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adj
- conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods
- designed to elude detection
- having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding
- the next to highest level of official classification for documents
- not open or public; kept private or not revealed
- not openly made known
- indulging only covertly
- (of information) given in confidence or in secret
- hidden from general view or use
- communicated covertly
- not expressed
- Being or kept hidden.
noun
- information known only to a special group
- something that should remain hidden from others (especially information that is not to be passed on)
- something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained
- Something not understood or known.
- (Christianity, often in the plural) Any prayer spoken inaudibly and not aloud; especially, one of the prayers in the Tridentine Mass, immediately following the "orate, fratres", said inaudibly by the celebrant.
- The key or principle by which something is made clear; the knack.
- (countable) A piece of knowledge that is hidden and intended to be kept hidden.
- (uncountable) Private seclusion.
- (historical) A form of steel skullcap.
verb
adj
- conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods
- under the level of the ground
- (not comparable) Below the ground; below the surface of the Earth.
- (figurative) Hidden, furtive, secretive.
- (figurative) Of or relating to an art forms (such as music) or subculture that is outside the mainstream, especially one that is unofficial and hidden from the authorities.
noun
- an electric railway operating below the surface of the ground (usually in a city)
- a secret group organized to overthrow a government or occupation force
- (geography) Regions beneath the surface of the earth, both natural (eg. caves) and man-made (eg. mines).
- (with definite article) A movement or organisation of people who resist artistic convention.
- (chiefly British) Synonym of subway: a railway that is under the ground.
- (with definite article) A movement or organisation of people who resist political convention.
adv
verb
noun
- A person who investigates or prevents leaks of information.
- (slang, medicine, somewhat derogatory) A urologist.
- (British, informal) In the Royal Navy, an apprentice, a boy aged 16 to 18, who is trained in technical skills at the Dockyard Schools to become an artificer.
- One who furnishes, fits, and repairs pipes and other apparatus for the conveyance of water, gas, or drainage.
- a craftsman who installs and repairs pipes and fixtures and appliances
verb
noun
- A divulgation, or disclosure, of information previously held secret.
- The person through whom such divulgation, or disclosure, occurs.
- unauthorized (especially deliberate) disclosure of confidential information
- (computing) The gradual loss of a system resource caused by failure to deallocate previously reserved portions.
- A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape.
- (mildly vulgar, slang, especially with the verb "take") An act of urination.
- A loss of electricity through imperfect insulation, or the point where it occurs.
- The entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture.
- soft watery rot in fruits and vegetables caused by fungi
- the discharge of a fluid from some container
- an accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape
- a euphemism for urination
verb
- (transitive) To allow fluid or gas to pass through an opening that should be sealed.
- (transitive, figurative, by extension) To allow anything through that would normally or preferably be blocked.
- (slang, sometimes euphemistic) To urinate.
- (intransitive) (of a fluid or gas) To pass through an opening that should be sealed.
- (ambitransitive) To disclose secret information surreptitiously or anonymously.
- (slang, US) To bleed.
- (intransitive, figurative, by extension) To pass through when it would normally or preferably be blocked.
- tell anonymously
- have an opening that allows light or substances to enter or go out
- enter or escape as through a hole or crack or fissure
- be leaked
verb
noun
- a wash that colors a surface black
- a mixture of calomel and limewater that is used on syphilitic sores
- an attack intended to ruin someone's reputation
- (chiefly politics) A villainization campaign.
- (slang, cricket) A whitewash victory for the West Indies cricket team. Started in the 1984–86 "Blackwash" series of the West Indian cricket team in England in 1984.
- (slang, mining) Public campaigns and advertising funded by the coal industry to draw attention away from environmentally unsustainable practices or to justify exclusion from carbon taxes.
- (slang, New Zealand) A whitewash victory for any New Zealand national sporting team.
- (medicine) A lotion made by mixing calomel and limewater.
adj
- Marked by or conducted with secrecy.
- Deprived of sight; blind.
- (gambling, of race horses) Having racing capability not widely known.
- (of colour) Dull or deeper in hue; not bright or light.
- (of a time period) Lacking progress in science or the arts.
- Ambiguously or unclearly expressed.
- (broadcasting, of a television station) Off the air; not transmitting.
- Transmitting, reflecting, or receiving inadequate light to render timely discernment or comprehension
- Extremely sad, depressing, or somber, typically due to, or marked by, a tragic or undesirable event.
- Having an absolute or (more often) relative lack of light.
- With emphasis placed on the unpleasant and macabre aspects of life; said of a work of fiction, a work of nonfiction presented in narrative form, or a portion of either.
- Without moral or spiritual light; sinister, malevolent, malign.
- Conducive to hopelessness; depressing or bleak.
- (of a source of light) Extinguished.
- showing a brooding ill humor
- (used of color) having a dark hue
- brunet (used of hair or skin or eyes)
- stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable
- lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture
- causing dejection
- not giving performances; closed
- secret
- marked by difficulty of style or expression
- devoid of or deficient in light or brightness; shadowed or black
noun
- A complete or (more often) partial absence of light.
- (uncountable) Nightfall.
- A dark shade or dark passage in a painting, engraving, etc.
- (uncountable) Ignorance.
- absence of light or illumination
- the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside
- an unilluminated area
- absence of moral or spiritual values
- an unenlightened state
verb
adj
noun
verb
verb
noun
verb
- watch, observe, or inquire secretly
- secretly collect sensitive or classified information; engage in espionage
- catch sight of
- catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes
- (transitive) To spot; to catch sight of; to espy.
- (transitive) To explore; to see; to view; inspect and examine secretly, as a country.
- (intransitive) To act as a spy.
- (intransitive) To search narrowly; to scrutinize.
noun
- A person who secretly watches and examines the actions of other individuals or organizations and gathers information on them (usually to gain an advantage).
- a secret watcher; someone who secretly watches other people
- (military) a secret agent hired by a state to obtain information about its enemies or by a business to obtain industrial secrets from competitors
- (American football) A defensive player assigned to cover an offensive backfield player man-to-man when they are expected to engage in a running play, but the offensive player does not run with the ball immediately.
verb
noun
- adult male deer
- a male deer, especially an adult male red deer
- (countable) An improperly or late castrated bull or ram – also called a bull seg (see note under ox).
- (countable, finance) One who applies for the allotment of shares in new projects, with a view to sell immediately at a premium, and not to hold the stock.
- (countable, chiefly Scotland) A young horse (colt or filly).
- (uncountable, UK, military, slang) Guard duty.
- (countable) An adult male deer, especially a red deer and especially one in high adulthood versus a young adult.
- (countable, slang) An informer.
- (countable) A stag beetle (family Lucanidae).
- (countable) The Eurasian wren, Troglodytes troglodytes.
- (countable, finance) An outside irregular dealer in stocks, who is not a member of the exchange.
- (countable, usually attributive) An unmarried man; a bachelor; a man not accompanying a woman at a social event.
- (countable) A social event for men held in honor of a groom on the eve of his wedding, attended by male friends of the groom; sometimes a fundraiser.
- (British) A male turkey: a turkeycock.
adv
verb
- prevent (information) from being circulated or disclosed
- place under restrictions; limit access to by law
- place limits on (extent or amount or access)
- place restrictions on
- To restrain within boundaries; to limit; to confine
- (specifically, mathematics) To consider (a function) as defined on a subset of its original domain.
noun
- the disclosure of something secret
- the intensity of light falling on a photographic film or plate
- abandoning without shelter or protection (as by leaving an infant out in the open)
- the act of exposing film to light
- a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide or in digital format
- presentation to view in an open or public manner
- aspect resulting from the direction a building or window faces
- vulnerability to the elements; to the action of heat or cold or wind or rain
- the state of being vulnerable or exposed
- the act of subjecting someone to an influencing experience
- (horticulture) The amount of sun, wind etc. experienced by a particular site.
- (photography) The piece of film exposed to light.
- (photography) An instance of taking a photograph.
- (uncountable) Lack of protection from weather or the elements.
- (social media) The degree to which an individual, their content, or their brand is seen by the target market or the general public; internet fame.
- The act of exposing something, such as a scandal.
- (uncountable) The condition of being exposed, uncovered, or unprotected.
- (countable, uncountable) That part which is facing or exposed to something, e.g. the sun, weather, sky, or a view.
- (photography) Details of the time and f-number used.
- The act or condition of being at risk of financial losses.
noun
- an investigator engaged or employed in obtaining information not easily available to the public
- a police officer who investigates crimes
- (law enforcement) A police officer tasked with collecting evidence and information in order to solve a crime; an investigator.
- A person employed to find information not otherwise available to the public.
adj
noun
- The art and science of concealing a secret message, data, or file within another innocuous message, image, audio file, or physical object in a way that hides the very existence of the hidden information from casual observation.
- (computing, cryptography) The use of small computer files to communicate secret information.
- act of writing in code or cipher
noun
- an investigation undertaken in the hope (but not the stated purpose) of discovering information
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fishing, expedition. (an outing for catching fish)
- (idiomatic, law, informal, derogatory) A search for information, especially incriminating information, that is conducted without specific direction or goal, in the hope that something may turn up.
adj
noun
- someone who gossips indiscreetly
- (music) A movable piece of ivory, lead, or other material, connected to the bellows of an organ, whose position indicates when the wind is exhausted.
- (figuratively) Something that serves to reveal something else.
- A story or fable that has a moral or message.
- (nautical) A compass in the cabin of a vessel, usually placed where the captain can see it at all hours, and thus inform himself of the vessel's course.
- (nautical) A length of yarn or ribbon attached to a sail or shroud etc to indicate the direction of the flow of the air relative to the boat.
- (nautical) A mechanical attachment to the steering wheel, which, in the absence of a tiller, shows the position of the helm.
- (engineering) A machine or contrivance for indicating or recording something, particularly for keeping a check upon employees (factory hands, watchmen, drivers, etc.) by revealing to their employers what they have done or omitted.
- One who divulges private information with intent to hurt others.
- A bird, the tattler.
- An indicator, such as a warning light, that serves to warn of a hazard or problem.
noun
- an unintentional disclosure
- a gift of public land or resources for the private gain of a limited group
- a television or radio program in which contestants compete for awards
- An event at which things are given away for free.
- The act of giving something away for free.
- An indicator that makes something obvious or apparent.
- Something that is given away or handed out for free.
adj
noun
verb
verb
- (transitive) To discover deceitful or underhanded behaviour.
- (slang, intransitive) To fight; to brawl.
- (intransitive) To make a low, heavy, continuous sound.
- (intransitive) To move while making a rumbling noise.
- (transitive) To cause to pass through a rumble, or polishing machine.
- (video games, intransitive, of a game controller) To provide haptic feedback by vibrating.
- make a low noise
- to utter or emit low dull rumbling sounds
intj
noun
- A low, heavy, continuous sound, such as that of thunder or a hungry stomach.
- (slang) A street fight or brawl.
- A rotating cask or box in which small articles are smoothed or polished by friction against each other.
- a servant's seat (or luggage compartment) in the rear of a carriage
- a fight between rival gangs of adolescents
- a loud low dull continuous noise
verb
- To reveal something that was masked or hidden; to expose; to unmask.
- (transitive) To clear etchant and maskant from a part being chemically etched or milled.
- (more generally) To remove any masking materials that have been added to protect an area.
- To make salient or conspicuous; to draw attention to or improve the perception of.
- (more specifically) To overcome ideological preconceptions and labels.
noun
- an inquiry into unfamiliar or questionable activities
- an exploratory action or expedition
- a flexible slender surgical instrument with a blunt end that is used to explore wounds or body cavities
- an investigation conducted using a flexible surgical instrument to explore an injury or a body cavity
- (astronautics) A small, usually uncrewed, spacecraft used to acquire information or measurements about its surroundings.
- (go) A move with multiple possible answers, seeking to make the opponent choose and commit to a strategy.
- An act of probing; a prod, a poke.
- (comedy, fiction) An anal probe, a fictional instrument commonly used by aliens on abducted humans.
- (surgery) Any of various medical instruments used to explore wounds, organs, etc.
- (sciences) A small device, especially an electrode, used to explore, investigate or measure something by penetrating or being placed in it.
- (figuratively) Something which penetrates something else, as though to explore; something which obtains information.
- (biochemistry) Any group of atoms or molecules radioactively labeled in order to study a given molecule or other structure
- (figuratively) An investigation or inquiry.
- (aeronautics) A tube attached to an aircraft which can be fitted into the drogue from a tanker aircraft to allow for aerial refuelling.
verb
noun
- Initialism of top secret: secured compartmented/compartmentalized information.
- Initialism of Tree Structure Skeleton Color Image: transforms sequences of human skeletal poses, continuous or non-continuous, into an abstract color image. The movement is a super object, enabling analysis of human motion using classical deep learning methods..
noun
- The act or process of detecting, uncovering, or finding out, the discovery of something new, hidden, or disguised.
- (electrical engineering) The act or process of finding or detecting an electrical signal in a carrier wave.
- the perception that something has occurred or some state exists
- the act of detecting something; catching sight of something
- the detection that a signal is being received
- a police investigation to determine the perpetrator
adj
- having hidden electronic eavesdropping devices
- equipped with wire or wires especially for electric or telephone service
- tied or bound with wire
- tense with excitement and enthusiasm as from a rush of adrenaline
- Reinforced, supported, tied or bound with wire.
- (informal, of people or communities) Connected to the Internet; online.
- (slang) All worked out; completely understood.
- Equipped with hidden electronic eavesdropping devices.
- Equipped with wires, so as to connect to a power source or to other electric or electronic equipment; connected by wires.
- (poker slang) Being three of a kind as the first three cards in seven card stud.
- (slang) Very excited, overstimulated; high-strung.
- (zoology) Having wiry feathers.
- (poker slang) Being a pair in seven-card stud with one face up and one face down.
verb
noun
verb
noun
- (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.
- the act of singing vocal music
- disclosing information or giving evidence about another
adj
verb
noun
- an indication of some hidden activity
- (baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity
- street names for marijuana
- tobacco leaves that have been made into a cylinder
- something with no concrete substance
- a hot vapor containing fine particles of carbon being produced by combustion
- the act of smoking tobacco or other substances
- a cloud of fine particles suspended in a gas
- (colloquial, uncountable) Anything to smoke (e.g. cigarettes, marijuana, etc.)
- (uncountable, figuratively) A fleeting illusion; something insubstantial, evanescent, unreal, transitory, or without result.
- (uncountable) The visible vapor/vapour, gases, and fine particles given off by burning or smoldering material.
- (colloquial, countable, never plural) An instance of smoking a cigarette, cigar, etc.; the duration of this act.
- Pollen scattered by a plant.
- Mist, fog, or drizzle; water vapour, such as from exhalation into cold air.
- (uncountable, figuratively) Something used to obscure or conceal; an obscuring condition; see also smoke and mirrors.
- Opaque aerosol released on a battlefield, used e.g. to signal or to degrade enemy observation via smokescreen.
- (colloquial, countable) A cigarette.
- (baseball, slang) A fastball.
- (countable) A distinct column of smoke, such as indicating a burning area or fire.
- (uncountable, slang) Bother, trouble; problems; hassle.
- (uncountable) A light grey color tinted with blue.
verb
- emit a cloud of fine particles
- inhale and exhale smoke from cigarettes, cigars, pipes
- (intransitive) To give off smoke.
- (intransitive) To inhale and exhale tobacco smoke.
- (intransitive, slang, chiefly as present participle) To perform (e.g. music) energetically or skillfully.
- To burn; to be kindled; to rage.
- (intransitive) Of tobacco: to give off or produce smoke (in a certain manner or of a certain type).
- To raise a dust or smoke by rapid motion.
- (transitive) To preserve or prepare (food) for consumption by treating with smoke.
- (slang) To beat someone at something.
- (transitive) To inhale and exhale the smoke from a burning cigarette, cigar, pipe, etc.
- To suffer severely; to be punished.
- (transitive, slang) To snuff out; to kill, especially with a gun.
- (intransitive) Of a fire in a fireplace: to emit smoke outward instead of up the chimney, owing to imperfect draught.
- (transitive) To cover (a key blank) with soot or carbon to aid in seeing the marks made by impressioning.
- (transitive) To dry or medicate by smoke.
- (transitive, US military slang) To punish (a person) for a minor offense by excessive physical exercise.
noun
- A person who investigates or prevents leaks of information.
- (slang, medicine, somewhat derogatory) A urologist.
- (British, informal) In the Royal Navy, an apprentice, a boy aged 16 to 18, who is trained in technical skills at the Dockyard Schools to become an artificer.
- One who furnishes, fits, and repairs pipes and other apparatus for the conveyance of water, gas, or drainage.
- a craftsman who installs and repairs pipes and fixtures and appliances
verb
noun
- A divulgation, or disclosure, of information previously held secret.
- The person through whom such divulgation, or disclosure, occurs.
- unauthorized (especially deliberate) disclosure of confidential information
- (computing) The gradual loss of a system resource caused by failure to deallocate previously reserved portions.
- A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape.
- (mildly vulgar, slang, especially with the verb "take") An act of urination.
- A loss of electricity through imperfect insulation, or the point where it occurs.
- The entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture.
- soft watery rot in fruits and vegetables caused by fungi
- the discharge of a fluid from some container
- an accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape
- a euphemism for urination
verb
- (transitive) To allow fluid or gas to pass through an opening that should be sealed.
- (transitive, figurative, by extension) To allow anything through that would normally or preferably be blocked.
- (slang, sometimes euphemistic) To urinate.
- (intransitive) (of a fluid or gas) To pass through an opening that should be sealed.
- (ambitransitive) To disclose secret information surreptitiously or anonymously.
- (slang, US) To bleed.
- (intransitive, figurative, by extension) To pass through when it would normally or preferably be blocked.
- tell anonymously
- have an opening that allows light or substances to enter or go out
- enter or escape as through a hole or crack or fissure
- be leaked
noun
- the disclosure of something secret
- the intensity of light falling on a photographic film or plate
- abandoning without shelter or protection (as by leaving an infant out in the open)
- the act of exposing film to light
- a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide or in digital format
- presentation to view in an open or public manner
- aspect resulting from the direction a building or window faces
- vulnerability to the elements; to the action of heat or cold or wind or rain
- the state of being vulnerable or exposed
- the act of subjecting someone to an influencing experience
- (horticulture) The amount of sun, wind etc. experienced by a particular site.
- (photography) The piece of film exposed to light.
- (photography) An instance of taking a photograph.
- (uncountable) Lack of protection from weather or the elements.
- (social media) The degree to which an individual, their content, or their brand is seen by the target market or the general public; internet fame.
- The act of exposing something, such as a scandal.
- (uncountable) The condition of being exposed, uncovered, or unprotected.
- (countable, uncountable) That part which is facing or exposed to something, e.g. the sun, weather, sky, or a view.
- (photography) Details of the time and f-number used.
- The act or condition of being at risk of financial losses.
noun
- an investigator engaged or employed in obtaining information not easily available to the public
- a police officer who investigates crimes
- (law enforcement) A police officer tasked with collecting evidence and information in order to solve a crime; an investigator.
- A person employed to find information not otherwise available to the public.
adj
noun
- The art and science of concealing a secret message, data, or file within another innocuous message, image, audio file, or physical object in a way that hides the very existence of the hidden information from casual observation.
- (computing, cryptography) The use of small computer files to communicate secret information.
- act of writing in code or cipher
noun
- an investigation undertaken in the hope (but not the stated purpose) of discovering information
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fishing, expedition. (an outing for catching fish)
- (idiomatic, law, informal, derogatory) A search for information, especially incriminating information, that is conducted without specific direction or goal, in the hope that something may turn up.
noun
- an unintentional disclosure
- a gift of public land or resources for the private gain of a limited group
- a television or radio program in which contestants compete for awards
- An event at which things are given away for free.
- The act of giving something away for free.
- An indicator that makes something obvious or apparent.
- Something that is given away or handed out for free.
adj
noun
verb
noun
- an inquiry into unfamiliar or questionable activities
- an exploratory action or expedition
- a flexible slender surgical instrument with a blunt end that is used to explore wounds or body cavities
- an investigation conducted using a flexible surgical instrument to explore an injury or a body cavity
- (astronautics) A small, usually uncrewed, spacecraft used to acquire information or measurements about its surroundings.
- (go) A move with multiple possible answers, seeking to make the opponent choose and commit to a strategy.
- An act of probing; a prod, a poke.
- (comedy, fiction) An anal probe, a fictional instrument commonly used by aliens on abducted humans.
- (surgery) Any of various medical instruments used to explore wounds, organs, etc.
- (sciences) A small device, especially an electrode, used to explore, investigate or measure something by penetrating or being placed in it.
- (figuratively) Something which penetrates something else, as though to explore; something which obtains information.
- (biochemistry) Any group of atoms or molecules radioactively labeled in order to study a given molecule or other structure
- (figuratively) An investigation or inquiry.
- (aeronautics) A tube attached to an aircraft which can be fitted into the drogue from a tanker aircraft to allow for aerial refuelling.
verb
noun
- Initialism of top secret: secured compartmented/compartmentalized information.
- Initialism of Tree Structure Skeleton Color Image: transforms sequences of human skeletal poses, continuous or non-continuous, into an abstract color image. The movement is a super object, enabling analysis of human motion using classical deep learning methods..
adj
noun
verb
verb
- watch, observe, or inquire secretly
- secretly collect sensitive or classified information; engage in espionage
- catch sight of
- catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes
- (transitive) To spot; to catch sight of; to espy.
- (transitive) To explore; to see; to view; inspect and examine secretly, as a country.
- (intransitive) To act as a spy.
- (intransitive) To search narrowly; to scrutinize.
noun
- A person who secretly watches and examines the actions of other individuals or organizations and gathers information on them (usually to gain an advantage).
- a secret watcher; someone who secretly watches other people
- (military) a secret agent hired by a state to obtain information about its enemies or by a business to obtain industrial secrets from competitors
- (American football) A defensive player assigned to cover an offensive backfield player man-to-man when they are expected to engage in a running play, but the offensive player does not run with the ball immediately.
noun
- The act or process of detecting, uncovering, or finding out, the discovery of something new, hidden, or disguised.
- (electrical engineering) The act or process of finding or detecting an electrical signal in a carrier wave.
- the perception that something has occurred or some state exists
- the act of detecting something; catching sight of something
- the detection that a signal is being received
- a police investigation to determine the perpetrator
noun
verb
noun
- (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.
- the act of singing vocal music
- disclosing information or giving evidence about another
adj
verb
noun
- an indication of some hidden activity
- (baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity
- street names for marijuana
- tobacco leaves that have been made into a cylinder
- something with no concrete substance
- a hot vapor containing fine particles of carbon being produced by combustion
- the act of smoking tobacco or other substances
- a cloud of fine particles suspended in a gas
- (colloquial, uncountable) Anything to smoke (e.g. cigarettes, marijuana, etc.)
- (uncountable, figuratively) A fleeting illusion; something insubstantial, evanescent, unreal, transitory, or without result.
- (uncountable) The visible vapor/vapour, gases, and fine particles given off by burning or smoldering material.
- (colloquial, countable, never plural) An instance of smoking a cigarette, cigar, etc.; the duration of this act.
- Pollen scattered by a plant.
- Mist, fog, or drizzle; water vapour, such as from exhalation into cold air.
- (uncountable, figuratively) Something used to obscure or conceal; an obscuring condition; see also smoke and mirrors.
- Opaque aerosol released on a battlefield, used e.g. to signal or to degrade enemy observation via smokescreen.
- (colloquial, countable) A cigarette.
- (baseball, slang) A fastball.
- (countable) A distinct column of smoke, such as indicating a burning area or fire.
- (uncountable, slang) Bother, trouble; problems; hassle.
- (uncountable) A light grey color tinted with blue.
verb
- emit a cloud of fine particles
- inhale and exhale smoke from cigarettes, cigars, pipes
- (intransitive) To give off smoke.
- (intransitive) To inhale and exhale tobacco smoke.
- (intransitive, slang, chiefly as present participle) To perform (e.g. music) energetically or skillfully.
- To burn; to be kindled; to rage.
- (intransitive) Of tobacco: to give off or produce smoke (in a certain manner or of a certain type).
- To raise a dust or smoke by rapid motion.
- (transitive) To preserve or prepare (food) for consumption by treating with smoke.
- (slang) To beat someone at something.
- (transitive) To inhale and exhale the smoke from a burning cigarette, cigar, pipe, etc.
- To suffer severely; to be punished.
- (transitive, slang) To snuff out; to kill, especially with a gun.
- (intransitive) Of a fire in a fireplace: to emit smoke outward instead of up the chimney, owing to imperfect draught.
- (transitive) To cover (a key blank) with soot or carbon to aid in seeing the marks made by impressioning.
- (transitive) To dry or medicate by smoke.
- (transitive, US military slang) To punish (a person) for a minor offense by excessive physical exercise.
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- a wash that colors a surface black
- a mixture of calomel and limewater that is used on syphilitic sores
- an attack intended to ruin someone's reputation
- (chiefly politics) A villainization campaign.
- (slang, cricket) A whitewash victory for the West Indies cricket team. Started in the 1984–86 "Blackwash" series of the West Indian cricket team in England in 1984.
- (slang, mining) Public campaigns and advertising funded by the coal industry to draw attention away from environmentally unsustainable practices or to justify exclusion from carbon taxes.
- (slang, New Zealand) A whitewash victory for any New Zealand national sporting team.
- (medicine) A lotion made by mixing calomel and limewater.
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- watch, observe, or inquire secretly
- secretly collect sensitive or classified information; engage in espionage
- catch sight of
- catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes
- (transitive) To spot; to catch sight of; to espy.
- (transitive) To explore; to see; to view; inspect and examine secretly, as a country.
- (intransitive) To act as a spy.
- (intransitive) To search narrowly; to scrutinize.
noun
- A person who secretly watches and examines the actions of other individuals or organizations and gathers information on them (usually to gain an advantage).
- a secret watcher; someone who secretly watches other people
- (military) a secret agent hired by a state to obtain information about its enemies or by a business to obtain industrial secrets from competitors
- (American football) A defensive player assigned to cover an offensive backfield player man-to-man when they are expected to engage in a running play, but the offensive player does not run with the ball immediately.
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- adult male deer
- a male deer, especially an adult male red deer
- (countable) An improperly or late castrated bull or ram – also called a bull seg (see note under ox).
- (countable, finance) One who applies for the allotment of shares in new projects, with a view to sell immediately at a premium, and not to hold the stock.
- (countable, chiefly Scotland) A young horse (colt or filly).
- (uncountable, UK, military, slang) Guard duty.
- (countable) An adult male deer, especially a red deer and especially one in high adulthood versus a young adult.
- (countable, slang) An informer.
- (countable) A stag beetle (family Lucanidae).
- (countable) The Eurasian wren, Troglodytes troglodytes.
- (countable, finance) An outside irregular dealer in stocks, who is not a member of the exchange.
- (countable, usually attributive) An unmarried man; a bachelor; a man not accompanying a woman at a social event.
- (countable) A social event for men held in honor of a groom on the eve of his wedding, attended by male friends of the groom; sometimes a fundraiser.
- (British) A male turkey: a turkeycock.
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- prevent (information) from being circulated or disclosed
- place under restrictions; limit access to by law
- place limits on (extent or amount or access)
- place restrictions on
- To restrain within boundaries; to limit; to confine
- (specifically, mathematics) To consider (a function) as defined on a subset of its original domain.
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- (transitive) To discover deceitful or underhanded behaviour.
- (slang, intransitive) To fight; to brawl.
- (intransitive) To make a low, heavy, continuous sound.
- (intransitive) To move while making a rumbling noise.
- (transitive) To cause to pass through a rumble, or polishing machine.
- (video games, intransitive, of a game controller) To provide haptic feedback by vibrating.
- make a low noise
- to utter or emit low dull rumbling sounds
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- A low, heavy, continuous sound, such as that of thunder or a hungry stomach.
- (slang) A street fight or brawl.
- A rotating cask or box in which small articles are smoothed or polished by friction against each other.
- a servant's seat (or luggage compartment) in the rear of a carriage
- a fight between rival gangs of adolescents
- a loud low dull continuous noise
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- To reveal something that was masked or hidden; to expose; to unmask.
- (transitive) To clear etchant and maskant from a part being chemically etched or milled.
- (more generally) To remove any masking materials that have been added to protect an area.
- To make salient or conspicuous; to draw attention to or improve the perception of.
- (more specifically) To overcome ideological preconceptions and labels.
adj
- conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods
- designed to elude detection
- having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding
- the next to highest level of official classification for documents
- not open or public; kept private or not revealed
- not openly made known
- indulging only covertly
- (of information) given in confidence or in secret
- hidden from general view or use
- communicated covertly
- not expressed
- Being or kept hidden.
noun
- information known only to a special group
- something that should remain hidden from others (especially information that is not to be passed on)
- something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained
- Something not understood or known.
- (Christianity, often in the plural) Any prayer spoken inaudibly and not aloud; especially, one of the prayers in the Tridentine Mass, immediately following the "orate, fratres", said inaudibly by the celebrant.
- The key or principle by which something is made clear; the knack.
- (countable) A piece of knowledge that is hidden and intended to be kept hidden.
- (uncountable) Private seclusion.
- (historical) A form of steel skullcap.
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adj
- conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods
- under the level of the ground
- (not comparable) Below the ground; below the surface of the Earth.
- (figurative) Hidden, furtive, secretive.
- (figurative) Of or relating to an art forms (such as music) or subculture that is outside the mainstream, especially one that is unofficial and hidden from the authorities.
noun
- an electric railway operating below the surface of the ground (usually in a city)
- a secret group organized to overthrow a government or occupation force
- (geography) Regions beneath the surface of the earth, both natural (eg. caves) and man-made (eg. mines).
- (with definite article) A movement or organisation of people who resist artistic convention.
- (chiefly British) Synonym of subway: a railway that is under the ground.
- (with definite article) A movement or organisation of people who resist political convention.
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- Marked by or conducted with secrecy.
- Deprived of sight; blind.
- (gambling, of race horses) Having racing capability not widely known.
- (of colour) Dull or deeper in hue; not bright or light.
- (of a time period) Lacking progress in science or the arts.
- Ambiguously or unclearly expressed.
- (broadcasting, of a television station) Off the air; not transmitting.
- Transmitting, reflecting, or receiving inadequate light to render timely discernment or comprehension
- Extremely sad, depressing, or somber, typically due to, or marked by, a tragic or undesirable event.
- Having an absolute or (more often) relative lack of light.
- With emphasis placed on the unpleasant and macabre aspects of life; said of a work of fiction, a work of nonfiction presented in narrative form, or a portion of either.
- Without moral or spiritual light; sinister, malevolent, malign.
- Conducive to hopelessness; depressing or bleak.
- (of a source of light) Extinguished.
- showing a brooding ill humor
- (used of color) having a dark hue
- brunet (used of hair or skin or eyes)
- stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable
- lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture
- causing dejection
- not giving performances; closed
- secret
- marked by difficulty of style or expression
- devoid of or deficient in light or brightness; shadowed or black
noun
- A complete or (more often) partial absence of light.
- (uncountable) Nightfall.
- A dark shade or dark passage in a painting, engraving, etc.
- (uncountable) Ignorance.
- absence of light or illumination
- the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside
- an unilluminated area
- absence of moral or spiritual values
- an unenlightened state
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- someone who gossips indiscreetly
- (music) A movable piece of ivory, lead, or other material, connected to the bellows of an organ, whose position indicates when the wind is exhausted.
- (figuratively) Something that serves to reveal something else.
- A story or fable that has a moral or message.
- (nautical) A compass in the cabin of a vessel, usually placed where the captain can see it at all hours, and thus inform himself of the vessel's course.
- (nautical) A length of yarn or ribbon attached to a sail or shroud etc to indicate the direction of the flow of the air relative to the boat.
- (nautical) A mechanical attachment to the steering wheel, which, in the absence of a tiller, shows the position of the helm.
- (engineering) A machine or contrivance for indicating or recording something, particularly for keeping a check upon employees (factory hands, watchmen, drivers, etc.) by revealing to their employers what they have done or omitted.
- One who divulges private information with intent to hurt others.
- A bird, the tattler.
- An indicator, such as a warning light, that serves to warn of a hazard or problem.
adj
- having hidden electronic eavesdropping devices
- equipped with wire or wires especially for electric or telephone service
- tied or bound with wire
- tense with excitement and enthusiasm as from a rush of adrenaline
- Reinforced, supported, tied or bound with wire.
- (informal, of people or communities) Connected to the Internet; online.
- (slang) All worked out; completely understood.
- Equipped with hidden electronic eavesdropping devices.
- Equipped with wires, so as to connect to a power source or to other electric or electronic equipment; connected by wires.
- (poker slang) Being three of a kind as the first three cards in seven card stud.
- (slang) Very excited, overstimulated; high-strung.
- (zoology) Having wiry feathers.
- (poker slang) Being a pair in seven-card stud with one face up and one face down.
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- an investigator engaged or employed in obtaining information not easily available to the public
- a police officer who investigates crimes
- (law enforcement) A police officer tasked with collecting evidence and information in order to solve a crime; an investigator.
- A person employed to find information not otherwise available to the public.