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adj
- Docile and easily managed.
- Polite and respectful rather than rude.
- Tender and amiable; of a considerate or kindly disposition.
- Gradual rather than steep or sudden.
- Soft and mild rather than hard or severe.
- having or showing a kindly or tender nature
- easily handled or managed
- having little impact
- quiet and soothing
- belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy
- soft and mild; not harsh or stern or severe
- marked by moderate steepness
noun
verb
adj
adv
noun
- A single, usually precise, point in time.
- A very short period of time; a moment.
- Ellipsis of instant camera.
- A beverage or food which has been pre-processed to reduce preparation time, especially instant coffee.
- a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat)
- a particular point in time
adj
- easily squashed; resembling a sponge in having soft porous texture and compressibility
- like a sponge in being able to absorb liquids and yield it back when compressed
- (slang) Drunk.
- Wet; drenched; soaked and soft, like sponge; rainy.
- Having the characteristics of a sponge, namely being absorbent, squishy or porous.
adj
- easily squashed; resembling a sponge in having soft porous texture and compressibility
- Making a squish sound.
- (especially) Soft and wet.
- (gaming) Vulnerable to physical damage; having low hit points or defense.
- (politics, colloquial, derogatory) Politically moderate.
- Subjective or vague.
- (literally, of a physical material) Yielding easily to pressure; very soft.
noun
adj
- easy to cut or chew
- given to sympathy or gentleness or sentimentality
- hurting
- young and immature
- (used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail
- (of plants) not hardy; easily killed by adverse growing condition
- having or displaying warmth or affection
- physically untoughened
- Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained.
- Easily bruised or injured; not firm or hard; delicate.
- Fond, loving, gentle, or sweet.
- Physically weak; not able to endure hardship.
- Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of the softer passions; pathetic.
- (of food) Soft and easily chewed.
- Apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate.
- Young and inexperienced.
- (nautical) Heeling over too easily when under sail; said of a vessel.
- Sensitive or painful to the touch.
noun
- something that can be used as an official medium of payment
- car attached to a locomotive to carry fuel and water
- a boat for communication between ship and shore
- someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another
- ship that usually provides supplies to other ships
- a formal proposal to buy at a specified price
- Anything which is offered, proffered, put forth or bid with the expectation of a response, answer, or reply.
- (nautical) A smaller boat used for transportation between a large ship and the shore.
- Ellipsis of water tender (“firefighting apparatus”).
- (archaic outside certain compounds) Someone who tends or waits on something or someone.
- The inner flight muscle (pectoralis minor) of poultry.
- (rail transport) A railroad car towed behind a steam engine to carry fuel and water.
- A means of payment such as a check or cheque, cash or credit card.
- Any offer or proposal made for acceptance.
- (diving) A member of a diving team who assists a diver during a dive but does not themselves go underwater.
- (nautical) A naval ship that functions as a mobile base for other ships.
- (law) A formal offer to buy or sell something.
verb
adv
adj
noun
- (countable) The bottom of a body of water.
- (uncountable) Terrain.
- (electricity, Philippines) Electric shock.
- (countable, cricket) The area of grass on which a match is played (a cricket field); the entire arena in which it is played; the part of the field behind a batsman's popping crease where he can not be run out (hence to make one's ground).
- (in combination) A place suited to a specified activity.
- (historical) The area on which a battle is fought, particularly as referring to the area occupied by one side or the other. Often, according to the eventualities, "to give ground" or "to gain ground".
- The surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground.
- (electricity) An electrical conductor connected to the earth, or a large conductor whose electrical potential is taken as zero (such as a steel chassis).
- (etching) A gummy substance spread over the surface of a metal to be etched, to prevent the acid from eating except where an opening is made by the needle.
- The pit of a theatre.
- (music) A composition in which the bass, consisting of a few bars of independent notes, is continually repeated to a varying melody.
- (architecture, chiefly in the plural) One of the pieces of wood, flush with the plastering, to which mouldings etc. are attached.
- (chiefly in the plural) Reason, (epistemic) justification, cause.
- Basis, foundation, groundwork, legwork.
- (sculpture) A flat surface upon which figures are raised in relief.
- Soil, earth.
- Background, context, framework, surroundings.
- (point lace) The net of small meshes upon which the embroidered pattern is applied.
- The plain surface upon which the figures of an artistic composition are set.
- (countable, UK) A soccer stadium.
- (music) The tune on which descants are raised; the plain song.
- (figurative, by extension) Advantage given or gained in any contest; e.g. in football, chess, debate or academic discourse.
- a position to be won or defended in battle (or as if in battle)
- the solid part of the earth's surface
- material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use)
- a connection between an electrical device and a large conducting body, such as the earth (which is taken to be at zero voltage)
- a relation that provides the foundation for something
- the first or preliminary coat of paint or size applied to a surface
- a relatively homogeneous percept extending back of the figure on which attention is focused
- (art) the surface (as a wall or canvas) prepared to take the paint for a painting
- the loose soft material that makes up a large part of the land surface
- the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground
- a rational motive for a belief or action
verb
- (intransitive) To run aground; to strike the bottom and remain fixed.
- (fine arts) To cover with a ground, as a copper plate for etching, or as paper or other materials with a uniform tint as a preparation for ornament.
- (Philippines, transitive) To electrocute.
- (transitive) To forbid (an aircraft or pilot) to fly.
- (machine learning, transitive) To complement a machine learning model with relevant information it was not trained on.
- (transitive) To place something on the ground.
- simple past and past participle of grind
- To found; to fix or set, as on a foundation, reason, or principle; to furnish a ground for; to fix firmly.
- (US, transitive) To connect (an electrical conductor or device) to a ground.
- (cricket) To place a bat or part of the body on the ground to avoid being run out.
- (transitive) To improve or focus the mental or emotional state of.
- (baseball) To hit a ground ball. Compare fly (verb (regular)) and line (verb).
- (transitive) To punish, especially a child or teenager, by forcing them to stay at home and/or give up certain privileges.
- (transitive) To give a basic education in a particular subject; to instruct in elements or first principles.
- hit or reach the ground
- place or put on the ground
- fix firmly and stably
- throw to the ground in order to stop play and avoid being tackled behind the line of scrimmage
- bring to the ground
- cover with a primer; apply a primer to
- connect to a ground
- confine or restrict to the ground
- instruct someone in the fundamentals of a subject
- use as a basis for; found on
- (baseball) a hit that travels along the playing field.
verb
- To squish so as to break into smaller pieces or to combine with something else.
- (transitive) To notch, cut, or indent (cloth, etc.) with a stamp.
- (intransitive) To walk, especially across the snow with dogs.
- (transitive) To drive dogs, usually pulling a sled, across the snow.
- drive (a team of dogs or a dogsled)
- travel with a dogsled
intj
noun
- (Quebec, slang) A magic mushroom.
- (British, slang, chiefly Northern England, Australia) The face.
- (chiefly London, slang) A cab driver who is the owner of their cab, and sometimes a small number of other cabs as well; a musher.
- (radio) A mixture of noise produced by the harmonics of continuous-wave stations.
- A walk, especially across the snow with dogs.
- (MLE) A gun.
- (British, slang, chiefly Southern England) (US, slang, chiefly Nonantum) A form of address, normally to a man.
- (geology) A magmatic body containing a significant proportion of crystals suspended in the liquid phase or melt.
- (rustic US) Cornmeal cooked in water and served as a porridge or as a thick sidedish like grits or mashed potatoes.
- A food comprising cracked or rolled grains cooked in water or milk; porridge.
- A somewhat liquid mess, often of food; a soft or semisolid substance.
- (surfing) The foam of a breaker.
- a journey by dogsled
- cornmeal boiled in water
- any soft or soggy mass
- writing or music that is excessively sweet and sentimental
adj
- capable of being easily compressed
- capable of being compressed or made more compact
- able to be compressed
- (topology, of a surface embedded in a 3-dimensional manifold) Containing a circle that does not serve as the boundary of a disk that lies in the surface, but does serve as boundary of a disk that lies in the ambient manifold.
verb
- reduce to small shreds or pulverize by rubbing against a rough or sharp perforated surface
- make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together
- furnish with a grate
- gnaw into; make resentful or angry
- scratch repeatedly
- (by extension, transitive) To annoy.
- (intransitive) To make an unpleasant rasping sound, often as the result of rubbing against something.
- (transitive) To furnish with grates; to protect with a grating or crossbars.
- (by extension, intransitive) To get on one's nerves; to irritate, annoy.
- (transitive, cooking) To shred (things, usually foodstuffs), by rubbing across a grater.
noun
- a frame of iron bars to hold a fire
- a barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air
- a harsh rasping sound made by scraping something
- A horizontal metal grill through which liquid, ash, or small objects can fall, while larger objects cannot.
- (historical) A grapper, a metal ring on a lance behind the grip.
- A frame or bed, or kind of basket, of iron bars, for holding fuel while burning.
verb
- (transitive) To crumple and squeeze to make more compact.
- (with object "one's face") To contract the muscles of one's face so as to draw their facial features together, out of pain, discomfort, uncertainty, etc.
- Alternative form of scranch.
- make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; ‘crisp’ is archaic
- make a noise typical of an engine lacking lubricants
- sit on one's heels
noun
verb
- move easily
- fall to a lower standard
- move smoothly and easily
- move out of position
- pass out of one's memory
- cause to move with a smooth or sliding motion
- insert inconspicuously or quickly or quietly
- move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner
- move stealthily
- to make a mistake or be incorrect
- pass on stealthily
- (transitive) To cut slips from; to cut; to take off; to make a slip or slips of.
- (intransitive, aviation, of an aircraft) Clipping of sideslip (“to fly with the longitudinal axis misaligned with the relative wind”).
- (transitive) To elude or evade by smooth movement.
- (transitive) To cause to slip or slide off, or out of place.
- (transitive, hunting, falconry) To release (a dog, a bird of prey, etc.) to go after a quarry.
- (transitive) To pass (a note, money, etc.), often covertly.
- (intransitive) To err.
- (intransitive) To move quickly and often secretively; to depart, withdraw, enter, appear, intrude, or escape as if by sliding.
- (transitive) To cause to move smoothly and quickly; to slide; to convey gently or secretly.
- (intransitive) To lose one’s traction on a slippery surface; to slide due to a lack of friction.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To move down; to slide.
- (intransitive) To move or fly (out of place); to shoot; often with out, off, etc.
- To bring forth (young) prematurely; to slink.
- (intransitive) To accidentally reveal a secret or otherwise say something unintentionally.
- (transitive, business) To cause (a schedule or release, etc.) to go, or let it go, beyond the allotted deadline.
- (transitive, cooking) To remove the skin of a soft fruit, such as a tomato or peach, by blanching briefly in boiling water, then transferring to cold water so that the skin peels, or slips, off easily.
noun
- a place where a craft can be made fast
- a slippery smoothness
- bed linen consisting of a cover for a pillow
- potter's clay that is thinned and used for coating or decorating ceramics
- a part (sometimes a root or leaf or bud) removed from a plant to propagate a new plant through rooting or grafting
- the act of avoiding capture (especially by cunning)
- a young and slender person
- artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material
- a woman's sleeveless undergarment
- an accidental misstep threatening (or causing) a fall
- an unexpected slide
- a minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc.
- a small sheet of paper
- a flight maneuver; aircraft slides sideways in the air
- a socially awkward or tactless act
- A mistake or error.
- A twig or shoot; a cutting.
- (engineering) The motion of the centre of resistance of the float of a paddle wheel, or the blade of an oar, through the water horizontally, or the difference between a vessel's actual speed and the speed it would have if the propelling instrument acted upon a solid; also, the velocity, relatively to still water, of the backward current of water produced by the propeller.
- (medicine) A one-time return to previous maladaptive behavior after cure.
- A young person (now usually with of introducing descriptive qualifier).
- (mining) A dislocation of a lead, destroying continuity.
- An outside covering or case.
- A leash or string by which a dog is held; so called from its being made in such a manner as to slip, or become loose, by relaxation of the hand.
- (nautical, aviation) A difference between the theoretical distance traveled per revolution of the propeller and the actual advance of the vessel.
- (cricket) Any of several fielding positions to the off side of the wicket keeper, designed to catch the ball after being deflected from the bat; a fielder in that position (See first slip, second slip, third slip, fourth slip and fifth slip.)
- (marine insurance) A memorandum of the particulars of a risk for which a policy is to be executed. It usually bears the broker's name and is initiated by the underwriters.
- Either side of the gallery in a theater.
- A fish, the sole.
- (nautical) A berth; a space for a ship to moor.
- (US) A long seat or narrow pew in churches, often without a door.
- (ceramics) A thin, slippery mix of clay and water.
- A woman's undergarment worn under a skirt or dress to conceal unwanted nudity that may otherwise be revealed by the skirt or dress itself; a shift.
- A slipdress.
- An escape; a secret or unexpected desertion.
- Matter found in troughs of grindstones after the grinding of edge tools.
- (electricity) The difference between the actual and synchronous speeds of an induction motor.
- A long, thin piece of something.
- A particular quantity of yarn.
- (nautical) A slipway.
- (crosswording) A newsletter produced by the setter of a cryptic clue-writing competition, containing a full list of winners and commentary on the clues.
- A number between 0 and 1 that is the difference between the angular speed of a rotating magnetic field and the angular speed of its rotor, divided by the angular speed of the magnetic field.
- An act or instance of slipping.
- (telecommunications) The positional displacement in a sequence of transmitted symbols that causes the loss or insertion of one or more symbols.
- (aviation) Clipping of sideslip.
- A small piece of paper, especially one longer than it is wide, typically a form for writing on or one giving printed information.
adj
- Pliant, flexible, easy to bend.
- (wine) Smooth and drinkable.
- (figuratively) Compliant; yielding to the will of others.
- Lithe and agile when moving and bending.
- (used of persons' bodies) capable of moving or bending freely
- gracefully thin and bending and moving with ease
- (used of e.g. personality traits) readily adaptable
verb
verb
- (transitive) To compress, squeeze.
- (transitive, sewing) To flatten a selected area of fabric using an iron with an up-and-down, not sliding, motion, so as to avoid disturbing adjacent areas.
- (transitive) To reduce to a particular shape or form by pressure, especially flatten or smooth.
- (transitive) To clasp, hold in an embrace.
- To force into service, particularly into naval service.
- (transitive) To hasten, urge onward.
- (ambitransitive) To throng, crowd.
- (transitive, mechanics, electronics) To activate a button or key by exerting a downward or forward force on it, and then releasing it.
- (transitive) To force to a certain end or result; to urge strongly.
- (transitive) To urge, beseech, entreat.
- (transitive) To lay stress upon.
- (ambitransitive) To exert weight or force against, to act upon with force or weight; to exert pressure upon.
- (transitive) To drive or thrust by pressure, to force in a certain direction.
- To try to force (something upon someone).
- be urgent
- exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for
- lift weights
- ask for or request earnestly
- to be oppressive or burdensome
- press and smooth with a heated iron
- make strenuous pushing movements during birth to expel the baby
- place between two surfaces and apply weight or pressure
- squeeze or press together
- force or impel in an indicated direction
- press from a plastic
- exert pressure or force to or upon
- create by pressing
- crowd closely
noun
- (countable) A printing machine.
- (countable, weightlifting) An exercise in which weight is forced away from the body by extension of the arms or legs.
- (countable, especially in Ireland and Scotland) An enclosed storage space (e.g. closet, cupboard).
- (uncountable) A crowd.
- (countable) A device used to apply pressure to an item.
- An instance of applying pressure; an instance of pressing.
- A commission to force men into public service, particularly into the navy.
- (countable) Pure, unfermented grape juice.
- (uncountable, collective) The print-based media (both the people and the newspapers).
- (countable) A publisher.
- (psychology) In personology, any environmental factor that arouses a need in the individual.
- (countable, golf, gambling) An additional bet in a golf match that duplicates an existing (usually losing) wager in value, but begins even at the time of the bet.
- a tall piece of furniture that provides storage space for clothes; has a door and rails or hooks for hanging clothes
- a dense crowd of people
- a weightlift in which the barbell is lifted to shoulder height and then smoothly lifted overhead
- clamp to prevent wooden rackets from warping when not in use
- the print media responsible for gathering and publishing news in the form of newspapers or magazines
- the act of pressing; the exertion of pressure
- any machine that exerts pressure to form or shape or cut materials or extract liquids or compress solids
- a machine used for printing
- the state of demanding notice or attention
verb
- (transitive) To reduce to smaller pieces by crushing with lateral motion.
- reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading
- (sports, intransitive) To slide the flat portion of a skateboard or snowboard across an obstacle such as a railing.
- (slang, Hawaii) To eat.
- (slang) To dance in a sexually suggestive way with both partners in very close proximity, often pressed against each other.
- To produce mechanically and repetitively as if by turning a crank.
- (slang) To rub one's body against another's in a sexual way; to frottage.
- To move with much difficulty or friction; to grate.
- (transitive) To shape with the force of friction.
- (metalworking) To remove material by rubbing with an abrasive surface.
- (transitive) To operate by turning a crank.
- To instill through repetitive teaching.
- (video games) To repeat a task a large number of times in a row to achieve a specific goal.
- (intransitive, slang) To work or study hard; to hustle or drudge.
- (transitive, slang) To annoy or irritate (a person); to grind one's gears.
- (intransitive) To become ground, pulverized, or polished by friction.
- (transitive) To oppress, hold down or weaken.
- (slang, intransitive) To rotate the hips erotically.
- make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together
- press or grind with a crushing noise
- created by grinding
- dance by rotating the pelvis in an erotically suggestive way, often while in contact with one's partner such that the dancers' legs are interlaced
- work hard
- shape or form by grinding
noun
- A specific degree of pulverization of coffee beans.
- A grinding trick on a skateboard or snowboard.
- (uncountable, slang) Hustle; hard work.
- A traditional communal pilot whale hunt in the Faroe Islands.
- Something that has been reduced to powder, something that has been ground.
- (uncountable, music) Clipping of grindcore (“subgenre of heavy metal”).
- A tedious and laborious task.
- The act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by friction.
- an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious
- the act of grinding to a powder or dust
- the grade of particle fineness to which a substance is ground
- hard monotonous routine work
adv
adj
- Performed using only one hand.
- Having only one hand.
- Involving the actions of only one person.
- (chemistry) Chiral, having an asymmetric structural orientation.
- Designed for use with one hand
- (specifically, of reading or reading material) Pornographic in nature.
- That uses one hand.
- having or using a single hand
noun
- Something that is (easily) breakable.
- (usually in the plural, music) A set of customized hardware that is part of a drum kit. Breakables typically consist of: the drummer's cymbals including high-hats, the snare drum, the kick pedal and the drummer's stool.
- an article that is fragile and easily broken
adj
adj
- Very compact.
- (mathematics, topology, of a topological space) Having a subbasis such that every open cover of the topological space from elements of the subbasis has a subcover with at most two subbasis elements.
- (mathematics, set theory) Being a type of large cardinal with a variety of reflection properties.
adj
- bending and snapping back readily without breaking
- making or willing to make concessions
- able to flex; able to bend easily
- capable of being changed
- able to adjust readily to different conditions
- Capable of adapting or changing to suit new or modified conditions or situations.
- Capable or being adapted or molded in some way.
- Capable of being flexed or bent without breaking; able to be turned or twisted without breaking.
- Willing or prone to give way to the influence of others; not invincibly rigid or obstinate.
noun
adj
- Easily broken into small fragments, crumbled, or reduced to powder.
- (toxicology) Of a poison, likely to crumble and become airborne, thus becoming a health risk.
- (geology) Of soil, loose and large-grained in consistency.
- (mathematics) Of a number: smooth, that factors completely into small prime numbers.
- easily broken into small fragments or reduced to powder
verb
- tear down so as to make flat with the ground
- take apart into its constituent pieces
- take off or remove
- (transitive, originally) To divest, strip of dress or covering.
- (transitive) To take apart; to disassemble; to take to pieces.
- (transitive) To remove fittings or furnishings from.
- (transitive) To disprove a discourse, claim or argument.
verb
- tear down so as to make flat with the ground
- direct into a position for use
- talk frankly with; lay it on the line
- aim at
- make level or straight
- become level or even
- (transitive) To destroy by reducing to ground level; to raze.
- (transitive, figurative) To bring to a common level or plane, in respect of rank, condition, character, privilege, etc.
- (intransitive) To speak honestly and openly [with with ‘someone’] (see: level with).
- (intransitive, roleplaying games, video games) To progress to the next level.
- (transitive) To adjust so as to make as flat or perpendicular to the ground as possible.
- (transitive) To direct or impose (a penalty, fine, etc) at or upon (someone) [with on or against or at].
- (transitive) To aim or direct (a weapon, a stare, an accusation, etc).
- (intransitive, sports) To make the score of a game equal.
- (transitive) To adjust or adapt to a certain level.
adj
- being on a precise horizontal plane
- oriented at right angles to the plumb
- of the score in a contest
- having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another
- not showing abrupt variations
- The same height at all places; parallel to a flat ground.
- Unvaried in volume.
- Unvaried in frequency.
- Straightforward; direct; clear.
- (phonetics) Of even tone; without rising or falling inflection; monotonic.
- In the same position or rank.
- Well balanced; even; just; steady; impartial.
- (physics) Perpendicular to a gravitational force.
- At the same height as some reference; constructed as level with.
- Calm.
noun
- indicator that establishes the horizontal when a bubble is centered in a tube of liquid
- a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process
- a position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality
- height above ground
- an abstract place usually conceived as having depth
- a flat surface at right angles to a plumb line
- a relative position or degree of value in a graded group
- a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale
- A tool for finding whether a surface is level, or for creating a horizontal or vertical line of reference.
- (computer science) Distance from the root node of a tree structure.
- (British) An area of almost perfectly flat land.
- (video games) One of several discrete segments of a game, generally increasing in difficulty and representing different locations in the game world.
- A distance relative to a given reference elevation.
- (Singapore, education) A school grade or year.
- Degree or amount.
- (statistics) One of the specific values which may be taken by a categorical variable.
- Achievement or qualification.
- A floor of a multi-storey building.
- (roleplaying games, video games) A numeric value given to a character (or other element of a game) that represents its relative power, challenge or eligibility to do things, used as a game mechanic to govern progression through a game.
verb
- tear down so as to make flat with the ground
- Alternative spelling of raze.
- (transitive) To level or tear down (a building, a town, etc.) to the ground; to demolish.
- (transitive, figurative) To completely remove (someone or something), especially from a place, a situation, etc.; also, to remove from existence; to destroy, to obliterate.
- (transitive, archaic except UK, regional) To wound (someone or part of their body) superficially; to graze.
- (transitive, also figurative) To erase (a record, text, etc.), originally by scraping; to rub out, to scratch out.
verb
- tear down so as to make flat with the ground
- To level or tear down (a building, a town, etc.) to the ground; to demolish.
- (also figurative) To erase (a record, text, etc.), originally by scraping; to rub out, to scratch out.
- (archaic except UK, regional) To wound (someone or part of their body) superficially; to graze.
- (figurative) To completely remove (someone or something), especially from a place, a situation, etc.; also, to remove from existence; to destroy, to obliterate.
noun
verb
- tear down so as to make flat with the ground
- move something or somebody to a lower position
- reduce in worth or character, usually verbally
- make a written note of
- To defeat; to destroy or kill (a person).
- To write down as a note, especially to record something spoken.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To collapse or become incapacitated from illness or fatigue.
- To remove a temporary structure such as scaffolding.
- To remove something from a wall or similar vertical surface to which it is fixed.
- To lower an item of clothing without removing it.
- To arrest someone or to place them in detention.
- To remove something from a hanging position.
- To remove something from a website.
- (transitive) To reduce.
- (combat sports) To force one’s opponent off their feet in order to transition from striking to grappling in jujitsu, mixed martial arts, etc.
- To swallow.
verb
- To reduce solids to small pieces (in a macerator).
- To soften (something) or separate it into pieces by soaking it in a heated or unheated liquid.
- soften, usually by steeping in liquid, and cause to disintegrate as a result
- separate into constituents by soaking
- cause to grow thin or weak
- become soft or separate and disintegrate as a result of excessive soaking
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To be pressed together or folded by compression into a more economic, easier format.
- (transitive) To make smaller; to press or squeeze together, or to make something occupy a smaller space or volume.
- (transitive) To condense into a more economic, easier format.
- (physics, transitive) To make a pulse or particle bunch shorter by applying dispersion to it.
- (transitive) To abridge.
- (computing, transitive) To make digital information smaller by encoding it using fewer bits.
- make more compact by or as if by pressing
- squeeze or press together
noun
- A machine for compressing.
- (medicine) A multiply folded piece of cloth, a pouch of ice, etc., used to apply to a patient's skin, cover the dressing of wounds, and placed with the aid of a bandage to apply pressure on an injury.
- a cloth pad or dressing (with or without medication) applied firmly to some part of the body (to relieve discomfort or reduce fever)
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noun
verb
noun
- T-shaped cleaning implement with a rubber edge across the top; drawn across a surface to remove water (as in washing windows)
- (printing) A tool with a roller or blade used to force ink through a stencil in silk-screen printing.
- (photography) A tool used to press film into a mount, remove excess moisture from a print, etc.; a squeezer.
- A long-handled tool with a blade used for cleaning and/or drying surfaces, or for levelling paths, roadways, etc.
- (nautical) A long-handled tool with a blade used on ships for swabbing decks and spreading protective coatings.
- (historical) A street-cleaning machine consisting of a roller with blades pulled by a horse.
- A tool for scraping consisting of a blade of rubber or some other material attached at a right angle to a handle.
- A short-handled tool with a blade for drying car windshields, windows, etc.
- (slang) A person who uses a squeegee (noun sense 1.2); specifically, one who makes an unsolicited attempt to clean the windshield of a car stopped at a traffic light and then requests payment; a squeegee bandit.
verb
- reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading
- laugh loudly and harshly
- braying characteristic of donkeys
- (intransitive, by extension) To make a harsh, discordant sound like a donkey's bray.
- (transitive) To make or utter (a shout, sound, etc.) discordantly, loudly, or in a harsh and grating manner.
- (transitive, British, chiefly Yorkshire, by extension) To hit (someone or something).
- (intransitive) Of an animal (now chiefly of animals related to the ass or donkey, and the camel): to make its cry.
noun
verb
- reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading
- press or grind with a crushing noise
- crush with the teeth, making a grinding sound
- make a crushing noise
- To emit a grinding or crunching noise.
- (computing, transitive) To compress (data) using a particular algorithm, so that it can be restored by decrunching.
- (software engineering, slang, transitive) To make employees work overtime in order to meet a deadline in the development of a project.
- (automotive, transitive) To cause the gears to emit a crunching sound by releasing the clutch before the gears are properly synchronised.
- (slang) To calculate or otherwise process (e.g. to crunch numbers: to perform mathematical calculations). Presumably from the sound made by mechanical calculators.
- To crush something, especially food, with a noisy crackling sound.
- To be crushed with a noisy crackling sound.
- To grind or press with violence and noise.
noun
- the act of crushing
- a critical situation that arises because of a shortage (as a shortage of time or money or resources)
- the sound of something crunching
- A problem that leads to a crisis.
- (exercise) A form of abdominal exercise, based on a sit-up but in which the lower back remains in contact with the floor.
- (slang) A shortage.
- A critical moment or event.
- (music) Moderate distortion.
- A dessert consisting of a crunchy topping with fruit underneath.
- (software engineering, slang) The overtime work required to catch up and finish a project, usually in the final weeks of development before release.
- A noisy crackling sound; the sound usually associated with crunching.
- (cooking, generally in the plural) A small piece created by crushing; a piece of material with a friable or crunchy texture.
- (chiefly US) The symbol #.
verb
- reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading
- talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions
- to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition
- (ambitransitive) To press down hard (on).
- (transitive, UK, chiefly Northern England, Lancashire, Yorkshire) To prepare a cup of tea in a teapot; to brew (tea).
- (transitive, informal, gaming) To press (a button) rapidly and repeatedly.
- (transitive) In brewing, to convert (for example malt, or malt and meal) into the mash which makes wort, by mixing it with hot water.
- To flirt, to make eyes, to make romantic advances.
- (transitive) To convert into a mash; to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure
- (transitive, Southern US, informal) To press.
noun
- mixture of ground animal feeds
- a mixture of mashed malt grains and hot water; used in brewing
- A mixture of meal or bran and water fed to animals.
- (countable, MLE, slang) A gun.
- (uncountable) A mass of mixed ingredients reduced to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; a mass of anything in a soft pulpy state.
- (chiefly UK) Mashed potatoes.
- (brewing) Ground or bruised malt, or meal of rye, wheat, corn, or other grain (or a mixture of malt and meal) steeped and stirred in hot water for making the wort.
- Alternative form of maash (“mung bean”).
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adj
- Low-cut.
- (in several set phrases) Being near the equator.
- Depressed in mood, dejected, sad.
- (baseball, of a ball) Below the batter's knees.
- Disparaging; assigning little value or excellence.
- Dead. (Compare lay low.)
- (of an automobile, gear, etc) Designed for a slow (or the slowest) speed.
- Being a nadir, a bottom.
- (acoustics) Grave in pitch, due to being produced by relatively slow vibrations (wave oscillations); flat.
- Humble, meek, not haughty.
- Lacking health or vitality, strength or vivacity; feeble; weak.
- Of less than normal height or upward extent or growth, or of greater than normal depth or recession; below the average or normal level from which elevation is measured.
- (card games) Lesser in value than other cards, denominations, suits, etc.
- Not high in status, esteem, or rank, dignity, or quality. (Compare vulgar.)
- (video games, roleplaying games) Having few hit points remaining; damaged.
- Pertaining to (or, especially of a language: spoken in) in an area which is at a lesser elevation, closer to sea level (especially near the sea), than other regions.
- Quiet; soft; not loud.
- Small, not high (in amount or quantity, value, force, energy, etc).
- Depleted, or nearing deletion; lacking in supply.
- (chiefly in several set phrases) Favoring simplicity (see e.g. low church, Low Tory).
- (phonetics) Made with a relatively large opening between the tongue and the palate; made with (part of) the tongue positioned low in the mouth, relative to the palate.
- Situated close to, or even below, the ground or another normal reference plane; not high or lofty.
- Having a small or comparatively smaller concentration of (a substance, which is often but not always linked by "in" when predicative).
- (especially in biology) Simple in complexity or development.
- subdued or brought low in condition or status
- no longer sufficient
- unrefined in character
- less than normal in degree or intensity or amount
- of the most contemptible kind
- filled with melancholy and despondency
- low or inferior in station or quality
- being at or having a relatively small elevation or upward extension
- very low in volume
- used of sounds and voices; low in pitch or frequency
adv
- Close to the ground.
- Of a pitch, at a lower frequency.
- (astronomy) In a path near the equator, so that the declination is small, or near the horizon, so that the altitude is small; said of the heavenly bodies with reference to the diurnal revolution.
- With a low voice or sound; not loudly; gently.
- In a low mean condition; humbly; meanly.
- In a time approaching our own.
- Under the usual price; at a moderate price; cheaply.
- in a low position; near the ground
noun
- The lowest-speed gearing of a power-transmission system, especially of an automotive vehicle.
- A period of depression; a depressed mood or situation.
- The minimum atmospheric temperature recorded at a particular location, especially during one 24-hour period.
- (meteorology, informal) An area of low pressure; a depression.
- A low point or position, literally (as, a depth) or figuratively (as, a nadir, a time when things are at their worst, least, minimum, etc).
- (slang, usually accompanied by "the") A cheap, cost-efficient, or advantageous price.
- (countable, UK, Scotland, dialect) A flame; fire; blaze.
- (card games) The lowest trump, usually the deuce; the lowest trump dealt or drawn.
- the lowest forward gear ratio in the gear box of a motor vehicle; used to start a car moving
- a low level or position or degree
- an air mass of lower pressure; often brings precipitation
verb
noun
- Something that is (easily) breakable.
- (usually in the plural, music) A set of customized hardware that is part of a drum kit. Breakables typically consist of: the drummer's cymbals including high-hats, the snare drum, the kick pedal and the drummer's stool.
- an article that is fragile and easily broken
adj
verb
- To squish so as to break into smaller pieces or to combine with something else.
- (transitive) To notch, cut, or indent (cloth, etc.) with a stamp.
- (intransitive) To walk, especially across the snow with dogs.
- (transitive) To drive dogs, usually pulling a sled, across the snow.
- drive (a team of dogs or a dogsled)
- travel with a dogsled
intj
noun
- (Quebec, slang) A magic mushroom.
- (British, slang, chiefly Northern England, Australia) The face.
- (chiefly London, slang) A cab driver who is the owner of their cab, and sometimes a small number of other cabs as well; a musher.
- (radio) A mixture of noise produced by the harmonics of continuous-wave stations.
- A walk, especially across the snow with dogs.
- (MLE) A gun.
- (British, slang, chiefly Southern England) (US, slang, chiefly Nonantum) A form of address, normally to a man.
- (geology) A magmatic body containing a significant proportion of crystals suspended in the liquid phase or melt.
- (rustic US) Cornmeal cooked in water and served as a porridge or as a thick sidedish like grits or mashed potatoes.
- A food comprising cracked or rolled grains cooked in water or milk; porridge.
- A somewhat liquid mess, often of food; a soft or semisolid substance.
- (surfing) The foam of a breaker.
- a journey by dogsled
- cornmeal boiled in water
- any soft or soggy mass
- writing or music that is excessively sweet and sentimental
verb
- reduce to small shreds or pulverize by rubbing against a rough or sharp perforated surface
- make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together
- furnish with a grate
- gnaw into; make resentful or angry
- scratch repeatedly
- (by extension, transitive) To annoy.
- (intransitive) To make an unpleasant rasping sound, often as the result of rubbing against something.
- (transitive) To furnish with grates; to protect with a grating or crossbars.
- (by extension, intransitive) To get on one's nerves; to irritate, annoy.
- (transitive, cooking) To shred (things, usually foodstuffs), by rubbing across a grater.
noun
- a frame of iron bars to hold a fire
- a barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air
- a harsh rasping sound made by scraping something
- A horizontal metal grill through which liquid, ash, or small objects can fall, while larger objects cannot.
- (historical) A grapper, a metal ring on a lance behind the grip.
- A frame or bed, or kind of basket, of iron bars, for holding fuel while burning.
verb
- (transitive) To crumple and squeeze to make more compact.
- (with object "one's face") To contract the muscles of one's face so as to draw their facial features together, out of pain, discomfort, uncertainty, etc.
- Alternative form of scranch.
- make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; ‘crisp’ is archaic
- make a noise typical of an engine lacking lubricants
- sit on one's heels
noun
verb
- move easily
- fall to a lower standard
- move smoothly and easily
- move out of position
- pass out of one's memory
- cause to move with a smooth or sliding motion
- insert inconspicuously or quickly or quietly
- move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner
- move stealthily
- to make a mistake or be incorrect
- pass on stealthily
- (transitive) To cut slips from; to cut; to take off; to make a slip or slips of.
- (intransitive, aviation, of an aircraft) Clipping of sideslip (“to fly with the longitudinal axis misaligned with the relative wind”).
- (transitive) To elude or evade by smooth movement.
- (transitive) To cause to slip or slide off, or out of place.
- (transitive, hunting, falconry) To release (a dog, a bird of prey, etc.) to go after a quarry.
- (transitive) To pass (a note, money, etc.), often covertly.
- (intransitive) To err.
- (intransitive) To move quickly and often secretively; to depart, withdraw, enter, appear, intrude, or escape as if by sliding.
- (transitive) To cause to move smoothly and quickly; to slide; to convey gently or secretly.
- (intransitive) To lose one’s traction on a slippery surface; to slide due to a lack of friction.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To move down; to slide.
- (intransitive) To move or fly (out of place); to shoot; often with out, off, etc.
- To bring forth (young) prematurely; to slink.
- (intransitive) To accidentally reveal a secret or otherwise say something unintentionally.
- (transitive, business) To cause (a schedule or release, etc.) to go, or let it go, beyond the allotted deadline.
- (transitive, cooking) To remove the skin of a soft fruit, such as a tomato or peach, by blanching briefly in boiling water, then transferring to cold water so that the skin peels, or slips, off easily.
noun
- a place where a craft can be made fast
- a slippery smoothness
- bed linen consisting of a cover for a pillow
- potter's clay that is thinned and used for coating or decorating ceramics
- a part (sometimes a root or leaf or bud) removed from a plant to propagate a new plant through rooting or grafting
- the act of avoiding capture (especially by cunning)
- a young and slender person
- artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material
- a woman's sleeveless undergarment
- an accidental misstep threatening (or causing) a fall
- an unexpected slide
- a minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc.
- a small sheet of paper
- a flight maneuver; aircraft slides sideways in the air
- a socially awkward or tactless act
- A mistake or error.
- A twig or shoot; a cutting.
- (engineering) The motion of the centre of resistance of the float of a paddle wheel, or the blade of an oar, through the water horizontally, or the difference between a vessel's actual speed and the speed it would have if the propelling instrument acted upon a solid; also, the velocity, relatively to still water, of the backward current of water produced by the propeller.
- (medicine) A one-time return to previous maladaptive behavior after cure.
- A young person (now usually with of introducing descriptive qualifier).
- (mining) A dislocation of a lead, destroying continuity.
- An outside covering or case.
- A leash or string by which a dog is held; so called from its being made in such a manner as to slip, or become loose, by relaxation of the hand.
- (nautical, aviation) A difference between the theoretical distance traveled per revolution of the propeller and the actual advance of the vessel.
- (cricket) Any of several fielding positions to the off side of the wicket keeper, designed to catch the ball after being deflected from the bat; a fielder in that position (See first slip, second slip, third slip, fourth slip and fifth slip.)
- (marine insurance) A memorandum of the particulars of a risk for which a policy is to be executed. It usually bears the broker's name and is initiated by the underwriters.
- Either side of the gallery in a theater.
- A fish, the sole.
- (nautical) A berth; a space for a ship to moor.
- (US) A long seat or narrow pew in churches, often without a door.
- (ceramics) A thin, slippery mix of clay and water.
- A woman's undergarment worn under a skirt or dress to conceal unwanted nudity that may otherwise be revealed by the skirt or dress itself; a shift.
- A slipdress.
- An escape; a secret or unexpected desertion.
- Matter found in troughs of grindstones after the grinding of edge tools.
- (electricity) The difference between the actual and synchronous speeds of an induction motor.
- A long, thin piece of something.
- A particular quantity of yarn.
- (nautical) A slipway.
- (crosswording) A newsletter produced by the setter of a cryptic clue-writing competition, containing a full list of winners and commentary on the clues.
- A number between 0 and 1 that is the difference between the angular speed of a rotating magnetic field and the angular speed of its rotor, divided by the angular speed of the magnetic field.
- An act or instance of slipping.
- (telecommunications) The positional displacement in a sequence of transmitted symbols that causes the loss or insertion of one or more symbols.
- (aviation) Clipping of sideslip.
- A small piece of paper, especially one longer than it is wide, typically a form for writing on or one giving printed information.
verb
- (transitive) To compress, squeeze.
- (transitive, sewing) To flatten a selected area of fabric using an iron with an up-and-down, not sliding, motion, so as to avoid disturbing adjacent areas.
- (transitive) To reduce to a particular shape or form by pressure, especially flatten or smooth.
- (transitive) To clasp, hold in an embrace.
- To force into service, particularly into naval service.
- (transitive) To hasten, urge onward.
- (ambitransitive) To throng, crowd.
- (transitive, mechanics, electronics) To activate a button or key by exerting a downward or forward force on it, and then releasing it.
- (transitive) To force to a certain end or result; to urge strongly.
- (transitive) To urge, beseech, entreat.
- (transitive) To lay stress upon.
- (ambitransitive) To exert weight or force against, to act upon with force or weight; to exert pressure upon.
- (transitive) To drive or thrust by pressure, to force in a certain direction.
- To try to force (something upon someone).
- be urgent
- exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for
- lift weights
- ask for or request earnestly
- to be oppressive or burdensome
- press and smooth with a heated iron
- make strenuous pushing movements during birth to expel the baby
- place between two surfaces and apply weight or pressure
- squeeze or press together
- force or impel in an indicated direction
- press from a plastic
- exert pressure or force to or upon
- create by pressing
- crowd closely
noun
- (countable) A printing machine.
- (countable, weightlifting) An exercise in which weight is forced away from the body by extension of the arms or legs.
- (countable, especially in Ireland and Scotland) An enclosed storage space (e.g. closet, cupboard).
- (uncountable) A crowd.
- (countable) A device used to apply pressure to an item.
- An instance of applying pressure; an instance of pressing.
- A commission to force men into public service, particularly into the navy.
- (countable) Pure, unfermented grape juice.
- (uncountable, collective) The print-based media (both the people and the newspapers).
- (countable) A publisher.
- (psychology) In personology, any environmental factor that arouses a need in the individual.
- (countable, golf, gambling) An additional bet in a golf match that duplicates an existing (usually losing) wager in value, but begins even at the time of the bet.
- a tall piece of furniture that provides storage space for clothes; has a door and rails or hooks for hanging clothes
- a dense crowd of people
- a weightlift in which the barbell is lifted to shoulder height and then smoothly lifted overhead
- clamp to prevent wooden rackets from warping when not in use
- the print media responsible for gathering and publishing news in the form of newspapers or magazines
- the act of pressing; the exertion of pressure
- any machine that exerts pressure to form or shape or cut materials or extract liquids or compress solids
- a machine used for printing
- the state of demanding notice or attention
verb
- (transitive) To reduce to smaller pieces by crushing with lateral motion.
- reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading
- (sports, intransitive) To slide the flat portion of a skateboard or snowboard across an obstacle such as a railing.
- (slang, Hawaii) To eat.
- (slang) To dance in a sexually suggestive way with both partners in very close proximity, often pressed against each other.
- To produce mechanically and repetitively as if by turning a crank.
- (slang) To rub one's body against another's in a sexual way; to frottage.
- To move with much difficulty or friction; to grate.
- (transitive) To shape with the force of friction.
- (metalworking) To remove material by rubbing with an abrasive surface.
- (transitive) To operate by turning a crank.
- To instill through repetitive teaching.
- (video games) To repeat a task a large number of times in a row to achieve a specific goal.
- (intransitive, slang) To work or study hard; to hustle or drudge.
- (transitive, slang) To annoy or irritate (a person); to grind one's gears.
- (intransitive) To become ground, pulverized, or polished by friction.
- (transitive) To oppress, hold down or weaken.
- (slang, intransitive) To rotate the hips erotically.
- make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together
- press or grind with a crushing noise
- created by grinding
- dance by rotating the pelvis in an erotically suggestive way, often while in contact with one's partner such that the dancers' legs are interlaced
- work hard
- shape or form by grinding
noun
- A specific degree of pulverization of coffee beans.
- A grinding trick on a skateboard or snowboard.
- (uncountable, slang) Hustle; hard work.
- A traditional communal pilot whale hunt in the Faroe Islands.
- Something that has been reduced to powder, something that has been ground.
- (uncountable, music) Clipping of grindcore (“subgenre of heavy metal”).
- A tedious and laborious task.
- The act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by friction.
- an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious
- the act of grinding to a powder or dust
- the grade of particle fineness to which a substance is ground
- hard monotonous routine work
verb
- tear down so as to make flat with the ground
- take apart into its constituent pieces
- take off or remove
- (transitive, originally) To divest, strip of dress or covering.
- (transitive) To take apart; to disassemble; to take to pieces.
- (transitive) To remove fittings or furnishings from.
- (transitive) To disprove a discourse, claim or argument.
verb
- tear down so as to make flat with the ground
- direct into a position for use
- talk frankly with; lay it on the line
- aim at
- make level or straight
- become level or even
- (transitive) To destroy by reducing to ground level; to raze.
- (transitive, figurative) To bring to a common level or plane, in respect of rank, condition, character, privilege, etc.
- (intransitive) To speak honestly and openly [with with ‘someone’] (see: level with).
- (intransitive, roleplaying games, video games) To progress to the next level.
- (transitive) To adjust so as to make as flat or perpendicular to the ground as possible.
- (transitive) To direct or impose (a penalty, fine, etc) at or upon (someone) [with on or against or at].
- (transitive) To aim or direct (a weapon, a stare, an accusation, etc).
- (intransitive, sports) To make the score of a game equal.
- (transitive) To adjust or adapt to a certain level.
adj
- being on a precise horizontal plane
- oriented at right angles to the plumb
- of the score in a contest
- having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another
- not showing abrupt variations
- The same height at all places; parallel to a flat ground.
- Unvaried in volume.
- Unvaried in frequency.
- Straightforward; direct; clear.
- (phonetics) Of even tone; without rising or falling inflection; monotonic.
- In the same position or rank.
- Well balanced; even; just; steady; impartial.
- (physics) Perpendicular to a gravitational force.
- At the same height as some reference; constructed as level with.
- Calm.
noun
- indicator that establishes the horizontal when a bubble is centered in a tube of liquid
- a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process
- a position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality
- height above ground
- an abstract place usually conceived as having depth
- a flat surface at right angles to a plumb line
- a relative position or degree of value in a graded group
- a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale
- A tool for finding whether a surface is level, or for creating a horizontal or vertical line of reference.
- (computer science) Distance from the root node of a tree structure.
- (British) An area of almost perfectly flat land.
- (video games) One of several discrete segments of a game, generally increasing in difficulty and representing different locations in the game world.
- A distance relative to a given reference elevation.
- (Singapore, education) A school grade or year.
- Degree or amount.
- (statistics) One of the specific values which may be taken by a categorical variable.
- Achievement or qualification.
- A floor of a multi-storey building.
- (roleplaying games, video games) A numeric value given to a character (or other element of a game) that represents its relative power, challenge or eligibility to do things, used as a game mechanic to govern progression through a game.
verb
- tear down so as to make flat with the ground
- Alternative spelling of raze.
- (transitive) To level or tear down (a building, a town, etc.) to the ground; to demolish.
- (transitive, figurative) To completely remove (someone or something), especially from a place, a situation, etc.; also, to remove from existence; to destroy, to obliterate.
- (transitive, archaic except UK, regional) To wound (someone or part of their body) superficially; to graze.
- (transitive, also figurative) To erase (a record, text, etc.), originally by scraping; to rub out, to scratch out.
verb
- tear down so as to make flat with the ground
- To level or tear down (a building, a town, etc.) to the ground; to demolish.
- (also figurative) To erase (a record, text, etc.), originally by scraping; to rub out, to scratch out.
- (archaic except UK, regional) To wound (someone or part of their body) superficially; to graze.
- (figurative) To completely remove (someone or something), especially from a place, a situation, etc.; also, to remove from existence; to destroy, to obliterate.
noun
verb
- tear down so as to make flat with the ground
- move something or somebody to a lower position
- reduce in worth or character, usually verbally
- make a written note of
- To defeat; to destroy or kill (a person).
- To write down as a note, especially to record something spoken.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To collapse or become incapacitated from illness or fatigue.
- To remove a temporary structure such as scaffolding.
- To remove something from a wall or similar vertical surface to which it is fixed.
- To lower an item of clothing without removing it.
- To arrest someone or to place them in detention.
- To remove something from a hanging position.
- To remove something from a website.
- (transitive) To reduce.
- (combat sports) To force one’s opponent off their feet in order to transition from striking to grappling in jujitsu, mixed martial arts, etc.
- To swallow.
verb
- To reduce solids to small pieces (in a macerator).
- To soften (something) or separate it into pieces by soaking it in a heated or unheated liquid.
- soften, usually by steeping in liquid, and cause to disintegrate as a result
- separate into constituents by soaking
- cause to grow thin or weak
- become soft or separate and disintegrate as a result of excessive soaking
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To be pressed together or folded by compression into a more economic, easier format.
- (transitive) To make smaller; to press or squeeze together, or to make something occupy a smaller space or volume.
- (transitive) To condense into a more economic, easier format.
- (physics, transitive) To make a pulse or particle bunch shorter by applying dispersion to it.
- (transitive) To abridge.
- (computing, transitive) To make digital information smaller by encoding it using fewer bits.
- make more compact by or as if by pressing
- squeeze or press together
noun
- A machine for compressing.
- (medicine) A multiply folded piece of cloth, a pouch of ice, etc., used to apply to a patient's skin, cover the dressing of wounds, and placed with the aid of a bandage to apply pressure on an injury.
- a cloth pad or dressing (with or without medication) applied firmly to some part of the body (to relieve discomfort or reduce fever)
verb
noun
verb
noun
- T-shaped cleaning implement with a rubber edge across the top; drawn across a surface to remove water (as in washing windows)
- (printing) A tool with a roller or blade used to force ink through a stencil in silk-screen printing.
- (photography) A tool used to press film into a mount, remove excess moisture from a print, etc.; a squeezer.
- A long-handled tool with a blade used for cleaning and/or drying surfaces, or for levelling paths, roadways, etc.
- (nautical) A long-handled tool with a blade used on ships for swabbing decks and spreading protective coatings.
- (historical) A street-cleaning machine consisting of a roller with blades pulled by a horse.
- A tool for scraping consisting of a blade of rubber or some other material attached at a right angle to a handle.
- A short-handled tool with a blade for drying car windshields, windows, etc.
- (slang) A person who uses a squeegee (noun sense 1.2); specifically, one who makes an unsolicited attempt to clean the windshield of a car stopped at a traffic light and then requests payment; a squeegee bandit.
verb
- reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading
- laugh loudly and harshly
- braying characteristic of donkeys
- (intransitive, by extension) To make a harsh, discordant sound like a donkey's bray.
- (transitive) To make or utter (a shout, sound, etc.) discordantly, loudly, or in a harsh and grating manner.
- (transitive, British, chiefly Yorkshire, by extension) To hit (someone or something).
- (intransitive) Of an animal (now chiefly of animals related to the ass or donkey, and the camel): to make its cry.
noun
verb
- reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading
- press or grind with a crushing noise
- crush with the teeth, making a grinding sound
- make a crushing noise
- To emit a grinding or crunching noise.
- (computing, transitive) To compress (data) using a particular algorithm, so that it can be restored by decrunching.
- (software engineering, slang, transitive) To make employees work overtime in order to meet a deadline in the development of a project.
- (automotive, transitive) To cause the gears to emit a crunching sound by releasing the clutch before the gears are properly synchronised.
- (slang) To calculate or otherwise process (e.g. to crunch numbers: to perform mathematical calculations). Presumably from the sound made by mechanical calculators.
- To crush something, especially food, with a noisy crackling sound.
- To be crushed with a noisy crackling sound.
- To grind or press with violence and noise.
noun
- the act of crushing
- a critical situation that arises because of a shortage (as a shortage of time or money or resources)
- the sound of something crunching
- A problem that leads to a crisis.
- (exercise) A form of abdominal exercise, based on a sit-up but in which the lower back remains in contact with the floor.
- (slang) A shortage.
- A critical moment or event.
- (music) Moderate distortion.
- A dessert consisting of a crunchy topping with fruit underneath.
- (software engineering, slang) The overtime work required to catch up and finish a project, usually in the final weeks of development before release.
- A noisy crackling sound; the sound usually associated with crunching.
- (cooking, generally in the plural) A small piece created by crushing; a piece of material with a friable or crunchy texture.
- (chiefly US) The symbol #.
verb
- reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading
- talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions
- to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition
- (ambitransitive) To press down hard (on).
- (transitive, UK, chiefly Northern England, Lancashire, Yorkshire) To prepare a cup of tea in a teapot; to brew (tea).
- (transitive, informal, gaming) To press (a button) rapidly and repeatedly.
- (transitive) In brewing, to convert (for example malt, or malt and meal) into the mash which makes wort, by mixing it with hot water.
- To flirt, to make eyes, to make romantic advances.
- (transitive) To convert into a mash; to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure
- (transitive, Southern US, informal) To press.
noun
- mixture of ground animal feeds
- a mixture of mashed malt grains and hot water; used in brewing
- A mixture of meal or bran and water fed to animals.
- (countable, MLE, slang) A gun.
- (uncountable) A mass of mixed ingredients reduced to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; a mass of anything in a soft pulpy state.
- (chiefly UK) Mashed potatoes.
- (brewing) Ground or bruised malt, or meal of rye, wheat, corn, or other grain (or a mixture of malt and meal) steeped and stirred in hot water for making the wort.
- Alternative form of maash (“mung bean”).
adv
adj
- Performed using only one hand.
- Having only one hand.
- Involving the actions of only one person.
- (chemistry) Chiral, having an asymmetric structural orientation.
- Designed for use with one hand
- (specifically, of reading or reading material) Pornographic in nature.
- That uses one hand.
- having or using a single hand
adj
- Docile and easily managed.
- Polite and respectful rather than rude.
- Tender and amiable; of a considerate or kindly disposition.
- Gradual rather than steep or sudden.
- Soft and mild rather than hard or severe.
- having or showing a kindly or tender nature
- easily handled or managed
- having little impact
- quiet and soothing
- belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy
- soft and mild; not harsh or stern or severe
- marked by moderate steepness
noun
verb
adj
adv
noun
- A single, usually precise, point in time.
- A very short period of time; a moment.
- Ellipsis of instant camera.
- A beverage or food which has been pre-processed to reduce preparation time, especially instant coffee.
- a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat)
- a particular point in time
adj
- easily squashed; resembling a sponge in having soft porous texture and compressibility
- like a sponge in being able to absorb liquids and yield it back when compressed
- (slang) Drunk.
- Wet; drenched; soaked and soft, like sponge; rainy.
- Having the characteristics of a sponge, namely being absorbent, squishy or porous.
adj
- easily squashed; resembling a sponge in having soft porous texture and compressibility
- Making a squish sound.
- (especially) Soft and wet.
- (gaming) Vulnerable to physical damage; having low hit points or defense.
- (politics, colloquial, derogatory) Politically moderate.
- Subjective or vague.
- (literally, of a physical material) Yielding easily to pressure; very soft.
noun
adj
- easy to cut or chew
- given to sympathy or gentleness or sentimentality
- hurting
- young and immature
- (used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail
- (of plants) not hardy; easily killed by adverse growing condition
- having or displaying warmth or affection
- physically untoughened
- Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained.
- Easily bruised or injured; not firm or hard; delicate.
- Fond, loving, gentle, or sweet.
- Physically weak; not able to endure hardship.
- Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of the softer passions; pathetic.
- (of food) Soft and easily chewed.
- Apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate.
- Young and inexperienced.
- (nautical) Heeling over too easily when under sail; said of a vessel.
- Sensitive or painful to the touch.
noun
- something that can be used as an official medium of payment
- car attached to a locomotive to carry fuel and water
- a boat for communication between ship and shore
- someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another
- ship that usually provides supplies to other ships
- a formal proposal to buy at a specified price
- Anything which is offered, proffered, put forth or bid with the expectation of a response, answer, or reply.
- (nautical) A smaller boat used for transportation between a large ship and the shore.
- Ellipsis of water tender (“firefighting apparatus”).
- (archaic outside certain compounds) Someone who tends or waits on something or someone.
- The inner flight muscle (pectoralis minor) of poultry.
- (rail transport) A railroad car towed behind a steam engine to carry fuel and water.
- A means of payment such as a check or cheque, cash or credit card.
- Any offer or proposal made for acceptance.
- (diving) A member of a diving team who assists a diver during a dive but does not themselves go underwater.
- (nautical) A naval ship that functions as a mobile base for other ships.
- (law) A formal offer to buy or sell something.
verb
adv
adj
noun
- (countable) The bottom of a body of water.
- (uncountable) Terrain.
- (electricity, Philippines) Electric shock.
- (countable, cricket) The area of grass on which a match is played (a cricket field); the entire arena in which it is played; the part of the field behind a batsman's popping crease where he can not be run out (hence to make one's ground).
- (in combination) A place suited to a specified activity.
- (historical) The area on which a battle is fought, particularly as referring to the area occupied by one side or the other. Often, according to the eventualities, "to give ground" or "to gain ground".
- The surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground.
- (electricity) An electrical conductor connected to the earth, or a large conductor whose electrical potential is taken as zero (such as a steel chassis).
- (etching) A gummy substance spread over the surface of a metal to be etched, to prevent the acid from eating except where an opening is made by the needle.
- The pit of a theatre.
- (music) A composition in which the bass, consisting of a few bars of independent notes, is continually repeated to a varying melody.
- (architecture, chiefly in the plural) One of the pieces of wood, flush with the plastering, to which mouldings etc. are attached.
- (chiefly in the plural) Reason, (epistemic) justification, cause.
- Basis, foundation, groundwork, legwork.
- (sculpture) A flat surface upon which figures are raised in relief.
- Soil, earth.
- Background, context, framework, surroundings.
- (point lace) The net of small meshes upon which the embroidered pattern is applied.
- The plain surface upon which the figures of an artistic composition are set.
- (countable, UK) A soccer stadium.
- (music) The tune on which descants are raised; the plain song.
- (figurative, by extension) Advantage given or gained in any contest; e.g. in football, chess, debate or academic discourse.
- a position to be won or defended in battle (or as if in battle)
- the solid part of the earth's surface
- material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use)
- a connection between an electrical device and a large conducting body, such as the earth (which is taken to be at zero voltage)
- a relation that provides the foundation for something
- the first or preliminary coat of paint or size applied to a surface
- a relatively homogeneous percept extending back of the figure on which attention is focused
- (art) the surface (as a wall or canvas) prepared to take the paint for a painting
- the loose soft material that makes up a large part of the land surface
- the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground
- a rational motive for a belief or action
verb
- (intransitive) To run aground; to strike the bottom and remain fixed.
- (fine arts) To cover with a ground, as a copper plate for etching, or as paper or other materials with a uniform tint as a preparation for ornament.
- (Philippines, transitive) To electrocute.
- (transitive) To forbid (an aircraft or pilot) to fly.
- (machine learning, transitive) To complement a machine learning model with relevant information it was not trained on.
- (transitive) To place something on the ground.
- simple past and past participle of grind
- To found; to fix or set, as on a foundation, reason, or principle; to furnish a ground for; to fix firmly.
- (US, transitive) To connect (an electrical conductor or device) to a ground.
- (cricket) To place a bat or part of the body on the ground to avoid being run out.
- (transitive) To improve or focus the mental or emotional state of.
- (baseball) To hit a ground ball. Compare fly (verb (regular)) and line (verb).
- (transitive) To punish, especially a child or teenager, by forcing them to stay at home and/or give up certain privileges.
- (transitive) To give a basic education in a particular subject; to instruct in elements or first principles.
- hit or reach the ground
- place or put on the ground
- fix firmly and stably
- throw to the ground in order to stop play and avoid being tackled behind the line of scrimmage
- bring to the ground
- cover with a primer; apply a primer to
- connect to a ground
- confine or restrict to the ground
- instruct someone in the fundamentals of a subject
- use as a basis for; found on
- (baseball) a hit that travels along the playing field.
adj
- capable of being easily compressed
- capable of being compressed or made more compact
- able to be compressed
- (topology, of a surface embedded in a 3-dimensional manifold) Containing a circle that does not serve as the boundary of a disk that lies in the surface, but does serve as boundary of a disk that lies in the ambient manifold.
adj
- Pliant, flexible, easy to bend.
- (wine) Smooth and drinkable.
- (figuratively) Compliant; yielding to the will of others.
- Lithe and agile when moving and bending.
- (used of persons' bodies) capable of moving or bending freely
- gracefully thin and bending and moving with ease
- (used of e.g. personality traits) readily adaptable
verb
adj
- Very compact.
- (mathematics, topology, of a topological space) Having a subbasis such that every open cover of the topological space from elements of the subbasis has a subcover with at most two subbasis elements.
- (mathematics, set theory) Being a type of large cardinal with a variety of reflection properties.
adj
- bending and snapping back readily without breaking
- making or willing to make concessions
- able to flex; able to bend easily
- capable of being changed
- able to adjust readily to different conditions
- Capable of adapting or changing to suit new or modified conditions or situations.
- Capable or being adapted or molded in some way.
- Capable of being flexed or bent without breaking; able to be turned or twisted without breaking.
- Willing or prone to give way to the influence of others; not invincibly rigid or obstinate.
noun
adj
- Easily broken into small fragments, crumbled, or reduced to powder.
- (toxicology) Of a poison, likely to crumble and become airborne, thus becoming a health risk.
- (geology) Of soil, loose and large-grained in consistency.
- (mathematics) Of a number: smooth, that factors completely into small prime numbers.
- easily broken into small fragments or reduced to powder
adj
- Low-cut.
- (in several set phrases) Being near the equator.
- Depressed in mood, dejected, sad.
- (baseball, of a ball) Below the batter's knees.
- Disparaging; assigning little value or excellence.
- Dead. (Compare lay low.)
- (of an automobile, gear, etc) Designed for a slow (or the slowest) speed.
- Being a nadir, a bottom.
- (acoustics) Grave in pitch, due to being produced by relatively slow vibrations (wave oscillations); flat.
- Humble, meek, not haughty.
- Lacking health or vitality, strength or vivacity; feeble; weak.
- Of less than normal height or upward extent or growth, or of greater than normal depth or recession; below the average or normal level from which elevation is measured.
- (card games) Lesser in value than other cards, denominations, suits, etc.
- Not high in status, esteem, or rank, dignity, or quality. (Compare vulgar.)
- (video games, roleplaying games) Having few hit points remaining; damaged.
- Pertaining to (or, especially of a language: spoken in) in an area which is at a lesser elevation, closer to sea level (especially near the sea), than other regions.
- Quiet; soft; not loud.
- Small, not high (in amount or quantity, value, force, energy, etc).
- Depleted, or nearing deletion; lacking in supply.
- (chiefly in several set phrases) Favoring simplicity (see e.g. low church, Low Tory).
- (phonetics) Made with a relatively large opening between the tongue and the palate; made with (part of) the tongue positioned low in the mouth, relative to the palate.
- Situated close to, or even below, the ground or another normal reference plane; not high or lofty.
- Having a small or comparatively smaller concentration of (a substance, which is often but not always linked by "in" when predicative).
- (especially in biology) Simple in complexity or development.
- subdued or brought low in condition or status
- no longer sufficient
- unrefined in character
- less than normal in degree or intensity or amount
- of the most contemptible kind
- filled with melancholy and despondency
- low or inferior in station or quality
- being at or having a relatively small elevation or upward extension
- very low in volume
- used of sounds and voices; low in pitch or frequency
adv
- Close to the ground.
- Of a pitch, at a lower frequency.
- (astronomy) In a path near the equator, so that the declination is small, or near the horizon, so that the altitude is small; said of the heavenly bodies with reference to the diurnal revolution.
- With a low voice or sound; not loudly; gently.
- In a low mean condition; humbly; meanly.
- In a time approaching our own.
- Under the usual price; at a moderate price; cheaply.
- in a low position; near the ground
noun
- The lowest-speed gearing of a power-transmission system, especially of an automotive vehicle.
- A period of depression; a depressed mood or situation.
- The minimum atmospheric temperature recorded at a particular location, especially during one 24-hour period.
- (meteorology, informal) An area of low pressure; a depression.
- A low point or position, literally (as, a depth) or figuratively (as, a nadir, a time when things are at their worst, least, minimum, etc).
- (slang, usually accompanied by "the") A cheap, cost-efficient, or advantageous price.
- (countable, UK, Scotland, dialect) A flame; fire; blaze.
- (card games) The lowest trump, usually the deuce; the lowest trump dealt or drawn.
- the lowest forward gear ratio in the gear box of a motor vehicle; used to start a car moving
- a low level or position or degree
- an air mass of lower pressure; often brings precipitation