water.
- (transitive) To explore by diving; to plunge into.
- (intransitive) To lose altitude quickly by pointing downwards, as with a bird or aircraft.
- (intransitive) To swim under water.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To plunge or to go deeply into any subject, question, business, etc.; to penetrate; to explore.
- (intransitive) To descend sharply or steeply.
- (intransitive, especially with in) To undertake with enthusiasm.
- swim under water
- drop steeply
- plunge into water
noun
- (countable, aeronautics) A landing that does not result in the destruction of the payload or the vehicle.
- (rhythm games, slang) Sudden or extreme changes in speed.
- (uncountable, chemistry) A form of mass spectrometry characterized by deposition of intact species on surfaces at low kinetic energies which precludes the fragmentation of the incident species.
- (countable, economics) A business cycle downturn which avoids recession.
verb
noun
- a flight or run by an aircraft over a target
- a document indicating permission to do something without restrictions
- a usually brief attempt
- a permit to enter or leave a military installation
- any authorization to pass or go somewhere
- an automatic advance to the next round in a tournament without playing an opponent
- the location in a range of mountains of a geological formation that is lower than the surrounding peaks
- (military) a written leave of absence
- success in satisfying a test or requirement
- a difficult juncture
- (sports) the act of throwing the ball to another member of your team
- (American football) a play that involves one player throwing the ball to a teammate
- a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs
- a complimentary ticket
- (baseball) an advance to first base by a batter who receives four balls
- one complete cycle of operations (as by a computer)
- (cooking) The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the waiting staff.
- An act of declining to play one's turn in a game, often by saying the word "pass".
- A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over, or along anything.
- An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise impracticable barrier such as a mountain range; a passageway; a defile; a ford.
- (fencing) A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
- A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.
- (computing, slang) A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).
- (computing) A run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process.
- The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.
- A channel connecting a river or body of water to the sea, for example at the mouth (delta) of a river.
- Success in an examination or similar test.
- (sports) The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.
- (rail transport) A passing of two trains in the same direction on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other overtake it.
- An attempt.
- A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit or admission
- (figuratively) A thrust; a sally of wit.
- A sexual advance (often in the phrase make a pass).
- (baseball) An intentional walk.
- Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.
- (sports) The act of overtaking; an overtaking manoeuvre.
adj
verb
- accept or judge as acceptable
- be superior or better than some standard
- transfer to another; of rights or property
- throw (a ball) to another player
- allow to go without comment or censure
- pass into a specified state or condition; sink into
- go unchallenged; be approved
- pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
- eliminate from the body
- move past
- use up a period of time in a specific way
- for time to move forward
- travel past
- go successfully through a test or a selection process
- disappear gradually
- be inherited by
- grant authorization or clearance for
- transmit information
- go across or through
- pass over, across, or through
- cause to pass
- place into the hands or custody of
- make laws, bills, etc. or bring into effect by legislation
- come to pass
- stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point
- (intransitive) To proceed without hindrance or opposition.
- (intransitive) To move or be moved from one place to another.
- (transitive) To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed.
- (intransitive, stative, sociology) To be accepted by others as a member of a race, sex, or other group to which one does not belong or would not have originally appeared to belong; especially to be considered white although one has black ancestry, or a woman although one was assigned male at birth or vice versa.
- (intransitive) To continue.
- (intransitive, law) To make a judgment on or upon a person or case.
- (intransitive, American football) To throw the ball, generally downfield, towards a teammate.
- (transitive, of time) To spend.
- (intransitive, card games) In euchre, to decline to make the trump.
- (transitive) To go past, by, over, or through; to proceed from one side to the other of; to move past.
- (transitive) To cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance.
- (transitive) To utter; to pronounce; to pledge.
- (intransitive, transitive) To achieve a successful outcome from.
- (transitive) To put in circulation; to give currency to.
- (intransitive) To happen.
- (intransitive) To change from one state to another (without the implication of progression).
- (intransitive, stative) To be tolerated as a substitute for something else, to "do".
- (transitive) To cause to advance by stages of progress; to carry on with success through an ordeal, examination, or action; specifically, to give legal or official sanction to; to ratify; to enact; to approve as valid and just.
- (transitive, nautical) To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure.
- (intransitive) To progress from one state to another; to advance.
- (transitive, cooking) To put through a sieve.
- (transitive) To allow to go by without noticing; to omit attention to; to take no note of; to disregard.
- (transitive, soccer) To kick (the ball) with precision rather than at full force.
- (ditransitive) To cause to move or go; to send; to transfer from one person, place, or condition to another.
- (intransitive, transitive) To advance through all the steps or stages necessary to become valid or effective; to obtain the formal sanction of (a legislative body).
- (intransitive, law) To be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance.
- (intransitive, of time) To elapse, to be spent.
- (intransitive, euphemistic) To die.
- (intransitive) To decline something that is offered or available.
- (intransitive) In turn-based games, to decline to play in one's turn.
- (transitive) To reject; to pass up.
- (intransitive, transitive, medicine) To eliminate (something) from the body by natural processes.
- (intransitive) To depart, to cease, to come to an end.
- (intransitive) To go from one person to another.
- (transitive) To live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer.
- (intransitive) To decline or not attempt to answer a question.
- (transitive) To move (the ball or puck) to a teammate.
- (intransitive, fencing) To make a lunge or swipe.
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name
verb
verb
- (intransitive, aviation) To land hard and lift off again due to excess momentum.
- (intransitive, slang, African-American Vernacular, sometimes followed by with) To have sexual intercourse.
- (transitive, air combat) To attack unexpectedly.
- (intransitive) To move quickly up and then down (or vice versa), once or repeatedly.
- (transitive, electronics, computing) To turn power to (a device) off and back on; to reset; to reboot.
- (intransitive) To change the direction of motion after hitting an obstacle.
- (transitive, music, sound recording) To mix (two or more tracks of a multi-track audio recording) and record the result onto a single track, in order to free up tracks for further material to be added.
- (music, technology) To render two or more tracks to computer storage so that they can be played back and re-recorded with further material added.
- (ergative, Internet, of an e-mail message) To return undelivered.
- (intransitive, slang) To leave.
- (horse racing, slang) To race poorly after a successful race.
- (intransitive) To leap or spring suddenly or unceremoniously; to bound.
- (transitive, colloquial) To suggest or introduce (an idea, etc.) to (off or by) someone, in order to gain feedback.
- (intransitive, informal, of a cheque/check) To be refused by a bank because it is drawn on insufficient funds.
- (transitive) To cause to move quickly up and down, or back and forth, once or repeatedly.
- (intransitive, skydiving) To land hard at unsurvivable velocity with fatal results.
- To move rapidly (between).
- (transitive, informal) To fail to cover (have sufficient funds for) (a cheque/check drawn on one's account).
- leap suddenly
- hit something so that it bounces
- eject from the premises
- come back after being refused
- spring back; spring away from an impact
- move up and down repeatedly
- refuse to accept and send back
noun
- (Internet) An email that returns to the sender because of a delivery failure.
- An obstacle for a horse to jump over, consisting of two fences close together so that the horse cannot take a full stride between them, nor jump both at once.
- (politics, informal) An increase in popularity.
- A change of direction of motion after hitting the ground or an obstacle.
- (slang, African-American Vernacular, uncountable) A good beat in music.
- A movement up and then down (or vice versa), once or repeatedly.
- (slang, African-American Vernacular, uncountable) Drugs.
- (slang, African-American Vernacular, uncountable) A talent for leaping.
- (slang) The sack, dismissal.
- (quantum mechanics) A hypothetical event where a collapsing system, such as a universe in the Big Bounce theory, reaches a point of extreme density and then rebounds back into an expanding phase, essentially reversing the contraction due to quantum mechanical effects.
- (slang, African-American Vernacular, uncountable) Swagger.
- (uncountable) A genre of hip-hop music of New Orleans, characterized by often lewd call-and-response chants.
- Scyliorhinus canicula, a European dogfish.
- (horse racing, slang) The situation where a horse races poorly after a successful race.
- rebounding from an impact (or series of impacts)
- a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards
- the quality of a substance that is able to rebound
noun
- (aviation) The transition from downward flight to level flight just before landing.
- (figuratively) A sudden eruption or outbreak; a flare-up.
- A type of pyrotechnic that produces a brilliant light without an explosion, used to attract attention in an emergency, to illuminate an area, or as a decoy.
- A widening of an object with an otherwise roughly constant width.
- (in the plural) Bell-bottom trousers.
- (oil industry) A flame produced by a burn-off of waste gas (flare gas) from a flare tower (or flare stack), typically at an oil refinery.
- A source of brightly burning light or intense heat.
- (baseball) A low fly ball that is hit in the region between the infielders and the outfielders.
- A sudden bright light.
- (nautical) The increase in width of most ship hulls with increasing height above the waterline.
- (photography) Ellipsis of lens flare.
- An inflammation such as of tendons (tendonitis) or joints (osteoarthritis).
- (American football) A route run by the running back, releasing toward the sideline and then slightly arcing upfield looking for a short pass.
- A breakdance move of someone helicoptering his torso on alternating arms.
- a device that produces a bright light for warning or illumination or identification
- reddening of the skin spreading outward from a focus of infection or irritation
- a sudden outburst of emotion
- a sudden burst of flame
- a shape that spreads outward
- (baseball) a fly ball hit a short distance into the outfield
- an unwanted reflection in an optical system (or the fogging of an image that is caused by such a reflection)
- a short forward pass to a back who is running toward the sidelines
- a burst of light used to communicate or illuminate
- a sudden eruption of intense high-energy radiation from the sun's surface; associated with sunspots and radio interference
- a sudden recurrence or worsening of symptoms
verb
- (intransitive, figuratively) To suddenly happen or intensify.
- (transitive) To cause inflammation; to inflame.
- (intransitive) To shine out with a sudden and unsteady light; to emit a dazzling or painfully bright light.
- (ambitransitive, aviation) To (operate an aircraft to) transition from downward flight to level flight just before landing.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To suddenly erupt in anger.
- (transitive) To cause to burn; in particular, to burn off excess gas.
- (ambitransitive) To open outward in shape.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To shine out with gaudy colours; to be offensively bright or showy.
- (intransitive) To blaze brightly.
- become flared and widen, usually at one end
- burn brightly
- shine with a sudden light
- erupt or intensify suddenly
verb
noun
verb
- (aviation, ambitransitive) To land.
- (transitive) To regard (someone) in a particular way; to put down as.
- (transitive, especially British) To place, especially on the ground or a surface; to cease carrying; to deposit; to allow passengers to alight.
- (idiomatic, transitive) To write.
- (transitive) To fix; to establish; to ordain.
- cause to sit or seat or be in a settled position or place
- remove (cargo, people, etc.) from and leave
- go ashore
- put down in writing; of texts, musical compositions, etc.
- reach or come to rest
- put or settle into a position
noun
verb
- To rise, especially rapidly or unusually high.
- To remain aloft by means of a glider or other unpowered aircraft.
- (figuratively) To rise in thought, spirits, or imagination; to be exalted in mood.
- To mount upward on wings, or as on wings, especially by gliding while employing rising air currents.
- (intransitive) To fly high with little effort, like a bird.
- go or move upward
- fly by means of a hang glider
- rise rapidly
- fly a plane without an engine
- fly upwards or high in the sky
noun
- (aviation) Ellipsis of landing gear.
- (uncountable) Equipment or paraphernalia, especially that used for an athletic endeavor.
- (countable) A wheel, wheel segment, or bar with grooves (teeth) engraved on the outer circumference, such that two such devices can interlock and convey motion from one to the other.
- (countable, automotive, cycling) A particular combination or choice of interlocking gears, such that a particular gear ratio is achieved; often selected via a shifter.
- (uncountable, slang) Recreational drugs, including steroids.
- Clothing; garments.
- (countable, automotive) A configuration of the transmission of a motor car so as to achieve a particular ratio of engine to axle torque.
- equipment consisting of miscellaneous articles needed for a particular operation or sport etc.
- wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed
- a mechanism for transmitting motion for some specific purpose (as the steering gear of a vehicle)
- a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion
adj
verb
- (engineering, transitive) To provide with gearing; to fit with gears in order to achieve a desired gear ratio.
- (engineering, intransitive) To be in gear, come into gear.
- (usually with to or toward(s)) To design or devise (something) so as to be suitable (for a particular type of person or a particular purpose).
- (finance) To borrow money in order to invest it in assets.
- To dress; to put gear on; to harness.
- set the level or character of
noun
- A launch or ascent into the air or into flight, such as of an aircraft, rocket, bird, high-jumper etc.
- the initial ascent of an airplane as it becomes airborne
- The spot from which one takes off; specifically, the place from which a jumper rises in leaping.
- (printing, UK, historical) The removal of sheets from the press.
- (surfing) The initial movement a surfer makes to start riding a wave.
- A quantification, especially of building materials.
- A parody or lampoon of someone or something.
- a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way
- a departure; especially of airplanes
- humorous or satirical mimicry
noun
- (aerospace) Initialism of landing pad.
- Initialism of liquid petroleum or liquified petroleum, a fuel used for cooking.
- Initialism of little person.
- Initialism of liquid propane.
- (programming) Initialism of literate programming.
- (Internet) Abbreviation of landing page.
- (military) Abbreviation of listening post.
- (online gaming, Internet) Initialism of let's play.
- (music, countable) Initialism of long-play.
- Initialism of lactase persistence.
- (mathematics) Abbreviation of linear programming.
- (medicine) Abbreviation of lumbar puncture.
- (finance) Abbreviation of liquidity provider.
- (business, law) Initialism of limited partnership.
- a long-playing phonograph record; designed to be played at 33.3 rpm
name
noun
- (aviation) Clipping of final approach.
- plural of final
- (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, Philippines, sports) A contest that narrows a field of contestants (finalists) to ranked positions, usually in numbered places (1st place or prize, 2nd place or prize, etc.) or a winner and numbered runners-up (1st runner-up, etc.).
verb
noun
- (aviation) A flight maneuver to rapidly lose speed and/or altitude whilst not altering the aircraft's ground track.
- (aviation, uncountable, by extension) The angle between an aircraft's longitudinal axis and its direction of motion relative to the surrounding air.
- (aviation) A flight manoeuvre that uses opposing rudder and aileron inputs to move the aircraft sideways without turning it.
- (aviation) A flight condition where an aircraft's longitudinal axis is not aligned with its direction of motion relative to the surrounding air.
- an unexpected slide
- a flight maneuver; aircraft slides sideways in the air
verb
noun
noun
- (mechanics) A jet jump for lifting water or withdrawing air from a space.
- A lever for removing circuit boards from an electronic chassis.
- That part of the mechanism of a breech-loading firearm which ejects the empty shell.
- ejector seat: a pilot's seat in an airplane that can be forcibly ejected in the case of an emergency; then the pilot descends by parachute.
- One who, or that which, ejects or dispossesses.
- a person who ousts or supplants someone else
- An injector, ejector, steam ejector, steam injector, eductor-jet pump or thermocompressor is a type of pump.
- a mechanism in a firearm that ejects the empty shell case after firing
noun
- An instance of employing a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
- (film) Clipping of jump cut.
- (slang) Any abrupt increase; a sudden rise; a hike
- An instance of reacting to a sudden stimulus by jerking the body.
- (mining) A dislocation in a stratum; a fault.
- (sports, equestrianism) An obstacle that forms part of a showjumping course, and that the horse has to jump over cleanly.
- An instance of causing oneself to fall from an elevated location.
- (US, informal, automotive) Ellipsis of jump-start.
- (theater) Synonym of one-night stand (“single evening's performance”).
- A jumping move in a board game.
- A kind of loose jacket for men.
- The act of jumping; a leap; a spring; a bound.
- An effort; an attempt; a venture.
- An object which causes one to jump; a ramp.
- (architecture) An abrupt interruption of level in a piece of brickwork or masonry.
- An instance of propelling oneself upwards.
- (science fiction) An instance of faster-than-light travel, not observable from ordinary space.
- (with on) An early start or an advantage.
- (mathematics) A discontinuity in the graph of a function, where the function is continuous in a punctured interval of the discontinuity.
- A button (of a joypad, joystick or similar device) used to make a video game character jump (propel itself upwards).
- (programming) A change of the path of execution to a different location.
- (physics, hydrodynamics) An abrupt increase in the height of the surface of a flowing liquid at the location where the flow transitions from supercritical to subcritical, involving an abrupt reduction in flow speed and increase in turbulence.
- a sudden involuntary movement
- descent with a parachute
- an abrupt transition
- a sudden and decisive increase
- the act of jumping; propelling yourself off the ground
- (film) an abrupt transition from one scene to another
verb
- (transitive) To attack suddenly and violently.
- (intransitive, slang) To commit suicide.
- (intransitive, biology, of DNA) To switch locations on chromosomes.
- (transitive) To pass by means of a spring or leap; to overleap.
- (intransitive) To employ a move in certain board games where one game piece is moved from one legal position to another passing over the position of another piece.
- (transitive, smithwork) To join by a buttweld.
- (transitive) To move to a position (in a queue/line) that is further forward.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To increase sharply, to rise, to shoot up.
- (transitive, slang) To engage in sexual intercourse with (a person).
- (transitive) To cause to jump.
- (cycling, intransitive) To increase speed aggressively and without warning.
- (intransitive, programming) To start executing code from a different location, rather than following the program counter.
- (transitive) To move the distance between two opposing subjects.
- To thicken or enlarge by endwise blows; to upset.
- (transitive) To increase the height of a tower crane by inserting a section at the base of the tower and jacking up everything above it.
- To jump-start a car or other vehicle with a dead battery, as with jumper cables.
- (intransitive) To cause oneself to leave an elevated location and fall downward.
- (intransitive) To employ a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
- (transitive) To pass (a traffic light) when it is indicating that one should stop.
- (intransitive) To propel oneself rapidly upward, downward and/or in any horizontal direction such that momentum causes the body to become airborne.
- (quarrying) To bore with a jumper.
- (intransitive) To react to a sudden, often unexpected, stimulus (such as a sharp prick or a loud sound) by jerking the body violently.
- (intransitive, figurative) To shift one's position or attitude, especially suddenly and significantly.
- rise in rank or status
- move forward by leaps and bounds
- increase suddenly and significantly
- cause to jump or leap
- pass abruptly from one state or topic to another
- make a sudden physical attack on
- enter eagerly into
- jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute
- jump down from an elevated point
- be highly noticeable
- go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions
- start (a car engine whose battery is dead) by connecting it to another car's battery
- run off or leave the rails
- move or jump suddenly, as if in surprise or alarm
- bypass
noun
- (aviation) An instance of an aircraft taking off or landing.
- (bridge) A pattern in which pairs change opponents and boards move from table to table in duplicate bridge.
- (baseball) The deviation of a pitch from ballistic flight.
- Physical motion between points in space.
- (music) Melodic progression, accentual character, tempo or pace.
- (music) A large division of a larger composition.
- (engineering) A system or mechanism for transmitting motion of a definite character, or for transforming motion, such as the wheelwork of a watch.
- Ellipsis of bowel movement (“an act of emptying the bowels”).
- The impression of motion in an artwork, painting, novel etc.
- A trend in various fields or social categories, a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals.
- the driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock)
- a general tendency to change (as of opinion)
- an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object
- a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end
- a euphemism for defecation
- a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals
- a major self-contained part of a symphony or sonata
- a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something
- the act of changing location from one place to another
- the act of changing the location of something
- a change of position that does not entail a change of location
noun
- (aviation) Aerial descent with the nose pointed down.
- (slang) A seedy bar, nightclub, etc.
- A swim under water.
- plural of diva
- A downward swooping motion.
- A jump or plunge into water.
- A decline.
- (sports) A deliberate fall after a challenge.
- A headfirst jump toward the ground or into another substance.
- a steep nose-down descent by an aircraft
- a headlong plunge into water
- a cheap disreputable nightclub or dance hall
verb
- (sports) To deliberately fall down after a challenge, imitating being fouled, in the hope of getting one's opponent penalised.
- (intransitive) To jump into water head-first.
- (cricket) To leap while fielding to take a brilliant catch which usually results in a wicket and appreciation.
- (intransitive) To jump headfirst toward the ground or into another substance.
- (transitive) To cause to descend, dunk; to plunge something into water.
- (transitive) To explore by diving; to plunge into.
- (intransitive) To lose altitude quickly by pointing downwards, as with a bird or aircraft.
- (intransitive) To swim under water.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To plunge or to go deeply into any subject, question, business, etc.; to penetrate; to explore.
- (intransitive) To descend sharply or steeply.
- (intransitive, especially with in) To undertake with enthusiasm.
- swim under water
- drop steeply
- plunge into water
noun
- (countable, aeronautics) A landing that does not result in the destruction of the payload or the vehicle.
- (rhythm games, slang) Sudden or extreme changes in speed.
- (uncountable, chemistry) A form of mass spectrometry characterized by deposition of intact species on surfaces at low kinetic energies which precludes the fragmentation of the incident species.
- (countable, economics) A business cycle downturn which avoids recession.
verb
noun
- a flight or run by an aircraft over a target
- a document indicating permission to do something without restrictions
- a usually brief attempt
- a permit to enter or leave a military installation
- any authorization to pass or go somewhere
- an automatic advance to the next round in a tournament without playing an opponent
- the location in a range of mountains of a geological formation that is lower than the surrounding peaks
- (military) a written leave of absence
- success in satisfying a test or requirement
- a difficult juncture
- (sports) the act of throwing the ball to another member of your team
- (American football) a play that involves one player throwing the ball to a teammate
- a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs
- a complimentary ticket
- (baseball) an advance to first base by a batter who receives four balls
- one complete cycle of operations (as by a computer)
- (cooking) The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the waiting staff.
- An act of declining to play one's turn in a game, often by saying the word "pass".
- A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over, or along anything.
- An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise impracticable barrier such as a mountain range; a passageway; a defile; a ford.
- (fencing) A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
- A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.
- (computing, slang) A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).
- (computing) A run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process.
- The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.
- A channel connecting a river or body of water to the sea, for example at the mouth (delta) of a river.
- Success in an examination or similar test.
- (sports) The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.
- (rail transport) A passing of two trains in the same direction on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other overtake it.
- An attempt.
- A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit or admission
- (figuratively) A thrust; a sally of wit.
- A sexual advance (often in the phrase make a pass).
- (baseball) An intentional walk.
- Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.
- (sports) The act of overtaking; an overtaking manoeuvre.
adj
verb
- accept or judge as acceptable
- be superior or better than some standard
- transfer to another; of rights or property
- throw (a ball) to another player
- allow to go without comment or censure
- pass into a specified state or condition; sink into
- go unchallenged; be approved
- pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
- eliminate from the body
- move past
- use up a period of time in a specific way
- for time to move forward
- travel past
- go successfully through a test or a selection process
- disappear gradually
- be inherited by
- grant authorization or clearance for
- transmit information
- go across or through
- pass over, across, or through
- cause to pass
- place into the hands or custody of
- make laws, bills, etc. or bring into effect by legislation
- come to pass
- stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point
- (intransitive) To proceed without hindrance or opposition.
- (intransitive) To move or be moved from one place to another.
- (transitive) To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed.
- (intransitive, stative, sociology) To be accepted by others as a member of a race, sex, or other group to which one does not belong or would not have originally appeared to belong; especially to be considered white although one has black ancestry, or a woman although one was assigned male at birth or vice versa.
- (intransitive) To continue.
- (intransitive, law) To make a judgment on or upon a person or case.
- (intransitive, American football) To throw the ball, generally downfield, towards a teammate.
- (transitive, of time) To spend.
- (intransitive, card games) In euchre, to decline to make the trump.
- (transitive) To go past, by, over, or through; to proceed from one side to the other of; to move past.
- (transitive) To cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance.
- (transitive) To utter; to pronounce; to pledge.
- (intransitive, transitive) To achieve a successful outcome from.
- (transitive) To put in circulation; to give currency to.
- (intransitive) To happen.
- (intransitive) To change from one state to another (without the implication of progression).
- (intransitive, stative) To be tolerated as a substitute for something else, to "do".
- (transitive) To cause to advance by stages of progress; to carry on with success through an ordeal, examination, or action; specifically, to give legal or official sanction to; to ratify; to enact; to approve as valid and just.
- (transitive, nautical) To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure.
- (intransitive) To progress from one state to another; to advance.
- (transitive, cooking) To put through a sieve.
- (transitive) To allow to go by without noticing; to omit attention to; to take no note of; to disregard.
- (transitive, soccer) To kick (the ball) with precision rather than at full force.
- (ditransitive) To cause to move or go; to send; to transfer from one person, place, or condition to another.
- (intransitive, transitive) To advance through all the steps or stages necessary to become valid or effective; to obtain the formal sanction of (a legislative body).
- (intransitive, law) To be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance.
- (intransitive, of time) To elapse, to be spent.
- (intransitive, euphemistic) To die.
- (intransitive) To decline something that is offered or available.
- (intransitive) In turn-based games, to decline to play in one's turn.
- (transitive) To reject; to pass up.
- (intransitive, transitive, medicine) To eliminate (something) from the body by natural processes.
- (intransitive) To depart, to cease, to come to an end.
- (intransitive) To go from one person to another.
- (transitive) To live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer.
- (intransitive) To decline or not attempt to answer a question.
- (transitive) To move (the ball or puck) to a teammate.
- (intransitive, fencing) To make a lunge or swipe.
noun
name
verb
noun
- (aviation) The transition from downward flight to level flight just before landing.
- (figuratively) A sudden eruption or outbreak; a flare-up.
- A type of pyrotechnic that produces a brilliant light without an explosion, used to attract attention in an emergency, to illuminate an area, or as a decoy.
- A widening of an object with an otherwise roughly constant width.
- (in the plural) Bell-bottom trousers.
- (oil industry) A flame produced by a burn-off of waste gas (flare gas) from a flare tower (or flare stack), typically at an oil refinery.
- A source of brightly burning light or intense heat.
- (baseball) A low fly ball that is hit in the region between the infielders and the outfielders.
- A sudden bright light.
- (nautical) The increase in width of most ship hulls with increasing height above the waterline.
- (photography) Ellipsis of lens flare.
- An inflammation such as of tendons (tendonitis) or joints (osteoarthritis).
- (American football) A route run by the running back, releasing toward the sideline and then slightly arcing upfield looking for a short pass.
- A breakdance move of someone helicoptering his torso on alternating arms.
- a device that produces a bright light for warning or illumination or identification
- reddening of the skin spreading outward from a focus of infection or irritation
- a sudden outburst of emotion
- a sudden burst of flame
- a shape that spreads outward
- (baseball) a fly ball hit a short distance into the outfield
- an unwanted reflection in an optical system (or the fogging of an image that is caused by such a reflection)
- a short forward pass to a back who is running toward the sidelines
- a burst of light used to communicate or illuminate
- a sudden eruption of intense high-energy radiation from the sun's surface; associated with sunspots and radio interference
- a sudden recurrence or worsening of symptoms
verb
- (intransitive, figuratively) To suddenly happen or intensify.
- (transitive) To cause inflammation; to inflame.
- (intransitive) To shine out with a sudden and unsteady light; to emit a dazzling or painfully bright light.
- (ambitransitive, aviation) To (operate an aircraft to) transition from downward flight to level flight just before landing.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To suddenly erupt in anger.
- (transitive) To cause to burn; in particular, to burn off excess gas.
- (ambitransitive) To open outward in shape.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To shine out with gaudy colours; to be offensively bright or showy.
- (intransitive) To blaze brightly.
- become flared and widen, usually at one end
- burn brightly
- shine with a sudden light
- erupt or intensify suddenly
noun
verb
- To rise, especially rapidly or unusually high.
- To remain aloft by means of a glider or other unpowered aircraft.
- (figuratively) To rise in thought, spirits, or imagination; to be exalted in mood.
- To mount upward on wings, or as on wings, especially by gliding while employing rising air currents.
- (intransitive) To fly high with little effort, like a bird.
- go or move upward
- fly by means of a hang glider
- rise rapidly
- fly a plane without an engine
- fly upwards or high in the sky
noun
- (aviation) Ellipsis of landing gear.
- (uncountable) Equipment or paraphernalia, especially that used for an athletic endeavor.
- (countable) A wheel, wheel segment, or bar with grooves (teeth) engraved on the outer circumference, such that two such devices can interlock and convey motion from one to the other.
- (countable, automotive, cycling) A particular combination or choice of interlocking gears, such that a particular gear ratio is achieved; often selected via a shifter.
- (uncountable, slang) Recreational drugs, including steroids.
- Clothing; garments.
- (countable, automotive) A configuration of the transmission of a motor car so as to achieve a particular ratio of engine to axle torque.
- equipment consisting of miscellaneous articles needed for a particular operation or sport etc.
- wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed
- a mechanism for transmitting motion for some specific purpose (as the steering gear of a vehicle)
- a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion
adj
verb
- (engineering, transitive) To provide with gearing; to fit with gears in order to achieve a desired gear ratio.
- (engineering, intransitive) To be in gear, come into gear.
- (usually with to or toward(s)) To design or devise (something) so as to be suitable (for a particular type of person or a particular purpose).
- (finance) To borrow money in order to invest it in assets.
- To dress; to put gear on; to harness.
- set the level or character of
verb
- (of an aircraft) To separate from the ground on takeoff; to become airborne.
- (nautical, of an anchor) To lift off the sea bottom when being weighed.
- (figurative) To initiate a new venture, or to advance beyond previous achievements.
- (literally) To begin digging in the earth at the start of a new construction, or, originally, for cultivation.
verb
- (intransitive, aviation) To perform a go-around maneuver.
- (intransitive) To visit (a place) or with (somebody).
- (intransitive) To move or spread from person to person.
- (intransitive, slang) To fight or argue; to obsess over something.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, around.
- (intransitive) To be shared with everyone.
- turn on or around an axis or a center
- go around the flank of (an opposing army)
- be sufficient
- avoid something unpleasant or laborious
- become widely known and passed on
verb
- (aviation) To taxi down an active runway in the opposite direction to that being used for takeoff.
- To retrace one's steps.
- To repeat or review work already done.
- To exercise a racehorse around the racetrack in the opposite direction to that in which races are run.
- To go back on or withdraw a statement.
- retrace one's course
noun
verb
- (aviation, idiomatic) Of an aircraft, to land.
- To write (something).
- (banking, commerce) Of money as deposit, to pay.
- (idiomatic) To drop someone off, or let them out of a vehicle.
- (UK, Ireland) To make prices, or taxes, lower.
- (slang, US) To drink.
- (idiomatic) To place a baby somewhere to sleep.
- To terminate a call on (a telephone); to hang up.
- To add a name to a list.
- (idiomatic) To cease, temporarily or permanently, reading (a book).
- (idiomatic) To insult, belittle, or demean.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see put, down.
- To halt, eliminate, stop, or squelch, often by force.
- (euphemistic) To euthanize (an animal).
- (euphemistic) To execute (a person), especially extrajudicially.
- (idiomatic) To give something as a reason for something else.
- put (an animal) to death
- cause to sit or seat or be in a settled position or place
- remove (cargo, people, etc.) from and leave
- cause to come to the ground
- reduce in worth or character, usually verbally
- put in a horizontal position
- put down in writing; of texts, musical compositions, etc.
- make a record of; set down in permanent form
noun
verb
- (aviation) Of an aircraft: to plunge alternately up and down.
- (transitive) To take up in, or as if in, a balloon.
- (intransitive) To increase or expand rapidly.
- (intransitive) To go up or voyage in a balloon.
- (transitive, sports) To strike (a ball) so that it flies high in the air.
- (transitive) To inflate like a balloon.
- become inflated
- ride in a hot-air balloon
noun
- A wide rounded glass with a stem and foot, used for wine, brandy, etc.
- Such an object designed to transport people or equipment through the air.
- (chemistry) A round vessel, usually with a short neck, to hold or receive whatever is distilled; a glass vessel of a spherical form.
- (medicine) A sac inserted into part of the body for therapeutic reasons; such as angioplasty.
- (slang) A woman's breast.
- (slang) A small container for illicit drugs made from a condom or the finger of a latex glove, etc.
- (finance) Synonym of balloon payment.
- (architecture) A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc.
- (pyrotechnics) A bomb or shell.
- A speech bubble.
- (engraving) The outline enclosing words represented as coming from the mouth of a pictured figure.
- Such an object as a child’s toy or party decoration.
- An inflatable buoyant object, often (but not necessarily) round and flexible.
- small thin inflatable rubber bag with narrow neck
- large tough nonrigid bag filled with gas or heated air
verb
- (intransitive, aviation) To land hard and lift off again due to excess momentum.
- (intransitive, slang, African-American Vernacular, sometimes followed by with) To have sexual intercourse.
- (transitive, air combat) To attack unexpectedly.
- (intransitive) To move quickly up and then down (or vice versa), once or repeatedly.
- (transitive, electronics, computing) To turn power to (a device) off and back on; to reset; to reboot.
- (intransitive) To change the direction of motion after hitting an obstacle.
- (transitive, music, sound recording) To mix (two or more tracks of a multi-track audio recording) and record the result onto a single track, in order to free up tracks for further material to be added.
- (music, technology) To render two or more tracks to computer storage so that they can be played back and re-recorded with further material added.
- (ergative, Internet, of an e-mail message) To return undelivered.
- (intransitive, slang) To leave.
- (horse racing, slang) To race poorly after a successful race.
- (intransitive) To leap or spring suddenly or unceremoniously; to bound.
- (transitive, colloquial) To suggest or introduce (an idea, etc.) to (off or by) someone, in order to gain feedback.
- (intransitive, informal, of a cheque/check) To be refused by a bank because it is drawn on insufficient funds.
- (transitive) To cause to move quickly up and down, or back and forth, once or repeatedly.
- (intransitive, skydiving) To land hard at unsurvivable velocity with fatal results.
- To move rapidly (between).
- (transitive, informal) To fail to cover (have sufficient funds for) (a cheque/check drawn on one's account).
- leap suddenly
- hit something so that it bounces
- eject from the premises
- come back after being refused
- spring back; spring away from an impact
- move up and down repeatedly
- refuse to accept and send back
noun
- (Internet) An email that returns to the sender because of a delivery failure.
- An obstacle for a horse to jump over, consisting of two fences close together so that the horse cannot take a full stride between them, nor jump both at once.
- (politics, informal) An increase in popularity.
- A change of direction of motion after hitting the ground or an obstacle.
- (slang, African-American Vernacular, uncountable) A good beat in music.
- A movement up and then down (or vice versa), once or repeatedly.
- (slang, African-American Vernacular, uncountable) Drugs.
- (slang, African-American Vernacular, uncountable) A talent for leaping.
- (slang) The sack, dismissal.
- (quantum mechanics) A hypothetical event where a collapsing system, such as a universe in the Big Bounce theory, reaches a point of extreme density and then rebounds back into an expanding phase, essentially reversing the contraction due to quantum mechanical effects.
- (slang, African-American Vernacular, uncountable) Swagger.
- (uncountable) A genre of hip-hop music of New Orleans, characterized by often lewd call-and-response chants.
- Scyliorhinus canicula, a European dogfish.
- (horse racing, slang) The situation where a horse races poorly after a successful race.
- rebounding from an impact (or series of impacts)
- a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards
- the quality of a substance that is able to rebound
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noun
verb
- (aviation, ambitransitive) To land.
- (transitive) To regard (someone) in a particular way; to put down as.
- (transitive, especially British) To place, especially on the ground or a surface; to cease carrying; to deposit; to allow passengers to alight.
- (idiomatic, transitive) To write.
- (transitive) To fix; to establish; to ordain.
- cause to sit or seat or be in a settled position or place
- remove (cargo, people, etc.) from and leave
- go ashore
- put down in writing; of texts, musical compositions, etc.
- reach or come to rest
- put or settle into a position
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name
noun
- (law, politics) Initialism of assembly bill.
- (organic chemistry) Abbreviation of alkylbenzene.
- (medicine) Initialism of antibody.
- (ABDL) Initialism of adult baby.
- Initialism of asymmetric bars.
- Initialism of artificial breeding.
- (Australia, Adelaide, countable) A halal snack pack consisting of doner meat topped with chips, tomato sauce, chilli sauce, barbecue sauce, and garlic sauce.
- (countable) A person with this blood type.
- Initialism of able seaman or able-bodied seaman.
- Initialism of afterburner.
- Initialism of aid to the blind.
- A blood type of the ABO system that has both blood antigens and may receive all blood types, and donate to AB.
- (military, aviation) Initialism of airbase.
- the blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens
- a bachelor's degree in arts and sciences
adj
- (aviation, of an aircraft) Having a relatively high takeoff weight and payload.
- (of a person) Heavyset: overweight.
- Not raised or leavened.
- (of weather) Hot and humid.
- Of great force, power, or intensity; deep or intense.
- (of any physical thing) Having great weight.
- (oil industry) Of petroleum, having high viscosity.
- (of a topic) Serious, somber.
- (nautical, military) Heavily-armed.
- (of music) Loud, distorted, or intense.
- (of wines or spirits) Having much body or strength.
- (physics) Containing one or more isotopes that are heavier than the normal one.
- (of food) High in fat or protein; difficult to digest.
- Laden with that which is weighty; encumbered; burdened; bowed down, either with an actual burden, or with grief, pain, disappointment, etc.
- (of the eyes) With eyelids difficult to keep open due to tiredness.
- Not easy to bear; burdensome; oppressive.
- Doing the specified activity more intensely than most other people.
- (slang) Armed.
- (finance) Of a market: in which the price of shares is declining.
- Having the heaves.
- Slow; sluggish; inactive; or lifeless, dull, inanimate, stupid.
- Having a maximum takeoff weight exceeding 300,000 tons, as almost all widebodies do, generating high wake turbulence.
- (of a rate of flow) High, great.
- Impeding motion; cloggy; clayey.
- given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors
- of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought
- in an advanced stage of pregnancy
- unusually great in degree or quantity or number
- slow and laborious because of weight
- prodigious
- of relatively large extent and density
- full and loud and deep
- usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it
- of comparatively great physical weight or density
- darkened by clouds
- full of; bearing great weight
- (of an actor or role) being or playing the villain
- (of sleep) deep and complete
- sharply inclined
- dense or inadequately leavened and hence likely to cause distress in the alimentary canal
- (used of soil) compact and fine-grained
- marked by great psychological weight; weighted down especially with sadness or troubles or weariness
- (physics, chemistry) being or containing an isotope with greater than average atomic mass or weight
- requiring or showing effort
- made of fabric having considerable thickness
- large and powerful; especially designed for heavy loads or rough work
- permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter
- of the military or industry; using (or being) the heaviest and most powerful armaments or weapons or equipment
- lacking lightness or liveliness
- of great intensity or power or force
- characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort
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noun
- (journalism, slang, chiefly in the plural) A newspaper of the quality press.
- (aviation) A relatively large multi-engined aircraft.
- (slang) A doorman, bouncer or bodyguard.
- (slang) A villain or bad guy; the one responsible for evil or aggressive acts.
- (military, historical) A member of the heavy cavalry.
- A prominent figure; a "major player".
- an actor who plays villainous roles
- a serious (or tragic) role in a play