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verb
- circulate, move around
- sing loudly and without inhibition
- sing the parts of (a round) in succession
- praise or celebrate in song
- speak or recite rapidly or in a rolling voice
- cause to move round and round
- angle with a hook and line drawn through the water
- To move (something, especially a round object) by, or as if by, rolling; to bowl, to roll, to trundle.
- To say (something) lightly and quickly, or in a deep, resounding voice.
- (fishing) To fish using a running fishing line.
- To speak lightly and quickly, or in a deep, resounding voice.
- (fishing) To fish in (a place) using a running fishing line (that is, a line with a hook on the end which is drawn along the water surface, possibly a line which would originally have been spooled on to a troll (etymology 2, noun etymology 2 sense 8.1)).
- (by extension, colloquial) To prank, tease, or mess with someone in a lighthearted way.
- (figurative, originally Internet slang) To post irrelevant or inflammatory statements in an online discussion in an attempt to start a heated argument or to derail a conversation, either for one's personal entertainment or as part of an organized political campaign.
- (figurative) To attract or draw out (someone or something); to allure, to elicit, to entice, to lure.
- (by extension) To persistently harass someone over the Internet.
- To roll; also, to turn round and round; to rotate, to spin, to whirl.
- To move or walk at a leisurely pace; to ramble, to saunter, to stroll.
- (specifically, slang) Chiefly of a man: synonym of cruise (“to stroll about to find a (male) sexual partner”).
- (fishing, Scotland, US) To fish using a line and bait or lures trailed behind a boat similarly to trawling.
noun
- a fisherman's lure that is used in trolling
- a partsong in which voices follow each other; one voice starts and others join in one after another until all are singing different parts of the song at the same time
- angling by drawing a baited line through the water
- (Scandinavian folklore) a supernatural creature (either a dwarf or a giant) that is supposed to live in caves or in the mountains
- (originally Scandinavian mythology, now also European folklore and fantasy) a giant supernatural being, especially a grotesque humanoid creature living in caves or hills or under bridges.
- (figurative, originally Internet slang) An inflammatory or insincere statement posted in an attempt to lure others into combative argument (a flame war), originally a way for regulars (long-time users) to poke light-hearted fun at new posters (especially in Usenet newsgroups) and promote in-group cohesion ("trolling for newbies").
- A fishing line, bait, or lure used to fish in these ways.
- (informal, Michigan) A Michigander who lives on the mainland, i.e. not a resident of the Upper Peninsula, so named due to living south of the Mackinaw Bridge.
- (by extension, originally Internet slang) A person who makes or posts inflammatory or insincere statements in an attempt to lure others into combative argument for purposes of personal entertainment or to manipulate their perception, especially in an online community or discussion.
- (derogatory, slang) An ugly or unpleasant person.
- (music) A song the parts of which are sung in succession; a catch, a round.
- An act of fishing by using a running fishing line, or by trailing a line with bait or lures behind a boat.
- (astronomy, meteorology) An optical ejection from the top of the electrically active core region of a thunderstorm that is red in colour and seems to occur after tendrils of vigorous sprites extend downward towards cloudtops.
- (by extension, derogatory, informal) A company, person, etc., that owns and legally enforces copyrights, patents, trademarks, or other intellectual property rights in an aggressive and opportunistic manner, often with no intention of commercially exploiting the subjects of the rights.
- An act of moving round; a repetition, a routine.
- (by extension, politics) A person who sows discord, or spreads misinformation or propaganda, in order to promote an agenda as part of an organized political campaign.
verb
- circulate or distribute or equip with
- prepare and issue for public distribution or sale
- come out of
- make out and issue
- bring out an official document (such as a warrant)
- (intransitive) To turn out in a certain way, to result in.
- (law) To come to a point in fact or law on which the parties join issue.
- (transitive) To deliver for use.
- (transitive) To deliver by authority.
- (intransitive) To rush out, to sally forth.
- (transitive) To send out; to put into circulation.
- (intransitive) To extend into, to open onto.
- (intransitive) To flow out, to proceed from, to come out or from.
noun
- the immediate descendants of a person
- some situation or event that is thought about
- a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon
- the becoming visible
- supplies (as food or clothing or ammunition) issued by the government
- the act of providing an item for general use or for official purposes (usually in quantity)
- one of a series published periodically
- an opening that permits escape or release
- an important question that is in dispute and must be settled
- the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property
- the act of issuing printed materials
- The means or opportunity by which something flows or comes out, particularly:
- Any question or situation to be resolved, particularly:
- (historical medicine) A small incision, tear, or artificial ulcer, used to drain fluid and usually held open with a pea or other small object.
- The end result of an event or events, any result or outcome, particularly:
- The loan of a book etc. from a library to a patron; all such loans by a given library during a given period.
- The production or distribution of something for general use.
- (figuratively, originally World War I military slang, usually with definite article) The entire set of something; all of something.
- (law) A point of law or fact in dispute or question in a legal action presented for resolution by the court.
- (figuratively) Anything in dispute, an area of disagreement whose resolution is being debated or decided.
- (finance) Any financial instrument issued by a company.
- (figuratively) Progeny: all one's lineal descendants.
- (finance) The action or an instance of a company selling bonds, stock, or other securities.
- (medicine) The outflow of a bodily fluid, particularly (now rare) in abnormal amounts.
- (historical or rare law) Income derived from fines levied by a court or law-enforcement officer; the fines themselves.
- The action or an instance of sending something out, particularly:
- The distribution of something (particularly rations or standardized provisions) to someone or some group.
- (publishing) A single edition of a newspaper or other periodical publication.
- The entire set of some item printed and disseminated during a certain period, particularly (publishing) a single printing of a particular edition of a work when contrasted with other print runs.
- (now usually historical or law) Offspring: one's natural child or children.
- (US, originally psychology, usually in the plural) A psychological or emotional difficulty, (now informal, figurative and usually euphemistic) any problem or concern considered as a vague and intractable difficulty.
verb
- circulate or distribute or equip with
- give something useful or necessary to
- state or say further
- give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance
- (transitive) To serve instead of; to take the place of.
- (transitive) To fill up, or keep full.
- (intransitive) To act as a substitute.
- (transitive) To provide (something), to make (something) available for use.
- (transitive) To furnish or equip with.
- (transitive) To compensate for, or make up a deficiency of.
- (transitive) To fill temporarily; to serve as substitute for another in, as a vacant place or office; to occupy; to have possession of.
noun
- the activity of supplying or providing something
- offering goods and services for sale
- an amount of something available for use
- (countable) An amount of something supplied.
- (chiefly in the plural) An amount of money provided, as by Parliament or Congress, to meet the annual national expenditures.
- (in the plural) Provisions.
- (economics) The market force that causes sellers to be both willing and able to sell a good or service, as measured by the amount of that good or service that is currently available to be bought at any given price point; the amount itself.
- Somebody, such as a teacher or clergyman, who temporarily fills the place of another; a substitute.
- (uncountable) The act of supplying.
adv
verb
- To pass around, to circulate.
- (transitive) To travel around (something) physically.
- To rotate, to move in a circle.
- (intransitive) To be sufficient to be shared, to be enough for everyone.
- To go to another person's home or a public event.
- (transitive, figurative) To circulate, to move aimlessly.
- To live behaving in a certain way, doing something regularly (followed by specification).
- To physically swirl or rotate.
- (transitive, figurative) To circumvent, evade or outmanoeuvre.
verb
noun
verb
- spread or diffuse through
- cause to become widely known
- move outward
- (intransitive) To be spread over or through as in air, water, or other matter, especially by fluid motion or passive means.
- (transitive) To spread (something) over or through as in air, water, or other matter, especially by fluid motion or passive means.
adj
verb
- spread or diffuse through
- suffuse with color
- fill, soak, or imbue totally
- (transitive) To wet or stain an object completely with some physical quality.
- (transitive) To instill or inspire (someone) with a certain quality, feeling, or idea.
- In general, to act in a way which results in an object becoming completely permeated or impregnated by some quality.
verb
- spread or diffuse through
- enter a group or organization in order to spy on the members
- come to understand
- insert the penis into the vagina or anus of
- make one's way deeper into or through
- pass into or through, often by overcoming resistance
- become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions
- (chess) To move a piece past the defending pieces of one's opponent.
- To enter into; to make way into the interior of; to pierce.
- To insert the penis into an orifice, such as a vagina, mouth, or anus.
- To infiltrate an enemy to gather intelligence.
- To affect profoundly through the senses or feelings; to move deeply.
- (figuratively) To achieve understanding of, despite some obstacle; to comprehend; to understand.
verb
- spread or diffuse through
- pass through
- penetrate mutually or be interlocked
- (transitive) To enter and spread through; to pervade.
- (transitive) To pass through the pores or interstices of; to penetrate and pass through without causing rupture or displacement; applied especially to fluids which pass through substances of loose texture
noun
verb
- spread or diffuse through
- set a difficult problem or riddle
- separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff
- speak in riddles
- explain a riddle
- pierce with many holes
- To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.
- To put something through a riddle or sieve; to sieve; to sift.
- (transitive) To solve, answer, or explicate a riddle or question.
- To fill with holes like a riddle.
- (figuratively) To fill or spread throughout; to pervade (with something destructive or weakening).
noun
- a difficult problem
- a coarse sieve (as for gravel)
- A board with a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.
- (religious) One of the pair of curtains enclosing an altar on the north and south.
- A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from sand.
- A verbal puzzle, mystery, or other problem of an intellectual nature.
- An ancient verbal, poetic, or literary form, in which, rather than a rhyme scheme, there are parallel opposing expressions with a hidden meaning.
verb
- (transitive, intransitive) To distribute throughout.
- (physics, transitive, intransitive) To separate rays of light, etc., according to wavelength; to refract.
- (transitive, intransitive) To disseminate.
- (transitive, intransitive) To break up and disappear; to dissipate.
- (transitive, intransitive) To scatter in different directions.
- cause to become widely known
- cause to separate
- to cause to separate and go in different directions
- move away from each other
- separate (light) into spectral rays
- distribute loosely
adj
adj
- Passing from one side of something to the other.
- No longer interested; wearied or turned off by experience.
- Without a future; done for.
- (soccer) In possession of the ball beyond the last line of defence but not necessarily the goalkeeper; through on goal.
- Proceeding from origin to destination without the need to change transport vehicle.
- (chiefly US) Finished; complete.
- Along the course of a task etc.; used in expressions of progress towards the end.
- (chiefly UK, Commonwealth, Ireland, rare in Canada) (usually followed by "to") Able to progress (to the next stage or a higher level) following success in an exam, sports match, etc.
- (of a route or journey etc.) continuing without requiring stops or changes
- having finished or arrived at completion
adv
- So as to overcome an obstacle and pass beyond it; past.
- From beginning to end, or from the present position to the end.
- So as to pass a stage in a process and proceed to the next stage or level.
- Throughout something; all the way across or into.
- By way of the interior.
- By way of an opening.
- (mostly in the phrase 'get through') So as to connect or reach.
- in diameter
- over the whole distance
- to completion
- from beginning to end
- throughout the entire extent
prep
- By means of.
- Throughout or across the extent of.
- Throughout the duration of.
- In consequence of; as a result of.
- To or beyond the other side of (an obstacle); past.
- (Canada, US) To (or up to) and including, with all intermediate values; to... inclusive; until the end of.
- So as to progress within (something) or towards the end or limit of (something).
- By way of (an intermediary, agent, medium, etc.).
- (in phrases such as 'go through', 'get through' etc.) Indicating that something has been consumed or used up.
- So as to enter (something), pass within or across, and then leave.
- Amidst or surrounded by (while moving).
- Along the course of; used in expressions of progress towards the end of something.
- By way of (a physical passage).
- From one side of (an opening) to the other.
verb
adj
noun
- A cineplex.
- A kind of stereoscopic mapmaking instrument.
- A building or a place where several activities occur in multiple units concurrently or different times.
- (television) A grouping of program services as interleaved data packets for broadcast over a network or modulated multiplexed medium.
- (juggling) A throwing motion where more than one ball is thrown with one hand at the same time.
- communicates two or more signals over a common channel
- a movie theater that has several different auditoriums in the same building
noun
- Any other item that moves repeatedly back and forth between two positions, possibly transporting something else with it between those points (such as, in chemistry, a molecular shuttle).
- (weaving) A tool used to carry the woof back and forth between the warp threads on a loom.
- Such a transport vehicle; a shuttle bus; a space shuttle.
- The sliding thread holder in a sewing machine, which carries the lower thread through a loop of the upper thread, to make a lock stitch.
- A shuttlecock.
- A shutter, as for a channel for molten metal.
- A transport service (such as a bus or train) that goes back and forth between two or more places.
- public transport that consists of a bus or train or airplane that flies back and forth between two points
- bobbin that passes the weft thread between the warp threads
- badminton equipment consisting of a ball of cork or rubber with a crown of feathers
verb
noun
- a connection (like a clamp or vise) between two things so they move together
- the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes
- a mechanical device that serves to connect the ends of adjacent objects
- (sexuality) An act of sexual intercourse.
- A link between the performance of an action and the location where that action occurs or the method used to perform that action.
- The act of joining together to form a couple.
- (software engineering) The degree of reliance between two or more software modules.
- (electronics) A connection between two electronic circuits such that a signal can pass between them.
- A device that couples two things together.
- (physics) The property of physical systems that they are interacting with each other
verb
noun
- a connection (like a clamp or vise) between two things so they move together
- a pair of draft animals joined by a yoke
- 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
- stable gear that joins two draft animals at the neck so they can work together as a team
- 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.
verb
- 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.
verb
- To make something move through something else.
- Synonym of infiltrate.
- To undergo; to experience.
- To go through, to travel through, to transit or lie across a place or from one place to another.
- cause to move through
- pass through an enemy line; in a military conflict
- make a passage or journey from one place to another
noun
verb
- (transitive) To distribute (a thing).
- (transitive) To put (food) on to a dish ready for eating.
- (transitive, architecture) To hollow out, as a gutter in stone or wood.
- (transitive, figuratively) To distribute or deliver something.
- administer or bestow, as in small portions
- provide (usually but not necessarily food)
noun
- Something through which another thing passes; a means of conveying or transmitting.
- (communication) A path for conveying electrical or electromagnetic signals, usually distinguished from other parallel paths.
- The natural or man-made deeper course through a reef, bar, bay, or any shallow body of water.
- (biochemistry) An ion channel: pore-forming proteins located in a cell membrane that allow specific ions to pass through.
- (communication) The part that connects a data source to a data sink.
- (electronics) A connection between initiating and terminating nodes of a circuit.
- The navigable part of a river.
- (communication) A single path provided by a transmission medium via spectral or protocol separation, such as by frequency or time-division multiplexing.
- The part of a turbine pump where the pressure is built up.
- A gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column.
- (storage) The portion of a storage medium, such as a track or a band, that is accessible to a given reading or writing station or head.
- (nautical) The wale of a sailing ship which projects beyond the gunwale and to which the shrouds attach via the chains. One of the flat ledges of heavy plank bolted edgewise to the outside of a vessel, to increase the spread of the shrouds and carry them clear of the bulwarks.
- (communication) A single path provided by a transmission medium via physical separation, such as by multipair cable.
- A narrow body of water between two land masses.
- (broadcasting) A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies used for transmitting television.
- A psychic or medium who temporarily takes on the personality of somebody else.
- (electronics) The narrow conducting portion of a MOSFET transistor.
- (Internet, historical) A means of delivering up-to-date Internet content via a push mechanism.
- (construction, mechanical engineering) A structural member with a cross section shaped like a squared-off letter C.
- The hollow bed of running waters; (also) the bed of the sea or other body of water.
- (business, marketing) A distribution channel.
- (Internet) A particular area for conversations on an IRC or similar network, analogous to a chat room and often dedicated to a specific topic.
- (broadcasting) A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies, usually in conjunction with a predetermined letter, number, or codeword, and allocated by international agreement.
- a long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record)
- a passage for water (or other fluids) to flow through
- (often plural) a means of communication or access
- a path over which electrical signals can pass
- a way of selling a company's product either directly or via distributors
- a deep and relatively narrow body of water (as in a river or a harbor or a strait linking two larger bodies) that allows the best passage for vessels
- a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance
- a television station and its programs
verb
- (transitive) To follow as a model, especially in a performance.
- (transitive, of a spirit, as of a dead person) To serve as a medium for.
- (transitive) To direct or guide along a desired course.
- (transitive) To make or cut a channel or groove in.
- transmit or serve as the medium for transmission
- direct the flow of
- send from one person or place to another
verb
- To join two moving items.
- (intransitive, slang, vulgar) In male homosexual sex, to engage in docking, the inserting of the tip of one participant's penis into the foreskin of the other participant.
- (intransitive) To land at a harbour.
- (transitive) To cut off, bar, or destroy.
- (transitive, cooking) To pierce holes, as pricking dough with a fork, to prevent excessive rising in the oven.
- (transitive) To reduce (wages); to deduct from (someone).
- (astronautics) To move a spaceship into its dock/berth under its own power.
- (transitive) To clip or cut off a section of an animal's tail; to practise a caudectomy.
- (transitive) To place (an electronic device) in its dock.
- (transitive, graphical user interface) To drag a user interface element (such as a toolbar) to a position on screen where it snaps into place.
- (transitive, informal) To reduce the wages of (a person).
- maneuver into a dock
- remove or shorten the tail of an animal
- deprive someone of benefits, as a penalty
- deduct from someone's wages
- come into dock
noun
- A burdock plant, or the leaves of that plant.
- (UK, nautical) The body of water next to and around a pier.
- (graphical user interface) A toolbar that provides the user with a way of launching applications by their icons, and switching between running applications.
- Any of the genus Rumex of coarse weedy plants with small green flowers related to buckwheat, especially bitter dock (Rumex obtusifolius), and used as potherbs and in folk medicine, especially in curing nettle rash.
- (theater) Ellipsis of scene-dock.
- The area of arrival and departure of a train in a railway station.
- A leather case used to cover the clipped or cut tail of a horse.
- (US, nautical) A fixed structure attached to shore to which a vessel is secured when in port; usually for loading and unloading.
- An act or instance of docking; joining two things together.
- (electronics) A device designed as a base for holding a connected portable appliance for providing the necessary electrical charge for its autonomy, or as a hardware extension for additional capabilities.
- (law) Part of a courtroom where the accused sits.
- A section of a hotel or restaurant.
- The fleshy root of an animal's tail; specifically after clipping or cutting.
- any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine
- an enclosure in a court of law where the defendant sits during the trial
- a short or shortened tail of certain animals
- a platform built out from the shore into the water and supported by piles; provides access to ships and boats
- landing in a harbor next to a pier where ships are loaded and unloaded or repaired; may have gates to let water in or out
- the solid bony part of the tail of an animal as distinguished from the hair
- a platform where trucks or trains can be loaded or unloaded
verb
- (transitive) To distribute.
- (bridge, transitive) To end (a round) by having passes as the first four bids.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pass, out.
- (of soldiers, police, fire-fighters, etc.) To graduate, usually marked by a ceremony at the end of training.
- (by extension) To become proficient in a particular job or task.
- (India) To graduate from university.
- (intransitive) To faint; to become unconscious.
- (slang) To fall asleep irrespective of wilful action, as a result of the consumption of alcohol or other drugs or another form of physiological exhaustion.
- pass out from weakness, physical or emotional distress due to a loss of blood supply to the brain
- give to several people
- lose consciousness due to a sudden trauma, for example
verb
adj
verb
adj
- Referring back to itself, so as to prevent computation or comprehension; infinitely recursive.
- In the shape of, or moving in, a circle.
- Distributed to a large number of persons.
- Circuitous or roundabout.
- Of or relating to a circle.
- having the shape or form of a circle
- describing a circle; moving in a circle
noun
verb
- To be diffused; to spread.
- To exhaust, to wear out.
- (mining) To break ground; to continue working.
- To bestow; to employ; often with on or upon.
- (ambitransitive) To pay out (money).
- (intransitive) To waste or wear away; to be consumed.
- To consume, to use up (time).
- spend completely
- pay out
- use up a period of time in a specific way
noun
verb
- to spread or disseminate
- to move from person to person, as at a party
- (intransitive) to move in circles or through a circuit
- (mathematics) Of decimals: to repeat.
- (transitive) to cause (a person or thing) to move in circles or through a circuit
- to become widely known
- cause to become widely known
- cause to be distributed
- cause to move in a circuit or system
- move through a space, circuit or system, returning to the starting point
- become widely known and passed on
- move around freely from person to person or from place to place
noun
- the act of joining things in such a way that motion is possible
- expressing in coherent verbal form
- the shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made
- the aspect of pronunciation that involves bringing articulatory organs together so as to shape the sounds of speech
- (anatomy) the point of connection between two bones or elements of a skeleton (especially if it allows motion)
- (music, uncountable) The manner in which a note is attacked.
- (uncountable) The quality, clarity, or sharpness of speech; the movement within the mouth that allows for those things.
- (phonetics) The mechanism by which a sound is formed in the vocal tract.
- (countable or uncountable) A joint or the collection of joints at which something is articulated, or hinged, for bending.
- (accounting) The interrelation and congruence of the flow of data between financial statements of an entity, especially between the income statement and balance sheet.
- (anatomy) Such a joint in an animalian body, as for example between bones or between exoskeleton segments.
- (education) The induction of a pupil into a new school or college.
- (countable) A manner or method by which elements of a system are connected.
noun
- a series of things depending on each other as if linked together
- a unit of length
- (chemistry) a series of linked atoms (generally in an organic molecule)
- anything that acts as a restraint
- a series of (usually metal) rings or links fitted into one another to make a flexible ligament
- a necklace made by stringing objects together
- a linked or connected series of objects
- (business) a number of similar establishments (stores or restaurants or banks or hotels or theaters) under one ownership
- a series of hills or mountains
- A livery collar, a chain of office.
- (algebraic topology, homological algebra, more generally) An element of a group (or module) in a chain complex.
- A unit of length, exactly equal to 22 yards, which is 4 rods or 100 links, and approximately equal to 20.12 metres; the length of a Gunter's surveying chain; the length of a cricket pitch.
- That which confines, fetters, or secures; a bond.
- A series of stores or businesses with the same brand name.
- A series of interconnected things.
- (weaving) The warp threads of a web.
- (British) A sequence of linked house purchases, each of which is dependent on the preceding and succeeding purchase (said to be "broken" if a buyer or seller pulls out).
- (surveying) A series of interconnected links of known length, used as a measuring device.
- A series of interconnected rings or links usually made of metal.
- (surveying) A long measuring tape.
- (mathematics, set theory, order theory) A totally ordered set, especially a totally ordered subset of a poset.
- (nautical, in the plural) Iron links bolted to the side of a vessel to bold the dead-eyes connected with the shrouds; also, the channels.
- (algebraic topology, originally) A formal sum of cells in a CW complex of a certain dimension k (in which case the formal sums are called k'''-chains); a formal sum of simplices or cubes of a certain dimension in a simplical complex or cubical complex (respectively).
- (organic chemistry, physical chemistry) A number of atoms in a series, which combine to form a molecule.
verb
- fasten or secure with chains
- connect or arrange into a chain by linking
- (computing) To be chained to another data item.
- (transitive, computing, rare, associated with Acorn Computers) To load and automatically run (a program).
- (intransitive) To link multiple items together.
- (figurative) To connect as if with a chain, due to dependence, addiction, or other feelings
- (computing) To relate data items with a chain of pointers.
- (transitive) To measure a distance using a 66-foot long chain, as in land surveying.
- (figurative) To obligate.
- (transitive) To secure someone with fetters.
- (transitive) To fasten something with a chain.
- (transitive) To obstruct the mouth of a river etc with a chain.
noun
- a series of things depending on each other as if linked together
- the state of being linked together as in a chain; union in a linked series
- the act of linking together as in a series or chain
- the linking together of a consecutive series of symbols or events or ideas etc
- (programming) A character string formed by joining multiple character strings.
- (uncountable) The application of these series of links.
- (programming) The operation of joining multiple character strings.
- (countable) A series of links united; a series or order of things depending on each other, as if linked together; a chain, a succession.
verb
- (transitive) To place one thing neatly inside another, and both inside yet another (and so on).
- (intransitive) To successively neatly fit inside another.
- (intransitive) To settle into a home.
- (intransitive) To hunt for birds' nests or their contents (usually "go nesting").
- (intransitive, of animals) To build or settle into a nest.
- (transitive) To place in, or as if in, a nest.
- move or arrange oneself in a comfortable and cozy position
- inhabit a nest, usually after building
- fit together or fit inside
- gather nests
noun
- (card games) A fixed number of cards in some bidding games awarded to the highest bidder allowing him to exchange any or all with cards in his hand.
- A collection of boxes, cases, or the like, of graduated size, each put within the one next larger.
- A compact group of pulleys, gears, springs, etc., working together or collectively.
- A circular bed of pasta, rice, etc. to be topped or filled with other foods.
- (computing) A structure consisting of nested structures, such as nested loops or nested subroutine calls.
- A structure built by a bird as a place to incubate eggs and rear young.
- A retreat, or place of habitual resort.
- (military) A fortified position for a weapon.
- (geology) An aggregated mass of any ore or mineral, in an isolated state, within a rock.
- A place used by a monotreme, fish, amphibian or insect, for depositing eggs and hatching young.
- A snug, comfortable, or cosy residence or job situation.
- (vulgar, slang, now US) The pubic hair near a vulva or a vulva itself.
- A home that a child or young adult shares with a parent or guardian.
- A hideout for bad people to frequent or haunt; a den.
- a structure in which animals lay eggs or give birth to their young
- a cosy or secluded retreat
- a kind of gun emplacement
- a gang of people (criminals or spies or terrorists) assembled in one locality
- furniture pieces made to fit close together
verb
- (transitive) To connect (two or more things).
- (transitive, Internet) To post a hyperlink to.
- (Scotland, intransitive) To skip or trip along smartly; to go quickly.
- (transitive) To demonstrate a correlation between (two things).
- (software compilation) To combine objects generated by a compiler into a single executable.
- (transitive, Internet) To supply (someone) with a hyperlink; to direct by means of a link.
- (intransitive, Internet, of a web page) To contain a hyperlink to another page.
- (transitive, slang) To meet with (someone).
- make a logical or causal connection
- be or become joined or united or linked
- link with or as with a yoke
- connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces
noun
- (Sussex) A thin wild bank of land splitting two cultivated patches and often linking two hills.
- (surveying) The length of one joint of Gunter's chain, being the hundredth part of it, or 7.92 inches, the chain being 66 feet in length.
- (engineering) Any intermediate rod or piece for transmitting force or motion, especially a short connecting rod with a bearing at each end; specifically (in steam engines) the slotted bar, or connecting piece, to the opposite ends of which the eccentric rods are jointed, and by means of which the movement of the valve is varied, in a link motion.
- (kinematics) Any one of the several elementary pieces of a mechanism, such as the fixed frame, or a rod, wheel, mass of confined liquid, etc., by which relative motion of other parts is produced and constrained.
- A sausage that is not a patty.
- Anything doubled and closed like a link of a chain.
- (mathematics) A space comprising one or more disjoint knots.
- (broadcasting) An introductory cue.
- Abbreviation of hyperlink.
- One element of a chain or other connected series.
- (chemistry) A bond of affinity, or a unit of valence between atoms; applied to a unit of chemical force or attraction.
- A connection between places, people, events, things, or ideas.
- (computing) The connection between buses or systems.
- (figurative) An individual person or element in a system
- (in the plural) The windings of a river; the land along a winding stream.
- a unit of length equal to 1/100 of a chain
- a fastener that serves to join or connect
- the means of connection between things linked in series
- a connecting shape
- (computing) an instruction that connects one part of a program or an element on a list to another program or list
- an interconnecting circuit between two or more locations for the purpose of transmitting and receiving data
- the state of being connected
- a channel for communication between groups
- a two-way radio communication system (usually microwave); part of a more extensive telecommunication network
adj
- capable of being moved or conveyed from one place to another
- (of personal property as opposed to real estate) can be moved from place to place (especially carried by hand)
- Changing from one time to another.
- Capable of being moved, lifted, carried, drawn, turned, or conveyed, or in any way made to change place or posture; not fixed or stationary.
noun
verb
noun
- A long, flexible stick, rod, or branch, interwoven with others between upright posts or stakes, in making a kind of hedge or fence.
- A red ochre.
- An instrument consisting of a wooden bar, with a row of upright pegs set in it, used by domestic weavers to keep the warp of a proper width and prevent tangling when it is wound upon the beam of the loom.
- A hedge or fence made with raddles.
- a red iron ore used in dyeing and marking
noun
- The act of passing from place to place or person to person; free diffusion; transmission.
- The movement of the sap in the vessels and tissues of plants.
- Currency; circulating coins; notes, bills, etc., current for coin.
- The act of moving in a circle, or in a course which brings the moving body to the place where its motion began.
- (strictly) The movement of the blood in the circulatory system, by which it is brought into close relations with the cells and tissues of the body; (loosely) the circulatory system.
- the number of a newspaper or a magazine has been sold.
- The extent to which anything circulates or is circulated; the measurement of diffusion
- the spread or transmission of something (as news or money) to a wider group or area
- number of copies of a newspaper or magazine that are sold
- the dissemination of copies of periodicals (as newspapers or magazines)
- movement through a circuit; especially the movement of blood through the heart and blood vessels
- free movement or passage (as of cytoplasm within a cell or sap through a plant)
- (library science) the count of books that are loaned by a library over a specified period
verb
- (transitive) To interweave items.
- (transitive) To beat; to lash; to make stripes on.
- (transitive) To add alcohol, poison, a drug or anything else potentially harmful to (food or drink).
- (transitive) To cover intricately with bands, strips, or the like, so as to resemble lace.
- (transitive, figuratively) To intersperse or diversify with something.
- (transitive, cycling) To interweave the spokes of a bicycle wheel.
- (ergative) To fasten (something) with laces.
- (transitive) To adorn with narrow strips or braids of some decorative material.
- make by braiding or interlacing
- spin, wind, or twist together
- add alcohol to (beverages)
- draw through eyes or holes
- do lacework
noun
- (countable) A cord or ribbon passed through eyelets in a shoe or garment, pulled tight and tied to fasten the shoe or garment firmly.
- A snare or gin, especially one made of interwoven cords; a net.
- (uncountable) A light fabric containing patterns of holes, usually built up from a single thread.
- a delicate decorative fabric woven in an open web of symmetrical patterns
- a cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment)
noun
- Any other item that moves repeatedly back and forth between two positions, possibly transporting something else with it between those points (such as, in chemistry, a molecular shuttle).
- (weaving) A tool used to carry the woof back and forth between the warp threads on a loom.
- Such a transport vehicle; a shuttle bus; a space shuttle.
- The sliding thread holder in a sewing machine, which carries the lower thread through a loop of the upper thread, to make a lock stitch.
- A shuttlecock.
- A shutter, as for a channel for molten metal.
- A transport service (such as a bus or train) that goes back and forth between two or more places.
- public transport that consists of a bus or train or airplane that flies back and forth between two points
- bobbin that passes the weft thread between the warp threads
- badminton equipment consisting of a ball of cork or rubber with a crown of feathers
verb
noun
- a connection (like a clamp or vise) between two things so they move together
- the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes
- a mechanical device that serves to connect the ends of adjacent objects
- (sexuality) An act of sexual intercourse.
- A link between the performance of an action and the location where that action occurs or the method used to perform that action.
- The act of joining together to form a couple.
- (software engineering) The degree of reliance between two or more software modules.
- (electronics) A connection between two electronic circuits such that a signal can pass between them.
- A device that couples two things together.
- (physics) The property of physical systems that they are interacting with each other
verb
noun
- a connection (like a clamp or vise) between two things so they move together
- a pair of draft animals joined by a yoke
- 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
- stable gear that joins two draft animals at the neck so they can work together as a team
- 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.
verb
- 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.
noun
- Something through which another thing passes; a means of conveying or transmitting.
- (communication) A path for conveying electrical or electromagnetic signals, usually distinguished from other parallel paths.
- The natural or man-made deeper course through a reef, bar, bay, or any shallow body of water.
- (biochemistry) An ion channel: pore-forming proteins located in a cell membrane that allow specific ions to pass through.
- (communication) The part that connects a data source to a data sink.
- (electronics) A connection between initiating and terminating nodes of a circuit.
- The navigable part of a river.
- (communication) A single path provided by a transmission medium via spectral or protocol separation, such as by frequency or time-division multiplexing.
- The part of a turbine pump where the pressure is built up.
- A gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column.
- (storage) The portion of a storage medium, such as a track or a band, that is accessible to a given reading or writing station or head.
- (nautical) The wale of a sailing ship which projects beyond the gunwale and to which the shrouds attach via the chains. One of the flat ledges of heavy plank bolted edgewise to the outside of a vessel, to increase the spread of the shrouds and carry them clear of the bulwarks.
- (communication) A single path provided by a transmission medium via physical separation, such as by multipair cable.
- A narrow body of water between two land masses.
- (broadcasting) A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies used for transmitting television.
- A psychic or medium who temporarily takes on the personality of somebody else.
- (electronics) The narrow conducting portion of a MOSFET transistor.
- (Internet, historical) A means of delivering up-to-date Internet content via a push mechanism.
- (construction, mechanical engineering) A structural member with a cross section shaped like a squared-off letter C.
- The hollow bed of running waters; (also) the bed of the sea or other body of water.
- (business, marketing) A distribution channel.
- (Internet) A particular area for conversations on an IRC or similar network, analogous to a chat room and often dedicated to a specific topic.
- (broadcasting) A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies, usually in conjunction with a predetermined letter, number, or codeword, and allocated by international agreement.
- a long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record)
- a passage for water (or other fluids) to flow through
- (often plural) a means of communication or access
- a path over which electrical signals can pass
- a way of selling a company's product either directly or via distributors
- a deep and relatively narrow body of water (as in a river or a harbor or a strait linking two larger bodies) that allows the best passage for vessels
- a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance
- a television station and its programs
verb
- (transitive) To follow as a model, especially in a performance.
- (transitive, of a spirit, as of a dead person) To serve as a medium for.
- (transitive) To direct or guide along a desired course.
- (transitive) To make or cut a channel or groove in.
- transmit or serve as the medium for transmission
- direct the flow of
- send from one person or place to another
noun
- the act of joining things in such a way that motion is possible
- expressing in coherent verbal form
- the shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made
- the aspect of pronunciation that involves bringing articulatory organs together so as to shape the sounds of speech
- (anatomy) the point of connection between two bones or elements of a skeleton (especially if it allows motion)
- (music, uncountable) The manner in which a note is attacked.
- (uncountable) The quality, clarity, or sharpness of speech; the movement within the mouth that allows for those things.
- (phonetics) The mechanism by which a sound is formed in the vocal tract.
- (countable or uncountable) A joint or the collection of joints at which something is articulated, or hinged, for bending.
- (accounting) The interrelation and congruence of the flow of data between financial statements of an entity, especially between the income statement and balance sheet.
- (anatomy) Such a joint in an animalian body, as for example between bones or between exoskeleton segments.
- (education) The induction of a pupil into a new school or college.
- (countable) A manner or method by which elements of a system are connected.
noun
- a series of things depending on each other as if linked together
- a unit of length
- (chemistry) a series of linked atoms (generally in an organic molecule)
- anything that acts as a restraint
- a series of (usually metal) rings or links fitted into one another to make a flexible ligament
- a necklace made by stringing objects together
- a linked or connected series of objects
- (business) a number of similar establishments (stores or restaurants or banks or hotels or theaters) under one ownership
- a series of hills or mountains
- A livery collar, a chain of office.
- (algebraic topology, homological algebra, more generally) An element of a group (or module) in a chain complex.
- A unit of length, exactly equal to 22 yards, which is 4 rods or 100 links, and approximately equal to 20.12 metres; the length of a Gunter's surveying chain; the length of a cricket pitch.
- That which confines, fetters, or secures; a bond.
- A series of stores or businesses with the same brand name.
- A series of interconnected things.
- (weaving) The warp threads of a web.
- (British) A sequence of linked house purchases, each of which is dependent on the preceding and succeeding purchase (said to be "broken" if a buyer or seller pulls out).
- (surveying) A series of interconnected links of known length, used as a measuring device.
- A series of interconnected rings or links usually made of metal.
- (surveying) A long measuring tape.
- (mathematics, set theory, order theory) A totally ordered set, especially a totally ordered subset of a poset.
- (nautical, in the plural) Iron links bolted to the side of a vessel to bold the dead-eyes connected with the shrouds; also, the channels.
- (algebraic topology, originally) A formal sum of cells in a CW complex of a certain dimension k (in which case the formal sums are called k'''-chains); a formal sum of simplices or cubes of a certain dimension in a simplical complex or cubical complex (respectively).
- (organic chemistry, physical chemistry) A number of atoms in a series, which combine to form a molecule.
verb
- fasten or secure with chains
- connect or arrange into a chain by linking
- (computing) To be chained to another data item.
- (transitive, computing, rare, associated with Acorn Computers) To load and automatically run (a program).
- (intransitive) To link multiple items together.
- (figurative) To connect as if with a chain, due to dependence, addiction, or other feelings
- (computing) To relate data items with a chain of pointers.
- (transitive) To measure a distance using a 66-foot long chain, as in land surveying.
- (figurative) To obligate.
- (transitive) To secure someone with fetters.
- (transitive) To fasten something with a chain.
- (transitive) To obstruct the mouth of a river etc with a chain.
noun
- a series of things depending on each other as if linked together
- the state of being linked together as in a chain; union in a linked series
- the act of linking together as in a series or chain
- the linking together of a consecutive series of symbols or events or ideas etc
- (programming) A character string formed by joining multiple character strings.
- (uncountable) The application of these series of links.
- (programming) The operation of joining multiple character strings.
- (countable) A series of links united; a series or order of things depending on each other, as if linked together; a chain, a succession.
noun
- The act of passing from place to place or person to person; free diffusion; transmission.
- The movement of the sap in the vessels and tissues of plants.
- Currency; circulating coins; notes, bills, etc., current for coin.
- The act of moving in a circle, or in a course which brings the moving body to the place where its motion began.
- (strictly) The movement of the blood in the circulatory system, by which it is brought into close relations with the cells and tissues of the body; (loosely) the circulatory system.
- the number of a newspaper or a magazine has been sold.
- The extent to which anything circulates or is circulated; the measurement of diffusion
- the spread or transmission of something (as news or money) to a wider group or area
- number of copies of a newspaper or magazine that are sold
- the dissemination of copies of periodicals (as newspapers or magazines)
- movement through a circuit; especially the movement of blood through the heart and blood vessels
- free movement or passage (as of cytoplasm within a cell or sap through a plant)
- (library science) the count of books that are loaned by a library over a specified period
verb
- circulate, move around
- sing loudly and without inhibition
- sing the parts of (a round) in succession
- praise or celebrate in song
- speak or recite rapidly or in a rolling voice
- cause to move round and round
- angle with a hook and line drawn through the water
- To move (something, especially a round object) by, or as if by, rolling; to bowl, to roll, to trundle.
- To say (something) lightly and quickly, or in a deep, resounding voice.
- (fishing) To fish using a running fishing line.
- To speak lightly and quickly, or in a deep, resounding voice.
- (fishing) To fish in (a place) using a running fishing line (that is, a line with a hook on the end which is drawn along the water surface, possibly a line which would originally have been spooled on to a troll (etymology 2, noun etymology 2 sense 8.1)).
- (by extension, colloquial) To prank, tease, or mess with someone in a lighthearted way.
- (figurative, originally Internet slang) To post irrelevant or inflammatory statements in an online discussion in an attempt to start a heated argument or to derail a conversation, either for one's personal entertainment or as part of an organized political campaign.
- (figurative) To attract or draw out (someone or something); to allure, to elicit, to entice, to lure.
- (by extension) To persistently harass someone over the Internet.
- To roll; also, to turn round and round; to rotate, to spin, to whirl.
- To move or walk at a leisurely pace; to ramble, to saunter, to stroll.
- (specifically, slang) Chiefly of a man: synonym of cruise (“to stroll about to find a (male) sexual partner”).
- (fishing, Scotland, US) To fish using a line and bait or lures trailed behind a boat similarly to trawling.
noun
- a fisherman's lure that is used in trolling
- a partsong in which voices follow each other; one voice starts and others join in one after another until all are singing different parts of the song at the same time
- angling by drawing a baited line through the water
- (Scandinavian folklore) a supernatural creature (either a dwarf or a giant) that is supposed to live in caves or in the mountains
- (originally Scandinavian mythology, now also European folklore and fantasy) a giant supernatural being, especially a grotesque humanoid creature living in caves or hills or under bridges.
- (figurative, originally Internet slang) An inflammatory or insincere statement posted in an attempt to lure others into combative argument (a flame war), originally a way for regulars (long-time users) to poke light-hearted fun at new posters (especially in Usenet newsgroups) and promote in-group cohesion ("trolling for newbies").
- A fishing line, bait, or lure used to fish in these ways.
- (informal, Michigan) A Michigander who lives on the mainland, i.e. not a resident of the Upper Peninsula, so named due to living south of the Mackinaw Bridge.
- (by extension, originally Internet slang) A person who makes or posts inflammatory or insincere statements in an attempt to lure others into combative argument for purposes of personal entertainment or to manipulate their perception, especially in an online community or discussion.
- (derogatory, slang) An ugly or unpleasant person.
- (music) A song the parts of which are sung in succession; a catch, a round.
- An act of fishing by using a running fishing line, or by trailing a line with bait or lures behind a boat.
- (astronomy, meteorology) An optical ejection from the top of the electrically active core region of a thunderstorm that is red in colour and seems to occur after tendrils of vigorous sprites extend downward towards cloudtops.
- (by extension, derogatory, informal) A company, person, etc., that owns and legally enforces copyrights, patents, trademarks, or other intellectual property rights in an aggressive and opportunistic manner, often with no intention of commercially exploiting the subjects of the rights.
- An act of moving round; a repetition, a routine.
- (by extension, politics) A person who sows discord, or spreads misinformation or propaganda, in order to promote an agenda as part of an organized political campaign.
verb
- circulate or distribute or equip with
- prepare and issue for public distribution or sale
- come out of
- make out and issue
- bring out an official document (such as a warrant)
- (intransitive) To turn out in a certain way, to result in.
- (law) To come to a point in fact or law on which the parties join issue.
- (transitive) To deliver for use.
- (transitive) To deliver by authority.
- (intransitive) To rush out, to sally forth.
- (transitive) To send out; to put into circulation.
- (intransitive) To extend into, to open onto.
- (intransitive) To flow out, to proceed from, to come out or from.
noun
- the immediate descendants of a person
- some situation or event that is thought about
- a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon
- the becoming visible
- supplies (as food or clothing or ammunition) issued by the government
- the act of providing an item for general use or for official purposes (usually in quantity)
- one of a series published periodically
- an opening that permits escape or release
- an important question that is in dispute and must be settled
- the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property
- the act of issuing printed materials
- The means or opportunity by which something flows or comes out, particularly:
- Any question or situation to be resolved, particularly:
- (historical medicine) A small incision, tear, or artificial ulcer, used to drain fluid and usually held open with a pea or other small object.
- The end result of an event or events, any result or outcome, particularly:
- The loan of a book etc. from a library to a patron; all such loans by a given library during a given period.
- The production or distribution of something for general use.
- (figuratively, originally World War I military slang, usually with definite article) The entire set of something; all of something.
- (law) A point of law or fact in dispute or question in a legal action presented for resolution by the court.
- (figuratively) Anything in dispute, an area of disagreement whose resolution is being debated or decided.
- (finance) Any financial instrument issued by a company.
- (figuratively) Progeny: all one's lineal descendants.
- (finance) The action or an instance of a company selling bonds, stock, or other securities.
- (medicine) The outflow of a bodily fluid, particularly (now rare) in abnormal amounts.
- (historical or rare law) Income derived from fines levied by a court or law-enforcement officer; the fines themselves.
- The action or an instance of sending something out, particularly:
- The distribution of something (particularly rations or standardized provisions) to someone or some group.
- (publishing) A single edition of a newspaper or other periodical publication.
- The entire set of some item printed and disseminated during a certain period, particularly (publishing) a single printing of a particular edition of a work when contrasted with other print runs.
- (now usually historical or law) Offspring: one's natural child or children.
- (US, originally psychology, usually in the plural) A psychological or emotional difficulty, (now informal, figurative and usually euphemistic) any problem or concern considered as a vague and intractable difficulty.
verb
- circulate or distribute or equip with
- give something useful or necessary to
- state or say further
- give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance
- (transitive) To serve instead of; to take the place of.
- (transitive) To fill up, or keep full.
- (intransitive) To act as a substitute.
- (transitive) To provide (something), to make (something) available for use.
- (transitive) To furnish or equip with.
- (transitive) To compensate for, or make up a deficiency of.
- (transitive) To fill temporarily; to serve as substitute for another in, as a vacant place or office; to occupy; to have possession of.
noun
- the activity of supplying or providing something
- offering goods and services for sale
- an amount of something available for use
- (countable) An amount of something supplied.
- (chiefly in the plural) An amount of money provided, as by Parliament or Congress, to meet the annual national expenditures.
- (in the plural) Provisions.
- (economics) The market force that causes sellers to be both willing and able to sell a good or service, as measured by the amount of that good or service that is currently available to be bought at any given price point; the amount itself.
- Somebody, such as a teacher or clergyman, who temporarily fills the place of another; a substitute.
- (uncountable) The act of supplying.
adv
verb
- To pass around, to circulate.
- (transitive) To travel around (something) physically.
- To rotate, to move in a circle.
- (intransitive) To be sufficient to be shared, to be enough for everyone.
- To go to another person's home or a public event.
- (transitive, figurative) To circulate, to move aimlessly.
- To live behaving in a certain way, doing something regularly (followed by specification).
- To physically swirl or rotate.
- (transitive, figurative) To circumvent, evade or outmanoeuvre.
verb
noun
verb
- spread or diffuse through
- cause to become widely known
- move outward
- (intransitive) To be spread over or through as in air, water, or other matter, especially by fluid motion or passive means.
- (transitive) To spread (something) over or through as in air, water, or other matter, especially by fluid motion or passive means.
adj
verb
- spread or diffuse through
- suffuse with color
- fill, soak, or imbue totally
- (transitive) To wet or stain an object completely with some physical quality.
- (transitive) To instill or inspire (someone) with a certain quality, feeling, or idea.
- In general, to act in a way which results in an object becoming completely permeated or impregnated by some quality.
verb
- spread or diffuse through
- enter a group or organization in order to spy on the members
- come to understand
- insert the penis into the vagina or anus of
- make one's way deeper into or through
- pass into or through, often by overcoming resistance
- become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions
- (chess) To move a piece past the defending pieces of one's opponent.
- To enter into; to make way into the interior of; to pierce.
- To insert the penis into an orifice, such as a vagina, mouth, or anus.
- To infiltrate an enemy to gather intelligence.
- To affect profoundly through the senses or feelings; to move deeply.
- (figuratively) To achieve understanding of, despite some obstacle; to comprehend; to understand.
verb
- spread or diffuse through
- pass through
- penetrate mutually or be interlocked
- (transitive) To enter and spread through; to pervade.
- (transitive) To pass through the pores or interstices of; to penetrate and pass through without causing rupture or displacement; applied especially to fluids which pass through substances of loose texture
noun
verb
- spread or diffuse through
- set a difficult problem or riddle
- separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff
- speak in riddles
- explain a riddle
- pierce with many holes
- To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.
- To put something through a riddle or sieve; to sieve; to sift.
- (transitive) To solve, answer, or explicate a riddle or question.
- To fill with holes like a riddle.
- (figuratively) To fill or spread throughout; to pervade (with something destructive or weakening).
noun
- a difficult problem
- a coarse sieve (as for gravel)
- A board with a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.
- (religious) One of the pair of curtains enclosing an altar on the north and south.
- A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from sand.
- A verbal puzzle, mystery, or other problem of an intellectual nature.
- An ancient verbal, poetic, or literary form, in which, rather than a rhyme scheme, there are parallel opposing expressions with a hidden meaning.
verb
- (transitive, intransitive) To distribute throughout.
- (physics, transitive, intransitive) To separate rays of light, etc., according to wavelength; to refract.
- (transitive, intransitive) To disseminate.
- (transitive, intransitive) To break up and disappear; to dissipate.
- (transitive, intransitive) To scatter in different directions.
- cause to become widely known
- cause to separate
- to cause to separate and go in different directions
- move away from each other
- separate (light) into spectral rays
- distribute loosely
adj
verb
adj
noun
- A cineplex.
- A kind of stereoscopic mapmaking instrument.
- A building or a place where several activities occur in multiple units concurrently or different times.
- (television) A grouping of program services as interleaved data packets for broadcast over a network or modulated multiplexed medium.
- (juggling) A throwing motion where more than one ball is thrown with one hand at the same time.
- communicates two or more signals over a common channel
- a movie theater that has several different auditoriums in the same building
verb
- To make something move through something else.
- Synonym of infiltrate.
- To undergo; to experience.
- To go through, to travel through, to transit or lie across a place or from one place to another.
- cause to move through
- pass through an enemy line; in a military conflict
- make a passage or journey from one place to another
noun
verb
- (transitive) To distribute (a thing).
- (transitive) To put (food) on to a dish ready for eating.
- (transitive, architecture) To hollow out, as a gutter in stone or wood.
- (transitive, figuratively) To distribute or deliver something.
- administer or bestow, as in small portions
- provide (usually but not necessarily food)
verb
- To join two moving items.
- (intransitive, slang, vulgar) In male homosexual sex, to engage in docking, the inserting of the tip of one participant's penis into the foreskin of the other participant.
- (intransitive) To land at a harbour.
- (transitive) To cut off, bar, or destroy.
- (transitive, cooking) To pierce holes, as pricking dough with a fork, to prevent excessive rising in the oven.
- (transitive) To reduce (wages); to deduct from (someone).
- (astronautics) To move a spaceship into its dock/berth under its own power.
- (transitive) To clip or cut off a section of an animal's tail; to practise a caudectomy.
- (transitive) To place (an electronic device) in its dock.
- (transitive, graphical user interface) To drag a user interface element (such as a toolbar) to a position on screen where it snaps into place.
- (transitive, informal) To reduce the wages of (a person).
- maneuver into a dock
- remove or shorten the tail of an animal
- deprive someone of benefits, as a penalty
- deduct from someone's wages
- come into dock
noun
- A burdock plant, or the leaves of that plant.
- (UK, nautical) The body of water next to and around a pier.
- (graphical user interface) A toolbar that provides the user with a way of launching applications by their icons, and switching between running applications.
- Any of the genus Rumex of coarse weedy plants with small green flowers related to buckwheat, especially bitter dock (Rumex obtusifolius), and used as potherbs and in folk medicine, especially in curing nettle rash.
- (theater) Ellipsis of scene-dock.
- The area of arrival and departure of a train in a railway station.
- A leather case used to cover the clipped or cut tail of a horse.
- (US, nautical) A fixed structure attached to shore to which a vessel is secured when in port; usually for loading and unloading.
- An act or instance of docking; joining two things together.
- (electronics) A device designed as a base for holding a connected portable appliance for providing the necessary electrical charge for its autonomy, or as a hardware extension for additional capabilities.
- (law) Part of a courtroom where the accused sits.
- A section of a hotel or restaurant.
- The fleshy root of an animal's tail; specifically after clipping or cutting.
- any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine
- an enclosure in a court of law where the defendant sits during the trial
- a short or shortened tail of certain animals
- a platform built out from the shore into the water and supported by piles; provides access to ships and boats
- landing in a harbor next to a pier where ships are loaded and unloaded or repaired; may have gates to let water in or out
- the solid bony part of the tail of an animal as distinguished from the hair
- a platform where trucks or trains can be loaded or unloaded
verb
- (transitive) To distribute.
- (bridge, transitive) To end (a round) by having passes as the first four bids.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pass, out.
- (of soldiers, police, fire-fighters, etc.) To graduate, usually marked by a ceremony at the end of training.
- (by extension) To become proficient in a particular job or task.
- (India) To graduate from university.
- (intransitive) To faint; to become unconscious.
- (slang) To fall asleep irrespective of wilful action, as a result of the consumption of alcohol or other drugs or another form of physiological exhaustion.
- pass out from weakness, physical or emotional distress due to a loss of blood supply to the brain
- give to several people
- lose consciousness due to a sudden trauma, for example
verb
adj
verb
adj
- Referring back to itself, so as to prevent computation or comprehension; infinitely recursive.
- In the shape of, or moving in, a circle.
- Distributed to a large number of persons.
- Circuitous or roundabout.
- Of or relating to a circle.
- having the shape or form of a circle
- describing a circle; moving in a circle
noun
verb
- To be diffused; to spread.
- To exhaust, to wear out.
- (mining) To break ground; to continue working.
- To bestow; to employ; often with on or upon.
- (ambitransitive) To pay out (money).
- (intransitive) To waste or wear away; to be consumed.
- To consume, to use up (time).
- spend completely
- pay out
- use up a period of time in a specific way
noun
verb
- to spread or disseminate
- to move from person to person, as at a party
- (intransitive) to move in circles or through a circuit
- (mathematics) Of decimals: to repeat.
- (transitive) to cause (a person or thing) to move in circles or through a circuit
- to become widely known
- cause to become widely known
- cause to be distributed
- cause to move in a circuit or system
- move through a space, circuit or system, returning to the starting point
- become widely known and passed on
- move around freely from person to person or from place to place
verb
- (transitive) To place one thing neatly inside another, and both inside yet another (and so on).
- (intransitive) To successively neatly fit inside another.
- (intransitive) To settle into a home.
- (intransitive) To hunt for birds' nests or their contents (usually "go nesting").
- (intransitive, of animals) To build or settle into a nest.
- (transitive) To place in, or as if in, a nest.
- move or arrange oneself in a comfortable and cozy position
- inhabit a nest, usually after building
- fit together or fit inside
- gather nests
noun
- (card games) A fixed number of cards in some bidding games awarded to the highest bidder allowing him to exchange any or all with cards in his hand.
- A collection of boxes, cases, or the like, of graduated size, each put within the one next larger.
- A compact group of pulleys, gears, springs, etc., working together or collectively.
- A circular bed of pasta, rice, etc. to be topped or filled with other foods.
- (computing) A structure consisting of nested structures, such as nested loops or nested subroutine calls.
- A structure built by a bird as a place to incubate eggs and rear young.
- A retreat, or place of habitual resort.
- (military) A fortified position for a weapon.
- (geology) An aggregated mass of any ore or mineral, in an isolated state, within a rock.
- A place used by a monotreme, fish, amphibian or insect, for depositing eggs and hatching young.
- A snug, comfortable, or cosy residence or job situation.
- (vulgar, slang, now US) The pubic hair near a vulva or a vulva itself.
- A home that a child or young adult shares with a parent or guardian.
- A hideout for bad people to frequent or haunt; a den.
- a structure in which animals lay eggs or give birth to their young
- a cosy or secluded retreat
- a kind of gun emplacement
- a gang of people (criminals or spies or terrorists) assembled in one locality
- furniture pieces made to fit close together
verb
- (transitive) To connect (two or more things).
- (transitive, Internet) To post a hyperlink to.
- (Scotland, intransitive) To skip or trip along smartly; to go quickly.
- (transitive) To demonstrate a correlation between (two things).
- (software compilation) To combine objects generated by a compiler into a single executable.
- (transitive, Internet) To supply (someone) with a hyperlink; to direct by means of a link.
- (intransitive, Internet, of a web page) To contain a hyperlink to another page.
- (transitive, slang) To meet with (someone).
- make a logical or causal connection
- be or become joined or united or linked
- link with or as with a yoke
- connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces
noun
- (Sussex) A thin wild bank of land splitting two cultivated patches and often linking two hills.
- (surveying) The length of one joint of Gunter's chain, being the hundredth part of it, or 7.92 inches, the chain being 66 feet in length.
- (engineering) Any intermediate rod or piece for transmitting force or motion, especially a short connecting rod with a bearing at each end; specifically (in steam engines) the slotted bar, or connecting piece, to the opposite ends of which the eccentric rods are jointed, and by means of which the movement of the valve is varied, in a link motion.
- (kinematics) Any one of the several elementary pieces of a mechanism, such as the fixed frame, or a rod, wheel, mass of confined liquid, etc., by which relative motion of other parts is produced and constrained.
- A sausage that is not a patty.
- Anything doubled and closed like a link of a chain.
- (mathematics) A space comprising one or more disjoint knots.
- (broadcasting) An introductory cue.
- Abbreviation of hyperlink.
- One element of a chain or other connected series.
- (chemistry) A bond of affinity, or a unit of valence between atoms; applied to a unit of chemical force or attraction.
- A connection between places, people, events, things, or ideas.
- (computing) The connection between buses or systems.
- (figurative) An individual person or element in a system
- (in the plural) The windings of a river; the land along a winding stream.
- a unit of length equal to 1/100 of a chain
- a fastener that serves to join or connect
- the means of connection between things linked in series
- a connecting shape
- (computing) an instruction that connects one part of a program or an element on a list to another program or list
- an interconnecting circuit between two or more locations for the purpose of transmitting and receiving data
- the state of being connected
- a channel for communication between groups
- a two-way radio communication system (usually microwave); part of a more extensive telecommunication network
verb
noun
- A long, flexible stick, rod, or branch, interwoven with others between upright posts or stakes, in making a kind of hedge or fence.
- A red ochre.
- An instrument consisting of a wooden bar, with a row of upright pegs set in it, used by domestic weavers to keep the warp of a proper width and prevent tangling when it is wound upon the beam of the loom.
- A hedge or fence made with raddles.
- a red iron ore used in dyeing and marking
verb
- (transitive) To interweave items.
- (transitive) To beat; to lash; to make stripes on.
- (transitive) To add alcohol, poison, a drug or anything else potentially harmful to (food or drink).
- (transitive) To cover intricately with bands, strips, or the like, so as to resemble lace.
- (transitive, figuratively) To intersperse or diversify with something.
- (transitive, cycling) To interweave the spokes of a bicycle wheel.
- (ergative) To fasten (something) with laces.
- (transitive) To adorn with narrow strips or braids of some decorative material.
- make by braiding or interlacing
- spin, wind, or twist together
- add alcohol to (beverages)
- draw through eyes or holes
- do lacework
noun
- (countable) A cord or ribbon passed through eyelets in a shoe or garment, pulled tight and tied to fasten the shoe or garment firmly.
- A snare or gin, especially one made of interwoven cords; a net.
- (uncountable) A light fabric containing patterns of holes, usually built up from a single thread.
- a delicate decorative fabric woven in an open web of symmetrical patterns
- a cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment)
adj
- Passing from one side of something to the other.
- No longer interested; wearied or turned off by experience.
- Without a future; done for.
- (soccer) In possession of the ball beyond the last line of defence but not necessarily the goalkeeper; through on goal.
- Proceeding from origin to destination without the need to change transport vehicle.
- (chiefly US) Finished; complete.
- Along the course of a task etc.; used in expressions of progress towards the end.
- (chiefly UK, Commonwealth, Ireland, rare in Canada) (usually followed by "to") Able to progress (to the next stage or a higher level) following success in an exam, sports match, etc.
- (of a route or journey etc.) continuing without requiring stops or changes
- having finished or arrived at completion
adv
- So as to overcome an obstacle and pass beyond it; past.
- From beginning to end, or from the present position to the end.
- So as to pass a stage in a process and proceed to the next stage or level.
- Throughout something; all the way across or into.
- By way of the interior.
- By way of an opening.
- (mostly in the phrase 'get through') So as to connect or reach.
- in diameter
- over the whole distance
- to completion
- from beginning to end
- throughout the entire extent
prep
- By means of.
- Throughout or across the extent of.
- Throughout the duration of.
- In consequence of; as a result of.
- To or beyond the other side of (an obstacle); past.
- (Canada, US) To (or up to) and including, with all intermediate values; to... inclusive; until the end of.
- So as to progress within (something) or towards the end or limit of (something).
- By way of (an intermediary, agent, medium, etc.).
- (in phrases such as 'go through', 'get through' etc.) Indicating that something has been consumed or used up.
- So as to enter (something), pass within or across, and then leave.
- Amidst or surrounded by (while moving).
- Along the course of; used in expressions of progress towards the end of something.
- By way of (a physical passage).
- From one side of (an opening) to the other.
adj
- capable of being moved or conveyed from one place to another
- (of personal property as opposed to real estate) can be moved from place to place (especially carried by hand)
- Changing from one time to another.
- Capable of being moved, lifted, carried, drawn, turned, or conveyed, or in any way made to change place or posture; not fixed or stationary.