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adj
- forming or resembling an arch
- have legs that curve outward at the knees
- of a stringed instrument; sounded by stroking with a bow
- showing an excessively deferential manner
- Having been played by a bow (rod for playing stringed instruments).
- Having a bow (rod for playing stringed instruments).
- Bent or curved.
- (in combination) Equipped with a bow (weapon).
verb
noun
verb
noun
- (architecture) An architectural element having the shape of an arch
- Any place covered by an arch; an archway.
- (anatomy) The curved part of the bottom of a foot.
- (video games) Synonym of god (“person who owns and runs a multi-user dungeon”).
- An inverted U shape.
- (electronics, operating systems) An architecture; a computer architecture or instruction set architecture.
- A natural arch-shaped opening in a rock mass.
- An arch-shaped arrangement of trapezoidal stones, designed to redistribute downward force outward.
- a curved bony structure supporting or enclosing organs (especially the inner sides of the feet)
- a passageway under a curved masonry construction
- a curved shape in the vertical plane that spans an opening
- (architecture) a masonry construction (usually curved) for spanning an opening and supporting the weight above it
adj
noun
adj
verb
- (archery, transitive) To provide (an archer) with a bow that requires more strength than the archer can fully draw.
- (archery, intransitive) To use a bow that requires more strength than the archer can fully draw.
- (intransitive) To bend too far.
- (chiefly poetic, transitive) To arch over.
- (transitive) To show excessive deference toward by too much bowing.
- (transitive) To bow or bend (something) over beyond its natural trajectory; to bend in a contrary direction.
- To use too much pressure when playing a stringed instrument using a bow.
- (transitive) To overburden.
noun
- generally any arch shaped structure (but often it refers to the arched roof of an anatomical space)
- an arched bundle of white fibers at the base of the brain by which the hippocampus of each hemisphere projects to the contralateral hippocampus and to the thalamus and mamillary bodies
- The vaulted upper part of the vagina surrounding the uterine cervix.
- The junction where the conjunctiva lining the eyelid meets the conjunctiva overlying the sclera.
- (neuroanatomy) A triangular area of white matter in the mammalian brain beneath the corpus callosum and between the hippocampus and the hypothalamus.
verb
- To provide an arch with a keystone.
- To fit (pieces of a mechanical assembly) with a key to maintain the orientation between them.
- (advertising, transitive) To modify (an advertisement) so as to target a particular group or demographic.
- To fasten or secure firmly; to fasten or tighten with keys or wedges.
- To link (as one might do with a key or legend).
- To fit (a lock) with a key.
- (computing) (more usually to key in) To enter (information) by typing on a keyboard or keypad.
- To attune to; to set at; to pitch.
- (radio) To operate (the transmitter switch of a two-way radio).
- (telegraphy and radio telegraphy) To depress (a telegraph key).
- (intransitive, biology, chiefly taxonomy) To be identified as a certain taxon when using a key.
- To mark or indicate with a symbol indicating membership in a class.
- To prepare for plastering by adding the key (that part of the plastering which is forced through between the laths and holds the rest in place).
- (colloquial) To vandalize (a car, etc.) by scratching with an implement such as a key.
- Clipping of chromakey.
- vandalize a car by scratching the sides with a key
- identify as in botany or biology, for example
- regulate the musical pitch of
- provide with a key
- harmonize with or adjust to
adj
noun
- (computing) One of several small, usually square buttons on a typewriter or computer keyboard, mostly corresponding to text characters.
- (historical) A manual electrical switching device primarily used for the transmission of Morse code.
- (cartomancy) The thirty-third card of the Lenormand deck.
- (architecture) A piece of wood used as a wedge.
- (figurative) The general pitch or tone of a sentence or utterance.
- In musical theory and notation, the tonality centering in a given tone, or the several tones taken collectively, of a given scale, major or minor.
- In musical instruments, one of the valve levers used to select notes, such as a lever opening a hole on a woodwind.
- (biology) A series of logically organized groups of discriminating information which aims to allow the user to correctly identify a taxon.
- In instruments with a keyboard such as an organ or piano, one of the levers, or especially the exposed front end of it, which are depressed to cause a particular sound or note to be produced.
- (print and film) The black ink layer, especially in relation to the three color layers of cyan, magenta, and yellow. See also CMYK.
- (computer graphics, television) A color to be masked or made transparent.
- (Internet) A password restricting access to an IRC channel.
- A guide to the correct answers of a worksheet or test.
- (countable) An object designed to open and close a lock.
- (music) A scale or group of pitches constituting the basis of a musical composition.
- (slang) A kilogram, especially of a recreational drug.
- In musical theory, the total melodic and harmonic relations, which exist between the tones of an ideal scale, major or minor; tonality.
- A crucial step or requirement.
- (databases) In a relational database, a field used as an index into another table (not necessarily unique).
- (masonry) A keystone.
- In musical notation, a sign at the head of a staff indicating the musical key.
- That part of the plastering which is forced through between the laths and holds the rest in place.
- (basketball) The free-throw lane together with the circle surrounding the free-throw line, the free-throw lane having formerly been narrower, giving the area the shape of a skeleton key hole.
- (cryptography) A piece of information (e.g., a password or passphrase) used to encode or decode a message or messages.
- (computing) A value that uniquely identifies an entry in a container.
- Any of various tools comparable to a wrench (spanner) or driver, or, in some cases, also called a wrench or driver.
- An object designed to fit between two other objects (such as a shaft and a wheel) in a mechanism and maintain their relative orientation.
- Alternative form of quay.
- A small guide explaining symbols or terminology, especially the legend on a map or chart.
- The degree of roughness, or retention ability of a surface to have applied a liquid such as paint, or glue.
- (advertising) A modification of an advertisement so as to target a particular group or demographic.
- The lowest note of a scale; keynote.
- (rail transport) A wooden wedge, driven sideways between a bullhead rail and a cast-iron chair, to keep the rail securely in position.
- (Australian rules football) A key position player (a tall forward or defender).
- One of a string of small islands.
- (architecture) The last board of a floor when laid down.
- (botany) An indehiscent, one-seeded fruit furnished with a wing, such as the fruit of the ash and maple; a samara.
- a winged often one-seed indehiscent fruit as of the ash or elm or maple
- any of 24 major or minor diatonic scales that provide the tonal framework for a piece of music
- something crucial for explaining
- a kilogram of a narcotic drug
- a coral reef off the southern coast of Florida
- a lever (as in a keyboard) that actuates a mechanism when depressed
- a list of answers to a test
- pitch of the voice
- a generic term for any device whose possession entitles the holder to a means of access
- (basketball) a space (including the foul line) in front of the basket at each end of a basketball court; usually painted a different color from the rest of the court
- a list of words or phrases that explain symbols or abbreviations
- mechanical device used to wind another device that is driven by a spring (as a clock)
- metal device shaped in such a way that when it is inserted into the appropriate lock the lock's mechanism can be rotated
- the central building block at the top of an arch or vault
verb
noun
noun
- (architecture) An arch that connects a flying buttress into the structure it supports.
- A machine that flies.
- A risky investment or other venture.
- (music) Synonym of flying cymbal.
- A leap or jump.
- A person who travels by airplane.
- (firearms) A stray shot away from the group on a target.
- (sports) A false start
- A leaflet, often for advertising.
- That which flies, as a bird or insect.
- (informal) A fast-moving person or thing.
- (acrobatics, cheerleading, synchronized swimming) A person who is lifted and/or thrown by another person or persons.
- A female kangaroo; a roo; a doe; a jill.
- The part of a spinning machine that twists the thread as it takes it to and winds it on the bobbin
- A standard rectangular step of a staircase (as opposed to a winder).
- an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution
- someone who operates an aircraft
- someone who travels by air
adj
verb
noun
- the keystone of an arch
- The keystone of an arch.
- expandable metal or wooden wedge used by printers to lock up a form within a chase
- A a corner of a crystal formed by the intersection of three or more faces at a point (in crystallography)
- A projecting corner or angle; a cornerstone.
- An original angular elevation of land around which continental growth has taken place (in geology)
- A wedge used in typesetting.
verb
noun
- the keystone of an arch
- The keystone of an arch.
- expandable metal or wooden wedge used by printers to lock up a form within a chase
- (architecture) solid exterior angle of a building; especially one formed by a cornerstone
- (printing, historical) A metal wedge which fits into the space between the type and the edge of a chase, and is tightened to fix the metal type in place.
- (firearms) A wedge of wood or iron put under the breech of heavy guns or the muzzle of siege-mortars to raise them to the proper level.
- (horticulture) A number of apple varieties with a distinctive ribbed appearance, like corners of a coin.
- Any of the corner building blocks of a building, usually larger or more ornate than the surrounding blocks.
verb
verb
noun
- something curved in shape
- a continuous portion of a circle
- electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field
- (narratology) Ellipsis of story arc.
- A curve, in general.
- (mathematics) A continuous mapping from a real interval (typically [0, 1]) into a space.
- (graph theory) A directed edge.
- (geometry) A continuous part of the circumference of a circle (circular arc) or of another curve.
- A band contained within parallel curves, or something of that shape.
- (astronomy) That part of a circle which a heavenly body appears to pass through as it moves above and below the horizon.
- (electrics) A flow of current across an insulating medium; especially a hot, luminous discharge either between two electrodes or as lightning.
- (film) An arclight.
- (by extension, Internet slang) A period or phase in a person's life.
- (basketball, slang) The three-point line.
verb
- form an arch or curve
- extend in curves and turns
- bend or cause to bend
- form a curl, curve, or kink
- turn sharply; change direction abruptly
- (transitive) To bend; to crook.
- (transitive) To grade on a curve (bell curve of a normal distribution).
- (intransitive) To bend or turn gradually from a given direction.
- (transitive) To cause to swerve from a straight course.
- (transitive, slang) To reject, to turn down romantic advances.
noun
- a pitch of a baseball that is thrown with spin so that its path curves as it approaches the batter
- curved segment (of a road or river or railroad track etc.)
- a line on a graph representing data
- the trace of a point whose direction of motion changes
- the property possessed by the curving of a line or surface
- (informal, usually in the plural) The attractive shape of a woman's body.
- (algebraic geometry) An algebraic curve; a polynomial relation of the planar coordinates.
- (analytic geometry) A continuous map from a one-dimensional space to a multidimensional space.
- (topology) A one-dimensional continuum.
- (geometry) A one-dimensional figure of non-zero length; the graph of a continuous map from a one-dimensional space.
- A gentle bend, such as in a road.
- A simple figure containing no straight portions and no angles; a curved line.
- (nonstandard, by extension) A grading system where all raw scores are raised by a set amount of points.
- A grading system based on the scale of performance of a group used to normalize a right-skewed grade distribution (with more lower scores) into a bell curve, so that more can receive higher grades, regardless of their actual knowledge of the subject.
noun
noun
- The keystone of an arch.
- (geometry) The distance from a point in a curve to the chord; also, the versed sine of an arc; so called from its resemblance to an arrow resting on the bow and string.
- Any arrowworm, of the genus Sagitta.
- (zootomy) The larger of the two otoliths, or earbones, found in most fishes.
- any arrowworm of the genus Sagitta
noun
verb
noun
- A stone at the base of an arch (from which the arch springs).
- A springbok.
- A springer spaniel.
- A person that springs.
- A spring salmon.
- Anything that springs.
- A springing cow.
- the lowest stone in an arch — from which it springs
- a cow about to give birth
- a large spaniel with wavy silky coat usually black or liver and white
noun
- The highest part of an arch.
- 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.
- (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.
- 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 upper branches and leaves of a tree or other plant
- the part of a tooth above the gum that is covered with enamel
adj
verb
- (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.
- be the culminating event
- put an enamel cover on
- invest with regal power; enthrone
- form the topmost part of
verb
noun
- A small coastal inlet, especially one having high cliffs protecting vessels from prevailing winds; bight.
- (Cumbria) A recess or sheltered area on the slopes of a mountain.
- (nautical) The wooden roof of the stern gallery of an old sailing warship.
- (architecture) A concave vault or archway, especially the arch of a ceiling.
- (now uncommon) A hollow in a rock; a cave or cavern.
- (nautical) A thin line, sometimes gilded, along a yacht's strake below deck level.
- (US) A strip of prairie extending into woodland.
- (Appalachia) A valley between two ridges, especially one that, opening to the south and east, is protected by ridges on the north and west from common winter storm tracks.
- (Australia and Polari) A friend; a mate.
- a small inlet
- small or narrow cave in the side of a cliff or mountain
noun
- (architecture) An inverted arch (as in a sewer).
- (civil engineering) An elevation of a pipe at a certain point along the pipe.
- (civil engineering) The lowest point inside a pipe at a certain point.
- (Internet slang, conspiracy theories) Of a person, assumed to be transgender, in terms of transvestigation.
- (zoology, informal) An invertebrate.
- A skateboarding and snowboarding trick where the skater grabs the board and plants a hand on the coping so as to balance upside-down on the lip of a ramp.
- The base of a tunnel on which the road or railway may be laid and used when construction is through unstable ground. It may be flat or form a continuous curve with the tunnel arch.
adj
verb
- (anatomy) To turn (the foot) inwards.
- (transitive) To turn (something) upside down or inside out; to place in a contrary order or direction.
- (transitive, music) To move (the root note of a chord) up or down an octave, resulting in a change in pitch.
- To divert; to convert to a wrong use.
- (chemistry, intransitive) To undergo inversion, as sugar.
- turn inside out or upside down
- reverse the position, order, relation, or condition of
- make an inversion (in a musical composition)
noun
noun
adj
verb
- (archery, transitive) To provide (an archer) with a bow that requires more strength than the archer can fully draw.
- (archery, intransitive) To use a bow that requires more strength than the archer can fully draw.
- (intransitive) To bend too far.
- (chiefly poetic, transitive) To arch over.
- (transitive) To show excessive deference toward by too much bowing.
- (transitive) To bow or bend (something) over beyond its natural trajectory; to bend in a contrary direction.
- To use too much pressure when playing a stringed instrument using a bow.
- (transitive) To overburden.
noun
- generally any arch shaped structure (but often it refers to the arched roof of an anatomical space)
- an arched bundle of white fibers at the base of the brain by which the hippocampus of each hemisphere projects to the contralateral hippocampus and to the thalamus and mamillary bodies
- The vaulted upper part of the vagina surrounding the uterine cervix.
- The junction where the conjunctiva lining the eyelid meets the conjunctiva overlying the sclera.
- (neuroanatomy) A triangular area of white matter in the mammalian brain beneath the corpus callosum and between the hippocampus and the hypothalamus.
noun
- (architecture) An arch that connects a flying buttress into the structure it supports.
- A machine that flies.
- A risky investment or other venture.
- (music) Synonym of flying cymbal.
- A leap or jump.
- A person who travels by airplane.
- (firearms) A stray shot away from the group on a target.
- (sports) A false start
- A leaflet, often for advertising.
- That which flies, as a bird or insect.
- (informal) A fast-moving person or thing.
- (acrobatics, cheerleading, synchronized swimming) A person who is lifted and/or thrown by another person or persons.
- A female kangaroo; a roo; a doe; a jill.
- The part of a spinning machine that twists the thread as it takes it to and winds it on the bobbin
- A standard rectangular step of a staircase (as opposed to a winder).
- an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution
- someone who operates an aircraft
- someone who travels by air
adj
verb
noun
- the keystone of an arch
- The keystone of an arch.
- expandable metal or wooden wedge used by printers to lock up a form within a chase
- A a corner of a crystal formed by the intersection of three or more faces at a point (in crystallography)
- A projecting corner or angle; a cornerstone.
- An original angular elevation of land around which continental growth has taken place (in geology)
- A wedge used in typesetting.
verb
noun
- the keystone of an arch
- The keystone of an arch.
- expandable metal or wooden wedge used by printers to lock up a form within a chase
- (architecture) solid exterior angle of a building; especially one formed by a cornerstone
- (printing, historical) A metal wedge which fits into the space between the type and the edge of a chase, and is tightened to fix the metal type in place.
- (firearms) A wedge of wood or iron put under the breech of heavy guns or the muzzle of siege-mortars to raise them to the proper level.
- (horticulture) A number of apple varieties with a distinctive ribbed appearance, like corners of a coin.
- Any of the corner building blocks of a building, usually larger or more ornate than the surrounding blocks.
verb
noun
verb
noun
- (architecture) An architectural element having the shape of an arch
- Any place covered by an arch; an archway.
- (anatomy) The curved part of the bottom of a foot.
- (video games) Synonym of god (“person who owns and runs a multi-user dungeon”).
- An inverted U shape.
- (electronics, operating systems) An architecture; a computer architecture or instruction set architecture.
- A natural arch-shaped opening in a rock mass.
- An arch-shaped arrangement of trapezoidal stones, designed to redistribute downward force outward.
- a curved bony structure supporting or enclosing organs (especially the inner sides of the feet)
- a passageway under a curved masonry construction
- a curved shape in the vertical plane that spans an opening
- (architecture) a masonry construction (usually curved) for spanning an opening and supporting the weight above it
adj
noun
- The keystone of an arch.
- (geometry) The distance from a point in a curve to the chord; also, the versed sine of an arc; so called from its resemblance to an arrow resting on the bow and string.
- Any arrowworm, of the genus Sagitta.
- (zootomy) The larger of the two otoliths, or earbones, found in most fishes.
- any arrowworm of the genus Sagitta
noun
verb
noun
- A stone at the base of an arch (from which the arch springs).
- A springbok.
- A springer spaniel.
- A person that springs.
- A spring salmon.
- Anything that springs.
- A springing cow.
- the lowest stone in an arch — from which it springs
- a cow about to give birth
- a large spaniel with wavy silky coat usually black or liver and white
noun
- The highest part of an arch.
- 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.
- (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.
- 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 upper branches and leaves of a tree or other plant
- the part of a tooth above the gum that is covered with enamel
adj
verb
- (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.
- be the culminating event
- put an enamel cover on
- invest with regal power; enthrone
- form the topmost part of
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- (architecture) An inverted arch (as in a sewer).
- (civil engineering) An elevation of a pipe at a certain point along the pipe.
- (civil engineering) The lowest point inside a pipe at a certain point.
- (Internet slang, conspiracy theories) Of a person, assumed to be transgender, in terms of transvestigation.
- (zoology, informal) An invertebrate.
- A skateboarding and snowboarding trick where the skater grabs the board and plants a hand on the coping so as to balance upside-down on the lip of a ramp.
- The base of a tunnel on which the road or railway may be laid and used when construction is through unstable ground. It may be flat or form a continuous curve with the tunnel arch.
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- (anatomy) To turn (the foot) inwards.
- (transitive) To turn (something) upside down or inside out; to place in a contrary order or direction.
- (transitive, music) To move (the root note of a chord) up or down an octave, resulting in a change in pitch.
- To divert; to convert to a wrong use.
- (chemistry, intransitive) To undergo inversion, as sugar.
- turn inside out or upside down
- reverse the position, order, relation, or condition of
- make an inversion (in a musical composition)
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noun
- (architecture) An architectural element having the shape of an arch
- Any place covered by an arch; an archway.
- (anatomy) The curved part of the bottom of a foot.
- (video games) Synonym of god (“person who owns and runs a multi-user dungeon”).
- An inverted U shape.
- (electronics, operating systems) An architecture; a computer architecture or instruction set architecture.
- A natural arch-shaped opening in a rock mass.
- An arch-shaped arrangement of trapezoidal stones, designed to redistribute downward force outward.
- a curved bony structure supporting or enclosing organs (especially the inner sides of the feet)
- a passageway under a curved masonry construction
- a curved shape in the vertical plane that spans an opening
- (architecture) a masonry construction (usually curved) for spanning an opening and supporting the weight above it
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- To provide an arch with a keystone.
- To fit (pieces of a mechanical assembly) with a key to maintain the orientation between them.
- (advertising, transitive) To modify (an advertisement) so as to target a particular group or demographic.
- To fasten or secure firmly; to fasten or tighten with keys or wedges.
- To link (as one might do with a key or legend).
- To fit (a lock) with a key.
- (computing) (more usually to key in) To enter (information) by typing on a keyboard or keypad.
- To attune to; to set at; to pitch.
- (radio) To operate (the transmitter switch of a two-way radio).
- (telegraphy and radio telegraphy) To depress (a telegraph key).
- (intransitive, biology, chiefly taxonomy) To be identified as a certain taxon when using a key.
- To mark or indicate with a symbol indicating membership in a class.
- To prepare for plastering by adding the key (that part of the plastering which is forced through between the laths and holds the rest in place).
- (colloquial) To vandalize (a car, etc.) by scratching with an implement such as a key.
- Clipping of chromakey.
- vandalize a car by scratching the sides with a key
- identify as in botany or biology, for example
- regulate the musical pitch of
- provide with a key
- harmonize with or adjust to
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- (computing) One of several small, usually square buttons on a typewriter or computer keyboard, mostly corresponding to text characters.
- (historical) A manual electrical switching device primarily used for the transmission of Morse code.
- (cartomancy) The thirty-third card of the Lenormand deck.
- (architecture) A piece of wood used as a wedge.
- (figurative) The general pitch or tone of a sentence or utterance.
- In musical theory and notation, the tonality centering in a given tone, or the several tones taken collectively, of a given scale, major or minor.
- In musical instruments, one of the valve levers used to select notes, such as a lever opening a hole on a woodwind.
- (biology) A series of logically organized groups of discriminating information which aims to allow the user to correctly identify a taxon.
- In instruments with a keyboard such as an organ or piano, one of the levers, or especially the exposed front end of it, which are depressed to cause a particular sound or note to be produced.
- (print and film) The black ink layer, especially in relation to the three color layers of cyan, magenta, and yellow. See also CMYK.
- (computer graphics, television) A color to be masked or made transparent.
- (Internet) A password restricting access to an IRC channel.
- A guide to the correct answers of a worksheet or test.
- (countable) An object designed to open and close a lock.
- (music) A scale or group of pitches constituting the basis of a musical composition.
- (slang) A kilogram, especially of a recreational drug.
- In musical theory, the total melodic and harmonic relations, which exist between the tones of an ideal scale, major or minor; tonality.
- A crucial step or requirement.
- (databases) In a relational database, a field used as an index into another table (not necessarily unique).
- (masonry) A keystone.
- In musical notation, a sign at the head of a staff indicating the musical key.
- That part of the plastering which is forced through between the laths and holds the rest in place.
- (basketball) The free-throw lane together with the circle surrounding the free-throw line, the free-throw lane having formerly been narrower, giving the area the shape of a skeleton key hole.
- (cryptography) A piece of information (e.g., a password or passphrase) used to encode or decode a message or messages.
- (computing) A value that uniquely identifies an entry in a container.
- Any of various tools comparable to a wrench (spanner) or driver, or, in some cases, also called a wrench or driver.
- An object designed to fit between two other objects (such as a shaft and a wheel) in a mechanism and maintain their relative orientation.
- Alternative form of quay.
- A small guide explaining symbols or terminology, especially the legend on a map or chart.
- The degree of roughness, or retention ability of a surface to have applied a liquid such as paint, or glue.
- (advertising) A modification of an advertisement so as to target a particular group or demographic.
- The lowest note of a scale; keynote.
- (rail transport) A wooden wedge, driven sideways between a bullhead rail and a cast-iron chair, to keep the rail securely in position.
- (Australian rules football) A key position player (a tall forward or defender).
- One of a string of small islands.
- (architecture) The last board of a floor when laid down.
- (botany) An indehiscent, one-seeded fruit furnished with a wing, such as the fruit of the ash and maple; a samara.
- a winged often one-seed indehiscent fruit as of the ash or elm or maple
- any of 24 major or minor diatonic scales that provide the tonal framework for a piece of music
- something crucial for explaining
- a kilogram of a narcotic drug
- a coral reef off the southern coast of Florida
- a lever (as in a keyboard) that actuates a mechanism when depressed
- a list of answers to a test
- pitch of the voice
- a generic term for any device whose possession entitles the holder to a means of access
- (basketball) a space (including the foul line) in front of the basket at each end of a basketball court; usually painted a different color from the rest of the court
- a list of words or phrases that explain symbols or abbreviations
- mechanical device used to wind another device that is driven by a spring (as a clock)
- metal device shaped in such a way that when it is inserted into the appropriate lock the lock's mechanism can be rotated
- the central building block at the top of an arch or vault
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- something curved in shape
- a continuous portion of a circle
- electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field
- (narratology) Ellipsis of story arc.
- A curve, in general.
- (mathematics) A continuous mapping from a real interval (typically [0, 1]) into a space.
- (graph theory) A directed edge.
- (geometry) A continuous part of the circumference of a circle (circular arc) or of another curve.
- A band contained within parallel curves, or something of that shape.
- (astronomy) That part of a circle which a heavenly body appears to pass through as it moves above and below the horizon.
- (electrics) A flow of current across an insulating medium; especially a hot, luminous discharge either between two electrodes or as lightning.
- (film) An arclight.
- (by extension, Internet slang) A period or phase in a person's life.
- (basketball, slang) The three-point line.
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- form an arch or curve
- extend in curves and turns
- bend or cause to bend
- form a curl, curve, or kink
- turn sharply; change direction abruptly
- (transitive) To bend; to crook.
- (transitive) To grade on a curve (bell curve of a normal distribution).
- (intransitive) To bend or turn gradually from a given direction.
- (transitive) To cause to swerve from a straight course.
- (transitive, slang) To reject, to turn down romantic advances.
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- a pitch of a baseball that is thrown with spin so that its path curves as it approaches the batter
- curved segment (of a road or river or railroad track etc.)
- a line on a graph representing data
- the trace of a point whose direction of motion changes
- the property possessed by the curving of a line or surface
- (informal, usually in the plural) The attractive shape of a woman's body.
- (algebraic geometry) An algebraic curve; a polynomial relation of the planar coordinates.
- (analytic geometry) A continuous map from a one-dimensional space to a multidimensional space.
- (topology) A one-dimensional continuum.
- (geometry) A one-dimensional figure of non-zero length; the graph of a continuous map from a one-dimensional space.
- A gentle bend, such as in a road.
- A simple figure containing no straight portions and no angles; a curved line.
- (nonstandard, by extension) A grading system where all raw scores are raised by a set amount of points.
- A grading system based on the scale of performance of a group used to normalize a right-skewed grade distribution (with more lower scores) into a bell curve, so that more can receive higher grades, regardless of their actual knowledge of the subject.
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- A small coastal inlet, especially one having high cliffs protecting vessels from prevailing winds; bight.
- (Cumbria) A recess or sheltered area on the slopes of a mountain.
- (nautical) The wooden roof of the stern gallery of an old sailing warship.
- (architecture) A concave vault or archway, especially the arch of a ceiling.
- (now uncommon) A hollow in a rock; a cave or cavern.
- (nautical) A thin line, sometimes gilded, along a yacht's strake below deck level.
- (US) A strip of prairie extending into woodland.
- (Appalachia) A valley between two ridges, especially one that, opening to the south and east, is protected by ridges on the north and west from common winter storm tracks.
- (Australia and Polari) A friend; a mate.
- a small inlet
- small or narrow cave in the side of a cliff or mountain
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- forming or resembling an arch
- have legs that curve outward at the knees
- of a stringed instrument; sounded by stroking with a bow
- showing an excessively deferential manner
- Having been played by a bow (rod for playing stringed instruments).
- Having a bow (rod for playing stringed instruments).
- Bent or curved.
- (in combination) Equipped with a bow (weapon).