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noun
- A light-colored tern.
- (figuratively) Something precious.
- A fringe or border.
- A fish allied to the turbot; the brill.
- One of the circle of tubercles which form the bur on a deer's antler.
- Ellipsis of pearl tapioca.
- A whitish speck or film on the eye.
- (heraldry) Argent, in blazoning by precious stones.
- (literally) A shelly concretion, usually rounded, and having a brilliant luster, with varying tints, found in the mantle, or between the mantle and shell, of certain bivalve mollusks, especially in the pearl oysters and river mussels, and sometimes in certain univalves. It is usually due to a secretion of shelly substance around some irritating foreign particle. Its substance is the same as nacre, or mother-of-pearl. Round lustrous pearls are used in jewellery.
- (figuratively) A valuable little nugget of information; especially, an aphorism or tip that is operationally useful for decision-making.
- (figuratively, euphemistic or vulgar slang) The clitoris.
- A capsule of gelatin or similar substance containing liquid for, e.g., medicinal application.
- Nacre; mother-of-pearl.
- a shape that is spherical and small
- a shade of white the color of bleached bones
- a smooth lustrous round structure inside the shell of a clam or oyster; much valued as a jewel
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- (transitive, sometimes figurative) To set or adorn with pearls, or with mother-of-pearl.
- (intransitive) To hunt for pearls
- (transitive) To cause to resemble pearls in shape; to make into small round grains.
- (intransitive, of a liquid) To bead; to form droplets.
- (Minecraft) To use an ender pearl to teleport by throwing it.
- (intransitive) To resemble pearl or pearls.
- (transitive) To cause to resemble pearls in lustre or iridescence.
- (intransitive, surfing) Of the nose of the surfboard: to sink in this manner.
- (intransitive, botany) Of aquatic plants: to produce visible bubbles on the stems and leaves during photosynthesis, usually in a simulated environment like an aquarium.
- (intransitive, surfing) To sink the nose of one's surfboard into the water, often on takeoff.
- gather pearls, from oysters in the ocean
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- having a light color
- the visual effect of illumination on objects or scenes as created in pictures
- the property of being comparatively small in weight
- a feeling of joy and pride
- the gracefulness of a person or animal that is quick and nimble
- the trait of being lighthearted and frivolous
- The state of having little (or less) weight, or little force.
- (uncountable) the relative whiteness or transparency of a colour
- Levity, frivolity; inconsistency.
- Freedom from worry.
- (countable) The product of being illuminated.
- (uncountable) the condition of being illuminated
- Agility of movement.
noun
- A light, brown-like colour.
- a light brown the color of topaz
- A darkening of the skin resulting from exposure to sunlight or similar light sources.
- An Armenian drink made of yoghurt and water similar to airan and doogh
- The bark of an oak or other tree from which tannic acid is obtained.
- (dialectal) A twig or small switch.
- Synonym of picul, particularly in Cantonese contexts.
- a browning of the skin resulting from exposure to the rays of the sun
- ratio of the opposite to the adjacent side of a right-angled triangle
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- (transitive) To change an animal hide into leather by soaking it in tannic acid.
- (transitive, intransitive) To change to a tan colour due to exposure to the sun.
- (transitive, informal) To spank or beat.
- (transitive, stative) To work as a tanner.
- (transitive, MLE, slang) To kill by gun, to shoot.
- treat skins and hides with tannic acid so as to convert them into leather
- get a tan, from wind or sun
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- any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine
- a horse of a brownish orange to light brown color
- East Indian sparsely prickly annual herb or perennial subshrub widely cultivated for its fleshy calyxes used in tarts and jelly and for its bast fiber
- large sour-tasting arrowhead-shaped leaves used in salads and sauces
- any plant or flower of the genus Oxalis
- Members of genus Oxalis or family Oxalidaceae, woodsorrels.
- A drink, consumed especially in the Caribbean around Christmas, made from the flowers of Hibiscus sabdariffa: hibiscus tea.
- Any of various plants with acidic leaves of the genus Rumex, especially
- The roselle, Hibiscus sabdariffa.
- Rumex acetosa (common sorrel, garden sorrel), sometimes used as a salad vegetable.
- A brown colour, with a tint of red.
adj
- Relatively light or pale in colour.
- Grey, as from old age; having silvery hair; hoary.
- (board games, chess) The standard denomination of the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the white set, no matter what the actual colour.
- (now less common and often offensive) Honourable, fair, decent, kind; generous.
- (sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to Europeans or those of European descent, regardless if their skin has cool or warm undertones.
- (of a person or skin) Lacking coloration (tan) from ultraviolet light; not tanned.
- (of tea) Made from immature leaves and shoots.
- Characterised by the presence of snow.
- Pale or pallid, as from fear, illness, etc.
- Bright and colourless; reflecting equal quantities of all frequencies of visible light.
- (politics) Pertaining to constitutional or anti-revolutionary political parties or movements.
- (sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to Caucasians (people with white complexion and European ancestry).
- (typography) Not containing characters; see white space.
- (of coffee or tea) Containing cream, milk, or creamer.
- (chiefly historical) Designated for use by Caucasians.
- (typography) Said of a symbol or character outline, not solid, not filled with color. Compare black (“said of a character or symbol filled with color”).
- (of a set of armor) Alwhite, pertaining to white armor.
- (sometimes capitalized) By U.S. Census Bureau definition, of or relating to people hailing from Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East.
- (of an animal) Affected by leucism.
- Pertaining to an ecclesiastical order whose adherents dress in white habits; Cistercian.
- glowing white with heat
- being of the achromatic color of maximum lightness; having little or no hue owing to reflection of almost all incident light
- benevolent; without malicious intent
- restricted to whites only
- (of a surface) not written or printed on
- (of coffee) having cream or milk added
- marked by the presence of snow
- (of hair) having lost its color
- of or belonging to a racial group having light skin coloration
- of summer nights in northern latitudes where the sun barely sets
- anemic looking from illness or emotion
- free from moral blemish or impurity; unsullied
noun
- (countable and uncountable) White wine.
- (archery) The central part of the butt, which was formerly painted white; the centre of a mark at which a missile is shot.
- The snow- or ice-covered "green" in snow golf.
- (board games, chess) The person playing with the white set of pieces.
- The albumen of bird eggs (egg white).
- A feather, from the wing of the cock ostrich, that is of the palest possible shade.
- (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) The cue ball in cue games.
- The color of snow or milk; the color of light containing equal amounts of all visible wavelengths.
- (uncountable) Ellipsis of white bread
- A white pigment.
- A person of European descent with light-colored skin.
- The enclosed part of a letter of the alphabet, especially when handwritten.
- Any butterfly of the subfamily Pierinae in the family Pieridae.
- (countable and uncountable) White coffee
- (anatomy) The sclera, white of the eye.
- (slang, US, UK) Cocaine.
- A white bean.
- (usually in the plural) trousers made of flannel or gabardine or tweed or white cloth
- (board games) the lighter pieces
- the quality or state of the achromatic color of greatest lightness (bearing the least resemblance to black)
- the white part of an egg; the nutritive and protective gelatinous substance surrounding the yolk consisting mainly of albumin dissolved in water
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- A shade of colour; a tinge.
- An organ through which animals see (“perceive surroundings via light”).
- (go) An empty point or group of points surrounded by one player's stones.
- A meaningful look or stare.
- Ellipsis of private eye.
- (US) A burner on a kitchen stove.
- The visual sense.
- A loop forming part of anything, or a hole through anything, to receive a hook, pin, rope, shaft, etc.; for example, at the end of a tie bar in a bridge truss, through a crank, at the end of a rope, or through a millstone.
- The iris of the eye, being of a specified colour.
- (typography) The enclosed counter (“negative space”) of the lower-case letter e.
- A reproductive bud in a potato.
- The dark spot on a black-eyed pea.
- A mark on an animal, such as a butterfly or peacock, resembling a human eye.
- The name of the Latin script letter I/i.
- The ability to notice what others might miss.
- One of the holes in certain kinds of cheese.
- (nautical, in the plural) The foremost part of a ship's bows; the hawseholes.
- (architecture) The circle in the centre of a volute.
- The relatively calm and clear centre of a hurricane or other cyclonic storm.
- The oval hole of an axehead through which the axehandle is fitted.
- A brood.
- A fitting consisting of a loop of metal or other material, suitable for receiving a hook or the passage of a cord or line.
- That which resembles the eye in relative beauty or importance.
- Attention, notice.
- A hole at the blunt end of a needle through which thread is passed.
- (usually in the plural) Opinion, view.
- (mining) Synonym of pit-eye.
- (informal) The dark brown centre of a black-eyed Susan flower.
- good discernment (either visually or as if visually)
- a small hole or loop (as in a needle)
- attention to what is seen
- the organ of sight
- an area that is approximately central within some larger region
verb
noun
- A light, slightly greenish, yellow colour.
- Any test subject, especially an inadvertent or unwilling one. (From the mining practice of using canaries to detect dangerous gases.)
- (Australia, informal) A yellow sticker applied by the police to a vehicle to indicate it is unroadworthy.
- (informal) A female singer, soprano, a coloratura singer.
- (slang) An informer or snitch; a squealer.
- A small, usually yellow, finch (genus Serinus), a songbird native to the Canary Islands.
- Any of various small birds of different countries, most of which are largely yellow in colour.
- (public transport) A previously-issued ticket, retained by a ticket-seller, conductor or driver and resold to a subsequent passenger as a means of defrauding the transport company.
- (slang) A (usually yellow) capsule of the short-acting barbiturate pentobarbital/pentobarbitone (nembutal).
- (computing) A change that is tested by being rolled out first to a subset of machines or users before rolling out to all.
- (countable, uncountable) A light, sweet, white wine from the Canary Islands.
- (computing) A value placed in memory such that it will be the first data corrupted by a buffer overflow, allowing the program to identify and recover from it.
- A lively dance, possibly of Spanish origin (also called canaries).
- any of several small Old World finches
- someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police
- a female singer
- a moderate yellow with a greenish tinge
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- brilliantly colored and apparently giving off light
- emitting light during exposure to radiation from an external source
- Of or relating to fluorescence.
- Exhibiting or produced by fluorescence.
- Vivid, as if fluorescing; neon.
- Emitting visible light as a result of the excitation of phosphors by ultraviolet photons produced by the passage of an electrical current through an inert gas infused with mercury.
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- a light grayish yellow to near white
- a female person with fair skin and hair
- (countable) (film, television, theater) A kind of 2,000-watt lamp.
- Alternative form of blond (“color”)
- Alternative form of blond (“type of beer”)
- (countable) Alternative form of blond (“person with fair hair”). (Used especially of a woman. See the usage notes in the entry blond.)
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- Having a color.
- Having prominent colors; colorful.
- (chiefly historical) Designated for use by colored people (in either the US or South African sense).
- Biased; pervasively (but potentially subtly) influenced in a particular way.
- (in combination) Having a particular color or kind of color.
- (South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, sometimes capitalized) Belonging to a multiracial ethnic group or category, having ancestry from more than one of the racial groups of Southern Africa (black, white, and Asian). (Under apartheid, used as a metadescription for mixed-race people and peoples such as the Cape Coloureds.)
- (used of color) artificially produced; not natural
- having color or a certain color; sometimes used in combination
- having skin rich in melanin pigments;
- favoring one person or side over another
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- The large, usually yellowish-green or black, savory fruit of the avocado tree.
- The avocado tree, Persea americana, of the laurel family.
- (chiefly uncountable) A dark chartreuse color, like the color of the skin of an avocado.
- a pear-shaped tropical fruit with green or blackish skin and rich yellowish pulp enclosing a single large seed
- tropical American tree bearing large pulpy green fruits
adj
- Light in color.
- (of human skin) Having a pallor (a light color, especially due to sickness, shock, fright etc.).
- Feeble, faint.
- not full or rich
- very light colored; highly diluted with white
- (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble
- lacking in vitality or interest or effectiveness
- abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress
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- A tan colour, like that of a tumbleweed.
- (attributive) Describing unwanted silence and inactivity. Often used of a situation when one makes a statement that is ignored or ill-received by one's audience, as the resultant silence is likened to that of a desolate desert with rolling tumbleweeds.
- Any plant which habitually breaks away from its roots once dry, forming a light, rolling mass which is driven by the wind from place to place; as Russian thistle, wild indigo, witch grass, Amaranthus albus, etc.
- bushy plant of western United States
- bushy annual weed of central North America having greenish flowers and winged seeds
- prickly bushy Eurasian plant; a troublesome weed in central and western United States
- any plant that breaks away from its roots in autumn and is driven by the wind as a light rolling mass
noun
- a soft shade of a color
- the property of a sensation that is rich and pleasing
- a taste (especially of fruit) that is ripe and of full flavor
- geniality, as through the effects of alcohol or marijuana
- a feeling of good humor and sympathy through maturity or intoxication or a relaxed state
- The property of being mellow.
noun
- a bright patch of color used for decoration or identification
- a sudden brilliant understanding
- a sudden intense burst of radiant energy
- a short vivid experience
- a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat)
- a lamp for providing momentary light to take a photograph
- a short news announcement concerning some on-going news story
- a momentary brightness
- a burst of light used to communicate or illuminate
- a gaudy outward display
- A brief exposure or making visible (of a smile, badge, etc).
- A sudden, short, temporary burst of light.
- (computing, uncountable) Clipping of flash memory.
- (colloquial, US) A flashlight; an electric torch.
- Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the genera Artipe, Deudorix and Rapala.
- Synonym of flashback (“recurrence of the effects of a hallucinogenic drug”).
- (military) A form of military insignia.
- The sudden sensation of being "high" after taking a recreational drug.
- (figurative, uncountable) Pizzazz, razzle-dazzle.
- (linguistics) A language, created by a minority to maintain cultural identity, that cannot be understood by the ruling class.
- (photography) Clipping of camera flash (“a device used to produce a flash of artificial light to help illuminate a scene”).
- (British, Cockney) The strips of bright cloth or buttons worn around the collars of market traders.
- (telecommunications) Ellipsis of hook flash.
- A tattoo flash (example design on paper to give an idea of a possible tattoo).
- The (intentional or unintentional) exposure of an intimate body part or undergarment in public.
- Material left around the edge of a moulded part at the parting line of the mould.
- (figuratively) A sudden and brilliant burst, as of genius or wit.
- (juggling) A pattern where each prop is thrown and caught only once.
- A pool of water, in some areas especially one that is marshy, and/or one formed by subsidence of the ground due to mining. (Compare flush (“marsh; pool”).)
- A very short amount of time.
- (engineering) A reservoir and sluiceway beside a navigable stream, just above a shoal, so that the stream may pour in water as boats pass, and thus bear them over the shoal.
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- gleam or glow intermittently
- appear briefly
- emit a brief burst of light
- make known or cause to appear with great speed
- protect by covering with a thin sheet of metal
- display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously
- run or move very quickly or hastily
- expose or show briefly
- (intransitive, of liquid) To evaporate suddenly. (See flash evaporation.)
- (transitive) To cause to shine briefly or intermittently.
- (metallurgy) To release the pressure from a pressurized vessel.
- (transitive, climbing) To climb (a route) successfully on the first attempt.
- To flash back.
- (transitive) To send by some startling or sudden means.
- (transitive, computing) To write to the memory of (an updatable component such as a BIOS chip or games cartridge).
- (intransitive) To burst out into violence.
- (transitive) To telephone a person, only allowing the phone to ring once, in order to request a call back.
- (ambitransitive, informal) To expose one's intimate body part or undergarment, often momentarily and unintentionally. (Contrast streak.)
- (transitive, glassmaking) To cover with a thin layer, as objects of glass with glass of a different colour.
- (transitive, glassmaking) To expand (blown glass) into a disc.
- (figurative) To break forth like a sudden flood of light; to show a momentary brilliance.
- (intransitive) To be visible briefly.
- To move, or cause to move, suddenly.
- To communicate quickly.
- (transitive) To make visible briefly.
- (juggling) To perform a flash.
- (intransitive) To blink; to shine or illuminate intermittently.
- To flaunt; to display in a showy manner.
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- (countable) A newly hatched, immature mayfly; a mayfly subimago.
- (countable, fishing) A fly made to resemble the mayfly subimago.
- An ancient or medieval fortification; especially a hill-fort in Scotland or Ireland.
- (countable) A collector of debts, especially one who is insistent and demanding.
- A brownish grey colour.
- An urgent request or demand of payment.
- A mound or small hill.
- (archaeology) A structure in the Orkney or Shetland islands or in Scotland consisting of a roundhouse surrounded by a circular wall; a broch.
- Alternative form of dhoon (“Himalayan valley”).
- horse of a dull brownish grey color
- a color or pigment varying around a light grey-brown color
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- (nonstandard, informal) Eye dialect spelling of done: past participle of do.
- (transitive) To harass by continually repeating e.g. a request.
- (transitive) To ask or beset a debtor for payment.
- (nonstandard, informal) Pronunciation spelling of don't: contraction of do + not.
- treat cruelly
- persistently ask for overdue payment
- make a dun color
- cure by salting
noun
- Something of a light brown or brownish orange colour (particularly if it has the word tawny in its name).
- A light brown to brownish orange colour.
- (alcoholic beverages) In full tawny port: a sweet, fortified port wine which is blended and matured in wooden casks.
- Tawny owl.
- Tawny frogmouth.
- (specifically, heraldry) Synonym of tenné (“a rarely-used tincture of orange or bright brown”).
- (Somerset) The common bullfinch or Eurasian bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula).
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- any of various pale or light colors
- Any of several subdued tints of colors, usually associated with pink, peach, yellow, green, blue, and lavender.
- Woad.
- A crayon made from such a paste.
- A traditional dish in various Latin American countries and in Indonesia, resembling a tamale, pasty, or calzone.
- A Filipino stew made with vegetables, sausages, and chicken or other meat in a creamy sauce.
- A type of dried paste used to make crayons.
- (art) A drawing made with any of those colors.
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- (intransitive) To give birth to a fawn.
- (literal, of a dog) To show devotion or submissiveness by wagging its tail, nuzzling, licking, etc.
- (derogatory) To seek favour by flattery and obsequious behaviour. [with on or upon]
- To exhibit affection toward someone.
- To attempt to please someone.
- show submission or fear
- have fawns
- try to gain favor by cringing or flattering
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- a dull greyish to yellowish or light olive brown
- The color of this fabric.
- A small amount, especially of money.
- (chiefly transgender slang) An instance of a transgender or non-binary person presenting as the gender corresponding to their sex assigned at birth instead of that corresponding to their internal gender identity (most commonly a trans woman dressed as a man).
- Often in the plural form drabs: apparel, especially trousers, made from this fabric.
- A box used in a saltworks for holding the salt when taken out of the boiling pans.
- A fabric, usually of thick cotton or wool, having a dull brownish yellow, dull grey, or dun colour.
- (by extension) A dull or uninteresting appearance or situation, unremarkable.
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- A light-colored tern.
- (figuratively) Something precious.
- A fringe or border.
- A fish allied to the turbot; the brill.
- One of the circle of tubercles which form the bur on a deer's antler.
- Ellipsis of pearl tapioca.
- A whitish speck or film on the eye.
- (heraldry) Argent, in blazoning by precious stones.
- (literally) A shelly concretion, usually rounded, and having a brilliant luster, with varying tints, found in the mantle, or between the mantle and shell, of certain bivalve mollusks, especially in the pearl oysters and river mussels, and sometimes in certain univalves. It is usually due to a secretion of shelly substance around some irritating foreign particle. Its substance is the same as nacre, or mother-of-pearl. Round lustrous pearls are used in jewellery.
- (figuratively) A valuable little nugget of information; especially, an aphorism or tip that is operationally useful for decision-making.
- (figuratively, euphemistic or vulgar slang) The clitoris.
- A capsule of gelatin or similar substance containing liquid for, e.g., medicinal application.
- Nacre; mother-of-pearl.
- a shape that is spherical and small
- a shade of white the color of bleached bones
- a smooth lustrous round structure inside the shell of a clam or oyster; much valued as a jewel
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- (transitive, sometimes figurative) To set or adorn with pearls, or with mother-of-pearl.
- (intransitive) To hunt for pearls
- (transitive) To cause to resemble pearls in shape; to make into small round grains.
- (intransitive, of a liquid) To bead; to form droplets.
- (Minecraft) To use an ender pearl to teleport by throwing it.
- (intransitive) To resemble pearl or pearls.
- (transitive) To cause to resemble pearls in lustre or iridescence.
- (intransitive, surfing) Of the nose of the surfboard: to sink in this manner.
- (intransitive, botany) Of aquatic plants: to produce visible bubbles on the stems and leaves during photosynthesis, usually in a simulated environment like an aquarium.
- (intransitive, surfing) To sink the nose of one's surfboard into the water, often on takeoff.
- gather pearls, from oysters in the ocean
noun
- having a light color
- the visual effect of illumination on objects or scenes as created in pictures
- the property of being comparatively small in weight
- a feeling of joy and pride
- the gracefulness of a person or animal that is quick and nimble
- the trait of being lighthearted and frivolous
- The state of having little (or less) weight, or little force.
- (uncountable) the relative whiteness or transparency of a colour
- Levity, frivolity; inconsistency.
- Freedom from worry.
- (countable) The product of being illuminated.
- (uncountable) the condition of being illuminated
- Agility of movement.
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- A light, brown-like colour.
- a light brown the color of topaz
- A darkening of the skin resulting from exposure to sunlight or similar light sources.
- An Armenian drink made of yoghurt and water similar to airan and doogh
- The bark of an oak or other tree from which tannic acid is obtained.
- (dialectal) A twig or small switch.
- Synonym of picul, particularly in Cantonese contexts.
- a browning of the skin resulting from exposure to the rays of the sun
- ratio of the opposite to the adjacent side of a right-angled triangle
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- (transitive) To change an animal hide into leather by soaking it in tannic acid.
- (transitive, intransitive) To change to a tan colour due to exposure to the sun.
- (transitive, informal) To spank or beat.
- (transitive, stative) To work as a tanner.
- (transitive, MLE, slang) To kill by gun, to shoot.
- treat skins and hides with tannic acid so as to convert them into leather
- get a tan, from wind or sun
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- A shade of colour; a tinge.
- An organ through which animals see (“perceive surroundings via light”).
- (go) An empty point or group of points surrounded by one player's stones.
- A meaningful look or stare.
- Ellipsis of private eye.
- (US) A burner on a kitchen stove.
- The visual sense.
- A loop forming part of anything, or a hole through anything, to receive a hook, pin, rope, shaft, etc.; for example, at the end of a tie bar in a bridge truss, through a crank, at the end of a rope, or through a millstone.
- The iris of the eye, being of a specified colour.
- (typography) The enclosed counter (“negative space”) of the lower-case letter e.
- A reproductive bud in a potato.
- The dark spot on a black-eyed pea.
- A mark on an animal, such as a butterfly or peacock, resembling a human eye.
- The name of the Latin script letter I/i.
- The ability to notice what others might miss.
- One of the holes in certain kinds of cheese.
- (nautical, in the plural) The foremost part of a ship's bows; the hawseholes.
- (architecture) The circle in the centre of a volute.
- The relatively calm and clear centre of a hurricane or other cyclonic storm.
- The oval hole of an axehead through which the axehandle is fitted.
- A brood.
- A fitting consisting of a loop of metal or other material, suitable for receiving a hook or the passage of a cord or line.
- That which resembles the eye in relative beauty or importance.
- Attention, notice.
- A hole at the blunt end of a needle through which thread is passed.
- (usually in the plural) Opinion, view.
- (mining) Synonym of pit-eye.
- (informal) The dark brown centre of a black-eyed Susan flower.
- good discernment (either visually or as if visually)
- a small hole or loop (as in a needle)
- attention to what is seen
- the organ of sight
- an area that is approximately central within some larger region
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- A light, slightly greenish, yellow colour.
- Any test subject, especially an inadvertent or unwilling one. (From the mining practice of using canaries to detect dangerous gases.)
- (Australia, informal) A yellow sticker applied by the police to a vehicle to indicate it is unroadworthy.
- (informal) A female singer, soprano, a coloratura singer.
- (slang) An informer or snitch; a squealer.
- A small, usually yellow, finch (genus Serinus), a songbird native to the Canary Islands.
- Any of various small birds of different countries, most of which are largely yellow in colour.
- (public transport) A previously-issued ticket, retained by a ticket-seller, conductor or driver and resold to a subsequent passenger as a means of defrauding the transport company.
- (slang) A (usually yellow) capsule of the short-acting barbiturate pentobarbital/pentobarbitone (nembutal).
- (computing) A change that is tested by being rolled out first to a subset of machines or users before rolling out to all.
- (countable, uncountable) A light, sweet, white wine from the Canary Islands.
- (computing) A value placed in memory such that it will be the first data corrupted by a buffer overflow, allowing the program to identify and recover from it.
- A lively dance, possibly of Spanish origin (also called canaries).
- any of several small Old World finches
- someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police
- a female singer
- a moderate yellow with a greenish tinge
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- a light grayish yellow to near white
- a female person with fair skin and hair
- (countable) (film, television, theater) A kind of 2,000-watt lamp.
- Alternative form of blond (“color”)
- Alternative form of blond (“type of beer”)
- (countable) Alternative form of blond (“person with fair hair”). (Used especially of a woman. See the usage notes in the entry blond.)
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- A tan colour, like that of a tumbleweed.
- (attributive) Describing unwanted silence and inactivity. Often used of a situation when one makes a statement that is ignored or ill-received by one's audience, as the resultant silence is likened to that of a desolate desert with rolling tumbleweeds.
- Any plant which habitually breaks away from its roots once dry, forming a light, rolling mass which is driven by the wind from place to place; as Russian thistle, wild indigo, witch grass, Amaranthus albus, etc.
- bushy plant of western United States
- bushy annual weed of central North America having greenish flowers and winged seeds
- prickly bushy Eurasian plant; a troublesome weed in central and western United States
- any plant that breaks away from its roots in autumn and is driven by the wind as a light rolling mass
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- a soft shade of a color
- the property of a sensation that is rich and pleasing
- a taste (especially of fruit) that is ripe and of full flavor
- geniality, as through the effects of alcohol or marijuana
- a feeling of good humor and sympathy through maturity or intoxication or a relaxed state
- The property of being mellow.
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- a bright patch of color used for decoration or identification
- a sudden brilliant understanding
- a sudden intense burst of radiant energy
- a short vivid experience
- a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat)
- a lamp for providing momentary light to take a photograph
- a short news announcement concerning some on-going news story
- a momentary brightness
- a burst of light used to communicate or illuminate
- a gaudy outward display
- A brief exposure or making visible (of a smile, badge, etc).
- A sudden, short, temporary burst of light.
- (computing, uncountable) Clipping of flash memory.
- (colloquial, US) A flashlight; an electric torch.
- Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the genera Artipe, Deudorix and Rapala.
- Synonym of flashback (“recurrence of the effects of a hallucinogenic drug”).
- (military) A form of military insignia.
- The sudden sensation of being "high" after taking a recreational drug.
- (figurative, uncountable) Pizzazz, razzle-dazzle.
- (linguistics) A language, created by a minority to maintain cultural identity, that cannot be understood by the ruling class.
- (photography) Clipping of camera flash (“a device used to produce a flash of artificial light to help illuminate a scene”).
- (British, Cockney) The strips of bright cloth or buttons worn around the collars of market traders.
- (telecommunications) Ellipsis of hook flash.
- A tattoo flash (example design on paper to give an idea of a possible tattoo).
- The (intentional or unintentional) exposure of an intimate body part or undergarment in public.
- Material left around the edge of a moulded part at the parting line of the mould.
- (figuratively) A sudden and brilliant burst, as of genius or wit.
- (juggling) A pattern where each prop is thrown and caught only once.
- A pool of water, in some areas especially one that is marshy, and/or one formed by subsidence of the ground due to mining. (Compare flush (“marsh; pool”).)
- A very short amount of time.
- (engineering) A reservoir and sluiceway beside a navigable stream, just above a shoal, so that the stream may pour in water as boats pass, and thus bear them over the shoal.
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- gleam or glow intermittently
- appear briefly
- emit a brief burst of light
- make known or cause to appear with great speed
- protect by covering with a thin sheet of metal
- display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously
- run or move very quickly or hastily
- expose or show briefly
- (intransitive, of liquid) To evaporate suddenly. (See flash evaporation.)
- (transitive) To cause to shine briefly or intermittently.
- (metallurgy) To release the pressure from a pressurized vessel.
- (transitive, climbing) To climb (a route) successfully on the first attempt.
- To flash back.
- (transitive) To send by some startling or sudden means.
- (transitive, computing) To write to the memory of (an updatable component such as a BIOS chip or games cartridge).
- (intransitive) To burst out into violence.
- (transitive) To telephone a person, only allowing the phone to ring once, in order to request a call back.
- (ambitransitive, informal) To expose one's intimate body part or undergarment, often momentarily and unintentionally. (Contrast streak.)
- (transitive, glassmaking) To cover with a thin layer, as objects of glass with glass of a different colour.
- (transitive, glassmaking) To expand (blown glass) into a disc.
- (figurative) To break forth like a sudden flood of light; to show a momentary brilliance.
- (intransitive) To be visible briefly.
- To move, or cause to move, suddenly.
- To communicate quickly.
- (transitive) To make visible briefly.
- (juggling) To perform a flash.
- (intransitive) To blink; to shine or illuminate intermittently.
- To flaunt; to display in a showy manner.
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- Something of a light brown or brownish orange colour (particularly if it has the word tawny in its name).
- A light brown to brownish orange colour.
- (alcoholic beverages) In full tawny port: a sweet, fortified port wine which is blended and matured in wooden casks.
- Tawny owl.
- Tawny frogmouth.
- (specifically, heraldry) Synonym of tenné (“a rarely-used tincture of orange or bright brown”).
- (Somerset) The common bullfinch or Eurasian bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula).
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- any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine
- a horse of a brownish orange to light brown color
- East Indian sparsely prickly annual herb or perennial subshrub widely cultivated for its fleshy calyxes used in tarts and jelly and for its bast fiber
- large sour-tasting arrowhead-shaped leaves used in salads and sauces
- any plant or flower of the genus Oxalis
- Members of genus Oxalis or family Oxalidaceae, woodsorrels.
- A drink, consumed especially in the Caribbean around Christmas, made from the flowers of Hibiscus sabdariffa: hibiscus tea.
- Any of various plants with acidic leaves of the genus Rumex, especially
- The roselle, Hibiscus sabdariffa.
- Rumex acetosa (common sorrel, garden sorrel), sometimes used as a salad vegetable.
- A brown colour, with a tint of red.
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- Relatively light or pale in colour.
- Grey, as from old age; having silvery hair; hoary.
- (board games, chess) The standard denomination of the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the white set, no matter what the actual colour.
- (now less common and often offensive) Honourable, fair, decent, kind; generous.
- (sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to Europeans or those of European descent, regardless if their skin has cool or warm undertones.
- (of a person or skin) Lacking coloration (tan) from ultraviolet light; not tanned.
- (of tea) Made from immature leaves and shoots.
- Characterised by the presence of snow.
- Pale or pallid, as from fear, illness, etc.
- Bright and colourless; reflecting equal quantities of all frequencies of visible light.
- (politics) Pertaining to constitutional or anti-revolutionary political parties or movements.
- (sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to Caucasians (people with white complexion and European ancestry).
- (typography) Not containing characters; see white space.
- (of coffee or tea) Containing cream, milk, or creamer.
- (chiefly historical) Designated for use by Caucasians.
- (typography) Said of a symbol or character outline, not solid, not filled with color. Compare black (“said of a character or symbol filled with color”).
- (of a set of armor) Alwhite, pertaining to white armor.
- (sometimes capitalized) By U.S. Census Bureau definition, of or relating to people hailing from Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East.
- (of an animal) Affected by leucism.
- Pertaining to an ecclesiastical order whose adherents dress in white habits; Cistercian.
- glowing white with heat
- being of the achromatic color of maximum lightness; having little or no hue owing to reflection of almost all incident light
- benevolent; without malicious intent
- restricted to whites only
- (of a surface) not written or printed on
- (of coffee) having cream or milk added
- marked by the presence of snow
- (of hair) having lost its color
- of or belonging to a racial group having light skin coloration
- of summer nights in northern latitudes where the sun barely sets
- anemic looking from illness or emotion
- free from moral blemish or impurity; unsullied
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- (countable and uncountable) White wine.
- (archery) The central part of the butt, which was formerly painted white; the centre of a mark at which a missile is shot.
- The snow- or ice-covered "green" in snow golf.
- (board games, chess) The person playing with the white set of pieces.
- The albumen of bird eggs (egg white).
- A feather, from the wing of the cock ostrich, that is of the palest possible shade.
- (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) The cue ball in cue games.
- The color of snow or milk; the color of light containing equal amounts of all visible wavelengths.
- (uncountable) Ellipsis of white bread
- A white pigment.
- A person of European descent with light-colored skin.
- The enclosed part of a letter of the alphabet, especially when handwritten.
- Any butterfly of the subfamily Pierinae in the family Pieridae.
- (countable and uncountable) White coffee
- (anatomy) The sclera, white of the eye.
- (slang, US, UK) Cocaine.
- A white bean.
- (usually in the plural) trousers made of flannel or gabardine or tweed or white cloth
- (board games) the lighter pieces
- the quality or state of the achromatic color of greatest lightness (bearing the least resemblance to black)
- the white part of an egg; the nutritive and protective gelatinous substance surrounding the yolk consisting mainly of albumin dissolved in water
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- brilliantly colored and apparently giving off light
- emitting light during exposure to radiation from an external source
- Of or relating to fluorescence.
- Exhibiting or produced by fluorescence.
- Vivid, as if fluorescing; neon.
- Emitting visible light as a result of the excitation of phosphors by ultraviolet photons produced by the passage of an electrical current through an inert gas infused with mercury.
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- Having a color.
- Having prominent colors; colorful.
- (chiefly historical) Designated for use by colored people (in either the US or South African sense).
- Biased; pervasively (but potentially subtly) influenced in a particular way.
- (in combination) Having a particular color or kind of color.
- (South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, sometimes capitalized) Belonging to a multiracial ethnic group or category, having ancestry from more than one of the racial groups of Southern Africa (black, white, and Asian). (Under apartheid, used as a metadescription for mixed-race people and peoples such as the Cape Coloureds.)
- (used of color) artificially produced; not natural
- having color or a certain color; sometimes used in combination
- having skin rich in melanin pigments;
- favoring one person or side over another
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- The large, usually yellowish-green or black, savory fruit of the avocado tree.
- The avocado tree, Persea americana, of the laurel family.
- (chiefly uncountable) A dark chartreuse color, like the color of the skin of an avocado.
- a pear-shaped tropical fruit with green or blackish skin and rich yellowish pulp enclosing a single large seed
- tropical American tree bearing large pulpy green fruits
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- Light in color.
- (of human skin) Having a pallor (a light color, especially due to sickness, shock, fright etc.).
- Feeble, faint.
- not full or rich
- very light colored; highly diluted with white
- (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble
- lacking in vitality or interest or effectiveness
- abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress
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- (countable) A newly hatched, immature mayfly; a mayfly subimago.
- (countable, fishing) A fly made to resemble the mayfly subimago.
- An ancient or medieval fortification; especially a hill-fort in Scotland or Ireland.
- (countable) A collector of debts, especially one who is insistent and demanding.
- A brownish grey colour.
- An urgent request or demand of payment.
- A mound or small hill.
- (archaeology) A structure in the Orkney or Shetland islands or in Scotland consisting of a roundhouse surrounded by a circular wall; a broch.
- Alternative form of dhoon (“Himalayan valley”).
- horse of a dull brownish grey color
- a color or pigment varying around a light grey-brown color
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- (nonstandard, informal) Eye dialect spelling of done: past participle of do.
- (transitive) To harass by continually repeating e.g. a request.
- (transitive) To ask or beset a debtor for payment.
- (nonstandard, informal) Pronunciation spelling of don't: contraction of do + not.
- treat cruelly
- persistently ask for overdue payment
- make a dun color
- cure by salting
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- any of various pale or light colors
- Any of several subdued tints of colors, usually associated with pink, peach, yellow, green, blue, and lavender.
- Woad.
- A crayon made from such a paste.
- A traditional dish in various Latin American countries and in Indonesia, resembling a tamale, pasty, or calzone.
- A Filipino stew made with vegetables, sausages, and chicken or other meat in a creamy sauce.
- A type of dried paste used to make crayons.
- (art) A drawing made with any of those colors.
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- (intransitive) To give birth to a fawn.
- (literal, of a dog) To show devotion or submissiveness by wagging its tail, nuzzling, licking, etc.
- (derogatory) To seek favour by flattery and obsequious behaviour. [with on or upon]
- To exhibit affection toward someone.
- To attempt to please someone.
- show submission or fear
- have fawns
- try to gain favor by cringing or flattering
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- a dull greyish to yellowish or light olive brown
- The color of this fabric.
- A small amount, especially of money.
- (chiefly transgender slang) An instance of a transgender or non-binary person presenting as the gender corresponding to their sex assigned at birth instead of that corresponding to their internal gender identity (most commonly a trans woman dressed as a man).
- Often in the plural form drabs: apparel, especially trousers, made from this fabric.
- A box used in a saltworks for holding the salt when taken out of the boiling pans.
- A fabric, usually of thick cotton or wool, having a dull brownish yellow, dull grey, or dun colour.
- (by extension) A dull or uninteresting appearance or situation, unremarkable.