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verb
- deal in a market
- make commercial
- engage in the commercial promotion, sale, or distribution of
- buy household supplies
- (transitive) To sell.
- (intransitive) To deal in a market; to buy or sell; to make bargains for provisions or goods.
- (transitive) To make (products or services) available for sale and promote them.
- (transitive) To promote for or as if for sale.
- (intransitive) To shop in a market; to attend a market.
noun
- the customers for a particular product or service
- a marketplace where groceries are sold
- an area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up
- the securities markets in the aggregate
- the world of commercial activity where goods and services are bought and sold
- A geographical area or region where a certain commercial demand exists.
- Any physical store selling groceries, such as a grocery store or convenience store.
- The sum total traded in a process of individuals trading for certain commodities.
- A relatively spacious outdoor or covered site where traders set up stalls, either temporarily or permanently or semi-permanently, and buyers browse the merchandise.
- A gathering of people for the purchase and sale of merchandise, often periodic at a set time.
- The price for which a thing is sold in a market; hence, value or worth; market value.
- A formally organized, sometimes monopolistic, system of trading in specified goods or effects.
- A group of potential or current customers for one's product.
noun
verb
verb
adj
- (mathematics, of a statement) Said of as extreme a value as possible.
- Eager or keen in pursuit; impatient for gratification.
- (chess) Tactical; risky.
- (colloquial) Illegal or dishonest.
- Forming a small or tight angle; especially, forming an angle of less than ninety degrees.
- Strongly distinguishing or differentiating; acute.
- (music) Higher in pitch than required.
- Having a strong acrid or acidic taste.
- Observant; alert; acute.
- Quick and alert.
- (colloquial) Stylish, smart or attractive.
- (colloquial) Intelligent.
- Terminating in a point or edge, especially one that can cut or pierce easily; not dull, obtuse, or rounded.
- Steep; precipitous; abrupt.
- (colloquial) Keenly or unduly attentive to one's own interests; shrewd, verging on dishonest.
- Piercing; keen; severe; painful.
- Exact, precise, accurate; keen.
- Composed of hard, angular grains; gritty.
- (music) Raised by one semitone (denoted by the symbol ♯ after the name of the note).
- Offensive, critical, or acrimonious; stern or harsh.
- Sudden, abrupt, intense, rapid.
- keenly and painfully felt; as if caused by a sharp edge or point
- having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions
- (of something seen or heard) clearly defined
- (of a musical note) raised in pitch by one chromatic semitone
- dangerously steep
- having or made by a thin edge or sharp point; suitable for cutting or piercing
- having or emitting a high-pitched and sharp tone or tones
- marked by practical hardheaded intelligence
- quick and forceful
- harsh
- ending in a sharp point
- very sudden and in great amount or degree
adv
noun
- (music) The symbol ♯, placed after the name of a note in the key signature or before a note on the staff to indicate that the note is to be played one chromatic semitone higher.
- (in the plural) Fine particles of husk mixed with coarse particle of flour of cereals; middlings.
- (psychiatry, healthcare) A sharp object; any item pointed enough to injure human skin.
- (music) A note that is sharp in a particular key.
- (usually in the plural) Something that is sharp.
- Alternative form of sharpie (“type of fishing boat”).
- (music) A note that is played one chromatic semitone higher than usual; denoted by the name of the note that is followed by the symbol ♯.
- (music) The scale having a particular sharp note as its tonic.
- (medicine) A hypodermic syringe.
- A sewing needle with a very slender point, more pointed than a blunt or a between.
- Part of a stream where the water runs very rapidly.
- A dishonest person; a cheater.
- A sharpie (member of Australian gangs of the 1960s and 1970s).
- a long thin sewing needle with a sharp point
- a musical notation indicating one half step higher than the note named
noun
verb
- (transitive) To request (someone to do something).
- (transitive or ditransitive) To request or enquire of (a person).
- To request permission (to do something).
- To publish in church for marriage; said of both the banns and the persons.
- (transitive, intransitive) To request (information, or an answer to a question).
- To invite.
- (transitive usually with 'for' or intransitive) To request (an item or service) (see also ask for).
- (figuratively) To take (a person's situation) as an example.
- To put forward (a question) to be answered.
- To require, demand, claim, or expect, whether by way of remuneration or return, or as a matter of necessity.
- make a request or demand for something to somebody
- address a question to and expect an answer from
- consider obligatory; request and expect
- make a date
- require or ask for as a price or condition
- direct or put; seek an answer to
- require as useful, just, or proper
adj
- Difficult to negotiate; requiring scrambling.
- Characterised by scrabbling, or digging around.
- Rough, poor and uncultured.
- Scribbly.
- Impoverished, hardscrabble
- Having a rough texture; scratchy.
- Stunted.
- Of poor quality; poorly maintained.
- Sparse and scraggly.
- Thrown together; disorganized or slapdash.
- Covered in loose rocks or crumbling soil.
- Characterized by sparse, stunted vegetation, infertile.
- sparsely covered with stunted trees or vegetation and underbrush
verb
- get by buying and selling
- accomplish by rotating
- to break and turn over earth especially with a plow
- to send or let go
- pass to the other side of
- twist suddenly so as to sprain
- to change orientation or direction
- move around an axis or a center
- channel one's attention, interest, thought, or attention toward or away from something
- let (something) fall or spill from a container
- alter the functioning or setting of
- undergo a transformation or a change of position or action
- cause to change or turn into something different;assume new characteristics
- shape by rotating on a lathe or cutting device or a wheel
- cause to move around or rotate
- pass into a condition gradually, take on a specific property or attribute; become
- become officially one year older
- go sour or spoil
- change to the contrary
- cause to move around a center so as to show another side of
- have recourse to or make an appeal or request for help or information to
- change color
- undergo a change or development
- cause (an object) to assume a crooked or angular form
- cause to move along an axis or into a new direction
- direct at someone
- (transitive, roleplaying games) To magically or divinely repel undead.
- (intransitive) To change the color of the leaves in the autumn.
- To change fundamentally; to metamorphose.
- (transitive, fantasy) To change (a person) into a vampire, werewolf, zombie, etc.
- (by extension) To give form to; to shape or mould; to adapt.
- (intransitive, fantasy) To transform into a vampire, werewolf, zombie, etc.
- (professional wrestling) To change personalities, such as from being a face (good guy) to heel (bad guy) or vice versa.
- To undergo the process of turning on a lathe.
- To be nauseated; said of the stomach.
- (transitive) To shape (something) symmetrically by rotating it against a stationary cutting tool, as on a lathe.
- (ambitransitive) To make or become giddy; said of the head or brain.
- (transitive, usually with over) To complete.
- (transitive, soccer) Of a player, to go past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
- (intransitive) To change one's direction of travel.
- To sicken; to nauseate.
- (transitive) To direct or impel (something) into a place.
- (transitive) To twist or sprain.
- (obstetrics) To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.
- (transitive, cricket) Of a bowler, to make (the ball) move sideways off the pitch when it bounces.
- (intransitive) To sour or spoil; to go bad.
- (intransitive, of a body, person, etc) To move about an axis through itself.
- (transitive, figuratively) To navigate through a book or other printed material.
- (transitive) To position (something) by folding it, or using its folds.
- To hinge; to depend.
- (transitive) To make acid or sour; to ferment; to curdle.
- (reflexive) To change one's course of action; to take a new approach.
- To rebel; to go against something formerly tolerated.
- (intransitive, cricket) Of a ball, to move sideways off the pitch when it bounces.
- (copulative) To become (often used with colors, clear sudden changes, weather and ages).
- (transitive, slang, sometimes offensive) To change the sexual orientation or gender of another person, or otherwise awaken a sexual preference.
- (transitive) To make (money); turn a profit.
- (transitive) To change the direction or orientation of, especially by rotation.
noun
- a time period for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else)
- (sports) a division of a game during which one team is on the offensive
- a movement in a new direction
- a short performance that is part of a longer program
- (game) the activity of doing something in an agreed succession
- a circular segment of a curve
- the act of turning away or in the opposite direction
- the act of changing or reversing the direction of the course
- a favor for someone
- taking a short walk out and back
- an unforeseen development
- turning or twisting around (in place)
- A fit or a period of giddiness.
- A movement of an object about its own axis in one direction that continues until the object returns to its initial orientation.
- (geometry) A unit of plane angle measurement based on this movement.
- A change in temperament or circumstance.
- A change of direction or orientation.
- A deed done to another; an act of kindness or malice.
- The transition from one period or era to another.
- One's chance to make a move in a game having two or more players.
- A walk to and fro.
- (soccer) An instance of going past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
- (UK, finance, historical) The profit made by a stockjobber, being the difference between the buying and selling prices.
- A chance to use (something) shared in sequence with others.
- A figure in music, often denoted ~, consisting of the note above the one indicated, the note itself, the note below the one indicated, and the note itself again.
- (rope) A pass behind or through an object.
- A single loop of a coil.
- (poker) The fourth communal card in Texas hold 'em.
- Character; personality; nature.
- A spell of work, especially the time allotted to a person in a rota or schedule.
- (cricket) A sideways movement of the ball when it bounces (caused by rotation in flight).
- The time required to complete a project.
- (circus, theater, especially physical comedy) A short skit, act, or routine.
noun
- (informal) Something acquired for a low price; a bargain.
- The act of snipping; cutting a small amount off of something.
- (onomatopoeia) An act or sound of snipping, the sound produced by scissors.
- (definite, the snip, euphemistic) A vasectomy.
- A single cut with scissors, clippers, or similar tool.
- A piece cut out by snipping.
- (informal) A small or weak person, especially a young one.
- A small amount of something; a pinch.
- A white marking on a horse's muzzle, between the nostrils.
- the act of clipping or snipping
- a small piece of anything (especially a piece that has been snipped off)
verb
- (informal) To perform a vasectomy.
- (Internet) To remove the irrelevant parts of quotations in the reply message.
- To cut with short sharp actions, as with scissors.
- (informal) To circumcise.
- To speak or say in a snippish manner.
- To break off; to snatch away.
- To reduce the price of a product, to create a snip.
- cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
- sever or remove by pinching or snipping
verb
- persuade the seller to accept a lower price
- dislodge from a position
- shine hard
- (transitive, informal) To haggle with (someone) to sell at a lower price.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see beat, down.
- (transitive) To wear (someone) out by repeated actions that overwhelm one's patience or strength.
- (transitive) To forcefully diminish the power or influence of; to quell; to squash.
- (transitive, slang) To severely beat someone up.
- (intransitive) (of the sun) To shine brightly and radiate with intense heat.
- (intransitive) (of rain) To strike with great force.
noun
verb
- (transitive, UK, in haggling for a price of a buyer) To persuade the seller to reduce a price.
- (intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
- To make a sound when struck.
- To be in agitation or doubt.
- To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
- simple past tense of beat
- (military, intransitive) To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
- (intransitive, MLE, MTE, slang, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse.
- (transitive, slang) To rob; to cheat or scam.
- (transitive) To arrive at a place before someone.
- (intransitive) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
- (intransitive) To move with pulsation or throbbing.
- (transitive) To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
- (especially colloquial) past participle of beat
- To tread, as a path.
- To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
- To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and lesser intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; said of instruments, tones, or vibrations not perfectly in unison.
- (transitive) To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do or be better than (someone); to excel in a particular, competitive event.
- (transitive) To indicate by beating or drumming.
- (transitive) To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting.
- (transitive) To hit; to strike.
- move rhythmically
- move with or as if with a regular alternating motion
- strike (a part of one's own body) repeatedly, as in great emotion or in accompaniment to music
- make a rhythmic sound
- move with a thrashing motion
- produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly
- wear out completely
- stir vigorously
- avoid paying
- hit repeatedly
- be superior
- make a sound like a clock or a timer
- shape by beating
- be a mystery or bewildering to
- indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks
- glare or strike with great intensity
- come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
- make by pounding or trampling
- sail with much tacking or with difficulty
- strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting
- give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression
- beat through cleverness and wit
- move with a flapping motion
adj
noun
- (music) The rhythm signalled by a conductor or other musician to the members of a group of musicians.
- (slang) A makeup look; compare beat one's face.
- The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
- A rhythm.
- A pulsation or throb.
- (journalism) The primary focus of a reporter's stories (such as police/courts, education, city government, business etc.).
- (authorship) A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.
- (music) A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is the basic time unit of a piece.
- The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency
- (hunting) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.
- A stroke; a blow.
- (fencing) A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
- The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
- A beatnik.
- the sound of stroke or blow
- a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior
- a regular route for a sentry or policeman
- the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart
- a single pulsation of an oscillation produced by adding two waves of different frequencies; has a frequency equal to the difference between the two oscillations
- the act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing
- (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
- a regular rate of repetition
- a stroke or blow
- the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music
noun
- A stingy person; a cheapskate.
- A tramp; a vagrant.
- (military, historical) A soldier armed with a pike, a pikeman.
- (Australia, New Zealand, slang) One who refuses to go out with friends, or leaves a party early; a spoilsport or "chicken".
- (Australia, New Zealand, slang) One who pikes (quits or backs out of a promise).
- (Australia) A bullock living in the wild. (Also used attributively.)
- An amateur.
- One who bets or gambles only with small amounts of money.
verb
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To trade meanly or mercenarily; to bargain.
- (intransitive) To pass goods and commodities from one person to another for an equivalent in goods or money; to buy or sell goods.
- (transitive) To exchange in traffic; to effect by a bargain or for a consideration.
- deal illegally
- trade or deal a commodity
adj
noun
- Moving pedestrians or vehicles, or the flux or passage thereof.
- The illegal trade or exchange of goods, often drugs.
- The commercial transportation or exchange of goods, or the movement of passengers or people.
- The exchange or flux of information, messages or data, as in a computer or telephone network.
- (advertising) The amount of attention paid to a particular printed page etc., in a publication.
- The commodities of the market.
- (radio) Of CB radio, formal written messages relayed on behalf of others.
- the amount of activity over a communication system during a given period of time
- buying and selling; especially illicit trade
- the aggregation of things (pedestrians or vehicles) coming and going in a particular locality during a specified period of time
- social or verbal interchange (usually followed by ‘with’)
verb
noun
- Somebody who sells things in an aggressive or showy manner.
- Somebody who writes advertisements for radio or television.
- One who deceptively sells fraudulent products; snake oil salesman.
- A peddler or hawker, who sells small items, either door-to-door, from a stall, or in the street.
- a person who writes radio or tv advertisements
- a seller of shoddy goods
noun
- A price tag.
- A wooden strip placed between courses of lumber to allow air circulation and to create a gap so the unit can be picked up with a forklift (also kiln sticker).
- (US, politics) A paster.
- (music) A small wooden rod in an organ which connects (in part) a key and a pallet, so as to communicate motion by pushing.
- (Internet) A cartoonish illustration of a character that represents an emotion or action, often accompanied by text, that may be superimposed on a digital image.
- An adhesive label or decal.
- A brand, label, or company, especially one making and distributing records.
- (military slang, World War I– World War II, if not earlier) A bayonet.
- One who sticks to something, or does not give up; a stayer.
- (by extension) The listed price (also sticker price).
- Something or someone that sticks (pierces, or adheres).
- (informal) A burr or seed pod that catches in fur or clothing.
- a short knife with a pointed blade used for piercing or stabbing
- a particularly difficult or baffling question or problem
- a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf
- an adhesive label
verb
adv
adj
noun
verb
noun
- A mediator between a buyer and seller.
- A stockbroker.
- (computing) An agent involved in the exchange of messages or transactions.
- A mediator in general, one who liaises between two or more parties to attempt to achieve an outcome of some kind.
- a businessman who buys or sells for another in exchange for a commission
adj
verb
verb
- be sold for a certain price
- attract the attention of
- bestow a quality on
- bring into a different state
- induce or persuade
- advance or set forth in court
- take something or somebody with oneself somewhere
- cause to happen or to occur as a consequence
- be accompanied by
- cause to come into a particular state or condition
- go or come after and bring or take back
- (baseball) To pitch, often referring to a particularly hard thrown fastball.
- (chess) To move a piece into a more active position, esp. to initially develop it.
- (transitive) To raise (a lawsuit, charges, etc.) against somebody.
- To produce in exchange; to sell for; to fetch.
- To persuade; to induce; to draw; to lead; to guide.
- (transitive) To occasion or bring about.
- (transitive, ditransitive) To transport toward somebody/somewhere.
- (transitive, figuratively) To supply or contribute.
intj
verb
- be sold for a certain price
- convey
- earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages
- submit (a verdict) to a court
- bring in a new person or object into a familiar environment
- To return a verdict in a court of law.
- To introduce a new rule, law, or system of organisation.
- To introduce, add or initiate a person or group of people to an organisation or event; to give (someone) a share or portion of something.
- To move something indoors, or into an area.
- To earn money for a company or for the family.
verb
- be sold for a certain price
- go or come after and bring or take back
- take someone to hell
- (transitive, ditransitive) To retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get.
- (transitive) To cause to come; to bring to a particular state.
- (transitive) To reduce; to throw.
- (nautical) To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.
- (intransitive) To bring oneself; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.
- (nautical, transitive) To make (a pump) draw water by pouring water into the top and working the handle.
- (transitive, rare, literary) To take (a breath); to heave (a sigh).
- (transitive) To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.
noun
- the action of fetching
- (originally Ireland, dialectal) The apparition of a living person; a person's double, the sight of which is supposedly a sign that they are fated to die soon, a doppelganger; a wraith (“a person's likeness seen just after their death; a ghost, a spectre”).
- (also figuratively) An act of fetching, of bringing something from a distance.
- An area over which wind is blowing (over water) and generating waves.
- The length of such an area; the distance a wave can travel across a body of water (without obstruction).
- (uncountable) A game played with a dog in which a person throws an object for the dog to retrieve.
- A stratagem or trick; an artifice.
- The object of fetching; the source of an attraction; a force, propensity, or quality which attracts.
- (computing, specifically) An act of fetching data.
intj
prep_phrase
adj
verb
- be priced at
- work in a specific place, with a specific subject, or in a specific function
- occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere
- spend or use time
- have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun)
- form or compose
- have an existence, be extant
- have life, be alive
- be identical to; be someone or something
- be identical or equivalent to
- represent, as of a character on stage
- to remain unmolested, undisturbed, or uninterrupted — used only in infinitive form
- To occupy a place.
- (with there, or dialectally it, as dummy subject) To exist.
- To pass or spend (time).
- (formal) Used with to-infinitives of verbs to express intent, obligation, appropriateness, or relative future occurrence.
- Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by an adjective or prepositional phrase.
- (rare and regional, chiefly in the past tense) Used to link two noun clauses: a day of the week, recurring date, month, or other specific time (on which the event of the main clause took place) and a period of time indicating how long ago that day was.
- (with a dummy subject it) Used to indicate the time of day.
- To remain undisturbed in a certain state or situation.
- Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by a noun or noun phrase.
- Used with past participles of certain intransitive verbs to form the perfect aspect.
- To take a period of time.
- (often impersonal, with it as a dummy subject) Used to indicate ambient conditions such as weather, light, noise or air quality.
- (with a cardinal numeral) Used to state the age of a subject in years.
- Used to declare the subject and object identical or equivalent.
- (in perfect tenses) Elliptical form of "be here", "go to and return from" or similar, also extending to certain other senses of "go".
- (auxiliary) Used with past participles of verbs to form the passive voice.
- (now usually literary) To exist; to have real existence, to be alive.
- Used to link a subject to a measurement.
- To occur, to take place.
- Used with present participles of verbs to form the continuous aspect.
- (colloquial, humorous) To have (a condition, especially a mental or physical disability).
- Used to indicate that a predicate nominal applies to the subject.
- (dynamic / lexical be, especially in progressive tenses, conjugated non-suppletively in the present tense, see usage notes) To exist or behave in a certain way.
- (African-American Vernacular, Caribbean, Ireland, auxiliary, not conjugated) To tend to do, often do; marks the habitual aspect.
- (with since) Used to indicate passage of time since the occurrence of an event.
noun
verb
- be priced at
- require to lose, suffer, or sacrifice
- To require to be borne or suffered; to cause.
- To calculate or estimate a price.
- (transitive, ditransitive) To incur a charge of; to require payment of a (specified) price.
- (transitive, ditransitive) To cause something to be lost; to cause the expenditure or relinquishment of.
- (transitive, colloquial) To cost (a person) a great deal of money or suffering.
noun
- value measured by what must be given or done or undergone to obtain something
- the property of having material worth (often indicated by the amount of money something would bring if sold)
- the total spent for goods or services including money and time and labor
- (heraldry) A cottise.
- Amount of money, time, etc. that is required or used.
- Quality; condition; property; value; worth; a wont or habit; disposition; nature; kind; characteristic.
- A negative consequence or loss that occurs or is required to occur.
noun
verb
noun
verb
- (transitive) To request (someone to do something).
- (transitive or ditransitive) To request or enquire of (a person).
- To request permission (to do something).
- To publish in church for marriage; said of both the banns and the persons.
- (transitive, intransitive) To request (information, or an answer to a question).
- To invite.
- (transitive usually with 'for' or intransitive) To request (an item or service) (see also ask for).
- (figuratively) To take (a person's situation) as an example.
- To put forward (a question) to be answered.
- To require, demand, claim, or expect, whether by way of remuneration or return, or as a matter of necessity.
- make a request or demand for something to somebody
- address a question to and expect an answer from
- consider obligatory; request and expect
- make a date
- require or ask for as a price or condition
- direct or put; seek an answer to
- require as useful, just, or proper
noun
- (informal) Something acquired for a low price; a bargain.
- The act of snipping; cutting a small amount off of something.
- (onomatopoeia) An act or sound of snipping, the sound produced by scissors.
- (definite, the snip, euphemistic) A vasectomy.
- A single cut with scissors, clippers, or similar tool.
- A piece cut out by snipping.
- (informal) A small or weak person, especially a young one.
- A small amount of something; a pinch.
- A white marking on a horse's muzzle, between the nostrils.
- the act of clipping or snipping
- a small piece of anything (especially a piece that has been snipped off)
verb
- (informal) To perform a vasectomy.
- (Internet) To remove the irrelevant parts of quotations in the reply message.
- To cut with short sharp actions, as with scissors.
- (informal) To circumcise.
- To speak or say in a snippish manner.
- To break off; to snatch away.
- To reduce the price of a product, to create a snip.
- cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
- sever or remove by pinching or snipping
noun
- A stingy person; a cheapskate.
- A tramp; a vagrant.
- (military, historical) A soldier armed with a pike, a pikeman.
- (Australia, New Zealand, slang) One who refuses to go out with friends, or leaves a party early; a spoilsport or "chicken".
- (Australia, New Zealand, slang) One who pikes (quits or backs out of a promise).
- (Australia) A bullock living in the wild. (Also used attributively.)
- An amateur.
- One who bets or gambles only with small amounts of money.
noun
- A price tag.
- A wooden strip placed between courses of lumber to allow air circulation and to create a gap so the unit can be picked up with a forklift (also kiln sticker).
- (US, politics) A paster.
- (music) A small wooden rod in an organ which connects (in part) a key and a pallet, so as to communicate motion by pushing.
- (Internet) A cartoonish illustration of a character that represents an emotion or action, often accompanied by text, that may be superimposed on a digital image.
- An adhesive label or decal.
- A brand, label, or company, especially one making and distributing records.
- (military slang, World War I– World War II, if not earlier) A bayonet.
- One who sticks to something, or does not give up; a stayer.
- (by extension) The listed price (also sticker price).
- Something or someone that sticks (pierces, or adheres).
- (informal) A burr or seed pod that catches in fur or clothing.
- a short knife with a pointed blade used for piercing or stabbing
- a particularly difficult or baffling question or problem
- a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf
- an adhesive label
verb
noun
- A mediator between a buyer and seller.
- A stockbroker.
- (computing) An agent involved in the exchange of messages or transactions.
- A mediator in general, one who liaises between two or more parties to attempt to achieve an outcome of some kind.
- a businessman who buys or sells for another in exchange for a commission
adj
verb
verb
- deal in a market
- make commercial
- engage in the commercial promotion, sale, or distribution of
- buy household supplies
- (transitive) To sell.
- (intransitive) To deal in a market; to buy or sell; to make bargains for provisions or goods.
- (transitive) To make (products or services) available for sale and promote them.
- (transitive) To promote for or as if for sale.
- (intransitive) To shop in a market; to attend a market.
noun
- the customers for a particular product or service
- a marketplace where groceries are sold
- an area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up
- the securities markets in the aggregate
- the world of commercial activity where goods and services are bought and sold
- A geographical area or region where a certain commercial demand exists.
- Any physical store selling groceries, such as a grocery store or convenience store.
- The sum total traded in a process of individuals trading for certain commodities.
- A relatively spacious outdoor or covered site where traders set up stalls, either temporarily or permanently or semi-permanently, and buyers browse the merchandise.
- A gathering of people for the purchase and sale of merchandise, often periodic at a set time.
- The price for which a thing is sold in a market; hence, value or worth; market value.
- A formally organized, sometimes monopolistic, system of trading in specified goods or effects.
- A group of potential or current customers for one's product.
verb
adj
- (mathematics, of a statement) Said of as extreme a value as possible.
- Eager or keen in pursuit; impatient for gratification.
- (chess) Tactical; risky.
- (colloquial) Illegal or dishonest.
- Forming a small or tight angle; especially, forming an angle of less than ninety degrees.
- Strongly distinguishing or differentiating; acute.
- (music) Higher in pitch than required.
- Having a strong acrid or acidic taste.
- Observant; alert; acute.
- Quick and alert.
- (colloquial) Stylish, smart or attractive.
- (colloquial) Intelligent.
- Terminating in a point or edge, especially one that can cut or pierce easily; not dull, obtuse, or rounded.
- Steep; precipitous; abrupt.
- (colloquial) Keenly or unduly attentive to one's own interests; shrewd, verging on dishonest.
- Piercing; keen; severe; painful.
- Exact, precise, accurate; keen.
- Composed of hard, angular grains; gritty.
- (music) Raised by one semitone (denoted by the symbol ♯ after the name of the note).
- Offensive, critical, or acrimonious; stern or harsh.
- Sudden, abrupt, intense, rapid.
- keenly and painfully felt; as if caused by a sharp edge or point
- having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions
- (of something seen or heard) clearly defined
- (of a musical note) raised in pitch by one chromatic semitone
- dangerously steep
- having or made by a thin edge or sharp point; suitable for cutting or piercing
- having or emitting a high-pitched and sharp tone or tones
- marked by practical hardheaded intelligence
- quick and forceful
- harsh
- ending in a sharp point
- very sudden and in great amount or degree
adv
noun
- (music) The symbol ♯, placed after the name of a note in the key signature or before a note on the staff to indicate that the note is to be played one chromatic semitone higher.
- (in the plural) Fine particles of husk mixed with coarse particle of flour of cereals; middlings.
- (psychiatry, healthcare) A sharp object; any item pointed enough to injure human skin.
- (music) A note that is sharp in a particular key.
- (usually in the plural) Something that is sharp.
- Alternative form of sharpie (“type of fishing boat”).
- (music) A note that is played one chromatic semitone higher than usual; denoted by the name of the note that is followed by the symbol ♯.
- (music) The scale having a particular sharp note as its tonic.
- (medicine) A hypodermic syringe.
- A sewing needle with a very slender point, more pointed than a blunt or a between.
- Part of a stream where the water runs very rapidly.
- A dishonest person; a cheater.
- A sharpie (member of Australian gangs of the 1960s and 1970s).
- a long thin sewing needle with a sharp point
- a musical notation indicating one half step higher than the note named
verb
- get by buying and selling
- accomplish by rotating
- to break and turn over earth especially with a plow
- to send or let go
- pass to the other side of
- twist suddenly so as to sprain
- to change orientation or direction
- move around an axis or a center
- channel one's attention, interest, thought, or attention toward or away from something
- let (something) fall or spill from a container
- alter the functioning or setting of
- undergo a transformation or a change of position or action
- cause to change or turn into something different;assume new characteristics
- shape by rotating on a lathe or cutting device or a wheel
- cause to move around or rotate
- pass into a condition gradually, take on a specific property or attribute; become
- become officially one year older
- go sour or spoil
- change to the contrary
- cause to move around a center so as to show another side of
- have recourse to or make an appeal or request for help or information to
- change color
- undergo a change or development
- cause (an object) to assume a crooked or angular form
- cause to move along an axis or into a new direction
- direct at someone
- (transitive, roleplaying games) To magically or divinely repel undead.
- (intransitive) To change the color of the leaves in the autumn.
- To change fundamentally; to metamorphose.
- (transitive, fantasy) To change (a person) into a vampire, werewolf, zombie, etc.
- (by extension) To give form to; to shape or mould; to adapt.
- (intransitive, fantasy) To transform into a vampire, werewolf, zombie, etc.
- (professional wrestling) To change personalities, such as from being a face (good guy) to heel (bad guy) or vice versa.
- To undergo the process of turning on a lathe.
- To be nauseated; said of the stomach.
- (transitive) To shape (something) symmetrically by rotating it against a stationary cutting tool, as on a lathe.
- (ambitransitive) To make or become giddy; said of the head or brain.
- (transitive, usually with over) To complete.
- (transitive, soccer) Of a player, to go past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
- (intransitive) To change one's direction of travel.
- To sicken; to nauseate.
- (transitive) To direct or impel (something) into a place.
- (transitive) To twist or sprain.
- (obstetrics) To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.
- (transitive, cricket) Of a bowler, to make (the ball) move sideways off the pitch when it bounces.
- (intransitive) To sour or spoil; to go bad.
- (intransitive, of a body, person, etc) To move about an axis through itself.
- (transitive, figuratively) To navigate through a book or other printed material.
- (transitive) To position (something) by folding it, or using its folds.
- To hinge; to depend.
- (transitive) To make acid or sour; to ferment; to curdle.
- (reflexive) To change one's course of action; to take a new approach.
- To rebel; to go against something formerly tolerated.
- (intransitive, cricket) Of a ball, to move sideways off the pitch when it bounces.
- (copulative) To become (often used with colors, clear sudden changes, weather and ages).
- (transitive, slang, sometimes offensive) To change the sexual orientation or gender of another person, or otherwise awaken a sexual preference.
- (transitive) To make (money); turn a profit.
- (transitive) To change the direction or orientation of, especially by rotation.
noun
- a time period for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else)
- (sports) a division of a game during which one team is on the offensive
- a movement in a new direction
- a short performance that is part of a longer program
- (game) the activity of doing something in an agreed succession
- a circular segment of a curve
- the act of turning away or in the opposite direction
- the act of changing or reversing the direction of the course
- a favor for someone
- taking a short walk out and back
- an unforeseen development
- turning or twisting around (in place)
- A fit or a period of giddiness.
- A movement of an object about its own axis in one direction that continues until the object returns to its initial orientation.
- (geometry) A unit of plane angle measurement based on this movement.
- A change in temperament or circumstance.
- A change of direction or orientation.
- A deed done to another; an act of kindness or malice.
- The transition from one period or era to another.
- One's chance to make a move in a game having two or more players.
- A walk to and fro.
- (soccer) An instance of going past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
- (UK, finance, historical) The profit made by a stockjobber, being the difference between the buying and selling prices.
- A chance to use (something) shared in sequence with others.
- A figure in music, often denoted ~, consisting of the note above the one indicated, the note itself, the note below the one indicated, and the note itself again.
- (rope) A pass behind or through an object.
- A single loop of a coil.
- (poker) The fourth communal card in Texas hold 'em.
- Character; personality; nature.
- A spell of work, especially the time allotted to a person in a rota or schedule.
- (cricket) A sideways movement of the ball when it bounces (caused by rotation in flight).
- The time required to complete a project.
- (circus, theater, especially physical comedy) A short skit, act, or routine.
verb
- persuade the seller to accept a lower price
- dislodge from a position
- shine hard
- (transitive, informal) To haggle with (someone) to sell at a lower price.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see beat, down.
- (transitive) To wear (someone) out by repeated actions that overwhelm one's patience or strength.
- (transitive) To forcefully diminish the power or influence of; to quell; to squash.
- (transitive, slang) To severely beat someone up.
- (intransitive) (of the sun) To shine brightly and radiate with intense heat.
- (intransitive) (of rain) To strike with great force.
noun
verb
- (transitive, UK, in haggling for a price of a buyer) To persuade the seller to reduce a price.
- (intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
- To make a sound when struck.
- To be in agitation or doubt.
- To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
- simple past tense of beat
- (military, intransitive) To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
- (intransitive, MLE, MTE, slang, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse.
- (transitive, slang) To rob; to cheat or scam.
- (transitive) To arrive at a place before someone.
- (intransitive) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
- (intransitive) To move with pulsation or throbbing.
- (transitive) To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
- (especially colloquial) past participle of beat
- To tread, as a path.
- To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
- To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and lesser intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; said of instruments, tones, or vibrations not perfectly in unison.
- (transitive) To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do or be better than (someone); to excel in a particular, competitive event.
- (transitive) To indicate by beating or drumming.
- (transitive) To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting.
- (transitive) To hit; to strike.
- move rhythmically
- move with or as if with a regular alternating motion
- strike (a part of one's own body) repeatedly, as in great emotion or in accompaniment to music
- make a rhythmic sound
- move with a thrashing motion
- produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly
- wear out completely
- stir vigorously
- avoid paying
- hit repeatedly
- be superior
- make a sound like a clock or a timer
- shape by beating
- be a mystery or bewildering to
- indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks
- glare or strike with great intensity
- come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
- make by pounding or trampling
- sail with much tacking or with difficulty
- strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting
- give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression
- beat through cleverness and wit
- move with a flapping motion
adj
noun
- (music) The rhythm signalled by a conductor or other musician to the members of a group of musicians.
- (slang) A makeup look; compare beat one's face.
- The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
- A rhythm.
- A pulsation or throb.
- (journalism) The primary focus of a reporter's stories (such as police/courts, education, city government, business etc.).
- (authorship) A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.
- (music) A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is the basic time unit of a piece.
- The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency
- (hunting) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.
- A stroke; a blow.
- (fencing) A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
- The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
- A beatnik.
- the sound of stroke or blow
- a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior
- a regular route for a sentry or policeman
- the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart
- a single pulsation of an oscillation produced by adding two waves of different frequencies; has a frequency equal to the difference between the two oscillations
- the act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing
- (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
- a regular rate of repetition
- a stroke or blow
- the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music
verb
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To trade meanly or mercenarily; to bargain.
- (intransitive) To pass goods and commodities from one person to another for an equivalent in goods or money; to buy or sell goods.
- (transitive) To exchange in traffic; to effect by a bargain or for a consideration.
- deal illegally
- trade or deal a commodity
adj
noun
- Moving pedestrians or vehicles, or the flux or passage thereof.
- The illegal trade or exchange of goods, often drugs.
- The commercial transportation or exchange of goods, or the movement of passengers or people.
- The exchange or flux of information, messages or data, as in a computer or telephone network.
- (advertising) The amount of attention paid to a particular printed page etc., in a publication.
- The commodities of the market.
- (radio) Of CB radio, formal written messages relayed on behalf of others.
- the amount of activity over a communication system during a given period of time
- buying and selling; especially illicit trade
- the aggregation of things (pedestrians or vehicles) coming and going in a particular locality during a specified period of time
- social or verbal interchange (usually followed by ‘with’)
verb
noun
- Somebody who sells things in an aggressive or showy manner.
- Somebody who writes advertisements for radio or television.
- One who deceptively sells fraudulent products; snake oil salesman.
- A peddler or hawker, who sells small items, either door-to-door, from a stall, or in the street.
- a person who writes radio or tv advertisements
- a seller of shoddy goods
verb
- be sold for a certain price
- attract the attention of
- bestow a quality on
- bring into a different state
- induce or persuade
- advance or set forth in court
- take something or somebody with oneself somewhere
- cause to happen or to occur as a consequence
- be accompanied by
- cause to come into a particular state or condition
- go or come after and bring or take back
- (baseball) To pitch, often referring to a particularly hard thrown fastball.
- (chess) To move a piece into a more active position, esp. to initially develop it.
- (transitive) To raise (a lawsuit, charges, etc.) against somebody.
- To produce in exchange; to sell for; to fetch.
- To persuade; to induce; to draw; to lead; to guide.
- (transitive) To occasion or bring about.
- (transitive, ditransitive) To transport toward somebody/somewhere.
- (transitive, figuratively) To supply or contribute.
intj
verb
- be sold for a certain price
- convey
- earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages
- submit (a verdict) to a court
- bring in a new person or object into a familiar environment
- To return a verdict in a court of law.
- To introduce a new rule, law, or system of organisation.
- To introduce, add or initiate a person or group of people to an organisation or event; to give (someone) a share or portion of something.
- To move something indoors, or into an area.
- To earn money for a company or for the family.
verb
- be sold for a certain price
- go or come after and bring or take back
- take someone to hell
- (transitive, ditransitive) To retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get.
- (transitive) To cause to come; to bring to a particular state.
- (transitive) To reduce; to throw.
- (nautical) To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.
- (intransitive) To bring oneself; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.
- (nautical, transitive) To make (a pump) draw water by pouring water into the top and working the handle.
- (transitive, rare, literary) To take (a breath); to heave (a sigh).
- (transitive) To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.
noun
- the action of fetching
- (originally Ireland, dialectal) The apparition of a living person; a person's double, the sight of which is supposedly a sign that they are fated to die soon, a doppelganger; a wraith (“a person's likeness seen just after their death; a ghost, a spectre”).
- (also figuratively) An act of fetching, of bringing something from a distance.
- An area over which wind is blowing (over water) and generating waves.
- The length of such an area; the distance a wave can travel across a body of water (without obstruction).
- (uncountable) A game played with a dog in which a person throws an object for the dog to retrieve.
- A stratagem or trick; an artifice.
- The object of fetching; the source of an attraction; a force, propensity, or quality which attracts.
- (computing, specifically) An act of fetching data.
intj
verb
- be priced at
- work in a specific place, with a specific subject, or in a specific function
- occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere
- spend or use time
- have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun)
- form or compose
- have an existence, be extant
- have life, be alive
- be identical to; be someone or something
- be identical or equivalent to
- represent, as of a character on stage
- to remain unmolested, undisturbed, or uninterrupted — used only in infinitive form
- To occupy a place.
- (with there, or dialectally it, as dummy subject) To exist.
- To pass or spend (time).
- (formal) Used with to-infinitives of verbs to express intent, obligation, appropriateness, or relative future occurrence.
- Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by an adjective or prepositional phrase.
- (rare and regional, chiefly in the past tense) Used to link two noun clauses: a day of the week, recurring date, month, or other specific time (on which the event of the main clause took place) and a period of time indicating how long ago that day was.
- (with a dummy subject it) Used to indicate the time of day.
- To remain undisturbed in a certain state or situation.
- Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by a noun or noun phrase.
- Used with past participles of certain intransitive verbs to form the perfect aspect.
- To take a period of time.
- (often impersonal, with it as a dummy subject) Used to indicate ambient conditions such as weather, light, noise or air quality.
- (with a cardinal numeral) Used to state the age of a subject in years.
- Used to declare the subject and object identical or equivalent.
- (in perfect tenses) Elliptical form of "be here", "go to and return from" or similar, also extending to certain other senses of "go".
- (auxiliary) Used with past participles of verbs to form the passive voice.
- (now usually literary) To exist; to have real existence, to be alive.
- Used to link a subject to a measurement.
- To occur, to take place.
- Used with present participles of verbs to form the continuous aspect.
- (colloquial, humorous) To have (a condition, especially a mental or physical disability).
- Used to indicate that a predicate nominal applies to the subject.
- (dynamic / lexical be, especially in progressive tenses, conjugated non-suppletively in the present tense, see usage notes) To exist or behave in a certain way.
- (African-American Vernacular, Caribbean, Ireland, auxiliary, not conjugated) To tend to do, often do; marks the habitual aspect.
- (with since) Used to indicate passage of time since the occurrence of an event.
noun
verb
- be priced at
- require to lose, suffer, or sacrifice
- To require to be borne or suffered; to cause.
- To calculate or estimate a price.
- (transitive, ditransitive) To incur a charge of; to require payment of a (specified) price.
- (transitive, ditransitive) To cause something to be lost; to cause the expenditure or relinquishment of.
- (transitive, colloquial) To cost (a person) a great deal of money or suffering.
noun
- value measured by what must be given or done or undergone to obtain something
- the property of having material worth (often indicated by the amount of money something would bring if sold)
- the total spent for goods or services including money and time and labor
- (heraldry) A cottise.
- Amount of money, time, etc. that is required or used.
- Quality; condition; property; value; worth; a wont or habit; disposition; nature; kind; characteristic.
- A negative consequence or loss that occurs or is required to occur.
adv
adj
noun
verb
adj
- Difficult to negotiate; requiring scrambling.
- Characterised by scrabbling, or digging around.
- Rough, poor and uncultured.
- Scribbly.
- Impoverished, hardscrabble
- Having a rough texture; scratchy.
- Stunted.
- Of poor quality; poorly maintained.
- Sparse and scraggly.
- Thrown together; disorganized or slapdash.
- Covered in loose rocks or crumbling soil.
- Characterized by sparse, stunted vegetation, infertile.
- sparsely covered with stunted trees or vegetation and underbrush