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verb
- bake in a kiln so as to harden
- generate an electrical impulse
- provide with fuel
- drive out or away by or as if by fire
- call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)
- start or maintain a fire in
- terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position
- destroy by fire
- start firing a weapon
- become ignited
- go off or discharge
- cause to go off
- (transitive) To shoot (a gun, rocket/missile, or analogous device).
- (transitive, employment) To terminate the employment contract of (an employee), especially for cause (such as misconduct, incompetence, or poor performance).
- (transitive) To forcibly direct (something).
- To animate; to give life or spirit to.
- (intransitive) To shoot a gun, cannon, or similar weapon.
- (transitive) To heat as with fire, but without setting on fire, as ceramic, metal objects, etc.
- (transitive) To drive away by setting a fire.
- (transitive, mining) To set off an explosive in a mine.
- (transitive) To set (something, often a building) on fire.
- (transitive, farriery) To cauterize (a horse, or a part of its body).
- (slang, usually with "up") To start (an engine).
- (transitive) To light up as if by fire; to illuminate.
- (horse racing, intransitive) Of a horse: to race ahead with a burst of energy.
- (transitive, sports) To shoot; to attempt to score a goal.
- (intransitive, physiology) To cause an action potential in a cell.
- (transitive, by extension) To terminate a contract with a client; to drop a client.
- (ambitransitive, computer sciences, software engineering) To initiate an event (by means of an event handler).
- (transitive) To inflame; to irritate, as the passions.
- (astronautics) To operate a rocket engine to produce thrust.
- To feed or serve the fire of.
noun
- intense adverse criticism
- once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles), associated with the humour bile
- feelings of great warmth and intensity
- the process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke
- a fireplace in which a relatively small fire is burning
- a severe trial
- fuel that is burning and is used as a means for cooking
- the event of something burning (often destructive)
- the act of firing weapons or artillery at an enemy
- (astronautics) An instance of firing one or more rocket engines.
- Red coloration in a piece of opal.
- (countable) An instance of this chemical reaction, especially when intentionally created and maintained in a specific location to a useful end (such as a campfire or a hearth fire).
- (countable) A planned bombardment by artillery or similar weapons, or the capability to deliver such.
- (countable, African-American Vernacular, slang) A firearm.
- (uncountable) The bullets or other projectiles fired from a gun or other ranged weapon.
- (countable, figurative) A barrage, volley
- (gemology) The capacity of a gemstone, especially a faceted, cut gemstone, that is transparent to visible light, to disperse white light into its multispectral component parts, resulting in a flash of different colors, the richness and dispersion of which increases the gemstone's value.
- (countable, British) A heater or stove used in place of a real fire (such as an electric fire).
- Strength of passion, whether love or hate.
- Splendour; brilliancy; lustre; hence, a star.
- (uncountable) A (usually self-sustaining) chemical reaction involving the bonding of oxygen with carbon or other fuel, with the production of heat and the presence of flame or smouldering.
- Liveliness of imagination or fancy; intellectual and moral enthusiasm.
- A severe trial; anything inflaming or provoking.
- (countable) The occurrence, often accidental, of fire in a certain place, causing damage and danger.
- (uncountable, alchemy, philosophy) The aforementioned chemical reaction of burning, considered one of the Classical elements or basic elements of alchemy.
- (countable) The elements necessary to start a fire.
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- That has been cooked by baking.
- (bread and pastries) cooked by dry heat (as in an oven)
- (slang) Inebriated: drunk, high, or stoned.
- (slang, derogatory, figuratively) Of a person: crazy, insane.
- Hungover.
- Lastingly brain-damaged from drug use (either truly or allegedly).
- dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight
verb
noun
- A baker’s kneading trough.
- That part of a carriage, as of a movable battery, or engine, which enables it to turn.
- A carriage for transporting shooting parties and their equipment.ᵂ
- (textiles) A tool used for breaking flax or hemp.
- (chiefly nautical) The handle of a pump.
- (military) An ancient engine of war analogous to the crossbow and ballista.
- An enclosure to restrain cattle, horses, etc.
- Bracken (Pteridium spp.).
- (now historical) A type of torture instrument.
- A device used to slow or stop the motion of a wheel, or of a vehicle, usually by friction (although other resistive forces, such as electromagnetic fields or aerodynamic drag, can also be used); also, the controls or apparatus used to engage such a mechanism such as the pedal in a car.
- (agriculture) A large, heavy harrow for breaking clods of earth after ploughing; a drag.
- (figuratively) Something used to retard or stop some action, process etc.
- A thicket, or an area overgrown with briers etc.
- (engineering) An apparatus for testing the power of a steam engine or other motor by weighing the amount of friction that the motor will overcome; a friction brake.
- A type of machine for bending sheet metal. (See wikipedia.)
- A frame for confining a refractory horse while the smith is shoeing it.
- A cart or carriage without a body, used in breaking in horses.ᵂ
- Any fern in the genus Pteris.
- The act of braking, of using a brake to slow down a machine or vehicle
- any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants
- a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle
- large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan
- anything that slows or hinders a process
- an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant
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noun
- A baker's kneading-trough.
- (mining) A jig or trough for ore dressing or washing ore.
- A cabinet for storing dishes.
- A piece of furniture in which items may be displayed.
- (cricket, slang) The pavilion or dressing room.
- A box, chest, crate, case or cabinet.
- An embankment built in a river to check erosion caused by running water.
- (mining) A car on low wheels, in which coal is drawn in the mine and hoisted out of the pit.
- (mining) The case of a flour bolt.
- A piece of furniture (cabinet) to be placed on top of a desk.
- A measure of two Winchester bushels.
- A coop or cage for keeping small animals (rabbits, guinea pigs, dogs, etc).
- small crude shelter used as a dwelling
- a cage (usually made of wood and wire mesh) for small animals
verb
verb
noun
- The act of cooking food by baking.
- (US) A social event at which food (such as seafood) is baked, or at which baked food is served.
- (especially UK, Australia, New Zealand) Any of various baked dishes resembling casserole.
- (Barbados, sometimes US and UK) A small, flat (or ball-shaped) cake of dough eaten mainly in Barbados, similar in appearance and ingredients to a pancake but fried (or sometimes roasted).
- Any food item that is baked, such as a pastry.
verb
- cook and make edible by putting in a hot oven
- (intransitive, with baked thing as subject) To be cooked in an oven.
- (intransitive, slang) To smoke marijuana.
- (intransitive) To be warmed to drying and hardening.
- (transitive) To dry by heat.
- (computer graphics, transitive) To fix (lighting, reflections, etc.) as part of the texture of an object to improve rendering performance.
- (transitive or intransitive or ditransitive, with person as subject) To cook (something) in an oven (for someone).
- (figurative, with "in" or "into") To incorporate into something greater.
- (transitive, figuratively) To cause to be hot.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To be hot.
- be very hot, due to hot weather or exposure to the sun
- heat by a natural force
- prepare with dry heat in an oven
noun
- (baking) A test of the texture of bread dough, stretching it out into a translucent sheet.
- The situation where the edges of tiles absorb some pigment from the grout used to cement them in place.
- (textiles) The border around an individual block of a quilt.
- A form of leaf damage caused by chewing insects, leaving translucent holes.
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- A toroidal bread roll that is boiled before it is baked.
- (tennis, slang) A score of 6-0 in a set (after the shape of a bagel, which looks like a zero).
- (slang, ethnic slur, South Africa) An overly materialistic and selfish young Jewish man.
- Alternative form of bagle.
- (Yiddish) glazed yeast-raised doughnut-shaped roll with hard crust
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- Alternative form of proof (“allow (dough) to rise; test the activeness of (yeast); pressure-test (a firearm)”).
- (copulative) To turn out to be.
- (homeopathy) To determine by experiment which effects a substance causes when ingested.
- (transitive) To ascertain or establish the genuineness or validity of; to verify.
- (intransitive) To turn out; to manifest.
- simple past of proove
- (transitive) To put to the test, to make trial of.
- (transitive) To demonstrate that something is true or viable; to give proof for; to bear out; to testify.
- prove formally; demonstrate by a mathematical, formal proof
- be shown or be found to be
- obtain probate of
- establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment
- cause to puff up with a leaven
- provide evidence for
- put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to
- take a trial impression of
- increase in volume
noun
- The soft internal portion of bread, surrounded by crust.
- A small piece which breaks off from baked food (such as cake, biscuit or bread).
- A mixture of sugar, cocoa and milk, used to make industrial chocolate.
- Ellipsis of crumb rubber.
- (slang) A body louse (Pediculus humanus).
- (figuratively) A bit, small amount.
- A small piece of any other solid substance.
- (slang) A nobody; a worthless person.
- a very small quantity of something
- small piece of e.g. bread or cake
- a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible
verb
verb
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- food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked
- informal terms for money
- (slang, US or Cockney) Money.
- (countable) Any variety of bread.
- A foodstuff made by baking dough made from cereals.
- Food; sustenance; support of life, in general.
- (especially) Such foodstuff that is not difficult to chew, being not extremely hard, dense, and dry.
- A piece of embroidery; a braid.
noun
- thin sheet of filled dough rolled and baked
- (countable) A vertical hole in sea ice through which downward jet-like, buoyancy-driven drainage of flood water is thought to occur.
- (countable and uncountable) A pastry made from multiple thin layers of dough rolled up and filled with fruit, etc.
- (countable, slang) Synonym of at sign (@).
noun
- (baking) Dough before it is kneaded and formed into loaves, and after it is converted into a light, spongy mass by the agency of the yeast or leaven.
- (informal) A heavy drinker.
- (countable, uncountable) A type of light cake.
- (countable) Any of various marine invertebrates of the phylum Porifera, that have a porous skeleton often of silica.
- (countable) A piece of porous material used for washing (originally made from the invertebrates, now often made of plastic).
- Iron from the puddling furnace, in a pasty condition.
- (uncountable) The porous material that synthetic washing sponges are made of.
- (countable) A form of contraception that is inserted vaginally; a contraceptive sponge.
- (slang) A nuclear power plant worker routinely exposed to radiation.
- A person who readily absorbs ideas.
- (slang) A person who takes advantage of the generosity of others (abstractly imagined to absorb or soak up the money or efforts of others like a sponge).
- Iron ore, in masses, reduced but not melted or worked.
- (countable, uncountable, British) A type of steamed pudding.
- A mop for cleaning the bore of a cannon after a discharge. It consists of a cylinder of wood, covered with sheepskin with the wool on, or cloth with a heavy looped nap, and having a handle, or staff.
- The extremity, or point, of a horseshoe, corresponding to the heel.
- a follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage
- primitive multicellular marine animal whose porous body is supported by a fibrous skeletal framework; usually occurs in sessile colonies
- a porous mass of interlacing fibers that forms the internal skeleton of various marine animals and usable to absorb water or any porous rubber or cellulose product similarly used
- someone able to acquire new knowledge and skills rapidly and easily
verb
- To wipe out with a sponge, as letters or writing; to efface; to destroy all trace of.
- (transitive, intransitive with on or upon) To get by imposition; to scrounge.
- (intransitive, baking) To be converted, as dough, into a light, spongy mass by the agency of yeast or leaven.
- To clean, soak up, or dab with a sponge.
- To suck in, or imbibe, like a sponge.
- (intransitive, slang) To take advantage of the kindness of others.
- (transitive) To deprive (somebody) of something by imposition.
- (marine biology, of dolphins) To use a piece of wild sponge as a tool when foraging for food.
- erase with a sponge; as of words on a blackboard
- ask for and get free; be a parasite
- gather sponges, in the ocean
- wipe with a sponge, so as to clean or moisten
- soak up with a sponge
verb
- make brown and crisp by heating
- make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; ‘crisp’ is archaic
- (intransitive) To become firm yet brittle; specifically (cooking), of food: to form a crispy surface through frying, grilling, or roasting.
- (transitive) To make (something) firm yet brittle; specifically (cooking), to give (food) a crispy surface through frying, grilling, or roasting.
adj
- tender and brittle
- (of something seen or heard) clearly defined
- (of hair) in small tight curls
- pleasantly cold and invigorating
- pleasingly firm and fresh
- brief and to the point; effectively cut short
- (computing theory) Not using fuzzy logic; based on a binary distinction between true and false.
- (wine) Of wine: having a refreshing amount of acidity; having less acidity than green wine, but more than a flabby one.
- Having a consistency which is hard yet brittle, and in a condition to break with a sharp fracture; crumbly, friable, short.
- Not limp; firm, stiff; not stale or wilted; fresh; also, effervescent, lively.
- Of fabric, paper, etc.: clean and uncreased.
- Of something heard or seen: clearly defined; clean, neat, sharp.
- Of air, weather, etc.: cool and dry; also, of a period of time: characterized by such weather.
- Of action, movement, a person's manner, etc.: precise and quick; brisk.
noun
- a thin crisp slice of potato fried in deep fat
- (originally US, also figurative) Chiefly in to a crisp: a food item that has been overcooked, or a thing which has been burned, to the point of becoming charred or dried out.
- (chiefly Canada, US) A type of baked dessert consisting of fruit topped with a crumbly mixture made with fat, flour, and sugar; a crumble.
- (Ireland, UK, by extension) Sometimes with a descriptive word: a crispy, savoury snack made of some other ingredient(s) (such as cornmeal or a vegetable) which is baked or deep-fried and eaten like a potato crisp.
- (obsolete except UK, dialectal) The crispy rind of roast pork; crackling.
- (Ireland, UK, chiefly in the plural) In full potato crisp: a thin slice of potato which has been deep-fried until it is brittle and crispy, and eaten when cool; they are typically packaged and sold as a snack.
verb
- make brown and crisp by heating
- propose a toast to
- (transitive) To cook lightly by browning via direct exposure to a fire or other heat source.
- (music, slang, Jamaica) To perform an extemporaneous narrative poem or rap.
- (transitive) To warm thoroughly.
- (ambitransitive) To engage in a salutation, often with raising of the drinking vessel, while drinking an alcoholic beverage in honor of someone or something.
- (intransitive, specifically) To cook lightly by browning under a grill or in a toaster; to grill.
noun
- (chiefly uncountable) Bread that has been toasted (cooked lightly by browning).
- a person in desperate straits; someone doomed
- a celebrity who receives much acclaim and attention
- slices of bread that have been toasted
- a drink in honor of or to the health of a person or event
- (countable, obsolete outside India) A piece of toast.
- (countable, music, slang, Jamaica) A type of extemporaneous narrative poem or rap.
- (countable, computing, graphical user interface) A transient, informational unclickable pop-up overlay, less interactive than a snackbar.
- (countable) A proposed salutation (e.g. saying "cheers") while drinking alcohol.
- (countable) A person, group, or notable object to which a salutation with alcohol is made; a person or group held in similar esteem.
- (uncountable, slang, chiefly US) Something that will be no more; something subject to impending destruction, harm or injury.
- (uncountable, slang, chiefly US) Something that is irreparably damaged or used up, especially when destroyed by heat or fire; something which has been burnt to a crisp or incinerated.
verb
- (baking, of pastries, transitive) To make crumbly.
- (transitive) To make deficient (as to); to deprive (of).
- (intransitive) To become shorter.
- (transitive) To make shorter; to abbreviate.
- (nautical, transitive) To take in the slack of (a rope).
- (nautical, transitive) To reduce (sail) by taking it in.
- (transitive) To make short or friable, as pastry, with butter, lard, etc.
- (transitive) To reduce or diminish in amount, quantity, or extent; to lessen.
- make shorter than originally intended; reduce or retrench in length or duration
- reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
- edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate
- become short or shorter
- make short or shorter
noun
- The tough outer skin of a baked potato.
- (Jamaica) A bastard child, in particular one whose father is unaware that he is not the child’s biological father.
- A protective or insulating cover for an object (e.g. a book, hot water tank, bullet.)
- A piece of clothing worn on the upper body outside a shirt or blouse, often waist length to thigh length.
- (military) In ordnance, a strengthening band surrounding and reinforcing the tube in which the charge is fired.
- (slang) A police record.
- A piece of a person's suit, beside trousers and, sometimes, waistcoat; coat (US)
- (Appalachia) A vest (US); a waistcoat (UK).
- a short coat
- an outer wrapping or casing
- (dentistry) dental appliance consisting of an artificial crown for a broken or decayed tooth
- the tough metal shell casing for certain kinds of ammunition
- the outer skin of a potato
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- (baking) A curled ridge in the crust of a loaf of bread where the dough was slashed before going into the oven and expands during baking.
- (countable) The organ of hearing, consisting of the pinna or auricle, auditory canal, eardrum, malleus, incus, stapes and cochlea.
- (countable, slang) A police informant.
- (architecture) A crossette.
- (clothing) The outer panels or flaps (protrusions) of a diaper upon which the fasteners are located, which are fastened around the wearer's waist.
- The sense of hearing; the perception of sounds; skill or good taste in listening to music.
- (architecture) An acroterium.
- (countable) The fruiting body of a grain plant.
- (countable) The external part of the organ of hearing, the auricle.
- The privilege of being kindly heard; favour; attention.
- (graph theory) A path whose endpoints may coincide but in which otherwise there are no repetitions of vertices or edges.
- That which resembles in shape or position the ear of an animal; a prominence or projection on an object, usually for support or attachment; a lug; a handle; a foot-rest or step of a spade or a similar digging tool.
- (journalism) A space to the left or right of a publication's front-page title, used for advertising, weather, etc.
- good hearing
- the externally visible cartilaginous structure of the external ear
- attention to what is said
- fruiting spike of a cereal plant especially corn
- the sense organ for hearing and equilibrium
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noun
- The substance used to make bread rise.
- The action of placing something at a higher level.
- (linguistics, phonetics) A sound change in which a vowel or consonant becomes higher or raised, meaning that the tongue becomes more elevated or positioned closer to the roof of the mouth than before.
- The process of deepening colours in dyeing.
- Collection or gathering, especially of money.
- (linguistics) The movement of an argument from an embedded or subordinate clause to a matrix or main clause.
- Recruitment.
- Nurturing; cultivation; providing sustenance and protection for a living thing from conception to maturity.
- Elevation.
- The operation of embossing sheet metal, or of forming it into cup-shaped or hollow articles, by hammering, stamping, or spinning.
- (US) The operation or work of setting up the frame of a building.
- the properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child
- helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community
- the event of something being raised upward
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- A kitchen tool for scoring bread dough before baking.
- (prison slang) A stupid or undesirable person.
- A thin layer or plate of material, as in certain kinds of armor.
- (in the plural) A set of joined overlapping metal plates.
- a fabric interwoven with threads of metal
- someone who doesn't understand what is going on
adj
- (colloquial) Uncool, uninteresting, or unfunny.
- (colloquial) Unconvincing or unbelievable.
- (especially of an animal) Unable to walk properly because of a problem with one's feet or legs.
- (of a limb, especially a foot or leg) That cannot be moved properly.
- pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness
- disabled in the feet or legs
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- having a hardened crust as a covering
- brusque and surly and forbidding
- Having a crust, especially a thick one.
- (informal, figuratively, of a person or behavior) Short-tempered and gruff but, sometimes, with a harmless or benign inner nature.
- (informal) Of very low quality; crude visuals or harsh, granular sound.
noun
- (chiefly British, informal) A tramp or homeless young person with poor cleanliness.
- (slang) Dried blood or serous fluid buildup following body piercing.
- (slang) Dried eye mucus.
- (chiefly UK and Ireland, informal) A member of an urban subculture with roots in punk and grebo, characterized by antiestablishment attitudes and an unkempt appearance.
verb
- (transitive, baking) To allow (yeast-containing dough) to rise, especially after it has been shaped
- (transitive, firearms) To test-fire with a load considerably more powerful than the firearm in question's rated maximum chamber pressure, in order to establish the firearm's ability to withstand pressures well in excess of those expected in service without bursting.
- (transitive, intransitive, colloquial) To proofread.
- (transitive) To make resistant, especially to water.
- (transitive, baking) To test the activeness of (yeast).
- knead to reach proper lightness
- make or take a proof of, such as a photographic negative, an etching, or typeset
- make resistant (to harm)
- activate by mixing with water and sometimes sugar or milk
- read for errors
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- (countable) An effort, process, or operation designed to establish or discover a fact or truth; an act of testing; a test; a trial.
- (uncountable) The degree of evidence which convinces the mind of any truth or fact, and produces belief; a test by facts or arguments which induce, or tend to induce, certainty of the judgment; conclusive evidence; demonstration.
- The quality or state of having been proved or tried; firmness or hardness which resists impression, or does not yield to force; impenetrability of physical bodies.
- (countable, mathematics) A process for testing the accuracy of an operation performed. Compare prove, transitive verb, 5.
- (countable, printing) A proof sheet; a trial impression, as from type, taken for correction or examination.
- (numismatics) A limited-run high-quality strike of a particular coin, originally as a test run, although nowadays mostly for collectors' sets.
- (countable, logic, mathematics) A sequence of statements consisting of axioms, assumptions, statements already demonstrated in another proof, and statements that logically follow from previous statements in the sequence, and which concludes with a statement that is the object of the proof.
- (US) A measure of the alcohol content of liquor. Originally, in Britain, 100 proof was defined as 57.1% by volume (no longer used). In the US, 100 proof means that the alcohol content is 50% of the total volume of the liquid; thus, perfectly pure absolute alcohol would be 200 proof.
- a measure of alcoholic strength expressed as an integer twice the percentage of alcohol present (by volume)
- a formal series of statements showing that if one thing is true something else necessarily follows from it
- (printing) an impression made to check for errors
- the act of validating; finding or testing the truth of something
- a trial photographic print from a negative
- any factual evidence that helps to establish the truth of something
noun
- A small, rich, pastry or quick bread, sometimes baked on a griddle.
- (Utah, Idaho) Frybread served with honey butter spread on it.
- (informal, Australia, New Zealand) The head.
- small biscuit (rich with cream and eggs) cut into diamonds or sticks and baked in an oven or (especially originally) on a griddle
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noun
- A baked portion of flatbread; a baked item that is not meant to rise.
- (motor racing, horse racing) An uncambered corner of racetrack; a racetrack whose corners are uncambered.
- (food) A wrap, an item of food consisting of various ingredients wrapped in a tortilla or pancake.
- (skiing) A section of piste that is relatively flat, causing or allowing skiers to slow down.
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- edible muscle of mollusks having fan-shaped shells; served broiled or poached or in salads or cream sauces
- edible marine bivalve having a fluted fan-shaped shell that swim by expelling water from the shell in a series of snapping motions
- thin slice of meat (especially veal) usually fried or broiled
- A scallop.
- A thin slice of meat, especially veal, normally shallow-fried.
verb
- bake in a sauce, milk, etc., often with breadcrumbs on top
- fish for scallops
- shape or cut in scallops
- decorate an edge with scallops
- form scallops in
- (intransitive) To harvest scallops
- To create or form an edge in the shape of a crescent or multiple crescents.
- (transitive) To bake in a casserole (gratin), originally in a scallop shell; especially used in form scalloped
noun
- one of a series of rounded projections (or the notches between them) formed by curves along an edge (as the edge of a leaf or piece of cloth or the margin of a shell or a shriveled red blood cell observed in a hypertonic solution etc.)
- edible muscle of mollusks having fan-shaped shells; served broiled or poached or in salads or cream sauces
- edible marine bivalve having a fluted fan-shaped shell that swim by expelling water from the shell in a series of snapping motions
- thin slice of meat (especially veal) usually fried or broiled
- A dish shaped like a scallop shell.
- (cooking) A fillet of meat, escalope.
- One of a series of curves, forming an edge similar to a scallop shell, especially in knitting and crochet.
- (cooking, UK, regional, rare) A sautéed potato (a shallow-fried round potato slice).
- Any of various marine bivalve molluscs of the superfamily Pectinoidea.
- (cooking, UK, Ireland, Australia, regional) A battered and deep-fried round potato slice.
noun
- A small mass of baked dough, especially a thin loaf from unleavened dough.
- A block of any various dense materials.
- (slang) A pair of buttocks, especially one that is exceptionally plump or full.
- (pyrotechnics) A multishot fireworks assembly comprising several tubes, each with a fireworks effect, lit by a single fuse.
- (slang) Ellipsis of piece of cake: a trivially easy task or responsibility.
- A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar, and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing.
- Used to describe the doctrine of having one's cake and eating it too.
- (slang) Money.
- A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake.
- small flat mass of chopped or ground food
- food made from or based on a mixture of flour, sugar, eggs, and fat, typically cooked in an oven
- a block of solid substance (such as soap or wax)
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adj
verb
noun
- A baker’s kneading trough.
- That part of a carriage, as of a movable battery, or engine, which enables it to turn.
- A carriage for transporting shooting parties and their equipment.ᵂ
- (textiles) A tool used for breaking flax or hemp.
- (chiefly nautical) The handle of a pump.
- (military) An ancient engine of war analogous to the crossbow and ballista.
- An enclosure to restrain cattle, horses, etc.
- Bracken (Pteridium spp.).
- (now historical) A type of torture instrument.
- A device used to slow or stop the motion of a wheel, or of a vehicle, usually by friction (although other resistive forces, such as electromagnetic fields or aerodynamic drag, can also be used); also, the controls or apparatus used to engage such a mechanism such as the pedal in a car.
- (agriculture) A large, heavy harrow for breaking clods of earth after ploughing; a drag.
- (figuratively) Something used to retard or stop some action, process etc.
- A thicket, or an area overgrown with briers etc.
- (engineering) An apparatus for testing the power of a steam engine or other motor by weighing the amount of friction that the motor will overcome; a friction brake.
- A type of machine for bending sheet metal. (See wikipedia.)
- A frame for confining a refractory horse while the smith is shoeing it.
- A cart or carriage without a body, used in breaking in horses.ᵂ
- Any fern in the genus Pteris.
- The act of braking, of using a brake to slow down a machine or vehicle
- any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants
- a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle
- large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan
- anything that slows or hinders a process
- an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant
verb
noun
noun
- A baker's kneading-trough.
- (mining) A jig or trough for ore dressing or washing ore.
- A cabinet for storing dishes.
- A piece of furniture in which items may be displayed.
- (cricket, slang) The pavilion or dressing room.
- A box, chest, crate, case or cabinet.
- An embankment built in a river to check erosion caused by running water.
- (mining) A car on low wheels, in which coal is drawn in the mine and hoisted out of the pit.
- (mining) The case of a flour bolt.
- A piece of furniture (cabinet) to be placed on top of a desk.
- A measure of two Winchester bushels.
- A coop or cage for keeping small animals (rabbits, guinea pigs, dogs, etc).
- small crude shelter used as a dwelling
- a cage (usually made of wood and wire mesh) for small animals
verb
noun
- The act of cooking food by baking.
- (US) A social event at which food (such as seafood) is baked, or at which baked food is served.
- (especially UK, Australia, New Zealand) Any of various baked dishes resembling casserole.
- (Barbados, sometimes US and UK) A small, flat (or ball-shaped) cake of dough eaten mainly in Barbados, similar in appearance and ingredients to a pancake but fried (or sometimes roasted).
- Any food item that is baked, such as a pastry.
verb
- cook and make edible by putting in a hot oven
- (intransitive, with baked thing as subject) To be cooked in an oven.
- (intransitive, slang) To smoke marijuana.
- (intransitive) To be warmed to drying and hardening.
- (transitive) To dry by heat.
- (computer graphics, transitive) To fix (lighting, reflections, etc.) as part of the texture of an object to improve rendering performance.
- (transitive or intransitive or ditransitive, with person as subject) To cook (something) in an oven (for someone).
- (figurative, with "in" or "into") To incorporate into something greater.
- (transitive, figuratively) To cause to be hot.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To be hot.
- be very hot, due to hot weather or exposure to the sun
- heat by a natural force
- prepare with dry heat in an oven
noun
- (baking) A test of the texture of bread dough, stretching it out into a translucent sheet.
- The situation where the edges of tiles absorb some pigment from the grout used to cement them in place.
- (textiles) The border around an individual block of a quilt.
- A form of leaf damage caused by chewing insects, leaving translucent holes.
noun
noun
- A toroidal bread roll that is boiled before it is baked.
- (tennis, slang) A score of 6-0 in a set (after the shape of a bagel, which looks like a zero).
- (slang, ethnic slur, South Africa) An overly materialistic and selfish young Jewish man.
- Alternative form of bagle.
- (Yiddish) glazed yeast-raised doughnut-shaped roll with hard crust
verb
noun
verb
- Alternative form of proof (“allow (dough) to rise; test the activeness of (yeast); pressure-test (a firearm)”).
- (copulative) To turn out to be.
- (homeopathy) To determine by experiment which effects a substance causes when ingested.
- (transitive) To ascertain or establish the genuineness or validity of; to verify.
- (intransitive) To turn out; to manifest.
- simple past of proove
- (transitive) To put to the test, to make trial of.
- (transitive) To demonstrate that something is true or viable; to give proof for; to bear out; to testify.
- prove formally; demonstrate by a mathematical, formal proof
- be shown or be found to be
- obtain probate of
- establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment
- cause to puff up with a leaven
- provide evidence for
- put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to
- take a trial impression of
- increase in volume
noun
- The soft internal portion of bread, surrounded by crust.
- A small piece which breaks off from baked food (such as cake, biscuit or bread).
- A mixture of sugar, cocoa and milk, used to make industrial chocolate.
- Ellipsis of crumb rubber.
- (slang) A body louse (Pediculus humanus).
- (figuratively) A bit, small amount.
- A small piece of any other solid substance.
- (slang) A nobody; a worthless person.
- a very small quantity of something
- small piece of e.g. bread or cake
- a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible
verb
noun
- thin sheet of filled dough rolled and baked
- (countable) A vertical hole in sea ice through which downward jet-like, buoyancy-driven drainage of flood water is thought to occur.
- (countable and uncountable) A pastry made from multiple thin layers of dough rolled up and filled with fruit, etc.
- (countable, slang) Synonym of at sign (@).
noun
- (baking) Dough before it is kneaded and formed into loaves, and after it is converted into a light, spongy mass by the agency of the yeast or leaven.
- (informal) A heavy drinker.
- (countable, uncountable) A type of light cake.
- (countable) Any of various marine invertebrates of the phylum Porifera, that have a porous skeleton often of silica.
- (countable) A piece of porous material used for washing (originally made from the invertebrates, now often made of plastic).
- Iron from the puddling furnace, in a pasty condition.
- (uncountable) The porous material that synthetic washing sponges are made of.
- (countable) A form of contraception that is inserted vaginally; a contraceptive sponge.
- (slang) A nuclear power plant worker routinely exposed to radiation.
- A person who readily absorbs ideas.
- (slang) A person who takes advantage of the generosity of others (abstractly imagined to absorb or soak up the money or efforts of others like a sponge).
- Iron ore, in masses, reduced but not melted or worked.
- (countable, uncountable, British) A type of steamed pudding.
- A mop for cleaning the bore of a cannon after a discharge. It consists of a cylinder of wood, covered with sheepskin with the wool on, or cloth with a heavy looped nap, and having a handle, or staff.
- The extremity, or point, of a horseshoe, corresponding to the heel.
- a follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage
- primitive multicellular marine animal whose porous body is supported by a fibrous skeletal framework; usually occurs in sessile colonies
- a porous mass of interlacing fibers that forms the internal skeleton of various marine animals and usable to absorb water or any porous rubber or cellulose product similarly used
- someone able to acquire new knowledge and skills rapidly and easily
verb
- To wipe out with a sponge, as letters or writing; to efface; to destroy all trace of.
- (transitive, intransitive with on or upon) To get by imposition; to scrounge.
- (intransitive, baking) To be converted, as dough, into a light, spongy mass by the agency of yeast or leaven.
- To clean, soak up, or dab with a sponge.
- To suck in, or imbibe, like a sponge.
- (intransitive, slang) To take advantage of the kindness of others.
- (transitive) To deprive (somebody) of something by imposition.
- (marine biology, of dolphins) To use a piece of wild sponge as a tool when foraging for food.
- erase with a sponge; as of words on a blackboard
- ask for and get free; be a parasite
- gather sponges, in the ocean
- wipe with a sponge, so as to clean or moisten
- soak up with a sponge
verb
- make brown and crisp by heating
- propose a toast to
- (transitive) To cook lightly by browning via direct exposure to a fire or other heat source.
- (music, slang, Jamaica) To perform an extemporaneous narrative poem or rap.
- (transitive) To warm thoroughly.
- (ambitransitive) To engage in a salutation, often with raising of the drinking vessel, while drinking an alcoholic beverage in honor of someone or something.
- (intransitive, specifically) To cook lightly by browning under a grill or in a toaster; to grill.
noun
- (chiefly uncountable) Bread that has been toasted (cooked lightly by browning).
- a person in desperate straits; someone doomed
- a celebrity who receives much acclaim and attention
- slices of bread that have been toasted
- a drink in honor of or to the health of a person or event
- (countable, obsolete outside India) A piece of toast.
- (countable, music, slang, Jamaica) A type of extemporaneous narrative poem or rap.
- (countable, computing, graphical user interface) A transient, informational unclickable pop-up overlay, less interactive than a snackbar.
- (countable) A proposed salutation (e.g. saying "cheers") while drinking alcohol.
- (countable) A person, group, or notable object to which a salutation with alcohol is made; a person or group held in similar esteem.
- (uncountable, slang, chiefly US) Something that will be no more; something subject to impending destruction, harm or injury.
- (uncountable, slang, chiefly US) Something that is irreparably damaged or used up, especially when destroyed by heat or fire; something which has been burnt to a crisp or incinerated.
noun
- The tough outer skin of a baked potato.
- (Jamaica) A bastard child, in particular one whose father is unaware that he is not the child’s biological father.
- A protective or insulating cover for an object (e.g. a book, hot water tank, bullet.)
- A piece of clothing worn on the upper body outside a shirt or blouse, often waist length to thigh length.
- (military) In ordnance, a strengthening band surrounding and reinforcing the tube in which the charge is fired.
- (slang) A police record.
- A piece of a person's suit, beside trousers and, sometimes, waistcoat; coat (US)
- (Appalachia) A vest (US); a waistcoat (UK).
- a short coat
- an outer wrapping or casing
- (dentistry) dental appliance consisting of an artificial crown for a broken or decayed tooth
- the tough metal shell casing for certain kinds of ammunition
- the outer skin of a potato
verb
noun
- (baking) A curled ridge in the crust of a loaf of bread where the dough was slashed before going into the oven and expands during baking.
- (countable) The organ of hearing, consisting of the pinna or auricle, auditory canal, eardrum, malleus, incus, stapes and cochlea.
- (countable, slang) A police informant.
- (architecture) A crossette.
- (clothing) The outer panels or flaps (protrusions) of a diaper upon which the fasteners are located, which are fastened around the wearer's waist.
- The sense of hearing; the perception of sounds; skill or good taste in listening to music.
- (architecture) An acroterium.
- (countable) The fruiting body of a grain plant.
- (countable) The external part of the organ of hearing, the auricle.
- The privilege of being kindly heard; favour; attention.
- (graph theory) A path whose endpoints may coincide but in which otherwise there are no repetitions of vertices or edges.
- That which resembles in shape or position the ear of an animal; a prominence or projection on an object, usually for support or attachment; a lug; a handle; a foot-rest or step of a spade or a similar digging tool.
- (journalism) A space to the left or right of a publication's front-page title, used for advertising, weather, etc.
- good hearing
- the externally visible cartilaginous structure of the external ear
- attention to what is said
- fruiting spike of a cereal plant especially corn
- the sense organ for hearing and equilibrium
verb
noun
- The substance used to make bread rise.
- The action of placing something at a higher level.
- (linguistics, phonetics) A sound change in which a vowel or consonant becomes higher or raised, meaning that the tongue becomes more elevated or positioned closer to the roof of the mouth than before.
- The process of deepening colours in dyeing.
- Collection or gathering, especially of money.
- (linguistics) The movement of an argument from an embedded or subordinate clause to a matrix or main clause.
- Recruitment.
- Nurturing; cultivation; providing sustenance and protection for a living thing from conception to maturity.
- Elevation.
- The operation of embossing sheet metal, or of forming it into cup-shaped or hollow articles, by hammering, stamping, or spinning.
- (US) The operation or work of setting up the frame of a building.
- the properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child
- helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community
- the event of something being raised upward
verb
adj
noun
- A kitchen tool for scoring bread dough before baking.
- (prison slang) A stupid or undesirable person.
- A thin layer or plate of material, as in certain kinds of armor.
- (in the plural) A set of joined overlapping metal plates.
- a fabric interwoven with threads of metal
- someone who doesn't understand what is going on
adj
- (colloquial) Uncool, uninteresting, or unfunny.
- (colloquial) Unconvincing or unbelievable.
- (especially of an animal) Unable to walk properly because of a problem with one's feet or legs.
- (of a limb, especially a foot or leg) That cannot be moved properly.
- pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness
- disabled in the feet or legs
verb
noun
- A small, rich, pastry or quick bread, sometimes baked on a griddle.
- (Utah, Idaho) Frybread served with honey butter spread on it.
- (informal, Australia, New Zealand) The head.
- small biscuit (rich with cream and eggs) cut into diamonds or sticks and baked in an oven or (especially originally) on a griddle
verb
noun
- A baked portion of flatbread; a baked item that is not meant to rise.
- (motor racing, horse racing) An uncambered corner of racetrack; a racetrack whose corners are uncambered.
- (food) A wrap, an item of food consisting of various ingredients wrapped in a tortilla or pancake.
- (skiing) A section of piste that is relatively flat, causing or allowing skiers to slow down.
adj
adv
verb
noun
- A small mass of baked dough, especially a thin loaf from unleavened dough.
- A block of any various dense materials.
- (slang) A pair of buttocks, especially one that is exceptionally plump or full.
- (pyrotechnics) A multishot fireworks assembly comprising several tubes, each with a fireworks effect, lit by a single fuse.
- (slang) Ellipsis of piece of cake: a trivially easy task or responsibility.
- A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar, and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing.
- Used to describe the doctrine of having one's cake and eating it too.
- (slang) Money.
- A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake.
- small flat mass of chopped or ground food
- food made from or based on a mixture of flour, sugar, eggs, and fat, typically cooked in an oven
- a block of solid substance (such as soap or wax)
verb
verb
- bake in a kiln so as to harden
- generate an electrical impulse
- provide with fuel
- drive out or away by or as if by fire
- call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)
- start or maintain a fire in
- terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position
- destroy by fire
- start firing a weapon
- become ignited
- go off or discharge
- cause to go off
- (transitive) To shoot (a gun, rocket/missile, or analogous device).
- (transitive, employment) To terminate the employment contract of (an employee), especially for cause (such as misconduct, incompetence, or poor performance).
- (transitive) To forcibly direct (something).
- To animate; to give life or spirit to.
- (intransitive) To shoot a gun, cannon, or similar weapon.
- (transitive) To heat as with fire, but without setting on fire, as ceramic, metal objects, etc.
- (transitive) To drive away by setting a fire.
- (transitive, mining) To set off an explosive in a mine.
- (transitive) To set (something, often a building) on fire.
- (transitive, farriery) To cauterize (a horse, or a part of its body).
- (slang, usually with "up") To start (an engine).
- (transitive) To light up as if by fire; to illuminate.
- (horse racing, intransitive) Of a horse: to race ahead with a burst of energy.
- (transitive, sports) To shoot; to attempt to score a goal.
- (intransitive, physiology) To cause an action potential in a cell.
- (transitive, by extension) To terminate a contract with a client; to drop a client.
- (ambitransitive, computer sciences, software engineering) To initiate an event (by means of an event handler).
- (transitive) To inflame; to irritate, as the passions.
- (astronautics) To operate a rocket engine to produce thrust.
- To feed or serve the fire of.
noun
- intense adverse criticism
- once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles), associated with the humour bile
- feelings of great warmth and intensity
- the process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke
- a fireplace in which a relatively small fire is burning
- a severe trial
- fuel that is burning and is used as a means for cooking
- the event of something burning (often destructive)
- the act of firing weapons or artillery at an enemy
- (astronautics) An instance of firing one or more rocket engines.
- Red coloration in a piece of opal.
- (countable) An instance of this chemical reaction, especially when intentionally created and maintained in a specific location to a useful end (such as a campfire or a hearth fire).
- (countable) A planned bombardment by artillery or similar weapons, or the capability to deliver such.
- (countable, African-American Vernacular, slang) A firearm.
- (uncountable) The bullets or other projectiles fired from a gun or other ranged weapon.
- (countable, figurative) A barrage, volley
- (gemology) The capacity of a gemstone, especially a faceted, cut gemstone, that is transparent to visible light, to disperse white light into its multispectral component parts, resulting in a flash of different colors, the richness and dispersion of which increases the gemstone's value.
- (countable, British) A heater or stove used in place of a real fire (such as an electric fire).
- Strength of passion, whether love or hate.
- Splendour; brilliancy; lustre; hence, a star.
- (uncountable) A (usually self-sustaining) chemical reaction involving the bonding of oxygen with carbon or other fuel, with the production of heat and the presence of flame or smouldering.
- Liveliness of imagination or fancy; intellectual and moral enthusiasm.
- A severe trial; anything inflaming or provoking.
- (countable) The occurrence, often accidental, of fire in a certain place, causing damage and danger.
- (uncountable, alchemy, philosophy) The aforementioned chemical reaction of burning, considered one of the Classical elements or basic elements of alchemy.
- (countable) The elements necessary to start a fire.
adj
intj
verb
noun
- The act of cooking food by baking.
- (US) A social event at which food (such as seafood) is baked, or at which baked food is served.
- (especially UK, Australia, New Zealand) Any of various baked dishes resembling casserole.
- (Barbados, sometimes US and UK) A small, flat (or ball-shaped) cake of dough eaten mainly in Barbados, similar in appearance and ingredients to a pancake but fried (or sometimes roasted).
- Any food item that is baked, such as a pastry.
verb
- cook and make edible by putting in a hot oven
- (intransitive, with baked thing as subject) To be cooked in an oven.
- (intransitive, slang) To smoke marijuana.
- (intransitive) To be warmed to drying and hardening.
- (transitive) To dry by heat.
- (computer graphics, transitive) To fix (lighting, reflections, etc.) as part of the texture of an object to improve rendering performance.
- (transitive or intransitive or ditransitive, with person as subject) To cook (something) in an oven (for someone).
- (figurative, with "in" or "into") To incorporate into something greater.
- (transitive, figuratively) To cause to be hot.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To be hot.
- be very hot, due to hot weather or exposure to the sun
- heat by a natural force
- prepare with dry heat in an oven
verb
noun
- food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked
- informal terms for money
- (slang, US or Cockney) Money.
- (countable) Any variety of bread.
- A foodstuff made by baking dough made from cereals.
- Food; sustenance; support of life, in general.
- (especially) Such foodstuff that is not difficult to chew, being not extremely hard, dense, and dry.
- A piece of embroidery; a braid.
verb
- make brown and crisp by heating
- make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; ‘crisp’ is archaic
- (intransitive) To become firm yet brittle; specifically (cooking), of food: to form a crispy surface through frying, grilling, or roasting.
- (transitive) To make (something) firm yet brittle; specifically (cooking), to give (food) a crispy surface through frying, grilling, or roasting.
adj
- tender and brittle
- (of something seen or heard) clearly defined
- (of hair) in small tight curls
- pleasantly cold and invigorating
- pleasingly firm and fresh
- brief and to the point; effectively cut short
- (computing theory) Not using fuzzy logic; based on a binary distinction between true and false.
- (wine) Of wine: having a refreshing amount of acidity; having less acidity than green wine, but more than a flabby one.
- Having a consistency which is hard yet brittle, and in a condition to break with a sharp fracture; crumbly, friable, short.
- Not limp; firm, stiff; not stale or wilted; fresh; also, effervescent, lively.
- Of fabric, paper, etc.: clean and uncreased.
- Of something heard or seen: clearly defined; clean, neat, sharp.
- Of air, weather, etc.: cool and dry; also, of a period of time: characterized by such weather.
- Of action, movement, a person's manner, etc.: precise and quick; brisk.
noun
- a thin crisp slice of potato fried in deep fat
- (originally US, also figurative) Chiefly in to a crisp: a food item that has been overcooked, or a thing which has been burned, to the point of becoming charred or dried out.
- (chiefly Canada, US) A type of baked dessert consisting of fruit topped with a crumbly mixture made with fat, flour, and sugar; a crumble.
- (Ireland, UK, by extension) Sometimes with a descriptive word: a crispy, savoury snack made of some other ingredient(s) (such as cornmeal or a vegetable) which is baked or deep-fried and eaten like a potato crisp.
- (obsolete except UK, dialectal) The crispy rind of roast pork; crackling.
- (Ireland, UK, chiefly in the plural) In full potato crisp: a thin slice of potato which has been deep-fried until it is brittle and crispy, and eaten when cool; they are typically packaged and sold as a snack.
verb
- make brown and crisp by heating
- propose a toast to
- (transitive) To cook lightly by browning via direct exposure to a fire or other heat source.
- (music, slang, Jamaica) To perform an extemporaneous narrative poem or rap.
- (transitive) To warm thoroughly.
- (ambitransitive) To engage in a salutation, often with raising of the drinking vessel, while drinking an alcoholic beverage in honor of someone or something.
- (intransitive, specifically) To cook lightly by browning under a grill or in a toaster; to grill.
noun
- (chiefly uncountable) Bread that has been toasted (cooked lightly by browning).
- a person in desperate straits; someone doomed
- a celebrity who receives much acclaim and attention
- slices of bread that have been toasted
- a drink in honor of or to the health of a person or event
- (countable, obsolete outside India) A piece of toast.
- (countable, music, slang, Jamaica) A type of extemporaneous narrative poem or rap.
- (countable, computing, graphical user interface) A transient, informational unclickable pop-up overlay, less interactive than a snackbar.
- (countable) A proposed salutation (e.g. saying "cheers") while drinking alcohol.
- (countable) A person, group, or notable object to which a salutation with alcohol is made; a person or group held in similar esteem.
- (uncountable, slang, chiefly US) Something that will be no more; something subject to impending destruction, harm or injury.
- (uncountable, slang, chiefly US) Something that is irreparably damaged or used up, especially when destroyed by heat or fire; something which has been burnt to a crisp or incinerated.
verb
- (baking, of pastries, transitive) To make crumbly.
- (transitive) To make deficient (as to); to deprive (of).
- (intransitive) To become shorter.
- (transitive) To make shorter; to abbreviate.
- (nautical, transitive) To take in the slack of (a rope).
- (nautical, transitive) To reduce (sail) by taking it in.
- (transitive) To make short or friable, as pastry, with butter, lard, etc.
- (transitive) To reduce or diminish in amount, quantity, or extent; to lessen.
- make shorter than originally intended; reduce or retrench in length or duration
- reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
- edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate
- become short or shorter
- make short or shorter
verb
- (transitive, baking) To allow (yeast-containing dough) to rise, especially after it has been shaped
- (transitive, firearms) To test-fire with a load considerably more powerful than the firearm in question's rated maximum chamber pressure, in order to establish the firearm's ability to withstand pressures well in excess of those expected in service without bursting.
- (transitive, intransitive, colloquial) To proofread.
- (transitive) To make resistant, especially to water.
- (transitive, baking) To test the activeness of (yeast).
- knead to reach proper lightness
- make or take a proof of, such as a photographic negative, an etching, or typeset
- make resistant (to harm)
- activate by mixing with water and sometimes sugar or milk
- read for errors
adj
noun
- (countable) An effort, process, or operation designed to establish or discover a fact or truth; an act of testing; a test; a trial.
- (uncountable) The degree of evidence which convinces the mind of any truth or fact, and produces belief; a test by facts or arguments which induce, or tend to induce, certainty of the judgment; conclusive evidence; demonstration.
- The quality or state of having been proved or tried; firmness or hardness which resists impression, or does not yield to force; impenetrability of physical bodies.
- (countable, mathematics) A process for testing the accuracy of an operation performed. Compare prove, transitive verb, 5.
- (countable, printing) A proof sheet; a trial impression, as from type, taken for correction or examination.
- (numismatics) A limited-run high-quality strike of a particular coin, originally as a test run, although nowadays mostly for collectors' sets.
- (countable, logic, mathematics) A sequence of statements consisting of axioms, assumptions, statements already demonstrated in another proof, and statements that logically follow from previous statements in the sequence, and which concludes with a statement that is the object of the proof.
- (US) A measure of the alcohol content of liquor. Originally, in Britain, 100 proof was defined as 57.1% by volume (no longer used). In the US, 100 proof means that the alcohol content is 50% of the total volume of the liquid; thus, perfectly pure absolute alcohol would be 200 proof.
- a measure of alcoholic strength expressed as an integer twice the percentage of alcohol present (by volume)
- a formal series of statements showing that if one thing is true something else necessarily follows from it
- (printing) an impression made to check for errors
- the act of validating; finding or testing the truth of something
- a trial photographic print from a negative
- any factual evidence that helps to establish the truth of something
verb
noun
- edible muscle of mollusks having fan-shaped shells; served broiled or poached or in salads or cream sauces
- edible marine bivalve having a fluted fan-shaped shell that swim by expelling water from the shell in a series of snapping motions
- thin slice of meat (especially veal) usually fried or broiled
- A scallop.
- A thin slice of meat, especially veal, normally shallow-fried.
verb
- bake in a sauce, milk, etc., often with breadcrumbs on top
- fish for scallops
- shape or cut in scallops
- decorate an edge with scallops
- form scallops in
- (intransitive) To harvest scallops
- To create or form an edge in the shape of a crescent or multiple crescents.
- (transitive) To bake in a casserole (gratin), originally in a scallop shell; especially used in form scalloped
noun
- one of a series of rounded projections (or the notches between them) formed by curves along an edge (as the edge of a leaf or piece of cloth or the margin of a shell or a shriveled red blood cell observed in a hypertonic solution etc.)
- edible muscle of mollusks having fan-shaped shells; served broiled or poached or in salads or cream sauces
- edible marine bivalve having a fluted fan-shaped shell that swim by expelling water from the shell in a series of snapping motions
- thin slice of meat (especially veal) usually fried or broiled
- A dish shaped like a scallop shell.
- (cooking) A fillet of meat, escalope.
- One of a series of curves, forming an edge similar to a scallop shell, especially in knitting and crochet.
- (cooking, UK, regional, rare) A sautéed potato (a shallow-fried round potato slice).
- Any of various marine bivalve molluscs of the superfamily Pectinoidea.
- (cooking, UK, Ireland, Australia, regional) A battered and deep-fried round potato slice.
adj
- That has been cooked by baking.
- (bread and pastries) cooked by dry heat (as in an oven)
- (slang) Inebriated: drunk, high, or stoned.
- (slang, derogatory, figuratively) Of a person: crazy, insane.
- Hungover.
- Lastingly brain-damaged from drug use (either truly or allegedly).
- dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight
verb
noun
adj
verb
adj
verb
adj
- having a hardened crust as a covering
- brusque and surly and forbidding
- Having a crust, especially a thick one.
- (informal, figuratively, of a person or behavior) Short-tempered and gruff but, sometimes, with a harmless or benign inner nature.
- (informal) Of very low quality; crude visuals or harsh, granular sound.
noun
- (chiefly British, informal) A tramp or homeless young person with poor cleanliness.
- (slang) Dried blood or serous fluid buildup following body piercing.
- (slang) Dried eye mucus.
- (chiefly UK and Ireland, informal) A member of an urban subculture with roots in punk and grebo, characterized by antiestablishment attitudes and an unkempt appearance.