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noun
- (countable, mining) A lode.
- (countable, nautical) A plummet or mass of lead attached to a line, used in sounding depth at sea or to estimate velocity in knots.
- A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing.
- (medicine, in the plural) X-ray protective clothing lined with lead.
- (countable) A thin cylinder of graphite used in pencils.
- (UK, countable) An insulated metallic wire for electrical devices and equipment.
- Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs.
- (horology) The action of a tooth, such as a tooth of a wheel, in impelling another tooth or a pallet.
- Information obtained by a news reporter about an issue or subject that allows him or her to discover more details.
- (electricity) The advance of the current phase in an alternating circuit beyond that of the electromotive force producing it.
- (acting) The actor who plays the main role; lead actor.
- Information obtained by a detective or police officer that allows him or her to discover further details about a crime or incident.
- A rope, leather strap, or similar device with which to lead an animal; a leash
- (nautical) The course of a rope from end to end.
- (US, journalism) The introductory paragraph or paragraphs of a newspaper, or a news or other type of article. (Sometimes spelled as lede for this usage to avoid ambiguity.)
- (marketing) Potential opportunity for a sale or transaction, a potential customer.
- (business) The person in charge of a project or a work shift etc.
- (curling) The player who throws the first two rocks for a team.
- (music) The announcement by one voice part of a theme to be repeated by the other parts.
- (uncountable, typography) Vertical space in advance of a row or between rows of text. Also known as leading.
- (slang) Bullets; ammunition.
- (countable) A roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates.
- (countable) A channel of open water in an ice field.
- Hypothesis that has not been pursued
- (music) A mark or a short passage in one voice part, as of a canon, serving as a cue for the entrance of others.
- An important news story that appears on the front page of a newspaper or at the beginning of a news broadcast
- (music) A primary synth, often composed of square, sawtooth, triangle or sine waveforms.
- (baseball) The situation where a runner steps away from a base while waiting for the pitch to be thrown.
- (uncountable) A heavy, pliable, inelastic metal element, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished; both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic number 82, symbol Pb (from Latin plumbum).
- (music) In a barbershop quartet, the person who sings the melody, usually the second tenor.
- (countable) The act of leading or conducting; guidance; direction, course
- (acting, theater) The main role in a play or film; the lead role.
- (uncountable, card games, dominoes) The act or right of playing first in a game or round; the card suit, or piece, so played
- (engineering) The axial distance a screw thread travels in one revolution. It is equal to the pitch times the number of starts.
- In a steam engine, the width of port opening which is uncovered by the valve, for the admission or release of steam, at the instant when the piston is at end of its stroke.
- (electricity) The angle between the line joining the brushes of a continuous-current dynamo and the diameter symmetrical between the poles.
- (countable) Precedence; advance position; also, the measure of precedence; the state of being ahead in a race; the highest score in an incomplete game.
- (engineering) The excess above a right angle in the angle between two consecutive cranks, as of a compound engine, on the same shaft.
- (civil engineering) The distance of haul, as from a cutting to an embankment.
- an advantage held by a competitor in a race
- an actor who plays a principal role
- the angle between the direction a gun is aimed and the position of a moving target (correcting for the flight time of the missile)
- evidence pointing to a possible solution
- the introductory section of a story
- (baseball) the position taken by a base runner preparing to advance to the next base
- an indication of potential opportunity
- a jumper that consists of a short piece of wire
- the playing of a card to start a trick in bridge
- a position of being the initiator of something and an example that others will follow (especially in the phrase ‘take the lead’)
- restraint consisting of a rope (or light chain) used to restrain an animal
- a news story of major importance
- (sports) the score by which a team or individual is winning
- the timing of ignition relative to the position of the piston in an internal-combustion engine
- thin strip of metal used to separate lines of type in printing
- a soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element; bluish white when freshly cut but tarnishes readily to dull grey
- mixture of graphite with clay in different degrees of hardness; the marking substance in a pencil
adj
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- (intransitive) To be a cause of. [with to]
- (intransitive) To guide or conduct, as by accompanying, going before, showing, influencing, directing with authority, etc.; to have precedence or preeminence; to be first or chief; — used in most of the senses of the transitive verb.
- (transitive, climbing) To lead climb.
- (figuratively): To direct; to counsel; to instruct.
- To guide or conduct in a certain course, or to a certain place or end, by making the way known; to show the way, especially by going with or going in advance of; to guide somebody somewhere or to bring somebody somewhere by means of instructions.
- To guide or conduct with the hand, or by means of some physical contact connection.
- (transitive, card games, dominoes) To begin a game, round, or trick, with
- Misspelling of led.
- (baseball) To step off base and move towards the next base.
- Used in phrasal verbs: lead off, lead on, lead out, lead to (“be the cause of, bring about”), lead up, lead up to.
- (intransitive) To have the highest interim score in a game.
- (intransitive) To tend or reach in a certain spatial direction, or to a certain place.
- (transitive) To go or to be in advance of; to precede; hence, to be foremost or chief among.
- To draw or direct by influence, whether good or bad; to prevail on; to induce; to entice; to allure.
- (shooting) To aim in front of a moving target, in order that the shot may hit the target as it passes.
- (intransitive) To be more advanced in technology or business than others.
- (intransitive) To be ahead of others, e.g., in a race.
- (intransitive) To proceed in front of others; to go first.
- (transitive, usually with "life") To live or experience (a particular way of life).
- To influence towards a belief, a conclusion, etc.
- (transitive, printing, historical) To place leads between the lines of.
- (transitive) To cover, fill, or affect with lead.
- To conduct or direct with authority; to have direction or charge of; to command, especially a military or business unit.
- lead, extend, or afford access
- travel in front of; go in advance of others
- cause to undertake a certain action
- take somebody somewhere
- tend to or result in
- cause something to pass or lead somewhere
- lead, as in the performance of a composition
- produce as a result or residue
- preside over
- be ahead of others; be the first
- be in charge of
- be conducive to
- stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point
- move ahead (of others) in time or space
verb
noun
- (mining) A pile of coal or ore heaped up on the ground after it has been mined.
- (specifically, military, weaponry) A supply of nuclear weapons kept by a country; a nuclear stockpile.
- A supply (especially a large one) of something kept for future use, specifically in case the cost of the item increases or if there a shortage.
- a storage pile accumulated for future use
- something kept back or saved for future use or a special purpose
verb
- (mining) To blast metal into (as a portion of a mine) in order to cause to appear to be a productive seam.
- (wiki jargon) To lock a page title so it cannot be created.
- (archaeology) To add bogus evidence to an archaeological site.
- (transitive) To sprinkle throughout.
- (military, transitive) To sow with salt (of land), symbolizing a curse on its re-inhabitation.
- (intransitive) To deposit salt as a saline solution.
- (transitive) To add certain chemical elements to (a nuclear or conventional weapon) so that it generates more radiation.
- (cryptography) To add filler bytes before encrypting, in order to make brute-force decryption more resource-intensive.
- (nautical, of a ship) To fill with salt between the timbers and planks for the preservation of the timber.
- (transitive) To add salt to.
- add zest or liveliness to
- add salt to
- preserve with salt
- sprinkle as if with salt
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noun
- (chemistry) One of the compounds formed from the reaction of an acid with a base, where a positive ion replaces a hydrogen of the acid.
- (Internet slang, uncountable) Tears; indignation; outrage; arguing.
- (cryptography) A sequence of random data added to plain text data (such as passwords or messages) prior to encryption or hashing, in order to make brute force decryption more difficult.
- (figurative, uncountable) Skepticism and common sense.
- (slang, countable) A sailor (also old salt).
- (UK, historical, uncountable) The money demanded by Eton schoolboys during the montem.
- (historical, in the plural) Epsom salts or other salt used as a medicine.
- A common substance, chemically consisting mainly of sodium chloride (NaCl), used extensively as a food ingredient, seasoning, condiment, and preservative.
- A person who seeks employment at a company in order to (once employed by it) help unionize it.
- (uncommon, countable) A salt marsh, a saline marsh at the shore of a sea.
- a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal)
- the taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth
- white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food
noun
- (mining) A heap of dressed ore.
- (masonry) One of the faces of a hewn stone.
- (law) The whole jury.
- A soft pad beneath a saddletree to prevent chafing.
- (medicine) A group of tests or assays, a battery.
- A portion of text or other material within a book, newspaper, web page, etc. set apart from the main body or separated by a border.
- A portion of a framed structure between adjacent posts or struts, as in a bridge truss.
- (law) A document containing the names of persons summoned as jurors by the sheriff.
- A (usually) rectangular section of a surface, or of a covering or of a wall, fence etc.
- (dressmaking) A plain strip or band, as of velvet or plush, placed at intervals lengthwise on the skirt of a dress, for ornament.
- (architecture) A sunken compartment with raised margins, moulded or otherwise, as in ceilings, wainscotings, etc.
- (graphical user interface) A type of GUI widget, such as a control panel.
- (Scots law) A prisoner arraigned for trial at the bar of a criminal court.
- (masonry) A slab or plank of wood used instead of a canvas for painting on.
- (joinery) A board having its edges inserted in the groove of a surrounding frame.
- (mining) One of the districts divided by pillars of extra size, into which a mine is laid off in one system of extracting coal.
- (British, historical) A list of doctors who could provide limited free healthcare prior to the introduction of the NHS.
- A group of people gathered to judge, interview, discuss etc. as on a television or radio broadcast for example.
- (comics) An individual frame or drawing in a comic.
- sheet that forms a distinct (usually flat and rectangular) section or component of something
- (computer science) a small temporary window in a graphical user interface that appears in order to request information from the user; after the information has been provided the user dismisses the box with ‘okay’ or ‘cancel’
- a committee appointed to judge a competition
- a group of people gathered for a special purpose as to plan or discuss an issue or judge a contest etc
- a piece of cloth that is generally triangular or tapering; used in making garments or umbrellas or sails
- a soft pad placed under a saddle
- electrical device consisting of a flat insulated surface that contains switches and dials and meters for controlling other electrical devices
- (law) a group of people summoned for jury service (from whom a jury will be chosen)
verb
noun
- (mining) A certain proportion of the mined ore, or of its value, given to the miner as payment.
- A payment made by one nation to another in submission.
- (Internet slang, vulgar) Ellipsis of cum tribute.
- An homage made in a body of work to another work or creator.
- Extortion; protection money.
- An acknowledgment of gratitude, respect or admiration; an accompanying gift.
- A payment made by a feudal vassal to his lord.
- payment by one nation for protection by another
- something given or done as an expression of esteem
- payment extorted by gangsters on threat of violence
verb
verb
- (US) To supply money to work a mine.
- In European institutions of higher education, to qualify as an instructor or professor, usually by defending a dissertation or similar project.
- (intransitive) To qualify oneself, through a demonstration of ability, to function in a certain capacity or to act within a certain role.
- (transitive) To enable one to function in a given manner; to make one capable of performing a given function or of conducting something; to make one fit to fulfill a given purpose or competent to act within a particular role.
- provide with clothes or put clothes on
- qualify for teaching at a university in Europe
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noun
- (Australia, New Zealand, mining) Overburden: waste material generated while searching for minerals or while mining, such as when sinking a shaft.
- (Australia, New Zealand, mining) Tailings: waste rock from which the wanted gold, minerals, opal, etc., has been extracted.
- Nonsense, rubbish.
- (now UK dialect) Rubbish, waste matter.
- (UK, Yorkshire, dialect) A mess; the result of a blunder.
noun
verb
- To wash; to wash, and to smooth with a flatiron or mangle; to wash and iron.
- (money) To disguise the source of (ill-gotten wealth) by various means.
- (programming, transitive) To obtain a pointer to an object created in storage occupied by an existing object of the same type, even if it has const or reference members.
- cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water
- convert illegally obtained funds into legal ones
verb
- (chiefly US, ambitransitive) To operate a mine illicitly.
- (ambitransitive) To make, transport and/or sell an illegal version or copy of a copyrighted product.
- (chiefly US, ambitransitive) To make, transport and/or sell illegal alcoholic liquor.
- (ambitransitive) To engage in bootlegging.
- produce or distribute illegally
- sell illicit products such as drugs or alcohol
adj
noun
- An illegally produced, transported, or sold product.
- (music) An unauthorized recording; for example, of a live concert.
- (music) A remix or mashup that is a combination of two songs but that is not authorized and audited for copyright use; primarily in the electronic music scene.
- (American football) A play in which the quarterback fakes a handoff, conceals the ball against his hip, and rolls out.
- The part of a boot that is above the instep.
- the part of a boot above the instep
- whiskey illegally distilled from a corn mash
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verb
verb
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adv
noun
- Prunus sect. Armeniaca (better known as apricots)
- A desirable or choice thing of its kind; a prize selection; a choice appointment, assignment etc.
- An edible, fleshy stone fruit of Prunus domestica (European plum), often of a dark red or purple colour.
- Prunus mume, an Asian fruit more closely related to the apricot than the plum, usually consumed pickled, dried, or as a juice or wine; ume.
- A stone-fruit tree which bears this fruit, Prunus domestica.
- Prunus angustifolia (Chickasaw plum or sand plum)
- A dark bluish-red color/colour, the colour of some plums.
- Prunus salicina (Chinese plum or Japanese plum)
- Prunus americana (American plum)
- Prunus subcordata (Klamath plum or Oregon plum)
- (vulgar, slang, usually in the plural) A testicle.
- Prunus nigra (Canadian plum or black plum)
- Prunus spinosa (sloe)
- Prunus rivularis (creek plum or hog plum)
- Prunus cerasifera (cherry plum or myrobalan)
- (derogatory, chiefly UK) A fool, an idiot.
- Prunus ursina (bear's plum)
- Prunus hortulana (hortulan plum)
- any of numerous varieties of small to medium-sized round or oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single pit
- any of several trees producing edible oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single hard stone
- a highly desirable position or assignment
noun
- (colloquial, mining) An intermediate in the production of end-use goods.
- (slang, finance) Semiconductor companies or positions in the stock market.
- (slang) A semiautomatic firearm.
- (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, US) A semi-trailer; a tractor-trailer; an eighteen-wheeler; an artic.
- (slang) A partial erection of the penis.
- (informal) A semifinal.
- (UK, Ireland, Australia, Canada, informal) A semi-detached house.
- one of the two competitions in the next to the last round of an elimination tournament
- a truck consisting of a tractor and trailer together
- a trailer having wheels only in the rear; the front is supported by the towing vehicle
adv
noun
- (mining) A box or bucket in which coal or ore is sent up a shaft.
- Any of various historically designated quantities of goods to be sold by the tub (butter, oysters, etc).
- (humorous or derogatory) Any structure shaped like a tub, such as a certain old form of pulpit, a short broad boat, etc.
- The contents or capacity of such a vessel.
- A small cask.
- (automotive) The bare body shell of an automobile (minus the doors, hood, trunk lid, fenders, etc.) which is lowered onto the chassis at the time of assembly, or in the case of modern unibody designed vehicles, is itself a monocoque around which the rest of the vehicle is built.
- (nautical, informal) A slow-moving craft.
- A bathtub.
- A flat-bottomed vessel, of width similar to or greater than its height, used for storing or packing things, or for washing things in.
- (slang) A corpulent or obese person.
- a relatively large open container that you fill with water and use to wash the body
- the amount that a tub will hold
- a large open vessel for holding or storing liquids
verb
noun
- (slang, mining) An explosive product.
- (chiefly US) The symbol !, known as an exclamation point.
- A strike upon an object causing such a noise.
- (Ireland, colloquial, slang) strong smell (of)
- (mathematics) A factorial, in mathematics, because the factorial of n is often written as n!
- (vulgar, slang) An act of sexual intercourse.
- (slang, US, Boston area) An abrupt left turn.
- An offbeat figure typical of reggae songs and played on guitar and piano.
- A sudden percussive noise.
- (slang) An injection, a shot (of a narcotic drug).
- (slang) A thrill.
- An explosion.
- a conspicuous success
- a sudden very loud noise
- the swift release of a store of affective force
- a border of hair that is cut short and hangs across the forehead
- a vigorous blow
adv
intj
verb
- (slang, ambitransitive, vulgar) To engage in sexual intercourse.
- (transitive, slang, drugs) To inject intravenously.
- (intransitive) To make sudden loud noises, and often repeatedly, especially by exploding or hitting something.
- (US, slang) To gangbang; to participate in street gang criminal activity.
- (New England, slang, intransitive) To make a turn in a vehicle; to hang a right, left, or uey.
- (transitive) To cut squarely across, as the tail of a horse, or a person's forelock; to cut (the hair).
- (ambitransitive) To hit hard.
- (Nigeria, slang) To fail, especially an exam; to flunk.
- (intransitive, stative, slang) To be excellent; to be banging
- (with "in") To hammer or to hit anything hard.
- to produce a sharp often metallic explosive or percussive sound
- strike violently
- close violently
- have sexual intercourse with
- move noisily
- leap, jerk, bang
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verb
noun
- (mining) A large deposit of ore in a lode.
- That which swallows irretrievably; a whirlpool; a sucking eddy.
- (figurative) A wide interval or gap; a separating space.
- (figurative) A difference, especially a large difference, between groups.
- (geography) A portion of an ocean or sea extending into the land; a partially landlocked sea
- (Oxbridge slang) The bottom part of a list of those awarded a degree, for those who have only just passed.
- A hollow place in the earth; an abyss; a deep chasm or basin.
- a deep wide chasm
- an unbridgeable disparity (as from a failure of understanding)
- an arm of a sea or ocean partly enclosed by land; larger than a bay
verb
noun
- (mining) A kind of pick for shaping large coal.
- (US) An item of bedroom furniture, like a low chest of drawers (bureau), often with a mirror.
- (UK) An item of kitchen furniture, like a cabinet with shelves, for storing crockery or utensils.
- A servant to royalty etc. who helps them with tasks such as dressing.
- (theater, film, television) A wardrobe assistant (who helps actors put on their costume).
- One who dresses or prepares stone.
- (UK) A football hooligan who wears designer clothing; a casual.
- (medicine) A surgeon's assistant who helps to dress wounds etc.
- A mechanical device used in ore mills for dressing (e.g., comminution, sorting, sifting).
- A mechanical device used in grain mills for bolting.
- One who dresses in a particular way.
- furniture with drawers for keeping clothes
- a cabinet with shelves
- a person who dresses in a particular way
- a wardrobe assistant for an actor
- low table with mirror or mirrors where one sits while dressing or applying makeup
verb
- (transitive) To sow mines (the explosive devices) in (an area).
- (ambitransitive) To remove (rock or ore) from the ground.
- (by extension, figurative) To ruin or destroy by slow degrees or secret means.
- To dig away, or otherwise remove, the substratum or foundation of; to lay a mine under; to sap; to undermine.
- To dig into, for ore or metal.
- (intransitive) To dig a tunnel or hole; to burrow in the earth.
- (slang) To pick one's nose.
- (cryptocurrencies) To earn new units of cryptocurrency by doing certain calculations.
- (by extension, figurative) To tap into.
- (transitive) To damage (a vehicle or ship) with a mine (an explosive device).
- get from the earth by excavation
- lay mines
noun
- An excavation from which ore or solid minerals are taken, especially one consisting of underground tunnels.
- (military) A device intended to explode when stepped upon or touched, or when approached by a ship, vehicle, or person.
- (entomology) The cavity made by a caterpillar while feeding inside a leaf.
- (figurative) Any source of wealth or resources.
- (computing) A machine or network of machines used to extract units of a cryptocurrency.
- (pyrotechnics) A type of firework that explodes on the ground, shooting sparks upward.
- (military) A passage dug toward or underneath enemy lines, which is then packed with explosives.
- Alternative form of mien.
- excavation in the earth from which ores and minerals are extracted
- explosive device that explodes on contact; designed to destroy vehicles or ships or to kill or maim personnel
pron
verb
- (transitive, mining) To extract (ore, coal, etc.).
- (transitive) To triumph or achieve victory in (a game, a war, etc.).
- (intransitive) To have power, coercion or control.
- (intransitive) To achieve victory.
- (transitive, Scotland) To dry by exposure to the wind.
- (computing, informal, intransitive) To take priority.
- (transitive, informal) To defeat or surpass someone or something.
- (transitive, intransitive) To reach some destination or object, despite difficulty or toil (now usually intransitive, with preposition or locative adverb).
- (transitive) To obtain (something desired).
- (transitive) To gain (a prize) by succeeding in competition or contest.
- (transitive) To obtain (someone) by wooing; to make an ally or friend of (frequently with over).
- (transitive) To cause a victory for someone.
- acquire or deserve by one's efforts or actions
- win something through one's efforts
- obtain advantages, such as points, etc.
- attain success or reach a desired goal
- be the winner in a contest or competition; be victorious
noun
noun
- (mining) A heap of rubbish, attle, or other such refuse.
- (obsolete except in scientific use and in some dialects) A castrated boar.
- (saltworks) A wicker case in which salt is put to drain.
- A long sleeveless flannel garment for infants.
- (chiefly British) A hill.
- A mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves.
- (British) A small vehicle used to carry a load and pulled or pushed by hand.
- (archeology) a heap of earth placed over prehistoric tombs
- the quantity that a barrow will hold
- a cart for carrying small loads; has handles and one or more wheels
verb
- (mining, transitive) To bale a shaft dry.
- (ambitransitive, software engineering) To launch a separate software development effort based upon a modified copy of an existing software project, especially in free and open-source software.
- (transitive) To move with a fork (as hay or food).
- (chess) To simultaneously attack two opposing pieces with a single attacking piece.
- (intransitive) To shoot into blades, as corn does.
- (ambitransitive, computing) To spawn a new child process by duplicating the existing process.
- (transitive, software engineering) To create a copy of a distributed version control repository.
- (transitive, British) To kick someone in the crotch.
- (transitive) Euphemistic form of fuck.
- (ambitransitive) To divide into two or more branches or copies.
- lift with a pitchfork
- shape like a fork
- divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork
- place under attack with one's own pieces, of two enemy pieces
noun
- Such a pronged tool having a long straight handle, generally for two-handed use, as used for digging, lifting, mucking, pitching, etc.
- (cycling, motorcycling, by abstraction from a pronged tool's shape) In a bicycle or motorcycle, the portion of the frameset holding the front wheel, allowing the rider to steer and balance, also called front fork.
- Any of several types of pronged tools for use on farms, in fields, or in the garden or lawn, such as a smaller hand fork for weeding or a larger one for turning over the soil.
- (mining) The bottom of a sump into which the water of a mine drains.
- (metonymic) Either of the (figurative) paths thus taken.
- (content management) Any of the pieces/versions of content thus created.
- (cryptocurrencies) A split in a blockchain resulting from protocol disagreements, or a branch of the blockchain resulting from such a split.
- (chess) The simultaneous attack of two adversary pieces with one single attacking piece (especially a knight).
- (figuratively, decision-making) A point in time where one has to make a decision between two life paths.
- (software) Any of the software projects resulting from the launch of such separate software development efforts based upon a copy of the original project.
- A tuning fork.
- (content management) The splitting of the coverage of a topic (within a corpus of content) into two or more pieces.
- (by abstraction, from the tool shape) A point where a waterway, such as a river or other stream, splits and flows into two (or more) different directions.
- (colloquial) A forklift.
- (British, vulgar) The crotch.
- Either of the blades of a forklift (or, in plural, the set of blades), on which the goods to be raised are loaded.
- (metonymic) Any of the pieces/versions (of software, content, or data sets) thus created.
- (computing, file systems) A set of data associated with an individual file in some file systems.
- (software) The launch of one or more separate software development efforts based upon a modified copy of an existing project, especially in free and open-source software.
- (metonymic, analogous to any prong of a pronged tool) One of the parts into which anything is furcated or divided; a prong; a branch of a stream, a road, etc.; a barbed point, as of an arrow.
- A utensil with spikes used to put solid food into the mouth, or to hold food down while cutting, or for serving food.
- (physical) An intersection in a road or path where one road is split into two.
- (figurative) A decision point.
- The upper front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end.
- an agricultural tool used for lifting or digging; has a handle and metal prongs
- the region of the angle formed by the junction of two branches
- the angle formed by the inner sides of the legs where they join the human trunk
- a utensil with two or more prongs, used for serving or eating food
- the act of branching out or dividing into branches
noun
- (mining) One who bucks ore.
- (mining) A broad-headed hammer used in bucking ore.
- A horse or other animal that bucks.
- (metalworking) A holder-up; one who bucks rivets, typically holding a heavy bucking bar against the bucktail of a rivet which is heated if necessary till it is soft, while the riveter (or gunner or, before mechanisation, basher) uses a rivet gun (an adjustable pneumatic hammer) fitted with a rivet set, against the factory head to provide impulses which upset the bucktail into a field head.
noun
- (mining) Refuse or rubbish from a mine.
- (only as plural) A publication intended for participants in an industry or related group of industries.
- (countable) Those engaged in an industry or group of related industries.
- Short for trade paperback
- (countable) An idea or strategy for an investment on a market.
- (countable or uncountable) An occupation in the secondary sector, as opposed to an agricultural, professional or military one.
- (chiefly in the plural) Steady winds blowing from east to west above and below the equator.
- (countable) A particular instance of buying or selling, or a series of related transactions executed as a single investment.
- (uncountable) The buying and selling of goods and services on a market.
- (countable) The skilled practice of a practical occupation.
- (countable) Those who perform a particular kind of skilled work.
- (uncountable, UK) The business given to a commercial establishment by its customers.
- (uncountable, gay slang) A masculine man available for casual sex with men, often for pay. (Compare rough trade.)
- (countable) An instance of bartering items in exchange for one another.
- steady winds blowing from east to west above and below the equator
- an equal exchange
- the commercial exchange (buying and selling on domestic or international markets) of goods and services
- the skilled practice of a practical occupation
- the business given to a commercial establishment by its customers
- people who perform a particular kind of skilled work
- a particular instance of buying or selling
adj
verb
- (transitive, with for) To give (something) in exchange (for).
- (horticulture, transitive or intransitive) To give someone a plant and receive a different one in return.
- (ambitransitive) To engage in trade.
- (transitive) To mutually exchange (something) (with).
- (transitive, with on) To use or exploit a particular aspect, such as a name, reputation, or image, to gain advantage or benefit.
- (intransitive) To have dealings; to be concerned or associated (with).
- (transitive) To recommend and get recommendations.
- (finance, intransitive, copulative) To be traded at a certain price or under certain conditions.
- (ambitransitive) To do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood.
- engage in the trade of
- exchange or give (something) in exchange for
- be traded at a certain price or under certain conditions
- turn in as payment or part payment for a purchase
- do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood
verb
- (mining) To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.
- (transitive) To get by digging; to take from the ground; often with up.
- (volleyball) To defend against an attack hit by the opposing team by successfully passing the ball
- To thrust; to poke.
- (figurative) To investigate, to research, often followed by out or up.
- (transitive, intransitive) To move hard-packed earth out of the way, especially downward to make a hole with a shovel. Or to drill, or the like, through rocks, roads, or the like. More generally, to make any similar hole by moving material out of the way.
- remove, harvest, or recover by digging
- remove the inner part or the core of
- get the meaning of something
- turn up, loosen, or remove earth
- thrust down or into
- work hard
- create by digging
- poke or thrust abruptly
noun
- An archeological or paleontological investigation, or the site where such an investigation is taking place.
- The occupation of digging for gold.
- (music, slang) A rare or interesting vinyl record bought second-hand.
- (medicine, colloquial) Digoxin.
- (cricket) An innings.
- A thrust; a poke.
- (volleyball) A defensive pass of the ball that has been attacked by the opposing team.
- A cutting, sarcastic remark.
- the act of digging
- the site of an archeological exploration
- an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect
- the act of touching someone suddenly with your finger or elbow
- a small gouge (as in the cover of a book)
noun
- (mining) A mine or set of mines on lease.
- A small, square-cut piece of quarried stone used for paving and edging.
- (weaving, England) The number of reeds or splits per inch – one half the number of ends per inch.
- The pattern of distinctive threads and yarns that make up the plaid of a Scottish tartan.
- (mining) A collection of pumps in a mine.
- (weaving) The number of warp ends per inch in the cloth.
- The system of tunnels that is the home of a badger.
- rectangular paving stone with curved top; once used to make roads
noun
- (mining) In placer mining, earth, gravel, etc., before washing.
- Previously unknown facts or rumors about a person.
- (chiefly US) Soil or earth.
- (figurative) Meanness; sordidness.
- A stain or spot (on clothes etc); any foreign substance that worsens appearance.
- Freckles.
- obscene terms for feces
- the part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock
- anything regarded as making something unclean
- disgraceful gossip about the private lives of other people
verb
adj
verb
- (mining) To remove all the mineral that can be profitably exploited.
- (transitive) To smooth or perfect.
- (intransitive, US) To earn a wage working away from one's farm.
- (transitive, intransitive) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see work, out.
- (transitive) To calculate.
- (transitive) To make sense of.
- (intransitive) To conclude with the correct solution.
- (transitive) To bring about or cause to happen by work or effort.
- (intransitive) To exercise, especially by lifting weights.
- (transitive) To resolve; to find a solution for.
- (transitive) To develop or devise in detail; to elaborate.
- (intransitive) To succeed; to result in a satisfactory situation.
- (transitive) To decide.
- (transitive) To strengthen a part of one’s body by exercise.
- work out in detail
- make a mathematical calculation or computation
- happen in a certain way, leading to, producing, or resulting in a certain outcome, often well
- do physical exercise
- find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of
- give a workout to
- come up with
- be calculated
noun
- (uncountable, mining) Waste material in old mine workings, goaf.
- (countable) A lump of soft or sticky material.
- (UK, Commonwealth, Ireland, slang) The mouth.
- (uncountable, slang) Saliva or phlegm.
- (US, military, slang) A sailor.
- (countable, US, regional) A whoopie pie.
- a man who serves as a sailor
- a lump of slimy stuff
- informal terms for the mouth
verb
noun
- Waste material from a mine.
- Scum that forms on the surface of molten metal.
- Scoria associated with a volcano.
- (UK, Ireland, Australia, slang, derogatory) A prostitute or promiscuous woman; a slut.
- Hard aggregate remaining as a residue from blast furnaces, sometimes used as a surfacing material.
- (UK, Ireland, chiefly Cockney, derogatory) A contemptible person, a scumbag.
- Impurities formed and separated out when a metal is smelted from ore; vitrified cinders.
- the scum formed by oxidation at the surface of molten metals
verb
- (transitive, Ireland, slang) To make fun of; to take the piss (tease, ridicule or mock).
- (transitive) To produce slag.
- (transitive) To reduce to slag.
- (intransitive) To become slag; to agglomerate when heated below the fusion point.
- (intransitive, Australia, slang) To spit.
- (transitive, UK, slang) To talk badly about; to malign or denigrate (someone).
- convert into slag
noun
- (mining) A pile of ore or rock.
- That which is dumped, especially in a chaotic way; a mess.
- (historical, Australia, Canada) A small coin made by punching a hole in a larger coin (called a holey dollar).
- A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.
- (usually in the plural) A sad, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; despondency.
- (computing) A formatted listing of the contents of program storage, especially when produced automatically by a failing program.
- (slang, often with the verb "take", euphemistic) An act of defecation; a defecating.
- A storage place for supplies, especially military.
- (slang) An unpleasant, dirty, disreputable, unfashionable, boring, or depressing looking place.
- A place where waste or garbage is left; a ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.; a disposal site.
- (marketing) A temporary display case that holds many copies of an item being sold.
- (computing) An act of dumping, or its result.
- (Northern England) A deep hole in a river bed; a pool.
- Absence of mind; reverie.
- (Internet slang) A disorganized collection of images posted on social media.
- a coarse term for defecation
- (computer science) a copy of the contents of a computer storage device; sometimes used in debugging programs
- a piece of land where waste materials are dumped
- a place where supplies can be stored
verb
- (transitive, computing) To copy (data) from a system to another place or system, usually in order to archive it.
- (transitive) To release, especially in large quantities and chaotic manner.
- (transitive, computing) To output the contents of storage or a data structure, often in order to diagnose a bug.
- (transitive) To discard; to get rid of something one no longer wants.
- (transitive, Australia) Of a surf wave, to crash a swimmer, surfer, etc., heavily downwards.
- (transitive) To sell below cost or very cheaply; to engage in dumping.
- (transitive) To put or throw down with more or less of violence; hence, to unload from a cart by tilting it
- (transitive, US) To precipitate (especially snow) heavily.
- (transitive, informal) To end a romantic relationship with.
- throw away as refuse
- sell at artificially low prices
- drop (stuff) in a heap or mass
- knock down with force
- fall abruptly
- sever all ties with, usually unceremoniously or irresponsibly
noun
- (mining) The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.
- (sports, UK, Australia, New Zealand) The field on which cricket, soccer, rugby, gridiron or field hockey is played. (In cricket, the pitch is in the centre of the field; see cricket pitch.) (Not often used in the US or Canada, where "field" is the preferred word.)
- An effort to sell or promote something.
- (geology) Pitchstone.
- The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate of descent or slope; slant.
- The angle at which an object sits.
- (golf) A short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
- An area on a campsite intended for occupation by a single tent, caravan or similar.
- A dark, extremely viscous material still remaining after distilling crude oil or natural tar.
- The distance between evenly spaced objects, e.g. the teeth of a saw or gear, the turns of a screw thread, the centres of holes, or letters in a monospace font.
- Prominence; importance.
- The height a bird reaches in flight, especially a bird of prey preparing to swoop down on its prey.
- (nautical, aviation) The degree to which a vehicle, especially a ship or aircraft, rotates on such an axis, tilting its bow or nose up or down.
- (music) In an a cappella group, the singer responsible for singing a note for the other members to tune themselves by.
- (by extension) The place where a busker performs, a prostitute solicits clients, or an illegal gambling game etc. is set up before the public.
- (cricket) That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.
- (climbing) A section of a climb or rock face; specifically, the climbing distance between belays or stances.
- A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand.
- (now British, regional) A person's or animal's height.
- A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.
- (music, phonetics) The perceived frequency of a sound, note or electromagnetic wave.
- A point or peak; the extreme point of elevation or depression.
- (music) The standard to which a group of musical instruments are tuned or in which a piece is performed, usually by reference to the frequency to which the musical note A above middle C is tuned.
- (baseball) The act of pitching a baseball.
- A level or degree, or (by extension), a peak or highest degree.
- A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.
- An area in a market (or similar) allocated to a particular trader.
- (aviation) A measure of the angle of attack of a propeller.
- (caving) A vertical cave passage, only negotiable by using rope or ladders.
- (rare) The field of battle.
- The most thrust-out point of a headland or cape.
- promotion by means of an argument and demonstration
- abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance)
- a sports field with predetermined dimensions for playing soccer
- the property of sound that varies with variation in the frequency of vibration
- a high approach shot in golf
- a vendor's position (especially on the sidewalk)
- any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue
- the act of throwing a baseball or softball by the pitcher towards home plate, which initiates play by giving the batter a chance to hit it
- an all-fours game in which the first card led is a trump
- degree of deviation from a horizontal plane
- the action or manner of throwing something
adj
verb
- To cover or smear with pitch.
- (transitive) To set or fix (a price or value).
- (transitive) To fix or set the tone of.
- (brewing) To add yeast as a step while making beer
- (transitive) To assemble or erect (a tent). Also used figuratively.
- (with on or upon) To fix one's choice.
- (intransitive, Bristol, of snow) To settle and build up, without melting.
- (intransitive) To plunge or fall; especially, to fall forward; to decline or slope.
- (transitive) To set at an angle, especially a downwards one; to cause to tilt.
- (intransitive, baseball) To play baseball in the position of pitcher.
- (intransitive, cricket) To bounce on the playing surface.
- (transitive) To set, face, or pave (an embankment or roadway) with rubble or undressed stones.
- (transitive) To throw away; discard.
- (transitive, golf) To play a short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
- To darken; to blacken; to obscure.
- (intransitive) To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.
- (transitive) To deliver in a certain tone or style, or with a certain audience in mind.
- (transitive or intransitive, baseball) To throw (the ball) toward a batter at home plate.
- (transitive) To promote, advertise, or attempt to sell.
- (intransitive) To produce a note of a given pitch.
- (transitive) To throw.
- (transitive, card games, slang) To discard (a card) for some gain.
- To attack, or position or assemble for attack.
- (ambitransitive, aviation or nautical) To move so that the front of an aircraft or boat goes alternately up and down.
- heel over
- set to a certain pitch
- sell or offer for sale from place to place
- move abruptly
- fall or plunge forward
- throw or hurl from the mound to the batter, as in baseball
- be at an angle
- set the level or character of
- throw or toss with a light motion
- erect and fasten
- lead (a card) and establish the trump suit
- hit (a golf ball) in a high arc with a backspin
noun
- An iron bucket used in mines for hoisting anything to the surface.
- an iron bucket used for hoisting in wells or mining
- Any artificial animal feed in pellet form.
- Something that has been kibbled, especially grain for use as animal feed.
- (fandom slang) In the Transformers fandom, pieces of a toy or figure necessary for one mode, but appearing out of place or unnecessary in the other.
- (historical) A mallet used in the game of trap ball.
- coarsely ground grain in the form of pellets (as for pet food)
verb
verb
- (transitive) To give a pile to; to make shaggy.
- (transitive) To add something to a great number.
- (transitive, often used with the preposition "up") To lay or throw into a pile or heap; to heap up; to collect into a mass; to accumulate
- (transitive) (of vehicles) To create a hold-up.
- (transitive) To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load.
- (intransitive) To form a pile or heap.
- (transitive, military) To place (guns, muskets, etc.) together in threes so that they can stand upright, supporting each other.
- (transitive) To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.
- arrange in stacks
- press tightly together or cram
- place or lay as if in a pile
noun
- An atomic pile; an early form of nuclear reactor.
- A list or league
- Hair, especially when very fine or short; the fine underfur of certain animals. (Formerly countable, now treated as a collective singular.)
- A large stake, or piece of pointed timber, steel etc., driven into the earth or sea-bed for the support of a building, a pier, or other superstructure, or to form a cofferdam, etc.
- (informal) A group or list of related items up for consideration, especially in some kind of selection process.
- A mass of things heaped together; a heap.
- (historical, electrochemistry) A battery (simple device for converting chemical potential energy into usable electricity).
- A large building, or mass of buildings.
- A mass formed in layers.
- A bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be worked over into bars or other shapes by rolling or hammering at a welding heat; a fagot.
- A vertical series of alternate disks of two dissimilar metals (especially copper and zinc), laid up with disks of cloth or paper moistened with acid water between them, for producing a current of electricity; a voltaic pile, or galvanic pile.
- The raised hairs, loops or strands of a fabric; the nap of a cloth.
- A battery consisting of repeated units of alternating types of metal; voltaic pile.
- (usually in the plural) A hemorrhoid.
- (heraldry) One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.
- (slang) A large amount of money.
- A funeral pile; a pyre.
- (architecture, civil engineering) A beam, pole, or pillar, driven completely into the ground, usually as one of a group that constitutes a foundation.
- The head of an arrow or spear.
- fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs)
- a nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fission to generate energy
- the yarn (as in a rug or velvet or corduroy) that stands up from the weave
- a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure
- battery consisting of voltaic cells arranged in series; the earliest electric battery devised by Volta
- a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit)
- a collection of objects laid on top of each other
- (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent
verb
- (mining) To sort or separate, as ore in a jigger or sieve.
- To trick or cheat; to cajole; to delude.
- (fishing) To fish with a jig.
- To cut or form, as a piece of metal, in a jigging machine.
- To sing to the tune of a jig.
- To skip school or be truant.
- To move briskly, especially as a dance.
- To move with a skip or rhythm; to move with vibrations or jerks.
- dance a quick dance with leaping and kicking motions
noun
- (music) A light, brisk musical movement; a gigue.
- (mining) An apparatus or machine for jigging ore.
- (fishing) A type of lure consisting of a hook molded into a weight, usually with a bright or colorful body.
- A device in manufacturing, woodworking, or other creative endeavors for controlling the location, path of movement, or both of either a workpiece or the tool that is operating upon it. Subsets of this general class include machining jigs, woodworking jigs, welders' jigs, jewelers' jigs, and many others.
- (traditional Irish music and dance) A lively dance in 6/8 (double jig), 9/8 (slip jig) or 12/8 (single jig) time; a tune suitable for such a dance. By extension, a lively traditional tune in any of these time signatures. Unqualified, the term is usually taken to refer to a double (6/8) jig.
- (traditional English Morris dance) A dance performed by one or sometimes two individual dancers, as opposed to a dance performed by a set or team.
- a device that holds a piece of machine work and guides the tools operating on it
- a fisherman's lure with one or more hooks that is jerked up and down in the water
- any of various old rustic dances involving kicking and leaping
- music in three-four time for dancing a jig
adj
- (mining) Of something mined such as coal or ore: broken into pieces.
- Caused to move (and usually weakened) by a strong force.
- Of a drink, especially (alcoholic beverages) a cocktail: mixed by being agitated with ice in a shaker.
- Chiefly of a person: having had one's composure or confidence disrupted or upset; in a state of shock or trauma.
- Moved rapidly in opposite directions alternatingly.
- Weakened by some event.
- (timber industry) Of timber: damaged from being cracked.
- disturbed psychologically as if by a physical jolt or shock
noun
verb
noun
- (mining) A hook-like tool used to tear away ore, rock, etc.
- (US, New Jersey, slang) A hot dog deep-fried in oil until the casing bursts.
- (computing) Software that extracts content from files or storage media.
- A murderer who kills and often mutilates victims with a blade or similar sharp weapon.
- A foghorn.
- A legislative bill or act that transfers powers of appointment from the usual holders to a chief executive or a board of officials.
- Someone who rips something.
- (mining) A person employed to tear away ore, rock, etc. to make a passage for material to be carried to the surface.
- Something that rips something else.
- (British, Australia, slang) Something that is an excellent example of its kind.
- (agriculture) A tool or plant used to reduce soil compaction.
- a murderer who slashes the victims with a knife
adj
noun
- (mining) A bit of leather having a peculiar mark designating a particular miner. Each hewer sent one of these with each corf or tub he had hewn.
- (computing) An atomic piece of data, such as a word, for which a meaning may be inferred during parsing.
- (grammar) A lexeme; a basic, grammatically indivisible unit of a language such as a keyword, operator or identifier.
- A seal guaranteeing the quality of an item.
- (weaving) In a loom, a colored signal to show the weaver which shuttle to use.
- Something serving as an expression of something else.
- (computing) A conceptual object that can be possessed by a computer, process, etc. in order to regulate a turn-taking system such as a token ring network.
- (Church of Scotland) A piece of metal given beforehand to each person in the congregation who is permitted to partake of the Lord's Supper.
- (rail transport) A physical object used for exchange between drivers and signalmen on single track lines.
- (mining) A thin bed of coal indicating the existence of a thicker seam at no great distance.
- (corpus linguistics) A single example of a certain word in a text or corpus.
- A keepsake.
- (philosophy) A particular thing to which a concept applies.
- Support for a belief; grounds for an opinion.
- (medicine) A characteristic sign of a disease or of a bodily disorder, a symptom; a sign of a bodily condition, recovery, or health.
- A piece of stamped metal or plastic, etc., used as a form of currency; a voucher that can be exchanged for goods or services.
- Something given or shown as a symbol or guarantee of authority or right; a sign of authenticity, of power, good faith.
- (computing) A meaningless placeholder used as a substitute for sensitive data.
- (printing) Ten and a half quires, or, commonly, 250 sheets, of paper printed on both sides; also, in some cases, the same number of sheets printed on one side, or half the number printed on both sides.
- An object or disclosure to attest or authenticate the bearer or an instruction.
- A minor attempt for appearance's sake, or to minimally comply with a requirement; a formality.
- A small physical object, often designed to give the appearance of a common thing, used to represent a person or character in a board game or other situation.
- A tally.
- A member of a group of people that is included within a larger group to comply with a legal or social requirement.
- An extraordinary event serving as evidence of supernatural power.
- an individual instance of a type of symbol
- something of sentimental value
- a metal or plastic disk that can be redeemed or used in designated slot machines
- something serving as a sign of something else
adj
- (of people) Included in minimal numbers in order to create an impression or illusion of diversity, especially ethnic or gender diversity.
- Perfunctory or merely symbolic; done or existing for appearance's sake, or to minimally comply with a requirement.
- Done as an indication or a pledge.
- insignificantly small; a matter of form only (‘tokenish’ is informal)
verb
verb
noun
verb
- (mining) To put: to convey coal in the mine, e.g. from the working to the tramway.
- (intransitive) Often with up, to speed up the rate of doing something.
- (intransitive) To do things quickly.
- (transitive) To impel to precipitate or thoughtless action; to urge to confused or irregular activity.
- (transitive) To cause to be done quickly.
- (transitive) To hasten; to impel to greater speed; to urge on.
- act at high speed
- move very fast
- urge to an unnatural speed
noun
- A rushed action.
- (music) A tremolando passage for violins, etc., accompanying an exciting situation.
- (American football) An incidence of a defensive pressure that forces the quarterback to throw the ball earlier than intended or rush their decision, often leading to an incomplete pass or failed play.
- An urgency.
- a condition of urgency making it necessary to hurry
- overly eager speed (and possible carelessness)
- the act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner
noun
- (British, Cornwall, mining) The mouth of a shaft.
- The state of being braced or tight; tension.
- A curved instrument or handle of iron or wood, for holding and turning bits, etc.; a bitstock.
- (British, chiefly in the plural) Straps or bands to sustain trousers; suspenders.
- A cord, ligament, or rod, for producing or maintaining tension.
- A piece of material used to transmit, or change the direction of, weight or pressure; any one of the pieces, in a frame or truss, which divide the structure into triangular parts. It may act as a tie, or as a strut, and serves to prevent distortion of the structure, and transverse strains in its members. A boiler brace is a diagonal stay, connecting the head with the shell.
- That which holds anything tightly or supports it firmly; a bandage or a prop.
- (nautical) A rope reeved through a block at the end of a yard, by which the yard is moved horizontally; also, a rudder gudgeon.
- (soccer) Two goals scored by one player in a game.
- (typography) A curved, pointed line, also known as "curly bracket": { or } connecting two or more words or lines, which are to be considered together, such as in {role, roll}; in music, used to connect staves.
- (plural brace) A pair, a couple; originally used of dogs, and later of animals generally (e.g., a brace of conies) and then other things, but rarely human persons. (In British use (as plural), this is a particularly common reference to game birds.)
- Harness; warlike preparation.
- (plural in North America, singular or plural in the UK) A system of wires, brackets, and elastic bands used to correct crooked teeth or to reduce overbite.
- A thong used to regulate the tension of a drum.
- (cricket) Two wickets taken with two consecutive deliveries.
- a rope on a square-rigged ship that is used to swing a yard about and secure it
- a structural member used to stiffen a framework
- an appliance that corrects dental irregularities
- a set of two similar things considered as a unit
- a support that steadies or strengthens something else
- elastic straps that hold trousers up
- a carpenter's tool having a crank handle for turning and a socket to hold a bit for boring
- either of two punctuation marks (‘{’ or ‘}’) used to enclose textual material
- two items of the same kind
verb
- To place in a position for resisting pressure; to hold firmly.
- (transitive, intransitive) To prepare for something bad, such as an impact or blow.
- To stop someone for questioning, usually said of police.
- To draw tight; to tighten; to put in a state of tension; to strain; to strengthen.
- To bind or tie closely; to fasten tightly.
- (nautical) To swing round the yards of a square rigged ship, using braces, to present a more efficient sail surface to the direction of the wind.
- To confront with questions, demands or requests.
- To furnish with braces; to support; to prop.
- cause to be alert and energetic
- support by bracing
- support or hold steady and make steadfast, with or as if with a brace
- prepare (oneself), often but not necessarily for something unpleasant or difficult
verb
- (mining) To separate valuable material (such as gold) from worthless material by the action of flowing water.
- (intransitive) To bear without damage the operation of being washed; to be suitable for washing.
- (transitive) To cover with water or any liquid; to wet; to fall on and moisten.
- (transitive) To clean with water.
- (transitive) To cause dephosphorization of (molten pig iron) by adding substances containing iron oxide, and sometimes manganese oxide.
- (intransitive) To clean oneself with water.
- (transitive) To cover with a thin or watery coat of colour; to tint lightly and thinly.
- (intransitive) To move with a lapping or swashing sound; to lap or splash.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To be cogent, convincing; to withstand critique.
- (chemistry, transitive) To pass or extract (a gas or gaseous mixture) through or over a liquid for the purpose of purifying it, especially by removing soluble constituents.
- (intransitive) To be eroded or carried away by the action of water.
- (mah-jong) To mix up tiles (before a new game) to make them random; to shuffle.
- (transitive) To carry away or erode by the force of water in motion.
- (transitive) To overlay with a thin coat of metal.
- move by or as if by water
- cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water
- separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals)
- to cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking
- remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap or some other cleaning agent
- cleanse (one's body) with soap and water
- wash by removing particles
- admit to testing or proof
- form by erosion
- apply a thin coating of paint, metal, etc., to
- make moist
- wash or flow against
- be capable of being washed
- clean with some chemical process
noun
- (finance, slang) A fictitious kind of sale of stock or other securities between parties of one interest, or by a broker who is both buyer and seller, and who minds his own interest rather than that of his clients.
- The quantity of clothes washed at a time.
- A thin coat of paint or metal laid on anything for beauty or preservation.
- Ten strikes, or bushels, of oysters.
- A piece of ground washed by the action of water, or sometimes covered and sometimes left dry; the shallowest part of a river, or arm of the sea; also, a bog; a marsh.
- The turbulence left in the air by a moving airplane.
- A total failure; a washout.
- The backward current or disturbed water caused by the action of oars, or of a steamer's screw or paddles, etc.
- (stagecraft) A lighting fixture that can cast a wide beam of light to evenly fill an area with light, as opposed to a spotlight.
- (nautical) The blade of an oar.
- The bow wave or wake of a moving ship, or the vortex from its screws.
- A shallow body of water.
- Ground washed away to the sea or a river.
- The breaking of waves on the shore; the onwards rush of shallow water towards a beach.
- A mixture of dunder, molasses, water, and scummings, used in the West Indies for distillation.
- A lotion or other liquid with medicinal or hygienic properties.
- In distilling, the fermented wort before the spirit is extracted.
- (television) A lighting effect that fills a scene with a chosen colour.
- Waste liquid, the refuse of food, the collection from washed dishes, etc., from a kitchen, often used as food for pigs; pigwash.
- (idiomatic) A situation in which gains and losses or advantages and disadvantages are equivalent, or in which there is no net change.
- A liquid used for washing.
- (architecture) The upper surface of a member or material when given a slope to shed water; hence, a structure or receptacle shaped so as to receive and carry off water.
- (art) A smooth and translucent painting created using a paintbrush holding a large amount of solvent and a small amount of paint.
- The process or an instance of washing or being washed by water or other liquid.
- In arid and semi-arid regions, the normally dry bed of an intermittent or ephemeral stream; an arroyo or wadi.
- a watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other
- a thin coat of water-base paint
- the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water)
- the erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water (as from a roadway)
- the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon)
- garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering
- any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out
- the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller
noun
- (manufacturing) An element of a curved grid used to separate desirable material from tailings or chaff in mining and harvesting.
- (gambling) A playing card made concave for use in cheating.
- (surfing) An indentation running along the base of a surfboard, intended to increase lift.
- (skateboarding) An indented area on the top of a skateboard, providing a position for foot placement and increasing board strength.
- The vault of the sky.
- A concave surface or curve.
- One of the celestial spheres of the Ptolemaic or geocentric model of the world.
adj
- (geometry, not comparable, of a polygon) Not convex; having at least one internal angle greater than 180 degrees.
- Curved like the inner surface of a sphere or bowl.
- Hollow; empty.
- (functional analysis, not comparable, of a real-valued function on the reals) Satisfying the property that all segments connecting two points on the function's graph lie below the function.
- curving inward
verb
noun
- (countable, mining) A lode.
- (countable, nautical) A plummet or mass of lead attached to a line, used in sounding depth at sea or to estimate velocity in knots.
- A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing.
- (medicine, in the plural) X-ray protective clothing lined with lead.
- (countable) A thin cylinder of graphite used in pencils.
- (UK, countable) An insulated metallic wire for electrical devices and equipment.
- Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs.
- (horology) The action of a tooth, such as a tooth of a wheel, in impelling another tooth or a pallet.
- Information obtained by a news reporter about an issue or subject that allows him or her to discover more details.
- (electricity) The advance of the current phase in an alternating circuit beyond that of the electromotive force producing it.
- (acting) The actor who plays the main role; lead actor.
- Information obtained by a detective or police officer that allows him or her to discover further details about a crime or incident.
- A rope, leather strap, or similar device with which to lead an animal; a leash
- (nautical) The course of a rope from end to end.
- (US, journalism) The introductory paragraph or paragraphs of a newspaper, or a news or other type of article. (Sometimes spelled as lede for this usage to avoid ambiguity.)
- (marketing) Potential opportunity for a sale or transaction, a potential customer.
- (business) The person in charge of a project or a work shift etc.
- (curling) The player who throws the first two rocks for a team.
- (music) The announcement by one voice part of a theme to be repeated by the other parts.
- (uncountable, typography) Vertical space in advance of a row or between rows of text. Also known as leading.
- (slang) Bullets; ammunition.
- (countable) A roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates.
- (countable) A channel of open water in an ice field.
- Hypothesis that has not been pursued
- (music) A mark or a short passage in one voice part, as of a canon, serving as a cue for the entrance of others.
- An important news story that appears on the front page of a newspaper or at the beginning of a news broadcast
- (music) A primary synth, often composed of square, sawtooth, triangle or sine waveforms.
- (baseball) The situation where a runner steps away from a base while waiting for the pitch to be thrown.
- (uncountable) A heavy, pliable, inelastic metal element, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished; both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic number 82, symbol Pb (from Latin plumbum).
- (music) In a barbershop quartet, the person who sings the melody, usually the second tenor.
- (countable) The act of leading or conducting; guidance; direction, course
- (acting, theater) The main role in a play or film; the lead role.
- (uncountable, card games, dominoes) The act or right of playing first in a game or round; the card suit, or piece, so played
- (engineering) The axial distance a screw thread travels in one revolution. It is equal to the pitch times the number of starts.
- In a steam engine, the width of port opening which is uncovered by the valve, for the admission or release of steam, at the instant when the piston is at end of its stroke.
- (electricity) The angle between the line joining the brushes of a continuous-current dynamo and the diameter symmetrical between the poles.
- (countable) Precedence; advance position; also, the measure of precedence; the state of being ahead in a race; the highest score in an incomplete game.
- (engineering) The excess above a right angle in the angle between two consecutive cranks, as of a compound engine, on the same shaft.
- (civil engineering) The distance of haul, as from a cutting to an embankment.
- an advantage held by a competitor in a race
- an actor who plays a principal role
- the angle between the direction a gun is aimed and the position of a moving target (correcting for the flight time of the missile)
- evidence pointing to a possible solution
- the introductory section of a story
- (baseball) the position taken by a base runner preparing to advance to the next base
- an indication of potential opportunity
- a jumper that consists of a short piece of wire
- the playing of a card to start a trick in bridge
- a position of being the initiator of something and an example that others will follow (especially in the phrase ‘take the lead’)
- restraint consisting of a rope (or light chain) used to restrain an animal
- a news story of major importance
- (sports) the score by which a team or individual is winning
- the timing of ignition relative to the position of the piston in an internal-combustion engine
- thin strip of metal used to separate lines of type in printing
- a soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element; bluish white when freshly cut but tarnishes readily to dull grey
- mixture of graphite with clay in different degrees of hardness; the marking substance in a pencil
adj
verb
- (intransitive) To be a cause of. [with to]
- (intransitive) To guide or conduct, as by accompanying, going before, showing, influencing, directing with authority, etc.; to have precedence or preeminence; to be first or chief; — used in most of the senses of the transitive verb.
- (transitive, climbing) To lead climb.
- (figuratively): To direct; to counsel; to instruct.
- To guide or conduct in a certain course, or to a certain place or end, by making the way known; to show the way, especially by going with or going in advance of; to guide somebody somewhere or to bring somebody somewhere by means of instructions.
- To guide or conduct with the hand, or by means of some physical contact connection.
- (transitive, card games, dominoes) To begin a game, round, or trick, with
- Misspelling of led.
- (baseball) To step off base and move towards the next base.
- Used in phrasal verbs: lead off, lead on, lead out, lead to (“be the cause of, bring about”), lead up, lead up to.
- (intransitive) To have the highest interim score in a game.
- (intransitive) To tend or reach in a certain spatial direction, or to a certain place.
- (transitive) To go or to be in advance of; to precede; hence, to be foremost or chief among.
- To draw or direct by influence, whether good or bad; to prevail on; to induce; to entice; to allure.
- (shooting) To aim in front of a moving target, in order that the shot may hit the target as it passes.
- (intransitive) To be more advanced in technology or business than others.
- (intransitive) To be ahead of others, e.g., in a race.
- (intransitive) To proceed in front of others; to go first.
- (transitive, usually with "life") To live or experience (a particular way of life).
- To influence towards a belief, a conclusion, etc.
- (transitive, printing, historical) To place leads between the lines of.
- (transitive) To cover, fill, or affect with lead.
- To conduct or direct with authority; to have direction or charge of; to command, especially a military or business unit.
- lead, extend, or afford access
- travel in front of; go in advance of others
- cause to undertake a certain action
- take somebody somewhere
- tend to or result in
- cause something to pass or lead somewhere
- lead, as in the performance of a composition
- produce as a result or residue
- preside over
- be ahead of others; be the first
- be in charge of
- be conducive to
- stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point
- move ahead (of others) in time or space
noun
- (mining) A heap of dressed ore.
- (masonry) One of the faces of a hewn stone.
- (law) The whole jury.
- A soft pad beneath a saddletree to prevent chafing.
- (medicine) A group of tests or assays, a battery.
- A portion of text or other material within a book, newspaper, web page, etc. set apart from the main body or separated by a border.
- A portion of a framed structure between adjacent posts or struts, as in a bridge truss.
- (law) A document containing the names of persons summoned as jurors by the sheriff.
- A (usually) rectangular section of a surface, or of a covering or of a wall, fence etc.
- (dressmaking) A plain strip or band, as of velvet or plush, placed at intervals lengthwise on the skirt of a dress, for ornament.
- (architecture) A sunken compartment with raised margins, moulded or otherwise, as in ceilings, wainscotings, etc.
- (graphical user interface) A type of GUI widget, such as a control panel.
- (Scots law) A prisoner arraigned for trial at the bar of a criminal court.
- (masonry) A slab or plank of wood used instead of a canvas for painting on.
- (joinery) A board having its edges inserted in the groove of a surrounding frame.
- (mining) One of the districts divided by pillars of extra size, into which a mine is laid off in one system of extracting coal.
- (British, historical) A list of doctors who could provide limited free healthcare prior to the introduction of the NHS.
- A group of people gathered to judge, interview, discuss etc. as on a television or radio broadcast for example.
- (comics) An individual frame or drawing in a comic.
- sheet that forms a distinct (usually flat and rectangular) section or component of something
- (computer science) a small temporary window in a graphical user interface that appears in order to request information from the user; after the information has been provided the user dismisses the box with ‘okay’ or ‘cancel’
- a committee appointed to judge a competition
- a group of people gathered for a special purpose as to plan or discuss an issue or judge a contest etc
- a piece of cloth that is generally triangular or tapering; used in making garments or umbrellas or sails
- a soft pad placed under a saddle
- electrical device consisting of a flat insulated surface that contains switches and dials and meters for controlling other electrical devices
- (law) a group of people summoned for jury service (from whom a jury will be chosen)
verb
noun
- (mining) A certain proportion of the mined ore, or of its value, given to the miner as payment.
- A payment made by one nation to another in submission.
- (Internet slang, vulgar) Ellipsis of cum tribute.
- An homage made in a body of work to another work or creator.
- Extortion; protection money.
- An acknowledgment of gratitude, respect or admiration; an accompanying gift.
- A payment made by a feudal vassal to his lord.
- payment by one nation for protection by another
- something given or done as an expression of esteem
- payment extorted by gangsters on threat of violence
verb
noun
verb
- To wash; to wash, and to smooth with a flatiron or mangle; to wash and iron.
- (money) To disguise the source of (ill-gotten wealth) by various means.
- (programming, transitive) To obtain a pointer to an object created in storage occupied by an existing object of the same type, even if it has const or reference members.
- cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water
- convert illegally obtained funds into legal ones
noun
verb
noun
- (colloquial, mining) An intermediate in the production of end-use goods.
- (slang, finance) Semiconductor companies or positions in the stock market.
- (slang) A semiautomatic firearm.
- (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, US) A semi-trailer; a tractor-trailer; an eighteen-wheeler; an artic.
- (slang) A partial erection of the penis.
- (informal) A semifinal.
- (UK, Ireland, Australia, Canada, informal) A semi-detached house.
- one of the two competitions in the next to the last round of an elimination tournament
- a truck consisting of a tractor and trailer together
- a trailer having wheels only in the rear; the front is supported by the towing vehicle
adv
noun
- (mining) A box or bucket in which coal or ore is sent up a shaft.
- Any of various historically designated quantities of goods to be sold by the tub (butter, oysters, etc).
- (humorous or derogatory) Any structure shaped like a tub, such as a certain old form of pulpit, a short broad boat, etc.
- The contents or capacity of such a vessel.
- A small cask.
- (automotive) The bare body shell of an automobile (minus the doors, hood, trunk lid, fenders, etc.) which is lowered onto the chassis at the time of assembly, or in the case of modern unibody designed vehicles, is itself a monocoque around which the rest of the vehicle is built.
- (nautical, informal) A slow-moving craft.
- A bathtub.
- A flat-bottomed vessel, of width similar to or greater than its height, used for storing or packing things, or for washing things in.
- (slang) A corpulent or obese person.
- a relatively large open container that you fill with water and use to wash the body
- the amount that a tub will hold
- a large open vessel for holding or storing liquids
verb
noun
- (slang, mining) An explosive product.
- (chiefly US) The symbol !, known as an exclamation point.
- A strike upon an object causing such a noise.
- (Ireland, colloquial, slang) strong smell (of)
- (mathematics) A factorial, in mathematics, because the factorial of n is often written as n!
- (vulgar, slang) An act of sexual intercourse.
- (slang, US, Boston area) An abrupt left turn.
- An offbeat figure typical of reggae songs and played on guitar and piano.
- A sudden percussive noise.
- (slang) An injection, a shot (of a narcotic drug).
- (slang) A thrill.
- An explosion.
- a conspicuous success
- a sudden very loud noise
- the swift release of a store of affective force
- a border of hair that is cut short and hangs across the forehead
- a vigorous blow
adv
intj
verb
- (slang, ambitransitive, vulgar) To engage in sexual intercourse.
- (transitive, slang, drugs) To inject intravenously.
- (intransitive) To make sudden loud noises, and often repeatedly, especially by exploding or hitting something.
- (US, slang) To gangbang; to participate in street gang criminal activity.
- (New England, slang, intransitive) To make a turn in a vehicle; to hang a right, left, or uey.
- (transitive) To cut squarely across, as the tail of a horse, or a person's forelock; to cut (the hair).
- (ambitransitive) To hit hard.
- (Nigeria, slang) To fail, especially an exam; to flunk.
- (intransitive, stative, slang) To be excellent; to be banging
- (with "in") To hammer or to hit anything hard.
- to produce a sharp often metallic explosive or percussive sound
- strike violently
- close violently
- have sexual intercourse with
- move noisily
- leap, jerk, bang
noun
verb
noun
- (mining) A large deposit of ore in a lode.
- That which swallows irretrievably; a whirlpool; a sucking eddy.
- (figurative) A wide interval or gap; a separating space.
- (figurative) A difference, especially a large difference, between groups.
- (geography) A portion of an ocean or sea extending into the land; a partially landlocked sea
- (Oxbridge slang) The bottom part of a list of those awarded a degree, for those who have only just passed.
- A hollow place in the earth; an abyss; a deep chasm or basin.
- a deep wide chasm
- an unbridgeable disparity (as from a failure of understanding)
- an arm of a sea or ocean partly enclosed by land; larger than a bay
verb
noun
- (mining) A kind of pick for shaping large coal.
- (US) An item of bedroom furniture, like a low chest of drawers (bureau), often with a mirror.
- (UK) An item of kitchen furniture, like a cabinet with shelves, for storing crockery or utensils.
- A servant to royalty etc. who helps them with tasks such as dressing.
- (theater, film, television) A wardrobe assistant (who helps actors put on their costume).
- One who dresses or prepares stone.
- (UK) A football hooligan who wears designer clothing; a casual.
- (medicine) A surgeon's assistant who helps to dress wounds etc.
- A mechanical device used in ore mills for dressing (e.g., comminution, sorting, sifting).
- A mechanical device used in grain mills for bolting.
- One who dresses in a particular way.
- furniture with drawers for keeping clothes
- a cabinet with shelves
- a person who dresses in a particular way
- a wardrobe assistant for an actor
- low table with mirror or mirrors where one sits while dressing or applying makeup
noun
- (mining) A heap of rubbish, attle, or other such refuse.
- (obsolete except in scientific use and in some dialects) A castrated boar.
- (saltworks) A wicker case in which salt is put to drain.
- A long sleeveless flannel garment for infants.
- (chiefly British) A hill.
- A mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves.
- (British) A small vehicle used to carry a load and pulled or pushed by hand.
- (archeology) a heap of earth placed over prehistoric tombs
- the quantity that a barrow will hold
- a cart for carrying small loads; has handles and one or more wheels
verb
noun
- (mining) A pile of coal or ore heaped up on the ground after it has been mined.
- (specifically, military, weaponry) A supply of nuclear weapons kept by a country; a nuclear stockpile.
- A supply (especially a large one) of something kept for future use, specifically in case the cost of the item increases or if there a shortage.
- a storage pile accumulated for future use
- something kept back or saved for future use or a special purpose
noun
- (mining) One who bucks ore.
- (mining) A broad-headed hammer used in bucking ore.
- A horse or other animal that bucks.
- (metalworking) A holder-up; one who bucks rivets, typically holding a heavy bucking bar against the bucktail of a rivet which is heated if necessary till it is soft, while the riveter (or gunner or, before mechanisation, basher) uses a rivet gun (an adjustable pneumatic hammer) fitted with a rivet set, against the factory head to provide impulses which upset the bucktail into a field head.
noun
- (mining) Refuse or rubbish from a mine.
- (only as plural) A publication intended for participants in an industry or related group of industries.
- (countable) Those engaged in an industry or group of related industries.
- Short for trade paperback
- (countable) An idea or strategy for an investment on a market.
- (countable or uncountable) An occupation in the secondary sector, as opposed to an agricultural, professional or military one.
- (chiefly in the plural) Steady winds blowing from east to west above and below the equator.
- (countable) A particular instance of buying or selling, or a series of related transactions executed as a single investment.
- (uncountable) The buying and selling of goods and services on a market.
- (countable) The skilled practice of a practical occupation.
- (countable) Those who perform a particular kind of skilled work.
- (uncountable, UK) The business given to a commercial establishment by its customers.
- (uncountable, gay slang) A masculine man available for casual sex with men, often for pay. (Compare rough trade.)
- (countable) An instance of bartering items in exchange for one another.
- steady winds blowing from east to west above and below the equator
- an equal exchange
- the commercial exchange (buying and selling on domestic or international markets) of goods and services
- the skilled practice of a practical occupation
- the business given to a commercial establishment by its customers
- people who perform a particular kind of skilled work
- a particular instance of buying or selling
adj
verb
- (transitive, with for) To give (something) in exchange (for).
- (horticulture, transitive or intransitive) To give someone a plant and receive a different one in return.
- (ambitransitive) To engage in trade.
- (transitive) To mutually exchange (something) (with).
- (transitive, with on) To use or exploit a particular aspect, such as a name, reputation, or image, to gain advantage or benefit.
- (intransitive) To have dealings; to be concerned or associated (with).
- (transitive) To recommend and get recommendations.
- (finance, intransitive, copulative) To be traded at a certain price or under certain conditions.
- (ambitransitive) To do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood.
- engage in the trade of
- exchange or give (something) in exchange for
- be traded at a certain price or under certain conditions
- turn in as payment or part payment for a purchase
- do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood
noun
- (mining) A mine or set of mines on lease.
- A small, square-cut piece of quarried stone used for paving and edging.
- (weaving, England) The number of reeds or splits per inch – one half the number of ends per inch.
- The pattern of distinctive threads and yarns that make up the plaid of a Scottish tartan.
- (mining) A collection of pumps in a mine.
- (weaving) The number of warp ends per inch in the cloth.
- The system of tunnels that is the home of a badger.
- rectangular paving stone with curved top; once used to make roads
noun
- (mining) In placer mining, earth, gravel, etc., before washing.
- Previously unknown facts or rumors about a person.
- (chiefly US) Soil or earth.
- (figurative) Meanness; sordidness.
- A stain or spot (on clothes etc); any foreign substance that worsens appearance.
- Freckles.
- obscene terms for feces
- the part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock
- anything regarded as making something unclean
- disgraceful gossip about the private lives of other people
verb
adj
noun
- (uncountable, mining) Waste material in old mine workings, goaf.
- (countable) A lump of soft or sticky material.
- (UK, Commonwealth, Ireland, slang) The mouth.
- (uncountable, slang) Saliva or phlegm.
- (US, military, slang) A sailor.
- (countable, US, regional) A whoopie pie.
- a man who serves as a sailor
- a lump of slimy stuff
- informal terms for the mouth
verb
noun
- Waste material from a mine.
- Scum that forms on the surface of molten metal.
- Scoria associated with a volcano.
- (UK, Ireland, Australia, slang, derogatory) A prostitute or promiscuous woman; a slut.
- Hard aggregate remaining as a residue from blast furnaces, sometimes used as a surfacing material.
- (UK, Ireland, chiefly Cockney, derogatory) A contemptible person, a scumbag.
- Impurities formed and separated out when a metal is smelted from ore; vitrified cinders.
- the scum formed by oxidation at the surface of molten metals
verb
- (transitive, Ireland, slang) To make fun of; to take the piss (tease, ridicule or mock).
- (transitive) To produce slag.
- (transitive) To reduce to slag.
- (intransitive) To become slag; to agglomerate when heated below the fusion point.
- (intransitive, Australia, slang) To spit.
- (transitive, UK, slang) To talk badly about; to malign or denigrate (someone).
- convert into slag
noun
- (mining) A pile of ore or rock.
- That which is dumped, especially in a chaotic way; a mess.
- (historical, Australia, Canada) A small coin made by punching a hole in a larger coin (called a holey dollar).
- A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.
- (usually in the plural) A sad, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; despondency.
- (computing) A formatted listing of the contents of program storage, especially when produced automatically by a failing program.
- (slang, often with the verb "take", euphemistic) An act of defecation; a defecating.
- A storage place for supplies, especially military.
- (slang) An unpleasant, dirty, disreputable, unfashionable, boring, or depressing looking place.
- A place where waste or garbage is left; a ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.; a disposal site.
- (marketing) A temporary display case that holds many copies of an item being sold.
- (computing) An act of dumping, or its result.
- (Northern England) A deep hole in a river bed; a pool.
- Absence of mind; reverie.
- (Internet slang) A disorganized collection of images posted on social media.
- a coarse term for defecation
- (computer science) a copy of the contents of a computer storage device; sometimes used in debugging programs
- a piece of land where waste materials are dumped
- a place where supplies can be stored
verb
- (transitive, computing) To copy (data) from a system to another place or system, usually in order to archive it.
- (transitive) To release, especially in large quantities and chaotic manner.
- (transitive, computing) To output the contents of storage or a data structure, often in order to diagnose a bug.
- (transitive) To discard; to get rid of something one no longer wants.
- (transitive, Australia) Of a surf wave, to crash a swimmer, surfer, etc., heavily downwards.
- (transitive) To sell below cost or very cheaply; to engage in dumping.
- (transitive) To put or throw down with more or less of violence; hence, to unload from a cart by tilting it
- (transitive, US) To precipitate (especially snow) heavily.
- (transitive, informal) To end a romantic relationship with.
- throw away as refuse
- sell at artificially low prices
- drop (stuff) in a heap or mass
- knock down with force
- fall abruptly
- sever all ties with, usually unceremoniously or irresponsibly
noun
- (mining) The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.
- (sports, UK, Australia, New Zealand) The field on which cricket, soccer, rugby, gridiron or field hockey is played. (In cricket, the pitch is in the centre of the field; see cricket pitch.) (Not often used in the US or Canada, where "field" is the preferred word.)
- An effort to sell or promote something.
- (geology) Pitchstone.
- The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate of descent or slope; slant.
- The angle at which an object sits.
- (golf) A short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
- An area on a campsite intended for occupation by a single tent, caravan or similar.
- A dark, extremely viscous material still remaining after distilling crude oil or natural tar.
- The distance between evenly spaced objects, e.g. the teeth of a saw or gear, the turns of a screw thread, the centres of holes, or letters in a monospace font.
- Prominence; importance.
- The height a bird reaches in flight, especially a bird of prey preparing to swoop down on its prey.
- (nautical, aviation) The degree to which a vehicle, especially a ship or aircraft, rotates on such an axis, tilting its bow or nose up or down.
- (music) In an a cappella group, the singer responsible for singing a note for the other members to tune themselves by.
- (by extension) The place where a busker performs, a prostitute solicits clients, or an illegal gambling game etc. is set up before the public.
- (cricket) That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.
- (climbing) A section of a climb or rock face; specifically, the climbing distance between belays or stances.
- A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand.
- (now British, regional) A person's or animal's height.
- A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.
- (music, phonetics) The perceived frequency of a sound, note or electromagnetic wave.
- A point or peak; the extreme point of elevation or depression.
- (music) The standard to which a group of musical instruments are tuned or in which a piece is performed, usually by reference to the frequency to which the musical note A above middle C is tuned.
- (baseball) The act of pitching a baseball.
- A level or degree, or (by extension), a peak or highest degree.
- A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.
- An area in a market (or similar) allocated to a particular trader.
- (aviation) A measure of the angle of attack of a propeller.
- (caving) A vertical cave passage, only negotiable by using rope or ladders.
- (rare) The field of battle.
- The most thrust-out point of a headland or cape.
- promotion by means of an argument and demonstration
- abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance)
- a sports field with predetermined dimensions for playing soccer
- the property of sound that varies with variation in the frequency of vibration
- a high approach shot in golf
- a vendor's position (especially on the sidewalk)
- any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue
- the act of throwing a baseball or softball by the pitcher towards home plate, which initiates play by giving the batter a chance to hit it
- an all-fours game in which the first card led is a trump
- degree of deviation from a horizontal plane
- the action or manner of throwing something
adj
verb
- To cover or smear with pitch.
- (transitive) To set or fix (a price or value).
- (transitive) To fix or set the tone of.
- (brewing) To add yeast as a step while making beer
- (transitive) To assemble or erect (a tent). Also used figuratively.
- (with on or upon) To fix one's choice.
- (intransitive, Bristol, of snow) To settle and build up, without melting.
- (intransitive) To plunge or fall; especially, to fall forward; to decline or slope.
- (transitive) To set at an angle, especially a downwards one; to cause to tilt.
- (intransitive, baseball) To play baseball in the position of pitcher.
- (intransitive, cricket) To bounce on the playing surface.
- (transitive) To set, face, or pave (an embankment or roadway) with rubble or undressed stones.
- (transitive) To throw away; discard.
- (transitive, golf) To play a short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
- To darken; to blacken; to obscure.
- (intransitive) To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.
- (transitive) To deliver in a certain tone or style, or with a certain audience in mind.
- (transitive or intransitive, baseball) To throw (the ball) toward a batter at home plate.
- (transitive) To promote, advertise, or attempt to sell.
- (intransitive) To produce a note of a given pitch.
- (transitive) To throw.
- (transitive, card games, slang) To discard (a card) for some gain.
- To attack, or position or assemble for attack.
- (ambitransitive, aviation or nautical) To move so that the front of an aircraft or boat goes alternately up and down.
- heel over
- set to a certain pitch
- sell or offer for sale from place to place
- move abruptly
- fall or plunge forward
- throw or hurl from the mound to the batter, as in baseball
- be at an angle
- set the level or character of
- throw or toss with a light motion
- erect and fasten
- lead (a card) and establish the trump suit
- hit (a golf ball) in a high arc with a backspin
noun
- An iron bucket used in mines for hoisting anything to the surface.
- an iron bucket used for hoisting in wells or mining
- Any artificial animal feed in pellet form.
- Something that has been kibbled, especially grain for use as animal feed.
- (fandom slang) In the Transformers fandom, pieces of a toy or figure necessary for one mode, but appearing out of place or unnecessary in the other.
- (historical) A mallet used in the game of trap ball.
- coarsely ground grain in the form of pellets (as for pet food)
verb
noun
- (mining) A hook-like tool used to tear away ore, rock, etc.
- (US, New Jersey, slang) A hot dog deep-fried in oil until the casing bursts.
- (computing) Software that extracts content from files or storage media.
- A murderer who kills and often mutilates victims with a blade or similar sharp weapon.
- A foghorn.
- A legislative bill or act that transfers powers of appointment from the usual holders to a chief executive or a board of officials.
- Someone who rips something.
- (mining) A person employed to tear away ore, rock, etc. to make a passage for material to be carried to the surface.
- Something that rips something else.
- (British, Australia, slang) Something that is an excellent example of its kind.
- (agriculture) A tool or plant used to reduce soil compaction.
- a murderer who slashes the victims with a knife
adj
noun
- (mining) A bit of leather having a peculiar mark designating a particular miner. Each hewer sent one of these with each corf or tub he had hewn.
- (computing) An atomic piece of data, such as a word, for which a meaning may be inferred during parsing.
- (grammar) A lexeme; a basic, grammatically indivisible unit of a language such as a keyword, operator or identifier.
- A seal guaranteeing the quality of an item.
- (weaving) In a loom, a colored signal to show the weaver which shuttle to use.
- Something serving as an expression of something else.
- (computing) A conceptual object that can be possessed by a computer, process, etc. in order to regulate a turn-taking system such as a token ring network.
- (Church of Scotland) A piece of metal given beforehand to each person in the congregation who is permitted to partake of the Lord's Supper.
- (rail transport) A physical object used for exchange between drivers and signalmen on single track lines.
- (mining) A thin bed of coal indicating the existence of a thicker seam at no great distance.
- (corpus linguistics) A single example of a certain word in a text or corpus.
- A keepsake.
- (philosophy) A particular thing to which a concept applies.
- Support for a belief; grounds for an opinion.
- (medicine) A characteristic sign of a disease or of a bodily disorder, a symptom; a sign of a bodily condition, recovery, or health.
- A piece of stamped metal or plastic, etc., used as a form of currency; a voucher that can be exchanged for goods or services.
- Something given or shown as a symbol or guarantee of authority or right; a sign of authenticity, of power, good faith.
- (computing) A meaningless placeholder used as a substitute for sensitive data.
- (printing) Ten and a half quires, or, commonly, 250 sheets, of paper printed on both sides; also, in some cases, the same number of sheets printed on one side, or half the number printed on both sides.
- An object or disclosure to attest or authenticate the bearer or an instruction.
- A minor attempt for appearance's sake, or to minimally comply with a requirement; a formality.
- A small physical object, often designed to give the appearance of a common thing, used to represent a person or character in a board game or other situation.
- A tally.
- A member of a group of people that is included within a larger group to comply with a legal or social requirement.
- An extraordinary event serving as evidence of supernatural power.
- an individual instance of a type of symbol
- something of sentimental value
- a metal or plastic disk that can be redeemed or used in designated slot machines
- something serving as a sign of something else
adj
- (of people) Included in minimal numbers in order to create an impression or illusion of diversity, especially ethnic or gender diversity.
- Perfunctory or merely symbolic; done or existing for appearance's sake, or to minimally comply with a requirement.
- Done as an indication or a pledge.
- insignificantly small; a matter of form only (‘tokenish’ is informal)
verb
noun
- (British, Cornwall, mining) The mouth of a shaft.
- The state of being braced or tight; tension.
- A curved instrument or handle of iron or wood, for holding and turning bits, etc.; a bitstock.
- (British, chiefly in the plural) Straps or bands to sustain trousers; suspenders.
- A cord, ligament, or rod, for producing or maintaining tension.
- A piece of material used to transmit, or change the direction of, weight or pressure; any one of the pieces, in a frame or truss, which divide the structure into triangular parts. It may act as a tie, or as a strut, and serves to prevent distortion of the structure, and transverse strains in its members. A boiler brace is a diagonal stay, connecting the head with the shell.
- That which holds anything tightly or supports it firmly; a bandage or a prop.
- (nautical) A rope reeved through a block at the end of a yard, by which the yard is moved horizontally; also, a rudder gudgeon.
- (soccer) Two goals scored by one player in a game.
- (typography) A curved, pointed line, also known as "curly bracket": { or } connecting two or more words or lines, which are to be considered together, such as in {role, roll}; in music, used to connect staves.
- (plural brace) A pair, a couple; originally used of dogs, and later of animals generally (e.g., a brace of conies) and then other things, but rarely human persons. (In British use (as plural), this is a particularly common reference to game birds.)
- Harness; warlike preparation.
- (plural in North America, singular or plural in the UK) A system of wires, brackets, and elastic bands used to correct crooked teeth or to reduce overbite.
- A thong used to regulate the tension of a drum.
- (cricket) Two wickets taken with two consecutive deliveries.
- a rope on a square-rigged ship that is used to swing a yard about and secure it
- a structural member used to stiffen a framework
- an appliance that corrects dental irregularities
- a set of two similar things considered as a unit
- a support that steadies or strengthens something else
- elastic straps that hold trousers up
- a carpenter's tool having a crank handle for turning and a socket to hold a bit for boring
- either of two punctuation marks (‘{’ or ‘}’) used to enclose textual material
- two items of the same kind
verb
- To place in a position for resisting pressure; to hold firmly.
- (transitive, intransitive) To prepare for something bad, such as an impact or blow.
- To stop someone for questioning, usually said of police.
- To draw tight; to tighten; to put in a state of tension; to strain; to strengthen.
- To bind or tie closely; to fasten tightly.
- (nautical) To swing round the yards of a square rigged ship, using braces, to present a more efficient sail surface to the direction of the wind.
- To confront with questions, demands or requests.
- To furnish with braces; to support; to prop.
- cause to be alert and energetic
- support by bracing
- support or hold steady and make steadfast, with or as if with a brace
- prepare (oneself), often but not necessarily for something unpleasant or difficult
noun
- (manufacturing) An element of a curved grid used to separate desirable material from tailings or chaff in mining and harvesting.
- (gambling) A playing card made concave for use in cheating.
- (surfing) An indentation running along the base of a surfboard, intended to increase lift.
- (skateboarding) An indented area on the top of a skateboard, providing a position for foot placement and increasing board strength.
- The vault of the sky.
- A concave surface or curve.
- One of the celestial spheres of the Ptolemaic or geocentric model of the world.
adj
- (geometry, not comparable, of a polygon) Not convex; having at least one internal angle greater than 180 degrees.
- Curved like the inner surface of a sphere or bowl.
- Hollow; empty.
- (functional analysis, not comparable, of a real-valued function on the reals) Satisfying the property that all segments connecting two points on the function's graph lie below the function.
- curving inward
verb
verb
noun
- (mining) A pile of coal or ore heaped up on the ground after it has been mined.
- (specifically, military, weaponry) A supply of nuclear weapons kept by a country; a nuclear stockpile.
- A supply (especially a large one) of something kept for future use, specifically in case the cost of the item increases or if there a shortage.
- a storage pile accumulated for future use
- something kept back or saved for future use or a special purpose
verb
- (mining) To blast metal into (as a portion of a mine) in order to cause to appear to be a productive seam.
- (wiki jargon) To lock a page title so it cannot be created.
- (archaeology) To add bogus evidence to an archaeological site.
- (transitive) To sprinkle throughout.
- (military, transitive) To sow with salt (of land), symbolizing a curse on its re-inhabitation.
- (intransitive) To deposit salt as a saline solution.
- (transitive) To add certain chemical elements to (a nuclear or conventional weapon) so that it generates more radiation.
- (cryptography) To add filler bytes before encrypting, in order to make brute-force decryption more resource-intensive.
- (nautical, of a ship) To fill with salt between the timbers and planks for the preservation of the timber.
- (transitive) To add salt to.
- add zest or liveliness to
- add salt to
- preserve with salt
- sprinkle as if with salt
adj
noun
- (chemistry) One of the compounds formed from the reaction of an acid with a base, where a positive ion replaces a hydrogen of the acid.
- (Internet slang, uncountable) Tears; indignation; outrage; arguing.
- (cryptography) A sequence of random data added to plain text data (such as passwords or messages) prior to encryption or hashing, in order to make brute force decryption more difficult.
- (figurative, uncountable) Skepticism and common sense.
- (slang, countable) A sailor (also old salt).
- (UK, historical, uncountable) The money demanded by Eton schoolboys during the montem.
- (historical, in the plural) Epsom salts or other salt used as a medicine.
- A common substance, chemically consisting mainly of sodium chloride (NaCl), used extensively as a food ingredient, seasoning, condiment, and preservative.
- A person who seeks employment at a company in order to (once employed by it) help unionize it.
- (uncommon, countable) A salt marsh, a saline marsh at the shore of a sea.
- a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal)
- the taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth
- white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food
verb
- (US) To supply money to work a mine.
- In European institutions of higher education, to qualify as an instructor or professor, usually by defending a dissertation or similar project.
- (intransitive) To qualify oneself, through a demonstration of ability, to function in a certain capacity or to act within a certain role.
- (transitive) To enable one to function in a given manner; to make one capable of performing a given function or of conducting something; to make one fit to fulfill a given purpose or competent to act within a particular role.
- provide with clothes or put clothes on
- qualify for teaching at a university in Europe
verb
noun
- (Australia, New Zealand, mining) Overburden: waste material generated while searching for minerals or while mining, such as when sinking a shaft.
- (Australia, New Zealand, mining) Tailings: waste rock from which the wanted gold, minerals, opal, etc., has been extracted.
- Nonsense, rubbish.
- (now UK dialect) Rubbish, waste matter.
- (UK, Yorkshire, dialect) A mess; the result of a blunder.
verb
- (chiefly US, ambitransitive) To operate a mine illicitly.
- (ambitransitive) To make, transport and/or sell an illegal version or copy of a copyrighted product.
- (chiefly US, ambitransitive) To make, transport and/or sell illegal alcoholic liquor.
- (ambitransitive) To engage in bootlegging.
- produce or distribute illegally
- sell illicit products such as drugs or alcohol
adj
noun
- An illegally produced, transported, or sold product.
- (music) An unauthorized recording; for example, of a live concert.
- (music) A remix or mashup that is a combination of two songs but that is not authorized and audited for copyright use; primarily in the electronic music scene.
- (American football) A play in which the quarterback fakes a handoff, conceals the ball against his hip, and rolls out.
- The part of a boot that is above the instep.
- the part of a boot above the instep
- whiskey illegally distilled from a corn mash
verb
adj
adv
noun
- Prunus sect. Armeniaca (better known as apricots)
- A desirable or choice thing of its kind; a prize selection; a choice appointment, assignment etc.
- An edible, fleshy stone fruit of Prunus domestica (European plum), often of a dark red or purple colour.
- Prunus mume, an Asian fruit more closely related to the apricot than the plum, usually consumed pickled, dried, or as a juice or wine; ume.
- A stone-fruit tree which bears this fruit, Prunus domestica.
- Prunus angustifolia (Chickasaw plum or sand plum)
- A dark bluish-red color/colour, the colour of some plums.
- Prunus salicina (Chinese plum or Japanese plum)
- Prunus americana (American plum)
- Prunus subcordata (Klamath plum or Oregon plum)
- (vulgar, slang, usually in the plural) A testicle.
- Prunus nigra (Canadian plum or black plum)
- Prunus spinosa (sloe)
- Prunus rivularis (creek plum or hog plum)
- Prunus cerasifera (cherry plum or myrobalan)
- (derogatory, chiefly UK) A fool, an idiot.
- Prunus ursina (bear's plum)
- Prunus hortulana (hortulan plum)
- any of numerous varieties of small to medium-sized round or oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single pit
- any of several trees producing edible oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single hard stone
- a highly desirable position or assignment
verb
- (transitive) To sow mines (the explosive devices) in (an area).
- (ambitransitive) To remove (rock or ore) from the ground.
- (by extension, figurative) To ruin or destroy by slow degrees or secret means.
- To dig away, or otherwise remove, the substratum or foundation of; to lay a mine under; to sap; to undermine.
- To dig into, for ore or metal.
- (intransitive) To dig a tunnel or hole; to burrow in the earth.
- (slang) To pick one's nose.
- (cryptocurrencies) To earn new units of cryptocurrency by doing certain calculations.
- (by extension, figurative) To tap into.
- (transitive) To damage (a vehicle or ship) with a mine (an explosive device).
- get from the earth by excavation
- lay mines
noun
- An excavation from which ore or solid minerals are taken, especially one consisting of underground tunnels.
- (military) A device intended to explode when stepped upon or touched, or when approached by a ship, vehicle, or person.
- (entomology) The cavity made by a caterpillar while feeding inside a leaf.
- (figurative) Any source of wealth or resources.
- (computing) A machine or network of machines used to extract units of a cryptocurrency.
- (pyrotechnics) A type of firework that explodes on the ground, shooting sparks upward.
- (military) A passage dug toward or underneath enemy lines, which is then packed with explosives.
- Alternative form of mien.
- excavation in the earth from which ores and minerals are extracted
- explosive device that explodes on contact; designed to destroy vehicles or ships or to kill or maim personnel
pron
verb
- (transitive, mining) To extract (ore, coal, etc.).
- (transitive) To triumph or achieve victory in (a game, a war, etc.).
- (intransitive) To have power, coercion or control.
- (intransitive) To achieve victory.
- (transitive, Scotland) To dry by exposure to the wind.
- (computing, informal, intransitive) To take priority.
- (transitive, informal) To defeat or surpass someone or something.
- (transitive, intransitive) To reach some destination or object, despite difficulty or toil (now usually intransitive, with preposition or locative adverb).
- (transitive) To obtain (something desired).
- (transitive) To gain (a prize) by succeeding in competition or contest.
- (transitive) To obtain (someone) by wooing; to make an ally or friend of (frequently with over).
- (transitive) To cause a victory for someone.
- acquire or deserve by one's efforts or actions
- win something through one's efforts
- obtain advantages, such as points, etc.
- attain success or reach a desired goal
- be the winner in a contest or competition; be victorious
noun
verb
- (mining, transitive) To bale a shaft dry.
- (ambitransitive, software engineering) To launch a separate software development effort based upon a modified copy of an existing software project, especially in free and open-source software.
- (transitive) To move with a fork (as hay or food).
- (chess) To simultaneously attack two opposing pieces with a single attacking piece.
- (intransitive) To shoot into blades, as corn does.
- (ambitransitive, computing) To spawn a new child process by duplicating the existing process.
- (transitive, software engineering) To create a copy of a distributed version control repository.
- (transitive, British) To kick someone in the crotch.
- (transitive) Euphemistic form of fuck.
- (ambitransitive) To divide into two or more branches or copies.
- lift with a pitchfork
- shape like a fork
- divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork
- place under attack with one's own pieces, of two enemy pieces
noun
- Such a pronged tool having a long straight handle, generally for two-handed use, as used for digging, lifting, mucking, pitching, etc.
- (cycling, motorcycling, by abstraction from a pronged tool's shape) In a bicycle or motorcycle, the portion of the frameset holding the front wheel, allowing the rider to steer and balance, also called front fork.
- Any of several types of pronged tools for use on farms, in fields, or in the garden or lawn, such as a smaller hand fork for weeding or a larger one for turning over the soil.
- (mining) The bottom of a sump into which the water of a mine drains.
- (metonymic) Either of the (figurative) paths thus taken.
- (content management) Any of the pieces/versions of content thus created.
- (cryptocurrencies) A split in a blockchain resulting from protocol disagreements, or a branch of the blockchain resulting from such a split.
- (chess) The simultaneous attack of two adversary pieces with one single attacking piece (especially a knight).
- (figuratively, decision-making) A point in time where one has to make a decision between two life paths.
- (software) Any of the software projects resulting from the launch of such separate software development efforts based upon a copy of the original project.
- A tuning fork.
- (content management) The splitting of the coverage of a topic (within a corpus of content) into two or more pieces.
- (by abstraction, from the tool shape) A point where a waterway, such as a river or other stream, splits and flows into two (or more) different directions.
- (colloquial) A forklift.
- (British, vulgar) The crotch.
- Either of the blades of a forklift (or, in plural, the set of blades), on which the goods to be raised are loaded.
- (metonymic) Any of the pieces/versions (of software, content, or data sets) thus created.
- (computing, file systems) A set of data associated with an individual file in some file systems.
- (software) The launch of one or more separate software development efforts based upon a modified copy of an existing project, especially in free and open-source software.
- (metonymic, analogous to any prong of a pronged tool) One of the parts into which anything is furcated or divided; a prong; a branch of a stream, a road, etc.; a barbed point, as of an arrow.
- A utensil with spikes used to put solid food into the mouth, or to hold food down while cutting, or for serving food.
- (physical) An intersection in a road or path where one road is split into two.
- (figurative) A decision point.
- The upper front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end.
- an agricultural tool used for lifting or digging; has a handle and metal prongs
- the region of the angle formed by the junction of two branches
- the angle formed by the inner sides of the legs where they join the human trunk
- a utensil with two or more prongs, used for serving or eating food
- the act of branching out or dividing into branches
verb
- (mining) To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.
- (transitive) To get by digging; to take from the ground; often with up.
- (volleyball) To defend against an attack hit by the opposing team by successfully passing the ball
- To thrust; to poke.
- (figurative) To investigate, to research, often followed by out or up.
- (transitive, intransitive) To move hard-packed earth out of the way, especially downward to make a hole with a shovel. Or to drill, or the like, through rocks, roads, or the like. More generally, to make any similar hole by moving material out of the way.
- remove, harvest, or recover by digging
- remove the inner part or the core of
- get the meaning of something
- turn up, loosen, or remove earth
- thrust down or into
- work hard
- create by digging
- poke or thrust abruptly
noun
- An archeological or paleontological investigation, or the site where such an investigation is taking place.
- The occupation of digging for gold.
- (music, slang) A rare or interesting vinyl record bought second-hand.
- (medicine, colloquial) Digoxin.
- (cricket) An innings.
- A thrust; a poke.
- (volleyball) A defensive pass of the ball that has been attacked by the opposing team.
- A cutting, sarcastic remark.
- the act of digging
- the site of an archeological exploration
- an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect
- the act of touching someone suddenly with your finger or elbow
- a small gouge (as in the cover of a book)
verb
- (mining) To remove all the mineral that can be profitably exploited.
- (transitive) To smooth or perfect.
- (intransitive, US) To earn a wage working away from one's farm.
- (transitive, intransitive) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see work, out.
- (transitive) To calculate.
- (transitive) To make sense of.
- (intransitive) To conclude with the correct solution.
- (transitive) To bring about or cause to happen by work or effort.
- (intransitive) To exercise, especially by lifting weights.
- (transitive) To resolve; to find a solution for.
- (transitive) To develop or devise in detail; to elaborate.
- (intransitive) To succeed; to result in a satisfactory situation.
- (transitive) To decide.
- (transitive) To strengthen a part of one’s body by exercise.
- work out in detail
- make a mathematical calculation or computation
- happen in a certain way, leading to, producing, or resulting in a certain outcome, often well
- do physical exercise
- find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of
- give a workout to
- come up with
- be calculated
noun
- (uncountable, mining) Waste material in old mine workings, goaf.
- (countable) A lump of soft or sticky material.
- (UK, Commonwealth, Ireland, slang) The mouth.
- (uncountable, slang) Saliva or phlegm.
- (US, military, slang) A sailor.
- (countable, US, regional) A whoopie pie.
- a man who serves as a sailor
- a lump of slimy stuff
- informal terms for the mouth
verb
verb
- (transitive) To give a pile to; to make shaggy.
- (transitive) To add something to a great number.
- (transitive, often used with the preposition "up") To lay or throw into a pile or heap; to heap up; to collect into a mass; to accumulate
- (transitive) (of vehicles) To create a hold-up.
- (transitive) To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load.
- (intransitive) To form a pile or heap.
- (transitive, military) To place (guns, muskets, etc.) together in threes so that they can stand upright, supporting each other.
- (transitive) To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.
- arrange in stacks
- press tightly together or cram
- place or lay as if in a pile
noun
- An atomic pile; an early form of nuclear reactor.
- A list or league
- Hair, especially when very fine or short; the fine underfur of certain animals. (Formerly countable, now treated as a collective singular.)
- A large stake, or piece of pointed timber, steel etc., driven into the earth or sea-bed for the support of a building, a pier, or other superstructure, or to form a cofferdam, etc.
- (informal) A group or list of related items up for consideration, especially in some kind of selection process.
- A mass of things heaped together; a heap.
- (historical, electrochemistry) A battery (simple device for converting chemical potential energy into usable electricity).
- A large building, or mass of buildings.
- A mass formed in layers.
- A bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be worked over into bars or other shapes by rolling or hammering at a welding heat; a fagot.
- A vertical series of alternate disks of two dissimilar metals (especially copper and zinc), laid up with disks of cloth or paper moistened with acid water between them, for producing a current of electricity; a voltaic pile, or galvanic pile.
- The raised hairs, loops or strands of a fabric; the nap of a cloth.
- A battery consisting of repeated units of alternating types of metal; voltaic pile.
- (usually in the plural) A hemorrhoid.
- (heraldry) One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.
- (slang) A large amount of money.
- A funeral pile; a pyre.
- (architecture, civil engineering) A beam, pole, or pillar, driven completely into the ground, usually as one of a group that constitutes a foundation.
- The head of an arrow or spear.
- fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs)
- a nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fission to generate energy
- the yarn (as in a rug or velvet or corduroy) that stands up from the weave
- a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure
- battery consisting of voltaic cells arranged in series; the earliest electric battery devised by Volta
- a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit)
- a collection of objects laid on top of each other
- (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent
verb
- (mining) To sort or separate, as ore in a jigger or sieve.
- To trick or cheat; to cajole; to delude.
- (fishing) To fish with a jig.
- To cut or form, as a piece of metal, in a jigging machine.
- To sing to the tune of a jig.
- To skip school or be truant.
- To move briskly, especially as a dance.
- To move with a skip or rhythm; to move with vibrations or jerks.
- dance a quick dance with leaping and kicking motions
noun
- (music) A light, brisk musical movement; a gigue.
- (mining) An apparatus or machine for jigging ore.
- (fishing) A type of lure consisting of a hook molded into a weight, usually with a bright or colorful body.
- A device in manufacturing, woodworking, or other creative endeavors for controlling the location, path of movement, or both of either a workpiece or the tool that is operating upon it. Subsets of this general class include machining jigs, woodworking jigs, welders' jigs, jewelers' jigs, and many others.
- (traditional Irish music and dance) A lively dance in 6/8 (double jig), 9/8 (slip jig) or 12/8 (single jig) time; a tune suitable for such a dance. By extension, a lively traditional tune in any of these time signatures. Unqualified, the term is usually taken to refer to a double (6/8) jig.
- (traditional English Morris dance) A dance performed by one or sometimes two individual dancers, as opposed to a dance performed by a set or team.
- a device that holds a piece of machine work and guides the tools operating on it
- a fisherman's lure with one or more hooks that is jerked up and down in the water
- any of various old rustic dances involving kicking and leaping
- music in three-four time for dancing a jig
verb
noun
verb
- (mining) To put: to convey coal in the mine, e.g. from the working to the tramway.
- (intransitive) Often with up, to speed up the rate of doing something.
- (intransitive) To do things quickly.
- (transitive) To impel to precipitate or thoughtless action; to urge to confused or irregular activity.
- (transitive) To cause to be done quickly.
- (transitive) To hasten; to impel to greater speed; to urge on.
- act at high speed
- move very fast
- urge to an unnatural speed
noun
- A rushed action.
- (music) A tremolando passage for violins, etc., accompanying an exciting situation.
- (American football) An incidence of a defensive pressure that forces the quarterback to throw the ball earlier than intended or rush their decision, often leading to an incomplete pass or failed play.
- An urgency.
- a condition of urgency making it necessary to hurry
- overly eager speed (and possible carelessness)
- the act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner
verb
- (mining) To separate valuable material (such as gold) from worthless material by the action of flowing water.
- (intransitive) To bear without damage the operation of being washed; to be suitable for washing.
- (transitive) To cover with water or any liquid; to wet; to fall on and moisten.
- (transitive) To clean with water.
- (transitive) To cause dephosphorization of (molten pig iron) by adding substances containing iron oxide, and sometimes manganese oxide.
- (intransitive) To clean oneself with water.
- (transitive) To cover with a thin or watery coat of colour; to tint lightly and thinly.
- (intransitive) To move with a lapping or swashing sound; to lap or splash.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To be cogent, convincing; to withstand critique.
- (chemistry, transitive) To pass or extract (a gas or gaseous mixture) through or over a liquid for the purpose of purifying it, especially by removing soluble constituents.
- (intransitive) To be eroded or carried away by the action of water.
- (mah-jong) To mix up tiles (before a new game) to make them random; to shuffle.
- (transitive) To carry away or erode by the force of water in motion.
- (transitive) To overlay with a thin coat of metal.
- move by or as if by water
- cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water
- separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals)
- to cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking
- remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap or some other cleaning agent
- cleanse (one's body) with soap and water
- wash by removing particles
- admit to testing or proof
- form by erosion
- apply a thin coating of paint, metal, etc., to
- make moist
- wash or flow against
- be capable of being washed
- clean with some chemical process
noun
- (finance, slang) A fictitious kind of sale of stock or other securities between parties of one interest, or by a broker who is both buyer and seller, and who minds his own interest rather than that of his clients.
- The quantity of clothes washed at a time.
- A thin coat of paint or metal laid on anything for beauty or preservation.
- Ten strikes, or bushels, of oysters.
- A piece of ground washed by the action of water, or sometimes covered and sometimes left dry; the shallowest part of a river, or arm of the sea; also, a bog; a marsh.
- The turbulence left in the air by a moving airplane.
- A total failure; a washout.
- The backward current or disturbed water caused by the action of oars, or of a steamer's screw or paddles, etc.
- (stagecraft) A lighting fixture that can cast a wide beam of light to evenly fill an area with light, as opposed to a spotlight.
- (nautical) The blade of an oar.
- The bow wave or wake of a moving ship, or the vortex from its screws.
- A shallow body of water.
- Ground washed away to the sea or a river.
- The breaking of waves on the shore; the onwards rush of shallow water towards a beach.
- A mixture of dunder, molasses, water, and scummings, used in the West Indies for distillation.
- A lotion or other liquid with medicinal or hygienic properties.
- In distilling, the fermented wort before the spirit is extracted.
- (television) A lighting effect that fills a scene with a chosen colour.
- Waste liquid, the refuse of food, the collection from washed dishes, etc., from a kitchen, often used as food for pigs; pigwash.
- (idiomatic) A situation in which gains and losses or advantages and disadvantages are equivalent, or in which there is no net change.
- A liquid used for washing.
- (architecture) The upper surface of a member or material when given a slope to shed water; hence, a structure or receptacle shaped so as to receive and carry off water.
- (art) A smooth and translucent painting created using a paintbrush holding a large amount of solvent and a small amount of paint.
- The process or an instance of washing or being washed by water or other liquid.
- In arid and semi-arid regions, the normally dry bed of an intermittent or ephemeral stream; an arroyo or wadi.
- a watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other
- a thin coat of water-base paint
- the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water)
- the erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water (as from a roadway)
- the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon)
- garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering
- any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out
- the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller
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adj
- (mining) Of something mined such as coal or ore: broken into pieces.
- Caused to move (and usually weakened) by a strong force.
- Of a drink, especially (alcoholic beverages) a cocktail: mixed by being agitated with ice in a shaker.
- Chiefly of a person: having had one's composure or confidence disrupted or upset; in a state of shock or trauma.
- Moved rapidly in opposite directions alternatingly.
- Weakened by some event.
- (timber industry) Of timber: damaged from being cracked.
- disturbed psychologically as if by a physical jolt or shock