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noun
verb
- To spread claims or gossip.
- To distribute something through a group by giving several items to one or more people to then give to others in a row, line or circle; to spread something to be used by each person in group in turn; to gather contributions for a cause.
- cause to become widely known
- cause to be distributed
verb
noun
verb
adj
adv
noun
- (colloquial) Retail price; full price; an abbreviated expression, meaning the full suggested price of a particular good or service, before any sale, discount, or other deal.
- (business) The sale of goods directly to the consumer, encompassing the storefronts, mail-order, websites, etc., and the corporate mechanisms, branding, advertising, etc. that support them.
- the selling of goods to consumers; usually in small quantities and not for resale
noun
- (uncountable) Gossip; rumour.
- idle gossip or rumor
- (preceded by the; often qualified by a following of) A major topic of social discussion.
- A customary conversation in which parent(s) explain sexual intercourse to their child.
- A conversation or discussion; usually serious, but informal.
- (uncountable, not preceded by an article) Empty boasting, promises or claims.
- (usually in the plural) Meeting to discuss a particular matter.
- (US) A customary conversation in which the parent(s) of a black child explain the racism and violence they may face, especially when interacting with police, and strategies to manage it.
- A lecture.
- a speech that is open to the public
- discussion; (‘talk about’ is a less formal alternative for ‘discussion of’)
- an exchange of ideas via conversation
- the act of giving a talk to an audience
verb
- (intransitive, slang) To confess, especially implicating others.
- (transitive) To speak (a certain language).
- (intransitive) To communicate, usually by means of speech.
- (intransitive) To gossip; to create scandal.
- (transitive) To manifest outwardly in speech, as opposed to reality or action.
- (transitive, informal, chiefly used in progressive tenses) Used to emphasise the importance, size, complexity etc. of the thing mentioned.
- (transitive, informal) To discuss; to talk about.
- (intransitive) To criticize someone for something of which one is guilty oneself.
- (informal, chiefly used in progressive tenses) To influence someone to express something, especially a particular stance or viewpoint or in a particular manner.
- express in speech
- use language
- exchange thoughts; talk with
- divulge confidential information or secrets
- deliver a lecture or talk
- reveal information
verb
- To spread inaccurate or false information.
- To promote with bombast, exaggeration, or outright falsehood; to hype or sensationalize.
- To seek or attract attention, especially through ostentation.
- To enliven something, especially a spectacle or attraction.
- To dumb down, cheapen, or vulgarize something, especially to create entertainment that appeals to coarse or unsophisticated tastes.
- To obtain money through fraudulent or deceitful means; to swindle or con.
noun
- Something that is whispered; gossip; a rumor.
- The sound of whispers;
- (occult) The projection of intention and influence caused by sending thoughts or desires outward through softly-spoken words or subtle mental or energetic means.
- speaking softly without vibration of the vocal cords
- a light noise, like the noise of silk clothing or leaves blowing in the wind
adj
verb
noun
- Rumour or complaint.
- Any sound.
- (informal) Speech that is suggestive of an attitude or opinion.
- (music) A genre of rock music that uses static and other non-musical sounds, also influenced by art rock.
- (figurative, by extension) Unwanted fuss or bustle; useless activity.
- (genetics) The measured level of variation in gene expression among cells, regardless of source, within a supposedly identical population.
- (uncountable) Various sounds, usually unwanted or unpleasant.
- (technology) Any part of a signal or data that reduces the clarity, precision, or quality of the desired output.
- Sound or signal generated by random fluctuations.
- (statistics) Variation or deviation generated by random fluctuations.
- electrical or acoustic activity that can disturb communication
- the quality of lacking any predictable order or plan
- sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound)
- a loud outcry of protest or complaint
- incomprehensibility resulting from irrelevant information or meaningless facts or remarks
- the auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience
verb
noun
- gossip (usually a mixture of truth and untruth) passed around by word of mouth
- (law) Evidence based on the reports of others, which is normally inadmissible because it was not made under oath, rather than on personal knowledge.
- (law) An out-of-court statement offered in court to prove the truth of the matter asserted (or the in-court testimony which recites such a statement), which is normally inadmissible (because it is not subject to cross-examination) unless it falls under one of a number of exceptions.
- Information that was heard by one person about another that cannot be adequately substantiated.
adj
verb
- (transitive) To spread rumour indirectly.
- (transitive) To infuse into; to affect, as with a superior or supernatural influence; to fill with what animates, enlivens or exalts; to communicate inspiration to.
- (ambitransitive) To draw in by the operation of breathing; to inhale.
- To infuse by breathing, or as if by breathing.
- (transitive) To infuse into the mind; to communicate to the spirit; to convey, as by a divine or supernatural influence; to disclose preternaturally; to produce in, as by inspiration.
- serve as the inciting cause of
- spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts
- draw in (air)
- heighten or intensify
- fill with revolutionary ideas
- supply the inspiration for
verb
- (transitive, intransitive) Of information, to spread as a rumor.
- (transitive, wrestling) To restrain in a leglock.
- (transitive, intransitive) Of a person or group, to spread (a rumor).
- (intransitive) To move one's body in a smooth undulating wave while stepping in the direction the wave is moving.
- (transitive) To drape or curl around adjacent objects.
- (transitive) To score mortar at a joint.
- (transitive) To link up through an informal communication network.
noun
- gossip spread by spoken communication
- (wrestling) A leglock.
- A dance figure in partner dancing that includes sidesteps and steps across the support foot. See Grapevine (dance move).
- (rare, apparently primarily Indian English) A rumor.
- The plant, a vine of genus Vitis, on which grapes grow.
- (skating) A move in which the feet are alternately placed in front of each other, while both remaining on the ice or ground, incorporating half-turns.
- An informal person-to-person means of circulating information or gossip.
- any of numerous woody vines of genus Vitis bearing clusters of edible berries
verb
- spread negative information about
- complain bitterly
- lay with rails
- provide with rails
- criticize severely
- convey (goods etc.) by rails
- travel by rail or train
- fish with a handline over the rails of a boat
- enclose with rails
- separate with a railing
- (transitive, rail transport, of rolling stock) To place on a track.
- To complain violently (against, about).
- (transitive, slang, drugs) To snort a line of powdered drugs.
- (transitive) To enclose with rails or a railing.
- (intransitive) To travel by railway.
- (transitive, vulgar, slang) To sexually penetrate in a rough manner.
- (transitive) To range in a line.
noun
- any of numerous widely distributed small wading birds of the family Rallidae having short wings and very long toes for running on soft mud
- a horizontal bar (usually of wood or metal)
- short for railway
- a barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports
- a bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll
- Any of several birds in the family Rallidae.
- A horizontal bar extending between supports and used for support or as a barrier; a railing.
- The metal bar forming part of the track for a railroad.
- (drugs) A large line (portion or serving of a powdery illegal drug).
- A horizontal piece of wood that serves to separate sections of a door or window.
- A railroad; a railway, as a means of transportation.
- (electronics) A conductor maintained at a fixed electrical potential relative to ground, to which other circuit components are connected.
- (surfing) One of the lengthwise edges of a surfboard.
- (backgammon) The raised edge of the game board.
- (Internet) A vertical section on one side of a web page.
- Each of two vertical side bars supporting the rungs of a ladder.
verb
adj
noun
- gossip spread by spoken communication
- a pipe used to transport liquids or gases
- A conduit made of pipes used to convey water, gas or petroleum, etc.
- (surfing) The inside of a wave that a surfer is riding, when the wave has started closing over it.
- (figuratively) A continuous, contributing source of benefits, talent, or innovation.
- A channel (either physical or logical) by which information is transmitted sequentially (that is, the first information in is the first information out).
- (figurative) A system or process through which something is conducted.
- (figurative) A widely observed pattern of development in personal interests, circumstances, or opinions.
verb
noun
- (slang) A gossip.
- (anatomy) The front opening of a creature through which food is ingested.
- (slang) A loud or overly talkative person.
- An outlet, aperture or orifice.
- (saddlery) The crosspiece of a bridle bit, which enters the mouth of an animal.
- The end of a river out of which water flows into a sea or other large body of water; or the end of a tributary out of which water flows into a larger river.
- the opening of a jar or bottle
- an opening that resembles a mouth (as of a cave or a gorge)
- a person conceived as a consumer of food
- the externally visible part of the oral cavity on the face and the system of organs surrounding the opening
- a spokesperson (as a lawyer)
- the opening through which food is taken in and vocalizations emerge
- the point where a stream issues into a larger body of water
- an impudent or insolent rejoinder
verb
- (transitive) To speak; to utter.
- (sheep husbandry) To examine the teeth of.
- To exit at a mouth (such as a river mouth)
- To form a mouth or opening in.
- (transitive) To pick up or handle with the lips or mouth, but not chew or swallow.
- To form or cleanse with the mouth; to lick, as a bear licks her cub.
- (ambitransitive) To utter with a voice that is overly loud or swelling.
- To take into the mouth; to seize or grind with the mouth or teeth; to chew; to devour.
- (transitive) To represent (words or sounds) by making the actions of speech, but silently, without producing sound; to frame.
- (figurative) Ellipsis of mouth the words; to speak insincerely.
- (transitive, intransitive) To move the mouth, with or without sound; to form (air or words) with the mouth, with or without sound.
- To carry in the mouth.
- express in speech
- articulate silently; form words with the lips only
- touch with the mouth
verb
noun
- (uncountable, originally US, nautical slang) Gossip, idle chatter; also, rumour.
- (countable, nautical) Originally (now chiefly historical), a cask with a hole cut into its top, used to provide drinking water on board a ship; now (by extension, informal), a drinking fountain on a modern ship.
- a report (often malicious) about the behavior of other people
noun
noun
verb
noun
- (figurative) News of an event, especially by hearsay or gossip.
- A bird, the dotterel.
- (figurative) Mere breath or talk; empty effort; idle words.
- Breath modulated by the respiratory and vocal organs, or by an instrument.
- (figurative) A tendency or trend.
- (philosophy, alchemy) One of the four elements of the ancient Greeks and Romans; air.
- (music) The woodwind section of an orchestra. Occasionally also used to include the brass section.
- A disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a violent inflammation. It occurs immediately after shearing.
- (countable, uncountable) Real or perceived movement of atmospheric air usually caused by convection or differences in air pressure.
- Air artificially put in motion by any force or action.
- (music) A woodwind instrument. Occasionally also used to describe a brass instrument.
- (boxing, slang) The region of the solar plexus, where a blow may paralyze the diaphragm and cause temporary loss of breath or other injury.
- One of the five basic elements in Indian and Japanese models of the Classical elements.
- (countable, uncountable) The ability to breathe easily.
- (uncountable, colloquial) Flatus.
- A direction from which the wind may blow; a point of the compass; especially, one of the cardinal points.
- Types of playing-tile in the game of mah-jongg, named after the four winds.
- Ellipsis of wind power (“source of electricity”)
- The act of winding or turning; a turn; a bend; a twist.
- a reflex that expels intestinal gas through the anus
- a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by an enclosed column of air that is moved by bellows or the human breath
- air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure
- a tendency or force that influences events
- empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk
- an indication of potential opportunity
- breath
- the act of winding or twisting
verb
- (transitive) To have complete control over; to turn and bend at one's pleasure; to vary or alter at will; to regulate; to govern.
- (transitive) To cause (someone) to become breathless, as by a blow to the abdomen, or by physical exertion, running, etc.
- (transitive) To expose to the wind; to winnow; to ventilate.
- (transitive) To entwist; to enfold; to encircle.
- (transitive) To perceive or follow by scent.
- (transitive) To rest (a horse, etc.) in order to allow the breath to be recovered; to breathe.
- (transitive) To cause to move by exerting a winding force; to haul or hoist as by a winch.
- (transitive, British) To cause a baby to bring up wind by patting its back after being fed.
- (transitive) To turn a windmill so that its sails face into the wind.
- (transitive) To tighten the spring of a clockwork mechanism.
- (transitive, British) To turn a boat or ship around, so that the wind strikes it on the opposite side.
- (intransitive) To travel or follow a path with numerous curves.
- (transitive) To blow air through a wind instrument or horn to make a sound.
- (transitive) To turn coils (of a cord or something similar) around something.
- (transitive) To introduce by insinuation; to insinuate.
- (transitive) To cover or surround with something coiled about.
- (transitive, nautical) To turn (a ship) around, end for end.
- form into a wreath
- raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help
- extend in curves and turns
- to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course
- coil the spring of (some mechanical device) by turning a stem
- arrange or coil around
- catch the scent of; get wind of
noun
- (informal) Major topic of conversation; widespread rumor; information spread behind the scenes.
- (informal) A telephone call or e-mail.
- (uncountable) Synonym of fizz-buzz (“counting game”).
- The audible friction of voiced consonants.
- A continuous humming noise, as of bees; a confused murmur, as of general conversation in low tones.
- A whisper.
- (informal) A rush or feeling of energy or excitement; a feeling of slight intoxication.
- a confusion of activity and gossip
- sound of rapid vibration
verb
- (by extension) To utter a murmuring sound; to speak with a low, humming voice.
- (transitive) To communicate with (a person) by means of a buzzer.
- (transitive) To throw swiftly.
- (transitive) To cut (the hair) in a close-cropped military style, or buzzcut.
- (chiefly of an insect) To fly while making such a sound.
- (transitive) To whisper; to communicate, as tales, in an undertone; to spread, as a report, by whispers or secretly.
- (transitive, aviation, also figuratively) To fly at high speed and at a very low altitude over (an area), as to make a surprise pass.
- (intransitive) To make a low, continuous, humming or sibilant sound, like that made by bees with their wings.
- Of a group of people, to talk about some interesting topic excitedly.
- (transitive) To talk to incessantly or confidentially in a low humming voice.
- (colloquial) To show a high level of activity and haste, energization or excitement, to be busy as a bee in one’s actions but perhaps mentally charged.
- make a buzzing sound
- be noisy with activity
- fly low
- call with a buzzer
verb
- (intransitive, figuratively) Of a rumour, opinion, etc.: to spread or reverberate.
- (transitive, figuratively) To repeat (another’s speech, opinion, etc.).
- (transitive) To reflect back (a sound).
- (intransitive, whist, bridge) To give the echo signal, informing one's partner about cards one holds.
- (intransitive) Of a sound or sound waves: to reflect off a surface and return; to reverberate or resound.
- (computing, transitive) To repeat its input as input to some other device or system.
- ring or echo with sound
- to say again or imitate
- bring to mind
noun
- (poetry) A device in verse in which a line ends with a word which recalls the sound of the last word of the preceding line.
- (figurative) An insignificant indirect result; a ripple.
- (computing) An individual discussion forum using the echomail system.
- (figurative) Something that reflects or hearkens back to an earlier thing.
- (whist, bridge) A signal, played in the same manner as a trump signal, made by a player who holds four or more trumps (or, as played by some, exactly three trumps) and whose partner has led trumps or signalled for trumps.
- An antisemitic punctuation symbol or marking, ((( ))), placed around a name or phrase to indicate the person is Jewish or the entity is controlled by Jewish people; or repurposed or reclaimed to proudly declare one's Jewishness or solidarity with Jews.
- (medicine, colloquial, uncountable) Clipping of echocardiography.
- (figurative) Sympathetic recognition; response; answer.
- An utterance repeating what has just been said.
- (computing) The displaying on the command line of the command that has just been executed.
- (medicine, colloquial, countable) Clipping of echocardiogram.
- (whist, bridge) A signal showing the number held of a plain suit when a high card in that suit is led by one's partner.
- (international standards) Alternative letter-case form of Echo from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
- A reflected sound that is heard again by its initial observer.
- a reflected television or radio or radar beam
- an imitation or repetition
- a close parallel of a feeling, idea, style, etc.
- the repetition of a sound resulting from reflection of the sound waves
- a reply that repeats what has just been said
noun
noun
- (uncountable) Gossip; rumour.
- idle gossip or rumor
- (preceded by the; often qualified by a following of) A major topic of social discussion.
- A customary conversation in which parent(s) explain sexual intercourse to their child.
- A conversation or discussion; usually serious, but informal.
- (uncountable, not preceded by an article) Empty boasting, promises or claims.
- (usually in the plural) Meeting to discuss a particular matter.
- (US) A customary conversation in which the parent(s) of a black child explain the racism and violence they may face, especially when interacting with police, and strategies to manage it.
- A lecture.
- a speech that is open to the public
- discussion; (‘talk about’ is a less formal alternative for ‘discussion of’)
- an exchange of ideas via conversation
- the act of giving a talk to an audience
verb
- (intransitive, slang) To confess, especially implicating others.
- (transitive) To speak (a certain language).
- (intransitive) To communicate, usually by means of speech.
- (intransitive) To gossip; to create scandal.
- (transitive) To manifest outwardly in speech, as opposed to reality or action.
- (transitive, informal, chiefly used in progressive tenses) Used to emphasise the importance, size, complexity etc. of the thing mentioned.
- (transitive, informal) To discuss; to talk about.
- (intransitive) To criticize someone for something of which one is guilty oneself.
- (informal, chiefly used in progressive tenses) To influence someone to express something, especially a particular stance or viewpoint or in a particular manner.
- express in speech
- use language
- exchange thoughts; talk with
- divulge confidential information or secrets
- deliver a lecture or talk
- reveal information
noun
- Something that is whispered; gossip; a rumor.
- The sound of whispers;
- (occult) The projection of intention and influence caused by sending thoughts or desires outward through softly-spoken words or subtle mental or energetic means.
- speaking softly without vibration of the vocal cords
- a light noise, like the noise of silk clothing or leaves blowing in the wind
adj
verb
noun
- Rumour or complaint.
- Any sound.
- (informal) Speech that is suggestive of an attitude or opinion.
- (music) A genre of rock music that uses static and other non-musical sounds, also influenced by art rock.
- (figurative, by extension) Unwanted fuss or bustle; useless activity.
- (genetics) The measured level of variation in gene expression among cells, regardless of source, within a supposedly identical population.
- (uncountable) Various sounds, usually unwanted or unpleasant.
- (technology) Any part of a signal or data that reduces the clarity, precision, or quality of the desired output.
- Sound or signal generated by random fluctuations.
- (statistics) Variation or deviation generated by random fluctuations.
- electrical or acoustic activity that can disturb communication
- the quality of lacking any predictable order or plan
- sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound)
- a loud outcry of protest or complaint
- incomprehensibility resulting from irrelevant information or meaningless facts or remarks
- the auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience
verb
verb
noun
noun
- gossip (usually a mixture of truth and untruth) passed around by word of mouth
- (law) Evidence based on the reports of others, which is normally inadmissible because it was not made under oath, rather than on personal knowledge.
- (law) An out-of-court statement offered in court to prove the truth of the matter asserted (or the in-court testimony which recites such a statement), which is normally inadmissible (because it is not subject to cross-examination) unless it falls under one of a number of exceptions.
- Information that was heard by one person about another that cannot be adequately substantiated.
adj
verb
- (transitive, intransitive) Of information, to spread as a rumor.
- (transitive, wrestling) To restrain in a leglock.
- (transitive, intransitive) Of a person or group, to spread (a rumor).
- (intransitive) To move one's body in a smooth undulating wave while stepping in the direction the wave is moving.
- (transitive) To drape or curl around adjacent objects.
- (transitive) To score mortar at a joint.
- (transitive) To link up through an informal communication network.
noun
- gossip spread by spoken communication
- (wrestling) A leglock.
- A dance figure in partner dancing that includes sidesteps and steps across the support foot. See Grapevine (dance move).
- (rare, apparently primarily Indian English) A rumor.
- The plant, a vine of genus Vitis, on which grapes grow.
- (skating) A move in which the feet are alternately placed in front of each other, while both remaining on the ice or ground, incorporating half-turns.
- An informal person-to-person means of circulating information or gossip.
- any of numerous woody vines of genus Vitis bearing clusters of edible berries
noun
- gossip spread by spoken communication
- a pipe used to transport liquids or gases
- A conduit made of pipes used to convey water, gas or petroleum, etc.
- (surfing) The inside of a wave that a surfer is riding, when the wave has started closing over it.
- (figuratively) A continuous, contributing source of benefits, talent, or innovation.
- A channel (either physical or logical) by which information is transmitted sequentially (that is, the first information in is the first information out).
- (figurative) A system or process through which something is conducted.
- (figurative) A widely observed pattern of development in personal interests, circumstances, or opinions.
verb
noun
- (slang) A gossip.
- (anatomy) The front opening of a creature through which food is ingested.
- (slang) A loud or overly talkative person.
- An outlet, aperture or orifice.
- (saddlery) The crosspiece of a bridle bit, which enters the mouth of an animal.
- The end of a river out of which water flows into a sea or other large body of water; or the end of a tributary out of which water flows into a larger river.
- the opening of a jar or bottle
- an opening that resembles a mouth (as of a cave or a gorge)
- a person conceived as a consumer of food
- the externally visible part of the oral cavity on the face and the system of organs surrounding the opening
- a spokesperson (as a lawyer)
- the opening through which food is taken in and vocalizations emerge
- the point where a stream issues into a larger body of water
- an impudent or insolent rejoinder
verb
- (transitive) To speak; to utter.
- (sheep husbandry) To examine the teeth of.
- To exit at a mouth (such as a river mouth)
- To form a mouth or opening in.
- (transitive) To pick up or handle with the lips or mouth, but not chew or swallow.
- To form or cleanse with the mouth; to lick, as a bear licks her cub.
- (ambitransitive) To utter with a voice that is overly loud or swelling.
- To take into the mouth; to seize or grind with the mouth or teeth; to chew; to devour.
- (transitive) To represent (words or sounds) by making the actions of speech, but silently, without producing sound; to frame.
- (figurative) Ellipsis of mouth the words; to speak insincerely.
- (transitive, intransitive) To move the mouth, with or without sound; to form (air or words) with the mouth, with or without sound.
- To carry in the mouth.
- express in speech
- articulate silently; form words with the lips only
- touch with the mouth
noun
noun
verb
noun
- (figurative) News of an event, especially by hearsay or gossip.
- A bird, the dotterel.
- (figurative) Mere breath or talk; empty effort; idle words.
- Breath modulated by the respiratory and vocal organs, or by an instrument.
- (figurative) A tendency or trend.
- (philosophy, alchemy) One of the four elements of the ancient Greeks and Romans; air.
- (music) The woodwind section of an orchestra. Occasionally also used to include the brass section.
- A disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a violent inflammation. It occurs immediately after shearing.
- (countable, uncountable) Real or perceived movement of atmospheric air usually caused by convection or differences in air pressure.
- Air artificially put in motion by any force or action.
- (music) A woodwind instrument. Occasionally also used to describe a brass instrument.
- (boxing, slang) The region of the solar plexus, where a blow may paralyze the diaphragm and cause temporary loss of breath or other injury.
- One of the five basic elements in Indian and Japanese models of the Classical elements.
- (countable, uncountable) The ability to breathe easily.
- (uncountable, colloquial) Flatus.
- A direction from which the wind may blow; a point of the compass; especially, one of the cardinal points.
- Types of playing-tile in the game of mah-jongg, named after the four winds.
- Ellipsis of wind power (“source of electricity”)
- The act of winding or turning; a turn; a bend; a twist.
- a reflex that expels intestinal gas through the anus
- a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by an enclosed column of air that is moved by bellows or the human breath
- air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure
- a tendency or force that influences events
- empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk
- an indication of potential opportunity
- breath
- the act of winding or twisting
verb
- (transitive) To have complete control over; to turn and bend at one's pleasure; to vary or alter at will; to regulate; to govern.
- (transitive) To cause (someone) to become breathless, as by a blow to the abdomen, or by physical exertion, running, etc.
- (transitive) To expose to the wind; to winnow; to ventilate.
- (transitive) To entwist; to enfold; to encircle.
- (transitive) To perceive or follow by scent.
- (transitive) To rest (a horse, etc.) in order to allow the breath to be recovered; to breathe.
- (transitive) To cause to move by exerting a winding force; to haul or hoist as by a winch.
- (transitive, British) To cause a baby to bring up wind by patting its back after being fed.
- (transitive) To turn a windmill so that its sails face into the wind.
- (transitive) To tighten the spring of a clockwork mechanism.
- (transitive, British) To turn a boat or ship around, so that the wind strikes it on the opposite side.
- (intransitive) To travel or follow a path with numerous curves.
- (transitive) To blow air through a wind instrument or horn to make a sound.
- (transitive) To turn coils (of a cord or something similar) around something.
- (transitive) To introduce by insinuation; to insinuate.
- (transitive) To cover or surround with something coiled about.
- (transitive, nautical) To turn (a ship) around, end for end.
- form into a wreath
- raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help
- extend in curves and turns
- to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course
- coil the spring of (some mechanical device) by turning a stem
- arrange or coil around
- catch the scent of; get wind of
noun
- (informal) Major topic of conversation; widespread rumor; information spread behind the scenes.
- (informal) A telephone call or e-mail.
- (uncountable) Synonym of fizz-buzz (“counting game”).
- The audible friction of voiced consonants.
- A continuous humming noise, as of bees; a confused murmur, as of general conversation in low tones.
- A whisper.
- (informal) A rush or feeling of energy or excitement; a feeling of slight intoxication.
- a confusion of activity and gossip
- sound of rapid vibration
verb
- (by extension) To utter a murmuring sound; to speak with a low, humming voice.
- (transitive) To communicate with (a person) by means of a buzzer.
- (transitive) To throw swiftly.
- (transitive) To cut (the hair) in a close-cropped military style, or buzzcut.
- (chiefly of an insect) To fly while making such a sound.
- (transitive) To whisper; to communicate, as tales, in an undertone; to spread, as a report, by whispers or secretly.
- (transitive, aviation, also figuratively) To fly at high speed and at a very low altitude over (an area), as to make a surprise pass.
- (intransitive) To make a low, continuous, humming or sibilant sound, like that made by bees with their wings.
- Of a group of people, to talk about some interesting topic excitedly.
- (transitive) To talk to incessantly or confidentially in a low humming voice.
- (colloquial) To show a high level of activity and haste, energization or excitement, to be busy as a bee in one’s actions but perhaps mentally charged.
- make a buzzing sound
- be noisy with activity
- fly low
- call with a buzzer
verb
- To spread claims or gossip.
- To distribute something through a group by giving several items to one or more people to then give to others in a row, line or circle; to spread something to be used by each person in group in turn; to gather contributions for a cause.
- cause to become widely known
- cause to be distributed
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- (colloquial) Retail price; full price; an abbreviated expression, meaning the full suggested price of a particular good or service, before any sale, discount, or other deal.
- (business) The sale of goods directly to the consumer, encompassing the storefronts, mail-order, websites, etc., and the corporate mechanisms, branding, advertising, etc. that support them.
- the selling of goods to consumers; usually in small quantities and not for resale
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- To spread inaccurate or false information.
- To promote with bombast, exaggeration, or outright falsehood; to hype or sensationalize.
- To seek or attract attention, especially through ostentation.
- To enliven something, especially a spectacle or attraction.
- To dumb down, cheapen, or vulgarize something, especially to create entertainment that appeals to coarse or unsophisticated tastes.
- To obtain money through fraudulent or deceitful means; to swindle or con.
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- (transitive) To spread rumour indirectly.
- (transitive) To infuse into; to affect, as with a superior or supernatural influence; to fill with what animates, enlivens or exalts; to communicate inspiration to.
- (ambitransitive) To draw in by the operation of breathing; to inhale.
- To infuse by breathing, or as if by breathing.
- (transitive) To infuse into the mind; to communicate to the spirit; to convey, as by a divine or supernatural influence; to disclose preternaturally; to produce in, as by inspiration.
- serve as the inciting cause of
- spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts
- draw in (air)
- heighten or intensify
- fill with revolutionary ideas
- supply the inspiration for
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- (transitive, intransitive) Of information, to spread as a rumor.
- (transitive, wrestling) To restrain in a leglock.
- (transitive, intransitive) Of a person or group, to spread (a rumor).
- (intransitive) To move one's body in a smooth undulating wave while stepping in the direction the wave is moving.
- (transitive) To drape or curl around adjacent objects.
- (transitive) To score mortar at a joint.
- (transitive) To link up through an informal communication network.
noun
- gossip spread by spoken communication
- (wrestling) A leglock.
- A dance figure in partner dancing that includes sidesteps and steps across the support foot. See Grapevine (dance move).
- (rare, apparently primarily Indian English) A rumor.
- The plant, a vine of genus Vitis, on which grapes grow.
- (skating) A move in which the feet are alternately placed in front of each other, while both remaining on the ice or ground, incorporating half-turns.
- An informal person-to-person means of circulating information or gossip.
- any of numerous woody vines of genus Vitis bearing clusters of edible berries
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- spread negative information about
- complain bitterly
- lay with rails
- provide with rails
- criticize severely
- convey (goods etc.) by rails
- travel by rail or train
- fish with a handline over the rails of a boat
- enclose with rails
- separate with a railing
- (transitive, rail transport, of rolling stock) To place on a track.
- To complain violently (against, about).
- (transitive, slang, drugs) To snort a line of powdered drugs.
- (transitive) To enclose with rails or a railing.
- (intransitive) To travel by railway.
- (transitive, vulgar, slang) To sexually penetrate in a rough manner.
- (transitive) To range in a line.
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- any of numerous widely distributed small wading birds of the family Rallidae having short wings and very long toes for running on soft mud
- a horizontal bar (usually of wood or metal)
- short for railway
- a barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports
- a bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll
- Any of several birds in the family Rallidae.
- A horizontal bar extending between supports and used for support or as a barrier; a railing.
- The metal bar forming part of the track for a railroad.
- (drugs) A large line (portion or serving of a powdery illegal drug).
- A horizontal piece of wood that serves to separate sections of a door or window.
- A railroad; a railway, as a means of transportation.
- (electronics) A conductor maintained at a fixed electrical potential relative to ground, to which other circuit components are connected.
- (surfing) One of the lengthwise edges of a surfboard.
- (backgammon) The raised edge of the game board.
- (Internet) A vertical section on one side of a web page.
- Each of two vertical side bars supporting the rungs of a ladder.
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- Rumour or complaint.
- Any sound.
- (informal) Speech that is suggestive of an attitude or opinion.
- (music) A genre of rock music that uses static and other non-musical sounds, also influenced by art rock.
- (figurative, by extension) Unwanted fuss or bustle; useless activity.
- (genetics) The measured level of variation in gene expression among cells, regardless of source, within a supposedly identical population.
- (uncountable) Various sounds, usually unwanted or unpleasant.
- (technology) Any part of a signal or data that reduces the clarity, precision, or quality of the desired output.
- Sound or signal generated by random fluctuations.
- (statistics) Variation or deviation generated by random fluctuations.
- electrical or acoustic activity that can disturb communication
- the quality of lacking any predictable order or plan
- sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound)
- a loud outcry of protest or complaint
- incomprehensibility resulting from irrelevant information or meaningless facts or remarks
- the auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience
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- (uncountable, originally US, nautical slang) Gossip, idle chatter; also, rumour.
- (countable, nautical) Originally (now chiefly historical), a cask with a hole cut into its top, used to provide drinking water on board a ship; now (by extension, informal), a drinking fountain on a modern ship.
- a report (often malicious) about the behavior of other people
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- (intransitive, figuratively) Of a rumour, opinion, etc.: to spread or reverberate.
- (transitive, figuratively) To repeat (another’s speech, opinion, etc.).
- (transitive) To reflect back (a sound).
- (intransitive, whist, bridge) To give the echo signal, informing one's partner about cards one holds.
- (intransitive) Of a sound or sound waves: to reflect off a surface and return; to reverberate or resound.
- (computing, transitive) To repeat its input as input to some other device or system.
- ring or echo with sound
- to say again or imitate
- bring to mind
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- (poetry) A device in verse in which a line ends with a word which recalls the sound of the last word of the preceding line.
- (figurative) An insignificant indirect result; a ripple.
- (computing) An individual discussion forum using the echomail system.
- (figurative) Something that reflects or hearkens back to an earlier thing.
- (whist, bridge) A signal, played in the same manner as a trump signal, made by a player who holds four or more trumps (or, as played by some, exactly three trumps) and whose partner has led trumps or signalled for trumps.
- An antisemitic punctuation symbol or marking, ((( ))), placed around a name or phrase to indicate the person is Jewish or the entity is controlled by Jewish people; or repurposed or reclaimed to proudly declare one's Jewishness or solidarity with Jews.
- (medicine, colloquial, uncountable) Clipping of echocardiography.
- (figurative) Sympathetic recognition; response; answer.
- An utterance repeating what has just been said.
- (computing) The displaying on the command line of the command that has just been executed.
- (medicine, colloquial, countable) Clipping of echocardiogram.
- (whist, bridge) A signal showing the number held of a plain suit when a high card in that suit is led by one's partner.
- (international standards) Alternative letter-case form of Echo from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
- A reflected sound that is heard again by its initial observer.
- a reflected television or radio or radar beam
- an imitation or repetition
- a close parallel of a feeling, idea, style, etc.
- the repetition of a sound resulting from reflection of the sound waves
- a reply that repeats what has just been said