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adj
noun
- A tale of high adventure.
- An adventure, or series of extraordinary events, resembling those narrated in romances.
- A literary or filmic genre about idealized love.
- A dreamy, imaginative habit of mind; a disposition to ignore what is real.
- (music) A sentimental piece of music; a romanza.
- An intimate relationship between two people; a love affair.
- A strong obsession or attachment for something or someone.
- A mysterious, exciting, or fascinating quality.
- Idealized love which is pure or beautiful.
- An embellished account of something; an idealized lie.
- A story relating to chivalry; a story involving knights, heroes, adventures, quests, etc.
- A story, novel, film, etc., centred around an idealized love relationship.
- a novel dealing with idealized events remote from everyday life
- an exciting and mysterious quality (as of a heroic time or adventure)
- a relationship between two lovers
- a story dealing with love
verb
- (transitive) To woo; to court.
- (intransitive) To talk extravagantly and imaginatively; to build castles in the air.
- (intransitive) To write or tell romantic stories, poetry, letters, etc.
- talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions
- make amorous advances towards
- have a love affair with
- tell romantic or exaggerated lies
noun
- An adventurer on a dangerous but rewarding quest.
- someone engaged in a dangerous but potentially rewarding adventure
- Any of several species of shelled octopods of the family Argonautidae (of which only the genus Argonauta is not extinct).
- (specifically, historical) A 49er, a person who took part in the California Gold Rush of 1849.
- cephalopod mollusk of warm seas whose females have delicate papery spiral shells
noun
- One who enjoys adventures.
- (video games) A player of adventure games or text adventures.
- A person who seeks a fortune in new and possibly dangerous enterprises.
- A person who tries to advance their social position by somewhat devious means.
- A soldier of fortune, a speculator.
- a person who enjoys taking risks
- someone who travels into little known regions (especially for some scientific purpose)
noun
- A risky or daring undertaking or journey.
- The thing risked; especially, something sent to sea in trade.
- An event that is not, or cannot be, foreseen.
- a commercial undertaking that risks a loss but promises a profit
- any venturesome undertaking especially one with an uncertain outcome
- an investment that is very risky but could yield great profits
verb
- (transitive) To undertake a risky or daring journey.
- (transitive) To put or send on a venture or chance.
- (transitive) To confide in; to rely on; to trust.
- (transitive) To risk or offer.
- (intransitive, with at or on) To dare to engage in; to attempt without any certainty of success.
- (transitive) To say something; to offer an opinion.
- proceed somewhere despite the risk of possible dangers
- put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation
- put at risk
noun
- an exploratory action or expedition
- an inquiry into unfamiliar or questionable activities
- a flexible slender surgical instrument with a blunt end that is used to explore wounds or body cavities
- an investigation conducted using a flexible surgical instrument to explore an injury or a body cavity
- (astronautics) A small, usually uncrewed, spacecraft used to acquire information or measurements about its surroundings.
- (go) A move with multiple possible answers, seeking to make the opponent choose and commit to a strategy.
- An act of probing; a prod, a poke.
- (comedy, fiction) An anal probe, a fictional instrument commonly used by aliens on abducted humans.
- (surgery) Any of various medical instruments used to explore wounds, organs, etc.
- (sciences) A small device, especially an electrode, used to explore, investigate or measure something by penetrating or being placed in it.
- (figuratively) Something which penetrates something else, as though to explore; something which obtains information.
- (biochemistry) Any group of atoms or molecules radioactively labeled in order to study a given molecule or other structure
- (figuratively) An investigation or inquiry.
- (aeronautics) A tube attached to an aircraft which can be fitted into the drogue from a tanker aircraft to allow for aerial refuelling.
verb
noun
- A voyage.
- A pleasure trip.
- A production quantity (such as in a factory).
- (mining) The horizontal distance to which a drift may be carried, either by licence of the proprietor of a mine or by the nature of the formation; also, the direction which a vein of ore or other substance takes.
- A trial.
- One’s gait while running; the way one runs.
- (construction) Horizontal dimension of a slope.
- A flow of liquid; a leak.
- (cricket) The act of passing from one wicket to another; the point scored for this.
- (chiefly eastern North Midland US, especially Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia) A small creek or part thereof. (Compare Southern US branch and New York and New England brook.)
- Migration of fish.
- The top of a step on a staircase, also called a tread, as opposed to the rise.
- (video games, speedrunning) A playthrough, or attempted playthrough; a session of play.
- (skiing, bobsledding) A single trip down a hill, as in skiing and bobsledding.
- Any sudden large demand for something.
- (banking) A sudden series of demands on a bank or other financial institution, especially characterised by great withdrawals.
- An enclosure for an animal; a track or path along which something can travel.
- (slang) A period of extended (usually daily) drug use.
- A standard or unexceptional group or category.
- The horizontal length of a set of stairs
- (music) A rapid passage in music, especially along a scale.
- (golf) The movement communicated to a golf ball by running it.
- (American football) A running play.
- The distance drilled with a bit, in oil drilling.
- State of being current; currency; popularity.
- The period of showing of a play, film, TV series, etc.
- A quick pace, faster than a walk.
- A line of knit stitches that have unravelled, particularly in a nylon stocking.
- (card games) A sequence of cards in a suit in a card game.
- (baseball) A score when a runner touches all bases legally; the act of a runner scoring.
- (golf) The distance a ball travels after touching the ground from a stroke.
- (mathematics, computing) The execution of a program or model
- A pair or set of millstones.
- A series of tries in a game that were successful.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A rural landholding for farming, usually for running sheep, and operated by a runholder.
- Act or instance of hurrying (to or from a place) (not necessarily on foot); dash or errand, trip.
- Flight, instance or period of fleeing.
- (nautical) The stern of the underwater body of a ship from where it begins to curve upward and inward.
- (of horses) A fast gallop.
- Act or instance of running, of moving rapidly using the feet.
- Unrestricted use. Only used in have the run of.
- A continuous period (of time) marked by a trend; a period marked by a continuing trend.
- A (regular) trip or route.
- The route taken while running or skiing.
- The distance sailed by a ship.
- A group of fish that migrate, or ascend a river for the purpose of spawning.
- a small stream
- the pouring forth of a fluid
- a regular trip
- unrestricted freedom to use
- an unbroken chronological sequence
- (American football) a play in which a player attempts to carry the ball through or past the opposing team
- the production achieved during a continuous period of operation (of a machine or factory etc.)
- the act of testing something
- the continuous period of time during which something (a machine or a factory) operates or continues in operation
- a race between candidates for elective office
- a race run on foot
- a short trip
- an unbroken series of events
- the act of running; traveling on foot at a fast pace
- a score in baseball made by a runner touching all four bases safely
- a row of unravelled stitches
adj
verb
- (transitive) To encounter or incur (a danger or risk).
- To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.
- (transitive) To complete a running course or event in (a given time).
- (figurative, transitive) To pass (without stopping), typically a stop signal, stop sign, or duty to yield the right of way.
- (transitive) To execute or carry out a plan, procedure, or program.
- To fuse; to shape; to mould; to cast.
- (transitive) To transit (a length of a river), as in whitewater rafting.
- (intransitive) Of stitches or stitched clothing, to unravel.
- To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine.
- (golf) To strike (the ball) in such a way as to cause it to run along the ground, as when approaching a hole.
- (intransitive) To flee from a danger or towards help.
- To press (a bank, etc.) with immediate demands for payment.
- (intransitive) To become liquid; to melt.
- (intransitive) To be a candidate in an election.
- (transitive, agriculture) To sort through a large volume of produce in quality control.
- (transitive) To transport (someone or something), notionally at a brisk pace.
- (copulative) To become different in a way mentioned (usually to become worse).
- To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in company.
- (transitive) To cover (a course or a distance) by running.
- (intransitive) To leak or spread in an undesirable fashion; to bleed (especially used of dye or paint).
- past participle of rin
- (intransitive) To move briskly or smoothly with a motion of sliding, rolling, sweeping etc.
- (transitive) To make (something) extend in space.
- (sports, especially baseball) To eject from a game or match.
- To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation.
- (transitive) To cause to move quickly or lightly.
- (intransitive) To move forward quickly upon two feet by alternately making a short jump off either foot.
- (intransitive) To extend in time, to last, to continue (usually with a measure phrase).
- (intransitive) Of fish, to migrate for spawning.
- To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.
- (transitive or intransitive) To compete in a race.
- (transitive, intransitive) Of a means of transportation: to travel (a route).
- (intransitive) To be presented in the media.
- (transitive) To make stand in an election.
- To exert continuous activity; to proceed.
- (transitive) To cause (a vehicle) to travel a route.
- (intransitive) To extend in space or through a range (often with a measure phrase).
- (American football, transitive or intransitive) To carry (a football) down the field, as opposed to passing or kicking.
- To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.
- (transitive) To make a liquid or electric current flow from or into an object.
- (transitive) To smuggle (illegal goods).
- (transitive) To control or manage; to be in charge of.
- (intransitive) To go at a fast pace; to move quickly.
- (transitive) To make a machine operate.
- To have growth or development.
- (transitive) To cost an amount of money.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To move or spread quickly.
- (nautical, of a vessel) To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing close-hauled.
- (intransitive) Of a liquid or electric current, to flow.
- (transitive) To print or broadcast in the media.
- To control or have precedence in a card game.
- (transitive, juggling, colloquial) To juggle a pattern continuously, as opposed to starting and stopping quickly.
- To be in form thus, as a combination of words.
- (intransitive) Of an object, to have a liquid flowing from it.
- (video games, rare) To speedrun.
- (transitive) To cause stitched clothing to unravel.
- To cause to enter; to thrust.
- (transitive) To make enter a race.
- To encounter or suffer (a particular, usually bad, fate or misfortune).
- (intransitive) Of a machine, including computer programs, to be operating or working normally.
- To sew (a seam) by passing the needle through material in a continuous line, generally taking a series of stitches on the needle at the same time.
- cover by running; run a certain distance
- deal in illegally, such as arms or liquor
- include as the content; broadcast or publicize
- travel rapidly, by any (unspecified) means
- run with the ball; in such sports as football
- occur persistently
- flee; take to one's heels; cut and run
- reduce or cause to be reduced from a solid to a liquid state, usually by heating
- run, stand, or compete for an office or a position
- be diffused
- change from one state to another
- pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals)
- carry out a process or program, as on a computer or a machine
- become undone
- be affected by; be subjected to
- move along, of liquids
- progress by being changed
- cause something to pass or lead somewhere
- change or be different within limits
- be operating, running or functioning
- continue to exist
- move about freely and without restraint, or act as if running around in an uncontrolled way
- make without a miss
- sail before the wind
- cause to perform
- have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined
- conduct to completion
- cause to emit recorded audio or video
- compete in a race
- direct or control; projects, businesses, etc.
- come unraveled or undone as if by snagging
- pass over, across, or through
- set animals loose to graze
- keep company
- move fast by using one's feet, with one foot off the ground at any given time
- perform as expected when applied
- extend or continue for a certain period of time
- cause an animal to move fast
- travel a route regularly
- have a particular form
- stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point
noun
- to travel for the purpose of discovery
- The process of exploring.
- a systematic consideration
- a careful systematic search
- The process of penetrating, or ranging over for purposes of (especially geographical) discovery.
- The (pre-)mining process of finding and determining commercially viable ore deposits (after prospecting), also called mineral exploration.
- (medicine) A physical examination of a patient.
adj
verb
noun
- A journey; an excursion or jaunt.
- A faux pas, a social error.
- The act of tripping someone, or causing them to lose their footing.
- (engineering) A mechanical cutout device.
- A stumble or misstep.
- (colloquial) A period of time in which one experiences drug-induced reverie or hallucinations.
- (by extension) Intense involvement in or enjoyment of a condition.
- (electricity) A trip-switch or cut-out.
- A flock of wigeons.
- (nautical) A single tack while beating (sailing to windward).
- A quick, light step; a lively movement of the feet; a skip.
- a journey for some purpose (usually including the return)
- a light or nimble tread
- an exciting or stimulating experience
- an unintentional but embarrassing blunder
- an accidental misstep threatening (or causing) a fall
- a catch mechanism that acts as a switch
- a hallucinatory experience induced by drugs
verb
- make a trip for pleasure
- (intransitive) To fall over or stumble over an object as a result of striking it with one's foot
- (intransitive) To be guilty of a misstep or mistake; to commit an offence against morality, propriety, etc
- (nautical) To pull (a yard) into a perpendicular position for lowering it.
- (intransitive) To experience a state of reverie or to hallucinate, due to consuming psychoactive drugs.
- (transitive, sometimes followed by "up") To cause (a person or animal) to fall or stumble by knocking their feet from under them.
- (transitive) To activate or set in motion, as in the activation of a trap, explosive, or switch.
- (intransitive) To be activated, as by a signal or an event
- Of an electrical circuit, to trip out (through overload, a short circuit).
- (nautical) To raise (an anchor) from the bottom, by its cable or buoy rope, so that it hangs free.
- (slang, African-American Vernacular, most commonly used in the form tripping) To become unreasonably upset, especially over something unimportant; to cause a scene or a disruption.
- (intransitive) To journey, to make a trip.
- (slang, African-American Vernacular) To act foolishly or irrationally.
- get high, stoned, or drugged
- miss a step and fall or nearly fall
- cause to stumble
- put in motion or move to act
adj
verb
noun
- A pleasure trip or excursion.
- a journey taken for pleasure
- A performance in public, for example in a drama, film, on a musical album, as a sports contestant etc.
- The act of revealing somebody as having a certain secret, such as a being a secret agent or undercover detective.
- The act of publicly revealing that a person is homosexual or transgender without that person's consent.
- a day devoted to an outdoor social gathering
verb
noun
- a journey taken for pleasure
- A brief recreational trip; a journey out of the usual way.
- wandering from the main path of a journey
- (Australia) A field trip.
- (aviation) An occurrence where an aircraft runs off the end or side of a runway or taxiway, usually during takeoff, landing, or taxi.
- A wandering from the main subject: a digression.
- (phonetics) A deviation in pitch, for example in the syllables of enthusiastic speech.
verb
noun
- a journey taken for pleasure
- an organized group of people undertaking a journey for a particular purpose
- a military campaign designed to achieve a specific objective in a foreign country
- the property of being prompt and efficient
- a journey organized for a particular purpose
- The process or activities of performing expediter tasks.
- (military) An important or long journey, for example a march or a voyage.
- (collective) The group of people making such excursion.
- A military journey; an enterprise against some enemy or into enemy territory.
- A trip, especially a long one, made by a person or a group of people for a specific purpose.
verb
noun
- a journey taken for pleasure
- dessert made of sweetened milk coagulated with rennet
- a trip taken by an official at public expense
- A pleasure trip; a journey made for feasting or enjoyment, now especially a trip made ostensibly for business but which entails merrymaking or entertainment.
- (film) Ellipsis of press junket.
- A feast or banquet.
- A type of cream cheese, originally made in a rush basket; later, a food made of sweetened curds.
- (gambling) A gaming room for which the capacity and limits change daily, often rented out to private vendors who run tour groups through them and give a portion of the proceeds to the main casino.
verb
noun
verb
verb
- make a trip for pleasure
- undertake a journey or trip
- change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
- travel upon or across
- travel from place to place, as for the purpose of finding work, preaching, or acting as a judge
- undergo transportation as in a vehicle
- (intransitive) To pass from one place to another; to move or transmit.
- (transitive) To force to journey.
- (transitive) To travel throughout (a place).
- (intransitive, basketball) To move illegally by walking or running without dribbling the ball.
- (intransitive) To be on a journey, often for pleasure or business and with luggage; to go from one place to another.
noun
- a movement through space that changes the location of something
- self-propelled movement
- the act of going from one place to another
- The working motion of a piece of machinery; the length of a mechanical stroke.
- The act of traveling; passage from place to place.
- (in the plural) An account of one's travels.
- The activity or traffic along a route or through a given point.
- (in the plural) A series of journeys.
- Distance that a keyboard's key moves vertically when depressed.
noun
- A stumble, a trip.
- (US) A small bluefish.
- A snap beetle (family Elateridae).
- One who, or that which, snaps.
- (Australia, New Zealand) The fish Chrysophrys auratus, especially an adult of the species.
- The green woodpecker, or yaffle (Picus viridis).
- (US) Small, paper-wrapped item containing a minute quantity of explosive composition coated on small bits of sand, which explodes noisily when thrown onto a hard surface.
- (slang, entertainment) A punchline.
- (US) Any of the family Lutjanidae of percoid fishes, especially the red snapper.
- (slang) The vulva.
- (Ireland, slang) A (human) baby.
- (historical) A telegraphic device with a flexible metal tongue for producing clicks like those of the sounder.
- (US, informal) The snapping turtle.
- (American football) The player who snaps the ball to start the play.
- (slang) One who takes snaps; a photographer.
- (US, colloquial) A string bean.
- (US politics, historical) A supporter of Senator Hill's premature scheduling of the Democratic National Committee convention of 1892.
- An error, a blunder, especially a moral slip-up.
- large-headed turtle with powerful hooked jaws found in or near water; prone to bite
- (football) the person who plays center on the line of scrimmage and snaps the ball to the quarterback
- Australian food fish having a pinkish body with blue spots
- any of several large sharp-toothed marine food and sport fishes of the family Lutjanidae of mainly tropical coastal waters
- a party favor consisting of a paper roll (usually containing candy or a small favor) that pops when pulled at both ends
- flesh of any of various important food fishes of warm seas
verb
noun
- A wandering or roving; a going to and fro; an excursion; a ramble; an expedition.
- The distance a vehicle (e.g., a car, bicycle, lorry, or aircraft) can travel without refueling.
- A line or series of mountains, buildings, etc.
- (US, historical) In the public land system, a row or line of townships lying between two succession meridian lines six miles apart.
- An area for practicing shooting at targets.
- (mathematics) The set of values (points) which a function can obtain.
- The maximum distance or reach of capability (of a weapon, radio, detector, etc.).
- (programming) A sequential list of values specified by an iterator.
- (sports, baseball) The defensive area that a player can cover.
- An area for military training or equipment testing.
- (statistics) The length of the smallest interval which contains all the data in a sample; the difference between the largest and smallest observations in the sample.
- An aggregate of individuals in one rank or degree; an order; a class.
- (ecology) The geographical area or zone where a species is normally naturally found.
- The distance from a person or sensor to an object, target, emanation, or event.
- (music) The scale of all the tones a voice or an instrument can produce.
- A fireplace; a fire or other cooking apparatus; now specifically, a large cooking stove with many burners (hotplates).
- The extent or space taken in by anything excursive; compass or extent of excursion; reach; scope.
- Selection, array.
- An area of open, often unfenced, grazing land.
- The variety of roles that an actor can play in a satisfactory way.
- the limit of capability
- a variety of different things or activities
- (mathematics) the set of values of the dependent variable for which a function is defined
- the limits within which something can be effective
- a large tract of grassy open land on which livestock can graze
- a kitchen appliance used for cooking food
- a place for shooting (firing or driving) projectiles of various kinds
- a series of hills or mountains
- an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control:
verb
- (transitive) To set in a row, or in rows; to place in a regular line or lines, or in ranks; to dispose in the proper order.
- (transitive) To place among others in a line, row, or order, as in the ranks of an army; usually, reflexively and figuratively, to espouse a cause, to join a party, etc.
- (transitive) To rove over or through.
- (biology) To be native to, or live in, a certain district or region.
- (military, of artillery) To determine the range to a target.
- (intransitive) To be placed in order; to be ranked; to admit of arrangement or classification; to rank.
- (intransitive) To form a line or a row.
- (transitive) To bring (something) into a specified position or relationship (especially, of opposition) with something else.
- (intransitive) To travel over (an area, etc); to roam, wander.
- (baseball) Of a player, to travel a significant distance for a defensive play.
- (intransitive) Of a variable, to be able to take any of the values in a specified range.
- (transitive) To classify.
- To sail or pass in a direction parallel to or near.
- range or extend over; occupy a certain area
- feed as in a meadow or pasture
- lay out orderly or logically in a line or as if in a line
- let eat
- change or be different within limits
- move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
- assign a rank or rating to
- have a range; be capable of projecting over a certain distance, as of a gun
adj
verb
noun
- A jolly or peppy person.
- A frolic or romp, some fun.
- Any of various similar-appearing birds, but usually ground-living, such as the meadowlark and titlark.
- Any of various small, singing passerine birds of the family Alaudidae.
- A prank.
- (by extension) One who wakes early; one who is up with the larks.
- any carefree episode
- North American songbirds having a yellow breast
- a songbird that lives mainly on the ground in open country; has streaky brown plumage
- any of numerous predominantly Old World birds noted for their singing
noun
- A tale of high adventure.
- An adventure, or series of extraordinary events, resembling those narrated in romances.
- A literary or filmic genre about idealized love.
- A dreamy, imaginative habit of mind; a disposition to ignore what is real.
- (music) A sentimental piece of music; a romanza.
- An intimate relationship between two people; a love affair.
- A strong obsession or attachment for something or someone.
- A mysterious, exciting, or fascinating quality.
- Idealized love which is pure or beautiful.
- An embellished account of something; an idealized lie.
- A story relating to chivalry; a story involving knights, heroes, adventures, quests, etc.
- A story, novel, film, etc., centred around an idealized love relationship.
- a novel dealing with idealized events remote from everyday life
- an exciting and mysterious quality (as of a heroic time or adventure)
- a relationship between two lovers
- a story dealing with love
verb
- (transitive) To woo; to court.
- (intransitive) To talk extravagantly and imaginatively; to build castles in the air.
- (intransitive) To write or tell romantic stories, poetry, letters, etc.
- talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions
- make amorous advances towards
- have a love affair with
- tell romantic or exaggerated lies
noun
- An adventurer on a dangerous but rewarding quest.
- someone engaged in a dangerous but potentially rewarding adventure
- Any of several species of shelled octopods of the family Argonautidae (of which only the genus Argonauta is not extinct).
- (specifically, historical) A 49er, a person who took part in the California Gold Rush of 1849.
- cephalopod mollusk of warm seas whose females have delicate papery spiral shells
noun
- One who enjoys adventures.
- (video games) A player of adventure games or text adventures.
- A person who seeks a fortune in new and possibly dangerous enterprises.
- A person who tries to advance their social position by somewhat devious means.
- A soldier of fortune, a speculator.
- a person who enjoys taking risks
- someone who travels into little known regions (especially for some scientific purpose)
noun
- A risky or daring undertaking or journey.
- The thing risked; especially, something sent to sea in trade.
- An event that is not, or cannot be, foreseen.
- a commercial undertaking that risks a loss but promises a profit
- any venturesome undertaking especially one with an uncertain outcome
- an investment that is very risky but could yield great profits
verb
- (transitive) To undertake a risky or daring journey.
- (transitive) To put or send on a venture or chance.
- (transitive) To confide in; to rely on; to trust.
- (transitive) To risk or offer.
- (intransitive, with at or on) To dare to engage in; to attempt without any certainty of success.
- (transitive) To say something; to offer an opinion.
- proceed somewhere despite the risk of possible dangers
- put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation
- put at risk
noun
- an exploratory action or expedition
- an inquiry into unfamiliar or questionable activities
- a flexible slender surgical instrument with a blunt end that is used to explore wounds or body cavities
- an investigation conducted using a flexible surgical instrument to explore an injury or a body cavity
- (astronautics) A small, usually uncrewed, spacecraft used to acquire information or measurements about its surroundings.
- (go) A move with multiple possible answers, seeking to make the opponent choose and commit to a strategy.
- An act of probing; a prod, a poke.
- (comedy, fiction) An anal probe, a fictional instrument commonly used by aliens on abducted humans.
- (surgery) Any of various medical instruments used to explore wounds, organs, etc.
- (sciences) A small device, especially an electrode, used to explore, investigate or measure something by penetrating or being placed in it.
- (figuratively) Something which penetrates something else, as though to explore; something which obtains information.
- (biochemistry) Any group of atoms or molecules radioactively labeled in order to study a given molecule or other structure
- (figuratively) An investigation or inquiry.
- (aeronautics) A tube attached to an aircraft which can be fitted into the drogue from a tanker aircraft to allow for aerial refuelling.
verb
noun
- A voyage.
- A pleasure trip.
- A production quantity (such as in a factory).
- (mining) The horizontal distance to which a drift may be carried, either by licence of the proprietor of a mine or by the nature of the formation; also, the direction which a vein of ore or other substance takes.
- A trial.
- One’s gait while running; the way one runs.
- (construction) Horizontal dimension of a slope.
- A flow of liquid; a leak.
- (cricket) The act of passing from one wicket to another; the point scored for this.
- (chiefly eastern North Midland US, especially Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia) A small creek or part thereof. (Compare Southern US branch and New York and New England brook.)
- Migration of fish.
- The top of a step on a staircase, also called a tread, as opposed to the rise.
- (video games, speedrunning) A playthrough, or attempted playthrough; a session of play.
- (skiing, bobsledding) A single trip down a hill, as in skiing and bobsledding.
- Any sudden large demand for something.
- (banking) A sudden series of demands on a bank or other financial institution, especially characterised by great withdrawals.
- An enclosure for an animal; a track or path along which something can travel.
- (slang) A period of extended (usually daily) drug use.
- A standard or unexceptional group or category.
- The horizontal length of a set of stairs
- (music) A rapid passage in music, especially along a scale.
- (golf) The movement communicated to a golf ball by running it.
- (American football) A running play.
- The distance drilled with a bit, in oil drilling.
- State of being current; currency; popularity.
- The period of showing of a play, film, TV series, etc.
- A quick pace, faster than a walk.
- A line of knit stitches that have unravelled, particularly in a nylon stocking.
- (card games) A sequence of cards in a suit in a card game.
- (baseball) A score when a runner touches all bases legally; the act of a runner scoring.
- (golf) The distance a ball travels after touching the ground from a stroke.
- (mathematics, computing) The execution of a program or model
- A pair or set of millstones.
- A series of tries in a game that were successful.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A rural landholding for farming, usually for running sheep, and operated by a runholder.
- Act or instance of hurrying (to or from a place) (not necessarily on foot); dash or errand, trip.
- Flight, instance or period of fleeing.
- (nautical) The stern of the underwater body of a ship from where it begins to curve upward and inward.
- (of horses) A fast gallop.
- Act or instance of running, of moving rapidly using the feet.
- Unrestricted use. Only used in have the run of.
- A continuous period (of time) marked by a trend; a period marked by a continuing trend.
- A (regular) trip or route.
- The route taken while running or skiing.
- The distance sailed by a ship.
- A group of fish that migrate, or ascend a river for the purpose of spawning.
- a small stream
- the pouring forth of a fluid
- a regular trip
- unrestricted freedom to use
- an unbroken chronological sequence
- (American football) a play in which a player attempts to carry the ball through or past the opposing team
- the production achieved during a continuous period of operation (of a machine or factory etc.)
- the act of testing something
- the continuous period of time during which something (a machine or a factory) operates or continues in operation
- a race between candidates for elective office
- a race run on foot
- a short trip
- an unbroken series of events
- the act of running; traveling on foot at a fast pace
- a score in baseball made by a runner touching all four bases safely
- a row of unravelled stitches
adj
verb
- (transitive) To encounter or incur (a danger or risk).
- To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.
- (transitive) To complete a running course or event in (a given time).
- (figurative, transitive) To pass (without stopping), typically a stop signal, stop sign, or duty to yield the right of way.
- (transitive) To execute or carry out a plan, procedure, or program.
- To fuse; to shape; to mould; to cast.
- (transitive) To transit (a length of a river), as in whitewater rafting.
- (intransitive) Of stitches or stitched clothing, to unravel.
- To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine.
- (golf) To strike (the ball) in such a way as to cause it to run along the ground, as when approaching a hole.
- (intransitive) To flee from a danger or towards help.
- To press (a bank, etc.) with immediate demands for payment.
- (intransitive) To become liquid; to melt.
- (intransitive) To be a candidate in an election.
- (transitive, agriculture) To sort through a large volume of produce in quality control.
- (transitive) To transport (someone or something), notionally at a brisk pace.
- (copulative) To become different in a way mentioned (usually to become worse).
- To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in company.
- (transitive) To cover (a course or a distance) by running.
- (intransitive) To leak or spread in an undesirable fashion; to bleed (especially used of dye or paint).
- past participle of rin
- (intransitive) To move briskly or smoothly with a motion of sliding, rolling, sweeping etc.
- (transitive) To make (something) extend in space.
- (sports, especially baseball) To eject from a game or match.
- To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation.
- (transitive) To cause to move quickly or lightly.
- (intransitive) To move forward quickly upon two feet by alternately making a short jump off either foot.
- (intransitive) To extend in time, to last, to continue (usually with a measure phrase).
- (intransitive) Of fish, to migrate for spawning.
- To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.
- (transitive or intransitive) To compete in a race.
- (transitive, intransitive) Of a means of transportation: to travel (a route).
- (intransitive) To be presented in the media.
- (transitive) To make stand in an election.
- To exert continuous activity; to proceed.
- (transitive) To cause (a vehicle) to travel a route.
- (intransitive) To extend in space or through a range (often with a measure phrase).
- (American football, transitive or intransitive) To carry (a football) down the field, as opposed to passing or kicking.
- To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.
- (transitive) To make a liquid or electric current flow from or into an object.
- (transitive) To smuggle (illegal goods).
- (transitive) To control or manage; to be in charge of.
- (intransitive) To go at a fast pace; to move quickly.
- (transitive) To make a machine operate.
- To have growth or development.
- (transitive) To cost an amount of money.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To move or spread quickly.
- (nautical, of a vessel) To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing close-hauled.
- (intransitive) Of a liquid or electric current, to flow.
- (transitive) To print or broadcast in the media.
- To control or have precedence in a card game.
- (transitive, juggling, colloquial) To juggle a pattern continuously, as opposed to starting and stopping quickly.
- To be in form thus, as a combination of words.
- (intransitive) Of an object, to have a liquid flowing from it.
- (video games, rare) To speedrun.
- (transitive) To cause stitched clothing to unravel.
- To cause to enter; to thrust.
- (transitive) To make enter a race.
- To encounter or suffer (a particular, usually bad, fate or misfortune).
- (intransitive) Of a machine, including computer programs, to be operating or working normally.
- To sew (a seam) by passing the needle through material in a continuous line, generally taking a series of stitches on the needle at the same time.
- cover by running; run a certain distance
- deal in illegally, such as arms or liquor
- include as the content; broadcast or publicize
- travel rapidly, by any (unspecified) means
- run with the ball; in such sports as football
- occur persistently
- flee; take to one's heels; cut and run
- reduce or cause to be reduced from a solid to a liquid state, usually by heating
- run, stand, or compete for an office or a position
- be diffused
- change from one state to another
- pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals)
- carry out a process or program, as on a computer or a machine
- become undone
- be affected by; be subjected to
- move along, of liquids
- progress by being changed
- cause something to pass or lead somewhere
- change or be different within limits
- be operating, running or functioning
- continue to exist
- move about freely and without restraint, or act as if running around in an uncontrolled way
- make without a miss
- sail before the wind
- cause to perform
- have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined
- conduct to completion
- cause to emit recorded audio or video
- compete in a race
- direct or control; projects, businesses, etc.
- come unraveled or undone as if by snagging
- pass over, across, or through
- set animals loose to graze
- keep company
- move fast by using one's feet, with one foot off the ground at any given time
- perform as expected when applied
- extend or continue for a certain period of time
- cause an animal to move fast
- travel a route regularly
- have a particular form
- stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point
noun
- to travel for the purpose of discovery
- The process of exploring.
- a systematic consideration
- a careful systematic search
- The process of penetrating, or ranging over for purposes of (especially geographical) discovery.
- The (pre-)mining process of finding and determining commercially viable ore deposits (after prospecting), also called mineral exploration.
- (medicine) A physical examination of a patient.
noun
- A journey; an excursion or jaunt.
- A faux pas, a social error.
- The act of tripping someone, or causing them to lose their footing.
- (engineering) A mechanical cutout device.
- A stumble or misstep.
- (colloquial) A period of time in which one experiences drug-induced reverie or hallucinations.
- (by extension) Intense involvement in or enjoyment of a condition.
- (electricity) A trip-switch or cut-out.
- A flock of wigeons.
- (nautical) A single tack while beating (sailing to windward).
- A quick, light step; a lively movement of the feet; a skip.
- a journey for some purpose (usually including the return)
- a light or nimble tread
- an exciting or stimulating experience
- an unintentional but embarrassing blunder
- an accidental misstep threatening (or causing) a fall
- a catch mechanism that acts as a switch
- a hallucinatory experience induced by drugs
verb
- make a trip for pleasure
- (intransitive) To fall over or stumble over an object as a result of striking it with one's foot
- (intransitive) To be guilty of a misstep or mistake; to commit an offence against morality, propriety, etc
- (nautical) To pull (a yard) into a perpendicular position for lowering it.
- (intransitive) To experience a state of reverie or to hallucinate, due to consuming psychoactive drugs.
- (transitive, sometimes followed by "up") To cause (a person or animal) to fall or stumble by knocking their feet from under them.
- (transitive) To activate or set in motion, as in the activation of a trap, explosive, or switch.
- (intransitive) To be activated, as by a signal or an event
- Of an electrical circuit, to trip out (through overload, a short circuit).
- (nautical) To raise (an anchor) from the bottom, by its cable or buoy rope, so that it hangs free.
- (slang, African-American Vernacular, most commonly used in the form tripping) To become unreasonably upset, especially over something unimportant; to cause a scene or a disruption.
- (intransitive) To journey, to make a trip.
- (slang, African-American Vernacular) To act foolishly or irrationally.
- get high, stoned, or drugged
- miss a step and fall or nearly fall
- cause to stumble
- put in motion or move to act
adj
noun
- A pleasure trip or excursion.
- a journey taken for pleasure
- A performance in public, for example in a drama, film, on a musical album, as a sports contestant etc.
- The act of revealing somebody as having a certain secret, such as a being a secret agent or undercover detective.
- The act of publicly revealing that a person is homosexual or transgender without that person's consent.
- a day devoted to an outdoor social gathering
verb
noun
- a journey taken for pleasure
- A brief recreational trip; a journey out of the usual way.
- wandering from the main path of a journey
- (Australia) A field trip.
- (aviation) An occurrence where an aircraft runs off the end or side of a runway or taxiway, usually during takeoff, landing, or taxi.
- A wandering from the main subject: a digression.
- (phonetics) A deviation in pitch, for example in the syllables of enthusiastic speech.
verb
noun
- a journey taken for pleasure
- an organized group of people undertaking a journey for a particular purpose
- a military campaign designed to achieve a specific objective in a foreign country
- the property of being prompt and efficient
- a journey organized for a particular purpose
- The process or activities of performing expediter tasks.
- (military) An important or long journey, for example a march or a voyage.
- (collective) The group of people making such excursion.
- A military journey; an enterprise against some enemy or into enemy territory.
- A trip, especially a long one, made by a person or a group of people for a specific purpose.
verb
noun
- a journey taken for pleasure
- dessert made of sweetened milk coagulated with rennet
- a trip taken by an official at public expense
- A pleasure trip; a journey made for feasting or enjoyment, now especially a trip made ostensibly for business but which entails merrymaking or entertainment.
- (film) Ellipsis of press junket.
- A feast or banquet.
- A type of cream cheese, originally made in a rush basket; later, a food made of sweetened curds.
- (gambling) A gaming room for which the capacity and limits change daily, often rented out to private vendors who run tour groups through them and give a portion of the proceeds to the main casino.
verb
noun
verb
noun
- A stumble, a trip.
- (US) A small bluefish.
- A snap beetle (family Elateridae).
- One who, or that which, snaps.
- (Australia, New Zealand) The fish Chrysophrys auratus, especially an adult of the species.
- The green woodpecker, or yaffle (Picus viridis).
- (US) Small, paper-wrapped item containing a minute quantity of explosive composition coated on small bits of sand, which explodes noisily when thrown onto a hard surface.
- (slang, entertainment) A punchline.
- (US) Any of the family Lutjanidae of percoid fishes, especially the red snapper.
- (slang) The vulva.
- (Ireland, slang) A (human) baby.
- (historical) A telegraphic device with a flexible metal tongue for producing clicks like those of the sounder.
- (US, informal) The snapping turtle.
- (American football) The player who snaps the ball to start the play.
- (slang) One who takes snaps; a photographer.
- (US, colloquial) A string bean.
- (US politics, historical) A supporter of Senator Hill's premature scheduling of the Democratic National Committee convention of 1892.
- An error, a blunder, especially a moral slip-up.
- large-headed turtle with powerful hooked jaws found in or near water; prone to bite
- (football) the person who plays center on the line of scrimmage and snaps the ball to the quarterback
- Australian food fish having a pinkish body with blue spots
- any of several large sharp-toothed marine food and sport fishes of the family Lutjanidae of mainly tropical coastal waters
- a party favor consisting of a paper roll (usually containing candy or a small favor) that pops when pulled at both ends
- flesh of any of various important food fishes of warm seas
verb
noun
- A wandering or roving; a going to and fro; an excursion; a ramble; an expedition.
- The distance a vehicle (e.g., a car, bicycle, lorry, or aircraft) can travel without refueling.
- A line or series of mountains, buildings, etc.
- (US, historical) In the public land system, a row or line of townships lying between two succession meridian lines six miles apart.
- An area for practicing shooting at targets.
- (mathematics) The set of values (points) which a function can obtain.
- The maximum distance or reach of capability (of a weapon, radio, detector, etc.).
- (programming) A sequential list of values specified by an iterator.
- (sports, baseball) The defensive area that a player can cover.
- An area for military training or equipment testing.
- (statistics) The length of the smallest interval which contains all the data in a sample; the difference between the largest and smallest observations in the sample.
- An aggregate of individuals in one rank or degree; an order; a class.
- (ecology) The geographical area or zone where a species is normally naturally found.
- The distance from a person or sensor to an object, target, emanation, or event.
- (music) The scale of all the tones a voice or an instrument can produce.
- A fireplace; a fire or other cooking apparatus; now specifically, a large cooking stove with many burners (hotplates).
- The extent or space taken in by anything excursive; compass or extent of excursion; reach; scope.
- Selection, array.
- An area of open, often unfenced, grazing land.
- The variety of roles that an actor can play in a satisfactory way.
- the limit of capability
- a variety of different things or activities
- (mathematics) the set of values of the dependent variable for which a function is defined
- the limits within which something can be effective
- a large tract of grassy open land on which livestock can graze
- a kitchen appliance used for cooking food
- a place for shooting (firing or driving) projectiles of various kinds
- a series of hills or mountains
- an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control:
verb
- (transitive) To set in a row, or in rows; to place in a regular line or lines, or in ranks; to dispose in the proper order.
- (transitive) To place among others in a line, row, or order, as in the ranks of an army; usually, reflexively and figuratively, to espouse a cause, to join a party, etc.
- (transitive) To rove over or through.
- (biology) To be native to, or live in, a certain district or region.
- (military, of artillery) To determine the range to a target.
- (intransitive) To be placed in order; to be ranked; to admit of arrangement or classification; to rank.
- (intransitive) To form a line or a row.
- (transitive) To bring (something) into a specified position or relationship (especially, of opposition) with something else.
- (intransitive) To travel over (an area, etc); to roam, wander.
- (baseball) Of a player, to travel a significant distance for a defensive play.
- (intransitive) Of a variable, to be able to take any of the values in a specified range.
- (transitive) To classify.
- To sail or pass in a direction parallel to or near.
- range or extend over; occupy a certain area
- feed as in a meadow or pasture
- lay out orderly or logically in a line or as if in a line
- let eat
- change or be different within limits
- move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
- assign a rank or rating to
- have a range; be capable of projecting over a certain distance, as of a gun
verb
verb
noun
- A journey; an excursion or jaunt.
- A faux pas, a social error.
- The act of tripping someone, or causing them to lose their footing.
- (engineering) A mechanical cutout device.
- A stumble or misstep.
- (colloquial) A period of time in which one experiences drug-induced reverie or hallucinations.
- (by extension) Intense involvement in or enjoyment of a condition.
- (electricity) A trip-switch or cut-out.
- A flock of wigeons.
- (nautical) A single tack while beating (sailing to windward).
- A quick, light step; a lively movement of the feet; a skip.
- a journey for some purpose (usually including the return)
- a light or nimble tread
- an exciting or stimulating experience
- an unintentional but embarrassing blunder
- an accidental misstep threatening (or causing) a fall
- a catch mechanism that acts as a switch
- a hallucinatory experience induced by drugs
verb
- make a trip for pleasure
- (intransitive) To fall over or stumble over an object as a result of striking it with one's foot
- (intransitive) To be guilty of a misstep or mistake; to commit an offence against morality, propriety, etc
- (nautical) To pull (a yard) into a perpendicular position for lowering it.
- (intransitive) To experience a state of reverie or to hallucinate, due to consuming psychoactive drugs.
- (transitive, sometimes followed by "up") To cause (a person or animal) to fall or stumble by knocking their feet from under them.
- (transitive) To activate or set in motion, as in the activation of a trap, explosive, or switch.
- (intransitive) To be activated, as by a signal or an event
- Of an electrical circuit, to trip out (through overload, a short circuit).
- (nautical) To raise (an anchor) from the bottom, by its cable or buoy rope, so that it hangs free.
- (slang, African-American Vernacular, most commonly used in the form tripping) To become unreasonably upset, especially over something unimportant; to cause a scene or a disruption.
- (intransitive) To journey, to make a trip.
- (slang, African-American Vernacular) To act foolishly or irrationally.
- get high, stoned, or drugged
- miss a step and fall or nearly fall
- cause to stumble
- put in motion or move to act
adj
verb
- make a trip for pleasure
- undertake a journey or trip
- change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
- travel upon or across
- travel from place to place, as for the purpose of finding work, preaching, or acting as a judge
- undergo transportation as in a vehicle
- (intransitive) To pass from one place to another; to move or transmit.
- (transitive) To force to journey.
- (transitive) To travel throughout (a place).
- (intransitive, basketball) To move illegally by walking or running without dribbling the ball.
- (intransitive) To be on a journey, often for pleasure or business and with luggage; to go from one place to another.
noun
- a movement through space that changes the location of something
- self-propelled movement
- the act of going from one place to another
- The working motion of a piece of machinery; the length of a mechanical stroke.
- The act of traveling; passage from place to place.
- (in the plural) An account of one's travels.
- The activity or traffic along a route or through a given point.
- (in the plural) A series of journeys.
- Distance that a keyboard's key moves vertically when depressed.
noun
- a journey taken for pleasure
- dessert made of sweetened milk coagulated with rennet
- a trip taken by an official at public expense
- A pleasure trip; a journey made for feasting or enjoyment, now especially a trip made ostensibly for business but which entails merrymaking or entertainment.
- (film) Ellipsis of press junket.
- A feast or banquet.
- A type of cream cheese, originally made in a rush basket; later, a food made of sweetened curds.
- (gambling) A gaming room for which the capacity and limits change daily, often rented out to private vendors who run tour groups through them and give a portion of the proceeds to the main casino.
verb
verb
noun
- A jolly or peppy person.
- A frolic or romp, some fun.
- Any of various similar-appearing birds, but usually ground-living, such as the meadowlark and titlark.
- Any of various small, singing passerine birds of the family Alaudidae.
- A prank.
- (by extension) One who wakes early; one who is up with the larks.
- any carefree episode
- North American songbirds having a yellow breast
- a songbird that lives mainly on the ground in open country; has streaky brown plumage
- any of numerous predominantly Old World birds noted for their singing
noun
- A risky or daring undertaking or journey.
- The thing risked; especially, something sent to sea in trade.
- An event that is not, or cannot be, foreseen.
- a commercial undertaking that risks a loss but promises a profit
- any venturesome undertaking especially one with an uncertain outcome
- an investment that is very risky but could yield great profits
verb
- (transitive) To undertake a risky or daring journey.
- (transitive) To put or send on a venture or chance.
- (transitive) To confide in; to rely on; to trust.
- (transitive) To risk or offer.
- (intransitive, with at or on) To dare to engage in; to attempt without any certainty of success.
- (transitive) To say something; to offer an opinion.
- proceed somewhere despite the risk of possible dangers
- put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation
- put at risk