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noun
- Balanced, rhythmic flow.
- a recurrent rhythmical series
- (horse-riding) Harmony and proportion of movement, as in a well-managed horse.
- The act or state of declining or sinking.
- (music) A progression of at least two chords which conclude a piece of music, section or musical phrases within it. Sometimes referred to analogously as musical punctuation.
- (speech) A fall in inflection of a speaker’s voice, such as at the end of a sentence.
- (military) A chant that is sung by military personnel while running or marching; a jody call.
- The measure or beat of movement.
- (horseracing) The number of strides per second of a racehorse, measured when the same foot/hoof strikes the ground
- (fencing) The rhythm and sequence of a series of actions.
- (dance) A dance move which ends a phrase.
- (music) A cadenza, or closing embellishment; a pause before the end of a strain, which the performer may fill with a flight of fancy.
- (heraldry) Cadency.
- (software engineering) The frequency of regular product releases.
- (running) The number of steps per minute.
- The general inflection or modulation of the voice, or of any sound.
- (cycling) The number of revolutions per minute of the cranks or pedals of a bicycle.
- the close of a musical section
- (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
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adj
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- move rhythmically
- make a rhythmic sound
- move with or as if with a regular alternating motion
- strike (a part of one's own body) repeatedly, as in great emotion or in accompaniment to music
- move with a thrashing motion
- produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly
- wear out completely
- stir vigorously
- avoid paying
- hit repeatedly
- be superior
- make a sound like a clock or a timer
- shape by beating
- be a mystery or bewildering to
- indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks
- glare or strike with great intensity
- come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
- make by pounding or trampling
- sail with much tacking or with difficulty
- strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting
- give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression
- beat through cleverness and wit
- move with a flapping motion
- (intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
- To make a sound when struck.
- To be in agitation or doubt.
- To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
- simple past tense of beat
- (military, intransitive) To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
- (intransitive, MLE, MTE, slang, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse.
- (transitive, slang) To rob; to cheat or scam.
- (transitive) To arrive at a place before someone.
- (intransitive) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
- (intransitive) To move with pulsation or throbbing.
- (transitive) To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
- (especially colloquial) past participle of beat
- To tread, as a path.
- To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
- To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and lesser intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; said of instruments, tones, or vibrations not perfectly in unison.
- (transitive) To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do or be better than (someone); to excel in a particular, competitive event.
- (transitive) To indicate by beating or drumming.
- (transitive) To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting.
- (transitive) To hit; to strike.
- (transitive, UK, in haggling for a price of a buyer) To persuade the seller to reduce a price.
noun
- A rhythm.
- the sound of stroke or blow
- a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior
- a regular route for a sentry or policeman
- the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart
- a single pulsation of an oscillation produced by adding two waves of different frequencies; has a frequency equal to the difference between the two oscillations
- the act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing
- (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
- a regular rate of repetition
- a stroke or blow
- the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music
- (music) The rhythm signalled by a conductor or other musician to the members of a group of musicians.
- (slang) A makeup look; compare beat one's face.
- The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
- A pulsation or throb.
- (journalism) The primary focus of a reporter's stories (such as police/courts, education, city government, business etc.).
- (authorship) A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.
- (music) A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is the basic time unit of a piece.
- The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency
- (hunting) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.
- A stroke; a blow.
- (fencing) A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
- The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
- A beatnik.
adj
verb
- move rhythmically
- break down and crush by beating, as with a pestle
- place or shut up in a pound
- hit hard with the hand, fist, or some heavy instrument
- shut up or confine in any enclosure or within any bounds or limits
- move heavily or clumsily
- strike or drive against with a heavy impact
- partition off into compartments
- (transitive, vulgar, slang) To penetrate sexually, with vigour.
- (engineering) To make a jarring noise, as when running.
- To advance heavily with measured steps.
- (transitive, slang) To eat or drink very quickly.
- (slang, UK regional, transitive) To wager a pound on.
- To confine in, or as in, a pound; to impound.
- (transitive) To strike hard, usually repeatedly.
- (intransitive, of a body part, generally heart, blood, or head) To beat strongly or throb.
- (transitive, baseball, slang) To pitch consistently to a certain location.
- (transitive) To crush to pieces; to pulverize.
noun
- the basic unit of money in Egypt; equal to 100 piasters
- 16 ounces avoirdupois
- a unit of apothecary weight equal to 12 ounces troy
- the basic unit of money in Syria; equal to 100 piasters
- a nontechnical unit of force equal to the mass of 1 pound with an acceleration of free fall equal to 32 feet/sec/sec
- a public enclosure for stray or unlicensed dogs
- a symbol for a unit of currency (especially for the pound sterling in Great Britain)
- the basic unit of money in the Sudan; equal to 100 piasters
- the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows)
- the basic unit of money in Cyprus; equal to 100 cents
- the basic unit of money in Lebanon; equal to 100 piasters
- formerly the basic unit of money in Ireland; equal to 100 pence
- the basic unit of money in Great Britain and Northern Ireland; equal to 100 pence
- Ellipsis of pound force.
- Ellipsis of pound weight.
- (UK) A place for the detention of automobiles that have been illegally parked, abandoned, etc.
- A hard blow.
- A section of a canal between two adjacent locks.
- Any of various units of currency formerly used in the United States.
- (informal) Various non-English units of currency not officially called pounds.
- Ellipsis of pound mass.
- A unit of mass equal to 16 avoirdupois ounces (= 453.592 g). Today this value is the most common meaning of "pound" as a unit of weight.
- A unit of weight in various measurement systems.
- A kind of fishing net, having a large enclosure with a narrow entrance into which fish are directed by wings spreading outward.
- A unit of mass equal to 12 troy ounces (≈ 373.242 g). Today, this is a common unit of mass when measuring precious metals, and is little used elsewhere.
- (metonymic) The people who work for the pound.
- A place for the detention of stray or wandering animals.
- (Newfoundland) A division inside a fishing stage where cod is cured in salt brine.
- Various non-English units of measure.
- Any of various units of currency used in Egypt, Lebanon, Sudan, and Syria, and formerly in the Republic of Ireland, Cyprus, Nigeria, Israel, and South Africa.
- The unit of currency used in the United Kingdom and its dependencies. It is divided into 100 pence.
- (US) The symbol #.
- (informal, non-scientific) Ellipsis of pound-force.
verb
- move rhythmically
- hit hard with the hand, fist, or some heavy instrument
- make a dull sound
- (intransitive) (of a rabbit) to hit the ground with the back legs to signal agitation.
- (intransitive) To thud or pound.
- (transitive, chiefly UK) To hit (someone or something) as if to make a thump.
- (intransitive) To throb with a muffled rhythmic sound.
- (transitive) To cause to make a thumping sound.
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- the act of singing vocal music
- disclosing information or giving evidence about another
- (informal) Disclosing information, or giving evidence about another.
- A ringing sound in the ears.
- (US) A gathering for the purpose of singing shape note songs.
- The act of using the voice to produce musical sounds; vocalizing.
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- characterized by a buoyant rhythm
- Variable in mood; liable to having mood swings.
- (sports, games) Inconsistent in performance.
- (curling, of ice) Allowing stones to curl more than usual.
- (informal) Having a swinging motion.
- (informal, politics) Having many swing voters.
- (informal) Characteristic of swing music.
adj
- characterized by a buoyant rhythm
- moving easily and quickly; nimble
- (slang) Undergoing a hallucinogenic trip.
- (heraldry, not comparable) Having the right forefoot lifted, the others remaining on the ground, as if trotting; trippant.
- (slang) Saying crazy things or acting foolishly.
- Quick; nimble; stepping lightly and quickly.
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verb
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- have a certain musical rhythm
- play with a subtle and intuitively felt sense of rhythm
- hit or aim at with a sweeping arm movement
- make a big sweeping gesture or movement
- move in a curve or arc, usually with the intent of hitting
- be a social swinger; socialize a lot
- move or walk in a swinging or swaying manner
- engage freely in promiscuous sex, often with the husband or wife of one's friends
- influence decisively
- change direction with a swinging motion; turn
- hang loosely
- alternate dramatically between high and low values
- live in a lively, modern, and relaxed style
- (intransitive) To hang from the gallows; to be punished by hanging, swing for something or someone; (often hyperbolic) to be severely punished.
- (intransitive, cricket, of a ball) To move sideways in its trajectory.
- (transitive and intransitive, boxing) To move one's arm in a punching motion.
- (transitive) To change (a numerical result); especially to change the outcome of an election.
- To be sexually oriented.
- To turn in a different direction.
- (transitive, engineering) To admit or turn something for the purpose of shaping it; said of a lathe.
- (intransitive) To ride on a swing.
- (transitive) To move (an object) backward and forward; to wave.
- (transitive, music) To play notes that are in pairs by making the first of the pair slightly longer than written (augmentation) and the second shorter, resulting in a bouncy, uneven rhythm.
- (transitive, cricket) (of a bowler) To make the ball move sideways in its trajectory.
- (intransitive, sex) To participate in the swinging lifestyle; to participate in wifeswapping.
- (intransitive) To rotate about an off-centre fixed point.
- (intransitive) To dance.
- (intransitive) To fluctuate or change.
- (transitive, carpentry) To put (a door, gate, etc.) on hinges so that it can swing or turn.
- (transitive) In dancing, to turn around in a small circle with one's partner, holding hands or arms.
- (nautical) To turn round by action of wind or tide when at anchor.
- (transitive, slang) To make (something) work; especially to afford (something) financially.
noun
- a jaunty rhythm in music
- a state of steady vigorous action that is characteristic of an activity
- in baseball; a batter's attempt to hit a pitched ball
- a sweeping blow or stroke
- mechanical device used as a plaything to support someone swinging back and forth
- the act of swinging a golf club at a golf ball and (usually) hitting it
- changing location by moving back and forth
- a style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s; flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz
- a square dance figure; a pair of dancers join hands and dance around a point between them
- (boxing) A type of hook with the arm more extended.
- (music) The genre of music associated with this dance style.
- The sweep or compass of a swinging body.
- (politics) In an election, the increase or decrease in the number of votes for opposition parties compared with votes for the incumbent party.
- (cricket) Sideways movement of the ball as it flies through the air.
- A basic dance step in which a pair link hands and turn round together in a circle.
- Influence or power of anything put in motion.
- (theater) In a musical theater production, a performer who understudies several roles.
- The act, or an instance, of swinging.
- The manner in which something is swung.
- Capacity of a turning lathe, as determined by the diameter of the largest object that can be turned in it.
- The amount of change towards or away from something.
- A line, cord, or other thing suspended and hanging loose, upon which anything may swing.
- A hanging seat that can swing back and forth, in a children's playground, for acrobats in a circus, or on a porch for relaxing.
- An energetic and acrobatic late-1930s partner-based dance style, also known as jitterbug and lindy-hop.
- The maximum amount of change that has occurred or can occur; the sum of the maximum changes in any direction.
verb
- flow intermittently
- (transitive) To move rhythmically, as the motion of a pump.
- deliver forth
- draw or pour with a pump
- raise (gases or fluids) with a pump
- supply in great quantities
- move up and down
- operate like a pump; move up and down, like a handle or a pedal
- question persistently
- (British, slang, vulgar) To pass gas; to fart quietly.
- (colloquial) To inject silicone into the body in order to try to achieve a fuller or curvier look.
- (transitive) To gain something, especially information, from (a person) by persistent questioning.
- (transitive) To shake (a person's hand) vigorously.
- To fire a bullet from a firearm.
- (transitive, often followed by up) To fill with air by means of a pump; to inflate.
- (transitive, UK, slang) To have sex with; to sexually penetrate, especially with a thrusting motion.
- (sports) To kick, throw, or hit the ball far and high.
- (computing) To pass (messages) into a program so that it can obey them.
- (transitive, intransitive) To express milk from (a breast) by means of a breast pump.
- (bodybuilding) To enlarge the body by means of weightlifting or steroid use.
- To load a shell into the chamber of a pump-action shotgun by pumping the mechanism.
- (US, intransitive, slang) Of music: to be loud, to have strong bass and rhythms; (by extension) to be full of energy.
- (transitive) To inject or pour (something) into someone or something in a manner similar to a pump.
- (transitive, intransitive) To use a pump; to move (water or other liquid) by means of a pump.
noun
- a mechanical device that moves fluid or gas by pressure or suction
- the hollow muscular organ located behind the sternum and between the lungs; its rhythmic contractions move the blood through the body
- a low-cut shoe without fastenings
- A dancing shoe.
- A device for moving or compressing a liquid or gas.
- (colloquial) A ride on a bicycle given to a passenger, usually on the handlebars or fender.
- A type of shoe without a heel.
- (chiefly Canada, US) A type of women's shoe which leaves the instep uncovered and has a relatively high heel, especially a stiletto (with a very high and thin heel)
- (British) A low-top shoe with a rubber sole and a canvas upper; a low-top canvas sneaker.
- A device for dispensing liquid or gas to be sold, particularly fuel; a gas pump.
- (US, slang) The heart.
- An instance of the action of a pump; one stroke of a pump; any action similar to pumping
- (bodybuilding, climbing) A swelling of the muscles caused by increased blood flow following high intensity weightlifting.
verb
- expand and contract rhythmically; beat rhythmically
- move with or as if with a regular alternating motion
- produce or modulate (as electromagnetic waves) in the form of short bursts or pulses or cause an apparatus to produce pulses
- (intransitive, figurative) To pulse, to be full of life, energy: to bustle, thrive, flourish.
- (intransitive) To expand and contract rhythmically; to throb or to beat, exhibit a pulse.
- (transitive) To produce a recurring increase and decrease of some quantity.
- (intransitive) To quiver, vibrate, or flash; as to the beat of music.
verb
- expand and contract rhythmically; beat rhythmically
- produce or modulate (as electromagnetic waves) in the form of short bursts or pulses or cause an apparatus to produce pulses
- drive by or as if by pulsation
- To manipulate (an electric current, electromagnetic wave, etc.) so that it is emitted in pulses.
- To apply an electric current or signal that varies in strength to (something).
- (intransitive, figuratively) Of an activity, place, or thing: to bustle with energy and liveliness; to pulsate.
- (intransitive, chiefly figuratively and literary) To expand and contract repeatedly, like an artery when blood is flowing though it, or the heart; to beat, to throb, to vibrate, to pulsate.
- (transitive, cooking) To operate a food processor on (some ingredient) in short bursts, to break it up without liquidizing it.
- (transitive, chiefly biology, chemistry) To give to (something, especially a cell culture) an (increased) amount of a substance, such as a drug or an isotopic label, over a short time.
- (transitive, also figuratively) To emit or impel (something) in pulses or waves.
noun
- the rate at which the heart beats; usually measured to obtain a quick evaluation of a person's health
- the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart
- (electronics) a sharp transient wave in the normal electrical state (or a series of such transients)
- edible seeds of various pod-bearing plants (peas or beans or lentils etc.)
- (chiefly biology, chemistry) An (increased) amount of a substance (such as a drug or an isotopic label) given over a short time.
- A brief burst of electromagnetic energy, such as light, radio waves, etc.
- (cooking, chiefly attributively) A setting on a food processor which causes it to work in a series of short bursts rather than continuously, in order to break up ingredients without liquidizing them; also, a use of this setting.
- A normally regular beat felt when arteries near the skin (for example, at the neck or wrist) are depressed, caused by the heart pumping blood through them; the qualitative nature of this beat.
- Synonym of autosoliton (“a stable solitary localized structure that arises in nonlinear spatially extended dissipative systems due to mechanisms of self-organization”).
- (figuratively) The focus of energy or vigour of an activity, place, or thing; also, the feeling of bustle, busyness, or energy in a place; the heartbeat.
- (music, prosody) The beat or tactus of a piece of music or verse; also, a repeated sequence of such beats.
- (also electronics) A brief increase in the strength of an electrical signal; an impulse.
- (uncountable) Edible grains or seeds from leguminous plants, especially in a mature, dry condition; (countable) a specific kind of such a grain or seed.
- (metonymic, loosely) The rate of this beat as an indication of a person's health.
- (transport) A timed, coordinated connection, when multiple public transportation vehicles are at a hub at the same time so that passengers can flexibly connect between them.
- (uncountable) Annual leguminous plants (such as beans, lentils, and peas) yielding grains or seeds used as food for humans or animals; (countable) such a plant; a legume.
- (figuratively) A beat or throb; also, a repeated sequence of such beats or throbs.
verb
- expand and contract rhythmically; beat rhythmically
- pulsate or pound with abnormal force
- tremble convulsively, as from fear or excitement
- (intransitive, of a body part) To pulse (often painfully) in time with the circulation of blood.
- (intransitive) To pound or beat rapidly or violently.
- (figurative, with "with") To exhibit an attitude, trait, or affect powerfully and profoundly.
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- A cessation in a flow or activity.
- (fashion, chiefly in the plural) Shorts made by cutting off the legs from trousers.
- A device for saving steam by regulating its admission to the cylinder (see quotation at cut-off).
- A device that stops the flow of a current.
- The point at which something terminates or to which it is limited.
- (journalism) A horizontal line separating sections of the page.
- A road, path or channel that provides a shorter or quicker path; a shortcut.
- (poker) The player who acts directly before the player on the button pre-flop.
- (medicine) A cutoff point (cutoff value, threshold value, cutpoint): the amount set by an operational definition as the transition point between states in a discretization or dichotomization.
- (fashion) A sleeveless shirt, especially one made by cutting the sleeves off of a t-shirt.
- a route shorter than the usual one
- a designated limit beyond which something cannot function or must be terminated
- a device that terminates the flow in a pipe
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- move in a graceful and rhythmical way
- move in a pattern; usually to musical accompaniment; do or perform a dance
- skip, leap, or move up and down or sideways
- (beekeeping, of a worker honey bee) To make a repetitive movement in order to communicate to other worker honey bees.
- (intransitive) To move with rhythmic steps or movements, especially in time to music.
- (figurative, euphemistic) To kick and convulse from the effects of being hanged.
- (intransitive) To leap or move lightly and rapidly.
- (figurative, euphemistic) To make love or have sex.
- (transitive) To perform the steps to.
- (transitive) To cause to dance, or move nimbly or merrily about.
noun
- an artistic form of nonverbal communication
- taking a series of rhythmical steps (and movements) in time to music
- a party of people assembled for dancing
- a party for social dancing
- A social gathering where dancing is the main activity.
- (figurative) A battle of wits, especially one commonly fought between two rivals.
- A piece of music with a particular dance rhythm.
- (uncountable) The art, profession, and study of dancing.
- A sequence of rhythmic steps or movements usually performed to music, for pleasure or as a form of social interaction.
- (uncountable) Ellipsis of electronic dance music.
- (beekeeping) A repetitive movement used in communication between worker honey bees.
- (heraldry) A normally horizontal stripe called a fess that has been modified to zig-zag across the center of a coat of arms from dexter to sinister.
verb
- make a rhythmic sound
- study intensively, as before an exam
- play a percussion instrument
- Of various animals, to make a vocalisation or mechanical sound that resembles drumming.
- (intransitive) To beat a drum.
- To throb, as the heart.
- To go about, as a drummer does, to gather recruits, to draw or secure partisans, customers, etc.; used with for.
- (ambitransitive) To beat with a rapid succession of strokes.
- (transitive) To drill or review in an attempt to establish memorization.
noun
- a bulging cylindrical shape; hollow with flat ends
- a musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretched across each end
- small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise
- the sound of a drum
- a cylindrical metal container, commonly used for shipping or storage of liquids
- a hollow cast iron cylinder attached to the wheel that forms part of the brakes
- (informal) A drumstick (of chicken, turkey, etc).
- (US) Synonym of construction barrel.
- (now historical) A social gathering or assembly held in the evening.
- (architecture) Any of the cylindrical blocks that make up the shaft of a pillar.
- A drumfish (family Sciaenidae).
- Any similar hollow, cylindrical object.
- (architecture) The encircling wall that supports a dome or cupola.
- (Australia slang) A tip; a piece of information.
- (slang, chiefly UK) A person's home; a house or other building, especially when insalubrious; a tavern, a brothel.
- A barrel or large cylindrical container for liquid transport and storage.
- (music) A percussive musical instrument spanned with a thin covering on at least one end for striking, forming an acoustic chamber; a membranophone.
verb
- make a rhythmic sound
- sound the strings of (a stringed instrument)
- sound with a monotonous hum
- To cause a steady rhythmic vibration, usually by plucking.
- To furnish with thrums; to insert tufts in; to fringe.
- To make a monotonous drumming noise.
- (nautical) To insert short pieces of rope-yarn or spun yarn in.
noun
- a thrumming sound
- (figurative) A spicy taste; a tang.
- (botany) A threadlike part of a flower; a stamen.
- Any short piece of leftover thread or yarn; a tuft or tassel.
- (anatomy) A bundle of minute blood vessels, a plexus.
- (chiefly in the plural) A fringe made of such threads.
- (mining) A shove out of place; a small displacement or fault along a seam.
- The ends of the warp threads in a loom which remain unwoven attached to the loom when the web is cut.
- (nautical) A mat made of canvas and tufts of yarn.
- (nautical, chiefly in the plural) Small pieces of rope yarn used for making mats or mops.
- (botany) A tuft, bundle, or fringe of any threadlike structures, as hairs on a leaf, fibers of a root.
- A thrumming sound; a hum or vibration.
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- That moves in the same direction as a system of synchronized waves.
- (petrology, mineralogy) Of or pertaining to a symplectite; symplectitic.
- (group theory, of a group) Whose characteristic abelian subgroups are cyclic.
- (mathematics, multilinear algebra, of a vector space) That is equipped with an alternating nondegenerate bilinear form.
- (mathematics, multilinear algebra, of a bilinear form) That is alternating and nondegenerate.
- (mathematics) Of or pertaining to (the geometry of) a differentiable manifold equipped with a closed nondegenerate bilinear form.
- Placed in or among, as if woven together.
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- Flowing or sounding smoothly or without abrupt transitions or harsh tones.
- (physical chemistry) Flowing freely like water; fluid; not solid and not gaseous; composed of particles that move freely among each other on the slightest pressure.
- (finance, of a market) Having sufficient trading activity to make buying or selling easy.
- (finance, of an asset) Easily sold or disposed of without losing value.
- Fluid and transparent.
- (phonology) Belonging to a class of consonants comprising the laterals and the rhotics, which in many languages behave similarly.
- smooth and unconstrained in movement
- in cash or easily convertible to cash
- clear and bright
- changed from a solid to a liquid state
- smooth and flowing in quality; entirely free of harshness
- filled or brimming with tears
- existing as or having characteristics of a liquid; especially tending to flow
noun
- (phonetics) Any of a class of consonant sounds that includes l and r.
- (physical chemistry) A substance that is flowing, and keeping no shape, such as water; a substance of which the molecules, while not tending to separate from one another like those of a gas, readily change their relative position, and which therefore retains no definite shape, except that determined by the containing receptacle; an inelastic fluid.
- the state in which a substance exhibits a characteristic readiness to flow with little or no tendency to disperse and relatively high incompressibility
- a substance that is liquid at room temperature and pressure
- fluid matter having no fixed shape but a fixed volume
- a frictionless continuant that is not a nasal consonant (especially ‘l’ and ‘r’)
noun
- A person's natural feeling for rhythm.
- The tempo or speed of a beat, song or repetitive event.
- A regular quantitative change in a variable (notably natural) process.
- The variation of strong and weak elements (such as duration, accent) of sounds, notably in speech or music, over time; a beat or meter.
- Controlled repetition of a phrase, incident or other element as a stylistic figure in literature and other narrative arts; the effect it creates.
- A flow, repetition or regularity.
- The musical instruments which provide rhythm (mainly; not or less melody) in a musical ensemble.
- A specifically defined pattern of such variation.
- the arrangement of spoken words alternating stressed and unstressed elements
- recurring at regular intervals
- (architecture) the repetitive use of a group of visual elements to establish a recognizable pattern
- natural family planning in which ovulation is assumed to occur 14 days before the onset of a period (the fertile period would be assumed to extend from day 10 through day 18 of her cycle)
- the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music
- an interval during which a recurring sequence of events occurs
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- To stop or interrupt a flow or steady motion.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bring, up: To bring from a lower to a higher position.
- (transitive) To prepare a vein for an injection.
- To mention.
- To legally charge and put on trial; to position (someone) for judgement or examination by authority.
- (electronics) To check (a newly-assembled printed circuit board) for errors.
- To uncover, to bring from obscurity; to resurface (e.g. a memory)
- To turn on power or start, as of a machine.
- To vomit.
- (cricket) To reach a particular score, especially a milestone.
- To raise or rear (children).
- summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic
- put forward for consideration or discussion
- promote from a lower position or rank
- make reference to
- cause to come to a sudden stop
- raise from a lower to a higher position
- cause to load (an operating system) and start the initial processes
- look after a child until it is an adult
noun
- A rhythmic tapping.
- An image made on a body part, usually the skin with ink and a needle.
- (military) A military display or pageant.
- (military) A signal by drum or bugle ordering soldiers to return to their quarters.
- A method of decorating a body part, usually the skin, by inserting colored substances under the surface with a sharp instrument (usually a solenoid-driven needle).
- A pony of a certain breed from India.
- (nautical) A signal played five minutes before taps (lights out).
- a design on the skin made by tattooing
- the practice of making a design on the skin by pricking and staining
- a drumbeat or bugle call that signals the military to return to their quarters
verb
adj
noun
adv
noun
- Balanced, rhythmic flow.
- a recurrent rhythmical series
- (horse-riding) Harmony and proportion of movement, as in a well-managed horse.
- The act or state of declining or sinking.
- (music) A progression of at least two chords which conclude a piece of music, section or musical phrases within it. Sometimes referred to analogously as musical punctuation.
- (speech) A fall in inflection of a speaker’s voice, such as at the end of a sentence.
- (military) A chant that is sung by military personnel while running or marching; a jody call.
- The measure or beat of movement.
- (horseracing) The number of strides per second of a racehorse, measured when the same foot/hoof strikes the ground
- (fencing) The rhythm and sequence of a series of actions.
- (dance) A dance move which ends a phrase.
- (music) A cadenza, or closing embellishment; a pause before the end of a strain, which the performer may fill with a flight of fancy.
- (heraldry) Cadency.
- (software engineering) The frequency of regular product releases.
- (running) The number of steps per minute.
- The general inflection or modulation of the voice, or of any sound.
- (cycling) The number of revolutions per minute of the cranks or pedals of a bicycle.
- the close of a musical section
- (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
verb
noun
prep_phrase
adv
verb
- move rhythmically
- make a rhythmic sound
- move with or as if with a regular alternating motion
- strike (a part of one's own body) repeatedly, as in great emotion or in accompaniment to music
- move with a thrashing motion
- produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly
- wear out completely
- stir vigorously
- avoid paying
- hit repeatedly
- be superior
- make a sound like a clock or a timer
- shape by beating
- be a mystery or bewildering to
- indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks
- glare or strike with great intensity
- come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
- make by pounding or trampling
- sail with much tacking or with difficulty
- strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting
- give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression
- beat through cleverness and wit
- move with a flapping motion
- (intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
- To make a sound when struck.
- To be in agitation or doubt.
- To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
- simple past tense of beat
- (military, intransitive) To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
- (intransitive, MLE, MTE, slang, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse.
- (transitive, slang) To rob; to cheat or scam.
- (transitive) To arrive at a place before someone.
- (intransitive) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
- (intransitive) To move with pulsation or throbbing.
- (transitive) To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
- (especially colloquial) past participle of beat
- To tread, as a path.
- To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
- To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and lesser intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; said of instruments, tones, or vibrations not perfectly in unison.
- (transitive) To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do or be better than (someone); to excel in a particular, competitive event.
- (transitive) To indicate by beating or drumming.
- (transitive) To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting.
- (transitive) To hit; to strike.
- (transitive, UK, in haggling for a price of a buyer) To persuade the seller to reduce a price.
noun
- A rhythm.
- the sound of stroke or blow
- a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior
- a regular route for a sentry or policeman
- the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart
- a single pulsation of an oscillation produced by adding two waves of different frequencies; has a frequency equal to the difference between the two oscillations
- the act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing
- (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
- a regular rate of repetition
- a stroke or blow
- the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music
- (music) The rhythm signalled by a conductor or other musician to the members of a group of musicians.
- (slang) A makeup look; compare beat one's face.
- The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
- A pulsation or throb.
- (journalism) The primary focus of a reporter's stories (such as police/courts, education, city government, business etc.).
- (authorship) A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.
- (music) A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is the basic time unit of a piece.
- The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency
- (hunting) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.
- A stroke; a blow.
- (fencing) A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
- The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
- A beatnik.
adj
noun
- A cessation in a flow or activity.
- (fashion, chiefly in the plural) Shorts made by cutting off the legs from trousers.
- A device for saving steam by regulating its admission to the cylinder (see quotation at cut-off).
- A device that stops the flow of a current.
- The point at which something terminates or to which it is limited.
- (journalism) A horizontal line separating sections of the page.
- A road, path or channel that provides a shorter or quicker path; a shortcut.
- (poker) The player who acts directly before the player on the button pre-flop.
- (medicine) A cutoff point (cutoff value, threshold value, cutpoint): the amount set by an operational definition as the transition point between states in a discretization or dichotomization.
- (fashion) A sleeveless shirt, especially one made by cutting the sleeves off of a t-shirt.
- a route shorter than the usual one
- a designated limit beyond which something cannot function or must be terminated
- a device that terminates the flow in a pipe
adj
verb
- have a certain musical rhythm
- play with a subtle and intuitively felt sense of rhythm
- hit or aim at with a sweeping arm movement
- make a big sweeping gesture or movement
- move in a curve or arc, usually with the intent of hitting
- be a social swinger; socialize a lot
- move or walk in a swinging or swaying manner
- engage freely in promiscuous sex, often with the husband or wife of one's friends
- influence decisively
- change direction with a swinging motion; turn
- hang loosely
- alternate dramatically between high and low values
- live in a lively, modern, and relaxed style
- (intransitive) To hang from the gallows; to be punished by hanging, swing for something or someone; (often hyperbolic) to be severely punished.
- (intransitive, cricket, of a ball) To move sideways in its trajectory.
- (transitive and intransitive, boxing) To move one's arm in a punching motion.
- (transitive) To change (a numerical result); especially to change the outcome of an election.
- To be sexually oriented.
- To turn in a different direction.
- (transitive, engineering) To admit or turn something for the purpose of shaping it; said of a lathe.
- (intransitive) To ride on a swing.
- (transitive) To move (an object) backward and forward; to wave.
- (transitive, music) To play notes that are in pairs by making the first of the pair slightly longer than written (augmentation) and the second shorter, resulting in a bouncy, uneven rhythm.
- (transitive, cricket) (of a bowler) To make the ball move sideways in its trajectory.
- (intransitive, sex) To participate in the swinging lifestyle; to participate in wifeswapping.
- (intransitive) To rotate about an off-centre fixed point.
- (intransitive) To dance.
- (intransitive) To fluctuate or change.
- (transitive, carpentry) To put (a door, gate, etc.) on hinges so that it can swing or turn.
- (transitive) In dancing, to turn around in a small circle with one's partner, holding hands or arms.
- (nautical) To turn round by action of wind or tide when at anchor.
- (transitive, slang) To make (something) work; especially to afford (something) financially.
noun
- a jaunty rhythm in music
- a state of steady vigorous action that is characteristic of an activity
- in baseball; a batter's attempt to hit a pitched ball
- a sweeping blow or stroke
- mechanical device used as a plaything to support someone swinging back and forth
- the act of swinging a golf club at a golf ball and (usually) hitting it
- changing location by moving back and forth
- a style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s; flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz
- a square dance figure; a pair of dancers join hands and dance around a point between them
- (boxing) A type of hook with the arm more extended.
- (music) The genre of music associated with this dance style.
- The sweep or compass of a swinging body.
- (politics) In an election, the increase or decrease in the number of votes for opposition parties compared with votes for the incumbent party.
- (cricket) Sideways movement of the ball as it flies through the air.
- A basic dance step in which a pair link hands and turn round together in a circle.
- Influence or power of anything put in motion.
- (theater) In a musical theater production, a performer who understudies several roles.
- The act, or an instance, of swinging.
- The manner in which something is swung.
- Capacity of a turning lathe, as determined by the diameter of the largest object that can be turned in it.
- The amount of change towards or away from something.
- A line, cord, or other thing suspended and hanging loose, upon which anything may swing.
- A hanging seat that can swing back and forth, in a children's playground, for acrobats in a circus, or on a porch for relaxing.
- An energetic and acrobatic late-1930s partner-based dance style, also known as jitterbug and lindy-hop.
- The maximum amount of change that has occurred or can occur; the sum of the maximum changes in any direction.
noun
verb
noun
- A person's natural feeling for rhythm.
- The tempo or speed of a beat, song or repetitive event.
- A regular quantitative change in a variable (notably natural) process.
- The variation of strong and weak elements (such as duration, accent) of sounds, notably in speech or music, over time; a beat or meter.
- Controlled repetition of a phrase, incident or other element as a stylistic figure in literature and other narrative arts; the effect it creates.
- A flow, repetition or regularity.
- The musical instruments which provide rhythm (mainly; not or less melody) in a musical ensemble.
- A specifically defined pattern of such variation.
- the arrangement of spoken words alternating stressed and unstressed elements
- recurring at regular intervals
- (architecture) the repetitive use of a group of visual elements to establish a recognizable pattern
- natural family planning in which ovulation is assumed to occur 14 days before the onset of a period (the fertile period would be assumed to extend from day 10 through day 18 of her cycle)
- the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music
- an interval during which a recurring sequence of events occurs
verb
noun
- A rhythmic tapping.
- An image made on a body part, usually the skin with ink and a needle.
- (military) A military display or pageant.
- (military) A signal by drum or bugle ordering soldiers to return to their quarters.
- A method of decorating a body part, usually the skin, by inserting colored substances under the surface with a sharp instrument (usually a solenoid-driven needle).
- A pony of a certain breed from India.
- (nautical) A signal played five minutes before taps (lights out).
- a design on the skin made by tattooing
- the practice of making a design on the skin by pricking and staining
- a drumbeat or bugle call that signals the military to return to their quarters
verb
verb
- move rhythmically
- make a rhythmic sound
- move with or as if with a regular alternating motion
- strike (a part of one's own body) repeatedly, as in great emotion or in accompaniment to music
- move with a thrashing motion
- produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly
- wear out completely
- stir vigorously
- avoid paying
- hit repeatedly
- be superior
- make a sound like a clock or a timer
- shape by beating
- be a mystery or bewildering to
- indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks
- glare or strike with great intensity
- come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
- make by pounding or trampling
- sail with much tacking or with difficulty
- strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting
- give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression
- beat through cleverness and wit
- move with a flapping motion
- (intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
- To make a sound when struck.
- To be in agitation or doubt.
- To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
- simple past tense of beat
- (military, intransitive) To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
- (intransitive, MLE, MTE, slang, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse.
- (transitive, slang) To rob; to cheat or scam.
- (transitive) To arrive at a place before someone.
- (intransitive) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
- (intransitive) To move with pulsation or throbbing.
- (transitive) To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
- (especially colloquial) past participle of beat
- To tread, as a path.
- To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
- To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and lesser intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; said of instruments, tones, or vibrations not perfectly in unison.
- (transitive) To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do or be better than (someone); to excel in a particular, competitive event.
- (transitive) To indicate by beating or drumming.
- (transitive) To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting.
- (transitive) To hit; to strike.
- (transitive, UK, in haggling for a price of a buyer) To persuade the seller to reduce a price.
noun
- A rhythm.
- the sound of stroke or blow
- a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior
- a regular route for a sentry or policeman
- the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart
- a single pulsation of an oscillation produced by adding two waves of different frequencies; has a frequency equal to the difference between the two oscillations
- the act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing
- (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
- a regular rate of repetition
- a stroke or blow
- the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music
- (music) The rhythm signalled by a conductor or other musician to the members of a group of musicians.
- (slang) A makeup look; compare beat one's face.
- The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
- A pulsation or throb.
- (journalism) The primary focus of a reporter's stories (such as police/courts, education, city government, business etc.).
- (authorship) A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.
- (music) A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is the basic time unit of a piece.
- The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency
- (hunting) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.
- A stroke; a blow.
- (fencing) A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
- The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
- A beatnik.
adj
verb
- move rhythmically
- break down and crush by beating, as with a pestle
- place or shut up in a pound
- hit hard with the hand, fist, or some heavy instrument
- shut up or confine in any enclosure or within any bounds or limits
- move heavily or clumsily
- strike or drive against with a heavy impact
- partition off into compartments
- (transitive, vulgar, slang) To penetrate sexually, with vigour.
- (engineering) To make a jarring noise, as when running.
- To advance heavily with measured steps.
- (transitive, slang) To eat or drink very quickly.
- (slang, UK regional, transitive) To wager a pound on.
- To confine in, or as in, a pound; to impound.
- (transitive) To strike hard, usually repeatedly.
- (intransitive, of a body part, generally heart, blood, or head) To beat strongly or throb.
- (transitive, baseball, slang) To pitch consistently to a certain location.
- (transitive) To crush to pieces; to pulverize.
noun
- the basic unit of money in Egypt; equal to 100 piasters
- 16 ounces avoirdupois
- a unit of apothecary weight equal to 12 ounces troy
- the basic unit of money in Syria; equal to 100 piasters
- a nontechnical unit of force equal to the mass of 1 pound with an acceleration of free fall equal to 32 feet/sec/sec
- a public enclosure for stray or unlicensed dogs
- a symbol for a unit of currency (especially for the pound sterling in Great Britain)
- the basic unit of money in the Sudan; equal to 100 piasters
- the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows)
- the basic unit of money in Cyprus; equal to 100 cents
- the basic unit of money in Lebanon; equal to 100 piasters
- formerly the basic unit of money in Ireland; equal to 100 pence
- the basic unit of money in Great Britain and Northern Ireland; equal to 100 pence
- Ellipsis of pound force.
- Ellipsis of pound weight.
- (UK) A place for the detention of automobiles that have been illegally parked, abandoned, etc.
- A hard blow.
- A section of a canal between two adjacent locks.
- Any of various units of currency formerly used in the United States.
- (informal) Various non-English units of currency not officially called pounds.
- Ellipsis of pound mass.
- A unit of mass equal to 16 avoirdupois ounces (= 453.592 g). Today this value is the most common meaning of "pound" as a unit of weight.
- A unit of weight in various measurement systems.
- A kind of fishing net, having a large enclosure with a narrow entrance into which fish are directed by wings spreading outward.
- A unit of mass equal to 12 troy ounces (≈ 373.242 g). Today, this is a common unit of mass when measuring precious metals, and is little used elsewhere.
- (metonymic) The people who work for the pound.
- A place for the detention of stray or wandering animals.
- (Newfoundland) A division inside a fishing stage where cod is cured in salt brine.
- Various non-English units of measure.
- Any of various units of currency used in Egypt, Lebanon, Sudan, and Syria, and formerly in the Republic of Ireland, Cyprus, Nigeria, Israel, and South Africa.
- The unit of currency used in the United Kingdom and its dependencies. It is divided into 100 pence.
- (US) The symbol #.
- (informal, non-scientific) Ellipsis of pound-force.
verb
- move rhythmically
- hit hard with the hand, fist, or some heavy instrument
- make a dull sound
- (intransitive) (of a rabbit) to hit the ground with the back legs to signal agitation.
- (intransitive) To thud or pound.
- (transitive, chiefly UK) To hit (someone or something) as if to make a thump.
- (intransitive) To throb with a muffled rhythmic sound.
- (transitive) To cause to make a thumping sound.
noun
verb
- have a certain musical rhythm
- play with a subtle and intuitively felt sense of rhythm
- hit or aim at with a sweeping arm movement
- make a big sweeping gesture or movement
- move in a curve or arc, usually with the intent of hitting
- be a social swinger; socialize a lot
- move or walk in a swinging or swaying manner
- engage freely in promiscuous sex, often with the husband or wife of one's friends
- influence decisively
- change direction with a swinging motion; turn
- hang loosely
- alternate dramatically between high and low values
- live in a lively, modern, and relaxed style
- (intransitive) To hang from the gallows; to be punished by hanging, swing for something or someone; (often hyperbolic) to be severely punished.
- (intransitive, cricket, of a ball) To move sideways in its trajectory.
- (transitive and intransitive, boxing) To move one's arm in a punching motion.
- (transitive) To change (a numerical result); especially to change the outcome of an election.
- To be sexually oriented.
- To turn in a different direction.
- (transitive, engineering) To admit or turn something for the purpose of shaping it; said of a lathe.
- (intransitive) To ride on a swing.
- (transitive) To move (an object) backward and forward; to wave.
- (transitive, music) To play notes that are in pairs by making the first of the pair slightly longer than written (augmentation) and the second shorter, resulting in a bouncy, uneven rhythm.
- (transitive, cricket) (of a bowler) To make the ball move sideways in its trajectory.
- (intransitive, sex) To participate in the swinging lifestyle; to participate in wifeswapping.
- (intransitive) To rotate about an off-centre fixed point.
- (intransitive) To dance.
- (intransitive) To fluctuate or change.
- (transitive, carpentry) To put (a door, gate, etc.) on hinges so that it can swing or turn.
- (transitive) In dancing, to turn around in a small circle with one's partner, holding hands or arms.
- (nautical) To turn round by action of wind or tide when at anchor.
- (transitive, slang) To make (something) work; especially to afford (something) financially.
noun
- a jaunty rhythm in music
- a state of steady vigorous action that is characteristic of an activity
- in baseball; a batter's attempt to hit a pitched ball
- a sweeping blow or stroke
- mechanical device used as a plaything to support someone swinging back and forth
- the act of swinging a golf club at a golf ball and (usually) hitting it
- changing location by moving back and forth
- a style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s; flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz
- a square dance figure; a pair of dancers join hands and dance around a point between them
- (boxing) A type of hook with the arm more extended.
- (music) The genre of music associated with this dance style.
- The sweep or compass of a swinging body.
- (politics) In an election, the increase or decrease in the number of votes for opposition parties compared with votes for the incumbent party.
- (cricket) Sideways movement of the ball as it flies through the air.
- A basic dance step in which a pair link hands and turn round together in a circle.
- Influence or power of anything put in motion.
- (theater) In a musical theater production, a performer who understudies several roles.
- The act, or an instance, of swinging.
- The manner in which something is swung.
- Capacity of a turning lathe, as determined by the diameter of the largest object that can be turned in it.
- The amount of change towards or away from something.
- A line, cord, or other thing suspended and hanging loose, upon which anything may swing.
- A hanging seat that can swing back and forth, in a children's playground, for acrobats in a circus, or on a porch for relaxing.
- An energetic and acrobatic late-1930s partner-based dance style, also known as jitterbug and lindy-hop.
- The maximum amount of change that has occurred or can occur; the sum of the maximum changes in any direction.
verb
- flow intermittently
- (transitive) To move rhythmically, as the motion of a pump.
- deliver forth
- draw or pour with a pump
- raise (gases or fluids) with a pump
- supply in great quantities
- move up and down
- operate like a pump; move up and down, like a handle or a pedal
- question persistently
- (British, slang, vulgar) To pass gas; to fart quietly.
- (colloquial) To inject silicone into the body in order to try to achieve a fuller or curvier look.
- (transitive) To gain something, especially information, from (a person) by persistent questioning.
- (transitive) To shake (a person's hand) vigorously.
- To fire a bullet from a firearm.
- (transitive, often followed by up) To fill with air by means of a pump; to inflate.
- (transitive, UK, slang) To have sex with; to sexually penetrate, especially with a thrusting motion.
- (sports) To kick, throw, or hit the ball far and high.
- (computing) To pass (messages) into a program so that it can obey them.
- (transitive, intransitive) To express milk from (a breast) by means of a breast pump.
- (bodybuilding) To enlarge the body by means of weightlifting or steroid use.
- To load a shell into the chamber of a pump-action shotgun by pumping the mechanism.
- (US, intransitive, slang) Of music: to be loud, to have strong bass and rhythms; (by extension) to be full of energy.
- (transitive) To inject or pour (something) into someone or something in a manner similar to a pump.
- (transitive, intransitive) To use a pump; to move (water or other liquid) by means of a pump.
noun
- a mechanical device that moves fluid or gas by pressure or suction
- the hollow muscular organ located behind the sternum and between the lungs; its rhythmic contractions move the blood through the body
- a low-cut shoe without fastenings
- A dancing shoe.
- A device for moving or compressing a liquid or gas.
- (colloquial) A ride on a bicycle given to a passenger, usually on the handlebars or fender.
- A type of shoe without a heel.
- (chiefly Canada, US) A type of women's shoe which leaves the instep uncovered and has a relatively high heel, especially a stiletto (with a very high and thin heel)
- (British) A low-top shoe with a rubber sole and a canvas upper; a low-top canvas sneaker.
- A device for dispensing liquid or gas to be sold, particularly fuel; a gas pump.
- (US, slang) The heart.
- An instance of the action of a pump; one stroke of a pump; any action similar to pumping
- (bodybuilding, climbing) A swelling of the muscles caused by increased blood flow following high intensity weightlifting.
verb
- expand and contract rhythmically; beat rhythmically
- move with or as if with a regular alternating motion
- produce or modulate (as electromagnetic waves) in the form of short bursts or pulses or cause an apparatus to produce pulses
- (intransitive, figurative) To pulse, to be full of life, energy: to bustle, thrive, flourish.
- (intransitive) To expand and contract rhythmically; to throb or to beat, exhibit a pulse.
- (transitive) To produce a recurring increase and decrease of some quantity.
- (intransitive) To quiver, vibrate, or flash; as to the beat of music.
verb
- expand and contract rhythmically; beat rhythmically
- produce or modulate (as electromagnetic waves) in the form of short bursts or pulses or cause an apparatus to produce pulses
- drive by or as if by pulsation
- To manipulate (an electric current, electromagnetic wave, etc.) so that it is emitted in pulses.
- To apply an electric current or signal that varies in strength to (something).
- (intransitive, figuratively) Of an activity, place, or thing: to bustle with energy and liveliness; to pulsate.
- (intransitive, chiefly figuratively and literary) To expand and contract repeatedly, like an artery when blood is flowing though it, or the heart; to beat, to throb, to vibrate, to pulsate.
- (transitive, cooking) To operate a food processor on (some ingredient) in short bursts, to break it up without liquidizing it.
- (transitive, chiefly biology, chemistry) To give to (something, especially a cell culture) an (increased) amount of a substance, such as a drug or an isotopic label, over a short time.
- (transitive, also figuratively) To emit or impel (something) in pulses or waves.
noun
- the rate at which the heart beats; usually measured to obtain a quick evaluation of a person's health
- the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart
- (electronics) a sharp transient wave in the normal electrical state (or a series of such transients)
- edible seeds of various pod-bearing plants (peas or beans or lentils etc.)
- (chiefly biology, chemistry) An (increased) amount of a substance (such as a drug or an isotopic label) given over a short time.
- A brief burst of electromagnetic energy, such as light, radio waves, etc.
- (cooking, chiefly attributively) A setting on a food processor which causes it to work in a series of short bursts rather than continuously, in order to break up ingredients without liquidizing them; also, a use of this setting.
- A normally regular beat felt when arteries near the skin (for example, at the neck or wrist) are depressed, caused by the heart pumping blood through them; the qualitative nature of this beat.
- Synonym of autosoliton (“a stable solitary localized structure that arises in nonlinear spatially extended dissipative systems due to mechanisms of self-organization”).
- (figuratively) The focus of energy or vigour of an activity, place, or thing; also, the feeling of bustle, busyness, or energy in a place; the heartbeat.
- (music, prosody) The beat or tactus of a piece of music or verse; also, a repeated sequence of such beats.
- (also electronics) A brief increase in the strength of an electrical signal; an impulse.
- (uncountable) Edible grains or seeds from leguminous plants, especially in a mature, dry condition; (countable) a specific kind of such a grain or seed.
- (metonymic, loosely) The rate of this beat as an indication of a person's health.
- (transport) A timed, coordinated connection, when multiple public transportation vehicles are at a hub at the same time so that passengers can flexibly connect between them.
- (uncountable) Annual leguminous plants (such as beans, lentils, and peas) yielding grains or seeds used as food for humans or animals; (countable) such a plant; a legume.
- (figuratively) A beat or throb; also, a repeated sequence of such beats or throbs.
verb
- expand and contract rhythmically; beat rhythmically
- pulsate or pound with abnormal force
- tremble convulsively, as from fear or excitement
- (intransitive, of a body part) To pulse (often painfully) in time with the circulation of blood.
- (intransitive) To pound or beat rapidly or violently.
- (figurative, with "with") To exhibit an attitude, trait, or affect powerfully and profoundly.
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- move in a graceful and rhythmical way
- move in a pattern; usually to musical accompaniment; do or perform a dance
- skip, leap, or move up and down or sideways
- (beekeeping, of a worker honey bee) To make a repetitive movement in order to communicate to other worker honey bees.
- (intransitive) To move with rhythmic steps or movements, especially in time to music.
- (figurative, euphemistic) To kick and convulse from the effects of being hanged.
- (intransitive) To leap or move lightly and rapidly.
- (figurative, euphemistic) To make love or have sex.
- (transitive) To perform the steps to.
- (transitive) To cause to dance, or move nimbly or merrily about.
noun
- an artistic form of nonverbal communication
- taking a series of rhythmical steps (and movements) in time to music
- a party of people assembled for dancing
- a party for social dancing
- A social gathering where dancing is the main activity.
- (figurative) A battle of wits, especially one commonly fought between two rivals.
- A piece of music with a particular dance rhythm.
- (uncountable) The art, profession, and study of dancing.
- A sequence of rhythmic steps or movements usually performed to music, for pleasure or as a form of social interaction.
- (uncountable) Ellipsis of electronic dance music.
- (beekeeping) A repetitive movement used in communication between worker honey bees.
- (heraldry) A normally horizontal stripe called a fess that has been modified to zig-zag across the center of a coat of arms from dexter to sinister.
verb
- make a rhythmic sound
- study intensively, as before an exam
- play a percussion instrument
- Of various animals, to make a vocalisation or mechanical sound that resembles drumming.
- (intransitive) To beat a drum.
- To throb, as the heart.
- To go about, as a drummer does, to gather recruits, to draw or secure partisans, customers, etc.; used with for.
- (ambitransitive) To beat with a rapid succession of strokes.
- (transitive) To drill or review in an attempt to establish memorization.
noun
- a bulging cylindrical shape; hollow with flat ends
- a musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretched across each end
- small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise
- the sound of a drum
- a cylindrical metal container, commonly used for shipping or storage of liquids
- a hollow cast iron cylinder attached to the wheel that forms part of the brakes
- (informal) A drumstick (of chicken, turkey, etc).
- (US) Synonym of construction barrel.
- (now historical) A social gathering or assembly held in the evening.
- (architecture) Any of the cylindrical blocks that make up the shaft of a pillar.
- A drumfish (family Sciaenidae).
- Any similar hollow, cylindrical object.
- (architecture) The encircling wall that supports a dome or cupola.
- (Australia slang) A tip; a piece of information.
- (slang, chiefly UK) A person's home; a house or other building, especially when insalubrious; a tavern, a brothel.
- A barrel or large cylindrical container for liquid transport and storage.
- (music) A percussive musical instrument spanned with a thin covering on at least one end for striking, forming an acoustic chamber; a membranophone.
verb
- make a rhythmic sound
- sound the strings of (a stringed instrument)
- sound with a monotonous hum
- To cause a steady rhythmic vibration, usually by plucking.
- To furnish with thrums; to insert tufts in; to fringe.
- To make a monotonous drumming noise.
- (nautical) To insert short pieces of rope-yarn or spun yarn in.
noun
- a thrumming sound
- (figurative) A spicy taste; a tang.
- (botany) A threadlike part of a flower; a stamen.
- Any short piece of leftover thread or yarn; a tuft or tassel.
- (anatomy) A bundle of minute blood vessels, a plexus.
- (chiefly in the plural) A fringe made of such threads.
- (mining) A shove out of place; a small displacement or fault along a seam.
- The ends of the warp threads in a loom which remain unwoven attached to the loom when the web is cut.
- (nautical) A mat made of canvas and tufts of yarn.
- (nautical, chiefly in the plural) Small pieces of rope yarn used for making mats or mops.
- (botany) A tuft, bundle, or fringe of any threadlike structures, as hairs on a leaf, fibers of a root.
- A thrumming sound; a hum or vibration.
adj
verb
- To stop or interrupt a flow or steady motion.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bring, up: To bring from a lower to a higher position.
- (transitive) To prepare a vein for an injection.
- To mention.
- To legally charge and put on trial; to position (someone) for judgement or examination by authority.
- (electronics) To check (a newly-assembled printed circuit board) for errors.
- To uncover, to bring from obscurity; to resurface (e.g. a memory)
- To turn on power or start, as of a machine.
- To vomit.
- (cricket) To reach a particular score, especially a milestone.
- To raise or rear (children).
- summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic
- put forward for consideration or discussion
- promote from a lower position or rank
- make reference to
- cause to come to a sudden stop
- raise from a lower to a higher position
- cause to load (an operating system) and start the initial processes
- look after a child until it is an adult
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noun
- the act of singing vocal music
- disclosing information or giving evidence about another
- (informal) Disclosing information, or giving evidence about another.
- A ringing sound in the ears.
- (US) A gathering for the purpose of singing shape note songs.
- The act of using the voice to produce musical sounds; vocalizing.
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- characterized by a buoyant rhythm
- Variable in mood; liable to having mood swings.
- (sports, games) Inconsistent in performance.
- (curling, of ice) Allowing stones to curl more than usual.
- (informal) Having a swinging motion.
- (informal, politics) Having many swing voters.
- (informal) Characteristic of swing music.
adj
- characterized by a buoyant rhythm
- moving easily and quickly; nimble
- (slang) Undergoing a hallucinogenic trip.
- (heraldry, not comparable) Having the right forefoot lifted, the others remaining on the ground, as if trotting; trippant.
- (slang) Saying crazy things or acting foolishly.
- Quick; nimble; stepping lightly and quickly.
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- That moves in the same direction as a system of synchronized waves.
- (petrology, mineralogy) Of or pertaining to a symplectite; symplectitic.
- (group theory, of a group) Whose characteristic abelian subgroups are cyclic.
- (mathematics, multilinear algebra, of a vector space) That is equipped with an alternating nondegenerate bilinear form.
- (mathematics, multilinear algebra, of a bilinear form) That is alternating and nondegenerate.
- (mathematics) Of or pertaining to (the geometry of) a differentiable manifold equipped with a closed nondegenerate bilinear form.
- Placed in or among, as if woven together.
noun
adj
- Flowing or sounding smoothly or without abrupt transitions or harsh tones.
- (physical chemistry) Flowing freely like water; fluid; not solid and not gaseous; composed of particles that move freely among each other on the slightest pressure.
- (finance, of a market) Having sufficient trading activity to make buying or selling easy.
- (finance, of an asset) Easily sold or disposed of without losing value.
- Fluid and transparent.
- (phonology) Belonging to a class of consonants comprising the laterals and the rhotics, which in many languages behave similarly.
- smooth and unconstrained in movement
- in cash or easily convertible to cash
- clear and bright
- changed from a solid to a liquid state
- smooth and flowing in quality; entirely free of harshness
- filled or brimming with tears
- existing as or having characteristics of a liquid; especially tending to flow
noun
- (phonetics) Any of a class of consonant sounds that includes l and r.
- (physical chemistry) A substance that is flowing, and keeping no shape, such as water; a substance of which the molecules, while not tending to separate from one another like those of a gas, readily change their relative position, and which therefore retains no definite shape, except that determined by the containing receptacle; an inelastic fluid.
- the state in which a substance exhibits a characteristic readiness to flow with little or no tendency to disperse and relatively high incompressibility
- a substance that is liquid at room temperature and pressure
- fluid matter having no fixed shape but a fixed volume
- a frictionless continuant that is not a nasal consonant (especially ‘l’ and ‘r’)