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verb
- spend sparingly, avoid the waste of
- make unnecessary an expenditure or effort
- accumulate money for future use
- retain rights to
- refrain from harming
- spend less; buy at a reduced price
- save from ruin, destruction, or harm
- to keep up and reserve for personal or special use
- save from sins
- record data on a computer
- bring into safety
- (baseball) To preserve, as a relief pitcher, (a win of another pitcher's on one's team) by defending the lead held when the other pitcher left the game.
- (transitive, intransitive, computing, video games) To write a file to disk or other storage medium.
- To keep (something) safe; to safeguard.
- (informal) To avoid saying something.
- (intransitive) To economize or avoid waste.
- (transitive) To obviate or make unnecessary.
- To spare (somebody) from effort, or from something undesirable.
- (transitive) To conserve or prevent the wasting of.
- (reflexive, often with "for") To refrain from romantic or (especially in later use) sexual relationships until one is married or is with a suitable partner.
- (transitive and intransitive) To accumulate money or valuables.
- (transitive) To store for future use.
- (Christianity) To redeem or protect someone from eternal damnation.
- (sports) To catch or deflect (a shot at goal).
- To help (somebody) to survive, or rescue (somebody or something) from harm.
noun
- (sports) the act of preventing the opposition from scoring
- (roleplaying games) A saving throw.
- An instance of preventing (further) harm or difficulty.
- (baseball) A successful attempt by a relief pitcher to preserve the win of another pitcher on one's team.
- (professional wrestling, slang) A point in a professional wrestling match when one or more wrestlers run to the ring to aid a fellow wrestler who is being beaten.
- In various sports, a block that prevents an opponent from scoring.
- (informal) An action that brings one back out of an awkward situation.
- (computing) The act, process, or result of saving data to a storage medium.
conj
prep
verb
- use cautiously and frugally
- preserve with sugar
- keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction
- keep constant through physical or chemical reactions or evolutionary change
- (transitive) To save for later use, sometimes by the use of a preservative.
- (physics, chemistry, intransitive) To remain unchanged during a process
- (transitive) To protect an environment, heritage, etc.
noun
verb
noun
- a married man; a woman's partner in marriage
- The male of a pair of animals.
- A tiller of the ground; a husbandman.
- (UK dialectal) A polled tree; a pollard.
- A large cushion with arms meant to support a person in the sitting position.
- A man in a marriage or marital relationship, especially in relation to his spouse.
- (UK) A manager of property; one who has the care of another's belongings, owndom, or interests; a steward; an economist.
noun
- frugality in the expenditure of money or resources
- Frugal use of resources.
- an act of economizing; reduction in cost
- the system of production and distribution and consumption
- the efficient use of resources
- (theology) The method of divine government of the world. (See Economy (religion) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia.)
- (US) The part of a commercial passenger airplane or train reserved for those paying the lower standard fares; economy class.
- The study of money, currency and trade, and the efficient use of resources.
- The system of production and distribution and consumption. The overall measure of a currency system; as the national economy.
adj
adv
verb
- use frugally or carefully
- give up what is not strictly needed
- refrain from harming
- save or relieve from an experience or action
- (specifically) To refrain from killing (someone) or having (someone) killed.
- (transitive) To keep to oneself; to forbear to impart or give.
- (intransitive) To be frugal; to not be profuse; to live frugally; to be parsimonious.
- (intransitive) To refrain from inflicting harm; to use mercy or forbearance.
- (transitive) (to give up): To deprive oneself of, as by being frugal; to do without; to dispense with; to give up; to part with.
- (transitive) To save or gain, as by frugality; to reserve, as from some occupation, use, or duty.
- (intransitive) To desist; to stop; to refrain.
- (transitive) To preserve (someone) from danger or punishment; to forbear to punish, injure, or harm (someone); to show mercy towards.
adj
- Sparing; frugal; parsimonious; not spending much money.
- lacking embellishment or ornamentation
- thin and fit
- not taken up by scheduled activities
- kept in reserve especially for emergency use
- more than is needed, desired, or required
- lacking in magnitude or quantity
- Lean; lacking flesh; meager; thin; gaunt.
- Austere, stripped down, without what is extraneous.
- Not occupied or in current use.
- Being more than what is necessary, or what must be used or reserved; not wanted, or not used; superfluous.
- Scant; not abundant or plentiful.
- (UK, informal) Very angry; frustrated or distraught.
- Held in reserve, to be used in an emergency.
noun
- an extra component of a machine or other apparatus
- a score in tenpins; knocking down all ten after rolling two balls
- an extra car wheel and tire for a four-wheel vehicle
- The act of sparing; moderation; restraint.
- An opening in a petticoat or gown; a placket.
- Parsimony; frugal use.
- (bowling) The right of bowling again at a full set of pins, after having knocked all the pins down in less than three bowls. If all the pins are knocked down in one bowl it is a double spare; in two bowls, a single spare.
- A spare part, especially a spare tire.
- (bowling) The act of knocking down all remaining pins in second ball of a frame; this entitles the pins knocked down on the next ball to be added to the score for that frame.
- A superfluous or second-best person.
- (Canada) A free period; a block of school during which one does not have a class.
- That which has not been used or expended.
- (Myanmar) assistant or extra hand (typically on buses and lorries)
verb
- spend wastefully
- engage in amorous play
- become extravagant; indulge (oneself) luxuriously
- waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently
- indulge in a carefree or voluptuous way of life
- behave extremely cruelly and brutally
- (transitive) To waste or squander, especially in pleasure (most often with away).
- (intransitive) To act wantonly; to be lewd or lascivious.
- (intransitive) To rove and ramble without restraint, rule, or limit; to revel; to play loosely; to frolic.
adj
noun
verb
verb
- spend frivolously and unwisely
- live a life of pleasure, especially with respect to alcoholic consumption
- to cause to separate and go in different directions
- move away from each other
- (physics) To cause energy to be lost through its conversion to heat.
- (transitive) To use up or waste; squander.
- (intransitive) To vanish by dispersion.
- (transitive) To drive away, disperse.
verb
noun
- a professional clown employed to entertain a king or nobleman in the Middle Ages
- a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of
- a person who lacks good judgment
- (informal) Someone who derives pleasure from something specified.
- (tarot, often capitalized Fool) A particular card in a tarot deck, representing a jester.
- (cooking) A type of dessert made of puréed fruit and custard or cream.
- (slang, chiefly African-American Vernacular, Hispanic) An informal greeting akin to buddy, dude, or man.
- Someone who has been made a fool of or tricked; dupe.
- (derogatory, slang) A tankie.
- (historical) A jester; a person whose role was to entertain a sovereign and the court (or lower personages).
- (literature) A stock character typified by unintelligence, naïveté or lucklessness, usually as a form of comic relief; often used as a source of insight or pathos for the audience, as such characters are generally less bound by social expectations.
- (derogatory) A person with poor judgment or little intelligence.
adj
verb
- spend frivolously and unwisely
- (transitive) To break into small pieces or fragments.
- (transitive) To cut (meat etc.) into small pieces for frying.
- (transitive) To sinter.
- (intransitive, often with about, around, or away) To squander or waste time, money, or other resources; e.g. occupy oneself idly or without clear purpose, to tinker with an unimportant part of a project, to dally, sometimes as a form of procrastination.
noun
verb
- spend frivolously and unwisely
- kill by firing a missile
- variegate by interweaving weft threads of different colors
- record on photographic film
- send forth suddenly, intensely, swiftly
- move quickly and violently
- throw dice, as in a crap game
- measure the altitude of by using a sextant
- force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing
- utter fast and forcefully
- run or move very quickly or hastily
- hit with a missile from a weapon
- give an injection to
- cause a sharp and sudden pain in
- produce buds, branches, or germinate
- make a film or photograph of something
- throw or propel in a specific direction or towards a specific objective
- emit (as light, flame, or fumes) suddenly and forcefully
- fire a shot; release
- score
- (wrestling) To lunge.
- To protrude; to jut; to project; to extend.
- (transitive, intransitive, analogous) To photograph.
- (intransitive) To move very quickly and suddenly.
- (transitive) To fire (a projectile).
- (professional wrestling) To deviate from kayfabe, either intentionally or accidentally; to actually connect with unchoreographed fighting blows and maneuvers, or speak one's mind (instead of an agreed script).
- To variegate as if by sprinkling or intermingling; to color in spots or patches. (See shot silk on Wikipedia)
- (surfing) To ride a wave.
- (intransitive) To cause a weapon to discharge a projectile.
- (intransitive) To hunt birds, etc. with a gun.
- (carpentry) To plane straight; to fit by planing.
- (aviation) To carry out, or attempt to carry out (an approach to an airport runway).
- To drink (a shot of an alcoholic beverage).
- (transitive, intransitive, colloquial) To inject a drug (such as heroin) intravenously.
- (transitive, slang) To ejaculate.
- To go over or pass quickly through.
- (nautical) To move ahead by force of momentum, as a sailing vessel when the helm is put hard alee.
- (surveying) To measure the distance and direction to (a point).
- (intransitive, usually, as imperative) To begin to speak.
- To germinate; to bud; to sprout.
- (transitive) To hunt on (a piece of land); to kill game in or on.
- (transitive) To fire a projectile at (a person or target).
- (transitive) To tip (something, especially coal) down a chute.
- To grow; to advance.
- (transitive) To penetrate, like a missile; to dart with a piercing sensation.
- (transitive) To push or thrust a bolt quickly; hence, to open a lock.
- To push or thrust forward; to project; to protrude; often with out.
- To send out or forth, especially with a rapid or sudden motion; to cast with the hand; to hurl; to discharge; to emit.
- (transitive) To travel or ride on (breaking waves) rowards the shore.
- To carry out a seismic survey with geophones in an attempt to detect oil.
- (intransitive) To discharge a missile; said of a weapon.
- (informal, ditransitive) To send to someone.
- (transitive) To fire (a weapon that releases a projectile).
- To make the stated score.
- (transitive, intransitive, analogous, film, television) To film.
- (transitive, figurative) To dismiss or do away with.
- (card games) To shoot the moon.
- (gambling) To throw dice.
noun
- the act of shooting at targets
- a new branch
- A rush of water; a rapid.
- An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, ore, etc., are caused to slide; a chute.
- A seismic survey carried out with geophones in an attempt to detect oil.
- The emerging stem and embryonic leaves of a new plant.
- (card games) The act of taking all point cards in one hand.
- A hunt or shooting competition.
- The act of shooting; the discharge of a missile; a shot.
- (mining) A vein of ore running in the same general direction as the lode.
- (professional wrestling, slang) An event that is unscripted or legitimate.
- A shoat; a young pig.
- A photography session.
- (weaving) A weft thread shot through the shed by the shuttle; a pick.
intj
noun
- Specifically, the prudent care and management of resources; thriftiness, frugality.
- The careful governance and guidance of God (or another deity, nature, etc.).
- A manifestation of divine care or direction; an instance of divine intervention.
- a manifestation of God's foresightful care for their creatures
- the guardianship and control exercised by a deity
- the prudence and care exercised by someone in the management of resources
verb
- spend lavishly or wastefully on
- spend thoughtlessly; throw away
- cause to move by means of an air current
- cause air to go in, on, or through
- free of obstruction by blowing air through
- spout moist air from the blowhole
- be blowing or storming
- make a mess of, destroy or ruin
- shape by blowing
- melt, break, or become otherwise unusable
- be inadequate or objectionable
- play or sound a wind instrument
- deposit eggs (of insects)
- burst suddenly
- be in motion due to some air or water current
- sound by having air expelled through a tube
- exhale hard
- provide sexual gratification through oral stimulation
- show off
- make a sound as if blown
- leave; informal or rude
- cause to be revealed and jeopardized
- allow to regain its breath
- (transitive, informal, idiomatic) To fail at; to mess up; to make a mistake in.
- (transitive) To make flyblown; to defile or spoil, especially with fly eggs.
- (ergative, of a fuse) To melt away because of overcurrent, creating a gap in a wire, thus stopping a circuit from operating.
- (transitive, historical, military) To blow from a gun (method of executing a person).
- (intransitive) To be propelled by an air current.
- (intransitive) To produce an air current.
- (intransitive, stative, slang, sometimes considered vulgar) To be very undesirable.
- To blossom; to cause to bloom or blossom.
- (Scientology, intransitive) To leave the Church of Scientology in an unauthorized manner.
- (transitive) To cause the sudden destruction of.
- (intransitive) To suddenly fail or give way destructively.
- (intransitive, slang, informal, African-American Vernacular) To sing.
- (intransitive) To make a sound as a result of being blown.
- (intransitive) (of a fly) To lay eggs; to breed (in flesh or meat).
- (transitive, slang) To leave, especially suddenly or in a hurry.
- (transitive) To put out of breath; to cause to blow from fatigue.
- (transitive, vulgar) To perform oral sex on (someone); to fellate.
- (transitive) To clear of contents by forcing air through.
- (intransitive) To burst or explode; to occur suddenly
- (transitive) To cause to make sound by blowing (as a musical instrument).
- (transitive, with "up" or with prep phrase headed by "to") To cause to explode, shatter, or be utterly destroyed.
- (transitive) To force a current of air upon with the mouth, or by other means.
- (intransitive, of a cetacean) To exhale visibly through the spout the seawater which it has taken in while feeding.
- (transitive, slang) To recklessly squander.
- (transitive) To create or shape by blowing.
- (transitive) To propel by an air current (or, if under water, a water current), usually with the mouth.
- (transitive, figurative) To direct or move, usually of a person to a particular location.
- (intransitive) To breathe hard or quick; to pant; to puff.
- (intransitive, slang, colloquial) To flatulate or defecate.
noun
- an impact (as from a collision)
- a strong current of air
- a powerful stroke with the fist or a weapon
- an unpleasant or disappointing surprise
- street names for cocaine
- an unfortunate happening that hinders or impedes; something that is thwarting or frustrating
- forceful exhalation through the nose or mouth
- A display or mass of flowers; a yield.
- (figurative) A display of anything bright or brilliant.
- A strong wind.
- An instance of the act of striking or hitting.
- (uncountable, UK, slang) Cannabis.
- (nautical) An instance of using high-pressure air to empty water from the ballast tanks of a submarine, increasing the submarine's buoyancy and causing it to surface.
- A sudden or forcible act or effort; an assault.
- (uncountable, Chicago dialectal, slang) Heroin.
- (informal) A chance to catch one's breath.
- (uncountable, US, slang) Powder cocaine.
- (informal, vulgar) A blowjob; fellatio.
- (television) Synonym of button (“the punchy or suspenseful line of dialogue that concludes a scene”).
- (Australia, New Zealand) An outcrop of quartz from surrounding rock, thought to indicate mineral deposits below.
- (Australia, shearing, historical) A cut made to a sheep's fleece by a shearer using hand-shears.
- A state of flowering; a bloom.
- A damaging occurrence.
adj
intj
adj
- Frugal, thrifty.
- (proscribed) Natural, normal.
- Knowing, shrewd, astute.
- (Scotland, Northumbria) Friendly, pleasant, fair, agreeable; (sometimes) funny.
- Careful, prudent, cautious.
- (especially of sound) Sounding as if it is coming through a tin can.
- (Scotland, Northumbria) Gentle, quiet, steady.
- showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others
adv
verb
adj
noun
adj
- avoiding excess
- conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class
- unimaginatively conventional
- having social or political views favoring conservatism
- resistant to change, particularly in relation to politics or religion
- Based on pessimistic assumptions, and on the low side.
- Cautious, moderate.
- (linguistics) Having few changes relative to an older form, especially in comparison to related varieties.
- (clothing) Conventional, traditional, and moderate in style and appearance; not extreme, excessive, faddish, or intense.
- (physics, not comparable) Neither creating nor destroying a given quantity.
- (US, Canada, economics, politics, social sciences) Supporting some combination of fiscal, political or social conservatism.
- (Judaism) Relating to Conservative Judaism.
- Tending to resist change or innovation.
- (medicine) Not including any operation or intervention (said of a treatment, see conservative treatment)
- (British, politics) Relating to the Conservative Party.
- Having power to preserve in a safe or entire state, or from loss, waste, or injury; preservative.
- (calculus, of field) That is the gradient of a function.
noun
- a person who is reluctant to accept changes and new ideas
- A person who favors maintenance of the status quo.
- (politics) One who seeks to promote or preserve traditional values or institutions.
- (especially US, Canada, politics) One who seeks to promote traditions in a particular domain (e.g. a fiscal conservative or a social conservative).
adj
- Thrifty; frugal.
- Preserving; rescuing.
- (theology) That saves someone from damnation; redemptive.
- Making reservation or exception.
- (in compounds) Relating to making a saving.
- Bringing back in returns or in receipts the sum expended; incurring no loss, though not gainful.
- bringing about salvation or redemption from sin
- characterized by thriftiness
noun
- an act of economizing; reduction in cost
- A reduction in cost or expenditure.
- (uncountable) The action of the verb to save.
- (countable, usually in the plural) Something (usually money) that is saved, particularly money that has been set aside for the future.
- recovery or preservation from loss or danger
- the activity of protecting something from loss or danger
prep
verb
verb
- (intransitive with on) To reduce spending.
- (intransitive often with on) To reduce consumption.
- (transitive and intransitive with on) To reduce the amount of (something).
- (intransitive, surfing) To perform the cutback maneuver.
- (intransitive often with to) To use a short cut; to move to a location to block someone; to cut someone off
- cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
- cut down on; make a reduction in
- return in time
- place restrictions on
adj
verb
noun
- extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily
- any of numerous sun-loving low-growing evergreens of the genus Armeria having round heads of pink or white flowers
- (uncountable) The characteristic of using a minimum of something (especially money).
- (countable) Any of various plants of the genus Armeria, particularly Armeria maritima.
- (countable, US) A savings bank.
verb
noun
- frugality in the expenditure of money or resources
- Frugal use of resources.
- an act of economizing; reduction in cost
- the system of production and distribution and consumption
- the efficient use of resources
- (theology) The method of divine government of the world. (See Economy (religion) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia.)
- (US) The part of a commercial passenger airplane or train reserved for those paying the lower standard fares; economy class.
- The study of money, currency and trade, and the efficient use of resources.
- The system of production and distribution and consumption. The overall measure of a currency system; as the national economy.
adj
adv
noun
- Specifically, the prudent care and management of resources; thriftiness, frugality.
- The careful governance and guidance of God (or another deity, nature, etc.).
- A manifestation of divine care or direction; an instance of divine intervention.
- a manifestation of God's foresightful care for their creatures
- the guardianship and control exercised by a deity
- the prudence and care exercised by someone in the management of resources
adj
- Thrifty; frugal.
- Preserving; rescuing.
- (theology) That saves someone from damnation; redemptive.
- Making reservation or exception.
- (in compounds) Relating to making a saving.
- Bringing back in returns or in receipts the sum expended; incurring no loss, though not gainful.
- bringing about salvation or redemption from sin
- characterized by thriftiness
noun
- an act of economizing; reduction in cost
- A reduction in cost or expenditure.
- (uncountable) The action of the verb to save.
- (countable, usually in the plural) Something (usually money) that is saved, particularly money that has been set aside for the future.
- recovery or preservation from loss or danger
- the activity of protecting something from loss or danger
prep
verb
noun
- extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily
- any of numerous sun-loving low-growing evergreens of the genus Armeria having round heads of pink or white flowers
- (uncountable) The characteristic of using a minimum of something (especially money).
- (countable) Any of various plants of the genus Armeria, particularly Armeria maritima.
- (countable, US) A savings bank.
verb
verb
- spend sparingly, avoid the waste of
- make unnecessary an expenditure or effort
- accumulate money for future use
- retain rights to
- refrain from harming
- spend less; buy at a reduced price
- save from ruin, destruction, or harm
- to keep up and reserve for personal or special use
- save from sins
- record data on a computer
- bring into safety
- (baseball) To preserve, as a relief pitcher, (a win of another pitcher's on one's team) by defending the lead held when the other pitcher left the game.
- (transitive, intransitive, computing, video games) To write a file to disk or other storage medium.
- To keep (something) safe; to safeguard.
- (informal) To avoid saying something.
- (intransitive) To economize or avoid waste.
- (transitive) To obviate or make unnecessary.
- To spare (somebody) from effort, or from something undesirable.
- (transitive) To conserve or prevent the wasting of.
- (reflexive, often with "for") To refrain from romantic or (especially in later use) sexual relationships until one is married or is with a suitable partner.
- (transitive and intransitive) To accumulate money or valuables.
- (transitive) To store for future use.
- (Christianity) To redeem or protect someone from eternal damnation.
- (sports) To catch or deflect (a shot at goal).
- To help (somebody) to survive, or rescue (somebody or something) from harm.
noun
- (sports) the act of preventing the opposition from scoring
- (roleplaying games) A saving throw.
- An instance of preventing (further) harm or difficulty.
- (baseball) A successful attempt by a relief pitcher to preserve the win of another pitcher on one's team.
- (professional wrestling, slang) A point in a professional wrestling match when one or more wrestlers run to the ring to aid a fellow wrestler who is being beaten.
- In various sports, a block that prevents an opponent from scoring.
- (informal) An action that brings one back out of an awkward situation.
- (computing) The act, process, or result of saving data to a storage medium.
conj
prep
verb
- use cautiously and frugally
- preserve with sugar
- keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction
- keep constant through physical or chemical reactions or evolutionary change
- (transitive) To save for later use, sometimes by the use of a preservative.
- (physics, chemistry, intransitive) To remain unchanged during a process
- (transitive) To protect an environment, heritage, etc.
noun
verb
noun
- a married man; a woman's partner in marriage
- The male of a pair of animals.
- A tiller of the ground; a husbandman.
- (UK dialectal) A polled tree; a pollard.
- A large cushion with arms meant to support a person in the sitting position.
- A man in a marriage or marital relationship, especially in relation to his spouse.
- (UK) A manager of property; one who has the care of another's belongings, owndom, or interests; a steward; an economist.
verb
- use frugally or carefully
- give up what is not strictly needed
- refrain from harming
- save or relieve from an experience or action
- (specifically) To refrain from killing (someone) or having (someone) killed.
- (transitive) To keep to oneself; to forbear to impart or give.
- (intransitive) To be frugal; to not be profuse; to live frugally; to be parsimonious.
- (intransitive) To refrain from inflicting harm; to use mercy or forbearance.
- (transitive) (to give up): To deprive oneself of, as by being frugal; to do without; to dispense with; to give up; to part with.
- (transitive) To save or gain, as by frugality; to reserve, as from some occupation, use, or duty.
- (intransitive) To desist; to stop; to refrain.
- (transitive) To preserve (someone) from danger or punishment; to forbear to punish, injure, or harm (someone); to show mercy towards.
adj
- Sparing; frugal; parsimonious; not spending much money.
- lacking embellishment or ornamentation
- thin and fit
- not taken up by scheduled activities
- kept in reserve especially for emergency use
- more than is needed, desired, or required
- lacking in magnitude or quantity
- Lean; lacking flesh; meager; thin; gaunt.
- Austere, stripped down, without what is extraneous.
- Not occupied or in current use.
- Being more than what is necessary, or what must be used or reserved; not wanted, or not used; superfluous.
- Scant; not abundant or plentiful.
- (UK, informal) Very angry; frustrated or distraught.
- Held in reserve, to be used in an emergency.
noun
- an extra component of a machine or other apparatus
- a score in tenpins; knocking down all ten after rolling two balls
- an extra car wheel and tire for a four-wheel vehicle
- The act of sparing; moderation; restraint.
- An opening in a petticoat or gown; a placket.
- Parsimony; frugal use.
- (bowling) The right of bowling again at a full set of pins, after having knocked all the pins down in less than three bowls. If all the pins are knocked down in one bowl it is a double spare; in two bowls, a single spare.
- A spare part, especially a spare tire.
- (bowling) The act of knocking down all remaining pins in second ball of a frame; this entitles the pins knocked down on the next ball to be added to the score for that frame.
- A superfluous or second-best person.
- (Canada) A free period; a block of school during which one does not have a class.
- That which has not been used or expended.
- (Myanmar) assistant or extra hand (typically on buses and lorries)
verb
- spend wastefully
- engage in amorous play
- become extravagant; indulge (oneself) luxuriously
- waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently
- indulge in a carefree or voluptuous way of life
- behave extremely cruelly and brutally
- (transitive) To waste or squander, especially in pleasure (most often with away).
- (intransitive) To act wantonly; to be lewd or lascivious.
- (intransitive) To rove and ramble without restraint, rule, or limit; to revel; to play loosely; to frolic.
adj
noun
verb
verb
- spend frivolously and unwisely
- live a life of pleasure, especially with respect to alcoholic consumption
- to cause to separate and go in different directions
- move away from each other
- (physics) To cause energy to be lost through its conversion to heat.
- (transitive) To use up or waste; squander.
- (intransitive) To vanish by dispersion.
- (transitive) To drive away, disperse.
verb
noun
- a professional clown employed to entertain a king or nobleman in the Middle Ages
- a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of
- a person who lacks good judgment
- (informal) Someone who derives pleasure from something specified.
- (tarot, often capitalized Fool) A particular card in a tarot deck, representing a jester.
- (cooking) A type of dessert made of puréed fruit and custard or cream.
- (slang, chiefly African-American Vernacular, Hispanic) An informal greeting akin to buddy, dude, or man.
- Someone who has been made a fool of or tricked; dupe.
- (derogatory, slang) A tankie.
- (historical) A jester; a person whose role was to entertain a sovereign and the court (or lower personages).
- (literature) A stock character typified by unintelligence, naïveté or lucklessness, usually as a form of comic relief; often used as a source of insight or pathos for the audience, as such characters are generally less bound by social expectations.
- (derogatory) A person with poor judgment or little intelligence.
adj
verb
- spend frivolously and unwisely
- (transitive) To break into small pieces or fragments.
- (transitive) To cut (meat etc.) into small pieces for frying.
- (transitive) To sinter.
- (intransitive, often with about, around, or away) To squander or waste time, money, or other resources; e.g. occupy oneself idly or without clear purpose, to tinker with an unimportant part of a project, to dally, sometimes as a form of procrastination.
noun
verb
- spend frivolously and unwisely
- kill by firing a missile
- variegate by interweaving weft threads of different colors
- record on photographic film
- send forth suddenly, intensely, swiftly
- move quickly and violently
- throw dice, as in a crap game
- measure the altitude of by using a sextant
- force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing
- utter fast and forcefully
- run or move very quickly or hastily
- hit with a missile from a weapon
- give an injection to
- cause a sharp and sudden pain in
- produce buds, branches, or germinate
- make a film or photograph of something
- throw or propel in a specific direction or towards a specific objective
- emit (as light, flame, or fumes) suddenly and forcefully
- fire a shot; release
- score
- (wrestling) To lunge.
- To protrude; to jut; to project; to extend.
- (transitive, intransitive, analogous) To photograph.
- (intransitive) To move very quickly and suddenly.
- (transitive) To fire (a projectile).
- (professional wrestling) To deviate from kayfabe, either intentionally or accidentally; to actually connect with unchoreographed fighting blows and maneuvers, or speak one's mind (instead of an agreed script).
- To variegate as if by sprinkling or intermingling; to color in spots or patches. (See shot silk on Wikipedia)
- (surfing) To ride a wave.
- (intransitive) To cause a weapon to discharge a projectile.
- (intransitive) To hunt birds, etc. with a gun.
- (carpentry) To plane straight; to fit by planing.
- (aviation) To carry out, or attempt to carry out (an approach to an airport runway).
- To drink (a shot of an alcoholic beverage).
- (transitive, intransitive, colloquial) To inject a drug (such as heroin) intravenously.
- (transitive, slang) To ejaculate.
- To go over or pass quickly through.
- (nautical) To move ahead by force of momentum, as a sailing vessel when the helm is put hard alee.
- (surveying) To measure the distance and direction to (a point).
- (intransitive, usually, as imperative) To begin to speak.
- To germinate; to bud; to sprout.
- (transitive) To hunt on (a piece of land); to kill game in or on.
- (transitive) To fire a projectile at (a person or target).
- (transitive) To tip (something, especially coal) down a chute.
- To grow; to advance.
- (transitive) To penetrate, like a missile; to dart with a piercing sensation.
- (transitive) To push or thrust a bolt quickly; hence, to open a lock.
- To push or thrust forward; to project; to protrude; often with out.
- To send out or forth, especially with a rapid or sudden motion; to cast with the hand; to hurl; to discharge; to emit.
- (transitive) To travel or ride on (breaking waves) rowards the shore.
- To carry out a seismic survey with geophones in an attempt to detect oil.
- (intransitive) To discharge a missile; said of a weapon.
- (informal, ditransitive) To send to someone.
- (transitive) To fire (a weapon that releases a projectile).
- To make the stated score.
- (transitive, intransitive, analogous, film, television) To film.
- (transitive, figurative) To dismiss or do away with.
- (card games) To shoot the moon.
- (gambling) To throw dice.
noun
- the act of shooting at targets
- a new branch
- A rush of water; a rapid.
- An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, ore, etc., are caused to slide; a chute.
- A seismic survey carried out with geophones in an attempt to detect oil.
- The emerging stem and embryonic leaves of a new plant.
- (card games) The act of taking all point cards in one hand.
- A hunt or shooting competition.
- The act of shooting; the discharge of a missile; a shot.
- (mining) A vein of ore running in the same general direction as the lode.
- (professional wrestling, slang) An event that is unscripted or legitimate.
- A shoat; a young pig.
- A photography session.
- (weaving) A weft thread shot through the shed by the shuttle; a pick.
intj
verb
- spend lavishly or wastefully on
- spend thoughtlessly; throw away
- cause to move by means of an air current
- cause air to go in, on, or through
- free of obstruction by blowing air through
- spout moist air from the blowhole
- be blowing or storming
- make a mess of, destroy or ruin
- shape by blowing
- melt, break, or become otherwise unusable
- be inadequate or objectionable
- play or sound a wind instrument
- deposit eggs (of insects)
- burst suddenly
- be in motion due to some air or water current
- sound by having air expelled through a tube
- exhale hard
- provide sexual gratification through oral stimulation
- show off
- make a sound as if blown
- leave; informal or rude
- cause to be revealed and jeopardized
- allow to regain its breath
- (transitive, informal, idiomatic) To fail at; to mess up; to make a mistake in.
- (transitive) To make flyblown; to defile or spoil, especially with fly eggs.
- (ergative, of a fuse) To melt away because of overcurrent, creating a gap in a wire, thus stopping a circuit from operating.
- (transitive, historical, military) To blow from a gun (method of executing a person).
- (intransitive) To be propelled by an air current.
- (intransitive) To produce an air current.
- (intransitive, stative, slang, sometimes considered vulgar) To be very undesirable.
- To blossom; to cause to bloom or blossom.
- (Scientology, intransitive) To leave the Church of Scientology in an unauthorized manner.
- (transitive) To cause the sudden destruction of.
- (intransitive) To suddenly fail or give way destructively.
- (intransitive, slang, informal, African-American Vernacular) To sing.
- (intransitive) To make a sound as a result of being blown.
- (intransitive) (of a fly) To lay eggs; to breed (in flesh or meat).
- (transitive, slang) To leave, especially suddenly or in a hurry.
- (transitive) To put out of breath; to cause to blow from fatigue.
- (transitive, vulgar) To perform oral sex on (someone); to fellate.
- (transitive) To clear of contents by forcing air through.
- (intransitive) To burst or explode; to occur suddenly
- (transitive) To cause to make sound by blowing (as a musical instrument).
- (transitive, with "up" or with prep phrase headed by "to") To cause to explode, shatter, or be utterly destroyed.
- (transitive) To force a current of air upon with the mouth, or by other means.
- (intransitive, of a cetacean) To exhale visibly through the spout the seawater which it has taken in while feeding.
- (transitive, slang) To recklessly squander.
- (transitive) To create or shape by blowing.
- (transitive) To propel by an air current (or, if under water, a water current), usually with the mouth.
- (transitive, figurative) To direct or move, usually of a person to a particular location.
- (intransitive) To breathe hard or quick; to pant; to puff.
- (intransitive, slang, colloquial) To flatulate or defecate.
noun
- an impact (as from a collision)
- a strong current of air
- a powerful stroke with the fist or a weapon
- an unpleasant or disappointing surprise
- street names for cocaine
- an unfortunate happening that hinders or impedes; something that is thwarting or frustrating
- forceful exhalation through the nose or mouth
- A display or mass of flowers; a yield.
- (figurative) A display of anything bright or brilliant.
- A strong wind.
- An instance of the act of striking or hitting.
- (uncountable, UK, slang) Cannabis.
- (nautical) An instance of using high-pressure air to empty water from the ballast tanks of a submarine, increasing the submarine's buoyancy and causing it to surface.
- A sudden or forcible act or effort; an assault.
- (uncountable, Chicago dialectal, slang) Heroin.
- (informal) A chance to catch one's breath.
- (uncountable, US, slang) Powder cocaine.
- (informal, vulgar) A blowjob; fellatio.
- (television) Synonym of button (“the punchy or suspenseful line of dialogue that concludes a scene”).
- (Australia, New Zealand) An outcrop of quartz from surrounding rock, thought to indicate mineral deposits below.
- (Australia, shearing, historical) A cut made to a sheep's fleece by a shearer using hand-shears.
- A state of flowering; a bloom.
- A damaging occurrence.
adj
intj
verb
adj
noun
verb
- (intransitive with on) To reduce spending.
- (intransitive often with on) To reduce consumption.
- (transitive and intransitive with on) To reduce the amount of (something).
- (intransitive, surfing) To perform the cutback maneuver.
- (intransitive often with to) To use a short cut; to move to a location to block someone; to cut someone off
- cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
- cut down on; make a reduction in
- return in time
- place restrictions on
verb
- use frugally or carefully
- give up what is not strictly needed
- refrain from harming
- save or relieve from an experience or action
- (specifically) To refrain from killing (someone) or having (someone) killed.
- (transitive) To keep to oneself; to forbear to impart or give.
- (intransitive) To be frugal; to not be profuse; to live frugally; to be parsimonious.
- (intransitive) To refrain from inflicting harm; to use mercy or forbearance.
- (transitive) (to give up): To deprive oneself of, as by being frugal; to do without; to dispense with; to give up; to part with.
- (transitive) To save or gain, as by frugality; to reserve, as from some occupation, use, or duty.
- (intransitive) To desist; to stop; to refrain.
- (transitive) To preserve (someone) from danger or punishment; to forbear to punish, injure, or harm (someone); to show mercy towards.
adj
- Sparing; frugal; parsimonious; not spending much money.
- lacking embellishment or ornamentation
- thin and fit
- not taken up by scheduled activities
- kept in reserve especially for emergency use
- more than is needed, desired, or required
- lacking in magnitude or quantity
- Lean; lacking flesh; meager; thin; gaunt.
- Austere, stripped down, without what is extraneous.
- Not occupied or in current use.
- Being more than what is necessary, or what must be used or reserved; not wanted, or not used; superfluous.
- Scant; not abundant or plentiful.
- (UK, informal) Very angry; frustrated or distraught.
- Held in reserve, to be used in an emergency.
noun
- an extra component of a machine or other apparatus
- a score in tenpins; knocking down all ten after rolling two balls
- an extra car wheel and tire for a four-wheel vehicle
- The act of sparing; moderation; restraint.
- An opening in a petticoat or gown; a placket.
- Parsimony; frugal use.
- (bowling) The right of bowling again at a full set of pins, after having knocked all the pins down in less than three bowls. If all the pins are knocked down in one bowl it is a double spare; in two bowls, a single spare.
- A spare part, especially a spare tire.
- (bowling) The act of knocking down all remaining pins in second ball of a frame; this entitles the pins knocked down on the next ball to be added to the score for that frame.
- A superfluous or second-best person.
- (Canada) A free period; a block of school during which one does not have a class.
- That which has not been used or expended.
- (Myanmar) assistant or extra hand (typically on buses and lorries)
adj
- Frugal, thrifty.
- (proscribed) Natural, normal.
- Knowing, shrewd, astute.
- (Scotland, Northumbria) Friendly, pleasant, fair, agreeable; (sometimes) funny.
- Careful, prudent, cautious.
- (especially of sound) Sounding as if it is coming through a tin can.
- (Scotland, Northumbria) Gentle, quiet, steady.
- showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others
adv
adj
- avoiding excess
- conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class
- unimaginatively conventional
- having social or political views favoring conservatism
- resistant to change, particularly in relation to politics or religion
- Based on pessimistic assumptions, and on the low side.
- Cautious, moderate.
- (linguistics) Having few changes relative to an older form, especially in comparison to related varieties.
- (clothing) Conventional, traditional, and moderate in style and appearance; not extreme, excessive, faddish, or intense.
- (physics, not comparable) Neither creating nor destroying a given quantity.
- (US, Canada, economics, politics, social sciences) Supporting some combination of fiscal, political or social conservatism.
- (Judaism) Relating to Conservative Judaism.
- Tending to resist change or innovation.
- (medicine) Not including any operation or intervention (said of a treatment, see conservative treatment)
- (British, politics) Relating to the Conservative Party.
- Having power to preserve in a safe or entire state, or from loss, waste, or injury; preservative.
- (calculus, of field) That is the gradient of a function.
noun
- a person who is reluctant to accept changes and new ideas
- A person who favors maintenance of the status quo.
- (politics) One who seeks to promote or preserve traditional values or institutions.
- (especially US, Canada, politics) One who seeks to promote traditions in a particular domain (e.g. a fiscal conservative or a social conservative).
adj
- Thrifty; frugal.
- Preserving; rescuing.
- (theology) That saves someone from damnation; redemptive.
- Making reservation or exception.
- (in compounds) Relating to making a saving.
- Bringing back in returns or in receipts the sum expended; incurring no loss, though not gainful.
- bringing about salvation or redemption from sin
- characterized by thriftiness
noun
- an act of economizing; reduction in cost
- A reduction in cost or expenditure.
- (uncountable) The action of the verb to save.
- (countable, usually in the plural) Something (usually money) that is saved, particularly money that has been set aside for the future.
- recovery or preservation from loss or danger
- the activity of protecting something from loss or danger