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verb
noun
- The withholding of permits to extract a natural resource.
- A time period after the first release of a creative work before it can be distributed or adapted to other channels.
- A designation of some details about a crime that the police deliberately do not reveal to the public.
- (car sales) The difference between a dealer's cost and the manufacturer's suggested retail price.
- Money that a buyer does not pay at the time of purchase, but which is paid afterward (sometimes in installments, sometimes on a specified date).
- (accounting) Income that is set aside for eventualities such as customer returns, seasonal fluctuations, performance bonuses, unexpected costs, etc.
- A legal provision for restricting distributions to a trust beneficiary under certain conditions.
- The projection or loop, on the thill of a vehicle, to which a strap of the harness is attached, to hold back a carriage when going downhill, or in backing. Also, the strap or part of the harness so used.
- A portion of the money that is owed to someone which is not paid, but instead held as security, until the entire job or contract has been successfully completed.
- A restraint; a device or part of a device that operates to restrain.
- A delay in the movement of solute due to the slowing effects of diffusion
- A random subset of a body of data that is not used in the main analysis, but rather reserved for other purposes, such as validation.
- A time period during which sales of a specific security or commodity cannot occur.
verb
- To restrain.
- hold and prevent from leaving
- (transitive, Singapore, Wales) To put (something) back (to its original location or appropriate place); to put away.
- (transitive) To enter (accounts, records, etc.) in a book.
- (transitive) To observe; to adhere to; to fulfill; to not swerve from or violate.
- To have habitually in stock for sale.
- (ditransitive) To maintain the condition of; to preserve in a certain state.
- (transitive) To continue in (a course or mode of action); to not intermit or fall from; to uphold or maintain.
- (of living things) To raise; to care for.
- (transitive) To remain faithful to a given promise or word.
- (transitive) To record transactions, accounts, or events in.
- (intransitive, cricket) To act as wicket-keeper.
- (with from) To watch over, look after, guard, protect.
- To maintain possession of.
- To supply with necessities and financially support (a person).
- To refrain from freely disclosing (a secret).
- To maintain (an establishment or institution); to conduct; to manage.
- To remain edible or otherwise usable.
- To continue.
- (copulative) To remain in a state.
- supply with room and board
- retain possession of
- prevent the action or expression of
- behave as expected during holidays or rites
- stop (someone or something) from doing something or being in a certain state
- to rear
- store or keep customarily
- maintain for use and service
- retain rights to
- look after; be the keeper of; have charge of
- have as a supply
- supply with necessities and support
- maintain in safety from injury, harm, or danger
- fail to spoil or rot
- stick to correctly or closely
- maintain by writing regular records
- cause to continue in a certain state, position, or activity
- allow to remain in a place or position or maintain a property or feature
- conform one's action or practice to
- continue a certain state, condition, or activity
- prevent (food) from rotting
noun
- The state of being kept; hence, the resulting condition; case.
- (engineering) A cap for holding something, such as a journal box, in place.
- (historical) The main tower of a castle or fortress, located within the castle walls.
- The food or money required to keep someone alive and healthy; one's support, maintenance.
- a cell in a jail or prison
- the financial means whereby one lives
- the main tower within the walls of a medieval castle or fortress
verb
- hold within limits and control
- kill by nailing onto a cross
- treat cruelly
- criticize harshly or violently
- (hyperbolic, informal, sports) To thoroughly beat at a sport or game.
- (hyperbolic) To punish or otherwise express extreme anger at, especially as a scapegoat or target of outrage.
- To execute (a person) by nailing to a cross.
verb
- hold within limits and control
- undergo necrosis
- cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of
- practice self-denial of one's body and appetites
- (intransitive) To lose vitality.
- (transitive) To scare.
- (intransitive) To be subdued.
- (transitive, Scots law, historical) To grant in mortmain.
- (transitive) To affect with vexation or chagrin.
- (transitive, usually used passively) To injure the dignity of; to embarrass; to humiliate.
- (transitive) To discipline (one's body, appetites etc.) by suppressing desires; to practise abstinence on.
verb
- hold within limits and control
- bring under control by force or authority
- make subordinate, dependent, or subservient
- get on top of; deal with successfully
- correct by punishment or discipline
- put down by force or intimidation
- (transitive) To overcome, quieten, or bring under control.
- (transitive) To bring (a country) under control by force.
adv
adj
det
intj
noun
verb
- hold back within
- secure and keep for possible future use or application
- keep in one's mind
- allow to remain in a place or position or maintain a property or feature
- To hold (something) secure; to prevent (something) from becoming detached or separated.
- To keep (something) in the mind; to recall, to remember.
- To keep in control or possession; to continue having.
- To keep (someone) in one's pay or service; also, (chiefly historical) to maintain (someone) as a dependent or follower.
- (chiefly law) To employ (someone, especially a lawyer) by paying a retainer (“fee one pays to reserve another person's time for services”); specifically, to engage (a barrister) by making an initial payment to secure their services if needed.
- Of a thing: to hold or keep (something) inside it; to contain.
- Often followed by from: to hold back (someone or something); to check, to prevent, to restrain, to stop.
- To have the ability to keep something in the mind; to use the memory.
- To keep (something) in place or use, instead of removing or abolishing it; to preserve.
- (education) To hold back (a pupil) instead of allowing them to advance to the next class or year; to keep back.
- (medicine) Of a body or body organ: to hold back tissue or a substance.
- (reflexive) To control or restrain (oneself); to exercise self-control over (oneself).
- (medicine) To hold back (tissue or a substance, especially urine) in the body or a body organ.
- To keep (something) in control or possession; to continue having (something); to keep back.
- (Christianity) To declare (a sin) not forgiven.
- To engage or hire (someone), especially temporarily.
verb
- To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back.
- (figurative) To search exhaustively, as if with a dragnet.
- (soccer) To hit or kick off target.
- (chiefly of a vehicle) To unintentionally rub or scrape on a surface.
- To act or proceed slowly or without enthusiasm; to be reluctant.
- (informal, intransitive) To inhale from a cigarette, cigar, etc.
- To draw along (something burdensome); hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty.
- To proceed heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly.
- (informal, intransitive) To perform as a drag queen or drag king.
- To break (land) by drawing a drag or harrow over it; to harrow.
- (intransitive, music) To play at a slower tempo than one is supposed to or than the other musicians one is playing with, or to inadvertently gradually decrease tempo while one is playing.
- To fish with a dragnet.
- To search for something, as a lost object or body, by dragging something along the bottom of a body of water.
- (slang) To roast, say negative things about, or call attention to the flaws of (someone).
- (graphical user interface) To operate a pointing device by moving it with a button held down; to move, copy, etc. (an item) in this way.
- (transitive) To pull along a surface or through a medium, sometimes with difficulty.
- to lag or linger behind
- suck in or take (air)
- move slowly and as if with great effort
- use an input device to move objects on the screen, or to select items (such as commands from a menu); drag the slider to increase or decrease rate; drag the handles on the image to resize it
- proceed for an extended period of time
- persuade to come away from something attractive or interesting
- pull, as against a resistance
- search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost
- draw slowly or heavily
- force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action
- walk without lifting the feet
noun
- (physics, uncountable) Resistance of a fluid to something moving through it.
- A device for guiding wood to the saw.
- (countable, music) A double drum-stroke played at twice the speed of the context in which it is placed.
- (countable, informal) A systematic search for someone over a wide area, especially by the authorities; a dragnet.
- (uncountable, slang) Any type of clothing or costume associated with a particular occupation or subculture.
- A skid or shoe for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel.
- The last position in a line of hikers.
- (uncountable, music) Witch house music.
- (countable, slang) Someone or something that is annoying or frustrating, or disappointing; an obstacle to progress or enjoyment.
- Anything towed in the water to retard a ship's progress, or to keep her head up to the wind; especially, a canvas bag with a hooped mouth (drag sail), so used.
- (uncountable, slang) Women's clothing worn by men for the purpose of entertainment.
- (historical) A mailcoach.
- (masonry) A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone.
- (informal, uncommon) Clipping of dragon.
- (countable, slang) A street.
- (countable, informal) A puff on a cigarette or joint.
- Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged.
- (uncountable, snooker) A large amount of backspin on the cue ball, causing the cue ball to slow down.
- (billiards) A push somewhat under the centre of the cue ball, causing it to follow the object ball a short way.
- (countable, slang) A drag king or drag queen.
- (countable, slang) A long open horse-drawn carriage with transverse or side seats.
- A heavy harrow for breaking up ground.
- (slang) A prison sentence of three months.
- (countable) The scent-path left by dragging a fox, or some other substance such as aniseed, for training hounds to follow scents.
- (countable) A device dragged along the bottom of a body of water in search of something, e.g. a dead body, or in fishing.
- (by analogy with above) Any force acting in opposition to the motion of an object.
- (countable, slang) A men's party attended in women's clothing.
- (uncountable, slang, by analogy) Men's clothing worn by women for the purpose of entertainment.
- A pulled load.
- (nautical) The difference between the speed of a screw steamer under sail and that of the screw when the ship outruns the screw; or between the propulsive effects of the different floats of a paddle wheel.
- A kind of sledge for conveying heavy objects; also, a kind of low car or handcart.
- (countable, foundry) The bottom part of a sand casting mold.
- something tedious and boring
- the act of dragging (pulling with force)
- clothing that is conventionally worn by the opposite sex (especially women's clothing when worn by a man)
- a slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke)
- something that slows or delays progress
- the phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid
verb
- (transitive) To hold back.
- (transitive, law, banking) To collect and hold (funds) for payment of property taxes and insurance on property in which one has a security interest.
- (transitive) To shut up or place in an enclosure called a pound.
- (transitive, law) To hold in the custody of a court or its delegate.
- take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority
- place or shut up in a pound
noun
prep_phrase
verb
verb
- To restrain; withhold; check; stop.
- To stop; detain; keep back; delay; hinder.
- (transitive, nautical) To incline forward, aft, or to one side by means of stays.
- (intransitive, Scotland, South Africa, India, Southern US, African-American Vernacular, Singapore, colloquial) To live; reside.
- (intransitive) To remain in a particular place, especially for a definite or short period of time; sojourn; abide.
- (intransitive, copulative) To continue to have a particular quality.
- (transitive) To prop; support; sustain; hold up; steady.
- (intransitive, nautical) To change; tack; go about; be in stays, as a ship.
- (transitive) To support from sinking; to sustain with strength; to satisfy in part or for the time.
- (intransitive) To hold out, as in a race or contest; last or persevere to the end; to show staying power.
- To cause to cease; to put an end to.
- To brace or support with a stay or stays
- (transitive) To hold the attention of.
- (transitive, nautical) To tack; put on the other tack.
- To put off; defer; postpone; delay; keep back.
- stop or halt
- stay the same; remain in a certain state
- continue in a place, position, or situation
- fasten with stays
- hang on during a trial of endurance
- overcome or allay
- stop a judicial process
- be in a certain place and not leave
- dwell
adj
adv
noun
- A piece of stiff material, such as plastic or whalebone, used to stiffen a piece of clothing.
- Continuance or a period of time spent in a place; abode for an indefinite time.
- Restraint of passion; prudence; moderation; caution; steadiness; sobriety.
- (nautical) A strong rope or wire supporting a mast, and leading from one masthead down to some other, or other part of the vessel.
- (nautical) A station or fixed anchorage for vessels.
- The transverse piece in a chain-cable link.
- A guy, rope, or wire supporting or stabilizing a platform, such as a bridge, a pole, such as a tentpole, the mast of a derrick, or other structural element.
- (law) A postponement, especially of an execution or other punishment.
- A prop; a support.
- A fixed state; fixedness; stability; permanence.
- (in the plural) A corset.
- (nautical) brace consisting of a heavy rope or wire cable used as a support for a mast or spar
- a judicial order forbidding some action until an event occurs or the order is lifted
- the state of inactivity following an interruption
- continuing or remaining in a place or state
- a thin strip of metal or bone that is used to stiffen a garment (e.g. a corset)
verb
- To restrain; to keep from approaching.
- (board games) To remove a piece from play.
- To gain; to carry off, as a prize.
- (backgammon) To remove one of one's own checkers from the board.
- (nautical) To remove to a distance; to keep clear from rubbing against anything.
- remove from a certain place, environment, or mental or emotional state; transport into a new location or state
verb
- To control or limit access to something.
- (by extension) To limit another party's participation in a collective identity or an activity, usually due to undue pettiness, resentment, or overprotectiveness.
- (sociology) To limit (sometimes manipulatively, rather than directly) how much of a role another party, often a spouse, has in some task.
noun
verb
- surround so as to force to give up
- cause to feel distressed or worried
- harass, as with questions or requests
- (transitive, figuratively) To beleaguer, to vex, to lay siege to, to beset.
- (transitive) To beset or surround with armed forces for the purpose of compelling to surrender, to lay siege to, beleaguer.
- to assail or ply, as with requests or demands.
verb
noun
prep_phrase
verb
- to hold fast or prevent from moving
- hold as reserve or withdraw from circulation; of capital
- convert (assets) into fixed capital
- cause to be unable to move
- make defenseless
- prohibit the conversion or use of (assets)
- (finance) To tie up a capital: make a capital investment that makes that capital unavailable.
- To render incapable of action.
- To modify a surface such that things will not stick to it
- To render motionless; to stop moving or stop from moving.
verb
- to hold fast or prevent from moving
- (chess) immobilize a piece
- pierce with a pin
- attach or fasten with pins
- To enclose; to confine; to pen; to pound.
- (graphical user interface, transitive) To attach (an icon, application, message etc.) to another item so that it persists.
- (programming, transitive) To fix (an array in memory, a security certificate, etc.) so that it cannot be modified.
- (often followed by a preposition such as "to" or "on") To fasten or attach (something) with a pin.
- (backgammon) To move a piece onto a blot, preventing the piece from further movement.
- (wrestling) To pin down (someone).
- (bodybuilding, slang, ambitransitive) To inject for performance enhancement.
- (transitive) To cause an analog gauge to reach the stop pin at the high end of the range.
- (chess, usually passive voice) To cause (a piece) to be in a pin.
- Alternative form of peen.
noun
- a club-shaped wooden object used in bowling; set up in triangular groups of ten as the target
- a holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing
- when a wrestler's shoulders are forced to the mat
- flagpole used to mark the position of the hole on a golf green
- a piece of jewelry that is pinned onto the wearer's garment
- cylindrical tumblers consisting of two parts that are held in place by springs; when they are aligned with a key the bolt can be thrown
- axis consisting of a short shaft that supports something that turns
- a small slender (often pointed) piece of wood or metal used to support or fasten or attach things
- small markers inserted into a surface to mark scores or define locations etc.
- informal terms for the leg
- (engineering) A short shaft, sometimes forming a bolt, a part of which serves as a journal.
- (golf) The flagstick: the flag-bearing pole which marks the location of a hole
- A thing of small value; a trifle.
- (informal) A pinball machine.
- (wrestling, professional wrestling) The victory condition of holding the opponent's shoulders on the wrestling mat for a prescribed period of time.
- One of a row of pegs in the side of an ancient drinking cup to mark how much each person should drink.
- A cataract of the eye.
- A peg in musical instruments for increasing or relaxing the tension of the strings.
- A cylinder often of wood or metal used to fasten or as a bearing between two parts.
- (informal, in the plural) A leg.
- (bodybuilding, slang) An injection of PEDs.
- (electricity) Any of the individual connecting elements of a multipole electrical connector.
- A slender object specially designed for use in a specific game or sport, such as skittles or bowling.
- (curling) The spot at the exact centre of the house (the target area)
- A needle without an eye (usually) made of drawn-out steel wire with one end sharpened and the other flattened or rounded into a head, used for fastening.
- (chess) Either a scenario in which moving a lesser piece to escape from attack would expose a more valuable piece to being taken instead, or one where moving a piece is impossible as it would place the king in check.
- (locksmithing) A small cylindrical object which blocks the rotation of a pin-tumbler lock when the incorrect key is inserted.
- (archery) The spot at the exact centre of the target, originally a literal pin that fastened the target in place.
- (UK, brewing) A size of brewery cask, equal to half a firkin, or eighth of a barrel.
- A piece of jewellery that is attached to clothing with a pin.
- The tenon of a dovetail joint.
- A small nail with a head and a sharp point.
- (US) A simple accessory that can be attached to clothing with a pin or fastener, often round and bearing a design, logo or message, and used for decoration, identification or to show political affiliation, etc.
verb
- to hold fast or prevent from moving
- catch in or as if in a trap
- to sell marijuana on a street corner
- place in a confining or embarrassing position
- hold or catch as if in a trap
- (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.
noun
- 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
- (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.
- A place in a water pipe, pump, etc., where air accumulates for lack of an outlet.
- (historical) A light two-wheeled carriage with springs.
- (computing) An exception generated by the processor or by an external event.
noun
- An advantageous hold.
- (music) A catchy musical phrase which forms the basis of a popular song.
- (boxing) a type of punch delivered with the arm rigid and partially bent and the fist travelling nearly horizontally mesially along an arc
- (bowling) A ball that is rolled in a curved line.
- (programming) Part of a system's operation that can be intercepted to change or augment its behaviour.
- (typography) A diacritical mark shaped like the upper part of a question mark, as in ỏ.
- (Scrabble) An instance of playing a word perpendicular to a word already on the board, adding a letter to the start or the end of the word to form a new word.
- (nautical, chiefly historical) A knee-shaped wooden join connecting the keel to the stem (post forming the frontmost part of the bow) or the sternpost in cog-like vessels or similar vessels.
- The amount of spin placed on a bowling ball.
- (geography) A spit or narrow cape of sand or gravel turned landward at the outer end, such as Sandy Hook in New Jersey.
- (authorship) A brief, punchy opening statement intended to get attention from an audience, reader, or viewer, and make them want to continue to listen to a speech, read a book, or watch a play.
- (golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the left. (See draw, slice, fade.)
- (cricket) A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a horizontal arc, hitting the ball high in the air to the leg side, often played to balls which bounce around head height.
- A rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other attachment.
- (slang) A prostitute.
- The part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns.
- (agriculture) A field sown two years in succession.
- The curved needle used in the art of crochet.
- Any of various hook-shaped agricultural implements such as a billhook.
- (informal) A grasp (of), an attachment (to).
- A snare; a trap.
- (informal) Removal or expulsion from a group or activity.
- A sharp bend or angle in the course or length of an object (e.g. a bend in a river, etc.).
- (narratology) A gimmick or element of a creative work intended to be attention-grabbing for the audience; a compelling idea for a story that will be sure to attract people's attention.
- (baseball) A curveball.
- A barbed metal hook used for fishing; a fishhook.
- (basketball) a basketball shot in which the offensive player, usually turned perpendicular to the basket, gently throws the ball with a sweeping motion of his arm in an upward arc with a follow-through which ends over his head. Also called hook shot.
- (bridge, slang) A finesse.
- A tie-in to a current event or trend that makes a news story or editorial relevant and timely.
- (card games, slang) A jack (the playing card).
- (typography, rare) A háček.
- A loop shaped like a hook under certain written letters, for example, g and j.
- (surfing) Synonym of shoulder (“the part of a wave that has not yet broken”).
- (Canada, Australia, military) Any of the chevrons denoting rank.
- (in the plural) The projecting points of the thighbones of cattle; called also hook bones.
- (nautical, informal) A ship's anchor.
- a golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer
- a short swinging punch delivered from the side with the elbow bent
- a catch for locking a door
- anything that serves as an enticement
- a sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook
- a basketball shot made over the head with the hand that is farther from the basket
- a mechanical device that is curved or bent to suspend or hold or pull something
- a curved or bent implement for suspending or pulling something
verb
- (usually passive voice) To make addicted; to captivate.
- (transitive) To insert in a curved way reminiscent of a hook.
- (soccer, bowling) To swerve a ball; kick or throw a ball so it swerves or bends.
- (intransitive) To become attached, as by a hook.
- (field hockey, ice hockey) To use the hockey stick to trip or block another player
- To acquire as a spouse.
- (transitive) To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.
- (cricket, golf, basketball) To play a hook shot.
- (transitive) To connect (hook into, hook together).
- (intransitive) To move or go with a sudden turn.
- (transitive) To work yarn into a fabric using a hook; to crochet.
- (transitive) To ensnare or obligate someone, as if with a hook.
- (Scrabble) To play a word perpendicular to another word by adding a single letter to the existing word.
- (transitive) To attach a hook to.
- (bridge, slang) To finesse.
- (transitive) To catch with a hook (hook a fish).
- (intransitive) To bend; to be curved.
- (rugby) To succeed in heeling the ball back out of a scrum (used particularly of the team's designated hooker).
- (intransitive, slang) To engage in prostitution.
- hit a ball and put a spin on it so that it travels to the left
- make a piece of needlework by interlocking and looping thread with a hooked needle
- catch with a hook
- rip off; ask an unreasonable price
- to cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, especially a narcotic drug)
- secure with the foot
- take by theft
- hit with a hook
- entice and trap
- approach with an offer of sexual favors
- fasten with a hook
- make off with belongings of others
noun
verb
- (transitive, sometimes idiomatic) (Of a resource) To support or sustain someone for a limited period.
- (intransitive) To remain in office, possession, residency etc., beyond a certain date.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To save, delay.
- (transitive) To be in a position to harm (someone); to have damaging information on (someone).
- intimidate somebody (with a threat)
- hold over goods to be sold for the next season
- hold back to a later time
- continue a term of office past the normal period of time
- keep in a position or state from an earlier period of time
verb
- To prevent (something) from being accomplished.
- (nautical) Clipping of hydrofoil.
- To blunt; to dull; to spoil.
- (transitive) To cover or wrap with foil.
- (mathematics) To expand a product of two or more algebraic expressions, typically binomials.
- To prevent (someone) from accomplishing something.
- cover or back with foil
- hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
- enhance by contrast
noun
- (hunting) The track of an animal.
- (chiefly uncountable) Thin aluminium/aluminum (or, formerly, tin) used for wrapping food.
- (hydrodynamics, nautical) Clipping of hydrofoil.
- (heraldry) A stylized flower or leaf.
- (architecture) A small arc in the tracery of a window, etc.
- (figuratively) Anything that acts by contrast to emphasise the characteristics of something.
- (authorship, figuratively) In literature, theatre/theater, etc., a character who helps emphasize the traits of the main character and who usually acts as an opponent or antagonist, but can also serve as the sidekick of the protagonist.
- A thin layer of metal put between a jewel and its setting to make it seem more brilliant.
- Failure when on the point of attainment; defeat; frustration; miscarriage.
- (fencing) A very thin sword with a blunted (or foiled) tip
- A very thin sheet of metal or plastic.
- (aerodynamics, aviation) Clipping of aerofoil/airfoil.
- One of the incorrect answers presented in a multiple-choice test.
- A premium trading card with a glossy finish.
- A thin, transparent plastic material on which marks are made and projected for the purposes of presentation. See transparency.
- a device consisting of a flat or curved piece (as a metal plate) so that its surface reacts to the water it is passing through
- a light slender flexible sword tipped by a button
- picture consisting of a positive photograph or drawing on a transparent base; viewed with a projector
- anything that serves by contrast to call attention to another thing's good qualities
- a piece of thin and flexible sheet metal
verb
- To keep delayed, suspended, held up, or stuck.
- To rob or mug (someone).
- (transitive) To put up to hang.
- To distress, disadvantage or harm (someone).
- To quit (something); to give up or stop doing (something); to abandon (something).
- To arrest (someone); to send (someone) to prison.
- (intransitive, figurative) To stop talking.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To terminate a telephone call, originally by hanging the receiver on its hook or cradle thereby automatically disconnecting the line.
- interrupt a telephone conversation
- put a telephone receiver back in its cradle
- cause to be hanging or suspended
noun
- a restraint put around something to hold it together
- a strip of material attached to the leg of a bird to identify it (as in studies of bird migration)
- an unofficial association of people or groups
- instrumentalists not including string players
- a group of musicians playing popular music for dancing
- a cord-like tissue connecting two larger parts of an anatomical structure
- a stripe or stripes of contrasting color
- an adornment consisting of a strip of a contrasting color or material
- a thin flat strip of flexible material that is worn around the body or one of the limbs (especially to decorate the body)
- a thin flat strip or loop of flexible material that goes around or over something else, typically to hold it together or as a decoration
- jewelry consisting of a circlet of precious metal (often set with jewels) worn on the finger
- a driving belt in machinery
- a range of frequencies between two limits
- (telecommunications) A designated range of radio frequencies used for wireless communication.
- A continuous tablet, stripe, or series of ornaments, as of carved foliage, of colour, or of brickwork.
- (sciences) Any distinguishing line formed by chromatography, electrophoresis etc
- A strip of material wrapped around things to hold them together.
- A narrow strip of cloth or other material on clothing, to bind, strengthen, or ornament it.
- (Canada) Ellipsis of band government.
- A linen collar or ruff worn in the 16th and 17th centuries.
- (in the plural) Two strips of linen hanging from the neck in front as part of a clerical, legal, or academic dress.
- (physics) A group of energy levels in a solid state material.
- A type of orchestra originally playing janissary music; an instance of this type.
- (slang, hiphop, often in the plural) A wad of money totaling $1K, held together by a band; (by extension) $1000, a grand; (by extension) money
- A group of musicians who perform together as an ensemble; sometimes, such a group working for a professional recording artist.
- A long strip of material, color, etc, that is different from the surrounding area.
- (physics) A part of the electromagnetic spectrum.
- (medicine) Ellipsis of band cell.
- That which serves as the means of union or connection between persons; a tie.
- Ellipsis of marching band.
- A strip along the spine of a book where the pages are attached.
- (anthropology) A small group of people living in a simple society, contrasted with tribes, chiefdoms, and nations.
- (especially US) A ring, such as a wedding ring (wedding band), or a ring put on a bird's leg to identify it.
- In Gothic architecture, the moulding, or suite of mouldings, which encircles the pillars and small shafts.
- A group of people loosely united for a common purpose, such as a band of thieves.
- A belt or strap that is part of a machine.
verb
- attach a ring to the foot of, in order to identify
- bind or tie together, as with a band
- (transitive) To fasten with a band.
- (transitive, ornithology) To fasten an identifying band around the leg of (a bird).
- (transitive, education) To group (students) together by perceived ability; to stream.
- (intransitive) To group together for a common purpose; to confederate.
verb
verb
noun
- The act or instance of defeating, of overcoming, vanquishing.
- Frustration (by prevention of success), stymieing; (law) nullification.
- The act or instance of being defeated, of being overcome or vanquished; a loss.
- the feeling that accompanies an experience of being thwarted in attaining your goals
- an unsuccessful ending to a struggle or contest
verb
- To place in the rear; to secure the rear of.
- (transitive) To move; stir.
- (transitive, vulgar, British) To sodomize (perform anal sex)
- (intransitive) To rise up on the hind legs.
- (transitive, said of people towards animals) To breed and raise.
- (intransitive, usually with "up") To get angry.
- (transitive, literary) To raise physically or metaphorically; to lift up; to cause to rise, to elevate.
- (transitive, rare) To construct by building; to set up
- (intransitive) To rise high above, tower above.
- (transitive, of geese) To carve.
- (transitive) To bring up to maturity, as offspring; to educate; to instruct; to foster.
- (transitive, rare) To raise spiritually; to lift up; to elevate morally.
- cause to rise up
- stand up on the hind legs, of quadrupeds
- rise up
- construct, build, or erect
- look after a child until it is an adult
adj
adv
noun
- (military) Specifically, the part of an army or fleet which comes last, or is stationed behind the rest.
- The back or hindmost part; that which is behind, or last in order.
- (anatomy) The buttocks or bottom.
- the part of something that is furthest from the normal viewer
- the back of a military formation or procession
- the side of an object that is opposite its front
- the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
- the side that goes last or is not normally seen
verb
- be in control
- be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance
- look down on
- be greater in significance than
- have dominance or the power to defeat over
- To exert an overwhelming guiding influence over something or someone
- To overlook from a height.
- To govern, rule or control by superior authority or power
- (computing, graph theory, linguistics) To precede another node of a directed graph in all paths from the start of the graph to the other node.
- To enjoy a commanding position in some field
adj
noun
noun
- restraint that attaches to something or holds something in place
- the sterilization of an animal
- the act of putting something in working order again
- (histology) the preservation and hardening of a tissue sample to retain as nearly as possible the same relations they had in the living body
- The act of subverting (fixing) a vote.
- See fixings.
- (UK, usually in the plural) Something to aid attachment during construction (screws, wall plugs, etc)
verb
noun
- restraint that attaches to something or holds something in place
- The aspect of a character that experiences destructive temptation.
- (biology) A root-like structure that anchors aquatic sessile organisms, such as seaweed, other sessile algae, stalked crinoids, benthic cnidarians, and sponges, to the substrate.
- Something to or by which an object can be securely fastened.
adv
- In a manner that impedes.
- To a later point in time. See also put back.
- Towards, into or in the past.
- In a direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing or normally pointing.
- Away from someone or something; at a distance.
- So as to shrink, recede or move aside, or cause to do so.
- (not comparable) To or in a previous condition or place.
- (not comparable) In a reciprocal manner; in return.
- (postpositive) Earlier, ago.
- In a direction opposite to the usual or desired direction of movement or progress, physically or figuratively.
- Away from the front or from an edge.
- in or to or toward a former location
- in reply
- at or to or toward the back or rear
- in repayment or retaliation
- in or to or toward a past time
- in or to or toward an original condition
adj
- (comparable, phonetics) Pronounced with the highest part of the body of the tongue toward the back of the mouth, near the soft palate (most often describing a vowel).
- At or near the rear.
- Not current.
- (predicative) Returned or restored to a previous place or condition.
- Situated away from the main or most frequented areas.
- Moving or operating backward.
- In arrears; overdue.
- located at or near the back of an animal
- of an earlier date
- related to or located at the back
noun
- (mining) The roof of a horizontal underground passage.
- (swimming) Clipping of backstroke.
- (slang, uncountable) Effort, usually physical.
- (sports) In some team sports, a position behind most players on the team.
- (figuratively) The upper part of a natural object which is considered to resemble an animal’s back.
- (slang, uncountable) Large and attractive buttocks.
- A support or resource in reserve.
- Area behind, such as the backyard of a house or the rear storeroom of a retail store.
- The reverse side; the side that is not normally seen.
- The side of a blade opposite the side used for cutting.
- Among leather dealers, one of the thickest and stoutest tanned hides.
- A ferryboat.
- The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly.
- The part of something that goes last.
- The backrest, the part of a piece of furniture which receives the human back.
- (nautical) The keel and keelson of a ship.
- (figurative) The part of a piece of clothing which covers the back.
- A non-alcoholic drink (often water or a soft drink), to go with hard liquor or a cocktail.
- The side of any object which is opposite the front or useful side.
- The spine and associated tissues.
- The edge of a book which is bound.
- A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc.
- (printing) The inside margin of a page.
- That which is farthest away from the front.
- (football) a person who plays in the backfield
- the part of a garment that covers the back of your body
- (American football) the position of a player on a football team who is stationed behind the line of scrimmage
- the protective covering on the front, back, and spine of a book
- the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord
- the part of something that is furthest from the normal viewer
- the posterior part of a human (or animal) body from the neck to the end of the spine
- the side that goes last or is not normally seen
- a support that you can lean against while sitting
verb
- (transitive) To push or force backwards.
- (law, of a justice of the peace) To sign or endorse (a warrant, issued in another county, to apprehend an offender).
- (transitive) To support.
- (MLE, transitive) To draw from behind the back (a knife etc.) (as also back out).
- (intransitive) To go in the reverse direction.
- (nautical, of the wind) To change direction contrary to the normal pattern; that is, to shift anticlockwise in the northern hemisphere, or clockwise in the southern hemisphere.
- (UK, of a hunting dog) To stand still behind another dog which has pointed.
- To row backward with (oars).
- (nautical, of a square sail) To brace the yards so that the wind presses on the front of the sail, to slow the ship.
- To make a back for; to furnish with a back.
- To adjoin behind; to be at the back of.
- (nautical, of an anchor) To lay out a second, smaller anchor to provide additional holding power.
- (Nigeria, transitive) To carry an infant on one’s back.
- To write upon the back of, possibly as an endorsement.
- be in back of
- travel backward
- establish as valid or genuine
- place a bet on
- give support or one's approval to
- strengthen by providing with a back or backing
- shift to a counterclockwise direction
- support financial backing for
- be behind; approve of
- cause to travel backward
verb
- To halt something temporarily.
- To bring a solid substance, usually in powder form, into suspension in a liquid.
- (travel, aviation) To remove the value of an unused coupon from an air ticket, typically so as to allow continuation of the next sectors' travel.
- To hold in an undetermined or undecided state.
- To hang freely; underhang.
- To debar, or cause to withdraw temporarily, from any privilege, from the execution of an office, from the enjoyment of income, etc.
- (chemistry) To support in a liquid, as an insoluble powder, by stirring, to facilitate chemical action.
- To discontinue or interrupt a function, task, position, or event.
- hang freely
- bar temporarily; from school, office, etc.
- cause to be held in suspension in a fluid
- make inoperative or stop
- stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it
- render temporarily ineffective
verb
noun
- A tight grip.
- Alternative form of clinch (“the act of bending and hammering the point of a nail so it cannot be removed”).
- (engineering) A seal that is applied to formed thin-wall bushings.
- A local chapter of the Church of the SubGenius parody religion.
- the act of grasping
- a small slip noose made with seizing
verb
- To disable; to impede.
- To walk lame, or unevenly.
- To fetter by tying the legs; to restrict (a horse) with hobbles.
- (figurative) To move or proceed roughly or irregularly.
- strap the foreleg and hind leg together on each side (of a horse) in order to keep the legs on the same side moving in unison
- walk impeded by some physical limitation or injury
- hamper the action or progress of
noun
- (chiefly in the plural) One of the short straps tied between the legs of unfenced horses, allowing them to wander short distances but preventing them from running off.
- (dialect, UK and Newfoundland) An odd job; a piece of casual work.
- An unsteady, off-balance step.
- the uneven manner of walking that results from an injured leg
- a shackle for the ankles or feet
noun
- An advantageous hold.
- (music) A catchy musical phrase which forms the basis of a popular song.
- (boxing) a type of punch delivered with the arm rigid and partially bent and the fist travelling nearly horizontally mesially along an arc
- (bowling) A ball that is rolled in a curved line.
- (programming) Part of a system's operation that can be intercepted to change or augment its behaviour.
- (typography) A diacritical mark shaped like the upper part of a question mark, as in ỏ.
- (Scrabble) An instance of playing a word perpendicular to a word already on the board, adding a letter to the start or the end of the word to form a new word.
- (nautical, chiefly historical) A knee-shaped wooden join connecting the keel to the stem (post forming the frontmost part of the bow) or the sternpost in cog-like vessels or similar vessels.
- The amount of spin placed on a bowling ball.
- (geography) A spit or narrow cape of sand or gravel turned landward at the outer end, such as Sandy Hook in New Jersey.
- (authorship) A brief, punchy opening statement intended to get attention from an audience, reader, or viewer, and make them want to continue to listen to a speech, read a book, or watch a play.
- (golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the left. (See draw, slice, fade.)
- (cricket) A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a horizontal arc, hitting the ball high in the air to the leg side, often played to balls which bounce around head height.
- A rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other attachment.
- (slang) A prostitute.
- The part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns.
- (agriculture) A field sown two years in succession.
- The curved needle used in the art of crochet.
- Any of various hook-shaped agricultural implements such as a billhook.
- (informal) A grasp (of), an attachment (to).
- A snare; a trap.
- (informal) Removal or expulsion from a group or activity.
- A sharp bend or angle in the course or length of an object (e.g. a bend in a river, etc.).
- (narratology) A gimmick or element of a creative work intended to be attention-grabbing for the audience; a compelling idea for a story that will be sure to attract people's attention.
- (baseball) A curveball.
- A barbed metal hook used for fishing; a fishhook.
- (basketball) a basketball shot in which the offensive player, usually turned perpendicular to the basket, gently throws the ball with a sweeping motion of his arm in an upward arc with a follow-through which ends over his head. Also called hook shot.
- (bridge, slang) A finesse.
- A tie-in to a current event or trend that makes a news story or editorial relevant and timely.
- (card games, slang) A jack (the playing card).
- (typography, rare) A háček.
- A loop shaped like a hook under certain written letters, for example, g and j.
- (surfing) Synonym of shoulder (“the part of a wave that has not yet broken”).
- (Canada, Australia, military) Any of the chevrons denoting rank.
- (in the plural) The projecting points of the thighbones of cattle; called also hook bones.
- (nautical, informal) A ship's anchor.
- a golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer
- a short swinging punch delivered from the side with the elbow bent
- a catch for locking a door
- anything that serves as an enticement
- a sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook
- a basketball shot made over the head with the hand that is farther from the basket
- a mechanical device that is curved or bent to suspend or hold or pull something
- a curved or bent implement for suspending or pulling something
verb
- (usually passive voice) To make addicted; to captivate.
- (transitive) To insert in a curved way reminiscent of a hook.
- (soccer, bowling) To swerve a ball; kick or throw a ball so it swerves or bends.
- (intransitive) To become attached, as by a hook.
- (field hockey, ice hockey) To use the hockey stick to trip or block another player
- To acquire as a spouse.
- (transitive) To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.
- (cricket, golf, basketball) To play a hook shot.
- (transitive) To connect (hook into, hook together).
- (intransitive) To move or go with a sudden turn.
- (transitive) To work yarn into a fabric using a hook; to crochet.
- (transitive) To ensnare or obligate someone, as if with a hook.
- (Scrabble) To play a word perpendicular to another word by adding a single letter to the existing word.
- (transitive) To attach a hook to.
- (bridge, slang) To finesse.
- (transitive) To catch with a hook (hook a fish).
- (intransitive) To bend; to be curved.
- (rugby) To succeed in heeling the ball back out of a scrum (used particularly of the team's designated hooker).
- (intransitive, slang) To engage in prostitution.
- hit a ball and put a spin on it so that it travels to the left
- make a piece of needlework by interlocking and looping thread with a hooked needle
- catch with a hook
- rip off; ask an unreasonable price
- to cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, especially a narcotic drug)
- secure with the foot
- take by theft
- hit with a hook
- entice and trap
- approach with an offer of sexual favors
- fasten with a hook
- make off with belongings of others
noun
verb
- (transitive, sometimes idiomatic) (Of a resource) To support or sustain someone for a limited period.
- (intransitive) To remain in office, possession, residency etc., beyond a certain date.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To save, delay.
- (transitive) To be in a position to harm (someone); to have damaging information on (someone).
- intimidate somebody (with a threat)
- hold over goods to be sold for the next season
- hold back to a later time
- continue a term of office past the normal period of time
- keep in a position or state from an earlier period of time
noun
- a restraint put around something to hold it together
- a strip of material attached to the leg of a bird to identify it (as in studies of bird migration)
- an unofficial association of people or groups
- instrumentalists not including string players
- a group of musicians playing popular music for dancing
- a cord-like tissue connecting two larger parts of an anatomical structure
- a stripe or stripes of contrasting color
- an adornment consisting of a strip of a contrasting color or material
- a thin flat strip of flexible material that is worn around the body or one of the limbs (especially to decorate the body)
- a thin flat strip or loop of flexible material that goes around or over something else, typically to hold it together or as a decoration
- jewelry consisting of a circlet of precious metal (often set with jewels) worn on the finger
- a driving belt in machinery
- a range of frequencies between two limits
- (telecommunications) A designated range of radio frequencies used for wireless communication.
- A continuous tablet, stripe, or series of ornaments, as of carved foliage, of colour, or of brickwork.
- (sciences) Any distinguishing line formed by chromatography, electrophoresis etc
- A strip of material wrapped around things to hold them together.
- A narrow strip of cloth or other material on clothing, to bind, strengthen, or ornament it.
- (Canada) Ellipsis of band government.
- A linen collar or ruff worn in the 16th and 17th centuries.
- (in the plural) Two strips of linen hanging from the neck in front as part of a clerical, legal, or academic dress.
- (physics) A group of energy levels in a solid state material.
- A type of orchestra originally playing janissary music; an instance of this type.
- (slang, hiphop, often in the plural) A wad of money totaling $1K, held together by a band; (by extension) $1000, a grand; (by extension) money
- A group of musicians who perform together as an ensemble; sometimes, such a group working for a professional recording artist.
- A long strip of material, color, etc, that is different from the surrounding area.
- (physics) A part of the electromagnetic spectrum.
- (medicine) Ellipsis of band cell.
- That which serves as the means of union or connection between persons; a tie.
- Ellipsis of marching band.
- A strip along the spine of a book where the pages are attached.
- (anthropology) A small group of people living in a simple society, contrasted with tribes, chiefdoms, and nations.
- (especially US) A ring, such as a wedding ring (wedding band), or a ring put on a bird's leg to identify it.
- In Gothic architecture, the moulding, or suite of mouldings, which encircles the pillars and small shafts.
- A group of people loosely united for a common purpose, such as a band of thieves.
- A belt or strap that is part of a machine.
verb
- attach a ring to the foot of, in order to identify
- bind or tie together, as with a band
- (transitive) To fasten with a band.
- (transitive, ornithology) To fasten an identifying band around the leg of (a bird).
- (transitive, education) To group (students) together by perceived ability; to stream.
- (intransitive) To group together for a common purpose; to confederate.
noun
- restraint that attaches to something or holds something in place
- the sterilization of an animal
- the act of putting something in working order again
- (histology) the preservation and hardening of a tissue sample to retain as nearly as possible the same relations they had in the living body
- The act of subverting (fixing) a vote.
- See fixings.
- (UK, usually in the plural) Something to aid attachment during construction (screws, wall plugs, etc)
verb
noun
- restraint that attaches to something or holds something in place
- The aspect of a character that experiences destructive temptation.
- (biology) A root-like structure that anchors aquatic sessile organisms, such as seaweed, other sessile algae, stalked crinoids, benthic cnidarians, and sponges, to the substrate.
- Something to or by which an object can be securely fastened.
verb
noun
- The withholding of permits to extract a natural resource.
- A time period after the first release of a creative work before it can be distributed or adapted to other channels.
- A designation of some details about a crime that the police deliberately do not reveal to the public.
- (car sales) The difference between a dealer's cost and the manufacturer's suggested retail price.
- Money that a buyer does not pay at the time of purchase, but which is paid afterward (sometimes in installments, sometimes on a specified date).
- (accounting) Income that is set aside for eventualities such as customer returns, seasonal fluctuations, performance bonuses, unexpected costs, etc.
- A legal provision for restricting distributions to a trust beneficiary under certain conditions.
- The projection or loop, on the thill of a vehicle, to which a strap of the harness is attached, to hold back a carriage when going downhill, or in backing. Also, the strap or part of the harness so used.
- A portion of the money that is owed to someone which is not paid, but instead held as security, until the entire job or contract has been successfully completed.
- A restraint; a device or part of a device that operates to restrain.
- A delay in the movement of solute due to the slowing effects of diffusion
- A random subset of a body of data that is not used in the main analysis, but rather reserved for other purposes, such as validation.
- A time period during which sales of a specific security or commodity cannot occur.
verb
- To restrain.
- hold and prevent from leaving
- (transitive, Singapore, Wales) To put (something) back (to its original location or appropriate place); to put away.
- (transitive) To enter (accounts, records, etc.) in a book.
- (transitive) To observe; to adhere to; to fulfill; to not swerve from or violate.
- To have habitually in stock for sale.
- (ditransitive) To maintain the condition of; to preserve in a certain state.
- (transitive) To continue in (a course or mode of action); to not intermit or fall from; to uphold or maintain.
- (of living things) To raise; to care for.
- (transitive) To remain faithful to a given promise or word.
- (transitive) To record transactions, accounts, or events in.
- (intransitive, cricket) To act as wicket-keeper.
- (with from) To watch over, look after, guard, protect.
- To maintain possession of.
- To supply with necessities and financially support (a person).
- To refrain from freely disclosing (a secret).
- To maintain (an establishment or institution); to conduct; to manage.
- To remain edible or otherwise usable.
- To continue.
- (copulative) To remain in a state.
- supply with room and board
- retain possession of
- prevent the action or expression of
- behave as expected during holidays or rites
- stop (someone or something) from doing something or being in a certain state
- to rear
- store or keep customarily
- maintain for use and service
- retain rights to
- look after; be the keeper of; have charge of
- have as a supply
- supply with necessities and support
- maintain in safety from injury, harm, or danger
- fail to spoil or rot
- stick to correctly or closely
- maintain by writing regular records
- cause to continue in a certain state, position, or activity
- allow to remain in a place or position or maintain a property or feature
- conform one's action or practice to
- continue a certain state, condition, or activity
- prevent (food) from rotting
noun
- The state of being kept; hence, the resulting condition; case.
- (engineering) A cap for holding something, such as a journal box, in place.
- (historical) The main tower of a castle or fortress, located within the castle walls.
- The food or money required to keep someone alive and healthy; one's support, maintenance.
- a cell in a jail or prison
- the financial means whereby one lives
- the main tower within the walls of a medieval castle or fortress
verb
- hold within limits and control
- kill by nailing onto a cross
- treat cruelly
- criticize harshly or violently
- (hyperbolic, informal, sports) To thoroughly beat at a sport or game.
- (hyperbolic) To punish or otherwise express extreme anger at, especially as a scapegoat or target of outrage.
- To execute (a person) by nailing to a cross.
verb
- hold within limits and control
- undergo necrosis
- cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of
- practice self-denial of one's body and appetites
- (intransitive) To lose vitality.
- (transitive) To scare.
- (intransitive) To be subdued.
- (transitive, Scots law, historical) To grant in mortmain.
- (transitive) To affect with vexation or chagrin.
- (transitive, usually used passively) To injure the dignity of; to embarrass; to humiliate.
- (transitive) To discipline (one's body, appetites etc.) by suppressing desires; to practise abstinence on.
verb
- hold within limits and control
- bring under control by force or authority
- make subordinate, dependent, or subservient
- get on top of; deal with successfully
- correct by punishment or discipline
- put down by force or intimidation
- (transitive) To overcome, quieten, or bring under control.
- (transitive) To bring (a country) under control by force.
verb
- hold back within
- secure and keep for possible future use or application
- keep in one's mind
- allow to remain in a place or position or maintain a property or feature
- To hold (something) secure; to prevent (something) from becoming detached or separated.
- To keep (something) in the mind; to recall, to remember.
- To keep in control or possession; to continue having.
- To keep (someone) in one's pay or service; also, (chiefly historical) to maintain (someone) as a dependent or follower.
- (chiefly law) To employ (someone, especially a lawyer) by paying a retainer (“fee one pays to reserve another person's time for services”); specifically, to engage (a barrister) by making an initial payment to secure their services if needed.
- Of a thing: to hold or keep (something) inside it; to contain.
- Often followed by from: to hold back (someone or something); to check, to prevent, to restrain, to stop.
- To have the ability to keep something in the mind; to use the memory.
- To keep (something) in place or use, instead of removing or abolishing it; to preserve.
- (education) To hold back (a pupil) instead of allowing them to advance to the next class or year; to keep back.
- (medicine) Of a body or body organ: to hold back tissue or a substance.
- (reflexive) To control or restrain (oneself); to exercise self-control over (oneself).
- (medicine) To hold back (tissue or a substance, especially urine) in the body or a body organ.
- To keep (something) in control or possession; to continue having (something); to keep back.
- (Christianity) To declare (a sin) not forgiven.
- To engage or hire (someone), especially temporarily.
verb
- To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back.
- (figurative) To search exhaustively, as if with a dragnet.
- (soccer) To hit or kick off target.
- (chiefly of a vehicle) To unintentionally rub or scrape on a surface.
- To act or proceed slowly or without enthusiasm; to be reluctant.
- (informal, intransitive) To inhale from a cigarette, cigar, etc.
- To draw along (something burdensome); hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty.
- To proceed heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly.
- (informal, intransitive) To perform as a drag queen or drag king.
- To break (land) by drawing a drag or harrow over it; to harrow.
- (intransitive, music) To play at a slower tempo than one is supposed to or than the other musicians one is playing with, or to inadvertently gradually decrease tempo while one is playing.
- To fish with a dragnet.
- To search for something, as a lost object or body, by dragging something along the bottom of a body of water.
- (slang) To roast, say negative things about, or call attention to the flaws of (someone).
- (graphical user interface) To operate a pointing device by moving it with a button held down; to move, copy, etc. (an item) in this way.
- (transitive) To pull along a surface or through a medium, sometimes with difficulty.
- to lag or linger behind
- suck in or take (air)
- move slowly and as if with great effort
- use an input device to move objects on the screen, or to select items (such as commands from a menu); drag the slider to increase or decrease rate; drag the handles on the image to resize it
- proceed for an extended period of time
- persuade to come away from something attractive or interesting
- pull, as against a resistance
- search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost
- draw slowly or heavily
- force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action
- walk without lifting the feet
noun
- (physics, uncountable) Resistance of a fluid to something moving through it.
- A device for guiding wood to the saw.
- (countable, music) A double drum-stroke played at twice the speed of the context in which it is placed.
- (countable, informal) A systematic search for someone over a wide area, especially by the authorities; a dragnet.
- (uncountable, slang) Any type of clothing or costume associated with a particular occupation or subculture.
- A skid or shoe for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel.
- The last position in a line of hikers.
- (uncountable, music) Witch house music.
- (countable, slang) Someone or something that is annoying or frustrating, or disappointing; an obstacle to progress or enjoyment.
- Anything towed in the water to retard a ship's progress, or to keep her head up to the wind; especially, a canvas bag with a hooped mouth (drag sail), so used.
- (uncountable, slang) Women's clothing worn by men for the purpose of entertainment.
- (historical) A mailcoach.
- (masonry) A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone.
- (informal, uncommon) Clipping of dragon.
- (countable, slang) A street.
- (countable, informal) A puff on a cigarette or joint.
- Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged.
- (uncountable, snooker) A large amount of backspin on the cue ball, causing the cue ball to slow down.
- (billiards) A push somewhat under the centre of the cue ball, causing it to follow the object ball a short way.
- (countable, slang) A drag king or drag queen.
- (countable, slang) A long open horse-drawn carriage with transverse or side seats.
- A heavy harrow for breaking up ground.
- (slang) A prison sentence of three months.
- (countable) The scent-path left by dragging a fox, or some other substance such as aniseed, for training hounds to follow scents.
- (countable) A device dragged along the bottom of a body of water in search of something, e.g. a dead body, or in fishing.
- (by analogy with above) Any force acting in opposition to the motion of an object.
- (countable, slang) A men's party attended in women's clothing.
- (uncountable, slang, by analogy) Men's clothing worn by women for the purpose of entertainment.
- A pulled load.
- (nautical) The difference between the speed of a screw steamer under sail and that of the screw when the ship outruns the screw; or between the propulsive effects of the different floats of a paddle wheel.
- A kind of sledge for conveying heavy objects; also, a kind of low car or handcart.
- (countable, foundry) The bottom part of a sand casting mold.
- something tedious and boring
- the act of dragging (pulling with force)
- clothing that is conventionally worn by the opposite sex (especially women's clothing when worn by a man)
- a slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke)
- something that slows or delays progress
- the phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid
verb
- (transitive) To hold back.
- (transitive, law, banking) To collect and hold (funds) for payment of property taxes and insurance on property in which one has a security interest.
- (transitive) To shut up or place in an enclosure called a pound.
- (transitive, law) To hold in the custody of a court or its delegate.
- take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority
- place or shut up in a pound
noun
verb
verb
- To restrain; withhold; check; stop.
- To stop; detain; keep back; delay; hinder.
- (transitive, nautical) To incline forward, aft, or to one side by means of stays.
- (intransitive, Scotland, South Africa, India, Southern US, African-American Vernacular, Singapore, colloquial) To live; reside.
- (intransitive) To remain in a particular place, especially for a definite or short period of time; sojourn; abide.
- (intransitive, copulative) To continue to have a particular quality.
- (transitive) To prop; support; sustain; hold up; steady.
- (intransitive, nautical) To change; tack; go about; be in stays, as a ship.
- (transitive) To support from sinking; to sustain with strength; to satisfy in part or for the time.
- (intransitive) To hold out, as in a race or contest; last or persevere to the end; to show staying power.
- To cause to cease; to put an end to.
- To brace or support with a stay or stays
- (transitive) To hold the attention of.
- (transitive, nautical) To tack; put on the other tack.
- To put off; defer; postpone; delay; keep back.
- stop or halt
- stay the same; remain in a certain state
- continue in a place, position, or situation
- fasten with stays
- hang on during a trial of endurance
- overcome or allay
- stop a judicial process
- be in a certain place and not leave
- dwell
adj
adv
noun
- A piece of stiff material, such as plastic or whalebone, used to stiffen a piece of clothing.
- Continuance or a period of time spent in a place; abode for an indefinite time.
- Restraint of passion; prudence; moderation; caution; steadiness; sobriety.
- (nautical) A strong rope or wire supporting a mast, and leading from one masthead down to some other, or other part of the vessel.
- (nautical) A station or fixed anchorage for vessels.
- The transverse piece in a chain-cable link.
- A guy, rope, or wire supporting or stabilizing a platform, such as a bridge, a pole, such as a tentpole, the mast of a derrick, or other structural element.
- (law) A postponement, especially of an execution or other punishment.
- A prop; a support.
- A fixed state; fixedness; stability; permanence.
- (in the plural) A corset.
- (nautical) brace consisting of a heavy rope or wire cable used as a support for a mast or spar
- a judicial order forbidding some action until an event occurs or the order is lifted
- the state of inactivity following an interruption
- continuing or remaining in a place or state
- a thin strip of metal or bone that is used to stiffen a garment (e.g. a corset)
verb
- To restrain; to keep from approaching.
- (board games) To remove a piece from play.
- To gain; to carry off, as a prize.
- (backgammon) To remove one of one's own checkers from the board.
- (nautical) To remove to a distance; to keep clear from rubbing against anything.
- remove from a certain place, environment, or mental or emotional state; transport into a new location or state
verb
- To control or limit access to something.
- (by extension) To limit another party's participation in a collective identity or an activity, usually due to undue pettiness, resentment, or overprotectiveness.
- (sociology) To limit (sometimes manipulatively, rather than directly) how much of a role another party, often a spouse, has in some task.
noun
verb
- surround so as to force to give up
- cause to feel distressed or worried
- harass, as with questions or requests
- (transitive, figuratively) To beleaguer, to vex, to lay siege to, to beset.
- (transitive) To beset or surround with armed forces for the purpose of compelling to surrender, to lay siege to, beleaguer.
- to assail or ply, as with requests or demands.
verb
noun
verb
- to hold fast or prevent from moving
- hold as reserve or withdraw from circulation; of capital
- convert (assets) into fixed capital
- cause to be unable to move
- make defenseless
- prohibit the conversion or use of (assets)
- (finance) To tie up a capital: make a capital investment that makes that capital unavailable.
- To render incapable of action.
- To modify a surface such that things will not stick to it
- To render motionless; to stop moving or stop from moving.
verb
- to hold fast or prevent from moving
- (chess) immobilize a piece
- pierce with a pin
- attach or fasten with pins
- To enclose; to confine; to pen; to pound.
- (graphical user interface, transitive) To attach (an icon, application, message etc.) to another item so that it persists.
- (programming, transitive) To fix (an array in memory, a security certificate, etc.) so that it cannot be modified.
- (often followed by a preposition such as "to" or "on") To fasten or attach (something) with a pin.
- (backgammon) To move a piece onto a blot, preventing the piece from further movement.
- (wrestling) To pin down (someone).
- (bodybuilding, slang, ambitransitive) To inject for performance enhancement.
- (transitive) To cause an analog gauge to reach the stop pin at the high end of the range.
- (chess, usually passive voice) To cause (a piece) to be in a pin.
- Alternative form of peen.
noun
- a club-shaped wooden object used in bowling; set up in triangular groups of ten as the target
- a holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing
- when a wrestler's shoulders are forced to the mat
- flagpole used to mark the position of the hole on a golf green
- a piece of jewelry that is pinned onto the wearer's garment
- cylindrical tumblers consisting of two parts that are held in place by springs; when they are aligned with a key the bolt can be thrown
- axis consisting of a short shaft that supports something that turns
- a small slender (often pointed) piece of wood or metal used to support or fasten or attach things
- small markers inserted into a surface to mark scores or define locations etc.
- informal terms for the leg
- (engineering) A short shaft, sometimes forming a bolt, a part of which serves as a journal.
- (golf) The flagstick: the flag-bearing pole which marks the location of a hole
- A thing of small value; a trifle.
- (informal) A pinball machine.
- (wrestling, professional wrestling) The victory condition of holding the opponent's shoulders on the wrestling mat for a prescribed period of time.
- One of a row of pegs in the side of an ancient drinking cup to mark how much each person should drink.
- A cataract of the eye.
- A peg in musical instruments for increasing or relaxing the tension of the strings.
- A cylinder often of wood or metal used to fasten or as a bearing between two parts.
- (informal, in the plural) A leg.
- (bodybuilding, slang) An injection of PEDs.
- (electricity) Any of the individual connecting elements of a multipole electrical connector.
- A slender object specially designed for use in a specific game or sport, such as skittles or bowling.
- (curling) The spot at the exact centre of the house (the target area)
- A needle without an eye (usually) made of drawn-out steel wire with one end sharpened and the other flattened or rounded into a head, used for fastening.
- (chess) Either a scenario in which moving a lesser piece to escape from attack would expose a more valuable piece to being taken instead, or one where moving a piece is impossible as it would place the king in check.
- (locksmithing) A small cylindrical object which blocks the rotation of a pin-tumbler lock when the incorrect key is inserted.
- (archery) The spot at the exact centre of the target, originally a literal pin that fastened the target in place.
- (UK, brewing) A size of brewery cask, equal to half a firkin, or eighth of a barrel.
- A piece of jewellery that is attached to clothing with a pin.
- The tenon of a dovetail joint.
- A small nail with a head and a sharp point.
- (US) A simple accessory that can be attached to clothing with a pin or fastener, often round and bearing a design, logo or message, and used for decoration, identification or to show political affiliation, etc.
verb
- to hold fast or prevent from moving
- catch in or as if in a trap
- to sell marijuana on a street corner
- place in a confining or embarrassing position
- hold or catch as if in a trap
- (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.
noun
- 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
- (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.
- A place in a water pipe, pump, etc., where air accumulates for lack of an outlet.
- (historical) A light two-wheeled carriage with springs.
- (computing) An exception generated by the processor or by an external event.
verb
- To prevent (something) from being accomplished.
- (nautical) Clipping of hydrofoil.
- To blunt; to dull; to spoil.
- (transitive) To cover or wrap with foil.
- (mathematics) To expand a product of two or more algebraic expressions, typically binomials.
- To prevent (someone) from accomplishing something.
- cover or back with foil
- hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
- enhance by contrast
noun
- (hunting) The track of an animal.
- (chiefly uncountable) Thin aluminium/aluminum (or, formerly, tin) used for wrapping food.
- (hydrodynamics, nautical) Clipping of hydrofoil.
- (heraldry) A stylized flower or leaf.
- (architecture) A small arc in the tracery of a window, etc.
- (figuratively) Anything that acts by contrast to emphasise the characteristics of something.
- (authorship, figuratively) In literature, theatre/theater, etc., a character who helps emphasize the traits of the main character and who usually acts as an opponent or antagonist, but can also serve as the sidekick of the protagonist.
- A thin layer of metal put between a jewel and its setting to make it seem more brilliant.
- Failure when on the point of attainment; defeat; frustration; miscarriage.
- (fencing) A very thin sword with a blunted (or foiled) tip
- A very thin sheet of metal or plastic.
- (aerodynamics, aviation) Clipping of aerofoil/airfoil.
- One of the incorrect answers presented in a multiple-choice test.
- A premium trading card with a glossy finish.
- A thin, transparent plastic material on which marks are made and projected for the purposes of presentation. See transparency.
- a device consisting of a flat or curved piece (as a metal plate) so that its surface reacts to the water it is passing through
- a light slender flexible sword tipped by a button
- picture consisting of a positive photograph or drawing on a transparent base; viewed with a projector
- anything that serves by contrast to call attention to another thing's good qualities
- a piece of thin and flexible sheet metal
verb
- To keep delayed, suspended, held up, or stuck.
- To rob or mug (someone).
- (transitive) To put up to hang.
- To distress, disadvantage or harm (someone).
- To quit (something); to give up or stop doing (something); to abandon (something).
- To arrest (someone); to send (someone) to prison.
- (intransitive, figurative) To stop talking.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To terminate a telephone call, originally by hanging the receiver on its hook or cradle thereby automatically disconnecting the line.
- interrupt a telephone conversation
- put a telephone receiver back in its cradle
- cause to be hanging or suspended
verb
verb
noun
- The act or instance of defeating, of overcoming, vanquishing.
- Frustration (by prevention of success), stymieing; (law) nullification.
- The act or instance of being defeated, of being overcome or vanquished; a loss.
- the feeling that accompanies an experience of being thwarted in attaining your goals
- an unsuccessful ending to a struggle or contest
verb
- To place in the rear; to secure the rear of.
- (transitive) To move; stir.
- (transitive, vulgar, British) To sodomize (perform anal sex)
- (intransitive) To rise up on the hind legs.
- (transitive, said of people towards animals) To breed and raise.
- (intransitive, usually with "up") To get angry.
- (transitive, literary) To raise physically or metaphorically; to lift up; to cause to rise, to elevate.
- (transitive, rare) To construct by building; to set up
- (intransitive) To rise high above, tower above.
- (transitive, of geese) To carve.
- (transitive) To bring up to maturity, as offspring; to educate; to instruct; to foster.
- (transitive, rare) To raise spiritually; to lift up; to elevate morally.
- cause to rise up
- stand up on the hind legs, of quadrupeds
- rise up
- construct, build, or erect
- look after a child until it is an adult
adj
adv
noun
- (military) Specifically, the part of an army or fleet which comes last, or is stationed behind the rest.
- The back or hindmost part; that which is behind, or last in order.
- (anatomy) The buttocks or bottom.
- the part of something that is furthest from the normal viewer
- the back of a military formation or procession
- the side of an object that is opposite its front
- the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
- the side that goes last or is not normally seen
verb
- be in control
- be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance
- look down on
- be greater in significance than
- have dominance or the power to defeat over
- To exert an overwhelming guiding influence over something or someone
- To overlook from a height.
- To govern, rule or control by superior authority or power
- (computing, graph theory, linguistics) To precede another node of a directed graph in all paths from the start of the graph to the other node.
- To enjoy a commanding position in some field
adj
noun
verb
- To halt something temporarily.
- To bring a solid substance, usually in powder form, into suspension in a liquid.
- (travel, aviation) To remove the value of an unused coupon from an air ticket, typically so as to allow continuation of the next sectors' travel.
- To hold in an undetermined or undecided state.
- To hang freely; underhang.
- To debar, or cause to withdraw temporarily, from any privilege, from the execution of an office, from the enjoyment of income, etc.
- (chemistry) To support in a liquid, as an insoluble powder, by stirring, to facilitate chemical action.
- To discontinue or interrupt a function, task, position, or event.
- hang freely
- bar temporarily; from school, office, etc.
- cause to be held in suspension in a fluid
- make inoperative or stop
- stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it
- render temporarily ineffective
verb
noun
- A tight grip.
- Alternative form of clinch (“the act of bending and hammering the point of a nail so it cannot be removed”).
- (engineering) A seal that is applied to formed thin-wall bushings.
- A local chapter of the Church of the SubGenius parody religion.
- the act of grasping
- a small slip noose made with seizing
verb
- To disable; to impede.
- To walk lame, or unevenly.
- To fetter by tying the legs; to restrict (a horse) with hobbles.
- (figurative) To move or proceed roughly or irregularly.
- strap the foreleg and hind leg together on each side (of a horse) in order to keep the legs on the same side moving in unison
- walk impeded by some physical limitation or injury
- hamper the action or progress of
noun
- (chiefly in the plural) One of the short straps tied between the legs of unfenced horses, allowing them to wander short distances but preventing them from running off.
- (dialect, UK and Newfoundland) An odd job; a piece of casual work.
- An unsteady, off-balance step.
- the uneven manner of walking that results from an injured leg
- a shackle for the ankles or feet
adv
adj
det
intj
noun
adv
- In a manner that impedes.
- To a later point in time. See also put back.
- Towards, into or in the past.
- In a direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing or normally pointing.
- Away from someone or something; at a distance.
- So as to shrink, recede or move aside, or cause to do so.
- (not comparable) To or in a previous condition or place.
- (not comparable) In a reciprocal manner; in return.
- (postpositive) Earlier, ago.
- In a direction opposite to the usual or desired direction of movement or progress, physically or figuratively.
- Away from the front or from an edge.
- in or to or toward a former location
- in reply
- at or to or toward the back or rear
- in repayment or retaliation
- in or to or toward a past time
- in or to or toward an original condition
adj
- (comparable, phonetics) Pronounced with the highest part of the body of the tongue toward the back of the mouth, near the soft palate (most often describing a vowel).
- At or near the rear.
- Not current.
- (predicative) Returned or restored to a previous place or condition.
- Situated away from the main or most frequented areas.
- Moving or operating backward.
- In arrears; overdue.
- located at or near the back of an animal
- of an earlier date
- related to or located at the back
noun
- (mining) The roof of a horizontal underground passage.
- (swimming) Clipping of backstroke.
- (slang, uncountable) Effort, usually physical.
- (sports) In some team sports, a position behind most players on the team.
- (figuratively) The upper part of a natural object which is considered to resemble an animal’s back.
- (slang, uncountable) Large and attractive buttocks.
- A support or resource in reserve.
- Area behind, such as the backyard of a house or the rear storeroom of a retail store.
- The reverse side; the side that is not normally seen.
- The side of a blade opposite the side used for cutting.
- Among leather dealers, one of the thickest and stoutest tanned hides.
- A ferryboat.
- The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly.
- The part of something that goes last.
- The backrest, the part of a piece of furniture which receives the human back.
- (nautical) The keel and keelson of a ship.
- (figurative) The part of a piece of clothing which covers the back.
- A non-alcoholic drink (often water or a soft drink), to go with hard liquor or a cocktail.
- The side of any object which is opposite the front or useful side.
- The spine and associated tissues.
- The edge of a book which is bound.
- A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc.
- (printing) The inside margin of a page.
- That which is farthest away from the front.
- (football) a person who plays in the backfield
- the part of a garment that covers the back of your body
- (American football) the position of a player on a football team who is stationed behind the line of scrimmage
- the protective covering on the front, back, and spine of a book
- the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord
- the part of something that is furthest from the normal viewer
- the posterior part of a human (or animal) body from the neck to the end of the spine
- the side that goes last or is not normally seen
- a support that you can lean against while sitting
verb
- (transitive) To push or force backwards.
- (law, of a justice of the peace) To sign or endorse (a warrant, issued in another county, to apprehend an offender).
- (transitive) To support.
- (MLE, transitive) To draw from behind the back (a knife etc.) (as also back out).
- (intransitive) To go in the reverse direction.
- (nautical, of the wind) To change direction contrary to the normal pattern; that is, to shift anticlockwise in the northern hemisphere, or clockwise in the southern hemisphere.
- (UK, of a hunting dog) To stand still behind another dog which has pointed.
- To row backward with (oars).
- (nautical, of a square sail) To brace the yards so that the wind presses on the front of the sail, to slow the ship.
- To make a back for; to furnish with a back.
- To adjoin behind; to be at the back of.
- (nautical, of an anchor) To lay out a second, smaller anchor to provide additional holding power.
- (Nigeria, transitive) To carry an infant on one’s back.
- To write upon the back of, possibly as an endorsement.
- be in back of
- travel backward
- establish as valid or genuine
- place a bet on
- give support or one's approval to
- strengthen by providing with a back or backing
- shift to a counterclockwise direction
- support financial backing for
- be behind; approve of
- cause to travel backward