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verb
- (intransitive, of traffic) to become congested.
- (transitive) To block (traffic); to cause (traffic) to be congested.
- (transitive) to entangle
- (transitive) To put into disarray; contort; confuse; muddle up
- (intransitive) To become tangled; to become entangled
- make more complicated or confused through entanglements
verb
noun
- (road transport) A condition of total, interlocking traffic congestion on the streets or highways of a crowded city, in which no one can move because everyone is in someone else's way.
- a traffic jam so bad that no movement is possible
- (transgender slang) Deliberate misspelling of girlcock and girldick.
- On a smaller scale, the situation in which cars enter a signal-controlled intersection too late during the green light cycle, and are unable to clear the intersection (due to congestion in the next block) when the light turns red, thus blocking the cross traffic when it's their turn to go. Repeated at enough intersections, this phenomenon can lead to citywide gridlock.
- (figuratively, by extension) Any paralysis of a complex system due to severe congestion, conflict, or deadlock.
noun
- excessive crowding
- An excess of traffic; usually not a complete standstill of traffic, so usually not synonymous with traffic jam.
- excessive accumulation of blood or other fluid in a body part
- (medicine) Blocking up of the capillary and other blood vessels, etc., in any locality or organ (often producing other morbid symptoms); local hypermic, active or passive.
- Edema, water retention, swelling, enlargement of a body part because of fluid retention in tissues and vessels.
- (medicine) An excess of mucus or fluid in the respiratory system; congestion of the lungs, or nasal congestion.
- An accumulation or buildup, the act of gathering into a heap or mass.
verb
- to enter into another zone by way of accident or overcrowding; to overflow
- (intransitive) (of a bad emotion, situation, etc.) to reach a climax
- (intransitive) (of an infectious disease) to spread from one species of animal to another and particularly to humans
- be disgorged
- overflow with a certain feeling
noun
- A slow-moving traffic jam.
- 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.
- An intricate complication; a problematic difficulty; a knotty or tangled situation.
- 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, intransitive) To be congested in traffic, or to make traffic congested.
- (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.
- (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
verb
- become overloaded
- (intransitive) To fail due to excessive load.
- (transitive) To load excessively.
- (transitive, object-oriented programming) To create different functions for the same name, to be used in different contexts.
- (transitive) To provide too much power to a circuit.
- fill to excess so that function is impaired
- place too much a load on
noun
- a situation characterized by crowding and extremely harsh conditions
- (figuratively) A situation of overcrowding and extremely harsh conditions.
- a penal camp where political prisoners or prisoners of war are confined (usually under harsh conditions)
- A camp where large numbers of people, especially political prisoners, prisoners of war, refugees etc., are detained for the purpose of confining them in one place, typically with inadequate or inhumane facilities.
- A camp where troops are assembled, prior to combat or transport.
adj
noun
- Moving pedestrians or vehicles, or the flux or passage thereof.
- The illegal trade or exchange of goods, often drugs.
- The commercial transportation or exchange of goods, or the movement of passengers or people.
- The exchange or flux of information, messages or data, as in a computer or telephone network.
- (advertising) The amount of attention paid to a particular printed page etc., in a publication.
- The commodities of the market.
- (radio) Of CB radio, formal written messages relayed on behalf of others.
- the amount of activity over a communication system during a given period of time
- buying and selling; especially illicit trade
- the aggregation of things (pedestrians or vehicles) coming and going in a particular locality during a specified period of time
- social or verbal interchange (usually followed by ‘with’)
verb
- (intransitive) To trade meanly or mercenarily; to bargain.
- (intransitive) To pass goods and commodities from one person to another for an equivalent in goods or money; to buy or sell goods.
- (transitive) To exchange in traffic; to effect by a bargain or for a consideration.
- deal illegally
- trade or deal a commodity
noun
- A bottleneck, part of a process that is too slow and causes a delay.
- (engineering) A point in between moving and stationary parts of a machine where an individual's body part may become caught, leading to injury
- A kerb extension, a traffic calming measure consisting of an angled narrowing of the roadway
- (economics) The level of inventories of a commodity or product below which consumers become concerned about security of supply
- (mathematics) Cuspidal point, a type of singular point on an algebraic surface
noun
- an overcrowded residential area
- a series of connected underground tunnels occupied by rabbits
- a colony of rabbits
- (figuratively) A mazelike place of passages and/or rooms in which it's easy to lose oneself; especially one that may be overcrowded.
- A system of burrows in which rabbits live.
- (historical) The right to maintain and hunt an area of small beasts, similar to a free warren, but with certain limitations, such as restricting the right to hunt on parts of the land held by freeholders.
- A place legally authorized for the keeping, breeding and hunting of beasts of warren, especially rabbits.
adj
- Densely crowded or packed.
- (slang, chiefly of women) Curvy and voluptuous, and especially having large hips.
- Heavy in build; thickset.
- Impenetrable to sight.
- Deep, intense, or profound.
- Having a viscous consistency.
- Greatly evocative of one's nationality or place of origin.
- Difficult to understand, or poorly articulated.
- (informal) Friendly or intimate.
- (informal) Stupid.
- Measuring a certain number of units in this dimension.
- Abounding in number.
- Relatively great in extent from one surface to the opposite in its smallest solid dimension.
- (academic) Detailed and expansive; substantive.
- (used informally) associated on close terms
- spoken as if with a thick tongue
- not thin; of a specific thickness or of relatively great extent from one surface to the opposite usually in the smallest of the three solid dimensions
- abounding; having a lot of
- (of darkness) densely dark
- relatively dense in consistency
- hard to pass through because of dense growth
- (used informally) stupid
- having a short and solid form or stature
- having component parts closely crowded together
adv
det
noun
adj
- crowded with or characterized by much activity
- overcrowded or cluttered with detail
- actively or fully engaged or occupied
- (of facilities such as telephones or lavatories) unavailable for use by anyone else or indicating unavailability; (‘engaged’ is a British term for a busy telephone line)
- intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner
- Having much work to do; having much to get done.
- Crowded with business or activities; having a great deal going on.
- Officious; meddling.
- Having a lot going on; complicated or intricate.
- Engaged with or preoccupied by an activity or person.
verb
noun
noun
- the spatial property of being crowded together
- complete attention; intense mental effort
- bringing together military forces
- increase in density
- great and constant diligence and attention
- strengthening the concentration (as of a solute in a mixture) by removing diluting material
- the strength of a solution; number of molecules of a substance in a given volume
- The direction of attention to a specific object.
- (physical chemistry) The amount of solute in a solution measured in suitable units (e.g., parts per million (ppm))
- The matching game pelmanism.
- The act, process or product of reducing the volume of a liquid, as by evaporation.
- The act or process of removing the dress of ore and of reducing the valuable part to smaller compass, as by currents of air or water.
- A field or course of study on which one focuses, especially as a student in a college or university.
- The act, process or ability of concentrating; the process of becoming concentrated, or the state of being concentrated.
- The proportion of a substance in a whole.
noun
- the spatial property of being crowded together
- the amount per unit size
- (physics) A measure of the mass of matter contained by a unit volume.
- The ratio of one quantity, representing something of interest, to another quantity representing space, area, or extent in which the thing of interest is distributed.
- Stupidity.
- (mathematics, statistics) The probability that an outcome will fall into a given range, per unit of that range; the relative likelihood of possible values of a continuous random variable.
adj
- causing inconvenience
- difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape
- socially uncomfortable; unsure and constrained in manner
- lacking grace or skill in manner or movement or performance
- hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment
- not elegant or graceful in expression
- Lacking dexterity in the use of the hands, or of instruments.
- Not easily managed or effected; embarrassing.
- Perverse; adverse; difficult to handle.
- Lacking social skills, or uncomfortable with social interaction.
noun
noun
- (California, government) Initialism of congestion management agency.
- (China, meteorology, uncountable) Abbreviation of China Meteorological Administration.
- (Canada, countable) Abbreviation of Census Metropolitan Area.
- (UK, countable) Initialism of computer-marked assignment (that uses scan sheets).
- (US, military) Abbreviation of comma, used in communication systems without punctuation marks (e.g., telegrams).
- (uncountable) Abbreviation of calcium magnesium acetate.
- (Canada, countable) Initialism of certified management accountant.
name
noun
- (Nigeria) A traffic jam.
- (bridge) The holding back of a card that could win a trick in order to use it later.
- (slang) A robbery at gunpoint.
- (military) The inventory of nuclear material within a separation plant.
- (colloquial) A delay or wait.
- (in the plural) Women's stockings designed to be worn without suspenders.
noun
- (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) A line of motor vehicles causing or the result of traffic congestion or a traffic jam.
- (American football) A running back or halfback who lines up furthest to the rear in an I formation.
- (American football) the person who plays tailback
- (American football) the position of the offensive back on a football team who lines up farthest from the line of scrimmage
verb
noun
- the narrow part of a bottle near the top
- a narrowing that reduces the flow through a channel
- (figurative) In traffic, any narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay.
- The narrow portion that forms the pouring spout of a bottle; the neck of a bottle.
- (by extension) The part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome.
- (music) A portion of a bottleneck placed on the finger and used as a guitar slide.
noun
- excessive crowding
- An excess of traffic; usually not a complete standstill of traffic, so usually not synonymous with traffic jam.
- excessive accumulation of blood or other fluid in a body part
- (medicine) Blocking up of the capillary and other blood vessels, etc., in any locality or organ (often producing other morbid symptoms); local hypermic, active or passive.
- Edema, water retention, swelling, enlargement of a body part because of fluid retention in tissues and vessels.
- (medicine) An excess of mucus or fluid in the respiratory system; congestion of the lungs, or nasal congestion.
- An accumulation or buildup, the act of gathering into a heap or mass.
noun
- A slow-moving traffic jam.
- 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.
- An intricate complication; a problematic difficulty; a knotty or tangled situation.
- 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, intransitive) To be congested in traffic, or to make traffic congested.
- (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.
- (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
verb
- become overloaded
- (intransitive) To fail due to excessive load.
- (transitive) To load excessively.
- (transitive, object-oriented programming) To create different functions for the same name, to be used in different contexts.
- (transitive) To provide too much power to a circuit.
- fill to excess so that function is impaired
- place too much a load on
noun
- a situation characterized by crowding and extremely harsh conditions
- (figuratively) A situation of overcrowding and extremely harsh conditions.
- a penal camp where political prisoners or prisoners of war are confined (usually under harsh conditions)
- A camp where large numbers of people, especially political prisoners, prisoners of war, refugees etc., are detained for the purpose of confining them in one place, typically with inadequate or inhumane facilities.
- A camp where troops are assembled, prior to combat or transport.
noun
- A bottleneck, part of a process that is too slow and causes a delay.
- (engineering) A point in between moving and stationary parts of a machine where an individual's body part may become caught, leading to injury
- A kerb extension, a traffic calming measure consisting of an angled narrowing of the roadway
- (economics) The level of inventories of a commodity or product below which consumers become concerned about security of supply
- (mathematics) Cuspidal point, a type of singular point on an algebraic surface
noun
- an overcrowded residential area
- a series of connected underground tunnels occupied by rabbits
- a colony of rabbits
- (figuratively) A mazelike place of passages and/or rooms in which it's easy to lose oneself; especially one that may be overcrowded.
- A system of burrows in which rabbits live.
- (historical) The right to maintain and hunt an area of small beasts, similar to a free warren, but with certain limitations, such as restricting the right to hunt on parts of the land held by freeholders.
- A place legally authorized for the keeping, breeding and hunting of beasts of warren, especially rabbits.
verb
noun
- (road transport) A condition of total, interlocking traffic congestion on the streets or highways of a crowded city, in which no one can move because everyone is in someone else's way.
- a traffic jam so bad that no movement is possible
- (transgender slang) Deliberate misspelling of girlcock and girldick.
- On a smaller scale, the situation in which cars enter a signal-controlled intersection too late during the green light cycle, and are unable to clear the intersection (due to congestion in the next block) when the light turns red, thus blocking the cross traffic when it's their turn to go. Repeated at enough intersections, this phenomenon can lead to citywide gridlock.
- (figuratively, by extension) Any paralysis of a complex system due to severe congestion, conflict, or deadlock.
noun
- the spatial property of being crowded together
- complete attention; intense mental effort
- bringing together military forces
- increase in density
- great and constant diligence and attention
- strengthening the concentration (as of a solute in a mixture) by removing diluting material
- the strength of a solution; number of molecules of a substance in a given volume
- The direction of attention to a specific object.
- (physical chemistry) The amount of solute in a solution measured in suitable units (e.g., parts per million (ppm))
- The matching game pelmanism.
- The act, process or product of reducing the volume of a liquid, as by evaporation.
- The act or process of removing the dress of ore and of reducing the valuable part to smaller compass, as by currents of air or water.
- A field or course of study on which one focuses, especially as a student in a college or university.
- The act, process or ability of concentrating; the process of becoming concentrated, or the state of being concentrated.
- The proportion of a substance in a whole.
noun
- the spatial property of being crowded together
- the amount per unit size
- (physics) A measure of the mass of matter contained by a unit volume.
- The ratio of one quantity, representing something of interest, to another quantity representing space, area, or extent in which the thing of interest is distributed.
- Stupidity.
- (mathematics, statistics) The probability that an outcome will fall into a given range, per unit of that range; the relative likelihood of possible values of a continuous random variable.
noun
- (California, government) Initialism of congestion management agency.
- (China, meteorology, uncountable) Abbreviation of China Meteorological Administration.
- (Canada, countable) Abbreviation of Census Metropolitan Area.
- (UK, countable) Initialism of computer-marked assignment (that uses scan sheets).
- (US, military) Abbreviation of comma, used in communication systems without punctuation marks (e.g., telegrams).
- (uncountable) Abbreviation of calcium magnesium acetate.
- (Canada, countable) Initialism of certified management accountant.
name
noun
- (Nigeria) A traffic jam.
- (bridge) The holding back of a card that could win a trick in order to use it later.
- (slang) A robbery at gunpoint.
- (military) The inventory of nuclear material within a separation plant.
- (colloquial) A delay or wait.
- (in the plural) Women's stockings designed to be worn without suspenders.
noun
- (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) A line of motor vehicles causing or the result of traffic congestion or a traffic jam.
- (American football) A running back or halfback who lines up furthest to the rear in an I formation.
- (American football) the person who plays tailback
- (American football) the position of the offensive back on a football team who lines up farthest from the line of scrimmage
verb
- (intransitive, of traffic) to become congested.
- (transitive) To block (traffic); to cause (traffic) to be congested.
- (transitive) to entangle
- (transitive) To put into disarray; contort; confuse; muddle up
- (intransitive) To become tangled; to become entangled
- make more complicated or confused through entanglements
verb
noun
- (road transport) A condition of total, interlocking traffic congestion on the streets or highways of a crowded city, in which no one can move because everyone is in someone else's way.
- a traffic jam so bad that no movement is possible
- (transgender slang) Deliberate misspelling of girlcock and girldick.
- On a smaller scale, the situation in which cars enter a signal-controlled intersection too late during the green light cycle, and are unable to clear the intersection (due to congestion in the next block) when the light turns red, thus blocking the cross traffic when it's their turn to go. Repeated at enough intersections, this phenomenon can lead to citywide gridlock.
- (figuratively, by extension) Any paralysis of a complex system due to severe congestion, conflict, or deadlock.
verb
- to enter into another zone by way of accident or overcrowding; to overflow
- (intransitive) (of a bad emotion, situation, etc.) to reach a climax
- (intransitive) (of an infectious disease) to spread from one species of animal to another and particularly to humans
- be disgorged
- overflow with a certain feeling
noun
- A slow-moving traffic jam.
- 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.
- An intricate complication; a problematic difficulty; a knotty or tangled situation.
- 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, intransitive) To be congested in traffic, or to make traffic congested.
- (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.
- (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
verb
- become overloaded
- (intransitive) To fail due to excessive load.
- (transitive) To load excessively.
- (transitive, object-oriented programming) To create different functions for the same name, to be used in different contexts.
- (transitive) To provide too much power to a circuit.
- fill to excess so that function is impaired
- place too much a load on
verb
noun
- the narrow part of a bottle near the top
- a narrowing that reduces the flow through a channel
- (figurative) In traffic, any narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay.
- The narrow portion that forms the pouring spout of a bottle; the neck of a bottle.
- (by extension) The part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome.
- (music) A portion of a bottleneck placed on the finger and used as a guitar slide.
adj
noun
- Moving pedestrians or vehicles, or the flux or passage thereof.
- The illegal trade or exchange of goods, often drugs.
- The commercial transportation or exchange of goods, or the movement of passengers or people.
- The exchange or flux of information, messages or data, as in a computer or telephone network.
- (advertising) The amount of attention paid to a particular printed page etc., in a publication.
- The commodities of the market.
- (radio) Of CB radio, formal written messages relayed on behalf of others.
- the amount of activity over a communication system during a given period of time
- buying and selling; especially illicit trade
- the aggregation of things (pedestrians or vehicles) coming and going in a particular locality during a specified period of time
- social or verbal interchange (usually followed by ‘with’)
verb
- (intransitive) To trade meanly or mercenarily; to bargain.
- (intransitive) To pass goods and commodities from one person to another for an equivalent in goods or money; to buy or sell goods.
- (transitive) To exchange in traffic; to effect by a bargain or for a consideration.
- deal illegally
- trade or deal a commodity
adj
- Densely crowded or packed.
- (slang, chiefly of women) Curvy and voluptuous, and especially having large hips.
- Heavy in build; thickset.
- Impenetrable to sight.
- Deep, intense, or profound.
- Having a viscous consistency.
- Greatly evocative of one's nationality or place of origin.
- Difficult to understand, or poorly articulated.
- (informal) Friendly or intimate.
- (informal) Stupid.
- Measuring a certain number of units in this dimension.
- Abounding in number.
- Relatively great in extent from one surface to the opposite in its smallest solid dimension.
- (academic) Detailed and expansive; substantive.
- (used informally) associated on close terms
- spoken as if with a thick tongue
- not thin; of a specific thickness or of relatively great extent from one surface to the opposite usually in the smallest of the three solid dimensions
- abounding; having a lot of
- (of darkness) densely dark
- relatively dense in consistency
- hard to pass through because of dense growth
- (used informally) stupid
- having a short and solid form or stature
- having component parts closely crowded together
adv
det
noun
adj
- crowded with or characterized by much activity
- overcrowded or cluttered with detail
- actively or fully engaged or occupied
- (of facilities such as telephones or lavatories) unavailable for use by anyone else or indicating unavailability; (‘engaged’ is a British term for a busy telephone line)
- intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner
- Having much work to do; having much to get done.
- Crowded with business or activities; having a great deal going on.
- Officious; meddling.
- Having a lot going on; complicated or intricate.
- Engaged with or preoccupied by an activity or person.
verb
noun
adj
- causing inconvenience
- difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape
- socially uncomfortable; unsure and constrained in manner
- lacking grace or skill in manner or movement or performance
- hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment
- not elegant or graceful in expression
- Lacking dexterity in the use of the hands, or of instruments.
- Not easily managed or effected; embarrassing.
- Perverse; adverse; difficult to handle.
- Lacking social skills, or uncomfortable with social interaction.