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noun
- small kernels of corn exploded by heat
- corn having small ears and kernels that burst when exposed to dry heat
- (chiefly uncountable) A snack food made from corn or maize kernels popped by dry heating.
- (chiefly uncountable) A type of corn or maize with a hard outer hull that, along with the type of starch it contains, makes it suitable for popping.
- (countable, rare) A piece of popcorn.
- (attributive) A form of brainstorming in which participants call out their ideas immediately, instead of waiting for an assigned turn to speak.
- (countable) A serving of popcorn.
- A slow Belgian style of soul music popular in the early 1960s.
- A Romanian style of Europop popular in the late 2000s.
- (knitting) A kind of stitch similar to a bobble.
- (humorous) Entertainment for observers.
verb
verb
- To remove the kernels from a corncob.
- (Northern UK, colloquial) To throw, chuck, lob.
- To construct using mud blocks or to seal a wall using mud or an artificial equivalent.
- (of growing corn) To have the heads mature into corncobs.
- To beat with a flat instrument; to paddle.
- To chip off unwanted pieces of stone, so as to form a desired shape or improve the quality of mineral ore.
- To break up ground with a hoe.
- To thresh.
noun
- A corncob.
- A male swan.
- Any of the gold and silver coins that were minted in the Spanish Empire and valued in reales or escudos, such as the piece of eight—especially those which were crudely struck and irregularly shaped.
- (music, historical) A cylinder with pins in it, encoding music to be played back mechanically by a barrel organ.
- The seed-bearing head of a plant.
- A small fish, the miller's thumb.
- A lump or piece of anything, usually of a somewhat large size, as of coal, stone, or excrement.
- A spider (cf. cobweb).
- A horse having a stout body and short legs.
- (uncountable) A building material consisting of clay, sand, straw, water, and earth, similar to adobe; also called cobb, rammed earth or pisé.
- Alternative form of COB.
- Abbreviation of cobble.
- A punishment consisting of blows inflicted on the buttocks with a strap or a flat piece of wood.
- (Midlands) A round, often crusty roll or loaf of bread.
- A large fish, especially the kabeljou (variant spelling of kob).
- (East Anglia) A gull, especially the black-backed gull (Larus marinus); also spelled cobb.
- Clipping of cobnut.
- adult male swan
- white gull having a black back and wings
- stocky short-legged harness horse
- nut of any of several trees of the genus Corylus
noun
- An unpopped kernel in a batch of popped popcorn kernels.
- (uncountable) A card game in which cards must be paired and one undesirable card is designated "old maid".
- The unmatchable card in that game.
- (derogatory) An old woman who has never married; a spinster.
- The Madagascar periwinkle.
- The common zinnia.
- any of various plants of the genus Zinnia cultivated for their variously and brightly colored flower heads
- the loser in a game of old maid
- commonly cultivated Old World woody herb having large pinkish to red flowers
- an elderly unmarried woman
- a card game using a pack of cards from which one queen has been removed; players match cards and the player holding the unmatched queen at the end of the game is the loser (or ‘old maid’)
noun
noun
- A type of maize/corn with a relatively soft outer hull, and a soft type of starch that shrinks at maturity to leave an indentation in the surface of the kernel.
- (weaving) A slot or a wire in a reed
- (by extension, informal) A sudden negative change, such as loss, damage, weakening, consumption or diminution, especially one produced by an external force, event or action
- (engineering) A tooth, as of a card, a gear wheel, etc.
- A shallow deformation in the surface of an object, produced by an impact.
- (figurative) A minor effect made upon something.
- an appreciable consequence (especially a lessening)
- a depression scratched or carved into a surface
- an impression in a surface (as made by a blow)
verb
noun
- A device that pops kernels of corn to produce popcorn.
- a container for cooking popcorn
- A stuffed and usually breaded jalapeño.
- One who or that which pops.
- (informal, uncountable) Amyl nitrate.
- (Australia) Synonym of juice box.
- A short piece of twisted string tied to the end of a whip that creates the distinctive sound when the whip is thrown or cracked.
- (informal, countable) A capsule of amyl nitrite, a recreational drug used during sex.
- (fishing) A floating lure designed to splash when the fishing line is twitched.
- Either of a pair of interlocking discs commonly used in place of buttons to fasten clothing, a snap fastener.
- A looner (balloon fetishist) who prefers to burst balloons.
- a container of stimulant drug (amyl nitrite or butyl nitrite)
adj
- (rare) Containing corn.
- (euphemistic) Horny (sexually aroused; experiencing sexual desire).
- Boring and unoriginal.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang) Uncool, stupid, lame.
- Having or pertaining to corns (a type of callus).
- Hackneyed or excessively sentimental.
- dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or originality
noun
noun
- the stalk of a corn plant
- (botany) A single specimen of a corn plant once past the seedling stage and which may, at maturity, bear multiple ears of corn.
- (botany) The tough, fibrous stalk of a corn (maize) plant, often ground for silage after harvest.
- (Australia, slang, derogatory) a non-indigenous native of New South Wales.
noun
- (uncountable) Ellipsis of kaffir corn.
- (countable, offensive) In Islamic contexts, a non-Muslim.
- (finance, slang, historical) South African mining shares
- (countable, offensive) A member of the Nguni people of southern Africa, especially a Xhosa.
- (countable, South Africa, Rhodesia, Namibia, ethnic slur, offensive, derogatory) A black person.
- (uncountable, now historical, offensive) A language spoken by the Nguni peoples of southern Africa, especially Xhosa.
- an offensive and insulting term for any Black African
- important for human and animal food; growth habit and stem form similar to Indian corn but having sawtooth-edged leaves
noun
- A variety of maize/corn with a hard outer hull.
- A piece of flint, such as a gunflint, used to produce a spark by striking it with a firestriker.
- (figurative) Anything figuratively hard.
- A small cylinder of some other material of the same function in a cigarette lighter, etc.
- (uncountable) A hard, fine-grained quartz that fractures conchoidally and generates sparks when struck against a material such as steel, because tiny chips of the steel are heated to incandescence and burn in air.
- a hard kind of stone; a form of silica more opaque than chalcedony
verb
adj
noun
- A variety of maize in which the kernels are variously coloured, rather than being all of the same colour.
- A variety of candy corn that contains chocolate in addition to honey-based candy.
- tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears: widely cultivated in America in many varieties; the principal cereal in Mexico and Central and South America since pre-Columbian times
noun
verb
noun
- fruiting spike of a cereal plant especially corn
- a dense cluster of flowers or foliage
- an arrangement of leafy branches forming the top or head of a tree
- (arachnology) The head-like mouthpart apparatus of a tick, including the palpi, mandibles, and hypostome.
- (anatomy) A small protuberance on a bone which articulates into another bone to form a ball-and-socket joint.
- (botany) A densely clustered inflorescence composed of a large number of individual florets arising from a platform-like base.
noun
- fruiting spike of a cereal plant especially corn
- good hearing
- the externally visible cartilaginous structure of the external ear
- attention to what is said
- the sense organ for hearing and equilibrium
- (countable) The organ of hearing, consisting of the pinna or auricle, auditory canal, eardrum, malleus, incus, stapes and cochlea.
- (countable, slang) A police informant.
- (architecture) A crossette.
- (clothing) The outer panels or flaps (protrusions) of a diaper upon which the fasteners are located, which are fastened around the wearer's waist.
- The sense of hearing; the perception of sounds; skill or good taste in listening to music.
- (architecture) An acroterium.
- (countable) The fruiting body of a grain plant.
- (countable) The external part of the organ of hearing, the auricle.
- (baking) A curled ridge in the crust of a loaf of bread where the dough was slashed before going into the oven and expands during baking.
- The privilege of being kindly heard; favour; attention.
- (graph theory) A path whose endpoints may coincide but in which otherwise there are no repetitions of vertices or edges.
- That which resembles in shape or position the ear of an animal; a prominence or projection on an object, usually for support or attachment; a lug; a handle; a foot-rest or step of a spade or a similar digging tool.
- (journalism) A space to the left or right of a publication's front-page title, used for advertising, weather, etc.
verb
noun
- fruiting spike of a cereal plant especially corn
- a very high narrow heel on women's shoes
- sports equipment consisting of a sharp point on the sole of a shoe worn by athletes
- a large stout nail
- any holding device consisting of a rigid, sharp-pointed object
- a transient variation in voltage or current
- a sharp rise followed by a sharp decline
- each of the sharp points on the soles of athletic shoes to prevent slipping (or the shoes themselves)
- a sharp-pointed projection along the top of a fence or wall (or a dinosaur)
- (botany) an indeterminate inflorescence bearing sessile flowers on an unbranched axis
- a long, thin sharp-pointed implement (wood or metal)
- (slang, historical) The casual ward of a workhouse.
- (theater) A mark indicating where a prop or other item should be placed on stage.
- (volleyball) An attack from, usually, above the height of the net performed with the intent to send the ball straight to the floor of the opponent or off the hands of the opposing block.
- The rod-like protrusion from a woman's high-heeled shoe that elevates the heel.
- (Anglicanism) An excessively high church Anglican.
- A piece of pointed metal etc. set with points upward or outward.
- A long nail for storing papers by skewering them; (by extension) the metaphorical place where rejected newspaper articles are sent.
- (botany) A kind of inflorescence in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis.
- (software engineering, XP) A small project that uses the simplest possible program to explore potential solutions.
- (zoology) An adolescent male deer.
- (music, lutherie) Synonym of endpin.
- A sort of very large nail.
- (virology) a structure projecting from the surface of an enveloped virus, which binds to host cells.
- A sharp peak in a graph.
- An ear of corn or grain.
- Spike lavender.
- (informal, chiefly in the plural) A running shoe with spikes in the sole to provide grip.
- (by extension) Anything resembling such a nail in shape.
- A surge in power or in the price of a commodity, etc.; any sudden and brief change that would be represented by a sharp peak on a graph.
verb
- secure with spikes
- stand in the way of
- manifest a sharp increase
- bring forth a spike or spikes
- add alcohol to (beverages)
- pierce with a sharp stake or point
- To add alcohol or a drug into a drink, especially if covertly.
- To add a small amount of one substance to another.
- To increase sharply.
- (volleyball) To attack from, usually, above the height of the net with the intent to send the ball straight to the floor of the opponent or off the hands of the opposing block.
- (slang) To inject a drug with a syringe.
- (military) To render (a gun) unusable by driving a metal spike into its touch hole.
- (figurative, journalism) To discard; to decide not to publish or make public.
- To embed nails into (a tree) so that any attempt to cut it down will damage equipment or injure people.
- To fasten with spikes, or long, large nails.
- To set or furnish with spikes.
- To fix on a spike.
- (American football slang) To slam the football to the ground, usually in celebration of scoring a touchdown, or to stop expiring time on the game clock after snapping the ball as to save time for the losing team to attempt to score the tying or winning points.
noun
- (uncountable, originally) Corn (maize) harvested before reaching full maturity.
- (uncountable, countable) A street food dish originating in Central America, but now also popular in the United States, consisting of corn on the cob which is grilled or boiled and served on a stick, typically with toppings such as cheese, chili powder, mayonnaise, and lime juice.
noun
- good quality seeds (as kernels of corn) that are reserved for planting
- (agriculture) Seed that is saved from one year's harvest for the subsequent year's planting, rather than being used to make flour etc.
- A type of corn (callus) composed of multiple small lesions, typically caused by uneven pressure on the foot while walking.
noun
- a pile of sheaves of grain set on end in a field to dry; stalks of Indian corn set up in a field
- a sudden jarring impact
- (pathology) bodily collapse or near collapse caused by inadequate oxygen delivery to the cells; characterized by reduced cardiac output and rapid heartbeat and circulatory insufficiency and pallor
- an instance of agitation of the earth's crust
- an unpleasant or disappointing surprise
- the feeling of distress and disbelief that you have when something bad happens accidentally
- the violent interaction of individuals or groups entering into combat
- a reflex response to the passage of electric current through the body
- a bushy thick mass (especially hair)
- a mechanical damper; absorbs energy of sudden impulses
- (mathematics) A discontinuity arising in the solution of a partial differential equation.
- (figuratively) Something so surprising that it is stunning.
- (physics) A shock wave.
- (medicine) Circulatory shock, a medical emergency characterized by the inability of the circulatory system to supply enough oxygen to meet tissue requirements.
- A sudden, heavy impact.
- (psychology) A sudden or violent mental or emotional disturbance.
- An arrangement of sheaves for drying; a stook.
- A chemical added to a swimming pool to moderate the chlorine levels.
- (medicine) Electric shock, a sudden burst of electrical energy hitting a person or animal.
- (by extension) A tuft or bunch of something, such as hair or grass.
- (psychology) A state of distress following a mental or emotional disturbance, often caused by news or other stimuli.
- (automotive, mechanical engineering) A shock absorber (typically in the suspension of a vehicle).
verb
- strike with horror or terror
- strike with disgust or revulsion
- collide violently
- inflict a trauma upon
- collect or gather into shocks
- subject to electrical shocks
- surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off
- (transitive) To strike with disgust, to offend, scandalize.
- (transitive) To add a chemical to (a swimming pool) to moderate the chlorine levels.
- (transitive) To collect, or make up, into a shock or shocks; to stook.
- (transitive) To subject to a shock wave or violent impact.
- (transitive) To give an electric shock to.
- (transitive) To cause to be emotionally shocked; to cause (someone) to feel greatly surprised or upset.
- (geology, transitive) To deform the crystal structure of a stone by the application of extremely high pressure at moderate temperature, as produced only by hypervelocity impact events, lightning strikes, and nuclear explosions.
adj
noun
- The fine soft yellowish threads that are the stigmata of corn flowers, which are later enclosed inside the husk of corn ears next to the kernels on corn cobs.
- Alternative form of cornsilk (a colour of yellow that is like that of these fibres)
- each of the long filamentous styles that grow as a silky tuft at the tip of an ear of Indian corn
noun
verb
noun
noun
- small kernels of corn exploded by heat
- corn having small ears and kernels that burst when exposed to dry heat
- (chiefly uncountable) A snack food made from corn or maize kernels popped by dry heating.
- (chiefly uncountable) A type of corn or maize with a hard outer hull that, along with the type of starch it contains, makes it suitable for popping.
- (countable, rare) A piece of popcorn.
- (attributive) A form of brainstorming in which participants call out their ideas immediately, instead of waiting for an assigned turn to speak.
- (countable) A serving of popcorn.
- A slow Belgian style of soul music popular in the early 1960s.
- A Romanian style of Europop popular in the late 2000s.
- (knitting) A kind of stitch similar to a bobble.
- (humorous) Entertainment for observers.
verb
noun
- An unpopped kernel in a batch of popped popcorn kernels.
- (uncountable) A card game in which cards must be paired and one undesirable card is designated "old maid".
- The unmatchable card in that game.
- (derogatory) An old woman who has never married; a spinster.
- The Madagascar periwinkle.
- The common zinnia.
- any of various plants of the genus Zinnia cultivated for their variously and brightly colored flower heads
- the loser in a game of old maid
- commonly cultivated Old World woody herb having large pinkish to red flowers
- an elderly unmarried woman
- a card game using a pack of cards from which one queen has been removed; players match cards and the player holding the unmatched queen at the end of the game is the loser (or ‘old maid’)
noun
noun
- A type of maize/corn with a relatively soft outer hull, and a soft type of starch that shrinks at maturity to leave an indentation in the surface of the kernel.
- (weaving) A slot or a wire in a reed
- (by extension, informal) A sudden negative change, such as loss, damage, weakening, consumption or diminution, especially one produced by an external force, event or action
- (engineering) A tooth, as of a card, a gear wheel, etc.
- A shallow deformation in the surface of an object, produced by an impact.
- (figurative) A minor effect made upon something.
- an appreciable consequence (especially a lessening)
- a depression scratched or carved into a surface
- an impression in a surface (as made by a blow)
verb
noun
- A device that pops kernels of corn to produce popcorn.
- a container for cooking popcorn
- A stuffed and usually breaded jalapeño.
- One who or that which pops.
- (informal, uncountable) Amyl nitrate.
- (Australia) Synonym of juice box.
- A short piece of twisted string tied to the end of a whip that creates the distinctive sound when the whip is thrown or cracked.
- (informal, countable) A capsule of amyl nitrite, a recreational drug used during sex.
- (fishing) A floating lure designed to splash when the fishing line is twitched.
- Either of a pair of interlocking discs commonly used in place of buttons to fasten clothing, a snap fastener.
- A looner (balloon fetishist) who prefers to burst balloons.
- a container of stimulant drug (amyl nitrite or butyl nitrite)
noun
noun
- the stalk of a corn plant
- (botany) A single specimen of a corn plant once past the seedling stage and which may, at maturity, bear multiple ears of corn.
- (botany) The tough, fibrous stalk of a corn (maize) plant, often ground for silage after harvest.
- (Australia, slang, derogatory) a non-indigenous native of New South Wales.
noun
- (uncountable) Ellipsis of kaffir corn.
- (countable, offensive) In Islamic contexts, a non-Muslim.
- (finance, slang, historical) South African mining shares
- (countable, offensive) A member of the Nguni people of southern Africa, especially a Xhosa.
- (countable, South Africa, Rhodesia, Namibia, ethnic slur, offensive, derogatory) A black person.
- (uncountable, now historical, offensive) A language spoken by the Nguni peoples of southern Africa, especially Xhosa.
- an offensive and insulting term for any Black African
- important for human and animal food; growth habit and stem form similar to Indian corn but having sawtooth-edged leaves
noun
- A variety of maize/corn with a hard outer hull.
- A piece of flint, such as a gunflint, used to produce a spark by striking it with a firestriker.
- (figurative) Anything figuratively hard.
- A small cylinder of some other material of the same function in a cigarette lighter, etc.
- (uncountable) A hard, fine-grained quartz that fractures conchoidally and generates sparks when struck against a material such as steel, because tiny chips of the steel are heated to incandescence and burn in air.
- a hard kind of stone; a form of silica more opaque than chalcedony
verb
adj
noun
- A variety of maize in which the kernels are variously coloured, rather than being all of the same colour.
- A variety of candy corn that contains chocolate in addition to honey-based candy.
- tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears: widely cultivated in America in many varieties; the principal cereal in Mexico and Central and South America since pre-Columbian times
noun
verb
noun
- fruiting spike of a cereal plant especially corn
- a dense cluster of flowers or foliage
- an arrangement of leafy branches forming the top or head of a tree
- (arachnology) The head-like mouthpart apparatus of a tick, including the palpi, mandibles, and hypostome.
- (anatomy) A small protuberance on a bone which articulates into another bone to form a ball-and-socket joint.
- (botany) A densely clustered inflorescence composed of a large number of individual florets arising from a platform-like base.
noun
- fruiting spike of a cereal plant especially corn
- good hearing
- the externally visible cartilaginous structure of the external ear
- attention to what is said
- the sense organ for hearing and equilibrium
- (countable) The organ of hearing, consisting of the pinna or auricle, auditory canal, eardrum, malleus, incus, stapes and cochlea.
- (countable, slang) A police informant.
- (architecture) A crossette.
- (clothing) The outer panels or flaps (protrusions) of a diaper upon which the fasteners are located, which are fastened around the wearer's waist.
- The sense of hearing; the perception of sounds; skill or good taste in listening to music.
- (architecture) An acroterium.
- (countable) The fruiting body of a grain plant.
- (countable) The external part of the organ of hearing, the auricle.
- (baking) A curled ridge in the crust of a loaf of bread where the dough was slashed before going into the oven and expands during baking.
- The privilege of being kindly heard; favour; attention.
- (graph theory) A path whose endpoints may coincide but in which otherwise there are no repetitions of vertices or edges.
- That which resembles in shape or position the ear of an animal; a prominence or projection on an object, usually for support or attachment; a lug; a handle; a foot-rest or step of a spade or a similar digging tool.
- (journalism) A space to the left or right of a publication's front-page title, used for advertising, weather, etc.
verb
noun
- fruiting spike of a cereal plant especially corn
- a very high narrow heel on women's shoes
- sports equipment consisting of a sharp point on the sole of a shoe worn by athletes
- a large stout nail
- any holding device consisting of a rigid, sharp-pointed object
- a transient variation in voltage or current
- a sharp rise followed by a sharp decline
- each of the sharp points on the soles of athletic shoes to prevent slipping (or the shoes themselves)
- a sharp-pointed projection along the top of a fence or wall (or a dinosaur)
- (botany) an indeterminate inflorescence bearing sessile flowers on an unbranched axis
- a long, thin sharp-pointed implement (wood or metal)
- (slang, historical) The casual ward of a workhouse.
- (theater) A mark indicating where a prop or other item should be placed on stage.
- (volleyball) An attack from, usually, above the height of the net performed with the intent to send the ball straight to the floor of the opponent or off the hands of the opposing block.
- The rod-like protrusion from a woman's high-heeled shoe that elevates the heel.
- (Anglicanism) An excessively high church Anglican.
- A piece of pointed metal etc. set with points upward or outward.
- A long nail for storing papers by skewering them; (by extension) the metaphorical place where rejected newspaper articles are sent.
- (botany) A kind of inflorescence in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis.
- (software engineering, XP) A small project that uses the simplest possible program to explore potential solutions.
- (zoology) An adolescent male deer.
- (music, lutherie) Synonym of endpin.
- A sort of very large nail.
- (virology) a structure projecting from the surface of an enveloped virus, which binds to host cells.
- A sharp peak in a graph.
- An ear of corn or grain.
- Spike lavender.
- (informal, chiefly in the plural) A running shoe with spikes in the sole to provide grip.
- (by extension) Anything resembling such a nail in shape.
- A surge in power or in the price of a commodity, etc.; any sudden and brief change that would be represented by a sharp peak on a graph.
verb
- secure with spikes
- stand in the way of
- manifest a sharp increase
- bring forth a spike or spikes
- add alcohol to (beverages)
- pierce with a sharp stake or point
- To add alcohol or a drug into a drink, especially if covertly.
- To add a small amount of one substance to another.
- To increase sharply.
- (volleyball) To attack from, usually, above the height of the net with the intent to send the ball straight to the floor of the opponent or off the hands of the opposing block.
- (slang) To inject a drug with a syringe.
- (military) To render (a gun) unusable by driving a metal spike into its touch hole.
- (figurative, journalism) To discard; to decide not to publish or make public.
- To embed nails into (a tree) so that any attempt to cut it down will damage equipment or injure people.
- To fasten with spikes, or long, large nails.
- To set or furnish with spikes.
- To fix on a spike.
- (American football slang) To slam the football to the ground, usually in celebration of scoring a touchdown, or to stop expiring time on the game clock after snapping the ball as to save time for the losing team to attempt to score the tying or winning points.
noun
- (uncountable, originally) Corn (maize) harvested before reaching full maturity.
- (uncountable, countable) A street food dish originating in Central America, but now also popular in the United States, consisting of corn on the cob which is grilled or boiled and served on a stick, typically with toppings such as cheese, chili powder, mayonnaise, and lime juice.
noun
- good quality seeds (as kernels of corn) that are reserved for planting
- (agriculture) Seed that is saved from one year's harvest for the subsequent year's planting, rather than being used to make flour etc.
- A type of corn (callus) composed of multiple small lesions, typically caused by uneven pressure on the foot while walking.
noun
- a pile of sheaves of grain set on end in a field to dry; stalks of Indian corn set up in a field
- a sudden jarring impact
- (pathology) bodily collapse or near collapse caused by inadequate oxygen delivery to the cells; characterized by reduced cardiac output and rapid heartbeat and circulatory insufficiency and pallor
- an instance of agitation of the earth's crust
- an unpleasant or disappointing surprise
- the feeling of distress and disbelief that you have when something bad happens accidentally
- the violent interaction of individuals or groups entering into combat
- a reflex response to the passage of electric current through the body
- a bushy thick mass (especially hair)
- a mechanical damper; absorbs energy of sudden impulses
- (mathematics) A discontinuity arising in the solution of a partial differential equation.
- (figuratively) Something so surprising that it is stunning.
- (physics) A shock wave.
- (medicine) Circulatory shock, a medical emergency characterized by the inability of the circulatory system to supply enough oxygen to meet tissue requirements.
- A sudden, heavy impact.
- (psychology) A sudden or violent mental or emotional disturbance.
- An arrangement of sheaves for drying; a stook.
- A chemical added to a swimming pool to moderate the chlorine levels.
- (medicine) Electric shock, a sudden burst of electrical energy hitting a person or animal.
- (by extension) A tuft or bunch of something, such as hair or grass.
- (psychology) A state of distress following a mental or emotional disturbance, often caused by news or other stimuli.
- (automotive, mechanical engineering) A shock absorber (typically in the suspension of a vehicle).
verb
- strike with horror or terror
- strike with disgust or revulsion
- collide violently
- inflict a trauma upon
- collect or gather into shocks
- subject to electrical shocks
- surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off
- (transitive) To strike with disgust, to offend, scandalize.
- (transitive) To add a chemical to (a swimming pool) to moderate the chlorine levels.
- (transitive) To collect, or make up, into a shock or shocks; to stook.
- (transitive) To subject to a shock wave or violent impact.
- (transitive) To give an electric shock to.
- (transitive) To cause to be emotionally shocked; to cause (someone) to feel greatly surprised or upset.
- (geology, transitive) To deform the crystal structure of a stone by the application of extremely high pressure at moderate temperature, as produced only by hypervelocity impact events, lightning strikes, and nuclear explosions.
adj
noun
- The fine soft yellowish threads that are the stigmata of corn flowers, which are later enclosed inside the husk of corn ears next to the kernels on corn cobs.
- Alternative form of cornsilk (a colour of yellow that is like that of these fibres)
- each of the long filamentous styles that grow as a silky tuft at the tip of an ear of Indian corn
noun
verb
noun
verb
- To remove the kernels from a corncob.
- (Northern UK, colloquial) To throw, chuck, lob.
- To construct using mud blocks or to seal a wall using mud or an artificial equivalent.
- (of growing corn) To have the heads mature into corncobs.
- To beat with a flat instrument; to paddle.
- To chip off unwanted pieces of stone, so as to form a desired shape or improve the quality of mineral ore.
- To break up ground with a hoe.
- To thresh.
noun
- A corncob.
- A male swan.
- Any of the gold and silver coins that were minted in the Spanish Empire and valued in reales or escudos, such as the piece of eight—especially those which were crudely struck and irregularly shaped.
- (music, historical) A cylinder with pins in it, encoding music to be played back mechanically by a barrel organ.
- The seed-bearing head of a plant.
- A small fish, the miller's thumb.
- A lump or piece of anything, usually of a somewhat large size, as of coal, stone, or excrement.
- A spider (cf. cobweb).
- A horse having a stout body and short legs.
- (uncountable) A building material consisting of clay, sand, straw, water, and earth, similar to adobe; also called cobb, rammed earth or pisé.
- Alternative form of COB.
- Abbreviation of cobble.
- A punishment consisting of blows inflicted on the buttocks with a strap or a flat piece of wood.
- (Midlands) A round, often crusty roll or loaf of bread.
- A large fish, especially the kabeljou (variant spelling of kob).
- (East Anglia) A gull, especially the black-backed gull (Larus marinus); also spelled cobb.
- Clipping of cobnut.
- adult male swan
- white gull having a black back and wings
- stocky short-legged harness horse
- nut of any of several trees of the genus Corylus
verb
- To remove the kernels from a corncob.
- (Northern UK, colloquial) To throw, chuck, lob.
- To construct using mud blocks or to seal a wall using mud or an artificial equivalent.
- (of growing corn) To have the heads mature into corncobs.
- To beat with a flat instrument; to paddle.
- To chip off unwanted pieces of stone, so as to form a desired shape or improve the quality of mineral ore.
- To break up ground with a hoe.
- To thresh.
noun
- A corncob.
- A male swan.
- Any of the gold and silver coins that were minted in the Spanish Empire and valued in reales or escudos, such as the piece of eight—especially those which were crudely struck and irregularly shaped.
- (music, historical) A cylinder with pins in it, encoding music to be played back mechanically by a barrel organ.
- The seed-bearing head of a plant.
- A small fish, the miller's thumb.
- A lump or piece of anything, usually of a somewhat large size, as of coal, stone, or excrement.
- A spider (cf. cobweb).
- A horse having a stout body and short legs.
- (uncountable) A building material consisting of clay, sand, straw, water, and earth, similar to adobe; also called cobb, rammed earth or pisé.
- Alternative form of COB.
- Abbreviation of cobble.
- A punishment consisting of blows inflicted on the buttocks with a strap or a flat piece of wood.
- (Midlands) A round, often crusty roll or loaf of bread.
- A large fish, especially the kabeljou (variant spelling of kob).
- (East Anglia) A gull, especially the black-backed gull (Larus marinus); also spelled cobb.
- Clipping of cobnut.
- adult male swan
- white gull having a black back and wings
- stocky short-legged harness horse
- nut of any of several trees of the genus Corylus
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adj
- (rare) Containing corn.
- (euphemistic) Horny (sexually aroused; experiencing sexual desire).
- Boring and unoriginal.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang) Uncool, stupid, lame.
- Having or pertaining to corns (a type of callus).
- Hackneyed or excessively sentimental.
- dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or originality