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noun
- a sink in a kitchen
- A sink in a kitchen used for washing crockery, cutlery, utensils, food, etc., and disposing of waste.
- (also attributive) A miscellaneous item or a miscellany, especially exemplifying an indiscriminate profusion.
- (metonymic) In chained or tied to the kitchen sink, etc.: domestic chores or housework, especially when regarded as menial and tedious.
adj
- (by extension, drama, fiction, film, television, originally derogatory) Of or pertaining to a mid-20th-century (especially 1950s–1960s) genre of drama, fiction, etc., in Britain depicting the harsh lives of working-class people; also, of or pertaining to a film, novel, play, etc., of this genre.
- (painting) Of or pertaining to a mid-20th-century realist style of painting in Britain characterized by scenes of dull or untidy domestic interiors such as kitchens in the homes of urban working-class people; also, of or pertaining to an artist or group of artists painting in this style.
verb
- (intransitive) To raise unrelated complaints and other matters during an argument.
- To raise to (someone) unrelated complaints and other matters during an argument.
- To make (something) overly complicated or elaborate; to overcomplicate, to overwork.
- (business) To release (a large amount of information about the poor financial results of a company) in one go, in the hope that there will be less impact.
noun
- A basin used for washing, (now) particularly a permanently installed sink, fitted with a water supply and a drain, for washing the hands and face.
- a bathroom sink that is permanently installed and connected to a water supply and drainpipe; where you can wash your hands and face
- A laundry sink or utility sink.
- a basin for washing the hands
noun
- a bathroom sink that is permanently installed and connected to a water supply and drainpipe; where you can wash your hands and face
- A wide bowl for washing, sometimes affixed to a wall.
- a bowl-shaped vessel; usually used for holding food or liquids
- the entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries; an area characterized by all runoff being conveyed to the same outlet
- a natural depression in the surface of the land often with a lake at the bottom of it
- the quantity that a basin will hold
- (geography) An area of land from which water drains into a common outlet; drainage basin.
- (geography) A shallow depression in a rock formation, such as an area of down-folded rock that has accumulated a thick layer of sediments, or an area scooped out by water erosion.
- A depression, natural or artificial, containing water.
verb
noun
- a bathroom sink that is permanently installed and connected to a water supply and drainpipe; where you can wash your hands and face
- (construction, interior design) A plumbing fixture used for washing: a sink.
- a toilet that is cleaned of waste by the flow of water through it
- a room or building equipped with one or more toilets
- (UK, New England) A plumbing fixture for urination and defecation: a toilet.
- A laver: a washbasin.
- (Christianity, usually figurative) A baptismal font: the basin used for baptism, used figuratively for the washing away of sins.
- (Christianity) The ritual washing of hands after using the piscina to clean the communion vessels.
- (Christianity) The lavabo: the ritual washing of hands before handling the eucharist.
- (euphemistic) A room containing a toilet: a bathroom (US) or WC (UK).
- (Christianity) A lavabo: the basin used for washing one's hands before handling the Eucharist.
- (Christianity) A piscina: the basin used for washing communion vessels.
- A vessel or fixture for washing, particularly:
- Handwashing as an act, particularly
noun
- a bathroom sink that is permanently installed and connected to a water supply and drainpipe; where you can wash your hands and face
- A sink in a bathroom, connected to a supply of water and a drain, in which one may wash one's face and hands.
- a basin for washing the hands
- A basin for washing the face and hands.
noun
- a bathroom sink that is permanently installed and connected to a water supply and drainpipe; where you can wash your hands and face
- (furniture) A table containing a basin and a pitcher of water for washing.
- furniture consisting of a table or stand to hold a basin and pitcher of water for washing: ‘wash-hand stand’ is a British term
noun
- A shallow seggar for porcelain.
- Any of several long-haired breeds of hunting dog that set when they have scented game.
- (sports, in combinations) A game or match that lasts a certain number of sets.
- One who adapts words to music in composition.
- One who hunts victims for sharpers.
- (volleyball) The player who is responsible for setting, or passing, the ball to teammates for an attack.
- One who sets something, such as a challenge or an examination.
- A typesetter.
- (object-oriented programming) A function used to modify the value of some property of an object, contrasted with the getter.
- one who sets written material into type
- a long-haired dog formerly trained to crouch on finding game but now to point
verb
noun
- a long narrow shallow receptacle
- a treasury for government funds
- a narrow depression (as in the earth or between ocean waves or in the ocean bed)
- a channel along the eaves or on the roof; collects and carries away rainwater
- a concave shape with an open top
- a container (usually in a barn or stable) from which cattle or horses feed
- (meteorology) A linear atmospheric depression associated with a weather front.
- (colloquial) An undivided metal urinal (plumbing fixture)
- (agriculture, Australia, New Zealand) A channel for conveying water or other farm liquids (such as milk) from place to place by gravity; any ‘U’ or ‘V’ cross-sectioned irrigation channel.
- A long, narrow depression between waves or ridges; the low portion of a wave cycle.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A rectangular container used for washing or rinsing clothes.
- A long, narrow container, open on top, for feeding or watering animals.
- Any similarly shaped container.
- (Canada) A gutter under the eaves of a building; an eaves trough.
- A short, narrow canal designed to hold water until it drains or evaporates.
- (economics) A low turning point or a local minimum of a business cycle.
verb
noun
- A shallow, typically oval, vessel made of porcelain, pottery, or glass.
- (biology) A cisterna.
- The receptacle that holds the fuel in an oil lamp.
- In a flush toilet, the container in which the water used for flushing is held; a toilet tank.
- The vessel surrounding the condenser in a steam engine.
- A reservoir or tank for holding water, especially for catching and holding rainwater for later use.
- an artificial reservoir for storing liquids; especially an underground tank for storing rainwater
- a tank that holds the water used to flush a toilet
- a sac or cavity containing fluid especially lymph or cerebrospinal fluid
noun
- A small, shallow evaporating dish, usually of porcelain.
- (pharmacy) A small container containing a dose of medicine.
- (wine) The covering — formerly lead or tin, now often plastic — over the cork at the top of the wine bottle.
- One of the very small rooms for guests in a capsule hotel.
- (physiology) A membranous envelope.
- (anatomy) A membrane that surrounds the eyeball
- (botany) A sporangium, especially in bryophytes.
- (anatomy) A tough, fibrous layer surrounding an organ such as the kidney or liver
- A small cup or shell, often of metal, for a percussion cap, cartridge, etc.
- (botany) A type of simple, dehiscent, dry fruit (seed-case) produced by many species of flowering plants, such as poppy, lily, orchid, willow and cotton.
- (astronautics) A detachable part of a rocket or spacecraft (usually in the nose) containing the crew's living space.
- (attributively, figuratively) in a brief, condensed or compact form
- a spacecraft designed to transport people and support human life in outer space
- a pilot's seat in an airplane that can be forcibly ejected in the case of an emergency; then the pilot descends by parachute
- a shortened version of a written work
- a dry dehiscent seed vessel or the spore-containing structure of e.g. mosses
- a structure that encloses a body part
- a small container
- a pill in the form of a small rounded gelatinous container with medicine inside
verb
noun
- A cup-shaped vessel with a long handle, for dipping into and ladling out liquids; a ladle or scoop.
- Any snack food intended to be dipped in sauce.
- One who, or that which, dips (immerses something, or itself, into a liquid).
- (historical, informal, Christianity) A Baptist or Dunker.
- (South Asia, North India, slang, derogatory, offensive) an Indian-born immigrant residing in Western countries, often born in the 1990s or later
- Any of various small passerine birds of the genus Cinclus that live near fast-flowing streams and feed along the bottom.
- (cricket) A delivery bowled that curves into or away from the batter before pitching.
- Someone who dips chewing tobacco or snuff.
- (UK, India) The control in a vehicle that switches between high-beam and low-beam (i.e. dips the lights), especially when used to signal other vehicles.
- (slang) A pickpocket.
- (historical) A person employed in a tin plate works to coat steel plates in molten tin by dipping them.
- (historical) A person employed to assist a bather in and out of the sea.
- a ladle that has a cup with a long handle
- small stocky diving bird without webbed feet; frequents fast-flowing streams and feeds along the bottom
- small North American diving duck; males have bushy head plumage
noun
- A hollow or pit into which liquid drains, such as a cesspool, cesspit or sink.
- (construction) An intentional depression around a drain or scupper that promotes drainage.
- A completely flooded cave passage, sometimes passable by diving.
- (automotive) The crankcase or oil reservoir of an internal combustion engine.
- (nautical) The pit at the lowest point in a circulating or drainage system (FM 55-501).
- (Scotland) A sudden or heavy fall of rain; a deluge.
- The lowest part of a mineshaft into which water drains.
- a well or other hole in which water has collected
- a covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it
- an oil reservoir in an internal combustion engine
verb
noun
- A cylindrical receptacle about as tall as it is wide, with one long handle, usually made of metal, used for cooking in the home.
- shallow container made of metal
- A wide receptacle in which gold grains are separated from gravel by washing the contents with water.
- (music) Ellipsis of steelpan.
- (rail transport, informal) Clipping of pantograph.
- A part; a portion.
- A pond or lake, considered as the expanse of land upon which the water sits.
- A closed vessel for boiling or evaporating as part of manufacture; a vacuum pan.
- A bedpan.
- (South Africa) Synonym of playa lake: a temporary pond or lake in a playa.
- (firearms) The part of a matchlock, flintlock, or wheellock firearm that holds the priming.
- (figurative) The brain, seen as one's intellect.
- (Ireland) A deep plastic receptacle, used for washing or food preparation; a basin.
- (roofing) The bottom flat part of a roofing panel that is between the ribs of the panel.
- (especially South Africa) A dry lake or playa, especially a salt flat.
- A wide, flat receptacle used around the house, especially for cooking.
- A sequence in a film in which the camera pans over an area.
- (carpentry) A recess, or bed, for the leaf of a hinge.
- (slang) A human face, a mug.
- (chiefly Ireland) A loaf of bread; a pan-loaf.
- (fortifications) The distance comprised between the angle of the epaule and the flanked angle.
- Ellipsis of salt pan: a flat artificial pond used for collecting minerals from evaporated water.
- A leaf of gold or silver.
- The contents of such a receptacle.
- The skull, considered as a vessel containing the brain; the brainpan.
- Alternative form of paan.
- (geology) Ellipsis of hardpan: a hard substrate such as is formed in pans.
- Strong adverse criticism.
- cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel
adj
verb
- (imaging, intransitive) To shift an image relative to the display window without changing the viewing scale.
- To join or fit together; to unite.
- (intransitive, with out, to pan out) To turn out well; to be successful.
- (sound engineering, intransitive) (of a sound) To move in the multichannel sound field.
- (photography, intransitive) To move the camera lens angle while continuing to expose the film, enabling a contiguous view and enrichment of context. In still-photography large-group portraits the film usually remains on a horizontal fixed plane as the lens and/or the film holder moves to expose the film laterally. The resulting image may extend a short distance laterally or as great as 360° from the point where the film first began to be exposed.
- (sound engineering, transitive) To spread a sound signal into a new stereo or multichannel sound field, typically giving the impression that it is moving across the sound stage.
- (intransitive) (of a camera) To turn horizontally.
- (transitive) To wash in a pan (of earth, sand etc. when searching for gold).
- (transitive, informal, of a contest) To beat one's opposition convincingly.
- (transitive) To disparage; to belittle; to put down; to harshly criticize, especially a work (book, movie, etc.)
- wash dirt in a pan to separate out the precious minerals
- express a totally negative opinion of
- make a sweeping movement
noun
- metal or earthenware cooking vessel that is usually round and deep; often has a handle and lid
- A flat-bottomed vessel (usually metal) used for cooking food, possibly excluding saucepans (see usage notes).
- the quantity contained in a pot
- the cumulative amount involved in a game (such as poker)
- a container in which plants are cultivated
- street names for marijuana
- slang for a paunch
- a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination
- a resistor with three terminals, the third being an adjustable center terminal; used to adjust voltages in radios and TV sets
- (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent
- (UK, horse-racing, slang) A favorite: a heavily-backed horse.
- (historical) Any of various traditional units of volume notionally based on the capacity of a pot.
- (slang, uncountable) Ruin or deterioration.
- A vessel used for brewing or serving drinks: a coffeepot or teapot.
- A crucible: a melting pot.
- (slang, electronics) A simple electromechanical device used to control resistance or voltage (often to adjust sound volume) in an electronic device by rotating or sliding when manipulated by a human thumb, screwdriver, etc.
- (slang, uncountable) Marijuana.
- (chiefly East Midlands, Yorkshire) A plaster cast.
- (rail transport) A pot-shaped non-conducting (usually ceramic) stand that supports an electrified rail while insulating it from the ground.
- (roleplaying games, video games) Clipping of potion.
- (slang) Clipping of potbelly (“a pot-shaped belly, a paunch”).
- A perforated cask for draining sugar.
- A vessel (usually earthenware) used with a seal for storing food, such as a honeypot.
- (Maine) A pot-shaped trap used for catching lobsters or other seafood: a lobster pot.
- (archaic except in place names) Pothole, sinkhole, vertical cave.
- An allocation of money for a particular purpose.
- (historical) Alternative form of pott: a former size of paper, 12.5 × 15 inches.
- A shallow hole used in certain games played with marbles. The marbles placed in it are called potsies.
- (Australia, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania) A glass of beer in Australia whose size varies regionally but is typically around 10 fl oz (285 mL).
- (historical) An iron hat with a broad brim worn as a helmet.
- A pot-shaped metal or earthenware extension of a flue above the top of a chimney: a chimney pot.
- (gambling, poker) The money available to be won in a hand of poker or a round of other games of chance; (figuratively) any sum of money being used as an enticement.
- (slang) Clipping of potshot (“a haphazard shot; an easy or cheap shot”).
- A vessel used to hold soil for growing plants, particularly flowers: a flowerpot.
verb
- plant in a pot
- (electronics) To package a circuit by encasing it in resin.
- To put (something) into a pot.
- (transitive, British) To seat a person, usually a young child, on a potty or toilet, typically during toilet teaching.
- (transitive) To drain (e.g. sugar of the molasses) in a perforated cask.
- (snooker, pool, billiards, transitive) To cause a ball to fall into a pocket.
- (chiefly East Midlands) To apply a plaster cast to a broken limb.
- (rugby, transitive) To score (a drop goal).
- (transitive) To shoot with a firearm.
- To preserve by bottling or canning.
- (transitive, colloquial) To secure; gain; win; bag.
- (British) To send someone to jail, expeditiously.
- To catch (a fish, eel, etc) via a pot.
- (snooker, pool, billiards, intransitive) To be capable of being potted.
- (slang, broadcasting) To fade volume in or out by means of a potentiometer.
noun
- In a bathroom, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, which holds the washbasin.
- The breast of a horse; that part of a horse between the shoulders and under the neck.
- A telltale; a contrivance attached to an engine, printing press, or other machine, for the purpose of counting the revolutions or the pulsations.
- Something opposite or contrary to something else.
- A table or board on which money is counted and over which business is transacted.
- A shop tabletop on which goods are examined, weighed or measured.
- An object (now especially a small disc) used in counting or keeping count, or as a marker in games, etc.
- (typography) The enclosed or partly closed negative space of a glyph.
- The piece of a shoe or a boot around the heel of the foot (above the heel of the shoe/boot).
- (nautical) The overhanging stern of a vessel above the waterline, below and somewhat forward of the stern proper.
- (grammar) A class of word used along with numbers to count objects and events, typically mass nouns. Although rare and optional in English (e.g. "20 head of cattle"), they are numerous and required in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.
- counterattack
- A reckoner; someone who collects data by counting; an enumerator.
- (programming) A variable, memory location, etc. whose contents are incremented to keep a count.
- In a kitchen, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, designed to be used for food preparation.
- (historical) The prison attached to a city court; a compter.
- (martial arts) A proactive defensive hold or move in reaction to a hold or move by one's opponent.
- (music) Alternative form of contra Formerly used to designate any under part which served for contrast to a principal part, but now used as equivalent to countertenor.
- (Internet) A hit counter.
- One who counts.
- (curling) Any stone lying closer to the center than any of the opponent's stones.
- game equipment (as a piece of wood, plastic, or ivory) used for keeping a count or reserving a space in various card or board games
- (computer science) a register whose contents go through a regular series of states (usually states indicating consecutive integers)
- a piece of leather forming the back of a shoe or boot
- table consisting of a horizontal surface over which business is transacted
- a calculator that keeps a record of the number of times something happens
- a person who counts things
- a piece of furniture that stands at the side of a dining room; has shelves and drawers
- a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one)
- a return punch (especially by a boxer)
adj
adv
verb
noun
- A flat-bottomed, straight-sided, glass vessel, with a lip and often a small spout, used as a laboratory container.
- A mug.
- A drinking vessel without a handle.
- (slang, Antarctica) A scientist.
- (archaeology) An ancient bell-shaped ceramic pot with a wide mouth, narrow neck, and flaring body, used by the Beaker people during the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age.
- a cup (usually without a handle)
- a flatbottomed jar made of glass or plastic; used for chemistry
noun
- a basin for washing the hands
- (Christianity) A ritual involving the washing of one's hands at a church's offertory before handling the Eucharist.
- (architecture) A trough used for washing at some medieval monasteries.
- (humorous, euphemistic) A lavatory: a room used for urination and defecation.
- (Christianity) The small towel used to dry the priest's hands following the ritual.
- A washbasin, particularly (Christianity) the one in a church used in the ritual.
noun
- a sink in a kitchen
- A sink in a kitchen used for washing crockery, cutlery, utensils, food, etc., and disposing of waste.
- (also attributive) A miscellaneous item or a miscellany, especially exemplifying an indiscriminate profusion.
- (metonymic) In chained or tied to the kitchen sink, etc.: domestic chores or housework, especially when regarded as menial and tedious.
adj
- (by extension, drama, fiction, film, television, originally derogatory) Of or pertaining to a mid-20th-century (especially 1950s–1960s) genre of drama, fiction, etc., in Britain depicting the harsh lives of working-class people; also, of or pertaining to a film, novel, play, etc., of this genre.
- (painting) Of or pertaining to a mid-20th-century realist style of painting in Britain characterized by scenes of dull or untidy domestic interiors such as kitchens in the homes of urban working-class people; also, of or pertaining to an artist or group of artists painting in this style.
verb
- (intransitive) To raise unrelated complaints and other matters during an argument.
- To raise to (someone) unrelated complaints and other matters during an argument.
- To make (something) overly complicated or elaborate; to overcomplicate, to overwork.
- (business) To release (a large amount of information about the poor financial results of a company) in one go, in the hope that there will be less impact.
noun
- A basin used for washing, (now) particularly a permanently installed sink, fitted with a water supply and a drain, for washing the hands and face.
- a bathroom sink that is permanently installed and connected to a water supply and drainpipe; where you can wash your hands and face
- A laundry sink or utility sink.
- a basin for washing the hands
noun
- a bathroom sink that is permanently installed and connected to a water supply and drainpipe; where you can wash your hands and face
- A wide bowl for washing, sometimes affixed to a wall.
- a bowl-shaped vessel; usually used for holding food or liquids
- the entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries; an area characterized by all runoff being conveyed to the same outlet
- a natural depression in the surface of the land often with a lake at the bottom of it
- the quantity that a basin will hold
- (geography) An area of land from which water drains into a common outlet; drainage basin.
- (geography) A shallow depression in a rock formation, such as an area of down-folded rock that has accumulated a thick layer of sediments, or an area scooped out by water erosion.
- A depression, natural or artificial, containing water.
verb
noun
- a bathroom sink that is permanently installed and connected to a water supply and drainpipe; where you can wash your hands and face
- (construction, interior design) A plumbing fixture used for washing: a sink.
- a toilet that is cleaned of waste by the flow of water through it
- a room or building equipped with one or more toilets
- (UK, New England) A plumbing fixture for urination and defecation: a toilet.
- A laver: a washbasin.
- (Christianity, usually figurative) A baptismal font: the basin used for baptism, used figuratively for the washing away of sins.
- (Christianity) The ritual washing of hands after using the piscina to clean the communion vessels.
- (Christianity) The lavabo: the ritual washing of hands before handling the eucharist.
- (euphemistic) A room containing a toilet: a bathroom (US) or WC (UK).
- (Christianity) A lavabo: the basin used for washing one's hands before handling the Eucharist.
- (Christianity) A piscina: the basin used for washing communion vessels.
- A vessel or fixture for washing, particularly:
- Handwashing as an act, particularly
noun
- a bathroom sink that is permanently installed and connected to a water supply and drainpipe; where you can wash your hands and face
- A sink in a bathroom, connected to a supply of water and a drain, in which one may wash one's face and hands.
- a basin for washing the hands
- A basin for washing the face and hands.
noun
- a bathroom sink that is permanently installed and connected to a water supply and drainpipe; where you can wash your hands and face
- (furniture) A table containing a basin and a pitcher of water for washing.
- furniture consisting of a table or stand to hold a basin and pitcher of water for washing: ‘wash-hand stand’ is a British term
noun
- A shallow seggar for porcelain.
- Any of several long-haired breeds of hunting dog that set when they have scented game.
- (sports, in combinations) A game or match that lasts a certain number of sets.
- One who adapts words to music in composition.
- One who hunts victims for sharpers.
- (volleyball) The player who is responsible for setting, or passing, the ball to teammates for an attack.
- One who sets something, such as a challenge or an examination.
- A typesetter.
- (object-oriented programming) A function used to modify the value of some property of an object, contrasted with the getter.
- one who sets written material into type
- a long-haired dog formerly trained to crouch on finding game but now to point
verb
noun
- a long narrow shallow receptacle
- a treasury for government funds
- a narrow depression (as in the earth or between ocean waves or in the ocean bed)
- a channel along the eaves or on the roof; collects and carries away rainwater
- a concave shape with an open top
- a container (usually in a barn or stable) from which cattle or horses feed
- (meteorology) A linear atmospheric depression associated with a weather front.
- (colloquial) An undivided metal urinal (plumbing fixture)
- (agriculture, Australia, New Zealand) A channel for conveying water or other farm liquids (such as milk) from place to place by gravity; any ‘U’ or ‘V’ cross-sectioned irrigation channel.
- A long, narrow depression between waves or ridges; the low portion of a wave cycle.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A rectangular container used for washing or rinsing clothes.
- A long, narrow container, open on top, for feeding or watering animals.
- Any similarly shaped container.
- (Canada) A gutter under the eaves of a building; an eaves trough.
- A short, narrow canal designed to hold water until it drains or evaporates.
- (economics) A low turning point or a local minimum of a business cycle.
verb
noun
- A shallow, typically oval, vessel made of porcelain, pottery, or glass.
- (biology) A cisterna.
- The receptacle that holds the fuel in an oil lamp.
- In a flush toilet, the container in which the water used for flushing is held; a toilet tank.
- The vessel surrounding the condenser in a steam engine.
- A reservoir or tank for holding water, especially for catching and holding rainwater for later use.
- an artificial reservoir for storing liquids; especially an underground tank for storing rainwater
- a tank that holds the water used to flush a toilet
- a sac or cavity containing fluid especially lymph or cerebrospinal fluid
noun
- A small, shallow evaporating dish, usually of porcelain.
- (pharmacy) A small container containing a dose of medicine.
- (wine) The covering — formerly lead or tin, now often plastic — over the cork at the top of the wine bottle.
- One of the very small rooms for guests in a capsule hotel.
- (physiology) A membranous envelope.
- (anatomy) A membrane that surrounds the eyeball
- (botany) A sporangium, especially in bryophytes.
- (anatomy) A tough, fibrous layer surrounding an organ such as the kidney or liver
- A small cup or shell, often of metal, for a percussion cap, cartridge, etc.
- (botany) A type of simple, dehiscent, dry fruit (seed-case) produced by many species of flowering plants, such as poppy, lily, orchid, willow and cotton.
- (astronautics) A detachable part of a rocket or spacecraft (usually in the nose) containing the crew's living space.
- (attributively, figuratively) in a brief, condensed or compact form
- a spacecraft designed to transport people and support human life in outer space
- a pilot's seat in an airplane that can be forcibly ejected in the case of an emergency; then the pilot descends by parachute
- a shortened version of a written work
- a dry dehiscent seed vessel or the spore-containing structure of e.g. mosses
- a structure that encloses a body part
- a small container
- a pill in the form of a small rounded gelatinous container with medicine inside
verb
noun
- A cup-shaped vessel with a long handle, for dipping into and ladling out liquids; a ladle or scoop.
- Any snack food intended to be dipped in sauce.
- One who, or that which, dips (immerses something, or itself, into a liquid).
- (historical, informal, Christianity) A Baptist or Dunker.
- (South Asia, North India, slang, derogatory, offensive) an Indian-born immigrant residing in Western countries, often born in the 1990s or later
- Any of various small passerine birds of the genus Cinclus that live near fast-flowing streams and feed along the bottom.
- (cricket) A delivery bowled that curves into or away from the batter before pitching.
- Someone who dips chewing tobacco or snuff.
- (UK, India) The control in a vehicle that switches between high-beam and low-beam (i.e. dips the lights), especially when used to signal other vehicles.
- (slang) A pickpocket.
- (historical) A person employed in a tin plate works to coat steel plates in molten tin by dipping them.
- (historical) A person employed to assist a bather in and out of the sea.
- a ladle that has a cup with a long handle
- small stocky diving bird without webbed feet; frequents fast-flowing streams and feeds along the bottom
- small North American diving duck; males have bushy head plumage
noun
- A hollow or pit into which liquid drains, such as a cesspool, cesspit or sink.
- (construction) An intentional depression around a drain or scupper that promotes drainage.
- A completely flooded cave passage, sometimes passable by diving.
- (automotive) The crankcase or oil reservoir of an internal combustion engine.
- (nautical) The pit at the lowest point in a circulating or drainage system (FM 55-501).
- (Scotland) A sudden or heavy fall of rain; a deluge.
- The lowest part of a mineshaft into which water drains.
- a well or other hole in which water has collected
- a covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it
- an oil reservoir in an internal combustion engine
verb
noun
- A cylindrical receptacle about as tall as it is wide, with one long handle, usually made of metal, used for cooking in the home.
- shallow container made of metal
- A wide receptacle in which gold grains are separated from gravel by washing the contents with water.
- (music) Ellipsis of steelpan.
- (rail transport, informal) Clipping of pantograph.
- A part; a portion.
- A pond or lake, considered as the expanse of land upon which the water sits.
- A closed vessel for boiling or evaporating as part of manufacture; a vacuum pan.
- A bedpan.
- (South Africa) Synonym of playa lake: a temporary pond or lake in a playa.
- (firearms) The part of a matchlock, flintlock, or wheellock firearm that holds the priming.
- (figurative) The brain, seen as one's intellect.
- (Ireland) A deep plastic receptacle, used for washing or food preparation; a basin.
- (roofing) The bottom flat part of a roofing panel that is between the ribs of the panel.
- (especially South Africa) A dry lake or playa, especially a salt flat.
- A wide, flat receptacle used around the house, especially for cooking.
- A sequence in a film in which the camera pans over an area.
- (carpentry) A recess, or bed, for the leaf of a hinge.
- (slang) A human face, a mug.
- (chiefly Ireland) A loaf of bread; a pan-loaf.
- (fortifications) The distance comprised between the angle of the epaule and the flanked angle.
- Ellipsis of salt pan: a flat artificial pond used for collecting minerals from evaporated water.
- A leaf of gold or silver.
- The contents of such a receptacle.
- The skull, considered as a vessel containing the brain; the brainpan.
- Alternative form of paan.
- (geology) Ellipsis of hardpan: a hard substrate such as is formed in pans.
- Strong adverse criticism.
- cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel
adj
verb
- (imaging, intransitive) To shift an image relative to the display window without changing the viewing scale.
- To join or fit together; to unite.
- (intransitive, with out, to pan out) To turn out well; to be successful.
- (sound engineering, intransitive) (of a sound) To move in the multichannel sound field.
- (photography, intransitive) To move the camera lens angle while continuing to expose the film, enabling a contiguous view and enrichment of context. In still-photography large-group portraits the film usually remains on a horizontal fixed plane as the lens and/or the film holder moves to expose the film laterally. The resulting image may extend a short distance laterally or as great as 360° from the point where the film first began to be exposed.
- (sound engineering, transitive) To spread a sound signal into a new stereo or multichannel sound field, typically giving the impression that it is moving across the sound stage.
- (intransitive) (of a camera) To turn horizontally.
- (transitive) To wash in a pan (of earth, sand etc. when searching for gold).
- (transitive, informal, of a contest) To beat one's opposition convincingly.
- (transitive) To disparage; to belittle; to put down; to harshly criticize, especially a work (book, movie, etc.)
- wash dirt in a pan to separate out the precious minerals
- express a totally negative opinion of
- make a sweeping movement
noun
- metal or earthenware cooking vessel that is usually round and deep; often has a handle and lid
- A flat-bottomed vessel (usually metal) used for cooking food, possibly excluding saucepans (see usage notes).
- the quantity contained in a pot
- the cumulative amount involved in a game (such as poker)
- a container in which plants are cultivated
- street names for marijuana
- slang for a paunch
- a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination
- a resistor with three terminals, the third being an adjustable center terminal; used to adjust voltages in radios and TV sets
- (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent
- (UK, horse-racing, slang) A favorite: a heavily-backed horse.
- (historical) Any of various traditional units of volume notionally based on the capacity of a pot.
- (slang, uncountable) Ruin or deterioration.
- A vessel used for brewing or serving drinks: a coffeepot or teapot.
- A crucible: a melting pot.
- (slang, electronics) A simple electromechanical device used to control resistance or voltage (often to adjust sound volume) in an electronic device by rotating or sliding when manipulated by a human thumb, screwdriver, etc.
- (slang, uncountable) Marijuana.
- (chiefly East Midlands, Yorkshire) A plaster cast.
- (rail transport) A pot-shaped non-conducting (usually ceramic) stand that supports an electrified rail while insulating it from the ground.
- (roleplaying games, video games) Clipping of potion.
- (slang) Clipping of potbelly (“a pot-shaped belly, a paunch”).
- A perforated cask for draining sugar.
- A vessel (usually earthenware) used with a seal for storing food, such as a honeypot.
- (Maine) A pot-shaped trap used for catching lobsters or other seafood: a lobster pot.
- (archaic except in place names) Pothole, sinkhole, vertical cave.
- An allocation of money for a particular purpose.
- (historical) Alternative form of pott: a former size of paper, 12.5 × 15 inches.
- A shallow hole used in certain games played with marbles. The marbles placed in it are called potsies.
- (Australia, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania) A glass of beer in Australia whose size varies regionally but is typically around 10 fl oz (285 mL).
- (historical) An iron hat with a broad brim worn as a helmet.
- A pot-shaped metal or earthenware extension of a flue above the top of a chimney: a chimney pot.
- (gambling, poker) The money available to be won in a hand of poker or a round of other games of chance; (figuratively) any sum of money being used as an enticement.
- (slang) Clipping of potshot (“a haphazard shot; an easy or cheap shot”).
- A vessel used to hold soil for growing plants, particularly flowers: a flowerpot.
verb
- plant in a pot
- (electronics) To package a circuit by encasing it in resin.
- To put (something) into a pot.
- (transitive, British) To seat a person, usually a young child, on a potty or toilet, typically during toilet teaching.
- (transitive) To drain (e.g. sugar of the molasses) in a perforated cask.
- (snooker, pool, billiards, transitive) To cause a ball to fall into a pocket.
- (chiefly East Midlands) To apply a plaster cast to a broken limb.
- (rugby, transitive) To score (a drop goal).
- (transitive) To shoot with a firearm.
- To preserve by bottling or canning.
- (transitive, colloquial) To secure; gain; win; bag.
- (British) To send someone to jail, expeditiously.
- To catch (a fish, eel, etc) via a pot.
- (snooker, pool, billiards, intransitive) To be capable of being potted.
- (slang, broadcasting) To fade volume in or out by means of a potentiometer.
noun
- In a bathroom, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, which holds the washbasin.
- The breast of a horse; that part of a horse between the shoulders and under the neck.
- A telltale; a contrivance attached to an engine, printing press, or other machine, for the purpose of counting the revolutions or the pulsations.
- Something opposite or contrary to something else.
- A table or board on which money is counted and over which business is transacted.
- A shop tabletop on which goods are examined, weighed or measured.
- An object (now especially a small disc) used in counting or keeping count, or as a marker in games, etc.
- (typography) The enclosed or partly closed negative space of a glyph.
- The piece of a shoe or a boot around the heel of the foot (above the heel of the shoe/boot).
- (nautical) The overhanging stern of a vessel above the waterline, below and somewhat forward of the stern proper.
- (grammar) A class of word used along with numbers to count objects and events, typically mass nouns. Although rare and optional in English (e.g. "20 head of cattle"), they are numerous and required in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.
- counterattack
- A reckoner; someone who collects data by counting; an enumerator.
- (programming) A variable, memory location, etc. whose contents are incremented to keep a count.
- In a kitchen, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, designed to be used for food preparation.
- (historical) The prison attached to a city court; a compter.
- (martial arts) A proactive defensive hold or move in reaction to a hold or move by one's opponent.
- (music) Alternative form of contra Formerly used to designate any under part which served for contrast to a principal part, but now used as equivalent to countertenor.
- (Internet) A hit counter.
- One who counts.
- (curling) Any stone lying closer to the center than any of the opponent's stones.
- game equipment (as a piece of wood, plastic, or ivory) used for keeping a count or reserving a space in various card or board games
- (computer science) a register whose contents go through a regular series of states (usually states indicating consecutive integers)
- a piece of leather forming the back of a shoe or boot
- table consisting of a horizontal surface over which business is transacted
- a calculator that keeps a record of the number of times something happens
- a person who counts things
- a piece of furniture that stands at the side of a dining room; has shelves and drawers
- a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one)
- a return punch (especially by a boxer)
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noun
- A flat-bottomed, straight-sided, glass vessel, with a lip and often a small spout, used as a laboratory container.
- A mug.
- A drinking vessel without a handle.
- (slang, Antarctica) A scientist.
- (archaeology) An ancient bell-shaped ceramic pot with a wide mouth, narrow neck, and flaring body, used by the Beaker people during the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age.
- a cup (usually without a handle)
- a flatbottomed jar made of glass or plastic; used for chemistry
noun
- a basin for washing the hands
- (Christianity) A ritual involving the washing of one's hands at a church's offertory before handling the Eucharist.
- (architecture) A trough used for washing at some medieval monasteries.
- (humorous, euphemistic) A lavatory: a room used for urination and defecation.
- (Christianity) The small towel used to dry the priest's hands following the ritual.
- A washbasin, particularly (Christianity) the one in a church used in the ritual.