Palabras en English para 'preventing movement'
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noun
- An impediment to free movement.
- A structure built for defense surrounding a city, castle etc.
- A point of defeat or extinction.
- (figurative) A means of defence or security.
- Something with the apparent solidity, opacity, or dimensions of a building wall.
- Each of the substantial structures acting either as the exterior of or divisions within a structure.
- A point of desperation.
- (cycling) A very steep slope.
- (historical) The right or privilege of taking the side of the road near the wall when encountering another pedestrian; said to be taken or given.
- (chiefly dialectal) A spring of water.
- (mahjong) Face-down tiles arranged in stacked rows from which players draw new tiles.
- (nautical) A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot or wale.
- (roller derby) Two or more blockers skating together so as to impede the opposing team.
- (slang, seduction community, chiefly definite) The stage of biological aging where physical appearance and attractiveness start to deteriorate rapidly.
- (Internet) A personal notice board listing messages of interest to a particular user.
- (soccer) A line of defenders set up between an opposing free-kick taker and the goal.
- (US, slang, medicine) A doctor who tries to admit as few patients as possible.
- The butterfly Lasiommata megera.
- (mining) Any of the surfaces of rock enclosing the lode.
- One of the vertical sides of a container.
- (often in combination) A barrier.
- (roleplaying games) A character that has high defenses, thereby reducing the amount of damage taken from the opponent’s attacks.
- A fictional bidder used to increase the price at an auction.
- (anatomy, zoology, botany) A dividing or containing structure in an organ or cavity.
- A rampart of earth, stones etc. built up for defensive purposes.
- an architectural partition with a height and length greater than its thickness; used to divide or enclose an area or to support another structure
- an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes
- a masonry fence (as around an estate or garden)
- a vertical (or almost vertical) smooth rock face (as of a cave or mountain)
- a difficult or awkward situation
- (anatomy) a layer (a lining or membrane) that encloses a structure
- a layer of material that encloses space
- anything that suggests a wall in structure or function or effect
intj
verb
verb
- To move so as to block someone else's movement in a direction.
- To stop the provision or supply of something, e.g. power, water.
- To swerve in front of (another car) while driving.
- (Southern US) To turn off or switch off (an electrical device).
- To isolate or remove from contact.
- To end abruptly.
- To remove by cutting.
- (of a boundary) To exclude (something) from the field of view.
- To interrupt (someone speaking).
- To stop providing funds or something else to (someone).
- make a break in
- remove surgically
- remove by or as if by cutting
- cease, stop
- break a small piece off from
- cut off and stop
noun
adj
verb
noun
- (nautical) Articles ordinarily indispensable, but in the way at certain times.
- (US) A wicker or plastic basket specifically for holding laundry (from clothes hamper).
- A shackle; a fetter; anything which impedes.
- A large basket, usually with a cover, used for the packing and carrying of articles or small animals.
- (UK) A gift basket.
- a basket usually with a cover
- a restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner)
verb
- prevent the progress or free movement of
- secure with a cramp
- suffer from sudden painful contraction of a muscle
- affect with or as if with a cramp
- To form on a cramp.
- (transitive) To restrain to a specific physical position, as if with a cramp.
- (intransitive) (of a muscle) To contract painfully and uncontrollably.
- To fasten or hold with, or as if with, a cramp iron.
- (by extension) To bind together; to unite.
- (transitive, figurative) To prohibit movement or expression of.
- (transitive) To affect with cramps or spasms.
noun
- a clamp for holding pieces of wood together while they are glued
- a strip of metal with ends bent at right angles; used to hold masonry together
- a painful and involuntary muscular contraction
- A piece of wood having a curve corresponding to that of the upper part of the instep, on which the upper leather of a boot is stretched to give it the requisite shape.
- A clamp for carpentry or masonry.
- That which confines or contracts.
- A painful contraction of a muscle which cannot be controlled; (sometimes) a similar pain even without noticeable contraction.
verb
noun
- either of the rudimentary hind wings of dipterous insects; used for maintaining equilibrium during flight
- a rope that is used by a hangman to execute persons who have been condemned to death by hanging
- rope or canvas headgear for a horse, with a rope for leading
- a woman's top that fastens behind the back and neck leaving the back and arms uncovered
- A rope with a noose, for hanging criminals; the gallows rope.
- Alternative form of haltere.
- A bitless headpiece of rope or straps, placed on the head of animals such as cattle or horses to lead or tie them.
- One who halts or limps; a cripple.
- A halter top.
verb
- prevent the progress or free movement of
- kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air
- constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing
- suppress in order to conceal or hide
- struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake
- die from strangulation
- (transitive) To kill someone by squeezing the throat so as to cut off the oxygen supply; to choke, suffocate or throttle.
- (transitive) To stifle or suppress.
- (intransitive) To be killed by strangulation, or become strangled.
- (intransitive) To be stifled, choked, or suffocated in any manner.
noun
noun
- Self-imposed restriction of movement to a particular location.
- (physics) A restriction in the movement of particles due to their internal properties (such as charge).
- An internalized restriction of one's emotions and behavior to a limited range that is considered acceptable; an inability to fully express oneself.
adj
- Obstructed, so that through movement or flow is prevented or impeded.
- (of a person, telephone number, IP address, etc.) Banned or barred from connecting or logging on.
- Unable to move owing to an obstruction.
- (crosswording) With black squares separating the lights and marking the ends of words.
- (of a computer account or similar) Disabled or disconnected, so as to prevent access or from performing certain actions.
- (Ireland, slang) Drunk.
- completely obstructed or closed off
- closed to traffic
verb
verb
- restrain from moving or operating normally
- finish the last row
- invest so as to make unavailable for other purposes
- secure with or as if with ropes
- secure in or as if in a berth or dock
- (finance) To immobilize a capital: make a capital investment that makes that capital unavailable.
- To secure with rope, string, etc.
- (idiomatic) To occupy, detain, keep busy, or delay.
- (idiomatic) To complete, finish, or resolve.
verb
- restrict (someone or something) so as to make free movement difficult
- prevent (someone or something) from doing something
- to close within bounds, or otherwise limit or deprive of free movement
- prevent the action or expression of
- (transitive) To deprive of liberty.
- (transitive) To strain again.
- (transitive) To restrict or limit.
- (transitive) To control or keep in check.
noun
- The act or process of preventing a thing from moving.
- the act of limiting movement or making incapable of movement
- (soil science) The process in which organic soil matter is decomposed and absorbed by microorganisms, and thus not available to plants.
- fixation (as by a plaster cast) of a body part in order to promote proper healing
verb
noun
- the narrow part of a bottle near the top
- a narrowing that reduces the flow through a channel
- (figurative) In traffic, any narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay.
- The narrow portion that forms the pouring spout of a bottle; the neck of a bottle.
- (by extension) The part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome.
- (music) A portion of a bottleneck placed on the finger and used as a guitar slide.
verb
- To encumber or load, especially with something that impedes motion; to hamper.
- impede the motion of, as with a chain or a burden
- (intransitive) To perform a clog dance.
- To block or slow passage through (often with 'up').
- To burden; to trammel; to embarrass; to perplex.
- (law) To enforce a mortgage lender right that prevents a borrower from exercising a right to redeem.
- fill to excess so that function is impaired
- impede with a clog or as if with a clog
- become or cause to become obstructed
- dance a clog dance
- coalesce or unite in a mass
noun
- That which hinders or impedes motion; an encumbrance, restraint, or impediment of any kind.
- A type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole sometimes with an open heel.
- A blockage.
- (UK, colloquial) A shoe of any type.
- A weight, such as a log or block of wood, attached to a person or animal to hinder motion.
- a dance performed while wearing shoes with wooden soles; has heavy stamping steps
- footwear usually with wooden soles
- any object that acts as a hindrance or obstruction
adv
prep
noun
adj
verb
noun
- Something that prevents something from passing.
- the act of obstructing or deflecting someone's movements
- (computing, social media) A temporary or permanent ban that prevents access to an online account or service, or connection to or from a designated telephone number, IP address, or similar.
- A wig block: a simplified head model upon which wigs are worn.
- A chopping block: a cuboid base for cutting or beheading.
- A cuboid or approximately cuboid building.
- (slang) The human head.
- Interference or obstruction of cognitive processes.
- (programming) A region of code in a program that acts as a single unit, such as a function or loop.
- (UK) Solitary confinement.
- (cricket) A shot played by holding the bat vertically in the path of the ball, so that it loses momentum and drops to the ground.
- A contiguous group of urban lots of property, typically several acres in extent, not crossed by public streets.
- (gymnastics) The portion of the movement where a gymnast pushes off the vault.
- A cellblock.
- (sports) An action to interfere with the movement of an opposing player or of the object of play (ball, puck).
- (chemistry) A portion of a macromolecule, comprising many units, that has at least one feature not present in adjacent portions.
- The distance from one street to another in a city or suburb that is built (approximately) to a grid pattern.
- A physical area or extent of something, often rectangular or approximately rectangular.
- (falconry) The perch on which a bird of prey is kept.
- (viticulture) A discrete group of vines in a vineyard, often distinguished from others by variety, clone, canopy training method, irrigation infrastructure, or some combination thereof.
- (cricket) The position of a player or bat when guarding the wicket.
- (cricket) The popping crease.
- A section of split logs used as fuel.
- (backgammon) Any point on the board where two or more men rest, and consequently an opponent may not land.
- (rail transport) A section of a railroad where the block system is used.
- (volleyball) A defensive play by one or more players meant to deflect a spiked ball back to the hitter’s court.
- A set of sheets (of paper) joined together at one end, forming a cuboid shape.
- A logical extent or region; a grouping or apportionment of like things treated together as a unit.
- (cricket) A blockhole.
- Misspelling of bloc.
- A case or frame housing one or more sheaves (pulleys), used with ropes to increase or redirect force, for example as part of lifting gear or a sailing ship's rigging. See also block and tackle.
- (education) A yeargroup at Eton College.
- (philately) A joined group of four (or in some cases nine) postage stamps, forming a roughly square shape.
- (computing) A logical data storage unit containing one or more physical sectors.
- (computing) A contiguous range of Unicode code points used to encode characters of a specific type; can be of any size evenly divisible by 16, up to 65,536 (a full plane).
- A mould on which hats, bonnets, etc., are shaped.
- A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.
- (cellular automata) In Conway's Game of Life, a still life consisting of four living cells arranged in a two-by-two square.
- (cryptography) A fixed-length group of bits making up part of a message.
- a number or quantity of related things dealt with as a unit
- a simple machine consisting of a wheel with a groove in which a rope can run to change the direction or point of application of a force applied to the rope
- (computer science) a sector or group of sectors that function as the smallest data unit permitted
- housing in a large building that is divided into separate units
- an obstruction in a pipe or tube
- a metal casting containing the cylinders and cooling ducts of an engine
- a three-dimensional shape with six square or rectangular sides
- a rectangular area in a city surrounded by streets and usually containing several buildings
- a solid piece of something (usually having flat rectangular sides)
- a platform from which an auctioneer sells
- an inability to remember or think of something you normally can do; often caused by emotional tension
verb
- obstruct
- shut out from view or get in the way so as to hide from sight
- (transitive) To shape or sketch out roughly.
- (transitive) To bar (impose a ban on a person or bot, etc.) from connecting via telephone, instant messaging, etc., or from accessing an online account or service, or similar.
- (transitive) To fill or obstruct (something) so that it is not possible to pass.
- (transitive) To shape, stretch, or mould knitted items, hats, books (and book covers), shoes, etc.
- (intransitive, cricket) To play a block shot.
- (transitive, sports) To impede (an opponent or opponent’s play).
- (transitive) To prevent (something from happening or someone from doing something).
- (transitive) To bar (a message or communication), or bar connection with (an online account or service, a designated telephone number, IP address, etc.).
- (transitive, cricket) To hit with a block.
- (programming, intransitive) To wait for some condition to become true.
- (transitive) To prevent (something or someone) from passing.
- (intransitive) To experience mental block or creative block.
- (transitive, theater) To specify the positions and movements of the actors for (a section of a play or film).
- stop from happening or developing
- hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of
- run on a block system
- shape into a block or blocks
- interfere with or prevent the reception of signals
- block passage through
- support, secure, or raise with a block
- impede the movement of (an opponent or a ball)
- stamp or emboss a title or design on a book with a block
- render unsuitable for passage
- be unable to remember
- shape by using a block
- prohibit the conversion or use of (assets)
- interrupt the normal function of by means of anesthesia
verb
noun
- a structure or object that impedes free movement
- any condition that makes it difficult to make progress or to achieve an objective
- anything serving to maintain separation by obstructing vision or access
- (historical) The lists in a tournament.
- (historical, in the plural) A martial exercise of the 15th and 16th centuries.
- (grammar) A node (in government and binding theory) said to intervene between other nodes A and B if it is a potential governor for B, c-commands B, and does not c-command A.
- An obstacle or impediment.
- (physiology) A separation between two areas of the body where specialized cells allow the entry of certain substances but prevent the entry of others.
- A structure that bars passage.
- A boundary or limit.
verb
noun
- the act of obstructing or deflecting someone's movements
- The act by which something is blocked; an obstruction.
- (computing) A feature that prevents a keyboard from registering multiple simultaneous keypresses that would cause ghosting.
- Blocks used to support (a building, etc.) temporarily.
- (signal processing) A rectangular discontinuity as an artifact of separating a discrete signal into blocks that are processed individually.
- The precise movement and positioning of actors in order to facilitate a performance (originally planned using miniature blocks).
verb
verb
- To prevent (something) from being accomplished.
- To prevent (someone) from accomplishing something.
- (nautical) Clipping of hydrofoil.
- To blunt; to dull; to spoil.
- (transitive) To cover or wrap with foil.
- (mathematics) To expand a product of two or more algebraic expressions, typically binomials.
- cover or back with foil
- hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
- enhance by contrast
noun
- (hunting) The track of an animal.
- (chiefly uncountable) Thin aluminium/aluminum (or, formerly, tin) used for wrapping food.
- (hydrodynamics, nautical) Clipping of hydrofoil.
- (heraldry) A stylized flower or leaf.
- (architecture) A small arc in the tracery of a window, etc.
- (figuratively) Anything that acts by contrast to emphasise the characteristics of something.
- (authorship, figuratively) In literature, theatre/theater, etc., a character who helps emphasize the traits of the main character and who usually acts as an opponent or antagonist, but can also serve as the sidekick of the protagonist.
- A thin layer of metal put between a jewel and its setting to make it seem more brilliant.
- Failure when on the point of attainment; defeat; frustration; miscarriage.
- (fencing) A very thin sword with a blunted (or foiled) tip
- A very thin sheet of metal or plastic.
- (aerodynamics, aviation) Clipping of aerofoil/airfoil.
- One of the incorrect answers presented in a multiple-choice test.
- A premium trading card with a glossy finish.
- A thin, transparent plastic material on which marks are made and projected for the purposes of presentation. See transparency.
- a device consisting of a flat or curved piece (as a metal plate) so that its surface reacts to the water it is passing through
- a light slender flexible sword tipped by a button
- picture consisting of a positive photograph or drawing on a transparent base; viewed with a projector
- anything that serves by contrast to call attention to another thing's good qualities
- a piece of thin and flexible sheet metal
adj
- Preventing entrance.
- Of a road: having an asphalt or macadamised surface.
- Closed by a seal (something to prevent leakage).
- (object-oriented programming) Not subclassable; from which one cannot inherit.
- covered with a waterproof coating
- closed or secured with or as if with a seal
- apply a non-porous coating to something so as to ensure it is impervious
- determined irrevocably
- (of walls) covered with a coat of plaster
- undisclosed for the time being
- established irrevocably
verb
noun
- Any impediment that prevents all further progress.
- (computing) A software bug that must be fixed before any further development is possible.
- A performance or segment of a theatrical production that induces a positive audience reaction strong enough to pause the production.
- an act so striking or impressive that the show must be delayed until the audience quiets down
- something that is strikingly attractive or has great popular appeal
verb
- To restrain; to keep from approaching.
- (board games) To remove a piece from play.
- To gain; to carry off, as a prize.
- (backgammon) To remove one of one's own checkers from the board.
- (nautical) To remove to a distance; to keep clear from rubbing against anything.
- remove from a certain place, environment, or mental or emotional state; transport into a new location or state
verb
- hamper the action or progress of
- To disable; to impede.
- strap the foreleg and hind leg together on each side (of a horse) in order to keep the legs on the same side moving in unison
- walk impeded by some physical limitation or injury
- To walk lame, or unevenly.
- To fetter by tying the legs; to restrict (a horse) with hobbles.
- (figurative) To move or proceed roughly or irregularly.
noun
- the uneven manner of walking that results from an injured leg
- a shackle for the ankles or feet
- (chiefly in the plural) One of the short straps tied between the legs of unfenced horses, allowing them to wander short distances but preventing them from running off.
- (dialect, UK and Newfoundland) An odd job; a piece of casual work.
- An unsteady, off-balance step.
noun
- a restraint that checks the motion of something
- a cooperative game in which a ball is passed back and forth
- a break or check in the voice (usually a sign of strong emotion)
- a drawback or difficulty that is not readily evident
- anything that is caught (especially if it is worth catching)
- a fastener that fastens or locks a door or window
- the quantity that was caught
- the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)
- the act of catching an object with the hands
- a person regarded as a good matrimonial prospect
- (countable, music) The refrain; a line or lines of a song which are repeated from verse to verse.
- (countable) A fragment of music or poetry.
- (countable) The act of seizing or capturing.
- (countable) The act of catching an object in motion, especially a ball.
- (countable) A stopping mechanism, especially a clasp which stops something from opening.
- (countable) The act of noticing, understanding or hearing.
- Passing opportunities seized; snatches.
- (countable) Something which is captured or caught.
- (countable, cricket, baseball) The act of catching a hit ball before it reaches the ground, resulting in an out.
- (countable, sometimes noun adjunct) A concealed difficulty, especially in a deal or negotiation.
- (countable, agriculture) A crop which has germinated and begun to grow.
- (countable) A crick; a sudden muscle pain during unaccustomed positioning when the muscle is in use.
- (countable) A hesitation in voice, caused by strong emotion.
- (countable, rowing) The first contact of an oar with the water.
- (countable, cricket) A player in respect of his catching ability; particularly one who catches well.
- A slight remembrance; a trace.
- (countable, music) A type of humorous round in which the voices gradually catch up with one another; usually sung by men and often having bawdy lyrics.
- (uncountable) The game of catching a ball.
- (countable, phonetics) A stoppage of breath, resembling a slight cough.
- (countable, colloquial, by extension) A find, in particular a boyfriend or girlfriend or prospective spouse.
verb
- grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of
- get or regain something necessary, usually quickly or briefly
- reach in time
- hear, usually without the knowledge of the speakers
- catch up with and possibly overtake
- to hook or entangle
- suffer from the receipt of
- perceive with the senses quickly, suddenly, or momentarily
- cause to become accidentally or suddenly caught, ensnared, or entangled
- attract; cause to be enamored
- perceive by hearing
- be struck or affected by
- apprehend and reproduce accurately
- come down with
- be the catcher
- attract and fix
- detect a blunder or misstep
- start burning
- succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase
- become aware of
- capture as if by hunting, snaring, or trapping
- check oneself during an action
- spread or be communicated
- delay or hold up; prevent from proceeding on schedule or as planned
- reach with a blow or hit in a particular spot
- see or watch
- take hold of so as to seize or restrain or stop the motion of
- discover or come upon accidentally, suddenly, or unexpectedly; catch somebody doing something or in a certain state
- take in and retain
- (transitive) To grasp mentally: perceive and understand.
- (transitive) To become infected by (an illness).
- (intransitive) To get pregnant.
- (transitive) To take or replenish something necessary, such as breath or sleep.
- (transitive) To reach (someone) with a strike, blow, weapon etc.
- (transitive) To reproduce or echo a spirit or idea faithfully.
- (intransitive, agriculture) To germinate and set down roots.
- (transitive) To attract and hold (a faculty or organ of sense).
- (transitive) To grip or entangle.
- (transitive) To travel by means of.
- (transitive, rare) To become pregnant. (Only in past tense or as participle.)
- (transitive, intransitive) To receive or be affected by (wind, water, fire etc.).
- (transitive) To be hit by something.
- (intransitive) To spread by infection or similar means.
- (intransitive) To be held back or impeded.
- (transitive) To entrap or trip up a person; to deceive.
- (transitive, of fire) To spread or be conveyed to.
- (transitive) To have something be held back or impeded.
- (transitive) To overtake or catch up to; to be in time for.
- (intransitive) To serve well or poorly for catching, especially for catching fish.
- (transitive, computing) To handle an exception.
- (transitive, intransitive, baseball) To play (a specific period of time) as the catcher.
- (transitive, cricket) To end a player's innings by catching a hit ball before the first bounce.
- (transitive) To be touched or affected by (something) through exposure.
- (transitive, rowing) To grip (the water) with one's oars at the beginning of the stroke.
- (transitive) To be the victim of (something unpleasant, painful etc.).
- (intransitive) To make a grasping or snatching motion (at).
- (transitive, surfing) To contact a wave in such a way that one can ride it back to shore.
- (transitive) To unpleasantly discover unexpectedly; to unpleasantly surprise (someone doing something).
- To notice.
- (intransitive) To engage with some mechanism; to stick, to succeed in interacting with something or initiating some process.
- (transitive, informal) To take in; to watch or listen to (an entertainment).
- (transitive) To charm or entrance.
- (transitive) To capture or snare (someone or something which would rather escape).
- (transitive) To acquire, as though by infection; to take on through sympathy or influence.
- (transitive) To seize or intercept an object moving through the air (or, sometimes, some other medium).
noun
- a restraint that checks the motion of something
- A device intended to block the path of a moving object
- the event of something ending
- a brief stay in the course of a journey
- a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens
- a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it
- an obstruction in a pipe or tube
- the state of inactivity following an interruption
- (music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes
- the act of stopping something
- a punctuation mark (‘.’) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
- a spot where something halts or pauses
- (tennis) A very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce as little as possible.
- An action of stopping; interruption of travel.
- (photography) A unit of exposure corresponding to a doubling of the brightness of an image.
- (architecture) A member, plain or moulded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts.
- (physics) The squark that is the superpartner of a top quark.
- (UK dialectal) A small well-bucket; a milk-pail.
- A marking on a rabbit's hind foot.
- (music) A knob or pin used to regulate the flow of air in an organ.
- (engineering) A device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for arresting or limiting motion, or for determining the position to which another part shall be brought.
- (photography) A part of a photographic system that reduces the amount of light.
- (soccer) A save; preventing the opposition from scoring a goal
- A symbol used for purposes of punctuation and representing a pause or separating clauses, particularly a full stop, comma, colon or semicolon.
- (fencing) A coup d'arret, or stop thrust.
- (zoology) The depression in a dog’s face between the skull and the nasal bones.
- That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; an obstacle; an impediment.
- (music) One of the vent-holes in a wind instrument, or the place on the wire of a stringed instrument, by the stopping or pressing of which certain notes are produced.
- The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses.
- A (usually marked) place where buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually smaller than a station.
- (photography) An f-stop.
- (linguistics) A consonant sound in which the passage of air is temporarily blocked by the lips, tongue, or glottis.
- (UK, grammar, informal) Ellipsis of full stop.
verb
- hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of
- come to a halt, stop moving
- stop from happening or developing
- cause to end
- seize on its way
- have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
- put an end to a state or an activity
- stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments
- render unsuitable for passage
- interrupt a trip
- (transitive) To cease; to no longer continue.
- (phonetics, transitive) To pronounce (a phoneme) as a stop.
- (transitive) To cause (something) to come to an end.
- (causative, transitive) To interrupt, prevent or end the activity of someone or something. [with direct object, along with gerund (chiefly UK) or direct object, along with from, along with gerund (chiefly US)]
- (music) To regulate the sounds of (musical strings, etc.) by pressing them against the fingerboard with the finger, or otherwise shortening the vibrating part.
- (transitive, intransitive, photography, often with "up" or "down") To adjust the aperture of a camera lens.
- (transitive) To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing.
- (intransitive) To cease moving.
- (intransitive) Not to continue.
- (intransitive) To stay; to spend a short time; to reside or tarry temporarily.
- (nautical) To make fast; to stopper.
- (transitive) To close or block an opening.
- (finance, transitive) To delay the purchase or sale of (a stock) while agreeing the price for later.
punct
adj
noun
- (phonetics) A consonant sound formed by obstructing the airway, causing turbulence; a plosive, fricative, or affricate.
- (medicine) Anything that obstructs, especially in the passages of the body.
- a consonant that is produced with a partial or complete blockage of the airflow from the lungs through the nose or mouth
noun
- The physical blocking or surrounding of a place, especially a port, in order to prevent commerce and traffic in or out.
- (chess) The act of preventing an opponent's pawn moving by placing a piece in front of it.
- (biology, medicine) Inhibition of the activity (function) of chemical messengers or their receptors, such as (often) receptor antagonism.
- (backgammon) Synonym of prime.
- (nautical) The ships or other forces used to effect a naval blockade.
- (by extension) Any form of formal isolation or inhibition of something, especially with the force of law or arms.
- a war measure that isolates some area of importance to the enemy
- prevents access or progress
verb
verb
- block the action of
- suppress in order to conceal or hide
- put out of one's consciousness
- impede or hinder the natural development or self-expression of
- put down by force or intimidation
- (transitive) To forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing further.
- To press again.
- (transitive, by extension) To check; to keep back.
noun
verb
- prevent from happening or continuing
- (intransitive) To unplug or cut power to a machine.
- (intransitive, informal) To commit suicide.
- (intransitive, informal) To turn off life support.
- (intransitive, informal) To cease to support; to halt. [with on ‘someone or something’]
- (intransitive, informal) To cease production or publication.
adv
adj
det
intj
noun
noun
- Something that thwarts or obstructs.
- (climbing) A route used in mountaineering, specifically rock climbing, in which the descent occurs by a different route than the ascent.
- (nautical) A traverse board.
- (military) In trench warfare, a defensive trench built to prevent enfilade.
- (nautical) The zigzag course or courses made by a ship in passing from one place to another; a compound course.
- (geometry) A line lying across a figure or other lines; a transversal.
- (architecture) A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building.
- (surveying) A series of points, with angles and distances measured between, traveled around a subject, usually for use as "control" i.e. angular reference system for later surveying work.
- (law) A formal denial of some matter of fact alleged by the opposite party in any stage of the pleadings. The technical words introducing a traverse are absque hoc ("without this", i.e. without what follows).
- a horizontal crosspiece across a window or separating a door from a window over it
- travel across
- a horizontal beam that extends across something
- taking a zigzag path on skis
adj
adv
verb
- (carpentry) To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood.
- (transitive) To travel across, to go through, to pass through, particularly under difficult conditions.
- To act against; to thwart or obstruct.
- (law) To deny formally.
- (climbing) To climb or descend a steep hill at a wide angle (relative to the slope).
- (intransitive, fencing) To use the motions of opposition or counteraction.
- (transitive, computing) To visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly.
- To pass over and view; to survey carefully.
- (weaponry) To rotate a gun around a vertical axis to bear upon a military target.
- To lay in a cross direction; to cross.
- (engineering, skiing) To (make a cutting, an incline) across the gradients of a sloped face at safe rate.
- deny formally (an allegation of fact by the opposing party) in a legal suit
- to cover or extend over an area or time period
- travel across or pass over
verb
noun
- The act or instance of defeating, of overcoming, vanquishing.
- Frustration (by prevention of success), stymieing; (law) nullification.
- The act or instance of being defeated, of being overcome or vanquished; a loss.
- the feeling that accompanies an experience of being thwarted in attaining your goals
- an unsuccessful ending to a struggle or contest
adj
verb
verb
- stand in the way of
- secure with spikes
- manifest a sharp increase
- bring forth a spike or spikes
- add alcohol to (beverages)
- pierce with a sharp stake or point
- To add alcohol or a drug into a drink, especially if covertly.
- To add a small amount of one substance to another.
- To increase sharply.
- (volleyball) To attack from, usually, above the height of the net with the intent to send the ball straight to the floor of the opponent or off the hands of the opposing block.
- (slang) To inject a drug with a syringe.
- (military) To render (a gun) unusable by driving a metal spike into its touch hole.
- (figurative, journalism) To discard; to decide not to publish or make public.
- To embed nails into (a tree) so that any attempt to cut it down will damage equipment or injure people.
- To fasten with spikes, or long, large nails.
- To set or furnish with spikes.
- To fix on a spike.
- (American football slang) To slam the football to the ground, usually in celebration of scoring a touchdown, or to stop expiring time on the game clock after snapping the ball as to save time for the losing team to attempt to score the tying or winning points.
noun
- a very high narrow heel on women's shoes
- sports equipment consisting of a sharp point on the sole of a shoe worn by athletes
- a large stout nail
- any holding device consisting of a rigid, sharp-pointed object
- a transient variation in voltage or current
- a sharp rise followed by a sharp decline
- fruiting spike of a cereal plant especially corn
- each of the sharp points on the soles of athletic shoes to prevent slipping (or the shoes themselves)
- a sharp-pointed projection along the top of a fence or wall (or a dinosaur)
- (botany) an indeterminate inflorescence bearing sessile flowers on an unbranched axis
- a long, thin sharp-pointed implement (wood or metal)
- (slang, historical) The casual ward of a workhouse.
- (theater) A mark indicating where a prop or other item should be placed on stage.
- (volleyball) An attack from, usually, above the height of the net performed with the intent to send the ball straight to the floor of the opponent or off the hands of the opposing block.
- The rod-like protrusion from a woman's high-heeled shoe that elevates the heel.
- (Anglicanism) An excessively high church Anglican.
- A piece of pointed metal etc. set with points upward or outward.
- A long nail for storing papers by skewering them; (by extension) the metaphorical place where rejected newspaper articles are sent.
- (botany) A kind of inflorescence in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis.
- (software engineering, XP) A small project that uses the simplest possible program to explore potential solutions.
- (zoology) An adolescent male deer.
- (music, lutherie) Synonym of endpin.
- A sort of very large nail.
- (virology) a structure projecting from the surface of an enveloped virus, which binds to host cells.
- A sharp peak in a graph.
- An ear of corn or grain.
- Spike lavender.
- (informal, chiefly in the plural) A running shoe with spikes in the sole to provide grip.
- (by extension) Anything resembling such a nail in shape.
- A surge in power or in the price of a commodity, etc.; any sudden and brief change that would be represented by a sharp peak on a graph.
verb
- move so as not face somebody or something
- refuse entrance or membership
- turn away or aside
- turn from a straight course, fixed direction, or line of interest
- (transitive, figuratively) To avert or ward off the occurrence or effects of.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To forsake or refuse an association or commitment.
- (transitive, figuratively) To refuse to admit someone or accept something.
- (transitive, literally) To bend or turn from a fixed course.
- (transitive, literally) To rotate so as not to face someone or something.
- (intransitive, literally) To bend or turn from a fixed course.
- (intransitive, literally) To rotate oneself so as not to face someone or something.
noun
- something that restricts freedom as a cage restricts movement
- a movable screen placed behind home base to catch balls during batting practice
- an enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals can be kept
- the net that is the goal in ice hockey
- (slang) A prison or prison cell.
- (mining) The drum on which the rope is wound in a hoisting whim.
- The passenger compartment of a lift.
- (athletics) The area from which competitors throw a discus or hammer.
- A wirework strainer, used in connection with pumps and pipes.
- (graph theory) A regular graph that has as few vertices as possible for its girth.
- (engineering) A skeleton frame to limit the motion of a loose piece, such as a ball valve.
- In killer sudoku puzzles, an irregularly-shaped group of cells that must contain a set of unique digits adding up to a certain total, in addition to the usual constraints of sudoku.
- An enclosure made of bars, normally to hold animals.
- (figuratively) Something that hinders freedom.
- (US, derogatory, slang) An automobile.
- (baseball, ice hockey) The protective wire mask at the front of a helmet.
- An outer framework of timber, enclosing something within it.
- (field hockey or ice hockey, water polo) The goal.
verb
- confine in a cage
- (transitive) To confine in a cage; to put into and keep in a cage.
- (aviation) To immobilize an artificial horizon.
- (transitive, figuratively) To restrict someone's movement or creativity.
- To track individual responses to direct mail, either (advertising) to maintain and develop mailing lists or (politics) to identify people who are not eligible to vote because they do not reside at the registered addresses.
- (transitive, slang) To imprison.
verb
noun
- (law) a tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches
- a legislator who gives long speeches in an effort to delay or obstruct legislation that they oppose
- (US politics) A member of a legislative body causing such an obstruction.
- (US politics) A tactic (such as giving long, often irrelevant speeches) employed to delay the proceedings of, or the making of a decision by, a legislative body, particularly the United States Senate.
- (historical) A mercenary soldier; a freebooter; specifically, a mercenary who travelled illegally in an organized group from the United States to a country in Central America or the Spanish West Indies in the mid-19th century seeking economic and political benefits through armed force.
verb
- obstruct
- (baseball, intransitive) To hold the bat higher (farther from the knob) than is normal.
- (intransitive) To (temporarily) lose one's power of speech, because of strong emotion.
- (transitive) To cause (a person) temporarily to lose the power of speech, because of strong emotion.
- (transitive, sometimes figurative) To block up; to cause something to be blocked.
- (intransitive, often imperative) To cease talking.
verb
- obstruct
- carry with difficulty
- (transitive, sometimes figurative) To haul or drag along (especially something heavy); to carry; to pull.
- (intransitive, horse-racing) To pull toward the inside rail ("lugging in") or the outside rail ("lugging out") during a race.
- (transitive, nautical) To carry an excessive amount of sail for the conditions prevailing.
- (transitive) To run at too slow a speed.
noun
- marine worms having a row of tufted gills along each side of the back; often used for fishing bait
- a projecting piece that is used to lift or support or turn something
- a sail with four corners that is hoisted from a yard that is oblique to the mast
- A lugworm.
- (UK) An ear or ear lobe.
- (automotive) A lug nut.
- A large, clumsy, awkward man; a fool.
- (electrical engineering) A device for terminating an electrical conductor to facilitate the mechanical connection; to the conductor it may be crimped to form a cold weld, soldered or have pressure from a screw.
- A part of something which sticks out, used as a handle or support.
- A wood box used for transporting fruit or vegetables.
- (harness) The leather loop or ear by which a shaft is held up.
- The act of hauling or dragging.
- Anything that moves slowly.
- A loop (or protuberance) found on both arms of a hinge, featuring a hole for the axis of the hinge.
- That which is hauled or dragged.
- A ridge or other protuberance on the surface of a body to increase traction or provide a hold for holding and moving it.
- (UK, dialect) A rod or pole.
- (slang) A request for money, as for political purposes.
- (informal) A pull or drag on a cigarette.
- (nautical) A lugsail.
verb
- obstruct
- treat with grease, fill, and prepare for mounting
- overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself
- press or force
- fill tightly with a material
- fill with a stuffing while cooking
- cram into a cavity
- (transitive, mildly vulgar, often imperative) Used to contemptuously dismiss or reject something. See also stuff it.
- (transitive) To load goods into (a container) for transport.
- (transitive, British, Australia, New Zealand) To break; to destroy.
- To preserve a dead bird or other animal by filling its skin.
- (transitive) To obstruct, as any of the organs; to affect with some obstruction in the organs of sense or respiration.
- (informal) To heavily defeat or get the better of.
- (transitive, cooking) To fill with seasoning.
- (transitive) To fill by packing or crowding something into; to cram with something; to load to excess.
- (transitive, computing) To compress (a file or files) in the StuffIt format, to be unstuffed later.
- (pronominal) To eat, especially in a hearty or greedy manner.
- (transitive) To cut off another competitor in a race by disturbing his projected and committed racing line (trajectory) by an abrupt manoeuvre.
- (transitive) To form or fashion by packing with the necessary material.
- (transitive) To fill a space with (something) in a compressed manner.
- (transitive, vulgar, British, Australia, New Zealand) To sexually penetrate.
- (transitive, used in the passive) To sate.
noun
- the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object
- unspecified qualities required to do or be something
- a critically important or characteristic component
- informal terms for personal possessions
- information in some unspecified form
- senseless talk
- miscellaneous unspecified objects
- (informal) Unspecified things or matters.
- The tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object.
- (informal) Miscellaneous items or objects; (with possessive) personal effects.
- Abstract/figurative substance or character.
- (informal) Used as placeholder, usually for material of unknown type or name.
- (slang) Narcotic drugs, especially heroin.
- (nautical) A melted mass of turpentine, tallow, etc., with which the masts, sides, and bottom of a ship are smeared for lubrication.
- (sometimes euphemistic) Refuse or worthless matter; hence, also, foolish or irrational language.
- Paper stock ground ready for use. When partly ground, it is called half stuff.
prefix
- Avoiding an action.
- Absence, the absence of the root (a quantity).
- prevocalic form of nona-
- Not, the negation of the root word (a quality).
- Used in the sense of no or none, to show lack of or failure to perform; or in the sense of not, to negate the meaning of the word to which it is prefixed.
- Neutral in quality.
noun
adj
verb
prefix
noun
- An impediment to free movement.
- A structure built for defense surrounding a city, castle etc.
- A point of defeat or extinction.
- (figurative) A means of defence or security.
- Something with the apparent solidity, opacity, or dimensions of a building wall.
- Each of the substantial structures acting either as the exterior of or divisions within a structure.
- A point of desperation.
- (cycling) A very steep slope.
- (historical) The right or privilege of taking the side of the road near the wall when encountering another pedestrian; said to be taken or given.
- (chiefly dialectal) A spring of water.
- (mahjong) Face-down tiles arranged in stacked rows from which players draw new tiles.
- (nautical) A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot or wale.
- (roller derby) Two or more blockers skating together so as to impede the opposing team.
- (slang, seduction community, chiefly definite) The stage of biological aging where physical appearance and attractiveness start to deteriorate rapidly.
- (Internet) A personal notice board listing messages of interest to a particular user.
- (soccer) A line of defenders set up between an opposing free-kick taker and the goal.
- (US, slang, medicine) A doctor who tries to admit as few patients as possible.
- The butterfly Lasiommata megera.
- (mining) Any of the surfaces of rock enclosing the lode.
- One of the vertical sides of a container.
- (often in combination) A barrier.
- (roleplaying games) A character that has high defenses, thereby reducing the amount of damage taken from the opponent’s attacks.
- A fictional bidder used to increase the price at an auction.
- (anatomy, zoology, botany) A dividing or containing structure in an organ or cavity.
- A rampart of earth, stones etc. built up for defensive purposes.
- an architectural partition with a height and length greater than its thickness; used to divide or enclose an area or to support another structure
- an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes
- a masonry fence (as around an estate or garden)
- a vertical (or almost vertical) smooth rock face (as of a cave or mountain)
- a difficult or awkward situation
- (anatomy) a layer (a lining or membrane) that encloses a structure
- a layer of material that encloses space
- anything that suggests a wall in structure or function or effect
intj
verb
noun
- Self-imposed restriction of movement to a particular location.
- (physics) A restriction in the movement of particles due to their internal properties (such as charge).
- An internalized restriction of one's emotions and behavior to a limited range that is considered acceptable; an inability to fully express oneself.
noun
- The act or process of preventing a thing from moving.
- the act of limiting movement or making incapable of movement
- (soil science) The process in which organic soil matter is decomposed and absorbed by microorganisms, and thus not available to plants.
- fixation (as by a plaster cast) of a body part in order to promote proper healing
noun
adj
verb
noun
- Something that prevents something from passing.
- the act of obstructing or deflecting someone's movements
- (computing, social media) A temporary or permanent ban that prevents access to an online account or service, or connection to or from a designated telephone number, IP address, or similar.
- A wig block: a simplified head model upon which wigs are worn.
- A chopping block: a cuboid base for cutting or beheading.
- A cuboid or approximately cuboid building.
- (slang) The human head.
- Interference or obstruction of cognitive processes.
- (programming) A region of code in a program that acts as a single unit, such as a function or loop.
- (UK) Solitary confinement.
- (cricket) A shot played by holding the bat vertically in the path of the ball, so that it loses momentum and drops to the ground.
- A contiguous group of urban lots of property, typically several acres in extent, not crossed by public streets.
- (gymnastics) The portion of the movement where a gymnast pushes off the vault.
- A cellblock.
- (sports) An action to interfere with the movement of an opposing player or of the object of play (ball, puck).
- (chemistry) A portion of a macromolecule, comprising many units, that has at least one feature not present in adjacent portions.
- The distance from one street to another in a city or suburb that is built (approximately) to a grid pattern.
- A physical area or extent of something, often rectangular or approximately rectangular.
- (falconry) The perch on which a bird of prey is kept.
- (viticulture) A discrete group of vines in a vineyard, often distinguished from others by variety, clone, canopy training method, irrigation infrastructure, or some combination thereof.
- (cricket) The position of a player or bat when guarding the wicket.
- (cricket) The popping crease.
- A section of split logs used as fuel.
- (backgammon) Any point on the board where two or more men rest, and consequently an opponent may not land.
- (rail transport) A section of a railroad where the block system is used.
- (volleyball) A defensive play by one or more players meant to deflect a spiked ball back to the hitter’s court.
- A set of sheets (of paper) joined together at one end, forming a cuboid shape.
- A logical extent or region; a grouping or apportionment of like things treated together as a unit.
- (cricket) A blockhole.
- Misspelling of bloc.
- A case or frame housing one or more sheaves (pulleys), used with ropes to increase or redirect force, for example as part of lifting gear or a sailing ship's rigging. See also block and tackle.
- (education) A yeargroup at Eton College.
- (philately) A joined group of four (or in some cases nine) postage stamps, forming a roughly square shape.
- (computing) A logical data storage unit containing one or more physical sectors.
- (computing) A contiguous range of Unicode code points used to encode characters of a specific type; can be of any size evenly divisible by 16, up to 65,536 (a full plane).
- A mould on which hats, bonnets, etc., are shaped.
- A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.
- (cellular automata) In Conway's Game of Life, a still life consisting of four living cells arranged in a two-by-two square.
- (cryptography) A fixed-length group of bits making up part of a message.
- a number or quantity of related things dealt with as a unit
- a simple machine consisting of a wheel with a groove in which a rope can run to change the direction or point of application of a force applied to the rope
- (computer science) a sector or group of sectors that function as the smallest data unit permitted
- housing in a large building that is divided into separate units
- an obstruction in a pipe or tube
- a metal casting containing the cylinders and cooling ducts of an engine
- a three-dimensional shape with six square or rectangular sides
- a rectangular area in a city surrounded by streets and usually containing several buildings
- a solid piece of something (usually having flat rectangular sides)
- a platform from which an auctioneer sells
- an inability to remember or think of something you normally can do; often caused by emotional tension
verb
- obstruct
- shut out from view or get in the way so as to hide from sight
- (transitive) To shape or sketch out roughly.
- (transitive) To bar (impose a ban on a person or bot, etc.) from connecting via telephone, instant messaging, etc., or from accessing an online account or service, or similar.
- (transitive) To fill or obstruct (something) so that it is not possible to pass.
- (transitive) To shape, stretch, or mould knitted items, hats, books (and book covers), shoes, etc.
- (intransitive, cricket) To play a block shot.
- (transitive, sports) To impede (an opponent or opponent’s play).
- (transitive) To prevent (something from happening or someone from doing something).
- (transitive) To bar (a message or communication), or bar connection with (an online account or service, a designated telephone number, IP address, etc.).
- (transitive, cricket) To hit with a block.
- (programming, intransitive) To wait for some condition to become true.
- (transitive) To prevent (something or someone) from passing.
- (intransitive) To experience mental block or creative block.
- (transitive, theater) To specify the positions and movements of the actors for (a section of a play or film).
- stop from happening or developing
- hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of
- run on a block system
- shape into a block or blocks
- interfere with or prevent the reception of signals
- block passage through
- support, secure, or raise with a block
- impede the movement of (an opponent or a ball)
- stamp or emboss a title or design on a book with a block
- render unsuitable for passage
- be unable to remember
- shape by using a block
- prohibit the conversion or use of (assets)
- interrupt the normal function of by means of anesthesia
noun
- a structure or object that impedes free movement
- any condition that makes it difficult to make progress or to achieve an objective
- anything serving to maintain separation by obstructing vision or access
- (historical) The lists in a tournament.
- (historical, in the plural) A martial exercise of the 15th and 16th centuries.
- (grammar) A node (in government and binding theory) said to intervene between other nodes A and B if it is a potential governor for B, c-commands B, and does not c-command A.
- An obstacle or impediment.
- (physiology) A separation between two areas of the body where specialized cells allow the entry of certain substances but prevent the entry of others.
- A structure that bars passage.
- A boundary or limit.
verb
noun
- the act of obstructing or deflecting someone's movements
- The act by which something is blocked; an obstruction.
- (computing) A feature that prevents a keyboard from registering multiple simultaneous keypresses that would cause ghosting.
- Blocks used to support (a building, etc.) temporarily.
- (signal processing) A rectangular discontinuity as an artifact of separating a discrete signal into blocks that are processed individually.
- The precise movement and positioning of actors in order to facilitate a performance (originally planned using miniature blocks).
verb
noun
- Any impediment that prevents all further progress.
- (computing) A software bug that must be fixed before any further development is possible.
- A performance or segment of a theatrical production that induces a positive audience reaction strong enough to pause the production.
- an act so striking or impressive that the show must be delayed until the audience quiets down
- something that is strikingly attractive or has great popular appeal
noun
- a restraint that checks the motion of something
- a cooperative game in which a ball is passed back and forth
- a break or check in the voice (usually a sign of strong emotion)
- a drawback or difficulty that is not readily evident
- anything that is caught (especially if it is worth catching)
- a fastener that fastens or locks a door or window
- the quantity that was caught
- the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)
- the act of catching an object with the hands
- a person regarded as a good matrimonial prospect
- (countable, music) The refrain; a line or lines of a song which are repeated from verse to verse.
- (countable) A fragment of music or poetry.
- (countable) The act of seizing or capturing.
- (countable) The act of catching an object in motion, especially a ball.
- (countable) A stopping mechanism, especially a clasp which stops something from opening.
- (countable) The act of noticing, understanding or hearing.
- Passing opportunities seized; snatches.
- (countable) Something which is captured or caught.
- (countable, cricket, baseball) The act of catching a hit ball before it reaches the ground, resulting in an out.
- (countable, sometimes noun adjunct) A concealed difficulty, especially in a deal or negotiation.
- (countable, agriculture) A crop which has germinated and begun to grow.
- (countable) A crick; a sudden muscle pain during unaccustomed positioning when the muscle is in use.
- (countable) A hesitation in voice, caused by strong emotion.
- (countable, rowing) The first contact of an oar with the water.
- (countable, cricket) A player in respect of his catching ability; particularly one who catches well.
- A slight remembrance; a trace.
- (countable, music) A type of humorous round in which the voices gradually catch up with one another; usually sung by men and often having bawdy lyrics.
- (uncountable) The game of catching a ball.
- (countable, phonetics) A stoppage of breath, resembling a slight cough.
- (countable, colloquial, by extension) A find, in particular a boyfriend or girlfriend or prospective spouse.
verb
- grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of
- get or regain something necessary, usually quickly or briefly
- reach in time
- hear, usually without the knowledge of the speakers
- catch up with and possibly overtake
- to hook or entangle
- suffer from the receipt of
- perceive with the senses quickly, suddenly, or momentarily
- cause to become accidentally or suddenly caught, ensnared, or entangled
- attract; cause to be enamored
- perceive by hearing
- be struck or affected by
- apprehend and reproduce accurately
- come down with
- be the catcher
- attract and fix
- detect a blunder or misstep
- start burning
- succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase
- become aware of
- capture as if by hunting, snaring, or trapping
- check oneself during an action
- spread or be communicated
- delay or hold up; prevent from proceeding on schedule or as planned
- reach with a blow or hit in a particular spot
- see or watch
- take hold of so as to seize or restrain or stop the motion of
- discover or come upon accidentally, suddenly, or unexpectedly; catch somebody doing something or in a certain state
- take in and retain
- (transitive) To grasp mentally: perceive and understand.
- (transitive) To become infected by (an illness).
- (intransitive) To get pregnant.
- (transitive) To take or replenish something necessary, such as breath or sleep.
- (transitive) To reach (someone) with a strike, blow, weapon etc.
- (transitive) To reproduce or echo a spirit or idea faithfully.
- (intransitive, agriculture) To germinate and set down roots.
- (transitive) To attract and hold (a faculty or organ of sense).
- (transitive) To grip or entangle.
- (transitive) To travel by means of.
- (transitive, rare) To become pregnant. (Only in past tense or as participle.)
- (transitive, intransitive) To receive or be affected by (wind, water, fire etc.).
- (transitive) To be hit by something.
- (intransitive) To spread by infection or similar means.
- (intransitive) To be held back or impeded.
- (transitive) To entrap or trip up a person; to deceive.
- (transitive, of fire) To spread or be conveyed to.
- (transitive) To have something be held back or impeded.
- (transitive) To overtake or catch up to; to be in time for.
- (intransitive) To serve well or poorly for catching, especially for catching fish.
- (transitive, computing) To handle an exception.
- (transitive, intransitive, baseball) To play (a specific period of time) as the catcher.
- (transitive, cricket) To end a player's innings by catching a hit ball before the first bounce.
- (transitive) To be touched or affected by (something) through exposure.
- (transitive, rowing) To grip (the water) with one's oars at the beginning of the stroke.
- (transitive) To be the victim of (something unpleasant, painful etc.).
- (intransitive) To make a grasping or snatching motion (at).
- (transitive, surfing) To contact a wave in such a way that one can ride it back to shore.
- (transitive) To unpleasantly discover unexpectedly; to unpleasantly surprise (someone doing something).
- To notice.
- (intransitive) To engage with some mechanism; to stick, to succeed in interacting with something or initiating some process.
- (transitive, informal) To take in; to watch or listen to (an entertainment).
- (transitive) To charm or entrance.
- (transitive) To capture or snare (someone or something which would rather escape).
- (transitive) To acquire, as though by infection; to take on through sympathy or influence.
- (transitive) To seize or intercept an object moving through the air (or, sometimes, some other medium).
noun
- a restraint that checks the motion of something
- A device intended to block the path of a moving object
- the event of something ending
- a brief stay in the course of a journey
- a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens
- a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it
- an obstruction in a pipe or tube
- the state of inactivity following an interruption
- (music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes
- the act of stopping something
- a punctuation mark (‘.’) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
- a spot where something halts or pauses
- (tennis) A very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce as little as possible.
- An action of stopping; interruption of travel.
- (photography) A unit of exposure corresponding to a doubling of the brightness of an image.
- (architecture) A member, plain or moulded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts.
- (physics) The squark that is the superpartner of a top quark.
- (UK dialectal) A small well-bucket; a milk-pail.
- A marking on a rabbit's hind foot.
- (music) A knob or pin used to regulate the flow of air in an organ.
- (engineering) A device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for arresting or limiting motion, or for determining the position to which another part shall be brought.
- (photography) A part of a photographic system that reduces the amount of light.
- (soccer) A save; preventing the opposition from scoring a goal
- A symbol used for purposes of punctuation and representing a pause or separating clauses, particularly a full stop, comma, colon or semicolon.
- (fencing) A coup d'arret, or stop thrust.
- (zoology) The depression in a dog’s face between the skull and the nasal bones.
- That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; an obstacle; an impediment.
- (music) One of the vent-holes in a wind instrument, or the place on the wire of a stringed instrument, by the stopping or pressing of which certain notes are produced.
- The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses.
- A (usually marked) place where buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually smaller than a station.
- (photography) An f-stop.
- (linguistics) A consonant sound in which the passage of air is temporarily blocked by the lips, tongue, or glottis.
- (UK, grammar, informal) Ellipsis of full stop.
verb
- hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of
- come to a halt, stop moving
- stop from happening or developing
- cause to end
- seize on its way
- have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
- put an end to a state or an activity
- stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments
- render unsuitable for passage
- interrupt a trip
- (transitive) To cease; to no longer continue.
- (phonetics, transitive) To pronounce (a phoneme) as a stop.
- (transitive) To cause (something) to come to an end.
- (causative, transitive) To interrupt, prevent or end the activity of someone or something. [with direct object, along with gerund (chiefly UK) or direct object, along with from, along with gerund (chiefly US)]
- (music) To regulate the sounds of (musical strings, etc.) by pressing them against the fingerboard with the finger, or otherwise shortening the vibrating part.
- (transitive, intransitive, photography, often with "up" or "down") To adjust the aperture of a camera lens.
- (transitive) To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing.
- (intransitive) To cease moving.
- (intransitive) Not to continue.
- (intransitive) To stay; to spend a short time; to reside or tarry temporarily.
- (nautical) To make fast; to stopper.
- (transitive) To close or block an opening.
- (finance, transitive) To delay the purchase or sale of (a stock) while agreeing the price for later.
punct
verb
- To encumber or load, especially with something that impedes motion; to hamper.
- impede the motion of, as with a chain or a burden
- (intransitive) To perform a clog dance.
- To block or slow passage through (often with 'up').
- To burden; to trammel; to embarrass; to perplex.
- (law) To enforce a mortgage lender right that prevents a borrower from exercising a right to redeem.
- fill to excess so that function is impaired
- impede with a clog or as if with a clog
- become or cause to become obstructed
- dance a clog dance
- coalesce or unite in a mass
noun
- That which hinders or impedes motion; an encumbrance, restraint, or impediment of any kind.
- A type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole sometimes with an open heel.
- A blockage.
- (UK, colloquial) A shoe of any type.
- A weight, such as a log or block of wood, attached to a person or animal to hinder motion.
- a dance performed while wearing shoes with wooden soles; has heavy stamping steps
- footwear usually with wooden soles
- any object that acts as a hindrance or obstruction
noun
- The physical blocking or surrounding of a place, especially a port, in order to prevent commerce and traffic in or out.
- (chess) The act of preventing an opponent's pawn moving by placing a piece in front of it.
- (biology, medicine) Inhibition of the activity (function) of chemical messengers or their receptors, such as (often) receptor antagonism.
- (backgammon) Synonym of prime.
- (nautical) The ships or other forces used to effect a naval blockade.
- (by extension) Any form of formal isolation or inhibition of something, especially with the force of law or arms.
- a war measure that isolates some area of importance to the enemy
- prevents access or progress
verb
noun
- Something that thwarts or obstructs.
- (climbing) A route used in mountaineering, specifically rock climbing, in which the descent occurs by a different route than the ascent.
- (nautical) A traverse board.
- (military) In trench warfare, a defensive trench built to prevent enfilade.
- (nautical) The zigzag course or courses made by a ship in passing from one place to another; a compound course.
- (geometry) A line lying across a figure or other lines; a transversal.
- (architecture) A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building.
- (surveying) A series of points, with angles and distances measured between, traveled around a subject, usually for use as "control" i.e. angular reference system for later surveying work.
- (law) A formal denial of some matter of fact alleged by the opposite party in any stage of the pleadings. The technical words introducing a traverse are absque hoc ("without this", i.e. without what follows).
- a horizontal crosspiece across a window or separating a door from a window over it
- travel across
- a horizontal beam that extends across something
- taking a zigzag path on skis
adj
adv
verb
- (carpentry) To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood.
- (transitive) To travel across, to go through, to pass through, particularly under difficult conditions.
- To act against; to thwart or obstruct.
- (law) To deny formally.
- (climbing) To climb or descend a steep hill at a wide angle (relative to the slope).
- (intransitive, fencing) To use the motions of opposition or counteraction.
- (transitive, computing) To visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly.
- To pass over and view; to survey carefully.
- (weaponry) To rotate a gun around a vertical axis to bear upon a military target.
- To lay in a cross direction; to cross.
- (engineering, skiing) To (make a cutting, an incline) across the gradients of a sloped face at safe rate.
- deny formally (an allegation of fact by the opposing party) in a legal suit
- to cover or extend over an area or time period
- travel across or pass over
noun
- something that restricts freedom as a cage restricts movement
- a movable screen placed behind home base to catch balls during batting practice
- an enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals can be kept
- the net that is the goal in ice hockey
- (slang) A prison or prison cell.
- (mining) The drum on which the rope is wound in a hoisting whim.
- The passenger compartment of a lift.
- (athletics) The area from which competitors throw a discus or hammer.
- A wirework strainer, used in connection with pumps and pipes.
- (graph theory) A regular graph that has as few vertices as possible for its girth.
- (engineering) A skeleton frame to limit the motion of a loose piece, such as a ball valve.
- In killer sudoku puzzles, an irregularly-shaped group of cells that must contain a set of unique digits adding up to a certain total, in addition to the usual constraints of sudoku.
- An enclosure made of bars, normally to hold animals.
- (figuratively) Something that hinders freedom.
- (US, derogatory, slang) An automobile.
- (baseball, ice hockey) The protective wire mask at the front of a helmet.
- An outer framework of timber, enclosing something within it.
- (field hockey or ice hockey, water polo) The goal.
verb
- confine in a cage
- (transitive) To confine in a cage; to put into and keep in a cage.
- (aviation) To immobilize an artificial horizon.
- (transitive, figuratively) To restrict someone's movement or creativity.
- To track individual responses to direct mail, either (advertising) to maintain and develop mailing lists or (politics) to identify people who are not eligible to vote because they do not reside at the registered addresses.
- (transitive, slang) To imprison.
noun
adj
verb
verb
- To move so as to block someone else's movement in a direction.
- To stop the provision or supply of something, e.g. power, water.
- To swerve in front of (another car) while driving.
- (Southern US) To turn off or switch off (an electrical device).
- To isolate or remove from contact.
- To end abruptly.
- To remove by cutting.
- (of a boundary) To exclude (something) from the field of view.
- To interrupt (someone speaking).
- To stop providing funds or something else to (someone).
- make a break in
- remove surgically
- remove by or as if by cutting
- cease, stop
- break a small piece off from
- cut off and stop
noun
adj
verb
noun
- (nautical) Articles ordinarily indispensable, but in the way at certain times.
- (US) A wicker or plastic basket specifically for holding laundry (from clothes hamper).
- A shackle; a fetter; anything which impedes.
- A large basket, usually with a cover, used for the packing and carrying of articles or small animals.
- (UK) A gift basket.
- a basket usually with a cover
- a restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner)
verb
- prevent the progress or free movement of
- secure with a cramp
- suffer from sudden painful contraction of a muscle
- affect with or as if with a cramp
- To form on a cramp.
- (transitive) To restrain to a specific physical position, as if with a cramp.
- (intransitive) (of a muscle) To contract painfully and uncontrollably.
- To fasten or hold with, or as if with, a cramp iron.
- (by extension) To bind together; to unite.
- (transitive, figurative) To prohibit movement or expression of.
- (transitive) To affect with cramps or spasms.
noun
- a clamp for holding pieces of wood together while they are glued
- a strip of metal with ends bent at right angles; used to hold masonry together
- a painful and involuntary muscular contraction
- A piece of wood having a curve corresponding to that of the upper part of the instep, on which the upper leather of a boot is stretched to give it the requisite shape.
- A clamp for carpentry or masonry.
- That which confines or contracts.
- A painful contraction of a muscle which cannot be controlled; (sometimes) a similar pain even without noticeable contraction.
verb
noun
- either of the rudimentary hind wings of dipterous insects; used for maintaining equilibrium during flight
- a rope that is used by a hangman to execute persons who have been condemned to death by hanging
- rope or canvas headgear for a horse, with a rope for leading
- a woman's top that fastens behind the back and neck leaving the back and arms uncovered
- A rope with a noose, for hanging criminals; the gallows rope.
- Alternative form of haltere.
- A bitless headpiece of rope or straps, placed on the head of animals such as cattle or horses to lead or tie them.
- One who halts or limps; a cripple.
- A halter top.
verb
- prevent the progress or free movement of
- kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air
- constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing
- suppress in order to conceal or hide
- struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake
- die from strangulation
- (transitive) To kill someone by squeezing the throat so as to cut off the oxygen supply; to choke, suffocate or throttle.
- (transitive) To stifle or suppress.
- (intransitive) To be killed by strangulation, or become strangled.
- (intransitive) To be stifled, choked, or suffocated in any manner.
noun
verb
- restrain from moving or operating normally
- finish the last row
- invest so as to make unavailable for other purposes
- secure with or as if with ropes
- secure in or as if in a berth or dock
- (finance) To immobilize a capital: make a capital investment that makes that capital unavailable.
- To secure with rope, string, etc.
- (idiomatic) To occupy, detain, keep busy, or delay.
- (idiomatic) To complete, finish, or resolve.
verb
- restrict (someone or something) so as to make free movement difficult
- prevent (someone or something) from doing something
- to close within bounds, or otherwise limit or deprive of free movement
- prevent the action or expression of
- (transitive) To deprive of liberty.
- (transitive) To strain again.
- (transitive) To restrict or limit.
- (transitive) To control or keep in check.
verb
noun
- the narrow part of a bottle near the top
- a narrowing that reduces the flow through a channel
- (figurative) In traffic, any narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay.
- The narrow portion that forms the pouring spout of a bottle; the neck of a bottle.
- (by extension) The part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome.
- (music) A portion of a bottleneck placed on the finger and used as a guitar slide.
verb
- To encumber or load, especially with something that impedes motion; to hamper.
- impede the motion of, as with a chain or a burden
- (intransitive) To perform a clog dance.
- To block or slow passage through (often with 'up').
- To burden; to trammel; to embarrass; to perplex.
- (law) To enforce a mortgage lender right that prevents a borrower from exercising a right to redeem.
- fill to excess so that function is impaired
- impede with a clog or as if with a clog
- become or cause to become obstructed
- dance a clog dance
- coalesce or unite in a mass
noun
- That which hinders or impedes motion; an encumbrance, restraint, or impediment of any kind.
- A type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole sometimes with an open heel.
- A blockage.
- (UK, colloquial) A shoe of any type.
- A weight, such as a log or block of wood, attached to a person or animal to hinder motion.
- a dance performed while wearing shoes with wooden soles; has heavy stamping steps
- footwear usually with wooden soles
- any object that acts as a hindrance or obstruction
verb
verb
- To prevent (something) from being accomplished.
- To prevent (someone) from accomplishing something.
- (nautical) Clipping of hydrofoil.
- To blunt; to dull; to spoil.
- (transitive) To cover or wrap with foil.
- (mathematics) To expand a product of two or more algebraic expressions, typically binomials.
- cover or back with foil
- hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
- enhance by contrast
noun
- (hunting) The track of an animal.
- (chiefly uncountable) Thin aluminium/aluminum (or, formerly, tin) used for wrapping food.
- (hydrodynamics, nautical) Clipping of hydrofoil.
- (heraldry) A stylized flower or leaf.
- (architecture) A small arc in the tracery of a window, etc.
- (figuratively) Anything that acts by contrast to emphasise the characteristics of something.
- (authorship, figuratively) In literature, theatre/theater, etc., a character who helps emphasize the traits of the main character and who usually acts as an opponent or antagonist, but can also serve as the sidekick of the protagonist.
- A thin layer of metal put between a jewel and its setting to make it seem more brilliant.
- Failure when on the point of attainment; defeat; frustration; miscarriage.
- (fencing) A very thin sword with a blunted (or foiled) tip
- A very thin sheet of metal or plastic.
- (aerodynamics, aviation) Clipping of aerofoil/airfoil.
- One of the incorrect answers presented in a multiple-choice test.
- A premium trading card with a glossy finish.
- A thin, transparent plastic material on which marks are made and projected for the purposes of presentation. See transparency.
- a device consisting of a flat or curved piece (as a metal plate) so that its surface reacts to the water it is passing through
- a light slender flexible sword tipped by a button
- picture consisting of a positive photograph or drawing on a transparent base; viewed with a projector
- anything that serves by contrast to call attention to another thing's good qualities
- a piece of thin and flexible sheet metal
verb
- To restrain; to keep from approaching.
- (board games) To remove a piece from play.
- To gain; to carry off, as a prize.
- (backgammon) To remove one of one's own checkers from the board.
- (nautical) To remove to a distance; to keep clear from rubbing against anything.
- remove from a certain place, environment, or mental or emotional state; transport into a new location or state
verb
- hamper the action or progress of
- To disable; to impede.
- strap the foreleg and hind leg together on each side (of a horse) in order to keep the legs on the same side moving in unison
- walk impeded by some physical limitation or injury
- To walk lame, or unevenly.
- To fetter by tying the legs; to restrict (a horse) with hobbles.
- (figurative) To move or proceed roughly or irregularly.
noun
- the uneven manner of walking that results from an injured leg
- a shackle for the ankles or feet
- (chiefly in the plural) One of the short straps tied between the legs of unfenced horses, allowing them to wander short distances but preventing them from running off.
- (dialect, UK and Newfoundland) An odd job; a piece of casual work.
- An unsteady, off-balance step.
verb
- block the action of
- suppress in order to conceal or hide
- put out of one's consciousness
- impede or hinder the natural development or self-expression of
- put down by force or intimidation
- (transitive) To forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing further.
- To press again.
- (transitive, by extension) To check; to keep back.
noun
verb
- prevent from happening or continuing
- (intransitive) To unplug or cut power to a machine.
- (intransitive, informal) To commit suicide.
- (intransitive, informal) To turn off life support.
- (intransitive, informal) To cease to support; to halt. [with on ‘someone or something’]
- (intransitive, informal) To cease production or publication.
verb
noun
- The act or instance of defeating, of overcoming, vanquishing.
- Frustration (by prevention of success), stymieing; (law) nullification.
- The act or instance of being defeated, of being overcome or vanquished; a loss.
- the feeling that accompanies an experience of being thwarted in attaining your goals
- an unsuccessful ending to a struggle or contest
verb
- stand in the way of
- secure with spikes
- manifest a sharp increase
- bring forth a spike or spikes
- add alcohol to (beverages)
- pierce with a sharp stake or point
- To add alcohol or a drug into a drink, especially if covertly.
- To add a small amount of one substance to another.
- To increase sharply.
- (volleyball) To attack from, usually, above the height of the net with the intent to send the ball straight to the floor of the opponent or off the hands of the opposing block.
- (slang) To inject a drug with a syringe.
- (military) To render (a gun) unusable by driving a metal spike into its touch hole.
- (figurative, journalism) To discard; to decide not to publish or make public.
- To embed nails into (a tree) so that any attempt to cut it down will damage equipment or injure people.
- To fasten with spikes, or long, large nails.
- To set or furnish with spikes.
- To fix on a spike.
- (American football slang) To slam the football to the ground, usually in celebration of scoring a touchdown, or to stop expiring time on the game clock after snapping the ball as to save time for the losing team to attempt to score the tying or winning points.
noun
- a very high narrow heel on women's shoes
- sports equipment consisting of a sharp point on the sole of a shoe worn by athletes
- a large stout nail
- any holding device consisting of a rigid, sharp-pointed object
- a transient variation in voltage or current
- a sharp rise followed by a sharp decline
- fruiting spike of a cereal plant especially corn
- each of the sharp points on the soles of athletic shoes to prevent slipping (or the shoes themselves)
- a sharp-pointed projection along the top of a fence or wall (or a dinosaur)
- (botany) an indeterminate inflorescence bearing sessile flowers on an unbranched axis
- a long, thin sharp-pointed implement (wood or metal)
- (slang, historical) The casual ward of a workhouse.
- (theater) A mark indicating where a prop or other item should be placed on stage.
- (volleyball) An attack from, usually, above the height of the net performed with the intent to send the ball straight to the floor of the opponent or off the hands of the opposing block.
- The rod-like protrusion from a woman's high-heeled shoe that elevates the heel.
- (Anglicanism) An excessively high church Anglican.
- A piece of pointed metal etc. set with points upward or outward.
- A long nail for storing papers by skewering them; (by extension) the metaphorical place where rejected newspaper articles are sent.
- (botany) A kind of inflorescence in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis.
- (software engineering, XP) A small project that uses the simplest possible program to explore potential solutions.
- (zoology) An adolescent male deer.
- (music, lutherie) Synonym of endpin.
- A sort of very large nail.
- (virology) a structure projecting from the surface of an enveloped virus, which binds to host cells.
- A sharp peak in a graph.
- An ear of corn or grain.
- Spike lavender.
- (informal, chiefly in the plural) A running shoe with spikes in the sole to provide grip.
- (by extension) Anything resembling such a nail in shape.
- A surge in power or in the price of a commodity, etc.; any sudden and brief change that would be represented by a sharp peak on a graph.
verb
- move so as not face somebody or something
- refuse entrance or membership
- turn away or aside
- turn from a straight course, fixed direction, or line of interest
- (transitive, figuratively) To avert or ward off the occurrence or effects of.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To forsake or refuse an association or commitment.
- (transitive, figuratively) To refuse to admit someone or accept something.
- (transitive, literally) To bend or turn from a fixed course.
- (transitive, literally) To rotate so as not to face someone or something.
- (intransitive, literally) To bend or turn from a fixed course.
- (intransitive, literally) To rotate oneself so as not to face someone or something.
verb
noun
- (law) a tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches
- a legislator who gives long speeches in an effort to delay or obstruct legislation that they oppose
- (US politics) A member of a legislative body causing such an obstruction.
- (US politics) A tactic (such as giving long, often irrelevant speeches) employed to delay the proceedings of, or the making of a decision by, a legislative body, particularly the United States Senate.
- (historical) A mercenary soldier; a freebooter; specifically, a mercenary who travelled illegally in an organized group from the United States to a country in Central America or the Spanish West Indies in the mid-19th century seeking economic and political benefits through armed force.
noun
- Something that prevents something from passing.
- the act of obstructing or deflecting someone's movements
- (computing, social media) A temporary or permanent ban that prevents access to an online account or service, or connection to or from a designated telephone number, IP address, or similar.
- A wig block: a simplified head model upon which wigs are worn.
- A chopping block: a cuboid base for cutting or beheading.
- A cuboid or approximately cuboid building.
- (slang) The human head.
- Interference or obstruction of cognitive processes.
- (programming) A region of code in a program that acts as a single unit, such as a function or loop.
- (UK) Solitary confinement.
- (cricket) A shot played by holding the bat vertically in the path of the ball, so that it loses momentum and drops to the ground.
- A contiguous group of urban lots of property, typically several acres in extent, not crossed by public streets.
- (gymnastics) The portion of the movement where a gymnast pushes off the vault.
- A cellblock.
- (sports) An action to interfere with the movement of an opposing player or of the object of play (ball, puck).
- (chemistry) A portion of a macromolecule, comprising many units, that has at least one feature not present in adjacent portions.
- The distance from one street to another in a city or suburb that is built (approximately) to a grid pattern.
- A physical area or extent of something, often rectangular or approximately rectangular.
- (falconry) The perch on which a bird of prey is kept.
- (viticulture) A discrete group of vines in a vineyard, often distinguished from others by variety, clone, canopy training method, irrigation infrastructure, or some combination thereof.
- (cricket) The position of a player or bat when guarding the wicket.
- (cricket) The popping crease.
- A section of split logs used as fuel.
- (backgammon) Any point on the board where two or more men rest, and consequently an opponent may not land.
- (rail transport) A section of a railroad where the block system is used.
- (volleyball) A defensive play by one or more players meant to deflect a spiked ball back to the hitter’s court.
- A set of sheets (of paper) joined together at one end, forming a cuboid shape.
- A logical extent or region; a grouping or apportionment of like things treated together as a unit.
- (cricket) A blockhole.
- Misspelling of bloc.
- A case or frame housing one or more sheaves (pulleys), used with ropes to increase or redirect force, for example as part of lifting gear or a sailing ship's rigging. See also block and tackle.
- (education) A yeargroup at Eton College.
- (philately) A joined group of four (or in some cases nine) postage stamps, forming a roughly square shape.
- (computing) A logical data storage unit containing one or more physical sectors.
- (computing) A contiguous range of Unicode code points used to encode characters of a specific type; can be of any size evenly divisible by 16, up to 65,536 (a full plane).
- A mould on which hats, bonnets, etc., are shaped.
- A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.
- (cellular automata) In Conway's Game of Life, a still life consisting of four living cells arranged in a two-by-two square.
- (cryptography) A fixed-length group of bits making up part of a message.
- a number or quantity of related things dealt with as a unit
- a simple machine consisting of a wheel with a groove in which a rope can run to change the direction or point of application of a force applied to the rope
- (computer science) a sector or group of sectors that function as the smallest data unit permitted
- housing in a large building that is divided into separate units
- an obstruction in a pipe or tube
- a metal casting containing the cylinders and cooling ducts of an engine
- a three-dimensional shape with six square or rectangular sides
- a rectangular area in a city surrounded by streets and usually containing several buildings
- a solid piece of something (usually having flat rectangular sides)
- a platform from which an auctioneer sells
- an inability to remember or think of something you normally can do; often caused by emotional tension
verb
- obstruct
- shut out from view or get in the way so as to hide from sight
- (transitive) To shape or sketch out roughly.
- (transitive) To bar (impose a ban on a person or bot, etc.) from connecting via telephone, instant messaging, etc., or from accessing an online account or service, or similar.
- (transitive) To fill or obstruct (something) so that it is not possible to pass.
- (transitive) To shape, stretch, or mould knitted items, hats, books (and book covers), shoes, etc.
- (intransitive, cricket) To play a block shot.
- (transitive, sports) To impede (an opponent or opponent’s play).
- (transitive) To prevent (something from happening or someone from doing something).
- (transitive) To bar (a message or communication), or bar connection with (an online account or service, a designated telephone number, IP address, etc.).
- (transitive, cricket) To hit with a block.
- (programming, intransitive) To wait for some condition to become true.
- (transitive) To prevent (something or someone) from passing.
- (intransitive) To experience mental block or creative block.
- (transitive, theater) To specify the positions and movements of the actors for (a section of a play or film).
- stop from happening or developing
- hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of
- run on a block system
- shape into a block or blocks
- interfere with or prevent the reception of signals
- block passage through
- support, secure, or raise with a block
- impede the movement of (an opponent or a ball)
- stamp or emboss a title or design on a book with a block
- render unsuitable for passage
- be unable to remember
- shape by using a block
- prohibit the conversion or use of (assets)
- interrupt the normal function of by means of anesthesia
verb
- obstruct
- (baseball, intransitive) To hold the bat higher (farther from the knob) than is normal.
- (intransitive) To (temporarily) lose one's power of speech, because of strong emotion.
- (transitive) To cause (a person) temporarily to lose the power of speech, because of strong emotion.
- (transitive, sometimes figurative) To block up; to cause something to be blocked.
- (intransitive, often imperative) To cease talking.
verb
- obstruct
- carry with difficulty
- (transitive, sometimes figurative) To haul or drag along (especially something heavy); to carry; to pull.
- (intransitive, horse-racing) To pull toward the inside rail ("lugging in") or the outside rail ("lugging out") during a race.
- (transitive, nautical) To carry an excessive amount of sail for the conditions prevailing.
- (transitive) To run at too slow a speed.
noun
- marine worms having a row of tufted gills along each side of the back; often used for fishing bait
- a projecting piece that is used to lift or support or turn something
- a sail with four corners that is hoisted from a yard that is oblique to the mast
- A lugworm.
- (UK) An ear or ear lobe.
- (automotive) A lug nut.
- A large, clumsy, awkward man; a fool.
- (electrical engineering) A device for terminating an electrical conductor to facilitate the mechanical connection; to the conductor it may be crimped to form a cold weld, soldered or have pressure from a screw.
- A part of something which sticks out, used as a handle or support.
- A wood box used for transporting fruit or vegetables.
- (harness) The leather loop or ear by which a shaft is held up.
- The act of hauling or dragging.
- Anything that moves slowly.
- A loop (or protuberance) found on both arms of a hinge, featuring a hole for the axis of the hinge.
- That which is hauled or dragged.
- A ridge or other protuberance on the surface of a body to increase traction or provide a hold for holding and moving it.
- (UK, dialect) A rod or pole.
- (slang) A request for money, as for political purposes.
- (informal) A pull or drag on a cigarette.
- (nautical) A lugsail.
verb
- obstruct
- treat with grease, fill, and prepare for mounting
- overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself
- press or force
- fill tightly with a material
- fill with a stuffing while cooking
- cram into a cavity
- (transitive, mildly vulgar, often imperative) Used to contemptuously dismiss or reject something. See also stuff it.
- (transitive) To load goods into (a container) for transport.
- (transitive, British, Australia, New Zealand) To break; to destroy.
- To preserve a dead bird or other animal by filling its skin.
- (transitive) To obstruct, as any of the organs; to affect with some obstruction in the organs of sense or respiration.
- (informal) To heavily defeat or get the better of.
- (transitive, cooking) To fill with seasoning.
- (transitive) To fill by packing or crowding something into; to cram with something; to load to excess.
- (transitive, computing) To compress (a file or files) in the StuffIt format, to be unstuffed later.
- (pronominal) To eat, especially in a hearty or greedy manner.
- (transitive) To cut off another competitor in a race by disturbing his projected and committed racing line (trajectory) by an abrupt manoeuvre.
- (transitive) To form or fashion by packing with the necessary material.
- (transitive) To fill a space with (something) in a compressed manner.
- (transitive, vulgar, British, Australia, New Zealand) To sexually penetrate.
- (transitive, used in the passive) To sate.
noun
- the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object
- unspecified qualities required to do or be something
- a critically important or characteristic component
- informal terms for personal possessions
- information in some unspecified form
- senseless talk
- miscellaneous unspecified objects
- (informal) Unspecified things or matters.
- The tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object.
- (informal) Miscellaneous items or objects; (with possessive) personal effects.
- Abstract/figurative substance or character.
- (informal) Used as placeholder, usually for material of unknown type or name.
- (slang) Narcotic drugs, especially heroin.
- (nautical) A melted mass of turpentine, tallow, etc., with which the masts, sides, and bottom of a ship are smeared for lubrication.
- (sometimes euphemistic) Refuse or worthless matter; hence, also, foolish or irrational language.
- Paper stock ground ready for use. When partly ground, it is called half stuff.
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noun
adj
- Obstructed, so that through movement or flow is prevented or impeded.
- (of a person, telephone number, IP address, etc.) Banned or barred from connecting or logging on.
- Unable to move owing to an obstruction.
- (crosswording) With black squares separating the lights and marking the ends of words.
- (of a computer account or similar) Disabled or disconnected, so as to prevent access or from performing certain actions.
- (Ireland, slang) Drunk.
- completely obstructed or closed off
- closed to traffic
verb
adj
- Preventing entrance.
- Of a road: having an asphalt or macadamised surface.
- Closed by a seal (something to prevent leakage).
- (object-oriented programming) Not subclassable; from which one cannot inherit.
- covered with a waterproof coating
- closed or secured with or as if with a seal
- apply a non-porous coating to something so as to ensure it is impervious
- determined irrevocably
- (of walls) covered with a coat of plaster
- undisclosed for the time being
- established irrevocably
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noun
- (phonetics) A consonant sound formed by obstructing the airway, causing turbulence; a plosive, fricative, or affricate.
- (medicine) Anything that obstructs, especially in the passages of the body.
- a consonant that is produced with a partial or complete blockage of the airflow from the lungs through the nose or mouth