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noun
- Half a bushel.
- A small cataract over which fish attempt to jump; a salmon ladder.
- (figuratively) A significant move forward.
- A group of leopards.
- The distance traversed by a leap or jump.
- A trap or snare for fish, made from twigs; a weely.
- (mining) A fault.
- Copulation with, or coverture of, a female beast.
- (figuratively) A large step in reasoning, often one that is not justified by the facts.
- (music) A passing from one note to another by an interval, especially by a long one, or by one including several other intermediate intervals.
- The act of leaping or jumping.
- the distance leaped (or to be leaped)
- an abrupt transition
- a sudden and decisive increase
- a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards
adj
verb
noun
- A quantity that fills a bushel measure.
- A vessel of the capacity of a bushel, used in measuring; a bushel measure.
- (figurative, colloquial) A large indefinite quantity.
- A dry measure, containing four pecks, eight gallons, or thirty-two quarts; equivalent in volume to approximately 0.0364 cubic meters (imperial bushel) or 0.0352 cubic meters (U.S. bushel).
- (UK) The iron lining in the nave of a wheel.
- a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 4 pecks
- a United States dry measure equal to 4 pecks or 2152.42 cubic inches
verb
noun
- (Northern England) A dry measure equivalent to half a bushel; a container with that capacity.
- As little as one can discriminate or recognize; a small portion, a little.
- (poetry) A metaphorical compound or phrase, used especially in Germanic poetry (Old English or Old Norse) whereby a simple thing is described in an allusive way.
- conventional metaphoric name for something, used especially in Old English and Old Norse poetry
verb
noun
- An old English measure of corn, half a bushel.
- A reel for winding something into a bundle, such as winding string or yarn into skeins or straw into bundles.
- Bent grass (Agrostis spp.).
- Also any of several species of grasses that leave such leaves or stalks, such as dog-tail grass, Plantago lanceolata.
- (now dialectal) A basket.
- Any dried-out grass leaf or stalk in a field.
- (UK, dialect) The redwing.
- A windlass.
verb
noun
- A measure of two Winchester bushels.
- (mining) A jig or trough for ore dressing or washing ore.
- A cabinet for storing dishes.
- A piece of furniture in which items may be displayed.
- (cricket, slang) The pavilion or dressing room.
- A box, chest, crate, case or cabinet.
- An embankment built in a river to check erosion caused by running water.
- (mining) A car on low wheels, in which coal is drawn in the mine and hoisted out of the pit.
- A baker's kneading-trough.
- (mining) The case of a flour bolt.
- A piece of furniture (cabinet) to be placed on top of a desk.
- A coop or cage for keeping small animals (rabbits, guinea pigs, dogs, etc).
- small crude shelter used as a dwelling
- a cage (usually made of wood and wire mesh) for small animals
verb
noun
noun
- A bushing.
- (medicine) A type of add-on device used by an asthmatic person to increase the effectiveness of a metered-dose inhaler.
- (science fiction) A person who works or lives in space.
- (slang) A forgetful person; one who spaces out.
- (historical) An instrument for reversing a telegraphic current, especially in a marine cable, to increase the speed of transmission.
- An object inserted to hold a space open in a row of items, e.g. beads or printed type.
verb
adj
noun
- dense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes
- hair growing in the pubic area
- a large wilderness area
- a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems
- A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree.
- (horticulture) A woody plant distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, being usually less than six metres tall; a horticultural rather than strictly botanical category.
- A mechanical attachment, usually a metallic socket with a screw thread, such as the mechanism by which a camera is attached to a tripod stand.
- (historical) A shrub or branch, properly, a branch of ivy (sacred to Bacchus), hung out at vintners' doors, or as a tavern sign; hence, a tavern sign, and symbolically, the tavern itself.
- (Canada) The wild forested areas of Canada; upcountry.
- (New Zealand) An area of New Zealand covered in forest, especially native forest.
- A thick washer or hollow cylinder of metal.
- (baseball) Amateurish behavior, short for bush league behavior
- (Australia) The countryside area of Australia that is less arid and less remote than the outback; loosely, areas of natural flora even within conurbations.
- A piece of copper, screwed into a gun, through which the venthole is bored.
- (often with "the") Tracts of land covered in natural vegetation that are largely undeveloped and uncultivated.
- (slang, vulgar) A person's pubic hair, especially a woman's.
- (hunting) The tail, or brush, of a fox.
- (Canada) A wood lot or bluff on a farm.
adv
noun
- A small clump of trees or bushes.
- (historical) A gold tassel on the cap worn by titled undergraduates at English universities.
- A cluster of threads drawn tightly through upholstery, a mattress or a quilt, etc., to secure and strengthen the padding.
- A bunch of feathers, grass or hair, etc., held together at the base.
- (historical) A person entitled to wear such a tassel.
- a bunch of feathers or hair
- a bunch of hair or feathers or growing grass
verb
noun
- a half-grown quahog
- small quahog larger than a littleneck; eaten raw or cooked as in e.g. clams casino
- Synonym of cherry pit.
- (used as a size classification by fish merchants) Ellipsis of cherrystone clam, a hard clam (Mercenaria mercenaria) that has grown to a size within a certain range, being larger than a countneck, littleneck or topneck but smaller than a quahog.
verb
noun
noun
noun
- A thicket of bushes or other shrubbery, especially one planted as a fence between two portions of land, or to separate the parts of a garden.
- A barrier (often consisting of a line of persons or objects) to protect someone or something from harm.
- (linguistics, especially applied linguistics and pragmatics) A noncommittal or intentionally ambiguous statement.
- (UK, Ireland, attributive, figurative) With indication of a person's upbringing, or professional activities, taking place by the side of the road; being third-rate, poor, shoddy.
- (finance) Contract or arrangement reducing one's exposure to risk (for example the risk of price movements or interest rate movements).
- (UK, West Country, chiefly Devon and Cornwall) A mound of earth, stone- or turf-faced, often topped with bushes, used as a fence between any two portions of land.
- any technique designed to reduce or eliminate financial risk; for example, taking two positions that will offset each other if prices change
- a fence formed by a row of closely planted shrubs or bushes
- an intentionally noncommittal or ambiguous statement
verb
- (transitive, finance) To offset the risk associated with.
- (ambitransitive) To avoid verbal commitment.
- (transitive) To obstruct or surround.
- (intransitive, finance) To reduce one's exposure to risk.
- (transitive) To enclose with a hedge or hedges.
- (intransitive) To construct or repair a hedge.
- hinder or restrict with or as if with a hedge
- avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
- enclose or bound in with or as it with a hedge or hedges
- minimize loss or risk
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To be realized and understood; to click.
- To twitch
- (transitive) To beat with twigs.
- To observe slyly; also, to perceive; to discover.
- (colloquial, regional) To realise something; to catch on; to recognize someone or something.
- To tweak
- To understand the meaning of (a person); to comprehend.
- understand, usually after some initial difficulty
- branch out in a twiglike manner
noun
- a small area of ground covered by specific vegetation
- a period of indeterminate length (usually short) marked by some action or condition
- a short set of commands to correct a bug in a computer program
- a piece of soft material that covers and protects an injured part of the body
- sewing that repairs a worn or torn hole (especially in a garment)
- a small contrasting part of something
- a connection intended to be used for a limited time
- a piece of cloth used as decoration or to mend or cover a hole
- a protective cloth covering for an injured eye
- (printing, historical) An overlay used to obtain a stronger impression.
- A small, usually contrasting but always somehow different or distinct, part of something else (location, time, size)
- A piece of any size, used to repair something for a temporary period only, or that it is temporary because it is not meant to last long or will be removed as soon as a proper repair can be made, which will happen in the near future.
- (computing) A piece of data intended to modify a computer file by replacing a part of it.
- A block on the muzzle of a gun, to do away with the effect of dispart, in sighting.
- A local region of professional responsibility.
- A small piece of anything used to repair damage or a breach; as, a patch on a kettle, a roof, etc.
- (historical) A small piece of black silk stuck on the face or neck to heighten beauty by contrast, worn by ladies in the 17th and 18th centuries; an imitation beauty mark.
- A butterfly of the genus Chlosyne.
- (medicine) A cover worn over a damaged eye, an eyepatch.
- (medicine) A piece of material used to cover a wound.
- A piece of cloth, or other suitable material, sewed or otherwise fixed upon a garment to repair or strengthen it, especially upon an old garment to cover a hole.
- (specifically) A small area, a small plot of land or piece of ground.
- (firearms) A piece of greased cloth or leather used as wrapping for a rifle ball, to make it fit the bore.
- (firearms) A small piece of material that is manually passed through a gun barrel to clean it.
- (music) A sound setting for a musical synthesizer (originally selected by means of a patch cable).
- (often patch cable, patch cord, etc.; see also patch panel) A cable connecting two pieces of electrical equipment.
- (medicine) An adhesive piece of material, impregnated with a drug, which is worn on the skin, the drug being slowly absorbed over a period of time.
verb
- provide with a patch; also used metaphorically
- to join or unite the pieces of
- mend by putting a patch on
- repair by adding pieces
- To mend by sewing on a piece or pieces of cloth, leather, or the like.
- To fix or improve a computer program without a complete upgrade.
- To mend with pieces; to repair by fastening pieces on.
- To make a quick and possibly temporary change to a program.
- (generally with the particle "up") To repair or arrange in a hasty or clumsy manner
- To join or unite the pieces of; to patch the skirt.
- To make out of pieces or patches, like a quilt.
- To connect two pieces of electrical equipment using a cable.
- To employ a temporary, removable electronic connection, as one between two components in a communications system.
noun
- a small area of ground covered by specific vegetation
- a secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal)
- the story that is told in a novel or play or movie etc.
- a chart or graph showing the movements or progress of an object
- (narratology) The course of a story, comprising a series of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means.
- Participation in any stratagem or conspiracy.
- A secret plan to achieve an end, the end or means usually being illegal or otherwise questionable.
- A grave.
- An area or land used for building on or planting on.
- A plan; a purpose.
- Contrivance; deep reach thought; ability to plot or intrigue.
- (fandom slang, euphemistic) Attractive physical attributes of a fictional character; assets.
- A graph or diagram drawn by hand or produced by a mechanical or electronic device.
verb
- devise the sequence of events in (a literary work or a play, movie, or ballet)
- plan secretly, usually something illegal
- make a plot of
- make a schematic or technical drawing that shows interactions among variables or how something is constructed
- (transitive) To trace out (a graph or diagram).
- (transitive) To mark (a point on a graph, chart, etc).
- (transitive, intransitive) To conceive (a crime, misdeed etc).
noun
- a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed
- (mathematics) a set of elements such that addition and multiplication are commutative and associative and multiplication is distributive over addition and there are two elements 0 and 1
- the area that is visible (as through an optical instrument)
- a region in which active military operations are in progress
- a place where planes take off and land
- (computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information
- somewhere (away from a studio or office or library or laboratory) where practical work is done or data is collected
- extensive tract of level open land
- a piece of land prepared for playing a game
- all of the horses in a particular horse race
- a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought
- a particular kind of commercial enterprise
- a geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found
- a particular environment or walk of life
- the space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it
- a branch of knowledge
- all the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event
- (computing, object-oriented programming) An area of memory or storage reserved for a particular value, subject to virtual access controls.
- A place where competitive matches are carried out with figures, or playing area in a board game or a computer game.
- A wide, open space that is used to grow crops or to hold farm animals, usually enclosed by a fence, hedge or other barrier.
- (baseball) The outfield.
- (usually in the plural) The open country near or belonging to a town or city.
- A section of a form which is supposed to be filled with data.
- An airfield, airport or air base; especially, one with unpaved runways.
- A domain of study, knowledge or practice.
- (vexillology) The background of the flag.
- A place where a battle is fought; a battlefield.
- (numismatics) The part of a coin left unoccupied by the main device.
- A component of a database in which a single unit of information is stored.
- A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; an area of open country.
- (geology) A region containing a particular mineral.
- The extent of a given perception.
- (heraldry) The background of the shield.
- (physics) A physical phenomenon (such as force, potential or fluid velocity) that pervades a region; a mathematical model of such a phenomenon that associates each point and time with a scalar, vector or tensor quantity.
- (algebra) A non-zero commutative ring in which all non-zero elements are invertible; a simple commutative ring.
- A competitive situation, circumstance in which one faces conflicting moves of rivals.
- A realm of practical, direct or natural operation, contrasted with an office, classroom, or laboratory.
- (electronics, film, animation) Part (usually one half) of a frame in an interlaced signal.
- (metonymic) All of the competitors in any outdoor contest or trial, or all except the favourites in the betting.
- An area reserved for playing a game or race with one’s physical force.
- An unrestricted or favourable opportunity for action, operation, or achievement.
verb
- select (a team or individual player) for a game
- play as a fielder
- catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket
- answer adequately or successfully
- (transitive) To answer; to address.
- (transitive, sports) To place (a team, its players, etc.) in a game.
- (transitive) To execute research (in the field).
- (transitive, military) To deploy in the field.
- (transitive, sports) To intercept or catch (a ball) and play it.
- (intransitive, baseball, softball, cricket, and other batting sports) To be the team catching and throwing the ball, as opposed to hitting it.
noun
- A plant fragment remaining in scoured wool.
- Alternative spelling of shiva.
- A beam or plank of split wood.
- A slice, especially of bread.
- A flat, wide cork for plugging a large hole or closing a wide-mouthed bottle.
- A splinter or fragment of the woody core of flax or hemp broken off in braking or scutching
- (papermaking) A dark particle or impurity in finished paper resulting from a bundle of incompletely cooked wood fibres in the pulp.
- A piece of thread or fluff on the surface of cloth or other material.
- Alternative form of shiv.
noun
noun
- A stick, branch, or stalk, especially of willow.
- A stick or rod used by a magician (a magic wand), conjurer or diviner (divining rod).
- (UK, soccer, figurative, informal) A player's foot used especially skillfully in football.
- A hand-held narrow rod, usually used for pointing or instructing, or as a traditional emblem of authority.
- A card of a particular suit of the minor arcana in tarot, the wands.
- (by extension) An instrument shaped like a wand, such as a curling wand.
- a thin tapered rod used by a conductor to lead an orchestra or choir
- a ceremonial or emblematic staff
- a thin supple twig or rod
- a rod used by a magician or water diviner
verb
noun
- A stockade made of bushes and thorns.
- An enclosure usually made of thorn bushes, and latterly of steel fencing, for protection from marauders.
- A hide.
- A military or police post or magistracy.
- A hut.
- A type of fertilizer rich in animal dung.
- (attributive, uncountable) A method of composting in which animals are bedded on the material before it is used, allowing it to gather urine and dung.
noun
verb
noun
noun
verb
noun
- Any of various types of boats small enough for sailing or rowing by one person.
- A light, fleeting shower of rain or snow, or gust of wind, etc.
- A small flat-bottomed open boat with a pointed bow and square stern.
- A (typically light) dusting of snow or ice (or dust, etc) (on ground, water, trees, etc).
- An act of slightly pruning tea bushes, placing new leaves at a convenient height without removing much woody growth.
- any of various small boats propelled by oars or by sails or by a motor
noun
noun
- A small conical pile of hay or grass.
- (UK, Commonwealth, Ireland, derogatory, slang) A stupid, obnoxious or contemptible person.
- The bridge piece that affords a bearing for the pivot of a balance in a clock or watch.
- A cock pigeon.
- The indicator of a balance.
- A male fish, especially a salmon or trout.
- A rooster: a male gallinaceous bird, especially a male domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus).
- (slang, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, especially as term of address) A man; a fellow.
- A vane in the shape of a cock; a weathercock.
- A valve or tap for controlling flow in plumbing.
- (informal) Shuttlecock.
- A boastful tilt of one's head or hat.
- The crow of a cock, especially the first crow in the morning; cockcrow.
- (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, derogatory, slang, uncountable) Nonsense; rubbish; a fraud.
- (curling) The circle at the end of the rink.
- The hammer of a firearm trigger mechanism.
- (colloquial, vulgar) A penis.
- (Southern US, where it is now rare and dated; and African-American Vernacular, where it is still sometimes used) Vulva, vagina.
- The state of being cocked; an upward turn, tilt or angle.
- The style or gnomon of a sundial.
- Abbreviation of cock-boat, a type of small boat.
- faucet consisting of a rotating device for regulating flow of a liquid
- obscene terms for penis
- the part of a gunlock that strikes the percussion cap when the trigger is pulled
- adult male chicken
- adult male bird
intj
verb
- (transitive) To turn or twist something upwards or to one side; to lift or tilt (e.g. headwear) boastfully.
- (British, Ireland, transitive, slang) To copulate with; (by extension, as with fuck) to mess up, to damage, to destroy.
- (transitive) To erect; to turn up.
- (intransitive) To be prepared to be triggered by having the cock lifted.
- (transitive) To form into piles.
- (ambitransitive) To lift the cock of a firearm or crossbow; to prepare (a gun or crossbow) to be fired.
- tilt or slant to one side
- to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others
- set the trigger of a firearm back for firing
noun
- Half a bushel.
- A small cataract over which fish attempt to jump; a salmon ladder.
- (figuratively) A significant move forward.
- A group of leopards.
- The distance traversed by a leap or jump.
- A trap or snare for fish, made from twigs; a weely.
- (mining) A fault.
- Copulation with, or coverture of, a female beast.
- (figuratively) A large step in reasoning, often one that is not justified by the facts.
- (music) A passing from one note to another by an interval, especially by a long one, or by one including several other intermediate intervals.
- The act of leaping or jumping.
- the distance leaped (or to be leaped)
- an abrupt transition
- a sudden and decisive increase
- a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards
adj
verb
noun
- A quantity that fills a bushel measure.
- A vessel of the capacity of a bushel, used in measuring; a bushel measure.
- (figurative, colloquial) A large indefinite quantity.
- A dry measure, containing four pecks, eight gallons, or thirty-two quarts; equivalent in volume to approximately 0.0364 cubic meters (imperial bushel) or 0.0352 cubic meters (U.S. bushel).
- (UK) The iron lining in the nave of a wheel.
- a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 4 pecks
- a United States dry measure equal to 4 pecks or 2152.42 cubic inches
verb
noun
- (Northern England) A dry measure equivalent to half a bushel; a container with that capacity.
- As little as one can discriminate or recognize; a small portion, a little.
- (poetry) A metaphorical compound or phrase, used especially in Germanic poetry (Old English or Old Norse) whereby a simple thing is described in an allusive way.
- conventional metaphoric name for something, used especially in Old English and Old Norse poetry
verb
noun
- An old English measure of corn, half a bushel.
- A reel for winding something into a bundle, such as winding string or yarn into skeins or straw into bundles.
- Bent grass (Agrostis spp.).
- Also any of several species of grasses that leave such leaves or stalks, such as dog-tail grass, Plantago lanceolata.
- (now dialectal) A basket.
- Any dried-out grass leaf or stalk in a field.
- (UK, dialect) The redwing.
- A windlass.
verb
noun
- A measure of two Winchester bushels.
- (mining) A jig or trough for ore dressing or washing ore.
- A cabinet for storing dishes.
- A piece of furniture in which items may be displayed.
- (cricket, slang) The pavilion or dressing room.
- A box, chest, crate, case or cabinet.
- An embankment built in a river to check erosion caused by running water.
- (mining) A car on low wheels, in which coal is drawn in the mine and hoisted out of the pit.
- A baker's kneading-trough.
- (mining) The case of a flour bolt.
- A piece of furniture (cabinet) to be placed on top of a desk.
- A coop or cage for keeping small animals (rabbits, guinea pigs, dogs, etc).
- small crude shelter used as a dwelling
- a cage (usually made of wood and wire mesh) for small animals
verb
noun
noun
- A bushing.
- (medicine) A type of add-on device used by an asthmatic person to increase the effectiveness of a metered-dose inhaler.
- (science fiction) A person who works or lives in space.
- (slang) A forgetful person; one who spaces out.
- (historical) An instrument for reversing a telegraphic current, especially in a marine cable, to increase the speed of transmission.
- An object inserted to hold a space open in a row of items, e.g. beads or printed type.
noun
- A small clump of trees or bushes.
- (historical) A gold tassel on the cap worn by titled undergraduates at English universities.
- A cluster of threads drawn tightly through upholstery, a mattress or a quilt, etc., to secure and strengthen the padding.
- A bunch of feathers, grass or hair, etc., held together at the base.
- (historical) A person entitled to wear such a tassel.
- a bunch of feathers or hair
- a bunch of hair or feathers or growing grass
verb
noun
- a half-grown quahog
- small quahog larger than a littleneck; eaten raw or cooked as in e.g. clams casino
- Synonym of cherry pit.
- (used as a size classification by fish merchants) Ellipsis of cherrystone clam, a hard clam (Mercenaria mercenaria) that has grown to a size within a certain range, being larger than a countneck, littleneck or topneck but smaller than a quahog.
noun
noun
- A thicket of bushes or other shrubbery, especially one planted as a fence between two portions of land, or to separate the parts of a garden.
- A barrier (often consisting of a line of persons or objects) to protect someone or something from harm.
- (linguistics, especially applied linguistics and pragmatics) A noncommittal or intentionally ambiguous statement.
- (UK, Ireland, attributive, figurative) With indication of a person's upbringing, or professional activities, taking place by the side of the road; being third-rate, poor, shoddy.
- (finance) Contract or arrangement reducing one's exposure to risk (for example the risk of price movements or interest rate movements).
- (UK, West Country, chiefly Devon and Cornwall) A mound of earth, stone- or turf-faced, often topped with bushes, used as a fence between any two portions of land.
- any technique designed to reduce or eliminate financial risk; for example, taking two positions that will offset each other if prices change
- a fence formed by a row of closely planted shrubs or bushes
- an intentionally noncommittal or ambiguous statement
verb
- (transitive, finance) To offset the risk associated with.
- (ambitransitive) To avoid verbal commitment.
- (transitive) To obstruct or surround.
- (intransitive, finance) To reduce one's exposure to risk.
- (transitive) To enclose with a hedge or hedges.
- (intransitive) To construct or repair a hedge.
- hinder or restrict with or as if with a hedge
- avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
- enclose or bound in with or as it with a hedge or hedges
- minimize loss or risk
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To be realized and understood; to click.
- To twitch
- (transitive) To beat with twigs.
- To observe slyly; also, to perceive; to discover.
- (colloquial, regional) To realise something; to catch on; to recognize someone or something.
- To tweak
- To understand the meaning of (a person); to comprehend.
- understand, usually after some initial difficulty
- branch out in a twiglike manner
noun
- a small area of ground covered by specific vegetation
- a period of indeterminate length (usually short) marked by some action or condition
- a short set of commands to correct a bug in a computer program
- a piece of soft material that covers and protects an injured part of the body
- sewing that repairs a worn or torn hole (especially in a garment)
- a small contrasting part of something
- a connection intended to be used for a limited time
- a piece of cloth used as decoration or to mend or cover a hole
- a protective cloth covering for an injured eye
- (printing, historical) An overlay used to obtain a stronger impression.
- A small, usually contrasting but always somehow different or distinct, part of something else (location, time, size)
- A piece of any size, used to repair something for a temporary period only, or that it is temporary because it is not meant to last long or will be removed as soon as a proper repair can be made, which will happen in the near future.
- (computing) A piece of data intended to modify a computer file by replacing a part of it.
- A block on the muzzle of a gun, to do away with the effect of dispart, in sighting.
- A local region of professional responsibility.
- A small piece of anything used to repair damage or a breach; as, a patch on a kettle, a roof, etc.
- (historical) A small piece of black silk stuck on the face or neck to heighten beauty by contrast, worn by ladies in the 17th and 18th centuries; an imitation beauty mark.
- A butterfly of the genus Chlosyne.
- (medicine) A cover worn over a damaged eye, an eyepatch.
- (medicine) A piece of material used to cover a wound.
- A piece of cloth, or other suitable material, sewed or otherwise fixed upon a garment to repair or strengthen it, especially upon an old garment to cover a hole.
- (specifically) A small area, a small plot of land or piece of ground.
- (firearms) A piece of greased cloth or leather used as wrapping for a rifle ball, to make it fit the bore.
- (firearms) A small piece of material that is manually passed through a gun barrel to clean it.
- (music) A sound setting for a musical synthesizer (originally selected by means of a patch cable).
- (often patch cable, patch cord, etc.; see also patch panel) A cable connecting two pieces of electrical equipment.
- (medicine) An adhesive piece of material, impregnated with a drug, which is worn on the skin, the drug being slowly absorbed over a period of time.
verb
- provide with a patch; also used metaphorically
- to join or unite the pieces of
- mend by putting a patch on
- repair by adding pieces
- To mend by sewing on a piece or pieces of cloth, leather, or the like.
- To fix or improve a computer program without a complete upgrade.
- To mend with pieces; to repair by fastening pieces on.
- To make a quick and possibly temporary change to a program.
- (generally with the particle "up") To repair or arrange in a hasty or clumsy manner
- To join or unite the pieces of; to patch the skirt.
- To make out of pieces or patches, like a quilt.
- To connect two pieces of electrical equipment using a cable.
- To employ a temporary, removable electronic connection, as one between two components in a communications system.
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- a small area of ground covered by specific vegetation
- a secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal)
- the story that is told in a novel or play or movie etc.
- a chart or graph showing the movements or progress of an object
- (narratology) The course of a story, comprising a series of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means.
- Participation in any stratagem or conspiracy.
- A secret plan to achieve an end, the end or means usually being illegal or otherwise questionable.
- A grave.
- An area or land used for building on or planting on.
- A plan; a purpose.
- Contrivance; deep reach thought; ability to plot or intrigue.
- (fandom slang, euphemistic) Attractive physical attributes of a fictional character; assets.
- A graph or diagram drawn by hand or produced by a mechanical or electronic device.
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- devise the sequence of events in (a literary work or a play, movie, or ballet)
- plan secretly, usually something illegal
- make a plot of
- make a schematic or technical drawing that shows interactions among variables or how something is constructed
- (transitive) To trace out (a graph or diagram).
- (transitive) To mark (a point on a graph, chart, etc).
- (transitive, intransitive) To conceive (a crime, misdeed etc).
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- a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed
- (mathematics) a set of elements such that addition and multiplication are commutative and associative and multiplication is distributive over addition and there are two elements 0 and 1
- the area that is visible (as through an optical instrument)
- a region in which active military operations are in progress
- a place where planes take off and land
- (computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information
- somewhere (away from a studio or office or library or laboratory) where practical work is done or data is collected
- extensive tract of level open land
- a piece of land prepared for playing a game
- all of the horses in a particular horse race
- a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought
- a particular kind of commercial enterprise
- a geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found
- a particular environment or walk of life
- the space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it
- a branch of knowledge
- all the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event
- (computing, object-oriented programming) An area of memory or storage reserved for a particular value, subject to virtual access controls.
- A place where competitive matches are carried out with figures, or playing area in a board game or a computer game.
- A wide, open space that is used to grow crops or to hold farm animals, usually enclosed by a fence, hedge or other barrier.
- (baseball) The outfield.
- (usually in the plural) The open country near or belonging to a town or city.
- A section of a form which is supposed to be filled with data.
- An airfield, airport or air base; especially, one with unpaved runways.
- A domain of study, knowledge or practice.
- (vexillology) The background of the flag.
- A place where a battle is fought; a battlefield.
- (numismatics) The part of a coin left unoccupied by the main device.
- A component of a database in which a single unit of information is stored.
- A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; an area of open country.
- (geology) A region containing a particular mineral.
- The extent of a given perception.
- (heraldry) The background of the shield.
- (physics) A physical phenomenon (such as force, potential or fluid velocity) that pervades a region; a mathematical model of such a phenomenon that associates each point and time with a scalar, vector or tensor quantity.
- (algebra) A non-zero commutative ring in which all non-zero elements are invertible; a simple commutative ring.
- A competitive situation, circumstance in which one faces conflicting moves of rivals.
- A realm of practical, direct or natural operation, contrasted with an office, classroom, or laboratory.
- (electronics, film, animation) Part (usually one half) of a frame in an interlaced signal.
- (metonymic) All of the competitors in any outdoor contest or trial, or all except the favourites in the betting.
- An area reserved for playing a game or race with one’s physical force.
- An unrestricted or favourable opportunity for action, operation, or achievement.
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- select (a team or individual player) for a game
- play as a fielder
- catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket
- answer adequately or successfully
- (transitive) To answer; to address.
- (transitive, sports) To place (a team, its players, etc.) in a game.
- (transitive) To execute research (in the field).
- (transitive, military) To deploy in the field.
- (transitive, sports) To intercept or catch (a ball) and play it.
- (intransitive, baseball, softball, cricket, and other batting sports) To be the team catching and throwing the ball, as opposed to hitting it.
noun
- A plant fragment remaining in scoured wool.
- Alternative spelling of shiva.
- A beam or plank of split wood.
- A slice, especially of bread.
- A flat, wide cork for plugging a large hole or closing a wide-mouthed bottle.
- A splinter or fragment of the woody core of flax or hemp broken off in braking or scutching
- (papermaking) A dark particle or impurity in finished paper resulting from a bundle of incompletely cooked wood fibres in the pulp.
- A piece of thread or fluff on the surface of cloth or other material.
- Alternative form of shiv.
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- A stick, branch, or stalk, especially of willow.
- A stick or rod used by a magician (a magic wand), conjurer or diviner (divining rod).
- (UK, soccer, figurative, informal) A player's foot used especially skillfully in football.
- A hand-held narrow rod, usually used for pointing or instructing, or as a traditional emblem of authority.
- A card of a particular suit of the minor arcana in tarot, the wands.
- (by extension) An instrument shaped like a wand, such as a curling wand.
- a thin tapered rod used by a conductor to lead an orchestra or choir
- a ceremonial or emblematic staff
- a thin supple twig or rod
- a rod used by a magician or water diviner
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noun
- A stockade made of bushes and thorns.
- An enclosure usually made of thorn bushes, and latterly of steel fencing, for protection from marauders.
- A hide.
- A military or police post or magistracy.
- A hut.
- A type of fertilizer rich in animal dung.
- (attributive, uncountable) A method of composting in which animals are bedded on the material before it is used, allowing it to gather urine and dung.
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- A small conical pile of hay or grass.
- (UK, Commonwealth, Ireland, derogatory, slang) A stupid, obnoxious or contemptible person.
- The bridge piece that affords a bearing for the pivot of a balance in a clock or watch.
- A cock pigeon.
- The indicator of a balance.
- A male fish, especially a salmon or trout.
- A rooster: a male gallinaceous bird, especially a male domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus).
- (slang, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, especially as term of address) A man; a fellow.
- A vane in the shape of a cock; a weathercock.
- A valve or tap for controlling flow in plumbing.
- (informal) Shuttlecock.
- A boastful tilt of one's head or hat.
- The crow of a cock, especially the first crow in the morning; cockcrow.
- (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, derogatory, slang, uncountable) Nonsense; rubbish; a fraud.
- (curling) The circle at the end of the rink.
- The hammer of a firearm trigger mechanism.
- (colloquial, vulgar) A penis.
- (Southern US, where it is now rare and dated; and African-American Vernacular, where it is still sometimes used) Vulva, vagina.
- The state of being cocked; an upward turn, tilt or angle.
- The style or gnomon of a sundial.
- Abbreviation of cock-boat, a type of small boat.
- faucet consisting of a rotating device for regulating flow of a liquid
- obscene terms for penis
- the part of a gunlock that strikes the percussion cap when the trigger is pulled
- adult male chicken
- adult male bird
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verb
- (transitive) To turn or twist something upwards or to one side; to lift or tilt (e.g. headwear) boastfully.
- (British, Ireland, transitive, slang) To copulate with; (by extension, as with fuck) to mess up, to damage, to destroy.
- (transitive) To erect; to turn up.
- (intransitive) To be prepared to be triggered by having the cock lifted.
- (transitive) To form into piles.
- (ambitransitive) To lift the cock of a firearm or crossbow; to prepare (a gun or crossbow) to be fired.
- tilt or slant to one side
- to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others
- set the trigger of a firearm back for firing
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noun
- dense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes
- hair growing in the pubic area
- a large wilderness area
- a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems
- A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree.
- (horticulture) A woody plant distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, being usually less than six metres tall; a horticultural rather than strictly botanical category.
- A mechanical attachment, usually a metallic socket with a screw thread, such as the mechanism by which a camera is attached to a tripod stand.
- (historical) A shrub or branch, properly, a branch of ivy (sacred to Bacchus), hung out at vintners' doors, or as a tavern sign; hence, a tavern sign, and symbolically, the tavern itself.
- (Canada) The wild forested areas of Canada; upcountry.
- (New Zealand) An area of New Zealand covered in forest, especially native forest.
- A thick washer or hollow cylinder of metal.
- (baseball) Amateurish behavior, short for bush league behavior
- (Australia) The countryside area of Australia that is less arid and less remote than the outback; loosely, areas of natural flora even within conurbations.
- A piece of copper, screwed into a gun, through which the venthole is bored.
- (often with "the") Tracts of land covered in natural vegetation that are largely undeveloped and uncultivated.
- (slang, vulgar) A person's pubic hair, especially a woman's.
- (hunting) The tail, or brush, of a fox.
- (Canada) A wood lot or bluff on a farm.
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- Any of various types of boats small enough for sailing or rowing by one person.
- A light, fleeting shower of rain or snow, or gust of wind, etc.
- A small flat-bottomed open boat with a pointed bow and square stern.
- A (typically light) dusting of snow or ice (or dust, etc) (on ground, water, trees, etc).
- An act of slightly pruning tea bushes, placing new leaves at a convenient height without removing much woody growth.
- any of various small boats propelled by oars or by sails or by a motor