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noun
adj
verb
- To roll oneself about in something dirty, for example in mud.
- To live or exist in filth or in a sickening manner.
- (figurative) To immerse oneself in, to occupy oneself with, metaphorically.
- (UK, dialectal, of plants) To fade, fade away, wither, droop; fail to flourish.
- To move lazily or heavily in any medium.
- devote oneself entirely to something; indulge in to an immoderate degree, usually with pleasure
- roll around
- rise up as if in waves
- delight greatly in
- be ecstatic with joy
noun
- An instance of drawing something into one's mouth by inhaling.
- the act of sucking
- An indrawing of gas or liquid caused by suction.
- A sycophant, especially a child.
- (uncountable) Milk drawn from the breast.
- (uncountable) The ability to suck; suction.
- (slang, uncountable, sometimes considered vulgar) Badness or mediocrity.
- (vulgar) An act of fellatio.
- (Canada) A weak, self-pitying person; a person who refuses to go along with others, especially out of spite; a crybaby or sore loser.
- A part of a river towards which strong currents converge making navigation difficult.
verb
- (intransitive) To perform such an action; to feed from a breast or teat.
- (transitive) To use the mouth and lips to pull in (a liquid, especially milk from the breast).
- (transitive) To work the lips and tongue on (an object) to extract moisture or nourishment; to absorb (something) in the mouth.
- (chiefly Canada, US, intransitive, stative, colloquial, sometimes vulgar) To be inferior or objectionable: a general term of disparagement, sometimes used with at to indicate a particular area of deficiency.
- (transitive, slang, vulgar) To perform fellatio.
- (transitive) To extract, draw in (a substance) from or out of something.
- (transitive) To put the mouth or lips to (a breast, a mother etc.) to draw in milk.
- (transitive) To pull (something) in a given direction, especially without direct contact.
- draw into the mouth by creating a practical vacuum in the mouth
- be inadequate or objectionable
- draw something in by or as if by a vacuum
- attract by using an inexorable force, inducement, etc.
- provide sexual gratification through oral stimulation
- take in, also metaphorically
- give suck to
noun
verb
noun
- The result of something being choked.
- The act of coughing when a person finds it difficult to breathe.
- The act of trying to kill a person by strangulation.
- The process in which a person's airway becomes blocked, resulting in asphyxia in cases that are not treated promptly.
- the act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe
- a condition caused by blocking the airways to the lungs (as with food or swelling of the larynx)
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- (uncommon) An act of gaping; a yawn.
- A large opening.
- (zoology) The maximum opening of the mouth (of a bird, fish, etc.) when it is open.
- (uncountable) A disease in poultry caused by gapeworm in the windpipe, a symptom of which is frequent gaping.
- The width of an opening.
- an expression of openmouthed astonishment
- a stare of amazement (usually with the mouth open)
verb
- (intransitive) To stare in wonder.
- (intransitive, of a cat) To open the passage to the vomeronasal organ, analogous to the flehming in other animals.
- (intransitive) To open wide; to display a gap.
- (pornography) To depict a dilated anal or vaginal cavity upon penetrative sexual activity.
- (intransitive) To open the mouth wide, especially involuntarily, as in a yawn, anger, or surprise.
- look with amazement; look stupidly
- be wide open
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noun
- An act of leaking, or something that leaks.
- An undesirable flow of electric current through insulation.
- (sound recording) The situation where sound is picked up by a microphone from a source other than that which is intended.
- (economics) The loss of revenue generated by tourism to the economies of other countries.
- Loss of retail stock, especially due to theft.
- The amount lost due to a leak.
- the discharge of a fluid from some container
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- An act of gorging.
- (heraldry, usually in the plural) A whirlpool used as a heraldic charge.
- (US) A choking or filling of a channel or passage by an obstruction; the obstruction itself.
- (geography) A deep, narrow passage with steep, rocky sides, particularly one with a stream running through it; a ravine.
- (botany) The throat of a flower.
- (architecture, military, fortification) The rearward side of an outwork, a bastion, or a fort, often open, or not protected against artillery; a narrow entry passage into the outwork of an enclosed fortification.
- (mechanical engineering) The groove of a pulley.
- (fishing) A primitive device used instead of a hook to catch fish, consisting of an object that is easy to swallow but difficult to eject or loosen, such as a piece of bone or stone pointed at each end and attached in the middle to a line.
- (architecture) A concave moulding; a cavetto.
- Food that has been taken into the gullet or the stomach, particularly if it is regurgitated or vomited out.
- the passage between the pharynx and the stomach
- a deep ravine (usually with a river running through it)
- a narrow pass (especially one between mountains)
adj
verb
- (transitive) To fill up to the throat; to glut, to satiate.
- (transitive) To fill up (an organ, a vein, etc.); to block up or obstruct; (US, specifically) of ice: to choke or fill a channel or passage, causing an obstruction.
- (intransitive, reflexive) To stuff the gorge or gullet with food; to eat greedily and in large quantities. [with on]
- (transitive) To swallow, especially with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.
- overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself
noun
- (countable) A forceful choking or spitting sound.
- (uncountable) Chaotic and forceful speaking, verbal exchange, etc.; (countable) an instance of this.
- (countable) A noisy commotion.
- (countable) A disagreement or dispute.
- (countable) A forceful emission of something, especially in small drops or particles; a spluttering or sputtering.
- the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively
- an utterance (of words) with spitting sounds (as in rage)
verb
- To spray droplets of saliva from the mouth while eating or speaking.
- To direct angry words, criticism, insults, etc., at (someone or something).
- Followed by out: to go out (as a flame) or stop functioning (as an engine or machine) with a spluttering action or sound (senses 2.1 or 2.3).
- To forcefully emit (something), especially in small drops or particles; to sputter.
- Sometimes followed by out: to speak (words) hurriedly, and confusedly or unclearly.
- Of a substance: to be emitted forcefully in small drops or particles.
- Of a thing: to forcefully emit something, especially in small drops or particles.
- To perform in an inconsistent manner to a substandard level.
- To speak hurriedly, and confusedly or unclearly.
- To make a sound or sounds of something forcefully emitting a substance in small drops or particles.
- To soil or sprinkle (someone or something) with a substance, often a liquid; to bespatter, to spatter.
- utter with a spitting sound, as if in a rage
- spit up in an explosive manner
noun
- A noisy effort to force up phlegm from the throat.
- (game theory) An uncooperative or purely selfish participant in an exchange or game, especially when untrusting, acquisitive or treacherous. Refers specifically to the prisoner's dilemma, a.k.a. the Hawk-Dove game.
- (entomology) Any of various species of dragonfly of the genera Apocordulia and Austrocordulia, endemic to Australia.
- Any diurnal predatory terrestrial bird of similar size and appearance to the accipitrid hawks, such as a falcon.
- (US, especially Chicago, and nationwide in African-American, often with "the") Cold, sharp or biting wind.
- A diurnal predatory bird of the family Accipitridae, smaller than an eagle.
- (politics) An advocate of aggressive political positions and actions.
- A plasterer's tool, made of a flat surface with a handle below, used to hold an amount of plaster prior to application to the wall or ceiling being worked on: a mortarboard.
- a square board with a handle underneath; used by masons to hold or carry mortar
- diurnal bird of prey typically having short rounded wings and a long tail
- an advocate of an aggressive policy on foreign relations
verb
- (transitive, intransitive) To expectorate, to cough up (something, such as mucus) from one's throat; to produce (something) by coughing or clearing one's throat.
- (transitive) To sell; to offer for sale by outcry in the street; to carry (merchandise) about from place to place for sale; to peddle.
- (intransitive) To make an attack while on the wing; to soar and strike like a hawk.
- (transitive) To hunt with a hawk.
- (transitive, intransitive) To try to cough up something from one's throat; to clear the throat loudly; to cough heavily, especially causing uvular frication.
- hunt with hawks
- clear mucus or food from one's throat
- sell or offer for sale from place to place
verb
- (intransitive) To choke (experience tightness in one's throat as a result of strong emotion)
- (intransitive) To vomit, throw up.
- (transitive) To cough something up.
- (intransitive) To make a sharp, sudden sound in one's throat, such as before vomiting or while coughing, gagging, etc.
- (intransitive) To choke (be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe)
- (of a bird) To call in response to disturbance.
intj
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- That which swallows irretrievably; a whirlpool; a sucking eddy.
- (mining) A large deposit of ore in a lode.
- (figurative) A wide interval or gap; a separating space.
- (figurative) A difference, especially a large difference, between groups.
- (geography) A portion of an ocean or sea extending into the land; a partially landlocked sea
- (Oxbridge slang) The bottom part of a list of those awarded a degree, for those who have only just passed.
- A hollow place in the earth; an abyss; a deep chasm or basin.
- a deep wide chasm
- an unbridgeable disparity (as from a failure of understanding)
- an arm of a sea or ocean partly enclosed by land; larger than a bay
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- To be dismissive or contemptuous of something; used with at.
- (intransitive) To pry; to investigate in an interfering manner.
- (transitive) To perceive vaguely.
- (slang, chiefly UK) To inhale drugs (usually cocaine) through the nose, usually in powder form.
- (computing) To intercept and analyse packets of data being transmitted over a network.
- (transitive) To say (something) while sniffing, such as in case of illness or unhappiness, or in contempt.
- (ambitransitive) To make a short, audible inhalation, through the nose, as when smelling something.
- inhale audibly through the nose
- perceive by inhaling through the nose
noun
- the act of sucking
- a force over an area produced by a pressure difference
- (physics) A force which pushes matter from one space into another because the pressure inside the second space is lower than the pressure in the first.
- (informal) influence; "pull".
- (dentistry) A device for removing saliva from a patient's mouth during dental operations, a saliva ejector.
- The process of creating an imbalance in pressure to draw matter from one place to another.
- (physics) A force holding two objects together because the pressure in the space between the items is lower than the pressure outside that space.
verb
noun
- A sound that resembles a human wheezing.
- An ordinary whisper exaggerated so as to produce the hoarse sound known as the "stage whisper"; a forcible whisper with some admixture of tone.
- (British, Ireland, informal) An ulterior scheme or plan.
- A piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration.
- (slang) Something very humorous or laughable.
- breathing with a husky or whistling sound
- (Briticism) a clever or amusing scheme or trick
verb
noun
- The act of heaping up.
- (ironworking) The process of building up, heating, and working fagots or piles to form bars, etc.
- A structural support comprising a length of wood, steel, or other construction material.
- a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure
verb
noun
- the act of swallowing
- any liquid suitable for drinking
- a single serving of a beverage
- any large deep body of water
- the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess
- Alcoholic beverages in general.
- A type of beverage (usually mixed).
- A standard drink.
- (informal) Amount.
- (uncountable) Drinks in general; something to drink.
- A (served) alcoholic beverage.
- The action of drinking, especially with the verbs take or have.
- A beverage.
- (Australia, figurative) A downpour; a cloudburst; a rainstorm; a deluge; a lot of rain.
- (colloquial, with the) Any body of water.
verb
- consume alcohol
- be fascinated or spell-bound by; pay close attention to
- propose a toast to
- drink excessive amounts of alcohol; be an alcoholic
- take in liquids
- (transitive) To take in; to receive within one, through the senses; to inhale; to hear; to see.
- (intransitive) To consume alcoholic beverages.
- (ambitransitive) To consume (a liquid) through the mouth.
- (transitive, metonymic) To consume the liquid contained within (a bottle, glass, etc.).
- Used in phrasal verbs: drink down, drink in, drink off, drink out, drink to, drink up.
- (transitive) To take in (a liquid), in any manner; to suck up; to absorb; to imbibe.
noun
- the act of swallowing
- small long-winged songbird noted for swift graceful flight and the regularity of its migrations
- a small amount of liquid food
- A small, migratory bird of the Hirundinidae family with long, pointed, moon-shaped wings and a forked tail which feeds on the wing by catching insects.
- (Nigeria) Any of various carbohydrate-based dishes that are swallowed without much chewing, commonly paired and eaten with various types of soup.
- (nautical) The opening in a pulley block between the sheave and shell through which the rope passes.
- The amount swallowed in one gulp; the act of swallowing.
verb
- tolerate or accommodate oneself to
- pass through the esophagus as part of eating or drinking
- engulf and destroy
- keep from expressing
- enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing
- take back what one has said
- utter unclearly
- believe or accept without questioning or challenge
- (intransitive) To engross; to appropriate; usually with up.
- (transitive) To put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation.
- (transitive) To take (something) in so that it disappears; to consume, absorb.
- (transitive) To retract; to recant.
- (intransitive) To take food down into the stomach; to make the muscular contractions of the oesophagus to achieve this, often taken as a sign of nervousness or strong emotion.
- (transitive) To accept easily or without questions; to believe, accept.
- (transitive) To cause (food, drink etc.) to pass from the mouth into the stomach; to take into the stomach through the throat.
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- A difficulty or flaw that is likely to impede operation, as in a plan or system.
- (Scotland, dialect) A convulsive fit of coughing or laughter; a sonorous indraft of breath; a whoop; a gasp of breath caused by laughing, coughing, or crying.
- Any sexual preference outside normal or expected norms.
- An unreasonable notion; a crotchet; a whim; a caprice.
- A person with peculiar sexual tastes.
- (mathematics) A positive 1-soliton solution to the sine-Gordon equation.
- Peculiarity or deviation in sexual behaviour or taste.
- A tight curl, twist, or bend in a length of thin material, hair etc.
- a difficulty or flaw in a plan or operation
- an eccentric idea
- a person with unusual sexual tastes
- a sharp bend in a line produced when a line having a loop is pulled tight
- a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (‘rick’ and ‘wrick’ are British)
noun
- An act or instance of slipping.
- A mistake or error.
- A twig or shoot; a cutting.
- (engineering) The motion of the centre of resistance of the float of a paddle wheel, or the blade of an oar, through the water horizontally, or the difference between a vessel's actual speed and the speed it would have if the propelling instrument acted upon a solid; also, the velocity, relatively to still water, of the backward current of water produced by the propeller.
- (medicine) A one-time return to previous maladaptive behavior after cure.
- A young person (now usually with of introducing descriptive qualifier).
- (mining) A dislocation of a lead, destroying continuity.
- An outside covering or case.
- A leash or string by which a dog is held; so called from its being made in such a manner as to slip, or become loose, by relaxation of the hand.
- (nautical, aviation) A difference between the theoretical distance traveled per revolution of the propeller and the actual advance of the vessel.
- (cricket) Any of several fielding positions to the off side of the wicket keeper, designed to catch the ball after being deflected from the bat; a fielder in that position (See first slip, second slip, third slip, fourth slip and fifth slip.)
- (marine insurance) A memorandum of the particulars of a risk for which a policy is to be executed. It usually bears the broker's name and is initiated by the underwriters.
- Either side of the gallery in a theater.
- A fish, the sole.
- (nautical) A berth; a space for a ship to moor.
- (US) A long seat or narrow pew in churches, often without a door.
- (ceramics) A thin, slippery mix of clay and water.
- A woman's undergarment worn under a skirt or dress to conceal unwanted nudity that may otherwise be revealed by the skirt or dress itself; a shift.
- A slipdress.
- An escape; a secret or unexpected desertion.
- Matter found in troughs of grindstones after the grinding of edge tools.
- (electricity) The difference between the actual and synchronous speeds of an induction motor.
- A long, thin piece of something.
- A particular quantity of yarn.
- (nautical) A slipway.
- (crosswording) A newsletter produced by the setter of a cryptic clue-writing competition, containing a full list of winners and commentary on the clues.
- A number between 0 and 1 that is the difference between the angular speed of a rotating magnetic field and the angular speed of its rotor, divided by the angular speed of the magnetic field.
- (telecommunications) The positional displacement in a sequence of transmitted symbols that causes the loss or insertion of one or more symbols.
- (aviation) Clipping of sideslip.
- A small piece of paper, especially one longer than it is wide, typically a form for writing on or one giving printed information.
- a place where a craft can be made fast
- a slippery smoothness
- bed linen consisting of a cover for a pillow
- potter's clay that is thinned and used for coating or decorating ceramics
- a part (sometimes a root or leaf or bud) removed from a plant to propagate a new plant through rooting or grafting
- the act of avoiding capture (especially by cunning)
- a young and slender person
- artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material
- a woman's sleeveless undergarment
- an accidental misstep threatening (or causing) a fall
- an unexpected slide
- a minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc.
- a small sheet of paper
- a flight maneuver; aircraft slides sideways in the air
- a socially awkward or tactless act
verb
- (transitive) To cut slips from; to cut; to take off; to make a slip or slips of.
- (intransitive, aviation, of an aircraft) Clipping of sideslip (“to fly with the longitudinal axis misaligned with the relative wind”).
- (transitive) To elude or evade by smooth movement.
- (transitive) To cause to slip or slide off, or out of place.
- (transitive, hunting, falconry) To release (a dog, a bird of prey, etc.) to go after a quarry.
- (transitive) To pass (a note, money, etc.), often covertly.
- (intransitive) To err.
- (intransitive) To move quickly and often secretively; to depart, withdraw, enter, appear, intrude, or escape as if by sliding.
- (transitive) To cause to move smoothly and quickly; to slide; to convey gently or secretly.
- (intransitive) To lose one’s traction on a slippery surface; to slide due to a lack of friction.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To move down; to slide.
- (intransitive) To move or fly (out of place); to shoot; often with out, off, etc.
- To bring forth (young) prematurely; to slink.
- (intransitive) To accidentally reveal a secret or otherwise say something unintentionally.
- (transitive, business) To cause (a schedule or release, etc.) to go, or let it go, beyond the allotted deadline.
- (transitive, cooking) To remove the skin of a soft fruit, such as a tomato or peach, by blanching briefly in boiling water, then transferring to cold water so that the skin peels, or slips, off easily.
- fall to a lower standard
- move smoothly and easily
- move out of position
- pass out of one's memory
- cause to move with a smooth or sliding motion
- insert inconspicuously or quickly or quietly
- move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner
- move stealthily
- to make a mistake or be incorrect
- pass on stealthily
- move easily
noun
- An effort to vomit; retching.
- (rare, only used attributively as in "heave line" or "heave horse") Broken wind in horses.
- (cricket) A forceful shot in which the ball follows a high trajectory
- An upward motion; a rising; a swell or distention, as of the breast in difficult breathing, of the waves, of the earth in an earthquake, etc.
- (countable) An effort to raise something, such as a weight or one's own body, or to move something heavy.
- (nautical) The measure of extent to which a nautical vessel goes up and down in a short period of time.
- A horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at an intersection with another lode.
- (geology) a horizontal dislocation
- the act of raising something
- the act of lifting something with great effort
- throwing something heavy (with great effort)
- an involuntary spasm of ineffectual vomiting
- an upward movement (especially a rhythmical rising and falling)
verb
- (intransitive) To make an effort to raise, throw, or move anything; to strain to do something difficult.
- (transitive) To utter with effort.
- (intransitive) To rise and fall.
- (transitive, mining, geology) To displace (a vein, stratum).
- (intransitive) To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound.
- (transitive) To lift with difficulty; to raise with some effort; to lift (a heavy thing).
- (transitive, nautical) To pull up with a rope or cable.
- (ambitransitive, nautical) To move in a certain direction or into a certain position or situation.
- (transitive) To throw, cast.
- (intransitive) To retch, to make an effort to vomit; to vomit.
- make an unsuccessful effort to vomit; strain to vomit
- lift or elevate
- breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted
- move or cause to move in a specified way, direction, or position
- bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat
- rise and move, as in waves or billows
- utter a sound, as with obvious effort
- throw with great effort
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- The act of taking something up, by tightening, absorption, or reeling in.
- Acceptance (of a proposal, offer, request, etc.).
- (machinery) That which takes up or tightens; specifically, a device in a sewing machine or loom for drawing up the slack thread as the needle rises, in completing a stitch.
- the action of taking up as by tightening or absorption or reeling in
- any of various devices for reducing slack (as in a sewing machine) or taking up motion (as in a loom)
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- To roll oneself about in something dirty, for example in mud.
- To live or exist in filth or in a sickening manner.
- (figurative) To immerse oneself in, to occupy oneself with, metaphorically.
- (UK, dialectal, of plants) To fade, fade away, wither, droop; fail to flourish.
- To move lazily or heavily in any medium.
- devote oneself entirely to something; indulge in to an immoderate degree, usually with pleasure
- roll around
- rise up as if in waves
- delight greatly in
- be ecstatic with joy
noun
- An instance of drawing something into one's mouth by inhaling.
- the act of sucking
- An indrawing of gas or liquid caused by suction.
- A sycophant, especially a child.
- (uncountable) Milk drawn from the breast.
- (uncountable) The ability to suck; suction.
- (slang, uncountable, sometimes considered vulgar) Badness or mediocrity.
- (vulgar) An act of fellatio.
- (Canada) A weak, self-pitying person; a person who refuses to go along with others, especially out of spite; a crybaby or sore loser.
- A part of a river towards which strong currents converge making navigation difficult.
verb
- (intransitive) To perform such an action; to feed from a breast or teat.
- (transitive) To use the mouth and lips to pull in (a liquid, especially milk from the breast).
- (transitive) To work the lips and tongue on (an object) to extract moisture or nourishment; to absorb (something) in the mouth.
- (chiefly Canada, US, intransitive, stative, colloquial, sometimes vulgar) To be inferior or objectionable: a general term of disparagement, sometimes used with at to indicate a particular area of deficiency.
- (transitive, slang, vulgar) To perform fellatio.
- (transitive) To extract, draw in (a substance) from or out of something.
- (transitive) To put the mouth or lips to (a breast, a mother etc.) to draw in milk.
- (transitive) To pull (something) in a given direction, especially without direct contact.
- draw into the mouth by creating a practical vacuum in the mouth
- be inadequate or objectionable
- draw something in by or as if by a vacuum
- attract by using an inexorable force, inducement, etc.
- provide sexual gratification through oral stimulation
- take in, also metaphorically
- give suck to
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- The result of something being choked.
- The act of coughing when a person finds it difficult to breathe.
- The act of trying to kill a person by strangulation.
- The process in which a person's airway becomes blocked, resulting in asphyxia in cases that are not treated promptly.
- the act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe
- a condition caused by blocking the airways to the lungs (as with food or swelling of the larynx)
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- (uncommon) An act of gaping; a yawn.
- A large opening.
- (zoology) The maximum opening of the mouth (of a bird, fish, etc.) when it is open.
- (uncountable) A disease in poultry caused by gapeworm in the windpipe, a symptom of which is frequent gaping.
- The width of an opening.
- an expression of openmouthed astonishment
- a stare of amazement (usually with the mouth open)
verb
- (intransitive) To stare in wonder.
- (intransitive, of a cat) To open the passage to the vomeronasal organ, analogous to the flehming in other animals.
- (intransitive) To open wide; to display a gap.
- (pornography) To depict a dilated anal or vaginal cavity upon penetrative sexual activity.
- (intransitive) To open the mouth wide, especially involuntarily, as in a yawn, anger, or surprise.
- look with amazement; look stupidly
- be wide open
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- An act of leaking, or something that leaks.
- An undesirable flow of electric current through insulation.
- (sound recording) The situation where sound is picked up by a microphone from a source other than that which is intended.
- (economics) The loss of revenue generated by tourism to the economies of other countries.
- Loss of retail stock, especially due to theft.
- The amount lost due to a leak.
- the discharge of a fluid from some container
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- An act of gorging.
- (heraldry, usually in the plural) A whirlpool used as a heraldic charge.
- (US) A choking or filling of a channel or passage by an obstruction; the obstruction itself.
- (geography) A deep, narrow passage with steep, rocky sides, particularly one with a stream running through it; a ravine.
- (botany) The throat of a flower.
- (architecture, military, fortification) The rearward side of an outwork, a bastion, or a fort, often open, or not protected against artillery; a narrow entry passage into the outwork of an enclosed fortification.
- (mechanical engineering) The groove of a pulley.
- (fishing) A primitive device used instead of a hook to catch fish, consisting of an object that is easy to swallow but difficult to eject or loosen, such as a piece of bone or stone pointed at each end and attached in the middle to a line.
- (architecture) A concave moulding; a cavetto.
- Food that has been taken into the gullet or the stomach, particularly if it is regurgitated or vomited out.
- the passage between the pharynx and the stomach
- a deep ravine (usually with a river running through it)
- a narrow pass (especially one between mountains)
adj
verb
- (transitive) To fill up to the throat; to glut, to satiate.
- (transitive) To fill up (an organ, a vein, etc.); to block up or obstruct; (US, specifically) of ice: to choke or fill a channel or passage, causing an obstruction.
- (intransitive, reflexive) To stuff the gorge or gullet with food; to eat greedily and in large quantities. [with on]
- (transitive) To swallow, especially with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.
- overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself
noun
- (countable) A forceful choking or spitting sound.
- (uncountable) Chaotic and forceful speaking, verbal exchange, etc.; (countable) an instance of this.
- (countable) A noisy commotion.
- (countable) A disagreement or dispute.
- (countable) A forceful emission of something, especially in small drops or particles; a spluttering or sputtering.
- the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively
- an utterance (of words) with spitting sounds (as in rage)
verb
- To spray droplets of saliva from the mouth while eating or speaking.
- To direct angry words, criticism, insults, etc., at (someone or something).
- Followed by out: to go out (as a flame) or stop functioning (as an engine or machine) with a spluttering action or sound (senses 2.1 or 2.3).
- To forcefully emit (something), especially in small drops or particles; to sputter.
- Sometimes followed by out: to speak (words) hurriedly, and confusedly or unclearly.
- Of a substance: to be emitted forcefully in small drops or particles.
- Of a thing: to forcefully emit something, especially in small drops or particles.
- To perform in an inconsistent manner to a substandard level.
- To speak hurriedly, and confusedly or unclearly.
- To make a sound or sounds of something forcefully emitting a substance in small drops or particles.
- To soil or sprinkle (someone or something) with a substance, often a liquid; to bespatter, to spatter.
- utter with a spitting sound, as if in a rage
- spit up in an explosive manner
noun
- A noisy effort to force up phlegm from the throat.
- (game theory) An uncooperative or purely selfish participant in an exchange or game, especially when untrusting, acquisitive or treacherous. Refers specifically to the prisoner's dilemma, a.k.a. the Hawk-Dove game.
- (entomology) Any of various species of dragonfly of the genera Apocordulia and Austrocordulia, endemic to Australia.
- Any diurnal predatory terrestrial bird of similar size and appearance to the accipitrid hawks, such as a falcon.
- (US, especially Chicago, and nationwide in African-American, often with "the") Cold, sharp or biting wind.
- A diurnal predatory bird of the family Accipitridae, smaller than an eagle.
- (politics) An advocate of aggressive political positions and actions.
- A plasterer's tool, made of a flat surface with a handle below, used to hold an amount of plaster prior to application to the wall or ceiling being worked on: a mortarboard.
- a square board with a handle underneath; used by masons to hold or carry mortar
- diurnal bird of prey typically having short rounded wings and a long tail
- an advocate of an aggressive policy on foreign relations
verb
- (transitive, intransitive) To expectorate, to cough up (something, such as mucus) from one's throat; to produce (something) by coughing or clearing one's throat.
- (transitive) To sell; to offer for sale by outcry in the street; to carry (merchandise) about from place to place for sale; to peddle.
- (intransitive) To make an attack while on the wing; to soar and strike like a hawk.
- (transitive) To hunt with a hawk.
- (transitive, intransitive) To try to cough up something from one's throat; to clear the throat loudly; to cough heavily, especially causing uvular frication.
- hunt with hawks
- clear mucus or food from one's throat
- sell or offer for sale from place to place
noun
- That which swallows irretrievably; a whirlpool; a sucking eddy.
- (mining) A large deposit of ore in a lode.
- (figurative) A wide interval or gap; a separating space.
- (figurative) A difference, especially a large difference, between groups.
- (geography) A portion of an ocean or sea extending into the land; a partially landlocked sea
- (Oxbridge slang) The bottom part of a list of those awarded a degree, for those who have only just passed.
- A hollow place in the earth; an abyss; a deep chasm or basin.
- a deep wide chasm
- an unbridgeable disparity (as from a failure of understanding)
- an arm of a sea or ocean partly enclosed by land; larger than a bay
verb
noun
- the act of sucking
- a force over an area produced by a pressure difference
- (physics) A force which pushes matter from one space into another because the pressure inside the second space is lower than the pressure in the first.
- (informal) influence; "pull".
- (dentistry) A device for removing saliva from a patient's mouth during dental operations, a saliva ejector.
- The process of creating an imbalance in pressure to draw matter from one place to another.
- (physics) A force holding two objects together because the pressure in the space between the items is lower than the pressure outside that space.
verb
noun
- A sound that resembles a human wheezing.
- An ordinary whisper exaggerated so as to produce the hoarse sound known as the "stage whisper"; a forcible whisper with some admixture of tone.
- (British, Ireland, informal) An ulterior scheme or plan.
- A piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration.
- (slang) Something very humorous or laughable.
- breathing with a husky or whistling sound
- (Briticism) a clever or amusing scheme or trick
verb
noun
- The act of heaping up.
- (ironworking) The process of building up, heating, and working fagots or piles to form bars, etc.
- A structural support comprising a length of wood, steel, or other construction material.
- a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure
verb
noun
- the act of swallowing
- any liquid suitable for drinking
- a single serving of a beverage
- any large deep body of water
- the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess
- Alcoholic beverages in general.
- A type of beverage (usually mixed).
- A standard drink.
- (informal) Amount.
- (uncountable) Drinks in general; something to drink.
- A (served) alcoholic beverage.
- The action of drinking, especially with the verbs take or have.
- A beverage.
- (Australia, figurative) A downpour; a cloudburst; a rainstorm; a deluge; a lot of rain.
- (colloquial, with the) Any body of water.
verb
- consume alcohol
- be fascinated or spell-bound by; pay close attention to
- propose a toast to
- drink excessive amounts of alcohol; be an alcoholic
- take in liquids
- (transitive) To take in; to receive within one, through the senses; to inhale; to hear; to see.
- (intransitive) To consume alcoholic beverages.
- (ambitransitive) To consume (a liquid) through the mouth.
- (transitive, metonymic) To consume the liquid contained within (a bottle, glass, etc.).
- Used in phrasal verbs: drink down, drink in, drink off, drink out, drink to, drink up.
- (transitive) To take in (a liquid), in any manner; to suck up; to absorb; to imbibe.
noun
- the act of swallowing
- small long-winged songbird noted for swift graceful flight and the regularity of its migrations
- a small amount of liquid food
- A small, migratory bird of the Hirundinidae family with long, pointed, moon-shaped wings and a forked tail which feeds on the wing by catching insects.
- (Nigeria) Any of various carbohydrate-based dishes that are swallowed without much chewing, commonly paired and eaten with various types of soup.
- (nautical) The opening in a pulley block between the sheave and shell through which the rope passes.
- The amount swallowed in one gulp; the act of swallowing.
verb
- tolerate or accommodate oneself to
- pass through the esophagus as part of eating or drinking
- engulf and destroy
- keep from expressing
- enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing
- take back what one has said
- utter unclearly
- believe or accept without questioning or challenge
- (intransitive) To engross; to appropriate; usually with up.
- (transitive) To put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation.
- (transitive) To take (something) in so that it disappears; to consume, absorb.
- (transitive) To retract; to recant.
- (intransitive) To take food down into the stomach; to make the muscular contractions of the oesophagus to achieve this, often taken as a sign of nervousness or strong emotion.
- (transitive) To accept easily or without questions; to believe, accept.
- (transitive) To cause (food, drink etc.) to pass from the mouth into the stomach; to take into the stomach through the throat.
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verb
noun
- An act or instance of slipping.
- A mistake or error.
- A twig or shoot; a cutting.
- (engineering) The motion of the centre of resistance of the float of a paddle wheel, or the blade of an oar, through the water horizontally, or the difference between a vessel's actual speed and the speed it would have if the propelling instrument acted upon a solid; also, the velocity, relatively to still water, of the backward current of water produced by the propeller.
- (medicine) A one-time return to previous maladaptive behavior after cure.
- A young person (now usually with of introducing descriptive qualifier).
- (mining) A dislocation of a lead, destroying continuity.
- An outside covering or case.
- A leash or string by which a dog is held; so called from its being made in such a manner as to slip, or become loose, by relaxation of the hand.
- (nautical, aviation) A difference between the theoretical distance traveled per revolution of the propeller and the actual advance of the vessel.
- (cricket) Any of several fielding positions to the off side of the wicket keeper, designed to catch the ball after being deflected from the bat; a fielder in that position (See first slip, second slip, third slip, fourth slip and fifth slip.)
- (marine insurance) A memorandum of the particulars of a risk for which a policy is to be executed. It usually bears the broker's name and is initiated by the underwriters.
- Either side of the gallery in a theater.
- A fish, the sole.
- (nautical) A berth; a space for a ship to moor.
- (US) A long seat or narrow pew in churches, often without a door.
- (ceramics) A thin, slippery mix of clay and water.
- A woman's undergarment worn under a skirt or dress to conceal unwanted nudity that may otherwise be revealed by the skirt or dress itself; a shift.
- A slipdress.
- An escape; a secret or unexpected desertion.
- Matter found in troughs of grindstones after the grinding of edge tools.
- (electricity) The difference between the actual and synchronous speeds of an induction motor.
- A long, thin piece of something.
- A particular quantity of yarn.
- (nautical) A slipway.
- (crosswording) A newsletter produced by the setter of a cryptic clue-writing competition, containing a full list of winners and commentary on the clues.
- A number between 0 and 1 that is the difference between the angular speed of a rotating magnetic field and the angular speed of its rotor, divided by the angular speed of the magnetic field.
- (telecommunications) The positional displacement in a sequence of transmitted symbols that causes the loss or insertion of one or more symbols.
- (aviation) Clipping of sideslip.
- A small piece of paper, especially one longer than it is wide, typically a form for writing on or one giving printed information.
- a place where a craft can be made fast
- a slippery smoothness
- bed linen consisting of a cover for a pillow
- potter's clay that is thinned and used for coating or decorating ceramics
- a part (sometimes a root or leaf or bud) removed from a plant to propagate a new plant through rooting or grafting
- the act of avoiding capture (especially by cunning)
- a young and slender person
- artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material
- a woman's sleeveless undergarment
- an accidental misstep threatening (or causing) a fall
- an unexpected slide
- a minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc.
- a small sheet of paper
- a flight maneuver; aircraft slides sideways in the air
- a socially awkward or tactless act
verb
- (transitive) To cut slips from; to cut; to take off; to make a slip or slips of.
- (intransitive, aviation, of an aircraft) Clipping of sideslip (“to fly with the longitudinal axis misaligned with the relative wind”).
- (transitive) To elude or evade by smooth movement.
- (transitive) To cause to slip or slide off, or out of place.
- (transitive, hunting, falconry) To release (a dog, a bird of prey, etc.) to go after a quarry.
- (transitive) To pass (a note, money, etc.), often covertly.
- (intransitive) To err.
- (intransitive) To move quickly and often secretively; to depart, withdraw, enter, appear, intrude, or escape as if by sliding.
- (transitive) To cause to move smoothly and quickly; to slide; to convey gently or secretly.
- (intransitive) To lose one’s traction on a slippery surface; to slide due to a lack of friction.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To move down; to slide.
- (intransitive) To move or fly (out of place); to shoot; often with out, off, etc.
- To bring forth (young) prematurely; to slink.
- (intransitive) To accidentally reveal a secret or otherwise say something unintentionally.
- (transitive, business) To cause (a schedule or release, etc.) to go, or let it go, beyond the allotted deadline.
- (transitive, cooking) To remove the skin of a soft fruit, such as a tomato or peach, by blanching briefly in boiling water, then transferring to cold water so that the skin peels, or slips, off easily.
- fall to a lower standard
- move smoothly and easily
- move out of position
- pass out of one's memory
- cause to move with a smooth or sliding motion
- insert inconspicuously or quickly or quietly
- move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner
- move stealthily
- to make a mistake or be incorrect
- pass on stealthily
- move easily
noun
- An effort to vomit; retching.
- (rare, only used attributively as in "heave line" or "heave horse") Broken wind in horses.
- (cricket) A forceful shot in which the ball follows a high trajectory
- An upward motion; a rising; a swell or distention, as of the breast in difficult breathing, of the waves, of the earth in an earthquake, etc.
- (countable) An effort to raise something, such as a weight or one's own body, or to move something heavy.
- (nautical) The measure of extent to which a nautical vessel goes up and down in a short period of time.
- A horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at an intersection with another lode.
- (geology) a horizontal dislocation
- the act of raising something
- the act of lifting something with great effort
- throwing something heavy (with great effort)
- an involuntary spasm of ineffectual vomiting
- an upward movement (especially a rhythmical rising and falling)
verb
- (intransitive) To make an effort to raise, throw, or move anything; to strain to do something difficult.
- (transitive) To utter with effort.
- (intransitive) To rise and fall.
- (transitive, mining, geology) To displace (a vein, stratum).
- (intransitive) To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound.
- (transitive) To lift with difficulty; to raise with some effort; to lift (a heavy thing).
- (transitive, nautical) To pull up with a rope or cable.
- (ambitransitive, nautical) To move in a certain direction or into a certain position or situation.
- (transitive) To throw, cast.
- (intransitive) To retch, to make an effort to vomit; to vomit.
- make an unsuccessful effort to vomit; strain to vomit
- lift or elevate
- breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted
- move or cause to move in a specified way, direction, or position
- bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat
- rise and move, as in waves or billows
- utter a sound, as with obvious effort
- throw with great effort
noun
verb
noun
- The act of taking something up, by tightening, absorption, or reeling in.
- Acceptance (of a proposal, offer, request, etc.).
- (machinery) That which takes up or tightens; specifically, a device in a sewing machine or loom for drawing up the slack thread as the needle rises, in completing a stitch.
- the action of taking up as by tightening or absorption or reeling in
- any of various devices for reducing slack (as in a sewing machine) or taking up motion (as in a loom)
noun
verb
verb
- (intransitive) To choke (experience tightness in one's throat as a result of strong emotion)
- (intransitive) To vomit, throw up.
- (transitive) To cough something up.
- (intransitive) To make a sharp, sudden sound in one's throat, such as before vomiting or while coughing, gagging, etc.
- (intransitive) To choke (be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe)
- (of a bird) To call in response to disturbance.
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noun
verb
noun
- A difficulty or flaw that is likely to impede operation, as in a plan or system.
- (Scotland, dialect) A convulsive fit of coughing or laughter; a sonorous indraft of breath; a whoop; a gasp of breath caused by laughing, coughing, or crying.
- Any sexual preference outside normal or expected norms.
- An unreasonable notion; a crotchet; a whim; a caprice.
- A person with peculiar sexual tastes.
- (mathematics) A positive 1-soliton solution to the sine-Gordon equation.
- Peculiarity or deviation in sexual behaviour or taste.
- A tight curl, twist, or bend in a length of thin material, hair etc.
- a difficulty or flaw in a plan or operation
- an eccentric idea
- a person with unusual sexual tastes
- a sharp bend in a line produced when a line having a loop is pulled tight
- a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (‘rick’ and ‘wrick’ are British)