Mots en English pour 'fencing wire'
Vous trouverez ci-dessus des mots liés à "fencing wire". Placez le pointeur ou le focus sur un mot pour voir sa définition, puis ajustez la recherche si nécessaire.
Résultats de recherche
noun
noun
noun
- A fence made of usually barbed wire.
- (slang) A covert signal sent between people cheating in a card game.
- (journalism, informal) Clipping of wire service and/or newswire.
- (billiards) A wire strung with beads and hung horizontally above or near the table which is used to keep score.
- (sports) A finish line of a racetrack.
- (by extension) An electric telegraph; a telegram.
- (informal) A telecommunication wire or cable.
- (slang) A hidden listening device on the person of an undercover operative for the purposes of obtaining incriminating spoken evidence.
- (uncountable) Metal formed into a thin, even thread, now usually by being drawn through a hole in a steel die.
- A piece of such material; a thread or slender rod of metal, a cable.
- A metal conductor that carries electricity.
- (informal) A deadline or critical endpoint.
- (usually in the plural) Any of the system of wires used to operate the puppets in a puppet show; hence, the network of hidden influences controlling the action of a person or organization; strings.
- (Scotland) A knitting needle.
- The slender shaft of the plumage of certain birds.
- ligament made of metal and used to fasten things or make cages or fences etc
- a metal conductor that carries electricity over a distance
- a message transmitted by telegraph
- the finishing line on a racetrack
verb
- To fasten with wire, especially with reference to wine bottles, corks, or fencing.
- fasten with wire
- To string on a wire.
- (slang) To make someone tense or psyched up. See also adjective wired.
- To snare by means of a wire or wires.
- To add or connect (something) into a system as if with wires (for example, with nerves).
- (slang) To install eavesdropping equipment.
- (transitive, croquet) To place (a ball) so that the wire of a wicket prevents a successful shot.
- To connect, involve or embed (something) deeply or intimately into (something else, such as an organization or political scene), so that it is plugged in (to that thing) (“keeping up with current information about (the thing)”) or has insinuated itself into (the thing).
- (figuratively, usually passive) To set or predetermine (someone's personality or behaviour, or an organization's culture) in a particular way.
- To equip with wires for use with electricity.
- To add (something) into a system (especially an electrical system) by means of wiring.
- To send a message or monetary funds to another person through a telecommunications system, formerly predominantly by telegraph.
- send cables, wires, or telegrams
- equip for use with electricity
- string on a wire
- provide with electrical circuits
noun
- coiled barbed wire used as an obstacle
- Coiled barbed wire for use as an obstacle.
- free-reed instrument played like an accordion by pushing its ends together to force air through the reeds
- Something multiply folded like a concertina, such as a folded book, a bus door or a set of picture frames that are folded together.
- A musical instrument, like the various accordions, that is a member of the free-reed family of musical instruments, typically having buttons on both ends.
- A type of booklet label, consisting of up to 32 pages of booklet as an insert.
verb
noun
- the pointed part of barbed wire
- an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect
- one of the parallel filaments projecting from the main shaft of a feather
- a subsidiary point facing opposite from the main point that makes an arrowhead or spear hard to remove
- (US) The sciaenid fish Menticirrhus americanus, found along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of the United States.
- (informal, pharmacology) A barbiturate.
- A beard, or that which resembles it, or grows in the place of it.
- (ornithology) One of the many side branches of a feather, which collectively constitute the vane.
- A blackish or dun variety of pigeon, originally brought from Barbary.
- (botany) A hair or bristle ending in a double hook.
- Paps, or little projections, of the mucous membrane, which mark the opening of the submaxillary glands under the tongue in horses and cattle. The name is mostly applied when the barbs are inflamed and swollen.
- The Barbary horse, a superior breed introduced from Barbary into Spain by the Moors.
- The point that stands backward in an arrow, fishhook, etc., to prevent it from being easily extracted. Hence: Anything which stands out with a sharp point obliquely or crosswise to something else.
- (figuratively) A hurtful or disparaging remark.
- A plastic fastener, shaped roughly like a capital I (with serifs), used to attach socks etc. to their packaging.
- Armor for a horse.
- (ichthyology) Any of various species of freshwater carp-like fish that have barbels and belong to the cyprinid family.
verb
noun
- (Australia) A batten fixed to a post-and-wire fence to keep the wires apart.
- A dog which suddenly drops upon the ground when it sights game.
- A utensil for dispensing a single drop of liquid at a time.
- (slang) A person who uses fraudulent cheques.
- (cricket, historical) A delivery by lob bowling (no longer legal).
- A seat post whose height can be adjusted while riding.
- (computing) A software component designed to install malware on a target system.
- (mining) A branch vein which drops off from, or leaves, the main lode.
- (botany) The young bulb of a tulip, not of flowering size.
- One who drops something, especially one who drops a specific item to cause mischief.
- (cricket, historical) A bowler who makes such deliveries.
- (fishing) A fly that drops from the leaden above the bob or end fly.
- (tennis, informal) A drop shot.
- pipet consisting of a small tube with a vacuum bulb at one end for drawing liquid in and releasing it a drop at a time
verb
- enclose with a fence
- have an argument about something
- receive stolen goods
- fight with fencing swords
- surround with a wall in order to fortify
- (intransitive, equestrianism) To jump over a fence.
- (transitive) To defend or guard.
- (transitive) To engage in the selling or buying of stolen goods.
- (intransitive) To conceal the truth by giving equivocal answers; to hedge; to be evasive.
- (transitive) To enclose, contain or separate by building fence.
- (intransitive, sports) To engage in the sport of fencing.
noun
- a barrier that serves to enclose an area
- a dealer in stolen property
- (by extension) The place whence such a middleman operates.
- A thin artificial barrier that separates two pieces of land or forms a perimeter enclosing the lands of a house, building, etc.
- Skill in oral debate.
- (informal) Someone who hides or buys and sells stolen goods, a criminal middleman for transactions of stolen goods.
- A guard or guide on machinery.
- (cricket) The boundary.
- (programming) A memory barrier.
- (figuratively) A barrier, for example an emotional barrier.
noun
- (fencing) Fencing without the use of any electric equipment.
- (figuratively) Pent-up anger.
- Exhaled breath into cold air below the dew point of the exhalation.
- (figuratively) Internal energy for progress or motive power.
- 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.
- The act of cooking by steaming.
- Travel by means of a steam-powered vehicle.
- water at boiling temperature diffused in the atmosphere
adj
verb
- (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.
- cook something by letting steam pass over it
- emit steam
- get very agitated or angry
- clean by means of steaming
- travel by means of steam power
- rise as vapor
noun
noun
- A short vertical lightweight post, not set into the ground, used to separate wires in a fence.
- (gymnastics, juggling) A rod twirled in a marching band's performance, in a gymnastic sport, or in juggling.
- (military) A ceremonial staff of a field marshal or a similar high-ranking military office.
- (weaponry, US) A short stout club used primarily by policemen.
- (baking) A short baguette.
- (sports) An object transferred by runners in a relay race.
- A staff or truncheon, used for various purposes.
- (heraldry) A bend with the ends cut off, resembling a baton, typically borne sinister, and often used as a mark of cadency, initially for both legitimate and illegitimate children, but later chiefly for illegitimate children.
- (cooking) A batonnet, a long slice of a vegetable, thicker than a julienne.
- (music) The stick of a conductor in musical performances.
- a thin tapered rod used by a conductor to lead an orchestra or choir
- a short staff carried by some officials to symbolize an office or an authority
- a short stout club used primarily by policemen
- a hollow cylinder passed from runner to runner in a relay race
- a hollow metal rod that is wielded or twirled by a drum major or drum majorette
verb
noun
- A Y-shaped steel fencing post or stake.
- Any of several species of plants in the genus Telopea, native to southeastern Australia.
- straggling shrub with narrow leaves and conspicuous red flowers in dense globular racemes
- tall shrub of eastern Australia having oblanceolate to obovate leaves and red flowers in compact racemes
noun
- a galvanized wire network with a hexagonal mesh; used to build fences
- (countable) A type of such material, differentiated by material, coating, wire thickness, width, and mesh size.
- (uncountable) A mesh of wire, usually galvanized, with a hexagonal pattern, generally used for making fences, especially for enclosures for small farm animals and pets.
noun
adj
- Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; opposed to acute.
- Hard to impress or penetrate.
- Having a thick edge or point; not sharp.
- Slow or deficient in feeling: insensitive.
- Abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious; wanting in the forms of civility; rough in manners or speech.
- devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment
- used of a knife or other blade; not sharp
- characterized by directness in manner or speech; without subtlety or evasion
- having a broad or rounded end
verb
- To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to make blunt.
- (figuratively) To repress or weaken; to impair the force, keenness, or susceptibility, of
- make dull or blunt
- make less sharp
- make numb or insensitive
- make less intense
- make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation
noun
- (fencing) Fencing with the use of a body wire, box, and related equipment to detect when a weapon has touched an opponent.
- (rare, countable) An electric car, locomotive, train etc.
- (informal, usually with definite article) Electricity; the electricity supply.
- An electric toothbrush.
- An electric typewriter.
- a car that is powered by electricity
adj
- Of, relating to, produced by, operated with, or utilising electricity; electrical.
- (figuratively) Emotionally thrilling; electrifying.
- Of or relating to an electronic version of a musical instrument that has an acoustic equivalent.
- affected by emotion as if by electricity; thrilling
- using or providing or producing or transmitting or operated by electricity
- (of a situation) exceptionally tense
noun
- material for building fences
- a barrier that serves to enclose an area
- the art or sport of fighting with swords (especially the use of foils or epees or sabres to score points under a set of rules)
- Material used to make fences, fences used as barriers or an enclosure.
- The art or sport of duelling with swords, especially with the 17th- to 18th-century European dueling swords and the practice weapons descended from them (sport fencing).
- (slang, criminology) The buying and receiving of stolen goods.
verb
noun
adj
- not full or rich
- very light colored; highly diluted with white
- (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble
- lacking in vitality or interest or effectiveness
- abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress
- (of human skin) Having a pallor (a light color, especially due to sickness, shock, fright etc.).
- Feeble, faint.
- Light in color.
verb
noun
- a wooden strip forming part of a fence
- a protester posted by a labor organization outside a place of work
- a detachment of troops guarding an army from surprise attack
- a vehicle performing sentinel duty
- a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event
- a form of military punishment used by the British in the late 17th century in which a soldier was forced to stand on one foot on a pointed stake
- (sometimes figurative) A sentry.
- (military) One of the soldiers or troops placed on a line forward of a position to warn against an enemy advance; or any unit (for example, an aircraft or ship) performing a similar function.
- (historical) A type of punishment by which an offender had to rest his or her entire body weight on the top of a small stake.
- A stake driven into the ground.
- (card games, uncountable) The card game piquet.
- A tool in mountaineering that is driven into the snow and used as an anchor or to arrest falls.
- A protester positioned outside an office, workplace etc. during a strike (usually in plural); also the protest itself.
verb
- fasten with a picket
- serve as pickets or post pickets
- (intransitive) To protest, organized by a labour union, typically in front of the location of employment.
- (transitive) To enclose or fortify with pickets or pointed stakes.
- (transitive) To tether to, or as if to, a picket.
- (transitive) To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket.
noun
- A thrust in fencing.
- (leather trades) The thickest and stoutest part of tanned oxhides, used for soles of boots, harness, trunks.
- A wooden cask for storing wine, usually containing 126 gallons.
- The end of a firearm opposite to that from which a bullet is fired.
- (Canada, US, Cumbria, Philippines, slang) The buttocks or anus (used as a minced oath in idiomatic expressions; less objectionable than arse/ass).
- (dialectal) The entire ground (range) on which archers' target practice takes place.
- The end of a connecting rod or other like piece, to which the boxing is attached by the strap, cotter, and gib.
- The blunt back part of an axehead or large blade. Also called the poll.
- A push, thrust, or sudden blow, given by the head; a head butt.
- A mark to be shot at; a target.
- The hut or shelter of the person who attends to the targets in rifle practice.
- (colloquial, Wales) Synonym of butty (“a friend or buddy”).
- (usually as "butt of (a) joke") A person at whom ridicule, jest, or contempt is directed.
- (Northern England) Any of various flatfish such as sole, plaice or turbot
- (lacrosse) The plastic or rubber cap used to cover the open end of a lacrosse stick's shaft in order to reduce injury.
- (slang, metonymic) Body; self.
- (slang) The whole buttocks and pelvic region that includes one's private parts.
- A piece of land left unplowed at the end of a field.
- (mechanical) A joint where the ends of two objects come squarely together without scarfing or chamfering.
- (US) A crust end-piece of a loaf of bread.
- (countable) A limit; a bound; a goal; the extreme bound; the end.
- The shoulder of an animal, especially the portion above the picnic, as a cut of meat.
- (carpentry) A kind of hinge used in hanging doors, etc., so named because it is attached to the inside edge of the door and butts against the casing, instead of on its face, like the strap hinge; also called butt hinge.
- The portion of a half-coupling fastened to the end of a hose.
- (shipbuilding) The joint where two planks in a strake meet.
- (English units) An English measure of capacity for liquids, containing 126 wine gallons which is one-half tun.
- (slang) A used cigarette.
- the part of a plant from which the roots spring or the part of a stalk or trunk nearest the roots
- a joint made by fastening ends together without overlapping
- finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking
- the small unused part of something (especially the end of a cigarette that is left after smoking)
- a large cask (especially one holding a volume equivalent to 2 hogsheads or 126 gallons)
- thick end of the handle
- a victim of ridicule or pranks
- the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
- sports equipment consisting of an object set up for a marksman or archer to aim at
verb
- (transitive, intransitive, eastern Canada, parts of the northeastern US) To cut in line (in front of someone).
- (transitive) To strike bluntly, particularly with the head.
- To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to terminate; to be bounded; to abut.
- (intransitive) To strike bluntly with the head.
- to strike, thrust or shove against
- lie adjacent to another or share a boundary
- place end to end without overlapping
noun
- (mining) A safety link or detaching hook above the cage attached to the winding rope to prevent the cage from being overwound.
- (sports) A type of stretch in which one sits on the ground with the legs folded into a shape like that of a butterfly's wings, slightly rocking them up and down, resembling the wings fluttering.
- A person who changes partners frequently.
- (swimming) The butterfly stroke.
- (medicine, attributive) A use of surgical tape, cut into thin strips and placed across an open wound to hold it closed.
- (finance) A combination of four options of the same type at three strike prices giving limited profit and limited risk.
- A flying insect of the order Lepidoptera, distinguished from moths by their diurnal activity and generally brighter colouring.
- Any of several plane curves that look like a butterfly; see Butterfly curve (transcendental) and Butterfly curve (algebraic).
- (in the plural) Ellipsis of butterflies in one’s stomach (“A sensation of excited anxiety felt in the stomach”).
- (Philippines, Philippine politics, often derogatory) party switcher; turncoat.
- (alternate history) A random change in an aspect of the timeline seemingly unrelated to the primary point of divergence, resulting from the butterfly effect.
- diurnal insect typically having a slender body with knobbed antennae and broad colorful wings
- a swimming stroke in which the arms are thrown forward together out of the water while the feet kick up and down
verb
- (transitive) To cut (food) almost entirely in half and spread the halves apart, in a shape suggesting the wings of a butterfly.
- (transitive, of the point of divergence of an alternate history scenario) To cause events after the point of divergence to not happen as they did in real history, and people conceived after the point of divergence to not exist in recognizable form, due to the random variations introduced by the butterfly effect.
- (transitive) To cut strips of surgical tape or plasters into thin strips, and place across (a gaping wound) to close it.
- cut and spread open, as in preparation for cooking
- flutter like a butterfly
- talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions
noun
- A rope or withe for fastening a gate.
- (wrestling) A throw in which a wrestler turns his left side to his opponent, twines his left leg about his opponent's right leg from the inside, and throws him backward.
- (Ulster) Mess, tangle.
- (Ulster) Doubt, difficulty.
- (nautical) A ring or shackle that secures a staysail to its stay and allows the sail to glide smoothly up and down.
- A coil or loop of something, especially twine, yarn, or rope.
- a coil of rope or wool or yarn
verb
verb
- secure with cables or ropes
- come into or dock at a wharf
- secure in or as if in a berth or dock
- (transitive, nautical) To fix or secure (e.g. a vessel) in a particular place by casting anchor, or by fastening with ropes, cables or chains or the like.
- (transitive) To secure or fix firmly.
- (intransitive, nautical) To cast anchor or become fastened.
noun
- open land usually with peaty soil covered with heather and bracken and moss
- An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light (and usually acidic) soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath. (Compare bog, peatland, marsh, swamp, fen.)
- A game preserve consisting of moorland.
noun
- A hedge or fence made with raddles.
- A long, flexible stick, rod, or branch, interwoven with others between upright posts or stakes, in making a kind of hedge or fence.
- A red ochre.
- An instrument consisting of a wooden bar, with a row of upright pegs set in it, used by domestic weavers to keep the warp of a proper width and prevent tangling when it is wound upon the beam of the loom.
- a red iron ore used in dyeing and marking
verb
noun
adj
verb
noun
- A U-shaped wire fastener, made of thick wire, used to attach fence wire or other material to posts or structures.
- A basic or essential supply.
- A wire fastener, made of thin wire, used to secure stacks of paper by penetrating all the sheets and curling around.
- A wire fastener, in any of various sizes, used to secure something else by penetrating and curling.
- One of a set of U-shaped metal rods hammered into a structure, such as a piling or wharf, which serve as a ladder.
- A recurring topic, character, or item.
- Unmanufactured material; raw material.
- a type of two-pronged fastener, usually metal, used for joining, gathering, or binding materials together.
- A small pit.
- (now historical) A town containing merchants who have exclusive right, under royal authority, to purchase or produce certain goods for export; also, the body of such merchants seen as a group.
- (mining) A shaft, smaller and shorter than the principal one, joining different levels.
- (by extension) Place of supply; source.
- The principal commodity produced in a town or region.
- Short fiber, as of cotton, sheep’s wool, or the like, which can be spun into yarn or thread.
- A district granted to an abbey.
- a short U-shaped wire nail
- paper fastener consisting of a short length of U-shaped wire that can fasten papers together
- a natural fiber (raw cotton, wool, hemp, flax) that can be twisted to form yarn
- (usually in the plural) a necessary commodity for which demand is constant
- material suitable for manufacture or use or finishing
adj
- Fit to be sold; marketable.
- Regularly produced or manufactured in large quantities; belonging to wholesale traffic; principal; chief.
- Relating to, or being market of staple for, commodities.
- Established in commerce; occupying the markets; settled.
- necessary or important, especially regarding food or commodities
verb
noun
- A wire that leads from a point near the end of a gaff to a point near the other end. A block travels along this wire, and a halyard is attached to the block. This allows the gaff to be raised to the vertical by a single halyard.
- A set of hoops or parrel beads which secure the gaff loosely to the mast in a vertical position.
noun
- a cage (usually made of wood and wire mesh) for small animals
- small crude shelter used as a dwelling
- (mining) A jig or trough for ore dressing or washing ore.
- A cabinet for storing dishes.
- A piece of furniture in which items may be displayed.
- (cricket, slang) The pavilion or dressing room.
- A box, chest, crate, case or cabinet.
- An embankment built in a river to check erosion caused by running water.
- (mining) A car on low wheels, in which coal is drawn in the mine and hoisted out of the pit.
- A baker's kneading-trough.
- (mining) The case of a flour bolt.
- A piece of furniture (cabinet) to be placed on top of a desk.
- A measure of two Winchester bushels.
- A coop or cage for keeping small animals (rabbits, guinea pigs, dogs, etc).
verb
noun
noun
noun
- A fence made of usually barbed wire.
- (slang) A covert signal sent between people cheating in a card game.
- (journalism, informal) Clipping of wire service and/or newswire.
- (billiards) A wire strung with beads and hung horizontally above or near the table which is used to keep score.
- (sports) A finish line of a racetrack.
- (by extension) An electric telegraph; a telegram.
- (informal) A telecommunication wire or cable.
- (slang) A hidden listening device on the person of an undercover operative for the purposes of obtaining incriminating spoken evidence.
- (uncountable) Metal formed into a thin, even thread, now usually by being drawn through a hole in a steel die.
- A piece of such material; a thread or slender rod of metal, a cable.
- A metal conductor that carries electricity.
- (informal) A deadline or critical endpoint.
- (usually in the plural) Any of the system of wires used to operate the puppets in a puppet show; hence, the network of hidden influences controlling the action of a person or organization; strings.
- (Scotland) A knitting needle.
- The slender shaft of the plumage of certain birds.
- ligament made of metal and used to fasten things or make cages or fences etc
- a metal conductor that carries electricity over a distance
- a message transmitted by telegraph
- the finishing line on a racetrack
verb
- To fasten with wire, especially with reference to wine bottles, corks, or fencing.
- fasten with wire
- To string on a wire.
- (slang) To make someone tense or psyched up. See also adjective wired.
- To snare by means of a wire or wires.
- To add or connect (something) into a system as if with wires (for example, with nerves).
- (slang) To install eavesdropping equipment.
- (transitive, croquet) To place (a ball) so that the wire of a wicket prevents a successful shot.
- To connect, involve or embed (something) deeply or intimately into (something else, such as an organization or political scene), so that it is plugged in (to that thing) (“keeping up with current information about (the thing)”) or has insinuated itself into (the thing).
- (figuratively, usually passive) To set or predetermine (someone's personality or behaviour, or an organization's culture) in a particular way.
- To equip with wires for use with electricity.
- To add (something) into a system (especially an electrical system) by means of wiring.
- To send a message or monetary funds to another person through a telecommunications system, formerly predominantly by telegraph.
- send cables, wires, or telegrams
- equip for use with electricity
- string on a wire
- provide with electrical circuits
noun
- coiled barbed wire used as an obstacle
- Coiled barbed wire for use as an obstacle.
- free-reed instrument played like an accordion by pushing its ends together to force air through the reeds
- Something multiply folded like a concertina, such as a folded book, a bus door or a set of picture frames that are folded together.
- A musical instrument, like the various accordions, that is a member of the free-reed family of musical instruments, typically having buttons on both ends.
- A type of booklet label, consisting of up to 32 pages of booklet as an insert.
verb
noun
- the pointed part of barbed wire
- an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect
- one of the parallel filaments projecting from the main shaft of a feather
- a subsidiary point facing opposite from the main point that makes an arrowhead or spear hard to remove
- (US) The sciaenid fish Menticirrhus americanus, found along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of the United States.
- (informal, pharmacology) A barbiturate.
- A beard, or that which resembles it, or grows in the place of it.
- (ornithology) One of the many side branches of a feather, which collectively constitute the vane.
- A blackish or dun variety of pigeon, originally brought from Barbary.
- (botany) A hair or bristle ending in a double hook.
- Paps, or little projections, of the mucous membrane, which mark the opening of the submaxillary glands under the tongue in horses and cattle. The name is mostly applied when the barbs are inflamed and swollen.
- The Barbary horse, a superior breed introduced from Barbary into Spain by the Moors.
- The point that stands backward in an arrow, fishhook, etc., to prevent it from being easily extracted. Hence: Anything which stands out with a sharp point obliquely or crosswise to something else.
- (figuratively) A hurtful or disparaging remark.
- A plastic fastener, shaped roughly like a capital I (with serifs), used to attach socks etc. to their packaging.
- Armor for a horse.
- (ichthyology) Any of various species of freshwater carp-like fish that have barbels and belong to the cyprinid family.
verb
noun
- (Australia) A batten fixed to a post-and-wire fence to keep the wires apart.
- A dog which suddenly drops upon the ground when it sights game.
- A utensil for dispensing a single drop of liquid at a time.
- (slang) A person who uses fraudulent cheques.
- (cricket, historical) A delivery by lob bowling (no longer legal).
- A seat post whose height can be adjusted while riding.
- (computing) A software component designed to install malware on a target system.
- (mining) A branch vein which drops off from, or leaves, the main lode.
- (botany) The young bulb of a tulip, not of flowering size.
- One who drops something, especially one who drops a specific item to cause mischief.
- (cricket, historical) A bowler who makes such deliveries.
- (fishing) A fly that drops from the leaden above the bob or end fly.
- (tennis, informal) A drop shot.
- pipet consisting of a small tube with a vacuum bulb at one end for drawing liquid in and releasing it a drop at a time
noun
- (fencing) Fencing without the use of any electric equipment.
- (figuratively) Pent-up anger.
- Exhaled breath into cold air below the dew point of the exhalation.
- (figuratively) Internal energy for progress or motive power.
- 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.
- The act of cooking by steaming.
- Travel by means of a steam-powered vehicle.
- water at boiling temperature diffused in the atmosphere
adj
verb
- (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.
- cook something by letting steam pass over it
- emit steam
- get very agitated or angry
- clean by means of steaming
- travel by means of steam power
- rise as vapor
noun
noun
- A short vertical lightweight post, not set into the ground, used to separate wires in a fence.
- (gymnastics, juggling) A rod twirled in a marching band's performance, in a gymnastic sport, or in juggling.
- (military) A ceremonial staff of a field marshal or a similar high-ranking military office.
- (weaponry, US) A short stout club used primarily by policemen.
- (baking) A short baguette.
- (sports) An object transferred by runners in a relay race.
- A staff or truncheon, used for various purposes.
- (heraldry) A bend with the ends cut off, resembling a baton, typically borne sinister, and often used as a mark of cadency, initially for both legitimate and illegitimate children, but later chiefly for illegitimate children.
- (cooking) A batonnet, a long slice of a vegetable, thicker than a julienne.
- (music) The stick of a conductor in musical performances.
- a thin tapered rod used by a conductor to lead an orchestra or choir
- a short staff carried by some officials to symbolize an office or an authority
- a short stout club used primarily by policemen
- a hollow cylinder passed from runner to runner in a relay race
- a hollow metal rod that is wielded or twirled by a drum major or drum majorette
verb
noun
- A Y-shaped steel fencing post or stake.
- Any of several species of plants in the genus Telopea, native to southeastern Australia.
- straggling shrub with narrow leaves and conspicuous red flowers in dense globular racemes
- tall shrub of eastern Australia having oblanceolate to obovate leaves and red flowers in compact racemes
noun
- a galvanized wire network with a hexagonal mesh; used to build fences
- (countable) A type of such material, differentiated by material, coating, wire thickness, width, and mesh size.
- (uncountable) A mesh of wire, usually galvanized, with a hexagonal pattern, generally used for making fences, especially for enclosures for small farm animals and pets.
noun
adj
- Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; opposed to acute.
- Hard to impress or penetrate.
- Having a thick edge or point; not sharp.
- Slow or deficient in feeling: insensitive.
- Abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious; wanting in the forms of civility; rough in manners or speech.
- devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment
- used of a knife or other blade; not sharp
- characterized by directness in manner or speech; without subtlety or evasion
- having a broad or rounded end
verb
- To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to make blunt.
- (figuratively) To repress or weaken; to impair the force, keenness, or susceptibility, of
- make dull or blunt
- make less sharp
- make numb or insensitive
- make less intense
- make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation
noun
- (fencing) Fencing with the use of a body wire, box, and related equipment to detect when a weapon has touched an opponent.
- (rare, countable) An electric car, locomotive, train etc.
- (informal, usually with definite article) Electricity; the electricity supply.
- An electric toothbrush.
- An electric typewriter.
- a car that is powered by electricity
adj
- Of, relating to, produced by, operated with, or utilising electricity; electrical.
- (figuratively) Emotionally thrilling; electrifying.
- Of or relating to an electronic version of a musical instrument that has an acoustic equivalent.
- affected by emotion as if by electricity; thrilling
- using or providing or producing or transmitting or operated by electricity
- (of a situation) exceptionally tense
noun
- material for building fences
- a barrier that serves to enclose an area
- the art or sport of fighting with swords (especially the use of foils or epees or sabres to score points under a set of rules)
- Material used to make fences, fences used as barriers or an enclosure.
- The art or sport of duelling with swords, especially with the 17th- to 18th-century European dueling swords and the practice weapons descended from them (sport fencing).
- (slang, criminology) The buying and receiving of stolen goods.
verb
noun
adj
- not full or rich
- very light colored; highly diluted with white
- (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble
- lacking in vitality or interest or effectiveness
- abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress
- (of human skin) Having a pallor (a light color, especially due to sickness, shock, fright etc.).
- Feeble, faint.
- Light in color.
verb
noun
- a wooden strip forming part of a fence
- a protester posted by a labor organization outside a place of work
- a detachment of troops guarding an army from surprise attack
- a vehicle performing sentinel duty
- a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event
- a form of military punishment used by the British in the late 17th century in which a soldier was forced to stand on one foot on a pointed stake
- (sometimes figurative) A sentry.
- (military) One of the soldiers or troops placed on a line forward of a position to warn against an enemy advance; or any unit (for example, an aircraft or ship) performing a similar function.
- (historical) A type of punishment by which an offender had to rest his or her entire body weight on the top of a small stake.
- A stake driven into the ground.
- (card games, uncountable) The card game piquet.
- A tool in mountaineering that is driven into the snow and used as an anchor or to arrest falls.
- A protester positioned outside an office, workplace etc. during a strike (usually in plural); also the protest itself.
verb
- fasten with a picket
- serve as pickets or post pickets
- (intransitive) To protest, organized by a labour union, typically in front of the location of employment.
- (transitive) To enclose or fortify with pickets or pointed stakes.
- (transitive) To tether to, or as if to, a picket.
- (transitive) To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket.
noun
- A thrust in fencing.
- (leather trades) The thickest and stoutest part of tanned oxhides, used for soles of boots, harness, trunks.
- A wooden cask for storing wine, usually containing 126 gallons.
- The end of a firearm opposite to that from which a bullet is fired.
- (Canada, US, Cumbria, Philippines, slang) The buttocks or anus (used as a minced oath in idiomatic expressions; less objectionable than arse/ass).
- (dialectal) The entire ground (range) on which archers' target practice takes place.
- The end of a connecting rod or other like piece, to which the boxing is attached by the strap, cotter, and gib.
- The blunt back part of an axehead or large blade. Also called the poll.
- A push, thrust, or sudden blow, given by the head; a head butt.
- A mark to be shot at; a target.
- The hut or shelter of the person who attends to the targets in rifle practice.
- (colloquial, Wales) Synonym of butty (“a friend or buddy”).
- (usually as "butt of (a) joke") A person at whom ridicule, jest, or contempt is directed.
- (Northern England) Any of various flatfish such as sole, plaice or turbot
- (lacrosse) The plastic or rubber cap used to cover the open end of a lacrosse stick's shaft in order to reduce injury.
- (slang, metonymic) Body; self.
- (slang) The whole buttocks and pelvic region that includes one's private parts.
- A piece of land left unplowed at the end of a field.
- (mechanical) A joint where the ends of two objects come squarely together without scarfing or chamfering.
- (US) A crust end-piece of a loaf of bread.
- (countable) A limit; a bound; a goal; the extreme bound; the end.
- The shoulder of an animal, especially the portion above the picnic, as a cut of meat.
- (carpentry) A kind of hinge used in hanging doors, etc., so named because it is attached to the inside edge of the door and butts against the casing, instead of on its face, like the strap hinge; also called butt hinge.
- The portion of a half-coupling fastened to the end of a hose.
- (shipbuilding) The joint where two planks in a strake meet.
- (English units) An English measure of capacity for liquids, containing 126 wine gallons which is one-half tun.
- (slang) A used cigarette.
- the part of a plant from which the roots spring or the part of a stalk or trunk nearest the roots
- a joint made by fastening ends together without overlapping
- finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking
- the small unused part of something (especially the end of a cigarette that is left after smoking)
- a large cask (especially one holding a volume equivalent to 2 hogsheads or 126 gallons)
- thick end of the handle
- a victim of ridicule or pranks
- the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
- sports equipment consisting of an object set up for a marksman or archer to aim at
verb
- (transitive, intransitive, eastern Canada, parts of the northeastern US) To cut in line (in front of someone).
- (transitive) To strike bluntly, particularly with the head.
- To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to terminate; to be bounded; to abut.
- (intransitive) To strike bluntly with the head.
- to strike, thrust or shove against
- lie adjacent to another or share a boundary
- place end to end without overlapping
noun
- (mining) A safety link or detaching hook above the cage attached to the winding rope to prevent the cage from being overwound.
- (sports) A type of stretch in which one sits on the ground with the legs folded into a shape like that of a butterfly's wings, slightly rocking them up and down, resembling the wings fluttering.
- A person who changes partners frequently.
- (swimming) The butterfly stroke.
- (medicine, attributive) A use of surgical tape, cut into thin strips and placed across an open wound to hold it closed.
- (finance) A combination of four options of the same type at three strike prices giving limited profit and limited risk.
- A flying insect of the order Lepidoptera, distinguished from moths by their diurnal activity and generally brighter colouring.
- Any of several plane curves that look like a butterfly; see Butterfly curve (transcendental) and Butterfly curve (algebraic).
- (in the plural) Ellipsis of butterflies in one’s stomach (“A sensation of excited anxiety felt in the stomach”).
- (Philippines, Philippine politics, often derogatory) party switcher; turncoat.
- (alternate history) A random change in an aspect of the timeline seemingly unrelated to the primary point of divergence, resulting from the butterfly effect.
- diurnal insect typically having a slender body with knobbed antennae and broad colorful wings
- a swimming stroke in which the arms are thrown forward together out of the water while the feet kick up and down
verb
- (transitive) To cut (food) almost entirely in half and spread the halves apart, in a shape suggesting the wings of a butterfly.
- (transitive, of the point of divergence of an alternate history scenario) To cause events after the point of divergence to not happen as they did in real history, and people conceived after the point of divergence to not exist in recognizable form, due to the random variations introduced by the butterfly effect.
- (transitive) To cut strips of surgical tape or plasters into thin strips, and place across (a gaping wound) to close it.
- cut and spread open, as in preparation for cooking
- flutter like a butterfly
- talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions
noun
- A rope or withe for fastening a gate.
- (wrestling) A throw in which a wrestler turns his left side to his opponent, twines his left leg about his opponent's right leg from the inside, and throws him backward.
- (Ulster) Mess, tangle.
- (Ulster) Doubt, difficulty.
- (nautical) A ring or shackle that secures a staysail to its stay and allows the sail to glide smoothly up and down.
- A coil or loop of something, especially twine, yarn, or rope.
- a coil of rope or wool or yarn
verb
noun
- A hedge or fence made with raddles.
- A long, flexible stick, rod, or branch, interwoven with others between upright posts or stakes, in making a kind of hedge or fence.
- A red ochre.
- An instrument consisting of a wooden bar, with a row of upright pegs set in it, used by domestic weavers to keep the warp of a proper width and prevent tangling when it is wound upon the beam of the loom.
- a red iron ore used in dyeing and marking
verb
noun
adj
verb
noun
- A U-shaped wire fastener, made of thick wire, used to attach fence wire or other material to posts or structures.
- A basic or essential supply.
- A wire fastener, made of thin wire, used to secure stacks of paper by penetrating all the sheets and curling around.
- A wire fastener, in any of various sizes, used to secure something else by penetrating and curling.
- One of a set of U-shaped metal rods hammered into a structure, such as a piling or wharf, which serve as a ladder.
- A recurring topic, character, or item.
- Unmanufactured material; raw material.
- a type of two-pronged fastener, usually metal, used for joining, gathering, or binding materials together.
- A small pit.
- (now historical) A town containing merchants who have exclusive right, under royal authority, to purchase or produce certain goods for export; also, the body of such merchants seen as a group.
- (mining) A shaft, smaller and shorter than the principal one, joining different levels.
- (by extension) Place of supply; source.
- The principal commodity produced in a town or region.
- Short fiber, as of cotton, sheep’s wool, or the like, which can be spun into yarn or thread.
- A district granted to an abbey.
- a short U-shaped wire nail
- paper fastener consisting of a short length of U-shaped wire that can fasten papers together
- a natural fiber (raw cotton, wool, hemp, flax) that can be twisted to form yarn
- (usually in the plural) a necessary commodity for which demand is constant
- material suitable for manufacture or use or finishing
adj
- Fit to be sold; marketable.
- Regularly produced or manufactured in large quantities; belonging to wholesale traffic; principal; chief.
- Relating to, or being market of staple for, commodities.
- Established in commerce; occupying the markets; settled.
- necessary or important, especially regarding food or commodities
verb
noun
- A wire that leads from a point near the end of a gaff to a point near the other end. A block travels along this wire, and a halyard is attached to the block. This allows the gaff to be raised to the vertical by a single halyard.
- A set of hoops or parrel beads which secure the gaff loosely to the mast in a vertical position.
noun
- a cage (usually made of wood and wire mesh) for small animals
- small crude shelter used as a dwelling
- (mining) A jig or trough for ore dressing or washing ore.
- A cabinet for storing dishes.
- A piece of furniture in which items may be displayed.
- (cricket, slang) The pavilion or dressing room.
- A box, chest, crate, case or cabinet.
- An embankment built in a river to check erosion caused by running water.
- (mining) A car on low wheels, in which coal is drawn in the mine and hoisted out of the pit.
- A baker's kneading-trough.
- (mining) The case of a flour bolt.
- A piece of furniture (cabinet) to be placed on top of a desk.
- A measure of two Winchester bushels.
- A coop or cage for keeping small animals (rabbits, guinea pigs, dogs, etc).
verb
verb
- enclose with a fence
- have an argument about something
- receive stolen goods
- fight with fencing swords
- surround with a wall in order to fortify
- (intransitive, equestrianism) To jump over a fence.
- (transitive) To defend or guard.
- (transitive) To engage in the selling or buying of stolen goods.
- (intransitive) To conceal the truth by giving equivocal answers; to hedge; to be evasive.
- (transitive) To enclose, contain or separate by building fence.
- (intransitive, sports) To engage in the sport of fencing.
noun
- a barrier that serves to enclose an area
- a dealer in stolen property
- (by extension) The place whence such a middleman operates.
- A thin artificial barrier that separates two pieces of land or forms a perimeter enclosing the lands of a house, building, etc.
- Skill in oral debate.
- (informal) Someone who hides or buys and sells stolen goods, a criminal middleman for transactions of stolen goods.
- A guard or guide on machinery.
- (cricket) The boundary.
- (programming) A memory barrier.
- (figuratively) A barrier, for example an emotional barrier.
noun
- A fence made of usually barbed wire.
- (slang) A covert signal sent between people cheating in a card game.
- (journalism, informal) Clipping of wire service and/or newswire.
- (billiards) A wire strung with beads and hung horizontally above or near the table which is used to keep score.
- (sports) A finish line of a racetrack.
- (by extension) An electric telegraph; a telegram.
- (informal) A telecommunication wire or cable.
- (slang) A hidden listening device on the person of an undercover operative for the purposes of obtaining incriminating spoken evidence.
- (uncountable) Metal formed into a thin, even thread, now usually by being drawn through a hole in a steel die.
- A piece of such material; a thread or slender rod of metal, a cable.
- A metal conductor that carries electricity.
- (informal) A deadline or critical endpoint.
- (usually in the plural) Any of the system of wires used to operate the puppets in a puppet show; hence, the network of hidden influences controlling the action of a person or organization; strings.
- (Scotland) A knitting needle.
- The slender shaft of the plumage of certain birds.
- ligament made of metal and used to fasten things or make cages or fences etc
- a metal conductor that carries electricity over a distance
- a message transmitted by telegraph
- the finishing line on a racetrack
verb
- To fasten with wire, especially with reference to wine bottles, corks, or fencing.
- fasten with wire
- To string on a wire.
- (slang) To make someone tense or psyched up. See also adjective wired.
- To snare by means of a wire or wires.
- To add or connect (something) into a system as if with wires (for example, with nerves).
- (slang) To install eavesdropping equipment.
- (transitive, croquet) To place (a ball) so that the wire of a wicket prevents a successful shot.
- To connect, involve or embed (something) deeply or intimately into (something else, such as an organization or political scene), so that it is plugged in (to that thing) (“keeping up with current information about (the thing)”) or has insinuated itself into (the thing).
- (figuratively, usually passive) To set or predetermine (someone's personality or behaviour, or an organization's culture) in a particular way.
- To equip with wires for use with electricity.
- To add (something) into a system (especially an electrical system) by means of wiring.
- To send a message or monetary funds to another person through a telecommunications system, formerly predominantly by telegraph.
- send cables, wires, or telegrams
- equip for use with electricity
- string on a wire
- provide with electrical circuits
verb
- secure with cables or ropes
- come into or dock at a wharf
- secure in or as if in a berth or dock
- (transitive, nautical) To fix or secure (e.g. a vessel) in a particular place by casting anchor, or by fastening with ropes, cables or chains or the like.
- (transitive) To secure or fix firmly.
- (intransitive, nautical) To cast anchor or become fastened.
noun
- open land usually with peaty soil covered with heather and bracken and moss
- An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light (and usually acidic) soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath. (Compare bog, peatland, marsh, swamp, fen.)
- A game preserve consisting of moorland.