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- An unbranded range animal.
- (poker slang) A queen and a jack as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em.
- (by extension) Anything dishonestly obtained.
- (by extension) One who creates or uses controversial or unconventional ideas or practices.
- (by extension) One who is unconventional or does not abide by rules.
- (military) A person in the military who became an officer by going to college while on active duty as an enlisted person.
- an unbranded range animal (especially a stray calf); belongs to the first person who puts a brand on it
- someone who exhibits great independence in thought and action
- To set one or more dogs on (a person or animal).
- To set (one or more dogs) on a person or animal; to sic.
- (film) To provide synchronization information about (a scene, take, etc., of a film recording) using a slate (noun etymology 1 sense 2.3.1).
- (chiefly US, figurative) To expect (something) with a (strong) degree of certainty; to anticipate, to predict.
- (chiefly US, figurative) To appoint or designate (someone or something); also, to nominate or propose (someone or something); specifically (politics), to nominate or propose (a candidate) for an office.
- To cover a building, or part of a building with slates (noun etymology 1 sense 1.1).
- To cover (a building, or part of a building such as a floor or roof) with slates (noun etymology 1 sense 1.1).
- (film) To provide a film recording with synchronization information, especially using a slate (noun etymology 1 sense 2.3.1).
- To scold (someone) harshly; to chastise, to excoriate, to lambaste.
- (originally and chiefly Ireland, slang) To beat or thrash (someone) harshly.
- (leatherworking) To scrape (an animal hide) with a slater (“blade originally made of slate”) to remove hairs.
- (chiefly UK) To criticize or critique (an author or a work) harshly; to castigate.
- (chiefly US, figurative) To plan or schedule (something).
- (military slang) To treat (an enemy) harshly.
- enter on a list or slate for an election
- designate or schedule
- cover with slate
- A piece of such stone, usually cut into a rectangular shape, used as a tile for flooring, roofing, etc.; (uncountable) such tiles collectively, or the material from which they are made.
- (uncountable) The bluish-grey colour of most slate (etymology 1 sense 4).
- (chiefly politics) A group or list of candidates for appointment or election to an office; also, a group of candidates or electors with affiliated political views.
- A sequentially numbered session of recording a film.
- A generally rectangular piece, originally of certain types of stone and now of other materials, often in a frame, used for writing on with a thin rod of the same or another stone (a slate pencil) or with chalk; a small chalkboard.
- (film) A collection of films released during a certain period, either from one studio or from a certain film industry (such as Hollywood) as a whole.
- (uncountable, geology) A fine-grained homogeneous sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash which has been metamorphosed so that it cleaves easily into thin layers.
- Information about a film recording which is inserted at the start of the recording, or printed on a videotape label etc.
- A record, for example, of money owed.
- (computing) Synonym of tablet computer (“a hand-held portable computer in the form of a tablet with a touch screen interface”).
- A range of things; also, a schedule.
- A piece of other material used as a roofing tile.
- a fine-grained metamorphic rock that can be split into thin layers
- a list of candidates nominated by a political party to run for election to public offices
- thin layers of rock used for roofing
- (formerly) a writing tablet made of slate
- an animal that is confined
- a person held in the grip of a strong emotion or passion
- a person who is confined; especially a prisoner of war
- (figurative) One charmed or subdued by beauty, excellence, or affection; one who is captivated.
- A captive insurance company, a subsidiary of a company used as its internal insurer.
- One held prisoner.
- One who has been captured or is otherwise confined.
- Bound with the hide of an animal.
- (of trees) Having the bark so close and constricting that it impedes the growth.
- (figurative, of a person) Stubborn; narrow-minded; inflexible.
- (of a domestic animal) Having the skin adhering so closely to the ribs and back as not to be easily loosened or raised; emaciated.
- stubbornly conservative and narrow-minded
- An animal in the aforementioned stage.
- An early stage of growth for some insects and amphibians, in which after hatching from their egg, insects are wingless and resemble a caterpillar or grub, and amphibians lack limbs and resemble fish.
- A form of a recently born or hatched animal that is quite different from its adult stage.
- (figurative) A preliminary stage of someone or something, before it has fully matured, especially a time of growth rather than one of performance.
- the immature free-living form of most invertebrates and amphibians and fish which at hatching from the egg is fundamentally unlike its parent and must metamorphose
- To put a saddle on an animal.
- To put (something) on to another thing like a saddle on an animal.
- (often passive voice) Chiefly followed by with: to burden or encumber (someone) with some problem or responsibility.
- Chiefly followed by on or upon: to place (a burden or responsibility) or thrust (a problem) on someone.
- (woodworking) To cut a saddle-shaped notch in (a log or other piece of wood) so it can fit together with other such logs or pieces; also, to fit (logs or other pieces of wood) together with this method.
- To put a saddle (noun sense 1) on (an animal).
- Of a person: to get into a saddle.
- To enter (a trained horse) into a race.
- put a saddle on
- impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to
- load or burden; encumber
- A cushion used as a seat in a cart or other vehicle.
- (chiefly Australia, mining) Synonym of saddle reef (“a saddle-shaped bedded mineral (usually gold-bearing quartz) vein occurring along the crest of an anticline or (less common) a syncline (an inverted saddle)”).
- The part of a guitar which supports the strings and, in an acoustic guitar, transfers their vibrations through the bridge to the soundboard.
- A similar implement used to secure goods to animals; a packsaddle.
- Synonym of saddle brown (“a medium brown colour, like that of saddle leather”).
- The clitellum of an earthworm (family Lumbricidae).
- (dentistry) The part of a denture which holds the artificial teeth.
- A low point, in the shape of a saddle, between two hills.
- (construction) The threshold, the raised floorboard in a doorway.
- In full saddle marking or saddle patch: a saddle-like marking on an animal, such as one on the back of an adult harp seal or saddleback seal (Pagophilus groenlandicus), or any of numerous such markings on a boa constrictor (Boa constrictor).
- (broadcasting) A timeslot between two popular programmes, in which another programme can be scheduled to encourage people to watch it.
- A cut of meat that includes both loins and part of the backbone.
- A seat for a rider, typically made of leather and raised in the front and rear, placed on the back of a horse or other animal, and secured by a strap around the animal's body.
- Chiefly preceded by the: horse-riding as an activity or occupation.
- (geology) An anticline (“fold with strata sloping downwards on each side”); specifically, a depression located along the axial trend of such a fold.
- The lower part of the back of a domestic fowl, especially a male bird, bearing the saddle feathers or saddle hackles.
- Synonym of saddle oxford or saddle shoe (“a shoe, resembling an oxford, which has a saddle (sense 11.1)”).
- (engineering) An equipment part, such as a flange, which is hollowed out to fit upon a convex surface and serve as a means of attachment or support.
- A piece of leather stitched across the instep of a shoe, usually having a different colour from the rest of the shoe.
- (geometry) Synonym of saddle point (“a point in the range of a smooth function, every neighbourhood of which contains points on each side of its tangent plane”).
- A small object (traditionally made of ebony) at the bottom of a string instrument such as a cello, viola, or violin below the tailpiece on which the tailgut (“cord securing the tailpiece to the instrument”) rests.
- The immovable seat of a bicycle, motorcycle, or similar vehicle.
- (nautical) A block of wood with concave depressions at the top and bottom, usually fastened to one spar and shaped to receive the end of another.
- Synonym of harness saddle (“the part of a harness which supports the weight of poles or shafts attaching a vehicle to a horse or other animal”).
- a seat for the rider of a horse or other animal
- a piece of leather across the instep of a shoe
- cut of meat (especially mutton or lamb) consisting of part of the backbone and both loins
- a pass or ridge that slopes gently between two peaks (is shaped like a saddle)
- a seat for the rider of a bicycle
- posterior part of the back of a domestic fowl
- a single domestic animal
- forward movement
- that part of a skeletal muscle that is away from the bone that it moves
- a dense cluster of flowers or foliage
- the tip of an abscess (where the pus accumulates)
- a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea)
- the part in the front or nearest the viewer
- (usually plural) the obverse side of a coin that usually bears the representation of a person's head
- (nautical) a toilet on board a boat or ship
- a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about
- the top of something
- the rounded end of a bone that fits into a rounded cavity in another bone to form a joint
- (computer science) a tiny electromagnetic coil and metal pole used to write and read magnetic patterns on a disk
- a V-shaped mark at one end of an arrow pointer
- the educator who has executive authority for a school
- (grammar) the word in a grammatical constituent that plays the same grammatical role as the whole constituent
- the front of a military formation or procession
- the pressure exerted by a fluid
- a person who is in charge
- the source of water from which a stream arises
- a difficult juncture
- an individual person
- the striking part of a tool
- that which is responsible for one's thoughts, feelings, and conscious brain functions; the seat of the faculty of reason
- the foam or froth that accumulates at the top when you pour an effervescent liquid into a container
- a user of (usually soft) drugs
- oral stimulation of the genitals
- a rounded compact mass
- a projection out from one end
- a membrane that is stretched taut over a drum
- the length or height based on the size of a human or animal head
- the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains
- the subject matter at issue
- (lacrosse) The top part of a lacrosse stick that holds the ball.
- (UK, Ireland, metonymic) A headteacher.
- (automotive) The cylinder head, a platform above the cylinders in an internal combustion engine, containing the valves and spark plugs.
- A clump of seeds, leaves or flowers; a capitulum.
- (journalism) Ellipsis of headline.
- A headdress; a covering for the head.
- (slang, countable) A heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs.
- Topic; subject.
- A machine element which reads or writes electromagnetic signals to or from a storage medium.
- The antlers of a deer.
- The larger-diameter end of an unused rivet, properly the factory head or ambiguously the shop head, as opposed to the bucktail which is passed through the items to be fastened and then upset into an appropriate shape, generally pancake-shaped for a solid rivet or doughnut-shaped for a blind rivet, called the field head or ambiguously the shop head.
- (coopering) The end cap of a cask or other barrel.
- (billiards) The end of a pool table opposite the end where the balls have been racked.
- An ear of wheat, barley, or other small cereal.
- (social, countable, metonymic) A leader or expert.
- (British, geology) Deposits near the top of a geological succession.
- (plural head) A single animal; measure word for livestock and game.
- The place of honor or command; the most important or foremost position; the front.
- The end of a nail, screw, bolt, or similar fastener which is opposite the point; usually blunt and relatively wide.
- (jazz) The principal melody or theme of a piece.
- Either, or in plural both, ends of a used rivet, the factory head and the field head.
- (medicine) The end of an abscess where pus collects.
- (computing) The part of a disk drive responsible for reading and writing data.
- (machining) A milling head, a part of a milling machine that houses the spindle.
- The sharp end of an arrow, spear, or pointer.
- A headache; especially one resulting from intoxication.
- The population of game.
- (nautical) The toilet of a ship.
- The end of a hammer, axe, golf club, or similar implement used for striking other objects.
- (figurative, metonymic) Mind; one's own thoughts.
- (slang) The glans penis.
- (figurative, metonymic) An individual person.
- (linguistics) A morpheme that determines the category of a compound or the word that determines the syntactic type of the phrase of which it is a member.
- (chemistry) The first fraction of a distillation run, having a low boiling point.
- (countable) The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
- (uncountable, countable) The foam that forms on top of beer or other carbonated beverages.
- Headway; progress.
- The leafy top part of a tree.
- (slang, vulgar, uncountable) Fellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex.
- A title or heading in a book or other document.
- (anatomy) The rounded part of a bone fitting into a depression in another bone to form a ball-and-socket joint.
- The top edge of a sail.
- (in the plural) Tiles laid at the eaves of a house.
- (geology) The uppermost part of a valley.
- (only in the singular) Denouement; crisis.
- (music) A drum head, the membrane which is hit to produce sound.
- More generally, energy in a mass of fluid divided by its weight.
- (music) The headstock of a guitar.
- The bow of a vessel.
- The difference in elevation between two points in a column of fluid, and the resulting pressure of the fluid at the lower point.
- (British) A headland.
- (music, slang, figurative, metonymic) A person with an extensive knowledge of hip hop.
- (uncountable, countable) A buildup of fluid pressure, often quantified as pressure head.
- (countable) The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.
- Mental or emotional aptitude or skill.
- The source of a river; the end of a lake where a river flows into it.
- The end of a rectangular table furthest from the entrance; traditionally considered a seat of honor.
- (engineering) The end cap of a cylindrically-shaped pressure vessel.
- form a head or come or grow to a head
- direct the course; determine the direction of travelling
- travel in front of; go in advance of others
- take its rise
- to go or travel towards
- be in the front of or on top of
- remove the head of
- be in charge of
- be the first or leading member of (a group) and excel
- (transitive) To strike with the head
- (by extension) To check or restrain.
- (intransitive) To move in a specified direction.
- (fishing, transitive) To remove the head from (a fish).
- To get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose.
- (transitive, of hardware) To form a head (on or to); to fit or furnish (something) with a head.
- (transitive) To cut off the top of; to lop off.
- (transitive) To come at the beginning or front of; to commence.
- (transitive) To be in command of. (See also head up.)
- To set on the head.
- (intransitive) To form a head.
- (intransitive) To originate; to spring; to have its course, as a river.
- To go in front of.
- Taken from a living animal.
- (only used attributively) Having life; that is alive.
- Outstanding, top-notch, exhilarating.
- (entertainment, performing) Recorded from a performance in front of an audience.
- (broadcasting) Being broadcast ("on the air"), as it happens.
- (of a performance or speech) In person.
- (engineering) Imparting power; having motion.
- Being in a state of ignition; burning.
- (programming) Of an object or value: that may potentially be used in the future execution of a program.
- Having active properties; being energized.
- (film) Featuring humans; not animated, in the phrases “live actors” or “live action”.
- (sports) Still in active play.
- Operational; in actual use rather than in testing etc.
- (poker) Being a bet which can be raised by the bettor, usually in reference to a blind or straddle.
- Being in existence; actual.
- Able to fire or explode (of firearms or explosives).
- (linguistics) Of a syllable in languages such as Thai and Burmese: resonating, not ending abruptly.
- Of an environment where sound is recorded: having noticeable reverberation.
- (card games) Of a card: not yet dealt or played.
- (circuitry) Electrically charged or energized, usually indicating that the item may cause electrocution if touched.
- highly reverberant
- elastic; rebounds readily
- possessing life
- charged or energized with electricity
- in current use or ready for use
- capable of erupting
- abounding with life and energy
- charged with an explosive
- of current relevance
- actually being performed at the time of hearing or viewing
- exerting force or containing energy
- (transitive) To act habitually in conformity with; to practice; to exemplify in one's way of life.
- (intransitive, informal) (of an object) to have its proper place; to normally be stored.
- (intransitive, followed by on, upon, or by) To maintain or support one's existence; to provide for oneself; to feed; to subsist.
- (intransitive) To be alive; to have life.
- (intransitive) To have permanent residence somewhere, to inhabit, to reside.
- (intransitive) To outlast danger; (of a ship or boat) to float.
- (intransitive, hyperbolic) To cope.
- (intransitive) To pass life in a specified manner.
- (transitive) To spend, as one's life; to pass; to maintain; to continue in, constantly or habitually.
- (intransitive, informal) To make the most of life; to experience a full, rich life.
- (intransitive) To survive; to persevere; to continue.
- (intransitive) To endure in memory; to escape oblivion.
- pursue a positive and satisfying existence
- support oneself
- be an inhabitant of or reside in
- have life, be alive
- have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations
- lead a certain kind of life; live in a certain style
- continue to live and avoid dying
- any immature animal
- the immediate descendants of a person
- something that comes into existence as a result
- An animal or plant's progeny or young.
- A person's daughter or son; a person's child.
- Any of a person's descendants, including of further generations.
- (figuratively) Anything produced; the result of an entity's efforts.
- (computing) A process launched by another process.
- (of crops) harvested at an early stage of development; before complete maturity
- being in its early stage
- suggestive of youth; vigorous and fresh
- not tried or tested by experience
- (used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth
- (Not) advanced in age; (far towards or) at a specified stage of existence or age.
- At an early stage of existence or development; having recently come into existence.
- Early. (of a decade of life)
- Of or belonging to the early part of life.
- In the early part of growth or life; born not long ago.
- Junior (of two related people with the same name).
- Youthful; having the look or qualities of a young person.
- (of animals) fully developed
- designed to arouse lust
- Containing excessive vulgar or profane speech, text or images, intended only for adults.
- Containing situations or discussions intended primarily for adults, such as serious crime, illicit drug use, extramarital affairs, etc.
- Intended for or restricted to adults rather than children due to size, maturity, knowledge level, judgement, etc.
- Containing material of an explicit sexual nature; pornographic.
- Fully grown.
- (of a cookie, gummy, etc.) Containing marijuana, intended for consumption only by adults.
- Intended for, or restricted to, those who are not young children.
- (of a beverage) Containing alcohol, intended for consumption only by adults.
- Any canine animal.
- A side bar used to strengthen portions of the running gear of a vehicle.
- (nautical, in the plural) Projections located at the masthead or foremast, serving as a support for the trestletrees and top on which to rest; a foretop.
- A despicable person.
- A dog, particularly a breed with a good sense of smell developed for hunting other animals.
- (by extension) A male who constantly seeks the company of desirable women.
- (by extension) Someone who seeks something.
- A houndfish.
- any of several breeds of dog used for hunting typically having large drooping ears
- someone who is morally reprehensible
- keep, move, or drive animals
- move together, like a herd
- cause to herd, drive, or crowd together
- To move, or be moved, in a group. (of both animals and people)
- (intransitive, Scotland) To act as a herdsman or a shepherd.
- (intransitive) To associate; to ally oneself with, or place oneself among, a group or company.
- (intransitive) To unite or associate in a herd; to feed or run together, or in company.
- (transitive) To manage, care for or guard a herd
- (transitive) To form or put into a herd.
- (transitive) To unite or associate in a herd
- (transitive) To move or drive a herd.
- A number of domestic animals assembled together under the watch or ownership of a keeper.
- a crowd especially of ordinary or undistinguished persons or things
- a group of cattle or sheep or other domestic mammals all of the same kind that are herded by humans
- a group of wild mammals of one species that remain together: antelope or elephants or seals or whales or zebra
- Any collection of animals gathered or travelling in a company.
- (now usually derogatory) A crowd, a mass of people or things; a rabble.
- a domesticated animal kept for companionship or amusement
- a special loved one
- a fit of petulance or sulkiness (especially at what is felt to be a slight)
- An animal kept as a companion or otherwise for pleasure, rather than for some practical benefit or use.
- A fit of petulance, a sulk, arising from the impression that one has been offended or slighted.
- (Ireland, Geordie) A term of endearment usually applied to women and children.
- Any person or animal especially cherished and indulged; a darling.
- Abbreviation of petition.
- One who is excessively loyal to a superior and receives preferential treatment.
- (by extension) Something kept as a companion, including inanimate objects (pet rock, pet plant, etc.).
- (Australia) An unbranded animal.
- (Australia, New Zealand) An unlabelled bottle of wine.
- Someone with no prior criminal record, a person with no previous convictions; loosely, someone who has not done anything wrong before, an unblemished character.
- An undercover police officer who has not done a particular task before.
- (cricket) A cricket bat with no maker's logo
- A person who does not have any tattoos.
- any animals kept for use or profit
- persistent thickened stem of a herbaceous perennial plant
- the capital raised by a corporation through the issue of shares entitling holders to an ownership interest (equity)
- lumber used in the construction of something
- the handle end of some implements or tools
- the hereditary derivation of an individual
- a plant or stem onto which a graft is made; especially a plant grown specifically to provide the root part of grafted plants
- the merchandise that a shop has on hand
- any of several Old World plants cultivated for their brightly colored flowers
- a special variety of domesticated animals within a species
- any of various ornamental flowering plants of the genus Malcolmia
- liquid in which meat and vegetables are simmered; used as a basis for e.g. soups or sauces
- a supply of something available for future use
- an ornamental white cravat
- the reputation and popularity a person has
- a certificate documenting the shareholder's ownership in the corporation
- the handle of a handgun or the butt end of a rifle or shotgun or part of the support of a machine gun or artillery gun
- (finance) The capital raised by a company through the issue of shares; the total of shares held by an individual shareholder.
- (nautical) A bar going through an anchor, perpendicular to the flukes.
- (biology) In tectology, an aggregate or colony of individuals, such as trees, chains of salpae, etc.
- The handle of a whip, fishing rod, etc.
- Plain soap before it is coloured and perfumed.
- (figurative) The measure of how highly a person or institution is valued.
- The type of paper used in printing.
- (UK, historical) The longest part of a split tally stick formerly struck in the exchequer, which was delivered to the person who had lent the king money on account, as the evidence of indebtedness.
- The trunk and woody main stems or limbs of a tree; the base from which something grows or branches.
- A supply of anything, stored until used; especially, such a supply that is ready for use.
- The headstock of a lathe, drill, etc.
- (geology) A pipe (vertical cylinder of ore)
- (shipbuilding, in the plural) The frame or timbers on which a ship rests during construction.
- (especially US) A share in a company.
- A thrust with a rapier; a stoccado.
- Any of several types of security that are similar to a stock, or marketed like one.
- Any of the several species of cruciferous flowers in the genus Matthiola.
- Stock theater, summer stock theater.
- Ellipsis of film stock.
- A piece of black cloth worn under a clerical collar.
- A store or supply.
- (UK, in the plural) Red and grey bricks, used for the exterior of walls and the front of buildings.
- A bed for infants; a crib, cot, or cradle
- The price or value of the stock of a company on the stock market.
- Railroad rolling stock.
- (cooking, uncountable, countable) Broth made from meat (originally bones) or vegetables, used as a basis for stew or soup.
- Farm or ranch animals; livestock.
- The beater of a fulling mill.
- A block of wood; something fixed and solid; a pillar; a firm support; a post.
- (operations) A store of goods ready for sale; inventory.
- (linguistics) A larger grouping of language families: a superfamily or macrofamily.
- The population of a given type of animal (especially fish) available to be captured from the wild for economic use.
- (folklore) A piece of wood magically made to be just like a real baby and substituted for it by magical beings.
- (horticulture) The plant upon which the scion is grafted.
- A ski pole.
- (firearms) The part of a rifle or shotgun that rests against the shooter's shoulder.
- (card games, in a card game) A stack of undealt cards made available to the players.
- The tailstock of a lathe.
- A necktie or cravat, particularly a wide necktie popular in the eighteenth century, often seen today as a part of formal wear for horse riding competitions.
- (nautical) The axle attached to the rudder, which transfers the movement of the helm to the rudder.
- (by extension) Lineage; family; ancestry.
- routine
- repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
- regularly and widely used or sold
- (motor racing, of a race car) Having the same configuration as cars sold to the non-racing public, or having been modified from such a car.
- Of a type normally available for purchase/in stock.
- Straightforward, ordinary, just another, very basic.
- supply with fish
- put forth and grow sprouts or shoots
- equip with a stock
- provide or furnish with a stock of something
- amass so as to keep for future use or sale or for a particular occasion or use
- have on hand
- supply with livestock
- To allow (cows) to retain milk for twenty-four hours or more prior to sale.
- To have on hand for sale.
- To provide with material requisites; to store; to fill; to supply.
- To put in the stocks as punishment.
- (nautical) To fit (an anchor) with a stock, or to fasten the stock firmly in place.
- The bushy tail of a dog such as a setter.
- (Internet slang, ACG) An indication that a certain outcome or event is going to happen, deduced not logically or causally, but as a pattern in a piece of media. Chiefly used in video games and adjacent media, especially visual novels, it is typically described as being raised or set by the plot or words of a character.
- (computer science) In a command line interface, a command parameter requesting optional behavior or otherwise modifying the action of the command being invoked.
- (nautical, often used attributively) A signal flag.
- The design that could be placed on a flag, typically a rectangular graphic that is used to represent an entity (like a country, organisation or group of people) or an idea.
- Any of various plants with sword-shaped leaves, especially irises; specifically, Iris pseudacorus.
- (computer science) A variable or memory location that stores a Boolean true-or-false, yes-or-no value, typically either recording the fact that a certain event has occurred or requesting that a certain optional action take place.
- (mathematics, linear algebra) A sequence of subspaces of a vector space, beginning with the null space and ending with the vector space itself, such that each member of the sequence (until the last) is a proper subspace of the next.
- A group of feathers on the lower part of the legs of certain hawks, owls, etc.
- (aviation) A mechanical indicator that pops up to draw the pilot's attention to a problem or malfunction.
- (geology) Any hard, evenly stratified sandstone, which splits into layers suitable for flagstones.
- (British, uncountable) The game of capture the flag.
- A group of elongated wing feathers in certain hawks.
- A slab of stone; a flagstone, a flat piece of stone used for paving.
- (geometry) A sequence of faces of a given polytope, one of each dimension up to that of the polytope (formally, though in practice not always explicitly, including the null face and the polytope itself), such that each face in the sequence is part of the next-higher dimension face.
- (countable) A piece of cloth, often decorated with an emblem, used as a visual signal or symbol.
- The use of a flag, especially to indicate the start of a race or other event.
- (nautical) A flag flown by a ship to show the presence on board of the admiral; the admiral himself, or his flagship.
- (television) A dark piece of material that can be mounted on a stand to block or shape the light.
- (obsolete except in dialects) A slice of turf; a sod.
- (music) A hook attached to the stem of a written note that assigns its rhythmic value
- a conspicuously marked or shaped tail
- a listing printed in all issues of a newspaper or magazine (usually on the editorial page) that gives the name of the publication and the names of the editorial staff, etc.
- emblem usually consisting of a rectangular piece of cloth of distinctive design
- flagpole used to mark the position of the hole on a golf green
- a rectangular piece of fabric used as a signalling device
- stratified stone that splits into pieces suitable as paving stones
- plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals
- (computing) To signal (an event).
- (transitive) To pave with flagstones.
- To fail, such as a class or an exam.
- (often with up) To note, mark or point out for attention.
- To mark with a flag, especially to indicate the importance of something.
- (sports) To penalize for an infraction.
- (chess, intransitive) To lose on time, especially in a blitz game; when using a traditional analog chess clock, a flag would fall when time expired.
- To furnish or deck out with flags.
- (computing) To set a program variable to true.
- To convey (a message) by means of flag signals.
- (firearms) To point the muzzle of a firearm at a person or object one does not intend to fire on.
- (biology) In female canids, to signal mating readiness by moving the tail aside to expose the vulva.
- (chess, transitive) To defeat (an opponent) on time, especially in a blitz game.
- (often with down) To signal to, especially to stop a passing vehicle etc.
- To enervate; to exhaust the vigour or elasticity of.
- (intransitive) To weaken, become feeble.
- To hang loose without stiffness; to bend down, as flexible bodies; to be loose, yielding, limp.
- To let droop; to suffer to fall, or let fall, into feebleness.
- To decoy (game) by waving a flag, handkerchief, etc. to arouse the animal's curiosity.
- communicate or signal with a flag
- droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness
- provide with a flag
- decorate with flags
- become less intense
- Darmera peltata
- Cyperus alternifolius
- Diphylleia cymosa
- Heptapleurum arboricola
- Podophyllum peltatum
- Eriogonum longifolium var. harperi
- rhizomatous perennial herb with large dramatic peltate leaves and white to bright pink flowers in round heads on leafless stems; colonizes stream banks in the Sierra Nevada in California
- late blooming perennial plant of shale barrens of Virginia having flowers in flat-topped clusters
- African sedge widely cultivated as an ornamental water plant for its terminal umbrellalike cluster of slender grasslike leaves
- A pen or enclosure for sheep or other domestic animals.
- (Christianity) A church congregation, a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church; also, the Christian church as a whole, the flock of Christ.
- (collective) A group of sheep or goats, particularly those kept in a given enclosure.
- (geology) The bending or curving of one or a stack of originally flat and planar surfaces, such as sedimentary strata, as a result of plastic (i.e. permanent) deformation.
- One individual part of something described as manifold, twofold, fourfold, etc.
- One of the doorleaves of a folding door.
- An enclosure or dwelling generally.
- (by extension, web design) The division between the part of a web page visible in a web browser window without scrolling; usually the fold.
- A gentle curve of the ground; gentle hill or valley.
- An act of folding.
- A clasp, embrace.
- Any enclosed piece of land belonging to a farm or mill; yard, farmyard.
- (functional programming) Any of a family of higher-order functions that process a data structure recursively to build up a value.
- A bend or crease.
- (newspapers) The division between the top and bottom halves of a broadsheet: headlines above the fold will be readable in a newsstand display; usually the fold.
- (figuratively) Home, family.
- (figuratively) A group of people with shared ideas or goals or who live or work together.
- (programming) A section of source code that can be collapsed out of view in an editor to aid readability.
- Any correct move in origami.
- A coil of a snake’s body.
- A layer, typically of folded or wrapped cloth.
- a group of sheep or goats
- the act of folding
- an angular or rounded shape made by folding
- a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church
- a geological process that causes a bend in a stratum of rock
- a pen for sheep
- a folded part (as in skin or muscle)
- (transitive) To bend (any thin material, such as paper) over so that it comes in contact with itself.
- (transitive) To double or lay together (one’s arms, hands, wings, etc.) so as to overlap with each other.
- (intransitive, poker) To withdraw from betting.
- (intransitive) To fail, to collapse, to disband.
- (transitive) To enclose within folded arms, to clasp, to embrace (see also enfold).
- (transitive, computing) To split (a line of text) across multiple lines, to obey line length limitations.
- (intransitive, business) Of a company, to cease to trade.
- (intransitive) To give way on a point or in an argument.
- (intransitive) To become folded; to form folds.
- (intransitive, informal) To fall over; to collapse or give way; to be crushed.
- (transitive) To make the proper arrangement (in a thin material) by bending.
- (transitive) To confine (animals) in a fold, to pen in.
- (transitive) To place sheep on (a piece of land) in order to manure it.
- (transitive, cooking) To stir (semisolid ingredients) gently, with an action as if folding over a solid.
- (transitive, figuratively) To cover up, to conceal.
- (transitive, figuratively) To include in a spiritual ‘flock’ or group of the saved, etc.
- (intransitive, by extension) To withdraw or quit in general.
- (transitive) To draw or coil (one’s arms, a snake’s body, etc.) around something so as to enclose or embrace it.
- (transitive) To enclose in a fold of material, to swathe, wrap up, cover, enwrap.
- bend or lay so that one part covers the other
- cease to operate or cause to cease operating
- become folded or folded up
- confine in a fold, like sheep
- incorporate a food ingredient into a mixture by repeatedly turning it over without stirring or beating
- a frame for constraining an animal while it is receiving veterinary attention or while being shod
- a former instrument of punishment consisting of a heavy timber frame with holes in which the feet (and sometimes the hands) of an offender could be locked
- a frame that supports a boat while it is under construction
- (plural only) A device, similar to a pillory, formerly used for public humiliation and punishment.
- plural of stock
- (nautical, plural only) The frame upon which a ship is built, and from which it is launched.
- An animal (usually livestock) that has been registered and is retained for breeding.
- (colloquial) A sexually attractive, promiscuous male.
- An iron brace across the shorter diameter of the link of a chain cable.
- (engineering) A stud bolt.
- (jewelry) A style of earring where the decorative element is mounted on a straight post.
- (engineering) A short rod or pin, fixed in and projecting from something, and sometimes forming a journal.
- A place, such as a ranch, where such animals are kept.
- (construction) A vertical post, especially one of the small uprights in the framing for lath and plaster partitions, and furring, and upon which the laths are nailed.
- A male animal, especially a stud horse (stallion), kept for breeding.
- A cleat on a shoe.
- (by extension, collective) A group of such animals, also of locomotives.
- (poker) A type of poker in which the player cannot discard, and some of the cards are exposed.
- A female animal, especially a studmare (broodmare), kept for breeding.
- (LGBTQ, slang) A sexually dominant lesbian, chiefly African-American.
- A small object that protrudes from something; an ornamental knob.
- Clipping of student.
- poker in which each player receives hole cards and the remainder are dealt face up; bets are placed after each card is dealt
- an upright in house framing
- a man who is virile and sexually active
- ornament consisting of a circular rounded protuberance (as on a vault or shield or belt)
- adult male horse kept for breeding
- stable gear that joins two draft animals at the neck so they can work together as a team
- a pair of draft animals joined by a yoke
- a connection (like a clamp or vise) between two things so they move together
- support consisting of a wooden frame across the shoulders that enables a person to carry buckets hanging from each end
- an oppressive power
- two items of the same kind
- fabric comprising a fitted part at the top of a garment
- A collar placed on the neck of a conquered person or prisoner to restrain movement.
- Misspelling of yolk.
- Something which oppresses or restrains a person; a burden.
- (glassblowing) A Y-shaped stand used to support a blowpipe or punty while reheating in the glory hole.
- (chiefly US) A frame or convex crosspiece from which a bell is hung.
- (Ireland, informal) A chap, a fellow.
- (Ireland, informal) A miscellaneous object; a gadget.
- (nautical) A fitting placed across the head of the rudder with a line attached at each end by which a boat may be steered; in modern use it is primarily found in sailing canoes and kayaks.
- (electronics) The electromagnetic coil that deflects the electron beam in a cathode ray tube.
- (chiefly historical) A pair of draught animals, especially oxen, yoked together to pull something.
- (Ancient Rome) Chiefly in pass under the yoke: a raised yoke (sense 1.1), or a symbolic yoke formed from two spears installed upright in the ground with another spear connecting their tops, under which a defeated army was made to march as a sign of subjugation.
- A bar or frame by which two oxen or other draught animals are joined at their necks enabling them to pull a cart, plough, etc.; (by extension) a device attached to a single draught animal for the same purpose.
- (Ireland, Scotland) A carriage, a horse and cart; (by extension, generally) a car or other vehicle.
- (Ireland, slang) A pill of a psychoactive drug.
- (bodybuilding) Well-developed muscles of the neck and shoulders.
- (video games) A similar device used as a game controller.
- A pole carried on the neck and shoulders of a person, used for carrying a pair of buckets, etc., one at each end of the pole; a carrying pole.
- (aviation) Any of various devices with crosspieces used to control an aircraft; specifically, the control column.
- (chiefly England, especially Kent; also Scotland; historical) An amount of work done with draught animals, lasting about half a day; (by extension) an amount or shift of any work.
- A bond of love, especially marriage; also, a bond of friendship or partnership; an obligation or task borne by two or more people.
- (electrical engineering) Originally, a metal piece connecting the poles of a magnet or electromagnet; later, a part of magnetic circuit (such as in a generator or motor) not surrounded by windings (“wires wound around the cores of electrical transformers”).
- (agriculture) A frame placed on the neck of an animal such as a cow, pig, or goose to prevent passage through a fence or other barrier.
- (clothing) The part of an item of clothing which fits around the shoulders or the hips from which the rest of the garment hangs, and which is often distinguished by having a double thickness of material, or decorative flourishes.
- Any of various linking or supporting objects that resembles a yoke (sense 1.1); a crosspiece, a curved bar, etc.
- put a yoke on or join with a yoke
- link with or as with a yoke
- become joined or linked together
- (agriculture) To place a frame on the neck of (an animal such as a cow, pig, or goose) to prevent passage through a fence or other barrier.
- To place a collar on the neck of (a conquered person or prisoner) to restrain movement.
- To join (several draught animals) together with a yoke; also, to fasten a yoke (on one or more draught animals) to pull a cart, plough, etc.; or to attach (a cart, plough, etc.) to a draught animal.
- To be or become connected, linked, or united in a relationship; to have dealings with.
- To put (one's arm or arms) around someone's neck, waist, etc.; also, to surround (someone's neck, waist, etc.) with one's arms.
- To bring into or keep (someone) in bondage or a state of submission; to enslave or subject to confine, to restrain; to oppress, to subjugate.
- To bring (two or more people or things) into a close relationship (often one that is undesired); to connect, to link, to unite.
- To put (something) around someone's neck like a yoke; also, to surround (someone's neck) with something.
- Hunting with a setter.
- Something set in, or inserted.
- A piece of vocal or choral music composed for particular words (set to music).
- The direction of a current of wind.
- The act of setting (various senses).
- A level or placement to which a knob or control is set.
- The time, place and circumstance in which something (such as a story or picture) is set; context; scenario.
- The act of marking the position of game, as a setter does.
- The mounting of a play, etc., for the stage.
- A piece of metal in which a precious stone or gem is fixed to form a piece of jewelry.
- the context and environment in which something is set
- the set of facts or circumstances that surround a situation or event
- the physical position of something
- arrangement of scenery and properties to represent the place where a play or movie is enacted
- a table service for one person
- the state of the environment in which a situation exists
- a mounting consisting of a piece of metal (as in a ring or other jewelry) that holds a gem in place
- An animal's lair.
- An intentionally false statement; an intentional falsehood.
- (golf) The terrain and conditions surrounding the ball before it is struck.
- A statement intended to deceive, even if literally true.
- (slang, African-American Vernacular) A liar; a dishonest person.
- (medicine) The position of a fetus in the womb.
- (disc golf) The terrain and conditions surrounding the disc before it is thrown.
- (by extension) Anything that misleads or disappoints.
- A manner of lying; relative position.
- a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth
- position or manner in which something is situated
- (intransitive) To be placed or situated.
- (law) To be sustainable; to be capable of being maintained.
- Used with with: to have sexual relations with.
- To be still or quiet, like one lying down to rest.
- (intransitive) To convey a false image or impression.
- Used with in: to be or exist; to belong or pertain; to have an abiding place; to consist.
- (intransitive) To rest in a horizontal position on a surface.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To be mistaken or unintentionally spread false information.
- Used with on/upon: to be incumbent (on); to be the responsibility of a person.
- (intransitive, copulative) To abide; to remain for a longer or shorter time; to be in a certain state or condition.
- (intransitive) To give false information intentionally with intent to deceive.
- have a place in relation to something else
- assume a reclining position
- be lying, be prostrate; be in a horizontal position
- tell an untruth; pretend with intent to deceive
- be and remain in a particular state or condition
- originate (in)
- be located or situated somewhere; occupy a certain position
- dog
- (obsolete outside compounds) jaguar
- The oval-shaped fruit of this tree; genipap.
- A tree of species Genipa americana, native to the tropical forests of North and South America, as well as the Caribbean; genipap.
- (uncountable) The extract of this fruit, used as a dye for temporary body art and tattoos that stain the upper layer of the skin.
- Ellipsis of jagua palm, also called inajá, Attalea maripa.
- tree of the West Indies and northern South America bearing succulent edible orange-sized fruit
- An enclosure for keeping animals.
- A boxlike room or enclosure just big enough to accommodate one standing person, such as a phone booth or polling booth.
- An enclosed seating area consisting of a table next to a wall set between two high-backed benches, as in a diner or café.
- A small stall for the display and sale of goods.
- (hip-hop, slang, with “the”) A recording studio.
- a table (in a restaurant or bar) surrounded by two high-backed benches
- small area set off by walls for special use
- a small shop at a fair; for selling goods or entertainment
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- An unbranded range animal.
- (poker slang) A queen and a jack as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em.
- (by extension) Anything dishonestly obtained.
- (by extension) One who creates or uses controversial or unconventional ideas or practices.
- (by extension) One who is unconventional or does not abide by rules.
- (military) A person in the military who became an officer by going to college while on active duty as an enlisted person.
- an unbranded range animal (especially a stray calf); belongs to the first person who puts a brand on it
- someone who exhibits great independence in thought and action
- an animal that is confined
- a person held in the grip of a strong emotion or passion
- a person who is confined; especially a prisoner of war
- (figurative) One charmed or subdued by beauty, excellence, or affection; one who is captivated.
- A captive insurance company, a subsidiary of a company used as its internal insurer.
- One held prisoner.
- One who has been captured or is otherwise confined.
- An animal in the aforementioned stage.
- An early stage of growth for some insects and amphibians, in which after hatching from their egg, insects are wingless and resemble a caterpillar or grub, and amphibians lack limbs and resemble fish.
- A form of a recently born or hatched animal that is quite different from its adult stage.
- (figurative) A preliminary stage of someone or something, before it has fully matured, especially a time of growth rather than one of performance.
- the immature free-living form of most invertebrates and amphibians and fish which at hatching from the egg is fundamentally unlike its parent and must metamorphose
- a single domestic animal
- forward movement
- that part of a skeletal muscle that is away from the bone that it moves
- a dense cluster of flowers or foliage
- the tip of an abscess (where the pus accumulates)
- a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea)
- the part in the front or nearest the viewer
- (usually plural) the obverse side of a coin that usually bears the representation of a person's head
- (nautical) a toilet on board a boat or ship
- a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about
- the top of something
- the rounded end of a bone that fits into a rounded cavity in another bone to form a joint
- (computer science) a tiny electromagnetic coil and metal pole used to write and read magnetic patterns on a disk
- a V-shaped mark at one end of an arrow pointer
- the educator who has executive authority for a school
- (grammar) the word in a grammatical constituent that plays the same grammatical role as the whole constituent
- the front of a military formation or procession
- the pressure exerted by a fluid
- a person who is in charge
- the source of water from which a stream arises
- a difficult juncture
- an individual person
- the striking part of a tool
- that which is responsible for one's thoughts, feelings, and conscious brain functions; the seat of the faculty of reason
- the foam or froth that accumulates at the top when you pour an effervescent liquid into a container
- a user of (usually soft) drugs
- oral stimulation of the genitals
- a rounded compact mass
- a projection out from one end
- a membrane that is stretched taut over a drum
- the length or height based on the size of a human or animal head
- the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains
- the subject matter at issue
- (lacrosse) The top part of a lacrosse stick that holds the ball.
- (UK, Ireland, metonymic) A headteacher.
- (automotive) The cylinder head, a platform above the cylinders in an internal combustion engine, containing the valves and spark plugs.
- A clump of seeds, leaves or flowers; a capitulum.
- (journalism) Ellipsis of headline.
- A headdress; a covering for the head.
- (slang, countable) A heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs.
- Topic; subject.
- A machine element which reads or writes electromagnetic signals to or from a storage medium.
- The antlers of a deer.
- The larger-diameter end of an unused rivet, properly the factory head or ambiguously the shop head, as opposed to the bucktail which is passed through the items to be fastened and then upset into an appropriate shape, generally pancake-shaped for a solid rivet or doughnut-shaped for a blind rivet, called the field head or ambiguously the shop head.
- (coopering) The end cap of a cask or other barrel.
- (billiards) The end of a pool table opposite the end where the balls have been racked.
- An ear of wheat, barley, or other small cereal.
- (social, countable, metonymic) A leader or expert.
- (British, geology) Deposits near the top of a geological succession.
- (plural head) A single animal; measure word for livestock and game.
- The place of honor or command; the most important or foremost position; the front.
- The end of a nail, screw, bolt, or similar fastener which is opposite the point; usually blunt and relatively wide.
- (jazz) The principal melody or theme of a piece.
- Either, or in plural both, ends of a used rivet, the factory head and the field head.
- (medicine) The end of an abscess where pus collects.
- (computing) The part of a disk drive responsible for reading and writing data.
- (machining) A milling head, a part of a milling machine that houses the spindle.
- The sharp end of an arrow, spear, or pointer.
- A headache; especially one resulting from intoxication.
- The population of game.
- (nautical) The toilet of a ship.
- The end of a hammer, axe, golf club, or similar implement used for striking other objects.
- (figurative, metonymic) Mind; one's own thoughts.
- (slang) The glans penis.
- (figurative, metonymic) An individual person.
- (linguistics) A morpheme that determines the category of a compound or the word that determines the syntactic type of the phrase of which it is a member.
- (chemistry) The first fraction of a distillation run, having a low boiling point.
- (countable) The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
- (uncountable, countable) The foam that forms on top of beer or other carbonated beverages.
- Headway; progress.
- The leafy top part of a tree.
- (slang, vulgar, uncountable) Fellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex.
- A title or heading in a book or other document.
- (anatomy) The rounded part of a bone fitting into a depression in another bone to form a ball-and-socket joint.
- The top edge of a sail.
- (in the plural) Tiles laid at the eaves of a house.
- (geology) The uppermost part of a valley.
- (only in the singular) Denouement; crisis.
- (music) A drum head, the membrane which is hit to produce sound.
- More generally, energy in a mass of fluid divided by its weight.
- (music) The headstock of a guitar.
- The bow of a vessel.
- The difference in elevation between two points in a column of fluid, and the resulting pressure of the fluid at the lower point.
- (British) A headland.
- (music, slang, figurative, metonymic) A person with an extensive knowledge of hip hop.
- (uncountable, countable) A buildup of fluid pressure, often quantified as pressure head.
- (countable) The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.
- Mental or emotional aptitude or skill.
- The source of a river; the end of a lake where a river flows into it.
- The end of a rectangular table furthest from the entrance; traditionally considered a seat of honor.
- (engineering) The end cap of a cylindrically-shaped pressure vessel.
- form a head or come or grow to a head
- direct the course; determine the direction of travelling
- travel in front of; go in advance of others
- take its rise
- to go or travel towards
- be in the front of or on top of
- remove the head of
- be in charge of
- be the first or leading member of (a group) and excel
- (transitive) To strike with the head
- (by extension) To check or restrain.
- (intransitive) To move in a specified direction.
- (fishing, transitive) To remove the head from (a fish).
- To get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose.
- (transitive, of hardware) To form a head (on or to); to fit or furnish (something) with a head.
- (transitive) To cut off the top of; to lop off.
- (transitive) To come at the beginning or front of; to commence.
- (transitive) To be in command of. (See also head up.)
- To set on the head.
- (intransitive) To form a head.
- (intransitive) To originate; to spring; to have its course, as a river.
- To go in front of.
- any immature animal
- the immediate descendants of a person
- something that comes into existence as a result
- An animal or plant's progeny or young.
- A person's daughter or son; a person's child.
- Any of a person's descendants, including of further generations.
- (figuratively) Anything produced; the result of an entity's efforts.
- (computing) A process launched by another process.
- (of crops) harvested at an early stage of development; before complete maturity
- being in its early stage
- suggestive of youth; vigorous and fresh
- not tried or tested by experience
- (used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth
- (Not) advanced in age; (far towards or) at a specified stage of existence or age.
- At an early stage of existence or development; having recently come into existence.
- Early. (of a decade of life)
- Of or belonging to the early part of life.
- In the early part of growth or life; born not long ago.
- Junior (of two related people with the same name).
- Youthful; having the look or qualities of a young person.
- (of animals) fully developed
- designed to arouse lust
- Containing excessive vulgar or profane speech, text or images, intended only for adults.
- Containing situations or discussions intended primarily for adults, such as serious crime, illicit drug use, extramarital affairs, etc.
- Intended for or restricted to adults rather than children due to size, maturity, knowledge level, judgement, etc.
- Containing material of an explicit sexual nature; pornographic.
- Fully grown.
- (of a cookie, gummy, etc.) Containing marijuana, intended for consumption only by adults.
- Intended for, or restricted to, those who are not young children.
- (of a beverage) Containing alcohol, intended for consumption only by adults.
- Any canine animal.
- A side bar used to strengthen portions of the running gear of a vehicle.
- (nautical, in the plural) Projections located at the masthead or foremast, serving as a support for the trestletrees and top on which to rest; a foretop.
- A despicable person.
- A dog, particularly a breed with a good sense of smell developed for hunting other animals.
- (by extension) A male who constantly seeks the company of desirable women.
- (by extension) Someone who seeks something.
- A houndfish.
- any of several breeds of dog used for hunting typically having large drooping ears
- someone who is morally reprehensible
- a domesticated animal kept for companionship or amusement
- a special loved one
- a fit of petulance or sulkiness (especially at what is felt to be a slight)
- An animal kept as a companion or otherwise for pleasure, rather than for some practical benefit or use.
- A fit of petulance, a sulk, arising from the impression that one has been offended or slighted.
- (Ireland, Geordie) A term of endearment usually applied to women and children.
- Any person or animal especially cherished and indulged; a darling.
- Abbreviation of petition.
- One who is excessively loyal to a superior and receives preferential treatment.
- (by extension) Something kept as a companion, including inanimate objects (pet rock, pet plant, etc.).
- (Australia) An unbranded animal.
- (Australia, New Zealand) An unlabelled bottle of wine.
- Someone with no prior criminal record, a person with no previous convictions; loosely, someone who has not done anything wrong before, an unblemished character.
- An undercover police officer who has not done a particular task before.
- (cricket) A cricket bat with no maker's logo
- A person who does not have any tattoos.
- any animals kept for use or profit
- persistent thickened stem of a herbaceous perennial plant
- the capital raised by a corporation through the issue of shares entitling holders to an ownership interest (equity)
- lumber used in the construction of something
- the handle end of some implements or tools
- the hereditary derivation of an individual
- a plant or stem onto which a graft is made; especially a plant grown specifically to provide the root part of grafted plants
- the merchandise that a shop has on hand
- any of several Old World plants cultivated for their brightly colored flowers
- a special variety of domesticated animals within a species
- any of various ornamental flowering plants of the genus Malcolmia
- liquid in which meat and vegetables are simmered; used as a basis for e.g. soups or sauces
- a supply of something available for future use
- an ornamental white cravat
- the reputation and popularity a person has
- a certificate documenting the shareholder's ownership in the corporation
- the handle of a handgun or the butt end of a rifle or shotgun or part of the support of a machine gun or artillery gun
- (finance) The capital raised by a company through the issue of shares; the total of shares held by an individual shareholder.
- (nautical) A bar going through an anchor, perpendicular to the flukes.
- (biology) In tectology, an aggregate or colony of individuals, such as trees, chains of salpae, etc.
- The handle of a whip, fishing rod, etc.
- Plain soap before it is coloured and perfumed.
- (figurative) The measure of how highly a person or institution is valued.
- The type of paper used in printing.
- (UK, historical) The longest part of a split tally stick formerly struck in the exchequer, which was delivered to the person who had lent the king money on account, as the evidence of indebtedness.
- The trunk and woody main stems or limbs of a tree; the base from which something grows or branches.
- A supply of anything, stored until used; especially, such a supply that is ready for use.
- The headstock of a lathe, drill, etc.
- (geology) A pipe (vertical cylinder of ore)
- (shipbuilding, in the plural) The frame or timbers on which a ship rests during construction.
- (especially US) A share in a company.
- A thrust with a rapier; a stoccado.
- Any of several types of security that are similar to a stock, or marketed like one.
- Any of the several species of cruciferous flowers in the genus Matthiola.
- Stock theater, summer stock theater.
- Ellipsis of film stock.
- A piece of black cloth worn under a clerical collar.
- A store or supply.
- (UK, in the plural) Red and grey bricks, used for the exterior of walls and the front of buildings.
- A bed for infants; a crib, cot, or cradle
- The price or value of the stock of a company on the stock market.
- Railroad rolling stock.
- (cooking, uncountable, countable) Broth made from meat (originally bones) or vegetables, used as a basis for stew or soup.
- Farm or ranch animals; livestock.
- The beater of a fulling mill.
- A block of wood; something fixed and solid; a pillar; a firm support; a post.
- (operations) A store of goods ready for sale; inventory.
- (linguistics) A larger grouping of language families: a superfamily or macrofamily.
- The population of a given type of animal (especially fish) available to be captured from the wild for economic use.
- (folklore) A piece of wood magically made to be just like a real baby and substituted for it by magical beings.
- (horticulture) The plant upon which the scion is grafted.
- A ski pole.
- (firearms) The part of a rifle or shotgun that rests against the shooter's shoulder.
- (card games, in a card game) A stack of undealt cards made available to the players.
- The tailstock of a lathe.
- A necktie or cravat, particularly a wide necktie popular in the eighteenth century, often seen today as a part of formal wear for horse riding competitions.
- (nautical) The axle attached to the rudder, which transfers the movement of the helm to the rudder.
- (by extension) Lineage; family; ancestry.
- routine
- repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
- regularly and widely used or sold
- (motor racing, of a race car) Having the same configuration as cars sold to the non-racing public, or having been modified from such a car.
- Of a type normally available for purchase/in stock.
- Straightforward, ordinary, just another, very basic.
- supply with fish
- put forth and grow sprouts or shoots
- equip with a stock
- provide or furnish with a stock of something
- amass so as to keep for future use or sale or for a particular occasion or use
- have on hand
- supply with livestock
- To allow (cows) to retain milk for twenty-four hours or more prior to sale.
- To have on hand for sale.
- To provide with material requisites; to store; to fill; to supply.
- To put in the stocks as punishment.
- (nautical) To fit (an anchor) with a stock, or to fasten the stock firmly in place.
- The bushy tail of a dog such as a setter.
- (Internet slang, ACG) An indication that a certain outcome or event is going to happen, deduced not logically or causally, but as a pattern in a piece of media. Chiefly used in video games and adjacent media, especially visual novels, it is typically described as being raised or set by the plot or words of a character.
- (computer science) In a command line interface, a command parameter requesting optional behavior or otherwise modifying the action of the command being invoked.
- (nautical, often used attributively) A signal flag.
- The design that could be placed on a flag, typically a rectangular graphic that is used to represent an entity (like a country, organisation or group of people) or an idea.
- Any of various plants with sword-shaped leaves, especially irises; specifically, Iris pseudacorus.
- (computer science) A variable or memory location that stores a Boolean true-or-false, yes-or-no value, typically either recording the fact that a certain event has occurred or requesting that a certain optional action take place.
- (mathematics, linear algebra) A sequence of subspaces of a vector space, beginning with the null space and ending with the vector space itself, such that each member of the sequence (until the last) is a proper subspace of the next.
- A group of feathers on the lower part of the legs of certain hawks, owls, etc.
- (aviation) A mechanical indicator that pops up to draw the pilot's attention to a problem or malfunction.
- (geology) Any hard, evenly stratified sandstone, which splits into layers suitable for flagstones.
- (British, uncountable) The game of capture the flag.
- A group of elongated wing feathers in certain hawks.
- A slab of stone; a flagstone, a flat piece of stone used for paving.
- (geometry) A sequence of faces of a given polytope, one of each dimension up to that of the polytope (formally, though in practice not always explicitly, including the null face and the polytope itself), such that each face in the sequence is part of the next-higher dimension face.
- (countable) A piece of cloth, often decorated with an emblem, used as a visual signal or symbol.
- The use of a flag, especially to indicate the start of a race or other event.
- (nautical) A flag flown by a ship to show the presence on board of the admiral; the admiral himself, or his flagship.
- (television) A dark piece of material that can be mounted on a stand to block or shape the light.
- (obsolete except in dialects) A slice of turf; a sod.
- (music) A hook attached to the stem of a written note that assigns its rhythmic value
- a conspicuously marked or shaped tail
- a listing printed in all issues of a newspaper or magazine (usually on the editorial page) that gives the name of the publication and the names of the editorial staff, etc.
- emblem usually consisting of a rectangular piece of cloth of distinctive design
- flagpole used to mark the position of the hole on a golf green
- a rectangular piece of fabric used as a signalling device
- stratified stone that splits into pieces suitable as paving stones
- plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals
- (computing) To signal (an event).
- (transitive) To pave with flagstones.
- To fail, such as a class or an exam.
- (often with up) To note, mark or point out for attention.
- To mark with a flag, especially to indicate the importance of something.
- (sports) To penalize for an infraction.
- (chess, intransitive) To lose on time, especially in a blitz game; when using a traditional analog chess clock, a flag would fall when time expired.
- To furnish or deck out with flags.
- (computing) To set a program variable to true.
- To convey (a message) by means of flag signals.
- (firearms) To point the muzzle of a firearm at a person or object one does not intend to fire on.
- (biology) In female canids, to signal mating readiness by moving the tail aside to expose the vulva.
- (chess, transitive) To defeat (an opponent) on time, especially in a blitz game.
- (often with down) To signal to, especially to stop a passing vehicle etc.
- To enervate; to exhaust the vigour or elasticity of.
- (intransitive) To weaken, become feeble.
- To hang loose without stiffness; to bend down, as flexible bodies; to be loose, yielding, limp.
- To let droop; to suffer to fall, or let fall, into feebleness.
- To decoy (game) by waving a flag, handkerchief, etc. to arouse the animal's curiosity.
- communicate or signal with a flag
- droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness
- provide with a flag
- decorate with flags
- become less intense
- Darmera peltata
- Cyperus alternifolius
- Diphylleia cymosa
- Heptapleurum arboricola
- Podophyllum peltatum
- Eriogonum longifolium var. harperi
- rhizomatous perennial herb with large dramatic peltate leaves and white to bright pink flowers in round heads on leafless stems; colonizes stream banks in the Sierra Nevada in California
- late blooming perennial plant of shale barrens of Virginia having flowers in flat-topped clusters
- African sedge widely cultivated as an ornamental water plant for its terminal umbrellalike cluster of slender grasslike leaves
- A pen or enclosure for sheep or other domestic animals.
- (Christianity) A church congregation, a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church; also, the Christian church as a whole, the flock of Christ.
- (collective) A group of sheep or goats, particularly those kept in a given enclosure.
- (geology) The bending or curving of one or a stack of originally flat and planar surfaces, such as sedimentary strata, as a result of plastic (i.e. permanent) deformation.
- One individual part of something described as manifold, twofold, fourfold, etc.
- One of the doorleaves of a folding door.
- An enclosure or dwelling generally.
- (by extension, web design) The division between the part of a web page visible in a web browser window without scrolling; usually the fold.
- A gentle curve of the ground; gentle hill or valley.
- An act of folding.
- A clasp, embrace.
- Any enclosed piece of land belonging to a farm or mill; yard, farmyard.
- (functional programming) Any of a family of higher-order functions that process a data structure recursively to build up a value.
- A bend or crease.
- (newspapers) The division between the top and bottom halves of a broadsheet: headlines above the fold will be readable in a newsstand display; usually the fold.
- (figuratively) Home, family.
- (figuratively) A group of people with shared ideas or goals or who live or work together.
- (programming) A section of source code that can be collapsed out of view in an editor to aid readability.
- Any correct move in origami.
- A coil of a snake’s body.
- A layer, typically of folded or wrapped cloth.
- a group of sheep or goats
- the act of folding
- an angular or rounded shape made by folding
- a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church
- a geological process that causes a bend in a stratum of rock
- a pen for sheep
- a folded part (as in skin or muscle)
- (transitive) To bend (any thin material, such as paper) over so that it comes in contact with itself.
- (transitive) To double or lay together (one’s arms, hands, wings, etc.) so as to overlap with each other.
- (intransitive, poker) To withdraw from betting.
- (intransitive) To fail, to collapse, to disband.
- (transitive) To enclose within folded arms, to clasp, to embrace (see also enfold).
- (transitive, computing) To split (a line of text) across multiple lines, to obey line length limitations.
- (intransitive, business) Of a company, to cease to trade.
- (intransitive) To give way on a point or in an argument.
- (intransitive) To become folded; to form folds.
- (intransitive, informal) To fall over; to collapse or give way; to be crushed.
- (transitive) To make the proper arrangement (in a thin material) by bending.
- (transitive) To confine (animals) in a fold, to pen in.
- (transitive) To place sheep on (a piece of land) in order to manure it.
- (transitive, cooking) To stir (semisolid ingredients) gently, with an action as if folding over a solid.
- (transitive, figuratively) To cover up, to conceal.
- (transitive, figuratively) To include in a spiritual ‘flock’ or group of the saved, etc.
- (intransitive, by extension) To withdraw or quit in general.
- (transitive) To draw or coil (one’s arms, a snake’s body, etc.) around something so as to enclose or embrace it.
- (transitive) To enclose in a fold of material, to swathe, wrap up, cover, enwrap.
- bend or lay so that one part covers the other
- cease to operate or cause to cease operating
- become folded or folded up
- confine in a fold, like sheep
- incorporate a food ingredient into a mixture by repeatedly turning it over without stirring or beating
- a frame for constraining an animal while it is receiving veterinary attention or while being shod
- a former instrument of punishment consisting of a heavy timber frame with holes in which the feet (and sometimes the hands) of an offender could be locked
- a frame that supports a boat while it is under construction
- (plural only) A device, similar to a pillory, formerly used for public humiliation and punishment.
- plural of stock
- (nautical, plural only) The frame upon which a ship is built, and from which it is launched.
- An animal (usually livestock) that has been registered and is retained for breeding.
- (colloquial) A sexually attractive, promiscuous male.
- An iron brace across the shorter diameter of the link of a chain cable.
- (engineering) A stud bolt.
- (jewelry) A style of earring where the decorative element is mounted on a straight post.
- (engineering) A short rod or pin, fixed in and projecting from something, and sometimes forming a journal.
- A place, such as a ranch, where such animals are kept.
- (construction) A vertical post, especially one of the small uprights in the framing for lath and plaster partitions, and furring, and upon which the laths are nailed.
- A male animal, especially a stud horse (stallion), kept for breeding.
- A cleat on a shoe.
- (by extension, collective) A group of such animals, also of locomotives.
- (poker) A type of poker in which the player cannot discard, and some of the cards are exposed.
- A female animal, especially a studmare (broodmare), kept for breeding.
- (LGBTQ, slang) A sexually dominant lesbian, chiefly African-American.
- A small object that protrudes from something; an ornamental knob.
- Clipping of student.
- poker in which each player receives hole cards and the remainder are dealt face up; bets are placed after each card is dealt
- an upright in house framing
- a man who is virile and sexually active
- ornament consisting of a circular rounded protuberance (as on a vault or shield or belt)
- adult male horse kept for breeding
- stable gear that joins two draft animals at the neck so they can work together as a team
- a pair of draft animals joined by a yoke
- a connection (like a clamp or vise) between two things so they move together
- support consisting of a wooden frame across the shoulders that enables a person to carry buckets hanging from each end
- an oppressive power
- two items of the same kind
- fabric comprising a fitted part at the top of a garment
- A collar placed on the neck of a conquered person or prisoner to restrain movement.
- Misspelling of yolk.
- Something which oppresses or restrains a person; a burden.
- (glassblowing) A Y-shaped stand used to support a blowpipe or punty while reheating in the glory hole.
- (chiefly US) A frame or convex crosspiece from which a bell is hung.
- (Ireland, informal) A chap, a fellow.
- (Ireland, informal) A miscellaneous object; a gadget.
- (nautical) A fitting placed across the head of the rudder with a line attached at each end by which a boat may be steered; in modern use it is primarily found in sailing canoes and kayaks.
- (electronics) The electromagnetic coil that deflects the electron beam in a cathode ray tube.
- (chiefly historical) A pair of draught animals, especially oxen, yoked together to pull something.
- (Ancient Rome) Chiefly in pass under the yoke: a raised yoke (sense 1.1), or a symbolic yoke formed from two spears installed upright in the ground with another spear connecting their tops, under which a defeated army was made to march as a sign of subjugation.
- A bar or frame by which two oxen or other draught animals are joined at their necks enabling them to pull a cart, plough, etc.; (by extension) a device attached to a single draught animal for the same purpose.
- (Ireland, Scotland) A carriage, a horse and cart; (by extension, generally) a car or other vehicle.
- (Ireland, slang) A pill of a psychoactive drug.
- (bodybuilding) Well-developed muscles of the neck and shoulders.
- (video games) A similar device used as a game controller.
- A pole carried on the neck and shoulders of a person, used for carrying a pair of buckets, etc., one at each end of the pole; a carrying pole.
- (aviation) Any of various devices with crosspieces used to control an aircraft; specifically, the control column.
- (chiefly England, especially Kent; also Scotland; historical) An amount of work done with draught animals, lasting about half a day; (by extension) an amount or shift of any work.
- A bond of love, especially marriage; also, a bond of friendship or partnership; an obligation or task borne by two or more people.
- (electrical engineering) Originally, a metal piece connecting the poles of a magnet or electromagnet; later, a part of magnetic circuit (such as in a generator or motor) not surrounded by windings (“wires wound around the cores of electrical transformers”).
- (agriculture) A frame placed on the neck of an animal such as a cow, pig, or goose to prevent passage through a fence or other barrier.
- (clothing) The part of an item of clothing which fits around the shoulders or the hips from which the rest of the garment hangs, and which is often distinguished by having a double thickness of material, or decorative flourishes.
- Any of various linking or supporting objects that resembles a yoke (sense 1.1); a crosspiece, a curved bar, etc.
- put a yoke on or join with a yoke
- link with or as with a yoke
- become joined or linked together
- (agriculture) To place a frame on the neck of (an animal such as a cow, pig, or goose) to prevent passage through a fence or other barrier.
- To place a collar on the neck of (a conquered person or prisoner) to restrain movement.
- To join (several draught animals) together with a yoke; also, to fasten a yoke (on one or more draught animals) to pull a cart, plough, etc.; or to attach (a cart, plough, etc.) to a draught animal.
- To be or become connected, linked, or united in a relationship; to have dealings with.
- To put (one's arm or arms) around someone's neck, waist, etc.; also, to surround (someone's neck, waist, etc.) with one's arms.
- To bring into or keep (someone) in bondage or a state of submission; to enslave or subject to confine, to restrain; to oppress, to subjugate.
- To bring (two or more people or things) into a close relationship (often one that is undesired); to connect, to link, to unite.
- To put (something) around someone's neck like a yoke; also, to surround (someone's neck) with something.
- Hunting with a setter.
- Something set in, or inserted.
- A piece of vocal or choral music composed for particular words (set to music).
- The direction of a current of wind.
- The act of setting (various senses).
- A level or placement to which a knob or control is set.
- The time, place and circumstance in which something (such as a story or picture) is set; context; scenario.
- The act of marking the position of game, as a setter does.
- The mounting of a play, etc., for the stage.
- A piece of metal in which a precious stone or gem is fixed to form a piece of jewelry.
- the context and environment in which something is set
- the set of facts or circumstances that surround a situation or event
- the physical position of something
- arrangement of scenery and properties to represent the place where a play or movie is enacted
- a table service for one person
- the state of the environment in which a situation exists
- a mounting consisting of a piece of metal (as in a ring or other jewelry) that holds a gem in place
- An animal's lair.
- An intentionally false statement; an intentional falsehood.
- (golf) The terrain and conditions surrounding the ball before it is struck.
- A statement intended to deceive, even if literally true.
- (slang, African-American Vernacular) A liar; a dishonest person.
- (medicine) The position of a fetus in the womb.
- (disc golf) The terrain and conditions surrounding the disc before it is thrown.
- (by extension) Anything that misleads or disappoints.
- A manner of lying; relative position.
- a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth
- position or manner in which something is situated
- (intransitive) To be placed or situated.
- (law) To be sustainable; to be capable of being maintained.
- Used with with: to have sexual relations with.
- To be still or quiet, like one lying down to rest.
- (intransitive) To convey a false image or impression.
- Used with in: to be or exist; to belong or pertain; to have an abiding place; to consist.
- (intransitive) To rest in a horizontal position on a surface.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To be mistaken or unintentionally spread false information.
- Used with on/upon: to be incumbent (on); to be the responsibility of a person.
- (intransitive, copulative) To abide; to remain for a longer or shorter time; to be in a certain state or condition.
- (intransitive) To give false information intentionally with intent to deceive.
- have a place in relation to something else
- assume a reclining position
- be lying, be prostrate; be in a horizontal position
- tell an untruth; pretend with intent to deceive
- be and remain in a particular state or condition
- originate (in)
- be located or situated somewhere; occupy a certain position
- dog
- (obsolete outside compounds) jaguar
- The oval-shaped fruit of this tree; genipap.
- A tree of species Genipa americana, native to the tropical forests of North and South America, as well as the Caribbean; genipap.
- (uncountable) The extract of this fruit, used as a dye for temporary body art and tattoos that stain the upper layer of the skin.
- Ellipsis of jagua palm, also called inajá, Attalea maripa.
- tree of the West Indies and northern South America bearing succulent edible orange-sized fruit
- An enclosure for keeping animals.
- A boxlike room or enclosure just big enough to accommodate one standing person, such as a phone booth or polling booth.
- An enclosed seating area consisting of a table next to a wall set between two high-backed benches, as in a diner or café.
- A small stall for the display and sale of goods.
- (hip-hop, slang, with “the”) A recording studio.
- a table (in a restaurant or bar) surrounded by two high-backed benches
- small area set off by walls for special use
- a small shop at a fair; for selling goods or entertainment
- keep, move, or drive animals
- move together, like a herd
- cause to herd, drive, or crowd together
- To move, or be moved, in a group. (of both animals and people)
- (intransitive, Scotland) To act as a herdsman or a shepherd.
- (intransitive) To associate; to ally oneself with, or place oneself among, a group or company.
- (intransitive) To unite or associate in a herd; to feed or run together, or in company.
- (transitive) To manage, care for or guard a herd
- (transitive) To form or put into a herd.
- (transitive) To unite or associate in a herd
- (transitive) To move or drive a herd.
- A number of domestic animals assembled together under the watch or ownership of a keeper.
- a crowd especially of ordinary or undistinguished persons or things
- a group of cattle or sheep or other domestic mammals all of the same kind that are herded by humans
- a group of wild mammals of one species that remain together: antelope or elephants or seals or whales or zebra
- Any collection of animals gathered or travelling in a company.
- (now usually derogatory) A crowd, a mass of people or things; a rabble.
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- To set one or more dogs on (a person or animal).
- To set (one or more dogs) on a person or animal; to sic.
- (film) To provide synchronization information about (a scene, take, etc., of a film recording) using a slate (noun etymology 1 sense 2.3.1).
- (chiefly US, figurative) To expect (something) with a (strong) degree of certainty; to anticipate, to predict.
- (chiefly US, figurative) To appoint or designate (someone or something); also, to nominate or propose (someone or something); specifically (politics), to nominate or propose (a candidate) for an office.
- To cover a building, or part of a building with slates (noun etymology 1 sense 1.1).
- To cover (a building, or part of a building such as a floor or roof) with slates (noun etymology 1 sense 1.1).
- (film) To provide a film recording with synchronization information, especially using a slate (noun etymology 1 sense 2.3.1).
- To scold (someone) harshly; to chastise, to excoriate, to lambaste.
- (originally and chiefly Ireland, slang) To beat or thrash (someone) harshly.
- (leatherworking) To scrape (an animal hide) with a slater (“blade originally made of slate”) to remove hairs.
- (chiefly UK) To criticize or critique (an author or a work) harshly; to castigate.
- (chiefly US, figurative) To plan or schedule (something).
- (military slang) To treat (an enemy) harshly.
- enter on a list or slate for an election
- designate or schedule
- cover with slate
- A piece of such stone, usually cut into a rectangular shape, used as a tile for flooring, roofing, etc.; (uncountable) such tiles collectively, or the material from which they are made.
- (uncountable) The bluish-grey colour of most slate (etymology 1 sense 4).
- (chiefly politics) A group or list of candidates for appointment or election to an office; also, a group of candidates or electors with affiliated political views.
- A sequentially numbered session of recording a film.
- A generally rectangular piece, originally of certain types of stone and now of other materials, often in a frame, used for writing on with a thin rod of the same or another stone (a slate pencil) or with chalk; a small chalkboard.
- (film) A collection of films released during a certain period, either from one studio or from a certain film industry (such as Hollywood) as a whole.
- (uncountable, geology) A fine-grained homogeneous sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash which has been metamorphosed so that it cleaves easily into thin layers.
- Information about a film recording which is inserted at the start of the recording, or printed on a videotape label etc.
- A record, for example, of money owed.
- (computing) Synonym of tablet computer (“a hand-held portable computer in the form of a tablet with a touch screen interface”).
- A range of things; also, a schedule.
- A piece of other material used as a roofing tile.
- a fine-grained metamorphic rock that can be split into thin layers
- a list of candidates nominated by a political party to run for election to public offices
- thin layers of rock used for roofing
- (formerly) a writing tablet made of slate
- To put a saddle on an animal.
- To put (something) on to another thing like a saddle on an animal.
- (often passive voice) Chiefly followed by with: to burden or encumber (someone) with some problem or responsibility.
- Chiefly followed by on or upon: to place (a burden or responsibility) or thrust (a problem) on someone.
- (woodworking) To cut a saddle-shaped notch in (a log or other piece of wood) so it can fit together with other such logs or pieces; also, to fit (logs or other pieces of wood) together with this method.
- To put a saddle (noun sense 1) on (an animal).
- Of a person: to get into a saddle.
- To enter (a trained horse) into a race.
- put a saddle on
- impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to
- load or burden; encumber
- A cushion used as a seat in a cart or other vehicle.
- (chiefly Australia, mining) Synonym of saddle reef (“a saddle-shaped bedded mineral (usually gold-bearing quartz) vein occurring along the crest of an anticline or (less common) a syncline (an inverted saddle)”).
- The part of a guitar which supports the strings and, in an acoustic guitar, transfers their vibrations through the bridge to the soundboard.
- A similar implement used to secure goods to animals; a packsaddle.
- Synonym of saddle brown (“a medium brown colour, like that of saddle leather”).
- The clitellum of an earthworm (family Lumbricidae).
- (dentistry) The part of a denture which holds the artificial teeth.
- A low point, in the shape of a saddle, between two hills.
- (construction) The threshold, the raised floorboard in a doorway.
- In full saddle marking or saddle patch: a saddle-like marking on an animal, such as one on the back of an adult harp seal or saddleback seal (Pagophilus groenlandicus), or any of numerous such markings on a boa constrictor (Boa constrictor).
- (broadcasting) A timeslot between two popular programmes, in which another programme can be scheduled to encourage people to watch it.
- A cut of meat that includes both loins and part of the backbone.
- A seat for a rider, typically made of leather and raised in the front and rear, placed on the back of a horse or other animal, and secured by a strap around the animal's body.
- Chiefly preceded by the: horse-riding as an activity or occupation.
- (geology) An anticline (“fold with strata sloping downwards on each side”); specifically, a depression located along the axial trend of such a fold.
- The lower part of the back of a domestic fowl, especially a male bird, bearing the saddle feathers or saddle hackles.
- Synonym of saddle oxford or saddle shoe (“a shoe, resembling an oxford, which has a saddle (sense 11.1)”).
- (engineering) An equipment part, such as a flange, which is hollowed out to fit upon a convex surface and serve as a means of attachment or support.
- A piece of leather stitched across the instep of a shoe, usually having a different colour from the rest of the shoe.
- (geometry) Synonym of saddle point (“a point in the range of a smooth function, every neighbourhood of which contains points on each side of its tangent plane”).
- A small object (traditionally made of ebony) at the bottom of a string instrument such as a cello, viola, or violin below the tailpiece on which the tailgut (“cord securing the tailpiece to the instrument”) rests.
- The immovable seat of a bicycle, motorcycle, or similar vehicle.
- (nautical) A block of wood with concave depressions at the top and bottom, usually fastened to one spar and shaped to receive the end of another.
- Synonym of harness saddle (“the part of a harness which supports the weight of poles or shafts attaching a vehicle to a horse or other animal”).
- a seat for the rider of a horse or other animal
- a piece of leather across the instep of a shoe
- cut of meat (especially mutton or lamb) consisting of part of the backbone and both loins
- a pass or ridge that slopes gently between two peaks (is shaped like a saddle)
- a seat for the rider of a bicycle
- posterior part of the back of a domestic fowl
- An unbranded range animal.
- (poker slang) A queen and a jack as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em.
- (by extension) Anything dishonestly obtained.
- (by extension) One who creates or uses controversial or unconventional ideas or practices.
- (by extension) One who is unconventional or does not abide by rules.
- (military) A person in the military who became an officer by going to college while on active duty as an enlisted person.
- an unbranded range animal (especially a stray calf); belongs to the first person who puts a brand on it
- someone who exhibits great independence in thought and action
- keep, move, or drive animals
- move together, like a herd
- cause to herd, drive, or crowd together
- To move, or be moved, in a group. (of both animals and people)
- (intransitive, Scotland) To act as a herdsman or a shepherd.
- (intransitive) To associate; to ally oneself with, or place oneself among, a group or company.
- (intransitive) To unite or associate in a herd; to feed or run together, or in company.
- (transitive) To manage, care for or guard a herd
- (transitive) To form or put into a herd.
- (transitive) To unite or associate in a herd
- (transitive) To move or drive a herd.
- A number of domestic animals assembled together under the watch or ownership of a keeper.
- a crowd especially of ordinary or undistinguished persons or things
- a group of cattle or sheep or other domestic mammals all of the same kind that are herded by humans
- a group of wild mammals of one species that remain together: antelope or elephants or seals or whales or zebra
- Any collection of animals gathered or travelling in a company.
- (now usually derogatory) A crowd, a mass of people or things; a rabble.
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- Bound with the hide of an animal.
- (of trees) Having the bark so close and constricting that it impedes the growth.
- (figurative, of a person) Stubborn; narrow-minded; inflexible.
- (of a domestic animal) Having the skin adhering so closely to the ribs and back as not to be easily loosened or raised; emaciated.
- stubbornly conservative and narrow-minded
- Taken from a living animal.
- (only used attributively) Having life; that is alive.
- Outstanding, top-notch, exhilarating.
- (entertainment, performing) Recorded from a performance in front of an audience.
- (broadcasting) Being broadcast ("on the air"), as it happens.
- (of a performance or speech) In person.
- (engineering) Imparting power; having motion.
- Being in a state of ignition; burning.
- (programming) Of an object or value: that may potentially be used in the future execution of a program.
- Having active properties; being energized.
- (film) Featuring humans; not animated, in the phrases “live actors” or “live action”.
- (sports) Still in active play.
- Operational; in actual use rather than in testing etc.
- (poker) Being a bet which can be raised by the bettor, usually in reference to a blind or straddle.
- Being in existence; actual.
- Able to fire or explode (of firearms or explosives).
- (linguistics) Of a syllable in languages such as Thai and Burmese: resonating, not ending abruptly.
- Of an environment where sound is recorded: having noticeable reverberation.
- (card games) Of a card: not yet dealt or played.
- (circuitry) Electrically charged or energized, usually indicating that the item may cause electrocution if touched.
- highly reverberant
- elastic; rebounds readily
- possessing life
- charged or energized with electricity
- in current use or ready for use
- capable of erupting
- abounding with life and energy
- charged with an explosive
- of current relevance
- actually being performed at the time of hearing or viewing
- exerting force or containing energy
- (transitive) To act habitually in conformity with; to practice; to exemplify in one's way of life.
- (intransitive, informal) (of an object) to have its proper place; to normally be stored.
- (intransitive, followed by on, upon, or by) To maintain or support one's existence; to provide for oneself; to feed; to subsist.
- (intransitive) To be alive; to have life.
- (intransitive) To have permanent residence somewhere, to inhabit, to reside.
- (intransitive) To outlast danger; (of a ship or boat) to float.
- (intransitive, hyperbolic) To cope.
- (intransitive) To pass life in a specified manner.
- (transitive) To spend, as one's life; to pass; to maintain; to continue in, constantly or habitually.
- (intransitive, informal) To make the most of life; to experience a full, rich life.
- (intransitive) To survive; to persevere; to continue.
- (intransitive) To endure in memory; to escape oblivion.
- pursue a positive and satisfying existence
- support oneself
- be an inhabitant of or reside in
- have life, be alive
- have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations
- lead a certain kind of life; live in a certain style
- continue to live and avoid dying