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noun
- Initialism of sewage treatment plant.
- (electronics) Initialism of shielded twisted pair.
- (physics, chemistry) Initialism of standard temperature and pressure.
- (uncountable, slang) A hallucinogen (2,5-dimethoxy-4-methylamphetamine), chemically related to amphetamine but with LSD-like effects.
- (networking) Initialism of spanning tree protocol.
- (especially LGBTQ) Initialism of stand-to-pee.
- standard temperature and pressure
adj
name
noun
- A storage container for nuclear waste.
- A closed box in which the body of a dead person is placed for burial.
- A combination fence obstacle where the horse jumps a set of rails, strides downhill to a ditch, and then goes back uphill to another jump.
- (by extension) A deep ditch.
- The hollow crust or hoof of a horse's foot, below the coronet, in which is the coffin bone.
- (cartomancy) The eighth Lenormand card.
- box in which a corpse is buried or cremated
verb
noun
noun
name
phrase
verb
noun
noun
- a receptacle where waste can be discarded
- A place or receptacle for waste material.
- a worthless message
- food that is discarded (as from a kitchen)
- Food waste material of any kind.
- Nonsense; gibberish.
- Specifically, waste material destined not to be reclaimed through recycling, composting, etc.
- (computing) Allocated memory which is no longer in use but has not yet been deallocated.
- Something or someone worthless.
- Useless or disposable material; waste material of any kind.
- (sports, slang, Canada, US, attributive) An easy shot.
- (computing) Data that are misinterpreted as another kind of data.
adj
noun
name
- Initialism of International Bodyboarding Association.
- Initialism of International Bartenders Association.
- Initialism of International Bar Association.
- Initialism of Israel Broadcasting Authority.
- Initialism of International Boxing Association (amateur)
- Initialism of International Bryozoology Association.
- Initialism of International Basketball Association.
- Initialism of International Bank of Asia.
- Initialism of International Business Alliance.
- Initialism of Institute of Business Administration.
- Initialism of Iron Butt Association.
- Initialism of International Boxing Association (professional)
- Initialism of InfiniBand Architecture.
- Initialism of Independent Broadcasting Authority.
noun
- a receptacle for catching waste products for further use
- a net hung between ship and pier while loading a ship
- a sail set to catch wind spilled from a larger sail
- A trough to prevent waste in a paper-making machine.
- (nautical, now historical) A small sail sometimes set under the foot of another sail, to catch the wind that would pass under it.
- (now chiefly historical) A device in a candlestick to hold the ends of candles, so they can be burned all the way down.
noun
- A lead container used for radioactive waste.
- (US, slang) A Cadillac car.
- (figuratively, derogatory) An obese person.
- (figuratively, derogatory) A dirty or slovenly person.
- (uncountable) The edible meat of such an animal; pork.
- (specifically) A young swine, a piglet (contrasted with a hog, an adult swine).
- (US, military, slang) The general-purpose M60 machine gun, considered to be heavy and bulky.
- (US, slang) A Harley-Davidson motorcycle.
- (uncountable) A simple dice game in which players roll the dice as many times as they like, either accumulating a greater score or losing previous points gained.
- (countable and uncountable) An oblong block of cast metal (now only iron or lead).
- (Scotland) An earthenware pot or jar
- (engineering) A device for cleaning or inspecting the inside of an oil or gas pipeline, or for separating different substances within the pipeline. Named for the pig-like squealing noise made by their progress.
- (countable) Any of several mammalian species of the family Suidae, having cloven hooves, bristles and a snout adapted for digging; especially the domesticated animal Sus domesticus.
- (informal) A difficult problem.
- (slang) The victim of a pig butchering scam.
- (figuratively, derogatory) Someone who overeats or eats rapidly and noisily.
- (specifically) An earthenware vessel used as a hot-water bottle
- (derogatory, slang) A police officer.
- (figuratively, derogatory) A lecherous or sexist man.
- (uncountable) A light pinkish-red colour, like that of a pig (also called pig pink).
- The mold in which a block of metal is cast.
- uncomplimentary terms for a policeman
- a coarse obnoxious person
- a person regarded as greedy and pig-like
- domestic swine
- a crude block of metal (lead or iron) poured from a smelting furnace
- mold consisting of a bed of sand in which pig iron is cast
verb
- (intransitive) To huddle or lie together like pigs, in one bed.
- (intransitive) To live together in a crowded filthy manner.
- (intransitive) To greedily consume (especially food).
- (of swine) To give birth.
- (transitive, engineering) To clean (a pipeline) using a pig (the device).
- live like a pig, in squalor
- give birth to (piglets)
- eat greedily
noun
- (ecology) Initialism of Environmental Sample Processor.
- (financial services) Initialism of equity shelf program.
- (linguistics, education) Initialism of English for specific or special purposes.
- (Internet) Initialism of email service provider.
- (automotive) Initialism of electronic stability program.
- (by extension, video games) A cheat program that provides extra information that is not attainable during regular gameplay, such as player positions, equipment status, etc.
- (parapsychology) Abbreviation of extrasensory perception.
- (psychology) Abbreviation of emotional, spiritual, and psychological.
- apparent power to perceive things that are not present to the senses
noun
noun
- An atomic pile; an early form of nuclear reactor.
- a nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fission to generate energy
- A list or league
- Hair, especially when very fine or short; the fine underfur of certain animals. (Formerly countable, now treated as a collective singular.)
- A large stake, or piece of pointed timber, steel etc., driven into the earth or sea-bed for the support of a building, a pier, or other superstructure, or to form a cofferdam, etc.
- (informal) A group or list of related items up for consideration, especially in some kind of selection process.
- A mass of things heaped together; a heap.
- (historical, electrochemistry) A battery (simple device for converting chemical potential energy into usable electricity).
- A large building, or mass of buildings.
- A mass formed in layers.
- A bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be worked over into bars or other shapes by rolling or hammering at a welding heat; a fagot.
- A vertical series of alternate disks of two dissimilar metals (especially copper and zinc), laid up with disks of cloth or paper moistened with acid water between them, for producing a current of electricity; a voltaic pile, or galvanic pile.
- The raised hairs, loops or strands of a fabric; the nap of a cloth.
- A battery consisting of repeated units of alternating types of metal; voltaic pile.
- (usually in the plural) A hemorrhoid.
- (heraldry) One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.
- (slang) A large amount of money.
- A funeral pile; a pyre.
- (architecture, civil engineering) A beam, pole, or pillar, driven completely into the ground, usually as one of a group that constitutes a foundation.
- The head of an arrow or spear.
- fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs)
- the yarn (as in a rug or velvet or corduroy) that stands up from the weave
- a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure
- battery consisting of voltaic cells arranged in series; the earliest electric battery devised by Volta
- a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit)
- a collection of objects laid on top of each other
- (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent
verb
- (transitive) To add something to a great number.
- (transitive, often used with the preposition "up") To lay or throw into a pile or heap; to heap up; to collect into a mass; to accumulate
- (transitive) (of vehicles) To create a hold-up.
- (transitive) To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load.
- (transitive) To give a pile to; to make shaggy.
- (intransitive) To form a pile or heap.
- (transitive, military) To place (guns, muskets, etc.) together in threes so that they can stand upright, supporting each other.
- (transitive) To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.
- arrange in stacks
- press tightly together or cram
- place or lay as if in a pile
noun
- A device for burning refuse; an incinerator.
- (chemistry) A device that generates localized heat for experiments; a Bunsen burner.
- (slang) Alternative letter-case form of Burner (“participant in Burning Man”).
- (Internet, slang) Ellipsis of burner account.
- (slang) A pyrotechnic tear gas canister.
- (slang) Ellipsis of burner phone, a mobile phone used for only a short time and then thrown away so that the owner cannot be traced.
- Someone or something that burns.
- (slang) Ellipsis of coal burner (“a nonblack person, usually a woman, who has sexual relationships with black people, usually men”).
- (computing) An app that creates temporary phone numbers for a user.
- (slang) A gun.
- A device that burns fuel; e.g. a diesel engine; a hot-air balloon's propulsion system.
- An element on a kitchen stove that generates localized heat for cooking.
- (slang) An elaborate piece of graffiti.
- (computing) A device that records data or music to an optical disc, such as a CD-R or DVD-RW.
- an apparatus for burning fuel (or refuse)
- the heating elements of a stove or range on which pots and pans are placed for cooking
noun
- (physics) a system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive material from a reactor
- a policy of creating strategic alliances in order to check the expansion of a hostile power or ideology or to force it to negotiate peacefully
- the act of containing; keeping something from spreading
- (uncountable) The state of being contained.
- (countable) A physical system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive or other dangerous materials from a nuclear reactor or industrial plant.
- (countable, mathematics) An inclusion.
- (uncountable, countable) The state of containing.
- (uncountable, countable) A policy of checking the expansion of a hostile foreign power by creating alliances with other states; especially the foreign policy strategy of the United States in the early years of the Cold War.
noun
- Initialism of refuse-derived fuel.
- Initialism of Rwanda Defence Force.
- Initialism of radial distribution function.
- Initialism of reality distortion field, used for describing how exposure to a charismatic person can change people's behavior.
- Initialism of radio direction finding.
- Initialism of random dopant fluctuation, used in semiconductor process development. RDF is a significant cause of MOS Threshold Voltage variation in nanometer scale devices.
- Initialism of Resource Description Framework, used for conceptual modelling of information on the Web.
noun
- a nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fusion to generate energy
- (theoretically), a thermonuclear reactor that relies on the controlled fusion of light elements into heavier elements, with the attendant release of huge amounts of energy. In practice, satisfactory results have not yet been achieved.
noun
- (military) The inventory of nuclear material within a separation plant.
- (bridge) The holding back of a card that could win a trick in order to use it later.
- (slang) A robbery at gunpoint.
- (colloquial) A delay or wait.
- (in the plural) Women's stockings designed to be worn without suspenders.
- (Nigeria) A traffic jam.
noun
- the bodily process of discharging waste matter
- the murder of a competitor
- the act of removing or getting rid of something
- analysis of a problem into alternative possibilities followed by the systematic rejection of unacceptable alternatives
- the act of removing an unknown mathematical quantity by combining equations
- (biology) The act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories.
- (mathematics) The act of causing a quantity to disappear from an equation; especially, in the operation of deducing from several equations containing several unknown quantities a less number of equations containing a less number of unknown quantities.
- (television) The act of voting off or throwing off a contestant in a reality television competition.
- (accounting) The act of recording amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.
- The act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off.
- (logic) The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction.
- The act of excluding a losing contestant from a match, tournament, or other competition.
noun
- the bodily process of discharging waste matter
- the act of evacuating; leaving a place in an orderly fashion; especially for protection
- the act of removing the contents of something
- Voidance of any matter by the natural passages of the body or by an artificial opening; defecation; urination; also, a diminution of the fluids of an animal body by cathartics, venesection, or other means.
- Abolition; nullification.
- That which is evacuated or discharged; especially, a discharge by stool, urine or other natural means.
- The act of emptying, clearing of the contents, or discharging, including creating a vacuum.
- The act of evacuating; leaving a place in an orderly fashion, especially for safety.
- Withdrawal of troops or civils from a town, country, fortress, etc.
noun
- the bodily process of discharging waste matter
- waste matter (as urine or sweat but especially feces) discharged from the body
- Something excreted in that manner, especially urine or feces.
- The process of removing or ejecting material that has no further utility, especially from the body; the act of excreting.
noun
- a conduit to carry off smoke
- flat bladelike projection on the arm of an anchor
- organ pipe whose tone is produced by air passing across the sharp edge of a fissure or lip
- An enclosed passageway in which to direct a current of air or other gases along.
- In an organ flue pipe, the opening between the lower lip and the languet.
- A pipe or duct that carries gaseous combustion products away from the point of combustion (such as a furnace).
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- (US, specifically New England) A waste receptacle.
- (music) The part of a clarinet which connects the mouthpiece and upper joint, and resembles a barrel.
- Such a cask of a certain size, holding one-eighth of what a tun holds. (See a diagram comparing cask sizes.)
- The quantity which constitutes a full barrel: the volume or weight this represents varies by local law and custom.
- The ribs and belly of a horse or pony.
- (baseball) A statistic derived from launch angle and exit velocity of a ball hit in play.
- (biology) Any of the dark-staining regions in the somatosensory cortex of rodents, etc., where somatosensory inputs from the contralateral side of the body come in from the thalamus.
- A metallic tube, as of a gun, from which a projectile is discharged.
- (zoology) The hollow basal part of a feather.
- (television) A ceiling-mounted tube from which lights are suspended.
- (automotive) A venturi (in carburetion).
- (surfing) A wave that breaks with a hollow compartment.
- A solid drum, or a hollow cylinder or case
- (countable) A round (cylindrical) vessel, such as a cask, of greater length than breadth, and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with hoops, and having flat ends (heads). The word is sometimes applied to a similar cylindrical container made of metal, usually called a drum.
- the quantity that a barrel (of any size) will hold
- a bulging cylindrical shape; hollow with flat ends
- a cylindrical container that holds liquids
- any of various units of capacity
- a tube through which a bullet travels when a gun is fired
verb
- (intransitive) To move quickly or in an uncontrolled manner.
- (poker slang) To bet consecutively on multiple streets.
- (intransitive) To assume the shape of a barrel; specifically, of the image on a computer display, television, etc., to exhibit barrel distortion, where the sides bulge outwards.
- (transitive) To put or to pack in a barrel or barrels.
- put in barrels
noun
- The processing of spent fuel from a nuclear reactor into reusable materials.
- (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) The latter end of any given time, especially the latter part of the year; autumn; late autumn.
- (computing) That part of a hardware or software system that is farthest from the user; the internals rather than the user interface.
- (entertainment, etc.) Money paid on a contingent deferred basis, for example, as a proportion of the profits or revenue of a work.
- The rear, back, or unseen portion (of something).
- the side of an object that is opposite its front
adj
noun
- a slight surface cut (especially a notch that is made to keep a tally)
- A line drawn on the ground, as one used in playing hopscotch.
- A block for a wheel or other round object; a chock, wedge, prop, or other support, to prevent slipping.
- Scotch tape.
- Alternative form of Scotch (“whisky”).
- A surface cut or abrasion.
verb
- hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
- make a small cut or score into
- (transitive) To debunk or discredit an idea or rumor.
- (transitive, textile manufacturing) To beat yarn in order to break up slugs and align the threads.
- (transitive) To cut or score; to wound superficially.
- (transitive) To prevent (something) from being successful.
- (transitive, Australian rhyming slang) To rape.
- (transitive) To block a wheel or other round object.
- (transitive) To dress (stone) with a pick or pointed instrument.
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name
noun
- the federal government's program to locate and investigate and clean up the worst uncontrolled and abandoned toxic waste sites nationwide; administered by the Environmental Protection Agency
- (US) A large amount of money designated for environmental cleanup by the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) of 1980.
noun
- A non-functional rocket stage, used for configuration and integration tests.
- A guessing game played on grid paper; see Battleship (game).
- (science fiction, by extension) A starship of comparable role
- (military, nautical) A large capital warship displacing thousands to tens of thousands of tons, heavily armoured and armed with large-caliber guns; now obsolescent and replaced by smaller vessels with guided missiles.
- large and heavily armoured warship
noun
- Initialism of sewage treatment plant.
- (electronics) Initialism of shielded twisted pair.
- (physics, chemistry) Initialism of standard temperature and pressure.
- (uncountable, slang) A hallucinogen (2,5-dimethoxy-4-methylamphetamine), chemically related to amphetamine but with LSD-like effects.
- (networking) Initialism of spanning tree protocol.
- (especially LGBTQ) Initialism of stand-to-pee.
- standard temperature and pressure
adj
name
noun
- A storage container for nuclear waste.
- A closed box in which the body of a dead person is placed for burial.
- A combination fence obstacle where the horse jumps a set of rails, strides downhill to a ditch, and then goes back uphill to another jump.
- (by extension) A deep ditch.
- The hollow crust or hoof of a horse's foot, below the coronet, in which is the coffin bone.
- (cartomancy) The eighth Lenormand card.
- box in which a corpse is buried or cremated
verb
noun
noun
name
phrase
noun
- a receptacle where waste can be discarded
- A place or receptacle for waste material.
- a worthless message
- food that is discarded (as from a kitchen)
- Food waste material of any kind.
- Nonsense; gibberish.
- Specifically, waste material destined not to be reclaimed through recycling, composting, etc.
- (computing) Allocated memory which is no longer in use but has not yet been deallocated.
- Something or someone worthless.
- Useless or disposable material; waste material of any kind.
- (sports, slang, Canada, US, attributive) An easy shot.
- (computing) Data that are misinterpreted as another kind of data.
adj
noun
name
- Initialism of International Bodyboarding Association.
- Initialism of International Bartenders Association.
- Initialism of International Bar Association.
- Initialism of Israel Broadcasting Authority.
- Initialism of International Boxing Association (amateur)
- Initialism of International Bryozoology Association.
- Initialism of International Basketball Association.
- Initialism of International Bank of Asia.
- Initialism of International Business Alliance.
- Initialism of Institute of Business Administration.
- Initialism of Iron Butt Association.
- Initialism of International Boxing Association (professional)
- Initialism of InfiniBand Architecture.
- Initialism of Independent Broadcasting Authority.
noun
- a receptacle for catching waste products for further use
- a net hung between ship and pier while loading a ship
- a sail set to catch wind spilled from a larger sail
- A trough to prevent waste in a paper-making machine.
- (nautical, now historical) A small sail sometimes set under the foot of another sail, to catch the wind that would pass under it.
- (now chiefly historical) A device in a candlestick to hold the ends of candles, so they can be burned all the way down.
noun
- A lead container used for radioactive waste.
- (US, slang) A Cadillac car.
- (figuratively, derogatory) An obese person.
- (figuratively, derogatory) A dirty or slovenly person.
- (uncountable) The edible meat of such an animal; pork.
- (specifically) A young swine, a piglet (contrasted with a hog, an adult swine).
- (US, military, slang) The general-purpose M60 machine gun, considered to be heavy and bulky.
- (US, slang) A Harley-Davidson motorcycle.
- (uncountable) A simple dice game in which players roll the dice as many times as they like, either accumulating a greater score or losing previous points gained.
- (countable and uncountable) An oblong block of cast metal (now only iron or lead).
- (Scotland) An earthenware pot or jar
- (engineering) A device for cleaning or inspecting the inside of an oil or gas pipeline, or for separating different substances within the pipeline. Named for the pig-like squealing noise made by their progress.
- (countable) Any of several mammalian species of the family Suidae, having cloven hooves, bristles and a snout adapted for digging; especially the domesticated animal Sus domesticus.
- (informal) A difficult problem.
- (slang) The victim of a pig butchering scam.
- (figuratively, derogatory) Someone who overeats or eats rapidly and noisily.
- (specifically) An earthenware vessel used as a hot-water bottle
- (derogatory, slang) A police officer.
- (figuratively, derogatory) A lecherous or sexist man.
- (uncountable) A light pinkish-red colour, like that of a pig (also called pig pink).
- The mold in which a block of metal is cast.
- uncomplimentary terms for a policeman
- a coarse obnoxious person
- a person regarded as greedy and pig-like
- domestic swine
- a crude block of metal (lead or iron) poured from a smelting furnace
- mold consisting of a bed of sand in which pig iron is cast
verb
- (intransitive) To huddle or lie together like pigs, in one bed.
- (intransitive) To live together in a crowded filthy manner.
- (intransitive) To greedily consume (especially food).
- (of swine) To give birth.
- (transitive, engineering) To clean (a pipeline) using a pig (the device).
- live like a pig, in squalor
- give birth to (piglets)
- eat greedily
noun
- (ecology) Initialism of Environmental Sample Processor.
- (financial services) Initialism of equity shelf program.
- (linguistics, education) Initialism of English for specific or special purposes.
- (Internet) Initialism of email service provider.
- (automotive) Initialism of electronic stability program.
- (by extension, video games) A cheat program that provides extra information that is not attainable during regular gameplay, such as player positions, equipment status, etc.
- (parapsychology) Abbreviation of extrasensory perception.
- (psychology) Abbreviation of emotional, spiritual, and psychological.
- apparent power to perceive things that are not present to the senses
noun
noun
- An atomic pile; an early form of nuclear reactor.
- a nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fission to generate energy
- A list or league
- Hair, especially when very fine or short; the fine underfur of certain animals. (Formerly countable, now treated as a collective singular.)
- A large stake, or piece of pointed timber, steel etc., driven into the earth or sea-bed for the support of a building, a pier, or other superstructure, or to form a cofferdam, etc.
- (informal) A group or list of related items up for consideration, especially in some kind of selection process.
- A mass of things heaped together; a heap.
- (historical, electrochemistry) A battery (simple device for converting chemical potential energy into usable electricity).
- A large building, or mass of buildings.
- A mass formed in layers.
- A bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be worked over into bars or other shapes by rolling or hammering at a welding heat; a fagot.
- A vertical series of alternate disks of two dissimilar metals (especially copper and zinc), laid up with disks of cloth or paper moistened with acid water between them, for producing a current of electricity; a voltaic pile, or galvanic pile.
- The raised hairs, loops or strands of a fabric; the nap of a cloth.
- A battery consisting of repeated units of alternating types of metal; voltaic pile.
- (usually in the plural) A hemorrhoid.
- (heraldry) One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.
- (slang) A large amount of money.
- A funeral pile; a pyre.
- (architecture, civil engineering) A beam, pole, or pillar, driven completely into the ground, usually as one of a group that constitutes a foundation.
- The head of an arrow or spear.
- fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs)
- the yarn (as in a rug or velvet or corduroy) that stands up from the weave
- a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure
- battery consisting of voltaic cells arranged in series; the earliest electric battery devised by Volta
- a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit)
- a collection of objects laid on top of each other
- (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent
verb
- (transitive) To add something to a great number.
- (transitive, often used with the preposition "up") To lay or throw into a pile or heap; to heap up; to collect into a mass; to accumulate
- (transitive) (of vehicles) To create a hold-up.
- (transitive) To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load.
- (transitive) To give a pile to; to make shaggy.
- (intransitive) To form a pile or heap.
- (transitive, military) To place (guns, muskets, etc.) together in threes so that they can stand upright, supporting each other.
- (transitive) To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.
- arrange in stacks
- press tightly together or cram
- place or lay as if in a pile
noun
- A device for burning refuse; an incinerator.
- (chemistry) A device that generates localized heat for experiments; a Bunsen burner.
- (slang) Alternative letter-case form of Burner (“participant in Burning Man”).
- (Internet, slang) Ellipsis of burner account.
- (slang) A pyrotechnic tear gas canister.
- (slang) Ellipsis of burner phone, a mobile phone used for only a short time and then thrown away so that the owner cannot be traced.
- Someone or something that burns.
- (slang) Ellipsis of coal burner (“a nonblack person, usually a woman, who has sexual relationships with black people, usually men”).
- (computing) An app that creates temporary phone numbers for a user.
- (slang) A gun.
- A device that burns fuel; e.g. a diesel engine; a hot-air balloon's propulsion system.
- An element on a kitchen stove that generates localized heat for cooking.
- (slang) An elaborate piece of graffiti.
- (computing) A device that records data or music to an optical disc, such as a CD-R or DVD-RW.
- an apparatus for burning fuel (or refuse)
- the heating elements of a stove or range on which pots and pans are placed for cooking
noun
- (physics) a system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive material from a reactor
- a policy of creating strategic alliances in order to check the expansion of a hostile power or ideology or to force it to negotiate peacefully
- the act of containing; keeping something from spreading
- (uncountable) The state of being contained.
- (countable) A physical system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive or other dangerous materials from a nuclear reactor or industrial plant.
- (countable, mathematics) An inclusion.
- (uncountable, countable) The state of containing.
- (uncountable, countable) A policy of checking the expansion of a hostile foreign power by creating alliances with other states; especially the foreign policy strategy of the United States in the early years of the Cold War.
noun
- Initialism of refuse-derived fuel.
- Initialism of Rwanda Defence Force.
- Initialism of radial distribution function.
- Initialism of reality distortion field, used for describing how exposure to a charismatic person can change people's behavior.
- Initialism of radio direction finding.
- Initialism of random dopant fluctuation, used in semiconductor process development. RDF is a significant cause of MOS Threshold Voltage variation in nanometer scale devices.
- Initialism of Resource Description Framework, used for conceptual modelling of information on the Web.
noun
- a nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fusion to generate energy
- (theoretically), a thermonuclear reactor that relies on the controlled fusion of light elements into heavier elements, with the attendant release of huge amounts of energy. In practice, satisfactory results have not yet been achieved.
noun
- (military) The inventory of nuclear material within a separation plant.
- (bridge) The holding back of a card that could win a trick in order to use it later.
- (slang) A robbery at gunpoint.
- (colloquial) A delay or wait.
- (in the plural) Women's stockings designed to be worn without suspenders.
- (Nigeria) A traffic jam.
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- the bodily process of discharging waste matter
- the murder of a competitor
- the act of removing or getting rid of something
- analysis of a problem into alternative possibilities followed by the systematic rejection of unacceptable alternatives
- the act of removing an unknown mathematical quantity by combining equations
- (biology) The act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories.
- (mathematics) The act of causing a quantity to disappear from an equation; especially, in the operation of deducing from several equations containing several unknown quantities a less number of equations containing a less number of unknown quantities.
- (television) The act of voting off or throwing off a contestant in a reality television competition.
- (accounting) The act of recording amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.
- The act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off.
- (logic) The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction.
- The act of excluding a losing contestant from a match, tournament, or other competition.
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- the bodily process of discharging waste matter
- the act of evacuating; leaving a place in an orderly fashion; especially for protection
- the act of removing the contents of something
- Voidance of any matter by the natural passages of the body or by an artificial opening; defecation; urination; also, a diminution of the fluids of an animal body by cathartics, venesection, or other means.
- Abolition; nullification.
- That which is evacuated or discharged; especially, a discharge by stool, urine or other natural means.
- The act of emptying, clearing of the contents, or discharging, including creating a vacuum.
- The act of evacuating; leaving a place in an orderly fashion, especially for safety.
- Withdrawal of troops or civils from a town, country, fortress, etc.
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- the bodily process of discharging waste matter
- waste matter (as urine or sweat but especially feces) discharged from the body
- Something excreted in that manner, especially urine or feces.
- The process of removing or ejecting material that has no further utility, especially from the body; the act of excreting.
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- a conduit to carry off smoke
- flat bladelike projection on the arm of an anchor
- organ pipe whose tone is produced by air passing across the sharp edge of a fissure or lip
- An enclosed passageway in which to direct a current of air or other gases along.
- In an organ flue pipe, the opening between the lower lip and the languet.
- A pipe or duct that carries gaseous combustion products away from the point of combustion (such as a furnace).
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- (US, specifically New England) A waste receptacle.
- (music) The part of a clarinet which connects the mouthpiece and upper joint, and resembles a barrel.
- Such a cask of a certain size, holding one-eighth of what a tun holds. (See a diagram comparing cask sizes.)
- The quantity which constitutes a full barrel: the volume or weight this represents varies by local law and custom.
- The ribs and belly of a horse or pony.
- (baseball) A statistic derived from launch angle and exit velocity of a ball hit in play.
- (biology) Any of the dark-staining regions in the somatosensory cortex of rodents, etc., where somatosensory inputs from the contralateral side of the body come in from the thalamus.
- A metallic tube, as of a gun, from which a projectile is discharged.
- (zoology) The hollow basal part of a feather.
- (television) A ceiling-mounted tube from which lights are suspended.
- (automotive) A venturi (in carburetion).
- (surfing) A wave that breaks with a hollow compartment.
- A solid drum, or a hollow cylinder or case
- (countable) A round (cylindrical) vessel, such as a cask, of greater length than breadth, and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with hoops, and having flat ends (heads). The word is sometimes applied to a similar cylindrical container made of metal, usually called a drum.
- the quantity that a barrel (of any size) will hold
- a bulging cylindrical shape; hollow with flat ends
- a cylindrical container that holds liquids
- any of various units of capacity
- a tube through which a bullet travels when a gun is fired
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- (intransitive) To move quickly or in an uncontrolled manner.
- (poker slang) To bet consecutively on multiple streets.
- (intransitive) To assume the shape of a barrel; specifically, of the image on a computer display, television, etc., to exhibit barrel distortion, where the sides bulge outwards.
- (transitive) To put or to pack in a barrel or barrels.
- put in barrels
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- The processing of spent fuel from a nuclear reactor into reusable materials.
- (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) The latter end of any given time, especially the latter part of the year; autumn; late autumn.
- (computing) That part of a hardware or software system that is farthest from the user; the internals rather than the user interface.
- (entertainment, etc.) Money paid on a contingent deferred basis, for example, as a proportion of the profits or revenue of a work.
- The rear, back, or unseen portion (of something).
- the side of an object that is opposite its front
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- the federal government's program to locate and investigate and clean up the worst uncontrolled and abandoned toxic waste sites nationwide; administered by the Environmental Protection Agency
- (US) A large amount of money designated for environmental cleanup by the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) of 1980.
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- A non-functional rocket stage, used for configuration and integration tests.
- A guessing game played on grid paper; see Battleship (game).
- (science fiction, by extension) A starship of comparable role
- (military, nautical) A large capital warship displacing thousands to tens of thousands of tons, heavily armoured and armed with large-caliber guns; now obsolescent and replaced by smaller vessels with guided missiles.
- large and heavily armoured warship
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- a slight surface cut (especially a notch that is made to keep a tally)
- A line drawn on the ground, as one used in playing hopscotch.
- A block for a wheel or other round object; a chock, wedge, prop, or other support, to prevent slipping.
- Scotch tape.
- Alternative form of Scotch (“whisky”).
- A surface cut or abrasion.
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- hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
- make a small cut or score into
- (transitive) To debunk or discredit an idea or rumor.
- (transitive, textile manufacturing) To beat yarn in order to break up slugs and align the threads.
- (transitive) To cut or score; to wound superficially.
- (transitive) To prevent (something) from being successful.
- (transitive, Australian rhyming slang) To rape.
- (transitive) To block a wheel or other round object.
- (transitive) To dress (stone) with a pick or pointed instrument.