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noun
- the rind of an orange
- strips of orange peel cooked in sugar and coated with sugar
- A color between orange and amber, like that of an orange peel.
- (manufacturing, uncountable) A surface defect in which sheet metal has a rough texture, similar to an orange peel, due to the metal grains being relatively large.
- An uneven surface resembling orange peel, especially cellulite or an imperfect finish on a spray-painted object such as a car.
- (countable, uncountable, literally) The skin of an orange, including the pith.
- (botany) A common name of a species of Clematis indigenous to eastern Eurasia, Clematis orientalis.
noun
- orange fruit resembling a plum; edible when fully ripe
- any of several tropical trees of the genus Diospyros
- The orange fruit of any of various species of trees in the genus Diospyros, especially Diospyros kaki (the kaki or Japanese persimmon) or Diospyros virginiana (the wild American persimmon), which is sweet when ripe and astringent when immature.
- The tree this fruit grows on, generally one of two species of ebony: Diospyros kaki (Asian) or Diospyros virginiana (North American).
noun
name
- A barangay of Bais, Negros Oriental, Philippines.
- A barangay of Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines.
- A barangay of Miagao, Iloilo, Philippines.
- A barangay of Ormoc, Leyte, Philippines.
- A municipality of Negros Oriental, Philippines.
- The capital city of Valencia canton, Ecuador.
- The capital city of the autonomous community of Valencia, Spain.
- A borough of Butler County, Pennsylvania.
- A census-designated place in Valencia County, New Mexico.
- A barangay of Tayabas, Quezon, Philippines.
- A barangay of Carcar, Cebu, Philippines.
- A canton of Los Ríos Province, Ecuador.
- An area of the barrio of Universidad in the city of San Juan, Puerto Rico.
- A barangay of Virac, Catanduanes, Philippines.
- A town in northeastern Trinidad island, Trinidad and Tobago.
- A city in Bukidnon, Philippines.
- A town and municipality of Córdoba department, in northern Colombia.
- A municipality of Bohol, Philippines.
- A barangay of Lingig, Surigao del Sur, Philippines.
- The capital city of the state of Carabobo, Venezuela.
- A province of the autonomous community of Valencia, Spain.
- An autonomous community of Spain; in full, Valencian Community.
- A habitational surname from Spanish.
- A neighborhood of the city of Santa Clarita, Los Angeles County, California.
- A female given name.
- A barangay of Cagdianao, Dinagat Islands, Philippines.
- A barangay of Alegria, Cebu, Philippines.
adj
noun
- A pale yellow-orange colour, like that of an apricot fruit.
- A round sweet and juicy stone fruit, resembling peach or plum in taste, with a yellow-orange flesh, lightly fuzzy skin and a large seed inside.
- downy yellow to rosy-colored fruit resembling a small peach
- A dog with an orange-coloured coat.
- The apricot tree, Prunus armeniaca.
- (sniper slang) The junction of the brain and brain stem on a target, used as an aiming point to ensure a one-shot kill.
- Asian tree having clusters of usually white blossoms and edible fruit resembling the peach
- a shade of pink tinged with yellow
noun
- a segment of a citrus fruit
- one of several parts or pieces that fit with others to constitute a whole object
- a division of an orchestra containing all instruments of the same class
- (geometry) the area created by a plane cutting through a solid
- a small team of policemen working as part of a police platoon
- a distinct region or subdivision of a territorial or political area or community or group of people
- a small army unit usually having a special function
- one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole
- a specialized division of a large organization
- a very thin slice (of tissue or mineral or other substance) for examination under a microscope
- a self-contained part of a larger composition (written or musical)
- a small class of students who are part of a larger course but are taught separately
- the cutting of or into body tissues or organs (especially by a surgeon as part of an operation)
- a land unit equal to 1 square mile
- A part of a document, especially a major part; often notated with §.
- (surgery, colloquial) Ellipsis of Caesarean section.
- (music) A group of instruments in an orchestra.
- (Philippines, education) A class in a school; a group of students in a regularly scheduled meeting with a teacher in a certain school year or semester or school quarter year.
- (geology) A sequence of rock layers.
- (topology) A function that generalizes the notion of the graph of a function; formally, a continuous right inverse to the projection map of a fiber bundle.
- A cross-section (image that shows an object as if cut along a plane).
- (botany) A taxonomic rank below the genus (and subgenus if present), but above the species.
- (zoology) An informal taxonomic rank below the order ranks and above the family ranks.
- An act or instance of cutting.
- (sciences) thin section, a thin slice of material prepared as a specimen for research.
- (generalizing the topology sense in a different way, sheaf theory) An object which is defined by analogy with sections of fiber bundles but in a more general setting (that of sheaves). Formally, an element of the image of an open set under the action of a (pre-)sheaf.
- (New Zealand) A piece of residential land; a plot.
- (military) A group of 10-15 soldiers led by a non-commissioned officer and forming part of a platoon.
- (aviation) A cross-section perpendicular the longitudinal axis of an aircraft in flight.
- (US, Canada, law and land surveying) Synonym of square mile, a unit of land area, especially in the contexts of Canadian surveys and American land grants and legal property descriptions.
- (surgery) An incision or the act of making an incision.
- A part, piece, subdivision of anything.
- The symbol §, denoting a section of a document.
- A cutting; a part cut out from the rest of something.
- (technology) Angle section, L-section, angle iron, steel angle, slotted angle.
- (archaeology) Archeological section; vertical plane and cross-section of the ground to view its profile and stratigraphy; part of an archeological sequence.
- (generalizing the topology sense, algebra, category theory) A right inverse of a morphism in some category
verb
- divide into segments
- To cut, divide or separate into pieces.
- To reduce to the degree of thinness required for study with the microscope.
- (medicine) To perform a cesarean section on (someone).
- (UK, Australia, New Zealand) To commit (a person) to a hospital for mental health treatment as an involuntary patient. So called after various sections of legal acts regarding mental health.
noun
- A yellowish citrus fruit.
- yellow oval fruit with juicy acidic flesh
- (slang) A defective or inadequate item or individual.
- A more or less bright shade of yellow associated with lemon fruits.
- (geometry) The surface of revolution of a circular arc of angle less than 180° rotated about the straight line passing through the arc’s two endpoints.
- (Cockney rhyming slang, shortened from “lemon flavour”) Favor.
- A semitropical evergreen tree, Citrus limon, that bears such fruits.
- A lemon shark (Negaprion brevirostris).
- (uncountable, rare) Lemon juice.
- a strong yellow color
- a distinctive tart flavor characteristic of lemons
- an artifact (especially an automobile) that is defective or unsatisfactory
- a small evergreen tree that originated in Asia but is widely cultivated for its fruit
adj
verb
noun
- The calyx of an orange.
- A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, such as a door.
- (aviation) The end of a runway.
- (glassblowing) The oblate spheroidal mass of glass attaching a stem to either its bowl or foot.
- A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass.
- A mechanical device designed to be pressed with a finger in order to open or close an electric circuit or to activate a mechanism.
- (generally with the) The means for initiating a nuclear strike or similar cataclysmic occurrence.
- (lutherie, bowmaking) Synonym of adjuster.
- (poker) The player who is last to act after the flop, turn and river, who possesses the button.
- (curling) The center (bullseye) of the house.
- (comedy) The final joke at the end of a comedic act (such as a sketch, set, or scene).
- The head of an unexpanded mushroom.
- A small white blotch on a cat's coat.
- (lutherie) In an instrument of the violin family, the near-semicircular shape extending from the top of the back plate of the instrument, meeting the heel of the neck.
- (slang) A button man; a professional assassin.
- A globule of metal remaining on an assay cupel or in a crucible, after fusion.
- (botany) A bud.
- (graphical user interface) An on-screen control that can be selected as an activator of an attached function.
- (television) The punchy or suspenseful line of dialogue that concludes a scene.
- (poker) A plastic disk used to represent the person in last position in a poker game; also dealer's button.
- (US) A badge worn on clothes, fixed with a pin through the fabric.
- (fencing) The soft circular tip at the end of a foil.
- (South Africa, slang) A methaqualone tablet (used as a recreational drug).
- (zoology) Pedicle; the attachment point for antlers in cervids.
- The least amount of care or interest; a whit or jot.
- (lutherie) Synonym of endbutton, part of a violin-family instrument.
- A raised pavement marker to further indicate the presence of a pavement-marking painted stripe.
- (slang) The clitoris.
- The final segment of a rattlesnake's rattle.
- (clothing) A knob or disc that is passed through a loop or (buttonhole), serving as a fastener.
- an electrical switch operated by pressing
- a specific area or icon in graphical user interface systems that is clicked or pressed in order to select a command or perform an action
- any of various plant parts that resemble buttons
- a female sexual organ homologous to the penis
- a device that when pressed will release part of a mechanism
- any artifact that resembles a button
- a round flat badge displaying information and suitable for pinning onto a garment
- a round fastener sewn to shirts and coats etc. to fit through buttonholes
verb
noun
- A rudimentary fruit.
- The full number of eggs set under a hen.
- The pattern of a tartan, etc.
- The amount by which the teeth of a saw protrude to the side in order to create the kerf.
- A collection of various objects for a particular purpose.
- (horticulture) A small tuber or bulb used instead of seed, particularly onion sets and potato sets.
- (engineering) A permanent change of shape caused by excessive strain, as from compression, tension, bending, twisting, etc.
- A matching collection of similar things. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 2, Noun.)
- (music) A musical performance by a band, disc jockey, etc., consisting of several musical pieces.
- (volleyball) A complete series of points, forming part of a match.
- (exercise) A group of repetitions of a single exercise performed one after the other without rest.
- A young plant fit for setting out; a slip; shoot.
- A device for receiving broadcast radio waves (or, more recently, broadcast data); a radio or television.
- (tennis) A complete series of games, forming part of a match.
- A group of people, usually meeting socially or connected through some shared interest, activity, attribute, etc.
- A young oyster when first attached.
- The scenery for a film or play.
- (poker, slang) Three of a kind, especially if two cards are in one's hand and the third is on the board. Compare trips (“three of a kind, especially with two cards on the board and one in one's hand”).
- The setting of the sun or other luminary; (by extension) the close of the day.
- (music) A drum kit, a drum set.
- (piledriving) A piece placed temporarily upon the head of a pile when the latter cannot otherwise be reached by the weight, or hammer.
- An object made up of several parts.
- A tool for dressing forged iron.
- A punch for setting nails in wood.
- (volleyball) The act of directing the ball to a teammate for an attack.
- Collectively, the crop of young oysters in any locality.
- (UK, education) A class group in a subject where pupils are divided by ability.
- (literally and figuratively) General movement; direction; drift; tendency.
- Alternative form of sett (“piece of quarried stone”).
- A bias of mind; an attitude or pattern of behaviour.
- Alternative form of sett (“a hole made and lived in by a badger”).
- (dance) The initial or basic formation of dancers.
- (colloquial) The manner, state, or quality of setting or fitting; fit.
- (in plural, “sets”, mathematics, informal) Set theory.
- (set theory) A collection of zero or more objects, possibly infinite in size, and disregarding any order or repetition of the objects which may be contained within it.
- the general locations and area where a movie’s, a film’s, or a video’s scenery is arranged to be filmed also including places for actors, assorted crew, director, producers which are typically not filmed.
- A series or group of something. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 4, Noun)
- The camber of a curved roofing tile.
- Alternative form of sett (“pattern of threads and yarns”).
- an unofficial association of people or groups
- a group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so used
- several exercises intended to be done in series
- (mathematics) an abstract collection of numbers or symbols
- (psychology) being temporarily ready to respond in a particular way
- a relatively permanent inclination to react in a particular way
- the process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization
- the act of putting something in position
- the descent of a heavenly body below the horizon
- a unit of play in tennis or squash
- any electronic equipment that receives or transmits radio or tv signals
- representation consisting of the scenery and other properties used to identify the location of a dramatic production
adj
- Intent, determined (to do something).
- Rigid, solidified.
- Fixed in one’s opinion.
- Fixed in position.
- Ready, prepared.
- (of hair) Fixed in a certain style.
- Prearranged.
- determined or decided upon as by an authority
- situated in a particular spot or position
- set down according to a plan
- fixed and unmoving
- converted to solid form (as concrete)
- (usually followed by ‘to’ or ‘for’) on the point of or strongly disposed
- being below the horizon
verb
- (transitive, volleyball) To direct (the ball) to a teammate for an attack.
- (transitive) To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle.
- (intransitive, country dancing) To acknowledge a dancing partner by facing him or her and moving first to one side and then to the other, while she or he does the opposite.
- (transitive) To put in a specified condition or state; to cause to be.
- (transitive, bridge) To defeat a contract.
- To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to assign.
- (transitive) To punch (a nail) into wood so that its head is below the surface.
- (transitive) To introduce or describe.
- (transitive) To put (something) down, to rest.
- To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.
- (UK, education) To divide a class group in a subject according to ability
- (intransitive, of fruit) To be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to germinate or form.
- (ambitransitive) To fit music to words.
- To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state.
- (transitive) To compile, to make (a puzzle or challenge).
- (transitive) To arrange (type).
- (ambitransitive) To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant.
- To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare.
- (transitive) To locate (a play, etc.); to assign a backdrop to, geographically or temporally.
- (transitive) To adjust.
- To extend and bring into position; to spread.
- (transitive) To prepare (a stage or film set).
- (transitive) To arrange with dishes and cutlery, to set the table.
- To cause (a domestic fowl) to sit on eggs to brood.
- (intransitive, now dialectal) To sit or lie (easily etc.) on the stomach; to be digested in a certain manner.
- (intransitive) To solidify.
- (transitive) To attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place.
- (transitive) To start (a fire).
- To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote.
- (intransitive, Southern US, Midwestern US, dialects) To rest or lie somewhere, on something, etc.; to occupy a certain place.
- To apply oneself; to undertake earnestly.
- (transitive) To fit (someone) up in a situation.
- (transitive) To determine or settle.
- (transitive) To devise and assign (work) to.
- To have a certain direction of motion; to flow; to move on; to tend.
- (intransitive, Southern US, Midwestern US, dialects) To sit (be in a seated position).
- To hunt game with the aid of a setter.
- (intransitive) Of a heavenly body, to disappear below the horizon of a planet, etc, as the latter rotates.
- To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to variegate with objects placed here and there.
- (masonry) To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure.
- (transitive, botany) To produce after pollination.
- (hunting, ambitransitive) Of a dog, to indicate the position of game.
- To place or fix in a setting.
- (Scotland) To suit; to become.
- urge to attack someone
- put or set (seeds, seedlings, or plants) into the ground
- equip with sails or masts
- set in type
- arrange attractively
- alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard
- put into a certain state; cause to be in a certain state
- fix conclusively or authoritatively
- become gelatinous
- disappear beyond the horizon
- set to a certain position or cause to operate correctly
- give a fine, sharp edge to a knife or razor
- insert (a nail or screw below the surface, as into a countersink)
- put into a certain place or abstract location
- produce fruit
- make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc
- put into a position that will restore a normal state
- get ready for a particular purpose or event
- locate
- adapt for performance in a different way
- decide upon or fix definitely
- establish as the highest level or best performance
- fix in a border
- apply or start
- estimate
noun
- small oval citrus fruit with thin sweet rind and very acid pulp
- any of several trees or shrubs of the genus Fortunella bearing small orange-colored edible fruits with thick sweet-flavored skin and sour pulp
- A small, orange citrus-like fruit which is native to Asia (Citrus japonica, syn. Fortunella japonica).
noun
- A shade of orange similar to the flesh of most carrots (also called carrot orange).
- deep orange edible root of the cultivated carrot plant
- A vegetable with a nutritious, juicy, sweet root that is often orange in colour, Daucus carota, family Apiaceae, especially the subspecies sativus.
- (figurative) Any motivational tool; an incentive to do something.
- (slang) A redhead; a ginger-haired person
- (UK, slang, derogatory) Someone from a rural background.
- (UK, slang) A police officer from somewhere within the British Isles, but specifically outside of Greater London.
- perennial plant widely cultivated as an annual in many varieties for its long conical orange edible roots; temperate and tropical regions
- promise of reward as in ‘carrot and stick’
- orange root; important source of carotene
verb
noun
- a mandarin orange of a deep reddish orange color and few seeds
- a variety of mandarin orange that is grown around the Mediterranean and in South Africa
- A type of small, sweet-tasting orange, the result of a hybrid cross between the willowleaf variety of mandarin orange (Citrus × aurantium f. deliciosa) and a sweet orange (Citrus sinensis). Scientific name: Citrus × clementina.
noun
- a small hard fruit
- the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract
- anything that provides inspiration for later work
- one of the outstanding players in a tournament
- a mature fertilized plant ovule consisting of an embryo and its food source and having a protective coat or testa
- (countable) Any small seed-like fruit.
- (countable) A fragment of coral.
- (US slang) A child.
- (sports) The initial position of a competitor or team in a tournament. (seed position)
- (physics) A small particle, bubble, or imperfection that serves as a nucleation point for some process.
- (Internet marketing) A commercial message in a creative format placed on relevant sites on the Internet. (seed idea or seed message)
- The competitor or team occupying a given seed (position).
- (uncountable, collective) An amount of seeds that cannot be readily counted.
- (countable, agriculture) Any propagative portion of a plant which may be sown, such as true seeds, seed-like fruits, tubers, or bulbs.
- A small bubble formed in imperfectly fused glass.
- (countable, figurative) A precursor.
- (uncountable) Semen.
- Race; generation; birth.
- (cryptography, computing) The initialization state of a pseudorandom number generator or similar system.
- (countable, botany) A fertilized and ripened ovule, containing an embryonic plant.
- (video games) (by extension) A unique code that acts as a blueprint for generating a specific game world, determining terrain, structures, and resource placement.
verb
- bear seeds
- help (an enterprise) in its early stages of development by providing seed money
- place (seeds) in or on the ground for future growth
- distribute (players or teams) so that outstanding teams or players will not meet in the early rounds
- remove the seeds from
- inoculate with microorganisms
- go to seed; shed seeds
- sprinkle with silver iodide particles to disperse and cause rain
- (reflexive) To shed seeds (refers to plants)
- (transitive) To start; to provide, assign or determine the initial resources for, position of, state of.
- (slang, vulgar) To ejaculate inside the penetratee during intercourse, especially in the rectum.
- (meteorology) To scatter small particles within (a cloud or airmass) in order to trigger the formation of rain.
- (intransitive) To produce seed.
- (transitive) To cover thinly with something scattered; to ornament with seedlike decorations.
- (intransitive) To grow to maturity.
- (dialectal) simple past and past participle of see
- (intransitive) To be qualified to compete, especially in a quarter-final, semi-final, or final.
- (sports, gaming) To allocate a seeding to a competitor.
- (Internet, transitive) To leave (files) available for others to download through peer-to-peer file sharing protocols (e.g. BitTorrent).
- (transitive) To plant or sow an area with seeds.
adj
noun
- (uncountable) A light pinkish orange color, like that of some melon flesh.
- Genus Citrullus, the watermelon and others
- Genus Cucumis, the true melon (including various cultigens like honeydew and cantaloupes), the horned melon, and others.
- (countable) A mass of adipose tissue found in the forehead of all toothed whales, used to focus and modulate vocalizations.
- Benincasa hispida, the winter melon
- Momordica charantia, the bitter melon
- (countable, slang) The head, the brain.
- (countable, Australia, New Zealand, derogatory) A member of the Green Party, or similar environmental group.
- Alternative form of mellon.
- (countable) The large, round to ovoid fruits that have rinds and are of such plants
- (usually in the plural, slang) The breasts.
- any of various fruit of cucurbitaceous vines including: muskmelons, watermelons, cantaloupes, cucumbers
- any of numerous fruits of the gourd family having a hard rind and sweet juicy flesh
noun
- round yellow to orange fruit of any of several citrus trees
- any citrus tree bearing oranges
- orange color or pigment; any of a range of colors between red and yellow
- any pigment producing the orange color
- (countable) An evergreen tree of the genus Citrus such as Citrus sinensis which yields oranges (the fruit).
- (uncountable) Various drinks:
- An orange-coloured and orange-flavoured soft drink.
- (uncommon) Orange juice.
- (uncountable) The colour of a ripe fruit of an orange tree, midway between red and yellow.
- (countable) Specifically, a sweet orange or Citrus sinensis.
- (countable) Any round citrus fruit with a yellow-red colour when ripe and a sour-sweet taste; the fruit of the orange tree.
- (heraldry) An orange-coloured roundel.
- An orange-coloured and orange-flavoured cordial.
adj
verb
noun
- elongated crescent-shaped yellow fruit with soft sweet flesh
- any of several tropical and subtropical treelike herbs of the genus Musa having a terminal crown of large entire leaves and usually bearing hanging clusters of elongated fruits
- An elongated curved tropical fruit of a banana plant, which grows in bunches and has a creamy flesh and a smooth skin.
- An incorrectly held handstand, often seen in beginners.
- (sports) A banana kick.
- (computer science, colloquial) A catamorphism (from the use of banana brackets in the notation).
- (slang) The penis.
- (uncountable) A yellow color, like that of a banana's skin.
- (derogatory, ethnic slur) A person of East or Southeast Asian descent, considered to be overly assimilated and subservient to white authority.
- The tropical tree-like plant which bears clusters of bananas, a plant of the genus Musa (but sometimes also including plants from Ensete), which has large, elongated leaves.
- (Malaysia, Singapore, derogatory, ethnic slur) A person of Chinese descent who cannot speak Mandarin or any Chinese dialect
- (nuclear physics) A banana equivalent dose.
- (Canada, US, UK, Ireland) In particular, the sweet, yellow fruit of the Cavendish banana cultivar, which may be eaten raw, as distinct from e.g. a plantain for cooking.
adj
noun
- A small, sweet citrus fruit.
- a somewhat flat reddish-orange loose skinned citrus of China
- A figurine of a Chinese person with movable head that was popular in the 1950s. (Cf. bobblehead.)
- A tree of the species Citrus reticulata.
- (sometimes derogatory) A pedantic senior person of influence in academia or literary circles.
- (historical) A high government bureaucrat of the Chinese Empire.
- An orange colour.
- (ornithology) Ellipsis of mandarin duck.
- A pedantic or elitist bureaucrat.
- (informal, British) A senior civil servant.
- shrub or small tree having flattened globose fruit with very sweet aromatic pulp and thin yellow-orange to flame-orange rind that is loose and easily removed; native to southeastern Asia
- a high public official of imperial China
- a member of an elite intellectual or cultural group
- any high government official or bureaucrat
adj
noun
- The round yellow or orange fruit of this plant.
- (informal, automotive) The housing for a differential, built into an axle of a vehicle; the housing and its contents.
- (uncountable) The typical color of the ripe fruit of the pumpkin plant.
- (Australia) Any of a number of cultivars from the genus Cucurbita; known in the US as winter squash.
- (US) A term of endearment for someone small and cute.
- A domesticated plant, in species Cucurbita pepo, similar in growth pattern, foliage, flower, and fruit to the squash or melon.
- a coarse vine widely cultivated for its large pulpy round orange fruit with firm orange skin and numerous seeds; subspecies of Cucurbita pepo include the summer squashes and a few autumn squashes
- usually large pulpy deep-yellow round fruit of the squash family maturing in late summer or early autumn
noun
- Something to be peeled.
- A household utensil for peeling fruit or vegetables.
- A person who works by peeling the bark off trees.
- Someone who breaks horses.
- One who peels.
- (surfing) An ideal wave.
- Something that is peeling, about to peel, or prone to peeling.
- An industrial food-processing machine for removing the peels or skins.
- (derogatory, slang) A stripper; one who disrobes for entertainment.
- (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, slang) A police officer.
- (horticulture) A plant which impoverishes the soil by demanding high value nutrients and so requires the use of fertilizers.
- An edible crab that is about to shed its shell.
- A person whose job it is to peel fruit or vegetable produce.
- a worker who peels the skins from fruits and vegetables
- a device for peeling vegetables or fruits
- a performer who provides erotic entertainment by undressing to music
noun
- A navel orange.
- The central part or point of anything; the middle.
- (anatomy) The indentation or bump remaining in the abdomen of placental mammals where the umbilical cord was attached before birth.
- (historical) An eye on the underside of a carronade for securing it to a carriage.
- the center point or middle of something
- a scar where the umbilical cord was attached
verb
adj
noun
- a pale pinkish orange color
- flesh of any of various marine or freshwater fish of the family Salmonidae
- any of various large food and game fishes of northern waters; usually migrate from salt to fresh water to spawn
- (zoology) One of several species of fish, typically of the Salmoninae subfamily, brownish above with silvery sides and delicate pinkish-orange flesh; they ascend rivers to spawn.
- The upper bricks in a kiln which receive the least heat.
- (plural salmons) A pale pinkish-orange colour, the colour of cooked salmon.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) snout (tobacco; from salmon and trout)
- A meal or dish made from this fish.
- (Sri Lanka) canned fish, usually mackerel.
verb
noun
- yellow olive-sized semitropical fruit with a large free stone and relatively little flesh; used for jellies
- evergreen tree of warm regions having fuzzy yellow olive-sized fruit with a large free stone; native to China and Japan
- small tree of China and Japan bearing large yellow to red plums usually somewhat inferior to European plums in flavor
- (botany) A fruit tree, Prunus salicina.
- (botany) A fruit tree, Prunus mume.
noun
- yellow olive-sized semitropical fruit with a large free stone and relatively little flesh; used for jellies
- evergreen tree of warm regions having fuzzy yellow olive-sized fruit with a large free stone; native to China and Japan
- The fruit of this tree. It is as large as a small plum, but grows in clusters, and contains four or five large seeds.
- Any of species Eriobotrya japonica of trees (Japanese medlar, Chinese plum, Japanese plum).
noun
- A yellow-orange color, like that of mango flesh.
- A pickled vegetable or fruit with a spicy stuffing; a vegetable or fruit which has been mangoed.
- Any of various hummingbirds of the genus Anthracothorax.
- A type of muskmelon, Cucumis melo.
- The fruit of the mango tree.
- A tropical Asian fruit tree, Mangifera indica.
- (in the plural, slang) The breasts.
- large oval tropical fruit having smooth skin, juicy aromatic pulp, and a large hairy seed
- large evergreen tropical tree cultivated for its large oval fruit
verb
noun
- A slightly ovoid, orange-coloured citrus fruit with a rough peel and a sour-sweet taste which is larger than a clementine and sometimes classed as a variety of mandarin orange.
- A tree that produces tangerines.
- A deep yellowish-orange colour, like that of a tangerine fruit.
- any of various deep orange mandarins grown in the United States and southern Africa
- a reddish to vivid orange color
- a variety of mandarin orange, known in Telugu and Portugal as kamala kaya and in Australia as a mandarin
adj
noun
- The albedo (“whitish inner portion of the rind”) of a citrus fruit.
- (Ireland, Southern England, West Country) The soft inner portion of a loaf of bread.
- Chiefly of animals: the soft tissue inside a spinal cord; the spinal marrow; also, the spinal cord itself.
- Chiefly in of (great) pith and moment: gravity, importance, substance, weight.
- The energy, force, or power of speech or writing; specifically, such force or power due to conciseness; punch, punchiness.
- The central or innermost part of something; the core, the heart.
- A quality of courage and endurance; backbone, mettle, spine.
- The essential or vital part of something; the essence.
- (mathematics) One divided by pi, that is, 1/π (approximately 0.31831…).
- The soft, spongy substance inside plant parts; specifically, the parenchyma in the centre of the roots and stems of many plants and trees.
- Physical power or strength; force, might.
- The soft tissue inside a human or animal body or one of their organs; specifically, the spongy interior substance of a horn or the shaft of a feather.
- soft spongelike central cylinder of the stems of most flowering plants
- the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
adj
verb
noun
- one of the small drupes making up an aggregate or multiple fruit like a blackberry
- one of the small sacs or saclike dilations in a compound gland
- (botany) A grape-stone.
- (botany) One of the small grains or drupelets which make up some kinds of fruit, as the blackberry, raspberry, etc.
- (anatomy) One of the granular masses which constitute a racemose or compound gland, as the pancreas; also, one of the saccular recesses in the lobules of a racemose gland.
noun
- (countable) An apple or orange studded with cloves used for the same purpose.
- (countable) A perforated container filled with pot-pourri for placing in a drawer, wardrobe, room, etc., to provide a sweet smell.
- (countable, uncountable, historical) A mixture of aromatic substances, made into a ball and carried by a person to impart a sweet smell or as a protection against infection.
- (countable, historical) A small case in which an aromatic ball was carried.
noun
- ovoid orange-yellow mealy sweet fruit of Florida and West Indies
- The fruit of the lucmo tree (Lucuma bifera), closely related to the canistel and native to the Andean region of South America.
- The fruit of the canistel tree (Lucuma campechiana), native to Central America and cultivated in tropical regions.
noun
- An orange colour, like that of papaya flesh.
- large oval melon-like tropical fruit with yellowish flesh
- A tropical American evergreen tree, Carica papaya, having large, yellow, edible fruit.
- The fruit of this tree.
- tropical American shrub or small tree having huge deeply palmately cleft leaves and large oblong yellow fruit
noun
- a small hard seed found in some fruits
- a mark on a die or on a playing card (shape depending on the suit)
- a disease of poultry
- a radar echo displayed so as to show the position of a reflecting surface
- a minor nonspecific ailment
- Any of various respiratory diseases in birds, especially infectious coryza.
- One of a series of very short, electronically produced tones, used, for example, to count down the final few seconds before a given time or to indicate that a caller using a payphone needs to make further payment to continue the call.
- A spot of light or an inverted V indicative of a return of radar waves reflected from an object; a blip.
- (finance, currency trading) The smallest price increment between two currencies in foreign exchange (forex) trading.
- A spot; a speck.
- One of the spots or symbols on a playing card, domino, die, etc.
- (US, colloquial) Something or someone excellent, of high quality.
- A piece of rhizome with a dormant shoot of the lily of the valley plant, used for propagation
- (military, public service) One of the stylised version of the Bath star worn on the shoulder of a uniform to denote rank, e.g. of a soldier or a fireman.
verb
- defeat thoroughly
- kill by firing a missile
- hit with a missile from a weapon
- (ornithology) To make the initial hole during the process of hatching from an egg.
- (transitive) To get the better of; to defeat by a narrow margin.
- (transitive) To remove the pips from.
- (transitive) To hit with a gunshot.
- (intransitive) To peep, to chirp.
noun
- small dark green or yellow ribbed squash with yellow to orange flesh
- squash plant bearing small acorn-shaped fruits having yellow flesh and dark green or yellow rind with longitudinal ridges
- Any of several varieties of a plant, Cucurbita pepo, being a dark green winter squash having yellow to orange flesh.
noun
- An orange colour, like that of cantaloupe flesh.
- (slang, usually in the plural) A woman's breasts, particularly large breasts.
- (Australia, Canada, US) Reticulatus Group (now merged into Cantalupensis Group), with strongly netted rind, also known as American cantaloupe, muskmelon or rockmelon.
- (UK, Ireland) Cantalupensis Group sensu stricto, with non- or slightly netted rind, also known as true cantaloupe or European cantaloupe, found in the Middle East and Europe.
- a variety of muskmelon vine having fruit with a tan rind and orange flesh
- the fruit of a cantaloup vine; small to medium-sized melon with yellowish flesh
noun
- the rind of an orange
- strips of orange peel cooked in sugar and coated with sugar
- A color between orange and amber, like that of an orange peel.
- (manufacturing, uncountable) A surface defect in which sheet metal has a rough texture, similar to an orange peel, due to the metal grains being relatively large.
- An uneven surface resembling orange peel, especially cellulite or an imperfect finish on a spray-painted object such as a car.
- (countable, uncountable, literally) The skin of an orange, including the pith.
- (botany) A common name of a species of Clematis indigenous to eastern Eurasia, Clematis orientalis.
noun
- orange fruit resembling a plum; edible when fully ripe
- any of several tropical trees of the genus Diospyros
- The orange fruit of any of various species of trees in the genus Diospyros, especially Diospyros kaki (the kaki or Japanese persimmon) or Diospyros virginiana (the wild American persimmon), which is sweet when ripe and astringent when immature.
- The tree this fruit grows on, generally one of two species of ebony: Diospyros kaki (Asian) or Diospyros virginiana (North American).
noun
name
- A barangay of Bais, Negros Oriental, Philippines.
- A barangay of Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines.
- A barangay of Miagao, Iloilo, Philippines.
- A barangay of Ormoc, Leyte, Philippines.
- A municipality of Negros Oriental, Philippines.
- The capital city of Valencia canton, Ecuador.
- The capital city of the autonomous community of Valencia, Spain.
- A borough of Butler County, Pennsylvania.
- A census-designated place in Valencia County, New Mexico.
- A barangay of Tayabas, Quezon, Philippines.
- A barangay of Carcar, Cebu, Philippines.
- A canton of Los Ríos Province, Ecuador.
- An area of the barrio of Universidad in the city of San Juan, Puerto Rico.
- A barangay of Virac, Catanduanes, Philippines.
- A town in northeastern Trinidad island, Trinidad and Tobago.
- A city in Bukidnon, Philippines.
- A town and municipality of Córdoba department, in northern Colombia.
- A municipality of Bohol, Philippines.
- A barangay of Lingig, Surigao del Sur, Philippines.
- The capital city of the state of Carabobo, Venezuela.
- A province of the autonomous community of Valencia, Spain.
- An autonomous community of Spain; in full, Valencian Community.
- A habitational surname from Spanish.
- A neighborhood of the city of Santa Clarita, Los Angeles County, California.
- A female given name.
- A barangay of Cagdianao, Dinagat Islands, Philippines.
- A barangay of Alegria, Cebu, Philippines.
noun
- a segment of a citrus fruit
- one of several parts or pieces that fit with others to constitute a whole object
- a division of an orchestra containing all instruments of the same class
- (geometry) the area created by a plane cutting through a solid
- a small team of policemen working as part of a police platoon
- a distinct region or subdivision of a territorial or political area or community or group of people
- a small army unit usually having a special function
- one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole
- a specialized division of a large organization
- a very thin slice (of tissue or mineral or other substance) for examination under a microscope
- a self-contained part of a larger composition (written or musical)
- a small class of students who are part of a larger course but are taught separately
- the cutting of or into body tissues or organs (especially by a surgeon as part of an operation)
- a land unit equal to 1 square mile
- A part of a document, especially a major part; often notated with §.
- (surgery, colloquial) Ellipsis of Caesarean section.
- (music) A group of instruments in an orchestra.
- (Philippines, education) A class in a school; a group of students in a regularly scheduled meeting with a teacher in a certain school year or semester or school quarter year.
- (geology) A sequence of rock layers.
- (topology) A function that generalizes the notion of the graph of a function; formally, a continuous right inverse to the projection map of a fiber bundle.
- A cross-section (image that shows an object as if cut along a plane).
- (botany) A taxonomic rank below the genus (and subgenus if present), but above the species.
- (zoology) An informal taxonomic rank below the order ranks and above the family ranks.
- An act or instance of cutting.
- (sciences) thin section, a thin slice of material prepared as a specimen for research.
- (generalizing the topology sense in a different way, sheaf theory) An object which is defined by analogy with sections of fiber bundles but in a more general setting (that of sheaves). Formally, an element of the image of an open set under the action of a (pre-)sheaf.
- (New Zealand) A piece of residential land; a plot.
- (military) A group of 10-15 soldiers led by a non-commissioned officer and forming part of a platoon.
- (aviation) A cross-section perpendicular the longitudinal axis of an aircraft in flight.
- (US, Canada, law and land surveying) Synonym of square mile, a unit of land area, especially in the contexts of Canadian surveys and American land grants and legal property descriptions.
- (surgery) An incision or the act of making an incision.
- A part, piece, subdivision of anything.
- The symbol §, denoting a section of a document.
- A cutting; a part cut out from the rest of something.
- (technology) Angle section, L-section, angle iron, steel angle, slotted angle.
- (archaeology) Archeological section; vertical plane and cross-section of the ground to view its profile and stratigraphy; part of an archeological sequence.
- (generalizing the topology sense, algebra, category theory) A right inverse of a morphism in some category
verb
- divide into segments
- To cut, divide or separate into pieces.
- To reduce to the degree of thinness required for study with the microscope.
- (medicine) To perform a cesarean section on (someone).
- (UK, Australia, New Zealand) To commit (a person) to a hospital for mental health treatment as an involuntary patient. So called after various sections of legal acts regarding mental health.
adj
noun
- A pale yellow-orange colour, like that of an apricot fruit.
- A round sweet and juicy stone fruit, resembling peach or plum in taste, with a yellow-orange flesh, lightly fuzzy skin and a large seed inside.
- downy yellow to rosy-colored fruit resembling a small peach
- A dog with an orange-coloured coat.
- The apricot tree, Prunus armeniaca.
- (sniper slang) The junction of the brain and brain stem on a target, used as an aiming point to ensure a one-shot kill.
- Asian tree having clusters of usually white blossoms and edible fruit resembling the peach
- a shade of pink tinged with yellow
noun
- A yellowish citrus fruit.
- yellow oval fruit with juicy acidic flesh
- (slang) A defective or inadequate item or individual.
- A more or less bright shade of yellow associated with lemon fruits.
- (geometry) The surface of revolution of a circular arc of angle less than 180° rotated about the straight line passing through the arc’s two endpoints.
- (Cockney rhyming slang, shortened from “lemon flavour”) Favor.
- A semitropical evergreen tree, Citrus limon, that bears such fruits.
- A lemon shark (Negaprion brevirostris).
- (uncountable, rare) Lemon juice.
- a strong yellow color
- a distinctive tart flavor characteristic of lemons
- an artifact (especially an automobile) that is defective or unsatisfactory
- a small evergreen tree that originated in Asia but is widely cultivated for its fruit
adj
verb
noun
- The calyx of an orange.
- A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, such as a door.
- (aviation) The end of a runway.
- (glassblowing) The oblate spheroidal mass of glass attaching a stem to either its bowl or foot.
- A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass.
- A mechanical device designed to be pressed with a finger in order to open or close an electric circuit or to activate a mechanism.
- (generally with the) The means for initiating a nuclear strike or similar cataclysmic occurrence.
- (lutherie, bowmaking) Synonym of adjuster.
- (poker) The player who is last to act after the flop, turn and river, who possesses the button.
- (curling) The center (bullseye) of the house.
- (comedy) The final joke at the end of a comedic act (such as a sketch, set, or scene).
- The head of an unexpanded mushroom.
- A small white blotch on a cat's coat.
- (lutherie) In an instrument of the violin family, the near-semicircular shape extending from the top of the back plate of the instrument, meeting the heel of the neck.
- (slang) A button man; a professional assassin.
- A globule of metal remaining on an assay cupel or in a crucible, after fusion.
- (botany) A bud.
- (graphical user interface) An on-screen control that can be selected as an activator of an attached function.
- (television) The punchy or suspenseful line of dialogue that concludes a scene.
- (poker) A plastic disk used to represent the person in last position in a poker game; also dealer's button.
- (US) A badge worn on clothes, fixed with a pin through the fabric.
- (fencing) The soft circular tip at the end of a foil.
- (South Africa, slang) A methaqualone tablet (used as a recreational drug).
- (zoology) Pedicle; the attachment point for antlers in cervids.
- The least amount of care or interest; a whit or jot.
- (lutherie) Synonym of endbutton, part of a violin-family instrument.
- A raised pavement marker to further indicate the presence of a pavement-marking painted stripe.
- (slang) The clitoris.
- The final segment of a rattlesnake's rattle.
- (clothing) A knob or disc that is passed through a loop or (buttonhole), serving as a fastener.
- an electrical switch operated by pressing
- a specific area or icon in graphical user interface systems that is clicked or pressed in order to select a command or perform an action
- any of various plant parts that resemble buttons
- a female sexual organ homologous to the penis
- a device that when pressed will release part of a mechanism
- any artifact that resembles a button
- a round flat badge displaying information and suitable for pinning onto a garment
- a round fastener sewn to shirts and coats etc. to fit through buttonholes
verb
noun
- A rudimentary fruit.
- The full number of eggs set under a hen.
- The pattern of a tartan, etc.
- The amount by which the teeth of a saw protrude to the side in order to create the kerf.
- A collection of various objects for a particular purpose.
- (horticulture) A small tuber or bulb used instead of seed, particularly onion sets and potato sets.
- (engineering) A permanent change of shape caused by excessive strain, as from compression, tension, bending, twisting, etc.
- A matching collection of similar things. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 2, Noun.)
- (music) A musical performance by a band, disc jockey, etc., consisting of several musical pieces.
- (volleyball) A complete series of points, forming part of a match.
- (exercise) A group of repetitions of a single exercise performed one after the other without rest.
- A young plant fit for setting out; a slip; shoot.
- A device for receiving broadcast radio waves (or, more recently, broadcast data); a radio or television.
- (tennis) A complete series of games, forming part of a match.
- A group of people, usually meeting socially or connected through some shared interest, activity, attribute, etc.
- A young oyster when first attached.
- The scenery for a film or play.
- (poker, slang) Three of a kind, especially if two cards are in one's hand and the third is on the board. Compare trips (“three of a kind, especially with two cards on the board and one in one's hand”).
- The setting of the sun or other luminary; (by extension) the close of the day.
- (music) A drum kit, a drum set.
- (piledriving) A piece placed temporarily upon the head of a pile when the latter cannot otherwise be reached by the weight, or hammer.
- An object made up of several parts.
- A tool for dressing forged iron.
- A punch for setting nails in wood.
- (volleyball) The act of directing the ball to a teammate for an attack.
- Collectively, the crop of young oysters in any locality.
- (UK, education) A class group in a subject where pupils are divided by ability.
- (literally and figuratively) General movement; direction; drift; tendency.
- Alternative form of sett (“piece of quarried stone”).
- A bias of mind; an attitude or pattern of behaviour.
- Alternative form of sett (“a hole made and lived in by a badger”).
- (dance) The initial or basic formation of dancers.
- (colloquial) The manner, state, or quality of setting or fitting; fit.
- (in plural, “sets”, mathematics, informal) Set theory.
- (set theory) A collection of zero or more objects, possibly infinite in size, and disregarding any order or repetition of the objects which may be contained within it.
- the general locations and area where a movie’s, a film’s, or a video’s scenery is arranged to be filmed also including places for actors, assorted crew, director, producers which are typically not filmed.
- A series or group of something. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 4, Noun)
- The camber of a curved roofing tile.
- Alternative form of sett (“pattern of threads and yarns”).
- an unofficial association of people or groups
- a group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so used
- several exercises intended to be done in series
- (mathematics) an abstract collection of numbers or symbols
- (psychology) being temporarily ready to respond in a particular way
- a relatively permanent inclination to react in a particular way
- the process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization
- the act of putting something in position
- the descent of a heavenly body below the horizon
- a unit of play in tennis or squash
- any electronic equipment that receives or transmits radio or tv signals
- representation consisting of the scenery and other properties used to identify the location of a dramatic production
adj
- Intent, determined (to do something).
- Rigid, solidified.
- Fixed in one’s opinion.
- Fixed in position.
- Ready, prepared.
- (of hair) Fixed in a certain style.
- Prearranged.
- determined or decided upon as by an authority
- situated in a particular spot or position
- set down according to a plan
- fixed and unmoving
- converted to solid form (as concrete)
- (usually followed by ‘to’ or ‘for’) on the point of or strongly disposed
- being below the horizon
verb
- (transitive, volleyball) To direct (the ball) to a teammate for an attack.
- (transitive) To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle.
- (intransitive, country dancing) To acknowledge a dancing partner by facing him or her and moving first to one side and then to the other, while she or he does the opposite.
- (transitive) To put in a specified condition or state; to cause to be.
- (transitive, bridge) To defeat a contract.
- To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to assign.
- (transitive) To punch (a nail) into wood so that its head is below the surface.
- (transitive) To introduce or describe.
- (transitive) To put (something) down, to rest.
- To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.
- (UK, education) To divide a class group in a subject according to ability
- (intransitive, of fruit) To be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to germinate or form.
- (ambitransitive) To fit music to words.
- To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state.
- (transitive) To compile, to make (a puzzle or challenge).
- (transitive) To arrange (type).
- (ambitransitive) To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant.
- To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare.
- (transitive) To locate (a play, etc.); to assign a backdrop to, geographically or temporally.
- (transitive) To adjust.
- To extend and bring into position; to spread.
- (transitive) To prepare (a stage or film set).
- (transitive) To arrange with dishes and cutlery, to set the table.
- To cause (a domestic fowl) to sit on eggs to brood.
- (intransitive, now dialectal) To sit or lie (easily etc.) on the stomach; to be digested in a certain manner.
- (intransitive) To solidify.
- (transitive) To attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place.
- (transitive) To start (a fire).
- To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote.
- (intransitive, Southern US, Midwestern US, dialects) To rest or lie somewhere, on something, etc.; to occupy a certain place.
- To apply oneself; to undertake earnestly.
- (transitive) To fit (someone) up in a situation.
- (transitive) To determine or settle.
- (transitive) To devise and assign (work) to.
- To have a certain direction of motion; to flow; to move on; to tend.
- (intransitive, Southern US, Midwestern US, dialects) To sit (be in a seated position).
- To hunt game with the aid of a setter.
- (intransitive) Of a heavenly body, to disappear below the horizon of a planet, etc, as the latter rotates.
- To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to variegate with objects placed here and there.
- (masonry) To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure.
- (transitive, botany) To produce after pollination.
- (hunting, ambitransitive) Of a dog, to indicate the position of game.
- To place or fix in a setting.
- (Scotland) To suit; to become.
- urge to attack someone
- put or set (seeds, seedlings, or plants) into the ground
- equip with sails or masts
- set in type
- arrange attractively
- alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard
- put into a certain state; cause to be in a certain state
- fix conclusively or authoritatively
- become gelatinous
- disappear beyond the horizon
- set to a certain position or cause to operate correctly
- give a fine, sharp edge to a knife or razor
- insert (a nail or screw below the surface, as into a countersink)
- put into a certain place or abstract location
- produce fruit
- make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc
- put into a position that will restore a normal state
- get ready for a particular purpose or event
- locate
- adapt for performance in a different way
- decide upon or fix definitely
- establish as the highest level or best performance
- fix in a border
- apply or start
- estimate
noun
- small oval citrus fruit with thin sweet rind and very acid pulp
- any of several trees or shrubs of the genus Fortunella bearing small orange-colored edible fruits with thick sweet-flavored skin and sour pulp
- A small, orange citrus-like fruit which is native to Asia (Citrus japonica, syn. Fortunella japonica).
noun
- A shade of orange similar to the flesh of most carrots (also called carrot orange).
- deep orange edible root of the cultivated carrot plant
- A vegetable with a nutritious, juicy, sweet root that is often orange in colour, Daucus carota, family Apiaceae, especially the subspecies sativus.
- (figurative) Any motivational tool; an incentive to do something.
- (slang) A redhead; a ginger-haired person
- (UK, slang, derogatory) Someone from a rural background.
- (UK, slang) A police officer from somewhere within the British Isles, but specifically outside of Greater London.
- perennial plant widely cultivated as an annual in many varieties for its long conical orange edible roots; temperate and tropical regions
- promise of reward as in ‘carrot and stick’
- orange root; important source of carotene
verb
noun
- a mandarin orange of a deep reddish orange color and few seeds
- a variety of mandarin orange that is grown around the Mediterranean and in South Africa
- A type of small, sweet-tasting orange, the result of a hybrid cross between the willowleaf variety of mandarin orange (Citrus × aurantium f. deliciosa) and a sweet orange (Citrus sinensis). Scientific name: Citrus × clementina.
noun
- a small hard fruit
- the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract
- anything that provides inspiration for later work
- one of the outstanding players in a tournament
- a mature fertilized plant ovule consisting of an embryo and its food source and having a protective coat or testa
- (countable) Any small seed-like fruit.
- (countable) A fragment of coral.
- (US slang) A child.
- (sports) The initial position of a competitor or team in a tournament. (seed position)
- (physics) A small particle, bubble, or imperfection that serves as a nucleation point for some process.
- (Internet marketing) A commercial message in a creative format placed on relevant sites on the Internet. (seed idea or seed message)
- The competitor or team occupying a given seed (position).
- (uncountable, collective) An amount of seeds that cannot be readily counted.
- (countable, agriculture) Any propagative portion of a plant which may be sown, such as true seeds, seed-like fruits, tubers, or bulbs.
- A small bubble formed in imperfectly fused glass.
- (countable, figurative) A precursor.
- (uncountable) Semen.
- Race; generation; birth.
- (cryptography, computing) The initialization state of a pseudorandom number generator or similar system.
- (countable, botany) A fertilized and ripened ovule, containing an embryonic plant.
- (video games) (by extension) A unique code that acts as a blueprint for generating a specific game world, determining terrain, structures, and resource placement.
verb
- bear seeds
- help (an enterprise) in its early stages of development by providing seed money
- place (seeds) in or on the ground for future growth
- distribute (players or teams) so that outstanding teams or players will not meet in the early rounds
- remove the seeds from
- inoculate with microorganisms
- go to seed; shed seeds
- sprinkle with silver iodide particles to disperse and cause rain
- (reflexive) To shed seeds (refers to plants)
- (transitive) To start; to provide, assign or determine the initial resources for, position of, state of.
- (slang, vulgar) To ejaculate inside the penetratee during intercourse, especially in the rectum.
- (meteorology) To scatter small particles within (a cloud or airmass) in order to trigger the formation of rain.
- (intransitive) To produce seed.
- (transitive) To cover thinly with something scattered; to ornament with seedlike decorations.
- (intransitive) To grow to maturity.
- (dialectal) simple past and past participle of see
- (intransitive) To be qualified to compete, especially in a quarter-final, semi-final, or final.
- (sports, gaming) To allocate a seeding to a competitor.
- (Internet, transitive) To leave (files) available for others to download through peer-to-peer file sharing protocols (e.g. BitTorrent).
- (transitive) To plant or sow an area with seeds.
noun
- round yellow to orange fruit of any of several citrus trees
- any citrus tree bearing oranges
- orange color or pigment; any of a range of colors between red and yellow
- any pigment producing the orange color
- (countable) An evergreen tree of the genus Citrus such as Citrus sinensis which yields oranges (the fruit).
- (uncountable) Various drinks:
- An orange-coloured and orange-flavoured soft drink.
- (uncommon) Orange juice.
- (uncountable) The colour of a ripe fruit of an orange tree, midway between red and yellow.
- (countable) Specifically, a sweet orange or Citrus sinensis.
- (countable) Any round citrus fruit with a yellow-red colour when ripe and a sour-sweet taste; the fruit of the orange tree.
- (heraldry) An orange-coloured roundel.
- An orange-coloured and orange-flavoured cordial.
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- elongated crescent-shaped yellow fruit with soft sweet flesh
- any of several tropical and subtropical treelike herbs of the genus Musa having a terminal crown of large entire leaves and usually bearing hanging clusters of elongated fruits
- An elongated curved tropical fruit of a banana plant, which grows in bunches and has a creamy flesh and a smooth skin.
- An incorrectly held handstand, often seen in beginners.
- (sports) A banana kick.
- (computer science, colloquial) A catamorphism (from the use of banana brackets in the notation).
- (slang) The penis.
- (uncountable) A yellow color, like that of a banana's skin.
- (derogatory, ethnic slur) A person of East or Southeast Asian descent, considered to be overly assimilated and subservient to white authority.
- The tropical tree-like plant which bears clusters of bananas, a plant of the genus Musa (but sometimes also including plants from Ensete), which has large, elongated leaves.
- (Malaysia, Singapore, derogatory, ethnic slur) A person of Chinese descent who cannot speak Mandarin or any Chinese dialect
- (nuclear physics) A banana equivalent dose.
- (Canada, US, UK, Ireland) In particular, the sweet, yellow fruit of the Cavendish banana cultivar, which may be eaten raw, as distinct from e.g. a plantain for cooking.
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- A small, sweet citrus fruit.
- a somewhat flat reddish-orange loose skinned citrus of China
- A figurine of a Chinese person with movable head that was popular in the 1950s. (Cf. bobblehead.)
- A tree of the species Citrus reticulata.
- (sometimes derogatory) A pedantic senior person of influence in academia or literary circles.
- (historical) A high government bureaucrat of the Chinese Empire.
- An orange colour.
- (ornithology) Ellipsis of mandarin duck.
- A pedantic or elitist bureaucrat.
- (informal, British) A senior civil servant.
- shrub or small tree having flattened globose fruit with very sweet aromatic pulp and thin yellow-orange to flame-orange rind that is loose and easily removed; native to southeastern Asia
- a high public official of imperial China
- a member of an elite intellectual or cultural group
- any high government official or bureaucrat
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- The round yellow or orange fruit of this plant.
- (informal, automotive) The housing for a differential, built into an axle of a vehicle; the housing and its contents.
- (uncountable) The typical color of the ripe fruit of the pumpkin plant.
- (Australia) Any of a number of cultivars from the genus Cucurbita; known in the US as winter squash.
- (US) A term of endearment for someone small and cute.
- A domesticated plant, in species Cucurbita pepo, similar in growth pattern, foliage, flower, and fruit to the squash or melon.
- a coarse vine widely cultivated for its large pulpy round orange fruit with firm orange skin and numerous seeds; subspecies of Cucurbita pepo include the summer squashes and a few autumn squashes
- usually large pulpy deep-yellow round fruit of the squash family maturing in late summer or early autumn
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- Something to be peeled.
- A household utensil for peeling fruit or vegetables.
- A person who works by peeling the bark off trees.
- Someone who breaks horses.
- One who peels.
- (surfing) An ideal wave.
- Something that is peeling, about to peel, or prone to peeling.
- An industrial food-processing machine for removing the peels or skins.
- (derogatory, slang) A stripper; one who disrobes for entertainment.
- (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, slang) A police officer.
- (horticulture) A plant which impoverishes the soil by demanding high value nutrients and so requires the use of fertilizers.
- An edible crab that is about to shed its shell.
- A person whose job it is to peel fruit or vegetable produce.
- a worker who peels the skins from fruits and vegetables
- a device for peeling vegetables or fruits
- a performer who provides erotic entertainment by undressing to music
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- A navel orange.
- The central part or point of anything; the middle.
- (anatomy) The indentation or bump remaining in the abdomen of placental mammals where the umbilical cord was attached before birth.
- (historical) An eye on the underside of a carronade for securing it to a carriage.
- the center point or middle of something
- a scar where the umbilical cord was attached
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- yellow olive-sized semitropical fruit with a large free stone and relatively little flesh; used for jellies
- evergreen tree of warm regions having fuzzy yellow olive-sized fruit with a large free stone; native to China and Japan
- small tree of China and Japan bearing large yellow to red plums usually somewhat inferior to European plums in flavor
- (botany) A fruit tree, Prunus salicina.
- (botany) A fruit tree, Prunus mume.
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- yellow olive-sized semitropical fruit with a large free stone and relatively little flesh; used for jellies
- evergreen tree of warm regions having fuzzy yellow olive-sized fruit with a large free stone; native to China and Japan
- The fruit of this tree. It is as large as a small plum, but grows in clusters, and contains four or five large seeds.
- Any of species Eriobotrya japonica of trees (Japanese medlar, Chinese plum, Japanese plum).
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- A yellow-orange color, like that of mango flesh.
- A pickled vegetable or fruit with a spicy stuffing; a vegetable or fruit which has been mangoed.
- Any of various hummingbirds of the genus Anthracothorax.
- A type of muskmelon, Cucumis melo.
- The fruit of the mango tree.
- A tropical Asian fruit tree, Mangifera indica.
- (in the plural, slang) The breasts.
- large oval tropical fruit having smooth skin, juicy aromatic pulp, and a large hairy seed
- large evergreen tropical tree cultivated for its large oval fruit
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- A slightly ovoid, orange-coloured citrus fruit with a rough peel and a sour-sweet taste which is larger than a clementine and sometimes classed as a variety of mandarin orange.
- A tree that produces tangerines.
- A deep yellowish-orange colour, like that of a tangerine fruit.
- any of various deep orange mandarins grown in the United States and southern Africa
- a reddish to vivid orange color
- a variety of mandarin orange, known in Telugu and Portugal as kamala kaya and in Australia as a mandarin
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- The albedo (“whitish inner portion of the rind”) of a citrus fruit.
- (Ireland, Southern England, West Country) The soft inner portion of a loaf of bread.
- Chiefly of animals: the soft tissue inside a spinal cord; the spinal marrow; also, the spinal cord itself.
- Chiefly in of (great) pith and moment: gravity, importance, substance, weight.
- The energy, force, or power of speech or writing; specifically, such force or power due to conciseness; punch, punchiness.
- The central or innermost part of something; the core, the heart.
- A quality of courage and endurance; backbone, mettle, spine.
- The essential or vital part of something; the essence.
- (mathematics) One divided by pi, that is, 1/π (approximately 0.31831…).
- The soft, spongy substance inside plant parts; specifically, the parenchyma in the centre of the roots and stems of many plants and trees.
- Physical power or strength; force, might.
- The soft tissue inside a human or animal body or one of their organs; specifically, the spongy interior substance of a horn or the shaft of a feather.
- soft spongelike central cylinder of the stems of most flowering plants
- the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
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- one of the small drupes making up an aggregate or multiple fruit like a blackberry
- one of the small sacs or saclike dilations in a compound gland
- (botany) A grape-stone.
- (botany) One of the small grains or drupelets which make up some kinds of fruit, as the blackberry, raspberry, etc.
- (anatomy) One of the granular masses which constitute a racemose or compound gland, as the pancreas; also, one of the saccular recesses in the lobules of a racemose gland.
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- (countable) An apple or orange studded with cloves used for the same purpose.
- (countable) A perforated container filled with pot-pourri for placing in a drawer, wardrobe, room, etc., to provide a sweet smell.
- (countable, uncountable, historical) A mixture of aromatic substances, made into a ball and carried by a person to impart a sweet smell or as a protection against infection.
- (countable, historical) A small case in which an aromatic ball was carried.
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- ovoid orange-yellow mealy sweet fruit of Florida and West Indies
- The fruit of the lucmo tree (Lucuma bifera), closely related to the canistel and native to the Andean region of South America.
- The fruit of the canistel tree (Lucuma campechiana), native to Central America and cultivated in tropical regions.
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- (uncountable) A light pinkish orange color, like that of some melon flesh.
- Genus Citrullus, the watermelon and others
- Genus Cucumis, the true melon (including various cultigens like honeydew and cantaloupes), the horned melon, and others.
- (countable) A mass of adipose tissue found in the forehead of all toothed whales, used to focus and modulate vocalizations.
- Benincasa hispida, the winter melon
- Momordica charantia, the bitter melon
- (countable, slang) The head, the brain.
- (countable, Australia, New Zealand, derogatory) A member of the Green Party, or similar environmental group.
- Alternative form of mellon.
- (countable) The large, round to ovoid fruits that have rinds and are of such plants
- (usually in the plural, slang) The breasts.
- any of various fruit of cucurbitaceous vines including: muskmelons, watermelons, cantaloupes, cucumbers
- any of numerous fruits of the gourd family having a hard rind and sweet juicy flesh
noun
- An orange colour, like that of papaya flesh.
- large oval melon-like tropical fruit with yellowish flesh
- A tropical American evergreen tree, Carica papaya, having large, yellow, edible fruit.
- The fruit of this tree.
- tropical American shrub or small tree having huge deeply palmately cleft leaves and large oblong yellow fruit
noun
- a small hard seed found in some fruits
- a mark on a die or on a playing card (shape depending on the suit)
- a disease of poultry
- a radar echo displayed so as to show the position of a reflecting surface
- a minor nonspecific ailment
- Any of various respiratory diseases in birds, especially infectious coryza.
- One of a series of very short, electronically produced tones, used, for example, to count down the final few seconds before a given time or to indicate that a caller using a payphone needs to make further payment to continue the call.
- A spot of light or an inverted V indicative of a return of radar waves reflected from an object; a blip.
- (finance, currency trading) The smallest price increment between two currencies in foreign exchange (forex) trading.
- A spot; a speck.
- One of the spots or symbols on a playing card, domino, die, etc.
- (US, colloquial) Something or someone excellent, of high quality.
- A piece of rhizome with a dormant shoot of the lily of the valley plant, used for propagation
- (military, public service) One of the stylised version of the Bath star worn on the shoulder of a uniform to denote rank, e.g. of a soldier or a fireman.
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- defeat thoroughly
- kill by firing a missile
- hit with a missile from a weapon
- (ornithology) To make the initial hole during the process of hatching from an egg.
- (transitive) To get the better of; to defeat by a narrow margin.
- (transitive) To remove the pips from.
- (transitive) To hit with a gunshot.
- (intransitive) To peep, to chirp.
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- small dark green or yellow ribbed squash with yellow to orange flesh
- squash plant bearing small acorn-shaped fruits having yellow flesh and dark green or yellow rind with longitudinal ridges
- Any of several varieties of a plant, Cucurbita pepo, being a dark green winter squash having yellow to orange flesh.
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- An orange colour, like that of cantaloupe flesh.
- (slang, usually in the plural) A woman's breasts, particularly large breasts.
- (Australia, Canada, US) Reticulatus Group (now merged into Cantalupensis Group), with strongly netted rind, also known as American cantaloupe, muskmelon or rockmelon.
- (UK, Ireland) Cantalupensis Group sensu stricto, with non- or slightly netted rind, also known as true cantaloupe or European cantaloupe, found in the Middle East and Europe.
- a variety of muskmelon vine having fruit with a tan rind and orange flesh
- the fruit of a cantaloup vine; small to medium-sized melon with yellowish flesh
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- A pale yellow-orange colour, like that of an apricot fruit.
- A round sweet and juicy stone fruit, resembling peach or plum in taste, with a yellow-orange flesh, lightly fuzzy skin and a large seed inside.
- downy yellow to rosy-colored fruit resembling a small peach
- A dog with an orange-coloured coat.
- The apricot tree, Prunus armeniaca.
- (sniper slang) The junction of the brain and brain stem on a target, used as an aiming point to ensure a one-shot kill.
- Asian tree having clusters of usually white blossoms and edible fruit resembling the peach
- a shade of pink tinged with yellow
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- (uncountable) A light pinkish orange color, like that of some melon flesh.
- Genus Citrullus, the watermelon and others
- Genus Cucumis, the true melon (including various cultigens like honeydew and cantaloupes), the horned melon, and others.
- (countable) A mass of adipose tissue found in the forehead of all toothed whales, used to focus and modulate vocalizations.
- Benincasa hispida, the winter melon
- Momordica charantia, the bitter melon
- (countable, slang) The head, the brain.
- (countable, Australia, New Zealand, derogatory) A member of the Green Party, or similar environmental group.
- Alternative form of mellon.
- (countable) The large, round to ovoid fruits that have rinds and are of such plants
- (usually in the plural, slang) The breasts.
- any of various fruit of cucurbitaceous vines including: muskmelons, watermelons, cantaloupes, cucumbers
- any of numerous fruits of the gourd family having a hard rind and sweet juicy flesh
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- a pale pinkish orange color
- flesh of any of various marine or freshwater fish of the family Salmonidae
- any of various large food and game fishes of northern waters; usually migrate from salt to fresh water to spawn
- (zoology) One of several species of fish, typically of the Salmoninae subfamily, brownish above with silvery sides and delicate pinkish-orange flesh; they ascend rivers to spawn.
- The upper bricks in a kiln which receive the least heat.
- (plural salmons) A pale pinkish-orange colour, the colour of cooked salmon.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) snout (tobacco; from salmon and trout)
- A meal or dish made from this fish.
- (Sri Lanka) canned fish, usually mackerel.
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- round yellow to orange fruit of any of several citrus trees
- any citrus tree bearing oranges
- orange color or pigment; any of a range of colors between red and yellow
- any pigment producing the orange color
- (countable) An evergreen tree of the genus Citrus such as Citrus sinensis which yields oranges (the fruit).
- (uncountable) Various drinks:
- An orange-coloured and orange-flavoured soft drink.
- (uncommon) Orange juice.
- (uncountable) The colour of a ripe fruit of an orange tree, midway between red and yellow.
- (countable) Specifically, a sweet orange or Citrus sinensis.
- (countable) Any round citrus fruit with a yellow-red colour when ripe and a sour-sweet taste; the fruit of the orange tree.
- (heraldry) An orange-coloured roundel.
- An orange-coloured and orange-flavoured cordial.