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adj
noun
adj
- Having a viscous consistency.
- (slang, chiefly of women) Curvy and voluptuous, and especially having large hips.
- Heavy in build; thickset.
- Impenetrable to sight.
- Deep, intense, or profound.
- Densely crowded or packed.
- Greatly evocative of one's nationality or place of origin.
- Difficult to understand, or poorly articulated.
- (informal) Friendly or intimate.
- (informal) Stupid.
- Measuring a certain number of units in this dimension.
- Abounding in number.
- Relatively great in extent from one surface to the opposite in its smallest solid dimension.
- (academic) Detailed and expansive; substantive.
- (used informally) associated on close terms
- spoken as if with a thick tongue
- not thin; of a specific thickness or of relatively great extent from one surface to the opposite usually in the smallest of the three solid dimensions
- abounding; having a lot of
- (of darkness) densely dark
- relatively dense in consistency
- hard to pass through because of dense growth
- (used informally) stupid
- having a short and solid form or stature
- having component parts closely crowded together
adv
det
noun
noun
verb
adj
noun
- (US, chiefly education, psychology) A person who favours closer relationships with other people and less structured settings, rather than formal, organized settings; also, an educational approach, curriculum, etc., which is less structured.
- (originally Australia) A thing which is soft or viscous, and sticky.
noun
- The degree of viscosity of something.
- Reliability or uniformity; the quality of being consistent.
- Correspondence or compatibility.
- Local coherence.
- (logic) Freedom from contradiction; the state of a system of axioms such that none of the propositions deduced from them are mutually contradictory.
- a harmonious uniformity or agreement among things or parts
- (logic) an attribute of a logical system that is so constituted that none of the propositions deducible from the axioms contradict one another
- logical coherence and accordance with the facts
- the property of holding together and retaining its shape
adj
verb
- make viscous or dense
- (transitive) To make thicker (in the sense of more viscous).
- make thick or thicker
- become thick or thicker
- (transitive) To make thicker (in the sense of wider).
- (transitive) To make more frequent.
- (academic) To make more detailed or comprehensive.
- (intransitive) To become thicker (in the sense of more viscous).
- (intransitive) To become thicker (in the sense of wider).
- (transitive) To strengthen; to confirm.
noun
- A somewhat liquid mess, often of food; a soft or semisolid substance.
- (Quebec, slang) A magic mushroom.
- (British, slang, chiefly Northern England, Australia) The face.
- (chiefly London, slang) A cab driver who is the owner of their cab, and sometimes a small number of other cabs as well; a musher.
- (radio) A mixture of noise produced by the harmonics of continuous-wave stations.
- A walk, especially across the snow with dogs.
- (MLE) A gun.
- (British, slang, chiefly Southern England) (US, slang, chiefly Nonantum) A form of address, normally to a man.
- (geology) A magmatic body containing a significant proportion of crystals suspended in the liquid phase or melt.
- (rustic US) Cornmeal cooked in water and served as a porridge or as a thick sidedish like grits or mashed potatoes.
- A food comprising cracked or rolled grains cooked in water or milk; porridge.
- (surfing) The foam of a breaker.
- a journey by dogsled
- cornmeal boiled in water
- any soft or soggy mass
- writing or music that is excessively sweet and sentimental
intj
verb
- To squish so as to break into smaller pieces or to combine with something else.
- (transitive) To notch, cut, or indent (cloth, etc.) with a stamp.
- (intransitive) To walk, especially across the snow with dogs.
- (transitive) To drive dogs, usually pulling a sled, across the snow.
- drive (a team of dogs or a dogsled)
- travel with a dogsled
adj
- Having an acrid taste (usually from a basic substance).
- Cynical and resentful.
- Harsh, piercing, acerbic or stinging.
- Hateful or hostile.
- very difficult to accept or bear
- expressive of severe grief or regret
- proceeding from or exhibiting great hostility or animosity
- causing a sharp and acrid taste experience
- marked by strong resentment or cynicism
- causing a sharply painful or stinging sensation; used especially of cold
- harsh or corrosive in tone
adv
noun
- (usually in the plural bitters) A liquid or powder, made from bitter herbs, used in mixed drinks or as a tonic.
- A type of beer heavily flavored with hops.
- (nautical) A turn of a cable about the bitts.
- (computing, informal, in combination) A hardware system whose architecture is based around units of the specified number of bits (binary digits).
- the taste experience when quinine or coffee is taken into the mouth
- the property of having a harsh unpleasant taste
- English term for a dry sharp-tasting ale with strong flavor of hops (usually on draft)
verb
adj
- Having a strong acrid or acidic taste.
- (mathematics, of a statement) Said of as extreme a value as possible.
- Eager or keen in pursuit; impatient for gratification.
- (chess) Tactical; risky.
- (colloquial) Illegal or dishonest.
- Forming a small or tight angle; especially, forming an angle of less than ninety degrees.
- Strongly distinguishing or differentiating; acute.
- (music) Higher in pitch than required.
- Observant; alert; acute.
- Quick and alert.
- (colloquial) Stylish, smart or attractive.
- (colloquial) Intelligent.
- Terminating in a point or edge, especially one that can cut or pierce easily; not dull, obtuse, or rounded.
- Steep; precipitous; abrupt.
- (colloquial) Keenly or unduly attentive to one's own interests; shrewd, verging on dishonest.
- Piercing; keen; severe; painful.
- Exact, precise, accurate; keen.
- Composed of hard, angular grains; gritty.
- (music) Raised by one semitone (denoted by the symbol ♯ after the name of the note).
- Offensive, critical, or acrimonious; stern or harsh.
- Sudden, abrupt, intense, rapid.
- keenly and painfully felt; as if caused by a sharp edge or point
- having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions
- (of something seen or heard) clearly defined
- (of a musical note) raised in pitch by one chromatic semitone
- dangerously steep
- having or made by a thin edge or sharp point; suitable for cutting or piercing
- having or emitting a high-pitched and sharp tone or tones
- marked by practical hardheaded intelligence
- quick and forceful
- harsh
- ending in a sharp point
- very sudden and in great amount or degree
adv
noun
- (music) The symbol ♯, placed after the name of a note in the key signature or before a note on the staff to indicate that the note is to be played one chromatic semitone higher.
- (in the plural) Fine particles of husk mixed with coarse particle of flour of cereals; middlings.
- (psychiatry, healthcare) A sharp object; any item pointed enough to injure human skin.
- (music) A note that is sharp in a particular key.
- (usually in the plural) Something that is sharp.
- Alternative form of sharpie (“type of fishing boat”).
- (music) A note that is played one chromatic semitone higher than usual; denoted by the name of the note that is followed by the symbol ♯.
- (music) The scale having a particular sharp note as its tonic.
- (medicine) A hypodermic syringe.
- A sewing needle with a very slender point, more pointed than a blunt or a between.
- Part of a stream where the water runs very rapidly.
- A dishonest person; a cheater.
- A sharpie (member of Australian gangs of the 1960s and 1970s).
- a long thin sewing needle with a sharp point
- a musical notation indicating one half step higher than the note named
verb
noun
- (uncountable) The state of being viscous.
- (uncountable, psychology) A tendency to prolong interpersonal encounters.
- (countable, physics) A quantity expressing the magnitude of internal friction in a fluid, as measured by the force per unit area resisting uniform flow.
- resistance of a liquid to shear forces (and hence to flow)
adj
- Tasting or smelling rancid.
- Tasting of acidity.
- (of a person's character) Hostile or unfriendly.
- Containing excess sulfur. (of petroleum)
- Excessively acidic and thus infertile. (of soil)
- (music) Off-pitch, out of tune.
- Made rancid by fermentation, etc.
- Unfortunate or unfavorable.
- showing a brooding ill humor
- smelling of fermentation or staleness
- having a sharp biting taste
- inaccurate in pitch
- one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of vinegar or lemons
- in an unpalatable state
noun
- (by extension) Any cocktail containing lemon or lime juice.
- A sour or acid substance; whatever produces a painful effect.
- The sensation of a sour taste.
- A drink made with whiskey, lemon or lime juice and sugar.
- The acidic solution used in souring fabric.
- A sweet/candy having a sharply sour taste.
- a cocktail made of a liquor (especially whiskey or gin) mixed with lemon or lime juice and sugar
- the taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth
- the property of being acidic
verb
- (intransitive) To become disenchanted.
- (intransitive) To become sour.
- (transitive) To make (soil) cold and unproductive.
- (transitive) To make sour.
- (transitive) To process (fabric) after bleaching, using hydrochloric acid or sulphuric acid to wash out the lime.
- (transitive) To spoil or mar; to make disenchanted.
- To macerate (lime) and render it fit for plaster or mortar.
- go sour or spoil
- make sour or more sour
noun
- any thick, viscous matter
- (uncountable, informal) Any semi-solid or liquid substance; especially one that is sticky, gummy or slippery, unpleasant, and of vague or unknown composition, such as slime or semen.
- A noise made by a baby trying to imitate speech.
- (figuratively) Excessive, showy sentimentality.
verb
noun
- any thick, viscous matter
- (Cornwall) A bonnet (headwear).
- (informal) Grime or mud.
- (US, derogatory) A Vietnamese person (including, but not limited to, Vietcong in the Vietnam War).
- (US, derogatory) A Korean person (especially the North Koreans during the Korean War).
- Look.
- (slang) A dull or hapless person.
noun
verb
noun
- any thick, viscous matter
- fecal matter of animals
- Slimy mud, sludge.
- (poker) The pile of discarded cards.
- Soft (or slimy) manure.
- (slang) Semen.
- Anything filthy or vile. Dirt; something that makes another thing dirty.
- (Ottawa Valley Dialect) Food, especially that eaten quickly.
- (Scotland, slang) Heroin.
- (slang) Pornography.
- Grub, slop, swill
verb
- remove muck, clear away muck, as in a mine
- soil with mud, muck, or mire
- spread manure, as for fertilization
- (Australia, informal, intransitive) To vomit.
- To do a dirty job.
- (poker, colloquial) To pass, to fold without showing one's cards, often done when a better hand has already been revealed.
- (transitive) To manure with muck.
- (transitive) To shovel muck from.
- (Canada, slang) To eat; to devour or guzzle.
noun
- any thick, viscous matter
- the process of seeping
- (oceanography) A pelagic marine sediment containing a significant amount of the microscopic remains of either calcareous or siliceous planktonic debris organisms.
- Soft mud, slime, or shells especially in the bed of a river or estuary.
- A piece of soft, wet, pliable ground.
- Tanning liquor, an aqueous extract of vegetable matter (tanbark, sumac, etc.) in a tanning vat used to tan leather.
- An oozing, gentle flowing, or seepage, as of water through sand or earth.
verb
noun
- any thick, viscous matter
- (African-American Vernacular, MTE, slang) A friend; a homie.
- (fantasy, video games) A monster having the form of a slimy blob.
- Any mucilaginous substance; or a mucus-like substance which exudes from the bodies of certain animals, such as snails or slugs.
- (informal, derogatory) A sneaky, unethical person; a slimeball.
- Synonym of flubber (“kind of rubbery polymer”).
- Soft, moist earth or clay, having an adhesive quality; viscous mud; any substance of a dirty nature, that is moist, soft, and adhesive; bitumen; mud containing metallic ore, obtained in the preparatory dressing.
verb
- cover or stain with slime
- (transitive) To coat with slime.
- (transitive, figuratively) To besmirch or disparage.
- (intransitive, figurative) To behave in a slimy, unethical manner.
- To carve (fish), removing the offal.
- (transitive, Singapore) To denigrate or slander.
- (intransitive) To move like slime.
- (transitive, slang) To murder.
noun
- any thick, viscous matter
- the precipitate produced by sewage treatment
- A residual semi-solid material left from industrial, water treatment, or wastewater treatment processes.
- Solids separated from suspension in a liquid.
- (uncountable, music) Ellipsis of sludge metal.
- (behavioral science) Institutional policies that introduce tedium and inefficiency in processes.
- A mass of small pieces of ice on the surface of a water body.
- A sediment of accumulated minerals in a steam boiler.
verb
noun
- A viscous, transparent substance; glair.
- An angry or fierce stare.
- (uncountable) An intense, blinding light.
- (US) A smooth, bright, glassy surface.
- Showy brilliance; gaudiness.
- (telephony) A call collision; the situation where an incoming call occurs at the same time as an outgoing call.
- a focus of public attention
- a light within the field of vision that is brighter than the brightness to which the eyes are adapted
- an angry stare
adj
verb
noun
- The irregular shape of a viscous liquid or soft solid which has hit a solid surface.
- (programming) An operator which takes a scalar value and creates a vector in which each element is initialized to that value.
- The hash symbol #
- A move in playboating involving stalling in place while positioned vertically against a solid object in the water.
- (computing, slang) The Command key on an Apple Macintosh.
- The asterisk *
- (programming) An operator indicating a variable-length argument list, often denoted by * or ....
- The narrow wooden centre piece of a chair back.
- A children's game in which one person, in the centre of a circle of players, points and says "SPLAT!" at another player. That player then ducks down and the two players either side of them point and say "SPLAT!". The slowest to react is and eliminated from the game. The final is settled by a Mexican standoff.
- The sharp, atonal sound of a liquid or soft solid hitting a solid surface.
- a slat of wood in the middle of the back of a straight chair
- a single splash
verb
- (computer graphics, transitive) To combine different textures by applying an alpha channel map to the higher levels, revealing the layers underneath where the map is partially or completely transparent.
- (intransitive) To hit a flat surface and deform into an irregular shape.
- (transitive) To splatter.
- give off the sound of a bullet flattening on impact
- flatten on impact
- split open and flatten for cooking
verb
noun
verb
noun
- The degree of viscosity of something.
- Reliability or uniformity; the quality of being consistent.
- Correspondence or compatibility.
- Local coherence.
- (logic) Freedom from contradiction; the state of a system of axioms such that none of the propositions deduced from them are mutually contradictory.
- a harmonious uniformity or agreement among things or parts
- (logic) an attribute of a logical system that is so constituted that none of the propositions deducible from the axioms contradict one another
- logical coherence and accordance with the facts
- the property of holding together and retaining its shape
noun
- A somewhat liquid mess, often of food; a soft or semisolid substance.
- (Quebec, slang) A magic mushroom.
- (British, slang, chiefly Northern England, Australia) The face.
- (chiefly London, slang) A cab driver who is the owner of their cab, and sometimes a small number of other cabs as well; a musher.
- (radio) A mixture of noise produced by the harmonics of continuous-wave stations.
- A walk, especially across the snow with dogs.
- (MLE) A gun.
- (British, slang, chiefly Southern England) (US, slang, chiefly Nonantum) A form of address, normally to a man.
- (geology) A magmatic body containing a significant proportion of crystals suspended in the liquid phase or melt.
- (rustic US) Cornmeal cooked in water and served as a porridge or as a thick sidedish like grits or mashed potatoes.
- A food comprising cracked or rolled grains cooked in water or milk; porridge.
- (surfing) The foam of a breaker.
- a journey by dogsled
- cornmeal boiled in water
- any soft or soggy mass
- writing or music that is excessively sweet and sentimental
intj
verb
- To squish so as to break into smaller pieces or to combine with something else.
- (transitive) To notch, cut, or indent (cloth, etc.) with a stamp.
- (intransitive) To walk, especially across the snow with dogs.
- (transitive) To drive dogs, usually pulling a sled, across the snow.
- drive (a team of dogs or a dogsled)
- travel with a dogsled
noun
- (uncountable) The state of being viscous.
- (uncountable, psychology) A tendency to prolong interpersonal encounters.
- (countable, physics) A quantity expressing the magnitude of internal friction in a fluid, as measured by the force per unit area resisting uniform flow.
- resistance of a liquid to shear forces (and hence to flow)
noun
- any thick, viscous matter
- (uncountable, informal) Any semi-solid or liquid substance; especially one that is sticky, gummy or slippery, unpleasant, and of vague or unknown composition, such as slime or semen.
- A noise made by a baby trying to imitate speech.
- (figuratively) Excessive, showy sentimentality.
verb
noun
- any thick, viscous matter
- (Cornwall) A bonnet (headwear).
- (informal) Grime or mud.
- (US, derogatory) A Vietnamese person (including, but not limited to, Vietcong in the Vietnam War).
- (US, derogatory) A Korean person (especially the North Koreans during the Korean War).
- Look.
- (slang) A dull or hapless person.
noun
verb
noun
- any thick, viscous matter
- fecal matter of animals
- Slimy mud, sludge.
- (poker) The pile of discarded cards.
- Soft (or slimy) manure.
- (slang) Semen.
- Anything filthy or vile. Dirt; something that makes another thing dirty.
- (Ottawa Valley Dialect) Food, especially that eaten quickly.
- (Scotland, slang) Heroin.
- (slang) Pornography.
- Grub, slop, swill
verb
- remove muck, clear away muck, as in a mine
- soil with mud, muck, or mire
- spread manure, as for fertilization
- (Australia, informal, intransitive) To vomit.
- To do a dirty job.
- (poker, colloquial) To pass, to fold without showing one's cards, often done when a better hand has already been revealed.
- (transitive) To manure with muck.
- (transitive) To shovel muck from.
- (Canada, slang) To eat; to devour or guzzle.
noun
- any thick, viscous matter
- the process of seeping
- (oceanography) A pelagic marine sediment containing a significant amount of the microscopic remains of either calcareous or siliceous planktonic debris organisms.
- Soft mud, slime, or shells especially in the bed of a river or estuary.
- A piece of soft, wet, pliable ground.
- Tanning liquor, an aqueous extract of vegetable matter (tanbark, sumac, etc.) in a tanning vat used to tan leather.
- An oozing, gentle flowing, or seepage, as of water through sand or earth.
verb
noun
- any thick, viscous matter
- (African-American Vernacular, MTE, slang) A friend; a homie.
- (fantasy, video games) A monster having the form of a slimy blob.
- Any mucilaginous substance; or a mucus-like substance which exudes from the bodies of certain animals, such as snails or slugs.
- (informal, derogatory) A sneaky, unethical person; a slimeball.
- Synonym of flubber (“kind of rubbery polymer”).
- Soft, moist earth or clay, having an adhesive quality; viscous mud; any substance of a dirty nature, that is moist, soft, and adhesive; bitumen; mud containing metallic ore, obtained in the preparatory dressing.
verb
- cover or stain with slime
- (transitive) To coat with slime.
- (transitive, figuratively) To besmirch or disparage.
- (intransitive, figurative) To behave in a slimy, unethical manner.
- To carve (fish), removing the offal.
- (transitive, Singapore) To denigrate or slander.
- (intransitive) To move like slime.
- (transitive, slang) To murder.
noun
- any thick, viscous matter
- the precipitate produced by sewage treatment
- A residual semi-solid material left from industrial, water treatment, or wastewater treatment processes.
- Solids separated from suspension in a liquid.
- (uncountable, music) Ellipsis of sludge metal.
- (behavioral science) Institutional policies that introduce tedium and inefficiency in processes.
- A mass of small pieces of ice on the surface of a water body.
- A sediment of accumulated minerals in a steam boiler.
verb
noun
- A viscous, transparent substance; glair.
- An angry or fierce stare.
- (uncountable) An intense, blinding light.
- (US) A smooth, bright, glassy surface.
- Showy brilliance; gaudiness.
- (telephony) A call collision; the situation where an incoming call occurs at the same time as an outgoing call.
- a focus of public attention
- a light within the field of vision that is brighter than the brightness to which the eyes are adapted
- an angry stare
adj
verb
noun
- The irregular shape of a viscous liquid or soft solid which has hit a solid surface.
- (programming) An operator which takes a scalar value and creates a vector in which each element is initialized to that value.
- The hash symbol #
- A move in playboating involving stalling in place while positioned vertically against a solid object in the water.
- (computing, slang) The Command key on an Apple Macintosh.
- The asterisk *
- (programming) An operator indicating a variable-length argument list, often denoted by * or ....
- The narrow wooden centre piece of a chair back.
- A children's game in which one person, in the centre of a circle of players, points and says "SPLAT!" at another player. That player then ducks down and the two players either side of them point and say "SPLAT!". The slowest to react is and eliminated from the game. The final is settled by a Mexican standoff.
- The sharp, atonal sound of a liquid or soft solid hitting a solid surface.
- a slat of wood in the middle of the back of a straight chair
- a single splash
verb
- (computer graphics, transitive) To combine different textures by applying an alpha channel map to the higher levels, revealing the layers underneath where the map is partially or completely transparent.
- (intransitive) To hit a flat surface and deform into an irregular shape.
- (transitive) To splatter.
- give off the sound of a bullet flattening on impact
- flatten on impact
- split open and flatten for cooking
verb
- make viscous or dense
- (transitive) To make thicker (in the sense of more viscous).
- make thick or thicker
- become thick or thicker
- (transitive) To make thicker (in the sense of wider).
- (transitive) To make more frequent.
- (academic) To make more detailed or comprehensive.
- (intransitive) To become thicker (in the sense of more viscous).
- (intransitive) To become thicker (in the sense of wider).
- (transitive) To strengthen; to confirm.
verb
adj
noun
adj
- Having a viscous consistency.
- (slang, chiefly of women) Curvy and voluptuous, and especially having large hips.
- Heavy in build; thickset.
- Impenetrable to sight.
- Deep, intense, or profound.
- Densely crowded or packed.
- Greatly evocative of one's nationality or place of origin.
- Difficult to understand, or poorly articulated.
- (informal) Friendly or intimate.
- (informal) Stupid.
- Measuring a certain number of units in this dimension.
- Abounding in number.
- Relatively great in extent from one surface to the opposite in its smallest solid dimension.
- (academic) Detailed and expansive; substantive.
- (used informally) associated on close terms
- spoken as if with a thick tongue
- not thin; of a specific thickness or of relatively great extent from one surface to the opposite usually in the smallest of the three solid dimensions
- abounding; having a lot of
- (of darkness) densely dark
- relatively dense in consistency
- hard to pass through because of dense growth
- (used informally) stupid
- having a short and solid form or stature
- having component parts closely crowded together
adv
det
noun
adj
noun
- (US, chiefly education, psychology) A person who favours closer relationships with other people and less structured settings, rather than formal, organized settings; also, an educational approach, curriculum, etc., which is less structured.
- (originally Australia) A thing which is soft or viscous, and sticky.
adj
adj
- Having an acrid taste (usually from a basic substance).
- Cynical and resentful.
- Harsh, piercing, acerbic or stinging.
- Hateful or hostile.
- very difficult to accept or bear
- expressive of severe grief or regret
- proceeding from or exhibiting great hostility or animosity
- causing a sharp and acrid taste experience
- marked by strong resentment or cynicism
- causing a sharply painful or stinging sensation; used especially of cold
- harsh or corrosive in tone
adv
noun
- (usually in the plural bitters) A liquid or powder, made from bitter herbs, used in mixed drinks or as a tonic.
- A type of beer heavily flavored with hops.
- (nautical) A turn of a cable about the bitts.
- (computing, informal, in combination) A hardware system whose architecture is based around units of the specified number of bits (binary digits).
- the taste experience when quinine or coffee is taken into the mouth
- the property of having a harsh unpleasant taste
- English term for a dry sharp-tasting ale with strong flavor of hops (usually on draft)
verb
adj
- Having a strong acrid or acidic taste.
- (mathematics, of a statement) Said of as extreme a value as possible.
- Eager or keen in pursuit; impatient for gratification.
- (chess) Tactical; risky.
- (colloquial) Illegal or dishonest.
- Forming a small or tight angle; especially, forming an angle of less than ninety degrees.
- Strongly distinguishing or differentiating; acute.
- (music) Higher in pitch than required.
- Observant; alert; acute.
- Quick and alert.
- (colloquial) Stylish, smart or attractive.
- (colloquial) Intelligent.
- Terminating in a point or edge, especially one that can cut or pierce easily; not dull, obtuse, or rounded.
- Steep; precipitous; abrupt.
- (colloquial) Keenly or unduly attentive to one's own interests; shrewd, verging on dishonest.
- Piercing; keen; severe; painful.
- Exact, precise, accurate; keen.
- Composed of hard, angular grains; gritty.
- (music) Raised by one semitone (denoted by the symbol ♯ after the name of the note).
- Offensive, critical, or acrimonious; stern or harsh.
- Sudden, abrupt, intense, rapid.
- keenly and painfully felt; as if caused by a sharp edge or point
- having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions
- (of something seen or heard) clearly defined
- (of a musical note) raised in pitch by one chromatic semitone
- dangerously steep
- having or made by a thin edge or sharp point; suitable for cutting or piercing
- having or emitting a high-pitched and sharp tone or tones
- marked by practical hardheaded intelligence
- quick and forceful
- harsh
- ending in a sharp point
- very sudden and in great amount or degree
adv
noun
- (music) The symbol ♯, placed after the name of a note in the key signature or before a note on the staff to indicate that the note is to be played one chromatic semitone higher.
- (in the plural) Fine particles of husk mixed with coarse particle of flour of cereals; middlings.
- (psychiatry, healthcare) A sharp object; any item pointed enough to injure human skin.
- (music) A note that is sharp in a particular key.
- (usually in the plural) Something that is sharp.
- Alternative form of sharpie (“type of fishing boat”).
- (music) A note that is played one chromatic semitone higher than usual; denoted by the name of the note that is followed by the symbol ♯.
- (music) The scale having a particular sharp note as its tonic.
- (medicine) A hypodermic syringe.
- A sewing needle with a very slender point, more pointed than a blunt or a between.
- Part of a stream where the water runs very rapidly.
- A dishonest person; a cheater.
- A sharpie (member of Australian gangs of the 1960s and 1970s).
- a long thin sewing needle with a sharp point
- a musical notation indicating one half step higher than the note named
verb
adj
- Tasting or smelling rancid.
- Tasting of acidity.
- (of a person's character) Hostile or unfriendly.
- Containing excess sulfur. (of petroleum)
- Excessively acidic and thus infertile. (of soil)
- (music) Off-pitch, out of tune.
- Made rancid by fermentation, etc.
- Unfortunate or unfavorable.
- showing a brooding ill humor
- smelling of fermentation or staleness
- having a sharp biting taste
- inaccurate in pitch
- one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of vinegar or lemons
- in an unpalatable state
noun
- (by extension) Any cocktail containing lemon or lime juice.
- A sour or acid substance; whatever produces a painful effect.
- The sensation of a sour taste.
- A drink made with whiskey, lemon or lime juice and sugar.
- The acidic solution used in souring fabric.
- A sweet/candy having a sharply sour taste.
- a cocktail made of a liquor (especially whiskey or gin) mixed with lemon or lime juice and sugar
- the taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth
- the property of being acidic
verb
- (intransitive) To become disenchanted.
- (intransitive) To become sour.
- (transitive) To make (soil) cold and unproductive.
- (transitive) To make sour.
- (transitive) To process (fabric) after bleaching, using hydrochloric acid or sulphuric acid to wash out the lime.
- (transitive) To spoil or mar; to make disenchanted.
- To macerate (lime) and render it fit for plaster or mortar.
- go sour or spoil
- make sour or more sour