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- a current below the surface of a fluid
- a subdued emotional quality underlying an utterance; implicit meaning
- A current of water which flows under the surface, and often in a different direction from surface currents.
- (figuratively) A tendency of feeling or opinion that is concealed rather than exposed.
verb
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adj
verb
- flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise
- utter meaningless sounds, like a baby, or utter in an incoherent way
- divulge confidential information or secrets
- to talk foolishly
- (intransitive) To utter words indistinctly or unintelligibly; to utter inarticulate sounds
- (transitive) To utter in an indistinct or incoherent way; to repeat words or sounds in a childish way without understanding.
- (intransitive) To talk too much; to chatter; to prattle.
- (transitive) To reveal; to give away (a secret).
- (intransitive) To talk incoherently; to utter meaningless words.
- (intransitive) To make a continuous murmuring noise, like shallow water running over stones.
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verb
- flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise
- expel gas from the stomach
- form, produce, or emit bubbles
- cause to form bubbles
- rise in bubbles or as if in bubbles
- (intransitive) To join together in a support bubble
- (intransitive, Scotland and Northern England) To cry, weep.
- (transitive, UK, slang) To grass (report criminal activity to the authorities).
- (intransitive, figurative) To churn or foment, as if wishing to rise to the surface.
- (intransitive, figurative) To rise through a medium or system, similar to the way that bubbles rise in liquid.
- (transitive) To pat a baby on the back so as to cause it to belch.
- (computing) To apply a filter bubble, as to search results.
- (transitive) To cover with bubbles.
- (transitive) To express in a bubbly or lively manner.
- (transitive) To bubble in; to mark a response on a form by filling in a circular area (‘bubble’).
- (transitive) To cause to feel as if bubbling or churning.
- (intransitive) To produce bubbles, to rise up in bubbles (such as in foods cooking or liquids boiling).
- (transitive) To form into a protruding round shape.
noun
- a hollow globule of gas (e.g., air or carbon dioxide)
- an impracticable and illusory idea
- a speculative scheme that depends on unstable factors that the planner cannot control
- a dome-shaped covering made of transparent glass or plastic
- (figurative) Anything lacking firmness or solidity; a cheat or fraud; an empty project.
- An officer's station in a prison dormitory, affording views on all sides.
- (by extension) Anything resembling a hollow sphere.
- The people who are in this quarantine.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) A Greek.
- (chiefly COVID-19 pandemic) A quarantine environment containing multiple people or facilities isolated from the rest of society.
- Ellipsis of travel bubble.
- (economics) A period of intense speculation in a market, causing prices to rise quickly to irrational levels as the metaphorical bubble expands, and then fall even more quickly as the bubble bursts.
- (television, slang) A bulb or lamp; the part of a lighting assembly that actually produces the light.
- (computing, historical) Any of the small magnetized areas that make up bubble memory.
- A small, hollow, floating bead or globe, formerly used for testing the strength of spirits.
- The globule of air in the chamber of a spirit level.
- (figurative) The emotional or physical atmosphere in which a subject is immersed; especially, a homogeneous atmosphere in which subjects are spared exposure to culture or ideas different from their own.
- A spherically contained volume of air or other gas, especially one made from soapy liquid.
- (drug paraphernalia) A specialized glass pipe having a sphere-shaped apparatus at one end.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) A laugh.
- A small spherical cavity in a solid material.
- (poker) In a poker tournament, the point before which eliminated players receive no prize money and after which they do; the situation where all remaining players are guaranteed prize money (in this case, the players are said to have made the bubble); the situation where all remaining players will be guaranteed prize money after some small number of players are eliminated (in this case, the players are said to be on the bubble).
- (sports) The cutoff point between qualifying, advancing or being invited to a tournament, or having one's competition end.
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- flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise
- stir up (water) so as to form ripples
- (intransitive) To move like the undulating surface of a body of water; to undulate.
- (transitive) To shape into a series of ripples.
- To remove the seeds from (the stalks of flax, etc.), by means of a ripple.
- (intransitive) To propagate like a moving wave.
- (transitive) To scratch, tear, or break slightly; graze
- (transitive) To launch or unleash in rapid succession.
- (intransitive) To make a sound as of water running gently over a rough bottom, or the breaking of ripples on the shore.
noun
- (electronics) an oscillation of small amplitude imposed on top of a steady value
- a small wave on the surface of a liquid
- A style of ice cream in which flavors have been coarsely blended together.
- One of a series of corrugations in flat surface.
- (dialectal, historical) thripple, cart ladder (extension for cart or wagon)
- A sound similar to that of undulating water.
- (textiles) An implement, with teeth like those of a comb, for removing the seeds and seed vessels from flax, broom corn, etc.
- (figurative) A small spreading change, impact, or effect produced by a larger or more consequential action.
- A moving disturbance, or undulation, in the surface of a fluid.
- (electronics) A small oscillation of an otherwise steady signal.
noun
- (electricity) Initialism of direct current.
- an electric current that flows in one direction steadily
- (computing) Initialism of disconnection.
- (roleplaying games) Initialism of difficulty class.
- (law) Initialism of district court.
- (UK, pensions) Initialism of defined contributions.
- (business) Initialism of distribution center.
- (degree) Initialism of doctor of chiropractic.
- (law enforcement) Initialism of detective constable, a police rank used in Commonwealth countries.
- (banking) Initialism of debit card.
- (computing, Microsoft Windows) Initialism of device context.
- (Kenya) Initialism of district commissioner.
- (prison) Initialism of disciplinary control.
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- Ellipsis of DC Comics: Initialism of Detective Comics.
- (aviation) Initialism of Douglas Commercial, used in the names of airliners designed by the Douglas Aircraft Company.
- Initialism of District of Columbia, a federal district of the United States of America.
- (informal) Abbreviation of Discord.
- Initialism of Dubai City, to distinguish it from Dubai Emirate.
- Initialism of Dreamcast, a home videogaming console from SEGA.
- Initialism of Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles; clipping of DCHP.
verb
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- (intransitive) Of a liquid or electric current, to flow.
- (transitive) To encounter or incur (a danger or risk).
- To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.
- (transitive) To complete a running course or event in (a given time).
- (figurative, transitive) To pass (without stopping), typically a stop signal, stop sign, or duty to yield the right of way.
- (transitive) To execute or carry out a plan, procedure, or program.
- To fuse; to shape; to mould; to cast.
- (transitive) To transit (a length of a river), as in whitewater rafting.
- (intransitive) Of stitches or stitched clothing, to unravel.
- To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine.
- (golf) To strike (the ball) in such a way as to cause it to run along the ground, as when approaching a hole.
- (intransitive) To flee from a danger or towards help.
- To press (a bank, etc.) with immediate demands for payment.
- (intransitive) To become liquid; to melt.
- (intransitive) To be a candidate in an election.
- (transitive, agriculture) To sort through a large volume of produce in quality control.
- (transitive) To transport (someone or something), notionally at a brisk pace.
- (copulative) To become different in a way mentioned (usually to become worse).
- To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in company.
- (transitive) To cover (a course or a distance) by running.
- (intransitive) To leak or spread in an undesirable fashion; to bleed (especially used of dye or paint).
- past participle of rin
- (intransitive) To move briskly or smoothly with a motion of sliding, rolling, sweeping etc.
- (transitive) To make (something) extend in space.
- (sports, especially baseball) To eject from a game or match.
- To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation.
- (transitive) To cause to move quickly or lightly.
- (intransitive) To move forward quickly upon two feet by alternately making a short jump off either foot.
- (intransitive) To extend in time, to last, to continue (usually with a measure phrase).
- (intransitive) Of fish, to migrate for spawning.
- To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.
- (transitive or intransitive) To compete in a race.
- (transitive, intransitive) Of a means of transportation: to travel (a route).
- (intransitive) To be presented in the media.
- (transitive) To make stand in an election.
- To exert continuous activity; to proceed.
- (transitive) To cause (a vehicle) to travel a route.
- (intransitive) To extend in space or through a range (often with a measure phrase).
- (American football, transitive or intransitive) To carry (a football) down the field, as opposed to passing or kicking.
- To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.
- (transitive) To make a liquid or electric current flow from or into an object.
- (transitive) To smuggle (illegal goods).
- (transitive) To control or manage; to be in charge of.
- (intransitive) To go at a fast pace; to move quickly.
- (transitive) To make a machine operate.
- To have growth or development.
- (transitive) To cost an amount of money.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To move or spread quickly.
- (nautical, of a vessel) To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing close-hauled.
- (transitive) To print or broadcast in the media.
- To control or have precedence in a card game.
- (transitive, juggling, colloquial) To juggle a pattern continuously, as opposed to starting and stopping quickly.
- To be in form thus, as a combination of words.
- (intransitive) Of an object, to have a liquid flowing from it.
- (video games, rare) To speedrun.
- (transitive) To cause stitched clothing to unravel.
- To cause to enter; to thrust.
- (transitive) To make enter a race.
- To encounter or suffer (a particular, usually bad, fate or misfortune).
- (intransitive) Of a machine, including computer programs, to be operating or working normally.
- To sew (a seam) by passing the needle through material in a continuous line, generally taking a series of stitches on the needle at the same time.
- cover by running; run a certain distance
- deal in illegally, such as arms or liquor
- include as the content; broadcast or publicize
- travel rapidly, by any (unspecified) means
- run with the ball; in such sports as football
- occur persistently
- flee; take to one's heels; cut and run
- reduce or cause to be reduced from a solid to a liquid state, usually by heating
- run, stand, or compete for an office or a position
- be diffused
- change from one state to another
- pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals)
- carry out a process or program, as on a computer or a machine
- become undone
- be affected by; be subjected to
- move along, of liquids
- progress by being changed
- cause something to pass or lead somewhere
- change or be different within limits
- be operating, running or functioning
- continue to exist
- move about freely and without restraint, or act as if running around in an uncontrolled way
- make without a miss
- sail before the wind
- cause to perform
- have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined
- conduct to completion
- cause to emit recorded audio or video
- compete in a race
- direct or control; projects, businesses, etc.
- come unraveled or undone as if by snagging
- pass over, across, or through
- set animals loose to graze
- keep company
- move fast by using one's feet, with one foot off the ground at any given time
- perform as expected when applied
- extend or continue for a certain period of time
- cause an animal to move fast
- travel a route regularly
- have a particular form
- stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point
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- A production quantity (such as in a factory).
- (mining) The horizontal distance to which a drift may be carried, either by licence of the proprietor of a mine or by the nature of the formation; also, the direction which a vein of ore or other substance takes.
- A trial.
- One’s gait while running; the way one runs.
- (construction) Horizontal dimension of a slope.
- A flow of liquid; a leak.
- (cricket) The act of passing from one wicket to another; the point scored for this.
- (chiefly eastern North Midland US, especially Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia) A small creek or part thereof. (Compare Southern US branch and New York and New England brook.)
- Migration of fish.
- The top of a step on a staircase, also called a tread, as opposed to the rise.
- (video games, speedrunning) A playthrough, or attempted playthrough; a session of play.
- (skiing, bobsledding) A single trip down a hill, as in skiing and bobsledding.
- Any sudden large demand for something.
- (banking) A sudden series of demands on a bank or other financial institution, especially characterised by great withdrawals.
- An enclosure for an animal; a track or path along which something can travel.
- (slang) A period of extended (usually daily) drug use.
- A standard or unexceptional group or category.
- The horizontal length of a set of stairs
- (music) A rapid passage in music, especially along a scale.
- (golf) The movement communicated to a golf ball by running it.
- (American football) A running play.
- The distance drilled with a bit, in oil drilling.
- State of being current; currency; popularity.
- The period of showing of a play, film, TV series, etc.
- A quick pace, faster than a walk.
- A line of knit stitches that have unravelled, particularly in a nylon stocking.
- (card games) A sequence of cards in a suit in a card game.
- (baseball) A score when a runner touches all bases legally; the act of a runner scoring.
- (golf) The distance a ball travels after touching the ground from a stroke.
- (mathematics, computing) The execution of a program or model
- A pair or set of millstones.
- A series of tries in a game that were successful.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A rural landholding for farming, usually for running sheep, and operated by a runholder.
- Act or instance of hurrying (to or from a place) (not necessarily on foot); dash or errand, trip.
- Flight, instance or period of fleeing.
- (nautical) The stern of the underwater body of a ship from where it begins to curve upward and inward.
- (of horses) A fast gallop.
- Act or instance of running, of moving rapidly using the feet.
- Unrestricted use. Only used in have the run of.
- A continuous period (of time) marked by a trend; a period marked by a continuing trend.
- A (regular) trip or route.
- The route taken while running or skiing.
- The distance sailed by a ship.
- A group of fish that migrate, or ascend a river for the purpose of spawning.
- A pleasure trip.
- A voyage.
- a small stream
- the pouring forth of a fluid
- a regular trip
- unrestricted freedom to use
- an unbroken chronological sequence
- (American football) a play in which a player attempts to carry the ball through or past the opposing team
- the production achieved during a continuous period of operation (of a machine or factory etc.)
- the act of testing something
- the continuous period of time during which something (a machine or a factory) operates or continues in operation
- a race between candidates for elective office
- a race run on foot
- a short trip
- an unbroken series of events
- the act of running; traveling on foot at a fast pace
- a score in baseball made by a runner touching all four bases safely
- a row of unravelled stitches
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- flow in a circular current, of liquids
- knit with a purl stitch
- embroider with gold or silver thread
- edge or border with gold or silver embroidery
- make a murmuring sound
- To rise in circles, ripples, or undulations; to curl; to mantle.
- (knitting) To use or create a purl stitch or stitches.
- To decorate with fringe or embroidered edge
- (intransitive) To flow with a murmuring sound in swirls and eddies.
noun
- a basic knitting stitch made by putting the needle through the front of the stitch from the righthand side
- gold or silver wire thread
- A gentle murmuring sound, such as that produced by the running of a liquid among obstructions.
- An embroidered and puckered border; a hem or fringe, often of gold or silver twist; also, a pleat or fold, as of a band.
- A circle made by the motion of a fluid; an eddy; a ripple.
- A particular stitch in knitting in which the working yarn is pulled through an existing stitch from front to back.
- a heavy or headlong fall; an upset.
- The edge of lace trimmed with loops.
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- flow in a circular current, of liquids
- revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis
- turn in a twisting or spinning motion
- fly around
- cause to spin
- (intransitive) To rotate, revolve, spin or turn rapidly.
- (transitive) To make something or someone whirl.
- (transitive) To remove or carry quickly with, or as with, a revolving motion; to snatch.
- (intransitive) To have a sensation of spinning or reeling.
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- (electricity) The angle between the line joining the brushes of a continuous-current dynamo and the diameter symmetrical between the poles.
- (countable, nautical) A plummet or mass of lead attached to a line, used in sounding depth at sea or to estimate velocity in knots.
- A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing.
- (medicine, in the plural) X-ray protective clothing lined with lead.
- (countable) A thin cylinder of graphite used in pencils.
- (UK, countable) An insulated metallic wire for electrical devices and equipment.
- Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs.
- (horology) The action of a tooth, such as a tooth of a wheel, in impelling another tooth or a pallet.
- Information obtained by a news reporter about an issue or subject that allows him or her to discover more details.
- (electricity) The advance of the current phase in an alternating circuit beyond that of the electromotive force producing it.
- (acting) The actor who plays the main role; lead actor.
- (countable, mining) A lode.
- Information obtained by a detective or police officer that allows him or her to discover further details about a crime or incident.
- A rope, leather strap, or similar device with which to lead an animal; a leash
- (nautical) The course of a rope from end to end.
- (US, journalism) The introductory paragraph or paragraphs of a newspaper, or a news or other type of article. (Sometimes spelled as lede for this usage to avoid ambiguity.)
- (marketing) Potential opportunity for a sale or transaction, a potential customer.
- (business) The person in charge of a project or a work shift etc.
- (curling) The player who throws the first two rocks for a team.
- (music) The announcement by one voice part of a theme to be repeated by the other parts.
- (uncountable, typography) Vertical space in advance of a row or between rows of text. Also known as leading.
- (slang) Bullets; ammunition.
- (countable) A roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates.
- (countable) A channel of open water in an ice field.
- Hypothesis that has not been pursued
- (music) A mark or a short passage in one voice part, as of a canon, serving as a cue for the entrance of others.
- An important news story that appears on the front page of a newspaper or at the beginning of a news broadcast
- (music) A primary synth, often composed of square, sawtooth, triangle or sine waveforms.
- (baseball) The situation where a runner steps away from a base while waiting for the pitch to be thrown.
- (uncountable) A heavy, pliable, inelastic metal element, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished; both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic number 82, symbol Pb (from Latin plumbum).
- (music) In a barbershop quartet, the person who sings the melody, usually the second tenor.
- (countable) The act of leading or conducting; guidance; direction, course
- (acting, theater) The main role in a play or film; the lead role.
- (uncountable, card games, dominoes) The act or right of playing first in a game or round; the card suit, or piece, so played
- (engineering) The axial distance a screw thread travels in one revolution. It is equal to the pitch times the number of starts.
- In a steam engine, the width of port opening which is uncovered by the valve, for the admission or release of steam, at the instant when the piston is at end of its stroke.
- (countable) Precedence; advance position; also, the measure of precedence; the state of being ahead in a race; the highest score in an incomplete game.
- (engineering) The excess above a right angle in the angle between two consecutive cranks, as of a compound engine, on the same shaft.
- (civil engineering) The distance of haul, as from a cutting to an embankment.
- an advantage held by a competitor in a race
- an actor who plays a principal role
- the angle between the direction a gun is aimed and the position of a moving target (correcting for the flight time of the missile)
- evidence pointing to a possible solution
- the introductory section of a story
- (baseball) the position taken by a base runner preparing to advance to the next base
- an indication of potential opportunity
- a jumper that consists of a short piece of wire
- the playing of a card to start a trick in bridge
- a position of being the initiator of something and an example that others will follow (especially in the phrase ‘take the lead’)
- restraint consisting of a rope (or light chain) used to restrain an animal
- a news story of major importance
- (sports) the score by which a team or individual is winning
- the timing of ignition relative to the position of the piston in an internal-combustion engine
- thin strip of metal used to separate lines of type in printing
- a soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element; bluish white when freshly cut but tarnishes readily to dull grey
- mixture of graphite with clay in different degrees of hardness; the marking substance in a pencil
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- (intransitive) To be a cause of. [with to]
- (intransitive) To guide or conduct, as by accompanying, going before, showing, influencing, directing with authority, etc.; to have precedence or preeminence; to be first or chief; — used in most of the senses of the transitive verb.
- (transitive, climbing) To lead climb.
- (figuratively): To direct; to counsel; to instruct.
- To guide or conduct in a certain course, or to a certain place or end, by making the way known; to show the way, especially by going with or going in advance of; to guide somebody somewhere or to bring somebody somewhere by means of instructions.
- To guide or conduct with the hand, or by means of some physical contact connection.
- (transitive, card games, dominoes) To begin a game, round, or trick, with
- Misspelling of led.
- (baseball) To step off base and move towards the next base.
- Used in phrasal verbs: lead off, lead on, lead out, lead to (“be the cause of, bring about”), lead up, lead up to.
- (intransitive) To have the highest interim score in a game.
- (intransitive) To tend or reach in a certain spatial direction, or to a certain place.
- (transitive) To go or to be in advance of; to precede; hence, to be foremost or chief among.
- To draw or direct by influence, whether good or bad; to prevail on; to induce; to entice; to allure.
- (shooting) To aim in front of a moving target, in order that the shot may hit the target as it passes.
- (intransitive) To be more advanced in technology or business than others.
- (intransitive) To be ahead of others, e.g., in a race.
- (intransitive) To proceed in front of others; to go first.
- (transitive, usually with "life") To live or experience (a particular way of life).
- To influence towards a belief, a conclusion, etc.
- (transitive, printing, historical) To place leads between the lines of.
- (transitive) To cover, fill, or affect with lead.
- To conduct or direct with authority; to have direction or charge of; to command, especially a military or business unit.
- lead, extend, or afford access
- travel in front of; go in advance of others
- cause to undertake a certain action
- take somebody somewhere
- tend to or result in
- cause something to pass or lead somewhere
- lead, as in the performance of a composition
- produce as a result or residue
- preside over
- be ahead of others; be the first
- be in charge of
- be conducive to
- stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point
- move ahead (of others) in time or space
noun
- A current flowing below the surface.
- (computing) The error condition that results from an attempt to retrieve an item from an empty stack.
- (computing) A condition in which the value of a computed quantity is smaller than the smallest non-zero value that can be physically stored; usually treated as an error condition.
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noun
- a current below the surface of a fluid
- a subdued emotional quality underlying an utterance; implicit meaning
- A current of water which flows under the surface, and often in a different direction from surface currents.
- (figuratively) A tendency of feeling or opinion that is concealed rather than exposed.
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noun
- (electricity) Initialism of direct current.
- an electric current that flows in one direction steadily
- (computing) Initialism of disconnection.
- (roleplaying games) Initialism of difficulty class.
- (law) Initialism of district court.
- (UK, pensions) Initialism of defined contributions.
- (business) Initialism of distribution center.
- (degree) Initialism of doctor of chiropractic.
- (law enforcement) Initialism of detective constable, a police rank used in Commonwealth countries.
- (banking) Initialism of debit card.
- (computing, Microsoft Windows) Initialism of device context.
- (Kenya) Initialism of district commissioner.
- (prison) Initialism of disciplinary control.
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- Ellipsis of DC Comics: Initialism of Detective Comics.
- (aviation) Initialism of Douglas Commercial, used in the names of airliners designed by the Douglas Aircraft Company.
- Initialism of District of Columbia, a federal district of the United States of America.
- (informal) Abbreviation of Discord.
- Initialism of Dubai City, to distinguish it from Dubai Emirate.
- Initialism of Dreamcast, a home videogaming console from SEGA.
- Initialism of Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles; clipping of DCHP.
verb
noun
- (electricity) The angle between the line joining the brushes of a continuous-current dynamo and the diameter symmetrical between the poles.
- (countable, nautical) A plummet or mass of lead attached to a line, used in sounding depth at sea or to estimate velocity in knots.
- A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing.
- (medicine, in the plural) X-ray protective clothing lined with lead.
- (countable) A thin cylinder of graphite used in pencils.
- (UK, countable) An insulated metallic wire for electrical devices and equipment.
- Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs.
- (horology) The action of a tooth, such as a tooth of a wheel, in impelling another tooth or a pallet.
- Information obtained by a news reporter about an issue or subject that allows him or her to discover more details.
- (electricity) The advance of the current phase in an alternating circuit beyond that of the electromotive force producing it.
- (acting) The actor who plays the main role; lead actor.
- (countable, mining) A lode.
- Information obtained by a detective or police officer that allows him or her to discover further details about a crime or incident.
- A rope, leather strap, or similar device with which to lead an animal; a leash
- (nautical) The course of a rope from end to end.
- (US, journalism) The introductory paragraph or paragraphs of a newspaper, or a news or other type of article. (Sometimes spelled as lede for this usage to avoid ambiguity.)
- (marketing) Potential opportunity for a sale or transaction, a potential customer.
- (business) The person in charge of a project or a work shift etc.
- (curling) The player who throws the first two rocks for a team.
- (music) The announcement by one voice part of a theme to be repeated by the other parts.
- (uncountable, typography) Vertical space in advance of a row or between rows of text. Also known as leading.
- (slang) Bullets; ammunition.
- (countable) A roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates.
- (countable) A channel of open water in an ice field.
- Hypothesis that has not been pursued
- (music) A mark or a short passage in one voice part, as of a canon, serving as a cue for the entrance of others.
- An important news story that appears on the front page of a newspaper or at the beginning of a news broadcast
- (music) A primary synth, often composed of square, sawtooth, triangle or sine waveforms.
- (baseball) The situation where a runner steps away from a base while waiting for the pitch to be thrown.
- (uncountable) A heavy, pliable, inelastic metal element, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished; both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic number 82, symbol Pb (from Latin plumbum).
- (music) In a barbershop quartet, the person who sings the melody, usually the second tenor.
- (countable) The act of leading or conducting; guidance; direction, course
- (acting, theater) The main role in a play or film; the lead role.
- (uncountable, card games, dominoes) The act or right of playing first in a game or round; the card suit, or piece, so played
- (engineering) The axial distance a screw thread travels in one revolution. It is equal to the pitch times the number of starts.
- In a steam engine, the width of port opening which is uncovered by the valve, for the admission or release of steam, at the instant when the piston is at end of its stroke.
- (countable) Precedence; advance position; also, the measure of precedence; the state of being ahead in a race; the highest score in an incomplete game.
- (engineering) The excess above a right angle in the angle between two consecutive cranks, as of a compound engine, on the same shaft.
- (civil engineering) The distance of haul, as from a cutting to an embankment.
- an advantage held by a competitor in a race
- an actor who plays a principal role
- the angle between the direction a gun is aimed and the position of a moving target (correcting for the flight time of the missile)
- evidence pointing to a possible solution
- the introductory section of a story
- (baseball) the position taken by a base runner preparing to advance to the next base
- an indication of potential opportunity
- a jumper that consists of a short piece of wire
- the playing of a card to start a trick in bridge
- a position of being the initiator of something and an example that others will follow (especially in the phrase ‘take the lead’)
- restraint consisting of a rope (or light chain) used to restrain an animal
- a news story of major importance
- (sports) the score by which a team or individual is winning
- the timing of ignition relative to the position of the piston in an internal-combustion engine
- thin strip of metal used to separate lines of type in printing
- a soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element; bluish white when freshly cut but tarnishes readily to dull grey
- mixture of graphite with clay in different degrees of hardness; the marking substance in a pencil
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- (intransitive) To be a cause of. [with to]
- (intransitive) To guide or conduct, as by accompanying, going before, showing, influencing, directing with authority, etc.; to have precedence or preeminence; to be first or chief; — used in most of the senses of the transitive verb.
- (transitive, climbing) To lead climb.
- (figuratively): To direct; to counsel; to instruct.
- To guide or conduct in a certain course, or to a certain place or end, by making the way known; to show the way, especially by going with or going in advance of; to guide somebody somewhere or to bring somebody somewhere by means of instructions.
- To guide or conduct with the hand, or by means of some physical contact connection.
- (transitive, card games, dominoes) To begin a game, round, or trick, with
- Misspelling of led.
- (baseball) To step off base and move towards the next base.
- Used in phrasal verbs: lead off, lead on, lead out, lead to (“be the cause of, bring about”), lead up, lead up to.
- (intransitive) To have the highest interim score in a game.
- (intransitive) To tend or reach in a certain spatial direction, or to a certain place.
- (transitive) To go or to be in advance of; to precede; hence, to be foremost or chief among.
- To draw or direct by influence, whether good or bad; to prevail on; to induce; to entice; to allure.
- (shooting) To aim in front of a moving target, in order that the shot may hit the target as it passes.
- (intransitive) To be more advanced in technology or business than others.
- (intransitive) To be ahead of others, e.g., in a race.
- (intransitive) To proceed in front of others; to go first.
- (transitive, usually with "life") To live or experience (a particular way of life).
- To influence towards a belief, a conclusion, etc.
- (transitive, printing, historical) To place leads between the lines of.
- (transitive) To cover, fill, or affect with lead.
- To conduct or direct with authority; to have direction or charge of; to command, especially a military or business unit.
- lead, extend, or afford access
- travel in front of; go in advance of others
- cause to undertake a certain action
- take somebody somewhere
- tend to or result in
- cause something to pass or lead somewhere
- lead, as in the performance of a composition
- produce as a result or residue
- preside over
- be ahead of others; be the first
- be in charge of
- be conducive to
- stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point
- move ahead (of others) in time or space
noun
- A current flowing below the surface.
- (computing) The error condition that results from an attempt to retrieve an item from an empty stack.
- (computing) A condition in which the value of a computed quantity is smaller than the smallest non-zero value that can be physically stored; usually treated as an error condition.
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- flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise
- utter meaningless sounds, like a baby, or utter in an incoherent way
- divulge confidential information or secrets
- to talk foolishly
- (intransitive) To utter words indistinctly or unintelligibly; to utter inarticulate sounds
- (transitive) To utter in an indistinct or incoherent way; to repeat words or sounds in a childish way without understanding.
- (intransitive) To talk too much; to chatter; to prattle.
- (transitive) To reveal; to give away (a secret).
- (intransitive) To talk incoherently; to utter meaningless words.
- (intransitive) To make a continuous murmuring noise, like shallow water running over stones.
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- flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise
- expel gas from the stomach
- form, produce, or emit bubbles
- cause to form bubbles
- rise in bubbles or as if in bubbles
- (intransitive) To join together in a support bubble
- (intransitive, Scotland and Northern England) To cry, weep.
- (transitive, UK, slang) To grass (report criminal activity to the authorities).
- (intransitive, figurative) To churn or foment, as if wishing to rise to the surface.
- (intransitive, figurative) To rise through a medium or system, similar to the way that bubbles rise in liquid.
- (transitive) To pat a baby on the back so as to cause it to belch.
- (computing) To apply a filter bubble, as to search results.
- (transitive) To cover with bubbles.
- (transitive) To express in a bubbly or lively manner.
- (transitive) To bubble in; to mark a response on a form by filling in a circular area (‘bubble’).
- (transitive) To cause to feel as if bubbling or churning.
- (intransitive) To produce bubbles, to rise up in bubbles (such as in foods cooking or liquids boiling).
- (transitive) To form into a protruding round shape.
noun
- a hollow globule of gas (e.g., air or carbon dioxide)
- an impracticable and illusory idea
- a speculative scheme that depends on unstable factors that the planner cannot control
- a dome-shaped covering made of transparent glass or plastic
- (figurative) Anything lacking firmness or solidity; a cheat or fraud; an empty project.
- An officer's station in a prison dormitory, affording views on all sides.
- (by extension) Anything resembling a hollow sphere.
- The people who are in this quarantine.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) A Greek.
- (chiefly COVID-19 pandemic) A quarantine environment containing multiple people or facilities isolated from the rest of society.
- Ellipsis of travel bubble.
- (economics) A period of intense speculation in a market, causing prices to rise quickly to irrational levels as the metaphorical bubble expands, and then fall even more quickly as the bubble bursts.
- (television, slang) A bulb or lamp; the part of a lighting assembly that actually produces the light.
- (computing, historical) Any of the small magnetized areas that make up bubble memory.
- A small, hollow, floating bead or globe, formerly used for testing the strength of spirits.
- The globule of air in the chamber of a spirit level.
- (figurative) The emotional or physical atmosphere in which a subject is immersed; especially, a homogeneous atmosphere in which subjects are spared exposure to culture or ideas different from their own.
- A spherically contained volume of air or other gas, especially one made from soapy liquid.
- (drug paraphernalia) A specialized glass pipe having a sphere-shaped apparatus at one end.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) A laugh.
- A small spherical cavity in a solid material.
- (poker) In a poker tournament, the point before which eliminated players receive no prize money and after which they do; the situation where all remaining players are guaranteed prize money (in this case, the players are said to have made the bubble); the situation where all remaining players will be guaranteed prize money after some small number of players are eliminated (in this case, the players are said to be on the bubble).
- (sports) The cutoff point between qualifying, advancing or being invited to a tournament, or having one's competition end.
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- flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise
- stir up (water) so as to form ripples
- (intransitive) To move like the undulating surface of a body of water; to undulate.
- (transitive) To shape into a series of ripples.
- To remove the seeds from (the stalks of flax, etc.), by means of a ripple.
- (intransitive) To propagate like a moving wave.
- (transitive) To scratch, tear, or break slightly; graze
- (transitive) To launch or unleash in rapid succession.
- (intransitive) To make a sound as of water running gently over a rough bottom, or the breaking of ripples on the shore.
noun
- (electronics) an oscillation of small amplitude imposed on top of a steady value
- a small wave on the surface of a liquid
- A style of ice cream in which flavors have been coarsely blended together.
- One of a series of corrugations in flat surface.
- (dialectal, historical) thripple, cart ladder (extension for cart or wagon)
- A sound similar to that of undulating water.
- (textiles) An implement, with teeth like those of a comb, for removing the seeds and seed vessels from flax, broom corn, etc.
- (figurative) A small spreading change, impact, or effect produced by a larger or more consequential action.
- A moving disturbance, or undulation, in the surface of a fluid.
- (electronics) A small oscillation of an otherwise steady signal.
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- (intransitive) Of a liquid or electric current, to flow.
- (transitive) To encounter or incur (a danger or risk).
- To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.
- (transitive) To complete a running course or event in (a given time).
- (figurative, transitive) To pass (without stopping), typically a stop signal, stop sign, or duty to yield the right of way.
- (transitive) To execute or carry out a plan, procedure, or program.
- To fuse; to shape; to mould; to cast.
- (transitive) To transit (a length of a river), as in whitewater rafting.
- (intransitive) Of stitches or stitched clothing, to unravel.
- To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine.
- (golf) To strike (the ball) in such a way as to cause it to run along the ground, as when approaching a hole.
- (intransitive) To flee from a danger or towards help.
- To press (a bank, etc.) with immediate demands for payment.
- (intransitive) To become liquid; to melt.
- (intransitive) To be a candidate in an election.
- (transitive, agriculture) To sort through a large volume of produce in quality control.
- (transitive) To transport (someone or something), notionally at a brisk pace.
- (copulative) To become different in a way mentioned (usually to become worse).
- To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in company.
- (transitive) To cover (a course or a distance) by running.
- (intransitive) To leak or spread in an undesirable fashion; to bleed (especially used of dye or paint).
- past participle of rin
- (intransitive) To move briskly or smoothly with a motion of sliding, rolling, sweeping etc.
- (transitive) To make (something) extend in space.
- (sports, especially baseball) To eject from a game or match.
- To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation.
- (transitive) To cause to move quickly or lightly.
- (intransitive) To move forward quickly upon two feet by alternately making a short jump off either foot.
- (intransitive) To extend in time, to last, to continue (usually with a measure phrase).
- (intransitive) Of fish, to migrate for spawning.
- To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.
- (transitive or intransitive) To compete in a race.
- (transitive, intransitive) Of a means of transportation: to travel (a route).
- (intransitive) To be presented in the media.
- (transitive) To make stand in an election.
- To exert continuous activity; to proceed.
- (transitive) To cause (a vehicle) to travel a route.
- (intransitive) To extend in space or through a range (often with a measure phrase).
- (American football, transitive or intransitive) To carry (a football) down the field, as opposed to passing or kicking.
- To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.
- (transitive) To make a liquid or electric current flow from or into an object.
- (transitive) To smuggle (illegal goods).
- (transitive) To control or manage; to be in charge of.
- (intransitive) To go at a fast pace; to move quickly.
- (transitive) To make a machine operate.
- To have growth or development.
- (transitive) To cost an amount of money.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To move or spread quickly.
- (nautical, of a vessel) To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing close-hauled.
- (transitive) To print or broadcast in the media.
- To control or have precedence in a card game.
- (transitive, juggling, colloquial) To juggle a pattern continuously, as opposed to starting and stopping quickly.
- To be in form thus, as a combination of words.
- (intransitive) Of an object, to have a liquid flowing from it.
- (video games, rare) To speedrun.
- (transitive) To cause stitched clothing to unravel.
- To cause to enter; to thrust.
- (transitive) To make enter a race.
- To encounter or suffer (a particular, usually bad, fate or misfortune).
- (intransitive) Of a machine, including computer programs, to be operating or working normally.
- To sew (a seam) by passing the needle through material in a continuous line, generally taking a series of stitches on the needle at the same time.
- cover by running; run a certain distance
- deal in illegally, such as arms or liquor
- include as the content; broadcast or publicize
- travel rapidly, by any (unspecified) means
- run with the ball; in such sports as football
- occur persistently
- flee; take to one's heels; cut and run
- reduce or cause to be reduced from a solid to a liquid state, usually by heating
- run, stand, or compete for an office or a position
- be diffused
- change from one state to another
- pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals)
- carry out a process or program, as on a computer or a machine
- become undone
- be affected by; be subjected to
- move along, of liquids
- progress by being changed
- cause something to pass or lead somewhere
- change or be different within limits
- be operating, running or functioning
- continue to exist
- move about freely and without restraint, or act as if running around in an uncontrolled way
- make without a miss
- sail before the wind
- cause to perform
- have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined
- conduct to completion
- cause to emit recorded audio or video
- compete in a race
- direct or control; projects, businesses, etc.
- come unraveled or undone as if by snagging
- pass over, across, or through
- set animals loose to graze
- keep company
- move fast by using one's feet, with one foot off the ground at any given time
- perform as expected when applied
- extend or continue for a certain period of time
- cause an animal to move fast
- travel a route regularly
- have a particular form
- stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point
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- A production quantity (such as in a factory).
- (mining) The horizontal distance to which a drift may be carried, either by licence of the proprietor of a mine or by the nature of the formation; also, the direction which a vein of ore or other substance takes.
- A trial.
- One’s gait while running; the way one runs.
- (construction) Horizontal dimension of a slope.
- A flow of liquid; a leak.
- (cricket) The act of passing from one wicket to another; the point scored for this.
- (chiefly eastern North Midland US, especially Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia) A small creek or part thereof. (Compare Southern US branch and New York and New England brook.)
- Migration of fish.
- The top of a step on a staircase, also called a tread, as opposed to the rise.
- (video games, speedrunning) A playthrough, or attempted playthrough; a session of play.
- (skiing, bobsledding) A single trip down a hill, as in skiing and bobsledding.
- Any sudden large demand for something.
- (banking) A sudden series of demands on a bank or other financial institution, especially characterised by great withdrawals.
- An enclosure for an animal; a track or path along which something can travel.
- (slang) A period of extended (usually daily) drug use.
- A standard or unexceptional group or category.
- The horizontal length of a set of stairs
- (music) A rapid passage in music, especially along a scale.
- (golf) The movement communicated to a golf ball by running it.
- (American football) A running play.
- The distance drilled with a bit, in oil drilling.
- State of being current; currency; popularity.
- The period of showing of a play, film, TV series, etc.
- A quick pace, faster than a walk.
- A line of knit stitches that have unravelled, particularly in a nylon stocking.
- (card games) A sequence of cards in a suit in a card game.
- (baseball) A score when a runner touches all bases legally; the act of a runner scoring.
- (golf) The distance a ball travels after touching the ground from a stroke.
- (mathematics, computing) The execution of a program or model
- A pair or set of millstones.
- A series of tries in a game that were successful.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A rural landholding for farming, usually for running sheep, and operated by a runholder.
- Act or instance of hurrying (to or from a place) (not necessarily on foot); dash or errand, trip.
- Flight, instance or period of fleeing.
- (nautical) The stern of the underwater body of a ship from where it begins to curve upward and inward.
- (of horses) A fast gallop.
- Act or instance of running, of moving rapidly using the feet.
- Unrestricted use. Only used in have the run of.
- A continuous period (of time) marked by a trend; a period marked by a continuing trend.
- A (regular) trip or route.
- The route taken while running or skiing.
- The distance sailed by a ship.
- A group of fish that migrate, or ascend a river for the purpose of spawning.
- A pleasure trip.
- A voyage.
- a small stream
- the pouring forth of a fluid
- a regular trip
- unrestricted freedom to use
- an unbroken chronological sequence
- (American football) a play in which a player attempts to carry the ball through or past the opposing team
- the production achieved during a continuous period of operation (of a machine or factory etc.)
- the act of testing something
- the continuous period of time during which something (a machine or a factory) operates or continues in operation
- a race between candidates for elective office
- a race run on foot
- a short trip
- an unbroken series of events
- the act of running; traveling on foot at a fast pace
- a score in baseball made by a runner touching all four bases safely
- a row of unravelled stitches
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- flow in a circular current, of liquids
- knit with a purl stitch
- embroider with gold or silver thread
- edge or border with gold or silver embroidery
- make a murmuring sound
- To rise in circles, ripples, or undulations; to curl; to mantle.
- (knitting) To use or create a purl stitch or stitches.
- To decorate with fringe or embroidered edge
- (intransitive) To flow with a murmuring sound in swirls and eddies.
noun
- a basic knitting stitch made by putting the needle through the front of the stitch from the righthand side
- gold or silver wire thread
- A gentle murmuring sound, such as that produced by the running of a liquid among obstructions.
- An embroidered and puckered border; a hem or fringe, often of gold or silver twist; also, a pleat or fold, as of a band.
- A circle made by the motion of a fluid; an eddy; a ripple.
- A particular stitch in knitting in which the working yarn is pulled through an existing stitch from front to back.
- a heavy or headlong fall; an upset.
- The edge of lace trimmed with loops.
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- flow in a circular current, of liquids
- revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis
- turn in a twisting or spinning motion
- fly around
- cause to spin
- (intransitive) To rotate, revolve, spin or turn rapidly.
- (transitive) To make something or someone whirl.
- (transitive) To remove or carry quickly with, or as with, a revolving motion; to snatch.
- (intransitive) To have a sensation of spinning or reeling.