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noun
- Any material used by or provided to animals to lie on.
- The textiles associated with a bed, e.g., sheets, pillowcases, bedspreads, blankets, etc.
- (British) The textiles associated with the bed, as well as the mattress, bedframe, or bed base (such as box spring).
- (geology) A structure occurring in granite and similar massive rocks that allows them to split in well-defined planes horizontally or parallel to the land surface.
- (horticulture) The temporary planting of fast-growing plants into flower beds to create colourful, temporary, seasonal displays, during spring, summer or winter.
- material used to provide a bed for animals
- coverings that are used on a bed
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noun
adj
- Made from the skin of a still-born animal.
- (biology) Imperfectly formed or developed; rudimentary; sterile.
- (medicine, pharmacology, rare) Causing abortion; abortifacient.
- (medicine, of a disease) Having a short and mild progression, without pronounced symptoms.
- Coming to nothing; failing in its effect. .
- (medicine) Cutting short; acting to halt or slow the progress (of a disease).
- failing to accomplish an intended result
noun
- the material that forms the hard outer covering of many animals
- a rigid covering that envelops an object
- the hard largely calcareous covering of a mollusc or a brachiopod
- a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)
- the hard usually fibrous outer layer of some fruits especially nuts
- hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles
- the housing or outer covering of something
- the exterior covering of a bird's egg
- a very light narrow racing boat
- ammunition consisting of a cylindrical metal casing containing an explosive charge and a projectile; fired from a large gun
- The covering, or outside part, of a nut.
- (architecture) Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in, as the shell of a house.
- The hard calcareous covering of a bird egg.
- A garment, usually worn by women, such as a shirt, blouse, or top, with short sleeves or no sleeves, that often fastens in the rear.
- (nautical, rigging) The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve.
- (nautical) The watertight outer covering of the hull of a vessel, often made with planking or metal plating.
- A concave rough cast-iron tool in which a convex lens is ground to shape.
- (figuratively) The empty outward form of someone or something.
- (music) A string instrument, as a lyre, whose acoustical chamber is formed like a shell.
- In formal debating, a set of proposed rules to be followed, with set penalties for violating them.
- A psychological barrier to social interaction.
- (figuratively) The outward form independent of what is inside.
- (British, education) One or more school grades within secondary education, at certain public schools.
- The thin coating of copper on an electrotype.
- (chemistry) A set of atomic orbitals that have the same principal quantum number.
- (music) The body of a drum; the often wooden, often cylindrical acoustic chamber, with or without rims added for tuning and for attaching the drum head.
- One of the outer layers of skin of an onion.
- An engraved copper roller used in print works.
- The calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates.
- The conjoined scutes that constitute the "shell" (carapace) of a tortoise or turtle.
- (UK, slang) A person's ear.
- (geology) The accreted mineral formed around a hollow geode.
- An emaciated person.
- (nautical) A light boat whose frame is covered with thin wood, impermeable fabric, or water-proofed paper; a racing shell or dragon boat.
- (computing) An operating system software user interface, whose primary purpose is to launch other programs and control their interactions; the user's command interpreter. Shell is a way to separate the internal complexity of the implementation of the command from the user. The internals can change while the user experience/interface remains the same.
- (weaponry) A hollow, usually spherical or cylindrical projectile fired from a siege mortar or a smoothbore cannon. It contains an explosive substance designed to be ignited by a fuse or by percussion at the target site so that it will burst and scatter at high velocity its contents and fragments. Formerly called a bomb.
- (business) A legal entity that has no operations.
- (in the plural) Husks of cacao seeds, a decoction of which is sometimes used as a substitute or adulterant for cocoa and its products such as chocolate.
- (by extension) Any mollusk having such a covering.
- (figuratively) A person otherwise diminished.
- The overlapping hard plates comprising the armor covering the armadillo's body.
- (weaponry) The casing of a self-contained single-unit artillery projectile.
- (weaponry) The cartridge of a breechloading firearm; a load; a bullet; a round.
- (phonology) The onset and coda of a syllable.
- A coarse or flimsy coffin; a thin interior coffin enclosed within a more substantial one.
- A pod containing the seeds of certain plants, such as the legume Phaseolus vulgaris.
- An unmarked vehicle for carrying corpses from a crime scene.
- (entomology) The exoskeleton or wing covers of certain insects.
- (engineering) A gouge bit or shell bit.
verb
- remove from its shell or outer covering
- use explosives on
- create by using explosives
- fall out of the pod or husk
- come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
- look for and collect shells by the seashore
- remove the husks from
- hit the pitches of hard and regularly
- (topology) To form a shelling.
- To form shallow, irregular cracks (in a coating).
- (computing, intransitive) To switch to a shell or command line.
- (cricket, slang, transitive) To drop (the ball).
- (intransitive) To cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk.
- (intransitive) To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc.
- (informal) To disburse or give up money, to pay. (Often used with out).
- To bombard, to fire projectiles at, especially with artillery.
- To remove the outer covering or shell of something.
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noun
- Any inorganic material (as distinguished from animal or vegetable).
- solid homogeneous inorganic substances occurring in nature having a definite chemical composition
- (Ireland, South Africa, Nigeria, informal) A soft drink, particularly a single serve bottle or can.
- (geology) Any naturally occurring material that has a (more or less) definite chemical composition and characteristic physical properties; especially, an inorganic one.
- (nutrition) Any inorganic element that is essential to nutrition.
- (British) Mineral water.
noun
- the flesh of wild animals that is used for food
- a single play of a sport or other contest
- a contest with rules to determine a winner
- frivolous or trifling behavior
- a secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal)
- the game equipment needed in order to play a particular game
- animal hunted for food or sport
- (tennis) a division of play during which one player serves
- an amusement or pastime
- (games) the score at a particular point or the score needed to win
- your occupation or line of work
- A playful activity that may be unstructured; an amusement or pastime.
- The number of points necessary to win a game.
- (UK, in the plural) A school subject during which sports are practised.
- One's manner, style, or performance in playing a game.
- (hip-hop, with the) The music industry.
- (countable, figuratively) Something that resembles a game with rules, despite not being designed.
- That which is gained, such as the stake in a game.
- (countable) A questionable or unethical practice in pursuit of a goal.
- (countable) The equipment that enables such activity, particularly as packaged under a title.
- (countable, military) An exercise simulating warfare, whether computerized or involving human participants.
- (countable) Ellipsis of video game.
- (countable, usually in the singular, informal) A field of gainful activity, as an industry or profession.
- (uncountable) Wild animals hunted for food.
- (uncountable, slang) Mastery; the ability to excel at something.
- (slang) Prostitution. (Now chiefly in on the game.)
- (countable) An activity described by a set of rules, especially for the purpose of entertainment, often competitive or having an explicit goal.
- (card games) In some games, a point awarded to the player whose cards add up to the largest sum.
- (countable) A particular instance of playing a game.
- (uncountable, informal, used mostly for men) The ability to seduce or woo someone, usually by strategy.
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verb
- place a bet on
- (intransitive) To play card games, board games, or video games.
- (transitive) To exploit loopholes in a system or bureaucracy in a way which defeats or nullifies the spirit of the rules in effect, usually to obtain a result which otherwise would be unobtainable.
- (intransitive) To gamble.
- (transitive, seduction community, slang, of males) To perform premeditated seduction strategy.
noun
- (uncountable) Fuller's earth, clay pellets, wood chips, or other similar loose absorbent materials used for the waste of pet animals.
- (uncountable) Straw, grass, and similar loose material used as bedding for people or animals.
- (countable, collective) The whole group of live young born at the same time, typically in reference to mammals or (figurative, derogatory) unpleasant people or objects.
- (countable, uncommon) A bed, a substrate formed from loose materials.
- (uncountable) Waste or debris, originally any mess but now particularly trash left or thrown on the ground.
- (uncountable) Animal bedding together with its dung.
- (countable, loosely) Any of the other similar conveyances, such as sedan chairs, hammock litters, and the like.
- (countable) A mobile bed or couch transported upon or suspended from poles placed over human shoulders or animal backs.
- (uncountable) The layer of fallen leaves and other loose organic material on the ground in a forest.
- (medicine, countable) Synonym of stretcher, such a vehicle used for transporting the sick and injured, inclusive of designs carried in the hand.
- material used to provide a bed for animals
- rubbish carelessly dropped or left about (especially in public places)
- the offspring at one birth of a multiparous mammal
- conveyance consisting of a chair or bed carried on two poles by bearers
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verb
- (transitive) To supply (cattle etc.) with litter; to cover with litter, as the floor of a stall.
- (intransitive) To drop or throw trash without properly disposing of it (as discarding in public areas rather than trash receptacles).
- (transitive) To scatter carelessly about.
- (intransitive) To produce a litter of young.
- (transitive) To give birth to, in the manner of animals.
- (transitive) To strew (a place) with scattered articles.
- (intransitive) To be supplied with litter as bedding; to sleep or make one's bed in litter.
- strew
- give birth to a litter of animals
- make a place messy by strewing garbage around
noun
- plant materials and animal waste used as fuel
- the total mass of living matter in a given unit area
- The total mass of all, or a specified category of, living things within a specific area, habitat, etc.
- The total mass of a living thing or a part thereof (such as a cell).
- Organic matter from living things which were recently alive (especially vegetation) used as a fuel or source of energy, especially if cultivated for that purpose; also, fuel produced from such organic matter; biofuel.
noun
- (uncountable) The hard substance from which animals' horns are made, sometimes used by man as a material for making various objects.
- (architecture) The Ionic volute.
- A vessel made from a horn, to contain drink, ink, gunpowder, etc.
- (chiefly sports) A sound signaling the expiration of time.
- (countable) A diacritical mark that may be attached to the top right corner of the letters o and u when writing in Vietnamese, thus forming ơ and ư.
- (carpentry) A curved projection on the fore part of a plane.
- (vulgar, slang, with definite article) An erection of the penis.
- (military) In naval mine warfare, a projection from the mine shell of some contact mines which, when broken or bent by contact, causes the mine to fire.
- (informal, music, countable) Generally, any brass wind instrument.
- An antler.
- (slang, countable) A telephone.
- (botany) An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed (Asclepias).
- Any similar real or imaginary growth or projection such as the elongated tusk of a narwhal, the eyestalk of a snail, the pointed growth on the nose of a rhinoceros, or the hornlike projection on the head of a demon or similar.
- One of the two corners of a crescent, particularly of the crescent moon
- One of the projections at the four corners of the Jewish altar of burnt offering.
- The high pommel of a saddle; also, either of the projections on a lady's saddle for supporting the leg.
- (countable, zootomy) A hard growth of keratin that protrudes from the top of the head of certain animals, usually paired.
- (nautical) The outer end of a crosstree; also, one of the projections forming the jaws of a gaff, boom, etc.
- (countable, automotive) A loud alarm, especially one on a motor vehicle.
- (countable, geography) A peninsula or projecting tract of land.
- (countable) A conical device used to direct waves.
- (countable) Any of several musical wind instruments.
- (countable, music) An instrument resembling a musical horn and used to signal others.
- one of the bony outgrowths on the heads of certain ungulates
- a noisemaker (as at parties or games) that makes a loud noise when you blow through it
- any hard protuberance from the head of an organism that is similar to or suggestive of a horn
- a noise made by the driver of an automobile to give warning
- a device having the shape of a horn
- the material (mostly keratin) that covers the horns of ungulates and forms hooves and claws and nails
- a device on an automobile for making a warning noise
- a brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves
- a brass musical instrument consisting of a conical tube that is coiled into a spiral and played by means of valves
- a high pommel of a Western saddle (usually metal covered with leather)
- an alarm device that makes a loud warning sound
verb
noun
- Material, made from the polished skin of a calf, sheep, goat or other animal, used like paper for writing.
- A document made on such material.
- Stiff paper imitating that material.
- The envelope of the coffee grains, inside the pulp.
- The creamy to tanned color of parchment.
- A diploma (traditionally written on parchment).
- a superior paper resembling sheepskin
- skin of a sheep or goat prepared for writing on
noun
- Any artificial animal feed in pellet form.
- coarsely ground grain in the form of pellets (as for pet food)
- Something that has been kibbled, especially grain for use as animal feed.
- An iron bucket used in mines for hoisting anything to the surface.
- (fandom slang) In the Transformers fandom, pieces of a toy or figure necessary for one mode, but appearing out of place or unnecessary in the other.
- (historical) A mallet used in the game of trap ball.
- an iron bucket used for hoisting in wells or mining
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adj
verb
- put together out of artificial or natural components or parts
- create by linking linguistic units
- reassemble mentally
- draw with suitable instruments and under specified conditions
- make by combining materials and parts
- create by organizing and linking ideas, arguments, or concepts
- (transitive) To build or form (something) by assembling parts.
- (transitive, geometry) To draw (a geometric figure) by following precise specifications and using geometric tools and techniques.
- (transitive, grammar) To build (a sentence, an argument, etc.) by arranging words or ideas.
noun
verb
- put together out of artificial or natural components or parts
- concoct something artificial or untrue
- (transitive, cooking) To cut up an animal as preparation for cooking, particularly used in reference to fowl.
- (transitive) To invent and form; to forge; to devise falsely.
- (transitive) To form into a whole by uniting its parts; to construct; to build.
- (transitive) To form by art and labor; to manufacture; to produce.
verb
- put together out of artificial or natural components or parts
- concoct something artificial or untrue
- produce naturally
- create or produce in a mechanical way
- (transitive) To work (raw or partly wrought materials) into suitable forms for use.
- (derogatory) To fabricate; to create false evidence to support a point.
- To make things, usually on a large scale, with tools and either physical labor or machinery.
noun
- the act of making something (a product) from raw materials
- the organized action of making of goods and services for sale
- Anything made, formed or produced; product.
- The action or process of making goods systematically or on a large scale.
- (horology) A watch manufacturer that makes its own parts, rather than assembling watches from parts obtained from other firms.
- (figuratively) The process of such production; generation, creation.
noun
- (agriculture) Coarse or rough plant material such as hay and silage used as animal fodder.
- (nutrition) Substances, generally of plant origin, consisting mostly of complex carbohydrates which are undigested when eaten by humans, and which therefore help the passage of food and waste through the alimentary tract; dietary fibre.
- Originally (archaic), garbage, rubbish, or waste; later (agriculture) the portions of a crop which are discarded, such as husks, stalks, etc.; also, agricultural waste such as weeds.
- coarse, indigestible plant food low in nutrients; its bulk stimulates intestinal peristalsis
noun
- a collection of live animals for study or display
- the facility where wild animals are housed for exhibition
- The enclosure where they are kept.
- A diverse or miscellaneous group.
- A collection of live wild animals as an exhibition historically associated with the aristocracy and considered a precursor of modern zoos.
noun
- Anything made from such fibers, such as a hassock, basket or thick mat.
- (music) One who sings in the bass range.
- (music) An instrument that plays in the bass range, in particular a double bass, bass guitar, electric bass or bass synthesiser.
- The perch; any of various marine and freshwater fish resembling the perch, all within the order of Perciformes.
- A low spectrum of sound tones.
- (music notation) The clef sign that indicates that the pitch of the notes is below middle C; a bass clef.
- The fibrous inner bark of the linden or lime tree, used for making mats.
- (music) A section of a musical group that produces low-pitched sound, lower than the baritone and tenor.
- Fibers from other plants, especially palm trees
- the lowest part in polyphonic music
- an adult male singer with the lowest voice
- the lowest adult male singing voice
- the lowest part of the musical range
- the member with the lowest range of a family of musical instruments
- any of various North American freshwater fish with lean flesh (especially of the genus Micropterus)
- nontechnical name for any of numerous edible marine and freshwater spiny-finned fishes
- the lean flesh of a saltwater fish of the family Serranidae
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noun
- the liquid part that can be extracted from plant or animal tissue by squeezing or cooking
- electric current
- any of several liquids of the body
- energetic vitality
- (uncountable, slang, vulgar, sex) The vaginal lubrication that a female naturally produces when sexually aroused.
- (uncountable, slang) The amount charged by a bookmaker for betting services.
- Petrol; gasoline.
- Battery life.
- (bodybuilding) Steroids.
- (slang) The leftover liquid of some wet or damp substance.
- (countable, uncountable) A liquid made from plant, especially fruit.
- Electricity.
- (uncountable, slang) Liquor.
- Vitality; strength.
- (physiology) bodily secretion, especially that secreted by the glands of the stomach and intestines.
- Political power.
- (uncountable, slang, music) Musical agreement between instrumentalists.
- (informal) The liquid that is used to submerge a substance kept in a container
- (countable) A beverage made of juice.
- (Scotland) A soft drink.
- (uncountable, slang, vulgar, sex) Semen.
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adj
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noun
- any of various substances of either mineral origin or plant or animal origin; they are solid at normal temperatures and insoluble in water
- Beeswax.
- (US, slang) Any of a class of drugs with weed oil and butane as main ingredients; hash oil.
- (US, dialect) A thick syrup made by boiling down the sap of the sugar maple and then cooling it.
- Any preparation containing wax, used as a polish.
- Any oily, water-resistant, solid or semisolid substance; normally long-chain hydrocarbons, alcohols or esters.
- (rare) The process of growing.
- Earwax.
- (uncountable, music, informal) The phonograph record format for music.
verb
- increase in phase
- go up or advance
- cover with wax
- (intransitive, of the moon) To appear larger each night as a progression from a new moon to a full moon.
- (intransitive, literary) To greaten.
- (transitive, informal) To defeat utterly.
- (slang) To spout so much nonsense that the other person starts doubting which of you two is insane.
- (transitive, slang) To kill, especially to murder a person.
- (intransitive, copulative, literary) To increasingly assume the specified characteristic.
- (transitive) To coat with wax or a similar material.
- (intransitive) To form a wax (a thick maple syrup).
- (transitive) To remove hair at the roots from (a part of the body) by coating the skin with a film of wax that is then pulled away sharply.
- (transitive) To apply wax to (something, such as a shoe, a floor, a car, or an apple), usually to make it shiny.
- (intransitive, of the tide) To move from low tide to high tide.
adj
noun
- Any of various similarly granular materials prepared from other sources, such as bones or wood.
- (countable) Food served or eaten as a repast.
- The ground-up edible part of various grains, used as a basis of food or feed; either flour or a coarser blend than flour (usage varies).
- (UK dialectal) A speck or spot.
- A part; a fragment; a portion.
- Any of various other granular or powdery materials, either ground by humans or occurring in nature, named figuratively after a resemblance to grain meal.
- (uncountable, informal) A break taken by a police officer in order to eat.
- (countable) Food that is prepared and eaten, usually at a specific time, and usually in a comparatively large quantity.
- any of the occasions for eating food that occur by custom or habit at more or less fixed times
- the food served and eaten at one time
- coarsely ground foodstuff; especially seeds of various cereal grasses or pulse
verb
adj
- Taken from a living animal.
- (only used attributively) Having life; that is alive.
- Outstanding, top-notch, exhilarating.
- (entertainment, performing) Recorded from a performance in front of an audience.
- (broadcasting) Being broadcast ("on the air"), as it happens.
- (of a performance or speech) In person.
- (engineering) Imparting power; having motion.
- Being in a state of ignition; burning.
- (programming) Of an object or value: that may potentially be used in the future execution of a program.
- Having active properties; being energized.
- (film) Featuring humans; not animated, in the phrases “live actors” or “live action”.
- (sports) Still in active play.
- Operational; in actual use rather than in testing etc.
- (poker) Being a bet which can be raised by the bettor, usually in reference to a blind or straddle.
- Being in existence; actual.
- Able to fire or explode (of firearms or explosives).
- (linguistics) Of a syllable in languages such as Thai and Burmese: resonating, not ending abruptly.
- Of an environment where sound is recorded: having noticeable reverberation.
- (card games) Of a card: not yet dealt or played.
- (circuitry) Electrically charged or energized, usually indicating that the item may cause electrocution if touched.
- highly reverberant
- elastic; rebounds readily
- possessing life
- charged or energized with electricity
- in current use or ready for use
- capable of erupting
- abounding with life and energy
- charged with an explosive
- of current relevance
- actually being performed at the time of hearing or viewing
- exerting force or containing energy
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verb
- (transitive) To act habitually in conformity with; to practice; to exemplify in one's way of life.
- (intransitive, informal) (of an object) to have its proper place; to normally be stored.
- (intransitive, followed by on, upon, or by) To maintain or support one's existence; to provide for oneself; to feed; to subsist.
- (intransitive) To be alive; to have life.
- (intransitive) To have permanent residence somewhere, to inhabit, to reside.
- (intransitive) To outlast danger; (of a ship or boat) to float.
- (intransitive, hyperbolic) To cope.
- (intransitive) To pass life in a specified manner.
- (transitive) To spend, as one's life; to pass; to maintain; to continue in, constantly or habitually.
- (intransitive, informal) To make the most of life; to experience a full, rich life.
- (intransitive) To survive; to persevere; to continue.
- (intransitive) To endure in memory; to escape oblivion.
- pursue a positive and satisfying existence
- support oneself
- be an inhabitant of or reside in
- have life, be alive
- have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations
- lead a certain kind of life; live in a certain style
- continue to live and avoid dying
noun
- Unmanufactured material; raw material.
- 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.
- A U-shaped wire fastener, made of thick wire, used to attach fence wire or other material to posts or structures.
- 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
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noun
- any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue
- anything that provides mental stimulus for thinking
- (uncountable, figuratively) Anything that nourishes or sustains.
- (uncountable, MLE) Any illegal substance or illegal substances, drugs.
- (uncountable) Any solid substance that can be consumed by living organisms, especially by eating, in order to sustain life.
- (countable) A foodstuff, a type of food.
noun
- any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue
- any substance (such as a chemical element or inorganic compound) that can be taken in by a green plant and used in organic synthesis
- A source of nourishment, such as food, that can be metabolized by an organism to give energy and build tissue.
adj
noun
- Animal tissue regarded as food; meat (but sometimes excluding fish).
- The human body as a physical entity.
- (religion) The evil and corrupting principle working in man.
- The soft, often edible, parts of fruits or vegetables.
- A yellowish pink color; the color of some Caucasian human skin.
- The skin of a human or animal.
- (religion) The mortal body of a human being, contrasted with the spirit or soul.
- The soft tissue of the body, especially muscle and fat.
- (by extension) Bare arms, bare legs, bare torso.
- a soft moist part of a fruit
- alternative names for the body of a human being
- the soft tissue of the body of a vertebrate: mainly muscle tissue and fat
verb
- (transitive) To glut.
- (transitive) To reward (a hound, bird of prey etc.) with flesh of the animal killed, to excite it for further hunting; to train (an animal) to have an appetite for flesh.
- (transitive) To bury (something, especially a weapon) in flesh.
- (transitive) To put flesh on; to fatten.
- To remove the flesh from the skin during the making of leather.
- remove adhering flesh from (hides) when preparing leather manufacture
noun
- That which is used to feed.
- One who feeds, or takes in food.
- (US, law) A judge whose law clerks are often selected to become clerks for the Supreme Court.
- (video games, derogatory) A player whose character is killed by the opposing player or team more than once, deliberately or through lack of skills and experience, thus helping the opposing side.
- A branch line of a railway.
- One who feeds, or gives food to another.
- One who, or that which, feeds material into something (especially a machine).
- A tributary stream, especially of a canal.
- The participant in feederism who feeds the other (the feedee).
- (mining) Synonym of blower (“fissure from which firedamp issues”).
- (education) Ellipsis of feeder school.
- (shipbuilding, navigation) A feeder ship.
- A transmission line that feeds the electricity for an electricity substation, or for a transmitter.
- an animal that feeds on a particular source of food
- someone who consumes food for nourishment
- an outdoor device that supplies food for wild birds
- an animal being fattened or suitable for fattening
- a branch that flows into the main stream
- a machine that automatically provides a supply of some material
noun
- a garment made of animal pelts or synthetic fur
- the dressed hairy coat of a mammal
- dense coat of fine silky hairs on mammals (e.g., cat or seal or weasel)
- (informal, uncountable) Human body hair, especially when abundant.
- (heraldry, countable) One of several patterns or diapers used as tinctures, such as ermine and vair.
- (countable) A furry, a member of the furry fandom.
- (uncountable) The layer of epithelial debris on a tongue.
- (uncountable) The hairy coat of various mammal species, especially when fine, soft and thick.
- (vulgar, slang, uncountable) Sexual attractiveness.
- (uncountable) The hairy skins of animals used as a material for clothing.
- (vulgar, slang, uncountable) Pubic hair.
- (uncountable) The deposit formed on the interior of boilers and other vessels by hard water.
- (countable) A garment made of fur.
- (uncountable) A thick pile of fabric.
- (hunting, uncountable) Rabbits and hares, as opposed to partridges and pheasants (called feathers).
- (uncountable) The soft, downy covering on the skin of a peach.
- (countable) An animal pelt used to make, trim or line clothing.
conj
prep
verb
noun
- Matted material; rough massed hair, fibres etc.
- Coarse shredded tobacco.
- (West Country) Friend; mate; buddy.
- (slang, vulgar) An act of sex.
- Any of several species of sea birds in the family Phalacrocoracidae (cormorant family), especially a common shag or European shag (Phalacrocorax aristotelis), found on European and African coasts.
- (slang, vulgar) A casual sexual partner.
- (often attributive) A deliberately messy, shaggy hairstyle.
- (dance, sometimes capitalized) A swing dance.
- A type of rough carpet pile.
- (Northwestern Ontario) A fundraising dance in honour of a couple engaged to be married.
- a fabric with long coarse nap
- a lively dance step consisting of hopping on each foot in turn
- slang for sexual intercourse
- a strong coarse tobacco that has been shredded
- a matted tangle of hair or fiber
adj
verb
- To chase after; especially, to chase after and return (a ball) hit usually out of play.
- (transitive) To make hairy or shaggy; to roughen.
- (UK, Ireland, Australia, intransitive, slang, vulgar) To have sex.
- (India, transitive, slang, vulgar) To masturbate.
- (dance, uncommon) To perform the dance called the shag.
- (UK, Ireland, Australia, transitive, slang, vulgar) To have sex with.
- (intransitive) To shake, wiggle around.
- dance the shag
noun
- Something extracted, an extract, as from a plant or an organ of an animal etc.
- A person's origin or ancestry.
- (dentistry) The removal of a tooth from its socket.
- (coffee preparation, by ellipsis) The extraction yield of a brewed coffee.
- (military) The act of removing someone from a hostile area to a secure location.
- The act of extracting or the condition of being extracted.
- the action of taking out something (especially using effort or force)
- properties attributable to your ancestry
- the process of obtaining something from a mixture or compound by chemical or physical or mechanical means
noun
- Any material used by or provided to animals to lie on.
- The textiles associated with a bed, e.g., sheets, pillowcases, bedspreads, blankets, etc.
- (British) The textiles associated with the bed, as well as the mattress, bedframe, or bed base (such as box spring).
- (geology) A structure occurring in granite and similar massive rocks that allows them to split in well-defined planes horizontally or parallel to the land surface.
- (horticulture) The temporary planting of fast-growing plants into flower beds to create colourful, temporary, seasonal displays, during spring, summer or winter.
- material used to provide a bed for animals
- coverings that are used on a bed
verb
noun
noun
- the material that forms the hard outer covering of many animals
- a rigid covering that envelops an object
- the hard largely calcareous covering of a mollusc or a brachiopod
- a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)
- the hard usually fibrous outer layer of some fruits especially nuts
- hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles
- the housing or outer covering of something
- the exterior covering of a bird's egg
- a very light narrow racing boat
- ammunition consisting of a cylindrical metal casing containing an explosive charge and a projectile; fired from a large gun
- The covering, or outside part, of a nut.
- (architecture) Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in, as the shell of a house.
- The hard calcareous covering of a bird egg.
- A garment, usually worn by women, such as a shirt, blouse, or top, with short sleeves or no sleeves, that often fastens in the rear.
- (nautical, rigging) The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve.
- (nautical) The watertight outer covering of the hull of a vessel, often made with planking or metal plating.
- A concave rough cast-iron tool in which a convex lens is ground to shape.
- (figuratively) The empty outward form of someone or something.
- (music) A string instrument, as a lyre, whose acoustical chamber is formed like a shell.
- In formal debating, a set of proposed rules to be followed, with set penalties for violating them.
- A psychological barrier to social interaction.
- (figuratively) The outward form independent of what is inside.
- (British, education) One or more school grades within secondary education, at certain public schools.
- The thin coating of copper on an electrotype.
- (chemistry) A set of atomic orbitals that have the same principal quantum number.
- (music) The body of a drum; the often wooden, often cylindrical acoustic chamber, with or without rims added for tuning and for attaching the drum head.
- One of the outer layers of skin of an onion.
- An engraved copper roller used in print works.
- The calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates.
- The conjoined scutes that constitute the "shell" (carapace) of a tortoise or turtle.
- (UK, slang) A person's ear.
- (geology) The accreted mineral formed around a hollow geode.
- An emaciated person.
- (nautical) A light boat whose frame is covered with thin wood, impermeable fabric, or water-proofed paper; a racing shell or dragon boat.
- (computing) An operating system software user interface, whose primary purpose is to launch other programs and control their interactions; the user's command interpreter. Shell is a way to separate the internal complexity of the implementation of the command from the user. The internals can change while the user experience/interface remains the same.
- (weaponry) A hollow, usually spherical or cylindrical projectile fired from a siege mortar or a smoothbore cannon. It contains an explosive substance designed to be ignited by a fuse or by percussion at the target site so that it will burst and scatter at high velocity its contents and fragments. Formerly called a bomb.
- (business) A legal entity that has no operations.
- (in the plural) Husks of cacao seeds, a decoction of which is sometimes used as a substitute or adulterant for cocoa and its products such as chocolate.
- (by extension) Any mollusk having such a covering.
- (figuratively) A person otherwise diminished.
- The overlapping hard plates comprising the armor covering the armadillo's body.
- (weaponry) The casing of a self-contained single-unit artillery projectile.
- (weaponry) The cartridge of a breechloading firearm; a load; a bullet; a round.
- (phonology) The onset and coda of a syllable.
- A coarse or flimsy coffin; a thin interior coffin enclosed within a more substantial one.
- A pod containing the seeds of certain plants, such as the legume Phaseolus vulgaris.
- An unmarked vehicle for carrying corpses from a crime scene.
- (entomology) The exoskeleton or wing covers of certain insects.
- (engineering) A gouge bit or shell bit.
verb
- remove from its shell or outer covering
- use explosives on
- create by using explosives
- fall out of the pod or husk
- come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
- look for and collect shells by the seashore
- remove the husks from
- hit the pitches of hard and regularly
- (topology) To form a shelling.
- To form shallow, irregular cracks (in a coating).
- (computing, intransitive) To switch to a shell or command line.
- (cricket, slang, transitive) To drop (the ball).
- (intransitive) To cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk.
- (intransitive) To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc.
- (informal) To disburse or give up money, to pay. (Often used with out).
- To bombard, to fire projectiles at, especially with artillery.
- To remove the outer covering or shell of something.
noun
- the flesh of wild animals that is used for food
- a single play of a sport or other contest
- a contest with rules to determine a winner
- frivolous or trifling behavior
- a secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal)
- the game equipment needed in order to play a particular game
- animal hunted for food or sport
- (tennis) a division of play during which one player serves
- an amusement or pastime
- (games) the score at a particular point or the score needed to win
- your occupation or line of work
- A playful activity that may be unstructured; an amusement or pastime.
- The number of points necessary to win a game.
- (UK, in the plural) A school subject during which sports are practised.
- One's manner, style, or performance in playing a game.
- (hip-hop, with the) The music industry.
- (countable, figuratively) Something that resembles a game with rules, despite not being designed.
- That which is gained, such as the stake in a game.
- (countable) A questionable or unethical practice in pursuit of a goal.
- (countable) The equipment that enables such activity, particularly as packaged under a title.
- (countable, military) An exercise simulating warfare, whether computerized or involving human participants.
- (countable) Ellipsis of video game.
- (countable, usually in the singular, informal) A field of gainful activity, as an industry or profession.
- (uncountable) Wild animals hunted for food.
- (uncountable, slang) Mastery; the ability to excel at something.
- (slang) Prostitution. (Now chiefly in on the game.)
- (countable) An activity described by a set of rules, especially for the purpose of entertainment, often competitive or having an explicit goal.
- (card games) In some games, a point awarded to the player whose cards add up to the largest sum.
- (countable) A particular instance of playing a game.
- (uncountable, informal, used mostly for men) The ability to seduce or woo someone, usually by strategy.
adj
verb
- place a bet on
- (intransitive) To play card games, board games, or video games.
- (transitive) To exploit loopholes in a system or bureaucracy in a way which defeats or nullifies the spirit of the rules in effect, usually to obtain a result which otherwise would be unobtainable.
- (intransitive) To gamble.
- (transitive, seduction community, slang, of males) To perform premeditated seduction strategy.
noun
- (uncountable) Fuller's earth, clay pellets, wood chips, or other similar loose absorbent materials used for the waste of pet animals.
- (uncountable) Straw, grass, and similar loose material used as bedding for people or animals.
- (countable, collective) The whole group of live young born at the same time, typically in reference to mammals or (figurative, derogatory) unpleasant people or objects.
- (countable, uncommon) A bed, a substrate formed from loose materials.
- (uncountable) Waste or debris, originally any mess but now particularly trash left or thrown on the ground.
- (uncountable) Animal bedding together with its dung.
- (countable, loosely) Any of the other similar conveyances, such as sedan chairs, hammock litters, and the like.
- (countable) A mobile bed or couch transported upon or suspended from poles placed over human shoulders or animal backs.
- (uncountable) The layer of fallen leaves and other loose organic material on the ground in a forest.
- (medicine, countable) Synonym of stretcher, such a vehicle used for transporting the sick and injured, inclusive of designs carried in the hand.
- material used to provide a bed for animals
- rubbish carelessly dropped or left about (especially in public places)
- the offspring at one birth of a multiparous mammal
- conveyance consisting of a chair or bed carried on two poles by bearers
adj
verb
- (transitive) To supply (cattle etc.) with litter; to cover with litter, as the floor of a stall.
- (intransitive) To drop or throw trash without properly disposing of it (as discarding in public areas rather than trash receptacles).
- (transitive) To scatter carelessly about.
- (intransitive) To produce a litter of young.
- (transitive) To give birth to, in the manner of animals.
- (transitive) To strew (a place) with scattered articles.
- (intransitive) To be supplied with litter as bedding; to sleep or make one's bed in litter.
- strew
- give birth to a litter of animals
- make a place messy by strewing garbage around
noun
- plant materials and animal waste used as fuel
- the total mass of living matter in a given unit area
- The total mass of all, or a specified category of, living things within a specific area, habitat, etc.
- The total mass of a living thing or a part thereof (such as a cell).
- Organic matter from living things which were recently alive (especially vegetation) used as a fuel or source of energy, especially if cultivated for that purpose; also, fuel produced from such organic matter; biofuel.
noun
- (uncountable) The hard substance from which animals' horns are made, sometimes used by man as a material for making various objects.
- (architecture) The Ionic volute.
- A vessel made from a horn, to contain drink, ink, gunpowder, etc.
- (chiefly sports) A sound signaling the expiration of time.
- (countable) A diacritical mark that may be attached to the top right corner of the letters o and u when writing in Vietnamese, thus forming ơ and ư.
- (carpentry) A curved projection on the fore part of a plane.
- (vulgar, slang, with definite article) An erection of the penis.
- (military) In naval mine warfare, a projection from the mine shell of some contact mines which, when broken or bent by contact, causes the mine to fire.
- (informal, music, countable) Generally, any brass wind instrument.
- An antler.
- (slang, countable) A telephone.
- (botany) An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed (Asclepias).
- Any similar real or imaginary growth or projection such as the elongated tusk of a narwhal, the eyestalk of a snail, the pointed growth on the nose of a rhinoceros, or the hornlike projection on the head of a demon or similar.
- One of the two corners of a crescent, particularly of the crescent moon
- One of the projections at the four corners of the Jewish altar of burnt offering.
- The high pommel of a saddle; also, either of the projections on a lady's saddle for supporting the leg.
- (countable, zootomy) A hard growth of keratin that protrudes from the top of the head of certain animals, usually paired.
- (nautical) The outer end of a crosstree; also, one of the projections forming the jaws of a gaff, boom, etc.
- (countable, automotive) A loud alarm, especially one on a motor vehicle.
- (countable, geography) A peninsula or projecting tract of land.
- (countable) A conical device used to direct waves.
- (countable) Any of several musical wind instruments.
- (countable, music) An instrument resembling a musical horn and used to signal others.
- one of the bony outgrowths on the heads of certain ungulates
- a noisemaker (as at parties or games) that makes a loud noise when you blow through it
- any hard protuberance from the head of an organism that is similar to or suggestive of a horn
- a noise made by the driver of an automobile to give warning
- a device having the shape of a horn
- the material (mostly keratin) that covers the horns of ungulates and forms hooves and claws and nails
- a device on an automobile for making a warning noise
- a brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves
- a brass musical instrument consisting of a conical tube that is coiled into a spiral and played by means of valves
- a high pommel of a Western saddle (usually metal covered with leather)
- an alarm device that makes a loud warning sound
verb
noun
- Material, made from the polished skin of a calf, sheep, goat or other animal, used like paper for writing.
- A document made on such material.
- Stiff paper imitating that material.
- The envelope of the coffee grains, inside the pulp.
- The creamy to tanned color of parchment.
- A diploma (traditionally written on parchment).
- a superior paper resembling sheepskin
- skin of a sheep or goat prepared for writing on
noun
- Any artificial animal feed in pellet form.
- coarsely ground grain in the form of pellets (as for pet food)
- Something that has been kibbled, especially grain for use as animal feed.
- An iron bucket used in mines for hoisting anything to the surface.
- (fandom slang) In the Transformers fandom, pieces of a toy or figure necessary for one mode, but appearing out of place or unnecessary in the other.
- (historical) A mallet used in the game of trap ball.
- an iron bucket used for hoisting in wells or mining
verb
noun
adj
noun
- (agriculture) Coarse or rough plant material such as hay and silage used as animal fodder.
- (nutrition) Substances, generally of plant origin, consisting mostly of complex carbohydrates which are undigested when eaten by humans, and which therefore help the passage of food and waste through the alimentary tract; dietary fibre.
- Originally (archaic), garbage, rubbish, or waste; later (agriculture) the portions of a crop which are discarded, such as husks, stalks, etc.; also, agricultural waste such as weeds.
- coarse, indigestible plant food low in nutrients; its bulk stimulates intestinal peristalsis
adj
noun
- Any inorganic material (as distinguished from animal or vegetable).
- solid homogeneous inorganic substances occurring in nature having a definite chemical composition
- (Ireland, South Africa, Nigeria, informal) A soft drink, particularly a single serve bottle or can.
- (geology) Any naturally occurring material that has a (more or less) definite chemical composition and characteristic physical properties; especially, an inorganic one.
- (nutrition) Any inorganic element that is essential to nutrition.
- (British) Mineral water.
noun
- a collection of live animals for study or display
- the facility where wild animals are housed for exhibition
- The enclosure where they are kept.
- A diverse or miscellaneous group.
- A collection of live wild animals as an exhibition historically associated with the aristocracy and considered a precursor of modern zoos.
noun
- Anything made from such fibers, such as a hassock, basket or thick mat.
- (music) One who sings in the bass range.
- (music) An instrument that plays in the bass range, in particular a double bass, bass guitar, electric bass or bass synthesiser.
- The perch; any of various marine and freshwater fish resembling the perch, all within the order of Perciformes.
- A low spectrum of sound tones.
- (music notation) The clef sign that indicates that the pitch of the notes is below middle C; a bass clef.
- The fibrous inner bark of the linden or lime tree, used for making mats.
- (music) A section of a musical group that produces low-pitched sound, lower than the baritone and tenor.
- Fibers from other plants, especially palm trees
- the lowest part in polyphonic music
- an adult male singer with the lowest voice
- the lowest adult male singing voice
- the lowest part of the musical range
- the member with the lowest range of a family of musical instruments
- any of various North American freshwater fish with lean flesh (especially of the genus Micropterus)
- nontechnical name for any of numerous edible marine and freshwater spiny-finned fishes
- the lean flesh of a saltwater fish of the family Serranidae
adj
verb
noun
- the liquid part that can be extracted from plant or animal tissue by squeezing or cooking
- electric current
- any of several liquids of the body
- energetic vitality
- (uncountable, slang, vulgar, sex) The vaginal lubrication that a female naturally produces when sexually aroused.
- (uncountable, slang) The amount charged by a bookmaker for betting services.
- Petrol; gasoline.
- Battery life.
- (bodybuilding) Steroids.
- (slang) The leftover liquid of some wet or damp substance.
- (countable, uncountable) A liquid made from plant, especially fruit.
- Electricity.
- (uncountable, slang) Liquor.
- Vitality; strength.
- (physiology) bodily secretion, especially that secreted by the glands of the stomach and intestines.
- Political power.
- (uncountable, slang, music) Musical agreement between instrumentalists.
- (informal) The liquid that is used to submerge a substance kept in a container
- (countable) A beverage made of juice.
- (Scotland) A soft drink.
- (uncountable, slang, vulgar, sex) Semen.
adj
verb
noun
- any of various substances of either mineral origin or plant or animal origin; they are solid at normal temperatures and insoluble in water
- Beeswax.
- (US, slang) Any of a class of drugs with weed oil and butane as main ingredients; hash oil.
- (US, dialect) A thick syrup made by boiling down the sap of the sugar maple and then cooling it.
- Any preparation containing wax, used as a polish.
- Any oily, water-resistant, solid or semisolid substance; normally long-chain hydrocarbons, alcohols or esters.
- (rare) The process of growing.
- Earwax.
- (uncountable, music, informal) The phonograph record format for music.
verb
- increase in phase
- go up or advance
- cover with wax
- (intransitive, of the moon) To appear larger each night as a progression from a new moon to a full moon.
- (intransitive, literary) To greaten.
- (transitive, informal) To defeat utterly.
- (slang) To spout so much nonsense that the other person starts doubting which of you two is insane.
- (transitive, slang) To kill, especially to murder a person.
- (intransitive, copulative, literary) To increasingly assume the specified characteristic.
- (transitive) To coat with wax or a similar material.
- (intransitive) To form a wax (a thick maple syrup).
- (transitive) To remove hair at the roots from (a part of the body) by coating the skin with a film of wax that is then pulled away sharply.
- (transitive) To apply wax to (something, such as a shoe, a floor, a car, or an apple), usually to make it shiny.
- (intransitive, of the tide) To move from low tide to high tide.
adj
noun
- Any of various similarly granular materials prepared from other sources, such as bones or wood.
- (countable) Food served or eaten as a repast.
- The ground-up edible part of various grains, used as a basis of food or feed; either flour or a coarser blend than flour (usage varies).
- (UK dialectal) A speck or spot.
- A part; a fragment; a portion.
- Any of various other granular or powdery materials, either ground by humans or occurring in nature, named figuratively after a resemblance to grain meal.
- (uncountable, informal) A break taken by a police officer in order to eat.
- (countable) Food that is prepared and eaten, usually at a specific time, and usually in a comparatively large quantity.
- any of the occasions for eating food that occur by custom or habit at more or less fixed times
- the food served and eaten at one time
- coarsely ground foodstuff; especially seeds of various cereal grasses or pulse
verb
noun
- Unmanufactured material; raw material.
- 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.
- A U-shaped wire fastener, made of thick wire, used to attach fence wire or other material to posts or structures.
- 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
- any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue
- anything that provides mental stimulus for thinking
- (uncountable, figuratively) Anything that nourishes or sustains.
- (uncountable, MLE) Any illegal substance or illegal substances, drugs.
- (uncountable) Any solid substance that can be consumed by living organisms, especially by eating, in order to sustain life.
- (countable) A foodstuff, a type of food.
noun
- any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue
- any substance (such as a chemical element or inorganic compound) that can be taken in by a green plant and used in organic synthesis
- A source of nourishment, such as food, that can be metabolized by an organism to give energy and build tissue.
adj
noun
- Animal tissue regarded as food; meat (but sometimes excluding fish).
- The human body as a physical entity.
- (religion) The evil and corrupting principle working in man.
- The soft, often edible, parts of fruits or vegetables.
- A yellowish pink color; the color of some Caucasian human skin.
- The skin of a human or animal.
- (religion) The mortal body of a human being, contrasted with the spirit or soul.
- The soft tissue of the body, especially muscle and fat.
- (by extension) Bare arms, bare legs, bare torso.
- a soft moist part of a fruit
- alternative names for the body of a human being
- the soft tissue of the body of a vertebrate: mainly muscle tissue and fat
verb
- (transitive) To glut.
- (transitive) To reward (a hound, bird of prey etc.) with flesh of the animal killed, to excite it for further hunting; to train (an animal) to have an appetite for flesh.
- (transitive) To bury (something, especially a weapon) in flesh.
- (transitive) To put flesh on; to fatten.
- To remove the flesh from the skin during the making of leather.
- remove adhering flesh from (hides) when preparing leather manufacture
noun
- That which is used to feed.
- One who feeds, or takes in food.
- (US, law) A judge whose law clerks are often selected to become clerks for the Supreme Court.
- (video games, derogatory) A player whose character is killed by the opposing player or team more than once, deliberately or through lack of skills and experience, thus helping the opposing side.
- A branch line of a railway.
- One who feeds, or gives food to another.
- One who, or that which, feeds material into something (especially a machine).
- A tributary stream, especially of a canal.
- The participant in feederism who feeds the other (the feedee).
- (mining) Synonym of blower (“fissure from which firedamp issues”).
- (education) Ellipsis of feeder school.
- (shipbuilding, navigation) A feeder ship.
- A transmission line that feeds the electricity for an electricity substation, or for a transmitter.
- an animal that feeds on a particular source of food
- someone who consumes food for nourishment
- an outdoor device that supplies food for wild birds
- an animal being fattened or suitable for fattening
- a branch that flows into the main stream
- a machine that automatically provides a supply of some material
noun
- a garment made of animal pelts or synthetic fur
- the dressed hairy coat of a mammal
- dense coat of fine silky hairs on mammals (e.g., cat or seal or weasel)
- (informal, uncountable) Human body hair, especially when abundant.
- (heraldry, countable) One of several patterns or diapers used as tinctures, such as ermine and vair.
- (countable) A furry, a member of the furry fandom.
- (uncountable) The layer of epithelial debris on a tongue.
- (uncountable) The hairy coat of various mammal species, especially when fine, soft and thick.
- (vulgar, slang, uncountable) Sexual attractiveness.
- (uncountable) The hairy skins of animals used as a material for clothing.
- (vulgar, slang, uncountable) Pubic hair.
- (uncountable) The deposit formed on the interior of boilers and other vessels by hard water.
- (countable) A garment made of fur.
- (uncountable) A thick pile of fabric.
- (hunting, uncountable) Rabbits and hares, as opposed to partridges and pheasants (called feathers).
- (uncountable) The soft, downy covering on the skin of a peach.
- (countable) An animal pelt used to make, trim or line clothing.
conj
prep
verb
noun
- Matted material; rough massed hair, fibres etc.
- Coarse shredded tobacco.
- (West Country) Friend; mate; buddy.
- (slang, vulgar) An act of sex.
- Any of several species of sea birds in the family Phalacrocoracidae (cormorant family), especially a common shag or European shag (Phalacrocorax aristotelis), found on European and African coasts.
- (slang, vulgar) A casual sexual partner.
- (often attributive) A deliberately messy, shaggy hairstyle.
- (dance, sometimes capitalized) A swing dance.
- A type of rough carpet pile.
- (Northwestern Ontario) A fundraising dance in honour of a couple engaged to be married.
- a fabric with long coarse nap
- a lively dance step consisting of hopping on each foot in turn
- slang for sexual intercourse
- a strong coarse tobacco that has been shredded
- a matted tangle of hair or fiber
adj
verb
- To chase after; especially, to chase after and return (a ball) hit usually out of play.
- (transitive) To make hairy or shaggy; to roughen.
- (UK, Ireland, Australia, intransitive, slang, vulgar) To have sex.
- (India, transitive, slang, vulgar) To masturbate.
- (dance, uncommon) To perform the dance called the shag.
- (UK, Ireland, Australia, transitive, slang, vulgar) To have sex with.
- (intransitive) To shake, wiggle around.
- dance the shag
noun
- Something extracted, an extract, as from a plant or an organ of an animal etc.
- A person's origin or ancestry.
- (dentistry) The removal of a tooth from its socket.
- (coffee preparation, by ellipsis) The extraction yield of a brewed coffee.
- (military) The act of removing someone from a hostile area to a secure location.
- The act of extracting or the condition of being extracted.
- the action of taking out something (especially using effort or force)
- properties attributable to your ancestry
- the process of obtaining something from a mixture or compound by chemical or physical or mechanical means
verb
- put together out of artificial or natural components or parts
- create by linking linguistic units
- reassemble mentally
- draw with suitable instruments and under specified conditions
- make by combining materials and parts
- create by organizing and linking ideas, arguments, or concepts
- (transitive) To build or form (something) by assembling parts.
- (transitive, geometry) To draw (a geometric figure) by following precise specifications and using geometric tools and techniques.
- (transitive, grammar) To build (a sentence, an argument, etc.) by arranging words or ideas.
noun
verb
- put together out of artificial or natural components or parts
- concoct something artificial or untrue
- (transitive, cooking) To cut up an animal as preparation for cooking, particularly used in reference to fowl.
- (transitive) To invent and form; to forge; to devise falsely.
- (transitive) To form into a whole by uniting its parts; to construct; to build.
- (transitive) To form by art and labor; to manufacture; to produce.
verb
- put together out of artificial or natural components or parts
- concoct something artificial or untrue
- produce naturally
- create or produce in a mechanical way
- (transitive) To work (raw or partly wrought materials) into suitable forms for use.
- (derogatory) To fabricate; to create false evidence to support a point.
- To make things, usually on a large scale, with tools and either physical labor or machinery.
noun
- the act of making something (a product) from raw materials
- the organized action of making of goods and services for sale
- Anything made, formed or produced; product.
- The action or process of making goods systematically or on a large scale.
- (horology) A watch manufacturer that makes its own parts, rather than assembling watches from parts obtained from other firms.
- (figuratively) The process of such production; generation, creation.
adj
- Made from the skin of a still-born animal.
- (biology) Imperfectly formed or developed; rudimentary; sterile.
- (medicine, pharmacology, rare) Causing abortion; abortifacient.
- (medicine, of a disease) Having a short and mild progression, without pronounced symptoms.
- Coming to nothing; failing in its effect. .
- (medicine) Cutting short; acting to halt or slow the progress (of a disease).
- failing to accomplish an intended result
adj
noun
- Any inorganic material (as distinguished from animal or vegetable).
- solid homogeneous inorganic substances occurring in nature having a definite chemical composition
- (Ireland, South Africa, Nigeria, informal) A soft drink, particularly a single serve bottle or can.
- (geology) Any naturally occurring material that has a (more or less) definite chemical composition and characteristic physical properties; especially, an inorganic one.
- (nutrition) Any inorganic element that is essential to nutrition.
- (British) Mineral water.
adj
verb
adj
- Taken from a living animal.
- (only used attributively) Having life; that is alive.
- Outstanding, top-notch, exhilarating.
- (entertainment, performing) Recorded from a performance in front of an audience.
- (broadcasting) Being broadcast ("on the air"), as it happens.
- (of a performance or speech) In person.
- (engineering) Imparting power; having motion.
- Being in a state of ignition; burning.
- (programming) Of an object or value: that may potentially be used in the future execution of a program.
- Having active properties; being energized.
- (film) Featuring humans; not animated, in the phrases “live actors” or “live action”.
- (sports) Still in active play.
- Operational; in actual use rather than in testing etc.
- (poker) Being a bet which can be raised by the bettor, usually in reference to a blind or straddle.
- Being in existence; actual.
- Able to fire or explode (of firearms or explosives).
- (linguistics) Of a syllable in languages such as Thai and Burmese: resonating, not ending abruptly.
- Of an environment where sound is recorded: having noticeable reverberation.
- (card games) Of a card: not yet dealt or played.
- (circuitry) Electrically charged or energized, usually indicating that the item may cause electrocution if touched.
- highly reverberant
- elastic; rebounds readily
- possessing life
- charged or energized with electricity
- in current use or ready for use
- capable of erupting
- abounding with life and energy
- charged with an explosive
- of current relevance
- actually being performed at the time of hearing or viewing
- exerting force or containing energy
adv
verb
- (transitive) To act habitually in conformity with; to practice; to exemplify in one's way of life.
- (intransitive, informal) (of an object) to have its proper place; to normally be stored.
- (intransitive, followed by on, upon, or by) To maintain or support one's existence; to provide for oneself; to feed; to subsist.
- (intransitive) To be alive; to have life.
- (intransitive) To have permanent residence somewhere, to inhabit, to reside.
- (intransitive) To outlast danger; (of a ship or boat) to float.
- (intransitive, hyperbolic) To cope.
- (intransitive) To pass life in a specified manner.
- (transitive) To spend, as one's life; to pass; to maintain; to continue in, constantly or habitually.
- (intransitive, informal) To make the most of life; to experience a full, rich life.
- (intransitive) To survive; to persevere; to continue.
- (intransitive) To endure in memory; to escape oblivion.
- pursue a positive and satisfying existence
- support oneself
- be an inhabitant of or reside in
- have life, be alive
- have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations
- lead a certain kind of life; live in a certain style
- continue to live and avoid dying