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verb
verb
noun
- A concave surface or curve.
- (gambling) A playing card made concave for use in cheating.
- (surfing) An indentation running along the base of a surfboard, intended to increase lift.
- (skateboarding) An indented area on the top of a skateboard, providing a position for foot placement and increasing board strength.
- (manufacturing) An element of a curved grid used to separate desirable material from tailings or chaff in mining and harvesting.
- The vault of the sky.
- One of the celestial spheres of the Ptolemaic or geocentric model of the world.
adj
- (geometry, not comparable, of a polygon) Not convex; having at least one internal angle greater than 180 degrees.
- Curved like the inner surface of a sphere or bowl.
- Hollow; empty.
- (functional analysis, not comparable, of a real-valued function on the reals) Satisfying the property that all segments connecting two points on the function's graph lie below the function.
- curving inward
verb
- make concave; shape like a dish
- provide (usually but not necessarily food)
- (transitive) To put in a dish or dishes; serve, usually food.
- (informal, slang) To gossip; to relay information about the personal situation of another.
- (transitive) To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish.
- (slang) To insult, speak ill of.
noun
- the quantity that a dish will hold
- a piece of dishware normally used as a container for holding or serving food
- an activity that you like or at which you are superior
- directional antenna consisting of a parabolic reflector for microwave or radio frequency radiation
- a very attractive or seductive looking woman
- a particular item of prepared food
- (baseball, slang) The home plate.
- A hollow place, as in a field.
- (in the plural) Tableware (including cutlery, etc, as well as crockery) that is to be or is being washed after being used to prepare, serve and eat a meal.
- A vessel such as a plate for holding or serving food, often flat with a depressed region in the middle.
- (slang) A sexually attractive person.
- (slang, uncountable) Gossip.
- The contents of such a vessel.
- (telecommunications) A type of antenna with a similar shape to a plate or bowl.
- (metonymic) A specific type of prepared food.
adj
noun
- a hollow concave shape made by removing something
- a local region of low pressure or descending air that causes a plane to lose height suddenly
- a supply of money
- an opening at the corner or on the side of a billiard table into which billiard balls are struck
- a small pouch inside a garment for carrying small articles
- (bowling) the space between the headpin and the pins behind it on the right or left
- an enclosed space
- a small isolated group of people
- (anatomy) saclike structure in any of various animals (as a marsupial or gopher or pelican)
- An enclosed volume of one substance surrounded by another.
- The pouch of an animal.
- (Australia) An area of land surrounded by a loop of a river.
- (sports, billiards, pool, snooker) An indention and cavity with a net sack or similar structure (into which the balls are to be struck) at each corner and one centered on each side of a pool or snooker table.
- A large bag or sack formerly used for packing various articles, such as ginger, hops, or cowries; the pocket of wool held about 168 pounds.
- (rugby) The position held by a second defensive middle, where an advanced middle must retreat after making a touch on the attacking middle.
- (mining) A cavity in a rock containing a nugget of gold, or other mineral; a small body of ore contained in such a cavity.
- (dentistry) A small space between a tooth and the adjoining gum, formed by an abnormal separation of the two.
- (surfing) The unbroken part of a wave that offers the surfer the most power.
- A socket for receiving the base of a post, stake, etc.
- (American football) The area behind the line of scrimmage subject to certain rules regarding intentional grounding, illegal contact, etc., formally extending to the end zone but more usually understood as the central area around the quarterback directly protected by the offensive line.
- (military) An area where military units are completely surrounded by enemy units.
- (architecture) A hole or space covered by a movable piece of board, as in a floor, boxing, partitions, etc.
- A small, isolated group or area.
- A bight on a lee shore.
- (nautical) A strip of canvas sewn upon a sail so that a batten or a light spar can placed in the interspace.
- (Australian rules football) The area of the field to the side of the goal posts (four pockets in total on the field, one to each side of the goals at each end of the ground). The pocket is only a roughly defined area, extending from the behind post, at an angle, to perhaps about 30 meters out.
- (by extension) A person's financial resources.
- (bowling) The ideal point where the pins are hit by the bowling ball.
- (music) A state achieved with steady, enjoyable drumming.
- (clothing) A bag stitched to an item of clothing, used for carrying small items.
verb
adj
noun
- a hollow concave shape made by removing something
- street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate
- a news report that is reported first by one news organization
- the quantity a scoop will hold
- a large ladle
- the shovel or bucket of a dredge or backhoe
- Any cup-shaped or bowl-shaped tool, usually with a handle, used to lift and move loose or soft solid material.
- (surfing) The raised end of a surfboard.
- (automotive) An opening in a hood/bonnet or other body panel to admit air, usually for cooling the engine.
- (pinball) A hole on the playfield that catches a ball, but eventually returns it to play in one way or another.
- A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.
- A spoon-shaped surgical instrument, used in extracting certain substances or foreign bodies.
- The act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shovelling.
- A story or fact; especially, news learned and reported before anyone else.
- A special spinal board used by emergency medical service staff that divides laterally to scoop up patients.
- (music) A note that begins slightly below and slides up to the target pitch.
- (film, television) A kind of floodlight with a reflector.
- A place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow.
- The digging attachment on a front-end loader.
- The amount or volume of loose or solid material held by a particular scoop.
- (Scotland) The peak of a cap.
verb
- take out or up with or as if with a scoop
- get the better of
- (music, often with "up") To begin a vocal note slightly below the target pitch and then to slide up to the target pitch, especially in country music.
- (transitive) To lift, move, or collect with a scoop or as though with a scoop.
- (MTE, slang) To pick (someone) up
- (poker slang) To win the entire pot in a hand in which the pot was split.
- (transitive) To make hollow; to dig out.
- (transitive) To report on something, especially something worthy of a news article, before (someone else).
noun
- a small concavity
- the intersection of two streets
- a projecting part where two sides or edges meet
- the point where two lines meet or intersect
- a temporary monopoly on a kind of commercial trade
- (architecture) solid exterior angle of a building; especially one formed by a cornerstone
- a remote area
- a place off to the side of an area
- the point where three areas or surfaces meet or intersect
- an interior angle formed by two meeting walls
- a predicament from which a skillful or graceful escape is impossible
- (baseball) One of the four vertices of the strike zone.
- (business, finance) A sufficient interest in a salable security or commodity to allow the cornering party to influence prices.
- (soccer) A corner kick.
- (baseball) First base or third base.
- (boxing, by extension) The group of people who assist a boxer during a bout.
- The point where two converging lines meet; an angle, either external or internal.
- An intersection of two streets; any of the four outer points off the street at that intersection.
- One who corns, or preserves food in salt.
- (American football) A cornerback.
- (boxing) The corner of the ring, which is where the boxer rests before and during a fight.
- (figuratively) Complete control or ownership of something.
- A secret or secluded place; a remote or out of the way place; a nook.
- A place where people meet for a particular purpose.
- An embarrassing situation; a difficulty.
- The projection into space of an angle in a solid object.
- (attributive) Denoting a premises that is in a convenient local location, notionally, but not necessarily literally, on the corner of two streets.
- (Maine) The neighborhood surrounding an intersection of rural roads.
- The space in the angle between converging lines or walls which meet in a point.
- An edge or extremity; the part farthest from the center; hence, any quarter or part, or the direction in which it lies.
verb
- force a person or an animal into a position from which they cannot escape
- turn a corner
- gain control over
- (automotive, transitive) To turn a corner or drive around a curve.
- (transitive) To put (someone) in an awkward situation.
- (finance, business, transitive) To get sufficient command of (a stock, commodity, etc.), so as to be able to manipulate its price.
- (transitive) To supply with corners.
- (automotive, intransitive) To handle while moving around a corner in a road or otherwise turning.
- (transitive) To drive (someone or something) into a corner or other confined space.
- (transitive) To trap in a position of great difficulty or hopeless embarrassment.
intj
noun
- a small concavity
- an enclosure that is set back or indented
- a position particularly well suited to the person who or organization which occupies it
- (ecology) the status of an organism within its environment and community (affecting its survival as a species)
- Specifically, a cremation niche; a columbarium.
- (Islam) An arrow woven into a prayer rug pointing in the direction of qibla.
- (architecture) A cavity, hollow, or recess, generally within the thickness of a wall, for a statue, bust, or other erect ornament.
- (ecology) A function within an ecological system to which an organism is especially suited.
- Any similar position, literal or figurative.
- (by extension) Any position of opportunity for which one is well-suited, such as a particular market in business.
adj
verb
noun
- a small concavity
- an enclosure that is set back or indented
- an arm off of a larger body of water (often between rocky headlands)
- a state of abeyance or suspended business
- a pause from doing something (as work)
- (government) A period of time when the proceedings of a committee, court of law, parliament, or other official body are temporarily suspended.
- (countable, historical) A decree or resolution of the diet of the Holy Roman Empire or the Hanseatic League.
- (Australia, British, Canada, US, Philippines, education) A time away from studying during the school day for a meal or recreation.
- (countable, geology) An overall-concave, reentrant section of a sinuous fold and thrust belt, thrust sheet, or a single thrust fault, caused by one or more of: deformation (folding and faulting) of strata and geologic structures during orogenesis, differences in the angle of critical taper during orogenesis, or differing erosional level of the present geomorphological surface.
- (countable) A hidden, innermost, or inaccessible place or part of a place.
- (figuratively, usually in the plural) An obscure, remote, or secret situation.
- (countable) A depressed, hollow, or indented space; also, a hole or opening.
- (criminal slang, usually in the plural) The place in a prison where the communal lavatories are located.
- (countable) A temporary stoppage of an activity; a break, a pause.
- (architecture) A small space created by building part of a wall further back from the rest; a niche.
- (countable, anatomy) An extension or outpouching of a cavity (e.g. articular recess, peritoneal recess,...)
verb
- put into a recess
- make a recess in
- close at the end of a session
- To position (something) a distance behind another thing; to set back.
- To temporarily suspend (a meeting, the proceedings of an official body, etc.).
- (also reflexive) Often preceded by in or into: to inset (something) into a recess or niche.
- To make a recess (noun noun sense 1 and noun sense 1.1) in (something).
- (figuratively) To conceal, to hide.
- Of an official body: to suspend proceedings for a period of time.
- Of a meeting, the proceedings of an official body, etc.: to adjourn, to take a break.
- (informal) To make a recess appointment in respect of (someone).
noun
- a small concavity
- the state of the economy declines; a widespread decline in the GDP and employment and trade lasting from six months to a year
- the act of ceding back
- the act of becoming more distant
- the withdrawal of the clergy and choir from the chancel to the vestry at the end of a church service
- A period of low temperatures that causes a reduction in species; ice age.
- (surgery) A procedure in which an extraocular muscle is detached from the globe of the eye and reattached posteriorly.
- The act or an instance of receding or withdrawing.
- (economics) A period of reduced economic activity.
- The act of ceding something back.
- The ceremonial filing out of clergy and/or choir at the end of a church service.
noun
verb
noun
- (architecture) a concave molding
- formal permission to depart
- a Chinese rice gruel eaten for breakfast
- an abrupt and unceremonious dismissal
- Leave, formal permission for some action, (originally and particularly):
- (Asian cooking) A type of thick rice porridge or soup, sometimes prepared with vegetables and/or meat.
verb
noun
- any cup-shaped concavity
- the hole (or metal container in the hole) on a golf green
- cup-shaped plant organ
- a punch served in a pitcher instead of a punch bowl
- a small open container usually used for drinking; usually has a handle
- a large metal vessel with two handles that is awarded as a trophy to the winner of a competition
- a United States liquid unit equal to 8 fluid ounces
- the quantity a cup will hold
- (medicine, historical) A cupping glass or other vessel or instrument used to produce the vacuum in cupping.
- (mathematics) The symbol ∪ denoting union and similar operations.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A metric unit of measure equal to 250 mL.
- A concave vessel for drinking, usually made of opaque material (as opposed to a glass) and with a handle.
- (US) A US unit of liquid measure equal to 8 fluid ounces (¹⁄₁₆ of a US gallon; 236.5882365 mL) or 240 mL.
- Prefixed with a letter, used as a measurement of bra or breast size.
- The contents of said vessel.
- (in combination) Any of various sweetened alcoholic drinks.
- A container in which dice are held and shaken before being thrown.
- (golf) A cup-shaped object placed in the target hole.
- (soccer) The main knockout tournament in a country, organised alongside the league.
- (figurative) That which is to be received or indured; that which is allotted to one; a portion of blessings and afflictions.
- (tarot) A suit of the minor arcana in tarot, or one of the cards from the suit.
- Anything shaped like a cup.
- (Canada) A Canadian unit of measure equal to 8 imperial ounces (¹⁄₂₀ imperial gallon; 227.3 mL) or 250 mL.
- A flexible concave membrane used to temporarily attach a handle or hook to a flat surface by means of suction.
- (ultimate frisbee) A defensive style characterized by a three player near defense cupping the thrower; or those three players.
- A trophy in the shape of an oversized cup.
- A contest for which a cup is awarded.
- (US, Canada) A rigid concave protective covering for the male genitalia.
- One of the two parts of a brassiere which each cover a breast.
verb
- treat by applying evacuated cups to the patient's skin
- form into the shape of a cup
- put into a cup
- (transitive, engineering) To make concave or in the form of a cup.
- (transitive) To form into the shape of a cup, particularly of the hands.
- (transitive) To hold something in cupped hands.
- (transitive) To pour (a liquid, drink, etc.) into a cup.
noun
- a concave shape with an open top
- the act of rolling something (as the ball in bowling)
- a large ball with finger holes used in the sport of bowling
- a small round container that is open at the top for holding tobacco
- a large structure for open-air sports or entertainments
- the quantity contained in a bowl
- a round vessel that is open at the top; used chiefly for holding grains or liquids
- a dish that is round and open at the top for serving foods
- a wooden ball (with flattened sides so that it rolls on a curved course) used in the game of lawn bowling
- The part of a spoon that holds content, as opposed to the handle.
- The round hollow part of anything.
- (bowls) The ball rolled by players in the game of lawn bowls.
- (sports, theater) An elliptical-shaped stadium or amphitheater resembling a bowl.
- A roughly hemispherical container used to hold, mix or present food, such as salad, fruit or soup, or other items.
- The quantity of burnable content to be consumed in a pipe or bong.
- (geography) A round crater (or similar) in the ground.
- A haircut in which straight hair is cut at an even height around the edges, forming a bowl shape.
- (sports) The action of bowling a ball.
- (American football) A postseason football competition, a bowl game (i.e. Rose Bowl, Super Bowl)
- (cooking) A dish comprising a mix of different foods, not all of which need be cooked, served in a bowl.
- Part of a pipe, bong, or other smoking implement that holds the material to be burned.
- As much as is held by a bowl.
- (typography) A rounded portion of a glyph that encloses empty space, as in the letters d and o.
verb
- roll (a ball)
- hurl a cricket ball from one end of the pitch towards the batsman at the other end
- engage in the sport of bowling
- To pelt or strike with anything rolled.
- (intransitive) To play bowling or a similar game.
- To roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels.
- (intransitive) To throw the ball (in cricket and similar games and sports).
- (transitive) To roll or throw (a ball) in the correct manner in cricket and similar games and sports.
noun
- a concave shape with an open top
- a treasury for government funds
- a narrow depression (as in the earth or between ocean waves or in the ocean bed)
- a channel along the eaves or on the roof; collects and carries away rainwater
- a long narrow shallow receptacle
- a container (usually in a barn or stable) from which cattle or horses feed
- (meteorology) A linear atmospheric depression associated with a weather front.
- (colloquial) An undivided metal urinal (plumbing fixture)
- (agriculture, Australia, New Zealand) A channel for conveying water or other farm liquids (such as milk) from place to place by gravity; any ‘U’ or ‘V’ cross-sectioned irrigation channel.
- A long, narrow depression between waves or ridges; the low portion of a wave cycle.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A rectangular container used for washing or rinsing clothes.
- A long, narrow container, open on top, for feeding or watering animals.
- Any similarly shaped container.
- (Canada) A gutter under the eaves of a building; an eaves trough.
- A short, narrow canal designed to hold water until it drains or evaporates.
- (economics) A low turning point or a local minimum of a business cycle.
verb
verb
noun
verb
- To put together with a seam.
- To make the appearance of a seam in, as in knitting a stocking; hence, to knit with a certain stitch, like that in such knitting.
- To crack open along a seam.
- To mark with a seam or line; to scar.
- (cricket) Of a bowler, to make the ball move thus.
- (cricket) Of the ball, to move sideways after bouncing on the seam.
- put together with a seam
noun
- (cricket) The stitched equatorial seam of a cricket ball; the sideways movement of a ball when it bounces on the seam.
- (historical) An old English measure of grain, containing eight bushels.
- (historical) An old English measure of glass, containing twenty-four weys of five pounds, or 120 pounds.
- (geology) A thin stratum, especially of an economically viable material such as coal or mineral.
- A suture.
- (figurative) A line of junction; a joint.
- A line or depression left by a cut or wound; a scar; a cicatrix.
- (construction, nautical) A joint formed by mating two separate sections of materials.
- (sewing) A folded-back and stitched piece of fabric; especially, the stitching that joins two or more pieces of fabric.
- a slight depression or fold in the smoothness of a surface
- a stratum of ore or coal thick enough to be mined with profit
- joint consisting of a line formed by joining two pieces
noun
- a concave shape whose distinguishing characteristic is that the concavity faces downward
- a hemispherical roof
- informal terms for a human head
- a stadium that has a roof
- (geology) A geological feature consisting of symmetrical anticlines that intersect where each one reaches its apex.
- (informal) A person's head.
- (by extension) Any erection resembling the dome or cupola of a building, such as the upper part of a furnace, the vertical steam chamber on the top of a boiler, etc.
- (by extension) Anything shaped like an upset bowl, often used as a cover.
- (architecture) A structural element resembling the hollow upper half of a sphere.
- (crystallography) A prism formed by planes parallel to a lateral axis which meet above in a horizontal edge, like the roof of a house; also, one of the planes of such a form.
- (sewing) A press stud or snap fastener.
- (slang) head, oral sex
verb
verb
- make full of cavities, like a honeycomb
- penetrate thoroughly and into every part
- carve a honeycomb pattern into
- To decorate (something) with a honeycomb pattern.
- (figurative, chiefly passive voice) To make way deeply into (something) so as to weaken it; to undermine.
- To riddle (something) with small holes, especially in a pattern resembling a honeycomb (noun noun sense 1); also, to cause (something) to become hollow or weakened in this way.
- To bore cavities or tunnels inside (something).
- (architecture) To ornament (a ceiling) with honeycomb work (see noun noun sense 2.4).
noun
- a structure of small hexagonal cells constructed from beeswax by bees and used to store honey and larvae
- a framework of hexagonal cells resembling the honeycomb built by bees
- (uncountable, chiefly Australia, British, often attributive) A crumbly confection usually made by boiling together golden syrup, sugar, bicarbonate of soda, and water.
- The texture of the surface of a solar cell, intended to increase its surface area and capture more sunlight.
- (countable, geometry) A space-filling packing of polytopes in three- or higher-dimensional space.
- (uncountable, architecture) Ellipsis of honeycomb work (“especially in Moorish architecture: a form of ceiling ornamentation (especially of an arch or dome) made up of small vaulted arches”).
- (countable, by extension) Something resembling honeycomb (noun sense 1) in having numerous cells or small holes.
- (chiefly aviation) Material manufactured with small hollow cells, sometimes sandwiched between two flat sheets, which is used to make light, stiff structural components.
- (uncountable) A substance made by bees (clade Anthophila) primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells to hold their larvae, and for storing pollen and honey to feed the larvae and themselves when other food is scarce; it is also eaten by humans as part of comb-honey; (countable) a single sheet made up of two layers of this substance.
- (countable, figurative) Something resembling honeycomb in sweetness; hence, something desirable or pleasant.
- (countable, zoology) Ellipsis of honeycomb stomach (“the reticulum or second compartment of the stomach of a cow or other ruminant”).
verb
- fill tightly with a material
- treat with grease, fill, and prepare for mounting
- overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself
- press or force
- fill with a stuffing while cooking
- obstruct
- cram into a cavity
- (transitive, mildly vulgar, often imperative) Used to contemptuously dismiss or reject something. See also stuff it.
- (transitive) To load goods into (a container) for transport.
- (transitive, British, Australia, New Zealand) To break; to destroy.
- To preserve a dead bird or other animal by filling its skin.
- (transitive) To obstruct, as any of the organs; to affect with some obstruction in the organs of sense or respiration.
- (informal) To heavily defeat or get the better of.
- (transitive, cooking) To fill with seasoning.
- (transitive) To fill by packing or crowding something into; to cram with something; to load to excess.
- (transitive, computing) To compress (a file or files) in the StuffIt format, to be unstuffed later.
- (pronominal) To eat, especially in a hearty or greedy manner.
- (transitive) To cut off another competitor in a race by disturbing his projected and committed racing line (trajectory) by an abrupt manoeuvre.
- (transitive) To form or fashion by packing with the necessary material.
- (transitive) To fill a space with (something) in a compressed manner.
- (transitive, vulgar, British, Australia, New Zealand) To sexually penetrate.
- (transitive, used in the passive) To sate.
noun
- the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object
- unspecified qualities required to do or be something
- a critically important or characteristic component
- informal terms for personal possessions
- information in some unspecified form
- senseless talk
- miscellaneous unspecified objects
- (informal) Unspecified things or matters.
- The tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object.
- (informal) Miscellaneous items or objects; (with possessive) personal effects.
- Abstract/figurative substance or character.
- (informal) Used as placeholder, usually for material of unknown type or name.
- (slang) Narcotic drugs, especially heroin.
- (nautical) A melted mass of turpentine, tallow, etc., with which the masts, sides, and bottom of a ship are smeared for lubrication.
- (sometimes euphemistic) Refuse or worthless matter; hence, also, foolish or irrational language.
- Paper stock ground ready for use. When partly ground, it is called half stuff.
noun
- (architecture) A concave moulding; a cavetto.
- (heraldry, usually in the plural) A whirlpool used as a heraldic charge.
- (US) A choking or filling of a channel or passage by an obstruction; the obstruction itself.
- (geography) A deep, narrow passage with steep, rocky sides, particularly one with a stream running through it; a ravine.
- (botany) The throat of a flower.
- An act of gorging.
- (architecture, military, fortification) The rearward side of an outwork, a bastion, or a fort, often open, or not protected against artillery; a narrow entry passage into the outwork of an enclosed fortification.
- (mechanical engineering) The groove of a pulley.
- (fishing) A primitive device used instead of a hook to catch fish, consisting of an object that is easy to swallow but difficult to eject or loosen, such as a piece of bone or stone pointed at each end and attached in the middle to a line.
- Food that has been taken into the gullet or the stomach, particularly if it is regurgitated or vomited out.
- the passage between the pharynx and the stomach
- a deep ravine (usually with a river running through it)
- a narrow pass (especially one between mountains)
adj
verb
- (transitive) To fill up to the throat; to glut, to satiate.
- (transitive) To fill up (an organ, a vein, etc.); to block up or obstruct; (US, specifically) of ice: to choke or fill a channel or passage, causing an obstruction.
- (intransitive, reflexive) To stuff the gorge or gullet with food; to eat greedily and in large quantities. [with on]
- (transitive) To swallow, especially with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.
- overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself
noun
- a concavity in a surface produced by pressing
- a sunken or depressed geological formation
- sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy
- an air mass of lower pressure; often brings precipitation
- a mental state characterized by a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity
- a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment
- angular distance below the horizon (especially of a celestial object)
- pushing down
- a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention
- (psychology, usually uncountable) A state of mind producing serious, long-term lowering of enjoyment of life or inability to visualize a happy future; any of several mental disorders with this state of mind as a central feature.
- (geography) An area that is lower in topography than its surroundings.
- (economics) A period of major economic contraction.
- The act of lowering or pressing something down.
- (economics) Four consecutive quarters of negative, real GDP growth (for example, this operational definition is used by the US NBER and many other writers).
- (meteorology) An area of lowered air pressure that generally brings moist weather, sometimes promoting hurricanes and tornadoes.
- (biology, physiology) A lowering, in particular a reduction in a particular biological variable or the function of an organ, in contrast to elevation.
- (psychology, countable) A period of low morale or unhappiness (a period of experiencing the above-mentioned state of mind) which lasts longer than several weeks and may include ideation of self-inflicted injury or suicide.
noun
- a concavity in a surface produced by pressing
- a vague idea in which some confidence is placed
- all the copies of a work printed at one time
- (dentistry) an imprint of the teeth and gums in wax or plaster
- the act of pressing one thing on or into the surface of another
- a symbol that is the result of printing or engraving
- an impressionistic portrayal of a person
- a clear and telling mental image
- an outward appearance
- An outward appearance.
- An impersonation, an imitation of the mannerisms of another individual.
- A vague recalling of an event, a belief.
- (painting) The first coat of colour, such as the priming in house-painting etc.
- (printing) set of copies of a publication printed at one time having the same content, layout, pagination, etc.
- (engraving) A print on paper from a wood block, metal plate, etc.
- The overall effect of something, e.g., on a person.
- (philosophy) The vivid perception of something as it is experienced, in contrast to ideas or thoughts drawn from memory or the imagination.
- The indentation or depression made by the pressure of one object on or into another.
- (Internet) A performance metric representing an instance where a post or ad is shown once.
verb
noun
- a concavity in a surface produced by pressing
- a distinctive influence
- an identification of a publisher; a publisher's name along with the date and address and edition that is printed at the bottom of the title page
- a device produced by pressure on a surface
- an impression produced by pressure or printing
- A distinctive marking, symbol or logo.
- An impression; the mark left behind by printing something.
- The name and details of a publisher or printer, as printed in a book etc.; a publishing house.
verb
- mark or stamp with or as if with pressure
- establish or impress firmly in the mind
- To mark a gene as being from a particular parent so that only one of the two copies of the gene is expressed.
- To learn something indelibly at a particular stage of life, such as who one's parents are.
- To leave a print, impression, image, etc.
verb
- enclose with a sheath
- plunge or bury (a knife or sword) in flesh
- cover with a protective sheathing
- (transitive) Of an animal: to draw back or retract (a body part) into the body, such as claws into a paw.
- (transitive) To put (something such as a knife or sword) into a sheath.
- (transitive) To encase (something) with a protective covering.
verb
noun
- (crystallography) A regular spacing or arrangement of geometric points, often decorated with a motif.
- (mathematics, order theory) A partially ordered set in which every pair of elements has a unique supremum and a unique infimum.
- (music) A model of the tuning relationships of a just intonation system, comprising an array of points in a periodic multidimensional pattern.
- (topology, Lie theory, generalizing noun sense 5.1) A discrete subgroup L of a given locally compact group G whose quotient space G/L has finite invariant measure.
- (heraldry) A bearing with vertical and horizontal bands that cross each other.
- A flat panel constructed with widely-spaced crossed thin strips of wood or other material, commonly used as a garden trellis.
- (group theory) A discrete subgroup of Rⁿ which is isomorphic to Zⁿ (considered as an additive group) and which spans the real vector space Rⁿ.
- (algebra, ring theory, generalizing noun sense 5.1, with respect to a vector space V over a field F which is the field of fractions of an integral domain R in F) A finitely generated R-submodule of V which spans V over F. (In this case the submodule is called an R-lattice).
- an arrangement of points or particles or objects in a regular periodic pattern in 2 or 3 dimensions
- framework consisting of an ornamental design made of strips of wood or metal
- small opening (like a window in a door) through which business can be transacted
noun
- a fixed reference point on the concave side of a conic section
- maximum clarity or distinctness of an image rendered by an optical system
- a point of convergence of light (or other radiation) or a point from which it diverges
- special emphasis attached to something
- maximum clarity or distinctness of an idea
- a central point or locus of an infection in an organism
- the concentration of attention or energy on something
- (countable, seismology) The exact point of where an earthquake occurs, in three dimensions (underneath the epicentre).
- (countable, optics) A point at which reflected or refracted rays of light converge.
- (ichthyology) The centre of an older fish's scale, which is the point where a younger fish's scale starts to grow from.
- (countable, geometry) A point of a conic at which rays reflected from a curve or surface converge.
- (countable) Something to which activity, attention or interest is primarily directed.
- (linguistics) The most important word or phrase in a sentence or passage, or the one that imparts information.
- An object used in casting a magic spell.
- (uncountable, photography, cinematography) The quality of the convergence of light on the photographic medium.
- (graphical user interface) The status of being the currently active element in a user interface, often indicated by a visual highlight.
- (uncountable) Concentration of attention.
- (uncountable, photography, cinematography) The fact of the convergence of light on the photographic medium.
verb
- put (an image) into focus
- direct one's attention on something
- bring into focus or alignment; to converge or cause to converge; of ideas or emotions
- cause to converge on or toward a central point
- become focussed or come into focus
- (transitive, optics) To adjust (a lens, an optical instrument) in order to position an image with respect to the focal plane.
- (computing, graphical user interface, transitive) To transfer the input focus to (a visual element), so that it receives subsequent input.
- (transitive) To cause (rays of light, etc) to converge at a single point.
- (transitive) To direct attention, effort, or energy to a particular audience or task.
- (intransitive) To concentrate one’s attention.
- (accounting, formerly) To aggregate figures of accounts.
- (intransitive, optics, of a lens, optical instrument, etc.) To adjust itself or be adjusted such that light from a scene converges appropriately to create a clear image.
- (intransitive, followed by on or upon) To concentrate one's attention on something; to have as one's central point of interest, concern, etc.
verb
noun
- a hollow concave shape made by removing something
- a local region of low pressure or descending air that causes a plane to lose height suddenly
- a supply of money
- an opening at the corner or on the side of a billiard table into which billiard balls are struck
- a small pouch inside a garment for carrying small articles
- (bowling) the space between the headpin and the pins behind it on the right or left
- an enclosed space
- a small isolated group of people
- (anatomy) saclike structure in any of various animals (as a marsupial or gopher or pelican)
- An enclosed volume of one substance surrounded by another.
- The pouch of an animal.
- (Australia) An area of land surrounded by a loop of a river.
- (sports, billiards, pool, snooker) An indention and cavity with a net sack or similar structure (into which the balls are to be struck) at each corner and one centered on each side of a pool or snooker table.
- A large bag or sack formerly used for packing various articles, such as ginger, hops, or cowries; the pocket of wool held about 168 pounds.
- (rugby) The position held by a second defensive middle, where an advanced middle must retreat after making a touch on the attacking middle.
- (mining) A cavity in a rock containing a nugget of gold, or other mineral; a small body of ore contained in such a cavity.
- (dentistry) A small space between a tooth and the adjoining gum, formed by an abnormal separation of the two.
- (surfing) The unbroken part of a wave that offers the surfer the most power.
- A socket for receiving the base of a post, stake, etc.
- (American football) The area behind the line of scrimmage subject to certain rules regarding intentional grounding, illegal contact, etc., formally extending to the end zone but more usually understood as the central area around the quarterback directly protected by the offensive line.
- (military) An area where military units are completely surrounded by enemy units.
- (architecture) A hole or space covered by a movable piece of board, as in a floor, boxing, partitions, etc.
- A small, isolated group or area.
- A bight on a lee shore.
- (nautical) A strip of canvas sewn upon a sail so that a batten or a light spar can placed in the interspace.
- (Australian rules football) The area of the field to the side of the goal posts (four pockets in total on the field, one to each side of the goals at each end of the ground). The pocket is only a roughly defined area, extending from the behind post, at an angle, to perhaps about 30 meters out.
- (by extension) A person's financial resources.
- (bowling) The ideal point where the pins are hit by the bowling ball.
- (music) A state achieved with steady, enjoyable drumming.
- (clothing) A bag stitched to an item of clothing, used for carrying small items.
verb
adj
noun
- a hollow concave shape made by removing something
- street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate
- a news report that is reported first by one news organization
- the quantity a scoop will hold
- a large ladle
- the shovel or bucket of a dredge or backhoe
- Any cup-shaped or bowl-shaped tool, usually with a handle, used to lift and move loose or soft solid material.
- (surfing) The raised end of a surfboard.
- (automotive) An opening in a hood/bonnet or other body panel to admit air, usually for cooling the engine.
- (pinball) A hole on the playfield that catches a ball, but eventually returns it to play in one way or another.
- A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.
- A spoon-shaped surgical instrument, used in extracting certain substances or foreign bodies.
- The act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shovelling.
- A story or fact; especially, news learned and reported before anyone else.
- A special spinal board used by emergency medical service staff that divides laterally to scoop up patients.
- (music) A note that begins slightly below and slides up to the target pitch.
- (film, television) A kind of floodlight with a reflector.
- A place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow.
- The digging attachment on a front-end loader.
- The amount or volume of loose or solid material held by a particular scoop.
- (Scotland) The peak of a cap.
verb
- take out or up with or as if with a scoop
- get the better of
- (music, often with "up") To begin a vocal note slightly below the target pitch and then to slide up to the target pitch, especially in country music.
- (transitive) To lift, move, or collect with a scoop or as though with a scoop.
- (MTE, slang) To pick (someone) up
- (poker slang) To win the entire pot in a hand in which the pot was split.
- (transitive) To make hollow; to dig out.
- (transitive) To report on something, especially something worthy of a news article, before (someone else).
noun
- a small concavity
- the intersection of two streets
- a projecting part where two sides or edges meet
- the point where two lines meet or intersect
- a temporary monopoly on a kind of commercial trade
- (architecture) solid exterior angle of a building; especially one formed by a cornerstone
- a remote area
- a place off to the side of an area
- the point where three areas or surfaces meet or intersect
- an interior angle formed by two meeting walls
- a predicament from which a skillful or graceful escape is impossible
- (baseball) One of the four vertices of the strike zone.
- (business, finance) A sufficient interest in a salable security or commodity to allow the cornering party to influence prices.
- (soccer) A corner kick.
- (baseball) First base or third base.
- (boxing, by extension) The group of people who assist a boxer during a bout.
- The point where two converging lines meet; an angle, either external or internal.
- An intersection of two streets; any of the four outer points off the street at that intersection.
- One who corns, or preserves food in salt.
- (American football) A cornerback.
- (boxing) The corner of the ring, which is where the boxer rests before and during a fight.
- (figuratively) Complete control or ownership of something.
- A secret or secluded place; a remote or out of the way place; a nook.
- A place where people meet for a particular purpose.
- An embarrassing situation; a difficulty.
- The projection into space of an angle in a solid object.
- (attributive) Denoting a premises that is in a convenient local location, notionally, but not necessarily literally, on the corner of two streets.
- (Maine) The neighborhood surrounding an intersection of rural roads.
- The space in the angle between converging lines or walls which meet in a point.
- An edge or extremity; the part farthest from the center; hence, any quarter or part, or the direction in which it lies.
verb
- force a person or an animal into a position from which they cannot escape
- turn a corner
- gain control over
- (automotive, transitive) To turn a corner or drive around a curve.
- (transitive) To put (someone) in an awkward situation.
- (finance, business, transitive) To get sufficient command of (a stock, commodity, etc.), so as to be able to manipulate its price.
- (transitive) To supply with corners.
- (automotive, intransitive) To handle while moving around a corner in a road or otherwise turning.
- (transitive) To drive (someone or something) into a corner or other confined space.
- (transitive) To trap in a position of great difficulty or hopeless embarrassment.
intj
noun
- a small concavity
- an enclosure that is set back or indented
- a position particularly well suited to the person who or organization which occupies it
- (ecology) the status of an organism within its environment and community (affecting its survival as a species)
- Specifically, a cremation niche; a columbarium.
- (Islam) An arrow woven into a prayer rug pointing in the direction of qibla.
- (architecture) A cavity, hollow, or recess, generally within the thickness of a wall, for a statue, bust, or other erect ornament.
- (ecology) A function within an ecological system to which an organism is especially suited.
- Any similar position, literal or figurative.
- (by extension) Any position of opportunity for which one is well-suited, such as a particular market in business.
adj
verb
noun
- a small concavity
- an enclosure that is set back or indented
- an arm off of a larger body of water (often between rocky headlands)
- a state of abeyance or suspended business
- a pause from doing something (as work)
- (government) A period of time when the proceedings of a committee, court of law, parliament, or other official body are temporarily suspended.
- (countable, historical) A decree or resolution of the diet of the Holy Roman Empire or the Hanseatic League.
- (Australia, British, Canada, US, Philippines, education) A time away from studying during the school day for a meal or recreation.
- (countable, geology) An overall-concave, reentrant section of a sinuous fold and thrust belt, thrust sheet, or a single thrust fault, caused by one or more of: deformation (folding and faulting) of strata and geologic structures during orogenesis, differences in the angle of critical taper during orogenesis, or differing erosional level of the present geomorphological surface.
- (countable) A hidden, innermost, or inaccessible place or part of a place.
- (figuratively, usually in the plural) An obscure, remote, or secret situation.
- (countable) A depressed, hollow, or indented space; also, a hole or opening.
- (criminal slang, usually in the plural) The place in a prison where the communal lavatories are located.
- (countable) A temporary stoppage of an activity; a break, a pause.
- (architecture) A small space created by building part of a wall further back from the rest; a niche.
- (countable, anatomy) An extension or outpouching of a cavity (e.g. articular recess, peritoneal recess,...)
verb
- put into a recess
- make a recess in
- close at the end of a session
- To position (something) a distance behind another thing; to set back.
- To temporarily suspend (a meeting, the proceedings of an official body, etc.).
- (also reflexive) Often preceded by in or into: to inset (something) into a recess or niche.
- To make a recess (noun noun sense 1 and noun sense 1.1) in (something).
- (figuratively) To conceal, to hide.
- Of an official body: to suspend proceedings for a period of time.
- Of a meeting, the proceedings of an official body, etc.: to adjourn, to take a break.
- (informal) To make a recess appointment in respect of (someone).
noun
- a small concavity
- the state of the economy declines; a widespread decline in the GDP and employment and trade lasting from six months to a year
- the act of ceding back
- the act of becoming more distant
- the withdrawal of the clergy and choir from the chancel to the vestry at the end of a church service
- A period of low temperatures that causes a reduction in species; ice age.
- (surgery) A procedure in which an extraocular muscle is detached from the globe of the eye and reattached posteriorly.
- The act or an instance of receding or withdrawing.
- (economics) A period of reduced economic activity.
- The act of ceding something back.
- The ceremonial filing out of clergy and/or choir at the end of a church service.
noun
verb
noun
- (architecture) a concave molding
- formal permission to depart
- a Chinese rice gruel eaten for breakfast
- an abrupt and unceremonious dismissal
- Leave, formal permission for some action, (originally and particularly):
- (Asian cooking) A type of thick rice porridge or soup, sometimes prepared with vegetables and/or meat.
verb
verb
noun
- A concave surface or curve.
- (gambling) A playing card made concave for use in cheating.
- (surfing) An indentation running along the base of a surfboard, intended to increase lift.
- (skateboarding) An indented area on the top of a skateboard, providing a position for foot placement and increasing board strength.
- (manufacturing) An element of a curved grid used to separate desirable material from tailings or chaff in mining and harvesting.
- The vault of the sky.
- One of the celestial spheres of the Ptolemaic or geocentric model of the world.
adj
- (geometry, not comparable, of a polygon) Not convex; having at least one internal angle greater than 180 degrees.
- Curved like the inner surface of a sphere or bowl.
- Hollow; empty.
- (functional analysis, not comparable, of a real-valued function on the reals) Satisfying the property that all segments connecting two points on the function's graph lie below the function.
- curving inward
noun
- any cup-shaped concavity
- the hole (or metal container in the hole) on a golf green
- cup-shaped plant organ
- a punch served in a pitcher instead of a punch bowl
- a small open container usually used for drinking; usually has a handle
- a large metal vessel with two handles that is awarded as a trophy to the winner of a competition
- a United States liquid unit equal to 8 fluid ounces
- the quantity a cup will hold
- (medicine, historical) A cupping glass or other vessel or instrument used to produce the vacuum in cupping.
- (mathematics) The symbol ∪ denoting union and similar operations.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A metric unit of measure equal to 250 mL.
- A concave vessel for drinking, usually made of opaque material (as opposed to a glass) and with a handle.
- (US) A US unit of liquid measure equal to 8 fluid ounces (¹⁄₁₆ of a US gallon; 236.5882365 mL) or 240 mL.
- Prefixed with a letter, used as a measurement of bra or breast size.
- The contents of said vessel.
- (in combination) Any of various sweetened alcoholic drinks.
- A container in which dice are held and shaken before being thrown.
- (golf) A cup-shaped object placed in the target hole.
- (soccer) The main knockout tournament in a country, organised alongside the league.
- (figurative) That which is to be received or indured; that which is allotted to one; a portion of blessings and afflictions.
- (tarot) A suit of the minor arcana in tarot, or one of the cards from the suit.
- Anything shaped like a cup.
- (Canada) A Canadian unit of measure equal to 8 imperial ounces (¹⁄₂₀ imperial gallon; 227.3 mL) or 250 mL.
- A flexible concave membrane used to temporarily attach a handle or hook to a flat surface by means of suction.
- (ultimate frisbee) A defensive style characterized by a three player near defense cupping the thrower; or those three players.
- A trophy in the shape of an oversized cup.
- A contest for which a cup is awarded.
- (US, Canada) A rigid concave protective covering for the male genitalia.
- One of the two parts of a brassiere which each cover a breast.
verb
- treat by applying evacuated cups to the patient's skin
- form into the shape of a cup
- put into a cup
- (transitive, engineering) To make concave or in the form of a cup.
- (transitive) To form into the shape of a cup, particularly of the hands.
- (transitive) To hold something in cupped hands.
- (transitive) To pour (a liquid, drink, etc.) into a cup.
noun
- a concave shape with an open top
- the act of rolling something (as the ball in bowling)
- a large ball with finger holes used in the sport of bowling
- a small round container that is open at the top for holding tobacco
- a large structure for open-air sports or entertainments
- the quantity contained in a bowl
- a round vessel that is open at the top; used chiefly for holding grains or liquids
- a dish that is round and open at the top for serving foods
- a wooden ball (with flattened sides so that it rolls on a curved course) used in the game of lawn bowling
- The part of a spoon that holds content, as opposed to the handle.
- The round hollow part of anything.
- (bowls) The ball rolled by players in the game of lawn bowls.
- (sports, theater) An elliptical-shaped stadium or amphitheater resembling a bowl.
- A roughly hemispherical container used to hold, mix or present food, such as salad, fruit or soup, or other items.
- The quantity of burnable content to be consumed in a pipe or bong.
- (geography) A round crater (or similar) in the ground.
- A haircut in which straight hair is cut at an even height around the edges, forming a bowl shape.
- (sports) The action of bowling a ball.
- (American football) A postseason football competition, a bowl game (i.e. Rose Bowl, Super Bowl)
- (cooking) A dish comprising a mix of different foods, not all of which need be cooked, served in a bowl.
- Part of a pipe, bong, or other smoking implement that holds the material to be burned.
- As much as is held by a bowl.
- (typography) A rounded portion of a glyph that encloses empty space, as in the letters d and o.
verb
- roll (a ball)
- hurl a cricket ball from one end of the pitch towards the batsman at the other end
- engage in the sport of bowling
- To pelt or strike with anything rolled.
- (intransitive) To play bowling or a similar game.
- To roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels.
- (intransitive) To throw the ball (in cricket and similar games and sports).
- (transitive) To roll or throw (a ball) in the correct manner in cricket and similar games and sports.
noun
- a concave shape with an open top
- a treasury for government funds
- a narrow depression (as in the earth or between ocean waves or in the ocean bed)
- a channel along the eaves or on the roof; collects and carries away rainwater
- a long narrow shallow receptacle
- a container (usually in a barn or stable) from which cattle or horses feed
- (meteorology) A linear atmospheric depression associated with a weather front.
- (colloquial) An undivided metal urinal (plumbing fixture)
- (agriculture, Australia, New Zealand) A channel for conveying water or other farm liquids (such as milk) from place to place by gravity; any ‘U’ or ‘V’ cross-sectioned irrigation channel.
- A long, narrow depression between waves or ridges; the low portion of a wave cycle.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A rectangular container used for washing or rinsing clothes.
- A long, narrow container, open on top, for feeding or watering animals.
- Any similarly shaped container.
- (Canada) A gutter under the eaves of a building; an eaves trough.
- A short, narrow canal designed to hold water until it drains or evaporates.
- (economics) A low turning point or a local minimum of a business cycle.
verb
noun
- a concave shape whose distinguishing characteristic is that the concavity faces downward
- a hemispherical roof
- informal terms for a human head
- a stadium that has a roof
- (geology) A geological feature consisting of symmetrical anticlines that intersect where each one reaches its apex.
- (informal) A person's head.
- (by extension) Any erection resembling the dome or cupola of a building, such as the upper part of a furnace, the vertical steam chamber on the top of a boiler, etc.
- (by extension) Anything shaped like an upset bowl, often used as a cover.
- (architecture) A structural element resembling the hollow upper half of a sphere.
- (crystallography) A prism formed by planes parallel to a lateral axis which meet above in a horizontal edge, like the roof of a house; also, one of the planes of such a form.
- (sewing) A press stud or snap fastener.
- (slang) head, oral sex
verb
noun
- (architecture) A concave moulding; a cavetto.
- (heraldry, usually in the plural) A whirlpool used as a heraldic charge.
- (US) A choking or filling of a channel or passage by an obstruction; the obstruction itself.
- (geography) A deep, narrow passage with steep, rocky sides, particularly one with a stream running through it; a ravine.
- (botany) The throat of a flower.
- An act of gorging.
- (architecture, military, fortification) The rearward side of an outwork, a bastion, or a fort, often open, or not protected against artillery; a narrow entry passage into the outwork of an enclosed fortification.
- (mechanical engineering) The groove of a pulley.
- (fishing) A primitive device used instead of a hook to catch fish, consisting of an object that is easy to swallow but difficult to eject or loosen, such as a piece of bone or stone pointed at each end and attached in the middle to a line.
- Food that has been taken into the gullet or the stomach, particularly if it is regurgitated or vomited out.
- the passage between the pharynx and the stomach
- a deep ravine (usually with a river running through it)
- a narrow pass (especially one between mountains)
adj
verb
- (transitive) To fill up to the throat; to glut, to satiate.
- (transitive) To fill up (an organ, a vein, etc.); to block up or obstruct; (US, specifically) of ice: to choke or fill a channel or passage, causing an obstruction.
- (intransitive, reflexive) To stuff the gorge or gullet with food; to eat greedily and in large quantities. [with on]
- (transitive) To swallow, especially with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.
- overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself
noun
- a concavity in a surface produced by pressing
- a sunken or depressed geological formation
- sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy
- an air mass of lower pressure; often brings precipitation
- a mental state characterized by a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity
- a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment
- angular distance below the horizon (especially of a celestial object)
- pushing down
- a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention
- (psychology, usually uncountable) A state of mind producing serious, long-term lowering of enjoyment of life or inability to visualize a happy future; any of several mental disorders with this state of mind as a central feature.
- (geography) An area that is lower in topography than its surroundings.
- (economics) A period of major economic contraction.
- The act of lowering or pressing something down.
- (economics) Four consecutive quarters of negative, real GDP growth (for example, this operational definition is used by the US NBER and many other writers).
- (meteorology) An area of lowered air pressure that generally brings moist weather, sometimes promoting hurricanes and tornadoes.
- (biology, physiology) A lowering, in particular a reduction in a particular biological variable or the function of an organ, in contrast to elevation.
- (psychology, countable) A period of low morale or unhappiness (a period of experiencing the above-mentioned state of mind) which lasts longer than several weeks and may include ideation of self-inflicted injury or suicide.
noun
- a concavity in a surface produced by pressing
- a vague idea in which some confidence is placed
- all the copies of a work printed at one time
- (dentistry) an imprint of the teeth and gums in wax or plaster
- the act of pressing one thing on or into the surface of another
- a symbol that is the result of printing or engraving
- an impressionistic portrayal of a person
- a clear and telling mental image
- an outward appearance
- An outward appearance.
- An impersonation, an imitation of the mannerisms of another individual.
- A vague recalling of an event, a belief.
- (painting) The first coat of colour, such as the priming in house-painting etc.
- (printing) set of copies of a publication printed at one time having the same content, layout, pagination, etc.
- (engraving) A print on paper from a wood block, metal plate, etc.
- The overall effect of something, e.g., on a person.
- (philosophy) The vivid perception of something as it is experienced, in contrast to ideas or thoughts drawn from memory or the imagination.
- The indentation or depression made by the pressure of one object on or into another.
- (Internet) A performance metric representing an instance where a post or ad is shown once.
verb
noun
- a concavity in a surface produced by pressing
- a distinctive influence
- an identification of a publisher; a publisher's name along with the date and address and edition that is printed at the bottom of the title page
- a device produced by pressure on a surface
- an impression produced by pressure or printing
- A distinctive marking, symbol or logo.
- An impression; the mark left behind by printing something.
- The name and details of a publisher or printer, as printed in a book etc.; a publishing house.
verb
- mark or stamp with or as if with pressure
- establish or impress firmly in the mind
- To mark a gene as being from a particular parent so that only one of the two copies of the gene is expressed.
- To learn something indelibly at a particular stage of life, such as who one's parents are.
- To leave a print, impression, image, etc.
noun
- a fixed reference point on the concave side of a conic section
- maximum clarity or distinctness of an image rendered by an optical system
- a point of convergence of light (or other radiation) or a point from which it diverges
- special emphasis attached to something
- maximum clarity or distinctness of an idea
- a central point or locus of an infection in an organism
- the concentration of attention or energy on something
- (countable, seismology) The exact point of where an earthquake occurs, in three dimensions (underneath the epicentre).
- (countable, optics) A point at which reflected or refracted rays of light converge.
- (ichthyology) The centre of an older fish's scale, which is the point where a younger fish's scale starts to grow from.
- (countable, geometry) A point of a conic at which rays reflected from a curve or surface converge.
- (countable) Something to which activity, attention or interest is primarily directed.
- (linguistics) The most important word or phrase in a sentence or passage, or the one that imparts information.
- An object used in casting a magic spell.
- (uncountable, photography, cinematography) The quality of the convergence of light on the photographic medium.
- (graphical user interface) The status of being the currently active element in a user interface, often indicated by a visual highlight.
- (uncountable) Concentration of attention.
- (uncountable, photography, cinematography) The fact of the convergence of light on the photographic medium.
verb
- put (an image) into focus
- direct one's attention on something
- bring into focus or alignment; to converge or cause to converge; of ideas or emotions
- cause to converge on or toward a central point
- become focussed or come into focus
- (transitive, optics) To adjust (a lens, an optical instrument) in order to position an image with respect to the focal plane.
- (computing, graphical user interface, transitive) To transfer the input focus to (a visual element), so that it receives subsequent input.
- (transitive) To cause (rays of light, etc) to converge at a single point.
- (transitive) To direct attention, effort, or energy to a particular audience or task.
- (intransitive) To concentrate one’s attention.
- (accounting, formerly) To aggregate figures of accounts.
- (intransitive, optics, of a lens, optical instrument, etc.) To adjust itself or be adjusted such that light from a scene converges appropriately to create a clear image.
- (intransitive, followed by on or upon) To concentrate one's attention on something; to have as one's central point of interest, concern, etc.
verb
verb
noun
- A concave surface or curve.
- (gambling) A playing card made concave for use in cheating.
- (surfing) An indentation running along the base of a surfboard, intended to increase lift.
- (skateboarding) An indented area on the top of a skateboard, providing a position for foot placement and increasing board strength.
- (manufacturing) An element of a curved grid used to separate desirable material from tailings or chaff in mining and harvesting.
- The vault of the sky.
- One of the celestial spheres of the Ptolemaic or geocentric model of the world.
adj
- (geometry, not comparable, of a polygon) Not convex; having at least one internal angle greater than 180 degrees.
- Curved like the inner surface of a sphere or bowl.
- Hollow; empty.
- (functional analysis, not comparable, of a real-valued function on the reals) Satisfying the property that all segments connecting two points on the function's graph lie below the function.
- curving inward
verb
- make concave; shape like a dish
- provide (usually but not necessarily food)
- (transitive) To put in a dish or dishes; serve, usually food.
- (informal, slang) To gossip; to relay information about the personal situation of another.
- (transitive) To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish.
- (slang) To insult, speak ill of.
noun
- the quantity that a dish will hold
- a piece of dishware normally used as a container for holding or serving food
- an activity that you like or at which you are superior
- directional antenna consisting of a parabolic reflector for microwave or radio frequency radiation
- a very attractive or seductive looking woman
- a particular item of prepared food
- (baseball, slang) The home plate.
- A hollow place, as in a field.
- (in the plural) Tableware (including cutlery, etc, as well as crockery) that is to be or is being washed after being used to prepare, serve and eat a meal.
- A vessel such as a plate for holding or serving food, often flat with a depressed region in the middle.
- (slang) A sexually attractive person.
- (slang, uncountable) Gossip.
- The contents of such a vessel.
- (telecommunications) A type of antenna with a similar shape to a plate or bowl.
- (metonymic) A specific type of prepared food.
verb
noun
verb
- To put together with a seam.
- To make the appearance of a seam in, as in knitting a stocking; hence, to knit with a certain stitch, like that in such knitting.
- To crack open along a seam.
- To mark with a seam or line; to scar.
- (cricket) Of a bowler, to make the ball move thus.
- (cricket) Of the ball, to move sideways after bouncing on the seam.
- put together with a seam
noun
- (cricket) The stitched equatorial seam of a cricket ball; the sideways movement of a ball when it bounces on the seam.
- (historical) An old English measure of grain, containing eight bushels.
- (historical) An old English measure of glass, containing twenty-four weys of five pounds, or 120 pounds.
- (geology) A thin stratum, especially of an economically viable material such as coal or mineral.
- A suture.
- (figurative) A line of junction; a joint.
- A line or depression left by a cut or wound; a scar; a cicatrix.
- (construction, nautical) A joint formed by mating two separate sections of materials.
- (sewing) A folded-back and stitched piece of fabric; especially, the stitching that joins two or more pieces of fabric.
- a slight depression or fold in the smoothness of a surface
- a stratum of ore or coal thick enough to be mined with profit
- joint consisting of a line formed by joining two pieces
verb
- make full of cavities, like a honeycomb
- penetrate thoroughly and into every part
- carve a honeycomb pattern into
- To decorate (something) with a honeycomb pattern.
- (figurative, chiefly passive voice) To make way deeply into (something) so as to weaken it; to undermine.
- To riddle (something) with small holes, especially in a pattern resembling a honeycomb (noun noun sense 1); also, to cause (something) to become hollow or weakened in this way.
- To bore cavities or tunnels inside (something).
- (architecture) To ornament (a ceiling) with honeycomb work (see noun noun sense 2.4).
noun
- a structure of small hexagonal cells constructed from beeswax by bees and used to store honey and larvae
- a framework of hexagonal cells resembling the honeycomb built by bees
- (uncountable, chiefly Australia, British, often attributive) A crumbly confection usually made by boiling together golden syrup, sugar, bicarbonate of soda, and water.
- The texture of the surface of a solar cell, intended to increase its surface area and capture more sunlight.
- (countable, geometry) A space-filling packing of polytopes in three- or higher-dimensional space.
- (uncountable, architecture) Ellipsis of honeycomb work (“especially in Moorish architecture: a form of ceiling ornamentation (especially of an arch or dome) made up of small vaulted arches”).
- (countable, by extension) Something resembling honeycomb (noun sense 1) in having numerous cells or small holes.
- (chiefly aviation) Material manufactured with small hollow cells, sometimes sandwiched between two flat sheets, which is used to make light, stiff structural components.
- (uncountable) A substance made by bees (clade Anthophila) primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells to hold their larvae, and for storing pollen and honey to feed the larvae and themselves when other food is scarce; it is also eaten by humans as part of comb-honey; (countable) a single sheet made up of two layers of this substance.
- (countable, figurative) Something resembling honeycomb in sweetness; hence, something desirable or pleasant.
- (countable, zoology) Ellipsis of honeycomb stomach (“the reticulum or second compartment of the stomach of a cow or other ruminant”).
verb
- fill tightly with a material
- treat with grease, fill, and prepare for mounting
- overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself
- press or force
- fill with a stuffing while cooking
- obstruct
- cram into a cavity
- (transitive, mildly vulgar, often imperative) Used to contemptuously dismiss or reject something. See also stuff it.
- (transitive) To load goods into (a container) for transport.
- (transitive, British, Australia, New Zealand) To break; to destroy.
- To preserve a dead bird or other animal by filling its skin.
- (transitive) To obstruct, as any of the organs; to affect with some obstruction in the organs of sense or respiration.
- (informal) To heavily defeat or get the better of.
- (transitive, cooking) To fill with seasoning.
- (transitive) To fill by packing or crowding something into; to cram with something; to load to excess.
- (transitive, computing) To compress (a file or files) in the StuffIt format, to be unstuffed later.
- (pronominal) To eat, especially in a hearty or greedy manner.
- (transitive) To cut off another competitor in a race by disturbing his projected and committed racing line (trajectory) by an abrupt manoeuvre.
- (transitive) To form or fashion by packing with the necessary material.
- (transitive) To fill a space with (something) in a compressed manner.
- (transitive, vulgar, British, Australia, New Zealand) To sexually penetrate.
- (transitive, used in the passive) To sate.
noun
- the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object
- unspecified qualities required to do or be something
- a critically important or characteristic component
- informal terms for personal possessions
- information in some unspecified form
- senseless talk
- miscellaneous unspecified objects
- (informal) Unspecified things or matters.
- The tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object.
- (informal) Miscellaneous items or objects; (with possessive) personal effects.
- Abstract/figurative substance or character.
- (informal) Used as placeholder, usually for material of unknown type or name.
- (slang) Narcotic drugs, especially heroin.
- (nautical) A melted mass of turpentine, tallow, etc., with which the masts, sides, and bottom of a ship are smeared for lubrication.
- (sometimes euphemistic) Refuse or worthless matter; hence, also, foolish or irrational language.
- Paper stock ground ready for use. When partly ground, it is called half stuff.
verb
- enclose with a sheath
- plunge or bury (a knife or sword) in flesh
- cover with a protective sheathing
- (transitive) Of an animal: to draw back or retract (a body part) into the body, such as claws into a paw.
- (transitive) To put (something such as a knife or sword) into a sheath.
- (transitive) To encase (something) with a protective covering.
verb
noun
- (crystallography) A regular spacing or arrangement of geometric points, often decorated with a motif.
- (mathematics, order theory) A partially ordered set in which every pair of elements has a unique supremum and a unique infimum.
- (music) A model of the tuning relationships of a just intonation system, comprising an array of points in a periodic multidimensional pattern.
- (topology, Lie theory, generalizing noun sense 5.1) A discrete subgroup L of a given locally compact group G whose quotient space G/L has finite invariant measure.
- (heraldry) A bearing with vertical and horizontal bands that cross each other.
- A flat panel constructed with widely-spaced crossed thin strips of wood or other material, commonly used as a garden trellis.
- (group theory) A discrete subgroup of Rⁿ which is isomorphic to Zⁿ (considered as an additive group) and which spans the real vector space Rⁿ.
- (algebra, ring theory, generalizing noun sense 5.1, with respect to a vector space V over a field F which is the field of fractions of an integral domain R in F) A finitely generated R-submodule of V which spans V over F. (In this case the submodule is called an R-lattice).
- an arrangement of points or particles or objects in a regular periodic pattern in 2 or 3 dimensions
- framework consisting of an ornamental design made of strips of wood or metal
- small opening (like a window in a door) through which business can be transacted