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verb
- To trim.
- (slang, intransitive) To get angry suddenly; to quickly or unreasonably become enraged.
- To be swung or whisked.
- (ecclesiastical) To shift to another circuit.
- (sports, transitive) To move (the ball or equivalent) from one side of the playing area to the other.
- (intransitive) To take on the opposite role (leader vs. follower) in a partner dance.
- (transitive, in modern times Southern US) To whip or hit with a switch.
- (transitive) To change (something) to the specified state using a switch.
- (intransitive) To change places, tasks, etc.
- To turn from one railway track to another; to transfer by a switch; generally with off, from, etc.
- To swing or whisk.
- (transitive) To exchange.
- cause to go on or to be engaged or set in operation
- make a shift in or exchange of
- exchange or give (something) in exchange for
- flog with or as if with a flexible rod
- change over, change around, as to a new order or sequence
- lay aside, abandon, or leave for another
- reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action)
adj
noun
- A device to turn electric current on and off or direct its flow.
- (telecommunications) A system of specialized relays, computer hardware, or other equipment which allows the interconnection of a calling party's telephone line with any called party's line.
- (especially BDSM) One who is willing to take either a submissive or a dominant role in a sexual relationship.
- (historical) A separate mass or tress of hair, or of some substance (such as jute) made to resemble hair, formerly worn on the head by women.
- (sports) A play in which the ball (or equivalent) is moved from one side of the playing area to the other.
- A change or exchange.
- (music) Synonym of rute.
- (genetics) A mechanism within DNA that activates or deactivates a gene.
- (computer science) A command line notation allowing specification of optional behavior.
- (rail transport, US, Philippines) A movable section of railroad track which allows the train to be directed down one of two destination tracks; (set of) points.
- (computing, programming) A programming construct that takes different actions depending on the value of an expression.
- (multiplicity slang) The process of the currently fronting headmate changing; an instance of this.
- (computing, networking) A networking device connecting multiple wires, allowing them to communicate simultaneously, when possible. Compare to the less efficient hub device that solely duplicates network packets to each wire.
- (card games) A variant of crazy eights where one card, such as an ace, reverses the direction of play.
- A long, slender woody plant stem or a flexible, thin rod used as a whip to administer corporal punishment in the United States.
- (slang, metonymic) A Glock pistol equipped with a Glock switch.
- (firearms, slang) Synonym of Glock switch.
- an event in which one thing is substituted for another
- hairpiece consisting of a tress of false hair; used by women to give shape to a coiffure
- railroad track having two movable rails and necessary connections; used to turn a train from one track to another or to store rolling stock
- a flexible implement used as an instrument of punishment
- a basketball maneuver; two defensive players shift assignments so that each guards the player usually guarded by the other
- the act of changing one thing or position for another
- control consisting of a mechanical or electrical or electronic device for making or breaking or changing the connections in a circuit
verb
- (more generally) To trim with a knife.
- (figurative) To sit up or stand up suddenly.
- To cut up or carve up with a knife.
- (figurative) To move in a stabbing or penetrating manner
- (figurative) To slice through; to cut or traverse a path through or between.
- To rise precipitously.
- (figurative) To traverse up the body in a quick stabbing sensation
- (figurative) To penetrate sharply upward.
- To extract a morsel or dab (of something) with a knife.
noun
verb
noun
- A knife for taking the hair off skins.
- (rail transportation, US) A grain car.
- An infusion of pigeon's dung used by tanners to neutralize the effects of lime and give flexibility to skins; -- called also grains and bate.
- A brush or tool used for such painting.
- One who grains (paints in imitation of the grain of wood, marble, etc).
verb
noun
noun
verb
- cut slightly, with a razor
- mate successfully; of livestock
- divide or reset the tail muscles of
- cut a nick into
- (transitive) To make a nick or notch in; to cut or scratch in a minor way.
- (transitive, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, law enforcement, slang) To arrest.
- (transitive, mining) To make a cut at the side of the face.
- (transitive, rare) To make a crosscut or cuts on the underside of (the tail of a horse, in order to make the animal carry it higher).
- (transitive, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, colloquial) To steal.
- (transitive) To make ragged or uneven, as by cutting nicks or notches in; to deface, to mar.
noun
- (British slang) a prison
- a small cut
- an impression in a surface (as made by a blow)
- (genetics) One of the single-stranded DNA segments produced during nick translation.
- (cricket) A small deflection of the ball off the edge of the bat, often going to the wicket-keeper for a catch.
- (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, law enforcement, slang) A police station or prison.
- (Internet) Clipping of nickname.
- (real tennis, squash, racquetball) The point where the wall of the court meets the floor.
- (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, colloquial) Often in the expressions in bad nick and in good nick: condition, state.
verb
noun
adj
- not trimmed
- (of pages of a book) having adjacent leaves still joined at the fore edge
- complete
- not cut
- not injured by cutting
- (used of grass or vegetation) not cut down with a hand implement or machine
- not shaped by cutting or trimming
- (bookbinding) Of a book, not having the page edges trimmed.
- Not cut.
- (informal) Not circumcised.
- (jewelry) Of a gemstone, not cut or ground to the desired shape.
- (film, television, publishing) Of a play, film, etc., not edited or abridged by a censor.
- Not diluted.
noun
noun
- A device used to trim.
- One who trims, arranges, fits, or ornaments.
- Someone who fluctuates between opposing factions, political parties etc., according to current interest, a flip-flopper.
- (nautical) A member of the crew who trims the sails.
- (mining, historical) A device for storing coal in gradually increasing piles made by building up at the point of the cone or top of the prism.
- (fishing) A float bearing a baited hook and line, used in fishing for pike.
- (architecture) A beam into which are framed the ends of headers in floor framing, as when a hole is to be left for stairs, or to avoid bringing joists near chimneys.
- (electronics) An adjustable electrical component.
- (cricket) A fast, high-quality delivery by the bowler, especially one that results in a dismissal of a batter by removing the bails without hitting the stumps.
- (shipping, historical) A person employed to rearrange the coal in the hold of a vessel, so that it fills the vessel without forming a conical blockage.
- a machine that trims timber
- capacitor having variable capacitance; used for making fine adjustments
- joist that receives the end of a header in floor or roof framing in order to leave an opening for a staircase or chimney etc.
- a worker who thins out and trims trees and shrubs
adj
verb
- To remove by pinching, biting, or cutting with two meeting edges of anything; to clip.
- To taunt.
- (slang, vulgar) To have erect nipples.
- To blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor of; to destroy.
- (informal) To make a quick, short journey or errand, usually a round trip.
- (Scotland, Northern England) To squeeze or pinch.
- To benumb [e.g., cheeks, fingers, nose] by severe cold.
- To catch and enclose or compress tightly between two surfaces, or points which are brought together or closed; to pinch; to close in upon.
- To annoy, as by nipping.
- sever or remove by pinching or snipping
- give a small sharp bite to
- squeeze tightly between the fingers
noun
- A small cut, or a cutting off the end.
- A small amount of food or drink, (particularly) a small amount of liquor.
- (nautical) A short turn in a rope.
- (Manitoba, Northwestern Ontario) A hamburger.
- A blast; a killing of the ends of plants by frost.
- Briskly cold weather.
- (papermaking) The place of intersection where one roll touches another
- A pinch with the nails or teeth.
- A biting sarcasm; a taunt.
- A seizing or closing in upon; a pinching
- (mining) A more or less gradual thinning out of a stratum.
- (slang, vulgar, chiefly in the plural) A nipple, usually of a woman.
- A playful bite.
- the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth
- a small drink of liquor
- a small sharp bite or snip
- a tart spicy quality
- the property of being moderately cold
verb
- (transitive) To trim up, as trees.
- (transitive) To flatter.
- (of people, intransitive, reflexive) To spend time making oneself attractive and admiring one's appearance, e.g. in front of a mirror.
- (intransitive) To show off, posture, or smarm.
- (transitive, more generally) To improve the appearance of; groom; prettify.
- (of birds, ambitransitive) To groom; to trim or dress the feathers with the beak.
- (transitive) To pin; fasten.
- (transitive) To comb; to make orderly.
- dress or groom with elaborate care
- pride or congratulate (oneself) for an achievement
- clean with one's bill
noun
verb
- To remove by cutting.
- To stop the provision or supply of something, e.g. power, water.
- To swerve in front of (another car) while driving.
- (Southern US) To turn off or switch off (an electrical device).
- To move so as to block someone else's movement in a direction.
- To isolate or remove from contact.
- To end abruptly.
- (of a boundary) To exclude (something) from the field of view.
- To interrupt (someone speaking).
- To stop providing funds or something else to (someone).
- make a break in
- remove surgically
- remove by or as if by cutting
- cease, stop
- break a small piece off from
- cut off and stop
noun
adj
verb
- To cut, especially with scissors or shears as opposed to a knife etc.
- (slang) To collect signatures, generally with the use of a clipboard.
- (computer graphics, video games, ambitransitive) To move (through or into) (a rendered object or barrier).
- (slang, transitive) To cheat, swindle, or fleece.
- To curtail; to cut short.
- (dialectal, informal) To strike with the hand.
- To fasten with a clip.
- (slang, transitive) to grab or take stealthily.
- (computer graphics) To discard (an occluded part of a model or scene) rather than waste resources on rendering it.
- To make a clip; to cut a section of video from a film, broadcast, or other longer video.
- To grip tightly.
- (signal processing) To cut off a signal level at a certain maximum value.
- (surgery, transitive) To treat (an aneurysm) by closing it off with a physical clip.
- To hit or strike, especially in passing.
- (slang) To assassinate; to bump off.
- (American football) To perform an illegal tackle, throwing the body across the back of an opponent's leg or hitting him from the back below the waist while moving up from behind unless the opponent is a runner or the action is in close line play.
- run at a moderately swift pace
- cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
- sever or remove by pinching or snipping
- terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent
- attach with a clip
noun
- A short piece of audio (shortened version of audio clip, or alternatively clipping of audio).
- (military, colloquial) A removable magazine of a firearm.
- Something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.
- A newspaper clipping.
- (uncountable, Geordie) The condition of something, its state.
- (military) A frame containing a number of rounds of ammunition which is intended to be inserted into an internal magazine of a firearm to allow for rapid reloading.
- Something which has been clipped from a larger whole:
- The product of a single shearing of sheep.
- An act of clipping, such as a haircut.
- A section of video taken from a film, broadcast, or other longer video.
- A projecting flange on the upper edge of a horseshoe, turned up so as to embrace the lower part of the hoof; a toe clip or beak.
- (fishing, UK, Scotland) A gaff or hook for landing the fish, as in salmon fishing.
- An unspecified, but normally understood as rapid, speed or pace.
- A season's crop of wool.
- (informal) A blow with the hand (often in the set phrase clip round the ear)
- a sharp slanting blow
- an article of jewelry that can be clipped onto a hat or dress
- a metal frame or container holding cartridges; can be inserted into an automatic gun
- the act of clipping or snipping
- an instance or single occasion for some event
- any of various small fasteners used to hold loose articles together
verb
noun
noun
- Clipping of tatting.
- (countable, India) Gunny cloth made from the fibre of the Corchorus olitorius (jute).
- (uncountable, British) Cheap, tasteless, useless goods; trinkets.
- Alternative form of tatty (“kind of woven mat or screen”).
- (slang) A tattoo.
- (uncountable, British) Cheap and vulgar tastelessness; sleaze.
- Some small thing, especially that which is exchanged tit for tat.
- tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar
verb
noun
- A tool used to trim a person's hair.
- One who cleans the inside of an airplane between flights.
- A person who takes care for another person's appearance and clothing.
- (uncommon) One who cares for their own personal appearance.
- (skiing, slang) A piste serviced by snow groomers.
- A person who or an animal (the groomee) which cares for an animal by brushing and cleaning.
- (colloquial) One who attempts to gain the trust of a child or vulnerable person in order to take advantage of or exploit them, especially sexually.
- A brush used to groom animals.
adj
- made neat and tidy by trimming
- (used of grass or vegetation) cut down with a hand implement or machine
- (of pages of a book) having the folds of the leaves trimmed or slit
- mixed with water
- separated into parts or laid open or penetrated with a sharp edge or instrument
- (of a male animal) having the testicles removed
- (used of rates or prices) reduced usually sharply
- with parts removed
- fashioned or shaped by cutting
- (of a gem) Carved into a shape; not raw.
- (bodybuilding) Having muscular definition in which individual groups of muscle fibers stand out among larger muscles.
- (slang, New Zealand, formerly UK) Intoxicated as a result of drugs or alcohol.
- (participial adjective) Having been cut.
- (cricket, of a shot) Played with a horizontal bat to hit the ball backward of point.
- Reduced.
- (informal) Circumcised or having been the subject of female genital mutilation.
- (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Upset, angry; emotionally hurt.
noun
- a wound made by cutting
- in baseball; a batter's attempt to hit a pitched ball
- the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage
- a refusal to recognize someone you know
- (sports) a stroke that puts reverse spin on the ball
- a distinct selection of music from a recording or a compact disc
- a remark capable of wounding mentally
- a canal made by erosion or excavation
- a share of the profits
- the act of shortening something by chopping off the ends
- the act of penetrating or opening open with a sharp edge
- the act of cutting something into parts
- a piece of meat that has been cut from an animal carcass
- (film) an immediate transition from one shot to the next
- the style in which a garment is cut
- a step on some scale
- the act of reducing the amount or number
- an unexcused absence from class
- the division of a deck of cards before dealing
- a trench resembling a furrow that was made by erosion or excavation
- (slang, uncountable) That which is used to dilute or adulterate a recreational drug.
- (card games) The act or right of dividing a deck of playing cards.
- (slang) An insult.
- An opening of a living body resulting from cutting; an incision or wound.
- (slang) A hidden, secluded, or secure place.
- An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving.
- (card games) The card obtained by dividing the pack.
- The manner or style in which a garment, other article of clothing, or sail is fashioned.
- A decrease or deletion.
- (archaeology) A truncation, a context that represents a moment in time when other archaeological deposits were removed for the creation of some feature such as a ditch or pit.
- (Internet) A dividing line in a Tumblr post, the content below which is hidden until the reader reveals it.
- A haircut.
- (bodybuilding) A time period when one attempts to lose fat while retaining muscle mass.
- (literal, figurative) The act of cutting.
- Such a wound through human skin.
- A sleeveless vest worn by members of a motorcycle club.
- (fashion) A notch shaved into an eyebrow.
- (fencing) An attack made with a chopping motion of the blade, landing with its edge or point.
- (especially theater, film) A passage omitted or to be omitted from a play, movie script, speech, etc.
- (cricket) A batsman's shot played with a swinging motion of the bat, to hit the ball backward of point.
- (graph theory) The partition of a graph’s vertices into two subgroups.
- A skein of yarn.
- Such a passage dug for a roadway for a paved road or railroad, a canal, a runway, etc.
- A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove.
- (golf) In a stroke play competition, the early elimination of those players who have not then attained a preannounced score, so that the rest of the competition is less pressed for time and more entertaining for spectators.
- A deliberate snub, typically a refusal to return a bow or other acknowledgement of acquaintance.
- A definable part, such as an individual song, of a recording, particularly of commercial records, audio tapes, CDs, etc.
- (literal, figurative) The result of cutting.
- (film) A particular version or edit of a film.
- (sports) In lawn tennis, etc., a slanting stroke causing the ball to spin and bound irregularly; also, the spin thus given to the ball.
- A slab or slice, especially of meat.
- (rail transport) A string of railway cars coupled together, shorter than a train.
- (cricket) Sideways movement of the ball through the air caused by a fast bowler imparting spin to the ball.
- An unkind act; a cruelty.
- A share or portion of profits.
- An artificial channel for marine navigation, as distinguished from a navigable river.
- (petrochemistry) The range of temperatures used to distill a particular mixture of hydrocarbons from crude oil.
verb
- penetrate injuriously
- function as a cutting instrument
- divide a deck of cards at random into two parts to make selection difficult
- form by probing, penetrating, or digging
- fell by sawing; hew
- refuse to acknowledge
- discharge from a group
- allow incision or separation
- record a performance on (a medium)
- hit (a ball) with a spin so that it turns in the opposite direction
- pass directly and often in haste
- stop filming
- intentionally fail to attend
- grow through the gums
- cut and assemble the components of
- lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture
- give the appearance or impression of
- make an incision or separation
- make an abrupt change of image or sound
- cut off the testicles (of male animals such as horses)
- style and tailor in a certain fashion
- form or shape by cutting or incising
- cause to stop operating by disengaging a switch
- have a reducing effect
- separate with or as if with an instrument
- reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
- pass through or across
- cut down on; make a reduction in
- make out and issue
- be able to manage or manage successfully
- turn sharply; change direction abruptly
- weed out unwanted or unnecessary things
- make a recording of
- reap or harvest
- create by duplicating data
- move (one's fist)
- shorten as if by severing the edges or ends of
- cease, stop
- dissolve by breaking down the fat of
- perform or carry out
- have grow through the gums
- To absent oneself from (a class, an appointment, etc.).
- (intransitive) To enter a queue in the wrong place.
- (transitive, cricket) To make the ball spin sideways by running one's fingers down the side of the ball while bowling it.
- (intransitive, slang) To leave abruptly.
- (intransitive) To engage in self-harm by making cuts in one's own skin.
- To perform an incision on, for example with a knife.
- To abridge or shorten a work; to remove a portion of a recording during editing.
- (slang) To wound with a knife.
- To wound or hurt deeply the sensibilities of; to pierce.
- (transitive, film) To edit a film by selecting takes from original footage.
- (intransitive) To change direction suddenly.
- To separate or omit, in a situation where one was previously associated.
- (transitive, social) To ignore as a social rebuff or snub.
- To perform (an elaborate dancing movement etc.).
- (transitive) To exhibit (a figure having some trait).
- To reduce, especially intentionally.
- (ambitransitive) To deliver a stroke with a whip or like instrument to.
- (bodybuilding) To lose body mass, aiming to keep muscle but lose body fat.
- (transitive, cricket) To deflect (a bowled ball) to the off, with a chopping movement of the bat.
- (transitive, computing) To remove (text, a picture, etc.) and place in memory in order to paste at a later time.
- (sports) To drive (a ball) to one side, as by (in billiards or croquet) hitting it fine with another ball, or (in tennis) striking it with the racket inclined.
- To castrate or geld.
- (intransitive) To intersect or cross in such a way as to divide in half or nearly so.
- (slang, intransitive) To run or hurry.
- (transitive, slang) To dilute or adulterate something, especially a recreational drug.
- (intransitive, film) To make an abrupt transition from one scene or image to another.
- (transitive, slang) To make, negotiate; to finalise, conclude; to issue.
- (transitive, intransitive) To divide a pack of playing cards into two parts, often followed by placing the two parts back together in the opposite order.
- To form or shape by cutting.
- (intransitive) To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.
- (transitive) To renounce or give up.
- To interfere, as a horse; to strike one foot against the opposite foot or ankle in using the legs.
- To divide with a knife, scissors, or another sharp instrument.
- (transitive) To stop, disengage, or cease.
intj
noun
- Clipping of specialist.
- Clipping of special.
- Clipping of spectrum.
- (Australia, Australian rules football, informal) Clipping of spectacular mark, a type of catch in Australian rules football.
- (colloquial) Clipping of speculation.
- Clipping of specialization.
- (linguistics) Abbreviation of specifier.
- (colloquial) Clipping of specification.
- (linguistics) Clipping of specifier.
- a detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work
adj
verb
verb
- (transitive) To make (the head, skin etc.) bald or (the hair) shorter by using a tool such as a razor or electric clippers to cut the hair close to the skin.
- (transitive) To cut anything in this fashion.
- To reduce in size, weight, time taken etc., usually by a small amount.
- (MLE, slang, transitive) To injure by employing a knife.
- To skim along or near the surface of; to pass close to, or touch lightly, in passing.
- (intransitive) To remove hair from one's face by this means.
- (transitive) To cut finely, for example slices of meat.
- cut the price of
- cut closely
- remove body hair with a razor
- cut or remove with or as if with a plane
- make shavings of or reduce to shavings
- touch the surface of lightly
noun
verb
- To cut with short sharp actions, as with scissors.
- (informal) To perform a vasectomy.
- (Internet) To remove the irrelevant parts of quotations in the reply message.
- (informal) To circumcise.
- To speak or say in a snippish manner.
- To break off; to snatch away.
- To reduce the price of a product, to create a snip.
- cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
- sever or remove by pinching or snipping
noun
- The act of snipping; cutting a small amount off of something.
- (onomatopoeia) An act or sound of snipping, the sound produced by scissors.
- (definite, the snip, euphemistic) A vasectomy.
- A single cut with scissors, clippers, or similar tool.
- A piece cut out by snipping.
- (informal) Something acquired for a low price; a bargain.
- (informal) A small or weak person, especially a young one.
- A small amount of something; a pinch.
- A white marking on a horse's muzzle, between the nostrils.
- the act of clipping or snipping
- a small piece of anything (especially a piece that has been snipped off)
adj
noun
- (countable, UK) An open passage at a level lower than the surrounding terrain, dug for a canal, railway, or road to go through.
- (countable) A newspaper clipping.
- (uncountable, cinematography, sound engineering) The editing of film or other recordings.
- (countable) An abridged selection of written work, often intended for performance.
- (countable) A section removed from a larger whole.
- (countable, horticulture) A leaf, stem, branch, or root removed from a plant and cultivated to grow a new plant.
- (uncountable, machining) The process of bringing metals to a desired shape by chipping away the unwanted material.
- (uncountable, psychology) The act of cutting one's own skin as a symptom of a mental disorder; self-harm.
- (countable, uncountable) The action of the verb to cut.
- an excerpt cut from a newspaper or magazine
- the act of diluting something
- a part (sometimes a root or leaf or bud) removed from a plant to propagate a new plant through rooting or grafting
- removing parts from hard material to create a desired pattern or shape
- the act of shortening something by chopping off the ends
- the act of penetrating or opening open with a sharp edge
- the act of cutting something into parts
- the activity of selecting the scenes to be shown and putting them together to create a film
- a piece cut off from the main part of something
- the division of a deck of cards before dealing
verb
verb
- To cut hair with a parting.
- (intransitive) To be divided in two or separated.
- (intransitive) To leave the company of.
- To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion.
- (transitive) To divide in two.
- To separate or disunite; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder.
- (transitive, Internet) To leave (an IRC channel).
- force, take, or pull apart
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- go one's own way; move apart
- depart for someplace
- move or break apart
adj
adv
noun
- A section of land; an area of a country or other territory; region.
- (US) The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions.
- A section of a document.
- (Judaism) In the Hebrew lunisolar calendar, a unit of time equivalent to 3⅓ seconds.
- A unit of relative proportion in a mixture.
- A distinct element of something larger.
- Share, especially of a profit.
- Position or role (especially in a play).
- A group inside a larger group.
- (US) A room in a public building, especially a courtroom.
- A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent; usually in the plural with a collective sense.
- (music) The melody played or sung by a particular instrument, voice, or group of instruments or voices, within a polyphonic piece.
- Each of two contrasting sides of an argument, debate etc.; "hand".
- 3.5 centiliters of one ingredient in a mixed drink.
- (colloquial, euphemistic) A private part; genitalia.
- A fraction of a whole.
- Duty; responsibility.
- the effort contributed by a person in bringing about a result
- a portion of a natural object
- assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group
- something determined in relation to something that includes it
- the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group
- one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole
- the melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music
- that which concerns a person with regard to a particular role or situation
- something less than the whole of a human artifact
- an actor's portrayal of someone in a play
- the extended spatial location of something
- a line of scalp that can be seen when sections of hair are combed in opposite directions
- an item that is an instance of some type
verb
- To cut off; to remove by clipping, shearing, etc.; to mow or crop.
- (transitive) To take, record the votes of (an electorate).
- (transitive) To remove the horns of (an animal).
- To remove the top or end of; to clip; to lop.
- (transitive, computing, communication) To (repeatedly) request the status of something (such as a computer or printer on a network).
- (transitive) To solicit mock votes from (a person or group).
- To enter, as polls or persons, in a list or register; to enroll, especially for purposes of taxation; to enumerate one by one.
- (transitive) To cut the hair of (a creature).
- (intransitive, with adverb) To be judged in a poll.
- (law) To cut or shave smooth or even; to cut in a straight line without indentation
- (intransitive) To vote at an election.
- To impose a tax upon.
- To register or deposit, as a vote; to elicit or call forth, as votes or voters.
- To pay as one's personal tax.
- get the votes of
- convert into a pollard
- get the opinions (of people) by asking specific questions
- vote in an election at a polling station
adj
noun
- A polling place (usually as plural, polling places)
- A formal vote held in order to ascertain the most popular choice.
- The broad or butt end of an axe or a hammer.
- (now rare outside veterinary medicine contexts) The head, particularly the scalp or pate upon which hair (normally) grows.
- A survey of people, usually statistically analyzed to gauge wider public opinion.
- The result of the voting, the total number of votes recorded.
- The pollard or European chub, a kind of fish.
- (in extended senses of the above) A mass of people, a mob or muster, considered as a head count.
- A pet parrot.
- an inquiry into public opinion conducted by interviewing a random sample of people
- the top of the head
- the counting of votes (as in an election)
- the part of the head between the ears
- a tame parrot
verb
- (transitive) To trim, dress, or prune.
- (intransitive) To have or produce frequent evacuations from the intestines, as by means of a cathartic.
- (transitive) To clean thoroughly; to rid of impurities; to cleanse.
- (transitive, intransitive, medicine) To evacuate (the bowels or the stomach); to defecate or vomit.
- (transitive, medicine) To cause someone to purge; to operate (on somebody) using a cathartic or emetic, or in a similar manner.
- (transitive) To remove by cleansing; to wash away.
- (transitive, law) To clear of a charge, suspicion, or imputation.
- (transitive) To clarify; to clear the dregs from (liquor).
- (intransitive) To become pure, as by clarification.
- (transitive) To free from sin, guilt, or burden.
- (transitive) To forcibly remove, for example, from political activity.
- (transitive) To forcibly remove people by an organization.
- rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid
- rid of impurities
- oust politically
- make pure or free from sin or guilt
- eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth
- clear of a charge
- excrete or evacuate (someone's bowels or body)
noun
- An act or instance of purging.
- Something which or someone who purges; especially, a medicine that evacuates the intestines; a cathartic.
- A red or reddish liquid that seeps out from raw muscular meat consisting mostly of water and protein; "meat juice".
- (medicine) An evacuation of the bowels or the stomach; a defecation or vomiting.
- A forcible removal of people, for example, from political activity.
- An act or instance of the cleansing of pipes.
- an act of removing by cleansing; ridding of sediment or other undesired elements
- an abrupt or sudden removal of a person or group from an organization or place
- the act of clearing yourself (or another) from some stigma or charge
noun
- scissors for cutting hair or finger nails
- a fast sailing ship used in former times
- shears for cutting grass or shrubbery
- (electronics) a nonlinear electronic circuit whose output is limited in amplitude; used to limit the instantaneous amplitude of a waveform (to clip off the peaks of a waveform)
- (entomology) An Asian butterfly of species Parthenos sylvia, family Nymphalidae.
- (slang) A confidence trickster; a conman.
- Anything or anyone that clips.
- (electronics) A circuit which prevents the amplitude of a wave from exceeding a set value.
- (chiefly in the plural) A tool used for clipping something, such as hair, coins, or fingernails.
- (historical) A person who mutilates coins by fraudulently paring the edges.
- (informal) An Alberta clipper.
- (nautical) Any of several forms of very fast sailing ships having a long, low hull and a sharply raked stem.
verb
verb
noun
- edge tool used in shaving
- The sharp tusk of a wild boar.
- Any tool or instrument designed for shaving.
- (philosophy) A conceptual device that allows one to shave away unlikely explanations for a phenomenon.
- A keen-edged knife of peculiar shape, used in shaving the hair from the face or other parts of the body.
verb
- cut with shears
- shear the wool from
- become deformed by forces tending to produce a shearing strain
- cut or cut through with shears
- (Scotland) To reap, as grain.
- (figurative) To deprive of property; to fleece.
- (mining, intransitive) To make a vertical cut in coal.
- (intransitive, transitive) To remove the fleece from (a sheep, llama, etc.) by clipping.
- (physics) To deform because of forces pushing in opposite directions.
- (engineering) (also 'shear off') To break or suddenly separate because of excessive force, eg. a bolt.
- (mathematics) To transform by displacing every point in a direction parallel to some given line by a distance proportional to the point’s distance from the line.
- To cut the hair of (a person).
- (aviation, meteorology, intransitive, of wind) To change in direction or speed.
- To cut, originally with a sword or other bladed weapon, now usually with shears, or as if using shears.
noun
- (physics) a deformation of an object in which parallel planes remain parallel but are shifted in a direction parallel to themselves
- a large edge tool that cuts sheet metal by passing a blade through it
- (aviation, meteorology, countable) A specific instance of wind shear.
- (aviation, meteorology, uncountable) The phenomenon of wind shear.
- (physics) Forces that push in opposite directions.
- The act of shearing, or something removed by shearing.
- (geology) The response of a rock to deformation usually by compressive stress, resulting in particular textures.
- (mathematics) A transformation that displaces every point in a direction parallel to some given line by a distance proportional to the point's distance from the line.
- A cutting tool similar to scissors, but often larger.
- (metalworking) A large machine use for cutting sheet metal.
adj
verb
- cut small bits or pare shavings from
- remove the skin from
- decrease gradually or bit by bit
- remove the edges from and cut down to the desired size
- (transitive) To remove the outer covering or skin of something with a cutting device, typically a knife.
- (transitive, often with down or back) To reduce, diminish or trim gradually something as if by cutting off.
- (Ireland, slang) To sharpen a pencil.
- To trim the hoof of a horse.
verb
noun
noun
verb
noun
- A knife for taking the hair off skins.
- (rail transportation, US) A grain car.
- An infusion of pigeon's dung used by tanners to neutralize the effects of lime and give flexibility to skins; -- called also grains and bate.
- A brush or tool used for such painting.
- One who grains (paints in imitation of the grain of wood, marble, etc).
noun
noun
noun
- A device used to trim.
- One who trims, arranges, fits, or ornaments.
- Someone who fluctuates between opposing factions, political parties etc., according to current interest, a flip-flopper.
- (nautical) A member of the crew who trims the sails.
- (mining, historical) A device for storing coal in gradually increasing piles made by building up at the point of the cone or top of the prism.
- (fishing) A float bearing a baited hook and line, used in fishing for pike.
- (architecture) A beam into which are framed the ends of headers in floor framing, as when a hole is to be left for stairs, or to avoid bringing joists near chimneys.
- (electronics) An adjustable electrical component.
- (cricket) A fast, high-quality delivery by the bowler, especially one that results in a dismissal of a batter by removing the bails without hitting the stumps.
- (shipping, historical) A person employed to rearrange the coal in the hold of a vessel, so that it fills the vessel without forming a conical blockage.
- a machine that trims timber
- capacitor having variable capacitance; used for making fine adjustments
- joist that receives the end of a header in floor or roof framing in order to leave an opening for a staircase or chimney etc.
- a worker who thins out and trims trees and shrubs
adj
noun
- Clipping of tatting.
- (countable, India) Gunny cloth made from the fibre of the Corchorus olitorius (jute).
- (uncountable, British) Cheap, tasteless, useless goods; trinkets.
- Alternative form of tatty (“kind of woven mat or screen”).
- (slang) A tattoo.
- (uncountable, British) Cheap and vulgar tastelessness; sleaze.
- Some small thing, especially that which is exchanged tit for tat.
- tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar
verb
noun
- A tool used to trim a person's hair.
- One who cleans the inside of an airplane between flights.
- A person who takes care for another person's appearance and clothing.
- (uncommon) One who cares for their own personal appearance.
- (skiing, slang) A piste serviced by snow groomers.
- A person who or an animal (the groomee) which cares for an animal by brushing and cleaning.
- (colloquial) One who attempts to gain the trust of a child or vulnerable person in order to take advantage of or exploit them, especially sexually.
- A brush used to groom animals.
noun
- Clipping of specialist.
- Clipping of special.
- Clipping of spectrum.
- (Australia, Australian rules football, informal) Clipping of spectacular mark, a type of catch in Australian rules football.
- (colloquial) Clipping of speculation.
- Clipping of specialization.
- (linguistics) Abbreviation of specifier.
- (colloquial) Clipping of specification.
- (linguistics) Clipping of specifier.
- a detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work
adj
verb
verb
- (transitive) To make (the head, skin etc.) bald or (the hair) shorter by using a tool such as a razor or electric clippers to cut the hair close to the skin.
- (transitive) To cut anything in this fashion.
- To reduce in size, weight, time taken etc., usually by a small amount.
- (MLE, slang, transitive) To injure by employing a knife.
- To skim along or near the surface of; to pass close to, or touch lightly, in passing.
- (intransitive) To remove hair from one's face by this means.
- (transitive) To cut finely, for example slices of meat.
- cut the price of
- cut closely
- remove body hair with a razor
- cut or remove with or as if with a plane
- make shavings of or reduce to shavings
- touch the surface of lightly
noun
noun
- scissors for cutting hair or finger nails
- a fast sailing ship used in former times
- shears for cutting grass or shrubbery
- (electronics) a nonlinear electronic circuit whose output is limited in amplitude; used to limit the instantaneous amplitude of a waveform (to clip off the peaks of a waveform)
- (entomology) An Asian butterfly of species Parthenos sylvia, family Nymphalidae.
- (slang) A confidence trickster; a conman.
- Anything or anyone that clips.
- (electronics) A circuit which prevents the amplitude of a wave from exceeding a set value.
- (chiefly in the plural) A tool used for clipping something, such as hair, coins, or fingernails.
- (historical) A person who mutilates coins by fraudulently paring the edges.
- (informal) An Alberta clipper.
- (nautical) Any of several forms of very fast sailing ships having a long, low hull and a sharply raked stem.
verb
verb
- To remove by pinching, biting, or cutting with two meeting edges of anything; to clip.
- To taunt.
- (slang, vulgar) To have erect nipples.
- To blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor of; to destroy.
- (informal) To make a quick, short journey or errand, usually a round trip.
- (Scotland, Northern England) To squeeze or pinch.
- To benumb [e.g., cheeks, fingers, nose] by severe cold.
- To catch and enclose or compress tightly between two surfaces, or points which are brought together or closed; to pinch; to close in upon.
- To annoy, as by nipping.
- sever or remove by pinching or snipping
- give a small sharp bite to
- squeeze tightly between the fingers
noun
- A small cut, or a cutting off the end.
- A small amount of food or drink, (particularly) a small amount of liquor.
- (nautical) A short turn in a rope.
- (Manitoba, Northwestern Ontario) A hamburger.
- A blast; a killing of the ends of plants by frost.
- Briskly cold weather.
- (papermaking) The place of intersection where one roll touches another
- A pinch with the nails or teeth.
- A biting sarcasm; a taunt.
- A seizing or closing in upon; a pinching
- (mining) A more or less gradual thinning out of a stratum.
- (slang, vulgar, chiefly in the plural) A nipple, usually of a woman.
- A playful bite.
- the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth
- a small drink of liquor
- a small sharp bite or snip
- a tart spicy quality
- the property of being moderately cold
verb
noun
- edge tool used in shaving
- The sharp tusk of a wild boar.
- Any tool or instrument designed for shaving.
- (philosophy) A conceptual device that allows one to shave away unlikely explanations for a phenomenon.
- A keen-edged knife of peculiar shape, used in shaving the hair from the face or other parts of the body.
verb
- To trim.
- (slang, intransitive) To get angry suddenly; to quickly or unreasonably become enraged.
- To be swung or whisked.
- (ecclesiastical) To shift to another circuit.
- (sports, transitive) To move (the ball or equivalent) from one side of the playing area to the other.
- (intransitive) To take on the opposite role (leader vs. follower) in a partner dance.
- (transitive, in modern times Southern US) To whip or hit with a switch.
- (transitive) To change (something) to the specified state using a switch.
- (intransitive) To change places, tasks, etc.
- To turn from one railway track to another; to transfer by a switch; generally with off, from, etc.
- To swing or whisk.
- (transitive) To exchange.
- cause to go on or to be engaged or set in operation
- make a shift in or exchange of
- exchange or give (something) in exchange for
- flog with or as if with a flexible rod
- change over, change around, as to a new order or sequence
- lay aside, abandon, or leave for another
- reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action)
adj
noun
- A device to turn electric current on and off or direct its flow.
- (telecommunications) A system of specialized relays, computer hardware, or other equipment which allows the interconnection of a calling party's telephone line with any called party's line.
- (especially BDSM) One who is willing to take either a submissive or a dominant role in a sexual relationship.
- (historical) A separate mass or tress of hair, or of some substance (such as jute) made to resemble hair, formerly worn on the head by women.
- (sports) A play in which the ball (or equivalent) is moved from one side of the playing area to the other.
- A change or exchange.
- (music) Synonym of rute.
- (genetics) A mechanism within DNA that activates or deactivates a gene.
- (computer science) A command line notation allowing specification of optional behavior.
- (rail transport, US, Philippines) A movable section of railroad track which allows the train to be directed down one of two destination tracks; (set of) points.
- (computing, programming) A programming construct that takes different actions depending on the value of an expression.
- (multiplicity slang) The process of the currently fronting headmate changing; an instance of this.
- (computing, networking) A networking device connecting multiple wires, allowing them to communicate simultaneously, when possible. Compare to the less efficient hub device that solely duplicates network packets to each wire.
- (card games) A variant of crazy eights where one card, such as an ace, reverses the direction of play.
- A long, slender woody plant stem or a flexible, thin rod used as a whip to administer corporal punishment in the United States.
- (slang, metonymic) A Glock pistol equipped with a Glock switch.
- (firearms, slang) Synonym of Glock switch.
- an event in which one thing is substituted for another
- hairpiece consisting of a tress of false hair; used by women to give shape to a coiffure
- railroad track having two movable rails and necessary connections; used to turn a train from one track to another or to store rolling stock
- a flexible implement used as an instrument of punishment
- a basketball maneuver; two defensive players shift assignments so that each guards the player usually guarded by the other
- the act of changing one thing or position for another
- control consisting of a mechanical or electrical or electronic device for making or breaking or changing the connections in a circuit
verb
- (more generally) To trim with a knife.
- (figurative) To sit up or stand up suddenly.
- To cut up or carve up with a knife.
- (figurative) To move in a stabbing or penetrating manner
- (figurative) To slice through; to cut or traverse a path through or between.
- To rise precipitously.
- (figurative) To traverse up the body in a quick stabbing sensation
- (figurative) To penetrate sharply upward.
- To extract a morsel or dab (of something) with a knife.
verb
noun
verb
- cut slightly, with a razor
- mate successfully; of livestock
- divide or reset the tail muscles of
- cut a nick into
- (transitive) To make a nick or notch in; to cut or scratch in a minor way.
- (transitive, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, law enforcement, slang) To arrest.
- (transitive, mining) To make a cut at the side of the face.
- (transitive, rare) To make a crosscut or cuts on the underside of (the tail of a horse, in order to make the animal carry it higher).
- (transitive, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, colloquial) To steal.
- (transitive) To make ragged or uneven, as by cutting nicks or notches in; to deface, to mar.
noun
- (British slang) a prison
- a small cut
- an impression in a surface (as made by a blow)
- (genetics) One of the single-stranded DNA segments produced during nick translation.
- (cricket) A small deflection of the ball off the edge of the bat, often going to the wicket-keeper for a catch.
- (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, law enforcement, slang) A police station or prison.
- (Internet) Clipping of nickname.
- (real tennis, squash, racquetball) The point where the wall of the court meets the floor.
- (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, colloquial) Often in the expressions in bad nick and in good nick: condition, state.
verb
noun
verb
- To remove by pinching, biting, or cutting with two meeting edges of anything; to clip.
- To taunt.
- (slang, vulgar) To have erect nipples.
- To blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor of; to destroy.
- (informal) To make a quick, short journey or errand, usually a round trip.
- (Scotland, Northern England) To squeeze or pinch.
- To benumb [e.g., cheeks, fingers, nose] by severe cold.
- To catch and enclose or compress tightly between two surfaces, or points which are brought together or closed; to pinch; to close in upon.
- To annoy, as by nipping.
- sever or remove by pinching or snipping
- give a small sharp bite to
- squeeze tightly between the fingers
noun
- A small cut, or a cutting off the end.
- A small amount of food or drink, (particularly) a small amount of liquor.
- (nautical) A short turn in a rope.
- (Manitoba, Northwestern Ontario) A hamburger.
- A blast; a killing of the ends of plants by frost.
- Briskly cold weather.
- (papermaking) The place of intersection where one roll touches another
- A pinch with the nails or teeth.
- A biting sarcasm; a taunt.
- A seizing or closing in upon; a pinching
- (mining) A more or less gradual thinning out of a stratum.
- (slang, vulgar, chiefly in the plural) A nipple, usually of a woman.
- A playful bite.
- the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth
- a small drink of liquor
- a small sharp bite or snip
- a tart spicy quality
- the property of being moderately cold
verb
- (transitive) To trim up, as trees.
- (transitive) To flatter.
- (of people, intransitive, reflexive) To spend time making oneself attractive and admiring one's appearance, e.g. in front of a mirror.
- (intransitive) To show off, posture, or smarm.
- (transitive, more generally) To improve the appearance of; groom; prettify.
- (of birds, ambitransitive) To groom; to trim or dress the feathers with the beak.
- (transitive) To pin; fasten.
- (transitive) To comb; to make orderly.
- dress or groom with elaborate care
- pride or congratulate (oneself) for an achievement
- clean with one's bill
noun
verb
- To remove by cutting.
- To stop the provision or supply of something, e.g. power, water.
- To swerve in front of (another car) while driving.
- (Southern US) To turn off or switch off (an electrical device).
- To move so as to block someone else's movement in a direction.
- To isolate or remove from contact.
- To end abruptly.
- (of a boundary) To exclude (something) from the field of view.
- To interrupt (someone speaking).
- To stop providing funds or something else to (someone).
- make a break in
- remove surgically
- remove by or as if by cutting
- cease, stop
- break a small piece off from
- cut off and stop
noun
adj
verb
- To cut, especially with scissors or shears as opposed to a knife etc.
- (slang) To collect signatures, generally with the use of a clipboard.
- (computer graphics, video games, ambitransitive) To move (through or into) (a rendered object or barrier).
- (slang, transitive) To cheat, swindle, or fleece.
- To curtail; to cut short.
- (dialectal, informal) To strike with the hand.
- To fasten with a clip.
- (slang, transitive) to grab or take stealthily.
- (computer graphics) To discard (an occluded part of a model or scene) rather than waste resources on rendering it.
- To make a clip; to cut a section of video from a film, broadcast, or other longer video.
- To grip tightly.
- (signal processing) To cut off a signal level at a certain maximum value.
- (surgery, transitive) To treat (an aneurysm) by closing it off with a physical clip.
- To hit or strike, especially in passing.
- (slang) To assassinate; to bump off.
- (American football) To perform an illegal tackle, throwing the body across the back of an opponent's leg or hitting him from the back below the waist while moving up from behind unless the opponent is a runner or the action is in close line play.
- run at a moderately swift pace
- cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
- sever or remove by pinching or snipping
- terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent
- attach with a clip
noun
- A short piece of audio (shortened version of audio clip, or alternatively clipping of audio).
- (military, colloquial) A removable magazine of a firearm.
- Something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.
- A newspaper clipping.
- (uncountable, Geordie) The condition of something, its state.
- (military) A frame containing a number of rounds of ammunition which is intended to be inserted into an internal magazine of a firearm to allow for rapid reloading.
- Something which has been clipped from a larger whole:
- The product of a single shearing of sheep.
- An act of clipping, such as a haircut.
- A section of video taken from a film, broadcast, or other longer video.
- A projecting flange on the upper edge of a horseshoe, turned up so as to embrace the lower part of the hoof; a toe clip or beak.
- (fishing, UK, Scotland) A gaff or hook for landing the fish, as in salmon fishing.
- An unspecified, but normally understood as rapid, speed or pace.
- A season's crop of wool.
- (informal) A blow with the hand (often in the set phrase clip round the ear)
- a sharp slanting blow
- an article of jewelry that can be clipped onto a hat or dress
- a metal frame or container holding cartridges; can be inserted into an automatic gun
- the act of clipping or snipping
- an instance or single occasion for some event
- any of various small fasteners used to hold loose articles together
verb
noun
verb
- (transitive) To make (the head, skin etc.) bald or (the hair) shorter by using a tool such as a razor or electric clippers to cut the hair close to the skin.
- (transitive) To cut anything in this fashion.
- To reduce in size, weight, time taken etc., usually by a small amount.
- (MLE, slang, transitive) To injure by employing a knife.
- To skim along or near the surface of; to pass close to, or touch lightly, in passing.
- (intransitive) To remove hair from one's face by this means.
- (transitive) To cut finely, for example slices of meat.
- cut the price of
- cut closely
- remove body hair with a razor
- cut or remove with or as if with a plane
- make shavings of or reduce to shavings
- touch the surface of lightly
noun
verb
- To cut with short sharp actions, as with scissors.
- (informal) To perform a vasectomy.
- (Internet) To remove the irrelevant parts of quotations in the reply message.
- (informal) To circumcise.
- To speak or say in a snippish manner.
- To break off; to snatch away.
- To reduce the price of a product, to create a snip.
- cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
- sever or remove by pinching or snipping
noun
- The act of snipping; cutting a small amount off of something.
- (onomatopoeia) An act or sound of snipping, the sound produced by scissors.
- (definite, the snip, euphemistic) A vasectomy.
- A single cut with scissors, clippers, or similar tool.
- A piece cut out by snipping.
- (informal) Something acquired for a low price; a bargain.
- (informal) A small or weak person, especially a young one.
- A small amount of something; a pinch.
- A white marking on a horse's muzzle, between the nostrils.
- the act of clipping or snipping
- a small piece of anything (especially a piece that has been snipped off)
verb
- To cut hair with a parting.
- (intransitive) To be divided in two or separated.
- (intransitive) To leave the company of.
- To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion.
- (transitive) To divide in two.
- To separate or disunite; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder.
- (transitive, Internet) To leave (an IRC channel).
- force, take, or pull apart
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- go one's own way; move apart
- depart for someplace
- move or break apart
adj
adv
noun
- A section of land; an area of a country or other territory; region.
- (US) The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions.
- A section of a document.
- (Judaism) In the Hebrew lunisolar calendar, a unit of time equivalent to 3⅓ seconds.
- A unit of relative proportion in a mixture.
- A distinct element of something larger.
- Share, especially of a profit.
- Position or role (especially in a play).
- A group inside a larger group.
- (US) A room in a public building, especially a courtroom.
- A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent; usually in the plural with a collective sense.
- (music) The melody played or sung by a particular instrument, voice, or group of instruments or voices, within a polyphonic piece.
- Each of two contrasting sides of an argument, debate etc.; "hand".
- 3.5 centiliters of one ingredient in a mixed drink.
- (colloquial, euphemistic) A private part; genitalia.
- A fraction of a whole.
- Duty; responsibility.
- the effort contributed by a person in bringing about a result
- a portion of a natural object
- assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group
- something determined in relation to something that includes it
- the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group
- one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole
- the melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music
- that which concerns a person with regard to a particular role or situation
- something less than the whole of a human artifact
- an actor's portrayal of someone in a play
- the extended spatial location of something
- a line of scalp that can be seen when sections of hair are combed in opposite directions
- an item that is an instance of some type
verb
- To cut off; to remove by clipping, shearing, etc.; to mow or crop.
- (transitive) To take, record the votes of (an electorate).
- (transitive) To remove the horns of (an animal).
- To remove the top or end of; to clip; to lop.
- (transitive, computing, communication) To (repeatedly) request the status of something (such as a computer or printer on a network).
- (transitive) To solicit mock votes from (a person or group).
- To enter, as polls or persons, in a list or register; to enroll, especially for purposes of taxation; to enumerate one by one.
- (transitive) To cut the hair of (a creature).
- (intransitive, with adverb) To be judged in a poll.
- (law) To cut or shave smooth or even; to cut in a straight line without indentation
- (intransitive) To vote at an election.
- To impose a tax upon.
- To register or deposit, as a vote; to elicit or call forth, as votes or voters.
- To pay as one's personal tax.
- get the votes of
- convert into a pollard
- get the opinions (of people) by asking specific questions
- vote in an election at a polling station
adj
noun
- A polling place (usually as plural, polling places)
- A formal vote held in order to ascertain the most popular choice.
- The broad or butt end of an axe or a hammer.
- (now rare outside veterinary medicine contexts) The head, particularly the scalp or pate upon which hair (normally) grows.
- A survey of people, usually statistically analyzed to gauge wider public opinion.
- The result of the voting, the total number of votes recorded.
- The pollard or European chub, a kind of fish.
- (in extended senses of the above) A mass of people, a mob or muster, considered as a head count.
- A pet parrot.
- an inquiry into public opinion conducted by interviewing a random sample of people
- the top of the head
- the counting of votes (as in an election)
- the part of the head between the ears
- a tame parrot
verb
- (transitive) To trim, dress, or prune.
- (intransitive) To have or produce frequent evacuations from the intestines, as by means of a cathartic.
- (transitive) To clean thoroughly; to rid of impurities; to cleanse.
- (transitive, intransitive, medicine) To evacuate (the bowels or the stomach); to defecate or vomit.
- (transitive, medicine) To cause someone to purge; to operate (on somebody) using a cathartic or emetic, or in a similar manner.
- (transitive) To remove by cleansing; to wash away.
- (transitive, law) To clear of a charge, suspicion, or imputation.
- (transitive) To clarify; to clear the dregs from (liquor).
- (intransitive) To become pure, as by clarification.
- (transitive) To free from sin, guilt, or burden.
- (transitive) To forcibly remove, for example, from political activity.
- (transitive) To forcibly remove people by an organization.
- rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid
- rid of impurities
- oust politically
- make pure or free from sin or guilt
- eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth
- clear of a charge
- excrete or evacuate (someone's bowels or body)
noun
- An act or instance of purging.
- Something which or someone who purges; especially, a medicine that evacuates the intestines; a cathartic.
- A red or reddish liquid that seeps out from raw muscular meat consisting mostly of water and protein; "meat juice".
- (medicine) An evacuation of the bowels or the stomach; a defecation or vomiting.
- A forcible removal of people, for example, from political activity.
- An act or instance of the cleansing of pipes.
- an act of removing by cleansing; ridding of sediment or other undesired elements
- an abrupt or sudden removal of a person or group from an organization or place
- the act of clearing yourself (or another) from some stigma or charge
verb
noun
- edge tool used in shaving
- The sharp tusk of a wild boar.
- Any tool or instrument designed for shaving.
- (philosophy) A conceptual device that allows one to shave away unlikely explanations for a phenomenon.
- A keen-edged knife of peculiar shape, used in shaving the hair from the face or other parts of the body.
verb
- cut with shears
- shear the wool from
- become deformed by forces tending to produce a shearing strain
- cut or cut through with shears
- (Scotland) To reap, as grain.
- (figurative) To deprive of property; to fleece.
- (mining, intransitive) To make a vertical cut in coal.
- (intransitive, transitive) To remove the fleece from (a sheep, llama, etc.) by clipping.
- (physics) To deform because of forces pushing in opposite directions.
- (engineering) (also 'shear off') To break or suddenly separate because of excessive force, eg. a bolt.
- (mathematics) To transform by displacing every point in a direction parallel to some given line by a distance proportional to the point’s distance from the line.
- To cut the hair of (a person).
- (aviation, meteorology, intransitive, of wind) To change in direction or speed.
- To cut, originally with a sword or other bladed weapon, now usually with shears, or as if using shears.
noun
- (physics) a deformation of an object in which parallel planes remain parallel but are shifted in a direction parallel to themselves
- a large edge tool that cuts sheet metal by passing a blade through it
- (aviation, meteorology, countable) A specific instance of wind shear.
- (aviation, meteorology, uncountable) The phenomenon of wind shear.
- (physics) Forces that push in opposite directions.
- The act of shearing, or something removed by shearing.
- (geology) The response of a rock to deformation usually by compressive stress, resulting in particular textures.
- (mathematics) A transformation that displaces every point in a direction parallel to some given line by a distance proportional to the point's distance from the line.
- A cutting tool similar to scissors, but often larger.
- (metalworking) A large machine use for cutting sheet metal.
adj
verb
- cut small bits or pare shavings from
- remove the skin from
- decrease gradually or bit by bit
- remove the edges from and cut down to the desired size
- (transitive) To remove the outer covering or skin of something with a cutting device, typically a knife.
- (transitive, often with down or back) To reduce, diminish or trim gradually something as if by cutting off.
- (Ireland, slang) To sharpen a pencil.
- To trim the hoof of a horse.
verb
noun
adj
- not trimmed
- (of pages of a book) having adjacent leaves still joined at the fore edge
- complete
- not cut
- not injured by cutting
- (used of grass or vegetation) not cut down with a hand implement or machine
- not shaped by cutting or trimming
- (bookbinding) Of a book, not having the page edges trimmed.
- Not cut.
- (informal) Not circumcised.
- (jewelry) Of a gemstone, not cut or ground to the desired shape.
- (film, television, publishing) Of a play, film, etc., not edited or abridged by a censor.
- Not diluted.
adj
- made neat and tidy by trimming
- (used of grass or vegetation) cut down with a hand implement or machine
- (of pages of a book) having the folds of the leaves trimmed or slit
- mixed with water
- separated into parts or laid open or penetrated with a sharp edge or instrument
- (of a male animal) having the testicles removed
- (used of rates or prices) reduced usually sharply
- with parts removed
- fashioned or shaped by cutting
- (of a gem) Carved into a shape; not raw.
- (bodybuilding) Having muscular definition in which individual groups of muscle fibers stand out among larger muscles.
- (slang, New Zealand, formerly UK) Intoxicated as a result of drugs or alcohol.
- (participial adjective) Having been cut.
- (cricket, of a shot) Played with a horizontal bat to hit the ball backward of point.
- Reduced.
- (informal) Circumcised or having been the subject of female genital mutilation.
- (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Upset, angry; emotionally hurt.
noun
- a wound made by cutting
- in baseball; a batter's attempt to hit a pitched ball
- the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage
- a refusal to recognize someone you know
- (sports) a stroke that puts reverse spin on the ball
- a distinct selection of music from a recording or a compact disc
- a remark capable of wounding mentally
- a canal made by erosion or excavation
- a share of the profits
- the act of shortening something by chopping off the ends
- the act of penetrating or opening open with a sharp edge
- the act of cutting something into parts
- a piece of meat that has been cut from an animal carcass
- (film) an immediate transition from one shot to the next
- the style in which a garment is cut
- a step on some scale
- the act of reducing the amount or number
- an unexcused absence from class
- the division of a deck of cards before dealing
- a trench resembling a furrow that was made by erosion or excavation
- (slang, uncountable) That which is used to dilute or adulterate a recreational drug.
- (card games) The act or right of dividing a deck of playing cards.
- (slang) An insult.
- An opening of a living body resulting from cutting; an incision or wound.
- (slang) A hidden, secluded, or secure place.
- An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving.
- (card games) The card obtained by dividing the pack.
- The manner or style in which a garment, other article of clothing, or sail is fashioned.
- A decrease or deletion.
- (archaeology) A truncation, a context that represents a moment in time when other archaeological deposits were removed for the creation of some feature such as a ditch or pit.
- (Internet) A dividing line in a Tumblr post, the content below which is hidden until the reader reveals it.
- A haircut.
- (bodybuilding) A time period when one attempts to lose fat while retaining muscle mass.
- (literal, figurative) The act of cutting.
- Such a wound through human skin.
- A sleeveless vest worn by members of a motorcycle club.
- (fashion) A notch shaved into an eyebrow.
- (fencing) An attack made with a chopping motion of the blade, landing with its edge or point.
- (especially theater, film) A passage omitted or to be omitted from a play, movie script, speech, etc.
- (cricket) A batsman's shot played with a swinging motion of the bat, to hit the ball backward of point.
- (graph theory) The partition of a graph’s vertices into two subgroups.
- A skein of yarn.
- Such a passage dug for a roadway for a paved road or railroad, a canal, a runway, etc.
- A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove.
- (golf) In a stroke play competition, the early elimination of those players who have not then attained a preannounced score, so that the rest of the competition is less pressed for time and more entertaining for spectators.
- A deliberate snub, typically a refusal to return a bow or other acknowledgement of acquaintance.
- A definable part, such as an individual song, of a recording, particularly of commercial records, audio tapes, CDs, etc.
- (literal, figurative) The result of cutting.
- (film) A particular version or edit of a film.
- (sports) In lawn tennis, etc., a slanting stroke causing the ball to spin and bound irregularly; also, the spin thus given to the ball.
- A slab or slice, especially of meat.
- (rail transport) A string of railway cars coupled together, shorter than a train.
- (cricket) Sideways movement of the ball through the air caused by a fast bowler imparting spin to the ball.
- An unkind act; a cruelty.
- A share or portion of profits.
- An artificial channel for marine navigation, as distinguished from a navigable river.
- (petrochemistry) The range of temperatures used to distill a particular mixture of hydrocarbons from crude oil.
verb
- penetrate injuriously
- function as a cutting instrument
- divide a deck of cards at random into two parts to make selection difficult
- form by probing, penetrating, or digging
- fell by sawing; hew
- refuse to acknowledge
- discharge from a group
- allow incision or separation
- record a performance on (a medium)
- hit (a ball) with a spin so that it turns in the opposite direction
- pass directly and often in haste
- stop filming
- intentionally fail to attend
- grow through the gums
- cut and assemble the components of
- lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture
- give the appearance or impression of
- make an incision or separation
- make an abrupt change of image or sound
- cut off the testicles (of male animals such as horses)
- style and tailor in a certain fashion
- form or shape by cutting or incising
- cause to stop operating by disengaging a switch
- have a reducing effect
- separate with or as if with an instrument
- reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
- pass through or across
- cut down on; make a reduction in
- make out and issue
- be able to manage or manage successfully
- turn sharply; change direction abruptly
- weed out unwanted or unnecessary things
- make a recording of
- reap or harvest
- create by duplicating data
- move (one's fist)
- shorten as if by severing the edges or ends of
- cease, stop
- dissolve by breaking down the fat of
- perform or carry out
- have grow through the gums
- To absent oneself from (a class, an appointment, etc.).
- (intransitive) To enter a queue in the wrong place.
- (transitive, cricket) To make the ball spin sideways by running one's fingers down the side of the ball while bowling it.
- (intransitive, slang) To leave abruptly.
- (intransitive) To engage in self-harm by making cuts in one's own skin.
- To perform an incision on, for example with a knife.
- To abridge or shorten a work; to remove a portion of a recording during editing.
- (slang) To wound with a knife.
- To wound or hurt deeply the sensibilities of; to pierce.
- (transitive, film) To edit a film by selecting takes from original footage.
- (intransitive) To change direction suddenly.
- To separate or omit, in a situation where one was previously associated.
- (transitive, social) To ignore as a social rebuff or snub.
- To perform (an elaborate dancing movement etc.).
- (transitive) To exhibit (a figure having some trait).
- To reduce, especially intentionally.
- (ambitransitive) To deliver a stroke with a whip or like instrument to.
- (bodybuilding) To lose body mass, aiming to keep muscle but lose body fat.
- (transitive, cricket) To deflect (a bowled ball) to the off, with a chopping movement of the bat.
- (transitive, computing) To remove (text, a picture, etc.) and place in memory in order to paste at a later time.
- (sports) To drive (a ball) to one side, as by (in billiards or croquet) hitting it fine with another ball, or (in tennis) striking it with the racket inclined.
- To castrate or geld.
- (intransitive) To intersect or cross in such a way as to divide in half or nearly so.
- (slang, intransitive) To run or hurry.
- (transitive, slang) To dilute or adulterate something, especially a recreational drug.
- (intransitive, film) To make an abrupt transition from one scene or image to another.
- (transitive, slang) To make, negotiate; to finalise, conclude; to issue.
- (transitive, intransitive) To divide a pack of playing cards into two parts, often followed by placing the two parts back together in the opposite order.
- To form or shape by cutting.
- (intransitive) To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.
- (transitive) To renounce or give up.
- To interfere, as a horse; to strike one foot against the opposite foot or ankle in using the legs.
- To divide with a knife, scissors, or another sharp instrument.
- (transitive) To stop, disengage, or cease.
intj
noun
- A device used to trim.
- One who trims, arranges, fits, or ornaments.
- Someone who fluctuates between opposing factions, political parties etc., according to current interest, a flip-flopper.
- (nautical) A member of the crew who trims the sails.
- (mining, historical) A device for storing coal in gradually increasing piles made by building up at the point of the cone or top of the prism.
- (fishing) A float bearing a baited hook and line, used in fishing for pike.
- (architecture) A beam into which are framed the ends of headers in floor framing, as when a hole is to be left for stairs, or to avoid bringing joists near chimneys.
- (electronics) An adjustable electrical component.
- (cricket) A fast, high-quality delivery by the bowler, especially one that results in a dismissal of a batter by removing the bails without hitting the stumps.
- (shipping, historical) A person employed to rearrange the coal in the hold of a vessel, so that it fills the vessel without forming a conical blockage.
- a machine that trims timber
- capacitor having variable capacitance; used for making fine adjustments
- joist that receives the end of a header in floor or roof framing in order to leave an opening for a staircase or chimney etc.
- a worker who thins out and trims trees and shrubs
adj
adj
noun
- (countable, UK) An open passage at a level lower than the surrounding terrain, dug for a canal, railway, or road to go through.
- (countable) A newspaper clipping.
- (uncountable, cinematography, sound engineering) The editing of film or other recordings.
- (countable) An abridged selection of written work, often intended for performance.
- (countable) A section removed from a larger whole.
- (countable, horticulture) A leaf, stem, branch, or root removed from a plant and cultivated to grow a new plant.
- (uncountable, machining) The process of bringing metals to a desired shape by chipping away the unwanted material.
- (uncountable, psychology) The act of cutting one's own skin as a symptom of a mental disorder; self-harm.
- (countable, uncountable) The action of the verb to cut.
- an excerpt cut from a newspaper or magazine
- the act of diluting something
- a part (sometimes a root or leaf or bud) removed from a plant to propagate a new plant through rooting or grafting
- removing parts from hard material to create a desired pattern or shape
- the act of shortening something by chopping off the ends
- the act of penetrating or opening open with a sharp edge
- the act of cutting something into parts
- the activity of selecting the scenes to be shown and putting them together to create a film
- a piece cut off from the main part of something
- the division of a deck of cards before dealing