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adj
- Having streaks.
- (chiefly of a person, usually Canada, US, in particular) Having alternating periods of good and bad performances; inconsistent.
- Unpredictable, variable; having periods of good and bad (e.g. weather).
- (cricket) Used to describe a shot where the ball deflects off the edge of the bat, but is not caught by the slips or wicket-keeper and instead results in runs for the batsman.
- (soccer) Not well-executed, due to luck more than skill.
- marked with or as if with stripes or linear discolorations
verb
noun
- A white pigment.
- (usually in the plural) trousers made of flannel or gabardine or tweed or white cloth
- (board games) the lighter pieces
- the quality or state of the achromatic color of greatest lightness (bearing the least resemblance to black)
- the white part of an egg; the nutritive and protective gelatinous substance surrounding the yolk consisting mainly of albumin dissolved in water
- (countable and uncountable) White wine.
- (archery) The central part of the butt, which was formerly painted white; the centre of a mark at which a missile is shot.
- The snow- or ice-covered "green" in snow golf.
- (board games, chess) The person playing with the white set of pieces.
- The albumen of bird eggs (egg white).
- A feather, from the wing of the cock ostrich, that is of the palest possible shade.
- (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) The cue ball in cue games.
- The color of snow or milk; the color of light containing equal amounts of all visible wavelengths.
- (uncountable) Ellipsis of white bread
- A person of European descent with light-colored skin.
- The enclosed part of a letter of the alphabet, especially when handwritten.
- Any butterfly of the subfamily Pierinae in the family Pieridae.
- (countable and uncountable) White coffee
- (anatomy) The sclera, white of the eye.
- (slang, US, UK) Cocaine.
- A white bean.
adj
- glowing white with heat
- being of the achromatic color of maximum lightness; having little or no hue owing to reflection of almost all incident light
- benevolent; without malicious intent
- restricted to whites only
- (of a surface) not written or printed on
- (of coffee) having cream or milk added
- marked by the presence of snow
- (of hair) having lost its color
- of or belonging to a racial group having light skin coloration
- of summer nights in northern latitudes where the sun barely sets
- anemic looking from illness or emotion
- free from moral blemish or impurity; unsullied
- Grey, as from old age; having silvery hair; hoary.
- (board games, chess) The standard denomination of the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the white set, no matter what the actual colour.
- (now less common and often offensive) Honourable, fair, decent, kind; generous.
- (sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to Europeans or those of European descent, regardless if their skin has cool or warm undertones.
- (of a person or skin) Lacking coloration (tan) from ultraviolet light; not tanned.
- (of tea) Made from immature leaves and shoots.
- Characterised by the presence of snow.
- Relatively light or pale in colour.
- Pale or pallid, as from fear, illness, etc.
- Bright and colourless; reflecting equal quantities of all frequencies of visible light.
- (politics) Pertaining to constitutional or anti-revolutionary political parties or movements.
- (sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to Caucasians (people with white complexion and European ancestry).
- (typography) Not containing characters; see white space.
- (of coffee or tea) Containing cream, milk, or creamer.
- (chiefly historical) Designated for use by Caucasians.
- (typography) Said of a symbol or character outline, not solid, not filled with color. Compare black (“said of a character or symbol filled with color”).
- (of a set of armor) Alwhite, pertaining to white armor.
- (sometimes capitalized) By U.S. Census Bureau definition, of or relating to people hailing from Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East.
- (of an animal) Affected by leucism.
- Pertaining to an ecclesiastical order whose adherents dress in white habits; Cistercian.
verb
- turn white
- (ergative) (To cause) to become white or whiter; to bleach or blanch.
- (statistics) To normalize data so that the covariance matrix becomes the identity matrix; i.e., to remove correlations so each variable has unit variance.
- (cryptography) To increase the security of an iterated block cipher by steps that combine the data with portions of the key.
noun
- A streak or patch.
- A swishing noise.
- A smooth stroke; a swish.
- A wet splashing sound.
- (typography) A long, protruding ornamental line or pen stroke found in some typefaces and styles of calligraphy.
- (technical) The water that washes up on shore after an incoming wave has broken.
- A narrow sound or channel of water lying within a sand bank, or between a sand bank and the shore, or a bar over which the sea washes.
- (architecture) An oval figure, whose mouldings are oblique to the axis of the work.
- the movement or sound of water
verb
- To streak, to color in a swash.
- (ambitransitive) To swagger; to act with boldness or bluster (toward).
- (intransitive) To wade forcefully through liquid.
- (ambitransitive) To swirl through liquid; to swish.
- (ambitransitive) To dash or flow noisily; to splash.
- (ambitransitive) To swipe.
- (intransitive) To fall violently or noisily.
- act in an arrogant, overly self-assured, or conceited manner
- make violent, noisy movements
- dash a liquid upon or against
- show off
adj
noun
- White hair as an indication of old age.
- Ice formed by the rapid freezing of cold water droplets of fog on to a cold surface.
- (linguistics) The second part of a syllable, from the vowel on (as opposed to the onset).
- (British, regional) A cold fog or mist.
- Archaic in the form rimes: originally, any frozen dew forming a white deposit on exposed surfaces; hoar frost (sense 1).
- A film or slimy coating.
- A coating or sheet of ice so formed.
- ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside)
- correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds)
verb
- (transitive, Ireland, rare) To dye (wool or yarn) reddish-brown by boiling or soaking in water with alder twigs.
- To cover (something) with rime (noun etymology 1 sense 1 or etymology 1 sense 3.1) or (loosely) hoar frost.
- To enlarge (a hole), especially using a tool such as a reamer.
- To remove debris from inside (something, such as a freshly bored hole or a pipe) using a tool.
- (figurative) To cover (something) with a thin coating or film; to coat.
- (intransitive) Sometimes followed by up: of a thing: to become covered with rime or (loosely) hoar frost.
- compose rhymes
- be similar in sound, especially with respect to the last syllable
noun
name
- (computing) Initialism of Windows Storage Server.
- (computing) Initialism of Web Security Service.
- (computing) Windows SharePoint Services, former name of Microsoft SharePoint Foundation
- (electronics) Initialism of Wavelength Selective Switching.
- (computing) Initialism of WS-Security (meaning Web Services Security).
- (computing) Initialism of Windows Sound System.
- (computing) Initialism of Windows Server System.
- (computing) Initialism of Windows Search Service.
prefix
adj
character
noun
prep
noun
verb
verb
- colour with streaks or blotches of different shades
- make less clear
- place under suspicion or cast doubt upon
- make overcast or cloudy
- billow up in the form of a cloud
- make gloomy or depressed
- make milky or dull
- make less visible or unclear
- (intransitive) To become foggy or gloomy, or obscured from sight.
- Of the breath, to become cloud; to turn into mist.
- (transitive) To mark with, or darken in, veins or sports; to variegate with colors.
- (transitive) To blacken; to sully; to stain; to tarnish (reputation or character).
- (transitive) To make obscure.
- (transitive) To make less acute or perceptive.
- (intransitive) To become marked, darkened or variegated in this way.
- (transitive) To overspread or hide with a cloud or clouds.
- (transitive) To make gloomy or sullen.
noun
- a visible mass of water or ice particles suspended at a considerable altitude
- a group of many things in the air or on the ground
- a cause of worry or gloom or trouble
- any collection of particles (e.g., smoke or dust) or gases that is visible
- suspicion affecting your reputation
- out of touch with reality
- A group or swarm, especially suspended above the ground or flying.
- (cloud computing, with "the") The Internet, regarded as an abstract amorphous omnipresent space for processing and storage, the focus of cloud computing.
- (figurative) Anything unsubstantial.
- A visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air.
- (telecommunications) A telecom network (from their representation in engineering drawings).
- (slang) Crystal methamphetamine.
- (figuratively) A negative or foreboding aspect of something positive: see every cloud has a silver lining or every silver lining has a cloud.
- Anything which makes things foggy or gloomy.
- Any mass of dust, steam or smoke resembling such a mass.
- A large, loosely-knitted headscarf worn by women.
- (Internet slang, humorous, endearing) A white cat.
- An elliptical shape or symbol whose outline is a series of semicircles, supposed to resemble a cloud.
- A dark spot on a lighter material or background.
noun
- A rather large spot or blotch of color.
- In planetary geology, an unusually dark area on the surface of a planet or moon.
- (anatomy) An oval yellow spot near the center of the retina of the human eye, histologically defined as having two or more layers of ganglion cells, responsible for detailed central vision.
- A spot, as on the skin, or on the surface of the sun or of some other luminous orb.
- (anatomy, biology) A small chamber of the inner ear of certain vertebrates filled with endolymph and containing an otolith.
- a cooler darker spot appearing periodically on the sun's photosphere; associated with a strong magnetic field
- a small yellowish central area of the retina that is rich in cones and that mediates clear detailed vision
- a patch of skin that is discolored but not usually elevated; caused by various diseases
verb
noun
- An uneven patch of color or discoloration.
- an irregularly shaped spot
- (slang) Blotting paper.
- Any of various crop diseases that cause the plant to form spots.
- A bright or dark spot on old film caused by dirt and loss of the gelatin covering the film, due to age and poor film quality.
- A dark spot on the skin; a pustule.
- (figuratively) Imperfection; blemish on one’s reputation, stain.
- An irregularly shaped area.
verb
- mark with spots or blotches of different color or shades of color as if stained
- run naked in a public place
- move quickly in a straight line
- (intransitive) To run naked in public.
- (intransitive) To have or obtain streaks.
- (transitive) To create streaks upon.
- (intransitive) To move very swiftly.
- (intransitive) To run quickly.
noun
- a sudden flash (as of lightning)
- a narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background
- a distinctive characteristic
- an unbroken series of events
- (shipbuilding) A strake.
- (social media, Internet) A measure of activity that tracks how many consecutive days a certain interaction with another user or a service has taken place, a form of gamification to drive user engagement.
- A rung or round of a ladder.
- The color of the powder of a mineral. So called, because a simple field test for a mineral is to streak it against unglazed white porcelain.
- An irregular line left from smearing or motion.
- A consistent facet of somebody's personality.
- A tendency or characteristic, but not a dominant or pervasive one.
- A moth of the family Geometridae, Chesias legatella.
- The act of streaking, or running naked through a public area.
- A continuous series of like events.
verb
- cause to become white or lighter in color
- make whiter or lighter
- (transitive, figurative) To make meaningless; to divest of meaning; to make empty.
- (transitive) To treat with bleach, especially so as to whiten (fabric, paper, etc.) or lighten (hair).
- (intransitive) To be whitened or lightened (by the sun, for example).
- (intransitive, biology, of corals) To lose color due to stress-induced expulsion of symbiotic unicellular algae.
noun
- an agent that makes things white or colorless
- the whiteness that results from removing the color from something
- the act of whitening something by bleaching it (exposing it to sunlight or using a chemical bleaching agent)
- (countable) A variety of bleach.
- (uncountable) A chemical, such as sodium hypochlorite or hydrogen peroxide, or a preparation of such a chemical, used for disinfecting or whitening.
- An act of bleaching; exposure to the sun.
noun
- a swarthy complexion
- absence of light or illumination
- an unilluminated area
- absence of moral or spiritual values
- an unenlightened state
- having a dark or somber color
- (uncountable) Secrecy; concealment.
- (uncountable) The state of being dark; lack of light; the absolute or comparative absence of light.
- (uncountable) Gloom; gloominess; depression.
- (uncountable) The state or quality of reflecting little light, of tending to a blackish or brownish color.
- (uncountable) Lack of understanding or compassion; spiritual or mental blindness.
- (uncountable, countable) Any space that such colour pervades.
- (uncountable) Hell.
- (uncountable) Lack of knowledge; obscurity or meaning or intelligibility; the unknown.
- (uncountable) Nothingness, vanity, emptiness.
- (countable) The product of being dark.
verb
- become discolored with, or as if with, mildew spots
- deceive somebody
- be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly
- (intransitive) To turn sour; said of beer, etc., when it sours in fermenting.
- (transitive) To confuse or baffle (someone).
- (intransitive) To act slyly or craftily.
- (transitive) To trick, fool or outwit (someone) by cunning or ingenuity.
- (transitive) To repair (boots) with new front upper leather, or to piece the upper fronts of.
- (intransitive) To discolour paper. Fox marks are spots on paper caused by humidity. (See foxing.)
- (transitive) To make sour, as beer, by causing it to ferment.
- (transitive) To intoxicate; to stupefy with drink.
noun
- alert carnivorous mammal with pointed muzzle and ears and a bushy tail; most are predators that do not hunt in packs
- a shifty deceptive person
- the grey or reddish-brown fur of a fox
- A hidden radio transmitter, finding which is the goal of radiosport.
- (cartomancy) The fourteenth Lenormand card.
- The gemmeous dragonet, a fish, Callionymus lyra, so called from its yellow color.
- (mechanics) A wedge driven into the split end of a bolt to tighten it.
- Any member of the genus Vulpes; a true fox.
- (uncountable) The fur of a fox.
- (in particular) The red fox, a small carnivore (Vulpes vulpes) with red or silver fur.
- (nautical) A small strand of rope made by twisting several rope-yarns together. Used for seizings, mats, sennits, and gaskets.
- (figurative) A cunning person.
- A fox terrier.
- (Australia) A flying fox.
- (slang, figurative) A person with reddish brown hair, typically a woman.
- (chiefly philosophy) Someone who fuses many different influences and concepts in their philosophy or worldview.
- (slang, figurative) A physically attractive person, typically a woman.
- Other canines that resemble true foxes, of the genera Cerdocyon, Lycalopex, Otocyon, and Urocyon.
- (military, aviation) Air-to-air weapon launched.
noun
verb
verb
noun
verb
noun
- A white pigment.
- (usually in the plural) trousers made of flannel or gabardine or tweed or white cloth
- (board games) the lighter pieces
- the quality or state of the achromatic color of greatest lightness (bearing the least resemblance to black)
- the white part of an egg; the nutritive and protective gelatinous substance surrounding the yolk consisting mainly of albumin dissolved in water
- (countable and uncountable) White wine.
- (archery) The central part of the butt, which was formerly painted white; the centre of a mark at which a missile is shot.
- The snow- or ice-covered "green" in snow golf.
- (board games, chess) The person playing with the white set of pieces.
- The albumen of bird eggs (egg white).
- A feather, from the wing of the cock ostrich, that is of the palest possible shade.
- (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) The cue ball in cue games.
- The color of snow or milk; the color of light containing equal amounts of all visible wavelengths.
- (uncountable) Ellipsis of white bread
- A person of European descent with light-colored skin.
- The enclosed part of a letter of the alphabet, especially when handwritten.
- Any butterfly of the subfamily Pierinae in the family Pieridae.
- (countable and uncountable) White coffee
- (anatomy) The sclera, white of the eye.
- (slang, US, UK) Cocaine.
- A white bean.
adj
- glowing white with heat
- being of the achromatic color of maximum lightness; having little or no hue owing to reflection of almost all incident light
- benevolent; without malicious intent
- restricted to whites only
- (of a surface) not written or printed on
- (of coffee) having cream or milk added
- marked by the presence of snow
- (of hair) having lost its color
- of or belonging to a racial group having light skin coloration
- of summer nights in northern latitudes where the sun barely sets
- anemic looking from illness or emotion
- free from moral blemish or impurity; unsullied
- Grey, as from old age; having silvery hair; hoary.
- (board games, chess) The standard denomination of the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the white set, no matter what the actual colour.
- (now less common and often offensive) Honourable, fair, decent, kind; generous.
- (sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to Europeans or those of European descent, regardless if their skin has cool or warm undertones.
- (of a person or skin) Lacking coloration (tan) from ultraviolet light; not tanned.
- (of tea) Made from immature leaves and shoots.
- Characterised by the presence of snow.
- Relatively light or pale in colour.
- Pale or pallid, as from fear, illness, etc.
- Bright and colourless; reflecting equal quantities of all frequencies of visible light.
- (politics) Pertaining to constitutional or anti-revolutionary political parties or movements.
- (sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to Caucasians (people with white complexion and European ancestry).
- (typography) Not containing characters; see white space.
- (of coffee or tea) Containing cream, milk, or creamer.
- (chiefly historical) Designated for use by Caucasians.
- (typography) Said of a symbol or character outline, not solid, not filled with color. Compare black (“said of a character or symbol filled with color”).
- (of a set of armor) Alwhite, pertaining to white armor.
- (sometimes capitalized) By U.S. Census Bureau definition, of or relating to people hailing from Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East.
- (of an animal) Affected by leucism.
- Pertaining to an ecclesiastical order whose adherents dress in white habits; Cistercian.
noun
- A streak or patch.
- A swishing noise.
- A smooth stroke; a swish.
- A wet splashing sound.
- (typography) A long, protruding ornamental line or pen stroke found in some typefaces and styles of calligraphy.
- (technical) The water that washes up on shore after an incoming wave has broken.
- A narrow sound or channel of water lying within a sand bank, or between a sand bank and the shore, or a bar over which the sea washes.
- (architecture) An oval figure, whose mouldings are oblique to the axis of the work.
- the movement or sound of water
verb
- To streak, to color in a swash.
- (ambitransitive) To swagger; to act with boldness or bluster (toward).
- (intransitive) To wade forcefully through liquid.
- (ambitransitive) To swirl through liquid; to swish.
- (ambitransitive) To dash or flow noisily; to splash.
- (ambitransitive) To swipe.
- (intransitive) To fall violently or noisily.
- act in an arrogant, overly self-assured, or conceited manner
- make violent, noisy movements
- dash a liquid upon or against
- show off
adj
noun
- White hair as an indication of old age.
- Ice formed by the rapid freezing of cold water droplets of fog on to a cold surface.
- (linguistics) The second part of a syllable, from the vowel on (as opposed to the onset).
- (British, regional) A cold fog or mist.
- Archaic in the form rimes: originally, any frozen dew forming a white deposit on exposed surfaces; hoar frost (sense 1).
- A film or slimy coating.
- A coating or sheet of ice so formed.
- ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside)
- correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds)
verb
- (transitive, Ireland, rare) To dye (wool or yarn) reddish-brown by boiling or soaking in water with alder twigs.
- To cover (something) with rime (noun etymology 1 sense 1 or etymology 1 sense 3.1) or (loosely) hoar frost.
- To enlarge (a hole), especially using a tool such as a reamer.
- To remove debris from inside (something, such as a freshly bored hole or a pipe) using a tool.
- (figurative) To cover (something) with a thin coating or film; to coat.
- (intransitive) Sometimes followed by up: of a thing: to become covered with rime or (loosely) hoar frost.
- compose rhymes
- be similar in sound, especially with respect to the last syllable
noun
name
- (computing) Initialism of Windows Storage Server.
- (computing) Initialism of Web Security Service.
- (computing) Windows SharePoint Services, former name of Microsoft SharePoint Foundation
- (electronics) Initialism of Wavelength Selective Switching.
- (computing) Initialism of WS-Security (meaning Web Services Security).
- (computing) Initialism of Windows Sound System.
- (computing) Initialism of Windows Server System.
- (computing) Initialism of Windows Search Service.
noun
verb
noun
- A rather large spot or blotch of color.
- In planetary geology, an unusually dark area on the surface of a planet or moon.
- (anatomy) An oval yellow spot near the center of the retina of the human eye, histologically defined as having two or more layers of ganglion cells, responsible for detailed central vision.
- A spot, as on the skin, or on the surface of the sun or of some other luminous orb.
- (anatomy, biology) A small chamber of the inner ear of certain vertebrates filled with endolymph and containing an otolith.
- a cooler darker spot appearing periodically on the sun's photosphere; associated with a strong magnetic field
- a small yellowish central area of the retina that is rich in cones and that mediates clear detailed vision
- a patch of skin that is discolored but not usually elevated; caused by various diseases
noun
- a swarthy complexion
- absence of light or illumination
- an unilluminated area
- absence of moral or spiritual values
- an unenlightened state
- having a dark or somber color
- (uncountable) Secrecy; concealment.
- (uncountable) The state of being dark; lack of light; the absolute or comparative absence of light.
- (uncountable) Gloom; gloominess; depression.
- (uncountable) The state or quality of reflecting little light, of tending to a blackish or brownish color.
- (uncountable) Lack of understanding or compassion; spiritual or mental blindness.
- (uncountable, countable) Any space that such colour pervades.
- (uncountable) Hell.
- (uncountable) Lack of knowledge; obscurity or meaning or intelligibility; the unknown.
- (uncountable) Nothingness, vanity, emptiness.
- (countable) The product of being dark.
verb
noun
- An uneven patch of color or discoloration.
- an irregularly shaped spot
- (slang) Blotting paper.
- Any of various crop diseases that cause the plant to form spots.
- A bright or dark spot on old film caused by dirt and loss of the gelatin covering the film, due to age and poor film quality.
- A dark spot on the skin; a pustule.
- (figuratively) Imperfection; blemish on one’s reputation, stain.
- An irregularly shaped area.
noun
verb
verb
noun
- A white pigment.
- (usually in the plural) trousers made of flannel or gabardine or tweed or white cloth
- (board games) the lighter pieces
- the quality or state of the achromatic color of greatest lightness (bearing the least resemblance to black)
- the white part of an egg; the nutritive and protective gelatinous substance surrounding the yolk consisting mainly of albumin dissolved in water
- (countable and uncountable) White wine.
- (archery) The central part of the butt, which was formerly painted white; the centre of a mark at which a missile is shot.
- The snow- or ice-covered "green" in snow golf.
- (board games, chess) The person playing with the white set of pieces.
- The albumen of bird eggs (egg white).
- A feather, from the wing of the cock ostrich, that is of the palest possible shade.
- (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) The cue ball in cue games.
- The color of snow or milk; the color of light containing equal amounts of all visible wavelengths.
- (uncountable) Ellipsis of white bread
- A person of European descent with light-colored skin.
- The enclosed part of a letter of the alphabet, especially when handwritten.
- Any butterfly of the subfamily Pierinae in the family Pieridae.
- (countable and uncountable) White coffee
- (anatomy) The sclera, white of the eye.
- (slang, US, UK) Cocaine.
- A white bean.
adj
- glowing white with heat
- being of the achromatic color of maximum lightness; having little or no hue owing to reflection of almost all incident light
- benevolent; without malicious intent
- restricted to whites only
- (of a surface) not written or printed on
- (of coffee) having cream or milk added
- marked by the presence of snow
- (of hair) having lost its color
- of or belonging to a racial group having light skin coloration
- of summer nights in northern latitudes where the sun barely sets
- anemic looking from illness or emotion
- free from moral blemish or impurity; unsullied
- Grey, as from old age; having silvery hair; hoary.
- (board games, chess) The standard denomination of the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the white set, no matter what the actual colour.
- (now less common and often offensive) Honourable, fair, decent, kind; generous.
- (sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to Europeans or those of European descent, regardless if their skin has cool or warm undertones.
- (of a person or skin) Lacking coloration (tan) from ultraviolet light; not tanned.
- (of tea) Made from immature leaves and shoots.
- Characterised by the presence of snow.
- Relatively light or pale in colour.
- Pale or pallid, as from fear, illness, etc.
- Bright and colourless; reflecting equal quantities of all frequencies of visible light.
- (politics) Pertaining to constitutional or anti-revolutionary political parties or movements.
- (sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to Caucasians (people with white complexion and European ancestry).
- (typography) Not containing characters; see white space.
- (of coffee or tea) Containing cream, milk, or creamer.
- (chiefly historical) Designated for use by Caucasians.
- (typography) Said of a symbol or character outline, not solid, not filled with color. Compare black (“said of a character or symbol filled with color”).
- (of a set of armor) Alwhite, pertaining to white armor.
- (sometimes capitalized) By U.S. Census Bureau definition, of or relating to people hailing from Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East.
- (of an animal) Affected by leucism.
- Pertaining to an ecclesiastical order whose adherents dress in white habits; Cistercian.
verb
- turn white
- (ergative) (To cause) to become white or whiter; to bleach or blanch.
- (statistics) To normalize data so that the covariance matrix becomes the identity matrix; i.e., to remove correlations so each variable has unit variance.
- (cryptography) To increase the security of an iterated block cipher by steps that combine the data with portions of the key.
noun
verb
verb
- colour with streaks or blotches of different shades
- make less clear
- place under suspicion or cast doubt upon
- make overcast or cloudy
- billow up in the form of a cloud
- make gloomy or depressed
- make milky or dull
- make less visible or unclear
- (intransitive) To become foggy or gloomy, or obscured from sight.
- Of the breath, to become cloud; to turn into mist.
- (transitive) To mark with, or darken in, veins or sports; to variegate with colors.
- (transitive) To blacken; to sully; to stain; to tarnish (reputation or character).
- (transitive) To make obscure.
- (transitive) To make less acute or perceptive.
- (intransitive) To become marked, darkened or variegated in this way.
- (transitive) To overspread or hide with a cloud or clouds.
- (transitive) To make gloomy or sullen.
noun
- a visible mass of water or ice particles suspended at a considerable altitude
- a group of many things in the air or on the ground
- a cause of worry or gloom or trouble
- any collection of particles (e.g., smoke or dust) or gases that is visible
- suspicion affecting your reputation
- out of touch with reality
- A group or swarm, especially suspended above the ground or flying.
- (cloud computing, with "the") The Internet, regarded as an abstract amorphous omnipresent space for processing and storage, the focus of cloud computing.
- (figurative) Anything unsubstantial.
- A visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air.
- (telecommunications) A telecom network (from their representation in engineering drawings).
- (slang) Crystal methamphetamine.
- (figuratively) A negative or foreboding aspect of something positive: see every cloud has a silver lining or every silver lining has a cloud.
- Anything which makes things foggy or gloomy.
- Any mass of dust, steam or smoke resembling such a mass.
- A large, loosely-knitted headscarf worn by women.
- (Internet slang, humorous, endearing) A white cat.
- An elliptical shape or symbol whose outline is a series of semicircles, supposed to resemble a cloud.
- A dark spot on a lighter material or background.
verb
noun
- An uneven patch of color or discoloration.
- an irregularly shaped spot
- (slang) Blotting paper.
- Any of various crop diseases that cause the plant to form spots.
- A bright or dark spot on old film caused by dirt and loss of the gelatin covering the film, due to age and poor film quality.
- A dark spot on the skin; a pustule.
- (figuratively) Imperfection; blemish on one’s reputation, stain.
- An irregularly shaped area.
verb
- mark with spots or blotches of different color or shades of color as if stained
- run naked in a public place
- move quickly in a straight line
- (intransitive) To run naked in public.
- (intransitive) To have or obtain streaks.
- (transitive) To create streaks upon.
- (intransitive) To move very swiftly.
- (intransitive) To run quickly.
noun
- a sudden flash (as of lightning)
- a narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background
- a distinctive characteristic
- an unbroken series of events
- (shipbuilding) A strake.
- (social media, Internet) A measure of activity that tracks how many consecutive days a certain interaction with another user or a service has taken place, a form of gamification to drive user engagement.
- A rung or round of a ladder.
- The color of the powder of a mineral. So called, because a simple field test for a mineral is to streak it against unglazed white porcelain.
- An irregular line left from smearing or motion.
- A consistent facet of somebody's personality.
- A tendency or characteristic, but not a dominant or pervasive one.
- A moth of the family Geometridae, Chesias legatella.
- The act of streaking, or running naked through a public area.
- A continuous series of like events.
verb
- cause to become white or lighter in color
- make whiter or lighter
- (transitive, figurative) To make meaningless; to divest of meaning; to make empty.
- (transitive) To treat with bleach, especially so as to whiten (fabric, paper, etc.) or lighten (hair).
- (intransitive) To be whitened or lightened (by the sun, for example).
- (intransitive, biology, of corals) To lose color due to stress-induced expulsion of symbiotic unicellular algae.
noun
- an agent that makes things white or colorless
- the whiteness that results from removing the color from something
- the act of whitening something by bleaching it (exposing it to sunlight or using a chemical bleaching agent)
- (countable) A variety of bleach.
- (uncountable) A chemical, such as sodium hypochlorite or hydrogen peroxide, or a preparation of such a chemical, used for disinfecting or whitening.
- An act of bleaching; exposure to the sun.
verb
- become discolored with, or as if with, mildew spots
- deceive somebody
- be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly
- (intransitive) To turn sour; said of beer, etc., when it sours in fermenting.
- (transitive) To confuse or baffle (someone).
- (intransitive) To act slyly or craftily.
- (transitive) To trick, fool or outwit (someone) by cunning or ingenuity.
- (transitive) To repair (boots) with new front upper leather, or to piece the upper fronts of.
- (intransitive) To discolour paper. Fox marks are spots on paper caused by humidity. (See foxing.)
- (transitive) To make sour, as beer, by causing it to ferment.
- (transitive) To intoxicate; to stupefy with drink.
noun
- alert carnivorous mammal with pointed muzzle and ears and a bushy tail; most are predators that do not hunt in packs
- a shifty deceptive person
- the grey or reddish-brown fur of a fox
- A hidden radio transmitter, finding which is the goal of radiosport.
- (cartomancy) The fourteenth Lenormand card.
- The gemmeous dragonet, a fish, Callionymus lyra, so called from its yellow color.
- (mechanics) A wedge driven into the split end of a bolt to tighten it.
- Any member of the genus Vulpes; a true fox.
- (uncountable) The fur of a fox.
- (in particular) The red fox, a small carnivore (Vulpes vulpes) with red or silver fur.
- (nautical) A small strand of rope made by twisting several rope-yarns together. Used for seizings, mats, sennits, and gaskets.
- (figurative) A cunning person.
- A fox terrier.
- (Australia) A flying fox.
- (slang, figurative) A person with reddish brown hair, typically a woman.
- (chiefly philosophy) Someone who fuses many different influences and concepts in their philosophy or worldview.
- (slang, figurative) A physically attractive person, typically a woman.
- Other canines that resemble true foxes, of the genera Cerdocyon, Lycalopex, Otocyon, and Urocyon.
- (military, aviation) Air-to-air weapon launched.
verb
noun
noun
- A streak or patch.
- A swishing noise.
- A smooth stroke; a swish.
- A wet splashing sound.
- (typography) A long, protruding ornamental line or pen stroke found in some typefaces and styles of calligraphy.
- (technical) The water that washes up on shore after an incoming wave has broken.
- A narrow sound or channel of water lying within a sand bank, or between a sand bank and the shore, or a bar over which the sea washes.
- (architecture) An oval figure, whose mouldings are oblique to the axis of the work.
- the movement or sound of water
verb
- To streak, to color in a swash.
- (ambitransitive) To swagger; to act with boldness or bluster (toward).
- (intransitive) To wade forcefully through liquid.
- (ambitransitive) To swirl through liquid; to swish.
- (ambitransitive) To dash or flow noisily; to splash.
- (ambitransitive) To swipe.
- (intransitive) To fall violently or noisily.
- act in an arrogant, overly self-assured, or conceited manner
- make violent, noisy movements
- dash a liquid upon or against
- show off
adj
adj
- Having streaks.
- (chiefly of a person, usually Canada, US, in particular) Having alternating periods of good and bad performances; inconsistent.
- Unpredictable, variable; having periods of good and bad (e.g. weather).
- (cricket) Used to describe a shot where the ball deflects off the edge of the bat, but is not caught by the slips or wicket-keeper and instead results in runs for the batsman.
- (soccer) Not well-executed, due to luck more than skill.
- marked with or as if with stripes or linear discolorations