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verb
- learn by repetition
- teach by repetition
- (transitive) To repeat an idea frequently in order to encourage someone to remember it.
- train in the military, e.g., in the use of weapons
- make a hole, especially with a pointed power or hand tool
- undergo military training or do military exercises
- (intransitive) To practice, especially in (or as in) a military context.
- (transitive) To cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to drain by trickling.
- (transitive) To create (a hole) by removing material with a drill (tool).
- (intransitive, figurative) To investigate or examine something in more detail or at a different level
- (transitive) To sow (seeds) by dribbling them along a furrow or in a row.
- (baseball) To hit someone with a pitch, especially in an intentional context.
- (ergative) To cause to drill (practice); to train in military arts.
- (transitive) To throw, run, hit or kick with a lot of power.
- (slang) To shoot; to kill by shooting.
- (slang, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse with; to penetrate.
noun
- systematic training by multiple repetitions
- similar to the mandrill but smaller and less brightly colored
- (military) the training of soldiers to march (as in ceremonial parades) or to perform the manual of arms
- a tool with a sharp point and cutting edges for making holes in hard materials (usually rotating rapidly or by repeated blows)
- A row of seed sown in a furrow.
- (uncountable, music) A style of trap music with gritty, violent lyrics, originating on the South Side of Chicago.
- Any of several molluscs, of the genus Urosalpinx and others, especially the oyster drill (Urosalpinx cinerea), that make holes in the shells of their prey.
- An activity done as an exercise or practice (especially a military exercise), particularly in preparation for some possible future event or occurrence.
- An Old World monkey of West Africa, Mandrillus leucophaeus, similar in appearance to the mandrill, but lacking the colorful face.
- An agricultural implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes so formed as to contain seeds and drop them into the hole made.
- (countable, music) A single performance of drill music.
- A strong, durable cotton fabric with a strong bias (diagonal) in the weave.
- A tool or machine used to remove material so as to create a hole, typically by plunging a rotating cutting bit into a stationary workpiece.
- The portion of a drilling tool that drives the bit.
- A short and highly repeatable sports training exercise designed to hone a particular skill that may be useful in competition.
- A light furrow or channel made to put seed into, when sowing.
verb
- learn by repetition
- carry out or practice; as of jobs and professions
- do physical exercise
- put to use
- give a workout to
- (transitive) To use (a right, an option, etc.); to put into practice.
- (intransitive) To perform physical activity for health or training.
- (now often passive voice) To occupy the attention and effort of; to task; to tax, especially in a painful or vexatious manner; harass; to vex; to worry or make anxious.
- To exert for the sake of training or improvement; to practice in order to develop.
noun
- systematic training by multiple repetitions
- the act of using
- an action, often used negatively and without consequences
- the activity of exerting your muscles in various ways to keep fit
- (usually plural) a ceremony that involves processions and speeches
- a task performed or problem solved in order to develop skill or understanding
- The performance of an office, ceremony, or duty.
- (countable, uncountable) Activity intended to improve physical, or sometimes mental, strength and fitness.
- (countable) Any activity designed to develop or hone a skill or ability.
- A setting in action or practicing; employment in the proper mode of activity; exertion; application; use.
verb
noun
- systematic training by multiple repetitions
- Repetition of an activity to improve a skill.
- knowledge of how something is usually done
- the exercise of a profession
- a customary way of operation or behavior
- translating an idea into action
- Actual operation or experiment, in contrast to theory.
- Skilful or artful management; dexterity in contrivance or the use of means; stratagem; artifice.
- (countable) A place where a professional service is provided, such as a general practice.
- (mathematics) An easy and concise method of applying the rules of arithmetic to questions which occur in trade and business.
- An organized event for the purpose of performing such repetition.
- A customary action, habit, or behaviour; a manner or routine.
- The observance of religious duties that a church requires of its members.
- (law) The form, manner, and order of conducting and carrying on suits and prosecutions through their various stages, according to the principles of law and the rules laid down by the courts.
- (uncountable, especially medicine, art) The ongoing pursuit of a craft or profession, particularly in medicine or the fine arts.
verb
- learn by repetition
- To teach or accustom by practice; to train.
- (transitive) To repeat (an activity) as a way of improving one's skill in that activity.
- (intransitive) To repeat an activity in this way.
- carry out or practice; as of jobs and professions
- engage in a rehearsal (of)
- To make use of; to employ.
- (transitive) To perform or observe in an habitual fashion.
- (transitive) To pursue (a career, especially law, fine art or medicine).
- To put into practice; to carry out; to act upon; to commit; to execute; to do.
noun
verb
noun
- memorization by repetition
- (rare) The roar of the surf; the sound of waves breaking on the shore.
- (music) A kind of guitar, the notes of which were produced by a small wheel or wheel-like arrangement; an instrument similar to the hurdy-gurdy.
- Synonym of crowd.
- Mechanical routine; a fixed, habitual, repetitive, or mechanical course of procedure.
adj
verb
- repeat after memorization
- (transitive, figurative, sometimes derogatory) To repeat (information) verbatim or by rote, typically after learning it without actual comprehension.
- pour or rush back
- eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth
- feed through the beak by regurgitating previously swallowed food
- (transitive) To cough up from the gut to feed its young, as an animal or bird does.
- (intransitive) To be thrown or poured back; to rush or surge back.
- (transitive) To throw up or vomit; to eject what has previously been swallowed.
noun
verb
- repeat after memorization
- have offspring or produce more individuals of a given animal or plant
- make a copy or equivalent of
- recreate a sound, image, idea, mood, atmosphere, etc.
- (transitive) To bring something to mind; to recall.
- (transitive) To produce an image or copy of.
- (transitive) To produce again; to recreate.
- (transitive or intransitive, biology) To generate or propagate offspring or organisms sexually or asexually.
noun
- systematic training by multiple repetitions
- a regularly scheduled session as part of a course of study
- a public instance of reciting or repeating (from memory) something prepared in advance
- written matter that is recited from memory
- A regularly scheduled class, in a school, in which discussion occurs of the material covered in a parallel lecture.
- A reiteration; a setting down, e.g. for ease of reference, of something previously established.
- (music) A part of a song's lyrics that is spoken rather than sung.
- The act of publicly reciting something previously memorized.
- The material recited.
noun
- The act of reciting (the repetition of something that has been memorized); rehearsal
- The act of telling the order of events of something in detail the order of events; narration.
- That which is recited; a story, narration, account.
- A vocal, instrumental or visual performance by a soloist.
- (law) A formal, preliminary statement in a deed or writing in order to explain the reasons on which the transaction is founded, prior to a positive allegation.
- performance of music or dance especially by soloists
- a detailed account or description of something
- a public instance of reciting or repeating (from memory) something prepared in advance
- the act of giving an account describing incidents or a course of events
verb
- recite or repeat a fixed text
- express a supposition
- speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way
- give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority
- have or contain a certain wording or form
- indicate
- state as one's opinion or judgement; declare
- report or maintain
- utter aloud
- express in words
- communicate or express nonverbally
- (transitive) To indicate in a written form.
- (informal, imperative, transitive) Suppose, assume; used to mark an example, supposition or hypothesis.
- (intransitive) To speak; to express an opinion; to make answer; to reply.
- (transitive, informal, of a possession, especially money) To bet as a wager on an outcome; by extension, used to express belief in an outcome by the speaker.
- (transitive) To pronounce.
- (transitive) To recite.
- (transitive) To tell, either verbally or in writing.
- To try; to assay.
- (impersonal, transitive) To have a common expression; used in singular passive voice or plural active voice to indicate a rumor or well-known fact.
noun
adv
intj
verb
- repeat aloud from memory
- narrate or give a detailed account of
- render verbally
- recite in elocution
- specify individually
- (intransitive) To deliver a recitation.
- (transitive) To list or enumerate something.
- Alternative spelling of re-cite (which is the preferred spelling, to avoid needless homography).
- (transitive) To repeat aloud (some passage, poem or other text previously memorized, or in front of one's eyes), often before an audience.
verb
- To recite, especially items on a list.
- To flee or depart quickly.
- (idiomatic) To write something quickly.
- To have diarrhea.
- (transitive) To steal (horses).
- (idiomatic) To make photocopies, or print.
- To operate by a particular energy or fuel source.
- To cause to flow away.
- To chase someone away.
- (of a liquid) To pour or spill off or over.
- decide (a contest or competition) by a runoff
- run away secretly with one's beloved
- force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings
- leave suddenly and as if in a hurry
- run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along
- run off as waste
- reproduce by xerography
noun
- An iteration; a repetition.
- A television program shown after its initial presentation; a rerun.
- (music) A mark in music notation directing a part to be repeated.
- (medicine, pharmacy) A refill of a prescription.
- (genetics, biochemistry) A pattern of nucleic acids that occur in multiple copies throughout a genome (or of amino acids in a protein).
- an event that repeats
verb
- to say again or imitate
- (intransitive) To happen again; recur.
- (law, Scotland) To repay or refund (an excess received).
- (transitive) To do or say again (and again).
- (procedure word, military) To call in a previous artillery fire mission with the same ammunition and method either on the coordinates or adjusted either because destruction of the target was insufficient or missed.
- To commit fraud in an election by voting more than once for the same candidate.
- (intransitive) To strike the hours, as a watch does.
- (transitive) To echo the words of (a person).
- (transitive, medicine, pharmacy) To refill (a prescription).
- repeat an earlier theme of a composition
- happen or occur again
- make or do or perform again
- to say, state, or perform again
- do over
verb
- To instill through repetitive teaching.
- (transitive) To reduce to smaller pieces by crushing with lateral motion.
- (sports, intransitive) To slide the flat portion of a skateboard or snowboard across an obstacle such as a railing.
- (slang, Hawaii) To eat.
- (slang) To dance in a sexually suggestive way with both partners in very close proximity, often pressed against each other.
- To produce mechanically and repetitively as if by turning a crank.
- (slang) To rub one's body against another's in a sexual way; to frottage.
- To move with much difficulty or friction; to grate.
- (transitive) To shape with the force of friction.
- (metalworking) To remove material by rubbing with an abrasive surface.
- (transitive) To operate by turning a crank.
- (video games) To repeat a task a large number of times in a row to achieve a specific goal.
- (intransitive, slang) To work or study hard; to hustle or drudge.
- (transitive, slang) To annoy or irritate (a person); to grind one's gears.
- (intransitive) To become ground, pulverized, or polished by friction.
- (transitive) To oppress, hold down or weaken.
- (slang, intransitive) To rotate the hips erotically.
- make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together
- reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading
- press or grind with a crushing noise
- created by grinding
- dance by rotating the pelvis in an erotically suggestive way, often while in contact with one's partner such that the dancers' legs are interlaced
- work hard
- shape or form by grinding
noun
- A specific degree of pulverization of coffee beans.
- A grinding trick on a skateboard or snowboard.
- (uncountable, slang) Hustle; hard work.
- A traditional communal pilot whale hunt in the Faroe Islands.
- Something that has been reduced to powder, something that has been ground.
- (uncountable, music) Clipping of grindcore (“subgenre of heavy metal”).
- A tedious and laborious task.
- The act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by friction.
- an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious
- the act of grinding to a powder or dust
- the grade of particle fineness to which a substance is ground
- hard monotonous routine work
verb
noun
- A taking by way of retaliation.
- A recurrence or resumption of an action.
- (music) A repetition of a phrase, a return to an earlier theme, or a second rendition or version of a song in a programme or musical.
- (construction) In masonry, the return of a moulding in an internal angle.
- (law, in the plural) Deductions and duties paid yearly out of a manor and lands, as rent charge, pensions, annuities, etc.; also spelled reprizes.
- A ship recaptured from an enemy or from a pirate.
- (fencing) A renewal of a failed attack, after going back into the en garde position.
verb
- (transitive) To refine (a skill especially) by learning.
- (UK, US, Southern US, dialect, intransitive) To grumble.
- (transitive) To use a hone to produce a precision bore.
- (UK, US, Southern US, dialect) To pine, lament, or long.
- To make more acute, intense, or effective.
- (transitive) To sharpen with a hone; to whet.
- sharpen with a hone
- make perfect or complete
intj
noun
- A kind of swelling in the cheek.
- A machine tool used in the manufacture of precision bores.
- A sharpening stone composed of extra-fine grit used for removing the burr or curl from the blade of a razor or some other edge tool.
- a tool consisting of a number of fine abrasive slips held in a machine head, rotated and reciprocated to impart a smooth finish to cylinder bores, etc.
- a whetstone made of fine gritstone; used for sharpening razors
verb
- To memorize; to put something into memory.
- To keep in mind; to be mindful of.
- (intransitive) To engage in the process of recalling memories.
- (transitive) To give (a person) money as a token of appreciation of past service or friendship.
- To recall from one's memory; to have an image in one's memory.
- To not forget (to do something required)
- (rare) Alternative form of re-member.
- To convey greetings from.
- (transitive) To commemorate, to have a remembrance ceremony.
- recapture the past; indulge in memories
- mention as by way of greeting or to indicate friendship
- show appreciation to
- exercise, or have the power of, memory
- mention favorably, as in prayer
- call to remembrance; keep alive the memory of someone or something, as in a ceremony
- recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection
- keep in mind for attention or consideration
adj
- (education) Appropriate for learning through repeated practice (drill).
- Suitable for being drilled through.
- (agriculture) Suitable for being applied using a seed drill.
- (computing, education, media studies) Supporting a drilldown action in which one can discover more details about a topic or text.
- (robotics) Having an arm or manipulator that can position the tool or attachment at the end in different orientations.
verb
- (transitive) To repeat, as what has been already said; to tell over again; to recite.
- (ambitransitive) To practise by recitation or repetition in private for experiment and improvement, prior to a public representation, especially in theater.
- (transitive) To narrate; to relate; to tell; to recount.
- To contrive and carefully prepare (a story, etc.) to offer consistency.
- (transitive, theater) To cause to rehearse; to instruct by rehearsal.
- engage in a rehearsal (of)
verb
- instill (into a person) by constant repetition
- make a resonant sound, like artillery
- (intransitive) To make a din, to resound.
- (transitive) To assail (a person, the ears) with loud noise.
- (intransitive) (of a place) To be filled with sound, to resound.
- (transitive) To repeat (something) continuously, as though to the point of deafening or exhausting somebody, or (sometimes particularly) to impress or instill (it, into someone).
noun
adj
- Thoroughly practiced, learned or memorised; mastered. (Compare down pat.)
- (baseball, cricket, colloquial, following the noun modified) Out.
- (not comparable, military, law enforcement, slang, of a person) Wounded and unable to move normally, or killed.
- (not comparable) Inoperable; out of order; out of service.
- Having a lower score than an opponent.
- (veterinary medicine, of a cow) Stranded in a recumbent position; unable to stand.
- (rail transport, of a train) Travelling in the direction leading away from the principal terminus, away from milepost zero.
- Finished (of a task); defeated or dealt with (of an opponent or obstacle); elapsed (of time). Often coupled with to go (remaining).
- (normally in the combination 'down with') Sick or ill.
- (informal) Sad, unhappy, depressed, feeling low.
- (slang) In prison.
- (of a tree, limb, etc) Fallen or felled.
- At a lower level than before.
- (colloquial, with "on") Negative about; hostile to.
- (Canada, US, slang) Comfortable [with]; accepting [of]; okay [with].
- Facing downwards.
- (not comparable, military, aviation, slang, of an aircraft) Mechanically failed, collided, shot down, or otherwise suddenly unable to fly.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang) Accepted, respected, or loyally participating in the (thug) community.
- being put out in a game of baseball
- lower than previously
- extending or moving from a higher to a lower place
- filled with melancholy and despondency
- understood perfectly
- becoming progressively lower
- shut
- not functioning (temporarily or permanently)
- being or moving lower in position or less in some value
adv
- At or towards any place that is visualised as 'down' by virtue of local features or local convention, or arbitrarily, irrespective of direction or elevation change.
- Away from the city (regardless of direction).
- (crosswords, in relation to a numbered clued word) In a downwards direction; vertically.
- To the south (as south is at the bottom of typical maps).
- (sentence substitute, imperative) Get down.
- Forward, straight ahead.
- On paper (or in a durable record).
- To a subordinate or less prestigious position or rank.
- So as to be cowed into silence.
- Into a state of non-operation.
- (comparable) From a higher position to a lower one; downwards.
- From less to greater detail.
- Used with verbs to indicate that the action of the verb was carried to some state of completion, permanence, or success rather than being of indefinite duration.
- (comparable) At a lower or further place or position along a set path.
- To or towards what is considered the bottom of something, irrespective of whether this is presently physically lower.
- So as to lessen quantity, level or intensity.
- (sports) Towards the opponent's side (in ball-sports).
- From a remoter or higher antiquity.
- (rail transport) In the direction leading away from the principal terminus, away from milepost zero.
- As a down payment.
- So as to reduce size, weight or volume.
- So as to secure or compress something to the floor, ground, or other (usually horizontal) surface.
- away from a more central or a more northerly place
- from an earlier time
- in an inactive or inoperative state
- to a lower intensity
- spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position
- paid in cash at time of purchase
noun
- Soft, fluffy immature feathers which grow on young birds. Used as insulating material in duvets, sleeping bags and jackets.
- The lightest quark with a charge number of −¹⁄₃.
- (usually in the plural) A field, especially one used for horse racing.
- (UK, chiefly in the plural) A tract of poor, sandy, undulating or hilly land near the sea, covered with fine turf which serves chiefly for the grazing of sheep.
- (gambling) The shift or period of time during which a dealer manages a given table before rotating to the next table at a casino or cardroom, which is often 30 minutes.
- (American football) A single play, from the time the ball is snapped (the start) to the time the whistle is blown (the end) when the ball is down, or is downed.
- A downstairs room of a two-story house.
- The soft hair of the face when beginning to appear.
- A negative aspect; a downer, a downside.
- That which is made of down, as a bed or pillow; that which affords ease and repose, like a bed of down.
- (especially Southern England, also Australia, often plural, often in place names) A hill; in England, especially a chalk hill.
- (crosswording) A clue whose solution runs vertically in the grid.
- (botany) The pubescence of plants; the hairy crown or envelope of the seeds of certain plants, such as the thistle.
- Down payment.
- A downer, depressant.
- An act of swallowing an entire drink at once.
- fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs)
- soft fine feathers
- (usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil
- (American football) a complete play to advance the football
prep
- From one end to another of (in any direction); along.
- Towards the mouth of (a river); in the direction of flow of.
- (UK, Ireland) To (a given place that is seen as removed from one's present location or other point of reference).
- From north to south of.
- (UK, Ireland) At (a given place that is seen as removed from one's present location or other point of reference).
- From the higher end to the lower of.
verb
- (transitive, golf, pocket billiards) To sink (a ball) into a hole or pocket.
- (transitive) To knock (someone or something) down; to cause to come down; to fell.
- (transitive, colloquial) To drink or swallow, especially without stopping before the vessel containing the liquid is empty.
- (transitive) Specifically, to cause (something in the air) to fall to the ground; to bring down (with a missile etc.).
- (transitive, colloquial) To disparage; to put down.
- (transitive, American football, Canadian football) To render (the ball) dead, typically by touching the ground while in possession.
- (transitive, figurative) To defeat; to overpower.
- (transitive) To cover, ornament, line, or stuff with down.
- (transitive) To lower; to put (something) down.
- eat up completely, as with great appetite
- shoot at and force to come down
- improve or perfect by pruning or polishing
- bring down or defeat (an opponent)
- drink down entirely
- cause to come or go down
prefix
verb
- teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions
- introduce into the body through a vein, for therapeutic purposes
- let sit in a liquid to extract a flavor or to cleanse
- fill, as with a certain quality
- undergo the process of infusion
- (intransitive) To undergo infusion.
- (transitive) To inspire; to inspirit or animate; to fill (with).
- (transitive) To instill as a quality.
- (transitive) To steep in a liquid, so as to extract the soluble constituents (usually medicinal or herbal).
- (transitive) To cause to become an element of something; to insert or fill.
- (transitive) To make an infusion with (an ingredient); to tincture; to saturate.
verb
noun
- an imitation or repetition
- a reflected television or radio or radar beam
- a close parallel of a feeling, idea, style, etc.
- the repetition of a sound resulting from reflection of the sound waves
- a reply that repeats what has just been said
- (poetry) A device in verse in which a line ends with a word which recalls the sound of the last word of the preceding line.
- (figurative) An insignificant indirect result; a ripple.
- (computing) An individual discussion forum using the echomail system.
- (figurative) Something that reflects or hearkens back to an earlier thing.
- (whist, bridge) A signal, played in the same manner as a trump signal, made by a player who holds four or more trumps (or, as played by some, exactly three trumps) and whose partner has led trumps or signalled for trumps.
- An antisemitic punctuation symbol or marking, ((( ))), placed around a name or phrase to indicate the person is Jewish or the entity is controlled by Jewish people; or repurposed or reclaimed to proudly declare one's Jewishness or solidarity with Jews.
- (medicine, colloquial, uncountable) Clipping of echocardiography.
- (figurative) Sympathetic recognition; response; answer.
- An utterance repeating what has just been said.
- (computing) The displaying on the command line of the command that has just been executed.
- (medicine, colloquial, countable) Clipping of echocardiogram.
- (whist, bridge) A signal showing the number held of a plain suit when a high card in that suit is led by one's partner.
- (international standards) Alternative letter-case form of Echo from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
- A reflected sound that is heard again by its initial observer.
verb
- to say again or imitate
- ring or echo with sound
- bring to mind
- (transitive, figuratively) To repeat (another’s speech, opinion, etc.).
- (transitive) To reflect back (a sound).
- (intransitive, figuratively) Of a rumour, opinion, etc.: to spread or reverberate.
- (intransitive, whist, bridge) To give the echo signal, informing one's partner about cards one holds.
- (intransitive) Of a sound or sound waves: to reflect off a surface and return; to reverberate or resound.
- (computing, transitive) To repeat its input as input to some other device or system.
verb
adj
noun
noun
- An act or instance of rerunning; a repetition.
- (US) A television program shown after its initial presentation, particularly many weeks after its initial presentation; a repeat.
- (publishing) Another printing run (impression; batch of copies of a given edition) of a book, cartoon, etc.
- (politics) A political candidate who holds the same political agenda or doctrine as a past or incumbent holder of a given political office.
- (computing) A second or subsequent run of a computer program.
- a program that is broadcast again
verb
- (transitive) To run (a computer program) again.
- (transitive) To broadcast (a television program etc.) again.
- (intransitive) To be broadcast again.
- (transitive) To run again; to repeat.
- (transitive) To run (a race or other contest) again.
- cause to perform again
- run again for office
- rerun a performance of a play, for example
- broadcast again, as of a film
verb
adj
noun
- One that resembles or corresponds to another; an identical copy.
- (law) An original instrument repeated; a document which is the same as another in all essential particulars, and differing from a mere copy in having all the validity of an original
- (uncountable) The game of duplicate bridge.
- (uncountable) The game of duplicate Scrabble.
- A pawnbroker's ticket, which must be shown when redeeming a pledged item.
- (botany, zoology) A biological specimen that was gathered alongside another specimen and represents the same species.
- a copy that corresponds to an original exactly
- something additional of the same kind
verb
adj
noun
verb
verb
noun
- memorization by repetition
- (rare) The roar of the surf; the sound of waves breaking on the shore.
- (music) A kind of guitar, the notes of which were produced by a small wheel or wheel-like arrangement; an instrument similar to the hurdy-gurdy.
- Synonym of crowd.
- Mechanical routine; a fixed, habitual, repetitive, or mechanical course of procedure.
adj
verb
- learn by repetition
- teach by repetition
- (transitive) To repeat an idea frequently in order to encourage someone to remember it.
- train in the military, e.g., in the use of weapons
- make a hole, especially with a pointed power or hand tool
- undergo military training or do military exercises
- (intransitive) To practice, especially in (or as in) a military context.
- (transitive) To cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to drain by trickling.
- (transitive) To create (a hole) by removing material with a drill (tool).
- (intransitive, figurative) To investigate or examine something in more detail or at a different level
- (transitive) To sow (seeds) by dribbling them along a furrow or in a row.
- (baseball) To hit someone with a pitch, especially in an intentional context.
- (ergative) To cause to drill (practice); to train in military arts.
- (transitive) To throw, run, hit or kick with a lot of power.
- (slang) To shoot; to kill by shooting.
- (slang, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse with; to penetrate.
noun
- systematic training by multiple repetitions
- similar to the mandrill but smaller and less brightly colored
- (military) the training of soldiers to march (as in ceremonial parades) or to perform the manual of arms
- a tool with a sharp point and cutting edges for making holes in hard materials (usually rotating rapidly or by repeated blows)
- A row of seed sown in a furrow.
- (uncountable, music) A style of trap music with gritty, violent lyrics, originating on the South Side of Chicago.
- Any of several molluscs, of the genus Urosalpinx and others, especially the oyster drill (Urosalpinx cinerea), that make holes in the shells of their prey.
- An activity done as an exercise or practice (especially a military exercise), particularly in preparation for some possible future event or occurrence.
- An Old World monkey of West Africa, Mandrillus leucophaeus, similar in appearance to the mandrill, but lacking the colorful face.
- An agricultural implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes so formed as to contain seeds and drop them into the hole made.
- (countable, music) A single performance of drill music.
- A strong, durable cotton fabric with a strong bias (diagonal) in the weave.
- A tool or machine used to remove material so as to create a hole, typically by plunging a rotating cutting bit into a stationary workpiece.
- The portion of a drilling tool that drives the bit.
- A short and highly repeatable sports training exercise designed to hone a particular skill that may be useful in competition.
- A light furrow or channel made to put seed into, when sowing.
verb
- learn by repetition
- carry out or practice; as of jobs and professions
- do physical exercise
- put to use
- give a workout to
- (transitive) To use (a right, an option, etc.); to put into practice.
- (intransitive) To perform physical activity for health or training.
- (now often passive voice) To occupy the attention and effort of; to task; to tax, especially in a painful or vexatious manner; harass; to vex; to worry or make anxious.
- To exert for the sake of training or improvement; to practice in order to develop.
noun
- systematic training by multiple repetitions
- the act of using
- an action, often used negatively and without consequences
- the activity of exerting your muscles in various ways to keep fit
- (usually plural) a ceremony that involves processions and speeches
- a task performed or problem solved in order to develop skill or understanding
- The performance of an office, ceremony, or duty.
- (countable, uncountable) Activity intended to improve physical, or sometimes mental, strength and fitness.
- (countable) Any activity designed to develop or hone a skill or ability.
- A setting in action or practicing; employment in the proper mode of activity; exertion; application; use.
verb
noun
- systematic training by multiple repetitions
- Repetition of an activity to improve a skill.
- knowledge of how something is usually done
- the exercise of a profession
- a customary way of operation or behavior
- translating an idea into action
- Actual operation or experiment, in contrast to theory.
- Skilful or artful management; dexterity in contrivance or the use of means; stratagem; artifice.
- (countable) A place where a professional service is provided, such as a general practice.
- (mathematics) An easy and concise method of applying the rules of arithmetic to questions which occur in trade and business.
- An organized event for the purpose of performing such repetition.
- A customary action, habit, or behaviour; a manner or routine.
- The observance of religious duties that a church requires of its members.
- (law) The form, manner, and order of conducting and carrying on suits and prosecutions through their various stages, according to the principles of law and the rules laid down by the courts.
- (uncountable, especially medicine, art) The ongoing pursuit of a craft or profession, particularly in medicine or the fine arts.
noun
- systematic training by multiple repetitions
- a regularly scheduled session as part of a course of study
- a public instance of reciting or repeating (from memory) something prepared in advance
- written matter that is recited from memory
- A regularly scheduled class, in a school, in which discussion occurs of the material covered in a parallel lecture.
- A reiteration; a setting down, e.g. for ease of reference, of something previously established.
- (music) A part of a song's lyrics that is spoken rather than sung.
- The act of publicly reciting something previously memorized.
- The material recited.
noun
- The act of reciting (the repetition of something that has been memorized); rehearsal
- The act of telling the order of events of something in detail the order of events; narration.
- That which is recited; a story, narration, account.
- A vocal, instrumental or visual performance by a soloist.
- (law) A formal, preliminary statement in a deed or writing in order to explain the reasons on which the transaction is founded, prior to a positive allegation.
- performance of music or dance especially by soloists
- a detailed account or description of something
- a public instance of reciting or repeating (from memory) something prepared in advance
- the act of giving an account describing incidents or a course of events
noun
- An iteration; a repetition.
- A television program shown after its initial presentation; a rerun.
- (music) A mark in music notation directing a part to be repeated.
- (medicine, pharmacy) A refill of a prescription.
- (genetics, biochemistry) A pattern of nucleic acids that occur in multiple copies throughout a genome (or of amino acids in a protein).
- an event that repeats
verb
- to say again or imitate
- (intransitive) To happen again; recur.
- (law, Scotland) To repay or refund (an excess received).
- (transitive) To do or say again (and again).
- (procedure word, military) To call in a previous artillery fire mission with the same ammunition and method either on the coordinates or adjusted either because destruction of the target was insufficient or missed.
- To commit fraud in an election by voting more than once for the same candidate.
- (intransitive) To strike the hours, as a watch does.
- (transitive) To echo the words of (a person).
- (transitive, medicine, pharmacy) To refill (a prescription).
- repeat an earlier theme of a composition
- happen or occur again
- make or do or perform again
- to say, state, or perform again
- do over
noun
- an imitation or repetition
- a reflected television or radio or radar beam
- a close parallel of a feeling, idea, style, etc.
- the repetition of a sound resulting from reflection of the sound waves
- a reply that repeats what has just been said
- (poetry) A device in verse in which a line ends with a word which recalls the sound of the last word of the preceding line.
- (figurative) An insignificant indirect result; a ripple.
- (computing) An individual discussion forum using the echomail system.
- (figurative) Something that reflects or hearkens back to an earlier thing.
- (whist, bridge) A signal, played in the same manner as a trump signal, made by a player who holds four or more trumps (or, as played by some, exactly three trumps) and whose partner has led trumps or signalled for trumps.
- An antisemitic punctuation symbol or marking, ((( ))), placed around a name or phrase to indicate the person is Jewish or the entity is controlled by Jewish people; or repurposed or reclaimed to proudly declare one's Jewishness or solidarity with Jews.
- (medicine, colloquial, uncountable) Clipping of echocardiography.
- (figurative) Sympathetic recognition; response; answer.
- An utterance repeating what has just been said.
- (computing) The displaying on the command line of the command that has just been executed.
- (medicine, colloquial, countable) Clipping of echocardiogram.
- (whist, bridge) A signal showing the number held of a plain suit when a high card in that suit is led by one's partner.
- (international standards) Alternative letter-case form of Echo from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
- A reflected sound that is heard again by its initial observer.
verb
- to say again or imitate
- ring or echo with sound
- bring to mind
- (transitive, figuratively) To repeat (another’s speech, opinion, etc.).
- (transitive) To reflect back (a sound).
- (intransitive, figuratively) Of a rumour, opinion, etc.: to spread or reverberate.
- (intransitive, whist, bridge) To give the echo signal, informing one's partner about cards one holds.
- (intransitive) Of a sound or sound waves: to reflect off a surface and return; to reverberate or resound.
- (computing, transitive) To repeat its input as input to some other device or system.
noun
- An act or instance of rerunning; a repetition.
- (US) A television program shown after its initial presentation, particularly many weeks after its initial presentation; a repeat.
- (publishing) Another printing run (impression; batch of copies of a given edition) of a book, cartoon, etc.
- (politics) A political candidate who holds the same political agenda or doctrine as a past or incumbent holder of a given political office.
- (computing) A second or subsequent run of a computer program.
- a program that is broadcast again
verb
- (transitive) To run (a computer program) again.
- (transitive) To broadcast (a television program etc.) again.
- (intransitive) To be broadcast again.
- (transitive) To run again; to repeat.
- (transitive) To run (a race or other contest) again.
- cause to perform again
- run again for office
- rerun a performance of a play, for example
- broadcast again, as of a film
verb
- learn by repetition
- teach by repetition
- (transitive) To repeat an idea frequently in order to encourage someone to remember it.
- train in the military, e.g., in the use of weapons
- make a hole, especially with a pointed power or hand tool
- undergo military training or do military exercises
- (intransitive) To practice, especially in (or as in) a military context.
- (transitive) To cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to drain by trickling.
- (transitive) To create (a hole) by removing material with a drill (tool).
- (intransitive, figurative) To investigate or examine something in more detail or at a different level
- (transitive) To sow (seeds) by dribbling them along a furrow or in a row.
- (baseball) To hit someone with a pitch, especially in an intentional context.
- (ergative) To cause to drill (practice); to train in military arts.
- (transitive) To throw, run, hit or kick with a lot of power.
- (slang) To shoot; to kill by shooting.
- (slang, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse with; to penetrate.
noun
- systematic training by multiple repetitions
- similar to the mandrill but smaller and less brightly colored
- (military) the training of soldiers to march (as in ceremonial parades) or to perform the manual of arms
- a tool with a sharp point and cutting edges for making holes in hard materials (usually rotating rapidly or by repeated blows)
- A row of seed sown in a furrow.
- (uncountable, music) A style of trap music with gritty, violent lyrics, originating on the South Side of Chicago.
- Any of several molluscs, of the genus Urosalpinx and others, especially the oyster drill (Urosalpinx cinerea), that make holes in the shells of their prey.
- An activity done as an exercise or practice (especially a military exercise), particularly in preparation for some possible future event or occurrence.
- An Old World monkey of West Africa, Mandrillus leucophaeus, similar in appearance to the mandrill, but lacking the colorful face.
- An agricultural implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes so formed as to contain seeds and drop them into the hole made.
- (countable, music) A single performance of drill music.
- A strong, durable cotton fabric with a strong bias (diagonal) in the weave.
- A tool or machine used to remove material so as to create a hole, typically by plunging a rotating cutting bit into a stationary workpiece.
- The portion of a drilling tool that drives the bit.
- A short and highly repeatable sports training exercise designed to hone a particular skill that may be useful in competition.
- A light furrow or channel made to put seed into, when sowing.
verb
- learn by repetition
- carry out or practice; as of jobs and professions
- do physical exercise
- put to use
- give a workout to
- (transitive) To use (a right, an option, etc.); to put into practice.
- (intransitive) To perform physical activity for health or training.
- (now often passive voice) To occupy the attention and effort of; to task; to tax, especially in a painful or vexatious manner; harass; to vex; to worry or make anxious.
- To exert for the sake of training or improvement; to practice in order to develop.
noun
- systematic training by multiple repetitions
- the act of using
- an action, often used negatively and without consequences
- the activity of exerting your muscles in various ways to keep fit
- (usually plural) a ceremony that involves processions and speeches
- a task performed or problem solved in order to develop skill or understanding
- The performance of an office, ceremony, or duty.
- (countable, uncountable) Activity intended to improve physical, or sometimes mental, strength and fitness.
- (countable) Any activity designed to develop or hone a skill or ability.
- A setting in action or practicing; employment in the proper mode of activity; exertion; application; use.
verb
noun
- systematic training by multiple repetitions
- Repetition of an activity to improve a skill.
- knowledge of how something is usually done
- the exercise of a profession
- a customary way of operation or behavior
- translating an idea into action
- Actual operation or experiment, in contrast to theory.
- Skilful or artful management; dexterity in contrivance or the use of means; stratagem; artifice.
- (countable) A place where a professional service is provided, such as a general practice.
- (mathematics) An easy and concise method of applying the rules of arithmetic to questions which occur in trade and business.
- An organized event for the purpose of performing such repetition.
- A customary action, habit, or behaviour; a manner or routine.
- The observance of religious duties that a church requires of its members.
- (law) The form, manner, and order of conducting and carrying on suits and prosecutions through their various stages, according to the principles of law and the rules laid down by the courts.
- (uncountable, especially medicine, art) The ongoing pursuit of a craft or profession, particularly in medicine or the fine arts.
verb
- learn by repetition
- To teach or accustom by practice; to train.
- (transitive) To repeat (an activity) as a way of improving one's skill in that activity.
- (intransitive) To repeat an activity in this way.
- carry out or practice; as of jobs and professions
- engage in a rehearsal (of)
- To make use of; to employ.
- (transitive) To perform or observe in an habitual fashion.
- (transitive) To pursue (a career, especially law, fine art or medicine).
- To put into practice; to carry out; to act upon; to commit; to execute; to do.
noun
verb
noun
- memorization by repetition
- (rare) The roar of the surf; the sound of waves breaking on the shore.
- (music) A kind of guitar, the notes of which were produced by a small wheel or wheel-like arrangement; an instrument similar to the hurdy-gurdy.
- Synonym of crowd.
- Mechanical routine; a fixed, habitual, repetitive, or mechanical course of procedure.
adj
verb
- repeat after memorization
- (transitive, figurative, sometimes derogatory) To repeat (information) verbatim or by rote, typically after learning it without actual comprehension.
- pour or rush back
- eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth
- feed through the beak by regurgitating previously swallowed food
- (transitive) To cough up from the gut to feed its young, as an animal or bird does.
- (intransitive) To be thrown or poured back; to rush or surge back.
- (transitive) To throw up or vomit; to eject what has previously been swallowed.
noun
verb
- repeat after memorization
- have offspring or produce more individuals of a given animal or plant
- make a copy or equivalent of
- recreate a sound, image, idea, mood, atmosphere, etc.
- (transitive) To bring something to mind; to recall.
- (transitive) To produce an image or copy of.
- (transitive) To produce again; to recreate.
- (transitive or intransitive, biology) To generate or propagate offspring or organisms sexually or asexually.
verb
- recite or repeat a fixed text
- express a supposition
- speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way
- give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority
- have or contain a certain wording or form
- indicate
- state as one's opinion or judgement; declare
- report or maintain
- utter aloud
- express in words
- communicate or express nonverbally
- (transitive) To indicate in a written form.
- (informal, imperative, transitive) Suppose, assume; used to mark an example, supposition or hypothesis.
- (intransitive) To speak; to express an opinion; to make answer; to reply.
- (transitive, informal, of a possession, especially money) To bet as a wager on an outcome; by extension, used to express belief in an outcome by the speaker.
- (transitive) To pronounce.
- (transitive) To recite.
- (transitive) To tell, either verbally or in writing.
- To try; to assay.
- (impersonal, transitive) To have a common expression; used in singular passive voice or plural active voice to indicate a rumor or well-known fact.
noun
adv
intj
verb
- repeat aloud from memory
- narrate or give a detailed account of
- render verbally
- recite in elocution
- specify individually
- (intransitive) To deliver a recitation.
- (transitive) To list or enumerate something.
- Alternative spelling of re-cite (which is the preferred spelling, to avoid needless homography).
- (transitive) To repeat aloud (some passage, poem or other text previously memorized, or in front of one's eyes), often before an audience.
verb
- To recite, especially items on a list.
- To flee or depart quickly.
- (idiomatic) To write something quickly.
- To have diarrhea.
- (transitive) To steal (horses).
- (idiomatic) To make photocopies, or print.
- To operate by a particular energy or fuel source.
- To cause to flow away.
- To chase someone away.
- (of a liquid) To pour or spill off or over.
- decide (a contest or competition) by a runoff
- run away secretly with one's beloved
- force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings
- leave suddenly and as if in a hurry
- run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along
- run off as waste
- reproduce by xerography
verb
- To instill through repetitive teaching.
- (transitive) To reduce to smaller pieces by crushing with lateral motion.
- (sports, intransitive) To slide the flat portion of a skateboard or snowboard across an obstacle such as a railing.
- (slang, Hawaii) To eat.
- (slang) To dance in a sexually suggestive way with both partners in very close proximity, often pressed against each other.
- To produce mechanically and repetitively as if by turning a crank.
- (slang) To rub one's body against another's in a sexual way; to frottage.
- To move with much difficulty or friction; to grate.
- (transitive) To shape with the force of friction.
- (metalworking) To remove material by rubbing with an abrasive surface.
- (transitive) To operate by turning a crank.
- (video games) To repeat a task a large number of times in a row to achieve a specific goal.
- (intransitive, slang) To work or study hard; to hustle or drudge.
- (transitive, slang) To annoy or irritate (a person); to grind one's gears.
- (intransitive) To become ground, pulverized, or polished by friction.
- (transitive) To oppress, hold down or weaken.
- (slang, intransitive) To rotate the hips erotically.
- make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together
- reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading
- press or grind with a crushing noise
- created by grinding
- dance by rotating the pelvis in an erotically suggestive way, often while in contact with one's partner such that the dancers' legs are interlaced
- work hard
- shape or form by grinding
noun
- A specific degree of pulverization of coffee beans.
- A grinding trick on a skateboard or snowboard.
- (uncountable, slang) Hustle; hard work.
- A traditional communal pilot whale hunt in the Faroe Islands.
- Something that has been reduced to powder, something that has been ground.
- (uncountable, music) Clipping of grindcore (“subgenre of heavy metal”).
- A tedious and laborious task.
- The act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by friction.
- an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious
- the act of grinding to a powder or dust
- the grade of particle fineness to which a substance is ground
- hard monotonous routine work
verb
noun
- A taking by way of retaliation.
- A recurrence or resumption of an action.
- (music) A repetition of a phrase, a return to an earlier theme, or a second rendition or version of a song in a programme or musical.
- (construction) In masonry, the return of a moulding in an internal angle.
- (law, in the plural) Deductions and duties paid yearly out of a manor and lands, as rent charge, pensions, annuities, etc.; also spelled reprizes.
- A ship recaptured from an enemy or from a pirate.
- (fencing) A renewal of a failed attack, after going back into the en garde position.
verb
- (transitive) To refine (a skill especially) by learning.
- (UK, US, Southern US, dialect, intransitive) To grumble.
- (transitive) To use a hone to produce a precision bore.
- (UK, US, Southern US, dialect) To pine, lament, or long.
- To make more acute, intense, or effective.
- (transitive) To sharpen with a hone; to whet.
- sharpen with a hone
- make perfect or complete
intj
noun
- A kind of swelling in the cheek.
- A machine tool used in the manufacture of precision bores.
- A sharpening stone composed of extra-fine grit used for removing the burr or curl from the blade of a razor or some other edge tool.
- a tool consisting of a number of fine abrasive slips held in a machine head, rotated and reciprocated to impart a smooth finish to cylinder bores, etc.
- a whetstone made of fine gritstone; used for sharpening razors
verb
- To memorize; to put something into memory.
- To keep in mind; to be mindful of.
- (intransitive) To engage in the process of recalling memories.
- (transitive) To give (a person) money as a token of appreciation of past service or friendship.
- To recall from one's memory; to have an image in one's memory.
- To not forget (to do something required)
- (rare) Alternative form of re-member.
- To convey greetings from.
- (transitive) To commemorate, to have a remembrance ceremony.
- recapture the past; indulge in memories
- mention as by way of greeting or to indicate friendship
- show appreciation to
- exercise, or have the power of, memory
- mention favorably, as in prayer
- call to remembrance; keep alive the memory of someone or something, as in a ceremony
- recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection
- keep in mind for attention or consideration
verb
- (transitive) To repeat, as what has been already said; to tell over again; to recite.
- (ambitransitive) To practise by recitation or repetition in private for experiment and improvement, prior to a public representation, especially in theater.
- (transitive) To narrate; to relate; to tell; to recount.
- To contrive and carefully prepare (a story, etc.) to offer consistency.
- (transitive, theater) To cause to rehearse; to instruct by rehearsal.
- engage in a rehearsal (of)
verb
- instill (into a person) by constant repetition
- make a resonant sound, like artillery
- (intransitive) To make a din, to resound.
- (transitive) To assail (a person, the ears) with loud noise.
- (intransitive) (of a place) To be filled with sound, to resound.
- (transitive) To repeat (something) continuously, as though to the point of deafening or exhausting somebody, or (sometimes particularly) to impress or instill (it, into someone).
noun
verb
- teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions
- introduce into the body through a vein, for therapeutic purposes
- let sit in a liquid to extract a flavor or to cleanse
- fill, as with a certain quality
- undergo the process of infusion
- (intransitive) To undergo infusion.
- (transitive) To inspire; to inspirit or animate; to fill (with).
- (transitive) To instill as a quality.
- (transitive) To steep in a liquid, so as to extract the soluble constituents (usually medicinal or herbal).
- (transitive) To cause to become an element of something; to insert or fill.
- (transitive) To make an infusion with (an ingredient); to tincture; to saturate.
verb
verb
adj
noun
verb
adj
noun
- One that resembles or corresponds to another; an identical copy.
- (law) An original instrument repeated; a document which is the same as another in all essential particulars, and differing from a mere copy in having all the validity of an original
- (uncountable) The game of duplicate bridge.
- (uncountable) The game of duplicate Scrabble.
- A pawnbroker's ticket, which must be shown when redeeming a pledged item.
- (botany, zoology) A biological specimen that was gathered alongside another specimen and represents the same species.
- a copy that corresponds to an original exactly
- something additional of the same kind
verb
adj
noun
verb
noun
- An iteration; a repetition.
- A television program shown after its initial presentation; a rerun.
- (music) A mark in music notation directing a part to be repeated.
- (medicine, pharmacy) A refill of a prescription.
- (genetics, biochemistry) A pattern of nucleic acids that occur in multiple copies throughout a genome (or of amino acids in a protein).
- an event that repeats
verb
- to say again or imitate
- (intransitive) To happen again; recur.
- (law, Scotland) To repay or refund (an excess received).
- (transitive) To do or say again (and again).
- (procedure word, military) To call in a previous artillery fire mission with the same ammunition and method either on the coordinates or adjusted either because destruction of the target was insufficient or missed.
- To commit fraud in an election by voting more than once for the same candidate.
- (intransitive) To strike the hours, as a watch does.
- (transitive) To echo the words of (a person).
- (transitive, medicine, pharmacy) To refill (a prescription).
- repeat an earlier theme of a composition
- happen or occur again
- make or do or perform again
- to say, state, or perform again
- do over
noun
- an imitation or repetition
- a reflected television or radio or radar beam
- a close parallel of a feeling, idea, style, etc.
- the repetition of a sound resulting from reflection of the sound waves
- a reply that repeats what has just been said
- (poetry) A device in verse in which a line ends with a word which recalls the sound of the last word of the preceding line.
- (figurative) An insignificant indirect result; a ripple.
- (computing) An individual discussion forum using the echomail system.
- (figurative) Something that reflects or hearkens back to an earlier thing.
- (whist, bridge) A signal, played in the same manner as a trump signal, made by a player who holds four or more trumps (or, as played by some, exactly three trumps) and whose partner has led trumps or signalled for trumps.
- An antisemitic punctuation symbol or marking, ((( ))), placed around a name or phrase to indicate the person is Jewish or the entity is controlled by Jewish people; or repurposed or reclaimed to proudly declare one's Jewishness or solidarity with Jews.
- (medicine, colloquial, uncountable) Clipping of echocardiography.
- (figurative) Sympathetic recognition; response; answer.
- An utterance repeating what has just been said.
- (computing) The displaying on the command line of the command that has just been executed.
- (medicine, colloquial, countable) Clipping of echocardiogram.
- (whist, bridge) A signal showing the number held of a plain suit when a high card in that suit is led by one's partner.
- (international standards) Alternative letter-case form of Echo from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
- A reflected sound that is heard again by its initial observer.
verb
- to say again or imitate
- ring or echo with sound
- bring to mind
- (transitive, figuratively) To repeat (another’s speech, opinion, etc.).
- (transitive) To reflect back (a sound).
- (intransitive, figuratively) Of a rumour, opinion, etc.: to spread or reverberate.
- (intransitive, whist, bridge) To give the echo signal, informing one's partner about cards one holds.
- (intransitive) Of a sound or sound waves: to reflect off a surface and return; to reverberate or resound.
- (computing, transitive) To repeat its input as input to some other device or system.
verb
noun
- memorization by repetition
- (rare) The roar of the surf; the sound of waves breaking on the shore.
- (music) A kind of guitar, the notes of which were produced by a small wheel or wheel-like arrangement; an instrument similar to the hurdy-gurdy.
- Synonym of crowd.
- Mechanical routine; a fixed, habitual, repetitive, or mechanical course of procedure.
adj
adj
- (education) Appropriate for learning through repeated practice (drill).
- Suitable for being drilled through.
- (agriculture) Suitable for being applied using a seed drill.
- (computing, education, media studies) Supporting a drilldown action in which one can discover more details about a topic or text.
- (robotics) Having an arm or manipulator that can position the tool or attachment at the end in different orientations.
adj
- Thoroughly practiced, learned or memorised; mastered. (Compare down pat.)
- (baseball, cricket, colloquial, following the noun modified) Out.
- (not comparable, military, law enforcement, slang, of a person) Wounded and unable to move normally, or killed.
- (not comparable) Inoperable; out of order; out of service.
- Having a lower score than an opponent.
- (veterinary medicine, of a cow) Stranded in a recumbent position; unable to stand.
- (rail transport, of a train) Travelling in the direction leading away from the principal terminus, away from milepost zero.
- Finished (of a task); defeated or dealt with (of an opponent or obstacle); elapsed (of time). Often coupled with to go (remaining).
- (normally in the combination 'down with') Sick or ill.
- (informal) Sad, unhappy, depressed, feeling low.
- (slang) In prison.
- (of a tree, limb, etc) Fallen or felled.
- At a lower level than before.
- (colloquial, with "on") Negative about; hostile to.
- (Canada, US, slang) Comfortable [with]; accepting [of]; okay [with].
- Facing downwards.
- (not comparable, military, aviation, slang, of an aircraft) Mechanically failed, collided, shot down, or otherwise suddenly unable to fly.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang) Accepted, respected, or loyally participating in the (thug) community.
- being put out in a game of baseball
- lower than previously
- extending or moving from a higher to a lower place
- filled with melancholy and despondency
- understood perfectly
- becoming progressively lower
- shut
- not functioning (temporarily or permanently)
- being or moving lower in position or less in some value
adv
- At or towards any place that is visualised as 'down' by virtue of local features or local convention, or arbitrarily, irrespective of direction or elevation change.
- Away from the city (regardless of direction).
- (crosswords, in relation to a numbered clued word) In a downwards direction; vertically.
- To the south (as south is at the bottom of typical maps).
- (sentence substitute, imperative) Get down.
- Forward, straight ahead.
- On paper (or in a durable record).
- To a subordinate or less prestigious position or rank.
- So as to be cowed into silence.
- Into a state of non-operation.
- (comparable) From a higher position to a lower one; downwards.
- From less to greater detail.
- Used with verbs to indicate that the action of the verb was carried to some state of completion, permanence, or success rather than being of indefinite duration.
- (comparable) At a lower or further place or position along a set path.
- To or towards what is considered the bottom of something, irrespective of whether this is presently physically lower.
- So as to lessen quantity, level or intensity.
- (sports) Towards the opponent's side (in ball-sports).
- From a remoter or higher antiquity.
- (rail transport) In the direction leading away from the principal terminus, away from milepost zero.
- As a down payment.
- So as to reduce size, weight or volume.
- So as to secure or compress something to the floor, ground, or other (usually horizontal) surface.
- away from a more central or a more northerly place
- from an earlier time
- in an inactive or inoperative state
- to a lower intensity
- spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position
- paid in cash at time of purchase
noun
- Soft, fluffy immature feathers which grow on young birds. Used as insulating material in duvets, sleeping bags and jackets.
- The lightest quark with a charge number of −¹⁄₃.
- (usually in the plural) A field, especially one used for horse racing.
- (UK, chiefly in the plural) A tract of poor, sandy, undulating or hilly land near the sea, covered with fine turf which serves chiefly for the grazing of sheep.
- (gambling) The shift or period of time during which a dealer manages a given table before rotating to the next table at a casino or cardroom, which is often 30 minutes.
- (American football) A single play, from the time the ball is snapped (the start) to the time the whistle is blown (the end) when the ball is down, or is downed.
- A downstairs room of a two-story house.
- The soft hair of the face when beginning to appear.
- A negative aspect; a downer, a downside.
- That which is made of down, as a bed or pillow; that which affords ease and repose, like a bed of down.
- (especially Southern England, also Australia, often plural, often in place names) A hill; in England, especially a chalk hill.
- (crosswording) A clue whose solution runs vertically in the grid.
- (botany) The pubescence of plants; the hairy crown or envelope of the seeds of certain plants, such as the thistle.
- Down payment.
- A downer, depressant.
- An act of swallowing an entire drink at once.
- fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs)
- soft fine feathers
- (usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil
- (American football) a complete play to advance the football
prep
- From one end to another of (in any direction); along.
- Towards the mouth of (a river); in the direction of flow of.
- (UK, Ireland) To (a given place that is seen as removed from one's present location or other point of reference).
- From north to south of.
- (UK, Ireland) At (a given place that is seen as removed from one's present location or other point of reference).
- From the higher end to the lower of.
verb
- (transitive, golf, pocket billiards) To sink (a ball) into a hole or pocket.
- (transitive) To knock (someone or something) down; to cause to come down; to fell.
- (transitive, colloquial) To drink or swallow, especially without stopping before the vessel containing the liquid is empty.
- (transitive) Specifically, to cause (something in the air) to fall to the ground; to bring down (with a missile etc.).
- (transitive, colloquial) To disparage; to put down.
- (transitive, American football, Canadian football) To render (the ball) dead, typically by touching the ground while in possession.
- (transitive, figurative) To defeat; to overpower.
- (transitive) To cover, ornament, line, or stuff with down.
- (transitive) To lower; to put (something) down.
- eat up completely, as with great appetite
- shoot at and force to come down
- improve or perfect by pruning or polishing
- bring down or defeat (an opponent)
- drink down entirely
- cause to come or go down