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verb
noun
- a bowl-shaped vessel in which substances can be ground and mixed with a pestle
- used as a bond in masonry or for covering a wall
- a muzzle-loading high-angle gun with a short barrel that fires shells at high elevations for a short range
- (countable) A hollow vessel used to pound, crush, rub, grind or mix ingredients with a pestle.
- (countable) In paper milling, a trough in which material is hammered.
- (countable, military, historical) A short, heavy, large-bore cannon designed for indirect fire at very steep trajectories.
- (uncountable) A mixture of lime or cement, sand and water used for bonding building blocks.
- (countable, military) A relatively lightweight, often portable indirect fire weapon which transmits recoil to a base plate and is designed to lob explosive shells at very steep trajectories.
noun
- Lime cement mortar.
- A mixture of whiting, resin, and glue for ornamenting walls and cornices.
- Abbreviation of compensation.
- (Australia, slang) Workers' compensation.
- (cricket) A type of practice cricket ball made of cork and rubber.
- Abbreviation of competition.
- (military, slang, historical, attributive) Compo ration.
noun
adj
verb
noun
- a plaster now made mostly from Portland cement and sand and lime; applied while soft to cover exterior walls or surfaces
- A material with binder and aggregate that is used to coat interior walls or to make interior mouldings.
- A work made of stucco; stuccowork.
- A material with binder and aggregate that is used to coat exterior walls or to make exterior mouldings.
verb
noun
- a surface of hardened plaster (as on a wall or ceiling)
- a medical dressing consisting of a soft heated mass of meal or clay that is spread on a cloth and applied to the skin to treat inflamed areas or improve circulation etc.
- a mixture of lime or gypsum with sand and water; hardens into a smooth solid; used to cover walls and ceilings
- adhesive tape used in dressing wounds
- any of several gypsum cements; a white powder (a form of calcium sulphate) that forms a paste when mixed with water and hardens into a solid; used in making molds and sculptures and casts for broken limbs
- (uncountable) A paste applied to the skin for healing or cosmetic purposes.
- (uncountable) A mixture of lime or gypsum, sand, and water, sometimes with the addition of fibres, that hardens to a smooth solid and is used for coating walls and ceilings.
- (countable, British, New Zealand, Canada) A small adhesive bandage to cover a minor wound; a sticking plaster.
- (by ellipsis, uncountable) Plaster of Paris.
- (countable) A cast made of plaster of Paris and gauze; a plaster cast.
- A similar material used for exterior walls.
verb
- apply a plaster cast to
- affix conspicuously
- dress by covering with a therapeutic substance
- coat with plaster
- cover conspicuously or thickly, as by pasting something on
- apply a heavy coat to
- (transitive, figurative) To smooth over.
- (transitive) To smear with some viscous or liquid substance.
- (transitive) To cover or coat something with plaster; to render.
- (transitive) To apply a plaster to.
- (transitive, figurative) To bombard heavily or overwhelmingly; to overwhelm (with weapons fire).
- (transitive) To hide or cover up, as if with plaster; to cover thickly.
noun
- A covering or inlaying of marble, mosaic, etc., attached to the masonry by cramp irons or cement.
- A crust or hard coating of anything upon or within a body, as a deposit of lime, sediment, etc., from water on the inner surface of a steam boiler.
- (figuratively) An accumulated characteristic of a person that disguises their true nature.
- Anything inlaid or embedded.
- The act of incrusting, or the state of being incrusted.
- the formation of a crust
- a decorative coating of contrasting material that is applied to a surface as an inlay or overlay
- a hard outer layer that covers something
verb
- (construction) To cover a wall with a layer of plaster.
- (transitive, computer graphics) To transform (a model) into a display on the screen or other media.
- (transitive) To pass down.
- (transitive) To interpret, give an interpretation or rendition of.
- (intransitive, cooking) To have fat melt off meat from cooking.
- (nautical) To pass; to run; said of the passage of a rope through a block, eyelet, etc.
- (transitive) To give; to give back; to deliver.
- (nautical) To yield or give way.
- (transitive) To translate into another language.
- (transitive, art, by extension) To apply realistic coloring and shading.
- (transitive) To make over as a return.
- (transitive) To capture and turn over to another country secretly and extrajudicially.
- (ditransitive) To cause to become.
- (transitive) To convert waste animal tissue into a usable byproduct.
- cause to become
- give back
- coat with plastic or cement
- make over as a return
- to surrender someone or something to another
- show in, or as in, a picture
- give an interpretation or rendition of
- bestow
- give something useful or necessary to
- melt (fat or lard) in order to separate out impurities
- restate (words) from one language into another language
- give or supply
- pass down
noun
verb
- To macerate (lime) and render it fit for plaster or mortar.
- (intransitive) To become disenchanted.
- (intransitive) To become sour.
- (transitive) To make (soil) cold and unproductive.
- (transitive) To make sour.
- (transitive) To process (fabric) after bleaching, using hydrochloric acid or sulphuric acid to wash out the lime.
- (transitive) To spoil or mar; to make disenchanted.
- go sour or spoil
- make sour or more sour
adj
- Tasting or smelling rancid.
- Tasting of acidity.
- (of a person's character) Hostile or unfriendly.
- Containing excess sulfur. (of petroleum)
- Excessively acidic and thus infertile. (of soil)
- (music) Off-pitch, out of tune.
- Made rancid by fermentation, etc.
- Unfortunate or unfavorable.
- showing a brooding ill humor
- smelling of fermentation or staleness
- having a sharp biting taste
- inaccurate in pitch
- one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of vinegar or lemons
- in an unpalatable state
noun
- (by extension) Any cocktail containing lemon or lime juice.
- A sour or acid substance; whatever produces a painful effect.
- The sensation of a sour taste.
- A drink made with whiskey, lemon or lime juice and sugar.
- The acidic solution used in souring fabric.
- A sweet/candy having a sharply sour taste.
- a cocktail made of a liquor (especially whiskey or gin) mixed with lemon or lime juice and sugar
- the taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth
- the property of being acidic
verb
noun
- A plaster-like mixture used to texture or smooth drywall.
- water soaked soil; soft wet earth
- slanderous remarks or charges
- (historical) A traditional Dutch unit of land area, vaguely reckoned as the amount of land required to sow a mud of seed.
- (slang, originally US) Coffee.
- (slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) A black person.
- (slang) Money, dough, especially when proceeding from dirty business.
- Drilling fluid.
- (slang) Opium.
- (US slang) Lean.
- (historical) A kind of box traditionally used in the Netherlands for measuring muds.
- (LGBTQ) Stool that is exposed as a result of anal sex.
- (slang, construction) Wet concrete as it is being mixed, delivered and poured.
- (historical) A traditional Dutch unit of dry measure of variable size, frequently about 3 bushels.
- (figuratively) Willfully abusive, even slanderous remarks or claims, notably between political opponents.
- A mixture of water and soil or fine grained sediment.
- (slang) Heroin.
- (geology) A particle less than 62.5 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale
noun
adj
- Not fixed in position, opinion etc.; free to move or drift.
- That floats or float.
- (linguistics, of a tone) that is not attached to any consonant or vowel within its morpheme.
- borne up by or suspended in a liquid
- continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another
- not definitely committed to a party or policy
- (of a part of the body) not firmly connected; movable or out of normal position
- inclined to move or be moved about
verb
noun
- A fine cement of lime only, used by plasterers.
- Alternative form of puttee (“strip of cloth wound round the leg”).
- (golf, colloquial) A golf ball made of composition and not gutta-percha.
- An oxide of tin, or of lead and tin, used in polishing glass, etc.
- A form of cement, made from linseed oil and whiting, used to fixate panes of glass.
- a dough-like mixture of whiting and boiled linseed oil; used especially to patch woodwork or secure panes of glass
adj
verb
noun
- A plasterer's tool, made of a flat surface with a handle below, used to hold an amount of plaster prior to application to the wall or ceiling being worked on: a mortarboard.
- (game theory) An uncooperative or purely selfish participant in an exchange or game, especially when untrusting, acquisitive or treacherous. Refers specifically to the prisoner's dilemma, a.k.a. the Hawk-Dove game.
- (entomology) Any of various species of dragonfly of the genera Apocordulia and Austrocordulia, endemic to Australia.
- Any diurnal predatory terrestrial bird of similar size and appearance to the accipitrid hawks, such as a falcon.
- (US, especially Chicago, and nationwide in African-American, often with "the") Cold, sharp or biting wind.
- A diurnal predatory bird of the family Accipitridae, smaller than an eagle.
- (politics) An advocate of aggressive political positions and actions.
- A noisy effort to force up phlegm from the throat.
- a square board with a handle underneath; used by masons to hold or carry mortar
- diurnal bird of prey typically having short rounded wings and a long tail
- an advocate of an aggressive policy on foreign relations
verb
- (transitive, intransitive) To expectorate, to cough up (something, such as mucus) from one's throat; to produce (something) by coughing or clearing one's throat.
- (transitive) To sell; to offer for sale by outcry in the street; to carry (merchandise) about from place to place for sale; to peddle.
- (intransitive) To make an attack while on the wing; to soar and strike like a hawk.
- (transitive) To hunt with a hawk.
- (transitive, intransitive) To try to cough up something from one's throat; to clear the throat loudly; to cough heavily, especially causing uvular frication.
- hunt with hawks
- clear mucus or food from one's throat
- sell or offer for sale from place to place
noun
- The filling of joints in brickwork or masonry with mortar.
- (uncountable) The practice of placing metrical marks in a text (typically a psalm), which indicate the syllables on which the chant should progress to the next note, as well as features such as pauses.
- Synonym of nikud.
- (art) The act or process of measuring, at the various distances from the surface of a block of marble, the surface of a future piece of statuary; also, a process used in cutting the statue from the artist's model.
- (countable) A particular arrangement of such marks within a given text.
- The rubbing off of the point of the wheat grain in the first process of high milling.
- The act or art of punctuating; punctuation.
- (usually singular or collective, sometimes proscribed) Mortar that has been placed between bricks to fill the gap.
- The action of the verb to point.
verb
noun
- material such as sand or gravel used with cement and water to make concrete, mortar, or plaster
- the whole amount
- a sum total of many heterogenous things taken together
- (roofing) Crushed stone, crushed slag or water-worn gravel used for surfacing a built-up roof system.
- A mass, assemblage, or sum of particulars; something consisting of elements but considered as a whole.
- (music) The full chromatic scale of twelve equal tempered pitches.
- Solid particles of low aspect ratio added to a composite material, as distinguished from the matrix and any fibers or reinforcements; especially the gravel and sand added to concrete.
- A mass formed by the union of homogeneous particles; – in distinction from a compound, formed by the union of heterogeneous particles.
- A mechanical mixture of more than one phase.
- (Buddhism) Any of the five attributes that constitute the sentient being.
- (sports) The total score in a set of games between teams or competitors, usually the combination of the home and away scores.
adj
- composed of a dense cluster of separate units such as carpels or florets or drupelets
- formed of separate units gathered into a mass or whole
- United into a common organized mass; said of certain compound animals.
- Having the several component parts adherent to each other only to such a degree as to be separable by mechanical means.
- (botany) Composed of several florets within a common involucre, as in the daisy; or of several carpels formed from one flower, as in the raspberry.
- Formed by a collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; collective; combined; added up.
- Consisting or formed of smaller objects or parts.
- Formed into clusters or groups of lobules.
verb
noun
- A sort of trowel used for finishing concrete surfaces or smoothing plaster.
- (poker) A maneuver where a player calls on the flop or turn with a weak hand, with the intention of bluffing after a subsequent community card.
- A breakdancing move in which the body is held parallel to the floor while balancing on one or both hands.
- (biology) The gas-filled sac, bag, or body of a siphonophore; a pneumatophore.
- A polishing block used in marble working; a runner.
- (automotive) A car carrier or car transporter truck or truck-and-trailer combination.
- A small sum of money put in a cashier's till, or otherwise secured, at the start of business, to enable change to be made.
- (weaving) A weft thread that passes over two or more warp threads (or less commonly, warp over weft).
- (publishing, digital typesetting) Any object (element) whose location in composition (page makeup, pagination) does not flow within body text but rather floats outside of it, usually anchored loosely (in buoy metaphor) to spots within it (citations, callouts): a figure (image), table, box, pull quote, ornament, or other floated element.
- A tool similar to a rasp, used in various trades.
- An elaborately decorated trailer or vehicle, intended for display in a parade or pageant.
- (knitting) A loose strand of yarn that passes behind one or more stitches when knitting with multiple yarns.
- (transport) A lowboy trailer.
- (insurance) Premiums taken in but not yet paid out.
- A soft beverage with a scoop of ice cream floating in it.
- A buoyant device used to support something in water or another liquid.
- (computing) A visual style on a web page that causes the styled elements to float above or beside others.
- (basketry) A decorative rod that extends over the body of a basket without being attached for part of its length.
- (programming) A floating-point number, especially one that has lower precision than a double.
- (finance) Funds committed to be paid but not yet paid.
- A floating toy made of foam, used in swimming pools.
- A mass of timber or boards fastened together, and conveyed down a stream by the current; a raft.
- (banking) The total amount of checks/cheques or other drafts written against a bank account but not yet cleared and charged against the account.
- (finance, Australia, and other Commonwealth countries?) An offering of shares in a company (or units in a trust) to members of the public, normally followed by a listing on a stock exchange.
- A float board.
- (British) A small vehicle used for local deliveries, especially in the term milk float.
- the time interval between the deposit of a check in a bank and its payment
- an elaborate display mounted on a platform carried by a truck (or pulled by a truck) in a procession or parade
- the number of shares outstanding and available for trading by the public
- an air-filled sac near the spinal column in many fishes that helps maintain buoyancy
- a drink with ice cream floating in it
- something that floats on the surface of water
- a hand tool with a flat face used for smoothing and finishing the surface of plaster or cement or stucco
verb
- (transitive, finance) To allow (the exchange value of a currency) to be determined by the markets.
- (transitive, finance) To issue or sell shares in a company (or units in a trust) to members of the public, followed by listing on a stock exchange.
- (intransitive) To drift or wander aimlessly.
- (transitive) To propose (an idea) for consideration.
- (intransitive, electronics) To be not connected or referenced to a known reference voltage.
- (poker) To perform a float.
- (transitive) To spread plaster over (a surface), using the tool called a float.
- (intransitive, colloquial) Of an idea or scheme, to be viable.
- (transitive) To cause to drift gently through the air, to waft.
- (intransitive) To move in a fluid manner.
- (intransitive) To be capable of floating.
- (transitive) To transport by float (vehicular trailer).
- (intransitive, aviation) To remain airborne, without touching down, for an excessive length of time during landing, due to excessive airspeed during the landing flare.
- (transitive, retail) To prepare a till (cash register) for operation, either by putting a float (cash amount) in the cash drawer to provide change for customers making cash payments or (by extension) by recording the time a till starts being used for card payments if it is card-only
- (transitive, colloquial) To extend a short-term loan to.
- (intransitive) To drift gently through the air.
- To be supported by a liquid of greater density, such that part (of the object or substance) remains above the surface.
- (intransitive) To move in a particular direction with the liquid in which one is floating.
- (intransitive, figurative) To circulate.
- (transitive) To use a float (rasp-like tool) upon.
- (transitive) To cause something to be suspended in a fluid of greater density.
- (computing, publishing, transitive) To cause (an element within a document) to float above or beside others.
- (intransitive)To automatically adjust a parameter as related parameters change.
- (intransitive, of an object or substance) To be supported by a fluid of greater density (than the object).
- (intransitive, finance) (of currencies) To have an exchange value determined by the markets, as opposed to by central fiat.
- move lightly, as if suspended
- allow (currencies) to fluctuate
- put into the water
- be in motion due to some air or water current
- be afloat either on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom
- convert from a fixed point notation to a floating point notation
- set afloat
- make the surface of level or smooth
- circulate or discuss tentatively; test the waters with
verb
noun
- a strong hard building material composed of sand and gravel and cement and water
- (logic) A term designating both a quality and the subject in which it exists; a concrete term.
- (perfumery) An extract of herbal materials that has a semi-solid consistency, especially when such materials are partly aromatic.
- (especially) Such a material whose cement is Portland cement or a similar limestone derivative.
- (countable, uncountable) A building material created by mixing cement, water, and aggregate such as gravel and sand.
- (US) A dessert of frozen custard with various toppings.
adj
- capable of being perceived by the senses; not abstract or imaginary
- formed by the coalescence of particles
- (not comparable) Made of concrete (building material).
- Being or applying to actual things, rather than abstract qualities or categories.
- (by extension, topos theory, of a category C with respect to another category X) Equipped with a faithful functor to X (called a base category), in which case C is called a concrete category over X.
- Real, actual, tangible.
- Particular, specific, rather than general.
- (category theory, of a category) Analogous to the categories of algebraic objects which category theory was created to generalize, in the sense of having objects which can be thought of as sets equipped with some additional structure. Formally, equipped with a faithful functor to the category of sets.
noun
- a building material that is a powder made of a mixture of calcined limestone and clay; used with water and sand or gravel to make concrete and mortar
- concrete pavement is sometimes referred to as cement
- a specialized bony substance covering the root of a tooth
- any of various materials used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth
- something that hardens to act as adhesive material
- (uncountable) The paste-like substance resulting from mixing such a powder with water, or the rock-like substance that forms when it dries.
- (uncountable) Any material with strong adhesive and cohesive properties such as binding agents, glues, grout.
- (anatomy) The layer of bone investing the root and neck of a tooth; cementum.
- (figurative) A bond of union; that which unites firmly, as persons in friendship or in society.
- (countable, uncountable) A powdered substance produced by firing (calcining) calcium carbonate (limestone) and clay that develops strong cohesive properties when mixed with water. The main ingredient of concrete.
verb
adj
- (of walls) covered with a coat of plaster
- covered with a waterproof coating
- closed or secured with or as if with a seal
- apply a non-porous coating to something so as to ensure it is impervious
- determined irrevocably
- undisclosed for the time being
- established irrevocably
- Of a road: having an asphalt or macadamised surface.
- Closed by a seal (something to prevent leakage).
- Preventing entrance.
- (object-oriented programming) Not subclassable; from which one cannot inherit.
verb
noun
- a mold for setting concrete
- a particular mode in which something is manifested
- the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something
- an arrangement of the elements in a composition or discourse
- a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality
- a printed document with spaces in which to write
- any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline)
- alternative names for the body of a human being
- a perceptual structure
- an ability to perform well
- (physical chemistry) a distinct state of matter in a system; matter that is identical in chemical composition and physical state and separated from other material by the phase boundary
- the spatial arrangement of something as distinct from its substance
- (biology) a group of organisms within a species that differ in trivial ways from similar groups
- a life-size dummy used to display clothes
- a body of students who are taught together
- the visual appearance of something or someone
- Established method of expression or practice; fixed way of proceeding; conventional or stated scheme; formula.
- (grammar) A grouping of words which maintain grammatical context in different usages; the particular shape or structure of a word or part of speech.
- (fine arts) The boundary line of a material object. In painting, more generally, the human body.
- Constitution; mode of construction, organization, etc.; system.
- (sports, fitness) A specific way of performing a movement.
- The shape or visible structure of a thing or person.
- (crystallography) The combination of planes included under a general crystallographic symbol. It is not necessarily a closed solid.
- Show without substance; empty, outside appearance; vain, trivial, or conventional ceremony; conventionality; formality.
- An order of doing things, as in religious ritual.
- Regularity, beauty, or elegance.
- A specimen document to be copied or imitated.
- (geometry) A quantic.
- (UK) Past history (in a given area); a habit of doing something.
- (UK, education) A class or year of school pupils.
- (taxonomy) An infraspecific rank.
- (philosophy) The inherent nature of an object; that which the mind itself contributes as the condition of knowing; that in which the essence of a thing consists.
- A thing that gives shape to other things as in a mold.
- (computing, programming) A window or dialogue box.
- The den or home of a hare.
- Characteristics not involving atomic components.
- A blank document or template to be filled in by the user.
- Level of performance.
verb
- develop into a distinctive entity
- assume a form or shape
- create (as an entity)
- establish or impress firmly in the mind
- to compose or represent
- make something, usually for a specific function
- give shape or form to
- (transitive, linguistics) To create (a word) by inflection or derivation.
- (transitive) To give (a shape or visible structure) to a thing or person.
- To mould or model by instruction or discipline.
- To put together or bring into being; assemble.
- (transitive) To constitute, to compose, to make up.
- (intransitive) To take shape.
- (electricity, historical, transitive) To treat (plates) to prepare them for introduction into a storage battery, causing one plate to be composed more or less of spongy lead, and the other of lead peroxide. This was formerly done by repeated slow alternations of the charging current, but later the plates or grids were coated or filled, one with a paste of red lead and the other with litharge, introduced into the cell, and formed by a direct charging current.
- To provide (a hare) with a form.
- (transitive) To assume (a certain shape or visible structure).
noun
verb
- (intransitive, transitive) To apply (something) to a surface in hasty or crude strokes.
- (transitive) To paint (a picture, etc.) in a coarse or unskilful manner.
- (transitive, bingo) To mark spots on a bingo card, using a dauber.
- apply to a surface
- coat with plaster
- cover (a surface) by smearing (a substance) over it
adj
- (used of concrete or mortar) kept moist to assist the hardening
- (used of hay e.g.) allowed to dry
- (used of rubber) treated by a chemical or physical process to improve its properties (hardness and strength and odor and elasticity)
- (used of tobacco) aging as a preservative process
- freed from illness or injury
- (used especially of meat) cured in brine
verb
noun
- (countable) A hardened rectangular block of mud, clay etc., used for building.
- (collectible card games) A card in a player's hand that is currently unplayable.
- (slang) A kilogram of cocaine.
- (countable) Something shaped like a brick.
- (uncountable) Such hardened mud, clay, etc. considered collectively, as a building material.
- (UK, naval, slang) A projectile.
- The colour brick red.
- (poker slang) A community card (usually the turn or the river) which does not improve a player's hand.
- (social media, slang) A reel or short video.
- (LGBTQ slang, derogatory, offensive) A trans woman who does not pass.
- (informal) A power brick; an external power supply consisting of a small box with an integral male plug and an attached cord terminating in another plug.
- (firearms) A carton of 500 rimfire cartridges, which forms the approximate size and shape of a brick.
- (basketball, slang) A shot which misses, particularly one which bounces directly out of the basket because of a too-flat trajectory, as if the ball were a heavier object.
- (computing slang, figurative) An electronic device, especially a heavy box-shaped one, that has become non-functional or obsolete.
- rectangular block of clay baked by the sun or in a kiln; used as a building or paving material
- a good fellow; helpful and trustworthy
adj
verb
- (transitive) To make into bricks.
- (transitive, computing slang) To make (an electronic device) non-functional and usually beyond repair, as a result of software or configuration issues.
- (transitive, slang) To hit someone or something with a brick.
- (intransitive, slang) To blunder; to screw up.
- (transitive) To build, line, or form with bricks.
- (intransitive, computing slang) Of an electronic device, to become non-functional, especially in a way beyond repair, as a result of software or configuration issues.
- To stop working (of an electronic device)
noun
noun
- A mason’s tool, used in spreading and dressing mortar, and breaking bricks to shape them.
- A tool used for smoothing a mold.
- A gardener’s tool, shaped like a scoop, used in taking up plants, stirring soil etc.
- a small hand tool with a handle and flat metal blade; used for scooping or spreading plaster or similar materials
verb
noun
- A plastic paste meant for filling cracks and holes in plaster.
- A paste-like substance that fills a gap.
- Any powder (originally containing gypsum plaster and glue) that when mixed with water forms a plastic paste, which is used to fill cracks and holes in plaster.
- powder (containing gypsum plaster and glue) that when mixed with water forms a plastic paste used to fill cracks and holes in plaster
verb
noun
- a foundation (usually on soft ground) consisting of an extended layer of reinforced concrete
- the property of having little or no contrast; lacking highlights or gloss
- a mass that is densely tangled or interwoven
- a small pad of material that is used to protect surface from an object placed on it
- a thick flat pad used as a floor covering
- sports equipment consisting of a piece of thick padding on the floor for gymnastic sports
- mounting consisting of a border or background for a picture
- A thickly tangled mess.
- A flat piece of coarse material used for wiping one’s feet, or as a decorative or protective floor covering.
- A thin layer of woven, non-woven, or knitted fiber that serves as reinforcement to a material.
- (athletics) A floor pad to protect athletes.
- Alternative spelling of matte (“decorative border around a picture”).
- A small flat piece of material used to protect a surface from anything hot or rough; a coaster.
- Vulgar, obscene, or profane language in Russian and some other Slavic language communities.
- (printing) Clipping of matrix.
- (coppersmithing) An alloy of copper, tin, iron, etc.; white metal.
- A thin surface layer; superficial cover.
- Alternative form of matte (“instrument for producing a dull, lustreless surface”).
- (video games slang, chiefly in the plural) Clipping of material.
adj
verb
- twist together or entwine into a confusing mass
- change texture so as to become matted and felt-like
- (transitive) To cover, protect or decorate with mats.
- Alternative form of matte (“to produce a dull, lustreless surface on metal”).
- (intransitive) To form a thick, tangled mess; to interweave into, or like, a mat; to entangle.
noun
- a foundation (usually on soft ground) consisting of an extended layer of reinforced concrete
- a flat float (usually made of logs or planks) that can be used for transport or as a platform for swimmers
- (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent
- A square array of sensors forming part of a large telescope.
- (US, slang, when ordering food) A slice of toast.
- A thick crowd of seabirds or sea mammals, particularly a group of penguins when in the water.
- A flat-bottomed craft able to float and drift on water, used for transport or as a waterborne platform.
- (cooking) A mass of congealed solids that forms on a consommé because of the protein in the egg white.
- (by extension) Any flattish thing, usually wooden, used in a similar fashion.
- A large (but unspecified) number, a lot.
- (US) A collection of logs, fallen trees, etc. which obstructs navigation in a river.
verb
noun
- Lime cement mortar.
- A mixture of whiting, resin, and glue for ornamenting walls and cornices.
- Abbreviation of compensation.
- (Australia, slang) Workers' compensation.
- (cricket) A type of practice cricket ball made of cork and rubber.
- Abbreviation of competition.
- (military, slang, historical, attributive) Compo ration.
noun
adj
verb
noun
- a plaster now made mostly from Portland cement and sand and lime; applied while soft to cover exterior walls or surfaces
- A material with binder and aggregate that is used to coat interior walls or to make interior mouldings.
- A work made of stucco; stuccowork.
- A material with binder and aggregate that is used to coat exterior walls or to make exterior mouldings.
verb
noun
- a surface of hardened plaster (as on a wall or ceiling)
- a medical dressing consisting of a soft heated mass of meal or clay that is spread on a cloth and applied to the skin to treat inflamed areas or improve circulation etc.
- a mixture of lime or gypsum with sand and water; hardens into a smooth solid; used to cover walls and ceilings
- adhesive tape used in dressing wounds
- any of several gypsum cements; a white powder (a form of calcium sulphate) that forms a paste when mixed with water and hardens into a solid; used in making molds and sculptures and casts for broken limbs
- (uncountable) A paste applied to the skin for healing or cosmetic purposes.
- (uncountable) A mixture of lime or gypsum, sand, and water, sometimes with the addition of fibres, that hardens to a smooth solid and is used for coating walls and ceilings.
- (countable, British, New Zealand, Canada) A small adhesive bandage to cover a minor wound; a sticking plaster.
- (by ellipsis, uncountable) Plaster of Paris.
- (countable) A cast made of plaster of Paris and gauze; a plaster cast.
- A similar material used for exterior walls.
verb
- apply a plaster cast to
- affix conspicuously
- dress by covering with a therapeutic substance
- coat with plaster
- cover conspicuously or thickly, as by pasting something on
- apply a heavy coat to
- (transitive, figurative) To smooth over.
- (transitive) To smear with some viscous or liquid substance.
- (transitive) To cover or coat something with plaster; to render.
- (transitive) To apply a plaster to.
- (transitive, figurative) To bombard heavily or overwhelmingly; to overwhelm (with weapons fire).
- (transitive) To hide or cover up, as if with plaster; to cover thickly.
noun
- A covering or inlaying of marble, mosaic, etc., attached to the masonry by cramp irons or cement.
- A crust or hard coating of anything upon or within a body, as a deposit of lime, sediment, etc., from water on the inner surface of a steam boiler.
- (figuratively) An accumulated characteristic of a person that disguises their true nature.
- Anything inlaid or embedded.
- The act of incrusting, or the state of being incrusted.
- the formation of a crust
- a decorative coating of contrasting material that is applied to a surface as an inlay or overlay
- a hard outer layer that covers something
noun
adj
- Not fixed in position, opinion etc.; free to move or drift.
- That floats or float.
- (linguistics, of a tone) that is not attached to any consonant or vowel within its morpheme.
- borne up by or suspended in a liquid
- continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another
- not definitely committed to a party or policy
- (of a part of the body) not firmly connected; movable or out of normal position
- inclined to move or be moved about
verb
noun
- A fine cement of lime only, used by plasterers.
- Alternative form of puttee (“strip of cloth wound round the leg”).
- (golf, colloquial) A golf ball made of composition and not gutta-percha.
- An oxide of tin, or of lead and tin, used in polishing glass, etc.
- A form of cement, made from linseed oil and whiting, used to fixate panes of glass.
- a dough-like mixture of whiting and boiled linseed oil; used especially to patch woodwork or secure panes of glass
adj
verb
noun
- A plasterer's tool, made of a flat surface with a handle below, used to hold an amount of plaster prior to application to the wall or ceiling being worked on: a mortarboard.
- (game theory) An uncooperative or purely selfish participant in an exchange or game, especially when untrusting, acquisitive or treacherous. Refers specifically to the prisoner's dilemma, a.k.a. the Hawk-Dove game.
- (entomology) Any of various species of dragonfly of the genera Apocordulia and Austrocordulia, endemic to Australia.
- Any diurnal predatory terrestrial bird of similar size and appearance to the accipitrid hawks, such as a falcon.
- (US, especially Chicago, and nationwide in African-American, often with "the") Cold, sharp or biting wind.
- A diurnal predatory bird of the family Accipitridae, smaller than an eagle.
- (politics) An advocate of aggressive political positions and actions.
- A noisy effort to force up phlegm from the throat.
- a square board with a handle underneath; used by masons to hold or carry mortar
- diurnal bird of prey typically having short rounded wings and a long tail
- an advocate of an aggressive policy on foreign relations
verb
- (transitive, intransitive) To expectorate, to cough up (something, such as mucus) from one's throat; to produce (something) by coughing or clearing one's throat.
- (transitive) To sell; to offer for sale by outcry in the street; to carry (merchandise) about from place to place for sale; to peddle.
- (intransitive) To make an attack while on the wing; to soar and strike like a hawk.
- (transitive) To hunt with a hawk.
- (transitive, intransitive) To try to cough up something from one's throat; to clear the throat loudly; to cough heavily, especially causing uvular frication.
- hunt with hawks
- clear mucus or food from one's throat
- sell or offer for sale from place to place
noun
- The filling of joints in brickwork or masonry with mortar.
- (uncountable) The practice of placing metrical marks in a text (typically a psalm), which indicate the syllables on which the chant should progress to the next note, as well as features such as pauses.
- Synonym of nikud.
- (art) The act or process of measuring, at the various distances from the surface of a block of marble, the surface of a future piece of statuary; also, a process used in cutting the statue from the artist's model.
- (countable) A particular arrangement of such marks within a given text.
- The rubbing off of the point of the wheat grain in the first process of high milling.
- The act or art of punctuating; punctuation.
- (usually singular or collective, sometimes proscribed) Mortar that has been placed between bricks to fill the gap.
- The action of the verb to point.
verb
noun
- material such as sand or gravel used with cement and water to make concrete, mortar, or plaster
- the whole amount
- a sum total of many heterogenous things taken together
- (roofing) Crushed stone, crushed slag or water-worn gravel used for surfacing a built-up roof system.
- A mass, assemblage, or sum of particulars; something consisting of elements but considered as a whole.
- (music) The full chromatic scale of twelve equal tempered pitches.
- Solid particles of low aspect ratio added to a composite material, as distinguished from the matrix and any fibers or reinforcements; especially the gravel and sand added to concrete.
- A mass formed by the union of homogeneous particles; – in distinction from a compound, formed by the union of heterogeneous particles.
- A mechanical mixture of more than one phase.
- (Buddhism) Any of the five attributes that constitute the sentient being.
- (sports) The total score in a set of games between teams or competitors, usually the combination of the home and away scores.
adj
- composed of a dense cluster of separate units such as carpels or florets or drupelets
- formed of separate units gathered into a mass or whole
- United into a common organized mass; said of certain compound animals.
- Having the several component parts adherent to each other only to such a degree as to be separable by mechanical means.
- (botany) Composed of several florets within a common involucre, as in the daisy; or of several carpels formed from one flower, as in the raspberry.
- Formed by a collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; collective; combined; added up.
- Consisting or formed of smaller objects or parts.
- Formed into clusters or groups of lobules.
verb
noun
- A sort of trowel used for finishing concrete surfaces or smoothing plaster.
- (poker) A maneuver where a player calls on the flop or turn with a weak hand, with the intention of bluffing after a subsequent community card.
- A breakdancing move in which the body is held parallel to the floor while balancing on one or both hands.
- (biology) The gas-filled sac, bag, or body of a siphonophore; a pneumatophore.
- A polishing block used in marble working; a runner.
- (automotive) A car carrier or car transporter truck or truck-and-trailer combination.
- A small sum of money put in a cashier's till, or otherwise secured, at the start of business, to enable change to be made.
- (weaving) A weft thread that passes over two or more warp threads (or less commonly, warp over weft).
- (publishing, digital typesetting) Any object (element) whose location in composition (page makeup, pagination) does not flow within body text but rather floats outside of it, usually anchored loosely (in buoy metaphor) to spots within it (citations, callouts): a figure (image), table, box, pull quote, ornament, or other floated element.
- A tool similar to a rasp, used in various trades.
- An elaborately decorated trailer or vehicle, intended for display in a parade or pageant.
- (knitting) A loose strand of yarn that passes behind one or more stitches when knitting with multiple yarns.
- (transport) A lowboy trailer.
- (insurance) Premiums taken in but not yet paid out.
- A soft beverage with a scoop of ice cream floating in it.
- A buoyant device used to support something in water or another liquid.
- (computing) A visual style on a web page that causes the styled elements to float above or beside others.
- (basketry) A decorative rod that extends over the body of a basket without being attached for part of its length.
- (programming) A floating-point number, especially one that has lower precision than a double.
- (finance) Funds committed to be paid but not yet paid.
- A floating toy made of foam, used in swimming pools.
- A mass of timber or boards fastened together, and conveyed down a stream by the current; a raft.
- (banking) The total amount of checks/cheques or other drafts written against a bank account but not yet cleared and charged against the account.
- (finance, Australia, and other Commonwealth countries?) An offering of shares in a company (or units in a trust) to members of the public, normally followed by a listing on a stock exchange.
- A float board.
- (British) A small vehicle used for local deliveries, especially in the term milk float.
- the time interval between the deposit of a check in a bank and its payment
- an elaborate display mounted on a platform carried by a truck (or pulled by a truck) in a procession or parade
- the number of shares outstanding and available for trading by the public
- an air-filled sac near the spinal column in many fishes that helps maintain buoyancy
- a drink with ice cream floating in it
- something that floats on the surface of water
- a hand tool with a flat face used for smoothing and finishing the surface of plaster or cement or stucco
verb
- (transitive, finance) To allow (the exchange value of a currency) to be determined by the markets.
- (transitive, finance) To issue or sell shares in a company (or units in a trust) to members of the public, followed by listing on a stock exchange.
- (intransitive) To drift or wander aimlessly.
- (transitive) To propose (an idea) for consideration.
- (intransitive, electronics) To be not connected or referenced to a known reference voltage.
- (poker) To perform a float.
- (transitive) To spread plaster over (a surface), using the tool called a float.
- (intransitive, colloquial) Of an idea or scheme, to be viable.
- (transitive) To cause to drift gently through the air, to waft.
- (intransitive) To move in a fluid manner.
- (intransitive) To be capable of floating.
- (transitive) To transport by float (vehicular trailer).
- (intransitive, aviation) To remain airborne, without touching down, for an excessive length of time during landing, due to excessive airspeed during the landing flare.
- (transitive, retail) To prepare a till (cash register) for operation, either by putting a float (cash amount) in the cash drawer to provide change for customers making cash payments or (by extension) by recording the time a till starts being used for card payments if it is card-only
- (transitive, colloquial) To extend a short-term loan to.
- (intransitive) To drift gently through the air.
- To be supported by a liquid of greater density, such that part (of the object or substance) remains above the surface.
- (intransitive) To move in a particular direction with the liquid in which one is floating.
- (intransitive, figurative) To circulate.
- (transitive) To use a float (rasp-like tool) upon.
- (transitive) To cause something to be suspended in a fluid of greater density.
- (computing, publishing, transitive) To cause (an element within a document) to float above or beside others.
- (intransitive)To automatically adjust a parameter as related parameters change.
- (intransitive, of an object or substance) To be supported by a fluid of greater density (than the object).
- (intransitive, finance) (of currencies) To have an exchange value determined by the markets, as opposed to by central fiat.
- move lightly, as if suspended
- allow (currencies) to fluctuate
- put into the water
- be in motion due to some air or water current
- be afloat either on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom
- convert from a fixed point notation to a floating point notation
- set afloat
- make the surface of level or smooth
- circulate or discuss tentatively; test the waters with
noun
- a building material that is a powder made of a mixture of calcined limestone and clay; used with water and sand or gravel to make concrete and mortar
- concrete pavement is sometimes referred to as cement
- a specialized bony substance covering the root of a tooth
- any of various materials used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth
- something that hardens to act as adhesive material
- (uncountable) The paste-like substance resulting from mixing such a powder with water, or the rock-like substance that forms when it dries.
- (uncountable) Any material with strong adhesive and cohesive properties such as binding agents, glues, grout.
- (anatomy) The layer of bone investing the root and neck of a tooth; cementum.
- (figurative) A bond of union; that which unites firmly, as persons in friendship or in society.
- (countable, uncountable) A powdered substance produced by firing (calcining) calcium carbonate (limestone) and clay that develops strong cohesive properties when mixed with water. The main ingredient of concrete.
verb
noun
- a mold for setting concrete
- a particular mode in which something is manifested
- the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something
- an arrangement of the elements in a composition or discourse
- a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality
- a printed document with spaces in which to write
- any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline)
- alternative names for the body of a human being
- a perceptual structure
- an ability to perform well
- (physical chemistry) a distinct state of matter in a system; matter that is identical in chemical composition and physical state and separated from other material by the phase boundary
- the spatial arrangement of something as distinct from its substance
- (biology) a group of organisms within a species that differ in trivial ways from similar groups
- a life-size dummy used to display clothes
- a body of students who are taught together
- the visual appearance of something or someone
- Established method of expression or practice; fixed way of proceeding; conventional or stated scheme; formula.
- (grammar) A grouping of words which maintain grammatical context in different usages; the particular shape or structure of a word or part of speech.
- (fine arts) The boundary line of a material object. In painting, more generally, the human body.
- Constitution; mode of construction, organization, etc.; system.
- (sports, fitness) A specific way of performing a movement.
- The shape or visible structure of a thing or person.
- (crystallography) The combination of planes included under a general crystallographic symbol. It is not necessarily a closed solid.
- Show without substance; empty, outside appearance; vain, trivial, or conventional ceremony; conventionality; formality.
- An order of doing things, as in religious ritual.
- Regularity, beauty, or elegance.
- A specimen document to be copied or imitated.
- (geometry) A quantic.
- (UK) Past history (in a given area); a habit of doing something.
- (UK, education) A class or year of school pupils.
- (taxonomy) An infraspecific rank.
- (philosophy) The inherent nature of an object; that which the mind itself contributes as the condition of knowing; that in which the essence of a thing consists.
- A thing that gives shape to other things as in a mold.
- (computing, programming) A window or dialogue box.
- The den or home of a hare.
- Characteristics not involving atomic components.
- A blank document or template to be filled in by the user.
- Level of performance.
verb
- develop into a distinctive entity
- assume a form or shape
- create (as an entity)
- establish or impress firmly in the mind
- to compose or represent
- make something, usually for a specific function
- give shape or form to
- (transitive, linguistics) To create (a word) by inflection or derivation.
- (transitive) To give (a shape or visible structure) to a thing or person.
- To mould or model by instruction or discipline.
- To put together or bring into being; assemble.
- (transitive) To constitute, to compose, to make up.
- (intransitive) To take shape.
- (electricity, historical, transitive) To treat (plates) to prepare them for introduction into a storage battery, causing one plate to be composed more or less of spongy lead, and the other of lead peroxide. This was formerly done by repeated slow alternations of the charging current, but later the plates or grids were coated or filled, one with a paste of red lead and the other with litharge, introduced into the cell, and formed by a direct charging current.
- To provide (a hare) with a form.
- (transitive) To assume (a certain shape or visible structure).
noun
verb
- (intransitive, transitive) To apply (something) to a surface in hasty or crude strokes.
- (transitive) To paint (a picture, etc.) in a coarse or unskilful manner.
- (transitive, bingo) To mark spots on a bingo card, using a dauber.
- apply to a surface
- coat with plaster
- cover (a surface) by smearing (a substance) over it
noun
- (countable) A hardened rectangular block of mud, clay etc., used for building.
- (collectible card games) A card in a player's hand that is currently unplayable.
- (slang) A kilogram of cocaine.
- (countable) Something shaped like a brick.
- (uncountable) Such hardened mud, clay, etc. considered collectively, as a building material.
- (UK, naval, slang) A projectile.
- The colour brick red.
- (poker slang) A community card (usually the turn or the river) which does not improve a player's hand.
- (social media, slang) A reel or short video.
- (LGBTQ slang, derogatory, offensive) A trans woman who does not pass.
- (informal) A power brick; an external power supply consisting of a small box with an integral male plug and an attached cord terminating in another plug.
- (firearms) A carton of 500 rimfire cartridges, which forms the approximate size and shape of a brick.
- (basketball, slang) A shot which misses, particularly one which bounces directly out of the basket because of a too-flat trajectory, as if the ball were a heavier object.
- (computing slang, figurative) An electronic device, especially a heavy box-shaped one, that has become non-functional or obsolete.
- rectangular block of clay baked by the sun or in a kiln; used as a building or paving material
- a good fellow; helpful and trustworthy
adj
verb
- (transitive) To make into bricks.
- (transitive, computing slang) To make (an electronic device) non-functional and usually beyond repair, as a result of software or configuration issues.
- (transitive, slang) To hit someone or something with a brick.
- (intransitive, slang) To blunder; to screw up.
- (transitive) To build, line, or form with bricks.
- (intransitive, computing slang) Of an electronic device, to become non-functional, especially in a way beyond repair, as a result of software or configuration issues.
- To stop working (of an electronic device)
verb
noun
- a strong hard building material composed of sand and gravel and cement and water
- (logic) A term designating both a quality and the subject in which it exists; a concrete term.
- (perfumery) An extract of herbal materials that has a semi-solid consistency, especially when such materials are partly aromatic.
- (especially) Such a material whose cement is Portland cement or a similar limestone derivative.
- (countable, uncountable) A building material created by mixing cement, water, and aggregate such as gravel and sand.
- (US) A dessert of frozen custard with various toppings.
adj
- capable of being perceived by the senses; not abstract or imaginary
- formed by the coalescence of particles
- (not comparable) Made of concrete (building material).
- Being or applying to actual things, rather than abstract qualities or categories.
- (by extension, topos theory, of a category C with respect to another category X) Equipped with a faithful functor to X (called a base category), in which case C is called a concrete category over X.
- Real, actual, tangible.
- Particular, specific, rather than general.
- (category theory, of a category) Analogous to the categories of algebraic objects which category theory was created to generalize, in the sense of having objects which can be thought of as sets equipped with some additional structure. Formally, equipped with a faithful functor to the category of sets.
noun
noun
- A mason’s tool, used in spreading and dressing mortar, and breaking bricks to shape them.
- A tool used for smoothing a mold.
- A gardener’s tool, shaped like a scoop, used in taking up plants, stirring soil etc.
- a small hand tool with a handle and flat metal blade; used for scooping or spreading plaster or similar materials
verb
verb
noun
- A plaster-like mixture used to texture or smooth drywall.
- water soaked soil; soft wet earth
- slanderous remarks or charges
- (historical) A traditional Dutch unit of land area, vaguely reckoned as the amount of land required to sow a mud of seed.
- (slang, originally US) Coffee.
- (slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) A black person.
- (slang) Money, dough, especially when proceeding from dirty business.
- Drilling fluid.
- (slang) Opium.
- (US slang) Lean.
- (historical) A kind of box traditionally used in the Netherlands for measuring muds.
- (LGBTQ) Stool that is exposed as a result of anal sex.
- (slang, construction) Wet concrete as it is being mixed, delivered and poured.
- (historical) A traditional Dutch unit of dry measure of variable size, frequently about 3 bushels.
- (figuratively) Willfully abusive, even slanderous remarks or claims, notably between political opponents.
- A mixture of water and soil or fine grained sediment.
- (slang) Heroin.
- (geology) A particle less than 62.5 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale
noun
- A plastic paste meant for filling cracks and holes in plaster.
- A paste-like substance that fills a gap.
- Any powder (originally containing gypsum plaster and glue) that when mixed with water forms a plastic paste, which is used to fill cracks and holes in plaster.
- powder (containing gypsum plaster and glue) that when mixed with water forms a plastic paste used to fill cracks and holes in plaster
verb
noun
- a foundation (usually on soft ground) consisting of an extended layer of reinforced concrete
- the property of having little or no contrast; lacking highlights or gloss
- a mass that is densely tangled or interwoven
- a small pad of material that is used to protect surface from an object placed on it
- a thick flat pad used as a floor covering
- sports equipment consisting of a piece of thick padding on the floor for gymnastic sports
- mounting consisting of a border or background for a picture
- A thickly tangled mess.
- A flat piece of coarse material used for wiping one’s feet, or as a decorative or protective floor covering.
- A thin layer of woven, non-woven, or knitted fiber that serves as reinforcement to a material.
- (athletics) A floor pad to protect athletes.
- Alternative spelling of matte (“decorative border around a picture”).
- A small flat piece of material used to protect a surface from anything hot or rough; a coaster.
- Vulgar, obscene, or profane language in Russian and some other Slavic language communities.
- (printing) Clipping of matrix.
- (coppersmithing) An alloy of copper, tin, iron, etc.; white metal.
- A thin surface layer; superficial cover.
- Alternative form of matte (“instrument for producing a dull, lustreless surface”).
- (video games slang, chiefly in the plural) Clipping of material.
adj
verb
- twist together or entwine into a confusing mass
- change texture so as to become matted and felt-like
- (transitive) To cover, protect or decorate with mats.
- Alternative form of matte (“to produce a dull, lustreless surface on metal”).
- (intransitive) To form a thick, tangled mess; to interweave into, or like, a mat; to entangle.
noun
- a foundation (usually on soft ground) consisting of an extended layer of reinforced concrete
- a flat float (usually made of logs or planks) that can be used for transport or as a platform for swimmers
- (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent
- A square array of sensors forming part of a large telescope.
- (US, slang, when ordering food) A slice of toast.
- A thick crowd of seabirds or sea mammals, particularly a group of penguins when in the water.
- A flat-bottomed craft able to float and drift on water, used for transport or as a waterborne platform.
- (cooking) A mass of congealed solids that forms on a consommé because of the protein in the egg white.
- (by extension) Any flattish thing, usually wooden, used in a similar fashion.
- A large (but unspecified) number, a lot.
- (US) A collection of logs, fallen trees, etc. which obstructs navigation in a river.
verb
verb
noun
- a bowl-shaped vessel in which substances can be ground and mixed with a pestle
- used as a bond in masonry or for covering a wall
- a muzzle-loading high-angle gun with a short barrel that fires shells at high elevations for a short range
- (countable) A hollow vessel used to pound, crush, rub, grind or mix ingredients with a pestle.
- (countable) In paper milling, a trough in which material is hammered.
- (countable, military, historical) A short, heavy, large-bore cannon designed for indirect fire at very steep trajectories.
- (uncountable) A mixture of lime or cement, sand and water used for bonding building blocks.
- (countable, military) A relatively lightweight, often portable indirect fire weapon which transmits recoil to a base plate and is designed to lob explosive shells at very steep trajectories.
verb
- (construction) To cover a wall with a layer of plaster.
- (transitive, computer graphics) To transform (a model) into a display on the screen or other media.
- (transitive) To pass down.
- (transitive) To interpret, give an interpretation or rendition of.
- (intransitive, cooking) To have fat melt off meat from cooking.
- (nautical) To pass; to run; said of the passage of a rope through a block, eyelet, etc.
- (transitive) To give; to give back; to deliver.
- (nautical) To yield or give way.
- (transitive) To translate into another language.
- (transitive, art, by extension) To apply realistic coloring and shading.
- (transitive) To make over as a return.
- (transitive) To capture and turn over to another country secretly and extrajudicially.
- (ditransitive) To cause to become.
- (transitive) To convert waste animal tissue into a usable byproduct.
- cause to become
- give back
- coat with plastic or cement
- make over as a return
- to surrender someone or something to another
- show in, or as in, a picture
- give an interpretation or rendition of
- bestow
- give something useful or necessary to
- melt (fat or lard) in order to separate out impurities
- restate (words) from one language into another language
- give or supply
- pass down
noun
verb
- To macerate (lime) and render it fit for plaster or mortar.
- (intransitive) To become disenchanted.
- (intransitive) To become sour.
- (transitive) To make (soil) cold and unproductive.
- (transitive) To make sour.
- (transitive) To process (fabric) after bleaching, using hydrochloric acid or sulphuric acid to wash out the lime.
- (transitive) To spoil or mar; to make disenchanted.
- go sour or spoil
- make sour or more sour
adj
- Tasting or smelling rancid.
- Tasting of acidity.
- (of a person's character) Hostile or unfriendly.
- Containing excess sulfur. (of petroleum)
- Excessively acidic and thus infertile. (of soil)
- (music) Off-pitch, out of tune.
- Made rancid by fermentation, etc.
- Unfortunate or unfavorable.
- showing a brooding ill humor
- smelling of fermentation or staleness
- having a sharp biting taste
- inaccurate in pitch
- one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of vinegar or lemons
- in an unpalatable state
noun
- (by extension) Any cocktail containing lemon or lime juice.
- A sour or acid substance; whatever produces a painful effect.
- The sensation of a sour taste.
- A drink made with whiskey, lemon or lime juice and sugar.
- The acidic solution used in souring fabric.
- A sweet/candy having a sharply sour taste.
- a cocktail made of a liquor (especially whiskey or gin) mixed with lemon or lime juice and sugar
- the taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth
- the property of being acidic
verb
noun
- A plaster-like mixture used to texture or smooth drywall.
- water soaked soil; soft wet earth
- slanderous remarks or charges
- (historical) A traditional Dutch unit of land area, vaguely reckoned as the amount of land required to sow a mud of seed.
- (slang, originally US) Coffee.
- (slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) A black person.
- (slang) Money, dough, especially when proceeding from dirty business.
- Drilling fluid.
- (slang) Opium.
- (US slang) Lean.
- (historical) A kind of box traditionally used in the Netherlands for measuring muds.
- (LGBTQ) Stool that is exposed as a result of anal sex.
- (slang, construction) Wet concrete as it is being mixed, delivered and poured.
- (historical) A traditional Dutch unit of dry measure of variable size, frequently about 3 bushels.
- (figuratively) Willfully abusive, even slanderous remarks or claims, notably between political opponents.
- A mixture of water and soil or fine grained sediment.
- (slang) Heroin.
- (geology) A particle less than 62.5 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale
noun
- a surface of hardened plaster (as on a wall or ceiling)
- a medical dressing consisting of a soft heated mass of meal or clay that is spread on a cloth and applied to the skin to treat inflamed areas or improve circulation etc.
- a mixture of lime or gypsum with sand and water; hardens into a smooth solid; used to cover walls and ceilings
- adhesive tape used in dressing wounds
- any of several gypsum cements; a white powder (a form of calcium sulphate) that forms a paste when mixed with water and hardens into a solid; used in making molds and sculptures and casts for broken limbs
- (uncountable) A paste applied to the skin for healing or cosmetic purposes.
- (uncountable) A mixture of lime or gypsum, sand, and water, sometimes with the addition of fibres, that hardens to a smooth solid and is used for coating walls and ceilings.
- (countable, British, New Zealand, Canada) A small adhesive bandage to cover a minor wound; a sticking plaster.
- (by ellipsis, uncountable) Plaster of Paris.
- (countable) A cast made of plaster of Paris and gauze; a plaster cast.
- A similar material used for exterior walls.
verb
- apply a plaster cast to
- affix conspicuously
- dress by covering with a therapeutic substance
- coat with plaster
- cover conspicuously or thickly, as by pasting something on
- apply a heavy coat to
- (transitive, figurative) To smooth over.
- (transitive) To smear with some viscous or liquid substance.
- (transitive) To cover or coat something with plaster; to render.
- (transitive) To apply a plaster to.
- (transitive, figurative) To bombard heavily or overwhelmingly; to overwhelm (with weapons fire).
- (transitive) To hide or cover up, as if with plaster; to cover thickly.
verb
noun
- a strong hard building material composed of sand and gravel and cement and water
- (logic) A term designating both a quality and the subject in which it exists; a concrete term.
- (perfumery) An extract of herbal materials that has a semi-solid consistency, especially when such materials are partly aromatic.
- (especially) Such a material whose cement is Portland cement or a similar limestone derivative.
- (countable, uncountable) A building material created by mixing cement, water, and aggregate such as gravel and sand.
- (US) A dessert of frozen custard with various toppings.
adj
- capable of being perceived by the senses; not abstract or imaginary
- formed by the coalescence of particles
- (not comparable) Made of concrete (building material).
- Being or applying to actual things, rather than abstract qualities or categories.
- (by extension, topos theory, of a category C with respect to another category X) Equipped with a faithful functor to X (called a base category), in which case C is called a concrete category over X.
- Real, actual, tangible.
- Particular, specific, rather than general.
- (category theory, of a category) Analogous to the categories of algebraic objects which category theory was created to generalize, in the sense of having objects which can be thought of as sets equipped with some additional structure. Formally, equipped with a faithful functor to the category of sets.
adj
- (of walls) covered with a coat of plaster
- covered with a waterproof coating
- closed or secured with or as if with a seal
- apply a non-porous coating to something so as to ensure it is impervious
- determined irrevocably
- undisclosed for the time being
- established irrevocably
- Of a road: having an asphalt or macadamised surface.
- Closed by a seal (something to prevent leakage).
- Preventing entrance.
- (object-oriented programming) Not subclassable; from which one cannot inherit.
verb
adj
- (used of concrete or mortar) kept moist to assist the hardening
- (used of hay e.g.) allowed to dry
- (used of rubber) treated by a chemical or physical process to improve its properties (hardness and strength and odor and elasticity)
- (used of tobacco) aging as a preservative process
- freed from illness or injury
- (used especially of meat) cured in brine