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noun
- A difficulty that has to be resolved or dealt with.
- a source of difficulty
- Difficulty in accepting or understanding or refusal to accept or understand.
- Objection.
- An addiction, other substance use disorder, or comparable psychological challenge.
- A question to be answered, schoolwork exercise.
- A puzzling circumstance.
- (climbing) A set of moves required to complete a climb.
- a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved
- a question raised for consideration or solution
adj
noun
- a source of difficulty
- A difficulty, problem, condition, or action contributing to such a situation.
- an unwanted pregnancy
- an event causing distress or pain
- a strong feeling of anxiety
- an effort that is inconvenient
- an angry disturbance
- Violent or turbulent occurrence or event; unrest, disturbance.
- Efforts taken or expended, typically beyond the normal required.
- Health problems, ailment, generally of some particular part of the body.
- Difficulty in doing something.
- (mining) A fault or interruption in a stratum.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) Wife. Clipping of trouble and strife.
- Objectionable feature of something or someone; problem, drawback, weakness, failing, or shortcoming.
- A person liable to place others or themselves in such a situation.
- The state of being troubled, disturbed, or distressed mentally; unease, disquiet.
- Liability to punishment; conflict with authority.
- A malfunction.
- A distressing or dangerous situation.
verb
- cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed
- disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed
- take the trouble to do something; concern oneself
- to cause inconvenience or discomfort to
- move deeply
- (transitive) In weaker sense: to bother or inconvenience.
- (intransitive) To worry; to be anxious.
- (transitive, of ailments, etc.) To physically afflict.
- (reflexive or intransitive) To take pains (to do something); to bother.
- (transitive) To mentally distress; to cause (someone) to be anxious or perplexed.
adj
- Of two or more problems or subjects, independent of or irrelevant to each other.
- Of a pair of vectors: having a zero inner product; perpendicular.
- Of a square matrix: such that its transpose is equal to its inverse.
- (statistics) Statistically independent, with reference to variates.
- Of a linear transformation: preserving its angles.
- (geometry) Of two objects, at right angles; perpendicular to each other.
- Of a pair of elements in an ortholattice: each less than or equal to the orthocomplement of the other.
- (software engineering) Of two or more aspects of a problem, able to be treated separately; of a design, exhibiting consistency and composability.
- Of grid graphs, board games and polyominoes: vertical or horizontal but not diagonal.
- having a set of mutually perpendicular axes; meeting at right angles
- not pertinent to the matter under consideration
- statistically unrelated
noun
adj
noun
- a disreputable place of entertainment
- the shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made
- junction by which parts or objects are joined together
- marijuana leaves rolled into a cigarette for smoking
- a piece of meat roasted or for roasting and of a size for slicing into more than one portion
- (anatomy) the point of connection between two bones or elements of a skeleton (especially if it allows motion)
- The point where two components of a structure join rigidly.
- The point where two components of a structure join, but are still able to rotate.
- (anatomy) Any part of an animalian body where two bones or exoskeleton segments are abutted, in most cases allowing that part of the body to be bent or straightened.
- (chiefly US slang, may be somewhat derogatory) A place of business, particularly in the food service or hospitality industries; sometimes extended to any place that is a focus of human connection or activity (e.g., schools, hangouts, party spots).
- (US, slang) The penis.
- A cut of meat, especially (but not necessarily) (a) one containing a joint in the sense of an articulation or (b) one rolled up and tied.
- (slang) A marijuana cigarette.
- (originally an idiolectic sense) A thing.
- (geology) A fracture in which the strata are not offset; a geologic joint.
- (slang, with the definite article) Prison, jail, or lockup.
- The means of securing together the meeting surfaces of components of a structure.
- The part or space included between two joints, knots, nodes, or articulations.
verb
- fit as if by joints
- provide with a joint
- separate (meat) at the joint
- fasten with a joint
- (transitive) To provide with a joint or joints; to articulate.
- (transitive) To unite by a joint or joints; to fit together; to prepare so as to fit together
- (transitive) To join; to connect; to unite; to combine.
- (intransitive) To fit as if by joints; to coalesce as joints do.
- (transitive) To separate the joints; of; to divide at the joint or joints; to disjoint; to cut up into joints, as meat.
noun
- An intricate complication; a problematic difficulty; a knotty or tangled situation.
- A knot or complication of hair, thread, or the like, difficult to disentangle.
- A growl, for example that of an angry or surly dog, or similar; grumbling sounds.
- A slow-moving traffic jam.
- The act of snarling; a growl; a surly or peevish expression; an angry contention.
- A squabble.
- a vicious angry growl
- an angry vicious expression
- something jumbled or confused
verb
- (transitive) To entangle; to complicate; to involve in knots.
- (transitive) To place in an embarrassing situation; to ensnare; to make overly complicated.
- (transitive) To complain angrily; to utter growlingly.
- (intransitive) To speak crossly; to talk in rude, surly terms.
- (transitive, intransitive) To be congested in traffic, or to make traffic congested.
- (intransitive) To growl angrily by gnashing or baring the teeth; to gnarl; to utter grumbling sounds.
- (intransitive) To become entangled.
- To form raised work upon the outer surface of (thin metal ware) by the repercussion of a snarling iron upon the inner surface; to repoussé
- make a snarling noise or move with a snarling noise
- make more complicated or confused through entanglements
- twist together or entwine into a confusing mass
- utter in an angry, sharp, or abrupt tone
noun
- a problem
- some situation or event that is thought about
- written works (especially in books or magazines)
- a vaguely specified concern
- (used with negation) having consequence
- that which has mass and occupies space
- (physics) Matter made up of normal particles, not antiparticles.
- Printed material, especially in books or magazines.
- An approximate amount or extent.
- (physics) Anything with mass and volume.
- (countable, law) Legal services provided by a lawyer or firm to their client in relation to a particular issue.
- An affair, condition, or subject, especially one of concern or (especially when preceded by the) one that is problematic.
- (uncountable) Importance.
- A kind of substance.
- (philosophy) Aristotelian: undeveloped potentiality subject to change and development; formlessness. Matter receives form, and becomes substance.
verb
noun
- A difficulty or problem.
- A mixture of spices applied to meat before it is barbecued.
- In the game of crown green bowls, any obstacle by which a bowl is diverted from its normal course.
- An act of rubbing.
- Any substance designed to be applied by rubbing.
- (UK, naval slang) A loan.
- the act of rubbing or wiping
- an unforeseen obstacle
verb
- To scour; to burnish; to polish; to brighten; to cleanse; often with up or over.
- (transitive) To move (one object) while maintaining contact with another object over some area, with pressure and friction.
- To hinder; to cross; to thwart.
- (intransitive) To be rubbed against something.
- (transitive) To spread a substance thinly over; to smear.
- (transitive, bowls) To touch the jack with the bowl.
- scrape or rub as if to relieve itching
- move over something with pressure
- cause friction
noun
- A situation in which the response to one problem creates a chain of problems, each making it more difficult to solve the original one.
- one trouble leads to another that aggravates the first
- (logic) A fallacy in which the premise is used to prove a conclusion which is then used to prove the premise.
- an argument that assumes that which is to be proved
adj
- Difficult to deal with, solve, or manage. (of a problem)
- Not tractable; not able to be managed, controlled, governed or directed.
- Stubborn; obstinate. (of a person)
- (medicine) Difficult to treat (of a medical condition).
- (mathematics, of a mathematical problem) Not able to be solved in polynomial time; too difficult to attempt to solve.
- not tractable; difficult to manage or mold
noun
- one of two sides of an issue
- a member of the crew of a ship
- a unit of length equal to 4 inches; used in measuring horses
- a rotating pointer on the face of a timepiece
- the (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb
- a hired laborer on a farm or ranch
- terminal part of the forelimb in certain vertebrates (e.g. apes or kangaroos)
- a round of applause to signify approval
- ability
- physical assistance
- a position given by its location to the side of an object
- something written by hand
- the cards held in a card game by a given player at any given time
- a card player in a game of bridge
- A round of a card game.
- A side; part, camp; direction, either right or left.
- Promise, word; especially of a betrothal.
- (historical) A Native American gambling game, involving guessing the whereabouts of bits of ivory or similar, which are passed rapidly from hand to hand.
- Personal possession; ownership.
- (chiefly in the plural) Management, domain, control.
- An instance of helping.
- Handwriting; style of penmanship.
- (card games) The set of cards held by a player.
- The feel of a fabric; the impression or quality of the fabric as judged qualitatively by the sense of touch.
- (colloquial, chiefly in the negative plural) A hand which is free to assist; especially due to having one's hands full or otherwise fully preoccupied.
- Power of performance; means of execution; ability; skill; dexterity.
- (especially in compounds) An agent; a servant, or manual laborer; a workman, trained or competent for special service or duty.
- Applause.
- (collective) A bunch of bananas, a typical retail amount, where individual fruits are fingers.
- A performer more or less skilful.
- (chiefly in measuring the height of horses) Four inches, a hand's breadth.
- A person's autograph or signature.
- A whole rhizome of ginger.
- The part of the forelimb below the forearm or wrist in a human, and the corresponding part in many other animals.
- A limb of certain animals, such as the foot of a hawk, or any one of the four extremities of a monkey.
- (firearms) The small part of a gunstock near the lock, which is grasped by the hand in taking aim.
- (tobacco manufacturing) A bundle of tobacco leaves tied together.
- An index or pointer on a dial; such as the hour and minute hands on the face of an analog clock, which are used to indicate the time of day.
verb
- guide or conduct or usher somewhere
- place into the hands or custody of
- (transitive, nautical) To furl (a sail).
- (ditransitive) To give, pass or transmit with the hand, literally or figuratively.
- (transitive) To lead, guide, or assist with the hand; to conduct.
- (transitive, rare) To pledge by the hand; to handfast.
adj
- Having two or more separate aspects.
- Not completely pure, tainted or adulterated.
- Stemming from two or more races or breeds.
- Including both male(s) and female(s).
- Polarizing; including both positive and negative feedback.
- involving or composed of different races
- consisting of a haphazard assortment of different kinds
verb
noun
- a very disagreeable difficulty
- a person who urinates
- (UK, Ireland, slang, mildly vulgar) A disappointing or frustrating situation or event.
- (mildly vulgar) That which pisses, particularly a penis.
- (slang, mildly vulgar) A pub.
- (chiefly US, mildly vulgar, slang) A toilet or urinal.
- (mildly vulgar) One who pisses.
- (informal) Synonym of piss clam.
- (Australia, New Zealand, slang, mildly vulgar) An extremely amusing person or thing.
- (US northeast dialect, slang, mildly vulgar) Someone or something either viewed as good, impressive or remarkable.
noun
- a difficult problem
- something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained
- A style of literature characterized by obscurity and hints of transcendental meaning.
- A protein with three LIM domains (a conserved cysteine- and histidine-rich structure of two adjacent zinc fingers) at the C terminus that regulates protein phosphorylation.
- Mysteriousness; obscurity; a lack of clarity.
- Riddles and puzzles, collectively.
- Something or someone puzzling, mysterious or inexplicable.
- A riddle, or a difficult problem.
- The Talaud kingfisher, Todiramphus enigma.
- Alternative letter-case form of Enigma.
- Any of species of Heliothis enigma of rare moths.
- Any of species of Oedaleonotus enigma of grasshoppers.
noun
- a difficult problem
- a coarse sieve (as for gravel)
- A board with a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.
- (religious) One of the pair of curtains enclosing an altar on the north and south.
- A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from sand.
- A verbal puzzle, mystery, or other problem of an intellectual nature.
- An ancient verbal, poetic, or literary form, in which, rather than a rhyme scheme, there are parallel opposing expressions with a hidden meaning.
verb
- spread or diffuse through
- set a difficult problem or riddle
- separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff
- speak in riddles
- explain a riddle
- pierce with many holes
- To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.
- To put something through a riddle or sieve; to sieve; to sift.
- (transitive) To solve, answer, or explicate a riddle or question.
- To fill with holes like a riddle.
- (figuratively) To fill or spread throughout; to pervade (with something destructive or weakening).
noun
- where problems or difficulties are likely to occur
- any of several points on the body where the pulse can be felt and where pressure on an underlying artery will control bleeding from that artery at a more distal point
- an area on the skin that is highly sensitive to pressure
- (therapy) A specific small area of the body sensitive to and suitable for therapeutic pressure.
- (martial arts) A specific small area of the body targeted, due to a cluster of nerves being close to the skin, usually not protected by bone.
- (figurative) A situation that, when addressed, can cause a change to occur.
adj
- involved in difficulties
- deeply involved especially in something complicated
- twisted together in a tangled mass
- Tangled or twisted together.
- (quantum mechanics, of two quantum states) Correlated, even though physically separated; (referring to a state of a composite system) not separable.
- (figurative) Confused or complicated.
verb
noun
- (countable) A difficult situation.
- (mining) Alternative form of jamb.
- (slang) Something enjoyable; a delightful situation or outcome.
- (slang) Sexual relations or the contemplation of them.
- (countable, by extension) An informal event where people brainstorm and collaborate on projects.
- (countable) A blockage, congestion, or immobilization.
- (countable, by extension, informal) A song; a track.
- (countable, roller derby) A play during which points can be scored.
- (countable, slang) That which one particularly prefers, desires, enjoys, or cares about.
- (UK, slang) Luck.
- (countable, climbing) Any of several manoeuvres requiring wedging of an extremity into a tight space.
- (Australia) The tree Acacia acuminata, with fruity-smelling hard timber.
- (countable, baseball) A difficult situation for a pitcher or defending team.
- (countable, basketball) A forceful dunk.
- (countable, popular music) An informal, impromptu performance or rehearsal.
- (Canada, slang) Balls, bollocks, courage, machismo.
- (less common in the US) A sweet mixture of fruit boiled with sugar and allowed to congeal. Often spread on bread or toast or used in jam tarts
- preserve of crushed fruit
- informal terms for a difficult situation
- a dense crowd of people
- deliberate radiation or reflection of electromagnetic energy for the purpose of disrupting enemy use of electronic devices or systems
verb
- (baseball) To throw a pitch at or near the batter's hands.
- To block or confuse a radio or radar signal by transmitting a more-powerful signal on the same frequency.
- (basketball) To dunk.
- To injure a finger or toe by sudden compression of the digit's tip.
- (Canada, informal) To give up on a date or some other joint endeavour; to stand up, chicken out, jam out.
- To render something unable to move.
- (colloquial) To be of high quality (especially for music).
- To get something stuck, often (though not necessarily) in a confined space.
- To cause congestion or blockage. Often used with "up".
- (music) To play music (especially improvisation as a group, or an informal unrehearsed session).
- To brusquely force something into a space; to cram, to squeeze.
- (nautical, transitive) To bring (a vessel) so close to the wind that half her upper sails are laid aback.
- (roller derby) To attempt to score points.
- crush or bruise
- interfere with or prevent the reception of signals
- block passage through
- get stuck and immobilized
- push down forcibly
- press tightly together or cram
- crowd or pack to capacity
noun
- a particularly difficult or baffling question or problem
- a person who poses for a photographer or painter or sculptor
- a person who habitually pretends to be something they are not
- Someone who, or something which, poses; a person who sets their body in a fixed position, such as for photography or painting.
- (British) A particularly difficult question or puzzle.
- Someone who asks a question or sets a problem.
- (derogatory, slang) A poseur; someone who affects some behaviour, style, attitude or other condition, often to impress or influence others.
noun
- a particularly difficult or baffling question or problem
- a short knife with a pointed blade used for piercing or stabbing
- a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf
- an adhesive label
- A wooden strip placed between courses of lumber to allow air circulation and to create a gap so the unit can be picked up with a forklift (also kiln sticker).
- (US, politics) A paster.
- (music) A small wooden rod in an organ which connects (in part) a key and a pallet, so as to communicate motion by pushing.
- (Internet) A cartoonish illustration of a character that represents an emotion or action, often accompanied by text, that may be superimposed on a digital image.
- An adhesive label or decal.
- A brand, label, or company, especially one making and distributing records.
- (military slang, World War I– World War II, if not earlier) A bayonet.
- One who sticks to something, or does not give up; a stayer.
- (by extension) The listed price (also sticker price).
- Something or someone that sticks (pierces, or adheres).
- (informal) A burr or seed pod that catches in fur or clothing.
- A price tag.
verb
noun
- A solution to a problem.
- (law) A document filed in response to a complaint, responding to each point raised in the complaint and raising counterpoints.
- (after a possessive, with to) Someone or something that fills a similar role or position.
- A response or reply; something said or done in reaction to a statement or question.
- a statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem
- the speech act of replying to a question
- the principal pleading by the defendant in response to plaintiff's complaint; in criminal law it consists of the defendant's plea of ‘guilty’ or ‘not guilty’ (or nolo contendere); in civil law it must contain denials of all allegations in the plaintiff's complaint that the defendant hopes to controvert and it can contain affirmative defenses or counterclaims
- a nonverbal reaction
- a statement (either spoken or written) that is made to reply to a question or request or criticism or accusation
verb
- (law) To file a document in response to a complaint.
- (ambitransitive) To respond to a call by someone at a door or telephone, or other similar piece of equipment.
- (ambitransitive) To make a reply or response to.
- To be or act in conformity, or by way of accommodation, correspondence, relation, or proportion; to conform; to correspond; to suit; usually with to.
- To be accountable or responsible; to make amends.
- To correspond to; to be in harmony with; to be in agreement with.
- (ambitransitive) To suit a need or purpose satisfactorily.
- To respond to satisfactorily; to meet successfully by way of explanation, argument, or justification; to refute.
- (transitive) To speak in defence against; to reply to in defence.
- To be or act in compliance with, in fulfillment or satisfaction of, as an order, obligation, or demand.
- To be opposite, or to act in opposition.
- react to a stimulus or command
- understand the meaning of
- give a defence or refutation of (a charge) or in (an argument)
- give the correct answer or solution to
- be sufficient; be adequate, either in quality or quantity
- be satisfactory for; meet the requirements of or serve the purpose of
- respond to a signal
- match or correspond
- be liable or accountable
- react verbally
noun
- A puzzling situation or problem.
- a particularly baffling problem that is said to have a correct solution
- (video games) A video game in which the player is presented with (usually abstract) puzzles to solve.
- One who is mysterious.
- A person who solves puzzles as a hobby.
- One who devises puzzles for others to solve.
adj
- Complicated.
- Having an affair with someone.
- Associated with others, be a participant or make someone be a participant (in a crime, process, etc.)
- connected by participation or association or use
- entangled or hindered as if e.g. in mire
- highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious
- emotionally involved
- enveloped
verb
adj
adv
noun
- (mechanics) A pipe fitting or similar device that connects multiple inputs and outputs.
- (historical) A copy made by the manifold writing process.
- (mathematics) A Hausdorff topological space that looks locally like the "ordinary" Euclidean space ℝⁿ.
- (computer graphics) A polygon mesh representing the continuous, closed surface of a solid object
- (US, dialectal, chiefly in the plural) The third stomach of a ruminant animal, an omasum.
- a lightweight paper used with carbon paper to make multiple copies
- a set of points such as those of a closed surface or an analogue in three or more dimensions
- a pipe that has several lateral outlets to or from other pipes
verb
noun
- a difficulty that is hard to deal with
- predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin; common in cold seas
- the causal agent resulting in death
- someone who causes the death of a person or animal
- One who or that which kills.
- Ellipsis of killer whale.
- (figuratively) Something that is so far ahead of its competition that it effectively kills off that competition.
- (sports, uncountable) A knockout form of darts or pool involving several players.
- Synonym of virama (“kind of diacritical mark”).
- (figuratively) That which causes stress or is extremely difficult, especially that which may cause failure at a task.
- A club used for killing fish.
- (philately) A particularly heavy type of handstamp, or portion of one, often obscuring a large part of the postage stamp.
- (figuratively) A remarkably impressive person or thing.
adj
noun
- An answer to a problem.
- The act of dissolving, especially of a solid by a fluid.
- (marketing) A product, service or suite thereof, especially software.
- An act, plan or other means, used or proposed, to solve a problem.
- (physical chemistry) A homogeneous mixture, which may be liquid, gas or solid, formed by dissolving one or more substances.
- the successful action of solving a problem
- a statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem
- a homogeneous mixture of two or more substances; frequently (but not necessarily) a liquid solution
- a method for solving a problem
- the set of values that give a true statement when substituted into an equation
verb
noun
- a particular situation
- the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another
- a blank area
- an item on a list or in a sequence
- a public square with room for pedestrians
- proper or appropriate position or location
- the particular portion of space occupied by something
- a point located with respect to surface features of some region
- proper or designated social situation
- a space reserved for sitting (as in a theater or on a train or airplane)
- the passage that is being read
- any area set aside for a particular purpose
- where you live at a particular time
- a job in an organization
- a general vicinity
- an abstract mental location
- A state of mind.
- Numerically, the column counting a certain quantity.
- Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding.
- Any area of the earth: a region.
- The area where one lives: one's home, formerly (chiefly) country estates and farms.
- A particular location in a book or document, particularly the current location of a reader
- An area of the body, especially the skin.
- The area one occupies, particularly somewhere to sit.
- A location or position in space.
- An open space, particularly a city square, market square, or courtyard.
- The position as a member of a sports team.
- An inhabited area: a village, town, or city.
- (often in street names or addresses) A street, sometimes but not always surrounding a public place, square, or plaza of the same name.
- (euphemistic slang) An area to urinate and defecate: an outhouse or lavatory.
- Reception; effect; implying the making room for.
- A role or purpose; a station.
- The position of a contestant in a competition.
- (horse racing) The position of first, second, or third at the finish, especially the second position.
verb
- make an investment
- assign a location to
- put into a certain place or abstract location
- recognize as being; establish the identity of someone or something
- assign to a station
- finish second or better in a horse or dog race
- identify the location or place of
- take a place in a competition; often followed by an ordinal
- assign a rank or rating to
- locate
- sing a note with the correct pitch
- to arrange for
- assign to (a job or a home)
- estimate
- intend (something) to move towards a certain goal
- place somebody in a particular situation or location
- (transitive, in collocations) To make.
- (transitive) To remember where and when (an object or person) has been previously encountered.
- (transitive) To bet.
- (transitive) To recruit or match an appropriate person for a job, or a home for an animal for adoption, etc.
- (intransitive, motor racing) To finish second, especially of horses or dogs.
- (sports, transitive) To place-kick (a goal).
- (transitive) To vouch for someone's alibi.
- (ergative) To earn a given spot in a competition; to rank at a certain position ((often followed by an ordinal)).
- (transitive) To put (someone or something) in a specific location.
- (transitive) To sing (a note) with the correct pitch.
- (transitive) To assign (more or less value) to something.
noun
- A difficulty that has to be resolved or dealt with.
- a source of difficulty
- Difficulty in accepting or understanding or refusal to accept or understand.
- Objection.
- An addiction, other substance use disorder, or comparable psychological challenge.
- A question to be answered, schoolwork exercise.
- A puzzling circumstance.
- (climbing) A set of moves required to complete a climb.
- a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved
- a question raised for consideration or solution
adj
noun
- a source of difficulty
- A difficulty, problem, condition, or action contributing to such a situation.
- an unwanted pregnancy
- an event causing distress or pain
- a strong feeling of anxiety
- an effort that is inconvenient
- an angry disturbance
- Violent or turbulent occurrence or event; unrest, disturbance.
- Efforts taken or expended, typically beyond the normal required.
- Health problems, ailment, generally of some particular part of the body.
- Difficulty in doing something.
- (mining) A fault or interruption in a stratum.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) Wife. Clipping of trouble and strife.
- Objectionable feature of something or someone; problem, drawback, weakness, failing, or shortcoming.
- A person liable to place others or themselves in such a situation.
- The state of being troubled, disturbed, or distressed mentally; unease, disquiet.
- Liability to punishment; conflict with authority.
- A malfunction.
- A distressing or dangerous situation.
verb
- cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed
- disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed
- take the trouble to do something; concern oneself
- to cause inconvenience or discomfort to
- move deeply
- (transitive) In weaker sense: to bother or inconvenience.
- (intransitive) To worry; to be anxious.
- (transitive, of ailments, etc.) To physically afflict.
- (reflexive or intransitive) To take pains (to do something); to bother.
- (transitive) To mentally distress; to cause (someone) to be anxious or perplexed.
noun
- An intricate complication; a problematic difficulty; a knotty or tangled situation.
- A knot or complication of hair, thread, or the like, difficult to disentangle.
- A growl, for example that of an angry or surly dog, or similar; grumbling sounds.
- A slow-moving traffic jam.
- The act of snarling; a growl; a surly or peevish expression; an angry contention.
- A squabble.
- a vicious angry growl
- an angry vicious expression
- something jumbled or confused
verb
- (transitive) To entangle; to complicate; to involve in knots.
- (transitive) To place in an embarrassing situation; to ensnare; to make overly complicated.
- (transitive) To complain angrily; to utter growlingly.
- (intransitive) To speak crossly; to talk in rude, surly terms.
- (transitive, intransitive) To be congested in traffic, or to make traffic congested.
- (intransitive) To growl angrily by gnashing or baring the teeth; to gnarl; to utter grumbling sounds.
- (intransitive) To become entangled.
- To form raised work upon the outer surface of (thin metal ware) by the repercussion of a snarling iron upon the inner surface; to repoussé
- make a snarling noise or move with a snarling noise
- make more complicated or confused through entanglements
- twist together or entwine into a confusing mass
- utter in an angry, sharp, or abrupt tone
noun
- a problem
- some situation or event that is thought about
- written works (especially in books or magazines)
- a vaguely specified concern
- (used with negation) having consequence
- that which has mass and occupies space
- (physics) Matter made up of normal particles, not antiparticles.
- Printed material, especially in books or magazines.
- An approximate amount or extent.
- (physics) Anything with mass and volume.
- (countable, law) Legal services provided by a lawyer or firm to their client in relation to a particular issue.
- An affair, condition, or subject, especially one of concern or (especially when preceded by the) one that is problematic.
- (uncountable) Importance.
- A kind of substance.
- (philosophy) Aristotelian: undeveloped potentiality subject to change and development; formlessness. Matter receives form, and becomes substance.
verb
noun
- A difficulty or problem.
- A mixture of spices applied to meat before it is barbecued.
- In the game of crown green bowls, any obstacle by which a bowl is diverted from its normal course.
- An act of rubbing.
- Any substance designed to be applied by rubbing.
- (UK, naval slang) A loan.
- the act of rubbing or wiping
- an unforeseen obstacle
verb
- To scour; to burnish; to polish; to brighten; to cleanse; often with up or over.
- (transitive) To move (one object) while maintaining contact with another object over some area, with pressure and friction.
- To hinder; to cross; to thwart.
- (intransitive) To be rubbed against something.
- (transitive) To spread a substance thinly over; to smear.
- (transitive, bowls) To touch the jack with the bowl.
- scrape or rub as if to relieve itching
- move over something with pressure
- cause friction
noun
- A situation in which the response to one problem creates a chain of problems, each making it more difficult to solve the original one.
- one trouble leads to another that aggravates the first
- (logic) A fallacy in which the premise is used to prove a conclusion which is then used to prove the premise.
- an argument that assumes that which is to be proved
noun
- one of two sides of an issue
- a member of the crew of a ship
- a unit of length equal to 4 inches; used in measuring horses
- a rotating pointer on the face of a timepiece
- the (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb
- a hired laborer on a farm or ranch
- terminal part of the forelimb in certain vertebrates (e.g. apes or kangaroos)
- a round of applause to signify approval
- ability
- physical assistance
- a position given by its location to the side of an object
- something written by hand
- the cards held in a card game by a given player at any given time
- a card player in a game of bridge
- A round of a card game.
- A side; part, camp; direction, either right or left.
- Promise, word; especially of a betrothal.
- (historical) A Native American gambling game, involving guessing the whereabouts of bits of ivory or similar, which are passed rapidly from hand to hand.
- Personal possession; ownership.
- (chiefly in the plural) Management, domain, control.
- An instance of helping.
- Handwriting; style of penmanship.
- (card games) The set of cards held by a player.
- The feel of a fabric; the impression or quality of the fabric as judged qualitatively by the sense of touch.
- (colloquial, chiefly in the negative plural) A hand which is free to assist; especially due to having one's hands full or otherwise fully preoccupied.
- Power of performance; means of execution; ability; skill; dexterity.
- (especially in compounds) An agent; a servant, or manual laborer; a workman, trained or competent for special service or duty.
- Applause.
- (collective) A bunch of bananas, a typical retail amount, where individual fruits are fingers.
- A performer more or less skilful.
- (chiefly in measuring the height of horses) Four inches, a hand's breadth.
- A person's autograph or signature.
- A whole rhizome of ginger.
- The part of the forelimb below the forearm or wrist in a human, and the corresponding part in many other animals.
- A limb of certain animals, such as the foot of a hawk, or any one of the four extremities of a monkey.
- (firearms) The small part of a gunstock near the lock, which is grasped by the hand in taking aim.
- (tobacco manufacturing) A bundle of tobacco leaves tied together.
- An index or pointer on a dial; such as the hour and minute hands on the face of an analog clock, which are used to indicate the time of day.
verb
- guide or conduct or usher somewhere
- place into the hands or custody of
- (transitive, nautical) To furl (a sail).
- (ditransitive) To give, pass or transmit with the hand, literally or figuratively.
- (transitive) To lead, guide, or assist with the hand; to conduct.
- (transitive, rare) To pledge by the hand; to handfast.
noun
- a very disagreeable difficulty
- a person who urinates
- (UK, Ireland, slang, mildly vulgar) A disappointing or frustrating situation or event.
- (mildly vulgar) That which pisses, particularly a penis.
- (slang, mildly vulgar) A pub.
- (chiefly US, mildly vulgar, slang) A toilet or urinal.
- (mildly vulgar) One who pisses.
- (informal) Synonym of piss clam.
- (Australia, New Zealand, slang, mildly vulgar) An extremely amusing person or thing.
- (US northeast dialect, slang, mildly vulgar) Someone or something either viewed as good, impressive or remarkable.
noun
- a difficult problem
- something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained
- A style of literature characterized by obscurity and hints of transcendental meaning.
- A protein with three LIM domains (a conserved cysteine- and histidine-rich structure of two adjacent zinc fingers) at the C terminus that regulates protein phosphorylation.
- Mysteriousness; obscurity; a lack of clarity.
- Riddles and puzzles, collectively.
- Something or someone puzzling, mysterious or inexplicable.
- A riddle, or a difficult problem.
- The Talaud kingfisher, Todiramphus enigma.
- Alternative letter-case form of Enigma.
- Any of species of Heliothis enigma of rare moths.
- Any of species of Oedaleonotus enigma of grasshoppers.
noun
- a difficult problem
- a coarse sieve (as for gravel)
- A board with a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.
- (religious) One of the pair of curtains enclosing an altar on the north and south.
- A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from sand.
- A verbal puzzle, mystery, or other problem of an intellectual nature.
- An ancient verbal, poetic, or literary form, in which, rather than a rhyme scheme, there are parallel opposing expressions with a hidden meaning.
verb
- spread or diffuse through
- set a difficult problem or riddle
- separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff
- speak in riddles
- explain a riddle
- pierce with many holes
- To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.
- To put something through a riddle or sieve; to sieve; to sift.
- (transitive) To solve, answer, or explicate a riddle or question.
- To fill with holes like a riddle.
- (figuratively) To fill or spread throughout; to pervade (with something destructive or weakening).
noun
- where problems or difficulties are likely to occur
- any of several points on the body where the pulse can be felt and where pressure on an underlying artery will control bleeding from that artery at a more distal point
- an area on the skin that is highly sensitive to pressure
- (therapy) A specific small area of the body sensitive to and suitable for therapeutic pressure.
- (martial arts) A specific small area of the body targeted, due to a cluster of nerves being close to the skin, usually not protected by bone.
- (figurative) A situation that, when addressed, can cause a change to occur.
noun
- (countable) A difficult situation.
- (mining) Alternative form of jamb.
- (slang) Something enjoyable; a delightful situation or outcome.
- (slang) Sexual relations or the contemplation of them.
- (countable, by extension) An informal event where people brainstorm and collaborate on projects.
- (countable) A blockage, congestion, or immobilization.
- (countable, by extension, informal) A song; a track.
- (countable, roller derby) A play during which points can be scored.
- (countable, slang) That which one particularly prefers, desires, enjoys, or cares about.
- (UK, slang) Luck.
- (countable, climbing) Any of several manoeuvres requiring wedging of an extremity into a tight space.
- (Australia) The tree Acacia acuminata, with fruity-smelling hard timber.
- (countable, baseball) A difficult situation for a pitcher or defending team.
- (countable, basketball) A forceful dunk.
- (countable, popular music) An informal, impromptu performance or rehearsal.
- (Canada, slang) Balls, bollocks, courage, machismo.
- (less common in the US) A sweet mixture of fruit boiled with sugar and allowed to congeal. Often spread on bread or toast or used in jam tarts
- preserve of crushed fruit
- informal terms for a difficult situation
- a dense crowd of people
- deliberate radiation or reflection of electromagnetic energy for the purpose of disrupting enemy use of electronic devices or systems
verb
- (baseball) To throw a pitch at or near the batter's hands.
- To block or confuse a radio or radar signal by transmitting a more-powerful signal on the same frequency.
- (basketball) To dunk.
- To injure a finger or toe by sudden compression of the digit's tip.
- (Canada, informal) To give up on a date or some other joint endeavour; to stand up, chicken out, jam out.
- To render something unable to move.
- (colloquial) To be of high quality (especially for music).
- To get something stuck, often (though not necessarily) in a confined space.
- To cause congestion or blockage. Often used with "up".
- (music) To play music (especially improvisation as a group, or an informal unrehearsed session).
- To brusquely force something into a space; to cram, to squeeze.
- (nautical, transitive) To bring (a vessel) so close to the wind that half her upper sails are laid aback.
- (roller derby) To attempt to score points.
- crush or bruise
- interfere with or prevent the reception of signals
- block passage through
- get stuck and immobilized
- push down forcibly
- press tightly together or cram
- crowd or pack to capacity
noun
- a particularly difficult or baffling question or problem
- a person who poses for a photographer or painter or sculptor
- a person who habitually pretends to be something they are not
- Someone who, or something which, poses; a person who sets their body in a fixed position, such as for photography or painting.
- (British) A particularly difficult question or puzzle.
- Someone who asks a question or sets a problem.
- (derogatory, slang) A poseur; someone who affects some behaviour, style, attitude or other condition, often to impress or influence others.
noun
- a particularly difficult or baffling question or problem
- a short knife with a pointed blade used for piercing or stabbing
- a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf
- an adhesive label
- A wooden strip placed between courses of lumber to allow air circulation and to create a gap so the unit can be picked up with a forklift (also kiln sticker).
- (US, politics) A paster.
- (music) A small wooden rod in an organ which connects (in part) a key and a pallet, so as to communicate motion by pushing.
- (Internet) A cartoonish illustration of a character that represents an emotion or action, often accompanied by text, that may be superimposed on a digital image.
- An adhesive label or decal.
- A brand, label, or company, especially one making and distributing records.
- (military slang, World War I– World War II, if not earlier) A bayonet.
- One who sticks to something, or does not give up; a stayer.
- (by extension) The listed price (also sticker price).
- Something or someone that sticks (pierces, or adheres).
- (informal) A burr or seed pod that catches in fur or clothing.
- A price tag.
verb
noun
- A solution to a problem.
- (law) A document filed in response to a complaint, responding to each point raised in the complaint and raising counterpoints.
- (after a possessive, with to) Someone or something that fills a similar role or position.
- A response or reply; something said or done in reaction to a statement or question.
- a statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem
- the speech act of replying to a question
- the principal pleading by the defendant in response to plaintiff's complaint; in criminal law it consists of the defendant's plea of ‘guilty’ or ‘not guilty’ (or nolo contendere); in civil law it must contain denials of all allegations in the plaintiff's complaint that the defendant hopes to controvert and it can contain affirmative defenses or counterclaims
- a nonverbal reaction
- a statement (either spoken or written) that is made to reply to a question or request or criticism or accusation
verb
- (law) To file a document in response to a complaint.
- (ambitransitive) To respond to a call by someone at a door or telephone, or other similar piece of equipment.
- (ambitransitive) To make a reply or response to.
- To be or act in conformity, or by way of accommodation, correspondence, relation, or proportion; to conform; to correspond; to suit; usually with to.
- To be accountable or responsible; to make amends.
- To correspond to; to be in harmony with; to be in agreement with.
- (ambitransitive) To suit a need or purpose satisfactorily.
- To respond to satisfactorily; to meet successfully by way of explanation, argument, or justification; to refute.
- (transitive) To speak in defence against; to reply to in defence.
- To be or act in compliance with, in fulfillment or satisfaction of, as an order, obligation, or demand.
- To be opposite, or to act in opposition.
- react to a stimulus or command
- understand the meaning of
- give a defence or refutation of (a charge) or in (an argument)
- give the correct answer or solution to
- be sufficient; be adequate, either in quality or quantity
- be satisfactory for; meet the requirements of or serve the purpose of
- respond to a signal
- match or correspond
- be liable or accountable
- react verbally
noun
- A puzzling situation or problem.
- a particularly baffling problem that is said to have a correct solution
- (video games) A video game in which the player is presented with (usually abstract) puzzles to solve.
- One who is mysterious.
- A person who solves puzzles as a hobby.
- One who devises puzzles for others to solve.
noun
- a difficulty that is hard to deal with
- predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin; common in cold seas
- the causal agent resulting in death
- someone who causes the death of a person or animal
- One who or that which kills.
- Ellipsis of killer whale.
- (figuratively) Something that is so far ahead of its competition that it effectively kills off that competition.
- (sports, uncountable) A knockout form of darts or pool involving several players.
- Synonym of virama (“kind of diacritical mark”).
- (figuratively) That which causes stress or is extremely difficult, especially that which may cause failure at a task.
- A club used for killing fish.
- (philately) A particularly heavy type of handstamp, or portion of one, often obscuring a large part of the postage stamp.
- (figuratively) A remarkably impressive person or thing.
adj
noun
- An answer to a problem.
- The act of dissolving, especially of a solid by a fluid.
- (marketing) A product, service or suite thereof, especially software.
- An act, plan or other means, used or proposed, to solve a problem.
- (physical chemistry) A homogeneous mixture, which may be liquid, gas or solid, formed by dissolving one or more substances.
- the successful action of solving a problem
- a statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem
- a homogeneous mixture of two or more substances; frequently (but not necessarily) a liquid solution
- a method for solving a problem
- the set of values that give a true statement when substituted into an equation
verb
noun
- a particular situation
- the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another
- a blank area
- an item on a list or in a sequence
- a public square with room for pedestrians
- proper or appropriate position or location
- the particular portion of space occupied by something
- a point located with respect to surface features of some region
- proper or designated social situation
- a space reserved for sitting (as in a theater or on a train or airplane)
- the passage that is being read
- any area set aside for a particular purpose
- where you live at a particular time
- a job in an organization
- a general vicinity
- an abstract mental location
- A state of mind.
- Numerically, the column counting a certain quantity.
- Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding.
- Any area of the earth: a region.
- The area where one lives: one's home, formerly (chiefly) country estates and farms.
- A particular location in a book or document, particularly the current location of a reader
- An area of the body, especially the skin.
- The area one occupies, particularly somewhere to sit.
- A location or position in space.
- An open space, particularly a city square, market square, or courtyard.
- The position as a member of a sports team.
- An inhabited area: a village, town, or city.
- (often in street names or addresses) A street, sometimes but not always surrounding a public place, square, or plaza of the same name.
- (euphemistic slang) An area to urinate and defecate: an outhouse or lavatory.
- Reception; effect; implying the making room for.
- A role or purpose; a station.
- The position of a contestant in a competition.
- (horse racing) The position of first, second, or third at the finish, especially the second position.
verb
- make an investment
- assign a location to
- put into a certain place or abstract location
- recognize as being; establish the identity of someone or something
- assign to a station
- finish second or better in a horse or dog race
- identify the location or place of
- take a place in a competition; often followed by an ordinal
- assign a rank or rating to
- locate
- sing a note with the correct pitch
- to arrange for
- assign to (a job or a home)
- estimate
- intend (something) to move towards a certain goal
- place somebody in a particular situation or location
- (transitive, in collocations) To make.
- (transitive) To remember where and when (an object or person) has been previously encountered.
- (transitive) To bet.
- (transitive) To recruit or match an appropriate person for a job, or a home for an animal for adoption, etc.
- (intransitive, motor racing) To finish second, especially of horses or dogs.
- (sports, transitive) To place-kick (a goal).
- (transitive) To vouch for someone's alibi.
- (ergative) To earn a given spot in a competition; to rank at a certain position ((often followed by an ordinal)).
- (transitive) To put (someone or something) in a specific location.
- (transitive) To sing (a note) with the correct pitch.
- (transitive) To assign (more or less value) to something.
adj
- Of two or more problems or subjects, independent of or irrelevant to each other.
- Of a pair of vectors: having a zero inner product; perpendicular.
- Of a square matrix: such that its transpose is equal to its inverse.
- (statistics) Statistically independent, with reference to variates.
- Of a linear transformation: preserving its angles.
- (geometry) Of two objects, at right angles; perpendicular to each other.
- Of a pair of elements in an ortholattice: each less than or equal to the orthocomplement of the other.
- (software engineering) Of two or more aspects of a problem, able to be treated separately; of a design, exhibiting consistency and composability.
- Of grid graphs, board games and polyominoes: vertical or horizontal but not diagonal.
- having a set of mutually perpendicular axes; meeting at right angles
- not pertinent to the matter under consideration
- statistically unrelated
noun
adj
noun
- a disreputable place of entertainment
- the shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made
- junction by which parts or objects are joined together
- marijuana leaves rolled into a cigarette for smoking
- a piece of meat roasted or for roasting and of a size for slicing into more than one portion
- (anatomy) the point of connection between two bones or elements of a skeleton (especially if it allows motion)
- The point where two components of a structure join rigidly.
- The point where two components of a structure join, but are still able to rotate.
- (anatomy) Any part of an animalian body where two bones or exoskeleton segments are abutted, in most cases allowing that part of the body to be bent or straightened.
- (chiefly US slang, may be somewhat derogatory) A place of business, particularly in the food service or hospitality industries; sometimes extended to any place that is a focus of human connection or activity (e.g., schools, hangouts, party spots).
- (US, slang) The penis.
- A cut of meat, especially (but not necessarily) (a) one containing a joint in the sense of an articulation or (b) one rolled up and tied.
- (slang) A marijuana cigarette.
- (originally an idiolectic sense) A thing.
- (geology) A fracture in which the strata are not offset; a geologic joint.
- (slang, with the definite article) Prison, jail, or lockup.
- The means of securing together the meeting surfaces of components of a structure.
- The part or space included between two joints, knots, nodes, or articulations.
verb
- fit as if by joints
- provide with a joint
- separate (meat) at the joint
- fasten with a joint
- (transitive) To provide with a joint or joints; to articulate.
- (transitive) To unite by a joint or joints; to fit together; to prepare so as to fit together
- (transitive) To join; to connect; to unite; to combine.
- (intransitive) To fit as if by joints; to coalesce as joints do.
- (transitive) To separate the joints; of; to divide at the joint or joints; to disjoint; to cut up into joints, as meat.
adj
- Difficult to deal with, solve, or manage. (of a problem)
- Not tractable; not able to be managed, controlled, governed or directed.
- Stubborn; obstinate. (of a person)
- (medicine) Difficult to treat (of a medical condition).
- (mathematics, of a mathematical problem) Not able to be solved in polynomial time; too difficult to attempt to solve.
- not tractable; difficult to manage or mold
adj
- Having two or more separate aspects.
- Not completely pure, tainted or adulterated.
- Stemming from two or more races or breeds.
- Including both male(s) and female(s).
- Polarizing; including both positive and negative feedback.
- involving or composed of different races
- consisting of a haphazard assortment of different kinds
verb
adj
- involved in difficulties
- deeply involved especially in something complicated
- twisted together in a tangled mass
- Tangled or twisted together.
- (quantum mechanics, of two quantum states) Correlated, even though physically separated; (referring to a state of a composite system) not separable.
- (figurative) Confused or complicated.
verb
noun
- A difficulty that has to be resolved or dealt with.
- a source of difficulty
- Difficulty in accepting or understanding or refusal to accept or understand.
- Objection.
- An addiction, other substance use disorder, or comparable psychological challenge.
- A question to be answered, schoolwork exercise.
- A puzzling circumstance.
- (climbing) A set of moves required to complete a climb.
- a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved
- a question raised for consideration or solution
adj
adj
- Complicated.
- Having an affair with someone.
- Associated with others, be a participant or make someone be a participant (in a crime, process, etc.)
- connected by participation or association or use
- entangled or hindered as if e.g. in mire
- highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious
- emotionally involved
- enveloped
verb
adj
adv
noun
- (mechanics) A pipe fitting or similar device that connects multiple inputs and outputs.
- (historical) A copy made by the manifold writing process.
- (mathematics) A Hausdorff topological space that looks locally like the "ordinary" Euclidean space ℝⁿ.
- (computer graphics) A polygon mesh representing the continuous, closed surface of a solid object
- (US, dialectal, chiefly in the plural) The third stomach of a ruminant animal, an omasum.
- a lightweight paper used with carbon paper to make multiple copies
- a set of points such as those of a closed surface or an analogue in three or more dimensions
- a pipe that has several lateral outlets to or from other pipes