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noun
- Any arched ceiling or roof.
- an arched brick or stone ceiling or roof
- The secure room or rooms in or below a bank used to store currency and other valuables; similar rooms in other settings.
- (gymnastics) A piece of apparatus used for performing jumps.
- The space covered by an arched roof, particularly underground rooms and (Christianity, obsolete) church crypts.
- (equestrianism) Synonym of volte: a circular movement by the horse.
- Any cellar or underground storeroom.
- An act of vaulting, formerly (chiefly) by deer; a leap or jump.
- Any burial chamber, particularly those underground.
- (figuratively) Anything resembling such a downward-facing concave structure, particularly the sky and caves.
- (gymnastics) An event or performance involving a vaulting horse.
- (gymnastics) A gymnastic movement performed on this apparatus.
- (computing) An encrypted digital archive.
- An arched masonry structure supporting and forming a ceiling, whether freestanding or forming part of a larger building.
- (often figurative) Any archive of past content.
- the act of jumping over an obstacle
- a burial chamber (usually underground)
- a strongroom or compartment (often made of steel) for safekeeping of valuables
verb
- (ambitransitive) To jump or leap over with a hand and/or foot on the item for support.
- (transitive) To store in a vault.
- (transitive) To build as, or cover with a vault.
- (video games) To remove (an item, character, etc.) from a video game in an update.
- bound vigorously
- jump across or leap over (an obstacle)
noun
- A piece of other material used as a roofing tile.
- thin layers of rock used for roofing
- A piece of such stone, usually cut into a rectangular shape, used as a tile for flooring, roofing, etc.; (uncountable) such tiles collectively, or the material from which they are made.
- (uncountable) The bluish-grey colour of most slate (etymology 1 sense 4).
- (chiefly politics) A group or list of candidates for appointment or election to an office; also, a group of candidates or electors with affiliated political views.
- A sequentially numbered session of recording a film.
- A generally rectangular piece, originally of certain types of stone and now of other materials, often in a frame, used for writing on with a thin rod of the same or another stone (a slate pencil) or with chalk; a small chalkboard.
- (film) A collection of films released during a certain period, either from one studio or from a certain film industry (such as Hollywood) as a whole.
- (uncountable, geology) A fine-grained homogeneous sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash which has been metamorphosed so that it cleaves easily into thin layers.
- Information about a film recording which is inserted at the start of the recording, or printed on a videotape label etc.
- A record, for example, of money owed.
- (computing) Synonym of tablet computer (“a hand-held portable computer in the form of a tablet with a touch screen interface”).
- A range of things; also, a schedule.
- a fine-grained metamorphic rock that can be split into thin layers
- a list of candidates nominated by a political party to run for election to public offices
- (formerly) a writing tablet made of slate
adj
verb
- (film) To provide synchronization information about (a scene, take, etc., of a film recording) using a slate (noun etymology 1 sense 2.3.1).
- (chiefly US, figurative) To expect (something) with a (strong) degree of certainty; to anticipate, to predict.
- (chiefly US, figurative) To appoint or designate (someone or something); also, to nominate or propose (someone or something); specifically (politics), to nominate or propose (a candidate) for an office.
- To cover a building, or part of a building with slates (noun etymology 1 sense 1.1).
- To cover (a building, or part of a building such as a floor or roof) with slates (noun etymology 1 sense 1.1).
- (film) To provide a film recording with synchronization information, especially using a slate (noun etymology 1 sense 2.3.1).
- To scold (someone) harshly; to chastise, to excoriate, to lambaste.
- (originally and chiefly Ireland, slang) To beat or thrash (someone) harshly.
- (leatherworking) To scrape (an animal hide) with a slater (“blade originally made of slate”) to remove hairs.
- To set (one or more dogs) on a person or animal; to sic.
- (chiefly UK) To criticize or critique (an author or a work) harshly; to castigate.
- (chiefly US, figurative) To plan or schedule (something).
- (military slang) To treat (an enemy) harshly.
- To set one or more dogs on (a person or animal).
- enter on a list or slate for an election
- designate or schedule
- cover with slate
noun
- A rafter of a roof.
- A sparring session; a preliminary fight, as in boxing or cock-fighting.
- (nautical) Any linear object used as a mast, sprit, yard, boom, pole or gaff.
- (mineralogy) Any crystal with readily discernible faces.
- A thick pole or piece of wood.
- (MLE) A friend, a mate, a pal.
- (aeronautics) A beam-like structural member that supports ribs in an aircraft wing or other airfoil.
- (mineralogy) Any of various microcrystalline minerals, of light, translucent, or transparent appearance, which are easily cleft.
- making the motions of attack and defense with the fists and arms; a part of training for a boxer
- any of various nonmetallic minerals (calcite or feldspar) that are light in color and transparent or translucent and cleavable
- a stout rounded pole of wood or metal used to support rigging
verb
noun
- A covering of tiles.
- the application of tiles to cover a surface
- (uncountable) The act of applying tiles.
- (computing theory) A technique for optimizing loops by partitioning the iteration space into smaller chunks or blocks that will more easily fit in a cache.
- (geometry) A tessellation; the covering of a plane with shapes, without overlaps or gaps.
verb
noun
- A roof of a house or other building which is covered with soil and grass, plants, trees, or other landscaping materials.
- A roof of a house or other building on which solar panels, solar hot water collectors, wind powered turbines, or other natural energy collectors are placed.
- A roof of a house or other building which is designed to collect rainfall for use in gardens, lawns, or as drinking water.
noun
- building material used as siding or roofing
- frothy drink of milk and flavoring and sometimes fruit or ice cream
- a reflex motion caused by cold or fear or excitement
- causing to move repeatedly from side to side
- a note that alternates rapidly with another note a semitone above it
- grasping and shaking a person's hand (as to acknowledge an introduction or to agree on a contract)
- (building material) A thin shingle.
- A basic wooden shingle made from split logs, traditionally used for roofing etc.
- The act of shaking or being shaken; tremulous or back-and-forth motion.
- A beverage made by adding ice cream to a (usually carbonated) drink; a float.
- A shook of staves and headings.
- (usually preceded by definite article) A dance popular in the 1960s in which the head, limbs, and body are shaken.
- (UK, dialect) The redshank, so called from the nodding of its head while on the ground.
- (US, slang, uncountable) An adulterant added to cocaine powder.
- (music) In singing, notes (usually high ones) sung vibrato.
- (music) A rapid alternation of a principal tone with another represented on the next degree of the staff above or below it; a trill.
- (nautical) One of the staves of a hogshead or barrel taken apart.
- A shock or disturbance.
- (usually in the plural) A twitch, a spasm, a tremor.
- Shake cannabis, small, leafy fragments of cannabis that gather at the bottom of a bag of marijuana.
- A milkshake.
- (historical, nuclear physics) An informal unit of time equal to 10 nanoseconds.
- A crack or split between the growth rings in wood.
- (informal) Instant, second. (Especially in two shakes.)
- A fissure in rock or earth.
verb
- move with or as if with a tremor
- shake or vibrate rapidly and intensively
- move or cause to move back and forth
- stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of
- undermine or cause to waver
- shake (a body part) to communicate a greeting, feeling, or cognitive state
- bring to a specified condition by or as if by shaking
- move back and forth or sideways
- get rid of
- (intransitive, figurative) To be agitated; to lose firmness.
- (transitive, figurative) To threaten to overthrow.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To lose, evade, or get rid of (something).
- (intransitive) To move from side to side.
- (transitive) To disturb emotionally; to shock.
- (transitive) To move or remove by agitating; to throw off by a jolting or vibrating motion.
- (transitive) To give a tremulous tone to; to trill.
- (transitive) To move (one's head) from side to side, especially to indicate refusal, reluctance, or disapproval.
- (intransitive) To dance.
- (intransitive, usually as "shake on") To shake hands.
- (transitive, ergative) To cause (something) to move rapidly in opposite directions alternatingly.
noun
- building material used as siding or roofing
- coarse beach gravel of small waterworn stones and pebbles (or a stretch of shore covered with such gravel)
- a small signboard outside the office of a lawyer or doctor, e.g.
- A punitive strap such as a belt.
- (by extension) Any paddle used for corporal punishment.
- A small signboard designating a professional office; this may be both a physical signboard or a metaphoric term for a small production company (a production shingle).
- Small, smooth pebbles, as found on a beach.
- (computational linguistics) A word-based n-gram.
- A small, thin piece of building material, often with one end thicker than the other, for laying in overlapping rows as a covering for the roof or sides of a building.
- A rectangular piece of steel obtained by means of a shingling process involving hammering of puddled steel.
verb
- (transitive) To cover with small, thin pieces of building material, with shingles.
- cover with shingles
- (transitive) To increase the storage density of (a hard disk) by writing tracks that partially overlap.
- (transitive, manufacturing) To hammer and squeeze material in order to expel cinder and impurities from it, as in metallurgy.
- (transitive) To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, like shingles on a roof.
- (transitive) To beat with a shingle.
verb
- (roofing) To add a new roof membrane or steep-slope covering over an existing one.
- To cover again.
- (intransitive, law) To obtain a positive judgement; to win in a lawsuit.
- (intransitive) To regain one's composure, balance etc.
- (transitive, law) To gain as compensation or reparation, usually by formal legal process.
- (transitive) To salvage, to extricate, to rescue (a thing or person).
- (transitive) To get back, to regain (a physical thing; in astronomy and navigation, sight of a thing or a signal).
- (intransitive, followed by "from" to show what caused the bad feeling) To get better, to regain health or prosperity.
- (transitive) To replenish to, resume (a good state of mind or body).
- regain a former condition after a financial loss
- get over an illness or shock
- get or find back; recover the use of
- regain or make up for
- reuse (materials from waste products)
- cover anew
noun
verb
- cover with tiles
- (transitive) To cover with tiles.
- To protect from the intrusion of the uninitiated.
- (graphical user interface) To arrange in a regular pattern, with adjoining edges (applied to tile-like objects, graphics, windows in a computer interface).
- (computing theory) To optimize (a loop in program code) by means of the tiling technique.
- (Freemasonry) To seal a lodge against intrusions from unauthorised people.
noun
- a thin flat slab of fired clay used for roofing
- a flat thin rectangular slab (as of fired clay or rubber or linoleum) used to cover surfaces
- game equipment consisting of a flat thin piece marked with characters and used in board games like Mah-Jong, Scrabble, etc.
- (computing) A rectangular graphic.
- Any of various flat cuboid playing pieces used in certain games, such as dominoes, Scrabble, or mahjong.
- A regularly-shaped slab of clay or other material, affixed to cover or decorate a surface, as in a roof-tile, glazed tile, stove tile, carpet tile, etc.
- (Lego building) A Lego piece that is 1/3 the height of a brick, and is smooth without studs on top.
noun
- A roof in the same shape, having a gable at each end.
- A raccoon oyster.
- Any of various creatures having a saddle-shaped marking on the back.
- A variety of domestic goose.
- (architecture) A coping that is thicker in the middle than at the edges.
- (UK) A great black-backed gull.
- A harp seal.
- A larva of the bombycid moth.
- (geology) An anticline.
- A breed of pig which is black with a pink saddle-shaped marking.
- A saddle-shaped ridge forming a shallow pass between two peaks.
- (New Zealand) A passerine bird of the genus Philesturnus.
- a pass or ridge that slopes gently between two peaks (is shaped like a saddle)
- a double sloping roof with a ridge and gables at each end
adj
adv
verb
noun
- one of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof
- an illegal pitching motion while runners are on base
- the area on a billiard table behind the balkline
- something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress
- A hindrance or disappointment; a check.
- A sudden and obstinate stop.
- (fishing) The rope by which fishing nets are fastened together.
- (archaeology) The wall of earth at the edge of an excavation.
- (baseball) An illegal motion by the pitcher, intended to deceive a runner.
- Beam, crossbeam; squared timber; a tie beam of a house, stretching from wall to wall, especially when laid so as to form a loft, "the balks".
- (billiards) The area of the table lying behind the line from which the cue ball is initially shot, and from which a ball in hand must be played.
- (UK dialectal) A small brass ornament fixed at the top of a wand.
- (agriculture) An uncultivated ridge formed in the open field system, caused by the action of ploughing.
- (snooker) The area of the table lying behind the baulk line.
- (badminton) A motion used to deceive the opponent during a serve.
verb
- refuse to comply
- To stop short and refuse to go on.
- To engage in contradiction; to be in opposition.
- To stop, check, block; to hinder, impede.
- To leave or make balks in.
- (intransitive, sports) To make a deceptive motion to deceive another player.
- To disappoint; to frustrate.
- To omit, miss, or overlook by chance.
- To leave heaped up; to heap up in piles.
- To refuse suddenly.
noun
- one of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof
- someone who travels by raft
- A raftsman.
- (architecture) One of a series of sloped beams that extend from the ridge or hip to the downslope perimeter or eave, designed to support the roof deck and its associated loads.
- (collective) A flock of turkeys.
verb
noun
- (roofing) The sloped edge of a roof at or adjacent to the first or last rafter.
- (gambling) A tool with a straight edge at the end used by a croupier to move chips or money across a gaming table.
- (British, originally Northern England, Scotland) A series, a succession; specifically (rail transport) a set of coupled rail vehicles, normally coaches or wagons.
- A slant that causes the bow or stern of a watercraft to extend beyond the keel; also, the upper part of the bow or stern that extends beyond the keel.
- (specifically) In full, angle of rake or rake angle: the angle between the edge or face of a tool (especially a cutting tool) and a plane (usually one perpendicular to the object that the tool is being applied to).
- A slant of some other part of a watercraft (such as a funnel or mast) away from the perpendicular, usually towards the stern.
- (Northern England and climbing, also figurative) A course, a path, especially a narrow and steep path or route up a hillside.
- A share of profits, takings, etc., especially if obtained illegally; specifically (gambling) the scaled commission fee taken by a cardroom operating a poker game.
- (Scotland) Rate of progress; pace, speed.
- A divergence from the horizontal or perpendicular; a slant, a slope.
- (geology) The direction of slip during the movement of a fault, measured within the fault plane.
- (mining) A fissure or mineral vein of ore traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so.
- (chiefly Ireland, Scotland, slang) A lot, plenty.
- A person (usually a man) who is stylish but habituated to hedonistic and immoral conduct.
- A type of lockpick that has a ridged or notched blade that moves across the pins in a pin tumbler lock, causing them to settle into a shear line.
- (Midlands, Northern England) Alternative spelling of raik (“a course, a way; pastureland over which animals graze; a journey to transport something between two places; a run; also, the quantity of items so transported”).
- The act of raking.
- (agriculture, horticulture) A garden tool with a row of pointed teeth fixed to a long handle, used for collecting debris, grass, etc., for flattening the ground, or for loosening soil; also, a similar wheel-mounted tool drawn by a horse or a tractor.
- (cellular automata) A type of puffer train that leaves behind a stream of spaceships as it moves.
- a dissolute man in fashionable society
- a long-handled tool with a row of teeth at its head; used to move leaves or loosen soil
- degree of deviation from a horizontal plane
verb
- To pick (a lock) with a rake.
- (ambitransitive, figurative) Followed by up: to bring up or uncover (something), as embarrassing information, past misdeeds, etc.
- (military, nautical) To fire upon an enemy vessel from a position in line with its bow or stern, causing one's fire to travel through the length of the enemy vessel for maximum damage.
- (intransitive, chiefly Midlands, Northern England, Scotland) To move swiftly; to proceed rapidly.
- (transitive) To provide (the bow or stern of a watercraft) with a rake (“a slant that causes it to extend beyond the keel”).
- (intransitive, rare) Of a watercraft: to have a rake at its bow or stern.
- (ambitransitive, figurative) To claw at; to scrape, to scratch; followed by away: to erase, to obliterate.
- (intransitive, falconry) Of a bird of prey: to fly after a quarry; also, to fly away from the falconer, to go wide of the quarry being pursued.
- (ambitransitive, figurative) To search through (thoroughly).
- (transitive, chiefly Ireland, Northern England, Scotland, also figurative) To cover (something) by or as if by raking things over it.
- (transitive) Often followed by an adverb or preposition such as away, off, out, etc.: to drag or pull in a certain direction.
- (ambitransitive, also figurative) To move (a beam of light, a glance with the eyes, etc.) across (something) with a long side-to-side motion; specifically (often military) to use a weapon to fire at (something) with a side-to-side motion; to spray with gunfire.
- To act upon with a rake, or as if with a rake.
- (ambitransitive) To incline (something) from a perpendicular direction.
- (transitive, also figurative) Often followed by in: to gather (things which are apart) together, especially quickly.
- Alternative spelling of raik (“(intransitive, Midlands, Northern England, Scotland) to walk; to roam, to wander; of animals (especially sheep): to graze; (transitive, chiefly Scotland) to roam or wander through (somewhere)”)
- sweep the length of
- examine hastily
- level or smooth with a rake
- gather with a rake
- move through with or as if with a rake
- scrape gently
noun
- (roofing) Crushed stone, crushed slag or water-worn gravel used for surfacing a built-up roof system.
- A mass, assemblage, or sum of particulars; something consisting of elements but considered as a whole.
- (music) The full chromatic scale of twelve equal tempered pitches.
- Solid particles of low aspect ratio added to a composite material, as distinguished from the matrix and any fibers or reinforcements; especially the gravel and sand added to concrete.
- A mass formed by the union of homogeneous particles; – in distinction from a compound, formed by the union of heterogeneous particles.
- A mechanical mixture of more than one phase.
- (Buddhism) Any of the five attributes that constitute the sentient being.
- (sports) The total score in a set of games between teams or competitors, usually the combination of the home and away scores.
- material such as sand or gravel used with cement and water to make concrete, mortar, or plaster
- the whole amount
- a sum total of many heterogenous things taken together
adj
- United into a common organized mass; said of certain compound animals.
- Having the several component parts adherent to each other only to such a degree as to be separable by mechanical means.
- (botany) Composed of several florets within a common involucre, as in the daisy; or of several carpels formed from one flower, as in the raspberry.
- Formed by a collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; collective; combined; added up.
- Consisting or formed of smaller objects or parts.
- Formed into clusters or groups of lobules.
- composed of a dense cluster of separate units such as carpels or florets or drupelets
- formed of separate units gathered into a mass or whole
verb
noun
- (architecture) A flared extension at the base of a sloped roof.
- A placeholder name for an unnamed, unspecified, or hypothetical manufactured good or product.
- (mechanical engineering) A toothed wheel that enmeshes with a chain or other perforated band.
- (usually in the plural) The tooth of such a wheel.
- thin wheel with teeth that engage with a chain
- roller that has teeth on the rims to pull film or paper through
- tooth on the rim of gear wheel
noun
- (now chiefly historical) A type of large roofing slate.
- (originally UK) A queen scallop.
- A woman pre-eminent in a particular group or field.
- (LGBTQ slang, sometimes derogatory) A homosexual man, especially one who is effeminate or flaming.
- A female monarch.
- (card games) A playing card with a depiction of a queen on it, generally ranking next below the king and above the jack in a given suit.
- (rare) A queen apple.
- (chess) A chess piece that, under contemporary rules, is the most powerful, able to move any number of spaces horizontally, vertically, or diagonally.
- (LGBTQ, slang) Ellipsis of drag queen.
- Something regarded as the greatest of its kind or as having pre-eminence or power comparable to that of a queen over a given area.
- The wife, consort, or widow of a king.
- (slang, originally US) An attractive woman; a female partner in a romantic relationship.
- (Christianity) The Virgin Mary (especially in formulations such as Queen of Heaven, Queen of Glory).
- A monarch butterfly (Danaus spp., especially Danaus gilippus).
- A red disk that is the most valuable piece in the Asian game of carrom.
- Ellipsis of queen olive.
- (attributive, originally Canada, US) Pertaining to a queen-size bed or queen-size bedding.
- An adult female cat capable of breeding.
- A reproductive female insect in a hive, such as an ant, bee, termite or wasp.
- An excellent woman.
- A girl or woman chosen to preside in an honorary or ceremonial manner over a specified festivity or occasion, as May Queen, Homecoming Queen, prom queen, pearly queen.
- the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs
- the wife or widow of a king
- offensive term for a homosexual man
- one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen
- (chess) the most powerful piece
- an especially large mole rat and the only member of a colony of naked mole rats to bear offspring which are sired by only a few males
- a female competitor who holds a preeminent position
- a female sovereign ruler
- something personified as a woman who is considered the best or most important of her kind
- female cat
verb
- (BDSM, slang, transitive, usually of a woman) To sit on a person’s face to receive oral sex, typically while straddling the person’s head.
- (transitive) To make a queen or (figuratively) to give the status of a queen.
- (beekeeping) To provide with a new queen bee.
- (chess) To promote a pawn to a queen.
- (beekeeping) To be the queen bee of a colony.
- become a queen
- promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess
noun
- That part of a shingle, slate, or tile, which is exposed to the weather, when laid; also, one course of such shingles, slates, or tiles.
- An act of measuring.
- (rail transport) Ellipsis of loading gauge.
- Any instrument for ascertaining or regulating the level, state, dimensions or forms of things
- (nautical) Relative positions of two or more vessels with reference to the wind.
- A thickness of sheet metal or wire designated by any of several numbering schemes, with lower numbers indicating larger size.
- (knitting) The number of stitches per inch, centimetre, or other unit of distance.
- A measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard
- (plastering) The quantity of plaster of Paris used with common plaster to make it set more quickly.
- (firearms) A unit of measurement which describes how many spheres of bore diameter of a shotgun can be had from one pound of lead; 12 gauge is roughly equivalent to .75 caliber.
- An estimate.
- (nautical) The depth to which a vessel sinks in the water.
- (slang, uncountable) Cannabis.
- A tunnel-like ear piercing consisting of a hollow ring embedded in the lobe.
- (rail transport) Ellipsis of track gauge.
- (mathematics, mathematical analysis) A semi-norm; a function that assigns a non-negative size to all vectors in a vector space.
- (US, slang, by extension) A shotgun (synecdoche for 12 gauge shotgun, the most common chambering for combat and hunting shotguns).
- diameter of a tube or gun barrel
- the thickness of wire
- the distance between the rails of a railway or between the wheels of a train
- a measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity such as the thickness of wire or the amount of rain etc.
- accepted or approved instance or example of a quantity or quality against which others are judged or measured or compared
verb
- (transitive) To measure or determine with a gauge; to measure the capacity of.
- (transitive) To estimate.
- (transitive) To appraise the character or ability of; to judge of.
- (textile, transitive) To draw into equidistant gathers by running a thread through it.
- (transitive) To chip, hew or polish (stones, bricks, etc) to a standard size and/or shape.
- (transitive) To mix (a quantity of ordinary plaster) with a quantity of plaster of Paris.
- mix in specific proportions
- determine the capacity, volume, or contents of by measurement and calculation
- judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time)
- rub to a uniform size
- measure precisely and against a standard
- adapt to a specified measurement
verb
- To make with a hip or hips, as a roof.
- (transitive, slang) To inform, to make knowledgeable.
- (wrestling) To throw (one's adversary) over one's hip ("cross-buttock").
- To dislocate or sprain the hip of, to fracture or injure the hip bone of (a quadruped) in such a manner as to produce a permanent depression of that side.
- (chiefly sports) To use one's hips to bump into someone.
intj
noun
- (anatomy) The outward-projecting parts of the pelvis and top of the femur and the overlying tissue.
- The fruit of a rose.
- The inclined external angle formed by the intersection of two sloping roof planes.
- In a bridge truss, the place where an inclined end post meets the top chord.
- either side of the body below the waist and above the thigh
- the structure of the vertebrate skeleton supporting the lower limbs in humans and the hind limbs or corresponding parts in other vertebrates
- the ball-and-socket joint between the head of the femur and the acetabulum
- (architecture) the exterior angle formed by the junction of a sloping side and a sloping end of a roof
- the fruit of a rose plant
adj
noun
- Any overhanging or projecting roof structure, typically over entrances or doors.
- The zone of the highest foliage and branches of a forest.
- In an airplane, the transparent cockpit cover.
- A high cover providing shelter, such as a cloth supported above an object, particularly over a bed.
- In a parachute, the cloth that fills with air and thus limits the falling speed.
- the transparent covering of an aircraft cockpit
- the umbrellalike part of a parachute that fills with air
- a covering (usually of cloth) that serves as a roof to shelter an area from the weather
verb
noun
- (countable) A roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates.
- (countable, nautical) A plummet or mass of lead attached to a line, used in sounding depth at sea or to estimate velocity in knots.
- A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing.
- (medicine, in the plural) X-ray protective clothing lined with lead.
- (countable) A thin cylinder of graphite used in pencils.
- (UK, countable) An insulated metallic wire for electrical devices and equipment.
- Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs.
- (horology) The action of a tooth, such as a tooth of a wheel, in impelling another tooth or a pallet.
- Information obtained by a news reporter about an issue or subject that allows him or her to discover more details.
- (electricity) The advance of the current phase in an alternating circuit beyond that of the electromotive force producing it.
- (acting) The actor who plays the main role; lead actor.
- (countable, mining) A lode.
- Information obtained by a detective or police officer that allows him or her to discover further details about a crime or incident.
- A rope, leather strap, or similar device with which to lead an animal; a leash
- (nautical) The course of a rope from end to end.
- (US, journalism) The introductory paragraph or paragraphs of a newspaper, or a news or other type of article. (Sometimes spelled as lede for this usage to avoid ambiguity.)
- (marketing) Potential opportunity for a sale or transaction, a potential customer.
- (business) The person in charge of a project or a work shift etc.
- (curling) The player who throws the first two rocks for a team.
- (music) The announcement by one voice part of a theme to be repeated by the other parts.
- (uncountable, typography) Vertical space in advance of a row or between rows of text. Also known as leading.
- (slang) Bullets; ammunition.
- (countable) A channel of open water in an ice field.
- Hypothesis that has not been pursued
- (music) A mark or a short passage in one voice part, as of a canon, serving as a cue for the entrance of others.
- An important news story that appears on the front page of a newspaper or at the beginning of a news broadcast
- (music) A primary synth, often composed of square, sawtooth, triangle or sine waveforms.
- (baseball) The situation where a runner steps away from a base while waiting for the pitch to be thrown.
- (uncountable) A heavy, pliable, inelastic metal element, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished; both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic number 82, symbol Pb (from Latin plumbum).
- (music) In a barbershop quartet, the person who sings the melody, usually the second tenor.
- (countable) The act of leading or conducting; guidance; direction, course
- (acting, theater) The main role in a play or film; the lead role.
- (uncountable, card games, dominoes) The act or right of playing first in a game or round; the card suit, or piece, so played
- (engineering) The axial distance a screw thread travels in one revolution. It is equal to the pitch times the number of starts.
- In a steam engine, the width of port opening which is uncovered by the valve, for the admission or release of steam, at the instant when the piston is at end of its stroke.
- (electricity) The angle between the line joining the brushes of a continuous-current dynamo and the diameter symmetrical between the poles.
- (countable) Precedence; advance position; also, the measure of precedence; the state of being ahead in a race; the highest score in an incomplete game.
- (engineering) The excess above a right angle in the angle between two consecutive cranks, as of a compound engine, on the same shaft.
- (civil engineering) The distance of haul, as from a cutting to an embankment.
- an advantage held by a competitor in a race
- an actor who plays a principal role
- the angle between the direction a gun is aimed and the position of a moving target (correcting for the flight time of the missile)
- evidence pointing to a possible solution
- the introductory section of a story
- (baseball) the position taken by a base runner preparing to advance to the next base
- an indication of potential opportunity
- a jumper that consists of a short piece of wire
- the playing of a card to start a trick in bridge
- a position of being the initiator of something and an example that others will follow (especially in the phrase ‘take the lead’)
- restraint consisting of a rope (or light chain) used to restrain an animal
- a news story of major importance
- (sports) the score by which a team or individual is winning
- the timing of ignition relative to the position of the piston in an internal-combustion engine
- thin strip of metal used to separate lines of type in printing
- a soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element; bluish white when freshly cut but tarnishes readily to dull grey
- mixture of graphite with clay in different degrees of hardness; the marking substance in a pencil
adj
verb
- (intransitive) To be a cause of. [with to]
- (intransitive) To guide or conduct, as by accompanying, going before, showing, influencing, directing with authority, etc.; to have precedence or preeminence; to be first or chief; — used in most of the senses of the transitive verb.
- (transitive, climbing) To lead climb.
- (figuratively): To direct; to counsel; to instruct.
- To guide or conduct in a certain course, or to a certain place or end, by making the way known; to show the way, especially by going with or going in advance of; to guide somebody somewhere or to bring somebody somewhere by means of instructions.
- To guide or conduct with the hand, or by means of some physical contact connection.
- (transitive, card games, dominoes) To begin a game, round, or trick, with
- Misspelling of led.
- (baseball) To step off base and move towards the next base.
- Used in phrasal verbs: lead off, lead on, lead out, lead to (“be the cause of, bring about”), lead up, lead up to.
- (intransitive) To have the highest interim score in a game.
- (intransitive) To tend or reach in a certain spatial direction, or to a certain place.
- (transitive) To go or to be in advance of; to precede; hence, to be foremost or chief among.
- To draw or direct by influence, whether good or bad; to prevail on; to induce; to entice; to allure.
- (shooting) To aim in front of a moving target, in order that the shot may hit the target as it passes.
- (intransitive) To be more advanced in technology or business than others.
- (intransitive) To be ahead of others, e.g., in a race.
- (intransitive) To proceed in front of others; to go first.
- (transitive, usually with "life") To live or experience (a particular way of life).
- To influence towards a belief, a conclusion, etc.
- (transitive, printing, historical) To place leads between the lines of.
- (transitive) To cover, fill, or affect with lead.
- To conduct or direct with authority; to have direction or charge of; to command, especially a military or business unit.
- lead, extend, or afford access
- travel in front of; go in advance of others
- cause to undertake a certain action
- take somebody somewhere
- tend to or result in
- cause something to pass or lead somewhere
- lead, as in the performance of a composition
- produce as a result or residue
- preside over
- be ahead of others; be the first
- be in charge of
- be conducive to
- stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point
- move ahead (of others) in time or space
noun
- covering with a design in which one element covers a part of another (as with tiles or shingles)
- (programming) The use of relative positioning, often by varying amounts of indentation, to define hierarchical relationships between elements of code.
- (medicine) Overlapping of layers of tissue in wound closure or in correctional or reconstructive surgery.
- A set of tiles or shingles that overlap like the scales of a fish.
- (geology) A sedimentary deposition in which small, flat stones are tiled in the same direction so that they overlap.
- (linguistics) A phenomenon occurring in many Bantu languages in which morphemes interweave in certain morphophonological conditions.
noun
- covering with a design in which one element covers a part of another (as with tiles or shingles)
- (accounting) A form of fraud in which payments in the accounts are repeatedly delayed between periods, or diverted between customers, to conceal a theft.
- The process of forming a lap or fleece of fibrous material for the carding-machine.
- A kind of machine blanket or wrapping material used by calico printers.
- The rubbing or polishing of a metal surface.
- (firearms) The process of rubbing away the lands, or metal between the grooves of a rifled gun, to increase the bore.
- (lutherie) Lengths of fine silk, metal wire, or whalebone wrapped tightly around the stick of the bow of a string instrument adjacent to the leather part of the bow grip at the heel.
- The gentle, rhythmic sound of water splashing against a solid surface.
verb
noun
- Any arched ceiling or roof.
- an arched brick or stone ceiling or roof
- The secure room or rooms in or below a bank used to store currency and other valuables; similar rooms in other settings.
- (gymnastics) A piece of apparatus used for performing jumps.
- The space covered by an arched roof, particularly underground rooms and (Christianity, obsolete) church crypts.
- (equestrianism) Synonym of volte: a circular movement by the horse.
- Any cellar or underground storeroom.
- An act of vaulting, formerly (chiefly) by deer; a leap or jump.
- Any burial chamber, particularly those underground.
- (figuratively) Anything resembling such a downward-facing concave structure, particularly the sky and caves.
- (gymnastics) An event or performance involving a vaulting horse.
- (gymnastics) A gymnastic movement performed on this apparatus.
- (computing) An encrypted digital archive.
- An arched masonry structure supporting and forming a ceiling, whether freestanding or forming part of a larger building.
- (often figurative) Any archive of past content.
- the act of jumping over an obstacle
- a burial chamber (usually underground)
- a strongroom or compartment (often made of steel) for safekeeping of valuables
verb
- (ambitransitive) To jump or leap over with a hand and/or foot on the item for support.
- (transitive) To store in a vault.
- (transitive) To build as, or cover with a vault.
- (video games) To remove (an item, character, etc.) from a video game in an update.
- bound vigorously
- jump across or leap over (an obstacle)
noun
- A piece of other material used as a roofing tile.
- thin layers of rock used for roofing
- A piece of such stone, usually cut into a rectangular shape, used as a tile for flooring, roofing, etc.; (uncountable) such tiles collectively, or the material from which they are made.
- (uncountable) The bluish-grey colour of most slate (etymology 1 sense 4).
- (chiefly politics) A group or list of candidates for appointment or election to an office; also, a group of candidates or electors with affiliated political views.
- A sequentially numbered session of recording a film.
- A generally rectangular piece, originally of certain types of stone and now of other materials, often in a frame, used for writing on with a thin rod of the same or another stone (a slate pencil) or with chalk; a small chalkboard.
- (film) A collection of films released during a certain period, either from one studio or from a certain film industry (such as Hollywood) as a whole.
- (uncountable, geology) A fine-grained homogeneous sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash which has been metamorphosed so that it cleaves easily into thin layers.
- Information about a film recording which is inserted at the start of the recording, or printed on a videotape label etc.
- A record, for example, of money owed.
- (computing) Synonym of tablet computer (“a hand-held portable computer in the form of a tablet with a touch screen interface”).
- A range of things; also, a schedule.
- a fine-grained metamorphic rock that can be split into thin layers
- a list of candidates nominated by a political party to run for election to public offices
- (formerly) a writing tablet made of slate
adj
verb
- (film) To provide synchronization information about (a scene, take, etc., of a film recording) using a slate (noun etymology 1 sense 2.3.1).
- (chiefly US, figurative) To expect (something) with a (strong) degree of certainty; to anticipate, to predict.
- (chiefly US, figurative) To appoint or designate (someone or something); also, to nominate or propose (someone or something); specifically (politics), to nominate or propose (a candidate) for an office.
- To cover a building, or part of a building with slates (noun etymology 1 sense 1.1).
- To cover (a building, or part of a building such as a floor or roof) with slates (noun etymology 1 sense 1.1).
- (film) To provide a film recording with synchronization information, especially using a slate (noun etymology 1 sense 2.3.1).
- To scold (someone) harshly; to chastise, to excoriate, to lambaste.
- (originally and chiefly Ireland, slang) To beat or thrash (someone) harshly.
- (leatherworking) To scrape (an animal hide) with a slater (“blade originally made of slate”) to remove hairs.
- To set (one or more dogs) on a person or animal; to sic.
- (chiefly UK) To criticize or critique (an author or a work) harshly; to castigate.
- (chiefly US, figurative) To plan or schedule (something).
- (military slang) To treat (an enemy) harshly.
- To set one or more dogs on (a person or animal).
- enter on a list or slate for an election
- designate or schedule
- cover with slate
noun
- A rafter of a roof.
- A sparring session; a preliminary fight, as in boxing or cock-fighting.
- (nautical) Any linear object used as a mast, sprit, yard, boom, pole or gaff.
- (mineralogy) Any crystal with readily discernible faces.
- A thick pole or piece of wood.
- (MLE) A friend, a mate, a pal.
- (aeronautics) A beam-like structural member that supports ribs in an aircraft wing or other airfoil.
- (mineralogy) Any of various microcrystalline minerals, of light, translucent, or transparent appearance, which are easily cleft.
- making the motions of attack and defense with the fists and arms; a part of training for a boxer
- any of various nonmetallic minerals (calcite or feldspar) that are light in color and transparent or translucent and cleavable
- a stout rounded pole of wood or metal used to support rigging
verb
noun
- A covering of tiles.
- the application of tiles to cover a surface
- (uncountable) The act of applying tiles.
- (computing theory) A technique for optimizing loops by partitioning the iteration space into smaller chunks or blocks that will more easily fit in a cache.
- (geometry) A tessellation; the covering of a plane with shapes, without overlaps or gaps.
verb
noun
- A roof of a house or other building which is covered with soil and grass, plants, trees, or other landscaping materials.
- A roof of a house or other building on which solar panels, solar hot water collectors, wind powered turbines, or other natural energy collectors are placed.
- A roof of a house or other building which is designed to collect rainfall for use in gardens, lawns, or as drinking water.
noun
- building material used as siding or roofing
- frothy drink of milk and flavoring and sometimes fruit or ice cream
- a reflex motion caused by cold or fear or excitement
- causing to move repeatedly from side to side
- a note that alternates rapidly with another note a semitone above it
- grasping and shaking a person's hand (as to acknowledge an introduction or to agree on a contract)
- (building material) A thin shingle.
- A basic wooden shingle made from split logs, traditionally used for roofing etc.
- The act of shaking or being shaken; tremulous or back-and-forth motion.
- A beverage made by adding ice cream to a (usually carbonated) drink; a float.
- A shook of staves and headings.
- (usually preceded by definite article) A dance popular in the 1960s in which the head, limbs, and body are shaken.
- (UK, dialect) The redshank, so called from the nodding of its head while on the ground.
- (US, slang, uncountable) An adulterant added to cocaine powder.
- (music) In singing, notes (usually high ones) sung vibrato.
- (music) A rapid alternation of a principal tone with another represented on the next degree of the staff above or below it; a trill.
- (nautical) One of the staves of a hogshead or barrel taken apart.
- A shock or disturbance.
- (usually in the plural) A twitch, a spasm, a tremor.
- Shake cannabis, small, leafy fragments of cannabis that gather at the bottom of a bag of marijuana.
- A milkshake.
- (historical, nuclear physics) An informal unit of time equal to 10 nanoseconds.
- A crack or split between the growth rings in wood.
- (informal) Instant, second. (Especially in two shakes.)
- A fissure in rock or earth.
verb
- move with or as if with a tremor
- shake or vibrate rapidly and intensively
- move or cause to move back and forth
- stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of
- undermine or cause to waver
- shake (a body part) to communicate a greeting, feeling, or cognitive state
- bring to a specified condition by or as if by shaking
- move back and forth or sideways
- get rid of
- (intransitive, figurative) To be agitated; to lose firmness.
- (transitive, figurative) To threaten to overthrow.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To lose, evade, or get rid of (something).
- (intransitive) To move from side to side.
- (transitive) To disturb emotionally; to shock.
- (transitive) To move or remove by agitating; to throw off by a jolting or vibrating motion.
- (transitive) To give a tremulous tone to; to trill.
- (transitive) To move (one's head) from side to side, especially to indicate refusal, reluctance, or disapproval.
- (intransitive) To dance.
- (intransitive, usually as "shake on") To shake hands.
- (transitive, ergative) To cause (something) to move rapidly in opposite directions alternatingly.
noun
- building material used as siding or roofing
- coarse beach gravel of small waterworn stones and pebbles (or a stretch of shore covered with such gravel)
- a small signboard outside the office of a lawyer or doctor, e.g.
- A punitive strap such as a belt.
- (by extension) Any paddle used for corporal punishment.
- A small signboard designating a professional office; this may be both a physical signboard or a metaphoric term for a small production company (a production shingle).
- Small, smooth pebbles, as found on a beach.
- (computational linguistics) A word-based n-gram.
- A small, thin piece of building material, often with one end thicker than the other, for laying in overlapping rows as a covering for the roof or sides of a building.
- A rectangular piece of steel obtained by means of a shingling process involving hammering of puddled steel.
verb
- (transitive) To cover with small, thin pieces of building material, with shingles.
- cover with shingles
- (transitive) To increase the storage density of (a hard disk) by writing tracks that partially overlap.
- (transitive, manufacturing) To hammer and squeeze material in order to expel cinder and impurities from it, as in metallurgy.
- (transitive) To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, like shingles on a roof.
- (transitive) To beat with a shingle.
noun
- A roof in the same shape, having a gable at each end.
- A raccoon oyster.
- Any of various creatures having a saddle-shaped marking on the back.
- A variety of domestic goose.
- (architecture) A coping that is thicker in the middle than at the edges.
- (UK) A great black-backed gull.
- A harp seal.
- A larva of the bombycid moth.
- (geology) An anticline.
- A breed of pig which is black with a pink saddle-shaped marking.
- A saddle-shaped ridge forming a shallow pass between two peaks.
- (New Zealand) A passerine bird of the genus Philesturnus.
- a pass or ridge that slopes gently between two peaks (is shaped like a saddle)
- a double sloping roof with a ridge and gables at each end
adj
adv
verb
verb
- cover with tiles
- (transitive) To cover with tiles.
- To protect from the intrusion of the uninitiated.
- (graphical user interface) To arrange in a regular pattern, with adjoining edges (applied to tile-like objects, graphics, windows in a computer interface).
- (computing theory) To optimize (a loop in program code) by means of the tiling technique.
- (Freemasonry) To seal a lodge against intrusions from unauthorised people.
noun
- a thin flat slab of fired clay used for roofing
- a flat thin rectangular slab (as of fired clay or rubber or linoleum) used to cover surfaces
- game equipment consisting of a flat thin piece marked with characters and used in board games like Mah-Jong, Scrabble, etc.
- (computing) A rectangular graphic.
- Any of various flat cuboid playing pieces used in certain games, such as dominoes, Scrabble, or mahjong.
- A regularly-shaped slab of clay or other material, affixed to cover or decorate a surface, as in a roof-tile, glazed tile, stove tile, carpet tile, etc.
- (Lego building) A Lego piece that is 1/3 the height of a brick, and is smooth without studs on top.
noun
- one of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof
- an illegal pitching motion while runners are on base
- the area on a billiard table behind the balkline
- something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress
- A hindrance or disappointment; a check.
- A sudden and obstinate stop.
- (fishing) The rope by which fishing nets are fastened together.
- (archaeology) The wall of earth at the edge of an excavation.
- (baseball) An illegal motion by the pitcher, intended to deceive a runner.
- Beam, crossbeam; squared timber; a tie beam of a house, stretching from wall to wall, especially when laid so as to form a loft, "the balks".
- (billiards) The area of the table lying behind the line from which the cue ball is initially shot, and from which a ball in hand must be played.
- (UK dialectal) A small brass ornament fixed at the top of a wand.
- (agriculture) An uncultivated ridge formed in the open field system, caused by the action of ploughing.
- (snooker) The area of the table lying behind the baulk line.
- (badminton) A motion used to deceive the opponent during a serve.
verb
- refuse to comply
- To stop short and refuse to go on.
- To engage in contradiction; to be in opposition.
- To stop, check, block; to hinder, impede.
- To leave or make balks in.
- (intransitive, sports) To make a deceptive motion to deceive another player.
- To disappoint; to frustrate.
- To omit, miss, or overlook by chance.
- To leave heaped up; to heap up in piles.
- To refuse suddenly.
noun
- one of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof
- someone who travels by raft
- A raftsman.
- (architecture) One of a series of sloped beams that extend from the ridge or hip to the downslope perimeter or eave, designed to support the roof deck and its associated loads.
- (collective) A flock of turkeys.
verb
noun
- (roofing) The sloped edge of a roof at or adjacent to the first or last rafter.
- (gambling) A tool with a straight edge at the end used by a croupier to move chips or money across a gaming table.
- (British, originally Northern England, Scotland) A series, a succession; specifically (rail transport) a set of coupled rail vehicles, normally coaches or wagons.
- A slant that causes the bow or stern of a watercraft to extend beyond the keel; also, the upper part of the bow or stern that extends beyond the keel.
- (specifically) In full, angle of rake or rake angle: the angle between the edge or face of a tool (especially a cutting tool) and a plane (usually one perpendicular to the object that the tool is being applied to).
- A slant of some other part of a watercraft (such as a funnel or mast) away from the perpendicular, usually towards the stern.
- (Northern England and climbing, also figurative) A course, a path, especially a narrow and steep path or route up a hillside.
- A share of profits, takings, etc., especially if obtained illegally; specifically (gambling) the scaled commission fee taken by a cardroom operating a poker game.
- (Scotland) Rate of progress; pace, speed.
- A divergence from the horizontal or perpendicular; a slant, a slope.
- (geology) The direction of slip during the movement of a fault, measured within the fault plane.
- (mining) A fissure or mineral vein of ore traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so.
- (chiefly Ireland, Scotland, slang) A lot, plenty.
- A person (usually a man) who is stylish but habituated to hedonistic and immoral conduct.
- A type of lockpick that has a ridged or notched blade that moves across the pins in a pin tumbler lock, causing them to settle into a shear line.
- (Midlands, Northern England) Alternative spelling of raik (“a course, a way; pastureland over which animals graze; a journey to transport something between two places; a run; also, the quantity of items so transported”).
- The act of raking.
- (agriculture, horticulture) A garden tool with a row of pointed teeth fixed to a long handle, used for collecting debris, grass, etc., for flattening the ground, or for loosening soil; also, a similar wheel-mounted tool drawn by a horse or a tractor.
- (cellular automata) A type of puffer train that leaves behind a stream of spaceships as it moves.
- a dissolute man in fashionable society
- a long-handled tool with a row of teeth at its head; used to move leaves or loosen soil
- degree of deviation from a horizontal plane
verb
- To pick (a lock) with a rake.
- (ambitransitive, figurative) Followed by up: to bring up or uncover (something), as embarrassing information, past misdeeds, etc.
- (military, nautical) To fire upon an enemy vessel from a position in line with its bow or stern, causing one's fire to travel through the length of the enemy vessel for maximum damage.
- (intransitive, chiefly Midlands, Northern England, Scotland) To move swiftly; to proceed rapidly.
- (transitive) To provide (the bow or stern of a watercraft) with a rake (“a slant that causes it to extend beyond the keel”).
- (intransitive, rare) Of a watercraft: to have a rake at its bow or stern.
- (ambitransitive, figurative) To claw at; to scrape, to scratch; followed by away: to erase, to obliterate.
- (intransitive, falconry) Of a bird of prey: to fly after a quarry; also, to fly away from the falconer, to go wide of the quarry being pursued.
- (ambitransitive, figurative) To search through (thoroughly).
- (transitive, chiefly Ireland, Northern England, Scotland, also figurative) To cover (something) by or as if by raking things over it.
- (transitive) Often followed by an adverb or preposition such as away, off, out, etc.: to drag or pull in a certain direction.
- (ambitransitive, also figurative) To move (a beam of light, a glance with the eyes, etc.) across (something) with a long side-to-side motion; specifically (often military) to use a weapon to fire at (something) with a side-to-side motion; to spray with gunfire.
- To act upon with a rake, or as if with a rake.
- (ambitransitive) To incline (something) from a perpendicular direction.
- (transitive, also figurative) Often followed by in: to gather (things which are apart) together, especially quickly.
- Alternative spelling of raik (“(intransitive, Midlands, Northern England, Scotland) to walk; to roam, to wander; of animals (especially sheep): to graze; (transitive, chiefly Scotland) to roam or wander through (somewhere)”)
- sweep the length of
- examine hastily
- level or smooth with a rake
- gather with a rake
- move through with or as if with a rake
- scrape gently
noun
- (roofing) Crushed stone, crushed slag or water-worn gravel used for surfacing a built-up roof system.
- A mass, assemblage, or sum of particulars; something consisting of elements but considered as a whole.
- (music) The full chromatic scale of twelve equal tempered pitches.
- Solid particles of low aspect ratio added to a composite material, as distinguished from the matrix and any fibers or reinforcements; especially the gravel and sand added to concrete.
- A mass formed by the union of homogeneous particles; – in distinction from a compound, formed by the union of heterogeneous particles.
- A mechanical mixture of more than one phase.
- (Buddhism) Any of the five attributes that constitute the sentient being.
- (sports) The total score in a set of games between teams or competitors, usually the combination of the home and away scores.
- material such as sand or gravel used with cement and water to make concrete, mortar, or plaster
- the whole amount
- a sum total of many heterogenous things taken together
adj
- United into a common organized mass; said of certain compound animals.
- Having the several component parts adherent to each other only to such a degree as to be separable by mechanical means.
- (botany) Composed of several florets within a common involucre, as in the daisy; or of several carpels formed from one flower, as in the raspberry.
- Formed by a collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; collective; combined; added up.
- Consisting or formed of smaller objects or parts.
- Formed into clusters or groups of lobules.
- composed of a dense cluster of separate units such as carpels or florets or drupelets
- formed of separate units gathered into a mass or whole
verb
noun
- (architecture) A flared extension at the base of a sloped roof.
- A placeholder name for an unnamed, unspecified, or hypothetical manufactured good or product.
- (mechanical engineering) A toothed wheel that enmeshes with a chain or other perforated band.
- (usually in the plural) The tooth of such a wheel.
- thin wheel with teeth that engage with a chain
- roller that has teeth on the rims to pull film or paper through
- tooth on the rim of gear wheel
noun
- (now chiefly historical) A type of large roofing slate.
- (originally UK) A queen scallop.
- A woman pre-eminent in a particular group or field.
- (LGBTQ slang, sometimes derogatory) A homosexual man, especially one who is effeminate or flaming.
- A female monarch.
- (card games) A playing card with a depiction of a queen on it, generally ranking next below the king and above the jack in a given suit.
- (rare) A queen apple.
- (chess) A chess piece that, under contemporary rules, is the most powerful, able to move any number of spaces horizontally, vertically, or diagonally.
- (LGBTQ, slang) Ellipsis of drag queen.
- Something regarded as the greatest of its kind or as having pre-eminence or power comparable to that of a queen over a given area.
- The wife, consort, or widow of a king.
- (slang, originally US) An attractive woman; a female partner in a romantic relationship.
- (Christianity) The Virgin Mary (especially in formulations such as Queen of Heaven, Queen of Glory).
- A monarch butterfly (Danaus spp., especially Danaus gilippus).
- A red disk that is the most valuable piece in the Asian game of carrom.
- Ellipsis of queen olive.
- (attributive, originally Canada, US) Pertaining to a queen-size bed or queen-size bedding.
- An adult female cat capable of breeding.
- A reproductive female insect in a hive, such as an ant, bee, termite or wasp.
- An excellent woman.
- A girl or woman chosen to preside in an honorary or ceremonial manner over a specified festivity or occasion, as May Queen, Homecoming Queen, prom queen, pearly queen.
- the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs
- the wife or widow of a king
- offensive term for a homosexual man
- one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen
- (chess) the most powerful piece
- an especially large mole rat and the only member of a colony of naked mole rats to bear offspring which are sired by only a few males
- a female competitor who holds a preeminent position
- a female sovereign ruler
- something personified as a woman who is considered the best or most important of her kind
- female cat
verb
- (BDSM, slang, transitive, usually of a woman) To sit on a person’s face to receive oral sex, typically while straddling the person’s head.
- (transitive) To make a queen or (figuratively) to give the status of a queen.
- (beekeeping) To provide with a new queen bee.
- (chess) To promote a pawn to a queen.
- (beekeeping) To be the queen bee of a colony.
- become a queen
- promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess
noun
- That part of a shingle, slate, or tile, which is exposed to the weather, when laid; also, one course of such shingles, slates, or tiles.
- An act of measuring.
- (rail transport) Ellipsis of loading gauge.
- Any instrument for ascertaining or regulating the level, state, dimensions or forms of things
- (nautical) Relative positions of two or more vessels with reference to the wind.
- A thickness of sheet metal or wire designated by any of several numbering schemes, with lower numbers indicating larger size.
- (knitting) The number of stitches per inch, centimetre, or other unit of distance.
- A measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard
- (plastering) The quantity of plaster of Paris used with common plaster to make it set more quickly.
- (firearms) A unit of measurement which describes how many spheres of bore diameter of a shotgun can be had from one pound of lead; 12 gauge is roughly equivalent to .75 caliber.
- An estimate.
- (nautical) The depth to which a vessel sinks in the water.
- (slang, uncountable) Cannabis.
- A tunnel-like ear piercing consisting of a hollow ring embedded in the lobe.
- (rail transport) Ellipsis of track gauge.
- (mathematics, mathematical analysis) A semi-norm; a function that assigns a non-negative size to all vectors in a vector space.
- (US, slang, by extension) A shotgun (synecdoche for 12 gauge shotgun, the most common chambering for combat and hunting shotguns).
- diameter of a tube or gun barrel
- the thickness of wire
- the distance between the rails of a railway or between the wheels of a train
- a measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity such as the thickness of wire or the amount of rain etc.
- accepted or approved instance or example of a quantity or quality against which others are judged or measured or compared
verb
- (transitive) To measure or determine with a gauge; to measure the capacity of.
- (transitive) To estimate.
- (transitive) To appraise the character or ability of; to judge of.
- (textile, transitive) To draw into equidistant gathers by running a thread through it.
- (transitive) To chip, hew or polish (stones, bricks, etc) to a standard size and/or shape.
- (transitive) To mix (a quantity of ordinary plaster) with a quantity of plaster of Paris.
- mix in specific proportions
- determine the capacity, volume, or contents of by measurement and calculation
- judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time)
- rub to a uniform size
- measure precisely and against a standard
- adapt to a specified measurement
noun
- Any overhanging or projecting roof structure, typically over entrances or doors.
- The zone of the highest foliage and branches of a forest.
- In an airplane, the transparent cockpit cover.
- A high cover providing shelter, such as a cloth supported above an object, particularly over a bed.
- In a parachute, the cloth that fills with air and thus limits the falling speed.
- the transparent covering of an aircraft cockpit
- the umbrellalike part of a parachute that fills with air
- a covering (usually of cloth) that serves as a roof to shelter an area from the weather
verb
noun
- (countable) A roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates.
- (countable, nautical) A plummet or mass of lead attached to a line, used in sounding depth at sea or to estimate velocity in knots.
- A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing.
- (medicine, in the plural) X-ray protective clothing lined with lead.
- (countable) A thin cylinder of graphite used in pencils.
- (UK, countable) An insulated metallic wire for electrical devices and equipment.
- Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs.
- (horology) The action of a tooth, such as a tooth of a wheel, in impelling another tooth or a pallet.
- Information obtained by a news reporter about an issue or subject that allows him or her to discover more details.
- (electricity) The advance of the current phase in an alternating circuit beyond that of the electromotive force producing it.
- (acting) The actor who plays the main role; lead actor.
- (countable, mining) A lode.
- Information obtained by a detective or police officer that allows him or her to discover further details about a crime or incident.
- A rope, leather strap, or similar device with which to lead an animal; a leash
- (nautical) The course of a rope from end to end.
- (US, journalism) The introductory paragraph or paragraphs of a newspaper, or a news or other type of article. (Sometimes spelled as lede for this usage to avoid ambiguity.)
- (marketing) Potential opportunity for a sale or transaction, a potential customer.
- (business) The person in charge of a project or a work shift etc.
- (curling) The player who throws the first two rocks for a team.
- (music) The announcement by one voice part of a theme to be repeated by the other parts.
- (uncountable, typography) Vertical space in advance of a row or between rows of text. Also known as leading.
- (slang) Bullets; ammunition.
- (countable) A channel of open water in an ice field.
- Hypothesis that has not been pursued
- (music) A mark or a short passage in one voice part, as of a canon, serving as a cue for the entrance of others.
- An important news story that appears on the front page of a newspaper or at the beginning of a news broadcast
- (music) A primary synth, often composed of square, sawtooth, triangle or sine waveforms.
- (baseball) The situation where a runner steps away from a base while waiting for the pitch to be thrown.
- (uncountable) A heavy, pliable, inelastic metal element, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished; both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic number 82, symbol Pb (from Latin plumbum).
- (music) In a barbershop quartet, the person who sings the melody, usually the second tenor.
- (countable) The act of leading or conducting; guidance; direction, course
- (acting, theater) The main role in a play or film; the lead role.
- (uncountable, card games, dominoes) The act or right of playing first in a game or round; the card suit, or piece, so played
- (engineering) The axial distance a screw thread travels in one revolution. It is equal to the pitch times the number of starts.
- In a steam engine, the width of port opening which is uncovered by the valve, for the admission or release of steam, at the instant when the piston is at end of its stroke.
- (electricity) The angle between the line joining the brushes of a continuous-current dynamo and the diameter symmetrical between the poles.
- (countable) Precedence; advance position; also, the measure of precedence; the state of being ahead in a race; the highest score in an incomplete game.
- (engineering) The excess above a right angle in the angle between two consecutive cranks, as of a compound engine, on the same shaft.
- (civil engineering) The distance of haul, as from a cutting to an embankment.
- an advantage held by a competitor in a race
- an actor who plays a principal role
- the angle between the direction a gun is aimed and the position of a moving target (correcting for the flight time of the missile)
- evidence pointing to a possible solution
- the introductory section of a story
- (baseball) the position taken by a base runner preparing to advance to the next base
- an indication of potential opportunity
- a jumper that consists of a short piece of wire
- the playing of a card to start a trick in bridge
- a position of being the initiator of something and an example that others will follow (especially in the phrase ‘take the lead’)
- restraint consisting of a rope (or light chain) used to restrain an animal
- a news story of major importance
- (sports) the score by which a team or individual is winning
- the timing of ignition relative to the position of the piston in an internal-combustion engine
- thin strip of metal used to separate lines of type in printing
- a soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element; bluish white when freshly cut but tarnishes readily to dull grey
- mixture of graphite with clay in different degrees of hardness; the marking substance in a pencil
adj
verb
- (intransitive) To be a cause of. [with to]
- (intransitive) To guide or conduct, as by accompanying, going before, showing, influencing, directing with authority, etc.; to have precedence or preeminence; to be first or chief; — used in most of the senses of the transitive verb.
- (transitive, climbing) To lead climb.
- (figuratively): To direct; to counsel; to instruct.
- To guide or conduct in a certain course, or to a certain place or end, by making the way known; to show the way, especially by going with or going in advance of; to guide somebody somewhere or to bring somebody somewhere by means of instructions.
- To guide or conduct with the hand, or by means of some physical contact connection.
- (transitive, card games, dominoes) To begin a game, round, or trick, with
- Misspelling of led.
- (baseball) To step off base and move towards the next base.
- Used in phrasal verbs: lead off, lead on, lead out, lead to (“be the cause of, bring about”), lead up, lead up to.
- (intransitive) To have the highest interim score in a game.
- (intransitive) To tend or reach in a certain spatial direction, or to a certain place.
- (transitive) To go or to be in advance of; to precede; hence, to be foremost or chief among.
- To draw or direct by influence, whether good or bad; to prevail on; to induce; to entice; to allure.
- (shooting) To aim in front of a moving target, in order that the shot may hit the target as it passes.
- (intransitive) To be more advanced in technology or business than others.
- (intransitive) To be ahead of others, e.g., in a race.
- (intransitive) To proceed in front of others; to go first.
- (transitive, usually with "life") To live or experience (a particular way of life).
- To influence towards a belief, a conclusion, etc.
- (transitive, printing, historical) To place leads between the lines of.
- (transitive) To cover, fill, or affect with lead.
- To conduct or direct with authority; to have direction or charge of; to command, especially a military or business unit.
- lead, extend, or afford access
- travel in front of; go in advance of others
- cause to undertake a certain action
- take somebody somewhere
- tend to or result in
- cause something to pass or lead somewhere
- lead, as in the performance of a composition
- produce as a result or residue
- preside over
- be ahead of others; be the first
- be in charge of
- be conducive to
- stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point
- move ahead (of others) in time or space
noun
- covering with a design in which one element covers a part of another (as with tiles or shingles)
- (programming) The use of relative positioning, often by varying amounts of indentation, to define hierarchical relationships between elements of code.
- (medicine) Overlapping of layers of tissue in wound closure or in correctional or reconstructive surgery.
- A set of tiles or shingles that overlap like the scales of a fish.
- (geology) A sedimentary deposition in which small, flat stones are tiled in the same direction so that they overlap.
- (linguistics) A phenomenon occurring in many Bantu languages in which morphemes interweave in certain morphophonological conditions.
noun
- covering with a design in which one element covers a part of another (as with tiles or shingles)
- (accounting) A form of fraud in which payments in the accounts are repeatedly delayed between periods, or diverted between customers, to conceal a theft.
- The process of forming a lap or fleece of fibrous material for the carding-machine.
- A kind of machine blanket or wrapping material used by calico printers.
- The rubbing or polishing of a metal surface.
- (firearms) The process of rubbing away the lands, or metal between the grooves of a rifled gun, to increase the bore.
- (lutherie) Lengths of fine silk, metal wire, or whalebone wrapped tightly around the stick of the bow of a string instrument adjacent to the leather part of the bow grip at the heel.
- The gentle, rhythmic sound of water splashing against a solid surface.
verb
verb
- (roofing) To add a new roof membrane or steep-slope covering over an existing one.
- To cover again.
- (intransitive, law) To obtain a positive judgement; to win in a lawsuit.
- (intransitive) To regain one's composure, balance etc.
- (transitive, law) To gain as compensation or reparation, usually by formal legal process.
- (transitive) To salvage, to extricate, to rescue (a thing or person).
- (transitive) To get back, to regain (a physical thing; in astronomy and navigation, sight of a thing or a signal).
- (intransitive, followed by "from" to show what caused the bad feeling) To get better, to regain health or prosperity.
- (transitive) To replenish to, resume (a good state of mind or body).
- regain a former condition after a financial loss
- get over an illness or shock
- get or find back; recover the use of
- regain or make up for
- reuse (materials from waste products)
- cover anew
noun
verb
- cover with tiles
- (transitive) To cover with tiles.
- To protect from the intrusion of the uninitiated.
- (graphical user interface) To arrange in a regular pattern, with adjoining edges (applied to tile-like objects, graphics, windows in a computer interface).
- (computing theory) To optimize (a loop in program code) by means of the tiling technique.
- (Freemasonry) To seal a lodge against intrusions from unauthorised people.
noun
- a thin flat slab of fired clay used for roofing
- a flat thin rectangular slab (as of fired clay or rubber or linoleum) used to cover surfaces
- game equipment consisting of a flat thin piece marked with characters and used in board games like Mah-Jong, Scrabble, etc.
- (computing) A rectangular graphic.
- Any of various flat cuboid playing pieces used in certain games, such as dominoes, Scrabble, or mahjong.
- A regularly-shaped slab of clay or other material, affixed to cover or decorate a surface, as in a roof-tile, glazed tile, stove tile, carpet tile, etc.
- (Lego building) A Lego piece that is 1/3 the height of a brick, and is smooth without studs on top.
verb
- To make with a hip or hips, as a roof.
- (transitive, slang) To inform, to make knowledgeable.
- (wrestling) To throw (one's adversary) over one's hip ("cross-buttock").
- To dislocate or sprain the hip of, to fracture or injure the hip bone of (a quadruped) in such a manner as to produce a permanent depression of that side.
- (chiefly sports) To use one's hips to bump into someone.
intj
noun
- (anatomy) The outward-projecting parts of the pelvis and top of the femur and the overlying tissue.
- The fruit of a rose.
- The inclined external angle formed by the intersection of two sloping roof planes.
- In a bridge truss, the place where an inclined end post meets the top chord.
- either side of the body below the waist and above the thigh
- the structure of the vertebrate skeleton supporting the lower limbs in humans and the hind limbs or corresponding parts in other vertebrates
- the ball-and-socket joint between the head of the femur and the acetabulum
- (architecture) the exterior angle formed by the junction of a sloping side and a sloping end of a roof
- the fruit of a rose plant
adj
noun
- building material used as siding or roofing
- coarse beach gravel of small waterworn stones and pebbles (or a stretch of shore covered with such gravel)
- a small signboard outside the office of a lawyer or doctor, e.g.
- A punitive strap such as a belt.
- (by extension) Any paddle used for corporal punishment.
- A small signboard designating a professional office; this may be both a physical signboard or a metaphoric term for a small production company (a production shingle).
- Small, smooth pebbles, as found on a beach.
- (computational linguistics) A word-based n-gram.
- A small, thin piece of building material, often with one end thicker than the other, for laying in overlapping rows as a covering for the roof or sides of a building.
- A rectangular piece of steel obtained by means of a shingling process involving hammering of puddled steel.
verb
- (transitive) To cover with small, thin pieces of building material, with shingles.
- cover with shingles
- (transitive) To increase the storage density of (a hard disk) by writing tracks that partially overlap.
- (transitive, manufacturing) To hammer and squeeze material in order to expel cinder and impurities from it, as in metallurgy.
- (transitive) To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, like shingles on a roof.
- (transitive) To beat with a shingle.