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noun
noun
noun
- droplets of water vapor suspended in the air near the ground
- confusion characterized by lack of clarity
- an atmosphere in which visibility is reduced because of a cloud of some substance
- (uncountable) A thick cloud that forms near the ground; the obscurity of such a cloud.
- (Scotland) Moss.
- (UK, dialect) Tall and decaying grass left standing after the cutting or grazing season.
- A new growth of grass appearing on a field that has been mowed or grazed.
- (uncountable) A mist or film clouding a surface.
- (photography) A silver deposit or other blur on a negative or developed photographic image.
- (figurative) A state of mind characterized by lethargy and confusion.
- (computer graphics) Distance fog.
verb
- make less visible or unclear
- (transitive, photography) To make dim or obscure.
- (transitive) To cover with or as if with fog.
- (transitive) To disperse insecticide into (a forest canopy) so as to collect organisms.
- (transitive, photography) To spoil (film) via exposure to light other than in the normal process of taking a photograph.
- (intransitive) To become obscured in condensation or water.
- (intransitive) To become covered with or as if with fog.
- (transitive) To obscure in condensation or water.
- (transitive) To make confusing or obscure.
- (intransitive) To become covered with the kind of grass called fog.
- (transitive) To pasture cattle on the fog (of), or aftergrass, of; to eat off the fog from (a field).
- (intransitive, photography) To become dim or obscure.
noun
- A misty shower; dew.
- (food) Ellipsis of dag sandwich.
- A hanging end or shred, in particular a long pointed strip of cloth at the edge of a piece of clothing, or one of a row of decorative strips of cloth that may ornament a tent, booth or fairground.
- (chiefly Ireland) Pronunciation spelling of dog.
- A skewer.
- A spit, a sharpened rod used for roasting food over a fire.
- (Australia slang, derogatory) One who dresses unfashionably or without apparent care about appearance; someone who is not cool; a dweeb or nerd.
- The unbranched antler of a young deer.
- A dangling lock of sheep’s wool matted with dung.
- (graph theory) A directed acyclic graph; an ordered pair (V,E) such that E is a subset of some partial ordering relation on V.
- a flap along the edge of a garment; used in medieval clothing
- 10 grams
intj
verb
noun
- A drop of a liquid.
- the sound of a liquid falling drop by drop
- A falling or letting fall in drops; act of dripping.
- (architecture) That part of a cornice, sill course, or other horizontal member that projects beyond the rest, and has a section designed to throw off rainwater.
- (colloquial, derogatory) A limp, ineffectual, or uninteresting person.
- (medicine) An apparatus that slowly releases a liquid, especially one that intravenously releases drugs into a patient's bloodstream.
- (slang, uncountable) Style; swagger; fashionable and/or expensive clothing.
- (finance) Alternative letter-case form of DRIP (“dividend reinvestment plan”)
- flowing in drops; the formation and falling of drops of liquid
- (architecture) a projection from a cornice or sill designed to protect the area below from rainwater (as over a window or doorway)
verb
- (impersonal, of the weather) To rain lightly; to drizzle.
- (transitive) To let fall in drops.
- (UK, naval slang, intransitive) To whine or complain consistently; to grumble.
- (intransitive, usually with with) To have a superabundance of (something).
- (stative, slang) Be impressive or attractive.
- (intransitive) To be wet, to be soaked.
- (intransitive) To fall one drop at a time.
- (intransitive) To leak slowly.
- fall in drops
- let or cause to fall in drops
noun
- A drop (of rain or water), a splash.
- (skiing, slang) A ski.
- A thin, narrow strip or bar of wood (lath), metal, or plastic.
- (aviation) A control surface that extends forwards and downwards from the leading edge of a wing, leaving a gap between it and the leading edge, in order to modify the airflow around the wing so as to allow flight at a higher angle of attack without stalling, lowering the aircraft's stall speed.
- A thin piece of stone; a slate.
- a thin strip (wood or metal)
verb
- (of rain or other water) To fall; to beat (against something).
- To slap or strike; to beat, pummel; to hurl or throw down violently.
- To set on; to incite.
- (British, dialectal) To split; to crack.
- To construct or provide with slats.
- To throw (something, especially water or liquid) down; to slam or splash (something) down.
- close the slats of (windows)
- equip or bar with slats
noun
- A visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air.
- A group or swarm, especially suspended above the ground or flying.
- (cloud computing, with "the") The Internet, regarded as an abstract amorphous omnipresent space for processing and storage, the focus of cloud computing.
- (figurative) Anything unsubstantial.
- (telecommunications) A telecom network (from their representation in engineering drawings).
- (slang) Crystal methamphetamine.
- (figuratively) A negative or foreboding aspect of something positive: see every cloud has a silver lining or every silver lining has a cloud.
- Anything which makes things foggy or gloomy.
- Any mass of dust, steam or smoke resembling such a mass.
- A large, loosely-knitted headscarf worn by women.
- (Internet slang, humorous, endearing) A white cat.
- An elliptical shape or symbol whose outline is a series of semicircles, supposed to resemble a cloud.
- A dark spot on a lighter material or background.
- a visible mass of water or ice particles suspended at a considerable altitude
- a group of many things in the air or on the ground
- a cause of worry or gloom or trouble
- any collection of particles (e.g., smoke or dust) or gases that is visible
- suspicion affecting your reputation
- out of touch with reality
verb
- (intransitive) To become foggy or gloomy, or obscured from sight.
- Of the breath, to become cloud; to turn into mist.
- (transitive) To mark with, or darken in, veins or sports; to variegate with colors.
- (transitive) To blacken; to sully; to stain; to tarnish (reputation or character).
- (transitive) To make obscure.
- (transitive) To make less acute or perceptive.
- (intransitive) To become marked, darkened or variegated in this way.
- (transitive) To overspread or hide with a cloud or clouds.
- (transitive) To make gloomy or sullen.
- make less clear
- place under suspicion or cast doubt upon
- make overcast or cloudy
- billow up in the form of a cloud
- make gloomy or depressed
- colour with streaks or blotches of different shades
- make milky or dull
- make less visible or unclear
noun
- An upward spray of mist or water.
- More fully gill plume: a feathery gill of some crustaceans and molluscs.
- (geology) Ellipsis of mantle plume (“an upwelling of abnormally hot molten material from the Earth's mantle which spreads sideways when it reaches the lithosphere”).
- (botany) A large and flexible panicle of an inflorescence resembling a feather, such as is seen in certain large ornamental grasses.
- (figurative) A token of honour or prowess; that on which one prides oneself; a prize or reward.
- The furry tail of certain dog breeds (such as the Samoyed) that curls over their backs or stands erect.
- Ellipsis of plume moth (“a small, slender moth of the family Pterophoridae”).
- (astronomy) An arc of glowing material (chiefly gases) erupting from the surface of a star.
- The vane (“flattened, web-like part”) of a feather, especially when on a quill pen or the fletching of an arrow.
- A cloud formed by a dispersed substance fanning out or spreading.
- Things resembling a feather.
- anything that resembles a feather in shape or lightness
- the light horny waterproof structure forming the external covering of birds
- a feather or cluster of feathers worn as an ornament
verb
- (transitive, reflexive) Chiefly of a bird: to arrange and preen the feathers of, specifically in preparation for flight; hence (figurative), to prepare for (something).
- (transitive, also figurative) To adorn, cover, or furnish with feathers or plumes, or as if with feathers or plumes.
- (intransitive) Of a dispersed substance such as dust or smoke: to fan out or spread in a cloud.
- (transitive, reflexive, by extension) To congratulate (oneself) proudly, especially concerning something unimportant or when taking credit for another person's effort; to self-congratulate; to preen.
- dress or groom with elaborate care
- rip off; ask an unreasonable price
- be proud of
- form a plume
- deck with a plume
- clean with one's bill
noun
- (uncountable) Moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc in the morning or evening, resulting in drops.
- (uncountable) Any moisture from the atmosphere condensed by cool bodies upon their surfaces.
- (figurative) Anything that falls lightly and in a refreshing manner.
- (figurative) An emblem of morning, or fresh vigour.
- (countable, but see usage notes) An instance of such moisture settling on plants, etc.
- water that has condensed on a cool surface overnight from water vapor in the air
verb
noun
- mist; fog; roke
- A bad deal; a rip-off.
- (chess) A piece shaped like a castle tower, that can be moved only up, down, left or right (but not diagonally) or in castling.
- (rare) A castle or other fortification.
- A European bird, Corvus frugilegus, of the crow family.
- (baseball, slang) A rookie.
- (British) A type of firecracker used by farmers to scare birds of the same name.
- A cheat or swindler; someone who betrays.
- (uncountable) A trick-taking game, usually played with a specialized deck of cards.
- common gregarious Old World bird about the size and color of the American crow
- (chess) the piece that can move any number of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the chessboard
verb
verb
- To form a puddle.
- make into a puddle
- To line a canal with puddle (clay).
- To collect ideas, especially abstract concepts, into rough subtopics or categories, as in study, research or conversation.
- To play or splash in a puddle.
- To process iron, gold, etc., by means of puddling.
- To make (clay, loam, etc.) dense or close, by working it when wet, so as to render impervious to water.
- (entomology) Of butterflies, to congregate on a puddle or moist substance to pick up nutrients.
- To make foul or muddy; to pollute with dirt; to mix dirt with (water).
- make a puddle by splashing water
- eliminate urine
- subject to puddling or form by puddling
- dip into mud before planting
- wade or dabble in a puddle
- mix up or confuse
- work a wet mixture, such as concrete or mud
- mess around, as in a liquid or paste
noun
- a small body of standing water (rainwater) or other liquid
- A homogeneous mixture of clay, water, and sometimes grit, used to line a canal or pond to make it watertight.
- (now dialectal) Stagnant or polluted water.
- (rowing) The ripple left by the withdrawal of an oar from the water.
- A small, often temporary, pool of water, usually on a path or road.
- something resembling a pool of liquid
- a mixture of wet clay and sand that can be used to line a pond and that is impervious to water when dry
noun
- (UK) A cold and penetrating mist, verging on rain.
- (UK, dialect, chiefly Lancashire and Yorkshire, idiomatic) Something that is hard to find or does not exist.
- The perennial flowering plant Galium sylvaticum.
- A drink of Scotch whisky served with ice and lemon peel.
- (World War II) Something imaginary, nonexistent, or overlooked.
noun
- drops of fresh water that fall as precipitation from clouds
- water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere
- anything happening rapidly or in quick successive
- (meteorology) Condensed water falling from a cloud.
- (figuratively) Any matter moving or falling, usually through air, and especially if liquid or otherwise figuratively identifiable with raindrops.
- (figuratively) An instance of particles or larger pieces of matter moving or falling through air.
verb
verb
- (intransitive) To rain in very fine droplets.
- (printing, of ink) To disperse into a mist, accompanying operation of equipment at high speeds.
- (transitive, of the eyes) To be covered by tears.
- (transitive) To cover with a mist.
- (intransitive) To form mist.
- (transitive) To spray fine droplets on, particularly of water.
- spray finely or cover with mist
- become covered with mist
- make less visible or unclear
noun
adj
- Of a place: filled with vapour; foggy, misty.
- Of a thing: covered or hidden by vapour, fog, or mist.
- Breathing out or giving off vapour.
- Feeling melancholy; experiencing the vapors.
- Of clothes or fabric: thin and translucent; filmy, gauzy.
- Lacking depth or substance; insubstantial, thoughtless, vague.
- Of or relating to vapour; also, having the characteristics or consistency of vapour.
- resembling or characteristic of vapor
- filled with vapor
- so thin as to transmit light
noun
- Mist, fog.
- (figuratively) Pent-up anger.
- Exhaled breath into cold air below the dew point of the exhalation.
- (figuratively) Internal energy for progress or motive power.
- (fencing) Fencing without the use of any electric equipment.
- The hot gaseous form of water, formed when water changes from the liquid phase to the gas phase (at or above its boiling point temperature).
- Pressurized water vapour used for heating, cooking, or to provide mechanical energy.
- A steam-powered vehicle, referring to their use.
- The act of cooking by steaming.
- Travel by means of a steam-powered vehicle.
- water at boiling temperature diffused in the atmosphere
adj
verb
- (intransitive) To rise in vapour; to issue, or pass off, as vapour.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To become angry; to fume; to be incensed.
- (intransitive) To produce or vent steam.
- (transitive) To expose to the action of steam; to apply steam to for softening, dressing, or preparing.
- (transitive, cooking) To cook with steam.
- (figuratively or literally) To move with great or excessive purposefulness.
- (intransitive) To travel by means of steam power.
- (transitive, figuratively) To make angry.
- (intransitive, literal, figurative) To be cooked with steam.
- (transitive) To raise steam, e.g. in a steam locomotive.
- (transitive) To cover with condensed water vapor.
- cook something by letting steam pass over it
- emit steam
- get very agitated or angry
- clean by means of steaming
- travel by means of steam power
- rise as vapor
noun
- A small drop of water or other liquid.
- Each in a string of small balls making up the rosary or paternoster.
- A bubble, in spirits.
- A small, round object with a hole to allow it to be threaded on a cord or wire, particularly for decorative purposes.
- Various small, round solid objects.
- (by extension) Knowledge sufficient to direct one's activities to a purpose.
- A small, round ball at the end of a barrel of a gun used for aiming.
- (architecture) A narrow molding with semicircular section.
- A rigid edge of a tire that mounts it on a wheel; tire bead.
- a shape that is spherical and small
- a small ball with a hole through the middle
- a beaded molding for edging or decorating furniture
verb
noun
adj
verb
noun
noun
- very light rain; stronger than mist but less than a shower
- Light rain.
- (physics, weather) Very small, numerous, and uniformly dispersed water drops, mist, or sprinkle. Unlike fog droplets, drizzle falls to the ground.
- (baking) A cake onto which icing, honey or syrup has been drizzled in an artistic manner.
- (slang) Water.
verb
noun
verb
noun
- the sound of a liquid falling drop by drop
- a liquid (as water) that flows in drops (as from the eaves of house)
- Solid animal fat, traditionally collected from dripping off roasting meat.
- The sound or action of something that drips.
- The use of a drip tip to drip e-liquid directly onto the atomizer of an e-cigarette.
adv
adj
verb
noun
- The sound of droplets hitting a surface.
- A spray or shower of droplets hitting a surface.
- (figuratively) A collection of objects scattered like droplets splashed onto a surface.
- (figuratively) A burst or series of sounds resembling the sound of droplets hitting a surface.
- A spot or spots of a substance spattered on a surface.
- the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively
- the act of splashing a (liquid) substance on a surface
verb
- (transitive) To splash (someone or something) with small droplets.
- (transitive, figurative) To send out or disperse (something) as if in droplets.
- (transitive, figuratively) To cover, or lie upon (something) by having been scattered, as if by splashing.
- (intransitive) To send out small droplets; to splash in small droplets (on or against something).
- (transitive) To distribute (a liquid) by sprinkling; to sprinkle around.
- dash a liquid upon or against
- spot, splash, or soil
- rain gently
verb
- pour as if from a sluice
- irrigate with water from a sluice
- draw through a sluice
- transport in or send down a sluice
- (linguistics) To elide the complement in a coordinated wh-question. See sluicing.
- (transitive, rare) To emit by, or as by, flood gates.
- (transitive, more generally) To wash (down or out).
- (transitive) To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice.
- (transitive) To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice
- (intransitive) To flow, pour.
noun
- conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate
- An artificial passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, for example in a canal lock or a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow.
- Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.
- (linguistics) An instance of wh-stranding ellipsis, or sluicing.
- A water gate or floodgate.
- (mining) A long box or trough through which water flows, used for washing auriferous earth.
- The stream flowing through a floodgate.
noun
noun
noun
- droplets of water vapor suspended in the air near the ground
- confusion characterized by lack of clarity
- an atmosphere in which visibility is reduced because of a cloud of some substance
- (uncountable) A thick cloud that forms near the ground; the obscurity of such a cloud.
- (Scotland) Moss.
- (UK, dialect) Tall and decaying grass left standing after the cutting or grazing season.
- A new growth of grass appearing on a field that has been mowed or grazed.
- (uncountable) A mist or film clouding a surface.
- (photography) A silver deposit or other blur on a negative or developed photographic image.
- (figurative) A state of mind characterized by lethargy and confusion.
- (computer graphics) Distance fog.
verb
- make less visible or unclear
- (transitive, photography) To make dim or obscure.
- (transitive) To cover with or as if with fog.
- (transitive) To disperse insecticide into (a forest canopy) so as to collect organisms.
- (transitive, photography) To spoil (film) via exposure to light other than in the normal process of taking a photograph.
- (intransitive) To become obscured in condensation or water.
- (intransitive) To become covered with or as if with fog.
- (transitive) To obscure in condensation or water.
- (transitive) To make confusing or obscure.
- (intransitive) To become covered with the kind of grass called fog.
- (transitive) To pasture cattle on the fog (of), or aftergrass, of; to eat off the fog from (a field).
- (intransitive, photography) To become dim or obscure.
noun
- A misty shower; dew.
- (food) Ellipsis of dag sandwich.
- A hanging end or shred, in particular a long pointed strip of cloth at the edge of a piece of clothing, or one of a row of decorative strips of cloth that may ornament a tent, booth or fairground.
- (chiefly Ireland) Pronunciation spelling of dog.
- A skewer.
- A spit, a sharpened rod used for roasting food over a fire.
- (Australia slang, derogatory) One who dresses unfashionably or without apparent care about appearance; someone who is not cool; a dweeb or nerd.
- The unbranched antler of a young deer.
- A dangling lock of sheep’s wool matted with dung.
- (graph theory) A directed acyclic graph; an ordered pair (V,E) such that E is a subset of some partial ordering relation on V.
- a flap along the edge of a garment; used in medieval clothing
- 10 grams
intj
verb
noun
- A drop of a liquid.
- the sound of a liquid falling drop by drop
- A falling or letting fall in drops; act of dripping.
- (architecture) That part of a cornice, sill course, or other horizontal member that projects beyond the rest, and has a section designed to throw off rainwater.
- (colloquial, derogatory) A limp, ineffectual, or uninteresting person.
- (medicine) An apparatus that slowly releases a liquid, especially one that intravenously releases drugs into a patient's bloodstream.
- (slang, uncountable) Style; swagger; fashionable and/or expensive clothing.
- (finance) Alternative letter-case form of DRIP (“dividend reinvestment plan”)
- flowing in drops; the formation and falling of drops of liquid
- (architecture) a projection from a cornice or sill designed to protect the area below from rainwater (as over a window or doorway)
verb
- (impersonal, of the weather) To rain lightly; to drizzle.
- (transitive) To let fall in drops.
- (UK, naval slang, intransitive) To whine or complain consistently; to grumble.
- (intransitive, usually with with) To have a superabundance of (something).
- (stative, slang) Be impressive or attractive.
- (intransitive) To be wet, to be soaked.
- (intransitive) To fall one drop at a time.
- (intransitive) To leak slowly.
- fall in drops
- let or cause to fall in drops
noun
- A drop (of rain or water), a splash.
- (skiing, slang) A ski.
- A thin, narrow strip or bar of wood (lath), metal, or plastic.
- (aviation) A control surface that extends forwards and downwards from the leading edge of a wing, leaving a gap between it and the leading edge, in order to modify the airflow around the wing so as to allow flight at a higher angle of attack without stalling, lowering the aircraft's stall speed.
- A thin piece of stone; a slate.
- a thin strip (wood or metal)
verb
- (of rain or other water) To fall; to beat (against something).
- To slap or strike; to beat, pummel; to hurl or throw down violently.
- To set on; to incite.
- (British, dialectal) To split; to crack.
- To construct or provide with slats.
- To throw (something, especially water or liquid) down; to slam or splash (something) down.
- close the slats of (windows)
- equip or bar with slats
noun
- A visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air.
- A group or swarm, especially suspended above the ground or flying.
- (cloud computing, with "the") The Internet, regarded as an abstract amorphous omnipresent space for processing and storage, the focus of cloud computing.
- (figurative) Anything unsubstantial.
- (telecommunications) A telecom network (from their representation in engineering drawings).
- (slang) Crystal methamphetamine.
- (figuratively) A negative or foreboding aspect of something positive: see every cloud has a silver lining or every silver lining has a cloud.
- Anything which makes things foggy or gloomy.
- Any mass of dust, steam or smoke resembling such a mass.
- A large, loosely-knitted headscarf worn by women.
- (Internet slang, humorous, endearing) A white cat.
- An elliptical shape or symbol whose outline is a series of semicircles, supposed to resemble a cloud.
- A dark spot on a lighter material or background.
- a visible mass of water or ice particles suspended at a considerable altitude
- a group of many things in the air or on the ground
- a cause of worry or gloom or trouble
- any collection of particles (e.g., smoke or dust) or gases that is visible
- suspicion affecting your reputation
- out of touch with reality
verb
- (intransitive) To become foggy or gloomy, or obscured from sight.
- Of the breath, to become cloud; to turn into mist.
- (transitive) To mark with, or darken in, veins or sports; to variegate with colors.
- (transitive) To blacken; to sully; to stain; to tarnish (reputation or character).
- (transitive) To make obscure.
- (transitive) To make less acute or perceptive.
- (intransitive) To become marked, darkened or variegated in this way.
- (transitive) To overspread or hide with a cloud or clouds.
- (transitive) To make gloomy or sullen.
- make less clear
- place under suspicion or cast doubt upon
- make overcast or cloudy
- billow up in the form of a cloud
- make gloomy or depressed
- colour with streaks or blotches of different shades
- make milky or dull
- make less visible or unclear
noun
- An upward spray of mist or water.
- More fully gill plume: a feathery gill of some crustaceans and molluscs.
- (geology) Ellipsis of mantle plume (“an upwelling of abnormally hot molten material from the Earth's mantle which spreads sideways when it reaches the lithosphere”).
- (botany) A large and flexible panicle of an inflorescence resembling a feather, such as is seen in certain large ornamental grasses.
- (figurative) A token of honour or prowess; that on which one prides oneself; a prize or reward.
- The furry tail of certain dog breeds (such as the Samoyed) that curls over their backs or stands erect.
- Ellipsis of plume moth (“a small, slender moth of the family Pterophoridae”).
- (astronomy) An arc of glowing material (chiefly gases) erupting from the surface of a star.
- The vane (“flattened, web-like part”) of a feather, especially when on a quill pen or the fletching of an arrow.
- A cloud formed by a dispersed substance fanning out or spreading.
- Things resembling a feather.
- anything that resembles a feather in shape or lightness
- the light horny waterproof structure forming the external covering of birds
- a feather or cluster of feathers worn as an ornament
verb
- (transitive, reflexive) Chiefly of a bird: to arrange and preen the feathers of, specifically in preparation for flight; hence (figurative), to prepare for (something).
- (transitive, also figurative) To adorn, cover, or furnish with feathers or plumes, or as if with feathers or plumes.
- (intransitive) Of a dispersed substance such as dust or smoke: to fan out or spread in a cloud.
- (transitive, reflexive, by extension) To congratulate (oneself) proudly, especially concerning something unimportant or when taking credit for another person's effort; to self-congratulate; to preen.
- dress or groom with elaborate care
- rip off; ask an unreasonable price
- be proud of
- form a plume
- deck with a plume
- clean with one's bill
noun
- (uncountable) Moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc in the morning or evening, resulting in drops.
- (uncountable) Any moisture from the atmosphere condensed by cool bodies upon their surfaces.
- (figurative) Anything that falls lightly and in a refreshing manner.
- (figurative) An emblem of morning, or fresh vigour.
- (countable, but see usage notes) An instance of such moisture settling on plants, etc.
- water that has condensed on a cool surface overnight from water vapor in the air
verb
noun
- mist; fog; roke
- A bad deal; a rip-off.
- (chess) A piece shaped like a castle tower, that can be moved only up, down, left or right (but not diagonally) or in castling.
- (rare) A castle or other fortification.
- A European bird, Corvus frugilegus, of the crow family.
- (baseball, slang) A rookie.
- (British) A type of firecracker used by farmers to scare birds of the same name.
- A cheat or swindler; someone who betrays.
- (uncountable) A trick-taking game, usually played with a specialized deck of cards.
- common gregarious Old World bird about the size and color of the American crow
- (chess) the piece that can move any number of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the chessboard
verb
noun
- (UK) A cold and penetrating mist, verging on rain.
- (UK, dialect, chiefly Lancashire and Yorkshire, idiomatic) Something that is hard to find or does not exist.
- The perennial flowering plant Galium sylvaticum.
- A drink of Scotch whisky served with ice and lemon peel.
- (World War II) Something imaginary, nonexistent, or overlooked.
noun
- drops of fresh water that fall as precipitation from clouds
- water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere
- anything happening rapidly or in quick successive
- (meteorology) Condensed water falling from a cloud.
- (figuratively) Any matter moving or falling, usually through air, and especially if liquid or otherwise figuratively identifiable with raindrops.
- (figuratively) An instance of particles or larger pieces of matter moving or falling through air.
verb
noun
- Mist, fog.
- (figuratively) Pent-up anger.
- Exhaled breath into cold air below the dew point of the exhalation.
- (figuratively) Internal energy for progress or motive power.
- (fencing) Fencing without the use of any electric equipment.
- The hot gaseous form of water, formed when water changes from the liquid phase to the gas phase (at or above its boiling point temperature).
- Pressurized water vapour used for heating, cooking, or to provide mechanical energy.
- A steam-powered vehicle, referring to their use.
- The act of cooking by steaming.
- Travel by means of a steam-powered vehicle.
- water at boiling temperature diffused in the atmosphere
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- (intransitive) To rise in vapour; to issue, or pass off, as vapour.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To become angry; to fume; to be incensed.
- (intransitive) To produce or vent steam.
- (transitive) To expose to the action of steam; to apply steam to for softening, dressing, or preparing.
- (transitive, cooking) To cook with steam.
- (figuratively or literally) To move with great or excessive purposefulness.
- (intransitive) To travel by means of steam power.
- (transitive, figuratively) To make angry.
- (intransitive, literal, figurative) To be cooked with steam.
- (transitive) To raise steam, e.g. in a steam locomotive.
- (transitive) To cover with condensed water vapor.
- cook something by letting steam pass over it
- emit steam
- get very agitated or angry
- clean by means of steaming
- travel by means of steam power
- rise as vapor
noun
- A small drop of water or other liquid.
- Each in a string of small balls making up the rosary or paternoster.
- A bubble, in spirits.
- A small, round object with a hole to allow it to be threaded on a cord or wire, particularly for decorative purposes.
- Various small, round solid objects.
- (by extension) Knowledge sufficient to direct one's activities to a purpose.
- A small, round ball at the end of a barrel of a gun used for aiming.
- (architecture) A narrow molding with semicircular section.
- A rigid edge of a tire that mounts it on a wheel; tire bead.
- a shape that is spherical and small
- a small ball with a hole through the middle
- a beaded molding for edging or decorating furniture
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- very light rain; stronger than mist but less than a shower
- Light rain.
- (physics, weather) Very small, numerous, and uniformly dispersed water drops, mist, or sprinkle. Unlike fog droplets, drizzle falls to the ground.
- (baking) A cake onto which icing, honey or syrup has been drizzled in an artistic manner.
- (slang) Water.
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- the sound of a liquid falling drop by drop
- a liquid (as water) that flows in drops (as from the eaves of house)
- Solid animal fat, traditionally collected from dripping off roasting meat.
- The sound or action of something that drips.
- The use of a drip tip to drip e-liquid directly onto the atomizer of an e-cigarette.
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- The sound of droplets hitting a surface.
- A spray or shower of droplets hitting a surface.
- (figuratively) A collection of objects scattered like droplets splashed onto a surface.
- (figuratively) A burst or series of sounds resembling the sound of droplets hitting a surface.
- A spot or spots of a substance spattered on a surface.
- the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively
- the act of splashing a (liquid) substance on a surface
verb
- (transitive) To splash (someone or something) with small droplets.
- (transitive, figurative) To send out or disperse (something) as if in droplets.
- (transitive, figuratively) To cover, or lie upon (something) by having been scattered, as if by splashing.
- (intransitive) To send out small droplets; to splash in small droplets (on or against something).
- (transitive) To distribute (a liquid) by sprinkling; to sprinkle around.
- dash a liquid upon or against
- spot, splash, or soil
- rain gently
verb
- To form a puddle.
- make into a puddle
- To line a canal with puddle (clay).
- To collect ideas, especially abstract concepts, into rough subtopics or categories, as in study, research or conversation.
- To play or splash in a puddle.
- To process iron, gold, etc., by means of puddling.
- To make (clay, loam, etc.) dense or close, by working it when wet, so as to render impervious to water.
- (entomology) Of butterflies, to congregate on a puddle or moist substance to pick up nutrients.
- To make foul or muddy; to pollute with dirt; to mix dirt with (water).
- make a puddle by splashing water
- eliminate urine
- subject to puddling or form by puddling
- dip into mud before planting
- wade or dabble in a puddle
- mix up or confuse
- work a wet mixture, such as concrete or mud
- mess around, as in a liquid or paste
noun
- a small body of standing water (rainwater) or other liquid
- A homogeneous mixture of clay, water, and sometimes grit, used to line a canal or pond to make it watertight.
- (now dialectal) Stagnant or polluted water.
- (rowing) The ripple left by the withdrawal of an oar from the water.
- A small, often temporary, pool of water, usually on a path or road.
- something resembling a pool of liquid
- a mixture of wet clay and sand that can be used to line a pond and that is impervious to water when dry
verb
- To form a puddle.
- make into a puddle
- To line a canal with puddle (clay).
- To collect ideas, especially abstract concepts, into rough subtopics or categories, as in study, research or conversation.
- To play or splash in a puddle.
- To process iron, gold, etc., by means of puddling.
- To make (clay, loam, etc.) dense or close, by working it when wet, so as to render impervious to water.
- (entomology) Of butterflies, to congregate on a puddle or moist substance to pick up nutrients.
- To make foul or muddy; to pollute with dirt; to mix dirt with (water).
- make a puddle by splashing water
- eliminate urine
- subject to puddling or form by puddling
- dip into mud before planting
- wade or dabble in a puddle
- mix up or confuse
- work a wet mixture, such as concrete or mud
- mess around, as in a liquid or paste
noun
- a small body of standing water (rainwater) or other liquid
- A homogeneous mixture of clay, water, and sometimes grit, used to line a canal or pond to make it watertight.
- (now dialectal) Stagnant or polluted water.
- (rowing) The ripple left by the withdrawal of an oar from the water.
- A small, often temporary, pool of water, usually on a path or road.
- something resembling a pool of liquid
- a mixture of wet clay and sand that can be used to line a pond and that is impervious to water when dry
verb
- (intransitive) To rain in very fine droplets.
- (printing, of ink) To disperse into a mist, accompanying operation of equipment at high speeds.
- (transitive, of the eyes) To be covered by tears.
- (transitive) To cover with a mist.
- (intransitive) To form mist.
- (transitive) To spray fine droplets on, particularly of water.
- spray finely or cover with mist
- become covered with mist
- make less visible or unclear
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- very light rain; stronger than mist but less than a shower
- Light rain.
- (physics, weather) Very small, numerous, and uniformly dispersed water drops, mist, or sprinkle. Unlike fog droplets, drizzle falls to the ground.
- (baking) A cake onto which icing, honey or syrup has been drizzled in an artistic manner.
- (slang) Water.
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- pour as if from a sluice
- irrigate with water from a sluice
- draw through a sluice
- transport in or send down a sluice
- (linguistics) To elide the complement in a coordinated wh-question. See sluicing.
- (transitive, rare) To emit by, or as by, flood gates.
- (transitive, more generally) To wash (down or out).
- (transitive) To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice.
- (transitive) To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice
- (intransitive) To flow, pour.
noun
- conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate
- An artificial passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, for example in a canal lock or a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow.
- Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.
- (linguistics) An instance of wh-stranding ellipsis, or sluicing.
- A water gate or floodgate.
- (mining) A long box or trough through which water flows, used for washing auriferous earth.
- The stream flowing through a floodgate.
adj
- Of a place: filled with vapour; foggy, misty.
- Of a thing: covered or hidden by vapour, fog, or mist.
- Breathing out or giving off vapour.
- Feeling melancholy; experiencing the vapors.
- Of clothes or fabric: thin and translucent; filmy, gauzy.
- Lacking depth or substance; insubstantial, thoughtless, vague.
- Of or relating to vapour; also, having the characteristics or consistency of vapour.
- resembling or characteristic of vapor
- filled with vapor
- so thin as to transmit light