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- A bushing.
- (medicine) A type of add-on device used by an asthmatic person to increase the effectiveness of a metered-dose inhaler.
- (science fiction) A person who works or lives in space.
- (slang) A forgetful person; one who spaces out.
- (historical) An instrument for reversing a telegraphic current, especially in a marine cable, to increase the speed of transmission.
- An object inserted to hold a space open in a row of items, e.g. beads or printed type.
- (intransitive) To be realized and understood; to click.
- To twitch
- (transitive) To beat with twigs.
- To observe slyly; also, to perceive; to discover.
- (colloquial, regional) To realise something; to catch on; to recognize someone or something.
- To tweak
- To understand the meaning of (a person); to comprehend.
- understand, usually after some initial difficulty
- branch out in a twiglike manner
- A branch of a tree, bush, or shrub that extends outward; offshoot.
- An offshoot or outgrowth; something that develops from something else.
- A branch of a path, stream, vessel, duct, etc. that carries whatever travels along the patch, etc away from the main path etc.
- (law) Something that results from a law, ruling, or record, but which is separate from that law, ruling, etc.
- (data structures) One of several edges in a directed graph that has an endpoint in a specified vertex and for which the direction of the edge goes from the specified vertex to another vertex.
- A branch of a business that has been spun off from the parent company.
- Half a bushel.
- A small cataract over which fish attempt to jump; a salmon ladder.
- (figuratively) A significant move forward.
- A group of leopards.
- The distance traversed by a leap or jump.
- A trap or snare for fish, made from twigs; a weely.
- (mining) A fault.
- Copulation with, or coverture of, a female beast.
- (figuratively) A large step in reasoning, often one that is not justified by the facts.
- (music) A passing from one note to another by an interval, especially by a long one, or by one including several other intermediate intervals.
- The act of leaping or jumping.
- the distance leaped (or to be leaped)
- an abrupt transition
- a sudden and decisive increase
- a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards
- The shrub of the above-mentioned plant.
- Vaccinium myrtillus, the wild European blueberry of the cowberry family.
- blue-black berries similar to American blueberries
- erect blueberry of western United States having solitary flowers and somewhat sour berries
- erect European blueberry having solitary flowers and blue-black berries
- the upper branches and leaves of a tree or other plant
- the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill)
- an ornamental jeweled headdress signifying sovereignty
- an English coin worth 5 shillings
- the part of a hat (the vertex) that covers the crown of the head
- the top of the head
- a wreath or garland worn on the head to signify victory
- (dentistry) dental appliance consisting of an artificial crown for a broken or decayed tooth
- the center of a cambered road
- the award given to the champion
- the part of a tooth above the gum that is covered with enamel
- The upper range of facets in a rose diamond.
- (firearms) A rounding or smoothing of the barrel opening.
- A whole bird with the legs and wings removed to produce a joint of white meat.
- (botany) The part of a plant where the root and stem meet.
- (UK) A standard size of printing paper measuring 20 × 15 inches.
- The highest part of a hill.
- (dentistry) A prosthetic covering for a tooth.
- (US) A standard size of writing paper measuring 19 × 15 inches.
- (old slang) The police (referring to Crown Victoria police cars).
- (clothing, monarchy) A royal, imperial or princely headdress; a diadem.
- (historical) A former predecimalization British coin worth five shillings.
- Splendor; culmination; acme.
- (religion) A round spot shaved clean on the top of the head, as a mark of the clerical state; the tonsure.
- The dome of a furnace.
- The raised centre of a road.
- (nautical) A knot formed in the end of a rope by tucking in the strands to prevent them from unravelling.
- (anatomy, dentistry) The part of a tooth above the gums.
- The topmost part of the head.
- Any currency (originally) issued by the crown (regal power) and often bearing a crown (headdress); (translation) various currencies known by similar names in their native languages, such as the korona, koruna, krona, króna, krone.
- (nautical) The rounding, or rounded part, of the deck from a level line.
- (geometry) The area enclosed between two concentric perimeters.
- (African-American Vernacular, colloquial) A formal hat worn by women to Sunday church services; a church crown.
- (architecture) A kind of spire or lantern formed by converging flying buttresses.
- Imperial or regal power, or those who wield it.
- (by extension, especially in law) The state, the government (headed by a monarch).
- (forestry) The top of a tree.
- (nautical) The part of an anchor where the arms and the shank meet.
- (horology) The knurled knob or dial, on the outside of a watch case, used to wind it or adjust the hands.
- (metonymic) The sovereign (in a monarchy), as head of state.
- A wreath or band for the head, especially one given as reward of victory or a mark of honor.
- (chemistry) A monocyclic ligand having three or more binding sites, capable of holding a guest in a central location.
- The top section of a hat, above the brim.
- (by extension) Any reward of victory or mark of honor.
- The upper part of certain fruits, as the pineapple or strawberry, that is removed before eating.
- The highest part of an arch.
- (historical, by extension) A coin or note worth five shillings in various countries that are or were in the British Commonwealth, such as Ireland or Jamaica.
- (medicine) During childbirth, the appearance of the baby's head from the mother's vagina.
- be the culminating event
- put an enamel cover on
- invest with regal power; enthrone
- form the topmost part of
- (board games) In checkers, to stack two checkers to indicate that the piece has become a king.
- To hit on the head.
- To bestow something upon as a mark of honour, dignity, or recompense; to adorn; to dignify.
- To place a crown on the head of.
- (medicine) Of a baby, during the birthing process; for the surface of the baby's head to appear in the vaginal opening.
- To declare (someone) a winner.
- (video games) To shoot an opponent in the back of the head with a shotgun in a first-person shooter video game.
- (military) To effect a lodgment upon, as upon the crest of the glacis, or the summit of the breach.
- (nautical) To lay the ends of the strands of (a knot) over and under each other.
- (firearms) To widen the opening of the barrel.
- To form the topmost or finishing part of; to complete; to consummate; to perfect.
- Of a forest fire or bushfire, to spread to the crowns of the trees and thence move from tree to tree independent of the surface fire.
- To formally declare (someone) a king, queen, emperor, etc.
- (intransitive, slang) To be on the point of defecating.
- (transitive) To cause to round upward; to make anything higher at the middle than at the edges, such as the face of a machine pulley.
- Larrea tridentata (creosote bush).
- Glossopetalon spinescens (spiny greasewood, Nevada greasewood).
- Adenostoma fasciculatum (chamise).
- Spiny shrubs containing oil, of the genus Sarcobatus, native to the United States, especially Sarcobatus vermiculatus.
- Gutierrezia spp. (broomweed, snakeweeds, matchweeds).
- Baccharis sarothroides (desert broom)
- low hardy much-branched spiny shrub common in alkaline soils of western America
- A thicket of bushes or other shrubbery, especially one planted as a fence between two portions of land, or to separate the parts of a garden.
- A barrier (often consisting of a line of persons or objects) to protect someone or something from harm.
- (linguistics, especially applied linguistics and pragmatics) A noncommittal or intentionally ambiguous statement.
- (UK, Ireland, attributive, figurative) With indication of a person's upbringing, or professional activities, taking place by the side of the road; being third-rate, poor, shoddy.
- (finance) Contract or arrangement reducing one's exposure to risk (for example the risk of price movements or interest rate movements).
- (UK, West Country, chiefly Devon and Cornwall) A mound of earth, stone- or turf-faced, often topped with bushes, used as a fence between any two portions of land.
- any technique designed to reduce or eliminate financial risk; for example, taking two positions that will offset each other if prices change
- a fence formed by a row of closely planted shrubs or bushes
- an intentionally noncommittal or ambiguous statement
- (transitive, finance) To offset the risk associated with.
- (ambitransitive) To avoid verbal commitment.
- (transitive) To obstruct or surround.
- (intransitive, finance) To reduce one's exposure to risk.
- (transitive) To enclose with a hedge or hedges.
- (intransitive) To construct or repair a hedge.
- hinder or restrict with or as if with a hedge
- avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
- enclose or bound in with or as it with a hedge or hedges
- minimize loss or risk
- A small clump of trees or bushes.
- (historical) A gold tassel on the cap worn by titled undergraduates at English universities.
- A cluster of threads drawn tightly through upholstery, a mattress or a quilt, etc., to secure and strengthen the padding.
- A bunch of feathers, grass or hair, etc., held together at the base.
- (historical) A person entitled to wear such a tassel.
- a bunch of feathers or hair
- a bunch of hair or feathers or growing grass
- The leafy top part of a tree.
- (lacrosse) The top part of a lacrosse stick that holds the ball.
- (UK, Ireland, metonymic) A headteacher.
- (automotive) The cylinder head, a platform above the cylinders in an internal combustion engine, containing the valves and spark plugs.
- A clump of seeds, leaves or flowers; a capitulum.
- (journalism) Ellipsis of headline.
- A headdress; a covering for the head.
- (slang, countable) A heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs.
- Topic; subject.
- A machine element which reads or writes electromagnetic signals to or from a storage medium.
- The antlers of a deer.
- The larger-diameter end of an unused rivet, properly the factory head or ambiguously the shop head, as opposed to the bucktail which is passed through the items to be fastened and then upset into an appropriate shape, generally pancake-shaped for a solid rivet or doughnut-shaped for a blind rivet, called the field head or ambiguously the shop head.
- (coopering) The end cap of a cask or other barrel.
- (billiards) The end of a pool table opposite the end where the balls have been racked.
- An ear of wheat, barley, or other small cereal.
- (social, countable, metonymic) A leader or expert.
- (British, geology) Deposits near the top of a geological succession.
- (plural head) A single animal; measure word for livestock and game.
- The place of honor or command; the most important or foremost position; the front.
- The end of a nail, screw, bolt, or similar fastener which is opposite the point; usually blunt and relatively wide.
- (jazz) The principal melody or theme of a piece.
- Either, or in plural both, ends of a used rivet, the factory head and the field head.
- (medicine) The end of an abscess where pus collects.
- (computing) The part of a disk drive responsible for reading and writing data.
- (machining) A milling head, a part of a milling machine that houses the spindle.
- The sharp end of an arrow, spear, or pointer.
- A headache; especially one resulting from intoxication.
- The population of game.
- (nautical) The toilet of a ship.
- The end of a hammer, axe, golf club, or similar implement used for striking other objects.
- (figurative, metonymic) Mind; one's own thoughts.
- (slang) The glans penis.
- (figurative, metonymic) An individual person.
- (linguistics) A morpheme that determines the category of a compound or the word that determines the syntactic type of the phrase of which it is a member.
- (chemistry) The first fraction of a distillation run, having a low boiling point.
- (countable) The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
- (uncountable, countable) The foam that forms on top of beer or other carbonated beverages.
- Headway; progress.
- (slang, vulgar, uncountable) Fellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex.
- A title or heading in a book or other document.
- (anatomy) The rounded part of a bone fitting into a depression in another bone to form a ball-and-socket joint.
- The top edge of a sail.
- (in the plural) Tiles laid at the eaves of a house.
- (geology) The uppermost part of a valley.
- (only in the singular) Denouement; crisis.
- (music) A drum head, the membrane which is hit to produce sound.
- More generally, energy in a mass of fluid divided by its weight.
- (music) The headstock of a guitar.
- The bow of a vessel.
- The difference in elevation between two points in a column of fluid, and the resulting pressure of the fluid at the lower point.
- (British) A headland.
- (music, slang, figurative, metonymic) A person with an extensive knowledge of hip hop.
- (uncountable, countable) A buildup of fluid pressure, often quantified as pressure head.
- (countable) The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.
- Mental or emotional aptitude or skill.
- The source of a river; the end of a lake where a river flows into it.
- The end of a rectangular table furthest from the entrance; traditionally considered a seat of honor.
- (engineering) The end cap of a cylindrically-shaped pressure vessel.
- forward movement
- that part of a skeletal muscle that is away from the bone that it moves
- a dense cluster of flowers or foliage
- the tip of an abscess (where the pus accumulates)
- a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea)
- a single domestic animal
- the part in the front or nearest the viewer
- (usually plural) the obverse side of a coin that usually bears the representation of a person's head
- (nautical) a toilet on board a boat or ship
- a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about
- the top of something
- the rounded end of a bone that fits into a rounded cavity in another bone to form a joint
- (computer science) a tiny electromagnetic coil and metal pole used to write and read magnetic patterns on a disk
- a V-shaped mark at one end of an arrow pointer
- the educator who has executive authority for a school
- (grammar) the word in a grammatical constituent that plays the same grammatical role as the whole constituent
- the front of a military formation or procession
- the pressure exerted by a fluid
- a person who is in charge
- the source of water from which a stream arises
- a difficult juncture
- an individual person
- the striking part of a tool
- that which is responsible for one's thoughts, feelings, and conscious brain functions; the seat of the faculty of reason
- the foam or froth that accumulates at the top when you pour an effervescent liquid into a container
- a user of (usually soft) drugs
- oral stimulation of the genitals
- a rounded compact mass
- a projection out from one end
- a membrane that is stretched taut over a drum
- the length or height based on the size of a human or animal head
- the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains
- the subject matter at issue
- (transitive) To strike with the head
- (by extension) To check or restrain.
- (intransitive) To move in a specified direction.
- (fishing, transitive) To remove the head from (a fish).
- To get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose.
- (transitive, of hardware) To form a head (on or to); to fit or furnish (something) with a head.
- (transitive) To cut off the top of; to lop off.
- (transitive) To come at the beginning or front of; to commence.
- (transitive) To be in command of. (See also head up.)
- To set on the head.
- (intransitive) To form a head.
- (intransitive) To originate; to spring; to have its course, as a river.
- To go in front of.
- form a head or come or grow to a head
- direct the course; determine the direction of travelling
- travel in front of; go in advance of others
- take its rise
- to go or travel towards
- be in the front of or on top of
- remove the head of
- be in charge of
- be the first or leading member of (a group) and excel
- a small area of ground covered by specific vegetation
- a period of indeterminate length (usually short) marked by some action or condition
- a short set of commands to correct a bug in a computer program
- a piece of soft material that covers and protects an injured part of the body
- sewing that repairs a worn or torn hole (especially in a garment)
- a small contrasting part of something
- a connection intended to be used for a limited time
- a piece of cloth used as decoration or to mend or cover a hole
- a protective cloth covering for an injured eye
- (printing, historical) An overlay used to obtain a stronger impression.
- A small, usually contrasting but always somehow different or distinct, part of something else (location, time, size)
- A piece of any size, used to repair something for a temporary period only, or that it is temporary because it is not meant to last long or will be removed as soon as a proper repair can be made, which will happen in the near future.
- (computing) A piece of data intended to modify a computer file by replacing a part of it.
- A block on the muzzle of a gun, to do away with the effect of dispart, in sighting.
- A local region of professional responsibility.
- A small piece of anything used to repair damage or a breach; as, a patch on a kettle, a roof, etc.
- (historical) A small piece of black silk stuck on the face or neck to heighten beauty by contrast, worn by ladies in the 17th and 18th centuries; an imitation beauty mark.
- A butterfly of the genus Chlosyne.
- (medicine) A cover worn over a damaged eye, an eyepatch.
- (medicine) A piece of material used to cover a wound.
- A piece of cloth, or other suitable material, sewed or otherwise fixed upon a garment to repair or strengthen it, especially upon an old garment to cover a hole.
- (specifically) A small area, a small plot of land or piece of ground.
- (firearms) A piece of greased cloth or leather used as wrapping for a rifle ball, to make it fit the bore.
- (firearms) A small piece of material that is manually passed through a gun barrel to clean it.
- (music) A sound setting for a musical synthesizer (originally selected by means of a patch cable).
- (often patch cable, patch cord, etc.; see also patch panel) A cable connecting two pieces of electrical equipment.
- (medicine) An adhesive piece of material, impregnated with a drug, which is worn on the skin, the drug being slowly absorbed over a period of time.
- provide with a patch; also used metaphorically
- to join or unite the pieces of
- mend by putting a patch on
- repair by adding pieces
- To mend by sewing on a piece or pieces of cloth, leather, or the like.
- To fix or improve a computer program without a complete upgrade.
- To mend with pieces; to repair by fastening pieces on.
- To make a quick and possibly temporary change to a program.
- (generally with the particle "up") To repair or arrange in a hasty or clumsy manner
- To join or unite the pieces of; to patch the skirt.
- To make out of pieces or patches, like a quilt.
- To connect two pieces of electrical equipment using a cable.
- To employ a temporary, removable electronic connection, as one between two components in a communications system.
- a small area of ground covered by specific vegetation
- a secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal)
- the story that is told in a novel or play or movie etc.
- a chart or graph showing the movements or progress of an object
- (narratology) The course of a story, comprising a series of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means.
- Participation in any stratagem or conspiracy.
- A secret plan to achieve an end, the end or means usually being illegal or otherwise questionable.
- A grave.
- An area or land used for building on or planting on.
- A plan; a purpose.
- Contrivance; deep reach thought; ability to plot or intrigue.
- (fandom slang, euphemistic) Attractive physical attributes of a fictional character; assets.
- A graph or diagram drawn by hand or produced by a mechanical or electronic device.
- devise the sequence of events in (a literary work or a play, movie, or ballet)
- plan secretly, usually something illegal
- make a plot of
- make a schematic or technical drawing that shows interactions among variables or how something is constructed
- (transitive) To trace out (a graph or diagram).
- (transitive) To mark (a point on a graph, chart, etc).
- (transitive, intransitive) To conceive (a crime, misdeed etc).
- A stockade made of bushes and thorns.
- An enclosure usually made of thorn bushes, and latterly of steel fencing, for protection from marauders.
- A hide.
- A military or police post or magistracy.
- A hut.
- A type of fertilizer rich in animal dung.
- (attributive, uncountable) A method of composting in which animals are bedded on the material before it is used, allowing it to gather urine and dung.
- The branching top of a tree; foliage.
- Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.
- One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate.
- (nautical) One of a set of ropes or cables (rigging) attaching a mast to the sides of a vessel or to another anchor point, serving to support the mast sideways; such rigging collectively.
- That which covers or shelters like a shroud.
- A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt.
- (astronautics) A streamlined protective covering used to protect the payload during a rocket-powered launch.
- That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.
- a line that suspends the harness from the canopy of a parachute
- burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped
- (nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind
- (botany) Taller than the surrounding vegetation.
- (especially medicine) Constituting an emergency.
- (philosophy, epistemology, sciences) That arises at a higher level than that of its components and is not explainable by the behaviour of said components taken individually; having properties as a whole that are more complex than the properties contributed by each of the components individually.
- (botany, of a water-dwelling plant) Having leaves and flowers above the water.
- (video games) Having gameplay that arises from its mechanics, rather than a linear storyline.
- Emerging; coming into view or into existence; nascent; new.
- Arising unexpectedly, especially if also calling for immediate reaction.
- occurring unexpectedly and requiring urgent action
- coming into existence
- bushy plant of western United States
- bushy annual weed of central North America having greenish flowers and winged seeds
- prickly bushy Eurasian plant; a troublesome weed in central and western United States
- any plant that breaks away from its roots in autumn and is driven by the wind as a light rolling mass
- (attributive) Describing unwanted silence and inactivity. Often used of a situation when one makes a statement that is ignored or ill-received by one's audience, as the resultant silence is likened to that of a desolate desert with rolling tumbleweeds.
- A tan colour, like that of a tumbleweed.
- Any plant which habitually breaks away from its roots once dry, forming a light, rolling mass which is driven by the wind from place to place; as Russian thistle, wild indigo, witch grass, Amaranthus albus, etc.
- (countable) The creosote bush.
- A pale yellow oily liquid, containing phenols and similar compounds, obtained by the destructive distillation of wood tar, once used medicinally.
- A similar brown liquid obtained from coal tar used as a wood preservative.
- A flammable black porous brittle glassy byproduct of wood burning, typically formed inside chimneys.
- a dark oily liquid obtained by distillation of coal tar; used as a preservative for wood
- a colorless or yellowish oily liquid obtained by distillation of wood tar; used as an antiseptic
- a dense growth of bushes
- the act of brushing your hair
- conducts current between rotating and stationary parts of a generator or motor
- a bushy tail or part of a bushy tail (especially of the fox)
- contact with something dangerous or undesirable
- an implement that has hairs or bristles firmly set into a handle
- a minor short-term fight
- the act of brushing your teeth
- momentary contact
- A brush-like electrical discharge of sparks.
- (zoology) A tuft of hair on the mandibles.
- (music) An instrument, resembling a brush, used to produce a soft sound from drums or cymbals.
- A short, possibly recurrent encounter or experience.
- (computer graphics) A set of defined design and parameters that produce drawn strokes of a certain texture and quality.
- (poker, slang) The floorperson of a poker room, usually in a casino.
- (video games) In 3D video games, a convex polyhedron, especially one that defines structure of the play area.
- The furry tail of an animal, especially of a fox.
- (computer graphics) An on-screen tool for "painting" a particular colour or texture.
- A piece of conductive material, usually carbon, serving to maintain electrical contact between the stationary and rotating parts of a machine.
- (North Wisconsin, uncountable) Evergreen boughs, especially balsam, locally cut and baled for export, usually for use in making wreaths.
- The act of brushing something.
- An implement consisting of multiple more or less flexible bristles or other filaments attached to a handle, used for any of various purposes including cleaning, painting, and arranging hair.
- (uncountable) Wild vegetation, generally larger than grass but smaller than trees. See shrubland.
- clean with a brush
- touch lightly and briefly
- cover by brushing
- remove with or as if with a brush
- rub with a brush, or as if with a brush
- sweep across or over
- (transitive) To clean with a brush.
- (transitive) To apply with a brush.
- (transitive) To untangle or arrange with a brush.
- (ambitransitive) To touch with a sweeping motion, or lightly in passing.
- (transitive) To remove with a sweeping motion.
- (intransitive) To clean one's teeth by brushing them.
- a dense growth of bushes
- A dense, but generally small, growth of shrubs, bushes or small trees; a copse.
- (computing, figuratively) The collection of many small linked files created when a document is saved in HTML format by some word processors and web site creation software.
- (figuratively) A dense aggregation of other things, concrete or abstract.
- A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree.
- (horticulture) A woody plant distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, being usually less than six metres tall; a horticultural rather than strictly botanical category.
- A mechanical attachment, usually a metallic socket with a screw thread, such as the mechanism by which a camera is attached to a tripod stand.
- (historical) A shrub or branch, properly, a branch of ivy (sacred to Bacchus), hung out at vintners' doors, or as a tavern sign; hence, a tavern sign, and symbolically, the tavern itself.
- (Canada) The wild forested areas of Canada; upcountry.
- (New Zealand) An area of New Zealand covered in forest, especially native forest.
- A thick washer or hollow cylinder of metal.
- (baseball) Amateurish behavior, short for bush league behavior
- (Australia) The countryside area of Australia that is less arid and less remote than the outback; loosely, areas of natural flora even within conurbations.
- A piece of copper, screwed into a gun, through which the venthole is bored.
- (often with "the") Tracts of land covered in natural vegetation that are largely undeveloped and uncultivated.
- (slang, vulgar) A person's pubic hair, especially a woman's.
- (hunting) The tail, or brush, of a fox.
- (Canada) A wood lot or bluff on a farm.
- dense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes
- hair growing in the pubic area
- a large wilderness area
- a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems
- A strip of ground in which ornamental plants are grown.
- (British, uncountable) Border morris or border dancing.
- The outer edge of something.
- (computing) A string that is both a prefix and a suffix of another particular string.
- A decorative strip around the edge of something.
- The line or frontier area separating political or geographical regions.
- a line that indicates a boundary
- a decorative recessed or relieved surface on an edge
- the boundary of a surface
- the boundary line or the area immediately inside the boundary
- a strip forming the outer edge of something
- (transitive) To lie on, or adjacent to, a border of.
- (transitive) To form a border around; to bound.
- (intransitive) To touch at a border (with on, upon, or with).
- (transitive) To put a border on something.
- (intransitive) To approach; to come near to; to verge (with on or upon).
- enclose in or as if in a frame
- lie adjacent to another or share a boundary
- form the boundary of; be contiguous to
- provide with a border or edge
- extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle
- (modal auxiliary verb, defective) Expressing a present possibility; possibly.
- (subjunctive present, defective, chiefly poetic) Expressing a wish (with present subjunctive effect).
- (poetic, intransitive) To celebrate May Day.
- (intransitive, poetic) To be able to go.
- (modal auxiliary verb, defective) Expressing a disjunctive or contrastive relation between indicative statements.
- (modal auxiliary verb, defective) Used in modesty, courtesy, or concession, or to soften a question or remark.
- (modal auxiliary verb, defective) To have permission to, be allowed. Used in granting permission and in questions to make polite requests.
- (poetic, intransitive) To gather may, or flowers in general.
- an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant
- any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants
- a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle
- large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan
- anything that slows or hinders a process
- That part of a carriage, as of a movable battery, or engine, which enables it to turn.
- A carriage for transporting shooting parties and their equipment.ᵂ
- (textiles) A tool used for breaking flax or hemp.
- (chiefly nautical) The handle of a pump.
- A baker’s kneading trough.
- (military) An ancient engine of war analogous to the crossbow and ballista.
- An enclosure to restrain cattle, horses, etc.
- Bracken (Pteridium spp.).
- (now historical) A type of torture instrument.
- A device used to slow or stop the motion of a wheel, or of a vehicle, usually by friction (although other resistive forces, such as electromagnetic fields or aerodynamic drag, can also be used); also, the controls or apparatus used to engage such a mechanism such as the pedal in a car.
- (agriculture) A large, heavy harrow for breaking clods of earth after ploughing; a drag.
- (figuratively) Something used to retard or stop some action, process etc.
- A thicket, or an area overgrown with briers etc.
- (engineering) An apparatus for testing the power of a steam engine or other motor by weighing the amount of friction that the motor will overcome; a friction brake.
- A type of machine for bending sheet metal. (See wikipedia.)
- A frame for confining a refractory horse while the smith is shoeing it.
- A cart or carriage without a body, used in breaking in horses.ᵂ
- Any fern in the genus Pteris.
- The act of braking, of using a brake to slow down a machine or vehicle
- The sides of a tree's canopy.
- The cap of a cannon; a piece of lead laid over the vent to keep the priming dry.
- The loading, parking or roadway area immediately beside a railway station or marine terminal.
- A removable cover for the passengers' feet and legs in an open horse carriage.
- The spreading end of a driveway.
- An article of clothing worn over the front of the torso and/or legs for protection from spills; also historically worn by Freemasons and as part of women's fashion.
- (pinball) A large decal toward the bottom of a pinball table.
- The portion of a stage extending towards the audience beyond the proscenium arch in a theatre.
- (architecture) A raised panel below a window or wall monument or tablet.
- The short cassock ordinarily worn by English bishops.
- (aviation) The paved area of an airport, especially the area where aircraft park away from a terminal.
- The paved area below the yellow line on a racetrack.
- the part of a modern theater stage between the curtain and the orchestra (i.e., in front of the curtain)
- a paved surface where aircraft stand while not being used
- (golf) the part of the fairway leading onto the green
- a garment of cloth or leather or plastic that is tied about the waist and worn to protect your clothing
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- A bushing.
- (medicine) A type of add-on device used by an asthmatic person to increase the effectiveness of a metered-dose inhaler.
- (science fiction) A person who works or lives in space.
- (slang) A forgetful person; one who spaces out.
- (historical) An instrument for reversing a telegraphic current, especially in a marine cable, to increase the speed of transmission.
- An object inserted to hold a space open in a row of items, e.g. beads or printed type.
- (intransitive) To be realized and understood; to click.
- To twitch
- (transitive) To beat with twigs.
- To observe slyly; also, to perceive; to discover.
- (colloquial, regional) To realise something; to catch on; to recognize someone or something.
- To tweak
- To understand the meaning of (a person); to comprehend.
- understand, usually after some initial difficulty
- branch out in a twiglike manner
- A branch of a tree, bush, or shrub that extends outward; offshoot.
- An offshoot or outgrowth; something that develops from something else.
- A branch of a path, stream, vessel, duct, etc. that carries whatever travels along the patch, etc away from the main path etc.
- (law) Something that results from a law, ruling, or record, but which is separate from that law, ruling, etc.
- (data structures) One of several edges in a directed graph that has an endpoint in a specified vertex and for which the direction of the edge goes from the specified vertex to another vertex.
- A branch of a business that has been spun off from the parent company.
- Half a bushel.
- A small cataract over which fish attempt to jump; a salmon ladder.
- (figuratively) A significant move forward.
- A group of leopards.
- The distance traversed by a leap or jump.
- A trap or snare for fish, made from twigs; a weely.
- (mining) A fault.
- Copulation with, or coverture of, a female beast.
- (figuratively) A large step in reasoning, often one that is not justified by the facts.
- (music) A passing from one note to another by an interval, especially by a long one, or by one including several other intermediate intervals.
- The act of leaping or jumping.
- the distance leaped (or to be leaped)
- an abrupt transition
- a sudden and decisive increase
- a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards
- The shrub of the above-mentioned plant.
- Vaccinium myrtillus, the wild European blueberry of the cowberry family.
- blue-black berries similar to American blueberries
- erect blueberry of western United States having solitary flowers and somewhat sour berries
- erect European blueberry having solitary flowers and blue-black berries
- the upper branches and leaves of a tree or other plant
- the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill)
- an ornamental jeweled headdress signifying sovereignty
- an English coin worth 5 shillings
- the part of a hat (the vertex) that covers the crown of the head
- the top of the head
- a wreath or garland worn on the head to signify victory
- (dentistry) dental appliance consisting of an artificial crown for a broken or decayed tooth
- the center of a cambered road
- the award given to the champion
- the part of a tooth above the gum that is covered with enamel
- The upper range of facets in a rose diamond.
- (firearms) A rounding or smoothing of the barrel opening.
- A whole bird with the legs and wings removed to produce a joint of white meat.
- (botany) The part of a plant where the root and stem meet.
- (UK) A standard size of printing paper measuring 20 × 15 inches.
- The highest part of a hill.
- (dentistry) A prosthetic covering for a tooth.
- (US) A standard size of writing paper measuring 19 × 15 inches.
- (old slang) The police (referring to Crown Victoria police cars).
- (clothing, monarchy) A royal, imperial or princely headdress; a diadem.
- (historical) A former predecimalization British coin worth five shillings.
- Splendor; culmination; acme.
- (religion) A round spot shaved clean on the top of the head, as a mark of the clerical state; the tonsure.
- The dome of a furnace.
- The raised centre of a road.
- (nautical) A knot formed in the end of a rope by tucking in the strands to prevent them from unravelling.
- (anatomy, dentistry) The part of a tooth above the gums.
- The topmost part of the head.
- Any currency (originally) issued by the crown (regal power) and often bearing a crown (headdress); (translation) various currencies known by similar names in their native languages, such as the korona, koruna, krona, króna, krone.
- (nautical) The rounding, or rounded part, of the deck from a level line.
- (geometry) The area enclosed between two concentric perimeters.
- (African-American Vernacular, colloquial) A formal hat worn by women to Sunday church services; a church crown.
- (architecture) A kind of spire or lantern formed by converging flying buttresses.
- Imperial or regal power, or those who wield it.
- (by extension, especially in law) The state, the government (headed by a monarch).
- (forestry) The top of a tree.
- (nautical) The part of an anchor where the arms and the shank meet.
- (horology) The knurled knob or dial, on the outside of a watch case, used to wind it or adjust the hands.
- (metonymic) The sovereign (in a monarchy), as head of state.
- A wreath or band for the head, especially one given as reward of victory or a mark of honor.
- (chemistry) A monocyclic ligand having three or more binding sites, capable of holding a guest in a central location.
- The top section of a hat, above the brim.
- (by extension) Any reward of victory or mark of honor.
- The upper part of certain fruits, as the pineapple or strawberry, that is removed before eating.
- The highest part of an arch.
- (historical, by extension) A coin or note worth five shillings in various countries that are or were in the British Commonwealth, such as Ireland or Jamaica.
- (medicine) During childbirth, the appearance of the baby's head from the mother's vagina.
- be the culminating event
- put an enamel cover on
- invest with regal power; enthrone
- form the topmost part of
- (board games) In checkers, to stack two checkers to indicate that the piece has become a king.
- To hit on the head.
- To bestow something upon as a mark of honour, dignity, or recompense; to adorn; to dignify.
- To place a crown on the head of.
- (medicine) Of a baby, during the birthing process; for the surface of the baby's head to appear in the vaginal opening.
- To declare (someone) a winner.
- (video games) To shoot an opponent in the back of the head with a shotgun in a first-person shooter video game.
- (military) To effect a lodgment upon, as upon the crest of the glacis, or the summit of the breach.
- (nautical) To lay the ends of the strands of (a knot) over and under each other.
- (firearms) To widen the opening of the barrel.
- To form the topmost or finishing part of; to complete; to consummate; to perfect.
- Of a forest fire or bushfire, to spread to the crowns of the trees and thence move from tree to tree independent of the surface fire.
- To formally declare (someone) a king, queen, emperor, etc.
- (intransitive, slang) To be on the point of defecating.
- (transitive) To cause to round upward; to make anything higher at the middle than at the edges, such as the face of a machine pulley.
- Larrea tridentata (creosote bush).
- Glossopetalon spinescens (spiny greasewood, Nevada greasewood).
- Adenostoma fasciculatum (chamise).
- Spiny shrubs containing oil, of the genus Sarcobatus, native to the United States, especially Sarcobatus vermiculatus.
- Gutierrezia spp. (broomweed, snakeweeds, matchweeds).
- Baccharis sarothroides (desert broom)
- low hardy much-branched spiny shrub common in alkaline soils of western America
- A thicket of bushes or other shrubbery, especially one planted as a fence between two portions of land, or to separate the parts of a garden.
- A barrier (often consisting of a line of persons or objects) to protect someone or something from harm.
- (linguistics, especially applied linguistics and pragmatics) A noncommittal or intentionally ambiguous statement.
- (UK, Ireland, attributive, figurative) With indication of a person's upbringing, or professional activities, taking place by the side of the road; being third-rate, poor, shoddy.
- (finance) Contract or arrangement reducing one's exposure to risk (for example the risk of price movements or interest rate movements).
- (UK, West Country, chiefly Devon and Cornwall) A mound of earth, stone- or turf-faced, often topped with bushes, used as a fence between any two portions of land.
- any technique designed to reduce or eliminate financial risk; for example, taking two positions that will offset each other if prices change
- a fence formed by a row of closely planted shrubs or bushes
- an intentionally noncommittal or ambiguous statement
- (transitive, finance) To offset the risk associated with.
- (ambitransitive) To avoid verbal commitment.
- (transitive) To obstruct or surround.
- (intransitive, finance) To reduce one's exposure to risk.
- (transitive) To enclose with a hedge or hedges.
- (intransitive) To construct or repair a hedge.
- hinder or restrict with or as if with a hedge
- avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
- enclose or bound in with or as it with a hedge or hedges
- minimize loss or risk
- A small clump of trees or bushes.
- (historical) A gold tassel on the cap worn by titled undergraduates at English universities.
- A cluster of threads drawn tightly through upholstery, a mattress or a quilt, etc., to secure and strengthen the padding.
- A bunch of feathers, grass or hair, etc., held together at the base.
- (historical) A person entitled to wear such a tassel.
- a bunch of feathers or hair
- a bunch of hair or feathers or growing grass
- The leafy top part of a tree.
- (lacrosse) The top part of a lacrosse stick that holds the ball.
- (UK, Ireland, metonymic) A headteacher.
- (automotive) The cylinder head, a platform above the cylinders in an internal combustion engine, containing the valves and spark plugs.
- A clump of seeds, leaves or flowers; a capitulum.
- (journalism) Ellipsis of headline.
- A headdress; a covering for the head.
- (slang, countable) A heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs.
- Topic; subject.
- A machine element which reads or writes electromagnetic signals to or from a storage medium.
- The antlers of a deer.
- The larger-diameter end of an unused rivet, properly the factory head or ambiguously the shop head, as opposed to the bucktail which is passed through the items to be fastened and then upset into an appropriate shape, generally pancake-shaped for a solid rivet or doughnut-shaped for a blind rivet, called the field head or ambiguously the shop head.
- (coopering) The end cap of a cask or other barrel.
- (billiards) The end of a pool table opposite the end where the balls have been racked.
- An ear of wheat, barley, or other small cereal.
- (social, countable, metonymic) A leader or expert.
- (British, geology) Deposits near the top of a geological succession.
- (plural head) A single animal; measure word for livestock and game.
- The place of honor or command; the most important or foremost position; the front.
- The end of a nail, screw, bolt, or similar fastener which is opposite the point; usually blunt and relatively wide.
- (jazz) The principal melody or theme of a piece.
- Either, or in plural both, ends of a used rivet, the factory head and the field head.
- (medicine) The end of an abscess where pus collects.
- (computing) The part of a disk drive responsible for reading and writing data.
- (machining) A milling head, a part of a milling machine that houses the spindle.
- The sharp end of an arrow, spear, or pointer.
- A headache; especially one resulting from intoxication.
- The population of game.
- (nautical) The toilet of a ship.
- The end of a hammer, axe, golf club, or similar implement used for striking other objects.
- (figurative, metonymic) Mind; one's own thoughts.
- (slang) The glans penis.
- (figurative, metonymic) An individual person.
- (linguistics) A morpheme that determines the category of a compound or the word that determines the syntactic type of the phrase of which it is a member.
- (chemistry) The first fraction of a distillation run, having a low boiling point.
- (countable) The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
- (uncountable, countable) The foam that forms on top of beer or other carbonated beverages.
- Headway; progress.
- (slang, vulgar, uncountable) Fellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex.
- A title or heading in a book or other document.
- (anatomy) The rounded part of a bone fitting into a depression in another bone to form a ball-and-socket joint.
- The top edge of a sail.
- (in the plural) Tiles laid at the eaves of a house.
- (geology) The uppermost part of a valley.
- (only in the singular) Denouement; crisis.
- (music) A drum head, the membrane which is hit to produce sound.
- More generally, energy in a mass of fluid divided by its weight.
- (music) The headstock of a guitar.
- The bow of a vessel.
- The difference in elevation between two points in a column of fluid, and the resulting pressure of the fluid at the lower point.
- (British) A headland.
- (music, slang, figurative, metonymic) A person with an extensive knowledge of hip hop.
- (uncountable, countable) A buildup of fluid pressure, often quantified as pressure head.
- (countable) The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.
- Mental or emotional aptitude or skill.
- The source of a river; the end of a lake where a river flows into it.
- The end of a rectangular table furthest from the entrance; traditionally considered a seat of honor.
- (engineering) The end cap of a cylindrically-shaped pressure vessel.
- forward movement
- that part of a skeletal muscle that is away from the bone that it moves
- a dense cluster of flowers or foliage
- the tip of an abscess (where the pus accumulates)
- a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea)
- a single domestic animal
- the part in the front or nearest the viewer
- (usually plural) the obverse side of a coin that usually bears the representation of a person's head
- (nautical) a toilet on board a boat or ship
- a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about
- the top of something
- the rounded end of a bone that fits into a rounded cavity in another bone to form a joint
- (computer science) a tiny electromagnetic coil and metal pole used to write and read magnetic patterns on a disk
- a V-shaped mark at one end of an arrow pointer
- the educator who has executive authority for a school
- (grammar) the word in a grammatical constituent that plays the same grammatical role as the whole constituent
- the front of a military formation or procession
- the pressure exerted by a fluid
- a person who is in charge
- the source of water from which a stream arises
- a difficult juncture
- an individual person
- the striking part of a tool
- that which is responsible for one's thoughts, feelings, and conscious brain functions; the seat of the faculty of reason
- the foam or froth that accumulates at the top when you pour an effervescent liquid into a container
- a user of (usually soft) drugs
- oral stimulation of the genitals
- a rounded compact mass
- a projection out from one end
- a membrane that is stretched taut over a drum
- the length or height based on the size of a human or animal head
- the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains
- the subject matter at issue
- (transitive) To strike with the head
- (by extension) To check or restrain.
- (intransitive) To move in a specified direction.
- (fishing, transitive) To remove the head from (a fish).
- To get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose.
- (transitive, of hardware) To form a head (on or to); to fit or furnish (something) with a head.
- (transitive) To cut off the top of; to lop off.
- (transitive) To come at the beginning or front of; to commence.
- (transitive) To be in command of. (See also head up.)
- To set on the head.
- (intransitive) To form a head.
- (intransitive) To originate; to spring; to have its course, as a river.
- To go in front of.
- form a head or come or grow to a head
- direct the course; determine the direction of travelling
- travel in front of; go in advance of others
- take its rise
- to go or travel towards
- be in the front of or on top of
- remove the head of
- be in charge of
- be the first or leading member of (a group) and excel
- a small area of ground covered by specific vegetation
- a period of indeterminate length (usually short) marked by some action or condition
- a short set of commands to correct a bug in a computer program
- a piece of soft material that covers and protects an injured part of the body
- sewing that repairs a worn or torn hole (especially in a garment)
- a small contrasting part of something
- a connection intended to be used for a limited time
- a piece of cloth used as decoration or to mend or cover a hole
- a protective cloth covering for an injured eye
- (printing, historical) An overlay used to obtain a stronger impression.
- A small, usually contrasting but always somehow different or distinct, part of something else (location, time, size)
- A piece of any size, used to repair something for a temporary period only, or that it is temporary because it is not meant to last long or will be removed as soon as a proper repair can be made, which will happen in the near future.
- (computing) A piece of data intended to modify a computer file by replacing a part of it.
- A block on the muzzle of a gun, to do away with the effect of dispart, in sighting.
- A local region of professional responsibility.
- A small piece of anything used to repair damage or a breach; as, a patch on a kettle, a roof, etc.
- (historical) A small piece of black silk stuck on the face or neck to heighten beauty by contrast, worn by ladies in the 17th and 18th centuries; an imitation beauty mark.
- A butterfly of the genus Chlosyne.
- (medicine) A cover worn over a damaged eye, an eyepatch.
- (medicine) A piece of material used to cover a wound.
- A piece of cloth, or other suitable material, sewed or otherwise fixed upon a garment to repair or strengthen it, especially upon an old garment to cover a hole.
- (specifically) A small area, a small plot of land or piece of ground.
- (firearms) A piece of greased cloth or leather used as wrapping for a rifle ball, to make it fit the bore.
- (firearms) A small piece of material that is manually passed through a gun barrel to clean it.
- (music) A sound setting for a musical synthesizer (originally selected by means of a patch cable).
- (often patch cable, patch cord, etc.; see also patch panel) A cable connecting two pieces of electrical equipment.
- (medicine) An adhesive piece of material, impregnated with a drug, which is worn on the skin, the drug being slowly absorbed over a period of time.
- provide with a patch; also used metaphorically
- to join or unite the pieces of
- mend by putting a patch on
- repair by adding pieces
- To mend by sewing on a piece or pieces of cloth, leather, or the like.
- To fix or improve a computer program without a complete upgrade.
- To mend with pieces; to repair by fastening pieces on.
- To make a quick and possibly temporary change to a program.
- (generally with the particle "up") To repair or arrange in a hasty or clumsy manner
- To join or unite the pieces of; to patch the skirt.
- To make out of pieces or patches, like a quilt.
- To connect two pieces of electrical equipment using a cable.
- To employ a temporary, removable electronic connection, as one between two components in a communications system.
- a small area of ground covered by specific vegetation
- a secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal)
- the story that is told in a novel or play or movie etc.
- a chart or graph showing the movements or progress of an object
- (narratology) The course of a story, comprising a series of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means.
- Participation in any stratagem or conspiracy.
- A secret plan to achieve an end, the end or means usually being illegal or otherwise questionable.
- A grave.
- An area or land used for building on or planting on.
- A plan; a purpose.
- Contrivance; deep reach thought; ability to plot or intrigue.
- (fandom slang, euphemistic) Attractive physical attributes of a fictional character; assets.
- A graph or diagram drawn by hand or produced by a mechanical or electronic device.
- devise the sequence of events in (a literary work or a play, movie, or ballet)
- plan secretly, usually something illegal
- make a plot of
- make a schematic or technical drawing that shows interactions among variables or how something is constructed
- (transitive) To trace out (a graph or diagram).
- (transitive) To mark (a point on a graph, chart, etc).
- (transitive, intransitive) To conceive (a crime, misdeed etc).
- A stockade made of bushes and thorns.
- An enclosure usually made of thorn bushes, and latterly of steel fencing, for protection from marauders.
- A hide.
- A military or police post or magistracy.
- A hut.
- A type of fertilizer rich in animal dung.
- (attributive, uncountable) A method of composting in which animals are bedded on the material before it is used, allowing it to gather urine and dung.
- The branching top of a tree; foliage.
- Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.
- One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate.
- (nautical) One of a set of ropes or cables (rigging) attaching a mast to the sides of a vessel or to another anchor point, serving to support the mast sideways; such rigging collectively.
- That which covers or shelters like a shroud.
- A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt.
- (astronautics) A streamlined protective covering used to protect the payload during a rocket-powered launch.
- That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.
- a line that suspends the harness from the canopy of a parachute
- burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped
- (nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind
- bushy plant of western United States
- bushy annual weed of central North America having greenish flowers and winged seeds
- prickly bushy Eurasian plant; a troublesome weed in central and western United States
- any plant that breaks away from its roots in autumn and is driven by the wind as a light rolling mass
- (attributive) Describing unwanted silence and inactivity. Often used of a situation when one makes a statement that is ignored or ill-received by one's audience, as the resultant silence is likened to that of a desolate desert with rolling tumbleweeds.
- A tan colour, like that of a tumbleweed.
- Any plant which habitually breaks away from its roots once dry, forming a light, rolling mass which is driven by the wind from place to place; as Russian thistle, wild indigo, witch grass, Amaranthus albus, etc.
- (countable) The creosote bush.
- A pale yellow oily liquid, containing phenols and similar compounds, obtained by the destructive distillation of wood tar, once used medicinally.
- A similar brown liquid obtained from coal tar used as a wood preservative.
- A flammable black porous brittle glassy byproduct of wood burning, typically formed inside chimneys.
- a dark oily liquid obtained by distillation of coal tar; used as a preservative for wood
- a colorless or yellowish oily liquid obtained by distillation of wood tar; used as an antiseptic
- a dense growth of bushes
- the act of brushing your hair
- conducts current between rotating and stationary parts of a generator or motor
- a bushy tail or part of a bushy tail (especially of the fox)
- contact with something dangerous or undesirable
- an implement that has hairs or bristles firmly set into a handle
- a minor short-term fight
- the act of brushing your teeth
- momentary contact
- A brush-like electrical discharge of sparks.
- (zoology) A tuft of hair on the mandibles.
- (music) An instrument, resembling a brush, used to produce a soft sound from drums or cymbals.
- A short, possibly recurrent encounter or experience.
- (computer graphics) A set of defined design and parameters that produce drawn strokes of a certain texture and quality.
- (poker, slang) The floorperson of a poker room, usually in a casino.
- (video games) In 3D video games, a convex polyhedron, especially one that defines structure of the play area.
- The furry tail of an animal, especially of a fox.
- (computer graphics) An on-screen tool for "painting" a particular colour or texture.
- A piece of conductive material, usually carbon, serving to maintain electrical contact between the stationary and rotating parts of a machine.
- (North Wisconsin, uncountable) Evergreen boughs, especially balsam, locally cut and baled for export, usually for use in making wreaths.
- The act of brushing something.
- An implement consisting of multiple more or less flexible bristles or other filaments attached to a handle, used for any of various purposes including cleaning, painting, and arranging hair.
- (uncountable) Wild vegetation, generally larger than grass but smaller than trees. See shrubland.
- clean with a brush
- touch lightly and briefly
- cover by brushing
- remove with or as if with a brush
- rub with a brush, or as if with a brush
- sweep across or over
- (transitive) To clean with a brush.
- (transitive) To apply with a brush.
- (transitive) To untangle or arrange with a brush.
- (ambitransitive) To touch with a sweeping motion, or lightly in passing.
- (transitive) To remove with a sweeping motion.
- (intransitive) To clean one's teeth by brushing them.
- a dense growth of bushes
- A dense, but generally small, growth of shrubs, bushes or small trees; a copse.
- (computing, figuratively) The collection of many small linked files created when a document is saved in HTML format by some word processors and web site creation software.
- (figuratively) A dense aggregation of other things, concrete or abstract.
- A strip of ground in which ornamental plants are grown.
- (British, uncountable) Border morris or border dancing.
- The outer edge of something.
- (computing) A string that is both a prefix and a suffix of another particular string.
- A decorative strip around the edge of something.
- The line or frontier area separating political or geographical regions.
- a line that indicates a boundary
- a decorative recessed or relieved surface on an edge
- the boundary of a surface
- the boundary line or the area immediately inside the boundary
- a strip forming the outer edge of something
- (transitive) To lie on, or adjacent to, a border of.
- (transitive) To form a border around; to bound.
- (intransitive) To touch at a border (with on, upon, or with).
- (transitive) To put a border on something.
- (intransitive) To approach; to come near to; to verge (with on or upon).
- enclose in or as if in a frame
- lie adjacent to another or share a boundary
- form the boundary of; be contiguous to
- provide with a border or edge
- extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle
- (modal auxiliary verb, defective) Expressing a present possibility; possibly.
- (subjunctive present, defective, chiefly poetic) Expressing a wish (with present subjunctive effect).
- (poetic, intransitive) To celebrate May Day.
- (intransitive, poetic) To be able to go.
- (modal auxiliary verb, defective) Expressing a disjunctive or contrastive relation between indicative statements.
- (modal auxiliary verb, defective) Used in modesty, courtesy, or concession, or to soften a question or remark.
- (modal auxiliary verb, defective) To have permission to, be allowed. Used in granting permission and in questions to make polite requests.
- (poetic, intransitive) To gather may, or flowers in general.
- an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant
- any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants
- a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle
- large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan
- anything that slows or hinders a process
- That part of a carriage, as of a movable battery, or engine, which enables it to turn.
- A carriage for transporting shooting parties and their equipment.ᵂ
- (textiles) A tool used for breaking flax or hemp.
- (chiefly nautical) The handle of a pump.
- A baker’s kneading trough.
- (military) An ancient engine of war analogous to the crossbow and ballista.
- An enclosure to restrain cattle, horses, etc.
- Bracken (Pteridium spp.).
- (now historical) A type of torture instrument.
- A device used to slow or stop the motion of a wheel, or of a vehicle, usually by friction (although other resistive forces, such as electromagnetic fields or aerodynamic drag, can also be used); also, the controls or apparatus used to engage such a mechanism such as the pedal in a car.
- (agriculture) A large, heavy harrow for breaking clods of earth after ploughing; a drag.
- (figuratively) Something used to retard or stop some action, process etc.
- A thicket, or an area overgrown with briers etc.
- (engineering) An apparatus for testing the power of a steam engine or other motor by weighing the amount of friction that the motor will overcome; a friction brake.
- A type of machine for bending sheet metal. (See wikipedia.)
- A frame for confining a refractory horse while the smith is shoeing it.
- A cart or carriage without a body, used in breaking in horses.ᵂ
- Any fern in the genus Pteris.
- The act of braking, of using a brake to slow down a machine or vehicle
- The sides of a tree's canopy.
- The cap of a cannon; a piece of lead laid over the vent to keep the priming dry.
- The loading, parking or roadway area immediately beside a railway station or marine terminal.
- A removable cover for the passengers' feet and legs in an open horse carriage.
- The spreading end of a driveway.
- An article of clothing worn over the front of the torso and/or legs for protection from spills; also historically worn by Freemasons and as part of women's fashion.
- (pinball) A large decal toward the bottom of a pinball table.
- The portion of a stage extending towards the audience beyond the proscenium arch in a theatre.
- (architecture) A raised panel below a window or wall monument or tablet.
- The short cassock ordinarily worn by English bishops.
- (aviation) The paved area of an airport, especially the area where aircraft park away from a terminal.
- The paved area below the yellow line on a racetrack.
- the part of a modern theater stage between the curtain and the orchestra (i.e., in front of the curtain)
- a paved surface where aircraft stand while not being used
- (golf) the part of the fairway leading onto the green
- a garment of cloth or leather or plastic that is tied about the waist and worn to protect your clothing
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- A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree.
- (horticulture) A woody plant distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, being usually less than six metres tall; a horticultural rather than strictly botanical category.
- A mechanical attachment, usually a metallic socket with a screw thread, such as the mechanism by which a camera is attached to a tripod stand.
- (historical) A shrub or branch, properly, a branch of ivy (sacred to Bacchus), hung out at vintners' doors, or as a tavern sign; hence, a tavern sign, and symbolically, the tavern itself.
- (Canada) The wild forested areas of Canada; upcountry.
- (New Zealand) An area of New Zealand covered in forest, especially native forest.
- A thick washer or hollow cylinder of metal.
- (baseball) Amateurish behavior, short for bush league behavior
- (Australia) The countryside area of Australia that is less arid and less remote than the outback; loosely, areas of natural flora even within conurbations.
- A piece of copper, screwed into a gun, through which the venthole is bored.
- (often with "the") Tracts of land covered in natural vegetation that are largely undeveloped and uncultivated.
- (slang, vulgar) A person's pubic hair, especially a woman's.
- (hunting) The tail, or brush, of a fox.
- (Canada) A wood lot or bluff on a farm.
- dense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes
- hair growing in the pubic area
- a large wilderness area
- a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems
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- (botany) Taller than the surrounding vegetation.
- (especially medicine) Constituting an emergency.
- (philosophy, epistemology, sciences) That arises at a higher level than that of its components and is not explainable by the behaviour of said components taken individually; having properties as a whole that are more complex than the properties contributed by each of the components individually.
- (botany, of a water-dwelling plant) Having leaves and flowers above the water.
- (video games) Having gameplay that arises from its mechanics, rather than a linear storyline.
- Emerging; coming into view or into existence; nascent; new.
- Arising unexpectedly, especially if also calling for immediate reaction.
- occurring unexpectedly and requiring urgent action
- coming into existence