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noun
- a relatively small granular particle of a substance
- the physical composition of something (especially with respect to the size and shape of the small constituents of a substance)
- the direction, texture, or pattern of fibers found in wood or leather or stone or in a woven fabric
- the smallest possible unit of anything
- a cereal grass
- foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses
- a weight unit used for pearls or diamonds: 50 mg or 1/4 carat
- 1/60 dram; equals an avoirdupois grain or 64.799 milligrams
- the side of leather from which the hair has been removed
- dry seed-like fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e.g. wheat, barley, Indian corn
- 1/7000 pound; equals a troy grain or 64.799 milligrams
- Temper; natural disposition; inclination.
- The metric, carat, or pearl grain of ¹⁄₄ carat used for measuring precious stones and pearls, now exactly 50 mg.
- An iron fish spear or harpoon, with a number of points half-barbed inwardly.
- (uncountable) A linear texture of a material or surface.
- (countable, uncountable) The crops from which grain is harvested.
- (photography, videography) Visual texture in processed photographic film due to the presence of small particles of a metallic silver, or dye clouds, developed from silver halide that have received enough photons.
- One of the branches of a valley or river.
- (botany) A rounded prominence on the back of a sepal, as in the common dock.
- (in the plural) The remains of grain, etc., after brewing or distillation; hence, any residuum.
- (historical) The French grain of ¹⁄₉₂₁₆ livre, equivalent to 53.11 mg at metricization and equal to exactly 54.25 mg from 1812–1839 as part of the mesures usuelles.
- (countable) A single particle of a substance.
- (dialectal, anatomy) The fangs of a tooth.
- (materials) A region within a material having a single crystal structure or direction.
- (countable) A single seed of grass food crops.
- (dialectal, anatomy) The groin; crotch.
- A branch of a tree; a stalk or stem of a plant; an offshoot.
- (countable, chiefly historical) Any of various small units of length originally notionally based on a grain's width, variously standardized at different places and times.
- (uncountable) The harvested seeds of various grass food crops eg: wheat, corn, barley.
- The hair side of a piece of leather, or the marking on that side.
- (dialectal) A fork in a river valley or ravine.
- A blade of a sword, knife, etc.
- (founding) A thin piece of metal, used in a mould to steady a core.
- (uncountable) Similar seeds from any food crop, e.g., buckwheat, amaranth, quinoa.
- (countable, historical) The carat grain of ¹⁄₄ carat as a measure of gold purity, creating a 96-point scale between 0% and 100% purity.
- An arm of a cross.
- A reddish dye made from the coccus insect, or kermes; hence, a red color of any tint or hue, as crimson, scarlet, etc.; sometimes used by the poets as equivalent to Tyrian purple.
- (dialectal) The branch of a family; clan.
- (astronautics) The solid piece of fuel in an individual solid-fuel rocket engine.
- The English grain of ¹⁄₅₇₆₀ troy pound or ¹⁄₇₀₀₀ pound avoirdupois, now exactly 64.79891 mg.
- (dialectal) A branch or arm of a stream, inlet, or sea.
verb
- paint (a surface) to make it look like stone or wood
- thoroughly work in
- become granular
- form into grains
- (transitive) To make granular; to form into grains.
- (transitive) To feed grain to.
- To texture a surface in imitation of the grain of a substance such as wood.
- (tanning) To soften leather.
- To yield fruit.
- (tanning) To remove the hair or fat from a skin.
- (intransitive) To form grains, or to assume a granular form, as the result of crystallization; to granulate.
noun
- A small, hard particle.
- A type of callus, usually on the feet or hands.
- (Commonwealth, but not Australia or New Zealand, uncountable) Any cereal plant (or its grain) that is the main crop or staple of a country or region.
- (Jamaica, MLE, slang, firearms, uncountable) Bullets, ammunition, charge and discharge of firearms.
- (US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, uncountable) Maize, a grain crop of the species Zea mays.
- (US, Canada) Something (e.g., acting, humour, music, or writing) which is deemed old-fashioned or intended to induce emotion.
- (Internet, euphemistic) pornography; porn
- (Jamaica, slang, uncountable) Money.
- A grain or seed, especially of a cereal crop.
- (veterinary medicine) Skin hyperplasia with underlying fibroma between both digits of cattle.
- (veterinary medicine) An inflammatory disease of a horse's hoof, at the caudal part of the sole.
- (uncountable) A type of granular snow formed by repeated melting and refreezing, often in mountain spring conditions.
- tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears: widely cultivated in America in many varieties; the principal cereal in Mexico and Central and South America since pre-Columbian times
- the dried grains or kernels or corn used as animal feed or ground for meal
- ears of corn that can be prepared and served for human food
- a hard thickening of the skin (especially on the top or sides of the toes) caused by the pressure of ill-fitting shoes
- whiskey distilled from a mash of not less than 80 percent corn
- something sentimental or trite
- (Great Britain) any of various cereal plants (especially the dominant crop of the region — wheat in Great Britain or oats in Scotland and Ireland)
verb
- (US, Canada) To preserve using coarse salt, e.g. corned beef.
- (US, Canada) To provide (an animal) with corn (typically maize; or, in Scotland, oats) for feed.
- (US, Canada) To granulate; to form (a substance) into grains.
- (Jamaica, MLE, slang) To shoot up with bullets as by a shotgun (corn).
- preserve with large-grained rock salt
- feed (cattle) with corn
adj
- Consisting of especially minute particulates; made up of particularly small pieces.
- of textures that are smooth to the touch or substances consisting of relatively small particles
- Of superior quality.
- Made of slender or thin filaments.
- Delicate; subtle; exquisite; artful; dexterous.
- (ironic) Impressively bad, inappropriate, or unsatisfactory.
- An answer often used to cover an unnecessary explanation, rather to avoid conflict or an argument. Saying "I'm fine" can be used to avoid inquiry when the speaker is not really okay.
- (cricket) Behind the batsman and at a small angle to the line between the wickets.
- Subtle, delicately balanced or discriminated.
- (of weather) Sunny and not raining.
- Particularly slender; especially thin, narrow, or of small girth.
- (informal) Being acceptable, adequate, passable, or satisfactory.
- Having a (specified) proportion of pure metal in its composition.
- Of a particular grade of quality, usually between very good and very fine, and below mint.
- (informal) Good-looking, attractive.
- free from impurities; having a high or specified degree of purity
- thin in thickness or diameter
- being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition
- characterized by elegance or refinement or accomplishment
- minutely precise especially in differences in meaning
adv
- (pool, billiards) In a manner so that the driven ball strikes the object ball so far to one side as to be barely deflected, the object ball being driven to one side.
- Well, nicely, in a positive, agreeable way.
- an expression of agreement normally occurring at the beginning of a sentence
- in a delicate manner
intj
noun
- (feudal law) A final agreement concerning lands or rents between persons, as the lord and his vassal.
- (usually in the plural) Something that is fine; fine particles.
- Fine champagne; French brandy.
- (Cambridge University slang) A drink that must be taken during a meal or as part of a drinking game, following an announcement that anyone who has done some (usually outrageous) deed is to be fined; similar to I have never; commonly associated with swaps; very similar to a sconce at Oxford University, though a fine is the penalty itself rather than the act of issuing it.
- (music) The location in a musical score that indicates the end of the piece, particularly when the piece ends somewhere in the middle of the score due to a section of the music being repeated.
- (UK, law) A sum of money or price paid for obtaining a benefit, favor, or privilege, as for admission to a copyhold, or for obtaining or renewing a lease.
- A fee levied as punishment for breaking the law.
- (music) The end of a musical composition.
- money extracted as a penalty
verb
- (intransitive) To pay a fine.
- (intransitive) To become finer, purer, or cleaner.
- (transitive) To make finer, purer, or cleaner; to purify or clarify.
- To change by fine gradations.
- (transitive) To issue a fine as punishment to (someone).
- To make finer, or less coarse, as in bulk, texture, etc.
- (transitive) To clarify (wine and beer) by filtration.
- impose a fine on
- record a fine as a penalty in a police record
noun
- A fragment of something; a particle; a piece; also, a very small amount.
- (rare) A shard or sherd (“a piece of broken glass or pottery”).
- A long, narrow piece (especially of fabric) cut or torn off; a strip; specifically, a piece of cloth or clothing.
- (cooking) A thin strip of fruit peel, a vegetable, etc., cut so that it curls.
- (by extension) A thin strand or wisp, as of a cloud, mist, etc.
- a small piece of cloth
- a tiny or scarcely detectable amount
adj
verb
- (music) Chiefly in rock and heavy metal: to play (a musical instrument (especially a guitar) or a piece of music) very fast and in a way that requires technical skill.
- (cooking) To cut (fruit peel, a vegetable, etc.) into thin strips that curl.
- To destroy (a document) by cutting or tearing into strips or small pieces that cannot easily be read, especially using a shredder.
- To reduce (something) by a large percentage; to slash.
- (bodybuilding) To reduce body weight due to fat and water before a competition.
- To become separated into small portions.
- (originally US) To convincingly defeat (someone); to thrash, to trounce.
- To separate (something) into small portions.
- (snowboarding, surfing) To cut through (snow, water, etc.) swiftly with one's snowboard, surfboard, etc.; (by extension) to move or ride along (a road, track, etc.) aggressively and rapidly.
- (snowboarding, surfing, etc.) To travel swiftly using a snowboard, surfboard, or vehicle.
- To cut or tear (something) into long, narrow pieces or strips.
- tear into shreds
noun
- The particles themselves.
- (rare) A declined offer in a sales transaction when acceptance was presumed.
- (radio, television, broadcasting) An impromptu guest used to fill in for another guest spot who is a no-show or who has cancelled last minute.
- A negative side effect; an undesirable or unexpected consequence.
- The event of small airborne particles falling to the ground in significant quantities as a result of major industrial activity, volcano eruption, sandstorm, nuclear explosion, etc.
- (rare) The person who declines such an offer.
- the radioactive particles that settle to the ground after a nuclear explosion
- any adverse and unwanted secondary effect
adj
- have fine or very small constituent particles
- (of a voice) faint
- limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
- (of children and animals) young, immature
- relatively moderate, limited, or small
- not large but sufficient in size or amount
- lowercase
- low or inferior in station or quality
- slight or limited; especially in degree or intensity or scope
- made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth)
- Having a small penis, muscles, or other important body parts, regardless of overall body size.
- Not prolonged in duration; not extended in time; short.
- Humiliated or insignificant.
- (figuratively, not comparable) Young, as a child.
- (especially clothing, food or drink) That is small (the manufactured size).
- Synonym of little (“of an industry or institution(s) therein: operating on a small scale, unlike larger counterparts”).
- (writing, not comparable) Minuscule or lowercase, referring to written or printed letters.
- Evincing little worth or ability; not large-minded; paltry; mean.
- Not large or big; insignificant; few in number.
noun
- the slender part of the back
- a garment size for a small person
- (countable, especially clothing, food or drink) An item labelled or denoted as being that size.
- (countable, rare) Any part of something that is smaller or slimmer than the rest, now usually with anatomical reference to the back.
- (uncountable, especially clothing, food or drink) One of several common sizes to which an item may be manufactured, smaller than a medium.
- (countable, especially with respect to clothing) One who fits an item of that size.
adv
verb
noun
- A very small amount; a particle; a whit.
- A small etheostomoid fish, Etheostoma stigmaeum, common in the eastern United States.
- The fat of the hippopotamus.
- A tiny spot or particle, especially of dirt.
- Fat; lard; fat meat.
- (uncountable) A juniper-flavoured ham originally from Tyrol.
- The blubber of whales or other marine mammals.
- a very small spot
- a slight but appreciable amount
- (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything
verb
noun
- A very small piece of matter, a fragment; especially, the smallest possible part of something.
- (grammar) A part of speech that has no inherent lexical definition but must be associated with another word to impart meaning, often a grammatical category: for example, the English word to in a full infinitive phrase (to eat) or O in a vocative phrase (O Canada), or as a discourse marker (mmm).
- (linguistics) A part of speech which cannot be inflected.
- (physics) Any of various physical objects making up the constituent parts of an atom; an elementary particle or subatomic particle.
- A little bit.
- (Christianity) In the Roman Catholic church, a crumb of consecrated bread; also the smaller breads used in the communion of the laity.
- a body having finite mass and internal structure but negligible dimensions
- a function word that can be used in English to form phrasal verbs
- (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything
adj
noun
- (chiefly in the plural) Any solid or liquid in a subdivided state, especially one that exhibits special characteristics which are negligible in the bulk material.
- a small discrete mass of solid or liquid matter that remains individually dispersed in gas or liquid emissions (usually considered to be an atmospheric pollutant)
verb
noun
verb
noun
verb
- (ambitransitive) To speak so rapidly as to emit saliva; to utter words hastily and indistinctly, with a spluttering sound, as in rage.
- (ambitransitive) To throw out anything, as little jets of steam, with a noise like that made by one sputtering.
- (physics, intransitive) To cause surface atoms or electrons of a solid to be ejected by bombarding it with heavy atoms or ions.
- (intransitive) To emit saliva or spit from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking.
- (physics, transitive) To coat the surface of an object by sputtering.
- utter with a spitting sound, as if in a rage
- spit up in an explosive manner
- climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling
- cause to undergo a process in which atoms are removed
- make an explosive sound
adj
noun
noun
adj
noun
- a small piece
- a small lump or protuberance
- the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
- (euphemistic or vulgar slang) The clitoris.
- (computing, colloquial) A pointing stick.
- (Internet slang) Alternative spelling of noob.
- A small knob or lump.
- The essence or core of an issue, argument etc.
- (theater) A passage of Shakespearean blank verse.
verb
noun
- a small piece
- the part of a check that is retained as a record
- the small unused part of something (especially the end of a cigarette that is left after smoking)
- a short piece remaining on a trunk or stem where a branch is lost
- a torn part of a ticket returned to the holder as a receipt
- A piece of certain paper items, designed to be torn off and kept for record or identification purposes.
- The smallest remainder of a smoked cigarette; a butt.
- A pen with a short, blunt nib.
- (electronics, radio frequency circuits) A length of transmission line or waveguide that is connected at one end only.
- The remaining part of the docked tail of a dog
- (wiki jargon) An article providing only minimal information and intended for later development.
- An unequal first or last interest calculation period, as a part of a financial swap contract
- Something blunted, stunted, or cut short, such as stubble or a stump.
- (programming) A placeholder procedure that has the signature of the planned procedure but does not yet implement the intended behavior.
- An old and worn horseshoe nail.
- Stub iron.
- (typography, in tabular matter) A row heading in a table (with horizontal reference, whereas a column heading has vertical reference).
- (computing, middleware) A procedure that translates requests from external systems into a format suitable for processing and then submits those requests for processing.
verb
- extinguish by crushing
- clear of weeds by uprooting them
- pull up (weeds) by their roots
- strike (one's toe) accidentally against an object
- (transitive) To remove most of a tree, bush, or other rooted plant by cutting it close to the ground.
- (transitive) To jam, hit, or bump, especially a toe.
- (transitive) To remove a plant by pulling it out by the roots.
verb
- (transitive) To strike with something made up of small particles.
- (cryptography) To use a pepper (type of value used prior to hashing).
- (transitive) To add pepper to.
- (transitive, MLE, slang) To shoot (upon) with the dotty.
- (transitive, slang) To beat or thrash.
- (transitive, slang) To write accents or disambiguating marks in script.
- (transitive) To cover with lots of (something made up of small things).
- (transitive) To add (something) at frequent intervals.
- add pepper to
- attack and bombard with or as if with missiles
noun
- (MLE, slang) A shotgun.
- (baseball) A game used by baseball players to warm up where fielders standing close to a batter rapidly return the batted ball to be hit again
- (cryptography) A randomly-generated value that is added to another value (such as a password) prior to hashing. Unlike a salt, a new one is generated for each value and it is held separately from the value.
- A plant of the family Piperaceae.
- (UK, US, Ireland and Canada) A fruit of the capsicum plant: red, green, yellow or white, hollow and containing seeds, and in a wide range of mild (sweet, nonspicy) to hot (spicy) varieties.
- (uncountable) A spice prepared from the fermented, dried, unripe berries of this plant.
- (boxing, slang) A beating; a thrashing.
- any of various tropical plants of the genus Capsicum bearing peppers
- climber having dark red berries (peppercorns) when fully ripe; southern India and Sri Lanka; naturalized in northern Burma and Assam
- pungent seasoning from the berry of the common pepper plant of East India; use whole or ground
- sweet and hot varieties of fruits of plants of the genus Capsicum
noun
- a very small quantity of something
- small piece of e.g. bread or cake
- a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible
- A small piece which breaks off from baked food (such as cake, biscuit or bread).
- A mixture of sugar, cocoa and milk, used to make industrial chocolate.
- The soft internal portion of bread, surrounded by crust.
- Ellipsis of crumb rubber.
- (slang) A body louse (Pediculus humanus).
- (figuratively) A bit, small amount.
- A small piece of any other solid substance.
- (slang) A nobody; a worthless person.
verb
noun
- A very small quantity or degree; a particle; an atom; a jot.
- (US, golf, disc golf) A hole in one.
- (US) A perfect score on a school exam.
- (dice games) A die face marked with a single dot, typically representing the number one.
- (slang) A person who is asexual.
- (tennis, volleyball) A serve won without the opponent hitting the ball.
- (sometimes attributive) An expert at something; a maverick, genius; a person of supreme talent.
- (card games) A playing card showing a single pip, typically the highest or lowest ranking card in a game.
- Any of various hesperiid butterflies.
- The ball marked with the number 1 in pool and related games.
- (sports) A point won by a single stroke, as in handball, rackets, etc.
- A military aircraft pilot who is credited with shooting down many enemy aircraft, typically five or more.
- (US, slang) A dollar bill.
- (US, baseball) The best pitcher on the team.
- someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field
- one of four playing cards in a deck having a single pip on its face
- a serve that the receiver is unable to reach
- the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number
adj
verb
- (ambitransitive, US, informal) To defeat (others) in a contest; to outdo (others) in a competition.
- (ambitransitive, tennis) To win a point against (an opponent) by an ace.
- (golf) To make an ace (hole in one).
- (transitive, US, informal) To pass (a test, interviews etc.) perfectly.
- succeed at easily
- score an ace against
- play (a hole) in one stroke
- serve an ace against (someone)
noun
noun
- Small, hard, inedible particles in food.
- (usually in the plural) Coarsely ground corn or hominy used as porridge.
- (usually in the plural) Husked but unground oats.
- (idiomatic) Strength of mind; courage or fearlessness; fortitude.
- A measure of the size of abrasive grains, such as those on sandpaper, and thus their relative coarseness or fineness; the smaller the number, the coarser the abrasive: thus, 60 is rough, 600 is fine, and 3000 is ultrafine.
- Sand or a sand–salt mixture spread on wet and, especially, icy roads and footpaths to improve traction.
- (geology) A hard, coarse-grained siliceous sandstone; gritstone. Also, a finer sharp-grained sandstone, e.g., grindstone grit.
- A collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone, debris from sandblasting or other such grinding, or swarf from metalworking.
- fortitude and determination
- a hard coarse-grained siliceous sandstone
verb
noun
- a relatively small granular particle of a substance
- the physical composition of something (especially with respect to the size and shape of the small constituents of a substance)
- the direction, texture, or pattern of fibers found in wood or leather or stone or in a woven fabric
- the smallest possible unit of anything
- a cereal grass
- foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses
- a weight unit used for pearls or diamonds: 50 mg or 1/4 carat
- 1/60 dram; equals an avoirdupois grain or 64.799 milligrams
- the side of leather from which the hair has been removed
- dry seed-like fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e.g. wheat, barley, Indian corn
- 1/7000 pound; equals a troy grain or 64.799 milligrams
- Temper; natural disposition; inclination.
- The metric, carat, or pearl grain of ¹⁄₄ carat used for measuring precious stones and pearls, now exactly 50 mg.
- An iron fish spear or harpoon, with a number of points half-barbed inwardly.
- (uncountable) A linear texture of a material or surface.
- (countable, uncountable) The crops from which grain is harvested.
- (photography, videography) Visual texture in processed photographic film due to the presence of small particles of a metallic silver, or dye clouds, developed from silver halide that have received enough photons.
- One of the branches of a valley or river.
- (botany) A rounded prominence on the back of a sepal, as in the common dock.
- (in the plural) The remains of grain, etc., after brewing or distillation; hence, any residuum.
- (historical) The French grain of ¹⁄₉₂₁₆ livre, equivalent to 53.11 mg at metricization and equal to exactly 54.25 mg from 1812–1839 as part of the mesures usuelles.
- (countable) A single particle of a substance.
- (dialectal, anatomy) The fangs of a tooth.
- (materials) A region within a material having a single crystal structure or direction.
- (countable) A single seed of grass food crops.
- (dialectal, anatomy) The groin; crotch.
- A branch of a tree; a stalk or stem of a plant; an offshoot.
- (countable, chiefly historical) Any of various small units of length originally notionally based on a grain's width, variously standardized at different places and times.
- (uncountable) The harvested seeds of various grass food crops eg: wheat, corn, barley.
- The hair side of a piece of leather, or the marking on that side.
- (dialectal) A fork in a river valley or ravine.
- A blade of a sword, knife, etc.
- (founding) A thin piece of metal, used in a mould to steady a core.
- (uncountable) Similar seeds from any food crop, e.g., buckwheat, amaranth, quinoa.
- (countable, historical) The carat grain of ¹⁄₄ carat as a measure of gold purity, creating a 96-point scale between 0% and 100% purity.
- An arm of a cross.
- A reddish dye made from the coccus insect, or kermes; hence, a red color of any tint or hue, as crimson, scarlet, etc.; sometimes used by the poets as equivalent to Tyrian purple.
- (dialectal) The branch of a family; clan.
- (astronautics) The solid piece of fuel in an individual solid-fuel rocket engine.
- The English grain of ¹⁄₅₇₆₀ troy pound or ¹⁄₇₀₀₀ pound avoirdupois, now exactly 64.79891 mg.
- (dialectal) A branch or arm of a stream, inlet, or sea.
verb
- paint (a surface) to make it look like stone or wood
- thoroughly work in
- become granular
- form into grains
- (transitive) To make granular; to form into grains.
- (transitive) To feed grain to.
- To texture a surface in imitation of the grain of a substance such as wood.
- (tanning) To soften leather.
- To yield fruit.
- (tanning) To remove the hair or fat from a skin.
- (intransitive) To form grains, or to assume a granular form, as the result of crystallization; to granulate.
noun
- A small, hard particle.
- A type of callus, usually on the feet or hands.
- (Commonwealth, but not Australia or New Zealand, uncountable) Any cereal plant (or its grain) that is the main crop or staple of a country or region.
- (Jamaica, MLE, slang, firearms, uncountable) Bullets, ammunition, charge and discharge of firearms.
- (US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, uncountable) Maize, a grain crop of the species Zea mays.
- (US, Canada) Something (e.g., acting, humour, music, or writing) which is deemed old-fashioned or intended to induce emotion.
- (Internet, euphemistic) pornography; porn
- (Jamaica, slang, uncountable) Money.
- A grain or seed, especially of a cereal crop.
- (veterinary medicine) Skin hyperplasia with underlying fibroma between both digits of cattle.
- (veterinary medicine) An inflammatory disease of a horse's hoof, at the caudal part of the sole.
- (uncountable) A type of granular snow formed by repeated melting and refreezing, often in mountain spring conditions.
- tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears: widely cultivated in America in many varieties; the principal cereal in Mexico and Central and South America since pre-Columbian times
- the dried grains or kernels or corn used as animal feed or ground for meal
- ears of corn that can be prepared and served for human food
- a hard thickening of the skin (especially on the top or sides of the toes) caused by the pressure of ill-fitting shoes
- whiskey distilled from a mash of not less than 80 percent corn
- something sentimental or trite
- (Great Britain) any of various cereal plants (especially the dominant crop of the region — wheat in Great Britain or oats in Scotland and Ireland)
verb
- (US, Canada) To preserve using coarse salt, e.g. corned beef.
- (US, Canada) To provide (an animal) with corn (typically maize; or, in Scotland, oats) for feed.
- (US, Canada) To granulate; to form (a substance) into grains.
- (Jamaica, MLE, slang) To shoot up with bullets as by a shotgun (corn).
- preserve with large-grained rock salt
- feed (cattle) with corn
noun
- A fragment of something; a particle; a piece; also, a very small amount.
- (rare) A shard or sherd (“a piece of broken glass or pottery”).
- A long, narrow piece (especially of fabric) cut or torn off; a strip; specifically, a piece of cloth or clothing.
- (cooking) A thin strip of fruit peel, a vegetable, etc., cut so that it curls.
- (by extension) A thin strand or wisp, as of a cloud, mist, etc.
- a small piece of cloth
- a tiny or scarcely detectable amount
adj
verb
- (music) Chiefly in rock and heavy metal: to play (a musical instrument (especially a guitar) or a piece of music) very fast and in a way that requires technical skill.
- (cooking) To cut (fruit peel, a vegetable, etc.) into thin strips that curl.
- To destroy (a document) by cutting or tearing into strips or small pieces that cannot easily be read, especially using a shredder.
- To reduce (something) by a large percentage; to slash.
- (bodybuilding) To reduce body weight due to fat and water before a competition.
- To become separated into small portions.
- (originally US) To convincingly defeat (someone); to thrash, to trounce.
- To separate (something) into small portions.
- (snowboarding, surfing) To cut through (snow, water, etc.) swiftly with one's snowboard, surfboard, etc.; (by extension) to move or ride along (a road, track, etc.) aggressively and rapidly.
- (snowboarding, surfing, etc.) To travel swiftly using a snowboard, surfboard, or vehicle.
- To cut or tear (something) into long, narrow pieces or strips.
- tear into shreds
noun
- The particles themselves.
- (rare) A declined offer in a sales transaction when acceptance was presumed.
- (radio, television, broadcasting) An impromptu guest used to fill in for another guest spot who is a no-show or who has cancelled last minute.
- A negative side effect; an undesirable or unexpected consequence.
- The event of small airborne particles falling to the ground in significant quantities as a result of major industrial activity, volcano eruption, sandstorm, nuclear explosion, etc.
- (rare) The person who declines such an offer.
- the radioactive particles that settle to the ground after a nuclear explosion
- any adverse and unwanted secondary effect
noun
- A very small amount; a particle; a whit.
- A small etheostomoid fish, Etheostoma stigmaeum, common in the eastern United States.
- The fat of the hippopotamus.
- A tiny spot or particle, especially of dirt.
- Fat; lard; fat meat.
- (uncountable) A juniper-flavoured ham originally from Tyrol.
- The blubber of whales or other marine mammals.
- a very small spot
- a slight but appreciable amount
- (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything
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noun
- A very small piece of matter, a fragment; especially, the smallest possible part of something.
- (grammar) A part of speech that has no inherent lexical definition but must be associated with another word to impart meaning, often a grammatical category: for example, the English word to in a full infinitive phrase (to eat) or O in a vocative phrase (O Canada), or as a discourse marker (mmm).
- (linguistics) A part of speech which cannot be inflected.
- (physics) Any of various physical objects making up the constituent parts of an atom; an elementary particle or subatomic particle.
- A little bit.
- (Christianity) In the Roman Catholic church, a crumb of consecrated bread; also the smaller breads used in the communion of the laity.
- a body having finite mass and internal structure but negligible dimensions
- a function word that can be used in English to form phrasal verbs
- (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything
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- (ambitransitive) To speak so rapidly as to emit saliva; to utter words hastily and indistinctly, with a spluttering sound, as in rage.
- (ambitransitive) To throw out anything, as little jets of steam, with a noise like that made by one sputtering.
- (physics, intransitive) To cause surface atoms or electrons of a solid to be ejected by bombarding it with heavy atoms or ions.
- (intransitive) To emit saliva or spit from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking.
- (physics, transitive) To coat the surface of an object by sputtering.
- utter with a spitting sound, as if in a rage
- spit up in an explosive manner
- climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling
- cause to undergo a process in which atoms are removed
- make an explosive sound
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adj
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- a small piece
- a small lump or protuberance
- the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
- (euphemistic or vulgar slang) The clitoris.
- (computing, colloquial) A pointing stick.
- (Internet slang) Alternative spelling of noob.
- A small knob or lump.
- The essence or core of an issue, argument etc.
- (theater) A passage of Shakespearean blank verse.
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noun
- a small piece
- the part of a check that is retained as a record
- the small unused part of something (especially the end of a cigarette that is left after smoking)
- a short piece remaining on a trunk or stem where a branch is lost
- a torn part of a ticket returned to the holder as a receipt
- A piece of certain paper items, designed to be torn off and kept for record or identification purposes.
- The smallest remainder of a smoked cigarette; a butt.
- A pen with a short, blunt nib.
- (electronics, radio frequency circuits) A length of transmission line or waveguide that is connected at one end only.
- The remaining part of the docked tail of a dog
- (wiki jargon) An article providing only minimal information and intended for later development.
- An unequal first or last interest calculation period, as a part of a financial swap contract
- Something blunted, stunted, or cut short, such as stubble or a stump.
- (programming) A placeholder procedure that has the signature of the planned procedure but does not yet implement the intended behavior.
- An old and worn horseshoe nail.
- Stub iron.
- (typography, in tabular matter) A row heading in a table (with horizontal reference, whereas a column heading has vertical reference).
- (computing, middleware) A procedure that translates requests from external systems into a format suitable for processing and then submits those requests for processing.
verb
- extinguish by crushing
- clear of weeds by uprooting them
- pull up (weeds) by their roots
- strike (one's toe) accidentally against an object
- (transitive) To remove most of a tree, bush, or other rooted plant by cutting it close to the ground.
- (transitive) To jam, hit, or bump, especially a toe.
- (transitive) To remove a plant by pulling it out by the roots.
noun
- a very small quantity of something
- small piece of e.g. bread or cake
- a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible
- A small piece which breaks off from baked food (such as cake, biscuit or bread).
- A mixture of sugar, cocoa and milk, used to make industrial chocolate.
- The soft internal portion of bread, surrounded by crust.
- Ellipsis of crumb rubber.
- (slang) A body louse (Pediculus humanus).
- (figuratively) A bit, small amount.
- A small piece of any other solid substance.
- (slang) A nobody; a worthless person.
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noun
- A very small quantity or degree; a particle; an atom; a jot.
- (US, golf, disc golf) A hole in one.
- (US) A perfect score on a school exam.
- (dice games) A die face marked with a single dot, typically representing the number one.
- (slang) A person who is asexual.
- (tennis, volleyball) A serve won without the opponent hitting the ball.
- (sometimes attributive) An expert at something; a maverick, genius; a person of supreme talent.
- (card games) A playing card showing a single pip, typically the highest or lowest ranking card in a game.
- Any of various hesperiid butterflies.
- The ball marked with the number 1 in pool and related games.
- (sports) A point won by a single stroke, as in handball, rackets, etc.
- A military aircraft pilot who is credited with shooting down many enemy aircraft, typically five or more.
- (US, slang) A dollar bill.
- (US, baseball) The best pitcher on the team.
- someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field
- one of four playing cards in a deck having a single pip on its face
- a serve that the receiver is unable to reach
- the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number
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- (ambitransitive, US, informal) To defeat (others) in a contest; to outdo (others) in a competition.
- (ambitransitive, tennis) To win a point against (an opponent) by an ace.
- (golf) To make an ace (hole in one).
- (transitive, US, informal) To pass (a test, interviews etc.) perfectly.
- succeed at easily
- score an ace against
- play (a hole) in one stroke
- serve an ace against (someone)
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- Small, hard, inedible particles in food.
- (usually in the plural) Coarsely ground corn or hominy used as porridge.
- (usually in the plural) Husked but unground oats.
- (idiomatic) Strength of mind; courage or fearlessness; fortitude.
- A measure of the size of abrasive grains, such as those on sandpaper, and thus their relative coarseness or fineness; the smaller the number, the coarser the abrasive: thus, 60 is rough, 600 is fine, and 3000 is ultrafine.
- Sand or a sand–salt mixture spread on wet and, especially, icy roads and footpaths to improve traction.
- (geology) A hard, coarse-grained siliceous sandstone; gritstone. Also, a finer sharp-grained sandstone, e.g., grindstone grit.
- A collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone, debris from sandblasting or other such grinding, or swarf from metalworking.
- fortitude and determination
- a hard coarse-grained siliceous sandstone
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- (transitive) To strike with something made up of small particles.
- (cryptography) To use a pepper (type of value used prior to hashing).
- (transitive) To add pepper to.
- (transitive, MLE, slang) To shoot (upon) with the dotty.
- (transitive, slang) To beat or thrash.
- (transitive, slang) To write accents or disambiguating marks in script.
- (transitive) To cover with lots of (something made up of small things).
- (transitive) To add (something) at frequent intervals.
- add pepper to
- attack and bombard with or as if with missiles
noun
- (MLE, slang) A shotgun.
- (baseball) A game used by baseball players to warm up where fielders standing close to a batter rapidly return the batted ball to be hit again
- (cryptography) A randomly-generated value that is added to another value (such as a password) prior to hashing. Unlike a salt, a new one is generated for each value and it is held separately from the value.
- A plant of the family Piperaceae.
- (UK, US, Ireland and Canada) A fruit of the capsicum plant: red, green, yellow or white, hollow and containing seeds, and in a wide range of mild (sweet, nonspicy) to hot (spicy) varieties.
- (uncountable) A spice prepared from the fermented, dried, unripe berries of this plant.
- (boxing, slang) A beating; a thrashing.
- any of various tropical plants of the genus Capsicum bearing peppers
- climber having dark red berries (peppercorns) when fully ripe; southern India and Sri Lanka; naturalized in northern Burma and Assam
- pungent seasoning from the berry of the common pepper plant of East India; use whole or ground
- sweet and hot varieties of fruits of plants of the genus Capsicum
adj
- Consisting of especially minute particulates; made up of particularly small pieces.
- of textures that are smooth to the touch or substances consisting of relatively small particles
- Of superior quality.
- Made of slender or thin filaments.
- Delicate; subtle; exquisite; artful; dexterous.
- (ironic) Impressively bad, inappropriate, or unsatisfactory.
- An answer often used to cover an unnecessary explanation, rather to avoid conflict or an argument. Saying "I'm fine" can be used to avoid inquiry when the speaker is not really okay.
- (cricket) Behind the batsman and at a small angle to the line between the wickets.
- Subtle, delicately balanced or discriminated.
- (of weather) Sunny and not raining.
- Particularly slender; especially thin, narrow, or of small girth.
- (informal) Being acceptable, adequate, passable, or satisfactory.
- Having a (specified) proportion of pure metal in its composition.
- Of a particular grade of quality, usually between very good and very fine, and below mint.
- (informal) Good-looking, attractive.
- free from impurities; having a high or specified degree of purity
- thin in thickness or diameter
- being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition
- characterized by elegance or refinement or accomplishment
- minutely precise especially in differences in meaning
adv
- (pool, billiards) In a manner so that the driven ball strikes the object ball so far to one side as to be barely deflected, the object ball being driven to one side.
- Well, nicely, in a positive, agreeable way.
- an expression of agreement normally occurring at the beginning of a sentence
- in a delicate manner
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noun
- (feudal law) A final agreement concerning lands or rents between persons, as the lord and his vassal.
- (usually in the plural) Something that is fine; fine particles.
- Fine champagne; French brandy.
- (Cambridge University slang) A drink that must be taken during a meal or as part of a drinking game, following an announcement that anyone who has done some (usually outrageous) deed is to be fined; similar to I have never; commonly associated with swaps; very similar to a sconce at Oxford University, though a fine is the penalty itself rather than the act of issuing it.
- (music) The location in a musical score that indicates the end of the piece, particularly when the piece ends somewhere in the middle of the score due to a section of the music being repeated.
- (UK, law) A sum of money or price paid for obtaining a benefit, favor, or privilege, as for admission to a copyhold, or for obtaining or renewing a lease.
- A fee levied as punishment for breaking the law.
- (music) The end of a musical composition.
- money extracted as a penalty
verb
- (intransitive) To pay a fine.
- (intransitive) To become finer, purer, or cleaner.
- (transitive) To make finer, purer, or cleaner; to purify or clarify.
- To change by fine gradations.
- (transitive) To issue a fine as punishment to (someone).
- To make finer, or less coarse, as in bulk, texture, etc.
- (transitive) To clarify (wine and beer) by filtration.
- impose a fine on
- record a fine as a penalty in a police record
adj
- have fine or very small constituent particles
- (of a voice) faint
- limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
- (of children and animals) young, immature
- relatively moderate, limited, or small
- not large but sufficient in size or amount
- lowercase
- low or inferior in station or quality
- slight or limited; especially in degree or intensity or scope
- made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth)
- Having a small penis, muscles, or other important body parts, regardless of overall body size.
- Not prolonged in duration; not extended in time; short.
- Humiliated or insignificant.
- (figuratively, not comparable) Young, as a child.
- (especially clothing, food or drink) That is small (the manufactured size).
- Synonym of little (“of an industry or institution(s) therein: operating on a small scale, unlike larger counterparts”).
- (writing, not comparable) Minuscule or lowercase, referring to written or printed letters.
- Evincing little worth or ability; not large-minded; paltry; mean.
- Not large or big; insignificant; few in number.
noun
- the slender part of the back
- a garment size for a small person
- (countable, especially clothing, food or drink) An item labelled or denoted as being that size.
- (countable, rare) Any part of something that is smaller or slimmer than the rest, now usually with anatomical reference to the back.
- (uncountable, especially clothing, food or drink) One of several common sizes to which an item may be manufactured, smaller than a medium.
- (countable, especially with respect to clothing) One who fits an item of that size.
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- (chiefly in the plural) Any solid or liquid in a subdivided state, especially one that exhibits special characteristics which are negligible in the bulk material.
- a small discrete mass of solid or liquid matter that remains individually dispersed in gas or liquid emissions (usually considered to be an atmospheric pollutant)