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noun
- That which is evacuated or discharged; especially, a discharge by stool, urine or other natural means.
- the act of evacuating; leaving a place in an orderly fashion; especially for protection
- The act of evacuating; leaving a place in an orderly fashion, especially for safety.
- Voidance of any matter by the natural passages of the body or by an artificial opening; defecation; urination; also, a diminution of the fluids of an animal body by cathartics, venesection, or other means.
- Abolition; nullification.
- The act of emptying, clearing of the contents, or discharging, including creating a vacuum.
- Withdrawal of troops or civils from a town, country, fortress, etc.
- the bodily process of discharging waste matter
- the act of removing the contents of something
noun
adj
noun
- An organized practice to prepare occupants of an office, school or other public building for evacuation in the event of a fire.
- A fire-starting tool consisting of a wooden rod and some primitive means of rapidly rotating the rod on a flat surface like a drill until tinder can be ignited.
- (idiomatic, US) Any pointless, unproductive, useless, or chaotic activity.
- an exercise intended to train people in duties and escape procedures to be followed in case of fire
noun
- The process of training a domesticated or pet animal to avoid urinating or defecating indoors and to use designated places instead.
- (BDSM, euphemistic) The practice of enforced coprophagy or urophagia.
- The process of training a young child to use the toilet to relieve themselves.
- training a young child to use the toilet
noun
- purging the body by the use of a cathartic to stimulate evacuation of the bowels
- (psychoanalysis) purging of emotional tensions
- A purification or cleansing, especially emotional.
- (psychology) A therapeutic technique to relieve tension by reestablishing the association of an emotion with the memory or idea of the event that first caused it, and then eliminating it by complete expression (called the abreaction).
- (drama) A release of emotional tension after an overwhelming vicarious experience, resulting in the purging or purification of the emotions, as through watching a dramatic production (especially a tragedy).
- (medicine) Purging of the digestive system.
- Any release of emotional tension to the same effect, more widely.
noun
- purging the body by the use of a cathartic to stimulate evacuation of the bowels
- a ceremonial cleansing from defilement or uncleanness by the performance of appropriate rites
- the act of clearing yourself (or another) from some stigma or charge
- The process or act of purging, such as by the use of a purgative.
- The process or act of cleansing from sin or guilt.
verb
- (intransitive) To have or produce frequent evacuations from the intestines, as by means of a cathartic.
- excrete or evacuate (someone's bowels or body)
- (transitive, intransitive, medicine) To evacuate (the bowels or the stomach); to defecate or vomit.
- (transitive) To clean thoroughly; to rid of impurities; to cleanse.
- (transitive, medicine) To cause someone to purge; to operate (on somebody) using a cathartic or emetic, or in a similar manner.
- (transitive) To remove by cleansing; to wash away.
- (transitive, law) To clear of a charge, suspicion, or imputation.
- (transitive) To clarify; to clear the dregs from (liquor).
- (intransitive) To become pure, as by clarification.
- (transitive) To free from sin, guilt, or burden.
- (transitive) To trim, dress, or prune.
- (transitive) To forcibly remove, for example, from political activity.
- (transitive) To forcibly remove people by an organization.
- rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid
- rid of impurities
- oust politically
- make pure or free from sin or guilt
- eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth
- clear of a charge
noun
- (medicine) An evacuation of the bowels or the stomach; a defecation or vomiting.
- An act or instance of purging.
- Something which or someone who purges; especially, a medicine that evacuates the intestines; a cathartic.
- A red or reddish liquid that seeps out from raw muscular meat consisting mostly of water and protein; "meat juice".
- A forcible removal of people, for example, from political activity.
- An act or instance of the cleansing of pipes.
- an act of removing by cleansing; ridding of sediment or other undesired elements
- an abrupt or sudden removal of a person or group from an organization or place
- the act of clearing yourself (or another) from some stigma or charge
noun
- a condition promoting sanitary practices
- the science concerned with the prevention of illness and maintenance of health
- Those conditions and practices that promote and preserve health.
- The science of health, its promotion and preservation.
- Cleanliness.
- (computing, slang, of a macro) The property of having an expansion that is guaranteed not to cause the accidental capture of identifiers.
verb
- (chiefly medicine) To produce stool: to defecate.
- (agriculture) To ramify; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers.
- (horticulture) To cut down (a plant) until its main stem is close to the ground, resembling a stool, to promote new growth.
- grow shoots in the form of stools or tillers
- have a bowel movement
- lure with a stool, as of wild fowl
- react to a decoy, of wildfowl
noun
- (US, dialect) Material, such as oyster shells, spread on the sea bottom for oyster spat to adhere to.
- (horticulture) A plant that has been cut down until its main stem is close to the ground, resembling a stool, to promote new growth.
- (chiefly medicine) Feces, excrement.
- (now chiefly dialectal, Scotland, literally and figuratively) A throne.
- (chiefly medicine) A production of feces or excrement, an act of defecation, stooling.
- A footstool.
- (nautical) A small channel on the side of a vessel, for the deadeyes of the backstays.
- (now chiefly dialectal, Scotland) A seat with a back; a chair.
- (rare) Alternative form of stole (“plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil; stolon.”).
- (West Africa) A royal seat; a chief's throne.
- A seat for one person without a back or armrests.
- (forestry) the stump of a tree that has been felled or headed for the production of saplings
- solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels
- a simple seat without a back or arms
- a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination
verb
- provide with shelter
- hear, usually without the knowledge of the speakers
- take into one's family
- serve oneself to, or consume regularly
- accept
- take up as if with a sponge
- fold up
- fool or hoax
- earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages
- express willingness to have in one's home or environs
- call for and obtain payment of
- make (clothes) smaller
- suck or take up or in
- take up mentally
- see or watch
- take in, also metaphorically
- visit for entertainment
- (transitive) To allow a person or an animal to live in one's home.
- (nautical) To reef.
- (transitive, climbing) To tighten (a belaying rope).
- (transitive) To shorten (a garment) or make it smaller.
- (transitive) To receive and properly absorb or comprehend.
- (transitive) To enjoy or appreciate.
- To deceive; to hoodwink.
- (transitive) To receive.
- (transitive) To arrest (a person).
- (transitive) To receive (goods) into one's home for the purpose of processing for a fee.
- (transitive) To attend a showing of.
adj
- Providing protection from danger; providing shelter.
- (slang) Lenient, usually describing a teacher that is easy-going.
- Properly secured.
- Not in danger; out of harm's reach.
- (used after a noun, often forming a compound) Not susceptible to a specified source of harm.
- Certain; sure.
- (baseball) When a batter successfully reaches first base, or when a baserunner successfully advances to the next base or returns to the base he last occupied; not out.
- (snooker, of an object ball) In a location that renders it difficult to pot.
- Reliable; trusty.
- Free from risk.
- Cautious.
- (programming) Of a programming language, type-safe or more generally offering well-defined behavior despite programming errors.
- (UK, law, of a conviction) Supported by evidence and unlikely to be overturned. Usually used in the negative, as unsafe.
- (UK, slang) Great, cool, awesome, respectable; a term of approbation, often as interjection.
- having reached a base without being put out
- free from danger or the risk of harm
- financially safe
- (of an undertaking) secure from risk
noun
- (slang) A condom.
- A box, usually made of metal, in which valuables can be locked for safekeeping.
- strongbox where valuables can be safely kept
- contraceptive device consisting of a sheath of thin rubber or latex that is worn over the penis during intercourse
- a ventilated or refrigerated cupboard for securing provisions from pests
verb
verb
- (transitive) To relieve (the bowels) from constipation; to promote defecation.
- (transitive) To make loose.
- (transitive) To disengage (a device that restrains).
- (transitive) To free from restraint; to set at liberty.
- (intransitive) To become loose.
- (intransitive) To become unfastened or undone.
- make less dense
- become loose or looser or less tight
- make less severe or strict
- cause to become loose
- become less severe or strict
- make loose or looser
- disentangle and raise the fibers of
noun
- A state of the bowels in which the evacuations are infrequent and difficult, or the intestines become filled with hardened faeces.
- The act of crowding anything into a lesser space, or the state of being crowded or pressed together; condensation.
- irregular and infrequent or difficult evacuation of the bowels; can be a symptom of intestinal obstruction or diverticulitis
- the act of making something futile and useless (as by routine)
noun
- the evacuation of persons (usually by air transportation) to a place where they can receive medical care
- A vehicle, typically aircraft, used for emergency transportation of patients to a medical facility.
- The emergency transportation, usually by air, of patients to a medical facility.
- Trained personnel who care for patients during emergency transportation to a medical facility.
verb
noun
- The people who are in this quarantine.
- (figurative) Anything lacking firmness or solidity; a cheat or fraud; an empty project.
- An officer's station in a prison dormitory, affording views on all sides.
- (by extension) Anything resembling a hollow sphere.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) A Greek.
- (chiefly COVID-19 pandemic) A quarantine environment containing multiple people or facilities isolated from the rest of society.
- Ellipsis of travel bubble.
- (economics) A period of intense speculation in a market, causing prices to rise quickly to irrational levels as the metaphorical bubble expands, and then fall even more quickly as the bubble bursts.
- (television, slang) A bulb or lamp; the part of a lighting assembly that actually produces the light.
- (computing, historical) Any of the small magnetized areas that make up bubble memory.
- A small, hollow, floating bead or globe, formerly used for testing the strength of spirits.
- The globule of air in the chamber of a spirit level.
- (figurative) The emotional or physical atmosphere in which a subject is immersed; especially, a homogeneous atmosphere in which subjects are spared exposure to culture or ideas different from their own.
- A spherically contained volume of air or other gas, especially one made from soapy liquid.
- (drug paraphernalia) A specialized glass pipe having a sphere-shaped apparatus at one end.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) A laugh.
- A small spherical cavity in a solid material.
- (poker) In a poker tournament, the point before which eliminated players receive no prize money and after which they do; the situation where all remaining players are guaranteed prize money (in this case, the players are said to have made the bubble); the situation where all remaining players will be guaranteed prize money after some small number of players are eliminated (in this case, the players are said to be on the bubble).
- (sports) The cutoff point between qualifying, advancing or being invited to a tournament, or having one's competition end.
- a hollow globule of gas (e.g., air or carbon dioxide)
- an impracticable and illusory idea
- a speculative scheme that depends on unstable factors that the planner cannot control
- a dome-shaped covering made of transparent glass or plastic
verb
- (intransitive) To join together in a support bubble
- (intransitive, Scotland and Northern England) To cry, weep.
- (transitive, UK, slang) To grass (report criminal activity to the authorities).
- (intransitive, figurative) To churn or foment, as if wishing to rise to the surface.
- (intransitive, figurative) To rise through a medium or system, similar to the way that bubbles rise in liquid.
- (transitive) To pat a baby on the back so as to cause it to belch.
- (computing) To apply a filter bubble, as to search results.
- (transitive) To cover with bubbles.
- (transitive) To express in a bubbly or lively manner.
- (transitive) To bubble in; to mark a response on a form by filling in a circular area (‘bubble’).
- (transitive) To cause to feel as if bubbling or churning.
- (intransitive) To produce bubbles, to rise up in bubbles (such as in foods cooking or liquids boiling).
- (transitive) To form into a protruding round shape.
- flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise
- expel gas from the stomach
- form, produce, or emit bubbles
- cause to form bubbles
- rise in bubbles or as if in bubbles
noun
- Keeping a safe space between yourself and other people, and avoiding crowds, in order to slow the spread of infectious diseases. Large-scale measures include canceling group events or closing schools, workplaces and public spaces.
- (epidemiology) The practice of maintaining physical distance between people to reduce the spread of communicable diseases by isolating those with such diseases in quarantines, maintaining space between individuals, and prohibiting certain activities.
verb
noun
- (countable) A low stool.
- (UK, countable, slang) An old or broken-down vehicle (and formerly a horse or ewe).
- (medical slang, derogatory) A patient who is difficult to treat, especially one who complains of a minor or imagined illness.
- The loose black particles collected from combustion, as on pots and kettles, or in a chimney; soot; smut.
- Colouring matter that rubs off from cloth.
- (countable) A stoneware or earthenware jar or storage container.
- (slang, Canada, US, countable and uncountable) Silly talk, a foolish belief, a poor excuse, nonsense.
- (countable) A piece of broken pottery, a shard.
- (UK, slang, countable) A person who is physically limited by age, illness or injury.
- nonsense; foolish talk
- an earthen jar (made of baked clay)
- a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink
verb
- (intransitive) To give off crock or smut.
- To break something or injure someone.
- (horticulture) To cover the drain holes of a planter with stones or similar material, in order to ensure proper drainage.
- (textiles, leatherworking) To transfer coloring through abrasion from one item to another.
- (transitive, now dialectal) To put or store (something) in a crock or pot.
- release color when rubbed, of badly dyed fabric
- soil with or as with crock
noun
- That which is evacuated or discharged; especially, a discharge by stool, urine or other natural means.
- the act of evacuating; leaving a place in an orderly fashion; especially for protection
- The act of evacuating; leaving a place in an orderly fashion, especially for safety.
- Voidance of any matter by the natural passages of the body or by an artificial opening; defecation; urination; also, a diminution of the fluids of an animal body by cathartics, venesection, or other means.
- Abolition; nullification.
- The act of emptying, clearing of the contents, or discharging, including creating a vacuum.
- Withdrawal of troops or civils from a town, country, fortress, etc.
- the bodily process of discharging waste matter
- the act of removing the contents of something
noun
adj
noun
- An organized practice to prepare occupants of an office, school or other public building for evacuation in the event of a fire.
- A fire-starting tool consisting of a wooden rod and some primitive means of rapidly rotating the rod on a flat surface like a drill until tinder can be ignited.
- (idiomatic, US) Any pointless, unproductive, useless, or chaotic activity.
- an exercise intended to train people in duties and escape procedures to be followed in case of fire
noun
- The process of training a domesticated or pet animal to avoid urinating or defecating indoors and to use designated places instead.
- (BDSM, euphemistic) The practice of enforced coprophagy or urophagia.
- The process of training a young child to use the toilet to relieve themselves.
- training a young child to use the toilet
noun
- purging the body by the use of a cathartic to stimulate evacuation of the bowels
- (psychoanalysis) purging of emotional tensions
- A purification or cleansing, especially emotional.
- (psychology) A therapeutic technique to relieve tension by reestablishing the association of an emotion with the memory or idea of the event that first caused it, and then eliminating it by complete expression (called the abreaction).
- (drama) A release of emotional tension after an overwhelming vicarious experience, resulting in the purging or purification of the emotions, as through watching a dramatic production (especially a tragedy).
- (medicine) Purging of the digestive system.
- Any release of emotional tension to the same effect, more widely.
noun
- purging the body by the use of a cathartic to stimulate evacuation of the bowels
- a ceremonial cleansing from defilement or uncleanness by the performance of appropriate rites
- the act of clearing yourself (or another) from some stigma or charge
- The process or act of purging, such as by the use of a purgative.
- The process or act of cleansing from sin or guilt.
noun
- a condition promoting sanitary practices
- the science concerned with the prevention of illness and maintenance of health
- Those conditions and practices that promote and preserve health.
- The science of health, its promotion and preservation.
- Cleanliness.
- (computing, slang, of a macro) The property of having an expansion that is guaranteed not to cause the accidental capture of identifiers.
verb
- (intransitive) To have or produce frequent evacuations from the intestines, as by means of a cathartic.
- excrete or evacuate (someone's bowels or body)
- (transitive, intransitive, medicine) To evacuate (the bowels or the stomach); to defecate or vomit.
- (transitive) To clean thoroughly; to rid of impurities; to cleanse.
- (transitive, medicine) To cause someone to purge; to operate (on somebody) using a cathartic or emetic, or in a similar manner.
- (transitive) To remove by cleansing; to wash away.
- (transitive, law) To clear of a charge, suspicion, or imputation.
- (transitive) To clarify; to clear the dregs from (liquor).
- (intransitive) To become pure, as by clarification.
- (transitive) To free from sin, guilt, or burden.
- (transitive) To trim, dress, or prune.
- (transitive) To forcibly remove, for example, from political activity.
- (transitive) To forcibly remove people by an organization.
- rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid
- rid of impurities
- oust politically
- make pure or free from sin or guilt
- eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth
- clear of a charge
noun
- (medicine) An evacuation of the bowels or the stomach; a defecation or vomiting.
- An act or instance of purging.
- Something which or someone who purges; especially, a medicine that evacuates the intestines; a cathartic.
- A red or reddish liquid that seeps out from raw muscular meat consisting mostly of water and protein; "meat juice".
- A forcible removal of people, for example, from political activity.
- An act or instance of the cleansing of pipes.
- an act of removing by cleansing; ridding of sediment or other undesired elements
- an abrupt or sudden removal of a person or group from an organization or place
- the act of clearing yourself (or another) from some stigma or charge
noun
- A state of the bowels in which the evacuations are infrequent and difficult, or the intestines become filled with hardened faeces.
- The act of crowding anything into a lesser space, or the state of being crowded or pressed together; condensation.
- irregular and infrequent or difficult evacuation of the bowels; can be a symptom of intestinal obstruction or diverticulitis
- the act of making something futile and useless (as by routine)
noun
- the evacuation of persons (usually by air transportation) to a place where they can receive medical care
- A vehicle, typically aircraft, used for emergency transportation of patients to a medical facility.
- The emergency transportation, usually by air, of patients to a medical facility.
- Trained personnel who care for patients during emergency transportation to a medical facility.
verb
noun
- The people who are in this quarantine.
- (figurative) Anything lacking firmness or solidity; a cheat or fraud; an empty project.
- An officer's station in a prison dormitory, affording views on all sides.
- (by extension) Anything resembling a hollow sphere.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) A Greek.
- (chiefly COVID-19 pandemic) A quarantine environment containing multiple people or facilities isolated from the rest of society.
- Ellipsis of travel bubble.
- (economics) A period of intense speculation in a market, causing prices to rise quickly to irrational levels as the metaphorical bubble expands, and then fall even more quickly as the bubble bursts.
- (television, slang) A bulb or lamp; the part of a lighting assembly that actually produces the light.
- (computing, historical) Any of the small magnetized areas that make up bubble memory.
- A small, hollow, floating bead or globe, formerly used for testing the strength of spirits.
- The globule of air in the chamber of a spirit level.
- (figurative) The emotional or physical atmosphere in which a subject is immersed; especially, a homogeneous atmosphere in which subjects are spared exposure to culture or ideas different from their own.
- A spherically contained volume of air or other gas, especially one made from soapy liquid.
- (drug paraphernalia) A specialized glass pipe having a sphere-shaped apparatus at one end.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) A laugh.
- A small spherical cavity in a solid material.
- (poker) In a poker tournament, the point before which eliminated players receive no prize money and after which they do; the situation where all remaining players are guaranteed prize money (in this case, the players are said to have made the bubble); the situation where all remaining players will be guaranteed prize money after some small number of players are eliminated (in this case, the players are said to be on the bubble).
- (sports) The cutoff point between qualifying, advancing or being invited to a tournament, or having one's competition end.
- a hollow globule of gas (e.g., air or carbon dioxide)
- an impracticable and illusory idea
- a speculative scheme that depends on unstable factors that the planner cannot control
- a dome-shaped covering made of transparent glass or plastic
verb
- (intransitive) To join together in a support bubble
- (intransitive, Scotland and Northern England) To cry, weep.
- (transitive, UK, slang) To grass (report criminal activity to the authorities).
- (intransitive, figurative) To churn or foment, as if wishing to rise to the surface.
- (intransitive, figurative) To rise through a medium or system, similar to the way that bubbles rise in liquid.
- (transitive) To pat a baby on the back so as to cause it to belch.
- (computing) To apply a filter bubble, as to search results.
- (transitive) To cover with bubbles.
- (transitive) To express in a bubbly or lively manner.
- (transitive) To bubble in; to mark a response on a form by filling in a circular area (‘bubble’).
- (transitive) To cause to feel as if bubbling or churning.
- (intransitive) To produce bubbles, to rise up in bubbles (such as in foods cooking or liquids boiling).
- (transitive) To form into a protruding round shape.
- flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise
- expel gas from the stomach
- form, produce, or emit bubbles
- cause to form bubbles
- rise in bubbles or as if in bubbles
noun
- Keeping a safe space between yourself and other people, and avoiding crowds, in order to slow the spread of infectious diseases. Large-scale measures include canceling group events or closing schools, workplaces and public spaces.
- (epidemiology) The practice of maintaining physical distance between people to reduce the spread of communicable diseases by isolating those with such diseases in quarantines, maintaining space between individuals, and prohibiting certain activities.
verb
noun
- (countable) A low stool.
- (UK, countable, slang) An old or broken-down vehicle (and formerly a horse or ewe).
- (medical slang, derogatory) A patient who is difficult to treat, especially one who complains of a minor or imagined illness.
- The loose black particles collected from combustion, as on pots and kettles, or in a chimney; soot; smut.
- Colouring matter that rubs off from cloth.
- (countable) A stoneware or earthenware jar or storage container.
- (slang, Canada, US, countable and uncountable) Silly talk, a foolish belief, a poor excuse, nonsense.
- (countable) A piece of broken pottery, a shard.
- (UK, slang, countable) A person who is physically limited by age, illness or injury.
- nonsense; foolish talk
- an earthen jar (made of baked clay)
- a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink
verb
- (intransitive) To give off crock or smut.
- To break something or injure someone.
- (horticulture) To cover the drain holes of a planter with stones or similar material, in order to ensure proper drainage.
- (textiles, leatherworking) To transfer coloring through abrasion from one item to another.
- (transitive, now dialectal) To put or store (something) in a crock or pot.
- release color when rubbed, of badly dyed fabric
- soil with or as with crock
verb
- (intransitive) To have or produce frequent evacuations from the intestines, as by means of a cathartic.
- excrete or evacuate (someone's bowels or body)
- (transitive, intransitive, medicine) To evacuate (the bowels or the stomach); to defecate or vomit.
- (transitive) To clean thoroughly; to rid of impurities; to cleanse.
- (transitive, medicine) To cause someone to purge; to operate (on somebody) using a cathartic or emetic, or in a similar manner.
- (transitive) To remove by cleansing; to wash away.
- (transitive, law) To clear of a charge, suspicion, or imputation.
- (transitive) To clarify; to clear the dregs from (liquor).
- (intransitive) To become pure, as by clarification.
- (transitive) To free from sin, guilt, or burden.
- (transitive) To trim, dress, or prune.
- (transitive) To forcibly remove, for example, from political activity.
- (transitive) To forcibly remove people by an organization.
- rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid
- rid of impurities
- oust politically
- make pure or free from sin or guilt
- eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth
- clear of a charge
noun
- (medicine) An evacuation of the bowels or the stomach; a defecation or vomiting.
- An act or instance of purging.
- Something which or someone who purges; especially, a medicine that evacuates the intestines; a cathartic.
- A red or reddish liquid that seeps out from raw muscular meat consisting mostly of water and protein; "meat juice".
- A forcible removal of people, for example, from political activity.
- An act or instance of the cleansing of pipes.
- an act of removing by cleansing; ridding of sediment or other undesired elements
- an abrupt or sudden removal of a person or group from an organization or place
- the act of clearing yourself (or another) from some stigma or charge
verb
- (chiefly medicine) To produce stool: to defecate.
- (agriculture) To ramify; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers.
- (horticulture) To cut down (a plant) until its main stem is close to the ground, resembling a stool, to promote new growth.
- grow shoots in the form of stools or tillers
- have a bowel movement
- lure with a stool, as of wild fowl
- react to a decoy, of wildfowl
noun
- (US, dialect) Material, such as oyster shells, spread on the sea bottom for oyster spat to adhere to.
- (horticulture) A plant that has been cut down until its main stem is close to the ground, resembling a stool, to promote new growth.
- (chiefly medicine) Feces, excrement.
- (now chiefly dialectal, Scotland, literally and figuratively) A throne.
- (chiefly medicine) A production of feces or excrement, an act of defecation, stooling.
- A footstool.
- (nautical) A small channel on the side of a vessel, for the deadeyes of the backstays.
- (now chiefly dialectal, Scotland) A seat with a back; a chair.
- (rare) Alternative form of stole (“plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil; stolon.”).
- (West Africa) A royal seat; a chief's throne.
- A seat for one person without a back or armrests.
- (forestry) the stump of a tree that has been felled or headed for the production of saplings
- solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels
- a simple seat without a back or arms
- a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination
verb
- provide with shelter
- hear, usually without the knowledge of the speakers
- take into one's family
- serve oneself to, or consume regularly
- accept
- take up as if with a sponge
- fold up
- fool or hoax
- earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages
- express willingness to have in one's home or environs
- call for and obtain payment of
- make (clothes) smaller
- suck or take up or in
- take up mentally
- see or watch
- take in, also metaphorically
- visit for entertainment
- (transitive) To allow a person or an animal to live in one's home.
- (nautical) To reef.
- (transitive, climbing) To tighten (a belaying rope).
- (transitive) To shorten (a garment) or make it smaller.
- (transitive) To receive and properly absorb or comprehend.
- (transitive) To enjoy or appreciate.
- To deceive; to hoodwink.
- (transitive) To receive.
- (transitive) To arrest (a person).
- (transitive) To receive (goods) into one's home for the purpose of processing for a fee.
- (transitive) To attend a showing of.
verb
- (transitive) To relieve (the bowels) from constipation; to promote defecation.
- (transitive) To make loose.
- (transitive) To disengage (a device that restrains).
- (transitive) To free from restraint; to set at liberty.
- (intransitive) To become loose.
- (intransitive) To become unfastened or undone.
- make less dense
- become loose or looser or less tight
- make less severe or strict
- cause to become loose
- become less severe or strict
- make loose or looser
- disentangle and raise the fibers of
adj
- Providing protection from danger; providing shelter.
- (slang) Lenient, usually describing a teacher that is easy-going.
- Properly secured.
- Not in danger; out of harm's reach.
- (used after a noun, often forming a compound) Not susceptible to a specified source of harm.
- Certain; sure.
- (baseball) When a batter successfully reaches first base, or when a baserunner successfully advances to the next base or returns to the base he last occupied; not out.
- (snooker, of an object ball) In a location that renders it difficult to pot.
- Reliable; trusty.
- Free from risk.
- Cautious.
- (programming) Of a programming language, type-safe or more generally offering well-defined behavior despite programming errors.
- (UK, law, of a conviction) Supported by evidence and unlikely to be overturned. Usually used in the negative, as unsafe.
- (UK, slang) Great, cool, awesome, respectable; a term of approbation, often as interjection.
- having reached a base without being put out
- free from danger or the risk of harm
- financially safe
- (of an undertaking) secure from risk
noun
- (slang) A condom.
- A box, usually made of metal, in which valuables can be locked for safekeeping.
- strongbox where valuables can be safely kept
- contraceptive device consisting of a sheath of thin rubber or latex that is worn over the penis during intercourse
- a ventilated or refrigerated cupboard for securing provisions from pests