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noun
verb
- (transitive) To pour water into the soil surrounding (plants).
- (intransitive) To get or take in water.
- (transitive) To dilute.
- (transitive) To provide (animals) with water for drinking.
- (transitive, colloquial) To urinate onto.
- (transitive) To wet and calender, as cloth, so as to impart to it a lustrous appearance in wavy lines; to diversify with wavelike lines.
- (transitive) To wet or supply with water; to moisten; to overflow with water; to irrigate.
- (intransitive) To fill with or secrete water or similar liquid.
- secrete or form water, as tears or saliva
- provide with water
- fill with tears
- supply with water, as with channels or ditches or streams
noun
- (uncountable, in particular) The liquid form of this substance: liquid H₂O.
- (countable) A serving of liquid water.
- (alchemy, philosophy) The aforementioned liquid, considered one of the Classical elements or basic elements of alchemy.
- (uncountable or in the plural) Water in a body; an area of open water.
- (colloquial, figuratively) Something which dilutes, or has the effect of watering down.
- A wavy, lustrous pattern or decoration such as is imparted to linen, silk, metals, etc.
- (figuratively, in the plural or in the singular) A state of affairs; conditions; usually with an adjective indicating an adverse condition.
- (colloquial, figuratively) A person's intuition.
- (colloquial, medicine) A fluid that causes swelling.
- The limpidity and lustre of a precious stone, especially a diamond.
- (sometimes countable) Mineral water.
- (business, often attributive) The water supply, as a service or utility.
- (pharmacy) A solution in water of a gaseous or readily volatile substance.
- (countable, often in the plural) Spa water; hot springs.
- (uncountable) An inorganic compound (of molecular formula H₂O) found at room temperature and pressure as a clear liquid; it is present naturally as rain, and found in rivers, lakes and seas; its solid form is ice and its gaseous form is steam.
- Amniotic fluid or the amniotic sac containing it. (Used only in the plural in the UK but often also in the singular in North America.)
- Urine.
- the part of the earth's surface covered with water (such as a river or lake or ocean)
- once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles), associated with the humour phlegm
- a facility that provides a source of water
- binary compound that occurs at room temperature as a clear colorless odorless tasteless liquid; freezes into ice below 0 degrees centigrade and boils above 100 degrees centigrade; widely used as a solvent
- liquid excretory product
- a liquid necessary for the life of most animals and plants
noun
- A narrow drain or channel used in the irrigation of land.
- (figuratively, by extension, usually in the plural) A large number of people on the move.
- (collective) A group of hares.
- A cattle drive or the herd being driven by it; thus, a number of cattle driven to market or new pastures.
- The grooved surface of stone finished by the drove chisel.
- A road or track along which cattle are habitually, used to be or could be driven; a droveway.
- A broad chisel used to bring stone to a nearly smooth surface.
- a stonemason's chisel with a broad edge for dressing stone
- a moving crowd
- a group of animals (a herd or flock) moving together
verb
noun
- A subdivision of an irrigated surface between a feeder and an outlet drain.
- (computing, graphical user interface) A portion of a user interface that typically makes up part of a larger window and may be docked or snapped into position.
- One of the openings in a slashed garment, showing the bright colored silk, or the like, within; hence, the piece of colored or other stuff so shown.
- (architecture) A compartment of a surface, or a flat space; hence, one side or face of a building.
- A square of a checkered or plaid pattern.
- Alternative spelling of peen.
- A division; a distinct piece or compartment of any surface.
- One of the eight facets surrounding the table of a brilliant-cut diamond.
- An individual sheet of glass in a window, door, etc.
- One of the flat surfaces, or facets, of any object having several sides.
- street name for lysergic acid diethylamide
- a panel or section of panels in a wall or door
- sheet glass cut in shapes for windows or doors
verb
verb
- irrigate with water from a sluice
- cause to flow through something
- rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid
- cause to flow or flood with or as if with water
- make level or straight
- glow or cause to glow with warm color or light
- turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame
- (intransitive) To take suddenly to flight, especially from cover.
- (transitive, computing) To clear (a buffer or cache) of its contents.
- To cause to be full; to flood; to overflow; to overwhelm with water.
- (intransitive) To become suffused with reddish color due to embarrassment, excitement, overheating, or other systemic disturbance, to blush.
- To flow and spread suddenly; to rush.
- (transitive) To cause to take flight from concealment.
- (intransitive, of a toilet) To be cleansed by being flooded with generous quantities of water.
- (mining, intransitive) To operate a placer mine, where the continuous supply of water is insufficient, by holding back the water, and releasing it periodically in a flood.
- (transitive) Particularly, to cleanse a toilet by introducing a large amount of water.
- (transitive) To cleanse by flooding with generous quantities of a fluid.
- (Singapore, chiefly military) To move, shift or align to one side.
- (transitive) To excite, inflame.
- (intransitive, transitive) To dispose or be disposed of by flushing down a toilet.
- (masonry) To fill in (joints); to point the level; to make them flush.
- To show red; to shine suddenly; to glow.
- (mining) To fill underground spaces, especially in coal mines, with material carried by water, which, after drainage, constitutes a compact mass.
- (transitive) To cause to blush.
- (transitive, computing, of data held in a buffer or cache) To write (the data) to primary storage, clearing it from the buffer or cache.
adj
- having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value
- of a surface exactly even with an adjoining one, forming the same plane
- Wealthy or well off.
- (typography) Ellipsis of flush left and right: a body of text aligned with both its left and right margins.
- Full of vigor; fresh; glowing; bright.
- Smooth, even, aligned; not sticking out.
- Affluent; abounding; well furnished or supplied; hence, liberal; prodigal.
noun
- a poker hand with all 5 cards in the same suit
- the period of greatest prosperity or productivity
- the swift release of a store of affective force
- sudden reddening of the face (as from embarrassment or guilt or shame or modesty)
- a sudden rapid flow (as of water)
- sudden brief sensation of heat (associated with menopause and some mental disorders)
- a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health
- A suffusion of the face with blood, as from fear, shame, modesty, or intensity of feeling of any kind; a blush; a glow.
- A sudden flood or rush of feeling; a thrill of excitement, animation, etc.
- Particularly, such a cleansing of a toilet.
- A sudden flowing; a rush which fills or overflows, as of water for cleansing purposes.
- A group of birds that have suddenly started up from undergrowth, trees, etc.
- Any tinge of red color like that produced on the cheeks by a sudden rush of blood.
- (skiing) A line of poles or obstacles that a skier must weave between.
- A groundwater-fed marsh or peaty mire (which may be acidic or basic, nutrient-rich or poor); (originally especially Scotland and Northern England) a (marshy) pool or seep, as in a field.
- (poker) A hand consisting of all cards with the same suit.
- (computing) The process of clearing the contents of a buffer or cache.
adv
verb
- irrigate with water from a sluice
- draw through a sluice
- transport in or send down a sluice
- pour as if from a sluice
- (linguistics) To elide the complement in a coordinated wh-question. See sluicing.
- (transitive, rare) To emit by, or as by, flood gates.
- (transitive, more generally) To wash (down or out).
- (transitive) To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice.
- (transitive) To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice
- (intransitive) To flow, pour.
noun
- conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate
- An artificial passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, for example in a canal lock or a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow.
- Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.
- (linguistics) An instance of wh-stranding ellipsis, or sluicing.
- A water gate or floodgate.
- (mining) A long box or trough through which water flows, used for washing auriferous earth.
- The stream flowing through a floodgate.
noun
- a hose used for watering a lawn or garden
- (countable) A length of hose as above, usually with a male connector on one end and a female connector on the other end, which can carry water from a hose bib (a water faucet or spigot usually located on an exterior wall of a house or other building) for use on a garden or lawn.
- (uncountable) A type of hose used for light residential applications such as watering lawns or gardens, or washing and rinsing passenger vehicles, etc.
verb
adj
- (finance) Of an option, having a strike price higher (call options) or lower (put options) than the current market price of the underlying asset or financial product; for example, an option to buy shares at $20 when the current market price is $15.
- (figuratively) In difficulty, especially financially.
- (nautical) Beneath the water line of a vessel.
- (finance) Having negative equity; owing more on an asset than its market value.
- (not comparable) Beneath the surface of the water; of or pertaining to the region beneath the water surface.
- growing or remaining under water
- beneath the surface of the water
adv
noun
noun
- drawing off water from its main channel as for irrigation
- (descriptive linguistics) the process whereby new words are formed from existing words or bases by affixation
- drawing of fluid or inflammation away from a diseased part of the body
- inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline
- a line of reasoning that shows how a conclusion follows logically from accepted propositions
- (historical linguistics) an explanation of the historical origins of a word or phrase
- the source or origin from which something derives (i.e. comes or issues)
- the act of deriving something or obtaining something from a source or origin
- (mathematics) A formal proof: a sequence of statements, each of which is logically entailed by those preceding (with respect to some collection of rules of inference), the initial statements being taken as axioms.
- (grammar) Forming a new word by changing the base of another word or by adding affixes to it.
- A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source.
- The process of deriving one thing from another, especially in logic; a deduction.
- That which is derived; a derivative; the result of a deduction.
- The act of receiving anything from a source; the act of procuring an effect from a cause, means, or condition, as profits from capital, conclusions or opinions from evidence.
- The state or method of being derived; the relation of origin when established or asserted.
- (mathematics, differential algebra) An algebraic generalization of the derivative operator (from its natural setting in the ring of real-valued functions) to a general associative algebra over a field. Formally, (given an algebra A over a field K) a K-linear endomorphism that satisfies Leibnitz's Law.
- Any of several generalizations of this notion: a Hasse–Schmidt derivation, a graded derivation, etc.
- (medicine, historical) A drawing of humors or fluids from one part of the body to another, to relieve or lessen a morbid process.
- (genealogy, linguistics) The act of tracing origin or descent; an instance thereof (for example, an etymology).
- (mathematics, calculus) The process of application of the derivative operator to a function, yielding another function called the derived function of the first.
- That from which a thing is derived.
noun
- supplying dry land with water by means of ditches etc
- (medicine) cleaning a wound or body organ by flushing or washing out with water or a medicated solution
- The act or process of irrigating, or the state of being irrigated; especially, the operation of causing water to flow over lands, for nourishing plants.
noun
- long and narrow strip of water made for boats or for irrigation
- (astronomy) an indistinct surface feature of Mars once thought to be a system of channels; they are now believed to be an optical illusion
- a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance
- (anatomy, botany) A tubular channel within the body or within a plant.
- (astronomy) One of the faint, hazy markings resembling straight lines on early telescopic images of the surface of Mars; see Martian canals
- An artificial waterway or artificially improved river used for travel, shipping, or irrigation.
verb
noun
- A pipe that has small holes at intervals, used to irrigate crops.
- The area defined by the outermost circumference of a tree canopy from where water drips onto the ground.
- (nuclear physics) On the table of nuclides, the limit beyond which an atomic nucleus will immediately decay by emitting a proton or neutron.
noun
- The recovery of a wasteland, or of flooded land so it can be cultivated.
- The act of reclaiming or the state of being reclaimed.
- the recovery of useful substances from waste products
- the conversion of wasteland into land suitable for use of habitation or cultivation
- rescuing from error and returning to a rightful course
noun
- (agriculture) An unglazed earthenware pot, buried to provide slow steady irrigation.
- A cooking-pot or earthenware jar used in Spain and Spanish-speaking countries.
- (Ancient Rome) A cinerary urn.
- A pot used for cooling water by evaporation in Latin America.
- leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper
noun
- (agriculture) A channel or device for carrying and controlling water used in flood irrigation.
- (informal) Something that tends to flood.
- (informal) A person employed to handle issues arising from flooding.
- (Internet slang) A person who floods message boards, chat rooms etc. with unwanted or repetitive comments.
- (engineering) A device for controlling or maintaining the flow of liquid.
noun
- a farm implement used to break up the surface of the soil (for aeration and weed control and conservation of moisture)
- someone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil
- Someone who uses a cultivator (implement, device, or machine).
- Someone who grows plants.
- Any of several devices used to loosen or stir the soil, either to remove weeds or to provide aeration and drainage.
- (figurative) Someone who fosters something besides plants (such as human development or relationships).
noun
- a farm implement used to break up the surface of the soil (for aeration and weed control and conservation of moisture)
- lever used to turn the rudder on a boat
- a shoot that sprouts from the base of a grass
- someone who tills land (prepares the soil for the planting of crops)
- A shoot of a plant which springs from the root or bottom of the original stalk; a sapling; a sucker.
- A handle; a stalk.
- (archery) The stock; a beam on a crossbow carved to fit the arrow, or the point of balance in a longbow.
- A person who tills; a farmer.
- A machine that mechanically tills the soil.
- (nautical) The handle of the rudder which the helmsman holds to steer the boat, a piece of wood or metal extending forward from the rudder over or through the transom. Generally attached at the top of the rudder.
- (nautical) A bar of iron or wood connected with the rudderhead and leadline, usually forward, in which the rudder is moved as desired by the tiller (FM 55-501).
- (aviation, by extension) A steering wheel, usually mounted on the lower portion of the captain's control column, which is used to steer the aircraft's nosewheel or tailwheel to provide steering during taxi.
- The rear-wheel steering control, aboard a tiller truck.
verb
adj
- (of farmland) capable of being farmed productively
- (agriculture, NGO jargon, of land) Under cultivation (within any quinquennial period) for the production of crops sown and harvested within the same agricultural year (contrasted with permanently-cropped lands such as orchards).
- (agriculture, of land) Able to be plowed or tilled, capable of growing crops (traditionally contrasted with pasturable lands such as heaths).
noun
verb
adj
noun
- A contest, a struggle.
- (military) Clipping of battle buddy.
- A one-on-one competition in rapping or breakdance.
- (military) A general action, fight, or encounter, in which all the divisions of an army are or may be engaged; a combat, an engagement.
- an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals)
- a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war
- an energetic attempt to achieve something
noun
- A kind of perforated hose used to distribute drips of water to a number of plants.
- (cooking) A mixture of grains softened in water which is added to bread dough.
- One who, or that which, soaks.
- (Canada, slang) The experience of stepping in a deep puddle and having one's foot become completely engulfed in water.
- (slang) A person suffering from alcoholism.
- A kind of knitted woollen diaper.
- a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually
- a heavy rain
noun
- an irrigated or flooded field where rice is grown
- rice in the husk either gathered or still in the field
- A drill used in boring wells, with cutters that expand on pressure.
- (countable) A paddy field, a rice paddy; an irrigated or flooded field where rice is grown.
- A snowy sheathbill.
- (colloquial, England) A labourer's assistant or workmate.
- Rough or unhusked rice, either before it is milled or as a crop to be harvested.
- A fit of temper; a tantrum.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang) A white person.
verb
- (agriculture) To work the soil surface for weeding, etc.
- (intransitive) To walk with a shuffling gait.
- (slang) To make a living with difficulty, getting by on a low income, to struggle financially.
- (intransitive) To fight or struggle confusedly at close quarters.
- fight or struggle in a confused way at close quarters
- walk by dragging one's feet
noun
- A type of hoe, manipulated by both pushing and pulling, with a sharp blade parallel with the worked surface; an instance of this type.
- A rough, disorderly fight or struggle at close quarters.
- (slang) Poverty; struggle.
- an unceremonious and disorganized struggle
- a hoe that is used by pushing rather than pulling
- disorderly fighting
adj
- Capable of producing something, especially in abundance; fertile.
- (set theory) A type of set of natural numbers, related to mathematical logic; a set S is productive if there exists a total recursive function f such that ∀x∈ℕ,~~W_x⊆S⇒f(x)∈A⧵W_x, where W_x is a recursive function whose Gödel number is x.
- Yielding good or useful results; constructive.
- (medicine) Of inflammation, producing new tissue.
- Of, or relating to the creation of goods or services.
- (linguistics, of an affix or word construction rule) Consistently applicable to any of an open set of words.
- (medicine) Of a cough, producing mucus or sputum from the respiratory tract.
- producing or capable of producing (especially abundantly)
- yielding positive results
- having the ability to produce or originate
- marked by great fruitfulness
noun
noun
- A narrow drain or channel used in the irrigation of land.
- (figuratively, by extension, usually in the plural) A large number of people on the move.
- (collective) A group of hares.
- A cattle drive or the herd being driven by it; thus, a number of cattle driven to market or new pastures.
- The grooved surface of stone finished by the drove chisel.
- A road or track along which cattle are habitually, used to be or could be driven; a droveway.
- A broad chisel used to bring stone to a nearly smooth surface.
- a stonemason's chisel with a broad edge for dressing stone
- a moving crowd
- a group of animals (a herd or flock) moving together
verb
noun
- A subdivision of an irrigated surface between a feeder and an outlet drain.
- (computing, graphical user interface) A portion of a user interface that typically makes up part of a larger window and may be docked or snapped into position.
- One of the openings in a slashed garment, showing the bright colored silk, or the like, within; hence, the piece of colored or other stuff so shown.
- (architecture) A compartment of a surface, or a flat space; hence, one side or face of a building.
- A square of a checkered or plaid pattern.
- Alternative spelling of peen.
- A division; a distinct piece or compartment of any surface.
- One of the eight facets surrounding the table of a brilliant-cut diamond.
- An individual sheet of glass in a window, door, etc.
- One of the flat surfaces, or facets, of any object having several sides.
- street name for lysergic acid diethylamide
- a panel or section of panels in a wall or door
- sheet glass cut in shapes for windows or doors
verb
noun
- a hose used for watering a lawn or garden
- (countable) A length of hose as above, usually with a male connector on one end and a female connector on the other end, which can carry water from a hose bib (a water faucet or spigot usually located on an exterior wall of a house or other building) for use on a garden or lawn.
- (uncountable) A type of hose used for light residential applications such as watering lawns or gardens, or washing and rinsing passenger vehicles, etc.
noun
- drawing off water from its main channel as for irrigation
- (descriptive linguistics) the process whereby new words are formed from existing words or bases by affixation
- drawing of fluid or inflammation away from a diseased part of the body
- inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline
- a line of reasoning that shows how a conclusion follows logically from accepted propositions
- (historical linguistics) an explanation of the historical origins of a word or phrase
- the source or origin from which something derives (i.e. comes or issues)
- the act of deriving something or obtaining something from a source or origin
- (mathematics) A formal proof: a sequence of statements, each of which is logically entailed by those preceding (with respect to some collection of rules of inference), the initial statements being taken as axioms.
- (grammar) Forming a new word by changing the base of another word or by adding affixes to it.
- A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source.
- The process of deriving one thing from another, especially in logic; a deduction.
- That which is derived; a derivative; the result of a deduction.
- The act of receiving anything from a source; the act of procuring an effect from a cause, means, or condition, as profits from capital, conclusions or opinions from evidence.
- The state or method of being derived; the relation of origin when established or asserted.
- (mathematics, differential algebra) An algebraic generalization of the derivative operator (from its natural setting in the ring of real-valued functions) to a general associative algebra over a field. Formally, (given an algebra A over a field K) a K-linear endomorphism that satisfies Leibnitz's Law.
- Any of several generalizations of this notion: a Hasse–Schmidt derivation, a graded derivation, etc.
- (medicine, historical) A drawing of humors or fluids from one part of the body to another, to relieve or lessen a morbid process.
- (genealogy, linguistics) The act of tracing origin or descent; an instance thereof (for example, an etymology).
- (mathematics, calculus) The process of application of the derivative operator to a function, yielding another function called the derived function of the first.
- That from which a thing is derived.
noun
- supplying dry land with water by means of ditches etc
- (medicine) cleaning a wound or body organ by flushing or washing out with water or a medicated solution
- The act or process of irrigating, or the state of being irrigated; especially, the operation of causing water to flow over lands, for nourishing plants.
noun
- long and narrow strip of water made for boats or for irrigation
- (astronomy) an indistinct surface feature of Mars once thought to be a system of channels; they are now believed to be an optical illusion
- a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance
- (anatomy, botany) A tubular channel within the body or within a plant.
- (astronomy) One of the faint, hazy markings resembling straight lines on early telescopic images of the surface of Mars; see Martian canals
- An artificial waterway or artificially improved river used for travel, shipping, or irrigation.
verb
noun
- A pipe that has small holes at intervals, used to irrigate crops.
- The area defined by the outermost circumference of a tree canopy from where water drips onto the ground.
- (nuclear physics) On the table of nuclides, the limit beyond which an atomic nucleus will immediately decay by emitting a proton or neutron.
noun
- The recovery of a wasteland, or of flooded land so it can be cultivated.
- The act of reclaiming or the state of being reclaimed.
- the recovery of useful substances from waste products
- the conversion of wasteland into land suitable for use of habitation or cultivation
- rescuing from error and returning to a rightful course
noun
- (agriculture) An unglazed earthenware pot, buried to provide slow steady irrigation.
- A cooking-pot or earthenware jar used in Spain and Spanish-speaking countries.
- (Ancient Rome) A cinerary urn.
- A pot used for cooling water by evaporation in Latin America.
- leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper
noun
- (agriculture) A channel or device for carrying and controlling water used in flood irrigation.
- (informal) Something that tends to flood.
- (informal) A person employed to handle issues arising from flooding.
- (Internet slang) A person who floods message boards, chat rooms etc. with unwanted or repetitive comments.
- (engineering) A device for controlling or maintaining the flow of liquid.
noun
- a farm implement used to break up the surface of the soil (for aeration and weed control and conservation of moisture)
- someone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil
- Someone who uses a cultivator (implement, device, or machine).
- Someone who grows plants.
- Any of several devices used to loosen or stir the soil, either to remove weeds or to provide aeration and drainage.
- (figurative) Someone who fosters something besides plants (such as human development or relationships).
noun
- a farm implement used to break up the surface of the soil (for aeration and weed control and conservation of moisture)
- lever used to turn the rudder on a boat
- a shoot that sprouts from the base of a grass
- someone who tills land (prepares the soil for the planting of crops)
- A shoot of a plant which springs from the root or bottom of the original stalk; a sapling; a sucker.
- A handle; a stalk.
- (archery) The stock; a beam on a crossbow carved to fit the arrow, or the point of balance in a longbow.
- A person who tills; a farmer.
- A machine that mechanically tills the soil.
- (nautical) The handle of the rudder which the helmsman holds to steer the boat, a piece of wood or metal extending forward from the rudder over or through the transom. Generally attached at the top of the rudder.
- (nautical) A bar of iron or wood connected with the rudderhead and leadline, usually forward, in which the rudder is moved as desired by the tiller (FM 55-501).
- (aviation, by extension) A steering wheel, usually mounted on the lower portion of the captain's control column, which is used to steer the aircraft's nosewheel or tailwheel to provide steering during taxi.
- The rear-wheel steering control, aboard a tiller truck.
verb
noun
- A kind of perforated hose used to distribute drips of water to a number of plants.
- (cooking) A mixture of grains softened in water which is added to bread dough.
- One who, or that which, soaks.
- (Canada, slang) The experience of stepping in a deep puddle and having one's foot become completely engulfed in water.
- (slang) A person suffering from alcoholism.
- A kind of knitted woollen diaper.
- a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually
- a heavy rain
noun
- an irrigated or flooded field where rice is grown
- rice in the husk either gathered or still in the field
- A drill used in boring wells, with cutters that expand on pressure.
- (countable) A paddy field, a rice paddy; an irrigated or flooded field where rice is grown.
- A snowy sheathbill.
- (colloquial, England) A labourer's assistant or workmate.
- Rough or unhusked rice, either before it is milled or as a crop to be harvested.
- A fit of temper; a tantrum.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang) A white person.
verb
- (transitive) To pour water into the soil surrounding (plants).
- (intransitive) To get or take in water.
- (transitive) To dilute.
- (transitive) To provide (animals) with water for drinking.
- (transitive, colloquial) To urinate onto.
- (transitive) To wet and calender, as cloth, so as to impart to it a lustrous appearance in wavy lines; to diversify with wavelike lines.
- (transitive) To wet or supply with water; to moisten; to overflow with water; to irrigate.
- (intransitive) To fill with or secrete water or similar liquid.
- secrete or form water, as tears or saliva
- provide with water
- fill with tears
- supply with water, as with channels or ditches or streams
noun
- (uncountable, in particular) The liquid form of this substance: liquid H₂O.
- (countable) A serving of liquid water.
- (alchemy, philosophy) The aforementioned liquid, considered one of the Classical elements or basic elements of alchemy.
- (uncountable or in the plural) Water in a body; an area of open water.
- (colloquial, figuratively) Something which dilutes, or has the effect of watering down.
- A wavy, lustrous pattern or decoration such as is imparted to linen, silk, metals, etc.
- (figuratively, in the plural or in the singular) A state of affairs; conditions; usually with an adjective indicating an adverse condition.
- (colloquial, figuratively) A person's intuition.
- (colloquial, medicine) A fluid that causes swelling.
- The limpidity and lustre of a precious stone, especially a diamond.
- (sometimes countable) Mineral water.
- (business, often attributive) The water supply, as a service or utility.
- (pharmacy) A solution in water of a gaseous or readily volatile substance.
- (countable, often in the plural) Spa water; hot springs.
- (uncountable) An inorganic compound (of molecular formula H₂O) found at room temperature and pressure as a clear liquid; it is present naturally as rain, and found in rivers, lakes and seas; its solid form is ice and its gaseous form is steam.
- Amniotic fluid or the amniotic sac containing it. (Used only in the plural in the UK but often also in the singular in North America.)
- Urine.
- the part of the earth's surface covered with water (such as a river or lake or ocean)
- once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles), associated with the humour phlegm
- a facility that provides a source of water
- binary compound that occurs at room temperature as a clear colorless odorless tasteless liquid; freezes into ice below 0 degrees centigrade and boils above 100 degrees centigrade; widely used as a solvent
- liquid excretory product
- a liquid necessary for the life of most animals and plants
verb
- irrigate with water from a sluice
- cause to flow through something
- rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid
- cause to flow or flood with or as if with water
- make level or straight
- glow or cause to glow with warm color or light
- turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame
- (intransitive) To take suddenly to flight, especially from cover.
- (transitive, computing) To clear (a buffer or cache) of its contents.
- To cause to be full; to flood; to overflow; to overwhelm with water.
- (intransitive) To become suffused with reddish color due to embarrassment, excitement, overheating, or other systemic disturbance, to blush.
- To flow and spread suddenly; to rush.
- (transitive) To cause to take flight from concealment.
- (intransitive, of a toilet) To be cleansed by being flooded with generous quantities of water.
- (mining, intransitive) To operate a placer mine, where the continuous supply of water is insufficient, by holding back the water, and releasing it periodically in a flood.
- (transitive) Particularly, to cleanse a toilet by introducing a large amount of water.
- (transitive) To cleanse by flooding with generous quantities of a fluid.
- (Singapore, chiefly military) To move, shift or align to one side.
- (transitive) To excite, inflame.
- (intransitive, transitive) To dispose or be disposed of by flushing down a toilet.
- (masonry) To fill in (joints); to point the level; to make them flush.
- To show red; to shine suddenly; to glow.
- (mining) To fill underground spaces, especially in coal mines, with material carried by water, which, after drainage, constitutes a compact mass.
- (transitive) To cause to blush.
- (transitive, computing, of data held in a buffer or cache) To write (the data) to primary storage, clearing it from the buffer or cache.
adj
- having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value
- of a surface exactly even with an adjoining one, forming the same plane
- Wealthy or well off.
- (typography) Ellipsis of flush left and right: a body of text aligned with both its left and right margins.
- Full of vigor; fresh; glowing; bright.
- Smooth, even, aligned; not sticking out.
- Affluent; abounding; well furnished or supplied; hence, liberal; prodigal.
noun
- a poker hand with all 5 cards in the same suit
- the period of greatest prosperity or productivity
- the swift release of a store of affective force
- sudden reddening of the face (as from embarrassment or guilt or shame or modesty)
- a sudden rapid flow (as of water)
- sudden brief sensation of heat (associated with menopause and some mental disorders)
- a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health
- A suffusion of the face with blood, as from fear, shame, modesty, or intensity of feeling of any kind; a blush; a glow.
- A sudden flood or rush of feeling; a thrill of excitement, animation, etc.
- Particularly, such a cleansing of a toilet.
- A sudden flowing; a rush which fills or overflows, as of water for cleansing purposes.
- A group of birds that have suddenly started up from undergrowth, trees, etc.
- Any tinge of red color like that produced on the cheeks by a sudden rush of blood.
- (skiing) A line of poles or obstacles that a skier must weave between.
- A groundwater-fed marsh or peaty mire (which may be acidic or basic, nutrient-rich or poor); (originally especially Scotland and Northern England) a (marshy) pool or seep, as in a field.
- (poker) A hand consisting of all cards with the same suit.
- (computing) The process of clearing the contents of a buffer or cache.
adv
verb
- irrigate with water from a sluice
- draw through a sluice
- transport in or send down a sluice
- pour as if from a sluice
- (linguistics) To elide the complement in a coordinated wh-question. See sluicing.
- (transitive, rare) To emit by, or as by, flood gates.
- (transitive, more generally) To wash (down or out).
- (transitive) To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice.
- (transitive) To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice
- (intransitive) To flow, pour.
noun
- conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate
- An artificial passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, for example in a canal lock or a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow.
- Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.
- (linguistics) An instance of wh-stranding ellipsis, or sluicing.
- A water gate or floodgate.
- (mining) A long box or trough through which water flows, used for washing auriferous earth.
- The stream flowing through a floodgate.
verb
adj
- (finance) Of an option, having a strike price higher (call options) or lower (put options) than the current market price of the underlying asset or financial product; for example, an option to buy shares at $20 when the current market price is $15.
- (figuratively) In difficulty, especially financially.
- (nautical) Beneath the water line of a vessel.
- (finance) Having negative equity; owing more on an asset than its market value.
- (not comparable) Beneath the surface of the water; of or pertaining to the region beneath the water surface.
- growing or remaining under water
- beneath the surface of the water
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noun
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adj
noun
- A contest, a struggle.
- (military) Clipping of battle buddy.
- A one-on-one competition in rapping or breakdance.
- (military) A general action, fight, or encounter, in which all the divisions of an army are or may be engaged; a combat, an engagement.
- an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals)
- a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war
- an energetic attempt to achieve something
verb
- (agriculture) To work the soil surface for weeding, etc.
- (intransitive) To walk with a shuffling gait.
- (slang) To make a living with difficulty, getting by on a low income, to struggle financially.
- (intransitive) To fight or struggle confusedly at close quarters.
- fight or struggle in a confused way at close quarters
- walk by dragging one's feet
noun
- A type of hoe, manipulated by both pushing and pulling, with a sharp blade parallel with the worked surface; an instance of this type.
- A rough, disorderly fight or struggle at close quarters.
- (slang) Poverty; struggle.
- an unceremonious and disorganized struggle
- a hoe that is used by pushing rather than pulling
- disorderly fighting
adj
- (of farmland) capable of being farmed productively
- (agriculture, NGO jargon, of land) Under cultivation (within any quinquennial period) for the production of crops sown and harvested within the same agricultural year (contrasted with permanently-cropped lands such as orchards).
- (agriculture, of land) Able to be plowed or tilled, capable of growing crops (traditionally contrasted with pasturable lands such as heaths).
noun
adj
- Capable of producing something, especially in abundance; fertile.
- (set theory) A type of set of natural numbers, related to mathematical logic; a set S is productive if there exists a total recursive function f such that ∀x∈ℕ,~~W_x⊆S⇒f(x)∈A⧵W_x, where W_x is a recursive function whose Gödel number is x.
- Yielding good or useful results; constructive.
- (medicine) Of inflammation, producing new tissue.
- Of, or relating to the creation of goods or services.
- (linguistics, of an affix or word construction rule) Consistently applicable to any of an open set of words.
- (medicine) Of a cough, producing mucus or sputum from the respiratory tract.
- producing or capable of producing (especially abundantly)
- yielding positive results
- having the ability to produce or originate
- marked by great fruitfulness