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adj
adj
- Loose; not tight or taut.
- (linguistics) (of a vowel) Produced with relatively little constriction of the vocal tract.
- Lenient and allowing for deviation; not strict.
- Lacking care; neglectful, negligent.
- (mathematics) Describing an associative monoidal functor.
- emptying easily or excessively
- pronounced with muscles of the tongue and jaw relatively relaxed (e.g., the vowel sound in ‘bet’)
- lacking in rigor or strictness
- lacking in firmness or tension; not taut
noun
adj
adj
- not fitting closely; hanging loosely
- (music) Of or relating to a British music genre of the 1980s and 1990s, influenced by Madchester and psychedelia and associated with baggy clothing.
- Of clothing, very loose-fitting, so as to hang away from the body.
- (figurative) Of writing, etc.: overwrought; flabby; having too much padding.
noun
adj
- not fitting closely; hanging loosely
- lacking neatness or order
- excessively or abnormally emotional
- wet or smeared with a spilled liquid or moist material
- marked by great carelessness
- (of soil) soft and watery
- Very wet; covered in or composed of slop.
- Messy; not neat, elegant, or careful.
- Imprecise or loose.
verb
- become loose or looser or less tight
- make loose or looser
- grant freedom to; free from confinement
- turn loose or free from restraint
- (archery) To shoot (an arrow).
- Misspelling of lose.
- (transitive) To let loose, to free from restraints.
- (intransitive) Of a grip or hold, to let go.
- (transitive) To unfasten, to loosen.
- (transitive) To make less tight, to loosen.
adj
- Not fitting closely.
- Not fixed in place tightly or firmly.
- not tight; not closely constrained or constricted or constricting
- having escaped, especially from confinement
- not tense or taut
- emptying easily or excessively
- not officially recognized or controlled
- casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior
- not compact or dense in structure or arrangement
- lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility
- not affixed
- (of a ball in sport) not in the possession or control of any player
- (of textures) full of small openings or gaps
- not carefully arranged in a package
- not literal
- Relaxed.
- Not precise or exact; vague; indeterminate.
- (not comparable, sports) Not being in the possession of any competing team during a game.
- Indiscreet.
- Not held or packaged together.
- (of volumes of materials) Measured loosely stacked or disorganized (such as of firewood).
- Not under control.
- Not compact.
- (US, slang, motor racing, of a stock car) Having oversteer.
adv
intj
noun
verb
- become loose or looser or less tight
- cause to become loose
- make loose or looser
- (transitive) To make loose.
- (intransitive) To become loose.
- make less dense
- make less severe or strict
- become less severe or strict
- disentangle and raise the fibers of
- (transitive) To disengage (a device that restrains).
- (transitive) To free from restraint; to set at liberty.
- (transitive) To relieve (the bowels) from constipation; to promote defecation.
- (intransitive) To become unfastened or undone.
verb
- become loose or looser or less tight
- (intransitive) To become loose.
- make less severe or strict
- become less tense, less formal, or less restrained, and assume a friendlier manner
- make less taut
- become less severe or strict
- make less active or fast
- cause to feel relaxed
- become less tense, rest, or take one's ease
- (transitive) To make something less severe or tense.
- (intransitive, of codes and regulations) To become more lenient.
- (intransitive) To rest and become relieved of stress.
- (transitive) To make something loose.
- (transitive) To make something (such as codes and regulations) more lenient.
- (intransitive) To become less severe or tense.
- (transitive) To relieve (someone or someone's mind) of stress; to enable to rest; to calm down.
verb
- cause to become loose
- cancel, annul, or reverse an action or its effect
- cause the ruin or downfall of
- deprive of certain characteristics
- remove the outer cover or wrapping of
- (transitive) To unfasten.
- To reverse the effects of an action.
- (transitive, colloquial) To unfasten the clothing of (a person).
- (figuratively) To impoverish or ruin, as in reputation; to cause the downfall of.
adj
noun
verb
- cause to become loose
- undo the ties of
- (programming, transitive) In the Perl programming language, to undo the process of tying, so that a variable uses default instead of custom functionality.
- To resolve; to unfold; to clear.
- (transitive) To free from fastening or from restraint; to let loose; to unbind.
- (transitive) To loosen, as something interlaced or knotted; to disengage the parts of.
- (intransitive) To become untied or loosed.
adj
adv
adv
verb
- To become loose or come off.
- To free (someone or something) from a constraint; (figuratively) to release (something which has been suppressed, such as emotions or objectionable things).
- (also figuratively) To free from a constraint.
- (also figuratively) To loosen or undo (something that entangles, fastens, holds, or interlocks).
- (also figuratively) To relax or slacken (something that clasps or grips, such as the arms or hands).
- grant freedom to; free from confinement
- loosen the ties of
verb
- become looser or slack
- become slow or slower
- make slack as by lessening tension or firmness
- make less active or fast
- (intransitive) To gradually decrease in intensity or tautness; to become slack; to lag.
- (transitive) To make slack, less taut, or less intense.
- To deprive of cohesion by combining chemically with water; to slake.
verb
- be too tight; rub or press
- become stultified, suppressed, or stifled
- check or slow down the action or effect of
- reduce the air supply
- pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
- wring the neck of
- constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing
- become or cause to become obstructed
- cause to retch or choke
- suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of
- fail to perform adequately due to tension or agitation
- impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of
- breathe with great difficulty, as when experiencing a strong emotion
- struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake
- (transitive) To use the choke valve of (a vehicle) to adjust the air/fuel mixture in the engine.
- (transitive) To say (something) with one’s throat constricted (due to emotion, for example).
- (intransitive) To have a feeling of strangulation in one's throat as a result of passion or strong emotion.
- (transitive) To obstruct (a passage, etc.) by filling it up or clogging it.
- (golf, baseball, transitive) To hold the club or bat lower on the shaft in order to shorten one's swing.
- (transitive) To give (someone) a feeling of strangulation as a result of passion or strong emotion.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To perform badly at a crucial stage of a competition, especially when one appears to be clearly winning.
- (transitive) To prevent (someone) from breathing or talking by strangling or filling the windpipe.
- (intransitive, fluid mechanics, of a duct) To reach a condition of maximum flowrate, due to the flow at the narrowest point of the duct becoming sonic (Ma = 1).
- (transitive) To check or stop (an utterance or voice) as if by choking.
- To make or install a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun.
- (intransitive) To be checked or stopped, as if by choking
- (transitive) To move one's fingers very close to the tip of a pencil, brush or other art tool.
- (transitive) To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to kill (a plant by robbing it of nutrients); to extinguish (fire by robbing it of oxygen).
- (intransitive) To be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe (for instance food or other objects that go down the wrong way, or fumes or particles in the air that cause the throat to constrict).
noun
- a coil of low resistance and high inductance used in electrical circuits to pass direct current and attenuate alternating current
- a valve that controls the flow of air into the carburetor of a gasoline engine
- A partial or complete blockage (of boulders, mud, etc.) in a cave passage.
- (electronics) A choking coil.
- A major mistake at a crucial stage of a competition because one is nervous, especially when one is winning.
- (sports) In wrestling, karate (etc.), a type of hold that can result in strangulation.
- The mass of immature florets in the centre of the bud of an artichoke.
- A constriction at the muzzle end of a shotgun barrel which affects the spread of the shot.
- A control on a carburetor to adjust the air/fuel mixture when the engine is cold.
verb
- be too tight; rub or press
- cause annoyance in
- worry unnecessarily or excessively
- provide (a musical instrument) with frets
- become or make sore by or as if by rubbing
- carve a pattern into
- gnaw into; make resentful or angry
- wear away or erode
- cause friction
- remove soil or rock
- be agitated or irritated
- decorate with an interlaced design
- (transitive) To make rough, to agitate or disturb; to cause to ripple.
- (transitive, music) To press down the string behind a fret.
- (transitive) To decorate or ornament, especially with an interlaced or interwoven pattern, or (architecture) with carving or relief (raised) work.
- (transitive, music) # To fit frets on to (a musical instrument).
- (intransitive) To be anxious, to worry.
- (transitive) To cut through with a fretsaw, to create fretwork.
- (intransitive) To be agitated; to rankle; to be in violent commotion.
- (transitive) To form a pattern on; to variegate.
- (transitive) In the form fret out: to squander, to waste.
- (ambitransitive) To gnaw; to consume, to eat away.
- (intransitive, brewing, wine) To have secondary fermentation (fermentation occurring after the conversion of sugar to alcohol in beers and wine) take place.
- (ambitransitive) To be chafed or irritated; to be angry or vexed; to utter peevish expressions through irritation or worry.
- (transitive) To chafe or irritate; to worry.
- To bind, to tie, originally with a loop or ring.
- (ambitransitive) To mine by agitating or eating away at (ore in the bank of a river).
- (intransitive) To be worn away; to chafe; to fray.
noun
- an ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines (often in relief)
- agitation resulting from active worry
- a spot that has been worn away by abrasion or erosion
- a small bar of metal across the fingerboard of a musical instrument; when the string is stopped by a finger at the metal bar it will produce a note of the desired pitch
- Agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or some other cause; a rippling on the surface of water.
- Agitation of the mind marked by complaint and impatience; disturbance of temper; irritation.
- (rare) A channel or passage created by the sea.
- (Northumbria) A fog or mist at sea, or coming inland from the sea.
- (mining, in the plural) The worn sides of riverbanks, where ores or stones containing them accumulate after being washed down from higher ground, which thus indicate to miners the locality of veins of ore.
- (music) One of the pieces of metal, plastic or wood across the neck of a guitar or other string instrument that marks where a finger should be positioned to depress a string as it is played.
- A channel, a strait; a fretum.
- (heraldry) A saltire interlaced with a mascle.
- An ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines, often in relief.
- Herpes; tetter (“any of various pustular skin conditions”).
verb
- be too tight; rub or press
- make jokes or quips
- make an unsuccessful effort to vomit; strain to vomit
- tie a gag around someone's mouth in order to silence them
- cause to retch or choke
- prevent from speaking out
- struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake
- (transitive, LGBTQ slang) To astonish (someone); to leave speechless.
- (intransitive) To experience the vomiting reflex.
- (ambitransitive) To choke; to retch.
- (transitive, figuratively) To restrain someone's speech without using physical means.
- (transitive) To pry or hold open by means of a gag.
- (transitive) To cause to heave with nausea.
- (transitive) To restrain someone's speech by blocking his or her mouth.
noun
- a humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter
- restraint put into a person's mouth to prevent speaking or shouting
- A device to restrain speech, such as a rag in the mouth secured with tape or a rubber ball threaded onto a cord or strap.
- A joke or other mischievous prank.
- (LGBTQ slang) A shocking or surprising thing.
- A convulsion of the upper digestive tract.
- (law) An order or rule forbidding discussion of a case or subject.
- (figurative) Any suppression of freedom of speech.
- Mycteroperca microlepis, a species of grouper.
- (film) a device or trick used to create a practical effect; a gimmick
adj
noun
- the quality of being loose (not taut)
- dust consisting of a mixture of small coal fragments and coal dust and dirt that sifts out when coal is passed over a sieve
- a stretch of water without current or movement
- a noticeable deterioration in performance or quality
- a cord or rope or cable that is hanging loosely
- a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot
- (rail transport) A temporary speed restriction where track maintenance or engineering work is being carried out at a particular place.
- (mining) Small coal; coal dust.
- (uncountable, psychotherapy) Unconditional listening attention given by client to patient.
- In particular, a shallow dell or hollow; a dip in the surface of terrain, such as between hills.
- (countable) A low-lying marsh or a pool, especially a tidal or intermittent one which periodically fills and drains.
- (uncountable) The part of anything that hangs loose, having no strain upon it.
- (countable) A valley, or small, shallow dell; a sag or saddle in a ridge.
- A flat-bottomed, hollow zone within a sand-dune system that has developed over impervious strata, sometimes due to erosion or blow-out of the dune system; its flat base level is therefore close to or at the permanent water-table level, and therefore has rich, marshy flora, with Salix species (willows) as typical woody colonisers.
- Attributive form of slacks (“semi-formal trousers”).
- A dip in a surface.
adj
- not tense or taut
- flowing with little speed as e.g. at the turning of the tide
- lacking in rigor or strictness
- (slang, Caribbean, Jamaica) Vulgar; sexually explicit, especially in dancehall music.
- Excess; surplus to requirements.
- Weak; not holding fast.
- Not active or busy, successful, or violent.
- Moderately warm.
- (linguistics) Lax.
- Moderate in speed.
- Lacking diligence or care; not earnest or eager.
- (normally said of a rope) Lax; not tense; not firmly extended.
verb
- become less in amount or intensity
- make less active or intense
- be inattentive to, or neglect
- avoid responsibilities and work, be idle
- become slow or slower
- cause to heat and crumble by treatment with water
- make less active or fast
- release tension on
- To refuse to work as hard as one is supposed to.
- (ambitransitive) To slacken.
- To lose cohesion or solidity by a chemical combination with water; to slake.
adv
verb
verb
- hang loosely
- cause to dangle or hang freely
- (medicine, transitive) To position (a patient) in this way.
- (intransitive, slang, ice hockey, lacrosse) The action of performing a move or deke with the puck in order to get past a defender or goalie; perhaps because of the resemblance to dangling the puck on a string.
- (transitive, figurative, by extension) To put forth as a possibility.
- (intransitive) To hang loosely with the ability to swing.
- (medicine, intransitive) Of a patient: to be positioned with the legs hanging over the edge of the bed.
- (transitive) To hang or trail something loosely.
noun
- An agent of one intelligence agency or group who pretends to be interested in defecting or turning to another intelligence agency or group.
- (slang, ice hockey, lacrosse) The action of dangling; a series of complex stick tricks and fakes in order to defeat the defender in style.
- A dangling ornament or decoration.
verb
- hang loosely
- pay out
- utter with seeming casualness
- take (a drug, especially LSD), by mouth
- change from one level to another
- remove (cargo, people, etc.) from and leave
- lower the pitch of (musical notes)
- fall or descend to a lower place or level
- stop pursuing or acting
- to fall vertically
- let fall to the ground
- cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow
- fall or sink into a state of exhaustion or death
- grow progressively worse
- stop associating with
- leave undone or leave out
- let or cause to fall in drops
- to remove
- go down in value
- lose (a game)
- omit (a letter or syllable) in speaking or writing
- give birth; used for animals
- terminate an association with
- (cooking) To cook (food, especially fast food), particularly by lowering into hot oil to deep-fry, or by grilling.
- (transitive, music) To tune (a guitar string, etc.) to a lower note.
- (intransitive) Of a liquid: to fall in drops or droplets.
- (transitive) To cease concerning oneself over (someone or something); to have nothing more to do with (a discussion, subject, etc.).
- (intransitive, computing) To enter a more basic interface.
- (transitive) To make (someone or something) fall to the ground from a blow, gunshot, etc.; to bring down, to shoot down; to kill.
- (intransitive, physiology, informal) Of the testicles: to hang further away from the body and begin producing sperm due to puberty.
- (transitive) To reduce; to make smaller.
- Especially in drop acid: to swallow (a drug, particularly LSD).
- (intransitive) Of a voice: to lower in timbre, often due to puberty.
- (transitive, computing, music, television, colloquial) To release (a programme, software, a music album or song, etc.) to the public.
- (intransitive) To decrease, diminish, or lessen in condition, degree, value, etc.
- (intransitive, computing, music, television, colloquial) Of a programme, software, a music album or song, etc.: to enter public distribution.
- (transitive) To drip (a liquid) in drops or small amounts.
- (originally US) To (unexpectedly) lose (a competition, game, etc.).
- To lose, spend, or otherwise part with (money).
- (intransitive, also figuratively) To fall (straight down) under the influence of gravity, like a drop of liquid.
- (intransitive) To come to an end (by not being kept up); to lapse, to stop.
- (intransitive) To fall into a particular condition or state.
- (intransitive, online gaming, video games) Of an item: To appear for the player to pick up, usually after an enemy has been defeated.
- To impart (something).
- (intransitive) Usually followed by by, in, or into: of a person: to visit someone or somewhere informally or without a prior appointment.
- (intransitive) To fall or sink quickly or suddenly to the ground.
- (rugby) To score (a goal) by means of a drop kick.
- (transitive) To cancel or cease to participate in (a scheduled course, event, or project).
- To perform (rap music).
- (transitive) To mention (something) casually or incidentally, usually in conversation.
- (transitive) To set down (someone or something) from a vehicle; to stop and deliver or deposit (someone or something); to drop off.
- (transitive) To lower (a sound, a voice, etc.) in pitch or volume.
- (transitive, computing) To present (the user) with a more basic interface.
- (transitive) To cease to include (something), as if on a list; to dismiss, to eject, to expel.
- To quickly lower or take down (one's trousers), especially in public.
- (cricket) Of a fielder: to fail to dismiss (a batsman) by accidentally dropping a batted ball that had initially been caught.
- (transitive, linguistics) To fail to write, or (especially) to pronounce (a syllable, letter, etc.).
- To pass or use (counterfeit cheques, money, etc.).
- (intransitive) To collapse in exhaustion or injury; also, to fall dead, or to fall in death.
- (transitive, ergative, also figuratively) To let (something) fall; to allow (something) to fall (either by releasing hold of, or losing one's grip on).
- (transitive) To move to a lower position; to allow to hang downwards; to lower.
- (intransitive) Of a song or sound: to lower in key, pitch, tempo, or other quality.
- (transitive, online gaming, video games) Of a defeated enemy or container: To leave behind an item that the player can collect.
- To play (a portion of music) in the manner of a disc jockey.
- (intransitive, gambling) To drop out of the betting.
- (transitive) Of an animal (usually a sheep): to give birth to (young); of a bird: to lay (an egg).
- (transitive) To let (a letter, etc.) fall into a postbox; hence, to send (a letter, email, or other message) in an offhand manner.
- (transitive) To dispose or get rid of (something); to lose, to remove.
- (US, Singapore, ergative, military, slang) To make someone, or be made to do push-ups or some other form of exercise on the ground as punishment.
- (intransitive) To fall behind or to the rear of a group of people, etc., as a result of not keeping up with those at the front.
noun
- a shape that is spherical and small
- a central depository where things can be left or picked up
- a steep high face of rock
- a free and rapid descent by the force of gravity
- a predetermined hiding place for the deposit and distribution of illicit goods (such as drugs or stolen property)
- the act of dropping something
- a curtain that can be lowered and raised onto a stage from the flies; often used as background scenery
- a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity
- a small indefinite quantity (especially of a liquid)
- Of women's clothes: the difference between the bust circumference and hip circumference.
- (online gaming, video games) An item made available for the player to pick up from the remains of a defeated enemy.
- (pinball) Ellipsis of drop target.
- (rugby) Ellipsis of drop kick.
- (pharmacology, chiefly in the plural) A liquid medicine that is intended to be administered in drops (sense 1).
- (agriculture) A fruit which has fallen off a tree, etc., or has been knocked off accidentally, rather than picked.
- (informal) Only used in get the drop on, have the drop on: an advantage.
- A decline in degree, quality, quantity, or rate.
- (nautical) The depth of a (square) sail (generally applied to the courses only); the vertical dimension of a sail.
- (electrics, telecommunications) An overhead electrical line running from a utility pole to a customer's building or other premises.
- (American football) A dropped pass.
- Usually preceded by the: relegation from one division to a lower one.
- (law enforcement) The distance that a person drops when being executed by hanging.
- Often preceded by a defining word: a small, round piece of hard candy, such as a lemon drop; a lozenge.
- (theater) A curtain which falls in front of a theatrical stage; also, a section of (cloth) scenery lowered on to the stage like a curtain.
- (slang, US) An automobile with a drop-top roof, a convertible.
- Licorice in confectionery form.
- Ellipsis of drop hammer or drop press.
- The distance below a cliff or other high position through which someone or something could fall; hence, a steep slope.
- (also figuratively) A small quantity of liquid, just large enough to hold its own rounded shape through surface tension, especially one that falls from a source of liquid.
- (law enforcement, informal) Preceded by the: execution by hanging.
- (music) A point in a song, usually electronic music such as dubstep, house, trance, or trap, where there is a very noticeable and pleasing change in bass, tempo, and/or overall tone; a climax, a highlight.
- A release (of music, a video game, etc).
- (Ireland, informal) A single measure of whisky.
- Of men's clothes: the difference between the chest circumference and waist circumference.
- (figuratively) A very small quantity of liquid, or (by extension) of anything.
- (law enforcement) A trapdoor (“hinged platform”) on a gallows; a gallows itself.
- An act of moving downwards under the force of gravity; a descent, a fall.
- The vertical length of a hanging curtain.
- A mechanism for lowering something, such as a machine for lowering heavy weights on to a ship's deck, or a device for temporarily lowering a gas jet, etc.
- (pharmacology) A dose of liquid medicine in the form of a drop (sense 1).
- (engineering) The distance of the axis of a shaft below the base of a hanger.
- (surfing) A near vertical decent down the face of a breaking wave.
- (cricket) A place (specified by an ordinal) in the batting order after the openers.
- (architecture) An ornament resembling a pendant; a gutta.
- (American football) Ellipsis of drop-back.
- (gambling) The amount of money that a gambler exchanges for chips in a casino.
- (chiefly British) Usually preceded by the: alcoholic spirits in general.
- (golf) Ellipsis of drop shot.
- The cover mounted on a swivel over a keyhole that rests over the keyhole when not in use to keep out debris, but is swiveled out of the way before inserting the key.
- (chiefly Australia, British) A small amount of an alcoholic beverage.
- A place where items or supplies may be left for others to collect, whether openly (as with a mail drop), or secretly or illegally (as in crime or espionage); a drop-off point.
- An instance of making a delivery of people, supplies, or things, especially by parachute out of an aircraft (an airdrop), but also by truck, etc.
verb
- hang loosely
- hit or aim at with a sweeping arm movement
- make a big sweeping gesture or movement
- play with a subtle and intuitively felt sense of rhythm
- have a certain musical rhythm
- move in a curve or arc, usually with the intent of hitting
- be a social swinger; socialize a lot
- move or walk in a swinging or swaying manner
- engage freely in promiscuous sex, often with the husband or wife of one's friends
- influence decisively
- change direction with a swinging motion; turn
- alternate dramatically between high and low values
- live in a lively, modern, and relaxed style
- (intransitive) To hang from the gallows; to be punished by hanging, swing for something or someone; (often hyperbolic) to be severely punished.
- (intransitive, cricket, of a ball) To move sideways in its trajectory.
- (transitive and intransitive, boxing) To move one's arm in a punching motion.
- (transitive) To change (a numerical result); especially to change the outcome of an election.
- To be sexually oriented.
- To turn in a different direction.
- (transitive, engineering) To admit or turn something for the purpose of shaping it; said of a lathe.
- (intransitive) To ride on a swing.
- (transitive) To move (an object) backward and forward; to wave.
- (transitive, music) To play notes that are in pairs by making the first of the pair slightly longer than written (augmentation) and the second shorter, resulting in a bouncy, uneven rhythm.
- (transitive, cricket) (of a bowler) To make the ball move sideways in its trajectory.
- (intransitive, sex) To participate in the swinging lifestyle; to participate in wifeswapping.
- (intransitive) To rotate about an off-centre fixed point.
- (intransitive) To dance.
- (intransitive) To fluctuate or change.
- (transitive, carpentry) To put (a door, gate, etc.) on hinges so that it can swing or turn.
- (transitive) In dancing, to turn around in a small circle with one's partner, holding hands or arms.
- (nautical) To turn round by action of wind or tide when at anchor.
- (transitive, slang) To make (something) work; especially to afford (something) financially.
noun
- a state of steady vigorous action that is characteristic of an activity
- in baseball; a batter's attempt to hit a pitched ball
- a sweeping blow or stroke
- a jaunty rhythm in music
- mechanical device used as a plaything to support someone swinging back and forth
- the act of swinging a golf club at a golf ball and (usually) hitting it
- changing location by moving back and forth
- a style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s; flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz
- a square dance figure; a pair of dancers join hands and dance around a point between them
- (boxing) A type of hook with the arm more extended.
- (music) The genre of music associated with this dance style.
- The sweep or compass of a swinging body.
- (politics) In an election, the increase or decrease in the number of votes for opposition parties compared with votes for the incumbent party.
- (cricket) Sideways movement of the ball as it flies through the air.
- A basic dance step in which a pair link hands and turn round together in a circle.
- Influence or power of anything put in motion.
- (theater) In a musical theater production, a performer who understudies several roles.
- The act, or an instance, of swinging.
- The manner in which something is swung.
- Capacity of a turning lathe, as determined by the diameter of the largest object that can be turned in it.
- The amount of change towards or away from something.
- A line, cord, or other thing suspended and hanging loose, upon which anything may swing.
- A hanging seat that can swing back and forth, in a children's playground, for acrobats in a circus, or on a porch for relaxing.
- An energetic and acrobatic late-1930s partner-based dance style, also known as jitterbug and lindy-hop.
- The maximum amount of change that has occurred or can occur; the sum of the maximum changes in any direction.
adj
verb
- hang loosely or laxly
- become limp
- droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness
- (intransitive) To lose all energy, enthusiasm or happiness; to flag.
- (intransitive) To hang downward; to sag.
- (intransitive, figurative) To proceed downward, or toward a close; to decline.
- (transitive) To allow to droop or sink.
- (intransitive) To slowly become limp; to bend gradually.
noun
adj
verb
adj
- Not suitable or fitting.
- False; counterfeit; illegitimate.
- (sometimes childish) Evil; wicked.
- Not appropriate, of manners etc.
- (often childish) Not behaving; behaving badly; misbehaving; mischievous or disobedient.
- Not worth it.
- (Internet slang, sarcastic) Used without a copula to mock people who oppose something without having any real understanding of it.
- (chiefly in "bad boy", "bad girl", and similar phrases) Attractive due to (one's) rebellious nature.
- (informal, of a draft/check) Not covered by funds on account.
- (semantic change, amelioration, contranymic) Good, superlative, excellent, cool.
- (of food) Spoiled, rotten, overripe.
- Harmful, especially unhealthy; liable to cause health problems.
- (US) Overly promiscuous, licentious.
- Bold, daring, and tough.
- (originally African-American Vernacular, of a woman) Very attractive; hot, sexy.
- (of a word, speech, or writing) Vulgar, obscene, or blasphemous.
- (of a need, want, or pain) Severe, urgent.
- Of poor physical appearance.
- Unskilled; of limited ability; not good.
- The injured or weak one of a pair of body parts, where the other one is healthy.
- (preceded by feel) Regretful, guilty, or ashamed.
- Of low quality.
- Tricky; stressful; unpleasant.
- Faulty; not functional.
- (of breath) Malodorous; foul.
- Inaccurate; incorrect
- (chiefly applied to a person's state of health) Sickly, unhealthy, unwell.
- Unfavorable; negative; not good.
- feeling physical discomfort or pain (‘tough’ is occasionally used colloquially for ‘bad’)
- not working properly
- (of foodstuffs) not in an edible or usable condition
- capable of harming
- reproduced fraudulently
- serious or severe
- nonstandard
- not financially safe or secure
- not capable of being collected
- having undesirable or negative qualities
- characterized by wickedness or immorality
- feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone
- below average in quality or performance
- physically unsound or diseased
adv
intj
noun
verb
adv
noun
- the quality of being loose (not taut)
- dust consisting of a mixture of small coal fragments and coal dust and dirt that sifts out when coal is passed over a sieve
- a stretch of water without current or movement
- a noticeable deterioration in performance or quality
- a cord or rope or cable that is hanging loosely
- a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot
- (rail transport) A temporary speed restriction where track maintenance or engineering work is being carried out at a particular place.
- (mining) Small coal; coal dust.
- (uncountable, psychotherapy) Unconditional listening attention given by client to patient.
- In particular, a shallow dell or hollow; a dip in the surface of terrain, such as between hills.
- (countable) A low-lying marsh or a pool, especially a tidal or intermittent one which periodically fills and drains.
- (uncountable) The part of anything that hangs loose, having no strain upon it.
- (countable) A valley, or small, shallow dell; a sag or saddle in a ridge.
- A flat-bottomed, hollow zone within a sand-dune system that has developed over impervious strata, sometimes due to erosion or blow-out of the dune system; its flat base level is therefore close to or at the permanent water-table level, and therefore has rich, marshy flora, with Salix species (willows) as typical woody colonisers.
- Attributive form of slacks (“semi-formal trousers”).
- A dip in a surface.
adj
- not tense or taut
- flowing with little speed as e.g. at the turning of the tide
- lacking in rigor or strictness
- (slang, Caribbean, Jamaica) Vulgar; sexually explicit, especially in dancehall music.
- Excess; surplus to requirements.
- Weak; not holding fast.
- Not active or busy, successful, or violent.
- Moderately warm.
- (linguistics) Lax.
- Moderate in speed.
- Lacking diligence or care; not earnest or eager.
- (normally said of a rope) Lax; not tense; not firmly extended.
verb
- become less in amount or intensity
- make less active or intense
- be inattentive to, or neglect
- avoid responsibilities and work, be idle
- become slow or slower
- cause to heat and crumble by treatment with water
- make less active or fast
- release tension on
- To refuse to work as hard as one is supposed to.
- (ambitransitive) To slacken.
- To lose cohesion or solidity by a chemical combination with water; to slake.
adv
verb
- become loose or looser or less tight
- make loose or looser
- grant freedom to; free from confinement
- turn loose or free from restraint
- (archery) To shoot (an arrow).
- Misspelling of lose.
- (transitive) To let loose, to free from restraints.
- (intransitive) Of a grip or hold, to let go.
- (transitive) To unfasten, to loosen.
- (transitive) To make less tight, to loosen.
adj
- Not fitting closely.
- Not fixed in place tightly or firmly.
- not tight; not closely constrained or constricted or constricting
- having escaped, especially from confinement
- not tense or taut
- emptying easily or excessively
- not officially recognized or controlled
- casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior
- not compact or dense in structure or arrangement
- lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility
- not affixed
- (of a ball in sport) not in the possession or control of any player
- (of textures) full of small openings or gaps
- not carefully arranged in a package
- not literal
- Relaxed.
- Not precise or exact; vague; indeterminate.
- (not comparable, sports) Not being in the possession of any competing team during a game.
- Indiscreet.
- Not held or packaged together.
- (of volumes of materials) Measured loosely stacked or disorganized (such as of firewood).
- Not under control.
- Not compact.
- (US, slang, motor racing, of a stock car) Having oversteer.
adv
intj
noun
verb
- become loose or looser or less tight
- cause to become loose
- make loose or looser
- (transitive) To make loose.
- (intransitive) To become loose.
- make less dense
- make less severe or strict
- become less severe or strict
- disentangle and raise the fibers of
- (transitive) To disengage (a device that restrains).
- (transitive) To free from restraint; to set at liberty.
- (transitive) To relieve (the bowels) from constipation; to promote defecation.
- (intransitive) To become unfastened or undone.
verb
- become loose or looser or less tight
- (intransitive) To become loose.
- make less severe or strict
- become less tense, less formal, or less restrained, and assume a friendlier manner
- make less taut
- become less severe or strict
- make less active or fast
- cause to feel relaxed
- become less tense, rest, or take one's ease
- (transitive) To make something less severe or tense.
- (intransitive, of codes and regulations) To become more lenient.
- (intransitive) To rest and become relieved of stress.
- (transitive) To make something loose.
- (transitive) To make something (such as codes and regulations) more lenient.
- (intransitive) To become less severe or tense.
- (transitive) To relieve (someone or someone's mind) of stress; to enable to rest; to calm down.
verb
- cause to become loose
- cancel, annul, or reverse an action or its effect
- cause the ruin or downfall of
- deprive of certain characteristics
- remove the outer cover or wrapping of
- (transitive) To unfasten.
- To reverse the effects of an action.
- (transitive, colloquial) To unfasten the clothing of (a person).
- (figuratively) To impoverish or ruin, as in reputation; to cause the downfall of.
adj
noun
verb
- cause to become loose
- undo the ties of
- (programming, transitive) In the Perl programming language, to undo the process of tying, so that a variable uses default instead of custom functionality.
- To resolve; to unfold; to clear.
- (transitive) To free from fastening or from restraint; to let loose; to unbind.
- (transitive) To loosen, as something interlaced or knotted; to disengage the parts of.
- (intransitive) To become untied or loosed.
verb
- To become loose or come off.
- To free (someone or something) from a constraint; (figuratively) to release (something which has been suppressed, such as emotions or objectionable things).
- (also figuratively) To free from a constraint.
- (also figuratively) To loosen or undo (something that entangles, fastens, holds, or interlocks).
- (also figuratively) To relax or slacken (something that clasps or grips, such as the arms or hands).
- grant freedom to; free from confinement
- loosen the ties of
verb
- become looser or slack
- become slow or slower
- make slack as by lessening tension or firmness
- make less active or fast
- (intransitive) To gradually decrease in intensity or tautness; to become slack; to lag.
- (transitive) To make slack, less taut, or less intense.
- To deprive of cohesion by combining chemically with water; to slake.
verb
- be too tight; rub or press
- become stultified, suppressed, or stifled
- check or slow down the action or effect of
- reduce the air supply
- pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
- wring the neck of
- constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing
- become or cause to become obstructed
- cause to retch or choke
- suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of
- fail to perform adequately due to tension or agitation
- impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of
- breathe with great difficulty, as when experiencing a strong emotion
- struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake
- (transitive) To use the choke valve of (a vehicle) to adjust the air/fuel mixture in the engine.
- (transitive) To say (something) with one’s throat constricted (due to emotion, for example).
- (intransitive) To have a feeling of strangulation in one's throat as a result of passion or strong emotion.
- (transitive) To obstruct (a passage, etc.) by filling it up or clogging it.
- (golf, baseball, transitive) To hold the club or bat lower on the shaft in order to shorten one's swing.
- (transitive) To give (someone) a feeling of strangulation as a result of passion or strong emotion.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To perform badly at a crucial stage of a competition, especially when one appears to be clearly winning.
- (transitive) To prevent (someone) from breathing or talking by strangling or filling the windpipe.
- (intransitive, fluid mechanics, of a duct) To reach a condition of maximum flowrate, due to the flow at the narrowest point of the duct becoming sonic (Ma = 1).
- (transitive) To check or stop (an utterance or voice) as if by choking.
- To make or install a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun.
- (intransitive) To be checked or stopped, as if by choking
- (transitive) To move one's fingers very close to the tip of a pencil, brush or other art tool.
- (transitive) To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to kill (a plant by robbing it of nutrients); to extinguish (fire by robbing it of oxygen).
- (intransitive) To be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe (for instance food or other objects that go down the wrong way, or fumes or particles in the air that cause the throat to constrict).
noun
- a coil of low resistance and high inductance used in electrical circuits to pass direct current and attenuate alternating current
- a valve that controls the flow of air into the carburetor of a gasoline engine
- A partial or complete blockage (of boulders, mud, etc.) in a cave passage.
- (electronics) A choking coil.
- A major mistake at a crucial stage of a competition because one is nervous, especially when one is winning.
- (sports) In wrestling, karate (etc.), a type of hold that can result in strangulation.
- The mass of immature florets in the centre of the bud of an artichoke.
- A constriction at the muzzle end of a shotgun barrel which affects the spread of the shot.
- A control on a carburetor to adjust the air/fuel mixture when the engine is cold.
verb
- be too tight; rub or press
- cause annoyance in
- worry unnecessarily or excessively
- provide (a musical instrument) with frets
- become or make sore by or as if by rubbing
- carve a pattern into
- gnaw into; make resentful or angry
- wear away or erode
- cause friction
- remove soil or rock
- be agitated or irritated
- decorate with an interlaced design
- (transitive) To make rough, to agitate or disturb; to cause to ripple.
- (transitive, music) To press down the string behind a fret.
- (transitive) To decorate or ornament, especially with an interlaced or interwoven pattern, or (architecture) with carving or relief (raised) work.
- (transitive, music) # To fit frets on to (a musical instrument).
- (intransitive) To be anxious, to worry.
- (transitive) To cut through with a fretsaw, to create fretwork.
- (intransitive) To be agitated; to rankle; to be in violent commotion.
- (transitive) To form a pattern on; to variegate.
- (transitive) In the form fret out: to squander, to waste.
- (ambitransitive) To gnaw; to consume, to eat away.
- (intransitive, brewing, wine) To have secondary fermentation (fermentation occurring after the conversion of sugar to alcohol in beers and wine) take place.
- (ambitransitive) To be chafed or irritated; to be angry or vexed; to utter peevish expressions through irritation or worry.
- (transitive) To chafe or irritate; to worry.
- To bind, to tie, originally with a loop or ring.
- (ambitransitive) To mine by agitating or eating away at (ore in the bank of a river).
- (intransitive) To be worn away; to chafe; to fray.
noun
- an ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines (often in relief)
- agitation resulting from active worry
- a spot that has been worn away by abrasion or erosion
- a small bar of metal across the fingerboard of a musical instrument; when the string is stopped by a finger at the metal bar it will produce a note of the desired pitch
- Agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or some other cause; a rippling on the surface of water.
- Agitation of the mind marked by complaint and impatience; disturbance of temper; irritation.
- (rare) A channel or passage created by the sea.
- (Northumbria) A fog or mist at sea, or coming inland from the sea.
- (mining, in the plural) The worn sides of riverbanks, where ores or stones containing them accumulate after being washed down from higher ground, which thus indicate to miners the locality of veins of ore.
- (music) One of the pieces of metal, plastic or wood across the neck of a guitar or other string instrument that marks where a finger should be positioned to depress a string as it is played.
- A channel, a strait; a fretum.
- (heraldry) A saltire interlaced with a mascle.
- An ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines, often in relief.
- Herpes; tetter (“any of various pustular skin conditions”).
verb
- be too tight; rub or press
- make jokes or quips
- make an unsuccessful effort to vomit; strain to vomit
- tie a gag around someone's mouth in order to silence them
- cause to retch or choke
- prevent from speaking out
- struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake
- (transitive, LGBTQ slang) To astonish (someone); to leave speechless.
- (intransitive) To experience the vomiting reflex.
- (ambitransitive) To choke; to retch.
- (transitive, figuratively) To restrain someone's speech without using physical means.
- (transitive) To pry or hold open by means of a gag.
- (transitive) To cause to heave with nausea.
- (transitive) To restrain someone's speech by blocking his or her mouth.
noun
- a humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter
- restraint put into a person's mouth to prevent speaking or shouting
- A device to restrain speech, such as a rag in the mouth secured with tape or a rubber ball threaded onto a cord or strap.
- A joke or other mischievous prank.
- (LGBTQ slang) A shocking or surprising thing.
- A convulsion of the upper digestive tract.
- (law) An order or rule forbidding discussion of a case or subject.
- (figurative) Any suppression of freedom of speech.
- Mycteroperca microlepis, a species of grouper.
- (film) a device or trick used to create a practical effect; a gimmick
verb
verb
- hang loosely
- cause to dangle or hang freely
- (medicine, transitive) To position (a patient) in this way.
- (intransitive, slang, ice hockey, lacrosse) The action of performing a move or deke with the puck in order to get past a defender or goalie; perhaps because of the resemblance to dangling the puck on a string.
- (transitive, figurative, by extension) To put forth as a possibility.
- (intransitive) To hang loosely with the ability to swing.
- (medicine, intransitive) Of a patient: to be positioned with the legs hanging over the edge of the bed.
- (transitive) To hang or trail something loosely.
noun
- An agent of one intelligence agency or group who pretends to be interested in defecting or turning to another intelligence agency or group.
- (slang, ice hockey, lacrosse) The action of dangling; a series of complex stick tricks and fakes in order to defeat the defender in style.
- A dangling ornament or decoration.
verb
- hang loosely
- pay out
- utter with seeming casualness
- take (a drug, especially LSD), by mouth
- change from one level to another
- remove (cargo, people, etc.) from and leave
- lower the pitch of (musical notes)
- fall or descend to a lower place or level
- stop pursuing or acting
- to fall vertically
- let fall to the ground
- cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow
- fall or sink into a state of exhaustion or death
- grow progressively worse
- stop associating with
- leave undone or leave out
- let or cause to fall in drops
- to remove
- go down in value
- lose (a game)
- omit (a letter or syllable) in speaking or writing
- give birth; used for animals
- terminate an association with
- (cooking) To cook (food, especially fast food), particularly by lowering into hot oil to deep-fry, or by grilling.
- (transitive, music) To tune (a guitar string, etc.) to a lower note.
- (intransitive) Of a liquid: to fall in drops or droplets.
- (transitive) To cease concerning oneself over (someone or something); to have nothing more to do with (a discussion, subject, etc.).
- (intransitive, computing) To enter a more basic interface.
- (transitive) To make (someone or something) fall to the ground from a blow, gunshot, etc.; to bring down, to shoot down; to kill.
- (intransitive, physiology, informal) Of the testicles: to hang further away from the body and begin producing sperm due to puberty.
- (transitive) To reduce; to make smaller.
- Especially in drop acid: to swallow (a drug, particularly LSD).
- (intransitive) Of a voice: to lower in timbre, often due to puberty.
- (transitive, computing, music, television, colloquial) To release (a programme, software, a music album or song, etc.) to the public.
- (intransitive) To decrease, diminish, or lessen in condition, degree, value, etc.
- (intransitive, computing, music, television, colloquial) Of a programme, software, a music album or song, etc.: to enter public distribution.
- (transitive) To drip (a liquid) in drops or small amounts.
- (originally US) To (unexpectedly) lose (a competition, game, etc.).
- To lose, spend, or otherwise part with (money).
- (intransitive, also figuratively) To fall (straight down) under the influence of gravity, like a drop of liquid.
- (intransitive) To come to an end (by not being kept up); to lapse, to stop.
- (intransitive) To fall into a particular condition or state.
- (intransitive, online gaming, video games) Of an item: To appear for the player to pick up, usually after an enemy has been defeated.
- To impart (something).
- (intransitive) Usually followed by by, in, or into: of a person: to visit someone or somewhere informally or without a prior appointment.
- (intransitive) To fall or sink quickly or suddenly to the ground.
- (rugby) To score (a goal) by means of a drop kick.
- (transitive) To cancel or cease to participate in (a scheduled course, event, or project).
- To perform (rap music).
- (transitive) To mention (something) casually or incidentally, usually in conversation.
- (transitive) To set down (someone or something) from a vehicle; to stop and deliver or deposit (someone or something); to drop off.
- (transitive) To lower (a sound, a voice, etc.) in pitch or volume.
- (transitive, computing) To present (the user) with a more basic interface.
- (transitive) To cease to include (something), as if on a list; to dismiss, to eject, to expel.
- To quickly lower or take down (one's trousers), especially in public.
- (cricket) Of a fielder: to fail to dismiss (a batsman) by accidentally dropping a batted ball that had initially been caught.
- (transitive, linguistics) To fail to write, or (especially) to pronounce (a syllable, letter, etc.).
- To pass or use (counterfeit cheques, money, etc.).
- (intransitive) To collapse in exhaustion or injury; also, to fall dead, or to fall in death.
- (transitive, ergative, also figuratively) To let (something) fall; to allow (something) to fall (either by releasing hold of, or losing one's grip on).
- (transitive) To move to a lower position; to allow to hang downwards; to lower.
- (intransitive) Of a song or sound: to lower in key, pitch, tempo, or other quality.
- (transitive, online gaming, video games) Of a defeated enemy or container: To leave behind an item that the player can collect.
- To play (a portion of music) in the manner of a disc jockey.
- (intransitive, gambling) To drop out of the betting.
- (transitive) Of an animal (usually a sheep): to give birth to (young); of a bird: to lay (an egg).
- (transitive) To let (a letter, etc.) fall into a postbox; hence, to send (a letter, email, or other message) in an offhand manner.
- (transitive) To dispose or get rid of (something); to lose, to remove.
- (US, Singapore, ergative, military, slang) To make someone, or be made to do push-ups or some other form of exercise on the ground as punishment.
- (intransitive) To fall behind or to the rear of a group of people, etc., as a result of not keeping up with those at the front.
noun
- a shape that is spherical and small
- a central depository where things can be left or picked up
- a steep high face of rock
- a free and rapid descent by the force of gravity
- a predetermined hiding place for the deposit and distribution of illicit goods (such as drugs or stolen property)
- the act of dropping something
- a curtain that can be lowered and raised onto a stage from the flies; often used as background scenery
- a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity
- a small indefinite quantity (especially of a liquid)
- Of women's clothes: the difference between the bust circumference and hip circumference.
- (online gaming, video games) An item made available for the player to pick up from the remains of a defeated enemy.
- (pinball) Ellipsis of drop target.
- (rugby) Ellipsis of drop kick.
- (pharmacology, chiefly in the plural) A liquid medicine that is intended to be administered in drops (sense 1).
- (agriculture) A fruit which has fallen off a tree, etc., or has been knocked off accidentally, rather than picked.
- (informal) Only used in get the drop on, have the drop on: an advantage.
- A decline in degree, quality, quantity, or rate.
- (nautical) The depth of a (square) sail (generally applied to the courses only); the vertical dimension of a sail.
- (electrics, telecommunications) An overhead electrical line running from a utility pole to a customer's building or other premises.
- (American football) A dropped pass.
- Usually preceded by the: relegation from one division to a lower one.
- (law enforcement) The distance that a person drops when being executed by hanging.
- Often preceded by a defining word: a small, round piece of hard candy, such as a lemon drop; a lozenge.
- (theater) A curtain which falls in front of a theatrical stage; also, a section of (cloth) scenery lowered on to the stage like a curtain.
- (slang, US) An automobile with a drop-top roof, a convertible.
- Licorice in confectionery form.
- Ellipsis of drop hammer or drop press.
- The distance below a cliff or other high position through which someone or something could fall; hence, a steep slope.
- (also figuratively) A small quantity of liquid, just large enough to hold its own rounded shape through surface tension, especially one that falls from a source of liquid.
- (law enforcement, informal) Preceded by the: execution by hanging.
- (music) A point in a song, usually electronic music such as dubstep, house, trance, or trap, where there is a very noticeable and pleasing change in bass, tempo, and/or overall tone; a climax, a highlight.
- A release (of music, a video game, etc).
- (Ireland, informal) A single measure of whisky.
- Of men's clothes: the difference between the chest circumference and waist circumference.
- (figuratively) A very small quantity of liquid, or (by extension) of anything.
- (law enforcement) A trapdoor (“hinged platform”) on a gallows; a gallows itself.
- An act of moving downwards under the force of gravity; a descent, a fall.
- The vertical length of a hanging curtain.
- A mechanism for lowering something, such as a machine for lowering heavy weights on to a ship's deck, or a device for temporarily lowering a gas jet, etc.
- (pharmacology) A dose of liquid medicine in the form of a drop (sense 1).
- (engineering) The distance of the axis of a shaft below the base of a hanger.
- (surfing) A near vertical decent down the face of a breaking wave.
- (cricket) A place (specified by an ordinal) in the batting order after the openers.
- (architecture) An ornament resembling a pendant; a gutta.
- (American football) Ellipsis of drop-back.
- (gambling) The amount of money that a gambler exchanges for chips in a casino.
- (chiefly British) Usually preceded by the: alcoholic spirits in general.
- (golf) Ellipsis of drop shot.
- The cover mounted on a swivel over a keyhole that rests over the keyhole when not in use to keep out debris, but is swiveled out of the way before inserting the key.
- (chiefly Australia, British) A small amount of an alcoholic beverage.
- A place where items or supplies may be left for others to collect, whether openly (as with a mail drop), or secretly or illegally (as in crime or espionage); a drop-off point.
- An instance of making a delivery of people, supplies, or things, especially by parachute out of an aircraft (an airdrop), but also by truck, etc.
verb
- hang loosely
- hit or aim at with a sweeping arm movement
- make a big sweeping gesture or movement
- play with a subtle and intuitively felt sense of rhythm
- have a certain musical rhythm
- move in a curve or arc, usually with the intent of hitting
- be a social swinger; socialize a lot
- move or walk in a swinging or swaying manner
- engage freely in promiscuous sex, often with the husband or wife of one's friends
- influence decisively
- change direction with a swinging motion; turn
- alternate dramatically between high and low values
- live in a lively, modern, and relaxed style
- (intransitive) To hang from the gallows; to be punished by hanging, swing for something or someone; (often hyperbolic) to be severely punished.
- (intransitive, cricket, of a ball) To move sideways in its trajectory.
- (transitive and intransitive, boxing) To move one's arm in a punching motion.
- (transitive) To change (a numerical result); especially to change the outcome of an election.
- To be sexually oriented.
- To turn in a different direction.
- (transitive, engineering) To admit or turn something for the purpose of shaping it; said of a lathe.
- (intransitive) To ride on a swing.
- (transitive) To move (an object) backward and forward; to wave.
- (transitive, music) To play notes that are in pairs by making the first of the pair slightly longer than written (augmentation) and the second shorter, resulting in a bouncy, uneven rhythm.
- (transitive, cricket) (of a bowler) To make the ball move sideways in its trajectory.
- (intransitive, sex) To participate in the swinging lifestyle; to participate in wifeswapping.
- (intransitive) To rotate about an off-centre fixed point.
- (intransitive) To dance.
- (intransitive) To fluctuate or change.
- (transitive, carpentry) To put (a door, gate, etc.) on hinges so that it can swing or turn.
- (transitive) In dancing, to turn around in a small circle with one's partner, holding hands or arms.
- (nautical) To turn round by action of wind or tide when at anchor.
- (transitive, slang) To make (something) work; especially to afford (something) financially.
noun
- a state of steady vigorous action that is characteristic of an activity
- in baseball; a batter's attempt to hit a pitched ball
- a sweeping blow or stroke
- a jaunty rhythm in music
- mechanical device used as a plaything to support someone swinging back and forth
- the act of swinging a golf club at a golf ball and (usually) hitting it
- changing location by moving back and forth
- a style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s; flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz
- a square dance figure; a pair of dancers join hands and dance around a point between them
- (boxing) A type of hook with the arm more extended.
- (music) The genre of music associated with this dance style.
- The sweep or compass of a swinging body.
- (politics) In an election, the increase or decrease in the number of votes for opposition parties compared with votes for the incumbent party.
- (cricket) Sideways movement of the ball as it flies through the air.
- A basic dance step in which a pair link hands and turn round together in a circle.
- Influence or power of anything put in motion.
- (theater) In a musical theater production, a performer who understudies several roles.
- The act, or an instance, of swinging.
- The manner in which something is swung.
- Capacity of a turning lathe, as determined by the diameter of the largest object that can be turned in it.
- The amount of change towards or away from something.
- A line, cord, or other thing suspended and hanging loose, upon which anything may swing.
- A hanging seat that can swing back and forth, in a children's playground, for acrobats in a circus, or on a porch for relaxing.
- An energetic and acrobatic late-1930s partner-based dance style, also known as jitterbug and lindy-hop.
- The maximum amount of change that has occurred or can occur; the sum of the maximum changes in any direction.
verb
- hang loosely or laxly
- become limp
- droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness
- (intransitive) To lose all energy, enthusiasm or happiness; to flag.
- (intransitive) To hang downward; to sag.
- (intransitive, figurative) To proceed downward, or toward a close; to decline.
- (transitive) To allow to droop or sink.
- (intransitive) To slowly become limp; to bend gradually.
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adj
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- Loose; not tight or taut.
- (linguistics) (of a vowel) Produced with relatively little constriction of the vocal tract.
- Lenient and allowing for deviation; not strict.
- Lacking care; neglectful, negligent.
- (mathematics) Describing an associative monoidal functor.
- emptying easily or excessively
- pronounced with muscles of the tongue and jaw relatively relaxed (e.g., the vowel sound in ‘bet’)
- lacking in rigor or strictness
- lacking in firmness or tension; not taut
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adj
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- not fitting closely; hanging loosely
- (music) Of or relating to a British music genre of the 1980s and 1990s, influenced by Madchester and psychedelia and associated with baggy clothing.
- Of clothing, very loose-fitting, so as to hang away from the body.
- (figurative) Of writing, etc.: overwrought; flabby; having too much padding.
noun
adj
- not fitting closely; hanging loosely
- lacking neatness or order
- excessively or abnormally emotional
- wet or smeared with a spilled liquid or moist material
- marked by great carelessness
- (of soil) soft and watery
- Very wet; covered in or composed of slop.
- Messy; not neat, elegant, or careful.
- Imprecise or loose.
adj
verb
- become loose or looser or less tight
- make loose or looser
- grant freedom to; free from confinement
- turn loose or free from restraint
- (archery) To shoot (an arrow).
- Misspelling of lose.
- (transitive) To let loose, to free from restraints.
- (intransitive) Of a grip or hold, to let go.
- (transitive) To unfasten, to loosen.
- (transitive) To make less tight, to loosen.
adj
- Not fitting closely.
- Not fixed in place tightly or firmly.
- not tight; not closely constrained or constricted or constricting
- having escaped, especially from confinement
- not tense or taut
- emptying easily or excessively
- not officially recognized or controlled
- casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior
- not compact or dense in structure or arrangement
- lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility
- not affixed
- (of a ball in sport) not in the possession or control of any player
- (of textures) full of small openings or gaps
- not carefully arranged in a package
- not literal
- Relaxed.
- Not precise or exact; vague; indeterminate.
- (not comparable, sports) Not being in the possession of any competing team during a game.
- Indiscreet.
- Not held or packaged together.
- (of volumes of materials) Measured loosely stacked or disorganized (such as of firewood).
- Not under control.
- Not compact.
- (US, slang, motor racing, of a stock car) Having oversteer.
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- Not suitable or fitting.
- False; counterfeit; illegitimate.
- (sometimes childish) Evil; wicked.
- Not appropriate, of manners etc.
- (often childish) Not behaving; behaving badly; misbehaving; mischievous or disobedient.
- Not worth it.
- (Internet slang, sarcastic) Used without a copula to mock people who oppose something without having any real understanding of it.
- (chiefly in "bad boy", "bad girl", and similar phrases) Attractive due to (one's) rebellious nature.
- (informal, of a draft/check) Not covered by funds on account.
- (semantic change, amelioration, contranymic) Good, superlative, excellent, cool.
- (of food) Spoiled, rotten, overripe.
- Harmful, especially unhealthy; liable to cause health problems.
- (US) Overly promiscuous, licentious.
- Bold, daring, and tough.
- (originally African-American Vernacular, of a woman) Very attractive; hot, sexy.
- (of a word, speech, or writing) Vulgar, obscene, or blasphemous.
- (of a need, want, or pain) Severe, urgent.
- Of poor physical appearance.
- Unskilled; of limited ability; not good.
- The injured or weak one of a pair of body parts, where the other one is healthy.
- (preceded by feel) Regretful, guilty, or ashamed.
- Of low quality.
- Tricky; stressful; unpleasant.
- Faulty; not functional.
- (of breath) Malodorous; foul.
- Inaccurate; incorrect
- (chiefly applied to a person's state of health) Sickly, unhealthy, unwell.
- Unfavorable; negative; not good.
- feeling physical discomfort or pain (‘tough’ is occasionally used colloquially for ‘bad’)
- not working properly
- (of foodstuffs) not in an edible or usable condition
- capable of harming
- reproduced fraudulently
- serious or severe
- nonstandard
- not financially safe or secure
- not capable of being collected
- having undesirable or negative qualities
- characterized by wickedness or immorality
- feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone
- below average in quality or performance
- physically unsound or diseased