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verb
- To provide with a vent.
- furnish with an opening to allow air to circulate or gas to escape
- To expose something to the circulation of fresh air.
- To expose something to public examination or discussion.
- (slang) To shoot with a firearm; to pierce with bullets.
- (intransitive, medicine) To breathe.
- To circulate air through a building, etc.
- To replace stale or noxious air with fresh.
- (transitive, medicine) To provide manual or mechanical breathing to (a patient).
- give expression or utterance to
- circulate through and freshen
- expose to cool or cold air so as to cool or freshen
- expose to the circulation of fresh air so as to retard spoilage
verb
- (transitive) To allow to escape through a vent.
- (transitive, intransitive) To express a strong emotion.
- To snuff; to breathe or puff out; to snort.
- To sell; to vend.
- (intransitive, video games, slang) To use a vent in the video game Among Us. [with to ‘to go (somewhere)’]
- (intransitive) To allow gases to escape.
- (transitive) To allow gases to escape from (a sealed space, container, etc.).
- (medicine, colloquial) To ventilate; to use a ventilator; to use ventilation.
- (transitive) To determine the sex of (a chick) by opening up the anal vent or cloaca.
- give expression or utterance to
- expose to cool or cold air so as to cool or freshen
noun
- (medicine, colloquial) Clipping of ventilation or ventilator.
- The excretory opening of lower orders of vertebrates; cloaca.
- The opening at the breech of a firearm, through which fire is communicated to the powder of the charge.
- Emission; escape; passage to notice or expression; publication; utterance.
- Ventriloquism.
- In steam boilers, a sectional area of the passage for gases divided by the length of the same passage in feet.
- A slit in the seam of a garment.
- A small aperture.
- A rant; a long session of expressing verbal frustration.
- An opening in a volcano from which lava or gas flows.
- An opening through which gases, especially air, can pass.
- Opportunity of escape or passage from confinement or privacy; outlet.
- external opening of urinary or genital system of a lower vertebrate
- a hole for the escape of gas or air
- a slit in a garment (as in the back seam of a jacket)
- activity that frees or expresses creative energy or emotion
- a fissure in the earth's crust (or in the surface of some other planet) through which molten lava and gases erupt
noun
noun
- An opening for outward discharge; a vent.
- A complete version of a recording or film that is dropped in favour of another version, reject.
- A portion of a recording (a take) that is not included in the final version of a film or a musical album, often because it contains a mistake.
- a scene that is filmed but is not used in the final editing of the film
verb
noun
- metal covering leading to a vent that exhausts smoke or fumes
- A metal covering that leads to a vent to suck away smoke or fumes.
- (falconry) a leather covering for a hawk's head
- a headdress that protects the head and face
- the folding roof of a carriage
- a tubular attachment used to keep stray light out of the lens of a camera
- an urban, often lower-income inner-city area
- an aggressive and violent young criminal
- (zoology) an expandable part or marking that resembles a hood on the head or neck of an animal
- protective covering consisting of a metal part that covers the engine
- a protective covering that is part of a plant
- (ophiology) An expansion on the sides of the neck typical for many elapids e.g. the Egyptian cobra (Naja haje) and Indian cobra (Naja naja).
- (automotive, chiefly UK) A soft top of a convertible car or carriage.
- (colloquial) The prepuce; the foreskin or clitoral hood.
- (UK) Person wearing a hoodie.
- (nautical) One of the endmost planks (or, one of the ends of the planks) in a ship’s bottom at bow or stern, that fits into the rabbet. (These, when fit into the rabbet, resemble a hood (covering).)
- (slang) Gangster, thug.
- A distinctively colored fold of material, representing a university degree.
- (by extension, especially in the phrase "under the hood") A cover over the engine, driving machinery or inner workings of something.
- (equestrianism) A head and neck covering placed on horses to protect against insects and sunlight, to slow coat growth and for warmth.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang) A neighborhood.
- (colloquial) The osseous or cartilaginous marginal extension behind the back of many a dinosaur such as a ceratopsid and reptiles such as Chlamydosaurus kingii.
- (slang) Any poor suburb or neighbourhood.
- (falconry) A head covering placed on falcons to inhibit their vision.
- (automotive, chiefly US, Canada) The hinged cover over the engine of a motor vehicle, known as a bonnet in other countries.
- In the human hand, over the extensor digitorum, an expansion of the extensor tendon over the metacarpophalangeal joint (the extensor hood syn. dorsal hood syn. lateral hood)
- An enclosure that protects something, especially from above.
verb
adj
noun
- A ventilation or heating conduit.
- The long, narrow, central body of a spear, arrow, or javelin.
- (meteorology) A relatively small area of precipitation that an onlook can discern from the dry surrounding area.
- (architecture) Any column or pillar, particularly the body of a column between its capital and pedestal.
- (literary) A beam or ray of light.
- The main axis of a feather.
- One of the poles between which a draught animal is harnessed to a vehicle.
- (anatomy) The main cylindrical part of the penis.
- A vertical passage housing a lift or elevator.
- (weaving) A component of a loom which holds the heddles and is raised by treadles to create the shed.
- The chamber of a blast furnace.
- (lacrosse) The long narrow body of a lacrosse stick.
- A vertical or inclined passage sunk into the earth as part of a mine.
- (slang) An act of sexual intercourse.
- A rotating machine element used to transmit power; a driveshaft
- (by extension) Anything cast or thrown as a spear or javelin.
- an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect
- a long pointed rod used as a tool or weapon
- obscene terms for penis
- the main (mid) section of a long bone
- a revolving rod that transmits power or motion
- the hollow spine of a feather
- a long vertical passage sunk into the earth, as for a mine or tunnel
- a column of light (as from a beacon)
- a vertical passageway through a building (as for an elevator)
- a line that forms the length of an arrow pointer
- a long rod or pole (especially the handle of an implement or the body of a weapon like a spear or arrow)
- (architecture) upright consisting of the vertical part of a column
verb
noun
- A vent or similar passage to allow the escape of something.
- A shop that sells the products of a particular manufacturer or supplier.
- A wall-mounted socket connected to an electrical power supply, at which current can be taken to run electrical devices.
- Something which allows for the release of one's desires.
- A river that runs out of a lake.
- receptacle providing a place in a wiring system where current can be taken to run electrical devices
- a place of business for retailing goods
- an opening that permits escape or release
- activity that frees or expresses creative energy or emotion
noun
- a duct that provides ventilation (as in mines)
- a commercial enterprise that provides scheduled flights for passengers
- a designated route followed by airplanes in flying from one airport to another
- the passages through which air enters and leaves the body
- (anatomy) The trachea.
- (aviation) A flight path used by aeroplanes.
- (mining) A roadway used for ventilation.
noun
- (plumbing) A vertical pipe attached to a septic system's distribution pipe that rises above the ground to provide ventilation.
- A window with horizontal openings, designed for ventilation.
- A (pre-mixed) alcoholic drink containing rum and a fruit flavor like orange.
- (physics) A bound state of solitons and antisolitons.
- An open-air trolley.
- A school of fish that swim near the surface of the water, causing ripples that look similar to those caused by a light breeze on still water.
noun
verb
noun
- A grille at the outflow of a ventilation duct, capable of being opened and closed to direct the air flow.
- A distinct horizontal (or, more rarely, vertical) section of a work of art or inscription that is divided into several such sections.
- One who registers or records; a registrar; especially, a public officer charged with the duty of recording certain transactions or events.
- (music) An organ stop.
- (linguistics) A style of a language used in a particular context.
- (telecommunications) A list of received calls in a phone set.
- (computing) A small unit of very fast memory that is directly accessible to the central processing unit, and is mostly used to store inputs, outputs, or intermediate results of computations.
- (music) The range of a voice or instrument.
- (printing) The exact alignment of lines, margins, and colors.
- A device that automatically records a quantity.
- (chiefly US) Ellipsis of cash register.
- A book of such entries.
- The act of registering.
- An entry in such a book.
- A formal recording of names, events, transactions, etc.
- (telecommunications) The part of a telegraphic apparatus that automatically records the message received.
- (printing) The inner part of the mould in which types are cast.
- A certificate issued by the collector of customs of a port or district to the owner of a vessel, containing the description of a vessel, its name, ownership, and other material facts. It is kept on board the vessel, to be used as evidence of nationality or as a muniment of title.
- a regulator (as a sliding plate) for regulating the flow of air into a furnace or other heating device
- a cashbox with an adding machine to register transactions; used in shops to add up the bill
- a book in which names and transactions are listed
- an air passage (usually in the floor or a wall of a room) for admitting or excluding heated air from the room
- an official written record of names or events or transactions
- (music) the timbre that is characteristic of a certain range and manner of production of the human voice or of different pipe organ stops or of different musical instruments
- (computer science) memory device that is the part of computer memory that has a specific address and that is used to hold information of a specific kind
verb
- (transitive) To enter in a register; to enlist.
- (law) To voluntarily sign over for safe keeping, abandoning complete ownership for partial.
- (intransitive) To place one's name, or have one's name placed in a register.
- (transitive, postal) To record officially and handle specially.
- (ambitransitive) To buy the full version of trial software by providing one's details and payment.
- (transitive) To express outward signs.
- (transitive) To sign-up, especially to vote.
- (intransitive) To be in proper alignment; to align or correspond exactly.
- (transitive) To record, especially in writing.
- (transitive) To perceive or comprehend; pick up on.
- (intransitive) To make an impression.
- (intransitive) To occur; become realised or noticed; dawn on.
- (transitive, especially printing) To make or adjust so as to be properly or precisely aligned.
- have one's name listed as a candidate for several parties
- manipulate the registers of an organ
- indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments
- record in writing; enter into a book of names or events or transactions
- enter into someone's consciousness
- show in one's face
- enroll to vote
- record in a public office or in a court of law
- be aware of
- send by registered mail
noun
- Any of a system of slits, as in the hood of an automobile, for ventilation.
- A type of turret on the roof of certain medieval buildings designed to allow ventilation or the admission of light.
- (chiefly in the plural) A series of sloping overlapping slats or boards which admit air and light but exclude rain etc.
- one of a set of parallel slats in a door or window to admit air and reject rain
noun
- (geology) A vent for the escape of steam or other gas.
- (computer hardware) A vertical opening in the top of a computer case that lets hot air (primarily from the CPU heat sink) escape quickly.
- (geology) A top-facing opening to a cavity in the ground very near an ocean's shore, leading to a marine cave from which wave water or bursts of air are expelled.
- (metallurgy) An unintended cavity filled with air in a casting product.
- (marine biology) A hole in sea ice where cetaceans and pinnipeds come to breathe.
- (marine biology) The spiracle, on the top of the head, through which cetaceans breathe.
- the spiracle of a cetacean located far back on the skull
- a hole for the escape of gas or air
verb
noun
- (architecture) A channel for providing ventilation.
- (rare, weaponry) A shot at something that is in the air, or a shot in midair.
- (botany) A root-like structure that runs along the surface of the ground, putting down roots at a distance as a form of propagation.
- (botany) A filiform shoot of a water plant that floats on the surface of the water and contains bract-like organs.
verb
- (intransitive) To produce or vent steam.
- (intransitive) To rise in vapour; to issue, or pass off, as vapour.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To become angry; to fume; to be incensed.
- (transitive) To expose to the action of steam; to apply steam to for softening, dressing, or preparing.
- (transitive, cooking) To cook with steam.
- (figuratively or literally) To move with great or excessive purposefulness.
- (intransitive) To travel by means of steam power.
- (transitive, figuratively) To make angry.
- (intransitive, literal, figurative) To be cooked with steam.
- (transitive) To raise steam, e.g. in a steam locomotive.
- (transitive) To cover with condensed water vapor.
- cook something by letting steam pass over it
- emit steam
- get very agitated or angry
- clean by means of steaming
- travel by means of steam power
- rise as vapor
adj
noun
- (figuratively) Pent-up anger.
- Exhaled breath into cold air below the dew point of the exhalation.
- (figuratively) Internal energy for progress or motive power.
- (fencing) Fencing without the use of any electric equipment.
- Mist, fog.
- The hot gaseous form of water, formed when water changes from the liquid phase to the gas phase (at or above its boiling point temperature).
- Pressurized water vapour used for heating, cooking, or to provide mechanical energy.
- A steam-powered vehicle, referring to their use.
- The act of cooking by steaming.
- Travel by means of a steam-powered vehicle.
- water at boiling temperature diffused in the atmosphere
verb
noun
- a partition (often temporary) of planks or cloth that is used to control ventilation in a mine
- (mining) A partition in a coal mine, made from wood or from canvas sheeting coated in tar.
- (historical) A wooden structure used for attack or defence, such as an archery tower, or a penthouse built over the entry to a castle for archers to shoot from.
verb
- (transitive) To vent, usually, to reduce pressure in a container.
- (transitive, slang) To perform oral sex on (someone); to give a blowjob to or suck off (someone).
- (intransitive, slang, UK, Australia) Synonym of fart.
- (transitive) To reject or shut down someone's sexual advances or other offers (e.g. a job offer).
- To force to leave a course.
- (transitive) To forcibly disconnect something by use of a firearm or explosive device.
- (idiomatic) To shirk or disregard (a duty or person).
- (transitive) To abandon (someone) as the last stage of a scam.
- (intransitive) To let steam escape through a passage provided for the purpose.
- (transitive, slang) To use up or spend (something).
- (transitive, literally) To remove something by blowing on it.
- (transitive, slang) To cause (a body part etc.) to detach by shooting it with a firearm.
- come off due to an explosion or other strong force
noun
- (military) A priming wire for cleaning the vent, in ordnance.
- (weaving) The piece in a loom that strikes the end of the shuttle and impels it through the warp.
- A worker responsible for picking or retrieving ordered items, etc.
- (slang, gold panning) A fragment of gold smaller than a nugget but large enough to be picked up.
- (historical) One who removes defects from and finishes electrotype plates.
- Agent noun of pick; one who picks.
- (computing, graphical user interface) Any user interface control that selects something.
- (engineering) A machine for picking fibrous materials to pieces so as to loosen and separate the fibre.
- a person who chooses or selects out
- someone who gathers crops or fruits etc.
noun
- the quality of being close and poorly ventilated
- characterized by a lack of openness (especially about one's actions or purposes)
- close or warm friendship
- the spatial property resulting from a relatively small distance
- extreme stinginess
- a feeling of being intimate and belonging together
- The state of being friends
- (mathematics) The shortest path between two vertices in a graph
- The state of being close (all senses)
- The state of being mean or stingy
- The state of being secretive
noun
- the quality of being close and poorly ventilated
- state of obstruction or stoppage or air in the nose or throat
- dull and pompous gravity
- (countable, rare) The result or product of being stuffy.
- (uncountable) The state or quality of being angry and obstinate.
- (uncountable) The state or quality of being poorly-ventilated and close.
adj
- Poorly ventilated; partially plugged.
- Boring, old-fashioned, uninteresting, over-formal, pompous, very conventional.
- Stout; mettlesome; resolute.
- (Scotland) Stout; sturdy.
- Uncomfortably warm without sufficient air circulation.
- (US) Angry and obstinate; sulky.
- affected with a sensation of stoppage or obstruction
- excessively conventional and unimaginative and hence dull
- lacking fresh air
noun
noun
- the act of venting
- the pouring forth of a fluid
- the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)
- the sudden giving off of energy
- the act of discharging a gun
- any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body
- a formal written statement of relinquishment
- a substance that is emitted or released
- electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field
- (military) The act of releasing a member of the armed forces from service.
- (medicine) The act of releasing an inpatient from hospital.
- The process of flowing out.
- (medicine, uncountable) Pus or exudate or mucus (but in modern usage not exclusively blood) from a wound or orifice, usually due to pathological or hormonal changes.
- (hydrology) The volume of water transported by a river in a certain amount of time, usually in units of m³/s (cubic meters per second).
- The act of firing a projectile, especially from a firearm.
- (electricity) The act of releasing an accumulated charge.
- The process of removing the load borne by something.
- (law) Release from liability, as granted to someone having served in a position of trust, such as to the officers and governors of a corporate body.
- The material thus released.
- The act of accomplishing (an obligation) or repaying a debt etc.; performance.
verb
- remove the charge from
- remove (cargo, people, etc.) from and leave
- release from military service
- complete or carry out
- become empty or void of its content
- free from obligations or duties
- pronounce not guilty of criminal charges
- eliminate (a substance)
- go off or discharge
- cause to go off
- pour forth or release
- To send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment; to pay one's debt or obligation to.
- To let fly; to give expression to; to utter.
- (electricity) To release (an accumulated charge).
- To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss.
- To free of a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to forgive; to clear.
- (military) To release (a member of the armed forces) from service.
- To unload a ship or another means of transport.
- (transitive, textiles) To bleach out or to remove or efface, as by a chemical process.
- (medicine) To release (an inpatient) from hospital.
- To operate (any weapon that fires a projectile, such as a shotgun or sling).
- To accomplish or complete, as an obligation.
- To release legally from confinement; to set at liberty.
- To set aside; to annul; to dismiss.
- To give forth; to emit or send out.
- To put forth, or remove, as a charge or burden; to take out, as that with which anything is loaded or filled.
- (logic) To release (an auxiliary assumption) from the list of assumptions used in arguments, and return to the main argument.
- To expel or let go.
- To let fly, as a missile; to shoot.
noun
- (historical, rare) A vent or breathing-hole in a medieval helmet, for the admission of air.
- (historical) Synonym of aventail (“mail curtain or flap, on a helmet or a mail coif, that protects the lower face and neck”).
- (historical) The movable front part of a medieval helmet, originally including the visor but later specifically the separate lower section.
- a medieval hood of mail suspended from a basinet to protect the head and neck
noun
- A place in a water pipe, pump, etc., where air accumulates for lack of an outlet.
- (by extension, cartography, law, technical) A (usually fictional) location or feature originally added to a map to detect plagiarism and copyright violations by other map makers or map services.
- Any device used to hold and suddenly release an object.
- A trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense; a snare.
- A dark coloured igneous rock, now used to designate any non-granitic igneous rock; trap rock.
- (Australia, slang, historical) A mining license inspector during the Australian gold rush.
- A machine or other device designed to catch (and sometimes kill) animals, either by holding them in a container, or by catching hold of part of the body.
- A covering over a hole or opening; a trapdoor.
- (slang) A person's mouth.
- (slang) Synonym of vagina.
- A wooden instrument shaped somewhat like a shoe, used in the game of trapball.
- (slang, informal, usually offensive, usually derogatory) Someone with male-typical anatomy who passes as female.
- (slang, informal, usually considered offensive) A fictional character from anime, or related media, who is coded as or has qualities typically associated with a gender other than the character's ostensible gender; otokonoko, josou.
- (aviation, military, slang) A successful landing on an aircraft carrier using the carrier's arresting gear.
- (geology) A geological structure that creates a petroleum reservoir.
- (slang, bodybuilding, anatomy) The trapezius muscle.
- (music, uncountable) A genre of hip-hop music, with half-time drums and heavy sub-bass.
- (US, slang, African-American Vernacular, also attributive) An area, especially of a city, with a low level of opportunity and a high level of poverty and crime; a ghetto; a hood.
- (slang, uncountable) The money earned by a prostitute for a pimp.
- (gun sports) Trapshooting.
- (US, slang, African-American Vernacular, also attributive) A vehicle, residential building, or sidewalk corner where drugs are manufactured, packaged, or sold.
- (slang) A cubicle (in a public toilet).
- The game of trapball itself.
- (historical) A light two-wheeled carriage with springs.
- (computing) An exception generated by the processor or by an external event.
- a light two-wheeled carriage
- the act of concealing yourself and lying in wait to attack by surprise
- a hazard on a golf course
- a device to hurl clay pigeons into the air for trapshooters
- a device in which something (usually an animal) can be caught and penned
- informal terms for the mouth
- something (often something deceptively attractive) that catches you unawares
- drain consisting of a U-shaped section of drainpipe that holds liquid and so prevents a return flow of sewer gas
verb
- (transitive) To ensnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap.
- (intransitive, African-American Vernacular, slang) To sell illegal drugs, especially in a public area.
- (transitive) To physically capture, to catch in a trap or traps, or something like a trap.
- To dress with ornaments; to adorn (especially said of horses).
- (computing, intransitive) To capture (e.g. an error) in order to handle or process it.
- (intransitive) To leave suddenly, to flee.
- (transitive) To provide with a trap.
- (aviation, military, slang, intransitive) To successfully land an aircraft on an aircraft carrier using the carrier's arresting gear.
- (slang, informal, sometimes offensive) Of a 'trap': to trick a (heterosexual) man into having sex, by appearing to be a woman.
- (intransitive) To set traps for game; to make a business of trapping game; to travel for the purpose of trapping.
- catch in or as if in a trap
- to hold fast or prevent from moving
- to sell marijuana on a street corner
- place in a confining or embarrassing position
- hold or catch as if in a trap
noun
- (mining) A door in a level for regulating the ventilating current; a weather door.
- A hinged or sliding door set into a floor or ceiling.
- (theater) Such a trap set into the floor of a stage to allow fast exits and entrances.
- (computing) A secret method of obtaining access to a program or online system; a backdoor.
- (mathematics, cryptography) The special information that permits the inverse of a trapdoor function to be easily computed.
verb
noun
- An enclosed passageway in which to direct a current of air or other gases along.
- In an organ flue pipe, the opening between the lower lip and the languet.
- A pipe or duct that carries gaseous combustion products away from the point of combustion (such as a furnace).
- a conduit to carry off smoke
- flat bladelike projection on the arm of an anchor
- organ pipe whose tone is produced by air passing across the sharp edge of a fissure or lip
adj
verb
- fill with gas or air
- to swell or cause to enlarge
- make large
- cause to burst with a violent release of energy
- get very angry and fly into a rage
- burst and release energy as through a violent chemical or physical reaction
- exaggerate or make bigger
- add details to
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blow, up.
- (transitive) To inflate or fill with air, either by literally blowing or by using a pump.
- (transitive, also figuratively) To cause (something or someone) to explode, or to destroy (something) or maim or kill (someone) by means of an explosion.
- (intransitive, cycling) To succumb to oxygen debt and lose the ability to maintain pace in a race.
- (intransitive, also figuratively) To explode or be destroyed by explosion.
- (of a hangout) To overwhelm (a place) with traffic or volume by revealing its existence to others.
- (transitive) To enlarge or zoom in on.
- (intransitive, mathematics, said of a function) To increase without bound as a function argument or parameter approaches a certain value; to tend toward infinity; to approach infinity as a limit.
- (intransitive, slang) To become much more fat or rotund in a short space of time.
- (of a cell phone, pager, or similar) To receive a large number of calls, texts, or notifications, to the point of being rendered temporarily unusable or exasperating the recipient.
- (intransitive, slang) To suddenly get very angry, to lose one's temper.
- (transitive, figuratively) To represent something as being more important or serious than it actually is; to inflate; to exaggerate.
- (of a cell phone, pager, or similar) To bombard with a large number of calls, texts, or notifications, to the point of rendering temporarily unusable or exasperating the recipient.
- (intransitive, slang, of a device, machine, system, or establishment) To be overwhelmed by unexpectedly high demand, usage, activity, traffic volume, etc.
- (slang, colloquial) To cause a malodorous smell by flatulation, defecation, etc.
- (of a hangout) To be overwhelmed with traffic or volume.
- (intransitive) To fail disastrously.
- (transitive, slang, of a device, machine, system, or establishment) To overwhelm through unexpectedly high demand, activity, usage, traffic volume, etc.
- (intransitive, of a storm) To begin; to gather; to form.
- (slang, intransitive) To become popular very quickly.
- (sports) To blow the whistle.
verb
- fill with gas or air
- become inflated
- cause prices to rise by increasing the available currency or credit
- increase the amount or availability of, creating a rise in value
- exaggerate or make bigger
- (figurative, transitive) To represent something as being more important, better, or worse than it actually is; to exaggerate.
- (transitive) To enlarge an object by pushing air (or a gas) into it; to raise or expand abnormally
- (transitive, computing) To decompress (data) that was previously deflated.
- (figurative) To swell; to puff up.
- (intransitive) To enlarge by filling with air (or a gas).
noun
- A conduit through which exhaust gases are conducted to a chimney.
- (nautical) A rope used to secure a cannon.
- (slang) A beating or flogging.
- (historical) The ceremony of dressing a boy in trousers for the first time.
- (equestrianism) A component of horse harness or tack, enabling the horse to hold back a vehicle.
noun
noun
- An opening for outward discharge; a vent.
- A complete version of a recording or film that is dropped in favour of another version, reject.
- A portion of a recording (a take) that is not included in the final version of a film or a musical album, often because it contains a mistake.
- a scene that is filmed but is not used in the final editing of the film
verb
noun
- metal covering leading to a vent that exhausts smoke or fumes
- A metal covering that leads to a vent to suck away smoke or fumes.
- (falconry) a leather covering for a hawk's head
- a headdress that protects the head and face
- the folding roof of a carriage
- a tubular attachment used to keep stray light out of the lens of a camera
- an urban, often lower-income inner-city area
- an aggressive and violent young criminal
- (zoology) an expandable part or marking that resembles a hood on the head or neck of an animal
- protective covering consisting of a metal part that covers the engine
- a protective covering that is part of a plant
- (ophiology) An expansion on the sides of the neck typical for many elapids e.g. the Egyptian cobra (Naja haje) and Indian cobra (Naja naja).
- (automotive, chiefly UK) A soft top of a convertible car or carriage.
- (colloquial) The prepuce; the foreskin or clitoral hood.
- (UK) Person wearing a hoodie.
- (nautical) One of the endmost planks (or, one of the ends of the planks) in a ship’s bottom at bow or stern, that fits into the rabbet. (These, when fit into the rabbet, resemble a hood (covering).)
- (slang) Gangster, thug.
- A distinctively colored fold of material, representing a university degree.
- (by extension, especially in the phrase "under the hood") A cover over the engine, driving machinery or inner workings of something.
- (equestrianism) A head and neck covering placed on horses to protect against insects and sunlight, to slow coat growth and for warmth.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang) A neighborhood.
- (colloquial) The osseous or cartilaginous marginal extension behind the back of many a dinosaur such as a ceratopsid and reptiles such as Chlamydosaurus kingii.
- (slang) Any poor suburb or neighbourhood.
- (falconry) A head covering placed on falcons to inhibit their vision.
- (automotive, chiefly US, Canada) The hinged cover over the engine of a motor vehicle, known as a bonnet in other countries.
- In the human hand, over the extensor digitorum, an expansion of the extensor tendon over the metacarpophalangeal joint (the extensor hood syn. dorsal hood syn. lateral hood)
- An enclosure that protects something, especially from above.
verb
adj
noun
- A ventilation or heating conduit.
- The long, narrow, central body of a spear, arrow, or javelin.
- (meteorology) A relatively small area of precipitation that an onlook can discern from the dry surrounding area.
- (architecture) Any column or pillar, particularly the body of a column between its capital and pedestal.
- (literary) A beam or ray of light.
- The main axis of a feather.
- One of the poles between which a draught animal is harnessed to a vehicle.
- (anatomy) The main cylindrical part of the penis.
- A vertical passage housing a lift or elevator.
- (weaving) A component of a loom which holds the heddles and is raised by treadles to create the shed.
- The chamber of a blast furnace.
- (lacrosse) The long narrow body of a lacrosse stick.
- A vertical or inclined passage sunk into the earth as part of a mine.
- (slang) An act of sexual intercourse.
- A rotating machine element used to transmit power; a driveshaft
- (by extension) Anything cast or thrown as a spear or javelin.
- an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect
- a long pointed rod used as a tool or weapon
- obscene terms for penis
- the main (mid) section of a long bone
- a revolving rod that transmits power or motion
- the hollow spine of a feather
- a long vertical passage sunk into the earth, as for a mine or tunnel
- a column of light (as from a beacon)
- a vertical passageway through a building (as for an elevator)
- a line that forms the length of an arrow pointer
- a long rod or pole (especially the handle of an implement or the body of a weapon like a spear or arrow)
- (architecture) upright consisting of the vertical part of a column
verb
noun
- A vent or similar passage to allow the escape of something.
- A shop that sells the products of a particular manufacturer or supplier.
- A wall-mounted socket connected to an electrical power supply, at which current can be taken to run electrical devices.
- Something which allows for the release of one's desires.
- A river that runs out of a lake.
- receptacle providing a place in a wiring system where current can be taken to run electrical devices
- a place of business for retailing goods
- an opening that permits escape or release
- activity that frees or expresses creative energy or emotion
noun
- a duct that provides ventilation (as in mines)
- a commercial enterprise that provides scheduled flights for passengers
- a designated route followed by airplanes in flying from one airport to another
- the passages through which air enters and leaves the body
- (anatomy) The trachea.
- (aviation) A flight path used by aeroplanes.
- (mining) A roadway used for ventilation.
noun
- (plumbing) A vertical pipe attached to a septic system's distribution pipe that rises above the ground to provide ventilation.
- A window with horizontal openings, designed for ventilation.
- A (pre-mixed) alcoholic drink containing rum and a fruit flavor like orange.
- (physics) A bound state of solitons and antisolitons.
- An open-air trolley.
- A school of fish that swim near the surface of the water, causing ripples that look similar to those caused by a light breeze on still water.
noun
verb
noun
- A grille at the outflow of a ventilation duct, capable of being opened and closed to direct the air flow.
- A distinct horizontal (or, more rarely, vertical) section of a work of art or inscription that is divided into several such sections.
- One who registers or records; a registrar; especially, a public officer charged with the duty of recording certain transactions or events.
- (music) An organ stop.
- (linguistics) A style of a language used in a particular context.
- (telecommunications) A list of received calls in a phone set.
- (computing) A small unit of very fast memory that is directly accessible to the central processing unit, and is mostly used to store inputs, outputs, or intermediate results of computations.
- (music) The range of a voice or instrument.
- (printing) The exact alignment of lines, margins, and colors.
- A device that automatically records a quantity.
- (chiefly US) Ellipsis of cash register.
- A book of such entries.
- The act of registering.
- An entry in such a book.
- A formal recording of names, events, transactions, etc.
- (telecommunications) The part of a telegraphic apparatus that automatically records the message received.
- (printing) The inner part of the mould in which types are cast.
- A certificate issued by the collector of customs of a port or district to the owner of a vessel, containing the description of a vessel, its name, ownership, and other material facts. It is kept on board the vessel, to be used as evidence of nationality or as a muniment of title.
- a regulator (as a sliding plate) for regulating the flow of air into a furnace or other heating device
- a cashbox with an adding machine to register transactions; used in shops to add up the bill
- a book in which names and transactions are listed
- an air passage (usually in the floor or a wall of a room) for admitting or excluding heated air from the room
- an official written record of names or events or transactions
- (music) the timbre that is characteristic of a certain range and manner of production of the human voice or of different pipe organ stops or of different musical instruments
- (computer science) memory device that is the part of computer memory that has a specific address and that is used to hold information of a specific kind
verb
- (transitive) To enter in a register; to enlist.
- (law) To voluntarily sign over for safe keeping, abandoning complete ownership for partial.
- (intransitive) To place one's name, or have one's name placed in a register.
- (transitive, postal) To record officially and handle specially.
- (ambitransitive) To buy the full version of trial software by providing one's details and payment.
- (transitive) To express outward signs.
- (transitive) To sign-up, especially to vote.
- (intransitive) To be in proper alignment; to align or correspond exactly.
- (transitive) To record, especially in writing.
- (transitive) To perceive or comprehend; pick up on.
- (intransitive) To make an impression.
- (intransitive) To occur; become realised or noticed; dawn on.
- (transitive, especially printing) To make or adjust so as to be properly or precisely aligned.
- have one's name listed as a candidate for several parties
- manipulate the registers of an organ
- indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments
- record in writing; enter into a book of names or events or transactions
- enter into someone's consciousness
- show in one's face
- enroll to vote
- record in a public office or in a court of law
- be aware of
- send by registered mail
noun
- Any of a system of slits, as in the hood of an automobile, for ventilation.
- A type of turret on the roof of certain medieval buildings designed to allow ventilation or the admission of light.
- (chiefly in the plural) A series of sloping overlapping slats or boards which admit air and light but exclude rain etc.
- one of a set of parallel slats in a door or window to admit air and reject rain
noun
- (geology) A vent for the escape of steam or other gas.
- (computer hardware) A vertical opening in the top of a computer case that lets hot air (primarily from the CPU heat sink) escape quickly.
- (geology) A top-facing opening to a cavity in the ground very near an ocean's shore, leading to a marine cave from which wave water or bursts of air are expelled.
- (metallurgy) An unintended cavity filled with air in a casting product.
- (marine biology) A hole in sea ice where cetaceans and pinnipeds come to breathe.
- (marine biology) The spiracle, on the top of the head, through which cetaceans breathe.
- the spiracle of a cetacean located far back on the skull
- a hole for the escape of gas or air
verb
noun
- (architecture) A channel for providing ventilation.
- (rare, weaponry) A shot at something that is in the air, or a shot in midair.
- (botany) A root-like structure that runs along the surface of the ground, putting down roots at a distance as a form of propagation.
- (botany) A filiform shoot of a water plant that floats on the surface of the water and contains bract-like organs.
noun
- (military) A priming wire for cleaning the vent, in ordnance.
- (weaving) The piece in a loom that strikes the end of the shuttle and impels it through the warp.
- A worker responsible for picking or retrieving ordered items, etc.
- (slang, gold panning) A fragment of gold smaller than a nugget but large enough to be picked up.
- (historical) One who removes defects from and finishes electrotype plates.
- Agent noun of pick; one who picks.
- (computing, graphical user interface) Any user interface control that selects something.
- (engineering) A machine for picking fibrous materials to pieces so as to loosen and separate the fibre.
- a person who chooses or selects out
- someone who gathers crops or fruits etc.
noun
- the quality of being close and poorly ventilated
- characterized by a lack of openness (especially about one's actions or purposes)
- close or warm friendship
- the spatial property resulting from a relatively small distance
- extreme stinginess
- a feeling of being intimate and belonging together
- The state of being friends
- (mathematics) The shortest path between two vertices in a graph
- The state of being close (all senses)
- The state of being mean or stingy
- The state of being secretive
noun
- the quality of being close and poorly ventilated
- state of obstruction or stoppage or air in the nose or throat
- dull and pompous gravity
- (countable, rare) The result or product of being stuffy.
- (uncountable) The state or quality of being angry and obstinate.
- (uncountable) The state or quality of being poorly-ventilated and close.
noun
- the act of venting
- the pouring forth of a fluid
- the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)
- the sudden giving off of energy
- the act of discharging a gun
- any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body
- a formal written statement of relinquishment
- a substance that is emitted or released
- electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field
- (military) The act of releasing a member of the armed forces from service.
- (medicine) The act of releasing an inpatient from hospital.
- The process of flowing out.
- (medicine, uncountable) Pus or exudate or mucus (but in modern usage not exclusively blood) from a wound or orifice, usually due to pathological or hormonal changes.
- (hydrology) The volume of water transported by a river in a certain amount of time, usually in units of m³/s (cubic meters per second).
- The act of firing a projectile, especially from a firearm.
- (electricity) The act of releasing an accumulated charge.
- The process of removing the load borne by something.
- (law) Release from liability, as granted to someone having served in a position of trust, such as to the officers and governors of a corporate body.
- The material thus released.
- The act of accomplishing (an obligation) or repaying a debt etc.; performance.
verb
- remove the charge from
- remove (cargo, people, etc.) from and leave
- release from military service
- complete or carry out
- become empty or void of its content
- free from obligations or duties
- pronounce not guilty of criminal charges
- eliminate (a substance)
- go off or discharge
- cause to go off
- pour forth or release
- To send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment; to pay one's debt or obligation to.
- To let fly; to give expression to; to utter.
- (electricity) To release (an accumulated charge).
- To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss.
- To free of a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to forgive; to clear.
- (military) To release (a member of the armed forces) from service.
- To unload a ship or another means of transport.
- (transitive, textiles) To bleach out or to remove or efface, as by a chemical process.
- (medicine) To release (an inpatient) from hospital.
- To operate (any weapon that fires a projectile, such as a shotgun or sling).
- To accomplish or complete, as an obligation.
- To release legally from confinement; to set at liberty.
- To set aside; to annul; to dismiss.
- To give forth; to emit or send out.
- To put forth, or remove, as a charge or burden; to take out, as that with which anything is loaded or filled.
- (logic) To release (an auxiliary assumption) from the list of assumptions used in arguments, and return to the main argument.
- To expel or let go.
- To let fly, as a missile; to shoot.
noun
- (historical, rare) A vent or breathing-hole in a medieval helmet, for the admission of air.
- (historical) Synonym of aventail (“mail curtain or flap, on a helmet or a mail coif, that protects the lower face and neck”).
- (historical) The movable front part of a medieval helmet, originally including the visor but later specifically the separate lower section.
- a medieval hood of mail suspended from a basinet to protect the head and neck
noun
- A place in a water pipe, pump, etc., where air accumulates for lack of an outlet.
- (by extension, cartography, law, technical) A (usually fictional) location or feature originally added to a map to detect plagiarism and copyright violations by other map makers or map services.
- Any device used to hold and suddenly release an object.
- A trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense; a snare.
- A dark coloured igneous rock, now used to designate any non-granitic igneous rock; trap rock.
- (Australia, slang, historical) A mining license inspector during the Australian gold rush.
- A machine or other device designed to catch (and sometimes kill) animals, either by holding them in a container, or by catching hold of part of the body.
- A covering over a hole or opening; a trapdoor.
- (slang) A person's mouth.
- (slang) Synonym of vagina.
- A wooden instrument shaped somewhat like a shoe, used in the game of trapball.
- (slang, informal, usually offensive, usually derogatory) Someone with male-typical anatomy who passes as female.
- (slang, informal, usually considered offensive) A fictional character from anime, or related media, who is coded as or has qualities typically associated with a gender other than the character's ostensible gender; otokonoko, josou.
- (aviation, military, slang) A successful landing on an aircraft carrier using the carrier's arresting gear.
- (geology) A geological structure that creates a petroleum reservoir.
- (slang, bodybuilding, anatomy) The trapezius muscle.
- (music, uncountable) A genre of hip-hop music, with half-time drums and heavy sub-bass.
- (US, slang, African-American Vernacular, also attributive) An area, especially of a city, with a low level of opportunity and a high level of poverty and crime; a ghetto; a hood.
- (slang, uncountable) The money earned by a prostitute for a pimp.
- (gun sports) Trapshooting.
- (US, slang, African-American Vernacular, also attributive) A vehicle, residential building, or sidewalk corner where drugs are manufactured, packaged, or sold.
- (slang) A cubicle (in a public toilet).
- The game of trapball itself.
- (historical) A light two-wheeled carriage with springs.
- (computing) An exception generated by the processor or by an external event.
- a light two-wheeled carriage
- the act of concealing yourself and lying in wait to attack by surprise
- a hazard on a golf course
- a device to hurl clay pigeons into the air for trapshooters
- a device in which something (usually an animal) can be caught and penned
- informal terms for the mouth
- something (often something deceptively attractive) that catches you unawares
- drain consisting of a U-shaped section of drainpipe that holds liquid and so prevents a return flow of sewer gas
verb
- (transitive) To ensnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap.
- (intransitive, African-American Vernacular, slang) To sell illegal drugs, especially in a public area.
- (transitive) To physically capture, to catch in a trap or traps, or something like a trap.
- To dress with ornaments; to adorn (especially said of horses).
- (computing, intransitive) To capture (e.g. an error) in order to handle or process it.
- (intransitive) To leave suddenly, to flee.
- (transitive) To provide with a trap.
- (aviation, military, slang, intransitive) To successfully land an aircraft on an aircraft carrier using the carrier's arresting gear.
- (slang, informal, sometimes offensive) Of a 'trap': to trick a (heterosexual) man into having sex, by appearing to be a woman.
- (intransitive) To set traps for game; to make a business of trapping game; to travel for the purpose of trapping.
- catch in or as if in a trap
- to hold fast or prevent from moving
- to sell marijuana on a street corner
- place in a confining or embarrassing position
- hold or catch as if in a trap
noun
- (mining) A door in a level for regulating the ventilating current; a weather door.
- A hinged or sliding door set into a floor or ceiling.
- (theater) Such a trap set into the floor of a stage to allow fast exits and entrances.
- (computing) A secret method of obtaining access to a program or online system; a backdoor.
- (mathematics, cryptography) The special information that permits the inverse of a trapdoor function to be easily computed.
verb
noun
- An enclosed passageway in which to direct a current of air or other gases along.
- In an organ flue pipe, the opening between the lower lip and the languet.
- A pipe or duct that carries gaseous combustion products away from the point of combustion (such as a furnace).
- a conduit to carry off smoke
- flat bladelike projection on the arm of an anchor
- organ pipe whose tone is produced by air passing across the sharp edge of a fissure or lip
adj
noun
- A conduit through which exhaust gases are conducted to a chimney.
- (nautical) A rope used to secure a cannon.
- (slang) A beating or flogging.
- (historical) The ceremony of dressing a boy in trousers for the first time.
- (equestrianism) A component of horse harness or tack, enabling the horse to hold back a vehicle.
verb
- To provide with a vent.
- furnish with an opening to allow air to circulate or gas to escape
- To expose something to the circulation of fresh air.
- To expose something to public examination or discussion.
- (slang) To shoot with a firearm; to pierce with bullets.
- (intransitive, medicine) To breathe.
- To circulate air through a building, etc.
- To replace stale or noxious air with fresh.
- (transitive, medicine) To provide manual or mechanical breathing to (a patient).
- give expression or utterance to
- circulate through and freshen
- expose to cool or cold air so as to cool or freshen
- expose to the circulation of fresh air so as to retard spoilage
verb
- (transitive) To allow to escape through a vent.
- (transitive, intransitive) To express a strong emotion.
- To snuff; to breathe or puff out; to snort.
- To sell; to vend.
- (intransitive, video games, slang) To use a vent in the video game Among Us. [with to ‘to go (somewhere)’]
- (intransitive) To allow gases to escape.
- (transitive) To allow gases to escape from (a sealed space, container, etc.).
- (medicine, colloquial) To ventilate; to use a ventilator; to use ventilation.
- (transitive) To determine the sex of (a chick) by opening up the anal vent or cloaca.
- give expression or utterance to
- expose to cool or cold air so as to cool or freshen
noun
- (medicine, colloquial) Clipping of ventilation or ventilator.
- The excretory opening of lower orders of vertebrates; cloaca.
- The opening at the breech of a firearm, through which fire is communicated to the powder of the charge.
- Emission; escape; passage to notice or expression; publication; utterance.
- Ventriloquism.
- In steam boilers, a sectional area of the passage for gases divided by the length of the same passage in feet.
- A slit in the seam of a garment.
- A small aperture.
- A rant; a long session of expressing verbal frustration.
- An opening in a volcano from which lava or gas flows.
- An opening through which gases, especially air, can pass.
- Opportunity of escape or passage from confinement or privacy; outlet.
- external opening of urinary or genital system of a lower vertebrate
- a hole for the escape of gas or air
- a slit in a garment (as in the back seam of a jacket)
- activity that frees or expresses creative energy or emotion
- a fissure in the earth's crust (or in the surface of some other planet) through which molten lava and gases erupt
verb
- (intransitive) To produce or vent steam.
- (intransitive) To rise in vapour; to issue, or pass off, as vapour.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To become angry; to fume; to be incensed.
- (transitive) To expose to the action of steam; to apply steam to for softening, dressing, or preparing.
- (transitive, cooking) To cook with steam.
- (figuratively or literally) To move with great or excessive purposefulness.
- (intransitive) To travel by means of steam power.
- (transitive, figuratively) To make angry.
- (intransitive, literal, figurative) To be cooked with steam.
- (transitive) To raise steam, e.g. in a steam locomotive.
- (transitive) To cover with condensed water vapor.
- cook something by letting steam pass over it
- emit steam
- get very agitated or angry
- clean by means of steaming
- travel by means of steam power
- rise as vapor
adj
noun
- (figuratively) Pent-up anger.
- Exhaled breath into cold air below the dew point of the exhalation.
- (figuratively) Internal energy for progress or motive power.
- (fencing) Fencing without the use of any electric equipment.
- Mist, fog.
- The hot gaseous form of water, formed when water changes from the liquid phase to the gas phase (at or above its boiling point temperature).
- Pressurized water vapour used for heating, cooking, or to provide mechanical energy.
- A steam-powered vehicle, referring to their use.
- The act of cooking by steaming.
- Travel by means of a steam-powered vehicle.
- water at boiling temperature diffused in the atmosphere
verb
noun
- a partition (often temporary) of planks or cloth that is used to control ventilation in a mine
- (mining) A partition in a coal mine, made from wood or from canvas sheeting coated in tar.
- (historical) A wooden structure used for attack or defence, such as an archery tower, or a penthouse built over the entry to a castle for archers to shoot from.
verb
- (transitive) To vent, usually, to reduce pressure in a container.
- (transitive, slang) To perform oral sex on (someone); to give a blowjob to or suck off (someone).
- (intransitive, slang, UK, Australia) Synonym of fart.
- (transitive) To reject or shut down someone's sexual advances or other offers (e.g. a job offer).
- To force to leave a course.
- (transitive) To forcibly disconnect something by use of a firearm or explosive device.
- (idiomatic) To shirk or disregard (a duty or person).
- (transitive) To abandon (someone) as the last stage of a scam.
- (intransitive) To let steam escape through a passage provided for the purpose.
- (transitive, slang) To use up or spend (something).
- (transitive, literally) To remove something by blowing on it.
- (transitive, slang) To cause (a body part etc.) to detach by shooting it with a firearm.
- come off due to an explosion or other strong force
verb
- fill with gas or air
- to swell or cause to enlarge
- make large
- cause to burst with a violent release of energy
- get very angry and fly into a rage
- burst and release energy as through a violent chemical or physical reaction
- exaggerate or make bigger
- add details to
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blow, up.
- (transitive) To inflate or fill with air, either by literally blowing or by using a pump.
- (transitive, also figuratively) To cause (something or someone) to explode, or to destroy (something) or maim or kill (someone) by means of an explosion.
- (intransitive, cycling) To succumb to oxygen debt and lose the ability to maintain pace in a race.
- (intransitive, also figuratively) To explode or be destroyed by explosion.
- (of a hangout) To overwhelm (a place) with traffic or volume by revealing its existence to others.
- (transitive) To enlarge or zoom in on.
- (intransitive, mathematics, said of a function) To increase without bound as a function argument or parameter approaches a certain value; to tend toward infinity; to approach infinity as a limit.
- (intransitive, slang) To become much more fat or rotund in a short space of time.
- (of a cell phone, pager, or similar) To receive a large number of calls, texts, or notifications, to the point of being rendered temporarily unusable or exasperating the recipient.
- (intransitive, slang) To suddenly get very angry, to lose one's temper.
- (transitive, figuratively) To represent something as being more important or serious than it actually is; to inflate; to exaggerate.
- (of a cell phone, pager, or similar) To bombard with a large number of calls, texts, or notifications, to the point of rendering temporarily unusable or exasperating the recipient.
- (intransitive, slang, of a device, machine, system, or establishment) To be overwhelmed by unexpectedly high demand, usage, activity, traffic volume, etc.
- (slang, colloquial) To cause a malodorous smell by flatulation, defecation, etc.
- (of a hangout) To be overwhelmed with traffic or volume.
- (intransitive) To fail disastrously.
- (transitive, slang, of a device, machine, system, or establishment) To overwhelm through unexpectedly high demand, activity, usage, traffic volume, etc.
- (intransitive, of a storm) To begin; to gather; to form.
- (slang, intransitive) To become popular very quickly.
- (sports) To blow the whistle.
verb
- fill with gas or air
- become inflated
- cause prices to rise by increasing the available currency or credit
- increase the amount or availability of, creating a rise in value
- exaggerate or make bigger
- (figurative, transitive) To represent something as being more important, better, or worse than it actually is; to exaggerate.
- (transitive) To enlarge an object by pushing air (or a gas) into it; to raise or expand abnormally
- (transitive, computing) To decompress (data) that was previously deflated.
- (figurative) To swell; to puff up.
- (intransitive) To enlarge by filling with air (or a gas).
adj
- Poorly ventilated; partially plugged.
- Boring, old-fashioned, uninteresting, over-formal, pompous, very conventional.
- Stout; mettlesome; resolute.
- (Scotland) Stout; sturdy.
- Uncomfortably warm without sufficient air circulation.
- (US) Angry and obstinate; sulky.
- affected with a sensation of stoppage or obstruction
- excessively conventional and unimaginative and hence dull
- lacking fresh air