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noun
- A small pit.
- A basic or essential supply.
- A wire fastener, made of thin wire, used to secure stacks of paper by penetrating all the sheets and curling around.
- A wire fastener, in any of various sizes, used to secure something else by penetrating and curling.
- One of a set of U-shaped metal rods hammered into a structure, such as a piling or wharf, which serve as a ladder.
- A recurring topic, character, or item.
- A U-shaped wire fastener, made of thick wire, used to attach fence wire or other material to posts or structures.
- Unmanufactured material; raw material.
- a type of two-pronged fastener, usually metal, used for joining, gathering, or binding materials together.
- (now historical) A town containing merchants who have exclusive right, under royal authority, to purchase or produce certain goods for export; also, the body of such merchants seen as a group.
- (mining) A shaft, smaller and shorter than the principal one, joining different levels.
- (by extension) Place of supply; source.
- The principal commodity produced in a town or region.
- Short fiber, as of cotton, sheep’s wool, or the like, which can be spun into yarn or thread.
- A district granted to an abbey.
- a short U-shaped wire nail
- paper fastener consisting of a short length of U-shaped wire that can fasten papers together
- a natural fiber (raw cotton, wool, hemp, flax) that can be twisted to form yarn
- (usually in the plural) a necessary commodity for which demand is constant
- material suitable for manufacture or use or finishing
adj
- Fit to be sold; marketable.
- Regularly produced or manufactured in large quantities; belonging to wholesale traffic; principal; chief.
- Relating to, or being market of staple for, commodities.
- Established in commerce; occupying the markets; settled.
- necessary or important, especially regarding food or commodities
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- A pit or hole which has been bored.
- (usually in the plural) One of the fragments thrown up when something is bored or drilled.
- The act or process of boring holes; such practice as an area of expertise in manufacturing.
- the act of drilling a hole in the earth in the hope of producing petroleum
- the act of drilling
adj
- Used, designed to be used, or able to drill holes.
- Capable of penetrating; piercing.
- Causing boredom or tiredness; making one feel tired and impatient.
- (chiefly Manglish) Suffering from boredom; mildly annoyed and restless through having nothing to do.
- so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness
verb
noun
noun
- a very small spot
- A tiny spot or particle, especially of dirt.
- a slight but appreciable amount
- (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything
- A small etheostomoid fish, Etheostoma stigmaeum, common in the eastern United States.
- The fat of the hippopotamus.
- A very small amount; a particle; a whit.
- Fat; lard; fat meat.
- (uncountable) A juniper-flavoured ham originally from Tyrol.
- The blubber of whales or other marine mammals.
verb
noun
- A place or pit from which sand is excavated.
- a large pit in sandy ground from which sand is dug
- (television) A small-scale illustrative model of the theater of war in the Middle East.
- A children’s play area consisting of a large container filled with sand.
- a plaything consisting of a pile of sand or a box filled with sand for children to play in
noun
- A small cave.
- A Marian shrine, usually built in a cavern-like structure.
- An artificial cavern-like retreat.
- A local organization of cavers that typically organizes trips to caves and provides information and training for caving; a caving club.
- (Philippines) A garden or roadside shrine with a small cave containing a statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary (usually Our Lady of Lourdes and sometimes paired with a water feature)
- (Satanism) A secretive name for a local group of underground Satanists.
- a small cave (usually with attractive features)
noun
- a pit filled with loose wet sand into which objects are sucked down
- a treacherous situation that tends to entrap and destroy
- (figuratively) Anything that metaphorically pulls one down or buries one; a treacherous, risky danger
- Wet sand that appears firm but in which things readily sink, often found near rivers or coasts.
noun
- A long, narrow ditch or hole dug in the ground.
- (archaeology) A pit, usually rectangular with smooth walls and floor, excavated during an archaeological investigation.
- (informal) A trench coat.
- (military) A narrow excavation as used in warfare, as a cover for besieging or emplaced forces.
- a ditch dug as a fortification having a parapet of the excavated earth
- a long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor
- any long ditch cut in the ground
verb
- (archaeology) To excavate an elongated and often narrow pit.
- To have direction; to aim or tend.
- To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, etc.
- To dig or cultivate very deeply, usually by digging parallel contiguous trenches in succession, filling each from the next.
- (usually followed by upon) To invade, especially with regard to the rights or the exclusive authority of another; to encroach.
- (military, infantry) To excavate an elongated pit for protection of soldiers and or equipment, usually perpendicular to the line of sight toward the enemy.
- To cut furrows or ditches in.
- fortify by surrounding with trenches
- impinge or infringe upon
- cut a trench in, as for drainage
- set, plant, or bury in a trench
- cut or carve deeply into
- dig a trench or trenches
noun
- (mining) An excavation smaller than a shaft.
- (graph theory) A destination vertex in a transportation network.
- A place that absorbs resources or energy.
- (theater) A stage trapdoor for shifting scenery.
- A drain for carrying off wastewater.
- A depression in land where water collects, with no visible outlet.
- A basin used for holding water for washing.
- A depression in a stereotype plate.
- (computing, programming) An object or callback that captures events.
- (game development) One or several systems that remove currency from the game's economy, thus controlling or preventing inflation.
- (uncountable) Descending motion; descent.
- (baseball) The motion of a sinker pitch.
- (geology) A sinkhole.
- (ecology) A habitat that cannot support a population on its own but receives the excess of individuals from some other source.
- (graph theory) A node in directed graph for which all of its edges go into it; one with no outgoing edges.
- A heat sink.
- An abode of degraded persons; a wretched place.
- a depression in the ground communicating with a subterranean passage (especially in limestone) and formed by solution or by collapse of a cavern roof
- plumbing fixture consisting of a water basin fixed to a wall or floor and having a drainpipe
- a covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it
- (technology) a process that acts to absorb or remove energy or a substance from a system
verb
- (intransitive) To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height.
- (transitive) To (directly or indirectly) cause a vessel to sink, generally by making it no longer watertight.
- (intransitive) To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fail in strength.
- (ergative) To descend or submerge (or to cause to do so) into a liquid or similar substance.
- (transitive) To push (something) into something.
- (transitive, figurative) To cause to decline; to depress or degrade.
- (transitive, slang) To drink (especially something alcoholic).
- (transitive, slang) To pay absolutely.
- (transitive) To make by digging or delving.
- (transitive, snooker, pool, billiards, golf) To pot; hit a ball into a pocket or hole.
- (intransitive, figuratively, of the heart or spirit) To experience apprehension, disappointment, dread, or momentary depression.
- (intransitive) To demean or lower oneself; to do something below one's status, standards, or morals.
- fall heavily or suddenly; decline markedly
- descend into or as if into some soft substance or place
- fall or descend to a lower place or level
- pass into a specified state or condition; sink into
- embed deeply
- go under
- appear to move downward
- cause to sink
- fall or sink heavily
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- a hollow filled with mud
- a stagnant swamp (especially as part of a bayou)
- necrotic tissue; a mortified or gangrenous part or mass
- any outer covering that can be shed or cast off (such as the cast-off skin of a snake)
- The skin shed by a snake or other reptile.
- A state of depression.
- A marshy or muddy area.
- (Northern US, Southern US) A type of swamp or shallow lake system, typically formed as or by the backwater of a larger waterway, similar to a bayou with trees.
- Dead skin on a sore or ulcer.
- (Western US) A secondary channel of a river delta, usually flushed by the tide.
- (Canadian Prairies) A small pond, often alkaline, many but not all formed by glacial potholes.
verb
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- (mining) The bottom of a pit, pothole or mine.
- In a parliament, the part of the house assigned to the members, as opposed to the viewing gallery.
- (by extension) The right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event.
- (nautical) That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal.
- (gymnastics) An event performed on a floor-like carpeted surface; floor exercise
- (geology, biology, chiefly with a modifier) The bottom surface of a natural structure, entity, or space (e.g. cave, forest, ocean, desert, etc.); the ground (surface of the Earth).
- (mining) A horizontal, flat ore body; the rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit.
- (mathematics) The largest integer less than or equal to a given number.
- (finance) A lower limit or minimum on a price or rate, a price floor. Opposite of a cap or ceiling.
- (construction, architecture) A structure formed of beams, girders, etc, with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into storeys/stories.
- (gymnastics) A floor-like carpeted surface for performing gymnastic movements.
- The trading floor of a stock exchange, pit; the area in which business is conducted at a convention or exhibition.
- (UK, dialectal, colloquial) The ground.
- The supporting surface or platform of a structure such as a bridge.
- (architecture, countable) A storey/story of a building.
- The area of a casino where gambling occurs.
- (countable) The interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting surface of a room.
- A dance floor.
- The area of an establishment where food and drink are served to customers.
- the inside lower horizontal surface (as of a room, hallway, tent, or other structure)
- the lower inside surface of any hollow structure
- the occupants of a floor
- a large room in a exchange where the trading is done
- the bottom surface of any lake or other body of water
- the legislative hall where members debate and vote and conduct other business
- the parliamentary right to address an assembly
- a lower limit
- the ground on which people and animals move about
- a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale
verb
- (driving, transitive, slang) To push (a pedal) down to the floor, especially to accelerate.
- (informal, transitive, usually passive voice) To amaze or greatly surprise.
- (informal, transitive) To silence by a conclusive answer or retort.
- (mathematics) To set a lower bound.
- (colloquial, transitive) To finish or make an end of.
- To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down.
- (transitive) To cover or furnish with a floor.
- knock down with force
- surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off
adj
- Of a surface, not even; covered with raised spots, pits and grooves.
- Varying in quality.
- Not uniform.
- Not level or smooth.
- (mathematics, rare) Odd.
- not even or uniform as e.g. in shape or texture
- not divisible by two
- (of a contest or contestants) not fairly matched as opponents
- lacking consistency
- variable and recurring at irregular intervals
verb
noun
- (military) A shallow pit dug as a hideout.
- (heraldry) A diminutive of the bend (especially of the bend sinister) which is half its width.
- A shallow depression used by ground birds as a nest; a nest scrape.
- A broad, shallow injury left by scraping (rather than a cut or a scratch).
- (British, slang) A D and C or abortion; or, a miscarriage.
- An awkward set of circumstances.
- An intermittent shallow pond in a wetland or floodplain, often artificially created to attract birds.
- (slang) A fight, especially a fistfight without weapons.
- (UK, slang) A shave.
- The sound or action of something being scraped.
- Something removed by being scraped; a thin layer of something such as butter on bread.
- a harsh noise made by scraping
- a deep bow with the foot drawn backwards (indicating excessive humility)
- an abraded area where the skin is torn or worn off
- an indication of damage
verb
- (transitive) To injure or damage by rubbing across a surface.
- (intransitive) To draw back the right foot along the ground or floor when making a bow.
- (transitive) To remove (something) by drawing an object along in this manner.
- To express disapprobation of (a play, etc.) or to silence (a speaker) by drawing the feet back and forth upon the floor; usually with down.
- (intransitive) To occupy oneself with getting laboriously.
- (ambitransitive) To play awkwardly and inharmoniously on a violin or similar instrument.
- (transitive) To barely manage to achieve or attain.
- (computing, transitive) To extract data by automated means from a format not intended to be machine-readable, such as a screenshot or a formatted web page.
- (transitive) To collect or gather, especially without regard to the quality of what is chosen.
- (ambitransitive) To draw (an object, especially a sharp or angular one), along (something) while exerting pressure.
- bruise, cut, or injure the skin or the surface of
- scratch repeatedly
- make by scraping
- gather (money or other resources) together over time
- cut the surface of; wear away the surface of
- bend the knees and bow in a servile manner
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- (mining, US, Canada) A small wall along the edge of a bench of an open-pit mine, intended to prevent items falling over the crest.
- A raised bank or path, especially the bank of a canal opposite the towpath.
- (Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Zealand) A strip of land between a street and sidewalk.
- A long mound or bank of earth, used especially as a barrier or to provide insulation.
- A terrace or shelf of sand along a beach, formed above the high tide water level by wave action.
- (Western Pennsylvania) The edge of a road.
- (mining, Australia) One of the flat terraces on the slope of an open-pit mine.
- A narrow ledge or shelf, as along the top or bottom of a slope.
- A ledge between the parapet and the moat in a fortification.
- a narrow edge of land (usually unpaved) along the side of a road
- a narrow ledge or shelf typically at the top or bottom of a slope
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- A small cask.
- Any of various historically designated quantities of goods to be sold by the tub (butter, oysters, etc).
- (humorous or derogatory) Any structure shaped like a tub, such as a certain old form of pulpit, a short broad boat, etc.
- (mining) A box or bucket in which coal or ore is sent up a shaft.
- The contents or capacity of such a vessel.
- (automotive) The bare body shell of an automobile (minus the doors, hood, trunk lid, fenders, etc.) which is lowered onto the chassis at the time of assembly, or in the case of modern unibody designed vehicles, is itself a monocoque around which the rest of the vehicle is built.
- (nautical, informal) A slow-moving craft.
- A bathtub.
- A flat-bottomed vessel, of width similar to or greater than its height, used for storing or packing things, or for washing things in.
- (slang) A corpulent or obese person.
- a relatively large open container that you fill with water and use to wash the body
- the amount that a tub will hold
- a large open vessel for holding or storing liquids
verb
noun
- A small, round spot.
- (cricket, informal) A dot ball.
- (MLE, slang, rare) confinement facility
- A point used as a diacritical mark above or below various letters of the Latin script, as in Ȧ, Ạ, Ḅ, Ḃ, Ċ.
- (MLE) Clipping of dotty (“shotgun”).
- One of the two symbols used in Morse code.
- (grammar) A punctuation mark used to indicate the end of a sentence or an abbreviated part of a word; a full stop; a period.
- (mathematics) A symbol used for separating the fractional part of a decimal number from the whole part, for indicating multiplication or a scalar product, or for various other purposes.
- in musical notation, a symbol in the form of a small point placed after a note, indicating that its duration is to be augmented by 50%.
- (computing) Clipping of dotfile
- (MLE) buckshot, projectile from a "dotty" or shotgun
- (US, Louisiana) A dowry.
- Anything small and like a speck comparatively; a small portion or specimen.
- street name for lysergic acid diethylamide
- the shorter of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code
- a very small circular shape
prep
verb
- (transitive) To cover with small spots (of some liquid).
- (colloquial) To punch (a person).
- To mark by means of dots or small spots.
- To mark or diversify with small detached objects.
- (transitive) To add a dot (the symbol) or dots to.
- mark with a dot
- distribute loosely
- scatter or intersperse like dots or studs
- make a dot or dots
noun
- An earthwork in the form of a single parapet or a small rampart, sometimes raised in the ditch and sometimes beyond it.
- (engineering) The set of limitations within which a technological system can perform safely and effectively.
- (astronomy) The nebulous covering of the head or nucleus of a comet; a coma.
- Something that envelops; a wrapping.
- (electronics) A curve that bounds another curve or set of curves, as the modulation envelope of an amplitude-modulated carrier wave in electronics.
- A paper or cardboard wrapper used to enclose small, flat items, especially letters, for mailing.
- (music) The shape of a sound, which may be controlled by a synthesizer or sampler.
- A bag containing the lifting gas of a balloon or airship; fabric that encloses the gas-bags of an airship.
- (biology) An enclosing structure or cover, such as a membrane; a space between two membranes
- (geometry) A mathematical curve, surface, or higher-dimensional object that is the tangent to a given family of lines, curves, surfaces, or higher-dimensional objects.
- (networking) The information used for routing a message that is transmitted with the message but not part of its contents.
- the maximum operating capability of a system (especially an aircraft)
- any wrapper or covering
- a curve that is tangent to each of a family of curves
- a flat (usually rectangular) container for a letter, thin package, etc.
- a natural covering (as by a fluid)
- the bag containing the gas in a balloon
verb
noun
- A shelter of similar shape for miners, etc.
- (music) A chelys (kind of lyre)
- (pathology) An encysted tumour.
- (Ancient Rome, military, historical) A shelter formed by a body of troops holding their shields or targets close together over their heads.
- (anatomy) The fornix.
- a movable protective covering that provided protection from above; used by Roman troops when approaching the walls of a besieged fortification
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- A hollow or pit into which liquid drains, such as a cesspool, cesspit or sink.
- (construction) An intentional depression around a drain or scupper that promotes drainage.
- A completely flooded cave passage, sometimes passable by diving.
- (automotive) The crankcase or oil reservoir of an internal combustion engine.
- (nautical) The pit at the lowest point in a circulating or drainage system (FM 55-501).
- (Scotland) A sudden or heavy fall of rain; a deluge.
- The lowest part of a mineshaft into which water drains.
- a well or other hole in which water has collected
- a covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it
- an oil reservoir in an internal combustion engine
verb
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- the hoist at the pithead of a mine
- clothing for the head
- stable gear consisting of any part of a harness that fits about the horse's head
- (nautical) The rigging on the foresail.
- The harness that fits on a horse's head.
- (orthodontics) A type of orthodontic appliance attached to dental braces that aids in correcting severe bite problems.
- The lifting gear at the head of a mine or deep well.
- (uncountable) Anything worn on the head, such as a hat, hood, helmet, etc.
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- A small pit.
- A basic or essential supply.
- A wire fastener, made of thin wire, used to secure stacks of paper by penetrating all the sheets and curling around.
- A wire fastener, in any of various sizes, used to secure something else by penetrating and curling.
- One of a set of U-shaped metal rods hammered into a structure, such as a piling or wharf, which serve as a ladder.
- A recurring topic, character, or item.
- A U-shaped wire fastener, made of thick wire, used to attach fence wire or other material to posts or structures.
- Unmanufactured material; raw material.
- a type of two-pronged fastener, usually metal, used for joining, gathering, or binding materials together.
- (now historical) A town containing merchants who have exclusive right, under royal authority, to purchase or produce certain goods for export; also, the body of such merchants seen as a group.
- (mining) A shaft, smaller and shorter than the principal one, joining different levels.
- (by extension) Place of supply; source.
- The principal commodity produced in a town or region.
- Short fiber, as of cotton, sheep’s wool, or the like, which can be spun into yarn or thread.
- A district granted to an abbey.
- a short U-shaped wire nail
- paper fastener consisting of a short length of U-shaped wire that can fasten papers together
- a natural fiber (raw cotton, wool, hemp, flax) that can be twisted to form yarn
- (usually in the plural) a necessary commodity for which demand is constant
- material suitable for manufacture or use or finishing
adj
- Fit to be sold; marketable.
- Regularly produced or manufactured in large quantities; belonging to wholesale traffic; principal; chief.
- Relating to, or being market of staple for, commodities.
- Established in commerce; occupying the markets; settled.
- necessary or important, especially regarding food or commodities
verb
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noun
- A pit or hole which has been bored.
- (usually in the plural) One of the fragments thrown up when something is bored or drilled.
- The act or process of boring holes; such practice as an area of expertise in manufacturing.
- the act of drilling a hole in the earth in the hope of producing petroleum
- the act of drilling
adj
- Used, designed to be used, or able to drill holes.
- Capable of penetrating; piercing.
- Causing boredom or tiredness; making one feel tired and impatient.
- (chiefly Manglish) Suffering from boredom; mildly annoyed and restless through having nothing to do.
- so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness
verb
noun
noun
- a very small spot
- A tiny spot or particle, especially of dirt.
- a slight but appreciable amount
- (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything
- A small etheostomoid fish, Etheostoma stigmaeum, common in the eastern United States.
- The fat of the hippopotamus.
- A very small amount; a particle; a whit.
- Fat; lard; fat meat.
- (uncountable) A juniper-flavoured ham originally from Tyrol.
- The blubber of whales or other marine mammals.
verb
noun
- A place or pit from which sand is excavated.
- a large pit in sandy ground from which sand is dug
- (television) A small-scale illustrative model of the theater of war in the Middle East.
- A children’s play area consisting of a large container filled with sand.
- a plaything consisting of a pile of sand or a box filled with sand for children to play in
noun
- A small cave.
- A Marian shrine, usually built in a cavern-like structure.
- An artificial cavern-like retreat.
- A local organization of cavers that typically organizes trips to caves and provides information and training for caving; a caving club.
- (Philippines) A garden or roadside shrine with a small cave containing a statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary (usually Our Lady of Lourdes and sometimes paired with a water feature)
- (Satanism) A secretive name for a local group of underground Satanists.
- a small cave (usually with attractive features)
noun
- a pit filled with loose wet sand into which objects are sucked down
- a treacherous situation that tends to entrap and destroy
- (figuratively) Anything that metaphorically pulls one down or buries one; a treacherous, risky danger
- Wet sand that appears firm but in which things readily sink, often found near rivers or coasts.
noun
- A long, narrow ditch or hole dug in the ground.
- (archaeology) A pit, usually rectangular with smooth walls and floor, excavated during an archaeological investigation.
- (informal) A trench coat.
- (military) A narrow excavation as used in warfare, as a cover for besieging or emplaced forces.
- a ditch dug as a fortification having a parapet of the excavated earth
- a long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor
- any long ditch cut in the ground
verb
- (archaeology) To excavate an elongated and often narrow pit.
- To have direction; to aim or tend.
- To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, etc.
- To dig or cultivate very deeply, usually by digging parallel contiguous trenches in succession, filling each from the next.
- (usually followed by upon) To invade, especially with regard to the rights or the exclusive authority of another; to encroach.
- (military, infantry) To excavate an elongated pit for protection of soldiers and or equipment, usually perpendicular to the line of sight toward the enemy.
- To cut furrows or ditches in.
- fortify by surrounding with trenches
- impinge or infringe upon
- cut a trench in, as for drainage
- set, plant, or bury in a trench
- cut or carve deeply into
- dig a trench or trenches
noun
- (mining) An excavation smaller than a shaft.
- (graph theory) A destination vertex in a transportation network.
- A place that absorbs resources or energy.
- (theater) A stage trapdoor for shifting scenery.
- A drain for carrying off wastewater.
- A depression in land where water collects, with no visible outlet.
- A basin used for holding water for washing.
- A depression in a stereotype plate.
- (computing, programming) An object or callback that captures events.
- (game development) One or several systems that remove currency from the game's economy, thus controlling or preventing inflation.
- (uncountable) Descending motion; descent.
- (baseball) The motion of a sinker pitch.
- (geology) A sinkhole.
- (ecology) A habitat that cannot support a population on its own but receives the excess of individuals from some other source.
- (graph theory) A node in directed graph for which all of its edges go into it; one with no outgoing edges.
- A heat sink.
- An abode of degraded persons; a wretched place.
- a depression in the ground communicating with a subterranean passage (especially in limestone) and formed by solution or by collapse of a cavern roof
- plumbing fixture consisting of a water basin fixed to a wall or floor and having a drainpipe
- a covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it
- (technology) a process that acts to absorb or remove energy or a substance from a system
verb
- (intransitive) To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height.
- (transitive) To (directly or indirectly) cause a vessel to sink, generally by making it no longer watertight.
- (intransitive) To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fail in strength.
- (ergative) To descend or submerge (or to cause to do so) into a liquid or similar substance.
- (transitive) To push (something) into something.
- (transitive, figurative) To cause to decline; to depress or degrade.
- (transitive, slang) To drink (especially something alcoholic).
- (transitive, slang) To pay absolutely.
- (transitive) To make by digging or delving.
- (transitive, snooker, pool, billiards, golf) To pot; hit a ball into a pocket or hole.
- (intransitive, figuratively, of the heart or spirit) To experience apprehension, disappointment, dread, or momentary depression.
- (intransitive) To demean or lower oneself; to do something below one's status, standards, or morals.
- fall heavily or suddenly; decline markedly
- descend into or as if into some soft substance or place
- fall or descend to a lower place or level
- pass into a specified state or condition; sink into
- embed deeply
- go under
- appear to move downward
- cause to sink
- fall or sink heavily
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verb
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- a hollow filled with mud
- a stagnant swamp (especially as part of a bayou)
- necrotic tissue; a mortified or gangrenous part or mass
- any outer covering that can be shed or cast off (such as the cast-off skin of a snake)
- The skin shed by a snake or other reptile.
- A state of depression.
- A marshy or muddy area.
- (Northern US, Southern US) A type of swamp or shallow lake system, typically formed as or by the backwater of a larger waterway, similar to a bayou with trees.
- Dead skin on a sore or ulcer.
- (Western US) A secondary channel of a river delta, usually flushed by the tide.
- (Canadian Prairies) A small pond, often alkaline, many but not all formed by glacial potholes.
verb
noun
- (mining) The bottom of a pit, pothole or mine.
- In a parliament, the part of the house assigned to the members, as opposed to the viewing gallery.
- (by extension) The right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event.
- (nautical) That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal.
- (gymnastics) An event performed on a floor-like carpeted surface; floor exercise
- (geology, biology, chiefly with a modifier) The bottom surface of a natural structure, entity, or space (e.g. cave, forest, ocean, desert, etc.); the ground (surface of the Earth).
- (mining) A horizontal, flat ore body; the rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit.
- (mathematics) The largest integer less than or equal to a given number.
- (finance) A lower limit or minimum on a price or rate, a price floor. Opposite of a cap or ceiling.
- (construction, architecture) A structure formed of beams, girders, etc, with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into storeys/stories.
- (gymnastics) A floor-like carpeted surface for performing gymnastic movements.
- The trading floor of a stock exchange, pit; the area in which business is conducted at a convention or exhibition.
- (UK, dialectal, colloquial) The ground.
- The supporting surface or platform of a structure such as a bridge.
- (architecture, countable) A storey/story of a building.
- The area of a casino where gambling occurs.
- (countable) The interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting surface of a room.
- A dance floor.
- The area of an establishment where food and drink are served to customers.
- the inside lower horizontal surface (as of a room, hallway, tent, or other structure)
- the lower inside surface of any hollow structure
- the occupants of a floor
- a large room in a exchange where the trading is done
- the bottom surface of any lake or other body of water
- the legislative hall where members debate and vote and conduct other business
- the parliamentary right to address an assembly
- a lower limit
- the ground on which people and animals move about
- a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale
verb
- (driving, transitive, slang) To push (a pedal) down to the floor, especially to accelerate.
- (informal, transitive, usually passive voice) To amaze or greatly surprise.
- (informal, transitive) To silence by a conclusive answer or retort.
- (mathematics) To set a lower bound.
- (colloquial, transitive) To finish or make an end of.
- To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down.
- (transitive) To cover or furnish with a floor.
- knock down with force
- surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off
noun
- (military) A shallow pit dug as a hideout.
- (heraldry) A diminutive of the bend (especially of the bend sinister) which is half its width.
- A shallow depression used by ground birds as a nest; a nest scrape.
- A broad, shallow injury left by scraping (rather than a cut or a scratch).
- (British, slang) A D and C or abortion; or, a miscarriage.
- An awkward set of circumstances.
- An intermittent shallow pond in a wetland or floodplain, often artificially created to attract birds.
- (slang) A fight, especially a fistfight without weapons.
- (UK, slang) A shave.
- The sound or action of something being scraped.
- Something removed by being scraped; a thin layer of something such as butter on bread.
- a harsh noise made by scraping
- a deep bow with the foot drawn backwards (indicating excessive humility)
- an abraded area where the skin is torn or worn off
- an indication of damage
verb
- (transitive) To injure or damage by rubbing across a surface.
- (intransitive) To draw back the right foot along the ground or floor when making a bow.
- (transitive) To remove (something) by drawing an object along in this manner.
- To express disapprobation of (a play, etc.) or to silence (a speaker) by drawing the feet back and forth upon the floor; usually with down.
- (intransitive) To occupy oneself with getting laboriously.
- (ambitransitive) To play awkwardly and inharmoniously on a violin or similar instrument.
- (transitive) To barely manage to achieve or attain.
- (computing, transitive) To extract data by automated means from a format not intended to be machine-readable, such as a screenshot or a formatted web page.
- (transitive) To collect or gather, especially without regard to the quality of what is chosen.
- (ambitransitive) To draw (an object, especially a sharp or angular one), along (something) while exerting pressure.
- bruise, cut, or injure the skin or the surface of
- scratch repeatedly
- make by scraping
- gather (money or other resources) together over time
- cut the surface of; wear away the surface of
- bend the knees and bow in a servile manner
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- (mining, US, Canada) A small wall along the edge of a bench of an open-pit mine, intended to prevent items falling over the crest.
- A raised bank or path, especially the bank of a canal opposite the towpath.
- (Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Zealand) A strip of land between a street and sidewalk.
- A long mound or bank of earth, used especially as a barrier or to provide insulation.
- A terrace or shelf of sand along a beach, formed above the high tide water level by wave action.
- (Western Pennsylvania) The edge of a road.
- (mining, Australia) One of the flat terraces on the slope of an open-pit mine.
- A narrow ledge or shelf, as along the top or bottom of a slope.
- A ledge between the parapet and the moat in a fortification.
- a narrow edge of land (usually unpaved) along the side of a road
- a narrow ledge or shelf typically at the top or bottom of a slope
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- A small cask.
- Any of various historically designated quantities of goods to be sold by the tub (butter, oysters, etc).
- (humorous or derogatory) Any structure shaped like a tub, such as a certain old form of pulpit, a short broad boat, etc.
- (mining) A box or bucket in which coal or ore is sent up a shaft.
- The contents or capacity of such a vessel.
- (automotive) The bare body shell of an automobile (minus the doors, hood, trunk lid, fenders, etc.) which is lowered onto the chassis at the time of assembly, or in the case of modern unibody designed vehicles, is itself a monocoque around which the rest of the vehicle is built.
- (nautical, informal) A slow-moving craft.
- A bathtub.
- A flat-bottomed vessel, of width similar to or greater than its height, used for storing or packing things, or for washing things in.
- (slang) A corpulent or obese person.
- a relatively large open container that you fill with water and use to wash the body
- the amount that a tub will hold
- a large open vessel for holding or storing liquids
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- A small, round spot.
- (cricket, informal) A dot ball.
- (MLE, slang, rare) confinement facility
- A point used as a diacritical mark above or below various letters of the Latin script, as in Ȧ, Ạ, Ḅ, Ḃ, Ċ.
- (MLE) Clipping of dotty (“shotgun”).
- One of the two symbols used in Morse code.
- (grammar) A punctuation mark used to indicate the end of a sentence or an abbreviated part of a word; a full stop; a period.
- (mathematics) A symbol used for separating the fractional part of a decimal number from the whole part, for indicating multiplication or a scalar product, or for various other purposes.
- in musical notation, a symbol in the form of a small point placed after a note, indicating that its duration is to be augmented by 50%.
- (computing) Clipping of dotfile
- (MLE) buckshot, projectile from a "dotty" or shotgun
- (US, Louisiana) A dowry.
- Anything small and like a speck comparatively; a small portion or specimen.
- street name for lysergic acid diethylamide
- the shorter of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code
- a very small circular shape
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verb
- (transitive) To cover with small spots (of some liquid).
- (colloquial) To punch (a person).
- To mark by means of dots or small spots.
- To mark or diversify with small detached objects.
- (transitive) To add a dot (the symbol) or dots to.
- mark with a dot
- distribute loosely
- scatter or intersperse like dots or studs
- make a dot or dots
noun
- An earthwork in the form of a single parapet or a small rampart, sometimes raised in the ditch and sometimes beyond it.
- (engineering) The set of limitations within which a technological system can perform safely and effectively.
- (astronomy) The nebulous covering of the head or nucleus of a comet; a coma.
- Something that envelops; a wrapping.
- (electronics) A curve that bounds another curve or set of curves, as the modulation envelope of an amplitude-modulated carrier wave in electronics.
- A paper or cardboard wrapper used to enclose small, flat items, especially letters, for mailing.
- (music) The shape of a sound, which may be controlled by a synthesizer or sampler.
- A bag containing the lifting gas of a balloon or airship; fabric that encloses the gas-bags of an airship.
- (biology) An enclosing structure or cover, such as a membrane; a space between two membranes
- (geometry) A mathematical curve, surface, or higher-dimensional object that is the tangent to a given family of lines, curves, surfaces, or higher-dimensional objects.
- (networking) The information used for routing a message that is transmitted with the message but not part of its contents.
- the maximum operating capability of a system (especially an aircraft)
- any wrapper or covering
- a curve that is tangent to each of a family of curves
- a flat (usually rectangular) container for a letter, thin package, etc.
- a natural covering (as by a fluid)
- the bag containing the gas in a balloon
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- A shelter of similar shape for miners, etc.
- (music) A chelys (kind of lyre)
- (pathology) An encysted tumour.
- (Ancient Rome, military, historical) A shelter formed by a body of troops holding their shields or targets close together over their heads.
- (anatomy) The fornix.
- a movable protective covering that provided protection from above; used by Roman troops when approaching the walls of a besieged fortification
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- A hollow or pit into which liquid drains, such as a cesspool, cesspit or sink.
- (construction) An intentional depression around a drain or scupper that promotes drainage.
- A completely flooded cave passage, sometimes passable by diving.
- (automotive) The crankcase or oil reservoir of an internal combustion engine.
- (nautical) The pit at the lowest point in a circulating or drainage system (FM 55-501).
- (Scotland) A sudden or heavy fall of rain; a deluge.
- The lowest part of a mineshaft into which water drains.
- a well or other hole in which water has collected
- a covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it
- an oil reservoir in an internal combustion engine
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- the hoist at the pithead of a mine
- clothing for the head
- stable gear consisting of any part of a harness that fits about the horse's head
- (nautical) The rigging on the foresail.
- The harness that fits on a horse's head.
- (orthodontics) A type of orthodontic appliance attached to dental braces that aids in correcting severe bite problems.
- The lifting gear at the head of a mine or deep well.
- (uncountable) Anything worn on the head, such as a hat, hood, helmet, etc.
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- A long, narrow ditch or hole dug in the ground.
- (archaeology) A pit, usually rectangular with smooth walls and floor, excavated during an archaeological investigation.
- (informal) A trench coat.
- (military) A narrow excavation as used in warfare, as a cover for besieging or emplaced forces.
- a ditch dug as a fortification having a parapet of the excavated earth
- a long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor
- any long ditch cut in the ground
verb
- (archaeology) To excavate an elongated and often narrow pit.
- To have direction; to aim or tend.
- To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, etc.
- To dig or cultivate very deeply, usually by digging parallel contiguous trenches in succession, filling each from the next.
- (usually followed by upon) To invade, especially with regard to the rights or the exclusive authority of another; to encroach.
- (military, infantry) To excavate an elongated pit for protection of soldiers and or equipment, usually perpendicular to the line of sight toward the enemy.
- To cut furrows or ditches in.
- fortify by surrounding with trenches
- impinge or infringe upon
- cut a trench in, as for drainage
- set, plant, or bury in a trench
- cut or carve deeply into
- dig a trench or trenches
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adj
- Of a surface, not even; covered with raised spots, pits and grooves.
- Varying in quality.
- Not uniform.
- Not level or smooth.
- (mathematics, rare) Odd.
- not even or uniform as e.g. in shape or texture
- not divisible by two
- (of a contest or contestants) not fairly matched as opponents
- lacking consistency
- variable and recurring at irregular intervals