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- A kier used in dyeing.
- A manually-operated inhaler.
- Someone or something that puffs.
- (glassblowing) A soffietta.
- (fashion) An insulated puffy jacket, such as a down jacket.
- (cellular automata) A finite pattern that moves like a spaceship but leaves a trail of debris.
- The common, or harbour, porpoise.
- A Clyde puffer, a kind of small ship.
- Any of several poisonous fish, of the family Tetraodontidae, which have the ability to inflate their bodies when in danger.
- (derogatory) An alchemist; so named from their constant attendance to the bellows of their furnaces.
- (slang) A car left idling to warm up, emitting steam from the rear.
- A security device used to detect traces of explosives or drugs on a person, by blowing puffs of air that pick up tiny particles.
- any of numerous marine fishes whose elongated spiny body can inflate itself with water or air to form a globe; several species contain a potent nerve poison; closely related to spiny puffers
- delicacy that is highly dangerous because of a potent nerve poison in ovaries and liver
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- (countable) A painting made by using such pigment.
- (uncountable) This kind of painting as a genre.
- (countable) A water-soluble pigment or paint.
- the art or technique of painting with watercolors
- a painting produced with watercolors
- a water-base paint (with water-soluble pigments); used by artists
- water-soluble pigment
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- (countable) A painting produced with this kind of paint.
- A glue-based paint.
- (veterinary medicine, pathology) A viral disease of animals, such as dogs and cats, characterised by fever, coughing and catarrh.
- paint made by mixing the pigments with water and a binder
- a method of painting in which the pigments are mixed with water and a binder; used for painting posters or murals or stage scenery
- any of various infectious viral diseases of animals
- a painting created with paint that is made by mixing the pigments with water and a binder
- an angry and disagreeable mood
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- To intoxicate.
- To derange the functions of, whether bodily, mental, or spiritual; to disorder; to disease.
- To paint using distemper.
- To mix (colours) in the way of distemper.
- To temper or mix unduly; to make disproportionate; to change the due proportions of.
- To deprive of temper or moderation; to disturb; to ruffle; to make disaffected, ill-humoured, or malignant.
- paint with distemper
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- Cloth that has had a pattern of dye printed onto it.
- A visible impression on a surface.
- (finance) A datum.
- A pattern or design.
- A footprint.
- (uncountable) Clear handwriting, especially, writing without connected letters as in cursive.
- (film) A copy of a film that can be projected.
- (photography) A photograph that has been printed onto paper from the negative.
- (visual art) A picture that was created in multiple copies by printing.
- (uncountable) The letters forming the text of a document.
- (architecture) A plaster cast in bas relief.
- A fingerprint.
- (countable) A newspaper.
- (uncountable) Books and other material created by printing presses, considered collectively or as a medium.
- availability in printed form
- a visible indication made on a surface
- a fabric with a dyed pattern pressed onto it (usually by engraved rollers)
- a picture or design printed from an engraving
- a printed picture produced from a photographic negative
- a copy of a movie on film (especially a particular version of it)
- the text appearing in a book, newspaper, or other printed publication
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- (transitive) To fix or impress, as a stamp, mark, character, idea, etc., into or upon something.
- (ambitransitive) To write very clearly, especially, to write without connecting the letters as in cursive.
- (computing, transitive) To display a string on the terminal.
- (transitive) To stamp or impress (something) with coloured figures or patterns.
- To produce a microchip (an integrated circuit) in a process resembling the printing of an image.
- (finance, ambitransitive) To produce an observable value.
- (transitive) To fingerprint (a person).
- (intransitive, slang) To inadequately conceal a weapon such that its outline or imprint is visible on the person wearing it.
- (transitive) To stamp something in or upon; to make an impression or mark upon by pressure, or as by pressure.
- (ambitransitive) To publish in a book, newspaper, etc.
- (transitive) To produce one or more copies of a text or image on a surface, especially by machine.
- write as if with print; not cursive
- make into a print
- put into print
- reproduce by printing
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- (dyeing) To cover with another dye.
- To put a stiffening piece or back on (a saw blade).
- To cut, break, or otherwise take off the top of (a steel ingot) to remove unsound metal.
- (of a horse) To strike the top of (an obstacle) with the hind feet while jumping, so as to gain new impetus.
- To exceed in height.
- To excel, to surpass, to beat, to exceed.
- (golf) To strike (the ball) above the centre; also, to make (a stroke, etc.) by hitting the ball in this way.
- (British, Australia, slang, reflexive) To commit suicide.
- (LGBTQ slang, transitive, intransitive) To penetrate during sexual intercourse.
- To improve (domestic animals, especially sheep) by crossing certain individuals or breeds with other superior breeds.
- To cover on the top or with a top.
- To cut or remove the top (as of a tree)
- (nautical) To raise one end of (a yard, etc.), making it higher than the other.
- (BDSM) To be the dominant partner in a BDSM relationship or roleplay.
- To be in the lead, to be at number one position (of).
- be superior or better than some standard
- be the culminating event
- reach or ascend the top of
- finish up or conclude
- cut the top off
- provide with a top or finish the top (of a structure)
- be at the top of or constitute the top or highest point
- be ahead of others; be the first
- pass by, over, or under without making contact
- strike (the top part of a ball in golf, baseball, or pool) giving it a forward spin
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- (military) The First Sergeant or Master Sergeant (U.S. Marine Corps), senior enlisted man at company level.
- A framework at the top of a ship's mast to which rigging is attached.
- A child's spinning toy; a spinning top.
- (golf, billiards, racquet sports) A stroke on the top of the ball.
- The highest rank; the most honourable position; the utmost attainable place.
- The highest or uppermost part of something.
- (ropemaking) A plug or conical block of wood with longitudinal grooves on its surface, in which the strands of the rope slide in the process of twisting.
- Ellipsis of topswarm.
- (irrespective of present orientation) The part of something that is usually highest or uppermost.
- (loosely, by extension) A dominant partner in a sexual relationship.
- A lid, cap, or cover of a container.
- The part of a cut gem between the girdle, or circumference, and the table, or flat upper surface.
- (sound) Highest pitch or loudest volume.
- (LGBTQ slang) A person who penetrates or has a preference for penetrating during intercourse.
- A garment worn to cover the torso.
- (golf, billiards, racquet sports) A forward spin given to the ball by hitting it on or near the top; topspin.
- (in restaurants, preceded by a number) (A table at which there is, or which has enough seats for) a group of a specified number of people eating at a restaurant.
- (particle physics) A top quark.
- (slang, vulgar, African-American Vernacular, MLE, MTE) Fellatio; a blowjob.
- The utmost degree; the acme; the summit.
- The uppermost part of a page, picture, viewing screen, etc.
- The near end of somewhere.
- (wool manufacture) A bundle or ball of slivers of combed wool, from which the noils, or dust, have been taken out.
- (finance) A peak price of a security during a trading period, before it begins a downward trend.
- (Philippines, usually in the plural) a shoot (eaten as a vegetable).
- (BDSM) A dominant partner in a sadomasochistic relationship or roleplay.
- (baseball) The first half of an inning, during which the home team fields and the visiting team bats.
- the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill)
- the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development
- the first half of an inning; while the visiting team is at bat
- a garment (especially for women) that extends from the shoulders to the waist or hips
- a canvas tent to house the audience at a circus performance
- a conical child's plaything tapering to a steel point on which it can be made to spin
- the greatest possible intensity
- covering for a hole (especially a hole in the top of a container)
- platform surrounding the head of a lower mast
- the upper part of anything
- the highest or uppermost side of anything
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- (countable) A painting created using one of these techniques.
- (uncountable) The artistic technique of moving a light source to selectively illuminate parts of the subject or scene a camera is recording (at a slow shutter speed), or to shine directly into the camera and in this way sketch.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see light, painting.
- (uncountable) Camera painting, the artistic technique of moving a camera (while it records at a low shutter speed) such that light sources appear in multiple places or as streaks in the resulting photograph, the "painting".
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- A cloth of variegated colouring.
- Something that consists of diverse elements.
- The act of mixing.
- (India, Sri Lanka) A mix of different dry foods as a snack, especially chevda or Bombay mix.
- Something produced by mixing.
- (music) A compound organ stop.
- A medicinal compound, typically a suspension of a solid in a solution
- an event that combines things in a mixture
- the act of mixing together
- any foodstuff made by combining different ingredients
- (chemistry) a substance consisting of two or more substances mixed together (not in fixed proportions and not with chemical bonding)
- a collection containing a variety of sorts of things
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- (textiles) A device used in the dyeing of cloth.
- (nautical) A jiggermast.
- (slang, UK) Ellipsis of jigger gun (“lock pick”).
- (nautical) A light tackle, consisting of a double and single block and the fall, used for various purposes, as to increase the purchase on a topsail sheet in hauling it home; the watch tackle.
- (US) A placeholder name for any small mechanical device.
- (pottery) A horizontal lathe used in producing flatware.
- (rail transport, New Zealand) A railway jigger, a small motorized or human powered vehicle used by railway workers to traverse railway tracks.
- (US) A measure of 1½ fluid ounces (approx. 44 ml) of liquor.
- (New Zealand) A short board or plank inserted into a tree for a person to stand on while cutting off higher branches.
- A sandflea, Tunga penetrans, of the order Siphonaptera; chigoe.
- (US) A double-ended vessel, generally of stainless steel or other metal, one end of which typically measures 1½ fluid ounces (approx. 44 ml), the other typically 1 fluid ounce (approx. 30 ml).
- A pendulum rolling machine for slicking or graining leather.
- (Australia, surveying, slang) A total station or its predecessor, a theodolite.
- The bridge or rest for the cue in billiards.
- (mining) One who jigs; a miner who sorts or cleans ore by the process of jigging.
- (fishing) A device used by fishermen to set their nets under the ice of frozen lakes.
- (nautical, New England) A small fishing vessel, rigged like a yawl.
- A larva of any of several mites in the family Trombiculidae; chigger, harvest mite.
- (slang, euphemistic) A vagina.
- (mining) The sieve used in sorting or separating ore.
- (horse racing) An illicit electric shock device used to urge on a horse during a race.
- (US, slang) A drink of whiskey.
- A warehouse crane.
- (slang) An illegal distillery.
- larval mite that sucks the blood of vertebrates including human beings causing intense irritation
- a small glass adequate to hold a single swallow of whiskey
- any small mast on a sailing vessel; especially the mizzenmast of a yawl
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- Colouring matter that rubs off from cloth.
- (UK, countable, slang) An old or broken-down vehicle (and formerly a horse or ewe).
- (medical slang, derogatory) A patient who is difficult to treat, especially one who complains of a minor or imagined illness.
- The loose black particles collected from combustion, as on pots and kettles, or in a chimney; soot; smut.
- (countable) A low stool.
- (countable) A stoneware or earthenware jar or storage container.
- (slang, Canada, US, countable and uncountable) Silly talk, a foolish belief, a poor excuse, nonsense.
- (countable) A piece of broken pottery, a shard.
- (UK, slang, countable) A person who is physically limited by age, illness or injury.
- nonsense; foolish talk
- an earthen jar (made of baked clay)
- a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink
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- (intransitive) To give off crock or smut.
- To break something or injure someone.
- (horticulture) To cover the drain holes of a planter with stones or similar material, in order to ensure proper drainage.
- (textiles, leatherworking) To transfer coloring through abrasion from one item to another.
- (transitive, now dialectal) To put or store (something) in a crock or pot.
- release color when rubbed, of badly dyed fabric
- soil with or as with crock
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- (countable) A painting done in this medium.
- (uncountable) A paint in which the pigments are suspended in a water-soluble emulsion, such as of egg yolk or gelatine, which hardens and becomes insoluble on exposure to air.
- (uncountable) The artistic technique of painting in this medium.
- pigment mixed with water-soluble glutinous materials such as size and egg yolk
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- (weaving) A drawloom.
- (logic) A simple or atomic proposition.
- (pharmacology) A herbal preparation made from one plant, as opposed to something made from more than one plant.
- (Roman Catholicism) A feast which is not a double or a semidouble.
- (weaving) Part of the apparatus for raising the heddles of a drawloom.
- a person lacking intelligence or common sense
- any herbaceous plant having medicinal properties
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- (module theory, of a module) Being non-trivial, and having no proper non-trivial submodules (equivalently, no proper non-trivial quotient modules).
- Uncomplicated; lacking complexity; taken by itself, with nothing added.
- Free from duplicity; guileless, innocent, straightforward.
- (botany) Not compound, but possibly lobed.
- Easy; not difficult.
- (now colloquial, euphemistic) Feeble-minded; foolish.
- (zoology) Consisting of a single individual or zooid; not compound.
- (algebra, of a Lie algebra) Being non-abelian and having no proper non-zero ideals. (Note that this is non-equivalent to the usual algebra sense; in particular, the abelian Lie algebra of dimension 1 over any given field is non-trivial and has no proper non-zero ideals, but is by convention not considered simple.)
- (mineralogy) Homogenous.
- (ring theory, of a ring) Being non-zero, and having no proper non-zero two-sided ideals (equivalently, no proper non-trivial quotient rings). For commutative rings, this definition coincides with that of a field.
- Without ornamentation; plain.
- (mathematics, real analysis, measure theory, of a real-valued function) Equal to a finite linear combination of indicator functions on measurable sets.
- (group theory, of a group) Being non-trivial, and having no proper non-trivial normal subgroups (equivalently, no proper non-trivial quotient groups).
- Undistinguished in social condition; of no special rank.
- (category theory, of an object in a category with a terminal object) Being non-isomorphic to the terminal object, and such that its only quotient objects (up to isomorphism) are the terminal object and itself.
- (chemistry, pharmacology) Consisting of one single substance; uncompounded.
- Using steam only once in its cylinders, in contrast to a compound engine, where steam is used more than once in high-pressure and low-pressure cylinders. (of a steam engine)
- (universal algebra, of an algebraic structure) Containing more than one element, and such that the only congruences on the structure are the diagonal relation (the equivalence relation a≡b⟺a=b) and the universal relation (the equivalence relation such that a≡b for all a,b). Equivalently, containing more than one element and having no proper non-trivial quotient algebras.
- exhibiting childlike simplicity and credulity
- (botany) of leaf shapes; of leaves having no divisions or subdivisions
- having few parts; not complex or complicated or involved
- apart from anything else; without additions or modifications
- easy and not involved or complicated
- lacking mental capacity and subtlety
- unornamented
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- The process of deepening colours in dyeing.
- The action of placing something at a higher level.
- (linguistics, phonetics) A sound change in which a vowel or consonant becomes higher or raised, meaning that the tongue becomes more elevated or positioned closer to the roof of the mouth than before.
- Collection or gathering, especially of money.
- (linguistics) The movement of an argument from an embedded or subordinate clause to a matrix or main clause.
- Recruitment.
- Nurturing; cultivation; providing sustenance and protection for a living thing from conception to maturity.
- Elevation.
- The substance used to make bread rise.
- The operation of embossing sheet metal, or of forming it into cup-shaped or hollow articles, by hammering, stamping, or spinning.
- (US) The operation or work of setting up the frame of a building.
- the properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child
- helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community
- the event of something being raised upward
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- (dyeing) A substance used to prepare a material for dyeing.
- (technical, historical) The contouring of the wooden seat of a chair.
- The act of something that bottoms; the point at which something bottoms (in various senses).
- (UK, colloquial) The act of thoroughly cleaning something.
- Residue left at the bottom of something.
- Material used to line the bottom of something.
- A foundation (literal and figurative senses).
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- A substance used as a mordant in dyeing.
- (electronics) The name of the controlling terminal of a bipolar transistor (BJT).
- (acrobatics, cheerleading) In hand-to-hand balance, the person who supports the flyer; the person that remains in contact with the ground.
- The starting point of a logical deduction or thought; basis.
- (architecture) The lowermost part of a column, between the shaft and the pedestal or pavement.
- (group theory) A sequence of elements not jointly stabilized by any nontrivial group element.
- (topology) The set of sets from which a topology is generated.
- (heraldry) The lowest third of a shield (or field), or an ordinary occupying this space, the champagne. (Compare terrace.)
- The place where decisions for an organization are made; headquarters.
- (cooking, painting, pharmacy) A basic but essential component or ingredient.
- A line in a survey which, being accurately determined in length and position, serves as the origin from which to compute the distances and positions of any points or objects connected with it by a system of triangles.
- (chemistry) Any of a class of generally water-soluble compounds that turn red litmus blue and react with acids to form salts.
- (aviation) Ellipsis of base leg.
- A site, structure, or both, usually durable and often permanent, for housing military personnel and materiel.
- (botany) The end of a leaf, petal or similar organ where it is attached to its support.
- (topology) A topological space, looked at in relation to one of its covering spaces, fibrations, or bundles.
- (mathematics) A number raised to the power of an exponent.
- (military, historical) The smallest kind of cannon.
- (historical, sometimes in the plural) A kind of skirt (often of velvet or brocade) which hung from the middle to about the knees, or lower.
- (biology, biochemistry) A nucleotide's nucleobase in the context of a DNA or RNA biopolymer.
- (historical, sometimes in the plural) A kind of armour skirt, of mail or plate, imitating the preceding civilian skirt.
- A safe zone in the children's games of tag and hide-and-go-seek.
- (slang, uncountable) freebase cocaine
- (cosmetics) Foundation: a cosmetic cream to make the face appear uniform.
- (geometry) The lowest side of a triangle or other polygon, or the lowest face of a cone, pyramid or other polyhedron laid flat.
- (linguistics) A morpheme (or morphemes) that serves as a basic foundation on which affixes can be attached.
- (politics) A group of voters who almost always support a single party's candidates for elected office.
- Something from which other things extend; a foundation.
- (baseball) One of the four places that a runner can stand without being subject to being tagged out when the ball is in play.
- (mathematics) Synonym of radix.
- A material that holds paint or other materials together; a binder.
- A supporting, lower or bottom component of a structure or object.
- Alternative form of BASE.
- (now chiefly US, historical) The game of prisoners' bars.
- (Marxism) The forces and relations of production that produce the necessities and amenities of life.
- lowest support of a structure
- (electronics) the part of a transistor that separates the emitter from the collector
- the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained
- the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end
- (numeration system) the positive integer that is equivalent to one in the next higher counting place
- a phosphoric ester of a nucleoside; the basic structural unit of nucleic acids (DNA or RNA)
- the stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area
- the bottom or lowest part
- a place that the runner must touch before scoring
- a support or foundation
- the principal ingredient of a mixture
- any of various water-soluble compounds capable of turning litmus blue and reacting with an acid to form a salt and water
- installation from which a military force initiates operations
- (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
- a lower limit
- the most important or necessary part of something
- (anatomy) the part of an organ nearest its point of attachment
- the bottom side of a geometric figure from which the altitude can be constructed
- a flat bottom on which something is intended to sit
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- Not classical or correct.
- Morally reprehensible, immoral; cowardly.
- Low in place or position.
- Alloyed with inferior metal; debased.
- (law) Relating to feudal land tenure held by a tenant from a lord in exchange for services that are seen as unworthy for noblemen to perform, such as villeinage.
- (of a metal) Not considered precious or noble.
- (used of metals) consisting of or alloyed with inferior metal
- of low birth or station (‘base’ is archaic in this sense)
- illegitimate
- serving as or forming a base
- not adhering to ethical or moral principles
- debased; not genuine
- having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality
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- (transitive) To give as its foundation or starting point; to lay the foundation of.
- (slang) To freebase.
- (acrobatics, cheerleading) To act as a base; to be the person supporting the flyer.
- (transitive) To be located (at a particular place).
- situate as a center of operations
- use (purified cocaine) by burning it and inhaling the fumes
- use as a basis for; found on
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- dye (fabric) before it is spun
- mark or stamp with or as if with pressure
- impress positively
- have an emotional or cognitive impact upon
- take (someone) against their will for compulsory service, especially on board a ship
- reproduce by printing
- produce or try to produce a vivid impression of
- (transitive) To compel (someone) to serve in a military force.
- (transitive) To seize or confiscate (property) by force.
- (transitive) To produce a vivid impression of (something).
- (intransitive) To make an impression, to be impressive.
- (figurative) To fix deeply in the mind; to present forcibly to the attention, etc.; to imprint; to inculcate.
- (transitive) To mark or stamp (something) using pressure.
- (transitive) To affect (someone) strongly and often favourably.
- To produce (a mark, stamp, image, etc.); to imprint (a mark or figure upon something).
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- the act of coercing someone into government service
- The act of impressing.
- A stamp or seal used to make an impression.
- An impression; an impressed image or copy of something.
- Characteristic; mark of distinction; stamp.
- An impression on the mind, imagination etc.
- The act of impressing, or taking by force for the public service; compulsion to serve; also, that which is impressed.
- A heraldic device; an impresa.
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- (countable) A pattern used on such fabric.
- (countable, fishing) A type of fly used in fly fishing, often to catch salmon.
- (uncountable, chiefly attributive) Originally a trade name in the form Tartan: a synthetic resin used for surfacing ramps, running tracks, etc.
- (nautical) A type of one-masted vessel with a lateen sail and a foresail, used in the Mediterranean.
- (uncountable) Preceded by the: a group of people customarily wearing tartan; Scottish Highlanders or Scottish people collectively; also, the soldiers of a Scottish Highland regiment collectively.
- (uncountable, Scotland) Ellipsis of tartan-purry (“a porridge made from cabbage mixed with oatmeal”).
- (countable) An individual who wears tartan (etymology 1 sense 1.2); specifically, a Scottish Highlander, or a Scottish person (chiefly a Scotsman) in general.
- (uncountable) Clothing made from this fabric.
- (uncountable) Woven woollen fabric with a distinctive pattern of coloured stripes intersecting at right angles originally associated with Scottish Highlanders, now with different clans (though this only dates from the late 18th century) and some Scottish families and institutions having their own patterns; (countable) a particular type of such fabric.
- (countable, UK) A young person who is a member of a Protestant gang in Northern Ireland.
- a cloth having a crisscross design
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- (uncountable) The vivid red colour of this dye.
- (uncountable) A vivid red dye made from the dried bodies of cochineal insects.
- (countable) A scale insect of the species Dactylopius coccus, native to the tropical and subtropical Americas, which lives on prickly pear cacti (genus Opuntia).
- Mexican red scale insect that feeds on cacti; the source of a red dye
- a red dyestuff consisting of dried bodies of female cochineal insects
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- (countable, art) A textile fabric used like tapestry.
- (countable) A machine or mechanism for raising or carrying water.
- (countable, uncountable) Some action or activity done on, in, or using water.
- (uncountable, art) A style of painting executed in distemper or size, on canvas or a wall, intended to resemble a tapestry; (countable) such a painting.
- (historical) A hydraulic apparatus by which a supply of water is furnished for ornamental purposes; also, an ornamental fountain or waterfall.
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- A craft activity done by intricately braiding thin colored plastic lines to make patterns, or the product of such a craft.
- (nautical) A short rope used for fastening rigging, as a handle, etc.
- (by extension) A cord worn around the neck, shoulder, or wrist which is attached to a small object to be carried such as an identity card or security pass, key, knife, or whistle.
- (by extension, military) A cord with a hook which is secured to an artillery piece, and pulled to fire the weapon.
- a cord with an attached hook that is used to fire certain types of cannon
- a cord worn around the neck to hold a knife or whistle
- (nautical) a line used for extending or fastening rigging on ships
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- A wince (machine used in dyeing or steeping cloth).
- (nautical) A hoisting device used for loading or unloading cargo, or for pulling in lines.
- A machine consisting of a drum on an axle, a friction brake or ratchet and pawl, and a crank handle or prime mover (often an electric or hydraulic motor), with or without gearing, to give increased mechanical advantage when hoisting or hauling on a rope or cable.
- A kick, as of an animal, from impatience or uneasiness.
- (Nigeria, slang) A witch.
- lifting device consisting of a horizontal cylinder turned by a crank on which a cable or rope winds
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- (art, countable) A painting produced in this style.
- (art, uncountable) A genre of modern art in which the paint is dribbled, splashed or poured onto the canvas to obtain a spontaneous and totally abstract image.
- a New York school of painting characterized by freely created abstractions; the first important school of American painting to develop independently of European styles
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- a substance that colors or dyes
- (pharmacology) a medicine consisting of an extract in an alcohol solution
- an indication that something has been present
- a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color
- (pharmacy) A medicine consisting of one or more substances dissolved in ethanol or some other solvent.
- A colour or tint, especially if produced by a pigment or something which stains; a tinge.
- A material essence thought to be capable of extraction from a substance.
- (heraldry) A hue or pattern used in the depiction of a coat of arms.
- An immaterial substance or spiritual principle which was thought capable of being instilled into physical things; also, the essence or spirit of something.
- (by extension, humorous) A (small) alcoholic drink.
- (figuratively) A slight addition of a thing to something else; a shade, a touch, a trace.
- (chemistry) The part of a substance thought to be essential, finer, and/or more volatile, which could be extracted in a solution; also, the process of obtaining this.
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- stain or tinge with a slight amount of a color
- fill, as with a certain quality
- (chiefly in past participle form) To colour or stain (something) with, or as if with, a dye or pigment.
- (pharmacy) To dissolve (a substance) in ethanol or some other solvent to produce a medicinal tincture.
- (figuratively, chiefly in past participle form) Followed by with: to add to or impregnate (something) with (a slight amount of) an abstract or (obsolete) physical quality; to imbue, to taint, to tinge.
- (intransitive, rare) To have a taint or tinge of some quality.
noun
noun
- (countable) A print produced from an engraving.
- (art) The practice of incising a design onto a hard surface, by cutting grooves into it.
- (printing) The art of producing an image from an engraved printing form, typically made of copper.
- (music) The art of drawing music notation at high quality, particularly on a computer.
- a print made from an engraving
- making engraved or etched plates and printing designs from them
- a block or plate or other hard surface that has been engraved
verb
verb
- color with a liquid dye or tint
- color for microscopic study
- make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically
- produce or leave stains
- (transitive) To discolor, as by spilling or other contact with a fluid or substance.
- To cause to seem inferior or soiled by comparison.
- To taint or tarnish someone's character or reputation
- (intransitive) To become stained; to take a stain.
- To coat a surface with a stain
- (transitive, cytology, histology) To treat (a microscopic specimen) with a dye, especially one that dyes specific features
noun
- (microscopy) a dye or other coloring material that is used in microscopy to make structures visible
- a soiled or discolored appearance
- an act that brings discredit to the person who does it
- anything regarded as making something unclean
- a symbol of disgrace or infamy
- A substance used to soak into a surface and colour it.
- A blemish on one's character or reputation.
- A reagent or dye used to stain microscope specimens so as to make some structures visible.
- A discolored spot or area caused by spillage or other contact with certain fluids or substances.
- (heraldry) One of a number of non-standard tinctures used chiefly in post-medieval heraldry, especially tenné, murrey, or sanguine.
noun
- A kier used in dyeing.
- A manually-operated inhaler.
- Someone or something that puffs.
- (glassblowing) A soffietta.
- (fashion) An insulated puffy jacket, such as a down jacket.
- (cellular automata) A finite pattern that moves like a spaceship but leaves a trail of debris.
- The common, or harbour, porpoise.
- A Clyde puffer, a kind of small ship.
- Any of several poisonous fish, of the family Tetraodontidae, which have the ability to inflate their bodies when in danger.
- (derogatory) An alchemist; so named from their constant attendance to the bellows of their furnaces.
- (slang) A car left idling to warm up, emitting steam from the rear.
- A security device used to detect traces of explosives or drugs on a person, by blowing puffs of air that pick up tiny particles.
- any of numerous marine fishes whose elongated spiny body can inflate itself with water or air to form a globe; several species contain a potent nerve poison; closely related to spiny puffers
- delicacy that is highly dangerous because of a potent nerve poison in ovaries and liver
noun
- (countable) A painting made by using such pigment.
- (uncountable) This kind of painting as a genre.
- (countable) A water-soluble pigment or paint.
- the art or technique of painting with watercolors
- a painting produced with watercolors
- a water-base paint (with water-soluble pigments); used by artists
- water-soluble pigment
adj
verb
noun
- (countable) A painting produced with this kind of paint.
- A glue-based paint.
- (veterinary medicine, pathology) A viral disease of animals, such as dogs and cats, characterised by fever, coughing and catarrh.
- paint made by mixing the pigments with water and a binder
- a method of painting in which the pigments are mixed with water and a binder; used for painting posters or murals or stage scenery
- any of various infectious viral diseases of animals
- a painting created with paint that is made by mixing the pigments with water and a binder
- an angry and disagreeable mood
verb
- To intoxicate.
- To derange the functions of, whether bodily, mental, or spiritual; to disorder; to disease.
- To paint using distemper.
- To mix (colours) in the way of distemper.
- To temper or mix unduly; to make disproportionate; to change the due proportions of.
- To deprive of temper or moderation; to disturb; to ruffle; to make disaffected, ill-humoured, or malignant.
- paint with distemper
noun
- Cloth that has had a pattern of dye printed onto it.
- A visible impression on a surface.
- (finance) A datum.
- A pattern or design.
- A footprint.
- (uncountable) Clear handwriting, especially, writing without connected letters as in cursive.
- (film) A copy of a film that can be projected.
- (photography) A photograph that has been printed onto paper from the negative.
- (visual art) A picture that was created in multiple copies by printing.
- (uncountable) The letters forming the text of a document.
- (architecture) A plaster cast in bas relief.
- A fingerprint.
- (countable) A newspaper.
- (uncountable) Books and other material created by printing presses, considered collectively or as a medium.
- availability in printed form
- a visible indication made on a surface
- a fabric with a dyed pattern pressed onto it (usually by engraved rollers)
- a picture or design printed from an engraving
- a printed picture produced from a photographic negative
- a copy of a movie on film (especially a particular version of it)
- the text appearing in a book, newspaper, or other printed publication
adj
verb
- (transitive) To fix or impress, as a stamp, mark, character, idea, etc., into or upon something.
- (ambitransitive) To write very clearly, especially, to write without connecting the letters as in cursive.
- (computing, transitive) To display a string on the terminal.
- (transitive) To stamp or impress (something) with coloured figures or patterns.
- To produce a microchip (an integrated circuit) in a process resembling the printing of an image.
- (finance, ambitransitive) To produce an observable value.
- (transitive) To fingerprint (a person).
- (intransitive, slang) To inadequately conceal a weapon such that its outline or imprint is visible on the person wearing it.
- (transitive) To stamp something in or upon; to make an impression or mark upon by pressure, or as by pressure.
- (ambitransitive) To publish in a book, newspaper, etc.
- (transitive) To produce one or more copies of a text or image on a surface, especially by machine.
- write as if with print; not cursive
- make into a print
- put into print
- reproduce by printing
noun
- (countable) A painting created using one of these techniques.
- (uncountable) The artistic technique of moving a light source to selectively illuminate parts of the subject or scene a camera is recording (at a slow shutter speed), or to shine directly into the camera and in this way sketch.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see light, painting.
- (uncountable) Camera painting, the artistic technique of moving a camera (while it records at a low shutter speed) such that light sources appear in multiple places or as streaks in the resulting photograph, the "painting".
noun
- A cloth of variegated colouring.
- Something that consists of diverse elements.
- The act of mixing.
- (India, Sri Lanka) A mix of different dry foods as a snack, especially chevda or Bombay mix.
- Something produced by mixing.
- (music) A compound organ stop.
- A medicinal compound, typically a suspension of a solid in a solution
- an event that combines things in a mixture
- the act of mixing together
- any foodstuff made by combining different ingredients
- (chemistry) a substance consisting of two or more substances mixed together (not in fixed proportions and not with chemical bonding)
- a collection containing a variety of sorts of things
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verb
noun
verb
noun
noun
- (textiles) A device used in the dyeing of cloth.
- (nautical) A jiggermast.
- (slang, UK) Ellipsis of jigger gun (“lock pick”).
- (nautical) A light tackle, consisting of a double and single block and the fall, used for various purposes, as to increase the purchase on a topsail sheet in hauling it home; the watch tackle.
- (US) A placeholder name for any small mechanical device.
- (pottery) A horizontal lathe used in producing flatware.
- (rail transport, New Zealand) A railway jigger, a small motorized or human powered vehicle used by railway workers to traverse railway tracks.
- (US) A measure of 1½ fluid ounces (approx. 44 ml) of liquor.
- (New Zealand) A short board or plank inserted into a tree for a person to stand on while cutting off higher branches.
- A sandflea, Tunga penetrans, of the order Siphonaptera; chigoe.
- (US) A double-ended vessel, generally of stainless steel or other metal, one end of which typically measures 1½ fluid ounces (approx. 44 ml), the other typically 1 fluid ounce (approx. 30 ml).
- A pendulum rolling machine for slicking or graining leather.
- (Australia, surveying, slang) A total station or its predecessor, a theodolite.
- The bridge or rest for the cue in billiards.
- (mining) One who jigs; a miner who sorts or cleans ore by the process of jigging.
- (fishing) A device used by fishermen to set their nets under the ice of frozen lakes.
- (nautical, New England) A small fishing vessel, rigged like a yawl.
- A larva of any of several mites in the family Trombiculidae; chigger, harvest mite.
- (slang, euphemistic) A vagina.
- (mining) The sieve used in sorting or separating ore.
- (horse racing) An illicit electric shock device used to urge on a horse during a race.
- (US, slang) A drink of whiskey.
- A warehouse crane.
- (slang) An illegal distillery.
- larval mite that sucks the blood of vertebrates including human beings causing intense irritation
- a small glass adequate to hold a single swallow of whiskey
- any small mast on a sailing vessel; especially the mizzenmast of a yawl
verb
noun
- Colouring matter that rubs off from cloth.
- (UK, countable, slang) An old or broken-down vehicle (and formerly a horse or ewe).
- (medical slang, derogatory) A patient who is difficult to treat, especially one who complains of a minor or imagined illness.
- The loose black particles collected from combustion, as on pots and kettles, or in a chimney; soot; smut.
- (countable) A low stool.
- (countable) A stoneware or earthenware jar or storage container.
- (slang, Canada, US, countable and uncountable) Silly talk, a foolish belief, a poor excuse, nonsense.
- (countable) A piece of broken pottery, a shard.
- (UK, slang, countable) A person who is physically limited by age, illness or injury.
- nonsense; foolish talk
- an earthen jar (made of baked clay)
- a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink
verb
- (intransitive) To give off crock or smut.
- To break something or injure someone.
- (horticulture) To cover the drain holes of a planter with stones or similar material, in order to ensure proper drainage.
- (textiles, leatherworking) To transfer coloring through abrasion from one item to another.
- (transitive, now dialectal) To put or store (something) in a crock or pot.
- release color when rubbed, of badly dyed fabric
- soil with or as with crock
noun
- (countable) A painting done in this medium.
- (uncountable) A paint in which the pigments are suspended in a water-soluble emulsion, such as of egg yolk or gelatine, which hardens and becomes insoluble on exposure to air.
- (uncountable) The artistic technique of painting in this medium.
- pigment mixed with water-soluble glutinous materials such as size and egg yolk
noun
- (weaving) A drawloom.
- (logic) A simple or atomic proposition.
- (pharmacology) A herbal preparation made from one plant, as opposed to something made from more than one plant.
- (Roman Catholicism) A feast which is not a double or a semidouble.
- (weaving) Part of the apparatus for raising the heddles of a drawloom.
- a person lacking intelligence or common sense
- any herbaceous plant having medicinal properties
adj
- (module theory, of a module) Being non-trivial, and having no proper non-trivial submodules (equivalently, no proper non-trivial quotient modules).
- Uncomplicated; lacking complexity; taken by itself, with nothing added.
- Free from duplicity; guileless, innocent, straightforward.
- (botany) Not compound, but possibly lobed.
- Easy; not difficult.
- (now colloquial, euphemistic) Feeble-minded; foolish.
- (zoology) Consisting of a single individual or zooid; not compound.
- (algebra, of a Lie algebra) Being non-abelian and having no proper non-zero ideals. (Note that this is non-equivalent to the usual algebra sense; in particular, the abelian Lie algebra of dimension 1 over any given field is non-trivial and has no proper non-zero ideals, but is by convention not considered simple.)
- (mineralogy) Homogenous.
- (ring theory, of a ring) Being non-zero, and having no proper non-zero two-sided ideals (equivalently, no proper non-trivial quotient rings). For commutative rings, this definition coincides with that of a field.
- Without ornamentation; plain.
- (mathematics, real analysis, measure theory, of a real-valued function) Equal to a finite linear combination of indicator functions on measurable sets.
- (group theory, of a group) Being non-trivial, and having no proper non-trivial normal subgroups (equivalently, no proper non-trivial quotient groups).
- Undistinguished in social condition; of no special rank.
- (category theory, of an object in a category with a terminal object) Being non-isomorphic to the terminal object, and such that its only quotient objects (up to isomorphism) are the terminal object and itself.
- (chemistry, pharmacology) Consisting of one single substance; uncompounded.
- Using steam only once in its cylinders, in contrast to a compound engine, where steam is used more than once in high-pressure and low-pressure cylinders. (of a steam engine)
- (universal algebra, of an algebraic structure) Containing more than one element, and such that the only congruences on the structure are the diagonal relation (the equivalence relation a≡b⟺a=b) and the universal relation (the equivalence relation such that a≡b for all a,b). Equivalently, containing more than one element and having no proper non-trivial quotient algebras.
- exhibiting childlike simplicity and credulity
- (botany) of leaf shapes; of leaves having no divisions or subdivisions
- having few parts; not complex or complicated or involved
- apart from anything else; without additions or modifications
- easy and not involved or complicated
- lacking mental capacity and subtlety
- unornamented
noun
verb
noun
- The process of deepening colours in dyeing.
- The action of placing something at a higher level.
- (linguistics, phonetics) A sound change in which a vowel or consonant becomes higher or raised, meaning that the tongue becomes more elevated or positioned closer to the roof of the mouth than before.
- Collection or gathering, especially of money.
- (linguistics) The movement of an argument from an embedded or subordinate clause to a matrix or main clause.
- Recruitment.
- Nurturing; cultivation; providing sustenance and protection for a living thing from conception to maturity.
- Elevation.
- The substance used to make bread rise.
- The operation of embossing sheet metal, or of forming it into cup-shaped or hollow articles, by hammering, stamping, or spinning.
- (US) The operation or work of setting up the frame of a building.
- the properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child
- helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community
- the event of something being raised upward
verb
adj
noun
- (dyeing) A substance used to prepare a material for dyeing.
- (technical, historical) The contouring of the wooden seat of a chair.
- The act of something that bottoms; the point at which something bottoms (in various senses).
- (UK, colloquial) The act of thoroughly cleaning something.
- Residue left at the bottom of something.
- Material used to line the bottom of something.
- A foundation (literal and figurative senses).
verb
noun
- A substance used as a mordant in dyeing.
- (electronics) The name of the controlling terminal of a bipolar transistor (BJT).
- (acrobatics, cheerleading) In hand-to-hand balance, the person who supports the flyer; the person that remains in contact with the ground.
- The starting point of a logical deduction or thought; basis.
- (architecture) The lowermost part of a column, between the shaft and the pedestal or pavement.
- (group theory) A sequence of elements not jointly stabilized by any nontrivial group element.
- (topology) The set of sets from which a topology is generated.
- (heraldry) The lowest third of a shield (or field), or an ordinary occupying this space, the champagne. (Compare terrace.)
- The place where decisions for an organization are made; headquarters.
- (cooking, painting, pharmacy) A basic but essential component or ingredient.
- A line in a survey which, being accurately determined in length and position, serves as the origin from which to compute the distances and positions of any points or objects connected with it by a system of triangles.
- (chemistry) Any of a class of generally water-soluble compounds that turn red litmus blue and react with acids to form salts.
- (aviation) Ellipsis of base leg.
- A site, structure, or both, usually durable and often permanent, for housing military personnel and materiel.
- (botany) The end of a leaf, petal or similar organ where it is attached to its support.
- (topology) A topological space, looked at in relation to one of its covering spaces, fibrations, or bundles.
- (mathematics) A number raised to the power of an exponent.
- (military, historical) The smallest kind of cannon.
- (historical, sometimes in the plural) A kind of skirt (often of velvet or brocade) which hung from the middle to about the knees, or lower.
- (biology, biochemistry) A nucleotide's nucleobase in the context of a DNA or RNA biopolymer.
- (historical, sometimes in the plural) A kind of armour skirt, of mail or plate, imitating the preceding civilian skirt.
- A safe zone in the children's games of tag and hide-and-go-seek.
- (slang, uncountable) freebase cocaine
- (cosmetics) Foundation: a cosmetic cream to make the face appear uniform.
- (geometry) The lowest side of a triangle or other polygon, or the lowest face of a cone, pyramid or other polyhedron laid flat.
- (linguistics) A morpheme (or morphemes) that serves as a basic foundation on which affixes can be attached.
- (politics) A group of voters who almost always support a single party's candidates for elected office.
- Something from which other things extend; a foundation.
- (baseball) One of the four places that a runner can stand without being subject to being tagged out when the ball is in play.
- (mathematics) Synonym of radix.
- A material that holds paint or other materials together; a binder.
- A supporting, lower or bottom component of a structure or object.
- Alternative form of BASE.
- (now chiefly US, historical) The game of prisoners' bars.
- (Marxism) The forces and relations of production that produce the necessities and amenities of life.
- lowest support of a structure
- (electronics) the part of a transistor that separates the emitter from the collector
- the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained
- the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end
- (numeration system) the positive integer that is equivalent to one in the next higher counting place
- a phosphoric ester of a nucleoside; the basic structural unit of nucleic acids (DNA or RNA)
- the stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area
- the bottom or lowest part
- a place that the runner must touch before scoring
- a support or foundation
- the principal ingredient of a mixture
- any of various water-soluble compounds capable of turning litmus blue and reacting with an acid to form a salt and water
- installation from which a military force initiates operations
- (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
- a lower limit
- the most important or necessary part of something
- (anatomy) the part of an organ nearest its point of attachment
- the bottom side of a geometric figure from which the altitude can be constructed
- a flat bottom on which something is intended to sit
adj
- Not classical or correct.
- Morally reprehensible, immoral; cowardly.
- Low in place or position.
- Alloyed with inferior metal; debased.
- (law) Relating to feudal land tenure held by a tenant from a lord in exchange for services that are seen as unworthy for noblemen to perform, such as villeinage.
- (of a metal) Not considered precious or noble.
- (used of metals) consisting of or alloyed with inferior metal
- of low birth or station (‘base’ is archaic in this sense)
- illegitimate
- serving as or forming a base
- not adhering to ethical or moral principles
- debased; not genuine
- having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality
verb
- (transitive) To give as its foundation or starting point; to lay the foundation of.
- (slang) To freebase.
- (acrobatics, cheerleading) To act as a base; to be the person supporting the flyer.
- (transitive) To be located (at a particular place).
- situate as a center of operations
- use (purified cocaine) by burning it and inhaling the fumes
- use as a basis for; found on
noun
- (countable) A pattern used on such fabric.
- (countable, fishing) A type of fly used in fly fishing, often to catch salmon.
- (uncountable, chiefly attributive) Originally a trade name in the form Tartan: a synthetic resin used for surfacing ramps, running tracks, etc.
- (nautical) A type of one-masted vessel with a lateen sail and a foresail, used in the Mediterranean.
- (uncountable) Preceded by the: a group of people customarily wearing tartan; Scottish Highlanders or Scottish people collectively; also, the soldiers of a Scottish Highland regiment collectively.
- (uncountable, Scotland) Ellipsis of tartan-purry (“a porridge made from cabbage mixed with oatmeal”).
- (countable) An individual who wears tartan (etymology 1 sense 1.2); specifically, a Scottish Highlander, or a Scottish person (chiefly a Scotsman) in general.
- (uncountable) Clothing made from this fabric.
- (uncountable) Woven woollen fabric with a distinctive pattern of coloured stripes intersecting at right angles originally associated with Scottish Highlanders, now with different clans (though this only dates from the late 18th century) and some Scottish families and institutions having their own patterns; (countable) a particular type of such fabric.
- (countable, UK) A young person who is a member of a Protestant gang in Northern Ireland.
- a cloth having a crisscross design
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verb
noun
- (uncountable) The vivid red colour of this dye.
- (uncountable) A vivid red dye made from the dried bodies of cochineal insects.
- (countable) A scale insect of the species Dactylopius coccus, native to the tropical and subtropical Americas, which lives on prickly pear cacti (genus Opuntia).
- Mexican red scale insect that feeds on cacti; the source of a red dye
- a red dyestuff consisting of dried bodies of female cochineal insects
adj
noun
- (countable, art) A textile fabric used like tapestry.
- (countable) A machine or mechanism for raising or carrying water.
- (countable, uncountable) Some action or activity done on, in, or using water.
- (uncountable, art) A style of painting executed in distemper or size, on canvas or a wall, intended to resemble a tapestry; (countable) such a painting.
- (historical) A hydraulic apparatus by which a supply of water is furnished for ornamental purposes; also, an ornamental fountain or waterfall.
noun
- A craft activity done by intricately braiding thin colored plastic lines to make patterns, or the product of such a craft.
- (nautical) A short rope used for fastening rigging, as a handle, etc.
- (by extension) A cord worn around the neck, shoulder, or wrist which is attached to a small object to be carried such as an identity card or security pass, key, knife, or whistle.
- (by extension, military) A cord with a hook which is secured to an artillery piece, and pulled to fire the weapon.
- a cord with an attached hook that is used to fire certain types of cannon
- a cord worn around the neck to hold a knife or whistle
- (nautical) a line used for extending or fastening rigging on ships
noun
- A wince (machine used in dyeing or steeping cloth).
- (nautical) A hoisting device used for loading or unloading cargo, or for pulling in lines.
- A machine consisting of a drum on an axle, a friction brake or ratchet and pawl, and a crank handle or prime mover (often an electric or hydraulic motor), with or without gearing, to give increased mechanical advantage when hoisting or hauling on a rope or cable.
- A kick, as of an animal, from impatience or uneasiness.
- (Nigeria, slang) A witch.
- lifting device consisting of a horizontal cylinder turned by a crank on which a cable or rope winds
verb
noun
- (art, countable) A painting produced in this style.
- (art, uncountable) A genre of modern art in which the paint is dribbled, splashed or poured onto the canvas to obtain a spontaneous and totally abstract image.
- a New York school of painting characterized by freely created abstractions; the first important school of American painting to develop independently of European styles
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- a substance that colors or dyes
- (pharmacology) a medicine consisting of an extract in an alcohol solution
- an indication that something has been present
- a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color
- (pharmacy) A medicine consisting of one or more substances dissolved in ethanol or some other solvent.
- A colour or tint, especially if produced by a pigment or something which stains; a tinge.
- A material essence thought to be capable of extraction from a substance.
- (heraldry) A hue or pattern used in the depiction of a coat of arms.
- An immaterial substance or spiritual principle which was thought capable of being instilled into physical things; also, the essence or spirit of something.
- (by extension, humorous) A (small) alcoholic drink.
- (figuratively) A slight addition of a thing to something else; a shade, a touch, a trace.
- (chemistry) The part of a substance thought to be essential, finer, and/or more volatile, which could be extracted in a solution; also, the process of obtaining this.
verb
- stain or tinge with a slight amount of a color
- fill, as with a certain quality
- (chiefly in past participle form) To colour or stain (something) with, or as if with, a dye or pigment.
- (pharmacy) To dissolve (a substance) in ethanol or some other solvent to produce a medicinal tincture.
- (figuratively, chiefly in past participle form) Followed by with: to add to or impregnate (something) with (a slight amount of) an abstract or (obsolete) physical quality; to imbue, to taint, to tinge.
- (intransitive, rare) To have a taint or tinge of some quality.
noun
noun
- (countable) A print produced from an engraving.
- (art) The practice of incising a design onto a hard surface, by cutting grooves into it.
- (printing) The art of producing an image from an engraved printing form, typically made of copper.
- (music) The art of drawing music notation at high quality, particularly on a computer.
- a print made from an engraving
- making engraved or etched plates and printing designs from them
- a block or plate or other hard surface that has been engraved
verb
verb
verb
- (dyeing) To cover with another dye.
- To put a stiffening piece or back on (a saw blade).
- To cut, break, or otherwise take off the top of (a steel ingot) to remove unsound metal.
- (of a horse) To strike the top of (an obstacle) with the hind feet while jumping, so as to gain new impetus.
- To exceed in height.
- To excel, to surpass, to beat, to exceed.
- (golf) To strike (the ball) above the centre; also, to make (a stroke, etc.) by hitting the ball in this way.
- (British, Australia, slang, reflexive) To commit suicide.
- (LGBTQ slang, transitive, intransitive) To penetrate during sexual intercourse.
- To improve (domestic animals, especially sheep) by crossing certain individuals or breeds with other superior breeds.
- To cover on the top or with a top.
- To cut or remove the top (as of a tree)
- (nautical) To raise one end of (a yard, etc.), making it higher than the other.
- (BDSM) To be the dominant partner in a BDSM relationship or roleplay.
- To be in the lead, to be at number one position (of).
- be superior or better than some standard
- be the culminating event
- reach or ascend the top of
- finish up or conclude
- cut the top off
- provide with a top or finish the top (of a structure)
- be at the top of or constitute the top or highest point
- be ahead of others; be the first
- pass by, over, or under without making contact
- strike (the top part of a ball in golf, baseball, or pool) giving it a forward spin
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- (military) The First Sergeant or Master Sergeant (U.S. Marine Corps), senior enlisted man at company level.
- A framework at the top of a ship's mast to which rigging is attached.
- A child's spinning toy; a spinning top.
- (golf, billiards, racquet sports) A stroke on the top of the ball.
- The highest rank; the most honourable position; the utmost attainable place.
- The highest or uppermost part of something.
- (ropemaking) A plug or conical block of wood with longitudinal grooves on its surface, in which the strands of the rope slide in the process of twisting.
- Ellipsis of topswarm.
- (irrespective of present orientation) The part of something that is usually highest or uppermost.
- (loosely, by extension) A dominant partner in a sexual relationship.
- A lid, cap, or cover of a container.
- The part of a cut gem between the girdle, or circumference, and the table, or flat upper surface.
- (sound) Highest pitch or loudest volume.
- (LGBTQ slang) A person who penetrates or has a preference for penetrating during intercourse.
- A garment worn to cover the torso.
- (golf, billiards, racquet sports) A forward spin given to the ball by hitting it on or near the top; topspin.
- (in restaurants, preceded by a number) (A table at which there is, or which has enough seats for) a group of a specified number of people eating at a restaurant.
- (particle physics) A top quark.
- (slang, vulgar, African-American Vernacular, MLE, MTE) Fellatio; a blowjob.
- The utmost degree; the acme; the summit.
- The uppermost part of a page, picture, viewing screen, etc.
- The near end of somewhere.
- (wool manufacture) A bundle or ball of slivers of combed wool, from which the noils, or dust, have been taken out.
- (finance) A peak price of a security during a trading period, before it begins a downward trend.
- (Philippines, usually in the plural) a shoot (eaten as a vegetable).
- (BDSM) A dominant partner in a sadomasochistic relationship or roleplay.
- (baseball) The first half of an inning, during which the home team fields and the visiting team bats.
- the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill)
- the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development
- the first half of an inning; while the visiting team is at bat
- a garment (especially for women) that extends from the shoulders to the waist or hips
- a canvas tent to house the audience at a circus performance
- a conical child's plaything tapering to a steel point on which it can be made to spin
- the greatest possible intensity
- covering for a hole (especially a hole in the top of a container)
- platform surrounding the head of a lower mast
- the upper part of anything
- the highest or uppermost side of anything
verb
noun
adj
verb
- dye (fabric) before it is spun
- mark or stamp with or as if with pressure
- impress positively
- have an emotional or cognitive impact upon
- take (someone) against their will for compulsory service, especially on board a ship
- reproduce by printing
- produce or try to produce a vivid impression of
- (transitive) To compel (someone) to serve in a military force.
- (transitive) To seize or confiscate (property) by force.
- (transitive) To produce a vivid impression of (something).
- (intransitive) To make an impression, to be impressive.
- (figurative) To fix deeply in the mind; to present forcibly to the attention, etc.; to imprint; to inculcate.
- (transitive) To mark or stamp (something) using pressure.
- (transitive) To affect (someone) strongly and often favourably.
- To produce (a mark, stamp, image, etc.); to imprint (a mark or figure upon something).
noun
- the act of coercing someone into government service
- The act of impressing.
- A stamp or seal used to make an impression.
- An impression; an impressed image or copy of something.
- Characteristic; mark of distinction; stamp.
- An impression on the mind, imagination etc.
- The act of impressing, or taking by force for the public service; compulsion to serve; also, that which is impressed.
- A heraldic device; an impresa.
verb
verb
- color with a liquid dye or tint
- color for microscopic study
- make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically
- produce or leave stains
- (transitive) To discolor, as by spilling or other contact with a fluid or substance.
- To cause to seem inferior or soiled by comparison.
- To taint or tarnish someone's character or reputation
- (intransitive) To become stained; to take a stain.
- To coat a surface with a stain
- (transitive, cytology, histology) To treat (a microscopic specimen) with a dye, especially one that dyes specific features
noun
- (microscopy) a dye or other coloring material that is used in microscopy to make structures visible
- a soiled or discolored appearance
- an act that brings discredit to the person who does it
- anything regarded as making something unclean
- a symbol of disgrace or infamy
- A substance used to soak into a surface and colour it.
- A blemish on one's character or reputation.
- A reagent or dye used to stain microscope specimens so as to make some structures visible.
- A discolored spot or area caused by spillage or other contact with certain fluids or substances.
- (heraldry) One of a number of non-standard tinctures used chiefly in post-medieval heraldry, especially tenné, murrey, or sanguine.
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