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noun
noun
- A lapwing, especially a northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus).
- A kind of film transition where one shot replaces another by travelling from one side of the frame to another or with a special shape.
- The act of wiping something.
- A soft piece of cloth or cloth-like material used for wiping.
- (roleplaying games, video games) An instance of all members of a party dying in a single campaign, event, or battle; a wipeout.
- the act of rubbing or wiping
verb
- (transitive, computing) To erase.
- (figurative) To remove an expression from one's face.
- (intransitive, roleplaying games, video games) To have all members of a party die in a single campaign, event, or battle; to be wiped out.
- (transitive) To move an object over, maintaining contact, with the intention of removing some substance from the surface. (Compare rub.)
- (transitive, plumbing) To make (a joint, as between pieces of lead pipe), by surrounding the junction with a mass of solder, applied in a plastic condition by means of a rag with which the solder is shaped by rubbing.
- (ambitransitive) To clean (the anus, buttocks and/or genitals) after defecation or urination.
- (transitive) To smear (a substance) with this kind of motion.
- (transitive) To deperm (a ship).
- (video editing) To perform a transition in which one scene or slide is replaced with another over time along a horizontal axis, as if one scene or slide is a layer being slid off the other.
- (transitive) To remove by rubbing; to rub off; to obliterate; usually followed by away, off, or out.
- rub with a circular motion
noun
verb
- To flow in drops; to run in drops.
- To lament; to complain.
- To hang the branches, as if in sorrow; to be pendent; to droop; said of a plant or its branches.
- To cry; to shed tears, especially when accompanied with sobbing or other difficulty speaking, as an expression of emotion such as sadness or joy.
- (medicine, of a wound or sore) To produce secretions.
- shed tears because of sadness, rage, or pain
noun
verb
noun
noun
- A wing.
- wing of a bird
- (mechanical engineering) The smallest gear in a gear train.
- A moth of the genus Lithophane.
- (ornithology) Any of the outermost primary feathers on a bird's wing.
- (ornithology) The joint of a bird's wing farthest from the body.
- a gear with a small number of teeth designed to mesh with a larger wheel or rack
- any of the larger wing or tail feathers of a bird
verb
- To bind the arms of someone, so as to deprive him of their use; to disable by so binding.
- (transferred sense, figurative) To restrain; to limit.
- To cut off the pinion of a bird’s wing, or otherwise disable or bind its wings, in order to prevent it from flying.
- cut the wings off (of birds)
- bind the arms of
suffix
noun
verb
noun
noun
- one of the main flight feathers projecting along the outer edge of a bird's wing
- coil forming the part of an electrical circuit such that changing current in it induces a current in a neighboring circuit
- a preliminary election where delegates or nominees are chosen
- (astronomy) a celestial body (especially a star) relative to other objects in orbit around it
- (aviation) A radar return from an aircraft (or other object) produced solely by the reflection of the radar beam from the aircraft's skin, without additional information from the aircraft's transponder.
- The most massive component of a gravitationally bound system, such as a planet in relation to its satellites.
- (military) The first stage of a thermonuclear weapon, which sets off a fission explosion to help trigger a fusion reaction in the weapon's secondary stage.
- A primary colour.
- The first year of grade school.
- (ornithology) Any flight feather attached to the manus (hand) of a bird.
- (electronics) A directly driven inductive coil, as in a transformer or induction motor that is magnetically coupled to a secondary.
- A base or fundamental component; something that is irreducible.
- (medicine) The primary site of a disease; the original location or source of the disease.
- (political science) A primary election; a preliminary election to select a political candidate of a political party, or the first round of a two-round election.
- A primary school.
adj
- not derived from or reducible to something else; basic
- of first rank or importance or value; direct and immediate rather than secondary
- most important element
- of or being the essential or basic part
- (medicine) Relating to day-to-day care provided by health professionals such as nurses, general practitioners, dentists etc.
- (medicine) Relating to the place where a disorder or disease started to occur.
- (chemistry) Illustrating, possessing, or characterized by, some quality or property in the first degree; having undergone the first stage of substitution or replacement.
- (geology) Earliest formed; fundamental.
- First or earliest in a group or series.
- Main; principal; chief; placed ahead of others.
verb
- (US, politics, transitive, intransitive) To challenge (an incumbent sitting politician) for their political party's nomination to run for re-election, through running a challenger campaign in a primary election, especially one that is more ideologically extreme.
- (US, intransitive, transitive) To take part in a primary election.
noun
- (falconry) A thong of soft leather to bind up a hawk's wing.
- (theater) A rope or line used to suspend lights or scenery in a certain position.
- A stock at each end of a seine to keep it stretched.
- (nautical) A small rope used to truss up sails.
- (in the plural) The feathers around a hawk's rump.
- a small rope (one of several) used to draw a sail in
- a small net used to draw fish into a boat
verb
verb
- strip of feathers
- sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity
- look for and gather
- rip off; ask an unreasonable price
- pull or pull out sharply
- pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion
- (intransitive) To pull or twitch sharply.
- (transitive) To play a string instrument pizzicato.
- (transitive) To remove feathers from (a bird).
- Of a glacier: to transport individual pieces of bedrock by means of gradual erosion through freezing and thawing.
- (transitive, music) To play (a single string on a musical instrument) by pulling and then releasing it, such as on a guitar.
- (transitive) To pull something sharply; to pull something out
- (transitive) To take or remove (someone) quickly from a particular place or situation.
noun
- the act of pulling and releasing a taut cord
- the trait of showing courage and determination in spite of possible loss or injury
- The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals.
- An instance of plucking or pulling sharply.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang, uncountable) Cheap wine.
- (informal, figurative, uncountable) Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence.
verb
- strip of feathers
- cause to move in a certain direction by exerting a force upon, either physically or in an abstract sense
- take sides with; align oneself with; show strong sympathy for
- rein in to keep from winning a race
- perform an act, usually with a negative connotation
- tear or be torn violently
- remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract
- bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a cover
- operate when rowing a boat
- steer into a certain direction
- apply force so as to cause motion towards the source of the motion
- direct toward itself or oneself by means of some psychological power or physical attributes
- strain abnormally
- hit in the direction that the player is facing when carrying through the swing
- move into a certain direction
- cause to move by pulling
- remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense
- (UK) To draw beer from a pump, keg, or other source.
- To copy or emulate the actions or behaviour associated with the person or thing mentioned (with a and the name of a person, place, event, etc.).
- (intransitive) To take a swig or mouthful of drink.
- (martial arts) In practice fighting, to reduce the strength of a blow (etymology 3) so as to avoid injuring one's practice partner.
- To toss a frisbee with the intention of launching the disc across the length of a field.
- (cooking, transitive, intransitive) To repeatedly stretch taffy in order to achieve the desired stretchy texture.
- (transitive) To attract or net; to pull in.
- (transitive, intransitive) (Followed by a preposition or adverb) To drive (a vehicle) in a particular direction or to a particular place.
- (transitive) To remove or withdraw (something), especially from public circulation or availability.
- (transitive, law enforcement) To pull over (a driver or vehicle); to detain for a traffic stop.
- (computing) To retrieve source code or other material from a source control repository.
- (horse racing, transitive) To impede the progress of (a horse) to prevent its winning a race.
- (transitive, rowing) To achieve by rowing on a rowing machine.
- (transitive, informal) To do or perform, especially something seen as negative by the speaker.
- To draw apart; to tear; to rend.
- (rail transportation, US) Of a railroad car, to pull out from a yard or station; to leave.
- (UK) To score a certain number of points in a sport.
- (transitive) To retrieve or look up for use.
- (construction) To obtain (a permit) from a regulatory authority.
- (transitive, intransitive) To apply a force to (an object) so that it comes toward the person or thing applying the force.
- (cricket, golf) To strike the ball in a particular manner. (See noun sense.)
- (transitive) To strain (a muscle, tendon, ligament, etc.).
- (ambitransitive, US, slang) To interest (someone) in dating or pursuing one (whether or not this has led to sex).
- (video games, ambitransitive) To draw (a hostile non-player character) into combat, or toward or away from some location or target.
- (ambitransitive, chiefly UK, Ireland, slang) To persuade (someone) to have sex with one.
- (transitive) To transport by rowing.
- To gather with the hand, or by drawing toward oneself; to pluck or pick (flowers, fruit, etc.).
- (horse-racing) To hold back, and so prevent from winning.
- (intransitive) To row.
noun
- a device used for pulling something
- the force used in pulling
- a slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke)
- a sharp strain on muscles or ligaments
- a sustained effort
- the act of pulling; applying force to move something toward or with you
- special advantage or influence
- (countable, colloquial) A drink, especially of an alcoholic beverage; a mouthful or swig of a drink.
- (countable) Any device meant to be pulled, as a lever, knob, handle, or rope.
- (uncountable, figurative, informal) The power to influence someone or something; sway, clout.
- (cricket) A type of stroke by which a leg ball is sent to the off side, or an off ball to the on side; a pull shot.
- (uncountable, figurative) An advantage over somebody; a means of influencing.
- (Internet slang) A high-quality or funny recommendation by the algorithm.
- (countable, figurative) A randomized selection from a given set.
- (printing, historical) A single impression from a handpress.
- (uncountable) An attractive force which causes motion towards the source.
- (golf) A mishit shot which travels in a straight line and (for a right-handed player) left of the intended path.
- (countable) An act of pulling (applying force toward oneself).
- (gacha games) A player's use of a game's gacha mechanic to obtain a random reward.
- (printing) A proof sheet.
- (Internet) The act or process of sending out a request for data from a server by a client.
- (countable) A journey made by rowing.
- (countable) An injury resulting from a forceful pull on a limb, etc.; strain; sprain.
- (uncountable, figurative) Appeal or attraction.
intj
verb
- strip of feathers
- move quickly and violently
- separate or cause to separate abruptly
- to separate or be separated by force
- fill with tears or shed tears
- (intransitive) To produce tears.
- (intransitive) To smash or enter something with great force.
- (transitive) To injure as if by pulling apart.
- (transitive) To destroy or reduce abstract unity or coherence, such as social, political or emotional.
- (transitive) To make (an opening) with force or energy.
- (transitive, of structures, with down) To demolish.
- (transitive) To rend (a solid material) by holding or restraining in two places and pulling apart, whether intentionally or not; to destroy or separate.
- (intransitive) To become torn, especially accidentally.
- (computing, intransitive) To be interrupted midway through.
- (intransitive) To move or act with great speed, energy, or violence.
- (transitive, often with off or out) To remove by tearing, or with sudden great force.
noun
- a drop of the clear salty saline solution secreted by the lacrimal glands
- the act of tearing
- an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart
- an occasion for excessive eating or drinking
- Something in the form of a transparent drop of fluid matter; also, a solid, transparent, tear-shaped drop, as of some balsams or resins.
- (glass manufacture) A partially vitrified bit of clay in glass.
- (slang) A rampage.
- A drop of clear, salty liquid produced from the eyes by crying or irritation.
- That which causes or accompanies tears; a lament; a dirge.
- A hole or break caused by tearing.
noun
- An overturned flap.
- A current-limiting feature in power supplies and amplifiers.
- (social sciences) A multimethod research approach that includes open-ended interviewing, nominal group dialogue, survey and attitude scaling techniques, and multidimensional and cluster analyses.
- (music) The use of rear-facing heavy-duty loudspeakers on stage during live music performances, to improve sound for the audience or to allow performers to hear and monitor themselves.
- (genetics) A denatured (single-strand) DNA molecule that has formed base pair bonds with itself.
- (roleplaying games) A portion of a storyline that branches based on user choices but where all branches eventually reconverge to a single inevitable event.
- (genetics) A chromosome that contains sequences which support foldback; A DNA molecule with a base sequence or sequences that are repeated in reverse order.
noun
noun
- a flap that lies over another part
- an area of control or responsibility
- touching with the tongue
- the upper side of the thighs of a seated person
- movement once around a course
- the part of a piece of clothing that covers the thighs
- (engineering) A component that overlaps or covers any portion of itself or of an adjacent component.
- The taking of liquid into the mouth with the tongue.
- An edge; a border; a hem, as of cloth.
- A piece of brass, lead, or other soft metal, used to hold a cutting or polishing powder in cutting glass, gems, etc. or in polishing cutlery or in toolmaking. It is usually in the form of a wheel or disk that revolves on a vertical axis.
- (sports) One circuit around a race track.
- The act or process of lapping.
- The state or condition of being in part extended over or by the side of something else; or the extent of the overlapping.
- (medicine, colloquial) Clipping of laparotomy
- A sheet, layer, or bat, of cotton fiber prepared for the carding machine.
- (swimming) The traversal of one length of the pool, or (less commonly) one length and back again.
- The upper legs of a seated person.
- The part of the clothing that lies on the knees or thighs when one sits down; that part of the person thus covered.
- The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron.
- That part of any substance or fixture which extends over, or lies upon, or by the side of, a part of another.
- The amount by which a slide valve at its half stroke overlaps a port in the seat, being equal to the distance the valve must move from its mid stroke position in order to begin to open the port. Used alone, lap refers to outside lap (see below).
- In card playing and other games, the points won in excess of the number necessary to complete a game;—so called when they are counted in the score of the following game.
- (medicine, colloquial) Clipping of laparoscopy.
- (figuratively) A place of rearing and fostering.
verb
- move with or cause to move with a whistling or hissing sound
- lie partly over or alongside of something or of one another
- pass the tongue over
- take up with the tongue
- wash or flow against
- (transitive) To enfold; to hold as in one's lap; to cherish.
- (intransitive) to wind around
- (transitive) To polish (a surface, especially metal or gemstone) with very fine abrasive to achieve smoothness and small dimensional changes.
- (transitive, sports, motor racing) To overtake a straggler in a race by completing one more whole lap than the straggler.
- (transitive) to envelop, enfold
- (intransitive, of water) To wash against a surface with a splashing sound; to swash.
- (transitive) To fold; to bend and lay over or on something.
- (intransitive) To be turned or folded; to lie partly on or over something; to overlap.
- (ambitransitive) To take (liquid) into the mouth with the tongue; to lick up with a quick motion of the tongue.
- (transitive) To place or lay (one thing) so as to overlap another.
- (transitive) To rest or recline in someone's lap, or as in a lap.
- (transitive) to wrap around, enwrap, wrap up
- To cut or polish with a lap, as glass, gems, cutlery, etc.
adj
noun
- a flap that lies over another part
- the property of partial coincidence in time
- a representation of common ground between theories or phenomena
- Something that overlaps or is overlapped.
- (insurance, pensions) The payment of a spouse's or other dependant's annuity benefits concurrently with the member's benefits, on death of the member during the guarantee period.
- (rugby) a situation in the game where an attacking line has more players in it than the defensive line coming to meet it. The attacking side may exploit the overlap by using their superior numbers to break the opposition's defensive line. If attackers outnumber defenders by more than one player this is often termed a two man overlap or three man overlap, etc. If the attacking side fails to break through usually due to poor execution, they are said to waste an overlap.
verb
- extend over and cover a part of
- coincide partially or wholly
- (mathematics) Of sets: to have some elements in common.
- (genetics) To have some similar nucleotide sequences.
- To extend over and partly cover something.
- (art) An illusion of depth is created when one object partially covers another.
- To co-occur, to happen at the same time.
- To have an area, range, character or function in common.
verb
- (transitive) To furnish with wings.
- (intransitive) To fly.
- (transitive, of a building) To add a wing (extra part) to.
- (transitive) To act or speak extemporaneously; to improvise; to wing it.
- (transitive) To traverse by flying.
- (transitive) To injure slightly (as with a gunshot), especially in the wing or arm.
- (transitive) To transport with, or as if with, wings; to bear in flight, or speedily.
- (transitive) To throw.
- travel through the air; be airborne
noun
- (zootomy) An appendage of an animal's (bird, bat, insect) body that enables it to fly.
- A cosmetic effect where eyeliner curves outward and ends at a point.
- (in the plural) The insignia of a qualified pilot or aircrew member.
- One of the longer sides of crownworks or hornworks in fortification.
- A portable shelter consisting of a fabric roof on a frame, like a tent without sides.
- A part of something that is lesser in size than the main body, and located at the side, such as an extension from the main building.
- (typography, informal, rare) A háček.
- (sports) A position in several field games on either side of the field.
- Anything that agitates the air as a wing does, or is put in winglike motion by the action of the air, such as a fan or vane for winnowing grain, the vane or sail of a windmill, the sail of a ship, etc.
- (nautical) That part of the hold or orlop of a vessel which is nearest the sides. In a fleet, one of the extremities when the ships are drawn up in line, or when forming the two sides of a triangle.
- (botany) Either of the two side petals of a papilionaceous flower.
- One of the broad, thin, anterior lobes of the foot of a pteropod, used as an organ in swimming.
- A fin at the side of a ray or similar fish.
- (British) A panel of a car which encloses the wheel area, especially the front wheels.
- An ornament worn on the shoulder; a small epaulet or shoulder knot.
- Limb or instrument of flight; means of flight or of rapid motion.
- (sports) A player occupying such a position, also called a winger
- A side shoot of a tree or plant; a branch growing up by the side of another.
- (slang, MLE) Ellipsis of prison wing, a cellblock; or prison or doing time by extension.
- (botany) Any membranaceous expansion, such as that along the sides of certain stems, or one of the bracts on a dragon fruit, or of a fruit of the kind called samara.
- A faction of a political movement. Usually implies a position apart from the mainstream center position.
- (US) A larger formation of two or more groups, which in turn control two or more squadrons.
- (British) A unit of command consisting of two or more squadrons and itself being a sub-unit of a group or station.
- Passage by flying; flight.
- (theater) One of the unseen areas on the side of the stage in a theatre.
- On the enneagram, one of the two adjacent types to an enneatype that forms an individual's subtype of his or her enneatype.
- (slang) Human arm.
- A protruding piece of material on a menstrual pad or diaper to hold it in place and prevent leakage.
- (nautical) A platform on either side of the bridge of a vessel, normally found in pairs.
- (aviation) Part of an aircraft that produces the lift for rising into the air.
- One of the large pectoral fins of a flying fish.
- (in flight formation) a position to the side and just to the rear of another aircraft
- a hockey player stationed in a forward position on either side
- a unit of military aircraft
- a movable organ for flying (one of a pair)
- one of the horizontal airfoils on either side of the fuselage of an airplane
- a stage area out of sight of the audience
- an addition that extends a main building
- the side of military or naval formation
- a group within a political party or legislature or other organization that holds distinct views or has a particular function
- the wing of a fowl
- a barrier that surrounds the wheels of a vehicle to block splashing water or mud
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adj
noun
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- A lapwing, especially a northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus).
- A kind of film transition where one shot replaces another by travelling from one side of the frame to another or with a special shape.
- The act of wiping something.
- A soft piece of cloth or cloth-like material used for wiping.
- (roleplaying games, video games) An instance of all members of a party dying in a single campaign, event, or battle; a wipeout.
- the act of rubbing or wiping
verb
- (transitive, computing) To erase.
- (figurative) To remove an expression from one's face.
- (intransitive, roleplaying games, video games) To have all members of a party die in a single campaign, event, or battle; to be wiped out.
- (transitive) To move an object over, maintaining contact, with the intention of removing some substance from the surface. (Compare rub.)
- (transitive, plumbing) To make (a joint, as between pieces of lead pipe), by surrounding the junction with a mass of solder, applied in a plastic condition by means of a rag with which the solder is shaped by rubbing.
- (ambitransitive) To clean (the anus, buttocks and/or genitals) after defecation or urination.
- (transitive) To smear (a substance) with this kind of motion.
- (transitive) To deperm (a ship).
- (video editing) To perform a transition in which one scene or slide is replaced with another over time along a horizontal axis, as if one scene or slide is a layer being slid off the other.
- (transitive) To remove by rubbing; to rub off; to obliterate; usually followed by away, off, or out.
- rub with a circular motion
noun
verb
- To flow in drops; to run in drops.
- To lament; to complain.
- To hang the branches, as if in sorrow; to be pendent; to droop; said of a plant or its branches.
- To cry; to shed tears, especially when accompanied with sobbing or other difficulty speaking, as an expression of emotion such as sadness or joy.
- (medicine, of a wound or sore) To produce secretions.
- shed tears because of sadness, rage, or pain
noun
verb
noun
noun
- A wing.
- wing of a bird
- (mechanical engineering) The smallest gear in a gear train.
- A moth of the genus Lithophane.
- (ornithology) Any of the outermost primary feathers on a bird's wing.
- (ornithology) The joint of a bird's wing farthest from the body.
- a gear with a small number of teeth designed to mesh with a larger wheel or rack
- any of the larger wing or tail feathers of a bird
verb
- To bind the arms of someone, so as to deprive him of their use; to disable by so binding.
- (transferred sense, figurative) To restrain; to limit.
- To cut off the pinion of a bird’s wing, or otherwise disable or bind its wings, in order to prevent it from flying.
- cut the wings off (of birds)
- bind the arms of
noun
verb
noun
noun
- one of the main flight feathers projecting along the outer edge of a bird's wing
- coil forming the part of an electrical circuit such that changing current in it induces a current in a neighboring circuit
- a preliminary election where delegates or nominees are chosen
- (astronomy) a celestial body (especially a star) relative to other objects in orbit around it
- (aviation) A radar return from an aircraft (or other object) produced solely by the reflection of the radar beam from the aircraft's skin, without additional information from the aircraft's transponder.
- The most massive component of a gravitationally bound system, such as a planet in relation to its satellites.
- (military) The first stage of a thermonuclear weapon, which sets off a fission explosion to help trigger a fusion reaction in the weapon's secondary stage.
- A primary colour.
- The first year of grade school.
- (ornithology) Any flight feather attached to the manus (hand) of a bird.
- (electronics) A directly driven inductive coil, as in a transformer or induction motor that is magnetically coupled to a secondary.
- A base or fundamental component; something that is irreducible.
- (medicine) The primary site of a disease; the original location or source of the disease.
- (political science) A primary election; a preliminary election to select a political candidate of a political party, or the first round of a two-round election.
- A primary school.
adj
- not derived from or reducible to something else; basic
- of first rank or importance or value; direct and immediate rather than secondary
- most important element
- of or being the essential or basic part
- (medicine) Relating to day-to-day care provided by health professionals such as nurses, general practitioners, dentists etc.
- (medicine) Relating to the place where a disorder or disease started to occur.
- (chemistry) Illustrating, possessing, or characterized by, some quality or property in the first degree; having undergone the first stage of substitution or replacement.
- (geology) Earliest formed; fundamental.
- First or earliest in a group or series.
- Main; principal; chief; placed ahead of others.
verb
- (US, politics, transitive, intransitive) To challenge (an incumbent sitting politician) for their political party's nomination to run for re-election, through running a challenger campaign in a primary election, especially one that is more ideologically extreme.
- (US, intransitive, transitive) To take part in a primary election.
noun
- (falconry) A thong of soft leather to bind up a hawk's wing.
- (theater) A rope or line used to suspend lights or scenery in a certain position.
- A stock at each end of a seine to keep it stretched.
- (nautical) A small rope used to truss up sails.
- (in the plural) The feathers around a hawk's rump.
- a small rope (one of several) used to draw a sail in
- a small net used to draw fish into a boat
verb
noun
- An overturned flap.
- A current-limiting feature in power supplies and amplifiers.
- (social sciences) A multimethod research approach that includes open-ended interviewing, nominal group dialogue, survey and attitude scaling techniques, and multidimensional and cluster analyses.
- (music) The use of rear-facing heavy-duty loudspeakers on stage during live music performances, to improve sound for the audience or to allow performers to hear and monitor themselves.
- (genetics) A denatured (single-strand) DNA molecule that has formed base pair bonds with itself.
- (roleplaying games) A portion of a storyline that branches based on user choices but where all branches eventually reconverge to a single inevitable event.
- (genetics) A chromosome that contains sequences which support foldback; A DNA molecule with a base sequence or sequences that are repeated in reverse order.
noun
noun
- a flap that lies over another part
- an area of control or responsibility
- touching with the tongue
- the upper side of the thighs of a seated person
- movement once around a course
- the part of a piece of clothing that covers the thighs
- (engineering) A component that overlaps or covers any portion of itself or of an adjacent component.
- The taking of liquid into the mouth with the tongue.
- An edge; a border; a hem, as of cloth.
- A piece of brass, lead, or other soft metal, used to hold a cutting or polishing powder in cutting glass, gems, etc. or in polishing cutlery or in toolmaking. It is usually in the form of a wheel or disk that revolves on a vertical axis.
- (sports) One circuit around a race track.
- The act or process of lapping.
- The state or condition of being in part extended over or by the side of something else; or the extent of the overlapping.
- (medicine, colloquial) Clipping of laparotomy
- A sheet, layer, or bat, of cotton fiber prepared for the carding machine.
- (swimming) The traversal of one length of the pool, or (less commonly) one length and back again.
- The upper legs of a seated person.
- The part of the clothing that lies on the knees or thighs when one sits down; that part of the person thus covered.
- The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron.
- That part of any substance or fixture which extends over, or lies upon, or by the side of, a part of another.
- The amount by which a slide valve at its half stroke overlaps a port in the seat, being equal to the distance the valve must move from its mid stroke position in order to begin to open the port. Used alone, lap refers to outside lap (see below).
- In card playing and other games, the points won in excess of the number necessary to complete a game;—so called when they are counted in the score of the following game.
- (medicine, colloquial) Clipping of laparoscopy.
- (figuratively) A place of rearing and fostering.
verb
- move with or cause to move with a whistling or hissing sound
- lie partly over or alongside of something or of one another
- pass the tongue over
- take up with the tongue
- wash or flow against
- (transitive) To enfold; to hold as in one's lap; to cherish.
- (intransitive) to wind around
- (transitive) To polish (a surface, especially metal or gemstone) with very fine abrasive to achieve smoothness and small dimensional changes.
- (transitive, sports, motor racing) To overtake a straggler in a race by completing one more whole lap than the straggler.
- (transitive) to envelop, enfold
- (intransitive, of water) To wash against a surface with a splashing sound; to swash.
- (transitive) To fold; to bend and lay over or on something.
- (intransitive) To be turned or folded; to lie partly on or over something; to overlap.
- (ambitransitive) To take (liquid) into the mouth with the tongue; to lick up with a quick motion of the tongue.
- (transitive) To place or lay (one thing) so as to overlap another.
- (transitive) To rest or recline in someone's lap, or as in a lap.
- (transitive) to wrap around, enwrap, wrap up
- To cut or polish with a lap, as glass, gems, cutlery, etc.
adj
noun
- a flap that lies over another part
- the property of partial coincidence in time
- a representation of common ground between theories or phenomena
- Something that overlaps or is overlapped.
- (insurance, pensions) The payment of a spouse's or other dependant's annuity benefits concurrently with the member's benefits, on death of the member during the guarantee period.
- (rugby) a situation in the game where an attacking line has more players in it than the defensive line coming to meet it. The attacking side may exploit the overlap by using their superior numbers to break the opposition's defensive line. If attackers outnumber defenders by more than one player this is often termed a two man overlap or three man overlap, etc. If the attacking side fails to break through usually due to poor execution, they are said to waste an overlap.
verb
- extend over and cover a part of
- coincide partially or wholly
- (mathematics) Of sets: to have some elements in common.
- (genetics) To have some similar nucleotide sequences.
- To extend over and partly cover something.
- (art) An illusion of depth is created when one object partially covers another.
- To co-occur, to happen at the same time.
- To have an area, range, character or function in common.
noun
verb
- strip of feathers
- sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity
- look for and gather
- rip off; ask an unreasonable price
- pull or pull out sharply
- pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion
- (intransitive) To pull or twitch sharply.
- (transitive) To play a string instrument pizzicato.
- (transitive) To remove feathers from (a bird).
- Of a glacier: to transport individual pieces of bedrock by means of gradual erosion through freezing and thawing.
- (transitive, music) To play (a single string on a musical instrument) by pulling and then releasing it, such as on a guitar.
- (transitive) To pull something sharply; to pull something out
- (transitive) To take or remove (someone) quickly from a particular place or situation.
noun
- the act of pulling and releasing a taut cord
- the trait of showing courage and determination in spite of possible loss or injury
- The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals.
- An instance of plucking or pulling sharply.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang, uncountable) Cheap wine.
- (informal, figurative, uncountable) Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence.
verb
- strip of feathers
- cause to move in a certain direction by exerting a force upon, either physically or in an abstract sense
- take sides with; align oneself with; show strong sympathy for
- rein in to keep from winning a race
- perform an act, usually with a negative connotation
- tear or be torn violently
- remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract
- bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a cover
- operate when rowing a boat
- steer into a certain direction
- apply force so as to cause motion towards the source of the motion
- direct toward itself or oneself by means of some psychological power or physical attributes
- strain abnormally
- hit in the direction that the player is facing when carrying through the swing
- move into a certain direction
- cause to move by pulling
- remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense
- (UK) To draw beer from a pump, keg, or other source.
- To copy or emulate the actions or behaviour associated with the person or thing mentioned (with a and the name of a person, place, event, etc.).
- (intransitive) To take a swig or mouthful of drink.
- (martial arts) In practice fighting, to reduce the strength of a blow (etymology 3) so as to avoid injuring one's practice partner.
- To toss a frisbee with the intention of launching the disc across the length of a field.
- (cooking, transitive, intransitive) To repeatedly stretch taffy in order to achieve the desired stretchy texture.
- (transitive) To attract or net; to pull in.
- (transitive, intransitive) (Followed by a preposition or adverb) To drive (a vehicle) in a particular direction or to a particular place.
- (transitive) To remove or withdraw (something), especially from public circulation or availability.
- (transitive, law enforcement) To pull over (a driver or vehicle); to detain for a traffic stop.
- (computing) To retrieve source code or other material from a source control repository.
- (horse racing, transitive) To impede the progress of (a horse) to prevent its winning a race.
- (transitive, rowing) To achieve by rowing on a rowing machine.
- (transitive, informal) To do or perform, especially something seen as negative by the speaker.
- To draw apart; to tear; to rend.
- (rail transportation, US) Of a railroad car, to pull out from a yard or station; to leave.
- (UK) To score a certain number of points in a sport.
- (transitive) To retrieve or look up for use.
- (construction) To obtain (a permit) from a regulatory authority.
- (transitive, intransitive) To apply a force to (an object) so that it comes toward the person or thing applying the force.
- (cricket, golf) To strike the ball in a particular manner. (See noun sense.)
- (transitive) To strain (a muscle, tendon, ligament, etc.).
- (ambitransitive, US, slang) To interest (someone) in dating or pursuing one (whether or not this has led to sex).
- (video games, ambitransitive) To draw (a hostile non-player character) into combat, or toward or away from some location or target.
- (ambitransitive, chiefly UK, Ireland, slang) To persuade (someone) to have sex with one.
- (transitive) To transport by rowing.
- To gather with the hand, or by drawing toward oneself; to pluck or pick (flowers, fruit, etc.).
- (horse-racing) To hold back, and so prevent from winning.
- (intransitive) To row.
noun
- a device used for pulling something
- the force used in pulling
- a slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke)
- a sharp strain on muscles or ligaments
- a sustained effort
- the act of pulling; applying force to move something toward or with you
- special advantage or influence
- (countable, colloquial) A drink, especially of an alcoholic beverage; a mouthful or swig of a drink.
- (countable) Any device meant to be pulled, as a lever, knob, handle, or rope.
- (uncountable, figurative, informal) The power to influence someone or something; sway, clout.
- (cricket) A type of stroke by which a leg ball is sent to the off side, or an off ball to the on side; a pull shot.
- (uncountable, figurative) An advantage over somebody; a means of influencing.
- (Internet slang) A high-quality or funny recommendation by the algorithm.
- (countable, figurative) A randomized selection from a given set.
- (printing, historical) A single impression from a handpress.
- (uncountable) An attractive force which causes motion towards the source.
- (golf) A mishit shot which travels in a straight line and (for a right-handed player) left of the intended path.
- (countable) An act of pulling (applying force toward oneself).
- (gacha games) A player's use of a game's gacha mechanic to obtain a random reward.
- (printing) A proof sheet.
- (Internet) The act or process of sending out a request for data from a server by a client.
- (countable) A journey made by rowing.
- (countable) An injury resulting from a forceful pull on a limb, etc.; strain; sprain.
- (uncountable, figurative) Appeal or attraction.
intj
verb
- strip of feathers
- move quickly and violently
- separate or cause to separate abruptly
- to separate or be separated by force
- fill with tears or shed tears
- (intransitive) To produce tears.
- (intransitive) To smash or enter something with great force.
- (transitive) To injure as if by pulling apart.
- (transitive) To destroy or reduce abstract unity or coherence, such as social, political or emotional.
- (transitive) To make (an opening) with force or energy.
- (transitive, of structures, with down) To demolish.
- (transitive) To rend (a solid material) by holding or restraining in two places and pulling apart, whether intentionally or not; to destroy or separate.
- (intransitive) To become torn, especially accidentally.
- (computing, intransitive) To be interrupted midway through.
- (intransitive) To move or act with great speed, energy, or violence.
- (transitive, often with off or out) To remove by tearing, or with sudden great force.
noun
- a drop of the clear salty saline solution secreted by the lacrimal glands
- the act of tearing
- an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart
- an occasion for excessive eating or drinking
- Something in the form of a transparent drop of fluid matter; also, a solid, transparent, tear-shaped drop, as of some balsams or resins.
- (glass manufacture) A partially vitrified bit of clay in glass.
- (slang) A rampage.
- A drop of clear, salty liquid produced from the eyes by crying or irritation.
- That which causes or accompanies tears; a lament; a dirge.
- A hole or break caused by tearing.
verb
- (transitive) To furnish with wings.
- (intransitive) To fly.
- (transitive, of a building) To add a wing (extra part) to.
- (transitive) To act or speak extemporaneously; to improvise; to wing it.
- (transitive) To traverse by flying.
- (transitive) To injure slightly (as with a gunshot), especially in the wing or arm.
- (transitive) To transport with, or as if with, wings; to bear in flight, or speedily.
- (transitive) To throw.
- travel through the air; be airborne
noun
- (zootomy) An appendage of an animal's (bird, bat, insect) body that enables it to fly.
- A cosmetic effect where eyeliner curves outward and ends at a point.
- (in the plural) The insignia of a qualified pilot or aircrew member.
- One of the longer sides of crownworks or hornworks in fortification.
- A portable shelter consisting of a fabric roof on a frame, like a tent without sides.
- A part of something that is lesser in size than the main body, and located at the side, such as an extension from the main building.
- (typography, informal, rare) A háček.
- (sports) A position in several field games on either side of the field.
- Anything that agitates the air as a wing does, or is put in winglike motion by the action of the air, such as a fan or vane for winnowing grain, the vane or sail of a windmill, the sail of a ship, etc.
- (nautical) That part of the hold or orlop of a vessel which is nearest the sides. In a fleet, one of the extremities when the ships are drawn up in line, or when forming the two sides of a triangle.
- (botany) Either of the two side petals of a papilionaceous flower.
- One of the broad, thin, anterior lobes of the foot of a pteropod, used as an organ in swimming.
- A fin at the side of a ray or similar fish.
- (British) A panel of a car which encloses the wheel area, especially the front wheels.
- An ornament worn on the shoulder; a small epaulet or shoulder knot.
- Limb or instrument of flight; means of flight or of rapid motion.
- (sports) A player occupying such a position, also called a winger
- A side shoot of a tree or plant; a branch growing up by the side of another.
- (slang, MLE) Ellipsis of prison wing, a cellblock; or prison or doing time by extension.
- (botany) Any membranaceous expansion, such as that along the sides of certain stems, or one of the bracts on a dragon fruit, or of a fruit of the kind called samara.
- A faction of a political movement. Usually implies a position apart from the mainstream center position.
- (US) A larger formation of two or more groups, which in turn control two or more squadrons.
- (British) A unit of command consisting of two or more squadrons and itself being a sub-unit of a group or station.
- Passage by flying; flight.
- (theater) One of the unseen areas on the side of the stage in a theatre.
- On the enneagram, one of the two adjacent types to an enneatype that forms an individual's subtype of his or her enneatype.
- (slang) Human arm.
- A protruding piece of material on a menstrual pad or diaper to hold it in place and prevent leakage.
- (nautical) A platform on either side of the bridge of a vessel, normally found in pairs.
- (aviation) Part of an aircraft that produces the lift for rising into the air.
- One of the large pectoral fins of a flying fish.
- (in flight formation) a position to the side and just to the rear of another aircraft
- a hockey player stationed in a forward position on either side
- a unit of military aircraft
- a movable organ for flying (one of a pair)
- one of the horizontal airfoils on either side of the fuselage of an airplane
- a stage area out of sight of the audience
- an addition that extends a main building
- the side of military or naval formation
- a group within a political party or legislature or other organization that holds distinct views or has a particular function
- the wing of a fowl
- a barrier that surrounds the wheels of a vehicle to block splashing water or mud