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- agitate
- throw carelessly
- move or stir about violently
- throw or cast away
- lightly throw to see which side comes up
- throw or toss with a light motion
- To subject to trials; to harass.
- (rowing) To peak (the oars), to lift them from the rowlocks and hold them perpendicularly, the handle resting on the bottom of the boat.
- To flip a coin, to decide a point of contention.
- To lift with a sudden or violent motion.
- (slang, usually as "toss one's cookies") To vomit.
- (transitive, informal) To search (a room or a cell), sometimes leaving visible disorder, as for valuables or evidence of a crime.
- (intransitive) To be tossed, as a fleet on the ocean, or as a ship in heavy seas.
- (UK, slang) To masturbate.
- To throw with an initial upward direction.
- (UK, slang) To drink in large draughts; to gulp.
- To stir or mix (a salad).
- (intransitive) To roll and tumble; to be in violent commotion.
- (informal, transitive) To discard; to throw away.
- To agitate; to make restless.
noun
- the act of flipping a coin
- (sports) the act of throwing the ball to another member of your team
- an abrupt movement
- (UK, slang, uncountable) Nonsense; drivel.
- A throw, a lob, of a ball etc., with an initial upward direction, particularly with a lack of care.
- (UK, vulgar) An act of masturbation.
- (British slang) A state of agitation; commotion.
- (British slang, chiefly in the negative) Concern or consideration.
- A haughty throwing up of the head.
- (cricket, soccer) The coin toss before a cricket match in order to decide who bats first, or before a football match in order to decide the direction of play.
- (broadcasting) A handover from one presenter to another, announced by the first presenter.
- (Billingsgate Fish Market slang) A measure of sprats.
verb
verb
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- support by bracing
- cause to be alert and energetic
- support or hold steady and make steadfast, with or as if with a brace
- prepare (oneself), often but not necessarily for something unpleasant or difficult
- To place in a position for resisting pressure; to hold firmly.
- (transitive, intransitive) To prepare for something bad, such as an impact or blow.
- To stop someone for questioning, usually said of police.
- To draw tight; to tighten; to put in a state of tension; to strain; to strengthen.
- To bind or tie closely; to fasten tightly.
- (nautical) To swing round the yards of a square rigged ship, using braces, to present a more efficient sail surface to the direction of the wind.
- To confront with questions, demands or requests.
- To furnish with braces; to support; to prop.
noun
- The state of being braced or tight; tension.
- a rope on a square-rigged ship that is used to swing a yard about and secure it
- a structural member used to stiffen a framework
- an appliance that corrects dental irregularities
- a set of two similar things considered as a unit
- a support that steadies or strengthens something else
- elastic straps that hold trousers up
- a carpenter's tool having a crank handle for turning and a socket to hold a bit for boring
- either of two punctuation marks (‘{’ or ‘}’) used to enclose textual material
- two items of the same kind
- A curved instrument or handle of iron or wood, for holding and turning bits, etc.; a bitstock.
- (British, chiefly in the plural) Straps or bands to sustain trousers; suspenders.
- A cord, ligament, or rod, for producing or maintaining tension.
- A piece of material used to transmit, or change the direction of, weight or pressure; any one of the pieces, in a frame or truss, which divide the structure into triangular parts. It may act as a tie, or as a strut, and serves to prevent distortion of the structure, and transverse strains in its members. A boiler brace is a diagonal stay, connecting the head with the shell.
- That which holds anything tightly or supports it firmly; a bandage or a prop.
- (nautical) A rope reeved through a block at the end of a yard, by which the yard is moved horizontally; also, a rudder gudgeon.
- (soccer) Two goals scored by one player in a game.
- (typography) A curved, pointed line, also known as "curly bracket": { or } connecting two or more words or lines, which are to be considered together, such as in {role, roll}; in music, used to connect staves.
- (plural brace) A pair, a couple; originally used of dogs, and later of animals generally (e.g., a brace of conies) and then other things, but rarely human persons. (In British use (as plural), this is a particularly common reference to game birds.)
- Harness; warlike preparation.
- (plural in North America, singular or plural in the UK) A system of wires, brackets, and elastic bands used to correct crooked teeth or to reduce overbite.
- A thong used to regulate the tension of a drum.
- (British, Cornwall, mining) The mouth of a shaft.
- (cricket) Two wickets taken with two consecutive deliveries.
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- An automatic response to a simple stimulus which does not require mental processing.
- (linguistics, rare) The ancestor word corresponding to a descendant.
- (linguistics) The descendant of an earlier language element, such as a word or phoneme, in a daughter language.
- The descendant of anything from an earlier time, such as a cultural myth.
- (chiefly photography) A reflection or an image produced by a reflection; the light reflected from an illuminated surface to one in shade.
- an automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus
verb
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- To bend or curve back.
- (transitive) To heat in a retort.
- To make a remark which reverses an argument upon its originator; to return, as an argument, accusation, censure, or incivility.
- To say something sharp or witty in answer to a remark or accusation.
- To throw back; to reverberate; to reflect.
- answer back
noun
- (chemistry) A flask with a rounded base and a long neck that is bent down and tapered, used to heat a liquid for distillation.
- A pressure cooker.
- An airtight vessel in which material is subjected to high temperatures in the chemical industry or as part of an industrial manufacturing process, especially during the smelting and forging of metal.
- A crematory furnace.
- A sharp or witty reply, or one which turns an argument against its originator; a comeback.
- a vessel where substances are distilled or decomposed by heat
- a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one)
noun
- a transverse brace
- a horizontal beam that extends across something
- A horizontal or transverse beam or similar member that extends across or perpendicular to something.
- (nautical) A bar or timber connecting two knightheads or two bitts; a timber over the windlass, with pins for belaying the running rigging.
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- The withholding of permits to extract a natural resource.
- A time period after the first release of a creative work before it can be distributed or adapted to other channels.
- A designation of some details about a crime that the police deliberately do not reveal to the public.
- (car sales) The difference between a dealer's cost and the manufacturer's suggested retail price.
- Money that a buyer does not pay at the time of purchase, but which is paid afterward (sometimes in installments, sometimes on a specified date).
- (accounting) Income that is set aside for eventualities such as customer returns, seasonal fluctuations, performance bonuses, unexpected costs, etc.
- A legal provision for restricting distributions to a trust beneficiary under certain conditions.
- The projection or loop, on the thill of a vehicle, to which a strap of the harness is attached, to hold back a carriage when going downhill, or in backing. Also, the strap or part of the harness so used.
- A portion of the money that is owed to someone which is not paid, but instead held as security, until the entire job or contract has been successfully completed.
- A restraint; a device or part of a device that operates to restrain.
- A delay in the movement of solute due to the slowing effects of diffusion
- A random subset of a body of data that is not used in the main analysis, but rather reserved for other purposes, such as validation.
- A time period during which sales of a specific security or commodity cannot occur.
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- A posture.
- A place or location.
- (electronics) A pin; a connector.
- A status or rank.
- (figurative) A situation suitable to perform some action.
- (chess) The full state of a chess game at any given turn.
- An opinion, stand, or stance.
- A post of employment; a job.
- (finance) A commitment, or a group of commitments, such as options or futures, to buy or sell a given amount of financial instruments, such as securities, currencies or commodities, for a given price.
- (team sports) A place on the playing field, together with a set of duties, assigned to a player.
- (poker) The order in which players are seated around the table.
- (arithmetic) A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; also called the rule of trial and error.
- (finance) An amount of securities, commodities, or other financial instruments held by a person, firm, or institution.
- the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another
- the arrangement of the body and its limbs
- a way of regarding situations or topics etc.
- an item on a list or in a sequence
- the act of putting something in a certain place
- the particular portion of space occupied by something
- (in team sports) the role assigned to an individual player
- an opinion that is held in opposition to another in an argument or dispute
- the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society
- a point occupied by troops for tactical reasons
- the act of positing; an assumption taken as a postulate or axiom
- the spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated
- a rationalized mental attitude
- a job in an organization
- the appropriate or customary location
- a condition or position in which you find yourself
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- (mathematics, category theory, of a morphism f:X→Y in a category with zero morphisms) The equalizer of f and the zero morphism from X to Y, denoted operatorname kerf.
- (botany, US) The stone of certain fruits, such as peaches or plums.
- (botany) A single seed of grain, especially of corn or wheat.
- (computing) The central part of many computer operating systems which manages the system's resources and the communication between hardware and software components.
- (slang) The human clitoris.
- (computing) The core engine of any complex software system.
- (programming) The simplified input to an algorithm that has undergone kernelization.
- A small mass around which other matter is concreted; a nucleus; a concretion or hard lump in the flesh.
- (calculus) A function used to define an integral transform.
- (chemistry) The nucleus and electrons of an atom excluding its valence electrons.
- (botany) The central (usually edible) part of a nut, especially once the hard shell has been removed.
- (mathematics, linear algebra, of a linear transformation f:M→N between modules or vector spaces) The set of elements of M which are mapped to the additive identity 0 of N.
- (mathematics, set theory, of a function f) The set of pairs of elements in the domain of f which are mapped to the same value; the equivalence relation x≡y⟺f(x)=f(y).
- (mathematics, group theory, of a group homomorphism f:G→H between groups) The set of elements of G which are mapped to the identity of H (usually written as 0 in an additive group and as 1 in a multiplicative group).
- (mathematics, fuzzy set theory) The set of members of a fuzzy set that are fully included (i.e., whose grade of membership is 1).
- (mathematics, ring theory, of a ring homomorphism f:R→S between rings) The set of elements of R which are mapped to the additive identity 0 of S.
- (mathematics, category theory) The source of operatorname kerf, denoted operatorname Kerf.
- The core, center, or essence of an object or system.
- a single whole grain of a cereal
- the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
- the inner and usually edible part of a seed or grain or nut or fruit stone
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- Backwards, turned around.
- Involving a backward flip of the hand.
- With the back of the hand.
- Insincere, sarcastic, ironic, or self-contradictory.
- Indirect.
- (of writing) inclining to the left
- Self-serving, corrupt, slipshod, or neglectful.
- Retrospective, occurring after the fact rather than in advance.
- (of racket strokes) made across the body with back of hand facing direction of stroke
- roundabout or ambiguous
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- cause to lean to the side
- have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined
- rely on for support
- cause to lean or incline
- to incline or bend from a vertical position
- (copulative) To incline in opinion or desire; to conform in conduct; often with to, toward, etc.
- To hang outwards.
- To thin out (a fuel-air mixture): to reduce the fuel flow into the mixture so that there is more air or oxygen.
- (Followed by against, on, or upon) To rest or rely, for support, comfort, to use as a hard surface for writing, etc.
- (intransitive) To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating.
- To press against.
adj
- containing little excess
- not profitable or prosperous
- lacking in mineral content or combustible material
- lacking excess flesh
- (business) Efficient, economic, frugal, agile, slimmed-down; pertaining to the modern industrial principles of "lean manufacturing".
- Having little extra or little to spare; scanty; meagre.
- (of meat) Having little fat.
- Having a low proportion or concentration of a desired substance or ingredient.
- (of a person or animal) Slim; not fleshy.
noun
- the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical
- (uncountable) Meat with no fat on it.
- (US slang) A recreational drug composed of codeine-promethazine cough syrup mixed with usually soda and associated with the hip-hop culture of the Southern United States.
- (countable, biology) An organism that is lean in stature.
- (of an object taller than its width and depth) An inclination away from the vertical.
verb
- cause to lean to the side
- give or make a list of; name individually; give the names of
- tilt to one side
- include in a list
- enumerate
- To give a building of architectural or historical interest listed status; see also the adjective listed.
- (transitive) To cover with list, or with strips of cloth; to put list on; to stripe as if with list.
- (transitive, nautical) To cause (something) to tilt to one side.
- (transitive) To create or recite a list.
- (transitive) To place in listings.
- (intransitive, nautical) To tilt to one side.
- (intransitive, of a business) To trade on a particular stock exchange.
- (transitive) To sew together, as strips of cloth, so as to make a show of colours, or to form a border.
- (transitive, agriculture, chiefly Southern US) To prepare (land) for a cotton crop by making alternating beds and alleys with a hoe.
- (intransitive, poetic) To listen.
- (transitive, agriculture) To plough and plant with a lister.
- (transitive, military) To enclose (a field, etc.) for combat.
- (transitive, carpentry) To cut away a narrow strip, as of sapwood, from the edge of.
- (transitive, poetic) To listen to.
noun
- a database containing an ordered array of items (names or topics)
- the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical
- (computing, programming) A codified representation of a list used to store data or in processing; especially, in the Lisp programming language, a data structure consisting of a sequence of zero or more items.
- (tin-plate manufacture) The first thin coating of tin; a wire-like rim of tin left on an edge of the plate after it is coated.
- (in the plural, historical) The barriers or palisades used to fence off a space for jousting or tilting tournaments.
- A strip of fabric, especially from the edge of a piece of cloth.
- Material used for cloth selvage.
- A register or roll of paper consisting of a compilation or enumeration of a set of possible items; the compilation or enumeration itself.
- (ropemaking) A piece of woollen cloth with which the yarns are grasped by a worker.
- (nautical) A careening or tilting to one side, usually not intentionally or under a vessel's own power.
- (architecture) A tilt to a building.
- (architecture) A little square moulding; a fillet or listel.
- (in the plural, military, historical) The scene of a military contest; the ground or field of combat; an enclosed space that serves as a battlefield; the site of a pitched battle.
- (carpentry) A narrow strip of wood, especially sapwood, cut from the edge of a board or plank.
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- a transverse brace
- a horizontal beam that extends across something
- A horizontal or transverse beam or similar member that extends across or perpendicular to something.
- (nautical) A bar or timber connecting two knightheads or two bitts; a timber over the windlass, with pins for belaying the running rigging.
noun
noun
- A posture.
- A place or location.
- (electronics) A pin; a connector.
- A status or rank.
- (figurative) A situation suitable to perform some action.
- (chess) The full state of a chess game at any given turn.
- An opinion, stand, or stance.
- A post of employment; a job.
- (finance) A commitment, or a group of commitments, such as options or futures, to buy or sell a given amount of financial instruments, such as securities, currencies or commodities, for a given price.
- (team sports) A place on the playing field, together with a set of duties, assigned to a player.
- (poker) The order in which players are seated around the table.
- (arithmetic) A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; also called the rule of trial and error.
- (finance) An amount of securities, commodities, or other financial instruments held by a person, firm, or institution.
- the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another
- the arrangement of the body and its limbs
- a way of regarding situations or topics etc.
- an item on a list or in a sequence
- the act of putting something in a certain place
- the particular portion of space occupied by something
- (in team sports) the role assigned to an individual player
- an opinion that is held in opposition to another in an argument or dispute
- the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society
- a point occupied by troops for tactical reasons
- the act of positing; an assumption taken as a postulate or axiom
- the spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated
- a rationalized mental attitude
- a job in an organization
- the appropriate or customary location
- a condition or position in which you find yourself
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- support by bracing
- cause to be alert and energetic
- support or hold steady and make steadfast, with or as if with a brace
- prepare (oneself), often but not necessarily for something unpleasant or difficult
- To place in a position for resisting pressure; to hold firmly.
- (transitive, intransitive) To prepare for something bad, such as an impact or blow.
- To stop someone for questioning, usually said of police.
- To draw tight; to tighten; to put in a state of tension; to strain; to strengthen.
- To bind or tie closely; to fasten tightly.
- (nautical) To swing round the yards of a square rigged ship, using braces, to present a more efficient sail surface to the direction of the wind.
- To confront with questions, demands or requests.
- To furnish with braces; to support; to prop.
noun
- The state of being braced or tight; tension.
- a rope on a square-rigged ship that is used to swing a yard about and secure it
- a structural member used to stiffen a framework
- an appliance that corrects dental irregularities
- a set of two similar things considered as a unit
- a support that steadies or strengthens something else
- elastic straps that hold trousers up
- a carpenter's tool having a crank handle for turning and a socket to hold a bit for boring
- either of two punctuation marks (‘{’ or ‘}’) used to enclose textual material
- two items of the same kind
- A curved instrument or handle of iron or wood, for holding and turning bits, etc.; a bitstock.
- (British, chiefly in the plural) Straps or bands to sustain trousers; suspenders.
- A cord, ligament, or rod, for producing or maintaining tension.
- A piece of material used to transmit, or change the direction of, weight or pressure; any one of the pieces, in a frame or truss, which divide the structure into triangular parts. It may act as a tie, or as a strut, and serves to prevent distortion of the structure, and transverse strains in its members. A boiler brace is a diagonal stay, connecting the head with the shell.
- That which holds anything tightly or supports it firmly; a bandage or a prop.
- (nautical) A rope reeved through a block at the end of a yard, by which the yard is moved horizontally; also, a rudder gudgeon.
- (soccer) Two goals scored by one player in a game.
- (typography) A curved, pointed line, also known as "curly bracket": { or } connecting two or more words or lines, which are to be considered together, such as in {role, roll}; in music, used to connect staves.
- (plural brace) A pair, a couple; originally used of dogs, and later of animals generally (e.g., a brace of conies) and then other things, but rarely human persons. (In British use (as plural), this is a particularly common reference to game birds.)
- Harness; warlike preparation.
- (plural in North America, singular or plural in the UK) A system of wires, brackets, and elastic bands used to correct crooked teeth or to reduce overbite.
- A thong used to regulate the tension of a drum.
- (British, Cornwall, mining) The mouth of a shaft.
- (cricket) Two wickets taken with two consecutive deliveries.
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verb
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- agitate
- throw carelessly
- move or stir about violently
- throw or cast away
- lightly throw to see which side comes up
- throw or toss with a light motion
- To subject to trials; to harass.
- (rowing) To peak (the oars), to lift them from the rowlocks and hold them perpendicularly, the handle resting on the bottom of the boat.
- To flip a coin, to decide a point of contention.
- To lift with a sudden or violent motion.
- (slang, usually as "toss one's cookies") To vomit.
- (transitive, informal) To search (a room or a cell), sometimes leaving visible disorder, as for valuables or evidence of a crime.
- (intransitive) To be tossed, as a fleet on the ocean, or as a ship in heavy seas.
- (UK, slang) To masturbate.
- To throw with an initial upward direction.
- (UK, slang) To drink in large draughts; to gulp.
- To stir or mix (a salad).
- (intransitive) To roll and tumble; to be in violent commotion.
- (informal, transitive) To discard; to throw away.
- To agitate; to make restless.
noun
- the act of flipping a coin
- (sports) the act of throwing the ball to another member of your team
- an abrupt movement
- (UK, slang, uncountable) Nonsense; drivel.
- A throw, a lob, of a ball etc., with an initial upward direction, particularly with a lack of care.
- (UK, vulgar) An act of masturbation.
- (British slang) A state of agitation; commotion.
- (British slang, chiefly in the negative) Concern or consideration.
- A haughty throwing up of the head.
- (cricket, soccer) The coin toss before a cricket match in order to decide who bats first, or before a football match in order to decide the direction of play.
- (broadcasting) A handover from one presenter to another, announced by the first presenter.
- (Billingsgate Fish Market slang) A measure of sprats.
verb
verb
verb
- support by bracing
- cause to be alert and energetic
- support or hold steady and make steadfast, with or as if with a brace
- prepare (oneself), often but not necessarily for something unpleasant or difficult
- To place in a position for resisting pressure; to hold firmly.
- (transitive, intransitive) To prepare for something bad, such as an impact or blow.
- To stop someone for questioning, usually said of police.
- To draw tight; to tighten; to put in a state of tension; to strain; to strengthen.
- To bind or tie closely; to fasten tightly.
- (nautical) To swing round the yards of a square rigged ship, using braces, to present a more efficient sail surface to the direction of the wind.
- To confront with questions, demands or requests.
- To furnish with braces; to support; to prop.
noun
- The state of being braced or tight; tension.
- a rope on a square-rigged ship that is used to swing a yard about and secure it
- a structural member used to stiffen a framework
- an appliance that corrects dental irregularities
- a set of two similar things considered as a unit
- a support that steadies or strengthens something else
- elastic straps that hold trousers up
- a carpenter's tool having a crank handle for turning and a socket to hold a bit for boring
- either of two punctuation marks (‘{’ or ‘}’) used to enclose textual material
- two items of the same kind
- A curved instrument or handle of iron or wood, for holding and turning bits, etc.; a bitstock.
- (British, chiefly in the plural) Straps or bands to sustain trousers; suspenders.
- A cord, ligament, or rod, for producing or maintaining tension.
- A piece of material used to transmit, or change the direction of, weight or pressure; any one of the pieces, in a frame or truss, which divide the structure into triangular parts. It may act as a tie, or as a strut, and serves to prevent distortion of the structure, and transverse strains in its members. A boiler brace is a diagonal stay, connecting the head with the shell.
- That which holds anything tightly or supports it firmly; a bandage or a prop.
- (nautical) A rope reeved through a block at the end of a yard, by which the yard is moved horizontally; also, a rudder gudgeon.
- (soccer) Two goals scored by one player in a game.
- (typography) A curved, pointed line, also known as "curly bracket": { or } connecting two or more words or lines, which are to be considered together, such as in {role, roll}; in music, used to connect staves.
- (plural brace) A pair, a couple; originally used of dogs, and later of animals generally (e.g., a brace of conies) and then other things, but rarely human persons. (In British use (as plural), this is a particularly common reference to game birds.)
- Harness; warlike preparation.
- (plural in North America, singular or plural in the UK) A system of wires, brackets, and elastic bands used to correct crooked teeth or to reduce overbite.
- A thong used to regulate the tension of a drum.
- (British, Cornwall, mining) The mouth of a shaft.
- (cricket) Two wickets taken with two consecutive deliveries.
verb
- To bend or curve back.
- (transitive) To heat in a retort.
- To make a remark which reverses an argument upon its originator; to return, as an argument, accusation, censure, or incivility.
- To say something sharp or witty in answer to a remark or accusation.
- To throw back; to reverberate; to reflect.
- answer back
noun
- (chemistry) A flask with a rounded base and a long neck that is bent down and tapered, used to heat a liquid for distillation.
- A pressure cooker.
- An airtight vessel in which material is subjected to high temperatures in the chemical industry or as part of an industrial manufacturing process, especially during the smelting and forging of metal.
- A crematory furnace.
- A sharp or witty reply, or one which turns an argument against its originator; a comeback.
- a vessel where substances are distilled or decomposed by heat
- a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one)
verb
noun
- The withholding of permits to extract a natural resource.
- A time period after the first release of a creative work before it can be distributed or adapted to other channels.
- A designation of some details about a crime that the police deliberately do not reveal to the public.
- (car sales) The difference between a dealer's cost and the manufacturer's suggested retail price.
- Money that a buyer does not pay at the time of purchase, but which is paid afterward (sometimes in installments, sometimes on a specified date).
- (accounting) Income that is set aside for eventualities such as customer returns, seasonal fluctuations, performance bonuses, unexpected costs, etc.
- A legal provision for restricting distributions to a trust beneficiary under certain conditions.
- The projection or loop, on the thill of a vehicle, to which a strap of the harness is attached, to hold back a carriage when going downhill, or in backing. Also, the strap or part of the harness so used.
- A portion of the money that is owed to someone which is not paid, but instead held as security, until the entire job or contract has been successfully completed.
- A restraint; a device or part of a device that operates to restrain.
- A delay in the movement of solute due to the slowing effects of diffusion
- A random subset of a body of data that is not used in the main analysis, but rather reserved for other purposes, such as validation.
- A time period during which sales of a specific security or commodity cannot occur.
verb
verb
noun
- (mathematics, category theory, of a morphism f:X→Y in a category with zero morphisms) The equalizer of f and the zero morphism from X to Y, denoted operatorname kerf.
- (botany, US) The stone of certain fruits, such as peaches or plums.
- (botany) A single seed of grain, especially of corn or wheat.
- (computing) The central part of many computer operating systems which manages the system's resources and the communication between hardware and software components.
- (slang) The human clitoris.
- (computing) The core engine of any complex software system.
- (programming) The simplified input to an algorithm that has undergone kernelization.
- A small mass around which other matter is concreted; a nucleus; a concretion or hard lump in the flesh.
- (calculus) A function used to define an integral transform.
- (chemistry) The nucleus and electrons of an atom excluding its valence electrons.
- (botany) The central (usually edible) part of a nut, especially once the hard shell has been removed.
- (mathematics, linear algebra, of a linear transformation f:M→N between modules or vector spaces) The set of elements of M which are mapped to the additive identity 0 of N.
- (mathematics, set theory, of a function f) The set of pairs of elements in the domain of f which are mapped to the same value; the equivalence relation x≡y⟺f(x)=f(y).
- (mathematics, group theory, of a group homomorphism f:G→H between groups) The set of elements of G which are mapped to the identity of H (usually written as 0 in an additive group and as 1 in a multiplicative group).
- (mathematics, fuzzy set theory) The set of members of a fuzzy set that are fully included (i.e., whose grade of membership is 1).
- (mathematics, ring theory, of a ring homomorphism f:R→S between rings) The set of elements of R which are mapped to the additive identity 0 of S.
- (mathematics, category theory) The source of operatorname kerf, denoted operatorname Kerf.
- The core, center, or essence of an object or system.
- a single whole grain of a cereal
- the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
- the inner and usually edible part of a seed or grain or nut or fruit stone
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- cause to lean to the side
- have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined
- rely on for support
- cause to lean or incline
- to incline or bend from a vertical position
- (copulative) To incline in opinion or desire; to conform in conduct; often with to, toward, etc.
- To hang outwards.
- To thin out (a fuel-air mixture): to reduce the fuel flow into the mixture so that there is more air or oxygen.
- (Followed by against, on, or upon) To rest or rely, for support, comfort, to use as a hard surface for writing, etc.
- (intransitive) To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating.
- To press against.
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- containing little excess
- not profitable or prosperous
- lacking in mineral content or combustible material
- lacking excess flesh
- (business) Efficient, economic, frugal, agile, slimmed-down; pertaining to the modern industrial principles of "lean manufacturing".
- Having little extra or little to spare; scanty; meagre.
- (of meat) Having little fat.
- Having a low proportion or concentration of a desired substance or ingredient.
- (of a person or animal) Slim; not fleshy.
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- the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical
- (uncountable) Meat with no fat on it.
- (US slang) A recreational drug composed of codeine-promethazine cough syrup mixed with usually soda and associated with the hip-hop culture of the Southern United States.
- (countable, biology) An organism that is lean in stature.
- (of an object taller than its width and depth) An inclination away from the vertical.
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- cause to lean to the side
- give or make a list of; name individually; give the names of
- tilt to one side
- include in a list
- enumerate
- To give a building of architectural or historical interest listed status; see also the adjective listed.
- (transitive) To cover with list, or with strips of cloth; to put list on; to stripe as if with list.
- (transitive, nautical) To cause (something) to tilt to one side.
- (transitive) To create or recite a list.
- (transitive) To place in listings.
- (intransitive, nautical) To tilt to one side.
- (intransitive, of a business) To trade on a particular stock exchange.
- (transitive) To sew together, as strips of cloth, so as to make a show of colours, or to form a border.
- (transitive, agriculture, chiefly Southern US) To prepare (land) for a cotton crop by making alternating beds and alleys with a hoe.
- (intransitive, poetic) To listen.
- (transitive, agriculture) To plough and plant with a lister.
- (transitive, military) To enclose (a field, etc.) for combat.
- (transitive, carpentry) To cut away a narrow strip, as of sapwood, from the edge of.
- (transitive, poetic) To listen to.
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- a database containing an ordered array of items (names or topics)
- the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical
- (computing, programming) A codified representation of a list used to store data or in processing; especially, in the Lisp programming language, a data structure consisting of a sequence of zero or more items.
- (tin-plate manufacture) The first thin coating of tin; a wire-like rim of tin left on an edge of the plate after it is coated.
- (in the plural, historical) The barriers or palisades used to fence off a space for jousting or tilting tournaments.
- A strip of fabric, especially from the edge of a piece of cloth.
- Material used for cloth selvage.
- A register or roll of paper consisting of a compilation or enumeration of a set of possible items; the compilation or enumeration itself.
- (ropemaking) A piece of woollen cloth with which the yarns are grasped by a worker.
- (nautical) A careening or tilting to one side, usually not intentionally or under a vessel's own power.
- (architecture) A tilt to a building.
- (architecture) A little square moulding; a fillet or listel.
- (in the plural, military, historical) The scene of a military contest; the ground or field of combat; an enclosed space that serves as a battlefield; the site of a pitched battle.
- (carpentry) A narrow strip of wood, especially sapwood, cut from the edge of a board or plank.
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- An automatic response to a simple stimulus which does not require mental processing.
- (linguistics, rare) The ancestor word corresponding to a descendant.
- (linguistics) The descendant of an earlier language element, such as a word or phoneme, in a daughter language.
- The descendant of anything from an earlier time, such as a cultural myth.
- (chiefly photography) A reflection or an image produced by a reflection; the light reflected from an illuminated surface to one in shade.
- an automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus
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- Backwards, turned around.
- Involving a backward flip of the hand.
- With the back of the hand.
- Insincere, sarcastic, ironic, or self-contradictory.
- Indirect.
- (of writing) inclining to the left
- Self-serving, corrupt, slipshod, or neglectful.
- Retrospective, occurring after the fact rather than in advance.
- (of racket strokes) made across the body with back of hand facing direction of stroke
- roundabout or ambiguous