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noun
- A coil of a snake’s body.
- (Christianity) A church congregation, a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church; also, the Christian church as a whole, the flock of Christ.
- (collective) A group of sheep or goats, particularly those kept in a given enclosure.
- (geology) The bending or curving of one or a stack of originally flat and planar surfaces, such as sedimentary strata, as a result of plastic (i.e. permanent) deformation.
- One individual part of something described as manifold, twofold, fourfold, etc.
- One of the doorleaves of a folding door.
- An enclosure or dwelling generally.
- (by extension, web design) The division between the part of a web page visible in a web browser window without scrolling; usually the fold.
- A pen or enclosure for sheep or other domestic animals.
- A gentle curve of the ground; gentle hill or valley.
- An act of folding.
- A clasp, embrace.
- Any enclosed piece of land belonging to a farm or mill; yard, farmyard.
- (functional programming) Any of a family of higher-order functions that process a data structure recursively to build up a value.
- A bend or crease.
- (newspapers) The division between the top and bottom halves of a broadsheet: headlines above the fold will be readable in a newsstand display; usually the fold.
- (figuratively) Home, family.
- (figuratively) A group of people with shared ideas or goals or who live or work together.
- (programming) A section of source code that can be collapsed out of view in an editor to aid readability.
- Any correct move in origami.
- A layer, typically of folded or wrapped cloth.
- a group of sheep or goats
- the act of folding
- an angular or rounded shape made by folding
- a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church
- a geological process that causes a bend in a stratum of rock
- a pen for sheep
- a folded part (as in skin or muscle)
verb
- (transitive) To bend (any thin material, such as paper) over so that it comes in contact with itself.
- (transitive) To double or lay together (one’s arms, hands, wings, etc.) so as to overlap with each other.
- (intransitive, poker) To withdraw from betting.
- (intransitive) To fail, to collapse, to disband.
- (transitive) To enclose within folded arms, to clasp, to embrace (see also enfold).
- (transitive, computing) To split (a line of text) across multiple lines, to obey line length limitations.
- (intransitive, business) Of a company, to cease to trade.
- (intransitive) To give way on a point or in an argument.
- (intransitive) To become folded; to form folds.
- (intransitive, informal) To fall over; to collapse or give way; to be crushed.
- (transitive) To make the proper arrangement (in a thin material) by bending.
- (transitive) To confine (animals) in a fold, to pen in.
- (transitive) To place sheep on (a piece of land) in order to manure it.
- (transitive, cooking) To stir (semisolid ingredients) gently, with an action as if folding over a solid.
- (transitive, figuratively) To cover up, to conceal.
- (transitive, figuratively) To include in a spiritual ‘flock’ or group of the saved, etc.
- (intransitive, by extension) To withdraw or quit in general.
- (transitive) To draw or coil (one’s arms, a snake’s body, etc.) around something so as to enclose or embrace it.
- (transitive) To enclose in a fold of material, to swathe, wrap up, cover, enwrap.
- bend or lay so that one part covers the other
- cease to operate or cause to cease operating
- become folded or folded up
- confine in a fold, like sheep
- incorporate a food ingredient into a mixture by repeatedly turning it over without stirring or beating
adj
noun
- Ellipsis of snake game.
- something long, thin, and flexible that resembles a snake
- (finance, historical) Ellipsis of snake in the tunnel.
- (African-American Vernacular, MLE, MTE) An informer; a rat.
- A tool for unclogging plumbing.
- Any of the suborder Serpentes of legless reptile with long, thin bodies and fork-shaped tongues.
- (mathematics) A series of Bézier curves.
- (slang) Trouser snake; the penis.
- Ellipsis of black snake (“firework that creates a trail of ash”).
- (UK, Australia) A flavoured jube (confectionary) in the shape of a snake.
- (cartomancy) The seventh Lenormand card.
- (figurative) A person who acts deceitfully for personal or social gain; a treacherous person.
- A tool to aid cable pulling.
- a long flexible steel coil for dislodging stoppages in curved pipes
- limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous
- a deceitful or treacherous person
verb
- (transitive, Australia, slang) To steal slyly.
- (US, informal) To drag or draw, as a snake from a hole; often with out.
- (African-American Vernacular, MLE) To inform; to rat; often with out.
- (intransitive) To follow or move in a winding route.
- (nautical) To wind round spirally, as a large rope with a smaller, or with cord, the small rope lying in the spaces between the strands of the large one; to worm.
- (transitive) To clean using a plumbing snake.
- move smoothly and sinuously, like a snake
- form a snake-like pattern
- move along a winding path
noun
- The brille of a snake.
- Attributive form of spectacles.
- An exciting or extraordinary scene, exhibition, performance etc.
- An embarrassing or unedifying scene or situation.
- (rail transport) A frame with different coloured lenses on a semaphore signal through which light from a lamp shines at night, often a part of the signal arm.
- a blunder that makes you look ridiculous; used in the phrase ‘make a spectacle of’ yourself
- an elaborate and remarkable display on a lavish scale
- something or someone seen (especially a notable or unusual sight)
noun
- One of the sinuous foldings of a serpent or other reptile; a coil.
- Any of various tall grasses, rushes, or sedges, such as the marram, the reed canary-grass, etc.
- The top, or uppermost point, of anything; the summit.
- A young shoot of a plant; a spear.
- (geometry) The part of a spiral generated in one revolution of the straight line about the pole.
- A sharp or tapering point.
- A spiral.
- (mining) A tube or fuse for communicating fire to the charge in blasting.
- (architecture) A tapering structure built on a roof or tower, especially as one of the central architectural features of a church or cathedral roof.
- a tall tower that forms the superstructure of a building (usually a church or temple) and that tapers to a point at the top
verb
noun
- The skin shed by a snake or other reptile.
- A state of depression.
- A marshy or muddy area.
- (Northern US, Southern US) A type of swamp or shallow lake system, typically formed as or by the backwater of a larger waterway, similar to a bayou with trees.
- Dead skin on a sore or ulcer.
- (Western US) A secondary channel of a river delta, usually flushed by the tide.
- (Canadian Prairies) A small pond, often alkaline, many but not all formed by glacial potholes.
- necrotic tissue; a mortified or gangrenous part or mass
- any outer covering that can be shed or cast off (such as the cast-off skin of a snake)
- a stagnant swamp (especially as part of a bayou)
- a hollow filled with mud
verb
noun
- A row of corrugations, skin folds, or spines, on the hemipenis of a snake.
- The act of flouncing; a dramatic departure.
- (sewing) A strip of decorative material, usually pleated, attached along one edge; a ruffle.
- the act of walking with exaggerated jerky motions
- a strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim
verb
noun
- A slender thread, such as that of a cobweb.
- A thin layer of some substance; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity.
- (uncountable) A visual art form that consists of a sequence of still images preserved on a recording medium to give the illusion of motion; movies generally.
- (countable) The sequence of still images itself, which produces a moving image when played; a movie.
- (photography) A medium used to capture images in a camera.
- photographic material consisting of a base of celluloid covered with a photographic emulsion; used to make negatives or transparencies
- a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement
- a thin sheet of (usually plastic and usually transparent) material used to wrap or cover things
- a thin coating or layer
- a medium that disseminates moving pictures
verb
- (ambitransitive) To visually record (activity, or a motion picture) in general, with or without sound.
- (ambitransitive) To record (activity, or a motion picture) on photographic film.
- (transitive) To cover or become covered with a thin skin or pellicle.
- record in film
- make a film or photograph of something
adj
- Having the form or shape of a snake.
- Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of snakes.
- Of, or having attributes associated with, the serpent referred to in the book of Genesis in the Bible, such as craftiness or deceitfulness.
- Curving in alternate directions; sinuous.
- Pertaining to the serpentine subgroup of minerals.
- resembling a serpent in form
noun
- (equestrianism) In dressage, a winding walk across on the arena.
- (mineralogy) Any of several green/brown minerals consisting of magnesium and iron silicates that have similar layered crystal structure, whose appearance somewhat resembles a snake's skin.
- Any of several plants believed to cure snakebites.
- (historical) An early form of cannon, used in the 16th century.
- (mathematics) Any of several related cubic curves; anguinea
- (geology) An outcrop or region with soil and rock dominated by these minerals.
- A kind of firework.
- A coiled distillation tube.
verb
verb
- To form (a web, a cocoon, silk, etc.) from threads produced by the extrusion of a viscid, transparent liquid, which hardens on coming into contact with the air; said of the spider, the silkworm, etc.
- (aviation, of a pilot) To cause one's aircraft to enter or remain in a spin (abnormal stalled flight mode).
- (transitive) To draw out tediously; prolong.
- To shape, as malleable sheet metal, into a hollow form, by bending or buckling it by pressing against it with a smooth hand tool or roller while the metal revolves, as in a lathe.
- To use an exercise bicycle, especially as part of a gym class.
- (transitive) To make yarn by twisting and winding fibers together.
- (cricket, of a bowler) To make the ball move sideways when it bounces on the pitch.
- To ride a bicycle at a fast cadence.
- (figurative) To present, describe, or interpret, or to introduce a bias or slant, so as to give something a favorable or advantageous appearance.
- To stream or issue in a thread or a small current or jet.
- (UK, law enforcement, slang, transitive) To search rapidly.
- (cooking) To form into thin strips or ribbons, as with sugar
- (cricket, of a ball) To move sideways when bouncing.
- (computing, programming, intransitive) To wait in a loop until some condition becomes true.
- (ergative) To rotate, revolve, gyrate (usually quickly); to partially or completely rotate to face another direction.
- (fishing) To fish with a swivel or spoonbait.
- To move swiftly.
- (transitive, informal) To play (vinyl records, etc.) as a disc jockey.
- (motor racing, of a vehicle, intransitive) To rotate into the gravel or managing to remain on the straight as a result of bad weather.
- (aviation, of an aircraft) To enter, or remain in, a spin (abnormal stalled flight mode).
- prolong or extend
- revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis
- twist and turn so as to give an intended interpretation
- form a web by making a thread
- work natural fibers into a thread
- cause to spin
- stream in jets, of liquids
- make up a story
noun
- (quantum mechanics) A quantum angular momentum associated with subatomic particles, which also creates a magnetic moment.
- (UK, prison slang) A search of a prisoner's cell for forbidden articles.
- A bundle of spun material; a mass of strands and filaments.
- (nautical) Clipping of spinnaker.
- (countable, uncountable, figurative) A favourable comment or interpretation intended to bias opinion on an otherwise unpleasant situation.
- (autism, slang) A special interest of an autistic person.
- A novel, creative variation of an existing thing or type; a twist.
- (aviation) A condition of flight where a stalled aircraft is simultaneously pitching, yawing, and rolling in a spinning motion.
- (sports) Rotation of the ball as it flies through the air; sideways movement of the ball as it bounces.
- (uncountable) The use of an exercise bicycle, especially as part of a gym class.
- A brief trip by vehicle, especially one made for pleasure.
- (mechanical engineering) An abnormal condition in journal bearings where the bearing seizes to the rotating shaft and rotates inside the journal, destroying both the shaft and the journal.
- Rapid circular motion.
- A state of confusion or disorientation.
- A single play of a record; especially, one broadcast by a radio station.
- a short drive in a car
- the act of rotating rapidly
- rapid descent of an aircraft in a steep spiral
- a distinctive interpretation (especially as used by politicians to sway public opinion)
- a swift whirling motion (usually of a missile)
noun
- An animal that creates webs, such as a spider.
- (informal) A creature with webbed feet.
- One who applies webbing.
- Any of various devices that emit string in the production of a web or webbing.
- One who works on the creation or publishing of websites.
- (informal) A member of a food web.
- A person who weaves webs, especially one who manufactures webbing.
noun
- Any coarse or reinforced thread, such as a glazed thread employed in lacemaking to outline designs, or silk thread used as a fishing leader, protected from the bite of fish by a wrapping of fine wire.
- (informal) A person who is lame due to a crippling of the legs or feet.
- (informal) A limp or a limping gait.
- (informal) A crippled leg.
- (video games, slang, derogatory) A character or ability that is underpowered.
- (BDSM) A submissive dressed in a full-body suit of latex or a similar material.
- A narrow ornamental fabric or braid of silk, wool, or cotton, often stiffened with metallic wire or coarse cord running through it, used as trimming for dresses, curtains, furniture, etc. Also guimpe.
- The plastic cord used in the plaiting and knotting craft scoubidou (lanyard making); or, the process itself.
- (slang, derogatory) A name-calling word, generally for a person who is perceived to be inept, deficient or peculiar.
- disability of walking due to crippling of the legs or feet
verb
- (intransitive, informal) To limp; to hobble.
- (sewing, textiles) Of yarn, cord, thread, etc., to wrap or wind (surround) with another length of yarn or wire in a tight spiral, often by means of a gimping machine, creating 'gimped yarn', etc. Also, generally, to wrap or twist with string or wire. See gimped.
- (transitive, video games, slang) To make underpowered; to limit or restrict the useful effects of.
- walk impeded by some physical limitation or injury
adj
- Having threads.
- (computing, not comparable) Of messages: arranged in a thread or threads.
- (computing, not comparable) Of messages in a digital forum conversation: displayed hierarchically (based on parent messages), rather than linearly (usually purely chronologically).
- (of bolts or screws) having screw threads
verb
adj
noun
- A blunt needle used for threading ribbon or cord through a hem or casing.
- a blunt needle for threading ribbon through loops
- A hairpin.
- A dagger.
- (printing) A sharp tool, like an awl, formerly used for pressing down individual type characters (e.g. letters) from a column or page in making corrections.
- A type of long thin arrowhead.
- A small sharp pointed tool for making holes in cloth or leather.
- a small sharp-pointed tool for punching holes in leather or fabric
- formerly a long hairpin; usually with an ornamental head
- a dagger with a slender blade
adv
noun
- A spiderweb, or the remains of one, especially an asymmetrical one that is woven with an irregular pattern of threads.
- The European spotted flycatcher, Muscicapa striata.
- (informal, usually in the plural) fuzzy inexact memories.
- One of its filaments; gossamer.
- (figurative) Something thin and unsubstantial, or flimsy and worthless; valueless remainder.
- An intricate plot to catch the unwary.
- (Internet slang, rare) A web page that either has not been updated for a long time, or that is rarely visited.
- a fabric so delicate and transparent as to resemble a web of a spider
- filaments from a web that was spun by a spider
- a dense elaborate spider web that is more efficient than the orb web
adj
- Capable of forming rope-like or thread-like structures.
- Of milk or another liquid: slimy, as after the action of Enterobacter aerogenes in syrup.
- (UK, Ireland, colloquial) Of poor quality; in poor health.
- Resembling rope in appearance or texture, used especially of muscles that are thick or hard to the touch.
- (British informal) very poor in quality
- of or resembling rope (or ropes) in being long and strong
- forming viscous or glutinous threads
noun
- a soft loosely twisted thread used in embroidery
- a soft thread for cleaning the spaces between the teeth
- (UK) A small stream of water.
- Raw silk fibres.
- A thread used to clean the gaps between the teeth.
- A body feather of an ostrich.
- Fluid glass floating on iron in the puddling furnace, produced by the vitrification of oxides and earths which are present.
- (Northern England, Scotland) The common rush (Juncus effusus).
- (British) Spun sugar or cotton candy, especially in the phrase "candy floss".
- The fibres covering a corncob etc.; the loose downy or silky material inside the husks of certain plants, such as beans.
- A dance move in which the dancer repeatedly swings their arms, with clenched fists, from the back of their body to the front, on each side.
- Any thread-like material having parallel strands that are not spun or wound around each other.
verb
noun
- A strong thread composed of two or three smaller threads or strands twisted together, and used for various purposes, as for binding small parcels, making nets, and the like; a small cord or string.
- The act of twining or winding round.
- A twist; a convolution.
- Intimate and suggestive dance gyrations.
- a lightweight cord
verb
- (intransitive) To ascend in spiral lines about a support; to climb spirally.
- (intransitive) To wind; to bend; to make turns; to meander.
- (transitive) To wind, as one thread around another, or as any flexible substance around another body.
- Alternative form of twin (“to separate”).
- (transitive) To weave together.
- (intransitive) To mutually twist together; to become mutually involved; to intertwine.
- (transitive) To wind about; to embrace; to entwine.
- spin, wind, or twist together
- form into a spiral shape
- make by twisting together or intertwining
- arrange or coil around
noun
- A fine thread or wire.
- (physics, astronomy) A massive, thread-like structure, such as those gaseous ones which extend outward from the surface of the sun, or such as those (much larger) ones which form the boundaries between large voids in the universe.
- (3D printing) A spool of plastic used as a material for 3D-printed objects.
- Such a wire, as can be heated until it glows, in an incandescent light bulb or a thermionic valve.
- (textiles) A continuous object, limited in length only by its spool, and not cut to length.
- (botany) The stalk of a flower stamen, supporting the anther.
- the stalk of a stamen
- a very slender natural or synthetic fiber
- a threadlike structure (as a chainlike series of cells)
- a thin wire (usually tungsten) that is heated white hot by the passage of an electric current
noun
- Rauvolfia serpentina (Indian snakeroot).
- Bistorta officinalis (common bistort)
- Plantago major
- Eryngium cuneifolium
- Asarum canadense (Canadian snakeroot)
- Eupatorium spp.
- Polygala senega (Seneca snakeroot)
- Any member of the genus Ageratina of perennials and rounded shrubs from the sunflower family, growing mainly in the warmer regions of the Americas.
- Aristolochia serpentaria (Virginia snakeroot)
- any of various North American plants of the genus Liatris having racemes or panicles of small discoid flower heads
- a plant of the genus Sanicula having palmately compound leaves and unisexual flowers in panicled umbels followed by bristly fruit; reputed to have healing powers
noun
- A mesh of string, cord or rope.
- (by extension) A trap.
- A device made from such mesh, used for catching fish, butterflies, etc.
- (geometry) Any set of polygons joined edge to edge that, when folded along the edges between adjoining polygons so that the outer edges touch, form a given polyhedron.
- (sports, tennis) A mesh stretched to divide the court in tennis, badminton, volleyball, etc.
- (sports) A framework backed by a mesh, serving as the goal in hockey, soccer, lacrosse, etc.
- (electronics) A conductor that interconnects two or more component terminals.
- The amount remaining after expenses or other kinds of deductions are subtracted.
- A device made from such mesh, generally used for trapping something.
- Anything that has the appearance of such a device.
- A system that interconnects a number of users, locations etc. allowing transport or communication between them.
- (tennis, by extension) The area of the court close to the net (mesh stretched to divide the court).
- a computer network consisting of a worldwide network of computer networks that use the TCP/IP network protocols to facilitate data transmission and exchange
- an open fabric of string or rope or wire woven together at regular intervals
- game equipment consisting of a strip of netting dividing the playing area in tennis or badminton
- the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses)
- a goal lined with netting (as in soccer or hockey)
- a trap made of netting to catch fish or birds or insects
adj
adv
intj
verb
- (transitive, figuratively) To catch in a trap, or by stratagem.
- (dialectal) To clean, wash, rinse.
- To fully hedge a position.
- To form a netting or network; to knit.
- (transitive) To receive as profit.
- To enclose or cover with a net.
- (transitive) To yield as profit for.
- (tennis) To hit the ball into the net.
- (transitive, soccer) To score (a goal).
- (transitive) To catch by means of a net.
- catch with a net
- make as a net profit
- yield as a net profit
- construct or form a web, as if by weaving
noun
- A coil of a snake’s body.
- (Christianity) A church congregation, a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church; also, the Christian church as a whole, the flock of Christ.
- (collective) A group of sheep or goats, particularly those kept in a given enclosure.
- (geology) The bending or curving of one or a stack of originally flat and planar surfaces, such as sedimentary strata, as a result of plastic (i.e. permanent) deformation.
- One individual part of something described as manifold, twofold, fourfold, etc.
- One of the doorleaves of a folding door.
- An enclosure or dwelling generally.
- (by extension, web design) The division between the part of a web page visible in a web browser window without scrolling; usually the fold.
- A pen or enclosure for sheep or other domestic animals.
- A gentle curve of the ground; gentle hill or valley.
- An act of folding.
- A clasp, embrace.
- Any enclosed piece of land belonging to a farm or mill; yard, farmyard.
- (functional programming) Any of a family of higher-order functions that process a data structure recursively to build up a value.
- A bend or crease.
- (newspapers) The division between the top and bottom halves of a broadsheet: headlines above the fold will be readable in a newsstand display; usually the fold.
- (figuratively) Home, family.
- (figuratively) A group of people with shared ideas or goals or who live or work together.
- (programming) A section of source code that can be collapsed out of view in an editor to aid readability.
- Any correct move in origami.
- A layer, typically of folded or wrapped cloth.
- a group of sheep or goats
- the act of folding
- an angular or rounded shape made by folding
- a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church
- a geological process that causes a bend in a stratum of rock
- a pen for sheep
- a folded part (as in skin or muscle)
verb
- (transitive) To bend (any thin material, such as paper) over so that it comes in contact with itself.
- (transitive) To double or lay together (one’s arms, hands, wings, etc.) so as to overlap with each other.
- (intransitive, poker) To withdraw from betting.
- (intransitive) To fail, to collapse, to disband.
- (transitive) To enclose within folded arms, to clasp, to embrace (see also enfold).
- (transitive, computing) To split (a line of text) across multiple lines, to obey line length limitations.
- (intransitive, business) Of a company, to cease to trade.
- (intransitive) To give way on a point or in an argument.
- (intransitive) To become folded; to form folds.
- (intransitive, informal) To fall over; to collapse or give way; to be crushed.
- (transitive) To make the proper arrangement (in a thin material) by bending.
- (transitive) To confine (animals) in a fold, to pen in.
- (transitive) To place sheep on (a piece of land) in order to manure it.
- (transitive, cooking) To stir (semisolid ingredients) gently, with an action as if folding over a solid.
- (transitive, figuratively) To cover up, to conceal.
- (transitive, figuratively) To include in a spiritual ‘flock’ or group of the saved, etc.
- (intransitive, by extension) To withdraw or quit in general.
- (transitive) To draw or coil (one’s arms, a snake’s body, etc.) around something so as to enclose or embrace it.
- (transitive) To enclose in a fold of material, to swathe, wrap up, cover, enwrap.
- bend or lay so that one part covers the other
- cease to operate or cause to cease operating
- become folded or folded up
- confine in a fold, like sheep
- incorporate a food ingredient into a mixture by repeatedly turning it over without stirring or beating
noun
- Ellipsis of snake game.
- something long, thin, and flexible that resembles a snake
- (finance, historical) Ellipsis of snake in the tunnel.
- (African-American Vernacular, MLE, MTE) An informer; a rat.
- A tool for unclogging plumbing.
- Any of the suborder Serpentes of legless reptile with long, thin bodies and fork-shaped tongues.
- (mathematics) A series of Bézier curves.
- (slang) Trouser snake; the penis.
- Ellipsis of black snake (“firework that creates a trail of ash”).
- (UK, Australia) A flavoured jube (confectionary) in the shape of a snake.
- (cartomancy) The seventh Lenormand card.
- (figurative) A person who acts deceitfully for personal or social gain; a treacherous person.
- A tool to aid cable pulling.
- a long flexible steel coil for dislodging stoppages in curved pipes
- limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous
- a deceitful or treacherous person
verb
- (transitive, Australia, slang) To steal slyly.
- (US, informal) To drag or draw, as a snake from a hole; often with out.
- (African-American Vernacular, MLE) To inform; to rat; often with out.
- (intransitive) To follow or move in a winding route.
- (nautical) To wind round spirally, as a large rope with a smaller, or with cord, the small rope lying in the spaces between the strands of the large one; to worm.
- (transitive) To clean using a plumbing snake.
- move smoothly and sinuously, like a snake
- form a snake-like pattern
- move along a winding path
noun
- The brille of a snake.
- Attributive form of spectacles.
- An exciting or extraordinary scene, exhibition, performance etc.
- An embarrassing or unedifying scene or situation.
- (rail transport) A frame with different coloured lenses on a semaphore signal through which light from a lamp shines at night, often a part of the signal arm.
- a blunder that makes you look ridiculous; used in the phrase ‘make a spectacle of’ yourself
- an elaborate and remarkable display on a lavish scale
- something or someone seen (especially a notable or unusual sight)
noun
- One of the sinuous foldings of a serpent or other reptile; a coil.
- Any of various tall grasses, rushes, or sedges, such as the marram, the reed canary-grass, etc.
- The top, or uppermost point, of anything; the summit.
- A young shoot of a plant; a spear.
- (geometry) The part of a spiral generated in one revolution of the straight line about the pole.
- A sharp or tapering point.
- A spiral.
- (mining) A tube or fuse for communicating fire to the charge in blasting.
- (architecture) A tapering structure built on a roof or tower, especially as one of the central architectural features of a church or cathedral roof.
- a tall tower that forms the superstructure of a building (usually a church or temple) and that tapers to a point at the top
verb
noun
- The skin shed by a snake or other reptile.
- A state of depression.
- A marshy or muddy area.
- (Northern US, Southern US) A type of swamp or shallow lake system, typically formed as or by the backwater of a larger waterway, similar to a bayou with trees.
- Dead skin on a sore or ulcer.
- (Western US) A secondary channel of a river delta, usually flushed by the tide.
- (Canadian Prairies) A small pond, often alkaline, many but not all formed by glacial potholes.
- necrotic tissue; a mortified or gangrenous part or mass
- any outer covering that can be shed or cast off (such as the cast-off skin of a snake)
- a stagnant swamp (especially as part of a bayou)
- a hollow filled with mud
verb
noun
- A row of corrugations, skin folds, or spines, on the hemipenis of a snake.
- The act of flouncing; a dramatic departure.
- (sewing) A strip of decorative material, usually pleated, attached along one edge; a ruffle.
- the act of walking with exaggerated jerky motions
- a strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim
verb
noun
- A slender thread, such as that of a cobweb.
- A thin layer of some substance; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity.
- (uncountable) A visual art form that consists of a sequence of still images preserved on a recording medium to give the illusion of motion; movies generally.
- (countable) The sequence of still images itself, which produces a moving image when played; a movie.
- (photography) A medium used to capture images in a camera.
- photographic material consisting of a base of celluloid covered with a photographic emulsion; used to make negatives or transparencies
- a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement
- a thin sheet of (usually plastic and usually transparent) material used to wrap or cover things
- a thin coating or layer
- a medium that disseminates moving pictures
verb
- (ambitransitive) To visually record (activity, or a motion picture) in general, with or without sound.
- (ambitransitive) To record (activity, or a motion picture) on photographic film.
- (transitive) To cover or become covered with a thin skin or pellicle.
- record in film
- make a film or photograph of something
noun
- An animal that creates webs, such as a spider.
- (informal) A creature with webbed feet.
- One who applies webbing.
- Any of various devices that emit string in the production of a web or webbing.
- One who works on the creation or publishing of websites.
- (informal) A member of a food web.
- A person who weaves webs, especially one who manufactures webbing.
noun
- Any coarse or reinforced thread, such as a glazed thread employed in lacemaking to outline designs, or silk thread used as a fishing leader, protected from the bite of fish by a wrapping of fine wire.
- (informal) A person who is lame due to a crippling of the legs or feet.
- (informal) A limp or a limping gait.
- (informal) A crippled leg.
- (video games, slang, derogatory) A character or ability that is underpowered.
- (BDSM) A submissive dressed in a full-body suit of latex or a similar material.
- A narrow ornamental fabric or braid of silk, wool, or cotton, often stiffened with metallic wire or coarse cord running through it, used as trimming for dresses, curtains, furniture, etc. Also guimpe.
- The plastic cord used in the plaiting and knotting craft scoubidou (lanyard making); or, the process itself.
- (slang, derogatory) A name-calling word, generally for a person who is perceived to be inept, deficient or peculiar.
- disability of walking due to crippling of the legs or feet
verb
- (intransitive, informal) To limp; to hobble.
- (sewing, textiles) Of yarn, cord, thread, etc., to wrap or wind (surround) with another length of yarn or wire in a tight spiral, often by means of a gimping machine, creating 'gimped yarn', etc. Also, generally, to wrap or twist with string or wire. See gimped.
- (transitive, video games, slang) To make underpowered; to limit or restrict the useful effects of.
- walk impeded by some physical limitation or injury
noun
- A blunt needle used for threading ribbon or cord through a hem or casing.
- a blunt needle for threading ribbon through loops
- A hairpin.
- A dagger.
- (printing) A sharp tool, like an awl, formerly used for pressing down individual type characters (e.g. letters) from a column or page in making corrections.
- A type of long thin arrowhead.
- A small sharp pointed tool for making holes in cloth or leather.
- a small sharp-pointed tool for punching holes in leather or fabric
- formerly a long hairpin; usually with an ornamental head
- a dagger with a slender blade
adv
noun
- A spiderweb, or the remains of one, especially an asymmetrical one that is woven with an irregular pattern of threads.
- The European spotted flycatcher, Muscicapa striata.
- (informal, usually in the plural) fuzzy inexact memories.
- One of its filaments; gossamer.
- (figurative) Something thin and unsubstantial, or flimsy and worthless; valueless remainder.
- An intricate plot to catch the unwary.
- (Internet slang, rare) A web page that either has not been updated for a long time, or that is rarely visited.
- a fabric so delicate and transparent as to resemble a web of a spider
- filaments from a web that was spun by a spider
- a dense elaborate spider web that is more efficient than the orb web
noun
- a soft loosely twisted thread used in embroidery
- a soft thread for cleaning the spaces between the teeth
- (UK) A small stream of water.
- Raw silk fibres.
- A thread used to clean the gaps between the teeth.
- A body feather of an ostrich.
- Fluid glass floating on iron in the puddling furnace, produced by the vitrification of oxides and earths which are present.
- (Northern England, Scotland) The common rush (Juncus effusus).
- (British) Spun sugar or cotton candy, especially in the phrase "candy floss".
- The fibres covering a corncob etc.; the loose downy or silky material inside the husks of certain plants, such as beans.
- A dance move in which the dancer repeatedly swings their arms, with clenched fists, from the back of their body to the front, on each side.
- Any thread-like material having parallel strands that are not spun or wound around each other.
verb
noun
- A strong thread composed of two or three smaller threads or strands twisted together, and used for various purposes, as for binding small parcels, making nets, and the like; a small cord or string.
- The act of twining or winding round.
- A twist; a convolution.
- Intimate and suggestive dance gyrations.
- a lightweight cord
verb
- (intransitive) To ascend in spiral lines about a support; to climb spirally.
- (intransitive) To wind; to bend; to make turns; to meander.
- (transitive) To wind, as one thread around another, or as any flexible substance around another body.
- Alternative form of twin (“to separate”).
- (transitive) To weave together.
- (intransitive) To mutually twist together; to become mutually involved; to intertwine.
- (transitive) To wind about; to embrace; to entwine.
- spin, wind, or twist together
- form into a spiral shape
- make by twisting together or intertwining
- arrange or coil around
noun
- A fine thread or wire.
- (physics, astronomy) A massive, thread-like structure, such as those gaseous ones which extend outward from the surface of the sun, or such as those (much larger) ones which form the boundaries between large voids in the universe.
- (3D printing) A spool of plastic used as a material for 3D-printed objects.
- Such a wire, as can be heated until it glows, in an incandescent light bulb or a thermionic valve.
- (textiles) A continuous object, limited in length only by its spool, and not cut to length.
- (botany) The stalk of a flower stamen, supporting the anther.
- the stalk of a stamen
- a very slender natural or synthetic fiber
- a threadlike structure (as a chainlike series of cells)
- a thin wire (usually tungsten) that is heated white hot by the passage of an electric current
noun
- Rauvolfia serpentina (Indian snakeroot).
- Bistorta officinalis (common bistort)
- Plantago major
- Eryngium cuneifolium
- Asarum canadense (Canadian snakeroot)
- Eupatorium spp.
- Polygala senega (Seneca snakeroot)
- Any member of the genus Ageratina of perennials and rounded shrubs from the sunflower family, growing mainly in the warmer regions of the Americas.
- Aristolochia serpentaria (Virginia snakeroot)
- any of various North American plants of the genus Liatris having racemes or panicles of small discoid flower heads
- a plant of the genus Sanicula having palmately compound leaves and unisexual flowers in panicled umbels followed by bristly fruit; reputed to have healing powers
noun
- A mesh of string, cord or rope.
- (by extension) A trap.
- A device made from such mesh, used for catching fish, butterflies, etc.
- (geometry) Any set of polygons joined edge to edge that, when folded along the edges between adjoining polygons so that the outer edges touch, form a given polyhedron.
- (sports, tennis) A mesh stretched to divide the court in tennis, badminton, volleyball, etc.
- (sports) A framework backed by a mesh, serving as the goal in hockey, soccer, lacrosse, etc.
- (electronics) A conductor that interconnects two or more component terminals.
- The amount remaining after expenses or other kinds of deductions are subtracted.
- A device made from such mesh, generally used for trapping something.
- Anything that has the appearance of such a device.
- A system that interconnects a number of users, locations etc. allowing transport or communication between them.
- (tennis, by extension) The area of the court close to the net (mesh stretched to divide the court).
- a computer network consisting of a worldwide network of computer networks that use the TCP/IP network protocols to facilitate data transmission and exchange
- an open fabric of string or rope or wire woven together at regular intervals
- game equipment consisting of a strip of netting dividing the playing area in tennis or badminton
- the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses)
- a goal lined with netting (as in soccer or hockey)
- a trap made of netting to catch fish or birds or insects
adj
adv
intj
verb
- (transitive, figuratively) To catch in a trap, or by stratagem.
- (dialectal) To clean, wash, rinse.
- To fully hedge a position.
- To form a netting or network; to knit.
- (transitive) To receive as profit.
- To enclose or cover with a net.
- (transitive) To yield as profit for.
- (tennis) To hit the ball into the net.
- (transitive, soccer) To score (a goal).
- (transitive) To catch by means of a net.
- catch with a net
- make as a net profit
- yield as a net profit
- construct or form a web, as if by weaving
verb
- To form (a web, a cocoon, silk, etc.) from threads produced by the extrusion of a viscid, transparent liquid, which hardens on coming into contact with the air; said of the spider, the silkworm, etc.
- (aviation, of a pilot) To cause one's aircraft to enter or remain in a spin (abnormal stalled flight mode).
- (transitive) To draw out tediously; prolong.
- To shape, as malleable sheet metal, into a hollow form, by bending or buckling it by pressing against it with a smooth hand tool or roller while the metal revolves, as in a lathe.
- To use an exercise bicycle, especially as part of a gym class.
- (transitive) To make yarn by twisting and winding fibers together.
- (cricket, of a bowler) To make the ball move sideways when it bounces on the pitch.
- To ride a bicycle at a fast cadence.
- (figurative) To present, describe, or interpret, or to introduce a bias or slant, so as to give something a favorable or advantageous appearance.
- To stream or issue in a thread or a small current or jet.
- (UK, law enforcement, slang, transitive) To search rapidly.
- (cooking) To form into thin strips or ribbons, as with sugar
- (cricket, of a ball) To move sideways when bouncing.
- (computing, programming, intransitive) To wait in a loop until some condition becomes true.
- (ergative) To rotate, revolve, gyrate (usually quickly); to partially or completely rotate to face another direction.
- (fishing) To fish with a swivel or spoonbait.
- To move swiftly.
- (transitive, informal) To play (vinyl records, etc.) as a disc jockey.
- (motor racing, of a vehicle, intransitive) To rotate into the gravel or managing to remain on the straight as a result of bad weather.
- (aviation, of an aircraft) To enter, or remain in, a spin (abnormal stalled flight mode).
- prolong or extend
- revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis
- twist and turn so as to give an intended interpretation
- form a web by making a thread
- work natural fibers into a thread
- cause to spin
- stream in jets, of liquids
- make up a story
noun
- (quantum mechanics) A quantum angular momentum associated with subatomic particles, which also creates a magnetic moment.
- (UK, prison slang) A search of a prisoner's cell for forbidden articles.
- A bundle of spun material; a mass of strands and filaments.
- (nautical) Clipping of spinnaker.
- (countable, uncountable, figurative) A favourable comment or interpretation intended to bias opinion on an otherwise unpleasant situation.
- (autism, slang) A special interest of an autistic person.
- A novel, creative variation of an existing thing or type; a twist.
- (aviation) A condition of flight where a stalled aircraft is simultaneously pitching, yawing, and rolling in a spinning motion.
- (sports) Rotation of the ball as it flies through the air; sideways movement of the ball as it bounces.
- (uncountable) The use of an exercise bicycle, especially as part of a gym class.
- A brief trip by vehicle, especially one made for pleasure.
- (mechanical engineering) An abnormal condition in journal bearings where the bearing seizes to the rotating shaft and rotates inside the journal, destroying both the shaft and the journal.
- Rapid circular motion.
- A state of confusion or disorientation.
- A single play of a record; especially, one broadcast by a radio station.
- a short drive in a car
- the act of rotating rapidly
- rapid descent of an aircraft in a steep spiral
- a distinctive interpretation (especially as used by politicians to sway public opinion)
- a swift whirling motion (usually of a missile)
adj
adj
- Having the form or shape of a snake.
- Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of snakes.
- Of, or having attributes associated with, the serpent referred to in the book of Genesis in the Bible, such as craftiness or deceitfulness.
- Curving in alternate directions; sinuous.
- Pertaining to the serpentine subgroup of minerals.
- resembling a serpent in form
noun
- (equestrianism) In dressage, a winding walk across on the arena.
- (mineralogy) Any of several green/brown minerals consisting of magnesium and iron silicates that have similar layered crystal structure, whose appearance somewhat resembles a snake's skin.
- Any of several plants believed to cure snakebites.
- (historical) An early form of cannon, used in the 16th century.
- (mathematics) Any of several related cubic curves; anguinea
- (geology) An outcrop or region with soil and rock dominated by these minerals.
- A kind of firework.
- A coiled distillation tube.
verb
adj
- Having threads.
- (computing, not comparable) Of messages: arranged in a thread or threads.
- (computing, not comparable) Of messages in a digital forum conversation: displayed hierarchically (based on parent messages), rather than linearly (usually purely chronologically).
- (of bolts or screws) having screw threads
verb
adj
adj
- Capable of forming rope-like or thread-like structures.
- Of milk or another liquid: slimy, as after the action of Enterobacter aerogenes in syrup.
- (UK, Ireland, colloquial) Of poor quality; in poor health.
- Resembling rope in appearance or texture, used especially of muscles that are thick or hard to the touch.
- (British informal) very poor in quality
- of or resembling rope (or ropes) in being long and strong
- forming viscous or glutinous threads