Palabras en English para 'Lacking or avoiding physical contact'
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intj
adj
verb
adj
- Involving or pertaining to direct physical contact.
- (linguistics, syntax) Implying direct or physical contact.
- (statistics) Contiguous but not coordinated
- (physics, of sound) Produced by the contact of air with an object (such as the sound produced by blowing over the lip of a bottle), as opposed to being produced by vibrations on the part of an object.
- (linguistics, of a speech act) Serving to initiate contact; introductory.
noun
- the state or condition of touching or of being in immediate proximity
- The act of touching physically; being in close association.
- close interaction
- the physical coming together of two or more things
- a thin curved glass or plastic lens designed to fit over the cornea in order to correct vision or to deliver medication
- a communicative interaction
- a person who is in a position to give you special assistance
- the act of touching physically
- a channel for communication between groups
- (electronics) a junction where things (as two electrical conductors) touch or are in physical contact
- Someone who can be contacted, or with whom one is in communication.
- A nodule designed to connect a device with something else.
- The situation of being within sight of something; visual contact.
- (by extension) A means of communication with a person, especially in the form of a telephone number.
- (mining) The plane between two adjacent bodies of dissimilar rock.
- (informal) A contact lens.
- (informal, by ellipsis) Contact juggling.
- The establishment of communication (with).
- (electricity) A device designed for repetitive connections.
verb
verb
- avoid speaking to or dealing with
- expel from a community or group
- (by extension) To exclude a person from a community or from society by not communicating with them or by refusing to acknowledge their presence; to refuse to associate with or talk to; to shun.
- (transitive, Ancient Greece, historical) To ban a person from a city for five or ten years through the procedure of ostracism.
adj
- shunning contact with others
- hostile to or disruptive of normal standards of social behavior
- Antagonistic, hostile, or unfriendly toward others; menacing.
- Opposed to social order or the principles of society; hostile toward society.
- Unwilling or unable to cooperate and associate normally with other people.
noun
prep
- In physical contact with, so as to abut or be supported by.
- In opposition to.
- In front of; before (a background).
- In physical opposition to; in collision with.
- As protection from.
- (Hollywood) To be paid now in contrast to the following amount to be paid later under specified circumstances, usually that a movie is made or has started filming.
- In contrast or comparison with.
- As a charge on.
- In competition with, versus.
- Contrary to; in conflict with.
- In anticipation of; in preparation for (a particular time, event etc.).
- As counterbalance to.
- Of betting odds, denoting a worse-than-even chance.
- In exchange for.
- Close to, alongside.
- In a contrary direction to.
adv
- in contact with each other or in proximity
- in each other's company
- at the same time
- with a common plan
- assembled in one place
- with cooperation and interchange
- In a relationship or partnership, for example a business relationship or a romantic partnership.
- At the same time, in the same place; in close association or proximity.
- Without intermission or interruption; continuously; uninterruptedly.
- Into one place; into a single thing; combined.
adj
prefix
- Avoiding an action.
- Absence, the absence of the root (a quantity).
- prevocalic form of nona-
- Not, the negation of the root word (a quality).
- Used in the sense of no or none, to show lack of or failure to perform; or in the sense of not, to negate the meaning of the word to which it is prefixed.
- Neutral in quality.
noun
- (figuratively) Something, such as awkwardness, that prevents open social interaction.
- Money paid as a bribe.
- (slang) One or more diamonds.
- Water in frozen (solid) form.
- Elephant or rhinoceros ivory that has been poached and sold on the black market.
- (figuratively) Something having an extreme coldness of manner.
- A frozen dessert made of fruit juice, water and sugar.
- (ice hockey) The area where a game of ice hockey is played.
- An artifact that has been smuggled, especially one that is either clear or shiny.
- (astronomy) Any volatile chemical, such as water, ammonia, or carbon dioxide, not necessarily in solid form, when discussing the composition of e.g. a planet as an ice giant vs a gas giant.
- (now dialectal) Icing; frosting ("a sweet, often creamy and thick glaze made primarily of sugar").
- (drugs) The crystal form of amphetamine-based drugs, including methamphetamine.
- (physics, astronomy) Any frozen volatile chemical, such as ammonia or carbon dioxide.
- the frozen part of a body of water
- a frozen dessert with fruit flavoring (especially one containing no milk)
- a rink with a floor of ice for ice hockey or ice skating
- water frozen in the solid state
- a flavored sugar topping used to coat and decorate cakes
- diamonds
- an amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant
verb
- (intransitive) To become ice; to freeze.
- (transitive) To make icy; to freeze.
- (transitive, ice hockey) To shoot the puck the length of the playing surface, causing a stoppage in play called icing.
- (transitive, slang) To defeat decisively.
- (transitive) To cool with ice, as an injured body part or a beverage.
- (transitive, slang) To murder.
- (transitive, ice hockey) To put out a team for a match.
- (transitive) To cover with icing (frosting made of sugar and milk or white of egg); to frost; as cakes, tarts, etc.
- put ice on or put on ice
- decorate with frosting
- cause to become ice or icy
adj
- not responsive to physical stimuli
- deficient in human sensibility; not mentally or morally sensitive
- Not expressing normal emotional feelings; cold; tactless; undiplomatic.
- Expressing or feeling little or no concern, care, compassion, or consideration for the feelings, emotions, sentiments, or concerns of other people; inconsiderate or incompassionate.
- Not expressing normal physical feeling.
verb
- (intransitive) To stop touching or physically interfering with something or someone.
- (intransitive) To escape serious or severe consequences; to receive only mild or no punishment (or injuries, etc) for something one has done or been accused of.
- (transitive) To help someone to escape serious or severe consequences and receive only mild or no punishment.
- (transitive) To stop using a piece of equipment, such as a telephone or computer.
- (intransitive, slang) To experience great pleasure, especially sexual pleasure; in particular, to experience an orgasm.
- (transitive, especially in an interrogative sentence) To find enjoyment (in behaving in a presumptuous, rude, or intrusive manner).
- (transitive) To make or help someone be ready to leave a place (especially to go to another place).
- (intransitive) Indicates annoyance or dismissiveness.
- (transitive) To move (something) from being on top of (something else) to not being on top of it.
- (intransitive, slang, UK) To kiss; to smooch.
- (transitive) To cause (something) to stop touching or interfering with (something else).
- (transitive, UK) To make (someone) fall asleep.
- (intransitive, slang) To get high (on a drug).
- (transitive) To acquire (something) from (someone).
- (transitive, slang) To masturbate.
- (transitive, intransitive) To disembark, especially from mass transportation such as a bus or train; to depart from (a path, highway, etc).
- (intransitive, UK) To fall asleep.
- (transitive) To reserve or have a period of time as a vacation from work.
- (transitive, intransitive) To move from being on top of (something) to not being on top of it.
- (transitive, intransitive) To leave one's job, or leave school, as scheduled or with permission.
- (transitive, slang) To excite or arouse, especially in a sexual manner, as to cause to experience orgasm.
- (transitive) To (write and) send (something); to discharge.
- (transitive, slang) To quit using a drug.
- transfer
- escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action
- alight from (a horse)
- cause to be acquitted; get off the hook; in a legal case
- get high, stoned, or drugged
- leave a vehicle, aircraft, etc.
- be relieved of one's duties temporarily
- get out of quickly
- send via the postal service
- deliver verbally
- enjoy in a sexual way
noun
adj
- (idiomatic, usually derogatory) Appealing to emotion, sympathy, or romance.
- (informal) Having a fondness for physical contact with other people, especially to an excessive degree.
- (idiomatic, usually derogatory) Driven by intuition or emotion, with a connotation of de-emphasis of rational thought or logic.
- (often derogatory) openly expressing love and affection (especially through physical contact)
verb
- be in direct physical contact with; make contact
- lie adjacent to another or share a boundary
- attach or add
- (transitive, mathematics, chiefly algebra and number theory) To extend an algebraic object (e.g. a field, a ring, etc.) by adding to it an element not belonging to it and then ensuring closure, for example by also adding all finite power series of the element.
- (transitive) To be in contact or connection with.
verb
- be in direct physical contact with; make contact
- collect in one place
- undergo or suffer
- experience as a reaction
- meet by design; be present at the arrival of
- come together
- be adjacent or come together
- contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle
- get together socially or for a specific purpose
- get to know; get acquainted with
- fill, satisfy or meet a want or need or condition or restriction
- To perceive; to come to a knowledge of; to have personal acquaintance with; to experience; to suffer.
- (sports) To play a match.
- To get acquainted with someone.
- To gather for a formal or social discussion; to hold a meeting.
- To come together in conflict.
- (transitive) To respond to (an argument etc.) with something equally convincing; to refute.
- To satisfy; to comply with.
- (intransitive) To balance or come out correct.
- To be mixed with, to be combined with aspects of.
- To adjoin, be physically touching.
- To touch or hit something while moving.
- To come face to face with someone by arrangement.
- To come face to face with by accident; to encounter.
- To converge and finally touch or intersect.
adj
noun
- a meeting at which a number of athletic contests are held
- (algebra) The greatest lower bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the symbol ∧.
- (informal) A meeting.
- (hunting) A gathering of riders, horses and hounds for foxhunting; a field meet for hunting.
- (rail transport) A meeting of two trains in opposite directions on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other cross.
- (sports) A sports competition, especially for track and field or swimming.
verb
- be in direct physical contact with; make contact
- (intransitive) To come into physical contact, or to be in physical contact.
- (intransitive) To make physical contact with a thing.
- color lightly
- cause to be in brief contact with
- to extend as far as
- comprehend
- make a more or less disguised reference to
- consume
- tamper with
- make physical contact with, come in contact with
- affect emotionally
- have an effect upon
- perceive via the tactile sense
- deal with; usually used with a form of negation
- be relevant to
- be equal to in quality or ability
- (intransitive) Of a ship or its passengers: to land, to make a short stop (at).
- (transitive, slang) To obtain money from, usually by borrowing (from a friend).
- To have sexual intercourse with
- (nautical) To keep the ship as near (the wind) as possible.
- (transitive) To make intimate physical contact with a person.
- (transitive) To make physical contact with; to bring the hand, finger or other part of the body into contact with.
- (transitive, now historical) To lay hands on (someone suffering from scrofula) as a form of cure, as formerly practised by English and French monarchs.
- (transitive) To affect emotionally; to bring about tender or painful feelings in.
- (transitive, in negative constructions) To be on the level of; to approach in excellence or quality.
- To try; to prove, as with a touchstone.
- (transitive) To cause to be briefly in physical contact with something.
- To perform, as a tune; to play.
- (nautical) To bring (a sail) so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.
- (transitive) To physically disturb; to interfere with, molest, or attempt to harm through contact.
- (transitive, Scottish history) To give royal assent to by touching it with the sceptre.
- To strike; to manipulate; to play on.
- (transitive) To begin to consume, or otherwise use.
- (transitive) To come into (involuntary) contact with; to meet or intersect.
- (intransitive) To deal with in speech or writing; briefly to speak or write (on or upon something).
- (transitive, reflexive or rarely intransitive) To sexually excite with the fingers; to finger or masturbate.
- (transitive) To imbue or endow with a specific quality.
- (transitive, always passive) To disturb the mental functions of; to make somewhat insane; often followed with "in the head".
- (transitive) To physically affect in specific ways implied by context.
- (transitive, computing) To mark (a file or document) as having been modified.
- To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush.
- (intransitive, nautical) To be brought, as a sail, so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.
- To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly.
- (transitive) To come close to; to approach.
- (transitive) To concern, to have to do with.
noun
- the event of something coming in contact with the body
- the feel of mechanical action
- the faculty by which external objects or forces are perceived through contact with the body (especially the hands)
- deftness in handling matters
- a slight attack of illness
- the act of soliciting money (as a gift or loan)
- a slight but appreciable amount
- the act of putting two things together with no space between them
- a communicative interaction
- a distinguishing style
- a suggestion of some quality
- the sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin
- The ability to perform a task well; aptitude.
- (slang) An act of borrowing or stealing something; a request for money.
- (Australian rules football) A disposal of the ball during a game, i.e. a kick or a handball.
- A little bit; a small amount.
- Form; standard of performance.
- (chiefly Australia) touch football (a variant of rugby league that does not involve tackling)
- The part of a sports field beyond the touchlines or goal-lines.
- (shipbuilding) The broadest part of a plank worked top and but, or of one worked anchor-stock fashion (that is, tapered from the middle to both ends); also, the angles of the stern timbers at the counters.
- A single stroke on a drawing or a picture.
- (uncountable, in set phrases) A relationship of close communication or understanding.
- (bell-ringing) A set of changes less than the total possible on seven bells, i.e. less than 5,040.
- An act of touching, especially with the hand or finger.
- The faculty or sense of perception by physical contact.
- The children's game of tag.
- The style or technique with which one plays a musical instrument.
- A distinguishing feature or characteristic.
- (music) The particular or characteristic mode of action, or the resistance of the keys of an instrument to the fingers.
- (slang) The extent to which a person is interested or affected; the amount of outlay on something.
verb
- (intransitive) To make contact.
- (Vedic arithmetic) To perform osculation.
- (ambitransitive) To kiss.
- To form a connecting link between two genera.
- (mathematics) To touch so as to have the same tangent and curvature at the point of contact.
- have at least three points in common with
- be intermediate between two taxonomic groups
- touch with the lips or press the lips (against someone's mouth or other body part) as an expression of love, greeting, etc.
adj
adj
- near or close to but not necessarily touching
- having a common boundary or edge; abutting; touching
- nearest in space or position; immediately adjoining without intervening space
- (figuratively, postpositive) Related to; suggestive of; bordering on.
- Lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on.
- Just before, after, or facing.
noun
prep
noun
adj
adj
verb
verb
- (intransitive) To avoid due to caution, embarrassment or timidness.
- (Scotland, transitive, intransitive) To throw a ball with two hands above the head, especially when it has crossed the side lines in a football (soccer) match.
- (transitive) To throw sideways with a jerk; to fling.
- (intransitive) To jump back in fear.
- (Scotland) To hit the ball back into play from the sidelines in a shinty match.
- start suddenly, as from fright
- throw quickly
adj
- Cautious; wary; suspicious.
- (UK, US, politics, of a voter) Less likely to reveal whom they will vote for than average, chiefly in the context of the collective effect this has on polling accuracy.
- Reserved; disinclined to familiar approach.
- Easily frightened; timid.
- (informal) Short, insufficient or less than.
- wary and distrustful; disposed to avoid persons or things
- short
- lacking self-confidence
noun
- (Scotland) In shinty, the act of tossing the ball above the head and hitting it with the shaft of the caman to bring it back into play after it has been hit out of the field.
- In the Eton College wall game, a point scored by lifting the ball against the wall in the calx.
- (Scotland, soccer) A throw-in from the sidelines, using two hands above the head.
- A sudden start aside, as by a horse.
- A place for throwing.
- An act of throwing.
- a quick throw
noun
- A psychological barrier to social interaction.
- The covering, or outside part, of a nut.
- (architecture) Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in, as the shell of a house.
- The hard calcareous covering of a bird egg.
- A garment, usually worn by women, such as a shirt, blouse, or top, with short sleeves or no sleeves, that often fastens in the rear.
- (nautical, rigging) The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve.
- (nautical) The watertight outer covering of the hull of a vessel, often made with planking or metal plating.
- A concave rough cast-iron tool in which a convex lens is ground to shape.
- (figuratively) The empty outward form of someone or something.
- (music) A string instrument, as a lyre, whose acoustical chamber is formed like a shell.
- In formal debating, a set of proposed rules to be followed, with set penalties for violating them.
- (figuratively) The outward form independent of what is inside.
- (British, education) One or more school grades within secondary education, at certain public schools.
- The thin coating of copper on an electrotype.
- (chemistry) A set of atomic orbitals that have the same principal quantum number.
- (music) The body of a drum; the often wooden, often cylindrical acoustic chamber, with or without rims added for tuning and for attaching the drum head.
- One of the outer layers of skin of an onion.
- An engraved copper roller used in print works.
- The calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates.
- The conjoined scutes that constitute the "shell" (carapace) of a tortoise or turtle.
- (UK, slang) A person's ear.
- (geology) The accreted mineral formed around a hollow geode.
- An emaciated person.
- (nautical) A light boat whose frame is covered with thin wood, impermeable fabric, or water-proofed paper; a racing shell or dragon boat.
- (computing) An operating system software user interface, whose primary purpose is to launch other programs and control their interactions; the user's command interpreter. Shell is a way to separate the internal complexity of the implementation of the command from the user. The internals can change while the user experience/interface remains the same.
- (weaponry) A hollow, usually spherical or cylindrical projectile fired from a siege mortar or a smoothbore cannon. It contains an explosive substance designed to be ignited by a fuse or by percussion at the target site so that it will burst and scatter at high velocity its contents and fragments. Formerly called a bomb.
- (business) A legal entity that has no operations.
- (in the plural) Husks of cacao seeds, a decoction of which is sometimes used as a substitute or adulterant for cocoa and its products such as chocolate.
- (by extension) Any mollusk having such a covering.
- (figuratively) A person otherwise diminished.
- The overlapping hard plates comprising the armor covering the armadillo's body.
- (weaponry) The casing of a self-contained single-unit artillery projectile.
- (weaponry) The cartridge of a breechloading firearm; a load; a bullet; a round.
- (phonology) The onset and coda of a syllable.
- A coarse or flimsy coffin; a thin interior coffin enclosed within a more substantial one.
- A pod containing the seeds of certain plants, such as the legume Phaseolus vulgaris.
- An unmarked vehicle for carrying corpses from a crime scene.
- (entomology) The exoskeleton or wing covers of certain insects.
- (engineering) A gouge bit or shell bit.
- a rigid covering that envelops an object
- the hard largely calcareous covering of a mollusc or a brachiopod
- a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)
- the hard usually fibrous outer layer of some fruits especially nuts
- hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles
- the housing or outer covering of something
- the exterior covering of a bird's egg
- a very light narrow racing boat
- ammunition consisting of a cylindrical metal casing containing an explosive charge and a projectile; fired from a large gun
- the material that forms the hard outer covering of many animals
verb
- (topology) To form a shelling.
- To form shallow, irregular cracks (in a coating).
- (computing, intransitive) To switch to a shell or command line.
- (cricket, slang, transitive) To drop (the ball).
- (intransitive) To cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk.
- (intransitive) To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc.
- (informal) To disburse or give up money, to pay. (Often used with out).
- To bombard, to fire projectiles at, especially with artillery.
- To remove the outer covering or shell of something.
- remove from its shell or outer covering
- use explosives on
- create by using explosives
- fall out of the pod or husk
- come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
- look for and collect shells by the seashore
- remove the husks from
- hit the pitches of hard and regularly
adj
- uncomfortable because of possible danger or trouble
- easily aroused or excited
- having or producing a comfortable and agreeable degree of heat or imparting or maintaining heat
- inducing the impression of warmth; used especially of reds and oranges and yellows when referring to color
- characterized by strong enthusiasm
- psychologically warm; friendly and responsive
- freshly made or left
- characterized by liveliness or excitement or disagreement
- of a seeker; near to the object sought
- Fresh, of a scent; still able to be traced.
- Friendly and with affection.
- (informal) Close to a goal or correct answer.
- Having a color in the part of the visible electromagnetic spectrum between red and yellow-green.
- Of a somewhat high temperature, often but not always connoting that the high temperature is pleasant rather than uncomfortable.
- (figurative) Communicating a sense of comfort, ease, or pleasantness.
adv
verb
- get warm or warmer
- make warm or warmer
- (transitive) To give emotional warmth to a person.
- (transitive, colloquial) To beat or spank.
- (transitive) To make or keep warm.
- (transitive, colloquial) To scold or abuse verbally.
- (intransitive) To become ardent or animated.
- (Internet, transitive) To send electronic mail from (a domain) to improve its reputation for mail sending.
- (ditransitive with to) To cause (someone) to favour (something) increasingly.
- (intransitive) To become warm, to heat up.
- (computing, transitive) To prepopulate (a cache) so that its contents are ready for other users.
- (intransitive) (sometimes in the form warm up) To favour increasingly. [with to]
- (transitive) To make engaged or earnest; to interest; to engage; to excite ardor or zeal in; to enliven.
noun
noun
- absence of affectation or pretense
- a lack of penetration or subtlety
- freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort
- lack of ornamentation
- the quality of being simple or uncompounded
- Lack of sharpness of mind; lack of ability to think using complex ideas; stupidity
- The quality or state of being unmixed or uncompounded
- Lack of complication; efficiency.
- The quality or state of being not complex, or of consisting of few parts.
- Lack of subtlety or abstruseness; clarity
- Lack of artificial ornament, pretentious style, or luxury; plainness
adj
- incapable of being perceived by the senses especially the sense of touch
- imperceptible to the senses or the mind
- not perceptible to the touch
- Not able to be perceived, or able to be perceived only with difficulty; insubstantial, thin.
- Incapable of being touched or felt; incorporeal, intangible.
- Not easily grasped (mentally) or understood.
adj
- incapable of being perceived by the senses especially the sense of touch
- lacking substance or reality; incapable of being touched or seen
- hard to pin down or identify
- (of especially business assets) not having physical substance or intrinsic productive value
- Incapable of being perceived by the senses; incorporeal.
noun
noun
- the state or condition of touching or of being in immediate proximity
- The act of touching physically; being in close association.
- close interaction
- the physical coming together of two or more things
- a thin curved glass or plastic lens designed to fit over the cornea in order to correct vision or to deliver medication
- a communicative interaction
- a person who is in a position to give you special assistance
- the act of touching physically
- a channel for communication between groups
- (electronics) a junction where things (as two electrical conductors) touch or are in physical contact
- Someone who can be contacted, or with whom one is in communication.
- A nodule designed to connect a device with something else.
- The situation of being within sight of something; visual contact.
- (by extension) A means of communication with a person, especially in the form of a telephone number.
- (mining) The plane between two adjacent bodies of dissimilar rock.
- (informal) A contact lens.
- (informal, by ellipsis) Contact juggling.
- The establishment of communication (with).
- (electricity) A device designed for repetitive connections.
verb
noun
- (figuratively) Something, such as awkwardness, that prevents open social interaction.
- Money paid as a bribe.
- (slang) One or more diamonds.
- Water in frozen (solid) form.
- Elephant or rhinoceros ivory that has been poached and sold on the black market.
- (figuratively) Something having an extreme coldness of manner.
- A frozen dessert made of fruit juice, water and sugar.
- (ice hockey) The area where a game of ice hockey is played.
- An artifact that has been smuggled, especially one that is either clear or shiny.
- (astronomy) Any volatile chemical, such as water, ammonia, or carbon dioxide, not necessarily in solid form, when discussing the composition of e.g. a planet as an ice giant vs a gas giant.
- (now dialectal) Icing; frosting ("a sweet, often creamy and thick glaze made primarily of sugar").
- (drugs) The crystal form of amphetamine-based drugs, including methamphetamine.
- (physics, astronomy) Any frozen volatile chemical, such as ammonia or carbon dioxide.
- the frozen part of a body of water
- a frozen dessert with fruit flavoring (especially one containing no milk)
- a rink with a floor of ice for ice hockey or ice skating
- water frozen in the solid state
- a flavored sugar topping used to coat and decorate cakes
- diamonds
- an amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant
verb
- (intransitive) To become ice; to freeze.
- (transitive) To make icy; to freeze.
- (transitive, ice hockey) To shoot the puck the length of the playing surface, causing a stoppage in play called icing.
- (transitive, slang) To defeat decisively.
- (transitive) To cool with ice, as an injured body part or a beverage.
- (transitive, slang) To murder.
- (transitive, ice hockey) To put out a team for a match.
- (transitive) To cover with icing (frosting made of sugar and milk or white of egg); to frost; as cakes, tarts, etc.
- put ice on or put on ice
- decorate with frosting
- cause to become ice or icy
noun
adj
- (idiomatic, usually derogatory) Appealing to emotion, sympathy, or romance.
- (informal) Having a fondness for physical contact with other people, especially to an excessive degree.
- (idiomatic, usually derogatory) Driven by intuition or emotion, with a connotation of de-emphasis of rational thought or logic.
- (often derogatory) openly expressing love and affection (especially through physical contact)
noun
adj
noun
- A psychological barrier to social interaction.
- The covering, or outside part, of a nut.
- (architecture) Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in, as the shell of a house.
- The hard calcareous covering of a bird egg.
- A garment, usually worn by women, such as a shirt, blouse, or top, with short sleeves or no sleeves, that often fastens in the rear.
- (nautical, rigging) The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve.
- (nautical) The watertight outer covering of the hull of a vessel, often made with planking or metal plating.
- A concave rough cast-iron tool in which a convex lens is ground to shape.
- (figuratively) The empty outward form of someone or something.
- (music) A string instrument, as a lyre, whose acoustical chamber is formed like a shell.
- In formal debating, a set of proposed rules to be followed, with set penalties for violating them.
- (figuratively) The outward form independent of what is inside.
- (British, education) One or more school grades within secondary education, at certain public schools.
- The thin coating of copper on an electrotype.
- (chemistry) A set of atomic orbitals that have the same principal quantum number.
- (music) The body of a drum; the often wooden, often cylindrical acoustic chamber, with or without rims added for tuning and for attaching the drum head.
- One of the outer layers of skin of an onion.
- An engraved copper roller used in print works.
- The calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates.
- The conjoined scutes that constitute the "shell" (carapace) of a tortoise or turtle.
- (UK, slang) A person's ear.
- (geology) The accreted mineral formed around a hollow geode.
- An emaciated person.
- (nautical) A light boat whose frame is covered with thin wood, impermeable fabric, or water-proofed paper; a racing shell or dragon boat.
- (computing) An operating system software user interface, whose primary purpose is to launch other programs and control their interactions; the user's command interpreter. Shell is a way to separate the internal complexity of the implementation of the command from the user. The internals can change while the user experience/interface remains the same.
- (weaponry) A hollow, usually spherical or cylindrical projectile fired from a siege mortar or a smoothbore cannon. It contains an explosive substance designed to be ignited by a fuse or by percussion at the target site so that it will burst and scatter at high velocity its contents and fragments. Formerly called a bomb.
- (business) A legal entity that has no operations.
- (in the plural) Husks of cacao seeds, a decoction of which is sometimes used as a substitute or adulterant for cocoa and its products such as chocolate.
- (by extension) Any mollusk having such a covering.
- (figuratively) A person otherwise diminished.
- The overlapping hard plates comprising the armor covering the armadillo's body.
- (weaponry) The casing of a self-contained single-unit artillery projectile.
- (weaponry) The cartridge of a breechloading firearm; a load; a bullet; a round.
- (phonology) The onset and coda of a syllable.
- A coarse or flimsy coffin; a thin interior coffin enclosed within a more substantial one.
- A pod containing the seeds of certain plants, such as the legume Phaseolus vulgaris.
- An unmarked vehicle for carrying corpses from a crime scene.
- (entomology) The exoskeleton or wing covers of certain insects.
- (engineering) A gouge bit or shell bit.
- a rigid covering that envelops an object
- the hard largely calcareous covering of a mollusc or a brachiopod
- a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)
- the hard usually fibrous outer layer of some fruits especially nuts
- hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles
- the housing or outer covering of something
- the exterior covering of a bird's egg
- a very light narrow racing boat
- ammunition consisting of a cylindrical metal casing containing an explosive charge and a projectile; fired from a large gun
- the material that forms the hard outer covering of many animals
verb
- (topology) To form a shelling.
- To form shallow, irregular cracks (in a coating).
- (computing, intransitive) To switch to a shell or command line.
- (cricket, slang, transitive) To drop (the ball).
- (intransitive) To cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk.
- (intransitive) To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc.
- (informal) To disburse or give up money, to pay. (Often used with out).
- To bombard, to fire projectiles at, especially with artillery.
- To remove the outer covering or shell of something.
- remove from its shell or outer covering
- use explosives on
- create by using explosives
- fall out of the pod or husk
- come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
- look for and collect shells by the seashore
- remove the husks from
- hit the pitches of hard and regularly
noun
- absence of affectation or pretense
- a lack of penetration or subtlety
- freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort
- lack of ornamentation
- the quality of being simple or uncompounded
- Lack of sharpness of mind; lack of ability to think using complex ideas; stupidity
- The quality or state of being unmixed or uncompounded
- Lack of complication; efficiency.
- The quality or state of being not complex, or of consisting of few parts.
- Lack of subtlety or abstruseness; clarity
- Lack of artificial ornament, pretentious style, or luxury; plainness
verb
- avoid speaking to or dealing with
- expel from a community or group
- (by extension) To exclude a person from a community or from society by not communicating with them or by refusing to acknowledge their presence; to refuse to associate with or talk to; to shun.
- (transitive, Ancient Greece, historical) To ban a person from a city for five or ten years through the procedure of ostracism.
verb
- (intransitive) To stop touching or physically interfering with something or someone.
- (intransitive) To escape serious or severe consequences; to receive only mild or no punishment (or injuries, etc) for something one has done or been accused of.
- (transitive) To help someone to escape serious or severe consequences and receive only mild or no punishment.
- (transitive) To stop using a piece of equipment, such as a telephone or computer.
- (intransitive, slang) To experience great pleasure, especially sexual pleasure; in particular, to experience an orgasm.
- (transitive, especially in an interrogative sentence) To find enjoyment (in behaving in a presumptuous, rude, or intrusive manner).
- (transitive) To make or help someone be ready to leave a place (especially to go to another place).
- (intransitive) Indicates annoyance or dismissiveness.
- (transitive) To move (something) from being on top of (something else) to not being on top of it.
- (intransitive, slang, UK) To kiss; to smooch.
- (transitive) To cause (something) to stop touching or interfering with (something else).
- (transitive, UK) To make (someone) fall asleep.
- (intransitive, slang) To get high (on a drug).
- (transitive) To acquire (something) from (someone).
- (transitive, slang) To masturbate.
- (transitive, intransitive) To disembark, especially from mass transportation such as a bus or train; to depart from (a path, highway, etc).
- (intransitive, UK) To fall asleep.
- (transitive) To reserve or have a period of time as a vacation from work.
- (transitive, intransitive) To move from being on top of (something) to not being on top of it.
- (transitive, intransitive) To leave one's job, or leave school, as scheduled or with permission.
- (transitive, slang) To excite or arouse, especially in a sexual manner, as to cause to experience orgasm.
- (transitive) To (write and) send (something); to discharge.
- (transitive, slang) To quit using a drug.
- transfer
- escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action
- alight from (a horse)
- cause to be acquitted; get off the hook; in a legal case
- get high, stoned, or drugged
- leave a vehicle, aircraft, etc.
- be relieved of one's duties temporarily
- get out of quickly
- send via the postal service
- deliver verbally
- enjoy in a sexual way
noun
- the state or condition of touching or of being in immediate proximity
- The act of touching physically; being in close association.
- close interaction
- the physical coming together of two or more things
- a thin curved glass or plastic lens designed to fit over the cornea in order to correct vision or to deliver medication
- a communicative interaction
- a person who is in a position to give you special assistance
- the act of touching physically
- a channel for communication between groups
- (electronics) a junction where things (as two electrical conductors) touch or are in physical contact
- Someone who can be contacted, or with whom one is in communication.
- A nodule designed to connect a device with something else.
- The situation of being within sight of something; visual contact.
- (by extension) A means of communication with a person, especially in the form of a telephone number.
- (mining) The plane between two adjacent bodies of dissimilar rock.
- (informal) A contact lens.
- (informal, by ellipsis) Contact juggling.
- The establishment of communication (with).
- (electricity) A device designed for repetitive connections.
verb
verb
- be in direct physical contact with; make contact
- lie adjacent to another or share a boundary
- attach or add
- (transitive, mathematics, chiefly algebra and number theory) To extend an algebraic object (e.g. a field, a ring, etc.) by adding to it an element not belonging to it and then ensuring closure, for example by also adding all finite power series of the element.
- (transitive) To be in contact or connection with.
verb
- be in direct physical contact with; make contact
- collect in one place
- undergo or suffer
- experience as a reaction
- meet by design; be present at the arrival of
- come together
- be adjacent or come together
- contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle
- get together socially or for a specific purpose
- get to know; get acquainted with
- fill, satisfy or meet a want or need or condition or restriction
- To perceive; to come to a knowledge of; to have personal acquaintance with; to experience; to suffer.
- (sports) To play a match.
- To get acquainted with someone.
- To gather for a formal or social discussion; to hold a meeting.
- To come together in conflict.
- (transitive) To respond to (an argument etc.) with something equally convincing; to refute.
- To satisfy; to comply with.
- (intransitive) To balance or come out correct.
- To be mixed with, to be combined with aspects of.
- To adjoin, be physically touching.
- To touch or hit something while moving.
- To come face to face with someone by arrangement.
- To come face to face with by accident; to encounter.
- To converge and finally touch or intersect.
adj
noun
- a meeting at which a number of athletic contests are held
- (algebra) The greatest lower bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the symbol ∧.
- (informal) A meeting.
- (hunting) A gathering of riders, horses and hounds for foxhunting; a field meet for hunting.
- (rail transport) A meeting of two trains in opposite directions on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other cross.
- (sports) A sports competition, especially for track and field or swimming.
verb
- be in direct physical contact with; make contact
- (intransitive) To come into physical contact, or to be in physical contact.
- (intransitive) To make physical contact with a thing.
- color lightly
- cause to be in brief contact with
- to extend as far as
- comprehend
- make a more or less disguised reference to
- consume
- tamper with
- make physical contact with, come in contact with
- affect emotionally
- have an effect upon
- perceive via the tactile sense
- deal with; usually used with a form of negation
- be relevant to
- be equal to in quality or ability
- (intransitive) Of a ship or its passengers: to land, to make a short stop (at).
- (transitive, slang) To obtain money from, usually by borrowing (from a friend).
- To have sexual intercourse with
- (nautical) To keep the ship as near (the wind) as possible.
- (transitive) To make intimate physical contact with a person.
- (transitive) To make physical contact with; to bring the hand, finger or other part of the body into contact with.
- (transitive, now historical) To lay hands on (someone suffering from scrofula) as a form of cure, as formerly practised by English and French monarchs.
- (transitive) To affect emotionally; to bring about tender or painful feelings in.
- (transitive, in negative constructions) To be on the level of; to approach in excellence or quality.
- To try; to prove, as with a touchstone.
- (transitive) To cause to be briefly in physical contact with something.
- To perform, as a tune; to play.
- (nautical) To bring (a sail) so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.
- (transitive) To physically disturb; to interfere with, molest, or attempt to harm through contact.
- (transitive, Scottish history) To give royal assent to by touching it with the sceptre.
- To strike; to manipulate; to play on.
- (transitive) To begin to consume, or otherwise use.
- (transitive) To come into (involuntary) contact with; to meet or intersect.
- (intransitive) To deal with in speech or writing; briefly to speak or write (on or upon something).
- (transitive, reflexive or rarely intransitive) To sexually excite with the fingers; to finger or masturbate.
- (transitive) To imbue or endow with a specific quality.
- (transitive, always passive) To disturb the mental functions of; to make somewhat insane; often followed with "in the head".
- (transitive) To physically affect in specific ways implied by context.
- (transitive, computing) To mark (a file or document) as having been modified.
- To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush.
- (intransitive, nautical) To be brought, as a sail, so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.
- To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly.
- (transitive) To come close to; to approach.
- (transitive) To concern, to have to do with.
noun
- the event of something coming in contact with the body
- the feel of mechanical action
- the faculty by which external objects or forces are perceived through contact with the body (especially the hands)
- deftness in handling matters
- a slight attack of illness
- the act of soliciting money (as a gift or loan)
- a slight but appreciable amount
- the act of putting two things together with no space between them
- a communicative interaction
- a distinguishing style
- a suggestion of some quality
- the sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin
- The ability to perform a task well; aptitude.
- (slang) An act of borrowing or stealing something; a request for money.
- (Australian rules football) A disposal of the ball during a game, i.e. a kick or a handball.
- A little bit; a small amount.
- Form; standard of performance.
- (chiefly Australia) touch football (a variant of rugby league that does not involve tackling)
- The part of a sports field beyond the touchlines or goal-lines.
- (shipbuilding) The broadest part of a plank worked top and but, or of one worked anchor-stock fashion (that is, tapered from the middle to both ends); also, the angles of the stern timbers at the counters.
- A single stroke on a drawing or a picture.
- (uncountable, in set phrases) A relationship of close communication or understanding.
- (bell-ringing) A set of changes less than the total possible on seven bells, i.e. less than 5,040.
- An act of touching, especially with the hand or finger.
- The faculty or sense of perception by physical contact.
- The children's game of tag.
- The style or technique with which one plays a musical instrument.
- A distinguishing feature or characteristic.
- (music) The particular or characteristic mode of action, or the resistance of the keys of an instrument to the fingers.
- (slang) The extent to which a person is interested or affected; the amount of outlay on something.
verb
- (intransitive) To make contact.
- (Vedic arithmetic) To perform osculation.
- (ambitransitive) To kiss.
- To form a connecting link between two genera.
- (mathematics) To touch so as to have the same tangent and curvature at the point of contact.
- have at least three points in common with
- be intermediate between two taxonomic groups
- touch with the lips or press the lips (against someone's mouth or other body part) as an expression of love, greeting, etc.
adj
verb
- (intransitive) To avoid due to caution, embarrassment or timidness.
- (Scotland, transitive, intransitive) To throw a ball with two hands above the head, especially when it has crossed the side lines in a football (soccer) match.
- (transitive) To throw sideways with a jerk; to fling.
- (intransitive) To jump back in fear.
- (Scotland) To hit the ball back into play from the sidelines in a shinty match.
- start suddenly, as from fright
- throw quickly
adj
- Cautious; wary; suspicious.
- (UK, US, politics, of a voter) Less likely to reveal whom they will vote for than average, chiefly in the context of the collective effect this has on polling accuracy.
- Reserved; disinclined to familiar approach.
- Easily frightened; timid.
- (informal) Short, insufficient or less than.
- wary and distrustful; disposed to avoid persons or things
- short
- lacking self-confidence
noun
- (Scotland) In shinty, the act of tossing the ball above the head and hitting it with the shaft of the caman to bring it back into play after it has been hit out of the field.
- In the Eton College wall game, a point scored by lifting the ball against the wall in the calx.
- (Scotland, soccer) A throw-in from the sidelines, using two hands above the head.
- A sudden start aside, as by a horse.
- A place for throwing.
- An act of throwing.
- a quick throw
adv
- in contact with each other or in proximity
- in each other's company
- at the same time
- with a common plan
- assembled in one place
- with cooperation and interchange
- In a relationship or partnership, for example a business relationship or a romantic partnership.
- At the same time, in the same place; in close association or proximity.
- Without intermission or interruption; continuously; uninterruptedly.
- Into one place; into a single thing; combined.
adj
adj
- Involving or pertaining to direct physical contact.
- (linguistics, syntax) Implying direct or physical contact.
- (statistics) Contiguous but not coordinated
- (physics, of sound) Produced by the contact of air with an object (such as the sound produced by blowing over the lip of a bottle), as opposed to being produced by vibrations on the part of an object.
- (linguistics, of a speech act) Serving to initiate contact; introductory.
adj
- shunning contact with others
- hostile to or disruptive of normal standards of social behavior
- Antagonistic, hostile, or unfriendly toward others; menacing.
- Opposed to social order or the principles of society; hostile toward society.
- Unwilling or unable to cooperate and associate normally with other people.
noun
adj
- not responsive to physical stimuli
- deficient in human sensibility; not mentally or morally sensitive
- Not expressing normal emotional feelings; cold; tactless; undiplomatic.
- Expressing or feeling little or no concern, care, compassion, or consideration for the feelings, emotions, sentiments, or concerns of other people; inconsiderate or incompassionate.
- Not expressing normal physical feeling.
adj
- near or close to but not necessarily touching
- having a common boundary or edge; abutting; touching
- nearest in space or position; immediately adjoining without intervening space
- (figuratively, postpositive) Related to; suggestive of; bordering on.
- Lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on.
- Just before, after, or facing.
noun
prep
adj
verb
adj
- uncomfortable because of possible danger or trouble
- easily aroused or excited
- having or producing a comfortable and agreeable degree of heat or imparting or maintaining heat
- inducing the impression of warmth; used especially of reds and oranges and yellows when referring to color
- characterized by strong enthusiasm
- psychologically warm; friendly and responsive
- freshly made or left
- characterized by liveliness or excitement or disagreement
- of a seeker; near to the object sought
- Fresh, of a scent; still able to be traced.
- Friendly and with affection.
- (informal) Close to a goal or correct answer.
- Having a color in the part of the visible electromagnetic spectrum between red and yellow-green.
- Of a somewhat high temperature, often but not always connoting that the high temperature is pleasant rather than uncomfortable.
- (figurative) Communicating a sense of comfort, ease, or pleasantness.
adv
verb
- get warm or warmer
- make warm or warmer
- (transitive) To give emotional warmth to a person.
- (transitive, colloquial) To beat or spank.
- (transitive) To make or keep warm.
- (transitive, colloquial) To scold or abuse verbally.
- (intransitive) To become ardent or animated.
- (Internet, transitive) To send electronic mail from (a domain) to improve its reputation for mail sending.
- (ditransitive with to) To cause (someone) to favour (something) increasingly.
- (intransitive) To become warm, to heat up.
- (computing, transitive) To prepopulate (a cache) so that its contents are ready for other users.
- (intransitive) (sometimes in the form warm up) To favour increasingly. [with to]
- (transitive) To make engaged or earnest; to interest; to engage; to excite ardor or zeal in; to enliven.
noun
adj
- incapable of being perceived by the senses especially the sense of touch
- imperceptible to the senses or the mind
- not perceptible to the touch
- Not able to be perceived, or able to be perceived only with difficulty; insubstantial, thin.
- Incapable of being touched or felt; incorporeal, intangible.
- Not easily grasped (mentally) or understood.
adj
- incapable of being perceived by the senses especially the sense of touch
- lacking substance or reality; incapable of being touched or seen
- hard to pin down or identify
- (of especially business assets) not having physical substance or intrinsic productive value
- Incapable of being perceived by the senses; incorporeal.