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verb
- accompany as an escort
- conduct someone someplace
- To attend to in order to guard and protect; to accompany as a safeguard (for the person escorted or for others); to give honorable or ceremonious attendance to.
- To go with someone as a partner, for example on a formal date.
- To accompany (a person) in order to compel them to go somewhere (e.g. to leave a building).
- (intransitive) To work as an escort (sex worker).
noun
- someone who escorts and protects a prominent person
- an attendant who is employed to accompany someone
- A guard who travels with a dangerous person, such as a criminal, for the protection of others.
- the act of accompanying someone or something in order to protect them
- A group of people or vehicles, generally armed, who go with a person or people of importance to safeguard them on a journey or mission.
- a participant in a date
- A group of people attending as a mark of respect or honor.
- An accompanying person in such a group.
- Protection, care, or safeguard on a journey or excursion.
- An accompanying person in a social gathering, etc.
- (originally euphemistic) A sex worker who does not operate in a brothel, but with whom clients make appointments; a call girl or male equivalent; a pimp.
verb
noun
- A type of hood, often ornamental or official, with an attached cape and a tail, later worn as a hat with the face hole put over the top of the head instead.
- An adult who accompanies or supervises one or more young, unmarried men or women during social occasions, usually with the specific intent of preventing some types of social or sexual interactions or illegal behavior.
- A device placed on the foreheads of horses which draw the hearse in pompous funerals.
- one who accompanies and supervises a young woman or gatherings of young people
noun
- A guide or escort through an unknown or dangerous area.
- One who flies a kite.
- A pilot light.
- A short plug, sometimes made interchangeable, at the end of a counterbore to guide the tool.
- A person who steers a ship, a helmsman.
- (Australia, road transport, informal) A pilot vehicle.
- (aviation) A person who is in charge of the controls of an aircraft.
- Something serving as a test or trial.
- (mining) The heading or excavation of relatively small dimensions, first made in the driving of a larger tunnel.
- An instrument for detecting the compass error.
- (telecommunications, often attributive) A tone or signal, usually a single frequency, transmitted over a communications system for control or synchronization purposes.
- A guide book for maritime navigation.
- A person who knows well the depths, shoals, and currents of a harbor or coastal area, who is hired by a vessel to help navigate the harbor or coast.
- (television) A sample episode of a proposed TV series produced to decide if it should be made or not. If approved, typically the first episode of an actual TV series.
- (Australia, road transport) A person authorised to drive such a vehicle during an escort.
- (rail transport) A cowcatcher.
- (Europe, motor racing) A racing driver.
- a person qualified to guide ships through difficult waters going into or out of a harbor
- small auxiliary gas burner that provides a flame to ignite a larger gas burner
- something that serves as a model or a basis for making copies
- an inclined metal frame at the front of a locomotive to clear the track
- a program exemplifying a contemplated series; intended to attract sponsors
- someone who is licensed to operate an aircraft in flight
adj
verb
- (transitive) To guide (a vessel) through coastal waters.
- (transitive) To control (an aircraft or watercraft).
- (transitive) To guide or conduct (a person) somewhere.
- (rail transport, of a locomotive) To serve as the leading locomotive on a double-headed train.
- (transitive) To test or have a preliminary trial of (an idea, a new product, television show, etc.)
- act as the navigator in a car, plane, or vessel and plan, direct, plot the path and position of the conveyance
- operate an airplane
verb
noun
verb
noun
- One who, or that which, defends or protects; defence; protection.
- A safe-conduct or passport, especially in time of war.
- Something that serves as a guard or protection; a defense.
- a precautionary measure warding off impending danger or damage or injury etc.
- a document or escort providing safe passage through a region especially in time of war
verb
- accompany or escort
- make walk
- use one's feet to advance; advance by steps
- take a walk; go for a walk; walk for pleasure
- be or act in association with
- obtain a base on balls
- walk at a pace
- give a base on balls to
- live or behave in a specified manner
- traverse or cover by walking
- (machining, intransitive, of a tool, such as a drill bit or reamer) To tend to move radially while feeding axially, whether tending toward on-center or tending toward off-center. Walking may be desirable (e.g., when a reamer walks into concentricity) or undesirable (e.g., when a twist drill walks into eccentricity.)
- (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) Of an object, to go missing or be stolen.
- (transitive) To traverse by walking (or analogous gradual movement).
- (intransitive) To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct oneself.
- (informal, transitive) To move (a guest) to another hotel if their confirmed reservation is not available on the day of check-in.
- (intransitive) To move on the feet by alternately setting each foot (or pair or group of feet, in the case of animals with four or more feet) forward, with at least one foot on the ground at all times. Compare run.
- (transitive) To cause something to move in such a way.
- (transitive) To take for a walk or accompany on a walk.
- (transitive, baseball) To allow a batter to reach base by pitching four balls.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To leave, resign.
- (intransitive, cricket, of a batsman) To walk off the field, as if given out, after the fielding side appeals and before the umpire has ruled; done as a matter of sportsmanship when the batsman believes he is out.
- (intransitive, colloquial, law) To "walk free", i.e. to win, or avoid, a criminal court case, particularly when actually guilty.
- (intransitive) Of an object or machine, to move by shifting between two positions, as if it were walking.
- (transitive, historical) To put, keep, or train (a puppy) in a walk, or training area for dogfighting.
- (transitive) To push (a vehicle) alongside oneself as one walks.
- (intransitive, baseball, of a batter) To reach base by being pitched four balls.
- (transitive, aviation) To operate the left and right throttles of (an aircraft) in alternation.
- (transitive) To full; to beat (cloth) to give it the consistency of felt.
- (intransitive) To go restlessly about; said of things or persons expected to remain quiet, such as a sleeping person, or the spirit of a dead person.
- (transitive) To travel (a distance) by walking.
- (paintball) To pull (a trigger) rapid-fire by alternating two fingers.
noun
- the act of walking somewhere
- manner of walking
- a slow gait of a horse in which two feet are always on the ground
- careers in general
- the act of traveling by foot
- a path set aside for walking
- (baseball) an advance to first base by a batter who receives four balls
- A distance walked.
- (Caribbean, Belize, Guyana, Jamaica) An area of an estate planted with fruit-bearing trees.
- (historical) An enclosed area in which a gamecock is confined to prepare him for fighting.
- (colloquial) Something very easily accomplished; a walk in the park.
- A trip made by walking.
- (poker) A situation where all players fold to the big blind, as their first action (instead of calling or raising), once they get their cards.
- (figurative) A person's conduct or course in life.
- A manner of walking; a person's style of walking.
- In coffee, coconut, and other plantations, the space between them.
- (sports) An Olympic Games track event requiring that the heel of the leading foot touch the ground before the toe of the trailing foot leaves the ground.
- (baseball) An award of first base to a batter following four balls being thrown by the pitcher; known in the rules as a "base on balls".
- (historical) A place for keeping and training puppies for dogfighting.
- A path, sidewalk/pavement or other maintained place on which to walk.
- (graph theory) A sequence of alternating vertices and edges, where each edge's endpoints are the preceding and following vertices in the sequence. Compare path, trail.
verb
- To escort someone on a date.
- (transitive) To obtain by application by a legal or other official process.
- (idiomatic, slang) To kill or destroy.
- (idiomatic, slang) To stun, amaze; to kill.
- (idiomatic) To immobilize with force; to subdue; to incapacitate.
- To remove.
- (colloquial) To win a sporting event, competition, premiership, etc.
- remove from its packing
- take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy
- take out or remove
- purchase prepared food to be eaten at home
- remove (a commodity) from (a supply source)
- make a date
- prevent from being included or considered or accepted
- bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a cover
- remove something from a container or an enclosed space
- cause to leave
- obtain by legal or official process
- buy and consume food from a restaurant or establishment that sells prepared food
- remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense
- take liquid out of a container or well
noun
noun
- A male escort who accompanies a woman to an event.
- A walking frame or baby walker.
- Alternative form of waulker.
- The agent noun of to walk: a person who walks or a thing which walks, especially a pedestrian or a participant in a walking race.
- (rare) One who walks (takes for a walk).
- (law) A forester.
- (science fiction) A kind of military robot or mecha with legs for locomotion.
- (fiction) A zombie.
- A gressorial bird.
- (cricket) A batsman or batswoman who directly walks off the field when out without waiting for the umpire's decision.
- (often in the plural) A shoe designed for comfortable walking.
- (Philippines) A prostitute, streetwalker.
- a person who travels by foot
- a shoe designed for comfortable walking
- an enclosing framework on casters or wheels; helps babies learn to walk
- a light enclosing framework (trade name Zimmer) with rubber castors or wheels and handles; helps invalids or the handicapped or the aged to walk
noun
- a traveler who accompanies you
- one paid to accompany or assist or live with another
- a friend who is frequently in the company of another
- A friend, acquaintance, or partner; someone with whom one spends time or accompanies
- (figuratively) A thing or phenomenon that is closely associated with another thing, phenomenon, or person.
- (nautical) The framework on the quarterdeck of a sailing ship through which daylight entered the cabins below.
- (topology) A knot in whose neighborhood another, specified knot meets every meridian disk.
- A knight of the lowest rank in certain orders.
- (attributive) An appended source of media or information, designed to be used in conjunction with and to enhance the main material.
- (astronomy) A celestial object that is associated with another.
- (nautical) The covering of a hatchway on an upper deck which leads to the companionway; the stairs themselves.
verb
verb
noun
- the act of escorting while in transit
- a procession of land vehicles traveling together
- a collection of merchant ships with an escort of warships
- The act of convoying; protection.
- A group of vehicles travelling together for safety, especially one with an escort.
- (nautical) One or more merchant ships sailing in company to the same general destination under the protection of naval vessels.
noun
adj
- having or displaying great dignity or nobility
- being attentive to women like an ideal knight
- unflinching in battle or action
- lively and spirited
- Grand, noble.
- Honorable.
- Polite and attentive to ladies; courteous to women; chivalrous.
- Brave, valiant, courteous, especially with regard to male attitudes towards women.
verb
noun
- a man who attends or escorts a woman
- an English country landowner
- young nobleman attendant on a knight
- A title of dignity next in degree below knight, and above gentleman. See esquire.
- An Australian snapper (Chrysophrys auratus), a food fish also found in eastern Asia.
- A shield-bearer or armor-bearer who attended a knight.
- A devoted attendant or follower of a lady; a beau.
- (UK, colloquial) A term of address to a male equal.
- A title of office and courtesy. See under esquire.
- A grass emperor (Lethrinus laticaudis), of coral reefs of the western Pacific.
- A male attendant on a great personage.
- (historical) A landowner from the English gentry during the early modern period.
verb
noun
- a member of a surveillance team who works on foot or rides as a passenger
- lowest support of a structure
- travel by walking
- an army unit consisting of soldiers who fight on foot
- the pedal extremity of vertebrates other than human beings
- a support resembling a pedal extremity
- a linear unit of length equal to 12 inches or a third of a yard
- the part of the leg of a human being below the ankle joint
- any of various organs of locomotion or attachment in invertebrates
- the lower part of anything
- (prosody) a group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm
- (anatomy) Specifically, a human foot, which is found below the ankle and is used for standing and walking.
- (molecular biology) The globular lower domain of a protein.
- (botany) In a bryophyte, that portion of a sporophyte which remains embedded within and attached to the parent gametophyte plant.
- (cigars) The end of a cigar which is lit, and usually cut before lighting.
- (phonology) The parsing of syllables into prosodic constituents, which are used to determine the placement of stress in languages along with the notions of constituent heads.
- (printing) The bottommost part of a typed or printed page.
- Recognized condition; rank; footing.
- (geometry) The point of intersection of one line with another that is perpendicular to it.
- (sewing) The part of a sewing machine which presses downward on the fabric, and may also serve to move it forward.
- The end of a rectangular table opposite the head.
- (informal) Ellipsis of cubic foot, a unit of volume.
- (nautical) The bottom edge of a sail.
- Fundamental principle; basis; plan.
- (informal) Ellipsis of square foot, a unit of area.
- (billiards) The end of a billiard or pool table behind the foot point where the balls are racked.
- (malacology) The muscular part of a bivalve mollusc or a gastropod by which it moves or holds its position on a surface.
- A biological structure found in many animals that is used for locomotion and that is frequently a separate organ at the terminal part of the leg.
- (prosody) The basic measure of rhythm in a poem.
- (collective, military) Foot soldiers; infantry.
- The base or bottom of anything.
- A short foot-like projection on the bottom of an object to support it.
- (printing) The base of a piece of type, forming the sides of the groove.
- The part of a flat surface on which the feet customarily rest.
- (music) A unit of measure for organ pipes equal to the wavelength of two octaves above middle C, approximately 328 mm.
- (often used attributively) Travel by walking.
- A unit of measure equal to twelve inches or one third of a yard, equal to exactly 30.48 centimetres.
verb
- pay for something
- walk
- add a column of numbers
- To walk.
- (transitive) To use the foot to kick (usually a ball).
- To renew the foot of (a stocking, etc.).
- To sum up, as the numbers in a column; sometimes with up.
- To tread to measure of music; to dance; to trip; to skip.
- (transitive) To pay (a bill).
- (Ireland, transitive) To spread out and stack up (turf sods) to allow them to dry.
noun
verb
noun
- One who strolls.
- Men's semiformal daytime dress comprising a grey or black single- or double-breasted coat, grey striped or checked formal trousers, a grey or silver necktie, and a grey, black or buff waistcoat.
- A vagrant.
- (US, Canada, Australia) A seat or chair on wheels, pushed by somebody walking behind it, typically used for transporting babies and young children.
- a small vehicle with four wheels in which a baby or child is pushed around
- someone who walks at a leisurely pace
noun
- A gentleman who attends or escorts a lady in public.
- A male member of the gentry ranking below a knight.
- An honorific sometimes placed after a man's name.
- (usually US, law) A lawyer.
- (heraldry, rare) The lower of the halves into which a square is divided diagonally, a single gyron, but potentially larger (extending across the shield) or smaller (for example, on Mortimer's arms).
- (Middle Ages) an attendant and shield bearer to a knight; a candidate for knighthood
noun
- The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
- (music) The rhythm signalled by a conductor or other musician to the members of a group of musicians.
- (slang) A makeup look; compare beat one's face.
- The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
- A rhythm.
- A pulsation or throb.
- (journalism) The primary focus of a reporter's stories (such as police/courts, education, city government, business etc.).
- (authorship) A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.
- (music) A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is the basic time unit of a piece.
- The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency
- (hunting) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.
- A stroke; a blow.
- (fencing) A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
- A beatnik.
- the sound of stroke or blow
- a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior
- a regular route for a sentry or policeman
- the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart
- a single pulsation of an oscillation produced by adding two waves of different frequencies; has a frequency equal to the difference between the two oscillations
- the act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing
- (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
- a regular rate of repetition
- a stroke or blow
- the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music
adj
verb
- (intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
- To make a sound when struck.
- To be in agitation or doubt.
- To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
- simple past tense of beat
- (military, intransitive) To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
- (intransitive, MLE, MTE, slang, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse.
- (transitive, slang) To rob; to cheat or scam.
- (transitive) To arrive at a place before someone.
- (intransitive) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
- (intransitive) To move with pulsation or throbbing.
- (transitive) To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
- (especially colloquial) past participle of beat
- To tread, as a path.
- To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
- To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and lesser intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; said of instruments, tones, or vibrations not perfectly in unison.
- (transitive) To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do or be better than (someone); to excel in a particular, competitive event.
- (transitive) To indicate by beating or drumming.
- (transitive) To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting.
- (transitive) To hit; to strike.
- (transitive, UK, in haggling for a price of a buyer) To persuade the seller to reduce a price.
- move rhythmically
- move with or as if with a regular alternating motion
- strike (a part of one's own body) repeatedly, as in great emotion or in accompaniment to music
- make a rhythmic sound
- move with a thrashing motion
- produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly
- wear out completely
- stir vigorously
- avoid paying
- hit repeatedly
- be superior
- make a sound like a clock or a timer
- shape by beating
- be a mystery or bewildering to
- indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks
- glare or strike with great intensity
- come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
- make by pounding or trampling
- sail with much tacking or with difficulty
- strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting
- give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression
- beat through cleverness and wit
- move with a flapping motion
noun
- the act of accompanying someone or something in order to protect them
- an event or situation that happens at the same time as or in connection with another
- something added to complete or embellish or make perfect
- a musical part (vocal or instrumental) that supports or provides background for other musical parts
- (music) A part, usually performed by instruments, that gives support or adds to the background in music, or adds for ornamentation; also, the harmony of a figured bass.
- That which accompanies; something that attends as a circumstance, or which is added to give greater completeness to the principal thing, or by way of ornament, or for the sake of symmetry.
verb
- (transitive) To guide or escort.
- (transitive) To bestow; to confer.
- (intransitive, card games) To reveal one's hand of cards.
- (intransitive, informal) To have an enlarged belly and thus be recognizable as pregnant.
- (intransitive) To be visible; to be seen; to appear.
- (intransitive, motor racing) To finish third, especially of horses or dogs.
- (transitive) To indicate (a fact) to be true; to demonstrate.
- (intransitive, informal) To put in an appearance; show up.
- (transitive) To display, to have somebody see (something).
- show in, or as in, a picture
- give expression to
- indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments
- give evidence of, as of records
- establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment
- be or become visible or noticeable
- finish third or better in a horse or dog race
- give an exhibition of to an interested audience
- indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively
- make visible or noticeable
- provide evidence for
- take (someone) to their seats, as in theaters or auditoriums
noun
- (uncountable) Mere display or pomp with no substance. (Usually seen in the phrases "all show" and "for show".)
- A project or presentation.
- (Australia, New Zealand, countable) An agricultural exhibition.
- (military, slang) A battle; local conflict.
- Synonym of shive (“wood fragment of the husk of flax or hemp”).
- (countable) A demonstration.
- (countable) A play, dance, or other entertainment.
- (countable) A movie.
- (countable) A broadcast program, especially a light entertainment program.
- (medicine) A discharge, from the vagina, of mucus streaked with blood, occurring a short time before labor.
- (baseball, with "the") The major leagues.
- Outward appearance; wileful or deceptive appearance.
- (countable) An exhibition of items.
- pretending that something is the case in order to make a good impression
- an act or social event involving a public performance or entertainment
- something intended to communicate a particular impression
verb
noun
- one who accompanies and supervises a young woman or gatherings of young people
- (biochemistry) A protein that assists the non-covalent folding/unfolding and the assembly/disassembly of other macromolecular structures, but does not occur in these structures when the latter are performing their normal biological functions.
- An older person who accompanies other younger people to ensure the propriety of their behaviour, often an older woman accompanying a young woman.
- (UK, business) An employee sent by a British company to the European Union to work with a client there, to circumvent restrictions imposed after Brexit.
noun
- A female chaperone who accompanies a man, and is usually not married to him.
- A kind of goad or stick with an iron point.
- A man's personal male attendant, responsible for his clothes and appearance.
- (professional wrestling) A female performer in professional wrestling, acting as either a manager or personal chaperone; often used to attract and titillate male members of the audience.
- A person employed to assist the jockey and trainer at a racecourse.
- (US) A person employed to clean or park cars.
- A hotel employee performing such duties for guests.
- A wooden stand on which to hold clothes and accessories in preparation for dressing.
- a manservant who acts as a personal attendant to their employer
verb
noun
- someone who guards an entrance
- an official stationed at the entrance of a courtroom or legislative chamber
- the lowest of the minor Holy Orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed by the Roman Catholic Church
- The person in charge of an entryway, sometimes responsible for security in the immediate area around the entryway.
- (figurative) Someone with power to keep others out of some sphere or activity.
noun
- someone who guards an entrance
- someone who controls access to something
- One who gatekeeps.
- A person who guards or monitors passage through a gate.
- (computing) A provider of core platform services with specific characteristics (Regulation (EU) 2022/1925 of the European Parliament and of the Council)
- A common orange and brown butterfly with eyespots, Pyronia tithonus, of the family Nymphalidae.
- (psychology) In dissociative identity disorder, an aspect of the personality that controls access to the various identities.
- A person or group who controls access to something or somebody.
noun
- someone who guards an entrance
- a very dark sweet ale brewed from roasted unmalted barley
- a person employed to carry luggage and supplies
- a railroad employee who assists passengers (especially on sleeping cars)
- (beer, Ireland) Stout (malt brew).
- (countable, bowling) An employee who clears and cleans tables and puts bowling balls away.
- (countable, uncountable, beer) A strong, dark ale, originally favored by porters (etymology 1, sense 1), similar to a stout but less strong.
- (entomology) An ant having the specialized role of carrying.
- A person who carries luggage and related objects.
- (computing) One who ports software (makes it usable on another platform).
- (countable) A person in control of the entrance to a building.
verb
noun
- An attendant, assistant, or follower.
- (Christianity) An altar server.
- (Christianity) One who has received the highest of the four minor orders in the Catholic Church, being ordained to carry the wine, water and lights at Mass.
- someone who assists a priest or minister in a liturgical service; a cleric ordained in the highest of the minor orders in the Roman Catholic Church but not in the Anglican Church or the Eastern Orthodox Churches
noun
- One who accompanies a sheriff's officer as witness.
- One pursuing the same course, or seeking the same objects; hence, a rival; an opponent.
- One who, or that which, concurs; a joint or contributory cause.
- One of the supernumerary days of the year over fifty-two complete weeks; so called because they concur with the solar cycle, the course of which they follow.
adj
- Belonging to the same period; contemporary.
- (geometry) Meeting in one point.
- (computing, of code) Designed to run independently, rather than sequentially, using various mechanisms, such as threads, event loops or time-slicing.
- Joint and equal in authority; taking cognizance of similar questions; operating on the same objects.
- Running alongside one another on parallel courses; moving together in space.
- Happening at the same time; simultaneous.
- Acting in conjunction; agreeing in the same act or opinion; contributing to the same event or effect.
- occurring or operating at the same time
verb
- conduct someone someplace
- (transitive) To wait upon; attend, escort.
- match or meet
- perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight
- make sense of; assign a meaning to
- observe as if with an eye
- deliberate or decide
- be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something
- perceive or be contemporaneous with
- date regularly; have a steady relationship with
- find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort
- take charge of or deal with
- perceive (an idea or situation) mentally
- come together
- see and understand, have a good eye
- go to see for professional or business reasons
- deem to be
- imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind
- go to see for a social visit
- undergo or live through a difficult experience
- go to see a place, as for entertainment
- get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally
- observe, check out, and look over carefully or inspect
- see or watch
- receive as a specified guest
- (gambling, transitive) To respond to another player's bet with a bet of equal value.
- To come to a realization of having been mistaken or misled.
- To examine something closely, or to utilize something, often as a temporary alternative.
- (used in the imperative) Used to emphasise a proposition.
- (by extension) Chiefly followed by that: to ensure that something happens, especially by personally witnessing it.
- To have an interview with; especially, to make a call upon; to visit.
- (used in the imperative) To reference or to study for further details.
- (transitive) To perceive or detect someone or something with the eyes, or as if by sight.
- To determine by trial or experiment; to find out (if or whether).
- To witness or observe by personal experience.
- (figuratively) To understand.
- To date frequently.
- To form a mental picture of.
- To include as one of something's experiences.
- To watch (a movie) at a cinema, or a show on television etc.
- (transitive) To foresee, predict, or prophesy.
- To visit for a medical appointment.
- (ergative) To be the setting or time of.
noun
- the seat within a bishop's diocese where the bishop's cathedral is located
- The office of a bishop or archbishop.
- Alternative form of cee; the name of the Latin script letter C/c.
- A diocese or archdiocese: a region of a church, generally headed by a bishop or an archbishop.
- A seat; a site; a place where sovereign, autonomous, or autocephalous power is exercised.
intj
noun
- One who is sent on a mission.
- (religion) A person who travels attempting to spread a religion or creed (Particularly used in context of Christianity).
- (uncountable, slang) Sexual intercourse in the missionary position.
- (derogatory) A religious messenger.
- (uncountable) The missionary position for sexual intercourse.
- someone who attempts to convert others to a particular doctrine or program
- someone sent on a mission — especially a religious or charitable mission to a foreign country
adj
noun
- a church officer who takes care of the interior of the building and acts as an attendant (carries the verge) during ceremonies
- One who carries a verge, or emblem of office.
- (chiefly UK, Ireland, Christianity) A lay person who takes care of the interior of a church and acts as an attendant during services, where he or she carries the verge (or virge). In the United States, the office is generally combined with that of sexton.
- (chiefly UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, Christianity) An usher; also, in major ecclesiastical landmarks, a tour guide.
- (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) An attendant upon a dignitary, such as a bishop or dean, a justice, etc.
noun
- A visitor.
- (dance) The person who directs dancers in certain dances, such as American line dances and square dances.
- (bingo) The person who stands at the front of the hall and announces the numbers.
- (telephony) The person who makes a telephone call.
- (programming) A function that calls another (the callee).
- A whistle or similar item used to call foxes.
- a person who announces the changes of steps during a dance
- the bettor in a card game who matches the bet and calls for a show of hands
- a social or business visitor
- someone who proclaims or summons in a loud voice
- the person who convenes a meeting
- an investor who buys a call option
- the person initiating a telephone call
adj
noun
- a person's manner of walking
- a horse's manner of moving
- the rate of moving (especially walking or running)
- (equestrianism) One of the distinct patterns of locomotion exhibited by a horse, occurring either naturally or as a result of training.
- (UK, dialect) A sheaf of corn.
- A manner of walking or stepping; a bearing or carriage while moving on legs.
- (UK, dialect) A charge for pasturage.
verb
noun
- A guide or escort through an unknown or dangerous area.
- One who flies a kite.
- A pilot light.
- A short plug, sometimes made interchangeable, at the end of a counterbore to guide the tool.
- A person who steers a ship, a helmsman.
- (Australia, road transport, informal) A pilot vehicle.
- (aviation) A person who is in charge of the controls of an aircraft.
- Something serving as a test or trial.
- (mining) The heading or excavation of relatively small dimensions, first made in the driving of a larger tunnel.
- An instrument for detecting the compass error.
- (telecommunications, often attributive) A tone or signal, usually a single frequency, transmitted over a communications system for control or synchronization purposes.
- A guide book for maritime navigation.
- A person who knows well the depths, shoals, and currents of a harbor or coastal area, who is hired by a vessel to help navigate the harbor or coast.
- (television) A sample episode of a proposed TV series produced to decide if it should be made or not. If approved, typically the first episode of an actual TV series.
- (Australia, road transport) A person authorised to drive such a vehicle during an escort.
- (rail transport) A cowcatcher.
- (Europe, motor racing) A racing driver.
- a person qualified to guide ships through difficult waters going into or out of a harbor
- small auxiliary gas burner that provides a flame to ignite a larger gas burner
- something that serves as a model or a basis for making copies
- an inclined metal frame at the front of a locomotive to clear the track
- a program exemplifying a contemplated series; intended to attract sponsors
- someone who is licensed to operate an aircraft in flight
adj
verb
- (transitive) To guide (a vessel) through coastal waters.
- (transitive) To control (an aircraft or watercraft).
- (transitive) To guide or conduct (a person) somewhere.
- (rail transport, of a locomotive) To serve as the leading locomotive on a double-headed train.
- (transitive) To test or have a preliminary trial of (an idea, a new product, television show, etc.)
- act as the navigator in a car, plane, or vessel and plan, direct, plot the path and position of the conveyance
- operate an airplane
verb
- accompany as an escort
- conduct someone someplace
- To attend to in order to guard and protect; to accompany as a safeguard (for the person escorted or for others); to give honorable or ceremonious attendance to.
- To go with someone as a partner, for example on a formal date.
- To accompany (a person) in order to compel them to go somewhere (e.g. to leave a building).
- (intransitive) To work as an escort (sex worker).
noun
- someone who escorts and protects a prominent person
- an attendant who is employed to accompany someone
- A guard who travels with a dangerous person, such as a criminal, for the protection of others.
- the act of accompanying someone or something in order to protect them
- A group of people or vehicles, generally armed, who go with a person or people of importance to safeguard them on a journey or mission.
- a participant in a date
- A group of people attending as a mark of respect or honor.
- An accompanying person in such a group.
- Protection, care, or safeguard on a journey or excursion.
- An accompanying person in a social gathering, etc.
- (originally euphemistic) A sex worker who does not operate in a brothel, but with whom clients make appointments; a call girl or male equivalent; a pimp.
noun
- A male escort who accompanies a woman to an event.
- A walking frame or baby walker.
- Alternative form of waulker.
- The agent noun of to walk: a person who walks or a thing which walks, especially a pedestrian or a participant in a walking race.
- (rare) One who walks (takes for a walk).
- (law) A forester.
- (science fiction) A kind of military robot or mecha with legs for locomotion.
- (fiction) A zombie.
- A gressorial bird.
- (cricket) A batsman or batswoman who directly walks off the field when out without waiting for the umpire's decision.
- (often in the plural) A shoe designed for comfortable walking.
- (Philippines) A prostitute, streetwalker.
- a person who travels by foot
- a shoe designed for comfortable walking
- an enclosing framework on casters or wheels; helps babies learn to walk
- a light enclosing framework (trade name Zimmer) with rubber castors or wheels and handles; helps invalids or the handicapped or the aged to walk
noun
- a traveler who accompanies you
- one paid to accompany or assist or live with another
- a friend who is frequently in the company of another
- A friend, acquaintance, or partner; someone with whom one spends time or accompanies
- (figuratively) A thing or phenomenon that is closely associated with another thing, phenomenon, or person.
- (nautical) The framework on the quarterdeck of a sailing ship through which daylight entered the cabins below.
- (topology) A knot in whose neighborhood another, specified knot meets every meridian disk.
- A knight of the lowest rank in certain orders.
- (attributive) An appended source of media or information, designed to be used in conjunction with and to enhance the main material.
- (astronomy) A celestial object that is associated with another.
- (nautical) The covering of a hatchway on an upper deck which leads to the companionway; the stairs themselves.
verb
verb
noun
- the act of escorting while in transit
- a procession of land vehicles traveling together
- a collection of merchant ships with an escort of warships
- The act of convoying; protection.
- A group of vehicles travelling together for safety, especially one with an escort.
- (nautical) One or more merchant ships sailing in company to the same general destination under the protection of naval vessels.
noun
adj
- having or displaying great dignity or nobility
- being attentive to women like an ideal knight
- unflinching in battle or action
- lively and spirited
- Grand, noble.
- Honorable.
- Polite and attentive to ladies; courteous to women; chivalrous.
- Brave, valiant, courteous, especially with regard to male attitudes towards women.
verb
noun
- a man who attends or escorts a woman
- an English country landowner
- young nobleman attendant on a knight
- A title of dignity next in degree below knight, and above gentleman. See esquire.
- An Australian snapper (Chrysophrys auratus), a food fish also found in eastern Asia.
- A shield-bearer or armor-bearer who attended a knight.
- A devoted attendant or follower of a lady; a beau.
- (UK, colloquial) A term of address to a male equal.
- A title of office and courtesy. See under esquire.
- A grass emperor (Lethrinus laticaudis), of coral reefs of the western Pacific.
- A male attendant on a great personage.
- (historical) A landowner from the English gentry during the early modern period.
verb
noun
- a member of a surveillance team who works on foot or rides as a passenger
- lowest support of a structure
- travel by walking
- an army unit consisting of soldiers who fight on foot
- the pedal extremity of vertebrates other than human beings
- a support resembling a pedal extremity
- a linear unit of length equal to 12 inches or a third of a yard
- the part of the leg of a human being below the ankle joint
- any of various organs of locomotion or attachment in invertebrates
- the lower part of anything
- (prosody) a group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm
- (anatomy) Specifically, a human foot, which is found below the ankle and is used for standing and walking.
- (molecular biology) The globular lower domain of a protein.
- (botany) In a bryophyte, that portion of a sporophyte which remains embedded within and attached to the parent gametophyte plant.
- (cigars) The end of a cigar which is lit, and usually cut before lighting.
- (phonology) The parsing of syllables into prosodic constituents, which are used to determine the placement of stress in languages along with the notions of constituent heads.
- (printing) The bottommost part of a typed or printed page.
- Recognized condition; rank; footing.
- (geometry) The point of intersection of one line with another that is perpendicular to it.
- (sewing) The part of a sewing machine which presses downward on the fabric, and may also serve to move it forward.
- The end of a rectangular table opposite the head.
- (informal) Ellipsis of cubic foot, a unit of volume.
- (nautical) The bottom edge of a sail.
- Fundamental principle; basis; plan.
- (informal) Ellipsis of square foot, a unit of area.
- (billiards) The end of a billiard or pool table behind the foot point where the balls are racked.
- (malacology) The muscular part of a bivalve mollusc or a gastropod by which it moves or holds its position on a surface.
- A biological structure found in many animals that is used for locomotion and that is frequently a separate organ at the terminal part of the leg.
- (prosody) The basic measure of rhythm in a poem.
- (collective, military) Foot soldiers; infantry.
- The base or bottom of anything.
- A short foot-like projection on the bottom of an object to support it.
- (printing) The base of a piece of type, forming the sides of the groove.
- The part of a flat surface on which the feet customarily rest.
- (music) A unit of measure for organ pipes equal to the wavelength of two octaves above middle C, approximately 328 mm.
- (often used attributively) Travel by walking.
- A unit of measure equal to twelve inches or one third of a yard, equal to exactly 30.48 centimetres.
verb
- pay for something
- walk
- add a column of numbers
- To walk.
- (transitive) To use the foot to kick (usually a ball).
- To renew the foot of (a stocking, etc.).
- To sum up, as the numbers in a column; sometimes with up.
- To tread to measure of music; to dance; to trip; to skip.
- (transitive) To pay (a bill).
- (Ireland, transitive) To spread out and stack up (turf sods) to allow them to dry.
noun
verb
noun
- One who strolls.
- Men's semiformal daytime dress comprising a grey or black single- or double-breasted coat, grey striped or checked formal trousers, a grey or silver necktie, and a grey, black or buff waistcoat.
- A vagrant.
- (US, Canada, Australia) A seat or chair on wheels, pushed by somebody walking behind it, typically used for transporting babies and young children.
- a small vehicle with four wheels in which a baby or child is pushed around
- someone who walks at a leisurely pace
noun
- A gentleman who attends or escorts a lady in public.
- A male member of the gentry ranking below a knight.
- An honorific sometimes placed after a man's name.
- (usually US, law) A lawyer.
- (heraldry, rare) The lower of the halves into which a square is divided diagonally, a single gyron, but potentially larger (extending across the shield) or smaller (for example, on Mortimer's arms).
- (Middle Ages) an attendant and shield bearer to a knight; a candidate for knighthood
noun
- The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
- (music) The rhythm signalled by a conductor or other musician to the members of a group of musicians.
- (slang) A makeup look; compare beat one's face.
- The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
- A rhythm.
- A pulsation or throb.
- (journalism) The primary focus of a reporter's stories (such as police/courts, education, city government, business etc.).
- (authorship) A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.
- (music) A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is the basic time unit of a piece.
- The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency
- (hunting) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.
- A stroke; a blow.
- (fencing) A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
- A beatnik.
- the sound of stroke or blow
- a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior
- a regular route for a sentry or policeman
- the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart
- a single pulsation of an oscillation produced by adding two waves of different frequencies; has a frequency equal to the difference between the two oscillations
- the act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing
- (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
- a regular rate of repetition
- a stroke or blow
- the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music
adj
verb
- (intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
- To make a sound when struck.
- To be in agitation or doubt.
- To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
- simple past tense of beat
- (military, intransitive) To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
- (intransitive, MLE, MTE, slang, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse.
- (transitive, slang) To rob; to cheat or scam.
- (transitive) To arrive at a place before someone.
- (intransitive) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
- (intransitive) To move with pulsation or throbbing.
- (transitive) To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
- (especially colloquial) past participle of beat
- To tread, as a path.
- To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
- To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and lesser intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; said of instruments, tones, or vibrations not perfectly in unison.
- (transitive) To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do or be better than (someone); to excel in a particular, competitive event.
- (transitive) To indicate by beating or drumming.
- (transitive) To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting.
- (transitive) To hit; to strike.
- (transitive, UK, in haggling for a price of a buyer) To persuade the seller to reduce a price.
- move rhythmically
- move with or as if with a regular alternating motion
- strike (a part of one's own body) repeatedly, as in great emotion or in accompaniment to music
- make a rhythmic sound
- move with a thrashing motion
- produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly
- wear out completely
- stir vigorously
- avoid paying
- hit repeatedly
- be superior
- make a sound like a clock or a timer
- shape by beating
- be a mystery or bewildering to
- indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks
- glare or strike with great intensity
- come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
- make by pounding or trampling
- sail with much tacking or with difficulty
- strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting
- give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression
- beat through cleverness and wit
- move with a flapping motion
noun
- the act of accompanying someone or something in order to protect them
- an event or situation that happens at the same time as or in connection with another
- something added to complete or embellish or make perfect
- a musical part (vocal or instrumental) that supports or provides background for other musical parts
- (music) A part, usually performed by instruments, that gives support or adds to the background in music, or adds for ornamentation; also, the harmony of a figured bass.
- That which accompanies; something that attends as a circumstance, or which is added to give greater completeness to the principal thing, or by way of ornament, or for the sake of symmetry.
noun
- A female chaperone who accompanies a man, and is usually not married to him.
- A kind of goad or stick with an iron point.
- A man's personal male attendant, responsible for his clothes and appearance.
- (professional wrestling) A female performer in professional wrestling, acting as either a manager or personal chaperone; often used to attract and titillate male members of the audience.
- A person employed to assist the jockey and trainer at a racecourse.
- (US) A person employed to clean or park cars.
- A hotel employee performing such duties for guests.
- A wooden stand on which to hold clothes and accessories in preparation for dressing.
- a manservant who acts as a personal attendant to their employer
verb
noun
- someone who guards an entrance
- an official stationed at the entrance of a courtroom or legislative chamber
- the lowest of the minor Holy Orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed by the Roman Catholic Church
- The person in charge of an entryway, sometimes responsible for security in the immediate area around the entryway.
- (figurative) Someone with power to keep others out of some sphere or activity.
noun
- someone who guards an entrance
- someone who controls access to something
- One who gatekeeps.
- A person who guards or monitors passage through a gate.
- (computing) A provider of core platform services with specific characteristics (Regulation (EU) 2022/1925 of the European Parliament and of the Council)
- A common orange and brown butterfly with eyespots, Pyronia tithonus, of the family Nymphalidae.
- (psychology) In dissociative identity disorder, an aspect of the personality that controls access to the various identities.
- A person or group who controls access to something or somebody.
noun
- someone who guards an entrance
- a very dark sweet ale brewed from roasted unmalted barley
- a person employed to carry luggage and supplies
- a railroad employee who assists passengers (especially on sleeping cars)
- (beer, Ireland) Stout (malt brew).
- (countable, bowling) An employee who clears and cleans tables and puts bowling balls away.
- (countable, uncountable, beer) A strong, dark ale, originally favored by porters (etymology 1, sense 1), similar to a stout but less strong.
- (entomology) An ant having the specialized role of carrying.
- A person who carries luggage and related objects.
- (computing) One who ports software (makes it usable on another platform).
- (countable) A person in control of the entrance to a building.
verb
noun
- An attendant, assistant, or follower.
- (Christianity) An altar server.
- (Christianity) One who has received the highest of the four minor orders in the Catholic Church, being ordained to carry the wine, water and lights at Mass.
- someone who assists a priest or minister in a liturgical service; a cleric ordained in the highest of the minor orders in the Roman Catholic Church but not in the Anglican Church or the Eastern Orthodox Churches
noun
- One who accompanies a sheriff's officer as witness.
- One pursuing the same course, or seeking the same objects; hence, a rival; an opponent.
- One who, or that which, concurs; a joint or contributory cause.
- One of the supernumerary days of the year over fifty-two complete weeks; so called because they concur with the solar cycle, the course of which they follow.
adj
- Belonging to the same period; contemporary.
- (geometry) Meeting in one point.
- (computing, of code) Designed to run independently, rather than sequentially, using various mechanisms, such as threads, event loops or time-slicing.
- Joint and equal in authority; taking cognizance of similar questions; operating on the same objects.
- Running alongside one another on parallel courses; moving together in space.
- Happening at the same time; simultaneous.
- Acting in conjunction; agreeing in the same act or opinion; contributing to the same event or effect.
- occurring or operating at the same time
noun
- One who is sent on a mission.
- (religion) A person who travels attempting to spread a religion or creed (Particularly used in context of Christianity).
- (uncountable, slang) Sexual intercourse in the missionary position.
- (derogatory) A religious messenger.
- (uncountable) The missionary position for sexual intercourse.
- someone who attempts to convert others to a particular doctrine or program
- someone sent on a mission — especially a religious or charitable mission to a foreign country
adj
noun
- a church officer who takes care of the interior of the building and acts as an attendant (carries the verge) during ceremonies
- One who carries a verge, or emblem of office.
- (chiefly UK, Ireland, Christianity) A lay person who takes care of the interior of a church and acts as an attendant during services, where he or she carries the verge (or virge). In the United States, the office is generally combined with that of sexton.
- (chiefly UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, Christianity) An usher; also, in major ecclesiastical landmarks, a tour guide.
- (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) An attendant upon a dignitary, such as a bishop or dean, a justice, etc.
noun
- A visitor.
- (dance) The person who directs dancers in certain dances, such as American line dances and square dances.
- (bingo) The person who stands at the front of the hall and announces the numbers.
- (telephony) The person who makes a telephone call.
- (programming) A function that calls another (the callee).
- A whistle or similar item used to call foxes.
- a person who announces the changes of steps during a dance
- the bettor in a card game who matches the bet and calls for a show of hands
- a social or business visitor
- someone who proclaims or summons in a loud voice
- the person who convenes a meeting
- an investor who buys a call option
- the person initiating a telephone call
adj
noun
- a person's manner of walking
- a horse's manner of moving
- the rate of moving (especially walking or running)
- (equestrianism) One of the distinct patterns of locomotion exhibited by a horse, occurring either naturally or as a result of training.
- (UK, dialect) A sheaf of corn.
- A manner of walking or stepping; a bearing or carriage while moving on legs.
- (UK, dialect) A charge for pasturage.
verb
verb
noun
verb
- accompany as an escort
- conduct someone someplace
- To attend to in order to guard and protect; to accompany as a safeguard (for the person escorted or for others); to give honorable or ceremonious attendance to.
- To go with someone as a partner, for example on a formal date.
- To accompany (a person) in order to compel them to go somewhere (e.g. to leave a building).
- (intransitive) To work as an escort (sex worker).
noun
- someone who escorts and protects a prominent person
- an attendant who is employed to accompany someone
- A guard who travels with a dangerous person, such as a criminal, for the protection of others.
- the act of accompanying someone or something in order to protect them
- A group of people or vehicles, generally armed, who go with a person or people of importance to safeguard them on a journey or mission.
- a participant in a date
- A group of people attending as a mark of respect or honor.
- An accompanying person in such a group.
- Protection, care, or safeguard on a journey or excursion.
- An accompanying person in a social gathering, etc.
- (originally euphemistic) A sex worker who does not operate in a brothel, but with whom clients make appointments; a call girl or male equivalent; a pimp.
verb
noun
- A type of hood, often ornamental or official, with an attached cape and a tail, later worn as a hat with the face hole put over the top of the head instead.
- An adult who accompanies or supervises one or more young, unmarried men or women during social occasions, usually with the specific intent of preventing some types of social or sexual interactions or illegal behavior.
- A device placed on the foreheads of horses which draw the hearse in pompous funerals.
- one who accompanies and supervises a young woman or gatherings of young people
verb
noun
verb
noun
- One who, or that which, defends or protects; defence; protection.
- A safe-conduct or passport, especially in time of war.
- Something that serves as a guard or protection; a defense.
- a precautionary measure warding off impending danger or damage or injury etc.
- a document or escort providing safe passage through a region especially in time of war
verb
- accompany or escort
- make walk
- use one's feet to advance; advance by steps
- take a walk; go for a walk; walk for pleasure
- be or act in association with
- obtain a base on balls
- walk at a pace
- give a base on balls to
- live or behave in a specified manner
- traverse or cover by walking
- (machining, intransitive, of a tool, such as a drill bit or reamer) To tend to move radially while feeding axially, whether tending toward on-center or tending toward off-center. Walking may be desirable (e.g., when a reamer walks into concentricity) or undesirable (e.g., when a twist drill walks into eccentricity.)
- (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) Of an object, to go missing or be stolen.
- (transitive) To traverse by walking (or analogous gradual movement).
- (intransitive) To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct oneself.
- (informal, transitive) To move (a guest) to another hotel if their confirmed reservation is not available on the day of check-in.
- (intransitive) To move on the feet by alternately setting each foot (or pair or group of feet, in the case of animals with four or more feet) forward, with at least one foot on the ground at all times. Compare run.
- (transitive) To cause something to move in such a way.
- (transitive) To take for a walk or accompany on a walk.
- (transitive, baseball) To allow a batter to reach base by pitching four balls.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To leave, resign.
- (intransitive, cricket, of a batsman) To walk off the field, as if given out, after the fielding side appeals and before the umpire has ruled; done as a matter of sportsmanship when the batsman believes he is out.
- (intransitive, colloquial, law) To "walk free", i.e. to win, or avoid, a criminal court case, particularly when actually guilty.
- (intransitive) Of an object or machine, to move by shifting between two positions, as if it were walking.
- (transitive, historical) To put, keep, or train (a puppy) in a walk, or training area for dogfighting.
- (transitive) To push (a vehicle) alongside oneself as one walks.
- (intransitive, baseball, of a batter) To reach base by being pitched four balls.
- (transitive, aviation) To operate the left and right throttles of (an aircraft) in alternation.
- (transitive) To full; to beat (cloth) to give it the consistency of felt.
- (intransitive) To go restlessly about; said of things or persons expected to remain quiet, such as a sleeping person, or the spirit of a dead person.
- (transitive) To travel (a distance) by walking.
- (paintball) To pull (a trigger) rapid-fire by alternating two fingers.
noun
- the act of walking somewhere
- manner of walking
- a slow gait of a horse in which two feet are always on the ground
- careers in general
- the act of traveling by foot
- a path set aside for walking
- (baseball) an advance to first base by a batter who receives four balls
- A distance walked.
- (Caribbean, Belize, Guyana, Jamaica) An area of an estate planted with fruit-bearing trees.
- (historical) An enclosed area in which a gamecock is confined to prepare him for fighting.
- (colloquial) Something very easily accomplished; a walk in the park.
- A trip made by walking.
- (poker) A situation where all players fold to the big blind, as their first action (instead of calling or raising), once they get their cards.
- (figurative) A person's conduct or course in life.
- A manner of walking; a person's style of walking.
- In coffee, coconut, and other plantations, the space between them.
- (sports) An Olympic Games track event requiring that the heel of the leading foot touch the ground before the toe of the trailing foot leaves the ground.
- (baseball) An award of first base to a batter following four balls being thrown by the pitcher; known in the rules as a "base on balls".
- (historical) A place for keeping and training puppies for dogfighting.
- A path, sidewalk/pavement or other maintained place on which to walk.
- (graph theory) A sequence of alternating vertices and edges, where each edge's endpoints are the preceding and following vertices in the sequence. Compare path, trail.
verb
- To escort someone on a date.
- (transitive) To obtain by application by a legal or other official process.
- (idiomatic, slang) To kill or destroy.
- (idiomatic, slang) To stun, amaze; to kill.
- (idiomatic) To immobilize with force; to subdue; to incapacitate.
- To remove.
- (colloquial) To win a sporting event, competition, premiership, etc.
- remove from its packing
- take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy
- take out or remove
- purchase prepared food to be eaten at home
- remove (a commodity) from (a supply source)
- make a date
- prevent from being included or considered or accepted
- bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a cover
- remove something from a container or an enclosed space
- cause to leave
- obtain by legal or official process
- buy and consume food from a restaurant or establishment that sells prepared food
- remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense
- take liquid out of a container or well
noun
verb
noun
- the act of escorting while in transit
- a procession of land vehicles traveling together
- a collection of merchant ships with an escort of warships
- The act of convoying; protection.
- A group of vehicles travelling together for safety, especially one with an escort.
- (nautical) One or more merchant ships sailing in company to the same general destination under the protection of naval vessels.
verb
- (transitive) To guide or escort.
- (transitive) To bestow; to confer.
- (intransitive, card games) To reveal one's hand of cards.
- (intransitive, informal) To have an enlarged belly and thus be recognizable as pregnant.
- (intransitive) To be visible; to be seen; to appear.
- (intransitive, motor racing) To finish third, especially of horses or dogs.
- (transitive) To indicate (a fact) to be true; to demonstrate.
- (intransitive, informal) To put in an appearance; show up.
- (transitive) To display, to have somebody see (something).
- show in, or as in, a picture
- give expression to
- indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments
- give evidence of, as of records
- establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment
- be or become visible or noticeable
- finish third or better in a horse or dog race
- give an exhibition of to an interested audience
- indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively
- make visible or noticeable
- provide evidence for
- take (someone) to their seats, as in theaters or auditoriums
noun
- (uncountable) Mere display or pomp with no substance. (Usually seen in the phrases "all show" and "for show".)
- A project or presentation.
- (Australia, New Zealand, countable) An agricultural exhibition.
- (military, slang) A battle; local conflict.
- Synonym of shive (“wood fragment of the husk of flax or hemp”).
- (countable) A demonstration.
- (countable) A play, dance, or other entertainment.
- (countable) A movie.
- (countable) A broadcast program, especially a light entertainment program.
- (medicine) A discharge, from the vagina, of mucus streaked with blood, occurring a short time before labor.
- (baseball, with "the") The major leagues.
- Outward appearance; wileful or deceptive appearance.
- (countable) An exhibition of items.
- pretending that something is the case in order to make a good impression
- an act or social event involving a public performance or entertainment
- something intended to communicate a particular impression
verb
noun
- one who accompanies and supervises a young woman or gatherings of young people
- (biochemistry) A protein that assists the non-covalent folding/unfolding and the assembly/disassembly of other macromolecular structures, but does not occur in these structures when the latter are performing their normal biological functions.
- An older person who accompanies other younger people to ensure the propriety of their behaviour, often an older woman accompanying a young woman.
- (UK, business) An employee sent by a British company to the European Union to work with a client there, to circumvent restrictions imposed after Brexit.
verb
- conduct someone someplace
- (transitive) To wait upon; attend, escort.
- match or meet
- perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight
- make sense of; assign a meaning to
- observe as if with an eye
- deliberate or decide
- be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something
- perceive or be contemporaneous with
- date regularly; have a steady relationship with
- find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort
- take charge of or deal with
- perceive (an idea or situation) mentally
- come together
- see and understand, have a good eye
- go to see for professional or business reasons
- deem to be
- imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind
- go to see for a social visit
- undergo or live through a difficult experience
- go to see a place, as for entertainment
- get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally
- observe, check out, and look over carefully or inspect
- see or watch
- receive as a specified guest
- (gambling, transitive) To respond to another player's bet with a bet of equal value.
- To come to a realization of having been mistaken or misled.
- To examine something closely, or to utilize something, often as a temporary alternative.
- (used in the imperative) Used to emphasise a proposition.
- (by extension) Chiefly followed by that: to ensure that something happens, especially by personally witnessing it.
- To have an interview with; especially, to make a call upon; to visit.
- (used in the imperative) To reference or to study for further details.
- (transitive) To perceive or detect someone or something with the eyes, or as if by sight.
- To determine by trial or experiment; to find out (if or whether).
- To witness or observe by personal experience.
- (figuratively) To understand.
- To date frequently.
- To form a mental picture of.
- To include as one of something's experiences.
- To watch (a movie) at a cinema, or a show on television etc.
- (transitive) To foresee, predict, or prophesy.
- To visit for a medical appointment.
- (ergative) To be the setting or time of.
noun
- the seat within a bishop's diocese where the bishop's cathedral is located
- The office of a bishop or archbishop.
- Alternative form of cee; the name of the Latin script letter C/c.
- A diocese or archdiocese: a region of a church, generally headed by a bishop or an archbishop.
- A seat; a site; a place where sovereign, autonomous, or autocephalous power is exercised.