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noun
verb
- cook in a simmering liquid
- (business, ambitransitive) To entice (an employee or customer) to switch from a competing company to one's own.
- To make soft or muddy by trampling.
- (ambitransitive) To trespass on another's property to take fish or game.
- To become soft or muddy by being trampled on.
- (transitive) To cook (something) in simmering or very hot liquid (usually water; sometimes wine, broth, or otherwise).
- (by extension, ambitransitive) To take anything illegally or unfairly.
- (figurative) To intrude; to interfere; to get involved inappropriately, without welcome.
- (ambitransitive) To take game or fish illegally.
- (intransitive) To be cooked in such manner.
- hunt illegally
verb
- (transitive) To stew in an earthenware jug etc.
- stew in an earthenware jug
- (slang) To acquire or obtain through force; snatch, steal; to rob, especially in reference to jugging (which see).
- (intransitive) To utter a sound like "jug", as certain birds do, especially the nightingale.
- (US, Jesuit schools, transitive) To issue a detention (to a student).
- (intransitive, of quails or partridges) To nestle or collect together in a covey.
- (transitive, slang) To put into jail.
- (slang) To hustle or make money, usually aggressively.
- lock up or confine, in or as in a jail
noun
- A serving vessel or container, typically circular in cross-section and typically higher than it is wide, with a relatively small mouth or spout, an ear handle and often a stopper or top.
- (vulgar, slang, chiefly in the plural) A woman's breasts.
- (US, Jesuit schools, countable or uncountable) Detention (after-school student punishment).
- (CB radio slang, chiefly in the plural) A kind of large, high-powered vacuum tube.
- (Australia, New Zealand) An upright electric kettle.
- (climbing) A hold large enough for both hands
- (US, slang) The P-47 Thunderbolt fighter aircraft.
- (slang) Jail.
- The amount that a jug can hold.
- (UK, informal) A traditional dimpled glass with a handle, for serving a pint of beer.
- A small mixed breed of dog created by mating a Jack Russell terrier and a pug.
- the quantity contained in a jug
- a large bottle with a narrow mouth
noun
- The act of cooking by steaming.
- (figuratively) Pent-up anger.
- Exhaled breath into cold air below the dew point of the exhalation.
- (figuratively) Internal energy for progress or motive power.
- (fencing) Fencing without the use of any electric equipment.
- Mist, fog.
- The hot gaseous form of water, formed when water changes from the liquid phase to the gas phase (at or above its boiling point temperature).
- Pressurized water vapour used for heating, cooking, or to provide mechanical energy.
- A steam-powered vehicle, referring to their use.
- Travel by means of a steam-powered vehicle.
- water at boiling temperature diffused in the atmosphere
verb
- cook something by letting steam pass over it
- (intransitive) To rise in vapour; to issue, or pass off, as vapour.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To become angry; to fume; to be incensed.
- (intransitive) To produce or vent steam.
- (transitive) To expose to the action of steam; to apply steam to for softening, dressing, or preparing.
- (transitive, cooking) To cook with steam.
- (figuratively or literally) To move with great or excessive purposefulness.
- (intransitive) To travel by means of steam power.
- (transitive, figuratively) To make angry.
- (intransitive, literal, figurative) To be cooked with steam.
- (transitive) To raise steam, e.g. in a steam locomotive.
- (transitive) To cover with condensed water vapor.
- emit steam
- get very agitated or angry
- clean by means of steaming
- travel by means of steam power
- rise as vapor
adj
noun
- cooking in a liquid that has been brought to a boil
- the application of heat to change something from a liquid to a gas
- (uncountable, countable) The process of changing the state of a substance from liquid to gas by heating it to its boiling point.
- (countable, figurative) A turmoil; a disturbance like that of bubbling water.
- (uncountable, countable) The cooking (of food) or cleaning (of an object) by immersing it in liquid (usually water) that is boiling.
- (uncountable, figurative) An animation style with constantly changing wavy outlines, giving a shimmering or wobbling appearance.
adv
adj
verb
noun
- Food, such as a stew, cooked in such a dish.
- (countable) A dish of glass or earthenware, with a lid, in which food is baked and sometimes served.
- (by extension) Any type of food that fills the high-walled dish or pan in which it was cooked.
- food cooked and served in a casserole
- large deep dish in which food can be cooked and served
verb
adj
- (cooking) Filled with a filling and seasoning.
- (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand) Broken, not functional; in trouble, in a situation from which one is unlikely to recover.
- (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, informal) Very tired.
- Full or packed (with some material or substance).
- (slang) Full after eating.
- filled with something
- crammed with food
verb
verb
noun
noun
verb
noun
- A burn, or injury to the skin or flesh, by hot liquid or steam.
- Alternative form of skald.
- (Appalachia) Poor or bad land.
- A paste, made by mixing flour with hot or boiling water (causing starches in it to gelatinize and hold more water) and allowing that mixture to sit and cool, which is added to bread dough to produce a softer bread that takes longer to stale.
- a burn cause by hot liquid or steam
- the act of burning with steam or hot water
adj
noun
- (cooking) A stage of a meal.
- (masonry) A row of bricks or blocks.
- A racecourse.
- (roofing) A row of material that forms the roofing, waterproofing or flashing system.
- A programme, a chosen manner of proceeding.
- (textiles) In weft knitting, a single row of loops connecting the loops of the preceding and following rows.
- The succession of one to another in office or duty; order; turn.
- A normal or customary sequence.
- (golf) A golf course.
- The itinerary of a race.
- The path taken by a flow of water; a watercourse.
- (India, historical) The drive usually frequented by Europeans at an Indian station.
- A path that something or someone moves along.
- (UK, Ireland, Philippines) an educational programme at a college or university leading to an academic degree or vocational qualification.
- (especially in medicine) A treatment plan.
- (education) A learning programme
- a series of lectures or lessons in a particular subject
- (nautical) The direction of movement of a vessel at any given moment.
- (navigation) The intended passage of voyage, such as a boat, ship, airplane, spaceship, etc.
- Any ordered process or sequence of steps.
- A sequence of events.
- (nautical) The lowest square sail in a fully rigged mast, often named according to the mast.
- (music) One or more strings on some musical instruments (such as the guitar, lute or vihuela): if multiple, then closely spaced, tuned in unison or octaves and intended to be played together.
- (sports) The trajectory of a ball, frisbee etc.
- education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings
- part of a meal served at one time
- a line or route along which something travels or moves
- general line of orientation
- a mode of action
- facility consisting of a circumscribed area of land or water laid out for a sport
- a connected series of events or actions or developments
- (construction) a layer of masonry
- a body of students who are taught together
adv
verb
- (transitive) To run through or over.
- To run or flow (especially of liquids and more particularly blood).
- (transitive) To cause to chase after or pursue game.
- (transitive) To pursue by tracking or estimating the course taken by one's prey; to follow or chase after.
- move along, of liquids
- move swiftly through or over
- hunt with hounds
prefix
noun
- a metal pot for stewing or boiling; usually has a lid
- sealed vessel where water is converted to steam
- A steam boiler.
- A kitchen vessel for steaming, boiling or heating food.
- A device consisting of a heat source and a tank for storing hot water, typically for space heating, domestic hot water etc., disregarding the source of heat.
- A tough old chicken only suitable for cooking by boiling.
- A person who boils something.
- An apparatus for heating circulating water or other heat transferring liquid.
- A sunken reef, especially a coral reef, on which the sea breaks heavily.
- (UK, Australia, slang, derogatory) An old woman.
- (rare, informal) Boilerplate.
noun
- a metal pot for stewing or boiling; usually has a lid
- the quantity a kettle will hold
- (geology) a hollow (typically filled by a lake) that results from the melting of a mass of ice trapped in glacial deposits
- a large hemispherical brass or copper percussion instrument with a drumhead that can be tuned by adjusting the tension on it
- Alternative form of kiddle (“kind of fishweir”).
- (rail transport, slang) A steam locomotive.
- (military) A type of encirclement.
- A bucket for holding a quantity of paint during the painting process.
- (ornithology, collective) A group of raptors riding a thermal, especially when migrating.
- (cooking) A vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food, usually metal and equipped with a lid.
- An instance of kettling; a group of protesters or rioters confined in a limited area.
- (music) A kettledrum.
- The quantity held by a kettle.
- (slang) A watch (timepiece).
- (geology) A kettle hole, sometimes any pothole.
- (figurative) Ellipsis of kettle of fish.
- A vessel or appliance used to boil water for the preparation of hot beverages and other foodstuffs.
verb
verb
- (transitive, cooking) To fill with seasoning.
- (transitive, mildly vulgar, often imperative) Used to contemptuously dismiss or reject something. See also stuff it.
- (transitive) To load goods into (a container) for transport.
- (transitive, British, Australia, New Zealand) To break; to destroy.
- To preserve a dead bird or other animal by filling its skin.
- (transitive) To obstruct, as any of the organs; to affect with some obstruction in the organs of sense or respiration.
- (informal) To heavily defeat or get the better of.
- (transitive) To fill by packing or crowding something into; to cram with something; to load to excess.
- (transitive, computing) To compress (a file or files) in the StuffIt format, to be unstuffed later.
- (pronominal) To eat, especially in a hearty or greedy manner.
- (transitive) To cut off another competitor in a race by disturbing his projected and committed racing line (trajectory) by an abrupt manoeuvre.
- (transitive) To form or fashion by packing with the necessary material.
- (transitive) To fill a space with (something) in a compressed manner.
- (transitive, vulgar, British, Australia, New Zealand) To sexually penetrate.
- (transitive, used in the passive) To sate.
- treat with grease, fill, and prepare for mounting
- overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself
- press or force
- fill tightly with a material
- fill with a stuffing while cooking
- obstruct
- cram into a cavity
noun
- (informal) Unspecified things or matters.
- The tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object.
- (informal) Miscellaneous items or objects; (with possessive) personal effects.
- Abstract/figurative substance or character.
- (informal) Used as placeholder, usually for material of unknown type or name.
- (slang) Narcotic drugs, especially heroin.
- (nautical) A melted mass of turpentine, tallow, etc., with which the masts, sides, and bottom of a ship are smeared for lubrication.
- (sometimes euphemistic) Refuse or worthless matter; hence, also, foolish or irrational language.
- Paper stock ground ready for use. When partly ground, it is called half stuff.
- the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object
- unspecified qualities required to do or be something
- a critically important or characteristic component
- informal terms for personal possessions
- information in some unspecified form
- senseless talk
- miscellaneous unspecified objects
verb
noun
- A section of clothing covering the breast area.
- (anatomy) Either of the two organs on the front of a female human's chest, which contain the mammary glands; also the analogous organs in males.
- (anatomy) The chest, or front of the human thorax.
- (swimming) The breaststroke.
- The figurative seat of the emotions, feelings etc.; one’s heart or innermost thoughts.
- (mining) The face of a coal working.
- A choice cut of poultry, especially chicken or turkey, taken from the bird’s breast; also a cut of meat from other animals, breast of mutton, veal, pork.
- The front or forward part of anything.
- The upper surface of a landform or body of water.
- (mining) The front of a furnace.
- The ventral portion of an animal’s thorax.
- the front of the trunk from the neck to the abdomen
- the part of an animal's body that corresponds to a person's chest
- either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman
- meat carved from the breast of a fowl
verb
- To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and rolling, with noise.
- (intransitive) To flounder, wallow.
- (transitive) To trounce, beat by a wide margin.
- (transitive) To strike heavily, thrash soundly.
- To eat or drink with gusto.
- To move in a rolling, cumbersome manner; to waddle.
- (transitive) To wrap up temporarily.
- (intransitive) To rush hastily.
- (Internet) To send a message to all operators on an Internet Relay Chat server.
- defeat soundly and utterly
- strike hard
noun
- A person's ability to throw such punches.
- A heavy blow, a punch.
- A thrill, an emotionally excited reaction.
- (slang, uncountable) Anything produced by a process that involves boiling; beer, tea, or whitewash.
- (UK, Scotland, dialect) A quick rolling movement; a gallop.
- An emotional impact, a psychological force.
- a severe blow
- a forceful consequence; a strong effect
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- (Of a heated liquid) simmering strongly and about to boil.
- (colloquial) About to happen; imminent.
- (sports, rugby, colloquial) (Of a player taking a pass) running at full speed towards the opposition.
- (Of a heated liquid) boiling.
- (colloquial) continuing; active; in a state of activity or development.
- (sports, colloquial) Playing exceptionally well.
- (colloquial) Going smoothly; working well.
noun
- The act of cooking food by baking.
- (US) A social event at which food (such as seafood) is baked, or at which baked food is served.
- (especially UK, Australia, New Zealand) Any of various baked dishes resembling casserole.
- (Barbados, sometimes US and UK) A small, flat (or ball-shaped) cake of dough eaten mainly in Barbados, similar in appearance and ingredients to a pancake but fried (or sometimes roasted).
- Any food item that is baked, such as a pastry.
verb
- (intransitive, slang) To smoke marijuana.
- (intransitive) To be warmed to drying and hardening.
- (transitive) To dry by heat.
- (computer graphics, transitive) To fix (lighting, reflections, etc.) as part of the texture of an object to improve rendering performance.
- (transitive or intransitive or ditransitive, with person as subject) To cook (something) in an oven (for someone).
- (figurative, with "in" or "into") To incorporate into something greater.
- (transitive, figuratively) To cause to be hot.
- (intransitive, with baked thing as subject) To be cooked in an oven.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To be hot.
- be very hot, due to hot weather or exposure to the sun
- heat by a natural force
- prepare with dry heat in an oven
- cook and make edible by putting in a hot oven
verb
noun
- Light rain.
- (physics, weather) Very small, numerous, and uniformly dispersed water drops, mist, or sprinkle. Unlike fog droplets, drizzle falls to the ground.
- (baking) A cake onto which icing, honey or syrup has been drizzled in an artistic manner.
- (slang) Water.
- very light rain; stronger than mist but less than a shower
noun
verb
- (ambitransitive) To cook in boiling water.
- (transitive) To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation.
- (intransitive, of liquids) To be agitated like boiling water; to bubble; to effervesce.
- (intransitive, of liquids) To begin to turn into a gas, seethe.
- To be moved or excited with passion; to be hot or fervid.
- (intransitive, informal, used only in progressive tenses) To feel uncomfortably hot.
- (intransitive, informal, used only in progressive tenses, of weather) To be uncomfortably hot.
- (transitive, of liquids) To heat to the point where it begins to turn into a gas.
- (transitive, UK, informal) To bring to a boil, to heat so as to cause the contents to boil.
- bring to, or maintain at, the boiling point
- be agitated
- immerse or be immersed in a boiling liquid, often for cooking purposes
- come to the boiling point and change from a liquid to vapor
- be in an agitated emotional state
noun
- The point at which fluid begins to change to a vapour; the boiling point.
- A dish of boiled food, especially seafood.
- (US) A social event at which people gather to boil and eat food, especially seafood. (Compare a bake or clambake.)
- A localized accumulation of pus in the skin, resulting from infection.
- (rare, nonstandard) The collective noun for a group of hawks.
- An instance of boiling.
- the temperature at which a liquid boils at sea level
- a painful sore with a hard core filled with pus
noun
verb
- (transitive) To mark (sheep, etc.) with tar.
- (transitive) To sew with long or loose stitches, as for temporary use, or in preparation for gathering the fabric.
- (transitive) To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting.
- (transitive, by extension) To coat over something.
- cover with liquid before cooking
- strike violently and repeatedly
- sew together loosely, with large stitches
verb
noun
noun
- The method of cooking by immersion in steam.
- The action of steam on something.
- The raising of steam by a steam locomotive etc; the maintenance of a head of steam during operation; (metonymic) operation under load.
- (UK, informal) A form of robbery in which a large gang moves swiftly and violently through a bus or train.
- The act or process of seafaring under steam power.
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adv
verb
- cook until very little liquid is left
- be cooked until very little liquid is left
- be the essential element
- (transitive and intransitive) To reduce in volume by boiling.
- (intransitive) To become reduced (to the most central elements or ingredients: to the essence, core, or implication for action).
- (transitive) To reduce (to the most central elements or ingredients: to the essence, core, or implication for action).
verb
- cook until very little liquid is left
- make denser, stronger, or purer
- make central
- compress or concentrate
- be cooked until very little liquid is left
- make more concise
- direct one's attention on something
- draw together or meet in one common center
- (ergative) To bring to, or direct toward, a common center; to unite more closely; to gather into one body, mass, or force.
- (intransitive) To focus one's thought or attention (on).
- To approach or meet in a common center; to consolidate.
- To increase the strength and diminish the bulk of, as of a liquid or an ore; to intensify, by getting rid of useless material; to condense.
noun
adj
verb
- cook until very little liquid is left
- to remove oxygen from a compound, or cause to react with hydrogen or form a hydride, or to undergo an increase in the number of electrons
- lessen and make more modest
- be cooked until very little liquid is left
- reduce in size; reduce physically
- lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture
- reposition (a broken bone after surgery) back to its normal site
- reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
- be the essential element
- cut down on; make a reduction in
- make smaller
- lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation
- make less complex
- simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another
- narrow or limit
- undergo meiosis
- put down by force or intimidation
- bring to humbler or weaker state or condition
- destress and thus weaken a sound when pronouncing it
- take off weight
- (transitive) To bring to an inferior rank; to degrade, to demote.
- (intransitive) To lose weight.
- (transitive, Scots law) To annul by legal means.
- (transitive, military) To reform a line or column from (a square).
- (transitive) To be forced by circumstances (into something one considers unworthy).
- (transitive, metallurgy) To produce metal from ore by removing nonmetallic elements in a smelter.
- (transitive) To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower.
- (transitive, medicine) To perform a reduction; to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment.
- (transitive, law) To convert to written form. (Usage note: this verb almost always appears as "reduce to writing".)
- (transitive) To humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture.
- (transitive) To bring to an inferior state or condition.
- (transitive, computer science) To express the solution of a problem in terms of another (known) algorithm.
- (transitive, military) To strike off the payroll.
- (transitive, phonetics, phonology) To pronounce (a sound or word) with less effort.
- (transitive, mathematics) To simplify an equation or formula without changing its value.
- (transitive, chemistry) To add electrons / hydrogen or to remove oxygen.
- (transitive, cooking) To decrease the liquid content of (a food) by boiling much of its water off.
- (transitive, logic) To convert a syllogism to a clearer or simpler form.
noun
verb
- cook in a simmering liquid
- (business, ambitransitive) To entice (an employee or customer) to switch from a competing company to one's own.
- To make soft or muddy by trampling.
- (ambitransitive) To trespass on another's property to take fish or game.
- To become soft or muddy by being trampled on.
- (transitive) To cook (something) in simmering or very hot liquid (usually water; sometimes wine, broth, or otherwise).
- (by extension, ambitransitive) To take anything illegally or unfairly.
- (figurative) To intrude; to interfere; to get involved inappropriately, without welcome.
- (ambitransitive) To take game or fish illegally.
- (intransitive) To be cooked in such manner.
- hunt illegally
noun
- The act of cooking by steaming.
- (figuratively) Pent-up anger.
- Exhaled breath into cold air below the dew point of the exhalation.
- (figuratively) Internal energy for progress or motive power.
- (fencing) Fencing without the use of any electric equipment.
- Mist, fog.
- The hot gaseous form of water, formed when water changes from the liquid phase to the gas phase (at or above its boiling point temperature).
- Pressurized water vapour used for heating, cooking, or to provide mechanical energy.
- A steam-powered vehicle, referring to their use.
- Travel by means of a steam-powered vehicle.
- water at boiling temperature diffused in the atmosphere
verb
- cook something by letting steam pass over it
- (intransitive) To rise in vapour; to issue, or pass off, as vapour.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To become angry; to fume; to be incensed.
- (intransitive) To produce or vent steam.
- (transitive) To expose to the action of steam; to apply steam to for softening, dressing, or preparing.
- (transitive, cooking) To cook with steam.
- (figuratively or literally) To move with great or excessive purposefulness.
- (intransitive) To travel by means of steam power.
- (transitive, figuratively) To make angry.
- (intransitive, literal, figurative) To be cooked with steam.
- (transitive) To raise steam, e.g. in a steam locomotive.
- (transitive) To cover with condensed water vapor.
- emit steam
- get very agitated or angry
- clean by means of steaming
- travel by means of steam power
- rise as vapor
adj
noun
- cooking in a liquid that has been brought to a boil
- the application of heat to change something from a liquid to a gas
- (uncountable, countable) The process of changing the state of a substance from liquid to gas by heating it to its boiling point.
- (countable, figurative) A turmoil; a disturbance like that of bubbling water.
- (uncountable, countable) The cooking (of food) or cleaning (of an object) by immersing it in liquid (usually water) that is boiling.
- (uncountable, figurative) An animation style with constantly changing wavy outlines, giving a shimmering or wobbling appearance.
adv
adj
verb
noun
- Food, such as a stew, cooked in such a dish.
- (countable) A dish of glass or earthenware, with a lid, in which food is baked and sometimes served.
- (by extension) Any type of food that fills the high-walled dish or pan in which it was cooked.
- food cooked and served in a casserole
- large deep dish in which food can be cooked and served
verb
noun
noun
- (cooking) A stage of a meal.
- (masonry) A row of bricks or blocks.
- A racecourse.
- (roofing) A row of material that forms the roofing, waterproofing or flashing system.
- A programme, a chosen manner of proceeding.
- (textiles) In weft knitting, a single row of loops connecting the loops of the preceding and following rows.
- The succession of one to another in office or duty; order; turn.
- A normal or customary sequence.
- (golf) A golf course.
- The itinerary of a race.
- The path taken by a flow of water; a watercourse.
- (India, historical) The drive usually frequented by Europeans at an Indian station.
- A path that something or someone moves along.
- (UK, Ireland, Philippines) an educational programme at a college or university leading to an academic degree or vocational qualification.
- (especially in medicine) A treatment plan.
- (education) A learning programme
- a series of lectures or lessons in a particular subject
- (nautical) The direction of movement of a vessel at any given moment.
- (navigation) The intended passage of voyage, such as a boat, ship, airplane, spaceship, etc.
- Any ordered process or sequence of steps.
- A sequence of events.
- (nautical) The lowest square sail in a fully rigged mast, often named according to the mast.
- (music) One or more strings on some musical instruments (such as the guitar, lute or vihuela): if multiple, then closely spaced, tuned in unison or octaves and intended to be played together.
- (sports) The trajectory of a ball, frisbee etc.
- education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings
- part of a meal served at one time
- a line or route along which something travels or moves
- general line of orientation
- a mode of action
- facility consisting of a circumscribed area of land or water laid out for a sport
- a connected series of events or actions or developments
- (construction) a layer of masonry
- a body of students who are taught together
adv
verb
- (transitive) To run through or over.
- To run or flow (especially of liquids and more particularly blood).
- (transitive) To cause to chase after or pursue game.
- (transitive) To pursue by tracking or estimating the course taken by one's prey; to follow or chase after.
- move along, of liquids
- move swiftly through or over
- hunt with hounds
noun
- a metal pot for stewing or boiling; usually has a lid
- sealed vessel where water is converted to steam
- A steam boiler.
- A kitchen vessel for steaming, boiling or heating food.
- A device consisting of a heat source and a tank for storing hot water, typically for space heating, domestic hot water etc., disregarding the source of heat.
- A tough old chicken only suitable for cooking by boiling.
- A person who boils something.
- An apparatus for heating circulating water or other heat transferring liquid.
- A sunken reef, especially a coral reef, on which the sea breaks heavily.
- (UK, Australia, slang, derogatory) An old woman.
- (rare, informal) Boilerplate.
noun
- a metal pot for stewing or boiling; usually has a lid
- the quantity a kettle will hold
- (geology) a hollow (typically filled by a lake) that results from the melting of a mass of ice trapped in glacial deposits
- a large hemispherical brass or copper percussion instrument with a drumhead that can be tuned by adjusting the tension on it
- Alternative form of kiddle (“kind of fishweir”).
- (rail transport, slang) A steam locomotive.
- (military) A type of encirclement.
- A bucket for holding a quantity of paint during the painting process.
- (ornithology, collective) A group of raptors riding a thermal, especially when migrating.
- (cooking) A vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food, usually metal and equipped with a lid.
- An instance of kettling; a group of protesters or rioters confined in a limited area.
- (music) A kettledrum.
- The quantity held by a kettle.
- (slang) A watch (timepiece).
- (geology) A kettle hole, sometimes any pothole.
- (figurative) Ellipsis of kettle of fish.
- A vessel or appliance used to boil water for the preparation of hot beverages and other foodstuffs.
verb
noun
- The act of cooking food by baking.
- (US) A social event at which food (such as seafood) is baked, or at which baked food is served.
- (especially UK, Australia, New Zealand) Any of various baked dishes resembling casserole.
- (Barbados, sometimes US and UK) A small, flat (or ball-shaped) cake of dough eaten mainly in Barbados, similar in appearance and ingredients to a pancake but fried (or sometimes roasted).
- Any food item that is baked, such as a pastry.
verb
- (intransitive, slang) To smoke marijuana.
- (intransitive) To be warmed to drying and hardening.
- (transitive) To dry by heat.
- (computer graphics, transitive) To fix (lighting, reflections, etc.) as part of the texture of an object to improve rendering performance.
- (transitive or intransitive or ditransitive, with person as subject) To cook (something) in an oven (for someone).
- (figurative, with "in" or "into") To incorporate into something greater.
- (transitive, figuratively) To cause to be hot.
- (intransitive, with baked thing as subject) To be cooked in an oven.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To be hot.
- be very hot, due to hot weather or exposure to the sun
- heat by a natural force
- prepare with dry heat in an oven
- cook and make edible by putting in a hot oven
noun
noun
verb
- (transitive) To mark (sheep, etc.) with tar.
- (transitive) To sew with long or loose stitches, as for temporary use, or in preparation for gathering the fabric.
- (transitive) To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting.
- (transitive, by extension) To coat over something.
- cover with liquid before cooking
- strike violently and repeatedly
- sew together loosely, with large stitches
noun
- The method of cooking by immersion in steam.
- The action of steam on something.
- The raising of steam by a steam locomotive etc; the maintenance of a head of steam during operation; (metonymic) operation under load.
- (UK, informal) A form of robbery in which a large gang moves swiftly and violently through a bus or train.
- The act or process of seafaring under steam power.
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adv
verb
- (transitive) To stew in an earthenware jug etc.
- stew in an earthenware jug
- (slang) To acquire or obtain through force; snatch, steal; to rob, especially in reference to jugging (which see).
- (intransitive) To utter a sound like "jug", as certain birds do, especially the nightingale.
- (US, Jesuit schools, transitive) To issue a detention (to a student).
- (intransitive, of quails or partridges) To nestle or collect together in a covey.
- (transitive, slang) To put into jail.
- (slang) To hustle or make money, usually aggressively.
- lock up or confine, in or as in a jail
noun
- A serving vessel or container, typically circular in cross-section and typically higher than it is wide, with a relatively small mouth or spout, an ear handle and often a stopper or top.
- (vulgar, slang, chiefly in the plural) A woman's breasts.
- (US, Jesuit schools, countable or uncountable) Detention (after-school student punishment).
- (CB radio slang, chiefly in the plural) A kind of large, high-powered vacuum tube.
- (Australia, New Zealand) An upright electric kettle.
- (climbing) A hold large enough for both hands
- (US, slang) The P-47 Thunderbolt fighter aircraft.
- (slang) Jail.
- The amount that a jug can hold.
- (UK, informal) A traditional dimpled glass with a handle, for serving a pint of beer.
- A small mixed breed of dog created by mating a Jack Russell terrier and a pug.
- the quantity contained in a jug
- a large bottle with a narrow mouth
noun
verb
- cook in a simmering liquid
- (business, ambitransitive) To entice (an employee or customer) to switch from a competing company to one's own.
- To make soft or muddy by trampling.
- (ambitransitive) To trespass on another's property to take fish or game.
- To become soft or muddy by being trampled on.
- (transitive) To cook (something) in simmering or very hot liquid (usually water; sometimes wine, broth, or otherwise).
- (by extension, ambitransitive) To take anything illegally or unfairly.
- (figurative) To intrude; to interfere; to get involved inappropriately, without welcome.
- (ambitransitive) To take game or fish illegally.
- (intransitive) To be cooked in such manner.
- hunt illegally
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noun
verb
noun
- A burn, or injury to the skin or flesh, by hot liquid or steam.
- Alternative form of skald.
- (Appalachia) Poor or bad land.
- A paste, made by mixing flour with hot or boiling water (causing starches in it to gelatinize and hold more water) and allowing that mixture to sit and cool, which is added to bread dough to produce a softer bread that takes longer to stale.
- a burn cause by hot liquid or steam
- the act of burning with steam or hot water
noun
- The act of cooking by steaming.
- (figuratively) Pent-up anger.
- Exhaled breath into cold air below the dew point of the exhalation.
- (figuratively) Internal energy for progress or motive power.
- (fencing) Fencing without the use of any electric equipment.
- Mist, fog.
- The hot gaseous form of water, formed when water changes from the liquid phase to the gas phase (at or above its boiling point temperature).
- Pressurized water vapour used for heating, cooking, or to provide mechanical energy.
- A steam-powered vehicle, referring to their use.
- Travel by means of a steam-powered vehicle.
- water at boiling temperature diffused in the atmosphere
verb
- cook something by letting steam pass over it
- (intransitive) To rise in vapour; to issue, or pass off, as vapour.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To become angry; to fume; to be incensed.
- (intransitive) To produce or vent steam.
- (transitive) To expose to the action of steam; to apply steam to for softening, dressing, or preparing.
- (transitive, cooking) To cook with steam.
- (figuratively or literally) To move with great or excessive purposefulness.
- (intransitive) To travel by means of steam power.
- (transitive, figuratively) To make angry.
- (intransitive, literal, figurative) To be cooked with steam.
- (transitive) To raise steam, e.g. in a steam locomotive.
- (transitive) To cover with condensed water vapor.
- emit steam
- get very agitated or angry
- clean by means of steaming
- travel by means of steam power
- rise as vapor
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- (transitive, cooking) To fill with seasoning.
- (transitive, mildly vulgar, often imperative) Used to contemptuously dismiss or reject something. See also stuff it.
- (transitive) To load goods into (a container) for transport.
- (transitive, British, Australia, New Zealand) To break; to destroy.
- To preserve a dead bird or other animal by filling its skin.
- (transitive) To obstruct, as any of the organs; to affect with some obstruction in the organs of sense or respiration.
- (informal) To heavily defeat or get the better of.
- (transitive) To fill by packing or crowding something into; to cram with something; to load to excess.
- (transitive, computing) To compress (a file or files) in the StuffIt format, to be unstuffed later.
- (pronominal) To eat, especially in a hearty or greedy manner.
- (transitive) To cut off another competitor in a race by disturbing his projected and committed racing line (trajectory) by an abrupt manoeuvre.
- (transitive) To form or fashion by packing with the necessary material.
- (transitive) To fill a space with (something) in a compressed manner.
- (transitive, vulgar, British, Australia, New Zealand) To sexually penetrate.
- (transitive, used in the passive) To sate.
- treat with grease, fill, and prepare for mounting
- overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself
- press or force
- fill tightly with a material
- fill with a stuffing while cooking
- obstruct
- cram into a cavity
noun
- (informal) Unspecified things or matters.
- The tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object.
- (informal) Miscellaneous items or objects; (with possessive) personal effects.
- Abstract/figurative substance or character.
- (informal) Used as placeholder, usually for material of unknown type or name.
- (slang) Narcotic drugs, especially heroin.
- (nautical) A melted mass of turpentine, tallow, etc., with which the masts, sides, and bottom of a ship are smeared for lubrication.
- (sometimes euphemistic) Refuse or worthless matter; hence, also, foolish or irrational language.
- Paper stock ground ready for use. When partly ground, it is called half stuff.
- the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object
- unspecified qualities required to do or be something
- a critically important or characteristic component
- informal terms for personal possessions
- information in some unspecified form
- senseless talk
- miscellaneous unspecified objects
verb
noun
- A section of clothing covering the breast area.
- (anatomy) Either of the two organs on the front of a female human's chest, which contain the mammary glands; also the analogous organs in males.
- (anatomy) The chest, or front of the human thorax.
- (swimming) The breaststroke.
- The figurative seat of the emotions, feelings etc.; one’s heart or innermost thoughts.
- (mining) The face of a coal working.
- A choice cut of poultry, especially chicken or turkey, taken from the bird’s breast; also a cut of meat from other animals, breast of mutton, veal, pork.
- The front or forward part of anything.
- The upper surface of a landform or body of water.
- (mining) The front of a furnace.
- The ventral portion of an animal’s thorax.
- the front of the trunk from the neck to the abdomen
- the part of an animal's body that corresponds to a person's chest
- either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman
- meat carved from the breast of a fowl
verb
- To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and rolling, with noise.
- (intransitive) To flounder, wallow.
- (transitive) To trounce, beat by a wide margin.
- (transitive) To strike heavily, thrash soundly.
- To eat or drink with gusto.
- To move in a rolling, cumbersome manner; to waddle.
- (transitive) To wrap up temporarily.
- (intransitive) To rush hastily.
- (Internet) To send a message to all operators on an Internet Relay Chat server.
- defeat soundly and utterly
- strike hard
noun
- A person's ability to throw such punches.
- A heavy blow, a punch.
- A thrill, an emotionally excited reaction.
- (slang, uncountable) Anything produced by a process that involves boiling; beer, tea, or whitewash.
- (UK, Scotland, dialect) A quick rolling movement; a gallop.
- An emotional impact, a psychological force.
- a severe blow
- a forceful consequence; a strong effect
verb
noun
- Light rain.
- (physics, weather) Very small, numerous, and uniformly dispersed water drops, mist, or sprinkle. Unlike fog droplets, drizzle falls to the ground.
- (baking) A cake onto which icing, honey or syrup has been drizzled in an artistic manner.
- (slang) Water.
- very light rain; stronger than mist but less than a shower
verb
- (ambitransitive) To cook in boiling water.
- (transitive) To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation.
- (intransitive, of liquids) To be agitated like boiling water; to bubble; to effervesce.
- (intransitive, of liquids) To begin to turn into a gas, seethe.
- To be moved or excited with passion; to be hot or fervid.
- (intransitive, informal, used only in progressive tenses) To feel uncomfortably hot.
- (intransitive, informal, used only in progressive tenses, of weather) To be uncomfortably hot.
- (transitive, of liquids) To heat to the point where it begins to turn into a gas.
- (transitive, UK, informal) To bring to a boil, to heat so as to cause the contents to boil.
- bring to, or maintain at, the boiling point
- be agitated
- immerse or be immersed in a boiling liquid, often for cooking purposes
- come to the boiling point and change from a liquid to vapor
- be in an agitated emotional state
noun
- The point at which fluid begins to change to a vapour; the boiling point.
- A dish of boiled food, especially seafood.
- (US) A social event at which people gather to boil and eat food, especially seafood. (Compare a bake or clambake.)
- A localized accumulation of pus in the skin, resulting from infection.
- (rare, nonstandard) The collective noun for a group of hawks.
- An instance of boiling.
- the temperature at which a liquid boils at sea level
- a painful sore with a hard core filled with pus
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noun
verb
- cook until very little liquid is left
- be cooked until very little liquid is left
- be the essential element
- (transitive and intransitive) To reduce in volume by boiling.
- (intransitive) To become reduced (to the most central elements or ingredients: to the essence, core, or implication for action).
- (transitive) To reduce (to the most central elements or ingredients: to the essence, core, or implication for action).
verb
- cook until very little liquid is left
- make denser, stronger, or purer
- make central
- compress or concentrate
- be cooked until very little liquid is left
- make more concise
- direct one's attention on something
- draw together or meet in one common center
- (ergative) To bring to, or direct toward, a common center; to unite more closely; to gather into one body, mass, or force.
- (intransitive) To focus one's thought or attention (on).
- To approach or meet in a common center; to consolidate.
- To increase the strength and diminish the bulk of, as of a liquid or an ore; to intensify, by getting rid of useless material; to condense.
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adj
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- cook until very little liquid is left
- to remove oxygen from a compound, or cause to react with hydrogen or form a hydride, or to undergo an increase in the number of electrons
- lessen and make more modest
- be cooked until very little liquid is left
- reduce in size; reduce physically
- lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture
- reposition (a broken bone after surgery) back to its normal site
- reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
- be the essential element
- cut down on; make a reduction in
- make smaller
- lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation
- make less complex
- simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another
- narrow or limit
- undergo meiosis
- put down by force or intimidation
- bring to humbler or weaker state or condition
- destress and thus weaken a sound when pronouncing it
- take off weight
- (transitive) To bring to an inferior rank; to degrade, to demote.
- (intransitive) To lose weight.
- (transitive, Scots law) To annul by legal means.
- (transitive, military) To reform a line or column from (a square).
- (transitive) To be forced by circumstances (into something one considers unworthy).
- (transitive, metallurgy) To produce metal from ore by removing nonmetallic elements in a smelter.
- (transitive) To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower.
- (transitive, medicine) To perform a reduction; to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment.
- (transitive, law) To convert to written form. (Usage note: this verb almost always appears as "reduce to writing".)
- (transitive) To humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture.
- (transitive) To bring to an inferior state or condition.
- (transitive, computer science) To express the solution of a problem in terms of another (known) algorithm.
- (transitive, military) To strike off the payroll.
- (transitive, phonetics, phonology) To pronounce (a sound or word) with less effort.
- (transitive, mathematics) To simplify an equation or formula without changing its value.
- (transitive, chemistry) To add electrons / hydrogen or to remove oxygen.
- (transitive, cooking) To decrease the liquid content of (a food) by boiling much of its water off.
- (transitive, logic) To convert a syllogism to a clearer or simpler form.
adj
- (cooking) Filled with a filling and seasoning.
- (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand) Broken, not functional; in trouble, in a situation from which one is unlikely to recover.
- (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, informal) Very tired.
- Full or packed (with some material or substance).
- (slang) Full after eating.
- filled with something
- crammed with food