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verb
- (transitive, US, slang) To understand.
- (intransitive) To search by sense of touch.
- (transitive) To experience the consequences of.
- (transitive, copulative) To become aware of through the skin; to use the sense of touch on.
- (intransitive, copulative) To experience an emotion or other mental state.
- (copulative) To seem (through touch or otherwise).
- (intransitive) To sympathise; to have the sensibilities moved or affected.
- (transitive) To experience an emotion or other mental state about.
- (transitive) To be or become aware of.
- (transitive) To think, believe, or have an impression concerning.
- (transitive) To find one's way (literally or figuratively) by touching or using cautious movements.
- (intransitive) To receive information by touch or by any neurons other than those responsible for sight, smell, taste, or hearing.
- have a feeling or perception about oneself in reaction to someone's behavior or attitude
- examine (a body part) by palpation
- undergo an emotional sensation or be in a particular state of mind
- be conscious of a physical, mental, or emotional state
- perceive by a physical sensation, e.g., coming from the skin or muscles
- undergo passive experience of
- pass one's hands over the sexual organs of
- grope or feel in search of something
- find by testing or cautious exploration
- be felt or perceived in a certain way
- produce a certain impression
- come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds
- examine by touch
noun
- A vague understanding.
- An intuitive ability.
- An act of fondling.
- A vague mental impression.
- (chiefly US, slang) A feeling; an emotion.
- A perception experienced mainly or solely through the sense of touch.
- an intuitive awareness
- manual stimulation of the genital area for sexual pleasure
- the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people
- a property perceived by touch
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noun
verb
- To provide, particularly:
- (ambitransitive) To provide with food, especially for a special occasion as a professional service.
- (intransitive, figurative, with 'for') To tailor something to an intended audience.
- (UK dialect) To place, set, move, or cut diagonally or rhomboidally.
- (intransitive, figurative, with 'to') To provide anything required or desired, often (derogatory) to pander.
- supply food ready to eat; for parties and banquets
- give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance
verb
noun
- A spigot or plug used to stop the hole in a barrel or cask.
- A pile; a post or girder.
- (US) A spout inserted in a maple (or other tree) to draw off sap.
- a plug used to close a hole in a barrel or flask
- a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure
verb
- (transitive, US, dialectal) Alternative form of strain.
- To come upon and flush out.
- (figurative) To arise, to come into existence.
- (ambitransitive, nautical, usually perfective) To crack.
- (transitive) To cause to spring (all senses).
- (sometimes figurative) To enliven.
- (transitive, slang, US) To free from imprisonment, especially by facilitating an illegal escape.
- (intransitive) To move or burst forth.
- (intransitive) To spend the springtime somewhere.
- (UK dialectal) To mature.
- To grow, to sprout.
- (transitive) To leap over.
- (of mechanisms) To cause to work or open by sudden application of pressure.
- (of animals) To find or get enough food during springtime.
- (transitive, nautical) To turn a vessel using a spring attached to its anchor cable.
- (intransitive, slang, rare) To be free of imprisonment, especially by illegal escape.
- (transitive) To pay or spend a certain sum, to yield.
- (ambitransitive) To deform owing to excessive pressure, to become warped; to intentionally deform in order to position and then straighten in place.
- (Australia, slang) To catch in an illegal act or compromising position.
- To appear.
- (intransitive, UK, dialectal, chiefly of cows) To swell with milk or pregnancy.
- (intransitive, now usually with "apart" or "open") To burst into pieces, to explode, to shatter.
- (transitive, US, dialectal) Alternative form of sprain.
- To tell, to share.
- (transitive, rare) To equip with springs, especially (of vehicles) to equip with a suspension.
- (transitive, architecture, of arches) To build, to form the initial curve of.
- (figurative, usually with cardinal adverbs) To move with great speed and energy.
- (intransitive, architecture, of arches, with "from") To extend, to curve.
- (usually with from) To be born, descend, or originate from
- develop into a distinctive entity
- move forward by leaps and bounds
- develop suddenly
- produce or disclose suddenly or unexpectedly
- spring back; spring away from an impact
noun
- A grove of trees; a forest.
- (countable, slang) An erection of the penis.
- (countable, uncountable) The season of the year in temperate regions in which temperatures and daylight hours rise, and plants spring from the ground and into bloom and dormant animals spring to life.
- (nautical) A line from a vessel's end or side to its anchor cable used to diminish or control its movement.
- (figurative) A race, a lineage.
- A shoot, a young tree.
- (figurative) A youth.
- Elastic energy, power, or force.
- (countable, fashion) Someone with ivory or peach skin tone and eyes and hair that are not extremely dark, seen as best suited to certain colors of clothing.
- (meteorology) The three months of March, April, and May in the Northern Hemisphere and September, October, and November in the Southern Hemisphere.
- (countable) The source from which an action or supply of something springs.
- (astronomy) The period from the moment of vernal equinox (around March 21 in the Northern Hemisphere) to the moment of the summer solstice (around June 21); the equivalent periods reckoned in other cultures and calendars.
- Elasticity: the property of a body springing back to its original form after compression, stretching, etc.
- An elastic mechanical part or device in any shape (e.g., flat, curved, coiled), made of flexible material (usually spring steel) that exerts force and attempts to spring back when bent, compressed, or stretched.
- (uncountable, figurative) The time of something's growth; the early stages of some process.
- (figurative, politics) a period of political liberalization and democratization
- (oceanography) Ellipsis of spring tide, the especially high tide shortly after full and new moons.
- A cause, a motive, etc.
- (nautical) A line laid out from a vessel's end to the opposite end of an adjacent vessel or mooring to diminish or control its movement.
- (countable) An act of springing: a leap, a jump.
- (geology) A spray or body of water springing from the ground.
- a metal elastic device that returns to its shape or position when pushed or pulled or pressed
- a point at which water issues forth
- a natural flow of ground water
- the elasticity of something that can be stretched and returns to its original length
- a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards
- the season of growth; spring; the beginning of spring
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noun
adj
- (linguistics, by extension) Abbreviation of transitive.
- Abbreviation of artery; arterial blood.
- Abbreviation of acting.
- Abbreviation of argent.
- Abbreviation of accidental.
- Abbreviation of absent.
- Abbreviation of abundant.
- Abbreviation of ante (“before”).
- Abbreviation of anterior.
- Abbreviation of annus (“a year”).
- Abbreviation of aerial.
- Abbreviation of accepted.
- Abbreviation of alto.
- Abbreviation of anonymous.
- Abbreviation of aqua.
- Abbreviation of available.
- Abbreviation of active.
- Abbreviation of amateur.
- Abbreviation of automatic.
- Abbreviation of absolute.
adv
conj
noun
- Abbreviation of atmosphere.
- Abbreviation of axis.
- Abbreviation of accommodation.
- Abbreviation of age.
- Abbreviation of aunt.
- Abbreviation of argent.
- Abbreviation of area.
- Abbreviation of altitude; altitude intercept.
- Abbreviation of act; acting.
- Abbreviation of abbreviation.
- Abbreviation of aviation; aviator.
- Abbreviation of annealing.
- Abbreviation of afternoon.
- Abbreviation of audit; auditor.
- Abbreviation of adjutant.
- Abbreviation of adult.
- Abbreviation of account.
- Abbreviation of answer.
- Abbreviation of attendance.
- Abbreviation of alto.
- Abbreviation of arc.
- Abbreviation of anthracite.
- Abbreviation of anode.
- Abbreviation of assist; assists.
- Abbreviation of adjective.
- Abbreviation of acceleration (in feet per second).
- Abbreviation of activity.
- Abbreviation of amateur.
- Abbreviation of are or ares.
- Abbreviation of ampere.
- Abbreviation of acre; acres; acreage.
- Abbreviation of acronym.
- Abbreviation of apprentice.
prep
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noun
verb
noun
- (hip-hop slang) Style.
- The quality produced by the sensation of taste or, especially, of taste and smell in combined effect.
- The characteristic quality of something.
- A variety (of taste) attributed to an object (food, candy, chewing gum, medicine, etc).
- (particle physics) One of the six types of quarks (top, bottom, strange, charmed, up, and down) or three types of leptons (electron, muon, and tauon).
- (informal, figurative) A kind or type.
- Flavoring, a substance used to produce a taste.
- (physics) the six kinds of quarks
- the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth
- the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people
verb
- (transitive) To cut into slices.
- (transitive, golf) To hit a shot that slices (travels from left to right for a right-handed player).
- (transitive, tennis) To hit the ball with a stroke that causes a spin, resulting in the ball swerving or staying low after a bounce.
- (transitive, rowing) To angle the blade so that it goes too deeply into the water when starting to take a stroke.
- (transitive) To clear (e.g. a fire, or the grate bars of a furnace) by means of a slice bar.
- (transitive, badminton) To hit the shuttlecock with the racket at an angle, causing it to move sideways and downwards.
- (transitive, soccer) To kick the ball so that it goes in an unintended direction, at too great an angle or too high.
- (transitive) To cut with an edge using a drawing motion.
- make a clean cut through
- hit a ball and put a spin on it so that it travels in a different direction
- hit a ball so that it causes a backspin
- cut into slices
adj
noun
- A plate of iron with a handle, forming a kind of chisel, or a spadelike implement, variously proportioned, and used for various purposes, as for stripping the planking from a vessel's side, for cutting blubber from a whale, or for stirring a fire of coals; a slice bar; a peel; a fire shovel.
- A piece of pizza, shaped like a sector of a circle.
- (golf) A shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the right. See fade, hook, draw.
- A salver, platter, or tray.
- (cricket) A kind of cut shot where the bat makes an obtuse angle with the batter.
- A thin, broad piece cut off.
- (Australia, New Zealand, UK) Any of a class of heavy cakes or desserts made in a tray and cut out into squarish slices.
- (falconry) A hawk's or falcon's dropping which squirts at an angle other than vertical. (See mute.)
- That which is thin and broad.
- A knife with a thin, broad blade for taking up or serving fish; also, a spatula for spreading anything, as paint or ink.
- One of the wedges by which the cradle and the ship are lifted clear of the building blocks to prepare for launching.
- (colloquial) An amount of anything.
- (printing) A removable sliding bottom to a galley.
- (British) A snack consisting of pastry with savoury filling.
- (medicine) A section of image taken of an internal organ using MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), CT (computed tomography), or various forms of x-ray.
- (programming) A contiguous portion of an array.
- A broad, thin piece of plaster.
- a wound made by cutting
- a golf shot that curves to the right for a right-handed golfer
- a share of something
- a thin flat piece cut off of some object
- a spatula for spreading paint or ink
- a serving that has been cut from a larger portion
verb
- (transitive, UK, dialectal) To part, separate or divide.
- (ambitransitive) To part with, separate from, leave off; cast off, cast, let fall, be divested of.
- To sprinkle; to intersperse; to cover.
- (transitive) To radiate, cast, give off (light).
- (weaving) To divide, as the warp threads, so as to form a shed, or passageway, for the shuttle.
- (transitive) To allow to flow or fall.
- (transitive) To place or allocate a vehicle, such as a locomotive, in or to a depot or shed.
- (transitive, music) To woodshed.
- pour out in drops or small quantities or as if in drops or small quantities
- cause or allow (a solid substance) to flow or run out or over
- cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers
- to remove
noun
- A slight or temporary structure built to shade or shelter something; a structure usually open in front; an outbuilding, especially a smallish one; a hut.
- (obsolete outside of compounds) An area of land as distinguished from those around it.
- (music, slang) Alternative form of woodshed.
- (British, rail transport, informal) A British Rail Class 66 locomotive.
- (weaving) An area between upper and lower warp yarns through which the weft is woven.
- (British, derogatory, informal) An automobile which is old, worn-out, slow, or otherwise of poor quality.
- (nuclear physics) A unit of area equivalent to 10⁻⁵² square meters.
- A large temporary open structure for reception of goods.
- an outbuilding with a single story; used for shelter or storage
adj
verb
- (transitive) To chop or cut into small pieces.
- (UK, slang, intransitive) To leave.
- (intransitive, dialectal) To use a chisel.
- (transitive, dialectal) To chisel (something), to chisel on (something).
- (transitive, sports such as soccer) To beat (an opposing player) by use of a chip shot, such as by looping the ball over the head of the opposing goalkeeper.
- (transitive, automotive) To upgrade an engine management system, usually to increase power.
- (UK, transitive, often with "in") To contribute.
- (intransitive) To become chipped.
- (transitive, billiards) To move (a ball) a relatively short distance by means of an oblique contact.
- (transitive) To break small pieces from.
- (transitive, sports) To strike or play (the ball or other implement) as a chip shot.
- (also to chip at) To make fun of.
- (intransitive, card games, often with "in") To ante (up).
- (transitive, informal) To fit (an animal) with a microchip.
- play a chip shot
- form by chipping
- cut a nick into
- break off (a piece from a whole)
- break a small piece off from
noun
- The smallest amount; a whit or jot.
- (US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, especially in the plural) A thin, crisp, fried slice of potato, a crisp; occasionally a similar fried slice of another vegetable or dried fruit.
- (New Zealand, northern) A receptacle, usually for strawberries or other fruit.
- A small rectangle of colour printed on coated paper for colour selection and matching. A virtual equivalent in software applications.
- A damaged area of a surface where a small piece has been broken off.
- (golf) A low shot, usually played at short range around and onto a green, intended to travel a short distance through the air and roll the remainder of the way towards the hole.
- (tennis) A light shot with a downward slice, usually played from close to the net.
- A medallion.
- (nautical) The triangular piece of wood attached to the log line.
- (electronics) A hybrid device mounted in a substrate, containing electronic circuitry and miniaturised mechanical, chemical or biochemical devices.
- (electronics) A circuit fabricated in one piece on a small, thin substrate; a microchip.
- A small piece broken from a larger piece of solid material.
- A dried piece of dung, often used as fuel.
- (games, gambling) A token used in place of cash.
- (historical) Wood or Cuban palm leaf split into slips, or straw plaited in a special manner, for making hats or bonnets.
- (billiards) A very light shot that hits the cue ball so softly that it barely moves an object ball into a pocket without the cue ball going in as well.
- (curling) A takeout that hits a rock at an angle.
- (sports such as soccer) A shot during which the ball travels more predominantly upwards than in a regular shot, as to clear an obstacle.
- (cooking) A small, near-conical piece of food added in baking.
- a small fragment of something broken off from the whole
- a mark left after a small piece has been chopped or broken off of something
- a thin crisp slice of potato fried in deep fat
- electronic equipment consisting of a small crystal of a silicon semiconductor fabricated to carry out a number of electronic functions in an integrated circuit
- a small disk-shaped counter used to represent money when gambling
- the act of chipping something
- a piece of dried bovine dung
- (golf) a low running approach shot
- a triangular wooden float attached to the end of a log line
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noun
verb
- (transitive, dialectal, chiefly Scotland, by extension) To overburden or overpower with work; overwork; overtax.
- (transitive, dialectal, Cumbria, Westmoreland, Lancashire, Lincolnshire) To beset; surround; invest; surround with difficulties; bar; impede.
- (transitive, dialectal, figuratively, Cumbria, Westmoreland, Lancashire, Lincolnshire) To upset; hinder.
- (transitive, dialectal, Cumbria, Westmoreland, Lancashire, Lincolnshire) To get in front of; intercept; waylay; entrap.
- (transitive, dialectal, chiefly Scotland) To overpower; give one too much of anything; surfeit.
verb
- (transitive, colloquial, chiefly US) To break.
- (snowboarding) An emphatic synonym of do or get.
- (transitive, slang) To break in (an animal).
- (US, informal) To reduce in rank.
- (intransitive, vulgar, slang) To ejaculate; to eject semen or to squirt.
- (journalism, intransitive) For a headline to exceed the amount of space reserved for it.
- (transitive, slang) To break in (a woman or girl), to deflower
- (slang, African-American Vernacular, intransitive) To attack, hit or insult (someone).
- (slang, African-American Vernacular, transitive) To shoot (a gun).
- (chess, slang) To refute an established opening.
- (transitive, slang) To catch (someone) in the act of doing something wrong, socially and morally inappropriate, or illegal, especially when being done in a sneaky or secretive state.
- (slang) To do or perform; to move quickly.
- (transitive, slang) To arrest (someone or a group of people) for a crime.
- (poker) To lose all of one's chips.
- (blackjack) To exceed a score of 21.
- (transitive) To debunk, dispel (a belief).
- (finance, transitive) To undo a trade, generally an error trade, that has already been executed.
- break open or apart suddenly and forcefully
- search without warning, make a sudden surprise attack on
- separate or cause to separate abruptly
- ruin completely
- go to pieces
adj
noun
- (slang) A police raid or takedown of a criminal enterprise.
- (sports, derogatory) A player who fails to meet expectations.
- (chess, slang) A refutation of an opening, or of a previously published analysis.
- A woman's breasts; the circumference of her chest measured around the breasts.
- (slang) A failed enterprise; a bomb.
- A sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders.
- (economics) The downward portion of a boom and bust cycle; a recession.
- (slang) A disappointment.
- (slang) The act of arresting someone for a crime, or raiding a suspected criminal operation.
- the chest of a woman
- a sculpture of the head and shoulders of a person
- an occasion for excessive eating or drinking
- a complete failure
verb
- (UK, US, Southern US, dialect, intransitive) To grumble.
- (transitive) To use a hone to produce a precision bore.
- (UK, US, Southern US, dialect) To pine, lament, or long.
- To make more acute, intense, or effective.
- (transitive) To sharpen with a hone; to whet.
- (transitive) To refine (a skill especially) by learning.
- sharpen with a hone
- make perfect or complete
intj
noun
- A kind of swelling in the cheek.
- A machine tool used in the manufacture of precision bores.
- A sharpening stone composed of extra-fine grit used for removing the burr or curl from the blade of a razor or some other edge tool.
- a tool consisting of a number of fine abrasive slips held in a machine head, rotated and reciprocated to impart a smooth finish to cylinder bores, etc.
- a whetstone made of fine gritstone; used for sharpening razors
verb
- (transitive) To chop or cut down in a rough manner.
- (computing) To accomplish a difficult programming task.
- To use as a hack; to let out for hire.
- To play hackeysack.
- To drive a hackney cab.
- (ice hockey) To make a flailing attempt to hit the puck with a hockey stick.
- (transitive, slang, computing, by extension) To gain unauthorized access to a computer or online account belonging to (a person or organisation).
- (transitive) To strike lightly as part of tapotement massage.
- (falconry) To keep (young hawks) in a state of partial freedom, before they are trained.
- (intransitive, video games) To cheat by using unauthorized modifications.
- (transitive, colloquial, by extension) To apply a trick, shortcut, skill, or novel method to something to increase productivity, efficiency or ease.
- (baseball) To swing at a pitched ball.
- (computing) To make a quick code change to patch a computer program, often one that, while being effective, is inelegant or makes the program harder to maintain.
- (intransitive) To cough noisily.
- (equestrianism) To ride a horse at a regular pace; to ride on a road (as opposed to riding cross-country etc.).
- To withstand or put up with a difficult situation.
- (computing, slang, transitive) To work with something on an intimately technical level.
- To use frequently and indiscriminately, so as to render trite and commonplace.
- To strike in a frantic movement.
- To lay (bricks) on a rack to dry.
- (transitive, slang, computing) To hack into; to gain unauthorized access to (a computer system, e.g., a website, or network) by manipulating code.
- (soccer and rugby) To kick (a player) on the shins.
- (ice hockey) To strike an opponent with one's hockey stick, typically on the leg but occasionally and more seriously on the back, arm, head, etc.
- significantly cut up a manuscript
- cut with a hacking tool
- kick on the shins
- cut away
- be able to manage or manage successfully
- cough spasmodically
- fix a computer program piecemeal until it works
- kick on the arms
intj
noun
- A kick on the shins in football of any type.
- A gouge or notch made by such a blow.
- A hacking blow.
- (derogatory) One who is professionally successful despite producing mediocre work. (Usually applied to persons in a creative field.)
- (military, slang) An airplane of poor quality or in poor condition.
- (derogatory, authorship) An untalented writer.
- A tool for chopping.
- A dry cough.
- (slang, military) Time check, as for example upon synchronization of wristwatches.
- (colloquial) A trick, shortcut, skill, or novel method to increase productivity, efficiency, or ease.
- A person, often a journalist, hired to do routine work.
- (curling) The foothold traditionally cut into the ice from which the person who throws the rock pushes off for delivery.
- (computing, slang) A video game or any computer software that has been altered from its original state.
- (politics, slightly derogatory) A political agitator.
- (computing, slang) An expedient, temporary solution, such as a small patch or change to code, meant to be replaced with a more elegant solution at a later date; a workaround.
- A horse for hire, especially one which is old and tired.
- A small ball usually made of woven cotton or suede and filled with rice, sand or some other filler, for use in hackeysack.
- A hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough.
- (now chiefly Canada, US, colloquial) A vehicle let for hire; originally, a hackney cab, now typically a taxicab.
- A food-rack for cattle.
- (derogatory) A talented writer-for-hire, paid to put others' thoughts into felicitous language.
- (derogatory) Someone who is available for hire; hireling, mercenary.
- (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) A practical joke that showcases cleverness and creativity.
- (falconry) A board upon which the falcon's food is placed; used by extension for the state of partial freedom in which they are kept before being trained.
- (computing, slang) An interesting technical achievement, particularly in computer programming.
- A hearse.
- (slang) The driver of a taxicab (hackney cab).
- (ice hockey) The act of striking an opponent with one's hockey stick, typically on the leg but occasionally and more seriously on the back, arm, head, etc.
- (baseball) A swing of the bat at a pitched ball by the batter, particularly a choppy, ungraceful one that misses the ball such as at a fastball.
- A grating in a mill race.
- (informal) An improvised device or solution to a problem.
- (uncountable, slang, naval) Confinement of an officer to their stateroom as a punishment.
- (UK, student politics, derogatory) A person who frequently canvasses for votes, either directly or by appearing to continuously act with the ulterior motive of furthering their political career.
- A rack used to dry something, such as bricks, fish, or cheese.
- (figuratively) A try, an attempt.
- (computing, slang) The illegal accessing of a computer network.
- a horse kept for hire
- a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money
- one who works hard at boring tasks
- a tool (as a hoe or pick or mattock) used for breaking up the surface of the soil
- a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends
- a saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc.
- an old or over-worked horse
- a mediocre and disdained writer
verb
- (slang) To cut up or chop up.
- (slang, idiomatic) To create or produce in a sudden or haphazard manner.
- (slang, idiomatic) To inject an illegal drug.
- (slang) To hit, send, or move forward or upward quickly or forcefully.
- (slang, idiomatic) To control or dominate someone or something in a thorough or severe manner.
- (slang, idiomatic) To mess up.
- (slang, idiomatic) To gather together; to accumulate or come up with.
- (slang) To strike someone or something repeatedly or very forcefully.
- (slang, idiomatic) To divide into shares; divvy.
- (idiomatic) To increase or raise by a sizeable amount.
- (slang, idiomatic) To pay, especially reluctantly or with difficulty; to cough up; to shell out.
verb
- (figurative) To slice through; to cut or traverse a path through or between.
- (figurative) To sit up or stand up suddenly.
- To cut up or carve up with a knife.
- (figurative) To move in a stabbing or penetrating manner
- (more generally) To trim with a knife.
- To rise precipitously.
- (figurative) To traverse up the body in a quick stabbing sensation
- (figurative) To penetrate sharply upward.
- To extract a morsel or dab (of something) with a knife.
verb
- (linguistics, transitive) To cause (a word, a suffix, etc) to undergo grammaticalization.
- (transitive) To make grammatical.
- (linguistics, transitive) To integrate into a system of grammar; to make (something such as a constraint) an element or rule of grammar, to cause (something) to be required by grammar.
verb
- (transitive) To cut with a knife.
- (transitive) To positively ignore, especially in order to denigrate; compare cut.
- (transitive) To betray, especially in the context of a political slate.
- (transitive) To use a knife to injure or kill by stabbing, slashing, or otherwise using the sharp edge of the knife as a weapon.
- (intransitive) To cut through as if with a knife.
- use a knife on
noun
- Any blade-like part in a tool or a machine designed for cutting, such as that of a chipper.
- A utensil or a tool designed for cutting, consisting of a flat piece of hard material, usually steel or other metal (the blade), usually sharpened on one edge, attached to a handle. The blade may be pointed for piercing.
- A weapon designed with the aforementioned specifications intended for slashing or stabbing but too short to be called a sword; a dagger.
- edge tool used as a cutting instrument; has a pointed blade with a sharp edge and a handle
- a weapon with a handle and blade with a sharp point
- any long thin projection that is transient
verb
noun
- A sword-like tool used for cutting large plants with a chopping motion, or used as a weapon.
- A small stringed instrument from Madeira, Portugal, having a double bulged body, traditionally of wood, with a small rib and four metallic strings, sometimes attached by wooden pegs.
- a large heavy knife used as a weapon or for cutting vegetation
verb
- (transitive) To get by, or as if by, cutting or tearing.
- (intransitive, surfing, slang) To surf extremely well.
- To move or act fast; to rush headlong.
- (intransitive, figurative) To move quickly and destructively.
- (slang) To take a hit, dose or shot of a drug (such as marijuana) or alcohol.
- (transitive, slang, computing) To copy data from a CD, DVD, Internet stream, etc., to a hard drive, portable device, etc.
- (woodworking) To cut wood along (parallel to) the grain.
- (transitive, slang, chiefly demoscene) To steal; to rip off.
- (transitive) To divide or separate the parts of (especially something flimsy, such as paper or fabric), by cutting or tearing; to tear off or out by violence.
- (transitive) To remove violently or wrongly.
- (intransitive, slang) To be very good; rock
- (intransitive) To tear apart; to rapidly become two parts.
- (slang) To fart audibly.
- (transitive, sometimes US, slang) To mock or criticize (someone or something). (often used with on and into)
- move precipitously or violently
- tear or be torn violently
- cut (wood) along the grain
- criticize or abuse strongly and violently
- take without the owner's consent
intj
noun
- (slang) A comical, embarrassing, or hypocritical event or action.
- (slang) Something unfairly expensive, a rip-off.
- (chiefly in the plural) A tract of broken water (in a river or stream), particularly one which is not as rough as rapids.
- (slang) A fart.
- (UK, Eton College) A black mark given for substandard schoolwork.
- (Canada, slang) A joyride.
- A tear (in paper, etc.).
- (Scotland) A handful of unthreshed grain.
- Ellipsis of ripsaw (“saw for cutting wood along its grain”).
- (Australia, New Zealand) A rip current: a strong outflow of surface water, away from the shore, that returns water from incoming waves.
- (slang) A hit (dose) of marijuana.
- (computing, slang) Data or audio copied from a CD, DVD, Internet stream, etc. to a hard drive, portable device, etc.
- (music, informal) A kind of glissando leading up to the main note to be played.
- (demoscene, slang) Something ripped off or stolen; a work resulting from plagiarism.
- a dissolute man in fashionable society
- the act of rending or ripping or splitting something
- a stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current
- an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart
adj
noun
- Abbreviation of transposition.
- Abbreviation of transfer.
- Abbreviation of transportation.
- Abbreviation of trainee.
- Abbreviation of track.
- Abbreviation of trust.
- Abbreviation of trustee.
- (music) Abbreviation of trill.
- Abbreviation of treasurer.
- Abbreviation of trumpeter.
- Abbreviation of trace.
- (music) Abbreviation of treble.
- Abbreviation of transaction.
- (medicine) Abbreviation of tinctura (Latin for “tincture”).
- Abbreviation of troop.
- Abbreviation of tragedy.
- Abbreviation of truck.
- Abbreviation of trumpet.
- Abbreviation of transport.
- Abbreviation of train.
- Abbreviation of translator.
- Abbreviation of translation.
verb
verb
noun
verb
noun
- (US, New York) A narrow high-rise apartment building.
- A long piece cut or rent off; a sharp, slender fragment.
- A strand, or slender roll, of cotton or other fiber in a loose, untwisted state, produced by a carding machine and ready for the roving or slubbing which precedes spinning.
- A small amount of something; a drop in the bucket; a shred.
- (Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Kent, Sussex, Upper Midwestern US, Canada) Specifically, a splinter caught under the skin.
- (fishing) Bait made of pieces of small fish.
- a thin fragment or slice (especially of wood) that has been shaved from something
- a small thin sharp bit of wood or glass or metal
verb
- (transitive, UK dialectal) To assemble.
- (intransitive, UK dialectal) To assemble; come together.
- (transitive, UK dialectal, of things) To bring together; collect; put in order; arrange.
- (transitive, UK dialectal, of persons) To bring together; join (in marriage, friendship, love, etc.).
- (transitive, UK dialectal) To coagulate; curdle (milk).
adj
noun
noun
verb
- (transitive, dialectal, chiefly Scotland, by extension) To overburden or overpower with work; overwork; overtax.
- (transitive, dialectal, Cumbria, Westmoreland, Lancashire, Lincolnshire) To beset; surround; invest; surround with difficulties; bar; impede.
- (transitive, dialectal, figuratively, Cumbria, Westmoreland, Lancashire, Lincolnshire) To upset; hinder.
- (transitive, dialectal, Cumbria, Westmoreland, Lancashire, Lincolnshire) To get in front of; intercept; waylay; entrap.
- (transitive, dialectal, chiefly Scotland) To overpower; give one too much of anything; surfeit.
verb
- (transitive, US, slang) To understand.
- (intransitive) To search by sense of touch.
- (transitive) To experience the consequences of.
- (transitive, copulative) To become aware of through the skin; to use the sense of touch on.
- (intransitive, copulative) To experience an emotion or other mental state.
- (copulative) To seem (through touch or otherwise).
- (intransitive) To sympathise; to have the sensibilities moved or affected.
- (transitive) To experience an emotion or other mental state about.
- (transitive) To be or become aware of.
- (transitive) To think, believe, or have an impression concerning.
- (transitive) To find one's way (literally or figuratively) by touching or using cautious movements.
- (intransitive) To receive information by touch or by any neurons other than those responsible for sight, smell, taste, or hearing.
- have a feeling or perception about oneself in reaction to someone's behavior or attitude
- examine (a body part) by palpation
- undergo an emotional sensation or be in a particular state of mind
- be conscious of a physical, mental, or emotional state
- perceive by a physical sensation, e.g., coming from the skin or muscles
- undergo passive experience of
- pass one's hands over the sexual organs of
- grope or feel in search of something
- find by testing or cautious exploration
- be felt or perceived in a certain way
- produce a certain impression
- come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds
- examine by touch
noun
- A vague understanding.
- An intuitive ability.
- An act of fondling.
- A vague mental impression.
- (chiefly US, slang) A feeling; an emotion.
- A perception experienced mainly or solely through the sense of touch.
- an intuitive awareness
- manual stimulation of the genital area for sexual pleasure
- the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people
- a property perceived by touch
verb
noun
- A spigot or plug used to stop the hole in a barrel or cask.
- A pile; a post or girder.
- (US) A spout inserted in a maple (or other tree) to draw off sap.
- a plug used to close a hole in a barrel or flask
- a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure
verb
- (transitive, US, dialectal) Alternative form of strain.
- To come upon and flush out.
- (figurative) To arise, to come into existence.
- (ambitransitive, nautical, usually perfective) To crack.
- (transitive) To cause to spring (all senses).
- (sometimes figurative) To enliven.
- (transitive, slang, US) To free from imprisonment, especially by facilitating an illegal escape.
- (intransitive) To move or burst forth.
- (intransitive) To spend the springtime somewhere.
- (UK dialectal) To mature.
- To grow, to sprout.
- (transitive) To leap over.
- (of mechanisms) To cause to work or open by sudden application of pressure.
- (of animals) To find or get enough food during springtime.
- (transitive, nautical) To turn a vessel using a spring attached to its anchor cable.
- (intransitive, slang, rare) To be free of imprisonment, especially by illegal escape.
- (transitive) To pay or spend a certain sum, to yield.
- (ambitransitive) To deform owing to excessive pressure, to become warped; to intentionally deform in order to position and then straighten in place.
- (Australia, slang) To catch in an illegal act or compromising position.
- To appear.
- (intransitive, UK, dialectal, chiefly of cows) To swell with milk or pregnancy.
- (intransitive, now usually with "apart" or "open") To burst into pieces, to explode, to shatter.
- (transitive, US, dialectal) Alternative form of sprain.
- To tell, to share.
- (transitive, rare) To equip with springs, especially (of vehicles) to equip with a suspension.
- (transitive, architecture, of arches) To build, to form the initial curve of.
- (figurative, usually with cardinal adverbs) To move with great speed and energy.
- (intransitive, architecture, of arches, with "from") To extend, to curve.
- (usually with from) To be born, descend, or originate from
- develop into a distinctive entity
- move forward by leaps and bounds
- develop suddenly
- produce or disclose suddenly or unexpectedly
- spring back; spring away from an impact
noun
- A grove of trees; a forest.
- (countable, slang) An erection of the penis.
- (countable, uncountable) The season of the year in temperate regions in which temperatures and daylight hours rise, and plants spring from the ground and into bloom and dormant animals spring to life.
- (nautical) A line from a vessel's end or side to its anchor cable used to diminish or control its movement.
- (figurative) A race, a lineage.
- A shoot, a young tree.
- (figurative) A youth.
- Elastic energy, power, or force.
- (countable, fashion) Someone with ivory or peach skin tone and eyes and hair that are not extremely dark, seen as best suited to certain colors of clothing.
- (meteorology) The three months of March, April, and May in the Northern Hemisphere and September, October, and November in the Southern Hemisphere.
- (countable) The source from which an action or supply of something springs.
- (astronomy) The period from the moment of vernal equinox (around March 21 in the Northern Hemisphere) to the moment of the summer solstice (around June 21); the equivalent periods reckoned in other cultures and calendars.
- Elasticity: the property of a body springing back to its original form after compression, stretching, etc.
- An elastic mechanical part or device in any shape (e.g., flat, curved, coiled), made of flexible material (usually spring steel) that exerts force and attempts to spring back when bent, compressed, or stretched.
- (uncountable, figurative) The time of something's growth; the early stages of some process.
- (figurative, politics) a period of political liberalization and democratization
- (oceanography) Ellipsis of spring tide, the especially high tide shortly after full and new moons.
- A cause, a motive, etc.
- (nautical) A line laid out from a vessel's end to the opposite end of an adjacent vessel or mooring to diminish or control its movement.
- (countable) An act of springing: a leap, a jump.
- (geology) A spray or body of water springing from the ground.
- a metal elastic device that returns to its shape or position when pushed or pulled or pressed
- a point at which water issues forth
- a natural flow of ground water
- the elasticity of something that can be stretched and returns to its original length
- a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards
- the season of growth; spring; the beginning of spring
verb
adj
noun
verb
noun
verb
noun
- (hip-hop slang) Style.
- The quality produced by the sensation of taste or, especially, of taste and smell in combined effect.
- The characteristic quality of something.
- A variety (of taste) attributed to an object (food, candy, chewing gum, medicine, etc).
- (particle physics) One of the six types of quarks (top, bottom, strange, charmed, up, and down) or three types of leptons (electron, muon, and tauon).
- (informal, figurative) A kind or type.
- Flavoring, a substance used to produce a taste.
- (physics) the six kinds of quarks
- the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth
- the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people
verb
- (transitive) To cut into slices.
- (transitive, golf) To hit a shot that slices (travels from left to right for a right-handed player).
- (transitive, tennis) To hit the ball with a stroke that causes a spin, resulting in the ball swerving or staying low after a bounce.
- (transitive, rowing) To angle the blade so that it goes too deeply into the water when starting to take a stroke.
- (transitive) To clear (e.g. a fire, or the grate bars of a furnace) by means of a slice bar.
- (transitive, badminton) To hit the shuttlecock with the racket at an angle, causing it to move sideways and downwards.
- (transitive, soccer) To kick the ball so that it goes in an unintended direction, at too great an angle or too high.
- (transitive) To cut with an edge using a drawing motion.
- make a clean cut through
- hit a ball and put a spin on it so that it travels in a different direction
- hit a ball so that it causes a backspin
- cut into slices
adj
noun
- A plate of iron with a handle, forming a kind of chisel, or a spadelike implement, variously proportioned, and used for various purposes, as for stripping the planking from a vessel's side, for cutting blubber from a whale, or for stirring a fire of coals; a slice bar; a peel; a fire shovel.
- A piece of pizza, shaped like a sector of a circle.
- (golf) A shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the right. See fade, hook, draw.
- A salver, platter, or tray.
- (cricket) A kind of cut shot where the bat makes an obtuse angle with the batter.
- A thin, broad piece cut off.
- (Australia, New Zealand, UK) Any of a class of heavy cakes or desserts made in a tray and cut out into squarish slices.
- (falconry) A hawk's or falcon's dropping which squirts at an angle other than vertical. (See mute.)
- That which is thin and broad.
- A knife with a thin, broad blade for taking up or serving fish; also, a spatula for spreading anything, as paint or ink.
- One of the wedges by which the cradle and the ship are lifted clear of the building blocks to prepare for launching.
- (colloquial) An amount of anything.
- (printing) A removable sliding bottom to a galley.
- (British) A snack consisting of pastry with savoury filling.
- (medicine) A section of image taken of an internal organ using MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), CT (computed tomography), or various forms of x-ray.
- (programming) A contiguous portion of an array.
- A broad, thin piece of plaster.
- a wound made by cutting
- a golf shot that curves to the right for a right-handed golfer
- a share of something
- a thin flat piece cut off of some object
- a spatula for spreading paint or ink
- a serving that has been cut from a larger portion
verb
- (transitive, UK, dialectal) To part, separate or divide.
- (ambitransitive) To part with, separate from, leave off; cast off, cast, let fall, be divested of.
- To sprinkle; to intersperse; to cover.
- (transitive) To radiate, cast, give off (light).
- (weaving) To divide, as the warp threads, so as to form a shed, or passageway, for the shuttle.
- (transitive) To allow to flow or fall.
- (transitive) To place or allocate a vehicle, such as a locomotive, in or to a depot or shed.
- (transitive, music) To woodshed.
- pour out in drops or small quantities or as if in drops or small quantities
- cause or allow (a solid substance) to flow or run out or over
- cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers
- to remove
noun
- A slight or temporary structure built to shade or shelter something; a structure usually open in front; an outbuilding, especially a smallish one; a hut.
- (obsolete outside of compounds) An area of land as distinguished from those around it.
- (music, slang) Alternative form of woodshed.
- (British, rail transport, informal) A British Rail Class 66 locomotive.
- (weaving) An area between upper and lower warp yarns through which the weft is woven.
- (British, derogatory, informal) An automobile which is old, worn-out, slow, or otherwise of poor quality.
- (nuclear physics) A unit of area equivalent to 10⁻⁵² square meters.
- A large temporary open structure for reception of goods.
- an outbuilding with a single story; used for shelter or storage
adj
verb
- (transitive) To chop or cut into small pieces.
- (UK, slang, intransitive) To leave.
- (intransitive, dialectal) To use a chisel.
- (transitive, dialectal) To chisel (something), to chisel on (something).
- (transitive, sports such as soccer) To beat (an opposing player) by use of a chip shot, such as by looping the ball over the head of the opposing goalkeeper.
- (transitive, automotive) To upgrade an engine management system, usually to increase power.
- (UK, transitive, often with "in") To contribute.
- (intransitive) To become chipped.
- (transitive, billiards) To move (a ball) a relatively short distance by means of an oblique contact.
- (transitive) To break small pieces from.
- (transitive, sports) To strike or play (the ball or other implement) as a chip shot.
- (also to chip at) To make fun of.
- (intransitive, card games, often with "in") To ante (up).
- (transitive, informal) To fit (an animal) with a microchip.
- play a chip shot
- form by chipping
- cut a nick into
- break off (a piece from a whole)
- break a small piece off from
noun
- The smallest amount; a whit or jot.
- (US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, especially in the plural) A thin, crisp, fried slice of potato, a crisp; occasionally a similar fried slice of another vegetable or dried fruit.
- (New Zealand, northern) A receptacle, usually for strawberries or other fruit.
- A small rectangle of colour printed on coated paper for colour selection and matching. A virtual equivalent in software applications.
- A damaged area of a surface where a small piece has been broken off.
- (golf) A low shot, usually played at short range around and onto a green, intended to travel a short distance through the air and roll the remainder of the way towards the hole.
- (tennis) A light shot with a downward slice, usually played from close to the net.
- A medallion.
- (nautical) The triangular piece of wood attached to the log line.
- (electronics) A hybrid device mounted in a substrate, containing electronic circuitry and miniaturised mechanical, chemical or biochemical devices.
- (electronics) A circuit fabricated in one piece on a small, thin substrate; a microchip.
- A small piece broken from a larger piece of solid material.
- A dried piece of dung, often used as fuel.
- (games, gambling) A token used in place of cash.
- (historical) Wood or Cuban palm leaf split into slips, or straw plaited in a special manner, for making hats or bonnets.
- (billiards) A very light shot that hits the cue ball so softly that it barely moves an object ball into a pocket without the cue ball going in as well.
- (curling) A takeout that hits a rock at an angle.
- (sports such as soccer) A shot during which the ball travels more predominantly upwards than in a regular shot, as to clear an obstacle.
- (cooking) A small, near-conical piece of food added in baking.
- a small fragment of something broken off from the whole
- a mark left after a small piece has been chopped or broken off of something
- a thin crisp slice of potato fried in deep fat
- electronic equipment consisting of a small crystal of a silicon semiconductor fabricated to carry out a number of electronic functions in an integrated circuit
- a small disk-shaped counter used to represent money when gambling
- the act of chipping something
- a piece of dried bovine dung
- (golf) a low running approach shot
- a triangular wooden float attached to the end of a log line
verb
noun
verb
- (transitive, colloquial, chiefly US) To break.
- (snowboarding) An emphatic synonym of do or get.
- (transitive, slang) To break in (an animal).
- (US, informal) To reduce in rank.
- (intransitive, vulgar, slang) To ejaculate; to eject semen or to squirt.
- (journalism, intransitive) For a headline to exceed the amount of space reserved for it.
- (transitive, slang) To break in (a woman or girl), to deflower
- (slang, African-American Vernacular, intransitive) To attack, hit or insult (someone).
- (slang, African-American Vernacular, transitive) To shoot (a gun).
- (chess, slang) To refute an established opening.
- (transitive, slang) To catch (someone) in the act of doing something wrong, socially and morally inappropriate, or illegal, especially when being done in a sneaky or secretive state.
- (slang) To do or perform; to move quickly.
- (transitive, slang) To arrest (someone or a group of people) for a crime.
- (poker) To lose all of one's chips.
- (blackjack) To exceed a score of 21.
- (transitive) To debunk, dispel (a belief).
- (finance, transitive) To undo a trade, generally an error trade, that has already been executed.
- break open or apart suddenly and forcefully
- search without warning, make a sudden surprise attack on
- separate or cause to separate abruptly
- ruin completely
- go to pieces
adj
noun
- (slang) A police raid or takedown of a criminal enterprise.
- (sports, derogatory) A player who fails to meet expectations.
- (chess, slang) A refutation of an opening, or of a previously published analysis.
- A woman's breasts; the circumference of her chest measured around the breasts.
- (slang) A failed enterprise; a bomb.
- A sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders.
- (economics) The downward portion of a boom and bust cycle; a recession.
- (slang) A disappointment.
- (slang) The act of arresting someone for a crime, or raiding a suspected criminal operation.
- the chest of a woman
- a sculpture of the head and shoulders of a person
- an occasion for excessive eating or drinking
- a complete failure
verb
- (UK, US, Southern US, dialect, intransitive) To grumble.
- (transitive) To use a hone to produce a precision bore.
- (UK, US, Southern US, dialect) To pine, lament, or long.
- To make more acute, intense, or effective.
- (transitive) To sharpen with a hone; to whet.
- (transitive) To refine (a skill especially) by learning.
- sharpen with a hone
- make perfect or complete
intj
noun
- A kind of swelling in the cheek.
- A machine tool used in the manufacture of precision bores.
- A sharpening stone composed of extra-fine grit used for removing the burr or curl from the blade of a razor or some other edge tool.
- a tool consisting of a number of fine abrasive slips held in a machine head, rotated and reciprocated to impart a smooth finish to cylinder bores, etc.
- a whetstone made of fine gritstone; used for sharpening razors
verb
- (transitive) To chop or cut down in a rough manner.
- (computing) To accomplish a difficult programming task.
- To use as a hack; to let out for hire.
- To play hackeysack.
- To drive a hackney cab.
- (ice hockey) To make a flailing attempt to hit the puck with a hockey stick.
- (transitive, slang, computing, by extension) To gain unauthorized access to a computer or online account belonging to (a person or organisation).
- (transitive) To strike lightly as part of tapotement massage.
- (falconry) To keep (young hawks) in a state of partial freedom, before they are trained.
- (intransitive, video games) To cheat by using unauthorized modifications.
- (transitive, colloquial, by extension) To apply a trick, shortcut, skill, or novel method to something to increase productivity, efficiency or ease.
- (baseball) To swing at a pitched ball.
- (computing) To make a quick code change to patch a computer program, often one that, while being effective, is inelegant or makes the program harder to maintain.
- (intransitive) To cough noisily.
- (equestrianism) To ride a horse at a regular pace; to ride on a road (as opposed to riding cross-country etc.).
- To withstand or put up with a difficult situation.
- (computing, slang, transitive) To work with something on an intimately technical level.
- To use frequently and indiscriminately, so as to render trite and commonplace.
- To strike in a frantic movement.
- To lay (bricks) on a rack to dry.
- (transitive, slang, computing) To hack into; to gain unauthorized access to (a computer system, e.g., a website, or network) by manipulating code.
- (soccer and rugby) To kick (a player) on the shins.
- (ice hockey) To strike an opponent with one's hockey stick, typically on the leg but occasionally and more seriously on the back, arm, head, etc.
- significantly cut up a manuscript
- cut with a hacking tool
- kick on the shins
- cut away
- be able to manage or manage successfully
- cough spasmodically
- fix a computer program piecemeal until it works
- kick on the arms
intj
noun
- A kick on the shins in football of any type.
- A gouge or notch made by such a blow.
- A hacking blow.
- (derogatory) One who is professionally successful despite producing mediocre work. (Usually applied to persons in a creative field.)
- (military, slang) An airplane of poor quality or in poor condition.
- (derogatory, authorship) An untalented writer.
- A tool for chopping.
- A dry cough.
- (slang, military) Time check, as for example upon synchronization of wristwatches.
- (colloquial) A trick, shortcut, skill, or novel method to increase productivity, efficiency, or ease.
- A person, often a journalist, hired to do routine work.
- (curling) The foothold traditionally cut into the ice from which the person who throws the rock pushes off for delivery.
- (computing, slang) A video game or any computer software that has been altered from its original state.
- (politics, slightly derogatory) A political agitator.
- (computing, slang) An expedient, temporary solution, such as a small patch or change to code, meant to be replaced with a more elegant solution at a later date; a workaround.
- A horse for hire, especially one which is old and tired.
- A small ball usually made of woven cotton or suede and filled with rice, sand or some other filler, for use in hackeysack.
- A hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough.
- (now chiefly Canada, US, colloquial) A vehicle let for hire; originally, a hackney cab, now typically a taxicab.
- A food-rack for cattle.
- (derogatory) A talented writer-for-hire, paid to put others' thoughts into felicitous language.
- (derogatory) Someone who is available for hire; hireling, mercenary.
- (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) A practical joke that showcases cleverness and creativity.
- (falconry) A board upon which the falcon's food is placed; used by extension for the state of partial freedom in which they are kept before being trained.
- (computing, slang) An interesting technical achievement, particularly in computer programming.
- A hearse.
- (slang) The driver of a taxicab (hackney cab).
- (ice hockey) The act of striking an opponent with one's hockey stick, typically on the leg but occasionally and more seriously on the back, arm, head, etc.
- (baseball) A swing of the bat at a pitched ball by the batter, particularly a choppy, ungraceful one that misses the ball such as at a fastball.
- A grating in a mill race.
- (informal) An improvised device or solution to a problem.
- (uncountable, slang, naval) Confinement of an officer to their stateroom as a punishment.
- (UK, student politics, derogatory) A person who frequently canvasses for votes, either directly or by appearing to continuously act with the ulterior motive of furthering their political career.
- A rack used to dry something, such as bricks, fish, or cheese.
- (figuratively) A try, an attempt.
- (computing, slang) The illegal accessing of a computer network.
- a horse kept for hire
- a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money
- one who works hard at boring tasks
- a tool (as a hoe or pick or mattock) used for breaking up the surface of the soil
- a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends
- a saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc.
- an old or over-worked horse
- a mediocre and disdained writer
verb
- (slang) To cut up or chop up.
- (slang, idiomatic) To create or produce in a sudden or haphazard manner.
- (slang, idiomatic) To inject an illegal drug.
- (slang) To hit, send, or move forward or upward quickly or forcefully.
- (slang, idiomatic) To control or dominate someone or something in a thorough or severe manner.
- (slang, idiomatic) To mess up.
- (slang, idiomatic) To gather together; to accumulate or come up with.
- (slang) To strike someone or something repeatedly or very forcefully.
- (slang, idiomatic) To divide into shares; divvy.
- (idiomatic) To increase or raise by a sizeable amount.
- (slang, idiomatic) To pay, especially reluctantly or with difficulty; to cough up; to shell out.
verb
- (figurative) To slice through; to cut or traverse a path through or between.
- (figurative) To sit up or stand up suddenly.
- To cut up or carve up with a knife.
- (figurative) To move in a stabbing or penetrating manner
- (more generally) To trim with a knife.
- To rise precipitously.
- (figurative) To traverse up the body in a quick stabbing sensation
- (figurative) To penetrate sharply upward.
- To extract a morsel or dab (of something) with a knife.
verb
- (linguistics, transitive) To cause (a word, a suffix, etc) to undergo grammaticalization.
- (transitive) To make grammatical.
- (linguistics, transitive) To integrate into a system of grammar; to make (something such as a constraint) an element or rule of grammar, to cause (something) to be required by grammar.
verb
- (transitive) To cut with a knife.
- (transitive) To positively ignore, especially in order to denigrate; compare cut.
- (transitive) To betray, especially in the context of a political slate.
- (transitive) To use a knife to injure or kill by stabbing, slashing, or otherwise using the sharp edge of the knife as a weapon.
- (intransitive) To cut through as if with a knife.
- use a knife on
noun
- Any blade-like part in a tool or a machine designed for cutting, such as that of a chipper.
- A utensil or a tool designed for cutting, consisting of a flat piece of hard material, usually steel or other metal (the blade), usually sharpened on one edge, attached to a handle. The blade may be pointed for piercing.
- A weapon designed with the aforementioned specifications intended for slashing or stabbing but too short to be called a sword; a dagger.
- edge tool used as a cutting instrument; has a pointed blade with a sharp edge and a handle
- a weapon with a handle and blade with a sharp point
- any long thin projection that is transient
verb
noun
- A sword-like tool used for cutting large plants with a chopping motion, or used as a weapon.
- A small stringed instrument from Madeira, Portugal, having a double bulged body, traditionally of wood, with a small rib and four metallic strings, sometimes attached by wooden pegs.
- a large heavy knife used as a weapon or for cutting vegetation
verb
- (transitive) To get by, or as if by, cutting or tearing.
- (intransitive, surfing, slang) To surf extremely well.
- To move or act fast; to rush headlong.
- (intransitive, figurative) To move quickly and destructively.
- (slang) To take a hit, dose or shot of a drug (such as marijuana) or alcohol.
- (transitive, slang, computing) To copy data from a CD, DVD, Internet stream, etc., to a hard drive, portable device, etc.
- (woodworking) To cut wood along (parallel to) the grain.
- (transitive, slang, chiefly demoscene) To steal; to rip off.
- (transitive) To divide or separate the parts of (especially something flimsy, such as paper or fabric), by cutting or tearing; to tear off or out by violence.
- (transitive) To remove violently or wrongly.
- (intransitive, slang) To be very good; rock
- (intransitive) To tear apart; to rapidly become two parts.
- (slang) To fart audibly.
- (transitive, sometimes US, slang) To mock or criticize (someone or something). (often used with on and into)
- move precipitously or violently
- tear or be torn violently
- cut (wood) along the grain
- criticize or abuse strongly and violently
- take without the owner's consent
intj
noun
- (slang) A comical, embarrassing, or hypocritical event or action.
- (slang) Something unfairly expensive, a rip-off.
- (chiefly in the plural) A tract of broken water (in a river or stream), particularly one which is not as rough as rapids.
- (slang) A fart.
- (UK, Eton College) A black mark given for substandard schoolwork.
- (Canada, slang) A joyride.
- A tear (in paper, etc.).
- (Scotland) A handful of unthreshed grain.
- Ellipsis of ripsaw (“saw for cutting wood along its grain”).
- (Australia, New Zealand) A rip current: a strong outflow of surface water, away from the shore, that returns water from incoming waves.
- (slang) A hit (dose) of marijuana.
- (computing, slang) Data or audio copied from a CD, DVD, Internet stream, etc. to a hard drive, portable device, etc.
- (music, informal) A kind of glissando leading up to the main note to be played.
- (demoscene, slang) Something ripped off or stolen; a work resulting from plagiarism.
- a dissolute man in fashionable society
- the act of rending or ripping or splitting something
- a stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current
- an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart
verb
noun
verb
noun
- (US, New York) A narrow high-rise apartment building.
- A long piece cut or rent off; a sharp, slender fragment.
- A strand, or slender roll, of cotton or other fiber in a loose, untwisted state, produced by a carding machine and ready for the roving or slubbing which precedes spinning.
- A small amount of something; a drop in the bucket; a shred.
- (Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Kent, Sussex, Upper Midwestern US, Canada) Specifically, a splinter caught under the skin.
- (fishing) Bait made of pieces of small fish.
- a thin fragment or slice (especially of wood) that has been shaved from something
- a small thin sharp bit of wood or glass or metal
verb
- (transitive, UK dialectal) To assemble.
- (intransitive, UK dialectal) To assemble; come together.
- (transitive, UK dialectal, of things) To bring together; collect; put in order; arrange.
- (transitive, UK dialectal, of persons) To bring together; join (in marriage, friendship, love, etc.).
- (transitive, UK dialectal) To coagulate; curdle (milk).
adj
noun
adv
noun
verb
- To provide, particularly:
- (ambitransitive) To provide with food, especially for a special occasion as a professional service.
- (intransitive, figurative, with 'for') To tailor something to an intended audience.
- (UK dialect) To place, set, move, or cut diagonally or rhomboidally.
- (intransitive, figurative, with 'to') To provide anything required or desired, often (derogatory) to pander.
- supply food ready to eat; for parties and banquets
- give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance
adj
- (linguistics, by extension) Abbreviation of transitive.
- Abbreviation of artery; arterial blood.
- Abbreviation of acting.
- Abbreviation of argent.
- Abbreviation of accidental.
- Abbreviation of absent.
- Abbreviation of abundant.
- Abbreviation of ante (“before”).
- Abbreviation of anterior.
- Abbreviation of annus (“a year”).
- Abbreviation of aerial.
- Abbreviation of accepted.
- Abbreviation of alto.
- Abbreviation of anonymous.
- Abbreviation of aqua.
- Abbreviation of available.
- Abbreviation of active.
- Abbreviation of amateur.
- Abbreviation of automatic.
- Abbreviation of absolute.
adv
conj
noun
- Abbreviation of atmosphere.
- Abbreviation of axis.
- Abbreviation of accommodation.
- Abbreviation of age.
- Abbreviation of aunt.
- Abbreviation of argent.
- Abbreviation of area.
- Abbreviation of altitude; altitude intercept.
- Abbreviation of act; acting.
- Abbreviation of abbreviation.
- Abbreviation of aviation; aviator.
- Abbreviation of annealing.
- Abbreviation of afternoon.
- Abbreviation of audit; auditor.
- Abbreviation of adjutant.
- Abbreviation of adult.
- Abbreviation of account.
- Abbreviation of answer.
- Abbreviation of attendance.
- Abbreviation of alto.
- Abbreviation of arc.
- Abbreviation of anthracite.
- Abbreviation of anode.
- Abbreviation of assist; assists.
- Abbreviation of adjective.
- Abbreviation of acceleration (in feet per second).
- Abbreviation of activity.
- Abbreviation of amateur.
- Abbreviation of are or ares.
- Abbreviation of ampere.
- Abbreviation of acre; acres; acreage.
- Abbreviation of acronym.
- Abbreviation of apprentice.
prep
adj
noun
- Abbreviation of transposition.
- Abbreviation of transfer.
- Abbreviation of transportation.
- Abbreviation of trainee.
- Abbreviation of track.
- Abbreviation of trust.
- Abbreviation of trustee.
- (music) Abbreviation of trill.
- Abbreviation of treasurer.
- Abbreviation of trumpeter.
- Abbreviation of trace.
- (music) Abbreviation of treble.
- Abbreviation of transaction.
- (medicine) Abbreviation of tinctura (Latin for “tincture”).
- Abbreviation of troop.
- Abbreviation of tragedy.
- Abbreviation of truck.
- Abbreviation of trumpet.
- Abbreviation of transport.
- Abbreviation of train.
- Abbreviation of translator.
- Abbreviation of translation.