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adj
noun
- washing something by allowing it to soak
- the process of becoming softened and saturated as a consequence of being immersed in water (or other liquid)
- (slang, British) A drunkard.
- An immersion in water etc.
- (slang) A carouse; a drinking session.
- (Australia) A low-lying depression that fills with water after rain.
verb
- make drunk (with alcoholic drinks)
- leave as a guarantee in return for money
- submerge in a liquid
- fill, soak, or imbue totally
- cover with liquid; pour liquid onto
- rip off; ask an unreasonable price
- beat severely
- heat a metal prior to working it
- become drunk or drink excessively
- (originally US slang, figurative, transitive) To overcharge or swindle out of a large amount of money.
- (transitive) To immerse in liquid to the point of saturation or thorough permeation.
- (figurative, transitive) To absorb; to drain.
- (transitive) (slang, boxing) To hit or strike.
- (metallurgy, transitive) To heat (a metal) before shaping it.
- (ceramics, transitive) To hold a kiln at a particular temperature for a given period of time.
- (intransitive) To penetrate or permeate by saturation.
- (transitive) To allow (especially a liquid) to be absorbed; to take in, receive. (usually + up)
- (slang, chiefly Mormonism) To engage in penetrative sex without hip thrusting.
- (intransitive) To be saturated with liquid by being immersed in it.
noun
- washing something by allowing it to soak
- the act of making something completely wet
- the process of becoming softened and saturated as a consequence of being immersed in water (or other liquid)
- The practice of inserting a penis into a vagina and remaining stationary, without thrusting, supposedly used by some conservative Christians in lieu of traditional sexual intercourse.
- Immersion in water; a drenching or dunking.
adv
adj
verb
noun
- Any bath sponge; a sponge on a handle.
- Any of several tropical vines of the genus Luffa, having almost cylindrical fruit with a spongy, fibrous interior; the dishcloth gourd.
- The dried fibrous interior of such a plant, used as a sponge for bathing.
- the loofah climber that has cylindrical fruit
- the dried fibrous part of the fruit of a plant of the genus Luffa; used as a washing sponge or strainer
verb
verb
- To drench or fill with water.
- (figurative) To overwhelm; to make too busy, or overrun the capacity of.
- (figurative) To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.
- (Appalachia) To clear (a road or an area) of brush, particularly so as to create a path for loggers to be able to access trees.
- drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged
- fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid
noun
- An area of wet (water-saturated), spongy (soft) land, often with trees, generally a rich ecosystem for certain plants and animals but ill-suited for many agricultural purposes. (A type of wetland. Compare marsh, bog, fen.)
- (figurative) A place or situation that is foul or where progress is difficult.
- (US, politics) The alleged corruption, cronyism, inefficiency, and entrenched interests in the federal government, especially in Washington, DC.
- a situation fraught with difficulties and imponderables
- low land that is seasonally flooded; has more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog
verb
- cover with liquid, usually water
- supply with an excess of
- fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid
- become filled to overflowing
- To overflow, as by water from excessive rainfall.
- (figuratively) To provide (someone or something) with a larger number or quantity of something than can easily be dealt with.
- To cover or partly fill as if by a flood.
- (Internet, ambitransitive) To paste numerous lines of text to (a chat system) in order to disrupt the conversation.
- To bleed profusely, as after childbirth.
noun
- the act of flooding; filling to overflowing
- the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land
- the occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide)
- a large flow
- light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography
- an overwhelming number or amount
- (figuratively) A large number or quantity of anything appearing more rapidly than can easily be dealt with.
- The flowing in of the tide, opposed to the ebb.
- An overflow of a large amount of water (usually disastrous) from a lake or other body of water due to excessive rainfall or other input of water.
- Menstrual discharge; menses.
- A floodlight.
verb
- To drip or be wet with some liquid.
- (by extension, figuratively) To impart (information, etc.) in small quantities; to infuse.
- Followed by off or out: to expel (a volatile substance) from something by distillation.
- To extract the essence of (something) by, or as if by, distillation; to concentrate, to purify.
- To turn into a vapour and then condense back into a liquid; to undergo or be produced by distillation.
- (machine learning) To transform a complex large language model into a smaller one.
- To transform a thing (into something else) by distillation.
- To flow or pass gently or slowly; hence (figuratively) to be manifested gently or gradually.
- To exude (a liquid) in small drops; also, to give off (a vapour) which condenses in small drops.
- To heat (a substance, usually a liquid) so that a vapour is produced, and then to cool the vapour so that it condenses back into a liquid, either to purify the original substance or to obtain one of its components; to subject to distillation.
- To fall or trickle down in small drops; to exude, to ooze out; also, to come out as a vapour which condenses in small drops.
- (also figuratively) To make (something, especially spirits such as gin and whisky) by distillation.
- remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation
- undergo the process of distillation
- extract by the process of distillation
- give off (a liquid)
- undergo condensation; change from a gaseous to a liquid state and fall in drops
adj
- (comparable) Soaked or drenched with moisture.
- (chemistry) Having all available valence bonds filled; especially of any organic compound containing only single bonds between carbon atoms.
- (mathematics, especially topology, with respect to a function f) Saturated with respect to the equivalence relation x≡y⟺f(x)=f(y) (the kernel, noun sense 10, of f).
- (mathematics, set theory, of a set S, with respect to an equivalence relation ≡) Equal to a union of equivalence classes of ≡; such that if x∈S and x≡y then y∈S.
- (not comparable) Full; unable to hold or contain any more.
- Having a high level of saturation (in various senses).
- (not comparable, chemistry, of a solution) Containing all the solute that can normally be dissolved at a given temperature.
- (computing) Conforming to saturation arithmetic.
- used especially of organic compounds; having all available valence bonds filled
- (of color) being chromatically pure; not diluted with white or grey or black
- being the most concentrated solution possible at a given temperature; unable to dissolve still more of a substance
verb
verb
- To clean, soak up, or dab with a sponge.
- soak up with a sponge
- To wipe out with a sponge, as letters or writing; to efface; to destroy all trace of.
- (transitive, intransitive with on or upon) To get by imposition; to scrounge.
- (intransitive, baking) To be converted, as dough, into a light, spongy mass by the agency of yeast or leaven.
- To suck in, or imbibe, like a sponge.
- (intransitive, slang) To take advantage of the kindness of others.
- (transitive) To deprive (somebody) of something by imposition.
- (marine biology, of dolphins) To use a piece of wild sponge as a tool when foraging for food.
- erase with a sponge; as of words on a blackboard
- ask for and get free; be a parasite
- gather sponges, in the ocean
- wipe with a sponge, so as to clean or moisten
noun
- (informal) A heavy drinker.
- (countable, uncountable) A type of light cake.
- (countable) Any of various marine invertebrates of the phylum Porifera, that have a porous skeleton often of silica.
- (countable) A piece of porous material used for washing (originally made from the invertebrates, now often made of plastic).
- Iron from the puddling furnace, in a pasty condition.
- (uncountable) The porous material that synthetic washing sponges are made of.
- (countable) A form of contraception that is inserted vaginally; a contraceptive sponge.
- (slang) A nuclear power plant worker routinely exposed to radiation.
- A person who readily absorbs ideas.
- (slang) A person who takes advantage of the generosity of others (abstractly imagined to absorb or soak up the money or efforts of others like a sponge).
- Iron ore, in masses, reduced but not melted or worked.
- (countable, uncountable, British) A type of steamed pudding.
- A mop for cleaning the bore of a cannon after a discharge. It consists of a cylinder of wood, covered with sheepskin with the wool on, or cloth with a heavy looped nap, and having a handle, or staff.
- The extremity, or point, of a horseshoe, corresponding to the heel.
- (baking) Dough before it is kneaded and formed into loaves, and after it is converted into a light, spongy mass by the agency of the yeast or leaven.
- a follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage
- primitive multicellular marine animal whose porous body is supported by a fibrous skeletal framework; usually occurs in sessile colonies
- a porous mass of interlacing fibers that forms the internal skeleton of various marine animals and usable to absorb water or any porous rubber or cellulose product similarly used
- someone able to acquire new knowledge and skills rapidly and easily
noun
verb
adj
noun
adj
- covered or soaked with a liquid such as water
- consisting of or trading in alcoholic liquor
- producing or secreting milk
- very drunk
- supporting or permitting the legal production and sale of alcoholic beverages
- containing moisture or volatile components
- (poker slang) Of a board or flop: enabling the creation of many or of strong hands; e.g. containing connectors or suited cards. (Compare dry).
- (slang, euphemistic) Involving assassination or "wet work".
- (retronym) Permitting alcoholic beverages.
- Of a sound recording: having had audio effects applied.
- (biology, chemistry) Of a scientist or laboratory: working with biological or chemical matter.
- (aviation) Using afterburners or water injection for increased engine thrust.
- With a usual complement or consummation; potent.
- (chemistry) Employing, or done by means of, water or some other liquid.
- (slang) Of a person: inexperienced in a profession or task; having the characteristics of a rookie.
- Of calligraphy and fountain pens: depositing a large amount of ink from the nib or the feed.
- (British, slang) Ineffectual, feeble, showing no strength of character.
- Made up of liquid or moisture, usually (but not always) water.
- Of a burrito, sandwich, or other food: covered in a sauce.
- (slang, vulgar, of a female) Sexually aroused and thus having the vulva moistened with vaginal secretions.
- Of an object, etc.: covered or impregnated with liquid, usually (but not always) water.
- Of weather or a time period: rainy.
noun
- wetness caused by water
- Rainy weather.
- (colloquial, derogatory) A weak or sentimental person; a wimp or softie.
- (motor racing, in the plural) A tyre for use in wet weather.
- (colloquial) An alcoholic drink.
- Liquid or moisture.
- (Australia) Rainy season. (often capitalized)
- (US, colloquial) One who supports the consumption of alcohol and thus opposes Prohibition.
- (British, UK politics, derogatory) A moderate Conservative; especially, one who opposed the hard-line policies of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.
- Alternative form of wat (“stew or curry eaten in Ethiopia and Eritrea”).
verb
- cause to become wet
- make one's bed or clothes wet by urinating
- Misspelling of whet.
- (transitive) To make (oneself, clothing, a bed, etc.) wet by accidental urination.
- (transitive) To cover or impregnate with liquid.
- (transitive, informal) To celebrate by drinking alcohol.
- (transitive, intransitive) To make or become wet.
- (US, MLE, MTE, slang) To kill or seriously injure.
- (transitive, soldering) To form an intermetallic bond between a solder and a metal substrate.
adj
- (especially) Soft and wet.
- Making a squish sound.
- (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.
- easily squashed; resembling a sponge in having soft porous texture and compressibility
noun
noun
- a soaking and washing in a bathtub
- The body of liquid one bathes in.
- a vessel containing liquid in which something is immersed (as to process it or to maintain it at a constant temperature or to lubricate it)
- an ancient Hebrew liquid measure equal to about 10 gallons
- (real estate, informal) Clipping of bathroom.
- (by extension) A substance or preparation in which something is immersed.
- A building or area where bathing occurs.
- An act of immersing the body in a specified substance, especially for hygiene, pleasure, or wellness, or a facility for this: e.g. mud bath, steam bath.
- The act of bathing; an instance of this; the taking of a bath.
- (historical units of measure) A former Hebrew unit of liquid volume (about 23 L or 6 gallons).
- A tub or pool which is used for bathing: bathtub.
- Specifically, bathing by immersing the body in water, rather than through other means, or an instance of this.
verb
noun
- a basin for washing the hands
- (Christianity) A ritual involving the washing of one's hands at a church's offertory before handling the Eucharist.
- (architecture) A trough used for washing at some medieval monasteries.
- (humorous, euphemistic) A lavatory: a room used for urination and defecation.
- (Christianity) The small towel used to dry the priest's hands following the ritual.
- A washbasin, particularly (Christianity) the one in a church used in the ritual.
noun
- a basin for washing the hands
- a bathroom sink that is permanently installed and connected to a water supply and drainpipe; where you can wash your hands and face
- A basin used for washing, (now) particularly a permanently installed sink, fitted with a water supply and a drain, for washing the hands and face.
- A laundry sink or utility sink.
noun
- a basin for washing the hands
- A basin for washing the face and hands.
- a bathroom sink that is permanently installed and connected to a water supply and drainpipe; where you can wash your hands and face
- A sink in a bathroom, connected to a supply of water and a drain, in which one may wash one's face and hands.
adj
- Wet, soggy or soaked with water.
- Diluted or having too much water.
- (of light) Thin and pale therefore suggestive of water.
- Resembling or characteristic of water.
- Discharging water or similar substance as a result of disease etc.
- Weak and insipid.
- Containing many bodies of water.
- Tearful.
- overly diluted; thin and insipid
- wet with secreted or exuded moisture such as sweat or tears
- filled with water
- relating to or resembling or consisting of water
noun
- A liquid used for washing.
- (finance, slang) A fictitious kind of sale of stock or other securities between parties of one interest, or by a broker who is both buyer and seller, and who minds his own interest rather than that of his clients.
- The quantity of clothes washed at a time.
- A thin coat of paint or metal laid on anything for beauty or preservation.
- Ten strikes, or bushels, of oysters.
- A piece of ground washed by the action of water, or sometimes covered and sometimes left dry; the shallowest part of a river, or arm of the sea; also, a bog; a marsh.
- The turbulence left in the air by a moving airplane.
- A total failure; a washout.
- The backward current or disturbed water caused by the action of oars, or of a steamer's screw or paddles, etc.
- (stagecraft) A lighting fixture that can cast a wide beam of light to evenly fill an area with light, as opposed to a spotlight.
- (nautical) The blade of an oar.
- The bow wave or wake of a moving ship, or the vortex from its screws.
- A shallow body of water.
- Ground washed away to the sea or a river.
- The breaking of waves on the shore; the onwards rush of shallow water towards a beach.
- A mixture of dunder, molasses, water, and scummings, used in the West Indies for distillation.
- A lotion or other liquid with medicinal or hygienic properties.
- In distilling, the fermented wort before the spirit is extracted.
- (television) A lighting effect that fills a scene with a chosen colour.
- Waste liquid, the refuse of food, the collection from washed dishes, etc., from a kitchen, often used as food for pigs; pigwash.
- (idiomatic) A situation in which gains and losses or advantages and disadvantages are equivalent, or in which there is no net change.
- (architecture) The upper surface of a member or material when given a slope to shed water; hence, a structure or receptacle shaped so as to receive and carry off water.
- (art) A smooth and translucent painting created using a paintbrush holding a large amount of solvent and a small amount of paint.
- The process or an instance of washing or being washed by water or other liquid.
- In arid and semi-arid regions, the normally dry bed of an intermittent or ephemeral stream; an arroyo or wadi.
- a watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other
- a thin coat of water-base paint
- the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water)
- the erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water (as from a roadway)
- the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon)
- garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering
- any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out
- the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller
verb
- (intransitive) To bear without damage the operation of being washed; to be suitable for washing.
- (transitive) To cover with water or any liquid; to wet; to fall on and moisten.
- (transitive) To clean with water.
- (transitive) To cause dephosphorization of (molten pig iron) by adding substances containing iron oxide, and sometimes manganese oxide.
- (intransitive) To clean oneself with water.
- (transitive) To cover with a thin or watery coat of colour; to tint lightly and thinly.
- (intransitive) To move with a lapping or swashing sound; to lap or splash.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To be cogent, convincing; to withstand critique.
- (chemistry, transitive) To pass or extract (a gas or gaseous mixture) through or over a liquid for the purpose of purifying it, especially by removing soluble constituents.
- (mining) To separate valuable material (such as gold) from worthless material by the action of flowing water.
- (intransitive) To be eroded or carried away by the action of water.
- (mah-jong) To mix up tiles (before a new game) to make them random; to shuffle.
- (transitive) To carry away or erode by the force of water in motion.
- (transitive) To overlay with a thin coat of metal.
- move by or as if by water
- cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water
- separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals)
- to cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking
- remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap or some other cleaning agent
- cleanse (one's body) with soap and water
- wash by removing particles
- admit to testing or proof
- form by erosion
- apply a thin coating of paint, metal, etc., to
- make moist
- wash or flow against
- be capable of being washed
- clean with some chemical process
noun
verb
adj
noun
- the act of soaking thoroughly with a liquid
- chromatic purity: freedom from dilution with white and hence vivid in hue
- the process of totally saturating something with a substance
- a condition in which a quantity no longer responds to some external influence
- The flooding of a market with all of a product that can be sold.
- Chromatic purity; freedom from dilution with white.
- (telecommunications) The point at which the output of a linear device, such as a linear amplifier, deviates significantly from being a linear function of the input when the input signal is increased.
- (art) The intensity or vividness of a colour.
- (mathematics, set theory, topology, of a set S, with respect to an equivalence relation or function, countable) The smallest set containing S which is saturated with respect to the equivalence relation or function.
- (computing) A form of arithmetic in which all operations are limited to a fixed range of values. See Saturation arithmetic.
- (music) An effect on the sound of an electric guitar, used primarily in heavy metal music.
- The act of saturating or the process of being saturated.
- intense bombing of a military target with the aim of destroying it.
- (telecommunications) The condition at which a component of the system has reached its maximum traffic-handling capacity, i.e. one erlang per circuit.
- (chemistry) The state of an organic compound that has no double or triple bonds.
- (chemistry) The state of a saturated solution.
- (meteorology) The state of the atmosphere when it is saturated with water vapour; 100% humidity.
- (physics) The condition in which, after a sufficient increase in a causal force, no further increase in the resultant effect is possible; e.g. the state of a ferromagnetic material that cannot be further magnetized.
verb
noun
- the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land
- a heavy rain
- an overwhelming number or amount
- A great flood or rain.
- An overwhelming amount of something; anything that overwhelms or causes great destruction.
- (firefighting) A system for flooding or drenching a space, container, or area with water in an emergency to prevent or extinguish a fire.
verb
- fill or cover completely, usually with water
- sink below the surface; go under or as if under water
- cover completely or make imperceptible
- put under water
- (transitive, figurative) To drown or suppress.
- (transitive) To put into a liquid; to immerse; to plunge into and keep in.
- (intransitive) To sink out of sight.
- (transitive, figurative, often in the passive voice) To engulf or overwhelm.
- (transitive, often in the passive voice) To be below the surface of the sea, a lake, river, etc.
verb
- (transitive) To dab moisture away from.
- (intransitive) To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle.
- (transitive) To install or configure with pipes.
- (US, journalism, slang) To invent or embellish (a story).
- (transitive, computing, chiefly Unix) To directly feed (the output of one program) as input to another program, indicated by the pipe character (|) at the command line.
- (intransitive) Of a queen bee: to make a high-pitched sound during certain stages of development.
- (transitive, nautical) To order or signal by a note pattern on a boatswain's pipe.
- (intransitive) To shout loudly and at high pitch.
- (transitive, slang, of a man) To have sex with a woman.
- (transitive, figuratively) To lead or conduct as if by pipes, especially by wired transmission.
- (intransitive, metallurgy) Of a metal ingot: to become hollow in the process of solidifying.
- (transitive, cooking) To create or decorate with piping (icing).
- (transitive) To hit with a pipe.
- (transitive) To convey or transport (something) by means of pipes.
- (ambitransitive) To play (music) on a pipe instrument, such as a bagpipe or a flute.
- utter a shrill cry
- trim with piping
- transport by pipeline
- play on a pipe
noun
- A type of pasta similar to macaroni.
- (especially in informal contexts) A water pipe.
- (Canada, US, colloquial, historical) The distance travelled between two rest periods during which one could smoke a pipe.
- (computing, typography) The character |.
- (music) A tube used to produce sound in an organ; an organ pipe.
- (mining) An elongated or irregular body or vein of ore.
- (computing) A mechanism that enables one program to communicate with another by sending its output to the other as input.
- (Australia, colloquial, historical) An anonymous satire or essay, insulting and frequently libellous, written on a piece of paper which was rolled up and left somewhere public where it could be found and thus spread, to embarrass the author's enemies.
- (computing, slang) A data backbone, or broadband Internet access.
- (smoking) A hollow stem with a bowl at one end used for smoking, especially a tobacco pipe but also including various other forms such as a water pipe.
- (geology) A vertical conduit through the Earth's crust below a volcano through which magma has passed, often filled with volcanic breccia.
- The contents of such a vessel, as a liquid measure, sometimes set at 126 wine gallons; half a tun.
- Decorative edging stitched to the hems or seams of an object made of fabric (clothing, hats, curtains, pillows, etc.), often in a contrasting color; piping.
- (music) A wind instrument consisting of a tube, often lined with holes to allow for adjustment in pitch, sounded by blowing into the tube.
- (lacrosse) One of the goalposts of the goal.
- A high-pitched sound, especially of a bird.
- A tubular passageway in the human body such as a blood vessel or the windpipe.
- (slang) A man's penis.
- (slang) A telephone.
- A rigid tube that transports water, steam, or other fluid, as used in plumbing and numerous other applications.
- The key or sound of the voice.
- A large container for storing liquids or foodstuffs; now especially a vat or cask of cider or wine. (See a diagram comparing cask sizes.)
- the flues and stops on a pipe organ
- a long tube made of metal or plastic that is used to carry water or oil or gas etc.
- a tube with a small bowl at one end; used for smoking tobacco
- a hollow cylindrical shape
- a tubular wind instrument
adj
- Drenched or saturated with moisture or liquid.
- (usually followed by with or on) Elated or emboldened.
- (derogatory) Habitually or frequently in a state of intoxication.
- Intoxicated as a result of excessive alcohol consumption, usually by drinking alcoholic beverages.
- as if under the influence of alcohol
- stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol)
adv
noun
verb
adj
noun
- washing something by allowing it to soak
- the process of becoming softened and saturated as a consequence of being immersed in water (or other liquid)
- (slang, British) A drunkard.
- An immersion in water etc.
- (slang) A carouse; a drinking session.
- (Australia) A low-lying depression that fills with water after rain.
verb
- make drunk (with alcoholic drinks)
- leave as a guarantee in return for money
- submerge in a liquid
- fill, soak, or imbue totally
- cover with liquid; pour liquid onto
- rip off; ask an unreasonable price
- beat severely
- heat a metal prior to working it
- become drunk or drink excessively
- (originally US slang, figurative, transitive) To overcharge or swindle out of a large amount of money.
- (transitive) To immerse in liquid to the point of saturation or thorough permeation.
- (figurative, transitive) To absorb; to drain.
- (transitive) (slang, boxing) To hit or strike.
- (metallurgy, transitive) To heat (a metal) before shaping it.
- (ceramics, transitive) To hold a kiln at a particular temperature for a given period of time.
- (intransitive) To penetrate or permeate by saturation.
- (transitive) To allow (especially a liquid) to be absorbed; to take in, receive. (usually + up)
- (slang, chiefly Mormonism) To engage in penetrative sex without hip thrusting.
- (intransitive) To be saturated with liquid by being immersed in it.
noun
- washing something by allowing it to soak
- the act of making something completely wet
- the process of becoming softened and saturated as a consequence of being immersed in water (or other liquid)
- The practice of inserting a penis into a vagina and remaining stationary, without thrusting, supposedly used by some conservative Christians in lieu of traditional sexual intercourse.
- Immersion in water; a drenching or dunking.
adv
adj
verb
noun
- Any bath sponge; a sponge on a handle.
- Any of several tropical vines of the genus Luffa, having almost cylindrical fruit with a spongy, fibrous interior; the dishcloth gourd.
- The dried fibrous interior of such a plant, used as a sponge for bathing.
- the loofah climber that has cylindrical fruit
- the dried fibrous part of the fruit of a plant of the genus Luffa; used as a washing sponge or strainer
verb
noun
verb
noun
- a soaking and washing in a bathtub
- The body of liquid one bathes in.
- a vessel containing liquid in which something is immersed (as to process it or to maintain it at a constant temperature or to lubricate it)
- an ancient Hebrew liquid measure equal to about 10 gallons
- (real estate, informal) Clipping of bathroom.
- (by extension) A substance or preparation in which something is immersed.
- A building or area where bathing occurs.
- An act of immersing the body in a specified substance, especially for hygiene, pleasure, or wellness, or a facility for this: e.g. mud bath, steam bath.
- The act of bathing; an instance of this; the taking of a bath.
- (historical units of measure) A former Hebrew unit of liquid volume (about 23 L or 6 gallons).
- A tub or pool which is used for bathing: bathtub.
- Specifically, bathing by immersing the body in water, rather than through other means, or an instance of this.
verb
noun
- a basin for washing the hands
- (Christianity) A ritual involving the washing of one's hands at a church's offertory before handling the Eucharist.
- (architecture) A trough used for washing at some medieval monasteries.
- (humorous, euphemistic) A lavatory: a room used for urination and defecation.
- (Christianity) The small towel used to dry the priest's hands following the ritual.
- A washbasin, particularly (Christianity) the one in a church used in the ritual.
noun
- a basin for washing the hands
- a bathroom sink that is permanently installed and connected to a water supply and drainpipe; where you can wash your hands and face
- A basin used for washing, (now) particularly a permanently installed sink, fitted with a water supply and a drain, for washing the hands and face.
- A laundry sink or utility sink.
noun
- a basin for washing the hands
- A basin for washing the face and hands.
- a bathroom sink that is permanently installed and connected to a water supply and drainpipe; where you can wash your hands and face
- A sink in a bathroom, connected to a supply of water and a drain, in which one may wash one's face and hands.
noun
- A liquid used for washing.
- (finance, slang) A fictitious kind of sale of stock or other securities between parties of one interest, or by a broker who is both buyer and seller, and who minds his own interest rather than that of his clients.
- The quantity of clothes washed at a time.
- A thin coat of paint or metal laid on anything for beauty or preservation.
- Ten strikes, or bushels, of oysters.
- A piece of ground washed by the action of water, or sometimes covered and sometimes left dry; the shallowest part of a river, or arm of the sea; also, a bog; a marsh.
- The turbulence left in the air by a moving airplane.
- A total failure; a washout.
- The backward current or disturbed water caused by the action of oars, or of a steamer's screw or paddles, etc.
- (stagecraft) A lighting fixture that can cast a wide beam of light to evenly fill an area with light, as opposed to a spotlight.
- (nautical) The blade of an oar.
- The bow wave or wake of a moving ship, or the vortex from its screws.
- A shallow body of water.
- Ground washed away to the sea or a river.
- The breaking of waves on the shore; the onwards rush of shallow water towards a beach.
- A mixture of dunder, molasses, water, and scummings, used in the West Indies for distillation.
- A lotion or other liquid with medicinal or hygienic properties.
- In distilling, the fermented wort before the spirit is extracted.
- (television) A lighting effect that fills a scene with a chosen colour.
- Waste liquid, the refuse of food, the collection from washed dishes, etc., from a kitchen, often used as food for pigs; pigwash.
- (idiomatic) A situation in which gains and losses or advantages and disadvantages are equivalent, or in which there is no net change.
- (architecture) The upper surface of a member or material when given a slope to shed water; hence, a structure or receptacle shaped so as to receive and carry off water.
- (art) A smooth and translucent painting created using a paintbrush holding a large amount of solvent and a small amount of paint.
- The process or an instance of washing or being washed by water or other liquid.
- In arid and semi-arid regions, the normally dry bed of an intermittent or ephemeral stream; an arroyo or wadi.
- a watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other
- a thin coat of water-base paint
- the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water)
- the erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water (as from a roadway)
- the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon)
- garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering
- any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out
- the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller
verb
- (intransitive) To bear without damage the operation of being washed; to be suitable for washing.
- (transitive) To cover with water or any liquid; to wet; to fall on and moisten.
- (transitive) To clean with water.
- (transitive) To cause dephosphorization of (molten pig iron) by adding substances containing iron oxide, and sometimes manganese oxide.
- (intransitive) To clean oneself with water.
- (transitive) To cover with a thin or watery coat of colour; to tint lightly and thinly.
- (intransitive) To move with a lapping or swashing sound; to lap or splash.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To be cogent, convincing; to withstand critique.
- (chemistry, transitive) To pass or extract (a gas or gaseous mixture) through or over a liquid for the purpose of purifying it, especially by removing soluble constituents.
- (mining) To separate valuable material (such as gold) from worthless material by the action of flowing water.
- (intransitive) To be eroded or carried away by the action of water.
- (mah-jong) To mix up tiles (before a new game) to make them random; to shuffle.
- (transitive) To carry away or erode by the force of water in motion.
- (transitive) To overlay with a thin coat of metal.
- move by or as if by water
- cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water
- separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals)
- to cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking
- remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap or some other cleaning agent
- cleanse (one's body) with soap and water
- wash by removing particles
- admit to testing or proof
- form by erosion
- apply a thin coating of paint, metal, etc., to
- make moist
- wash or flow against
- be capable of being washed
- clean with some chemical process
noun
verb
adj
noun
- the act of soaking thoroughly with a liquid
- chromatic purity: freedom from dilution with white and hence vivid in hue
- the process of totally saturating something with a substance
- a condition in which a quantity no longer responds to some external influence
- The flooding of a market with all of a product that can be sold.
- Chromatic purity; freedom from dilution with white.
- (telecommunications) The point at which the output of a linear device, such as a linear amplifier, deviates significantly from being a linear function of the input when the input signal is increased.
- (art) The intensity or vividness of a colour.
- (mathematics, set theory, topology, of a set S, with respect to an equivalence relation or function, countable) The smallest set containing S which is saturated with respect to the equivalence relation or function.
- (computing) A form of arithmetic in which all operations are limited to a fixed range of values. See Saturation arithmetic.
- (music) An effect on the sound of an electric guitar, used primarily in heavy metal music.
- The act of saturating or the process of being saturated.
- intense bombing of a military target with the aim of destroying it.
- (telecommunications) The condition at which a component of the system has reached its maximum traffic-handling capacity, i.e. one erlang per circuit.
- (chemistry) The state of an organic compound that has no double or triple bonds.
- (chemistry) The state of a saturated solution.
- (meteorology) The state of the atmosphere when it is saturated with water vapour; 100% humidity.
- (physics) The condition in which, after a sufficient increase in a causal force, no further increase in the resultant effect is possible; e.g. the state of a ferromagnetic material that cannot be further magnetized.
verb
- To drench or fill with water.
- (figurative) To overwhelm; to make too busy, or overrun the capacity of.
- (figurative) To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.
- (Appalachia) To clear (a road or an area) of brush, particularly so as to create a path for loggers to be able to access trees.
- drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged
- fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid
noun
- An area of wet (water-saturated), spongy (soft) land, often with trees, generally a rich ecosystem for certain plants and animals but ill-suited for many agricultural purposes. (A type of wetland. Compare marsh, bog, fen.)
- (figurative) A place or situation that is foul or where progress is difficult.
- (US, politics) The alleged corruption, cronyism, inefficiency, and entrenched interests in the federal government, especially in Washington, DC.
- a situation fraught with difficulties and imponderables
- low land that is seasonally flooded; has more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog
verb
- cover with liquid, usually water
- supply with an excess of
- fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid
- become filled to overflowing
- To overflow, as by water from excessive rainfall.
- (figuratively) To provide (someone or something) with a larger number or quantity of something than can easily be dealt with.
- To cover or partly fill as if by a flood.
- (Internet, ambitransitive) To paste numerous lines of text to (a chat system) in order to disrupt the conversation.
- To bleed profusely, as after childbirth.
noun
- the act of flooding; filling to overflowing
- the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land
- the occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide)
- a large flow
- light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography
- an overwhelming number or amount
- (figuratively) A large number or quantity of anything appearing more rapidly than can easily be dealt with.
- The flowing in of the tide, opposed to the ebb.
- An overflow of a large amount of water (usually disastrous) from a lake or other body of water due to excessive rainfall or other input of water.
- Menstrual discharge; menses.
- A floodlight.
verb
- To drip or be wet with some liquid.
- (by extension, figuratively) To impart (information, etc.) in small quantities; to infuse.
- Followed by off or out: to expel (a volatile substance) from something by distillation.
- To extract the essence of (something) by, or as if by, distillation; to concentrate, to purify.
- To turn into a vapour and then condense back into a liquid; to undergo or be produced by distillation.
- (machine learning) To transform a complex large language model into a smaller one.
- To transform a thing (into something else) by distillation.
- To flow or pass gently or slowly; hence (figuratively) to be manifested gently or gradually.
- To exude (a liquid) in small drops; also, to give off (a vapour) which condenses in small drops.
- To heat (a substance, usually a liquid) so that a vapour is produced, and then to cool the vapour so that it condenses back into a liquid, either to purify the original substance or to obtain one of its components; to subject to distillation.
- To fall or trickle down in small drops; to exude, to ooze out; also, to come out as a vapour which condenses in small drops.
- (also figuratively) To make (something, especially spirits such as gin and whisky) by distillation.
- remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation
- undergo the process of distillation
- extract by the process of distillation
- give off (a liquid)
- undergo condensation; change from a gaseous to a liquid state and fall in drops
verb
- To clean, soak up, or dab with a sponge.
- soak up with a sponge
- To wipe out with a sponge, as letters or writing; to efface; to destroy all trace of.
- (transitive, intransitive with on or upon) To get by imposition; to scrounge.
- (intransitive, baking) To be converted, as dough, into a light, spongy mass by the agency of yeast or leaven.
- To suck in, or imbibe, like a sponge.
- (intransitive, slang) To take advantage of the kindness of others.
- (transitive) To deprive (somebody) of something by imposition.
- (marine biology, of dolphins) To use a piece of wild sponge as a tool when foraging for food.
- erase with a sponge; as of words on a blackboard
- ask for and get free; be a parasite
- gather sponges, in the ocean
- wipe with a sponge, so as to clean or moisten
noun
- (informal) A heavy drinker.
- (countable, uncountable) A type of light cake.
- (countable) Any of various marine invertebrates of the phylum Porifera, that have a porous skeleton often of silica.
- (countable) A piece of porous material used for washing (originally made from the invertebrates, now often made of plastic).
- Iron from the puddling furnace, in a pasty condition.
- (uncountable) The porous material that synthetic washing sponges are made of.
- (countable) A form of contraception that is inserted vaginally; a contraceptive sponge.
- (slang) A nuclear power plant worker routinely exposed to radiation.
- A person who readily absorbs ideas.
- (slang) A person who takes advantage of the generosity of others (abstractly imagined to absorb or soak up the money or efforts of others like a sponge).
- Iron ore, in masses, reduced but not melted or worked.
- (countable, uncountable, British) A type of steamed pudding.
- A mop for cleaning the bore of a cannon after a discharge. It consists of a cylinder of wood, covered with sheepskin with the wool on, or cloth with a heavy looped nap, and having a handle, or staff.
- The extremity, or point, of a horseshoe, corresponding to the heel.
- (baking) Dough before it is kneaded and formed into loaves, and after it is converted into a light, spongy mass by the agency of the yeast or leaven.
- a follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage
- primitive multicellular marine animal whose porous body is supported by a fibrous skeletal framework; usually occurs in sessile colonies
- a porous mass of interlacing fibers that forms the internal skeleton of various marine animals and usable to absorb water or any porous rubber or cellulose product similarly used
- someone able to acquire new knowledge and skills rapidly and easily
verb
noun
- the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land
- a heavy rain
- an overwhelming number or amount
- A great flood or rain.
- An overwhelming amount of something; anything that overwhelms or causes great destruction.
- (firefighting) A system for flooding or drenching a space, container, or area with water in an emergency to prevent or extinguish a fire.
verb
- fill or cover completely, usually with water
- sink below the surface; go under or as if under water
- cover completely or make imperceptible
- put under water
- (transitive, figurative) To drown or suppress.
- (transitive) To put into a liquid; to immerse; to plunge into and keep in.
- (intransitive) To sink out of sight.
- (transitive, figurative, often in the passive voice) To engulf or overwhelm.
- (transitive, often in the passive voice) To be below the surface of the sea, a lake, river, etc.
verb
- (transitive) To dab moisture away from.
- (intransitive) To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle.
- (transitive) To install or configure with pipes.
- (US, journalism, slang) To invent or embellish (a story).
- (transitive, computing, chiefly Unix) To directly feed (the output of one program) as input to another program, indicated by the pipe character (|) at the command line.
- (intransitive) Of a queen bee: to make a high-pitched sound during certain stages of development.
- (transitive, nautical) To order or signal by a note pattern on a boatswain's pipe.
- (intransitive) To shout loudly and at high pitch.
- (transitive, slang, of a man) To have sex with a woman.
- (transitive, figuratively) To lead or conduct as if by pipes, especially by wired transmission.
- (intransitive, metallurgy) Of a metal ingot: to become hollow in the process of solidifying.
- (transitive, cooking) To create or decorate with piping (icing).
- (transitive) To hit with a pipe.
- (transitive) To convey or transport (something) by means of pipes.
- (ambitransitive) To play (music) on a pipe instrument, such as a bagpipe or a flute.
- utter a shrill cry
- trim with piping
- transport by pipeline
- play on a pipe
noun
- A type of pasta similar to macaroni.
- (especially in informal contexts) A water pipe.
- (Canada, US, colloquial, historical) The distance travelled between two rest periods during which one could smoke a pipe.
- (computing, typography) The character |.
- (music) A tube used to produce sound in an organ; an organ pipe.
- (mining) An elongated or irregular body or vein of ore.
- (computing) A mechanism that enables one program to communicate with another by sending its output to the other as input.
- (Australia, colloquial, historical) An anonymous satire or essay, insulting and frequently libellous, written on a piece of paper which was rolled up and left somewhere public where it could be found and thus spread, to embarrass the author's enemies.
- (computing, slang) A data backbone, or broadband Internet access.
- (smoking) A hollow stem with a bowl at one end used for smoking, especially a tobacco pipe but also including various other forms such as a water pipe.
- (geology) A vertical conduit through the Earth's crust below a volcano through which magma has passed, often filled with volcanic breccia.
- The contents of such a vessel, as a liquid measure, sometimes set at 126 wine gallons; half a tun.
- Decorative edging stitched to the hems or seams of an object made of fabric (clothing, hats, curtains, pillows, etc.), often in a contrasting color; piping.
- (music) A wind instrument consisting of a tube, often lined with holes to allow for adjustment in pitch, sounded by blowing into the tube.
- (lacrosse) One of the goalposts of the goal.
- A high-pitched sound, especially of a bird.
- A tubular passageway in the human body such as a blood vessel or the windpipe.
- (slang) A man's penis.
- (slang) A telephone.
- A rigid tube that transports water, steam, or other fluid, as used in plumbing and numerous other applications.
- The key or sound of the voice.
- A large container for storing liquids or foodstuffs; now especially a vat or cask of cider or wine. (See a diagram comparing cask sizes.)
- the flues and stops on a pipe organ
- a long tube made of metal or plastic that is used to carry water or oil or gas etc.
- a tube with a small bowl at one end; used for smoking tobacco
- a hollow cylindrical shape
- a tubular wind instrument
noun
verb
adj
adj
adj
- (comparable) Soaked or drenched with moisture.
- (chemistry) Having all available valence bonds filled; especially of any organic compound containing only single bonds between carbon atoms.
- (mathematics, especially topology, with respect to a function f) Saturated with respect to the equivalence relation x≡y⟺f(x)=f(y) (the kernel, noun sense 10, of f).
- (mathematics, set theory, of a set S, with respect to an equivalence relation ≡) Equal to a union of equivalence classes of ≡; such that if x∈S and x≡y then y∈S.
- (not comparable) Full; unable to hold or contain any more.
- Having a high level of saturation (in various senses).
- (not comparable, chemistry, of a solution) Containing all the solute that can normally be dissolved at a given temperature.
- (computing) Conforming to saturation arithmetic.
- used especially of organic compounds; having all available valence bonds filled
- (of color) being chromatically pure; not diluted with white or grey or black
- being the most concentrated solution possible at a given temperature; unable to dissolve still more of a substance
verb
adj
noun
adj
- covered or soaked with a liquid such as water
- consisting of or trading in alcoholic liquor
- producing or secreting milk
- very drunk
- supporting or permitting the legal production and sale of alcoholic beverages
- containing moisture or volatile components
- (poker slang) Of a board or flop: enabling the creation of many or of strong hands; e.g. containing connectors or suited cards. (Compare dry).
- (slang, euphemistic) Involving assassination or "wet work".
- (retronym) Permitting alcoholic beverages.
- Of a sound recording: having had audio effects applied.
- (biology, chemistry) Of a scientist or laboratory: working with biological or chemical matter.
- (aviation) Using afterburners or water injection for increased engine thrust.
- With a usual complement or consummation; potent.
- (chemistry) Employing, or done by means of, water or some other liquid.
- (slang) Of a person: inexperienced in a profession or task; having the characteristics of a rookie.
- Of calligraphy and fountain pens: depositing a large amount of ink from the nib or the feed.
- (British, slang) Ineffectual, feeble, showing no strength of character.
- Made up of liquid or moisture, usually (but not always) water.
- Of a burrito, sandwich, or other food: covered in a sauce.
- (slang, vulgar, of a female) Sexually aroused and thus having the vulva moistened with vaginal secretions.
- Of an object, etc.: covered or impregnated with liquid, usually (but not always) water.
- Of weather or a time period: rainy.
noun
- wetness caused by water
- Rainy weather.
- (colloquial, derogatory) A weak or sentimental person; a wimp or softie.
- (motor racing, in the plural) A tyre for use in wet weather.
- (colloquial) An alcoholic drink.
- Liquid or moisture.
- (Australia) Rainy season. (often capitalized)
- (US, colloquial) One who supports the consumption of alcohol and thus opposes Prohibition.
- (British, UK politics, derogatory) A moderate Conservative; especially, one who opposed the hard-line policies of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.
- Alternative form of wat (“stew or curry eaten in Ethiopia and Eritrea”).
verb
- cause to become wet
- make one's bed or clothes wet by urinating
- Misspelling of whet.
- (transitive) To make (oneself, clothing, a bed, etc.) wet by accidental urination.
- (transitive) To cover or impregnate with liquid.
- (transitive, informal) To celebrate by drinking alcohol.
- (transitive, intransitive) To make or become wet.
- (US, MLE, MTE, slang) To kill or seriously injure.
- (transitive, soldering) To form an intermetallic bond between a solder and a metal substrate.
adj
- (especially) Soft and wet.
- Making a squish sound.
- (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.
- easily squashed; resembling a sponge in having soft porous texture and compressibility
noun
adj
- Wet, soggy or soaked with water.
- Diluted or having too much water.
- (of light) Thin and pale therefore suggestive of water.
- Resembling or characteristic of water.
- Discharging water or similar substance as a result of disease etc.
- Weak and insipid.
- Containing many bodies of water.
- Tearful.
- overly diluted; thin and insipid
- wet with secreted or exuded moisture such as sweat or tears
- filled with water
- relating to or resembling or consisting of water
adj
- Drenched or saturated with moisture or liquid.
- (usually followed by with or on) Elated or emboldened.
- (derogatory) Habitually or frequently in a state of intoxication.
- Intoxicated as a result of excessive alcohol consumption, usually by drinking alcoholic beverages.
- as if under the influence of alcohol
- stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol)