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- a barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports
- A horizontal bar extending between supports and used for support or as a barrier; a railing.
- a horizontal bar (usually of wood or metal)
- any of numerous widely distributed small wading birds of the family Rallidae having short wings and very long toes for running on soft mud
- short for railway
- a bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll
- Any of several birds in the family Rallidae.
- The metal bar forming part of the track for a railroad.
- (drugs) A large line (portion or serving of a powdery illegal drug).
- A horizontal piece of wood that serves to separate sections of a door or window.
- A railroad; a railway, as a means of transportation.
- (electronics) A conductor maintained at a fixed electrical potential relative to ground, to which other circuit components are connected.
- (surfing) One of the lengthwise edges of a surfboard.
- (backgammon) The raised edge of the game board.
- (Internet) A vertical section on one side of a web page.
- Each of two vertical side bars supporting the rungs of a ladder.
- complain bitterly
- spread negative information about
- lay with rails
- provide with rails
- criticize severely
- convey (goods etc.) by rails
- travel by rail or train
- fish with a handline over the rails of a boat
- enclose with rails
- separate with a railing
- (transitive, rail transport, of rolling stock) To place on a track.
- To complain violently (against, about).
- (transitive, slang, drugs) To snort a line of powdered drugs.
- (transitive) To enclose with rails or a railing.
- (intransitive) To travel by railway.
- (transitive, vulgar, slang) To sexually penetrate in a rough manner.
- (transitive) To range in a line.
- A wall made of this.
- A building material comprising a sheet of gypsum sandwiched between two pieces of heavy paper, used mainly for interior walls and ceilings.
- A stone wall constructed without mortar or cement.
- a wide flat board used to cover walls or partitions; made from plaster or wood pulp or other materials and used primarily to form the interior walls of houses
- small area set off by walls for special use
- a table (in a restaurant or bar) surrounded by two high-backed benches
- a small shop at a fair; for selling goods or entertainment
- A boxlike room or enclosure just big enough to accommodate one standing person, such as a phone booth or polling booth.
- An enclosed seating area consisting of a table next to a wall set between two high-backed benches, as in a diner or café.
- A small stall for the display and sale of goods.
- (hip-hop, slang, with “the”) A recording studio.
- An enclosure for keeping animals.
- small area set off by walls for special use
- small individual study area in a library
- small room in which a monk or nun lives
- A small enclosure at a swimming pool etc. used to provide personal privacy when changing.
- (UK, Australia) A small enclosure in a public toilet for individual use.
- A small separate part or one of the compartments of a room, especially in a work environment.
- small area set off by walls for special use
- A small enclosed structure, often freestanding, open on one side or with a window, used as a booth to sell newspapers, cigarettes, etc.
- A similar but unattended stand for the automatic dispensing of tickets, etc; an e-kiosk.
- A public telephone booth.
- A Turkish garden pavilion.
- small area set off by walls for special use
- a tactic used to mislead or delay
- a compartment in a stable where a single animal is confined and fed
- a booth where articles are displayed for sale
- a malfunction in the flight of an aircraft in which there is a sudden loss of lift that results in a downward plunge
- seating in the forward part of the main level of a theater
- small individual study area in a library
- A church office that entitles the incumbent to the use of a church stall.
- (Germanic paganism) An Heathen altar, typically an indoor one, as contrasted with a more substantial outdoor harrow.
- A seat in a church, especially one next to the chancel or choir, reserved for church officials and dignitaries.
- A parking stall; a space for a vehicle in a parking lot or parkade.
- A bench or table on which small articles of merchandise are exposed for sale.
- A small partitioned space or roomlet used for a shower or a toilet.
- (countable) A compartment for a single animal in a stable or cattle shed.
- (aeronautics) Loss of lift due to an airfoil's critical angle of attack being exceeded, normally occurring due to low airspeed.
- (countable) A small open-fronted shop, for example in a market, food court, etc.
- (mining) The space left by excavation between pillars.
- An action that is intended to cause, or actually causes, delay.
- (countable) A seat in a theatre close to and (about) level with the stage; traditionally, a seat with arms, or otherwise partly enclosed, as distinguished from the benches, sofas, etc.
- A sheath to protect the finger.
- A stable; a place for cattle.
- experience a stall in flight, of airplanes
- postpone doing what one should be doing
- deliberately delay an event or action
- cause an airplane to go into a stall
- put into, or keep in, a stall
- come to a stop
- cause an engine to stop
- To forestall; to anticipate.
- To plunge into mire or snow so as not to be able to get on; to set; to fix.
- (intransitive) To come to a standstill.
- (transitive) To cause to stop making progress; to hinder; to slow down; to delay or forestall.
- (intransitive) To employ delaying tactics; to stall for time.
- To keep close; to keep secret.
- (transitive, aeronautics) To cause to exceed the critical angle of attack, resulting in loss of lift.
- (intransitive, of an engine) To stop suddenly.
- To place in an office with the customary formalities; to install.
- (transitive) To employ delaying tactics against.
- To fatten.
- (transitive) To put (an animal, etc.) in a stall.
- (intransitive, aeronautics) To exceed the critical angle of attack, resulting in loss of lift.
- (transitive, automotive) To cause the engine of a manual-transmission car or truck to stop by going too slowly for the selected gear.
- a framework of metal bars used as a partition or a grate
- a restaurant where food is cooked on a grill
- (colloquial) A type of jewelry worn on the front teeth.
- On a vehicle, a slotted cover as above, to protect and hide the radiator, while admitting air to cool it.
- (US) A cooking device comprising a source of radiative and convective heat and a means of holding food above it; a barbecue.
- The criss-cross pieces that separate panes of glass in a window.
- Food (designed to be) cooked on a grill.
- (colloquial, by extension) The front teeth regarded collectively.
- A grating; a grid of wire or a sheet of material with a pattern of holes or slots, usually used to protect something while allowing the passage of air and liquids. Typical uses: to allow air through a fan while preventing fingers or objects from passing; to allow people to talk to somebody, while preventing attack.
- (UK) A cooking device comprising a source of radiative heat and a means of holding food under it; a broiler in US English
- A grillroom; a restaurant serving grilled food.
- (Internet slang, humorous) Deliberate misspelling of girl.
- examine thoroughly
- cook over or under a grill
- (transitive) To stamp or mark with a grill.
- (New York City) To stare at.
- (intransitive, informal) To feel very hot; to swelter.
- (transitive, Australia, New Zealand, UK) To cook food under the element of a stove or only under the top element of an oven – (US) broil, (cooking) salamander.
- (transitive, colloquial) To interrogate; to question aggressively or harshly.
- (transitive) To cook (food) on a grill; to barbecue.
- a framework of metal bars used as a partition or a grate
- grating that admits cooling air to car's radiator
- small opening (like a window in a door) through which business can be transacted
- Alternative form of grill (only in the senses of "grating over opening", "grating on the front of a vehicle", and "window divider")
- To wall in.
- (transitive) To cloister, confine, imprison or hole up: to lock someone up or seclude oneself behind walls.
- (transitive) To put or bury within a wall.
- (transitive, crystallography and geology, of a growing crystal) To trap or capture (an impurity); chiefly in the participial adjective immured and gerund or gerundial noun immuring.
- lock up or confine, in or as in a jail
- a horizontal bar that goes across something
- long thin horizontal crosspiece between two vertical posts
- game equipment consisting of a horizontal bar to be jumped or vaulted over
- Any transverse bar or piece, such as a bar across a door, or the iron bar or stock which passes through the shank of an anchor.
- (sports) The top of the goal structure.
- The top tube of a bicycle frame.
- A framework of steel bars resting on side supports to bridge over or around something.
- A gantry crane or gantry scaffold.
- A supporting framework for a barrel.
- (medical imaging) A cylindrical scanner assembly in the bore of which the response of bodies or tissues to some specific exposure can be detected for 3D imaging.
- (Singapore, by extension) A faregate or turnstile controlling the entry and exit of people at a location.
- a framework of steel bars raised on side supports to bridge over or around something; can display railway signals above several tracks or can support a traveling crane etc.
- Hung near the base of a wall.
- Of a pedal, pushed all the way down, especially to accelerate.
- (informal, figuratively) Amazed or greatly surprised.
- Struck down or leveled with the floor.
- Brought to the ground.
- (mathematics) Set to a lower bound.
- (informal, figuratively) Impressed.
- (informal, figuratively) Finished; done for.
- (informal, figuratively) Overpowered.
- Covered or furnished with a floor.
- Silenced by a conclusive answer or retort.
- provided with a floor
- Surrounded by a wall, fence or similar barrier.
- (music, of a division within a pipe organ surrounded by a wooden box, one or more sides of which contain slats that can be opened or closed in order to increase or decrease volume) Having closed slats.
- Contained; held within a container.
- closed in or surrounded or included within
- a molding at the corner between the ceiling and the top of a wall
- a decorative framework to conceal curtain fixtures at the top of a window casing
- the topmost projecting part of an entablature
- (architecture) A decorative element applied at the topmost part of the wall of a room, as with a crown molding.
- (furniture) A decorative element at the topmost portion of certain pieces of furniture, as with a highboy.
- (architecture) A horizontal architectural element of a building, projecting forward from the main walls, originally used as a means of directing rainwater away from the building's walls.
- (geography, mountaineering) An overhanging edge of snow on a ridge or the crest of a mountain and along the sides of gullies.
- A broad, flat, wooden bar, a slat, especially as used to secure a door, window, etc.
- (aviation) The allocated time for an aircraft's departure or arrival at an airport's runway.
- (fishing) A fish that is within regulation size limits and hence can be caught and kept.
- (American football) The area between the last offensive lineman on either side of the center and the wide receiver on that side.
- (slang, surfing) The barrel or tube of a wave.
- (journalism) The inside of the "rim" or semicircular copy desk, occupied by the supervisor of the copy editors.
- A narrow depression, perforation, or aperture; especially, one for the reception of a piece fitting or sliding into it.
- (field hockey or ice hockey) A rectangular area directly in front of the net and extending toward the blue line.
- (computing) A space in memory or on disk etc. in which a particular type of object can be stored.
- (gambling, informal, especially in the plural) Clipping of slot machine (“a game of chance played for money using a coin slot”).
- The track of an animal, especially a deer; spoor.
- (Scotland, Northern England) An implement for barring, bolting, locking or securing a door, box, gate, lid, window or the like.
- A metal bolt or wooden bar, especially as a crosspiece.
- (Antarctica) A crack or fissure in a glacier or snowfield; a chasm; a crevasse.
- (slang) The vagina.
- (electricity) A channel opening in the stator or rotor of a rotating machine for ventilation and insertion of windings.
- A period of time or position within a schedule or sequence.
- (aviation) In a flying display, the fourth position; after the leader and two wingmen.
- a small slit (as for inserting a coin or depositing mail)
- a position in a grammatical linguistic construction in which a variety of alternative units are interchangeable
- a slot machine that is used for gambling
- (computer) a socket in a microcomputer that will accept a plug-in circuit board
- a time assigned on a schedule or agenda
- the trail of an animal (especially a deer)
- a position in a hierarchy or organization
- To create a slot (narrow aperture or groove), as for example by cutting or machining.
- (slang, British, Rhodesia, sometimes elsewhere in the Commonwealth) To kill.
- To assign something or someone into a slot (gap in a schedule or sequence).
- (Antarctica) To fall, or cause to fall, into a crevasse.
- To put something where it belongs.
- (Australian rules football, rugby, informal) To kick the ball between the posts for a goal; to score a goal by doing this.
- To put something (such as a coin) into a slot (narrow aperture).
- assign a time slot
- a barrier that serves to enclose an area
- a dealer in stolen property
- (by extension) The place whence such a middleman operates.
- A thin artificial barrier that separates two pieces of land or forms a perimeter enclosing the lands of a house, building, etc.
- Skill in oral debate.
- (informal) Someone who hides or buys and sells stolen goods, a criminal middleman for transactions of stolen goods.
- A guard or guide on machinery.
- (cricket) The boundary.
- (programming) A memory barrier.
- (figuratively) A barrier, for example an emotional barrier.
- have an argument about something
- enclose with a fence
- receive stolen goods
- fight with fencing swords
- surround with a wall in order to fortify
- (intransitive, equestrianism) To jump over a fence.
- (transitive) To defend or guard.
- (transitive) To engage in the selling or buying of stolen goods.
- (intransitive) To conceal the truth by giving equivocal answers; to hedge; to be evasive.
- (transitive) To enclose, contain or separate by building fence.
- (intransitive, sports) To engage in the sport of fencing.
- a barrier that serves to enclose an area
- material for building fences
- the art or sport of fighting with swords (especially the use of foils or epees or sabres to score points under a set of rules)
- Material used to make fences, fences used as barriers or an enclosure.
- The art or sport of duelling with swords, especially with the 17th- to 18th-century European dueling swords and the practice weapons descended from them (sport fencing).
- (slang, criminology) The buying and receiving of stolen goods.
- A type of fence consisting of panels or boards held between uprights that have grooves on either side to hold the edges of the two adjacent boards.
- A list of substitute workers that are available in a union-controlled business, listed in priority order and by the shift they would like to work.
- (UK, historical) A sign that slides into a frame on the front of a bus for displaying special messages.
- A board sliding in grooves.
- a movable barrier in a fence or wall
- total admission receipts at a sports event
- passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark
- a computer circuit with several inputs but only one output that can be activated by particular combinations of inputs
- A location which serves as a conduit for transport, migration, or trade.
- A doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall.
- (slang) A place where drugs are illegally sold.
- The amount of money made by selling tickets to a concert or a sports event.
- (Scotland, Northern England) A street; now used especially as a combining form to make the name of a street e.g. "Briggate" (a common street name in the north of England meaning "Bridge Street") or Kirkgate meaning "Church Street".
- In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.
- A passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark.
- (cinematography) A mechanism, in a film camera and projector, that holds each frame momentarily stationary behind the aperture.
- An individual theme park as part of a larger resort complex with multiple parks.
- A tally mark consisting of four vertical bars crossed by a diagonal, representing a count of five.
- (electronics) The controlling terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
- The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece. Also written geat and git.
- (mining) A tunnel serving the coal face.
- (computing) A logical pathway made up of switches which turn on or off. Examples are and, or, nand, etc.
- (now Scotland, Northern England) A way, path.
- (cricket) The gap between a batsman's bat and pad.
- (metalworking) The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mould; the ingate; tedge.
- (flow cytometry) A line that separates particle type-clusters on two-dimensional dot plots.
- A doorlike structure outside a house.
- A movable barrier.
- supply with a gate
- control with a valve or other device that functions like a gate
- restrict (school boys') movement to the dormitory or campus as a means of punishment
- (transitive) To selectively regulate or restrict (access to something).
- (transitive) To keep something inside by means of a closed gate.
- (transitive) To turn (an image intensifier) on and off selectively, as needed or to avoid damage from excessive light exposure. See autogating.
- (transitive, biochemistry) To open (a closed ion channel).
- (transitive) To furnish with a gate.
- A board or similar barrier that forms part of the side of something.
- (collectible, card games) A set of cards that are separate from a player's primary deck, used to customize a match strategy against an opponent by enabling a player to change the composition of the playing deck.
- (furniture) A piece of dining room furniture having drawers and shelves for linen and tableware; originally for serving food.
- (fishing) A restriction on using the right to catch a certain number of fish that was granted in relation to a different fishery.
- a board that forms part of the side of a bed or crib
- a removable board fitted on the side of a wagon to increase its capacity
- a piece of furniture that stands at the side of a dining room; has shelves and drawers
- A wall that lines the face of a bank or earthwork.
- A short nightdress, or similar piece of lingerie.
- A woman's dress that fits loosely; a chemise dress.
- (historical) A loose shirtlike undergarment, especially for women.
- a woman's sleeveless undergarment
- a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist
- built against or attached to a wall
- (used of toothed parts or gears) interlocked and interacting
- having ones attention or mind or energy engaged
- pledged to be married
- involved in military hostilities
- reserved in advance
- (of facilities such as telephones or lavatories) unavailable for use by anyone else or indicating unavailability; (‘engaged’ is a British term for a busy telephone line)
- having services contracted for
- (architecture, of a column) attached to a wall or sunk into it halfway
- (of gears or cogs) in contact and in operation
- Having agreed to marry a particular person (one's fiancé or fiancée) or each other.
- Synonym of engagé (“passionately committed to a cause”).
- Greatly interested.
- (military) being attacked or attacking
- (medicine, of a foetus) Having the widest part of its presenting part, usually the head, enter the pelvic brim or inlet.
- Busy or employed.
- (British) (of a telephone) Already involved in a telephone call when a third party calls.
- A similar material used for exterior walls.
- (uncountable) A paste applied to the skin for healing or cosmetic purposes.
- (uncountable) A mixture of lime or gypsum, sand, and water, sometimes with the addition of fibres, that hardens to a smooth solid and is used for coating walls and ceilings.
- (countable, British, New Zealand, Canada) A small adhesive bandage to cover a minor wound; a sticking plaster.
- (by ellipsis, uncountable) Plaster of Paris.
- (countable) A cast made of plaster of Paris and gauze; a plaster cast.
- a medical dressing consisting of a soft heated mass of meal or clay that is spread on a cloth and applied to the skin to treat inflamed areas or improve circulation etc.
- a surface of hardened plaster (as on a wall or ceiling)
- a mixture of lime or gypsum with sand and water; hardens into a smooth solid; used to cover walls and ceilings
- adhesive tape used in dressing wounds
- any of several gypsum cements; a white powder (a form of calcium sulphate) that forms a paste when mixed with water and hardens into a solid; used in making molds and sculptures and casts for broken limbs
- (transitive, figurative) To smooth over.
- (transitive) To smear with some viscous or liquid substance.
- (transitive) To cover or coat something with plaster; to render.
- (transitive) To apply a plaster to.
- (transitive, figurative) To bombard heavily or overwhelmingly; to overwhelm (with weapons fire).
- (transitive) To hide or cover up, as if with plaster; to cover thickly.
- affix conspicuously
- apply a plaster cast to
- dress by covering with a therapeutic substance
- coat with plaster
- cover conspicuously or thickly, as by pasting something on
- apply a heavy coat to
- (architecture) Bars or ribs, usually of stone or wood, or other material, that subdivide an opening or stand in relief against a door or wall as an ornamental feature.
- (by extension) A delicate interlacing of lines reminiscent of the architectural ornament.
- decoration consisting of an open pattern of interlacing ribs
- A grating of parallel bars; a gridiron.
- (electronics) The third (or higher) electrode of a vacuum tube (triode or higher).
- (motor racing) The pattern of starting positions of the drivers for a race.
- (cartography) A method of marking off maps into areas.
- A rectangular array of squares or rectangles of equal size, such as in a crossword puzzle.
- (electricity) A battery-plate somewhat like a grating, especially a zinc plate in a primary battery, or a lead plate in a secondary or storage battery.
- (computing) A system or structure of distributed computers working mostly on a peer-to-peer basis, used mainly to solve single and complex scientific or technical problems or to process data at high speeds (as in clusters).
- A system for delivery of electricity, consisting of various substations, transformers and generators, connected by wire.
- (theater, television) An openwork ceiling above the stage or studio, used for affixing lights etc.
- A tiling of the plane with regular polygons; a honeycomb.
- a cooking utensil of parallel metal bars; used to grill fish or meat
- a perforated or corrugated metal plate used in a storage battery as a conductor and support for the active material
- a system of high tension cables by which electrical power is distributed throughout a region
- an electrode placed between the cathode and anode of a vacuum tube to control the flow of electrons through the tube
- a pattern of regularly spaced horizontal and vertical lines
- Between walls; enclosed by walls.
- Involving competition between institutions, especially sports competitions.
- (art) Originating as street art but being curated and displayed in a gallery or museum.
- In house; internal to an organization.
- Occurring within the walls or boundaries of an organ or other biological structure.
- Local to an exhibit or exhibition.
- between two or more institutions etc
- an enclosure that is set back or indented
- a position particularly well suited to the person who or organization which occupies it
- a small concavity
- (ecology) the status of an organism within its environment and community (affecting its survival as a species)
- Specifically, a cremation niche; a columbarium.
- (Islam) An arrow woven into a prayer rug pointing in the direction of qibla.
- (architecture) A cavity, hollow, or recess, generally within the thickness of a wall, for a statue, bust, or other erect ornament.
- (ecology) A function within an ecological system to which an organism is especially suited.
- Any similar position, literal or figurative.
- (by extension) Any position of opportunity for which one is well-suited, such as a particular market in business.
- an enclosure that is set back or indented
- an arm off of a larger body of water (often between rocky headlands)
- a small concavity
- a state of abeyance or suspended business
- a pause from doing something (as work)
- (government) A period of time when the proceedings of a committee, court of law, parliament, or other official body are temporarily suspended.
- (countable, historical) A decree or resolution of the diet of the Holy Roman Empire or the Hanseatic League.
- (Australia, British, Canada, US, Philippines, education) A time away from studying during the school day for a meal or recreation.
- (countable, geology) An overall-concave, reentrant section of a sinuous fold and thrust belt, thrust sheet, or a single thrust fault, caused by one or more of: deformation (folding and faulting) of strata and geologic structures during orogenesis, differences in the angle of critical taper during orogenesis, or differing erosional level of the present geomorphological surface.
- (countable) A hidden, innermost, or inaccessible place or part of a place.
- (figuratively, usually in the plural) An obscure, remote, or secret situation.
- (countable) A depressed, hollow, or indented space; also, a hole or opening.
- (criminal slang, usually in the plural) The place in a prison where the communal lavatories are located.
- (countable) A temporary stoppage of an activity; a break, a pause.
- (architecture) A small space created by building part of a wall further back from the rest; a niche.
- (countable, anatomy) An extension or outpouching of a cavity (e.g. articular recess, peritoneal recess,...)
- put into a recess
- make a recess in
- close at the end of a session
- To position (something) a distance behind another thing; to set back.
- To temporarily suspend (a meeting, the proceedings of an official body, etc.).
- (also reflexive) Often preceded by in or into: to inset (something) into a recess or niche.
- To make a recess (noun noun sense 1 and noun sense 1.1) in (something).
- (figuratively) To conceal, to hide.
- Of an official body: to suspend proceedings for a period of time.
- Of a meeting, the proceedings of an official body, etc.: to adjourn, to take a break.
- (informal) To make a recess appointment in respect of (someone).
- A decorative border.
- (botany) The peristome or fringe-like appendage of the capsules of most mosses.
- (by extension) A border or edging.
- (UK) Synonym of bangs: hair hanging over the forehead, especially a hairstyle where it is cut straight across.
- (golf) The area around the green
- Non-mainstream theatre.
- (also attributive) Those members of a political party, or any social group, holding extremist or unorthodox views.
- The periphery of an area, especially a town or city.
- A group of people situated on the periphery of a larger community.
- (television, radio) A daypart that precedes or follows prime time.
- (Australia) Used attributively with reference to Aboriginal people living on the edge of towns etc.
- (also figurative) A marginal or peripheral part.
- (physics) A light or dark band formed by the diffraction of light.
- a social group holding marginal or extreme views
- one of the light or dark bands produced by the interference and diffraction of light
- a part of the city far removed from the center
- the outside boundary or surface of something
- a border of hair that is cut short and hangs across the forehead
- an ornamental border consisting of short lengths of hanging threads or tassels
- not full or rich
- very light colored; highly diluted with white
- (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble
- lacking in vitality or interest or effectiveness
- abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress
- (of human skin) Having a pallor (a light color, especially due to sickness, shock, fright etc.).
- Feeble, faint.
- Light in color.
- a wooden strip forming part of a fence
- a protester posted by a labor organization outside a place of work
- a detachment of troops guarding an army from surprise attack
- a vehicle performing sentinel duty
- a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event
- a form of military punishment used by the British in the late 17th century in which a soldier was forced to stand on one foot on a pointed stake
- (sometimes figurative) A sentry.
- (military) One of the soldiers or troops placed on a line forward of a position to warn against an enemy advance; or any unit (for example, an aircraft or ship) performing a similar function.
- (historical) A type of punishment by which an offender had to rest his or her entire body weight on the top of a small stake.
- A stake driven into the ground.
- (card games, uncountable) The card game piquet.
- A tool in mountaineering that is driven into the snow and used as an anchor or to arrest falls.
- A protester positioned outside an office, workplace etc. during a strike (usually in plural); also the protest itself.
- fasten with a picket
- serve as pickets or post pickets
- (intransitive) To protest, organized by a labour union, typically in front of the location of employment.
- (transitive) To enclose or fortify with pickets or pointed stakes.
- (transitive) To tether to, or as if to, a picket.
- (transitive) To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket.
- A barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air.
- a barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air
- The sound made by something that grates against something else.
- (nautical, in the plural) The strong wooden lattice used to cover a hatch, admitting light and air; also, a movable lattice used for the flooring of boats.
- The loose material that comes from something being grated.
- A frame of iron bars to hold a fire.
- An optical system of close equidistant and parallel lines or bars, especially lines ruled on a polished surface, used for producing spectra by diffraction.
- a frame of iron bars to hold a fire
- optical device consisting of a surface with many parallel grooves in it; disperses a beam of light (or other electromagnetic radiation) into its wavelengths to produce its spectrum
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- a barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports
- A horizontal bar extending between supports and used for support or as a barrier; a railing.
- a horizontal bar (usually of wood or metal)
- any of numerous widely distributed small wading birds of the family Rallidae having short wings and very long toes for running on soft mud
- short for railway
- a bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll
- Any of several birds in the family Rallidae.
- The metal bar forming part of the track for a railroad.
- (drugs) A large line (portion or serving of a powdery illegal drug).
- A horizontal piece of wood that serves to separate sections of a door or window.
- A railroad; a railway, as a means of transportation.
- (electronics) A conductor maintained at a fixed electrical potential relative to ground, to which other circuit components are connected.
- (surfing) One of the lengthwise edges of a surfboard.
- (backgammon) The raised edge of the game board.
- (Internet) A vertical section on one side of a web page.
- Each of two vertical side bars supporting the rungs of a ladder.
- complain bitterly
- spread negative information about
- lay with rails
- provide with rails
- criticize severely
- convey (goods etc.) by rails
- travel by rail or train
- fish with a handline over the rails of a boat
- enclose with rails
- separate with a railing
- (transitive, rail transport, of rolling stock) To place on a track.
- To complain violently (against, about).
- (transitive, slang, drugs) To snort a line of powdered drugs.
- (transitive) To enclose with rails or a railing.
- (intransitive) To travel by railway.
- (transitive, vulgar, slang) To sexually penetrate in a rough manner.
- (transitive) To range in a line.
- A wall made of this.
- A building material comprising a sheet of gypsum sandwiched between two pieces of heavy paper, used mainly for interior walls and ceilings.
- A stone wall constructed without mortar or cement.
- a wide flat board used to cover walls or partitions; made from plaster or wood pulp or other materials and used primarily to form the interior walls of houses
- small area set off by walls for special use
- a table (in a restaurant or bar) surrounded by two high-backed benches
- a small shop at a fair; for selling goods or entertainment
- A boxlike room or enclosure just big enough to accommodate one standing person, such as a phone booth or polling booth.
- An enclosed seating area consisting of a table next to a wall set between two high-backed benches, as in a diner or café.
- A small stall for the display and sale of goods.
- (hip-hop, slang, with “the”) A recording studio.
- An enclosure for keeping animals.
- small area set off by walls for special use
- small individual study area in a library
- small room in which a monk or nun lives
- A small enclosure at a swimming pool etc. used to provide personal privacy when changing.
- (UK, Australia) A small enclosure in a public toilet for individual use.
- A small separate part or one of the compartments of a room, especially in a work environment.
- small area set off by walls for special use
- A small enclosed structure, often freestanding, open on one side or with a window, used as a booth to sell newspapers, cigarettes, etc.
- A similar but unattended stand for the automatic dispensing of tickets, etc; an e-kiosk.
- A public telephone booth.
- A Turkish garden pavilion.
- small area set off by walls for special use
- a tactic used to mislead or delay
- a compartment in a stable where a single animal is confined and fed
- a booth where articles are displayed for sale
- a malfunction in the flight of an aircraft in which there is a sudden loss of lift that results in a downward plunge
- seating in the forward part of the main level of a theater
- small individual study area in a library
- A church office that entitles the incumbent to the use of a church stall.
- (Germanic paganism) An Heathen altar, typically an indoor one, as contrasted with a more substantial outdoor harrow.
- A seat in a church, especially one next to the chancel or choir, reserved for church officials and dignitaries.
- A parking stall; a space for a vehicle in a parking lot or parkade.
- A bench or table on which small articles of merchandise are exposed for sale.
- A small partitioned space or roomlet used for a shower or a toilet.
- (countable) A compartment for a single animal in a stable or cattle shed.
- (aeronautics) Loss of lift due to an airfoil's critical angle of attack being exceeded, normally occurring due to low airspeed.
- (countable) A small open-fronted shop, for example in a market, food court, etc.
- (mining) The space left by excavation between pillars.
- An action that is intended to cause, or actually causes, delay.
- (countable) A seat in a theatre close to and (about) level with the stage; traditionally, a seat with arms, or otherwise partly enclosed, as distinguished from the benches, sofas, etc.
- A sheath to protect the finger.
- A stable; a place for cattle.
- experience a stall in flight, of airplanes
- postpone doing what one should be doing
- deliberately delay an event or action
- cause an airplane to go into a stall
- put into, or keep in, a stall
- come to a stop
- cause an engine to stop
- To forestall; to anticipate.
- To plunge into mire or snow so as not to be able to get on; to set; to fix.
- (intransitive) To come to a standstill.
- (transitive) To cause to stop making progress; to hinder; to slow down; to delay or forestall.
- (intransitive) To employ delaying tactics; to stall for time.
- To keep close; to keep secret.
- (transitive, aeronautics) To cause to exceed the critical angle of attack, resulting in loss of lift.
- (intransitive, of an engine) To stop suddenly.
- To place in an office with the customary formalities; to install.
- (transitive) To employ delaying tactics against.
- To fatten.
- (transitive) To put (an animal, etc.) in a stall.
- (intransitive, aeronautics) To exceed the critical angle of attack, resulting in loss of lift.
- (transitive, automotive) To cause the engine of a manual-transmission car or truck to stop by going too slowly for the selected gear.
- a framework of metal bars used as a partition or a grate
- a restaurant where food is cooked on a grill
- (colloquial) A type of jewelry worn on the front teeth.
- On a vehicle, a slotted cover as above, to protect and hide the radiator, while admitting air to cool it.
- (US) A cooking device comprising a source of radiative and convective heat and a means of holding food above it; a barbecue.
- The criss-cross pieces that separate panes of glass in a window.
- Food (designed to be) cooked on a grill.
- (colloquial, by extension) The front teeth regarded collectively.
- A grating; a grid of wire or a sheet of material with a pattern of holes or slots, usually used to protect something while allowing the passage of air and liquids. Typical uses: to allow air through a fan while preventing fingers or objects from passing; to allow people to talk to somebody, while preventing attack.
- (UK) A cooking device comprising a source of radiative heat and a means of holding food under it; a broiler in US English
- A grillroom; a restaurant serving grilled food.
- (Internet slang, humorous) Deliberate misspelling of girl.
- examine thoroughly
- cook over or under a grill
- (transitive) To stamp or mark with a grill.
- (New York City) To stare at.
- (intransitive, informal) To feel very hot; to swelter.
- (transitive, Australia, New Zealand, UK) To cook food under the element of a stove or only under the top element of an oven – (US) broil, (cooking) salamander.
- (transitive, colloquial) To interrogate; to question aggressively or harshly.
- (transitive) To cook (food) on a grill; to barbecue.
- a framework of metal bars used as a partition or a grate
- grating that admits cooling air to car's radiator
- small opening (like a window in a door) through which business can be transacted
- Alternative form of grill (only in the senses of "grating over opening", "grating on the front of a vehicle", and "window divider")
- a horizontal bar that goes across something
- long thin horizontal crosspiece between two vertical posts
- game equipment consisting of a horizontal bar to be jumped or vaulted over
- Any transverse bar or piece, such as a bar across a door, or the iron bar or stock which passes through the shank of an anchor.
- (sports) The top of the goal structure.
- The top tube of a bicycle frame.
- A framework of steel bars resting on side supports to bridge over or around something.
- A gantry crane or gantry scaffold.
- A supporting framework for a barrel.
- (medical imaging) A cylindrical scanner assembly in the bore of which the response of bodies or tissues to some specific exposure can be detected for 3D imaging.
- (Singapore, by extension) A faregate or turnstile controlling the entry and exit of people at a location.
- a framework of steel bars raised on side supports to bridge over or around something; can display railway signals above several tracks or can support a traveling crane etc.
- a molding at the corner between the ceiling and the top of a wall
- a decorative framework to conceal curtain fixtures at the top of a window casing
- the topmost projecting part of an entablature
- (architecture) A decorative element applied at the topmost part of the wall of a room, as with a crown molding.
- (furniture) A decorative element at the topmost portion of certain pieces of furniture, as with a highboy.
- (architecture) A horizontal architectural element of a building, projecting forward from the main walls, originally used as a means of directing rainwater away from the building's walls.
- (geography, mountaineering) An overhanging edge of snow on a ridge or the crest of a mountain and along the sides of gullies.
- A broad, flat, wooden bar, a slat, especially as used to secure a door, window, etc.
- (aviation) The allocated time for an aircraft's departure or arrival at an airport's runway.
- (fishing) A fish that is within regulation size limits and hence can be caught and kept.
- (American football) The area between the last offensive lineman on either side of the center and the wide receiver on that side.
- (slang, surfing) The barrel or tube of a wave.
- (journalism) The inside of the "rim" or semicircular copy desk, occupied by the supervisor of the copy editors.
- A narrow depression, perforation, or aperture; especially, one for the reception of a piece fitting or sliding into it.
- (field hockey or ice hockey) A rectangular area directly in front of the net and extending toward the blue line.
- (computing) A space in memory or on disk etc. in which a particular type of object can be stored.
- (gambling, informal, especially in the plural) Clipping of slot machine (“a game of chance played for money using a coin slot”).
- The track of an animal, especially a deer; spoor.
- (Scotland, Northern England) An implement for barring, bolting, locking or securing a door, box, gate, lid, window or the like.
- A metal bolt or wooden bar, especially as a crosspiece.
- (Antarctica) A crack or fissure in a glacier or snowfield; a chasm; a crevasse.
- (slang) The vagina.
- (electricity) A channel opening in the stator or rotor of a rotating machine for ventilation and insertion of windings.
- A period of time or position within a schedule or sequence.
- (aviation) In a flying display, the fourth position; after the leader and two wingmen.
- a small slit (as for inserting a coin or depositing mail)
- a position in a grammatical linguistic construction in which a variety of alternative units are interchangeable
- a slot machine that is used for gambling
- (computer) a socket in a microcomputer that will accept a plug-in circuit board
- a time assigned on a schedule or agenda
- the trail of an animal (especially a deer)
- a position in a hierarchy or organization
- To create a slot (narrow aperture or groove), as for example by cutting or machining.
- (slang, British, Rhodesia, sometimes elsewhere in the Commonwealth) To kill.
- To assign something or someone into a slot (gap in a schedule or sequence).
- (Antarctica) To fall, or cause to fall, into a crevasse.
- To put something where it belongs.
- (Australian rules football, rugby, informal) To kick the ball between the posts for a goal; to score a goal by doing this.
- To put something (such as a coin) into a slot (narrow aperture).
- assign a time slot
- a barrier that serves to enclose an area
- a dealer in stolen property
- (by extension) The place whence such a middleman operates.
- A thin artificial barrier that separates two pieces of land or forms a perimeter enclosing the lands of a house, building, etc.
- Skill in oral debate.
- (informal) Someone who hides or buys and sells stolen goods, a criminal middleman for transactions of stolen goods.
- A guard or guide on machinery.
- (cricket) The boundary.
- (programming) A memory barrier.
- (figuratively) A barrier, for example an emotional barrier.
- have an argument about something
- enclose with a fence
- receive stolen goods
- fight with fencing swords
- surround with a wall in order to fortify
- (intransitive, equestrianism) To jump over a fence.
- (transitive) To defend or guard.
- (transitive) To engage in the selling or buying of stolen goods.
- (intransitive) To conceal the truth by giving equivocal answers; to hedge; to be evasive.
- (transitive) To enclose, contain or separate by building fence.
- (intransitive, sports) To engage in the sport of fencing.
- a barrier that serves to enclose an area
- material for building fences
- the art or sport of fighting with swords (especially the use of foils or epees or sabres to score points under a set of rules)
- Material used to make fences, fences used as barriers or an enclosure.
- The art or sport of duelling with swords, especially with the 17th- to 18th-century European dueling swords and the practice weapons descended from them (sport fencing).
- (slang, criminology) The buying and receiving of stolen goods.
- A type of fence consisting of panels or boards held between uprights that have grooves on either side to hold the edges of the two adjacent boards.
- A list of substitute workers that are available in a union-controlled business, listed in priority order and by the shift they would like to work.
- (UK, historical) A sign that slides into a frame on the front of a bus for displaying special messages.
- A board sliding in grooves.
- a movable barrier in a fence or wall
- total admission receipts at a sports event
- passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark
- a computer circuit with several inputs but only one output that can be activated by particular combinations of inputs
- A location which serves as a conduit for transport, migration, or trade.
- A doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall.
- (slang) A place where drugs are illegally sold.
- The amount of money made by selling tickets to a concert or a sports event.
- (Scotland, Northern England) A street; now used especially as a combining form to make the name of a street e.g. "Briggate" (a common street name in the north of England meaning "Bridge Street") or Kirkgate meaning "Church Street".
- In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.
- A passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark.
- (cinematography) A mechanism, in a film camera and projector, that holds each frame momentarily stationary behind the aperture.
- An individual theme park as part of a larger resort complex with multiple parks.
- A tally mark consisting of four vertical bars crossed by a diagonal, representing a count of five.
- (electronics) The controlling terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
- The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece. Also written geat and git.
- (mining) A tunnel serving the coal face.
- (computing) A logical pathway made up of switches which turn on or off. Examples are and, or, nand, etc.
- (now Scotland, Northern England) A way, path.
- (cricket) The gap between a batsman's bat and pad.
- (metalworking) The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mould; the ingate; tedge.
- (flow cytometry) A line that separates particle type-clusters on two-dimensional dot plots.
- A doorlike structure outside a house.
- A movable barrier.
- supply with a gate
- control with a valve or other device that functions like a gate
- restrict (school boys') movement to the dormitory or campus as a means of punishment
- (transitive) To selectively regulate or restrict (access to something).
- (transitive) To keep something inside by means of a closed gate.
- (transitive) To turn (an image intensifier) on and off selectively, as needed or to avoid damage from excessive light exposure. See autogating.
- (transitive, biochemistry) To open (a closed ion channel).
- (transitive) To furnish with a gate.
- A board or similar barrier that forms part of the side of something.
- (collectible, card games) A set of cards that are separate from a player's primary deck, used to customize a match strategy against an opponent by enabling a player to change the composition of the playing deck.
- (furniture) A piece of dining room furniture having drawers and shelves for linen and tableware; originally for serving food.
- (fishing) A restriction on using the right to catch a certain number of fish that was granted in relation to a different fishery.
- a board that forms part of the side of a bed or crib
- a removable board fitted on the side of a wagon to increase its capacity
- a piece of furniture that stands at the side of a dining room; has shelves and drawers
- A wall that lines the face of a bank or earthwork.
- A short nightdress, or similar piece of lingerie.
- A woman's dress that fits loosely; a chemise dress.
- (historical) A loose shirtlike undergarment, especially for women.
- a woman's sleeveless undergarment
- a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist
- A similar material used for exterior walls.
- (uncountable) A paste applied to the skin for healing or cosmetic purposes.
- (uncountable) A mixture of lime or gypsum, sand, and water, sometimes with the addition of fibres, that hardens to a smooth solid and is used for coating walls and ceilings.
- (countable, British, New Zealand, Canada) A small adhesive bandage to cover a minor wound; a sticking plaster.
- (by ellipsis, uncountable) Plaster of Paris.
- (countable) A cast made of plaster of Paris and gauze; a plaster cast.
- a medical dressing consisting of a soft heated mass of meal or clay that is spread on a cloth and applied to the skin to treat inflamed areas or improve circulation etc.
- a surface of hardened plaster (as on a wall or ceiling)
- a mixture of lime or gypsum with sand and water; hardens into a smooth solid; used to cover walls and ceilings
- adhesive tape used in dressing wounds
- any of several gypsum cements; a white powder (a form of calcium sulphate) that forms a paste when mixed with water and hardens into a solid; used in making molds and sculptures and casts for broken limbs
- (transitive, figurative) To smooth over.
- (transitive) To smear with some viscous or liquid substance.
- (transitive) To cover or coat something with plaster; to render.
- (transitive) To apply a plaster to.
- (transitive, figurative) To bombard heavily or overwhelmingly; to overwhelm (with weapons fire).
- (transitive) To hide or cover up, as if with plaster; to cover thickly.
- affix conspicuously
- apply a plaster cast to
- dress by covering with a therapeutic substance
- coat with plaster
- cover conspicuously or thickly, as by pasting something on
- apply a heavy coat to
- (architecture) Bars or ribs, usually of stone or wood, or other material, that subdivide an opening or stand in relief against a door or wall as an ornamental feature.
- (by extension) A delicate interlacing of lines reminiscent of the architectural ornament.
- decoration consisting of an open pattern of interlacing ribs
- A grating of parallel bars; a gridiron.
- (electronics) The third (or higher) electrode of a vacuum tube (triode or higher).
- (motor racing) The pattern of starting positions of the drivers for a race.
- (cartography) A method of marking off maps into areas.
- A rectangular array of squares or rectangles of equal size, such as in a crossword puzzle.
- (electricity) A battery-plate somewhat like a grating, especially a zinc plate in a primary battery, or a lead plate in a secondary or storage battery.
- (computing) A system or structure of distributed computers working mostly on a peer-to-peer basis, used mainly to solve single and complex scientific or technical problems or to process data at high speeds (as in clusters).
- A system for delivery of electricity, consisting of various substations, transformers and generators, connected by wire.
- (theater, television) An openwork ceiling above the stage or studio, used for affixing lights etc.
- A tiling of the plane with regular polygons; a honeycomb.
- a cooking utensil of parallel metal bars; used to grill fish or meat
- a perforated or corrugated metal plate used in a storage battery as a conductor and support for the active material
- a system of high tension cables by which electrical power is distributed throughout a region
- an electrode placed between the cathode and anode of a vacuum tube to control the flow of electrons through the tube
- a pattern of regularly spaced horizontal and vertical lines
- an enclosure that is set back or indented
- a position particularly well suited to the person who or organization which occupies it
- a small concavity
- (ecology) the status of an organism within its environment and community (affecting its survival as a species)
- Specifically, a cremation niche; a columbarium.
- (Islam) An arrow woven into a prayer rug pointing in the direction of qibla.
- (architecture) A cavity, hollow, or recess, generally within the thickness of a wall, for a statue, bust, or other erect ornament.
- (ecology) A function within an ecological system to which an organism is especially suited.
- Any similar position, literal or figurative.
- (by extension) Any position of opportunity for which one is well-suited, such as a particular market in business.
- an enclosure that is set back or indented
- an arm off of a larger body of water (often between rocky headlands)
- a small concavity
- a state of abeyance or suspended business
- a pause from doing something (as work)
- (government) A period of time when the proceedings of a committee, court of law, parliament, or other official body are temporarily suspended.
- (countable, historical) A decree or resolution of the diet of the Holy Roman Empire or the Hanseatic League.
- (Australia, British, Canada, US, Philippines, education) A time away from studying during the school day for a meal or recreation.
- (countable, geology) An overall-concave, reentrant section of a sinuous fold and thrust belt, thrust sheet, or a single thrust fault, caused by one or more of: deformation (folding and faulting) of strata and geologic structures during orogenesis, differences in the angle of critical taper during orogenesis, or differing erosional level of the present geomorphological surface.
- (countable) A hidden, innermost, or inaccessible place or part of a place.
- (figuratively, usually in the plural) An obscure, remote, or secret situation.
- (countable) A depressed, hollow, or indented space; also, a hole or opening.
- (criminal slang, usually in the plural) The place in a prison where the communal lavatories are located.
- (countable) A temporary stoppage of an activity; a break, a pause.
- (architecture) A small space created by building part of a wall further back from the rest; a niche.
- (countable, anatomy) An extension or outpouching of a cavity (e.g. articular recess, peritoneal recess,...)
- put into a recess
- make a recess in
- close at the end of a session
- To position (something) a distance behind another thing; to set back.
- To temporarily suspend (a meeting, the proceedings of an official body, etc.).
- (also reflexive) Often preceded by in or into: to inset (something) into a recess or niche.
- To make a recess (noun noun sense 1 and noun sense 1.1) in (something).
- (figuratively) To conceal, to hide.
- Of an official body: to suspend proceedings for a period of time.
- Of a meeting, the proceedings of an official body, etc.: to adjourn, to take a break.
- (informal) To make a recess appointment in respect of (someone).
- A decorative border.
- (botany) The peristome or fringe-like appendage of the capsules of most mosses.
- (by extension) A border or edging.
- (UK) Synonym of bangs: hair hanging over the forehead, especially a hairstyle where it is cut straight across.
- (golf) The area around the green
- Non-mainstream theatre.
- (also attributive) Those members of a political party, or any social group, holding extremist or unorthodox views.
- The periphery of an area, especially a town or city.
- A group of people situated on the periphery of a larger community.
- (television, radio) A daypart that precedes or follows prime time.
- (Australia) Used attributively with reference to Aboriginal people living on the edge of towns etc.
- (also figurative) A marginal or peripheral part.
- (physics) A light or dark band formed by the diffraction of light.
- a social group holding marginal or extreme views
- one of the light or dark bands produced by the interference and diffraction of light
- a part of the city far removed from the center
- the outside boundary or surface of something
- a border of hair that is cut short and hangs across the forehead
- an ornamental border consisting of short lengths of hanging threads or tassels
- not full or rich
- very light colored; highly diluted with white
- (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble
- lacking in vitality or interest or effectiveness
- abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress
- (of human skin) Having a pallor (a light color, especially due to sickness, shock, fright etc.).
- Feeble, faint.
- Light in color.
- a wooden strip forming part of a fence
- a protester posted by a labor organization outside a place of work
- a detachment of troops guarding an army from surprise attack
- a vehicle performing sentinel duty
- a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event
- a form of military punishment used by the British in the late 17th century in which a soldier was forced to stand on one foot on a pointed stake
- (sometimes figurative) A sentry.
- (military) One of the soldiers or troops placed on a line forward of a position to warn against an enemy advance; or any unit (for example, an aircraft or ship) performing a similar function.
- (historical) A type of punishment by which an offender had to rest his or her entire body weight on the top of a small stake.
- A stake driven into the ground.
- (card games, uncountable) The card game piquet.
- A tool in mountaineering that is driven into the snow and used as an anchor or to arrest falls.
- A protester positioned outside an office, workplace etc. during a strike (usually in plural); also the protest itself.
- fasten with a picket
- serve as pickets or post pickets
- (intransitive) To protest, organized by a labour union, typically in front of the location of employment.
- (transitive) To enclose or fortify with pickets or pointed stakes.
- (transitive) To tether to, or as if to, a picket.
- (transitive) To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket.
- A barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air.
- a barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air
- The sound made by something that grates against something else.
- (nautical, in the plural) The strong wooden lattice used to cover a hatch, admitting light and air; also, a movable lattice used for the flooring of boats.
- The loose material that comes from something being grated.
- A frame of iron bars to hold a fire.
- An optical system of close equidistant and parallel lines or bars, especially lines ruled on a polished surface, used for producing spectra by diffraction.
- a frame of iron bars to hold a fire
- optical device consisting of a surface with many parallel grooves in it; disperses a beam of light (or other electromagnetic radiation) into its wavelengths to produce its spectrum
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- To wall in.
- (transitive) To cloister, confine, imprison or hole up: to lock someone up or seclude oneself behind walls.
- (transitive) To put or bury within a wall.
- (transitive, crystallography and geology, of a growing crystal) To trap or capture (an impurity); chiefly in the participial adjective immured and gerund or gerundial noun immuring.
- lock up or confine, in or as in a jail
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- Hung near the base of a wall.
- Of a pedal, pushed all the way down, especially to accelerate.
- (informal, figuratively) Amazed or greatly surprised.
- Struck down or leveled with the floor.
- Brought to the ground.
- (mathematics) Set to a lower bound.
- (informal, figuratively) Impressed.
- (informal, figuratively) Finished; done for.
- (informal, figuratively) Overpowered.
- Covered or furnished with a floor.
- Silenced by a conclusive answer or retort.
- provided with a floor
- Surrounded by a wall, fence or similar barrier.
- (music, of a division within a pipe organ surrounded by a wooden box, one or more sides of which contain slats that can be opened or closed in order to increase or decrease volume) Having closed slats.
- Contained; held within a container.
- closed in or surrounded or included within
- built against or attached to a wall
- (used of toothed parts or gears) interlocked and interacting
- having ones attention or mind or energy engaged
- pledged to be married
- involved in military hostilities
- reserved in advance
- (of facilities such as telephones or lavatories) unavailable for use by anyone else or indicating unavailability; (‘engaged’ is a British term for a busy telephone line)
- having services contracted for
- (architecture, of a column) attached to a wall or sunk into it halfway
- (of gears or cogs) in contact and in operation
- Having agreed to marry a particular person (one's fiancé or fiancée) or each other.
- Synonym of engagé (“passionately committed to a cause”).
- Greatly interested.
- (military) being attacked or attacking
- (medicine, of a foetus) Having the widest part of its presenting part, usually the head, enter the pelvic brim or inlet.
- Busy or employed.
- (British) (of a telephone) Already involved in a telephone call when a third party calls.
- Between walls; enclosed by walls.
- Involving competition between institutions, especially sports competitions.
- (art) Originating as street art but being curated and displayed in a gallery or museum.
- In house; internal to an organization.
- Occurring within the walls or boundaries of an organ or other biological structure.
- Local to an exhibit or exhibition.
- between two or more institutions etc