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adj
- (not comparable, metalworking, construction, of a fastener) Able to be fixed without access to one end.
- (not comparable) Unable to see, or only partially able to see.
- (horticulture) Abortive; failing to produce flowers or fruit.
- Unintelligible or illegible.
- (not comparable) Without any prior knowledge.
- (not comparable) Closed at one end; having a dead end; exitless.
- (comparable) Failing to recognize, acknowledge or perceive.
- (LGBTQ, slang) Uncircumcised.
- (Of a pimple) not having a well-defined head.
- (not comparable, of a place) Having little or no visibility.
- (sciences) Using blinded study design, wherein information is purposely limited to prevent bias.
- (in certain phrases, chiefly in the negative) Smallest or slightest.
- (not comparable) Having no openings for light or passage; both dark and exitless.
- (not comparable) Unconditional; without regard to evidence, logic, reality, accidental mistakes, extenuating circumstances, etc.
- unable to see
- not based on reason or evidence
- unable or unwilling to perceive or understand
adv
noun
- A destination sign mounted on a public transport vehicle displaying the route destination, number, name and/or via points, etc.
- (poker) A forced bet: the small blind or the big blind.
- (baseball, slang, 1800s) No score.
- A movable covering for a window to keep out light, made of cloth or of narrow slats that can block light or allow it to pass.
- A hiding place.
- A place where people can hide in order to observe wildlife.
- (poker) A player who is forced to pay such a bet.
- Something to mislead the eye or the understanding, or to conceal some covert deed or design; a subterfuge, deception.
- (rugby, colloquial) The blindside.
- (military) A blindage.
- a protective covering that keeps things out or hinders sight
- a hiding place sometimes used by hunters (especially duck hunters)
- something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity
- people who have severe visual impairments, considered as a group
verb
- (transitive) To make temporarily or permanently blind.
- To darken; to obscure to the eye or understanding; to conceal.
- To cover with a thin coating of sand and fine gravel, for example a road newly paved, in order that the joints between the stones may be filled.
- (informal, obsolete except when paired, especially eff and blind) To curse, swear, use foul language
- render unable to see
- make blind by putting the eyes out
- make dim by comparison or conceal
verb
- (mechanical engineering) To undershoot when changing gears.
- (economics) To raise the price to consumers by less than an underlying cost increase that results from rising taxes.
- To move too small an amount or not to move something far enough.
- (sports) To position defensive players too far in a particular direction.
noun
- (mineralogy) The amount of displacement in the layers in a crystal lattice that places the layers too close together.
- An unfitted undergarment that covers the torso.
- (sports) The strategy or act of positioning defensive players extra far toward the offense's weak side.
- (mechanical engineering) A misalignment resulting from failure to shift gears far enough.
- (geology) An underhang caused by seismic shift.
- A change that results in something being not being moved far enough or too few things being moved.
noun
- (mechanical engineering) A mechanical device that supports another part or reduces friction.
- (in the plural, especially in phrases such as 'get one's bearings') One's understanding of one's orientation or relative position, literally or figuratively.
- (architecture, proscribed) The unsupported span.
- (architecture) The portion of a support on which anything rests.
- Relevance; a relationship or connection.
- (heraldry) Any single emblem or charge in an escutcheon or coat of arms.
- One's posture, demeanor, or manner.
- (navigation, nautical) The horizontal angle between the direction of an object and another object, or between it and that of true north; a heading or direction.
- (architecture) That part of any member of a building which rests upon its supports.
- heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shield
- dignified manner or conduct
- the direction or path along which something moves or along which it lies
- relevant relation or interconnection
- characteristic way of bearing one's body
- a rotating support placed between moving parts to allow them to move easily
adj
verb
noun
- Equipment for any kind of labour.
- The part of a loom comprising the heddles, with their means of support and motion, by which the threads of the warp are alternately raised and depressed for the passage of the shuttle.
- (countable) A collection of wires or cables bundled and routed according to their function: a wiring harness.
- (countable) A restraint or support, especially one consisting of a loop or network of rope or straps, and especially one worn by a working animal such as a horse pulling a carriage or farm implement.
- a support consisting of an arrangement of straps for holding something to the body (especially one supporting a person suspended from a parachute)
- stable gear consisting of an arrangement of leather straps fitted to a draft animal so that it can be attached to and pull a cart
verb
noun
- An enclosure for mechanical or electrical equipment.
- (often capitalized) A collection of art or ethnographic objects.
- The upright assembly that houses a coin-operated arcade game, a cab.
- A cupboard.
- (figuratively) A source of valuable things; a storehouse.
- A museum display case.
- (Kentucky) A cabinet-level agency in the executive branch; that is, an agency headed by a member of the governor's cabinet.
- (politics, often capitalized) In parliamentary and some other systems of government, the group of ministers responsible for creating government policy and for overseeing the departments comprising the executive branch.
- A group of advisors to a government or business entity.
- A storage closet either separate from, or built into, a wall.
- (historical) A size of photograph, specifically one measuring 3⅞" by 5½".
- (dialectal, Rhode Island) Milkshake.
- a storage compartment for clothes and valuables; usually it has a lock
- a piece of furniture resembling a cupboard with doors and shelves and drawers; for storage or display
- persons appointed by a head of state to head executive departments of government and act as official advisers
- housing for electronic instruments, as radio or television
adj
- (mechanical engineering, of a position or setting) Neutral.
- Insignificant.
- Having no validity; "null and void".
- (genetics, of a mutation) Causing a complete loss of gene function; amorphic.
- Absent or non-existent.
- (mathematics) Of or comprising a value of precisely zero.
- (mathematics) Of the null set.
- lacking any legal or binding force
noun
- (computing) The attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
- (computing) The null character; the ASCII or Unicode character (␀), represented by a zero value, which indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
- One of the beads in nulled work.
- (statistics) The null hypothesis.
- Zero quantity of expressions; nothing.
- A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
- Something that has no force or meaning.
- a quantity of no importance; thing (object:), singular, negative pronoun; pronoun, thing, singular; quantifier: negative existential
verb
noun
- (mechanical) A sheave.
- A quantity of arrows, usually twenty-four.
- Given a family of sections s_i∈ℱ(U_i) such that all pairs (s_i,s_j) agree under restriction to U_i∩U_j, there is a (unique) section s over U whose restriction to U_i is s_i.
- Any collection of things bound together.
- If two sections over U agree under restriction to every U_i, then the sections are the same.
- A bundle of arrows sufficient to fill a quiver, or the allowance of each archer.
- A quantity of the stalks and ears of wheat, rye, or other grain, bound together; a bundle of grain or straw.
- a package of several things tied together for carrying or storing
verb
noun
- (engineering) A part of a machine designed to bend in operation.
- (astronomy) The small distortion of an astronomical instrument caused by the weight of its parts; the amount to be added or subtracted from the observed readings of the instrument to correct them for this distortion.
- A turn; a bend; a fold; a curve.
- The act of bending or flexing; flexion.
- (anatomy) A curve or bend in a tubular organ.
- (zoology) The last joint, or bend, of the wing of a bird.
- an angular or rounded shape made by folding
- the state of being flexed (as of a joint)
- act of bending a joint; especially a joint between the bones of a limb so that the angle between them is decreased
verb
noun
- (engineering) The bedpiece of a machine tool, upon which a table or slide rest is secured.
- Anything resembling a pair of shears in shape or motion, such as a pair of wings.
- A tool consisting of two blades with bevel edges, connected by a pivot, used for cutting cloth, or for removing the fleece from sheep etc.
- An apparatus for raising heavy weights, and especially for stepping and unstepping the lower masts of ships. It consists of two or more spars or pieces of timber, fastened together near the top, steadied by a guy or guys, and furnished with the necessary tackle. Also sheers.
- plural of shear
- large scissors with strong blades
verb
noun
- a mechanical device for engaging and disengaging gears
- a stagehand responsible for moving scenery
- (linguistics) A word whose meaning changes depending on the situation, as by deixis.
- A shiftworker.
- (nautical) An assistant to the ship's cook in washing, soaking, and shifting the salt provisions.
- (cycling) A component used by the rider to control the gearing mechanisms and select the desired gear ratio, usually connected to the derailleur by a mechanical actuation cable.
- (engineering) A control device (usually a lever or button) for shifting gears in a gearbox, or an arrangement for shifting a belt sidewise from one pulley to another.
- (mining, historical) A person employed to repair the horseways and other passages, and keep them unobstructed.
- One who, or that which, shifts or changes.
- (mythology, science fiction, fantasy) A shape-shifter; a person or other being capable of changing their physical form, especially a lycanthrope.
- (spirituality) Ellipsis of reality shifter.
- (engineering, textiles) A wire for changing a loop from one needle to another, as in narrowing, etc.
- (US, Pennsylvania) A switcher or shunter: a railroad locomotive used for shunting.
- (especially Australia) A spanner with an adjustable jaw size.
noun
- (engineering) An overheated shaft bearing.
- (rail transport) An overheated axle box, bearing and bearing enclosure.
- A cold frame containing compost that provides a limited amount of warmth.
- A container maintained at elevated temperatures in order to heat or cook its contents.
- A room or house that becomes unbearably hot inside when the weather is hot.
- A small, hot, enclosure, used as a punishment for slaves or prisoners.
- (slang) A sexy woman.
- A room or compartment that is kept artificially warm for some purpose.
- A gas manifold that diverts hot gasses into a heat exchanger.
- A storage container for personal belongings of employees who are hot desking.
- A small, airtight space where people smoke marijuana in order to intensify the high.
- An oven.
- A location where controversial ideas are discussed or practiced.
- A furnace or heat source for a building.
- An incubator.
- (graphical user interface) A context-sensitive dialog that duplicates many of the commands on the menu for users of the Maya Embedded Language.
- A box for hot composting.
- A soundproof box used to hold a camera in order to prevent the sound of its operation interfering with the recording of a film.
- a journal bearing (as of a railroad car) that has overheated
verb
- (slang) To put out a cigarette just before entering a vehicle, then expel smoke in the vehicle.
- (slang) To fart in a small confined area, such as the inside of a car.
- (slang) To smoke a cigarette vigorously and rapidly.
- (transitive, slang) To smoke marijuana in a small confined area, such as the inside of a car, until it is full of smoke, thereby intensifying the drug's effects.
adj
adv
noun
noun
- A type of machine for bending sheet metal. (See wikipedia.)
- That part of a carriage, as of a movable battery, or engine, which enables it to turn.
- A carriage for transporting shooting parties and their equipment.ᵂ
- (textiles) A tool used for breaking flax or hemp.
- (chiefly nautical) The handle of a pump.
- A baker’s kneading trough.
- (military) An ancient engine of war analogous to the crossbow and ballista.
- An enclosure to restrain cattle, horses, etc.
- Bracken (Pteridium spp.).
- (now historical) A type of torture instrument.
- A device used to slow or stop the motion of a wheel, or of a vehicle, usually by friction (although other resistive forces, such as electromagnetic fields or aerodynamic drag, can also be used); also, the controls or apparatus used to engage such a mechanism such as the pedal in a car.
- (agriculture) A large, heavy harrow for breaking clods of earth after ploughing; a drag.
- (figuratively) Something used to retard or stop some action, process etc.
- A thicket, or an area overgrown with briers etc.
- (engineering) An apparatus for testing the power of a steam engine or other motor by weighing the amount of friction that the motor will overcome; a friction brake.
- A frame for confining a refractory horse while the smith is shoeing it.
- A cart or carriage without a body, used in breaking in horses.ᵂ
- Any fern in the genus Pteris.
- The act of braking, of using a brake to slow down a machine or vehicle
- any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants
- a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle
- large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan
- anything that slows or hinders a process
- an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant
verb
verb
- (mechanical engineering) To overshoot when changing gears.
- To move too great an amount or move something too far.
- (sports) To position defensive players too far in a particular direction.
- (horticulture) To replant or repot too soon or too often.
- (economics) To raise the price to consumers by more than an underlying cost increase that results from rising taxes.
noun
- (mineralogy) The amount of displacement in the layers in a crystal lattice that places the layers too far apart for molecular bonding.
- A work period that extends significantly beyond the normal eight-hour shift; An instance of involuntary overtime.
- (sports) The strategy or act of positioning defensive players extra far toward the offense's strong side, leaving portions of the field or court undefended.
- A change that results in something being moved too far or too many things being moved.
- (geology) An overhang caused by seismic shift.
- (mechanical engineering) A misalignment resulting from shifting gears too far.
- An unfitted woman's overgarment.
noun
- Any piece of equipment made for a particular purpose, especially a mechanical or electrical one.
- (Ireland) An improvised explosive device, home-made bomb
- (computer hardware) A peripheral device; an item of hardware.
- (law) An image used in whole or in part as a trademark or service mark.
- (crosswording) Any specific class of wordplay element in a cryptic crossword.
- (rhetoric) A technique that an author or speaker uses to evoke an emotional response in the audience; a rhetorical device.
- (printing) An image or logo denoting official or proprietary authority or provenience.
- A project or scheme, often designed to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice. 1602, Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor. "This is our device,/ That Falstaff at that oak shall meet with us."
- any clever maneuver
- any ornamental pattern or design (as in embroidery)
- something in an artistic work designed to achieve a particular effect
- an emblematic design (especially in heraldry)
- an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose
noun
- Especially, a machine that converts mechanical energy into electrical energy.
- (mathematics) An element of a group that is used in the presentation of the group: one of the elements from which the others can be inferred with the given relators.
- (music) The principal sound or sounds by which others are produced; the fundamental note or root of the common chord; -- see also generating tone.
- (programming) A subordinate piece of code which, given some initial parameters, will generate multiple output values on request.
- (geometry) One of the lines of a ruled surface; more generally, an element of some family of linear spaces.
- A piece of apparatus, equipment, etc, to convert or change energy from one form to another.
- (chemistry) An apparatus in which vapour or gas is formed from a liquid or solid by means of heat or chemical process, as a steam boiler, gas retort etc.
- (music) An interval that is repeatedly stacked to obtain other pitches in tuning systems or scales.
- someone who originates or causes or initiates something
- an apparatus that produces a vapor or gas
- an electronic device for producing a signal voltage
- engine that converts mechanical energy into electrical energy by electromagnetic induction
noun
- Any mechanical device used to position something.
- The part of a control valve used to control the opening or closing of the actuator based on electric, or pneumatic signals.
- That which positions.
- a device used to control the opening or closing of the actuator based on electric, or pneumatic signals.
- (computer science) the actuator that moves a read/write head to the proper data track
adj
- (engineering) Intentionally designed so as not to impart motion or power.
- (of another person) So hated or offensive as to be absolutely shunned, ignored, or ostracized.
- Without interest to one of the senses; dull; flat.
- (not comparable) Broken or inoperable.
- (usually not comparable) Devoid of living things; barren.
- (usually not comparable) No longer living; deceased. (Also used as a noun.)
- Experiencing pins and needles (paresthesia).
- (of a place) Lacking usual activity; unexpectedly quiet or empty of people.
- (not comparable) No longer used or required.
- Past, bygone, vanished.
- (not comparable) Exact; on the dot.
- (not comparable) Full and complete (usually applied to nouns involving lack of motion, sound, activity, or other signs of life).
- (not comparable, sports) Not in play.
- (rare, especially religion, often with "to") Indifferent to; having no obligation toward; no longer subject to or ruled by (sin, guilt, pleasure, etc).
- (literal or hyperbolic) Doomed; marked for death; as good as dead.
- (of a battery) Unable to emit power, being discharged (flat) or faulty.
- (not comparable, baseball, slang, 1800s) Tagged out.
- Unproductive; fallow.
- (linguistics) Of a syllable in languages such as Thai and Burmese: ending abruptly.
- (acoustics) Constructed so as not to reflect or transmit sound; soundless; anechoic.
- Without emotion; impassive.
- (not comparable, golf, of a golf ball) Lying so near the hole that the player is certain to hole it in the next stroke.
- (law) Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property.
- (hyperbolic) Dying of laughter.
- Stationary; static; immobile or immovable.
- (hyperbolic) Figuratively, not alive; lacking life.
- Utterly exhausted.
- (not comparable, of a machine, device, or electrical circuit) Completely inactive; currently without power; without a signal; not live.
- Expresses shock, second-hand embarrassment, etc.
- unerringly accurate
- out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown
- drained of electric charge; discharged
- not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heat
- no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life
- physically inactive
- lacking resilience or bounce
- devoid of physical sensation; numb
- no longer having force or relevance
- (followed by ‘to’) not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive
- the complete stoppage of an action
- devoid of activity
- not circulating or flowing
- not surviving in active use
- lacking acoustic resonance
- not yielding a return
- very tired
adv
noun
- (bodybuilding, colloquial) Clipping of deadlift.
- (UK) (usually in the plural) Sterile mining waste, often present as many large rocks stacked inside the workings.
- (often with "the") Time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense.
- (with "the") Those who have died: dead people.
- people who are no longer living
- a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense
verb
noun
- (engineering) The drive wheel in any kind of machinery.
- Any person who leads or directs.
- (UK, journalism) The first, or the principal, editorial article in a newspaper; a leading or main editorial article; a lead story.
- One having authority to direct.
- A pipe for conducting rain water from a roof to a cistern or to the ground.
- (mining) A branch or small vein, not important in itself, but indicating the proximity of a better one.
- (printing) A type having a dot or short row of dots upon its face.
- (printing, in the plural) A row of dots, periods, or hyphens, used in tables of contents, etc., to lead the eye across a space to the right word or number.
- A person or organization that leads in a certain field in terms of excellence, success, etc.
- One who goes first.
- (meteorology) The path taken by electrons from a cloud to ground level, determining the shape of a bolt of lightning.
- (nautical) A block of hard wood pierced with suitable holes for leading ropes in their proper places.
- (botany) A fast-growing terminal shoot of a woody plant.
- One who leads a political party or group of elected party members; sometimes used in titles.
- (music) A performer who leads a band, choir, or a section of an orchestra.
- The dominant animal in a pack of animals, such as wolves or lions.
- (film, printing) A piece of material at the beginning or end of a reel or roll to allow the material to be threaded or fed onto something, as a reel of film onto a projector or a roll of paper onto a rotary printing press.
- (fishing) A section of line between the main fishing line and the snell of a hook, intended to be more resistant to bites and harder for a fish to detect than the main fishing line.
- (music, UK) The first violin in a symphony orchestra; the concertmaster.
- (fishing) A net for leading fish into a pound, weir, etc.
- Either of the two front horses of a team of four in front of a carriage.
- (marketing) A loss leader or a popular product sold at a normal price.
- An animal placed in advance of others, especially on a team of horse, oxen, or dogs.
- a person who rules or guides or inspires others
- a featured article of merchandise sold at a loss in order to draw customers
noun
- a powered machine for cutting or shaping or finishing metals or other materials
- (machining, manufacturing) A tool, typically a power-driven machine and typically stationary, used especially for machining (removing hard material via cutting, grinding, or other subtractive processes) and (more broadly) for any mix of subtractive, forming/stamping, or additive work.
noun
- The part of a machine that supplies the material to be operated upon.
- Something supplied continuously.
- (social media, often after a possessive determiner) content intended for consumption by scrolling or swiping, especially as a home page and from multiple publishers followed or algorithmically curated
- (countable) A gathering to eat, especially in large quantities.
- The forward motion of the material fed into a machine.
- (uncountable) Food given to (especially herbivorous) non-human animals.
- (UK, Australia, New Zealand, colloquial, countable) A meal.
- (syndication or aggregation): antichronological sequence of posts or articles from a single source, especially as consumable on a platform other as originally published.
- A straight man who delivers lines to the comedian during a performance.
- food for domestic livestock
verb
- (transitive) To supply with something.
- (transitive) To give (someone or something) food to eat.
- (transitive) To graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle.
- (transitive, figurative) To satisfy, gratify, or minister to (a sense, taste, desire, etc.).
- (transitive) To give to a machine to be processed.
- (transitive, sports) To pass to.
- simple past and past participle of fee
- (transitive, syntax, of a syntactic rule) To create the syntactic environment in which another syntactic rule is applied; to be applied before (another syntactic rule).
- (transitive, phonology, of a phonological rule) To create the environment where another phonological rule can apply; to be applied before (another rule).
- (intransitive) To eat (usually of animals).
- (transitive) To supply (a machine) with something to be processed.
- (ditransitive) To give (someone or something) to (someone or something else) as food.
- introduce continuously
- move along, of liquids
- gratify
- take in food; used of animals only
- serve as food for; be the food for
- profit from in an exploitatory manner
- support or promote
- feed into; supply
- provide as food
- provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to
- give food to
noun
- Any piece of machinery that pulls something.
- (UK, rail transport) A British Rail Class 37 locomotive.
- (aviation) An aeroplane where the propeller is located in front of the fuselage.
- (agriculture) A vehicle used in farms e.g. for pulling farm equipment and preparing the fields.
- (agriculture) A movable coop without a floor to allow for free ranging.
- (US) A truck (or lorry) for pulling a semi-trailer or trailer.
- a truck that has a cab but no body; used for pulling large trailers or vans
- a wheeled vehicle with large wheels; used in farming and other applications
verb
noun
- machinery and equipment developed from engineering or other applied sciences
- the discipline dealing with the art or science of applying scientific knowledge to practical problems
- the application of the knowledge and usage of tools (such as machines or utensils) and techniques to control one's environment
- The combined application of science and art in practical ways in industry, as for example in designing new machines.
- (uncountable, academic) The study of or a collection of techniques.
- Machines or equipment thus designed.
- (countable) Any useful skill or mechanism that humans have developed or invented (including in prescientific eras).
- (countable, figurative) Any useful trait that has evolved in any organism.
verb
noun
- (politics, chiefly US) The system of special interest groups that supports a political party, especially in urban areas.
- Especially, the group that controls a political or similar organization; a combination of persons acting together for a common purpose, with the agencies which they use.
- (poetry) Supernatural agency in a poem, or a superhuman being introduced to perform some exploit.
- (computing) A computer.
- A device that directs and controls energy, often in the form of movement or electricity, to produce a certain effect.
- (historical) A contrivance in the Ancient Greek theatre for indicating a change of scene, by means of which a god might cross the stage or deliver a divine message; the deus ex machina.
- (figuratively) A person or organisation that seemingly acts like a machine, being particularly efficient, single-minded, or unemotional.
- (telephony, abbreviation) An answering machine or, by extension, voice mail.
- any mechanical or electrical device that transmits or modifies energy to perform or assist in the performance of human tasks
- an efficient person
- a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine
- an intricate organization that accomplishes its goals efficiently
- a device for overcoming resistance at one point by applying force at some other point
- a group that controls the activities of a political party
adj
- Related to mechanics (the design and construction of machines).
- Using mechanics (the design and construction of machines): being a machine.
- (of a person) Acting as if one were a machine: lifeless or mindless.
- Related to mechanics (the branch of physics that deals with forces acting on matter).
- (figurative) As if performed by a machine: lifeless, mindless, thoughtless, automatic.
- Relating to the mechanics of a game.
- Done by machine.
- (informal) Handy with machines.
- relating to or concerned with machinery or tools
- relating to or governed by or in accordance with mechanics
- using (or as if using) mechanisms or tools or devices
noun
- (science fiction) A robot or mechanical creature.
- One who does manual labor, especially one who is similar to Shakespeare's rude mechanicals
- (cycling) An instance of equipment failure.
- (music) A stop on an organ that is operated by a hand or foot control rather than having to be manually set up in advance.
- (advertising) Manually created layout of artwork that is camera ready for photographic reproduction.
- (engineering) A mechanical engineer.
noun
- An enclosure housing machinery or a motor.
- The compartment that holds passengers on a dirigible, hot-air balloon, or other aerostat; a gondola.
- (electrical engineering) The part between the rotor and tower of a wind turbine.
- A separate streamlined enclosure mounted on an aircraft to house, originally, an engine, and now also cargo or crew.
- A hollow boat-shaped structure.
- (nautical) The submersed providers of buoyancy of a SWATH-hulled boat.
- (road transport) A streamlined enclosure on the body or dashboard of a motor vehicle.
- a streamlined enclosure for an aircraft engine
noun
- (engineering) One of the steps of a cone pulley.
- An act of lifting or raising.
- (measurement) The difference in elevation between the upper pool and lower pool of a waterway, separated by lock.
- (UK dialectal, chiefly Scotland) The sky; the heavens; firmament; atmosphere.
- (shoemaking) A layer of leather in the heel of a shoe.
- The amount or weight to be lifted.
- A rise; a degree of elevation.
- (historical slang) A thief.
- (UK, Australia, New Zealand, India, puristic elsewhere) Mechanical device for vertically transporting goods or people between floors in a building.
- (figurative) An improvement in mood.
- (UK dialectal, chiefly Scotland) Air.
- The space or distance through which anything is lifted.
- (nautical) A rope leading from the masthead to the extremity of a yard below, and used for raising or supporting the end of the yard.
- An upward force; especially, the force (generated by wings, rotary wings, or airfoils) that keeps aircraft aloft.
- (category theory) A morphism which some given morphism factors through; i.e. given a pair of morphisms f:X→Y and g:Z→Y, a morphism h such that f=g∘h. (In this case h is said to be a lift of f via Z or via g).
- Permanent construction with a built-in platform that is lifted vertically.
- (horology) That portion of the vibration of a balance during which the impulse is given.
- (broadcasting) A shorter extract from a commercial/advertisement, able to be used on its own.
- (dance) The lifting of a dance partner into the air.
- A liftgate.
- The act of transporting someone in a vehicle; a ride; a trip.
- the act of giving temporary assistance
- a wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground
- transportation of people or goods by air (especially when other means of access are unavailable)
- the act of raising something
- one of the layers forming the heel of a shoe or boot
- the component of the aerodynamic forces acting on an airfoil that opposes gravity
- a powered conveyance that carries skiers up a hill
- the event of something being raised upward
- a ride in a car
- plastic surgery to remove wrinkles and other signs of aging from your face; an incision is made near the hair line and skin is pulled back and excess tissue is excised
- lifting device consisting of a platform or cage that is raised and lowered mechanically in a vertical shaft in order to move people from one floor to another in a building
- a device worn in a shoe or boot to make the wearer look taller or to correct a shortened leg
verb
- To collect, as moneys due; to raise.
- To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing.
- (transitive, slang) To steal.
- To elevate or improve in rank, condition, etc.; often with up.
- (category theory, transitive) Given morphisms f and g with the same target: To produce a morphism which the given morphism factors through (i.e. a morphism h such that f=g∘h; cf. lift n.etymology 1 18)
- (transitive) To cause to move upwards.
- (transitive, slang) To source directly without acknowledgement; to plagiarise.
- (ambitransitive) To raise or rise.
- (transitive, slang) To arrest (a person).
- (intransitive, especially Scotland) To disperse, to break up.
- (finance) To buy a security or other asset previously offered for sale.
- (transitive) To remove (a ban, restriction, etc.).
- (programming) To transform (a function) into a corresponding function in a different context.
- (hunting, transitive) To take (hounds) off the existing scent and move them to another spot.
- (transitive) To alleviate, to lighten (pressure, tension, stress, etc.)
- (informal, intransitive) To lift weights; to weight-lift.
- raise in rank or condition
- take illegally
- take off or away by decreasing
- call to stop the hunt or to retire, as of hunting dogs
- perform cosmetic surgery on someone's face
- raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help
- put an end to a situation
- move upwards
- rise upward, as from pressure or moisture
- remove (hair) by scalping
- move upward
- pay off (a mortgage)
- take (root crops) out of the ground
- cancel officially
- rise up
- invigorate or heighten
- raise from a lower to a higher position
- remove from a surface
- take hold of something and move it to a different location
- take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property
- remove from a seedbed or from a nursery
- fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by other means
- make audible
- make off with belongings of others
noun
- a simple machine that gives a mechanical advantage when given a fulcrum
- a flat metal tumbler in a lever lock
- a rigid bar pivoted about a fulcrum
- Specifically, a bar of metal, wood or other rigid substance, used to exert a pressure, or sustain a weight, at one point of its length, by receiving a force or power at a second, and turning at a third on a fixed point called a fulcrum. It is usually named as the first of the six mechanical powers, and is of three kinds, according as either the fulcrum F, the weight W, or the power P, respectively, is situated between the other two, as in the figures.
- (mechanics) A rigid piece which is capable of turning about one point, or axis (fulcrum), and in which are two or more other points where forces are applied; — used for transmitting and modifying force and motion.
- A small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device (like a switch or a button).
- (mechanics) A bar, as a capstan bar, applied to a rotatory piece to turn it.
- (mechanics) An arm on a rock shaft, to give motion to the shaft or to obtain motion from it.
- (rare) A levee.
verb
- to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open
- (chiefly UK, finance) To increase the share of debt in the capitalization of a business.
- (transitive) To move with a lever.
- (figuratively, transitive) To use (something) like a lever (in an abstract sense).
- (figuratively, transitive) To use, operate or move (something) like a lever (physically).
noun
- (mechanical engineering) A mechanical device that supports another part or reduces friction.
- (in the plural, especially in phrases such as 'get one's bearings') One's understanding of one's orientation or relative position, literally or figuratively.
- (architecture, proscribed) The unsupported span.
- (architecture) The portion of a support on which anything rests.
- Relevance; a relationship or connection.
- (heraldry) Any single emblem or charge in an escutcheon or coat of arms.
- One's posture, demeanor, or manner.
- (navigation, nautical) The horizontal angle between the direction of an object and another object, or between it and that of true north; a heading or direction.
- (architecture) That part of any member of a building which rests upon its supports.
- heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shield
- dignified manner or conduct
- the direction or path along which something moves or along which it lies
- relevant relation or interconnection
- characteristic way of bearing one's body
- a rotating support placed between moving parts to allow them to move easily
adj
verb
noun
- Equipment for any kind of labour.
- The part of a loom comprising the heddles, with their means of support and motion, by which the threads of the warp are alternately raised and depressed for the passage of the shuttle.
- (countable) A collection of wires or cables bundled and routed according to their function: a wiring harness.
- (countable) A restraint or support, especially one consisting of a loop or network of rope or straps, and especially one worn by a working animal such as a horse pulling a carriage or farm implement.
- a support consisting of an arrangement of straps for holding something to the body (especially one supporting a person suspended from a parachute)
- stable gear consisting of an arrangement of leather straps fitted to a draft animal so that it can be attached to and pull a cart
verb
noun
- An enclosure for mechanical or electrical equipment.
- (often capitalized) A collection of art or ethnographic objects.
- The upright assembly that houses a coin-operated arcade game, a cab.
- A cupboard.
- (figuratively) A source of valuable things; a storehouse.
- A museum display case.
- (Kentucky) A cabinet-level agency in the executive branch; that is, an agency headed by a member of the governor's cabinet.
- (politics, often capitalized) In parliamentary and some other systems of government, the group of ministers responsible for creating government policy and for overseeing the departments comprising the executive branch.
- A group of advisors to a government or business entity.
- A storage closet either separate from, or built into, a wall.
- (historical) A size of photograph, specifically one measuring 3⅞" by 5½".
- (dialectal, Rhode Island) Milkshake.
- a storage compartment for clothes and valuables; usually it has a lock
- a piece of furniture resembling a cupboard with doors and shelves and drawers; for storage or display
- persons appointed by a head of state to head executive departments of government and act as official advisers
- housing for electronic instruments, as radio or television
noun
- (mechanical) A sheave.
- A quantity of arrows, usually twenty-four.
- Given a family of sections s_i∈ℱ(U_i) such that all pairs (s_i,s_j) agree under restriction to U_i∩U_j, there is a (unique) section s over U whose restriction to U_i is s_i.
- Any collection of things bound together.
- If two sections over U agree under restriction to every U_i, then the sections are the same.
- A bundle of arrows sufficient to fill a quiver, or the allowance of each archer.
- A quantity of the stalks and ears of wheat, rye, or other grain, bound together; a bundle of grain or straw.
- a package of several things tied together for carrying or storing
verb
noun
- (engineering) A part of a machine designed to bend in operation.
- (astronomy) The small distortion of an astronomical instrument caused by the weight of its parts; the amount to be added or subtracted from the observed readings of the instrument to correct them for this distortion.
- A turn; a bend; a fold; a curve.
- The act of bending or flexing; flexion.
- (anatomy) A curve or bend in a tubular organ.
- (zoology) The last joint, or bend, of the wing of a bird.
- an angular or rounded shape made by folding
- the state of being flexed (as of a joint)
- act of bending a joint; especially a joint between the bones of a limb so that the angle between them is decreased
verb
noun
- (engineering) The bedpiece of a machine tool, upon which a table or slide rest is secured.
- Anything resembling a pair of shears in shape or motion, such as a pair of wings.
- A tool consisting of two blades with bevel edges, connected by a pivot, used for cutting cloth, or for removing the fleece from sheep etc.
- An apparatus for raising heavy weights, and especially for stepping and unstepping the lower masts of ships. It consists of two or more spars or pieces of timber, fastened together near the top, steadied by a guy or guys, and furnished with the necessary tackle. Also sheers.
- plural of shear
- large scissors with strong blades
verb
noun
- a mechanical device for engaging and disengaging gears
- a stagehand responsible for moving scenery
- (linguistics) A word whose meaning changes depending on the situation, as by deixis.
- A shiftworker.
- (nautical) An assistant to the ship's cook in washing, soaking, and shifting the salt provisions.
- (cycling) A component used by the rider to control the gearing mechanisms and select the desired gear ratio, usually connected to the derailleur by a mechanical actuation cable.
- (engineering) A control device (usually a lever or button) for shifting gears in a gearbox, or an arrangement for shifting a belt sidewise from one pulley to another.
- (mining, historical) A person employed to repair the horseways and other passages, and keep them unobstructed.
- One who, or that which, shifts or changes.
- (mythology, science fiction, fantasy) A shape-shifter; a person or other being capable of changing their physical form, especially a lycanthrope.
- (spirituality) Ellipsis of reality shifter.
- (engineering, textiles) A wire for changing a loop from one needle to another, as in narrowing, etc.
- (US, Pennsylvania) A switcher or shunter: a railroad locomotive used for shunting.
- (especially Australia) A spanner with an adjustable jaw size.
noun
- (engineering) An overheated shaft bearing.
- (rail transport) An overheated axle box, bearing and bearing enclosure.
- A cold frame containing compost that provides a limited amount of warmth.
- A container maintained at elevated temperatures in order to heat or cook its contents.
- A room or house that becomes unbearably hot inside when the weather is hot.
- A small, hot, enclosure, used as a punishment for slaves or prisoners.
- (slang) A sexy woman.
- A room or compartment that is kept artificially warm for some purpose.
- A gas manifold that diverts hot gasses into a heat exchanger.
- A storage container for personal belongings of employees who are hot desking.
- A small, airtight space where people smoke marijuana in order to intensify the high.
- An oven.
- A location where controversial ideas are discussed or practiced.
- A furnace or heat source for a building.
- An incubator.
- (graphical user interface) A context-sensitive dialog that duplicates many of the commands on the menu for users of the Maya Embedded Language.
- A box for hot composting.
- A soundproof box used to hold a camera in order to prevent the sound of its operation interfering with the recording of a film.
- a journal bearing (as of a railroad car) that has overheated
verb
- (slang) To put out a cigarette just before entering a vehicle, then expel smoke in the vehicle.
- (slang) To fart in a small confined area, such as the inside of a car.
- (slang) To smoke a cigarette vigorously and rapidly.
- (transitive, slang) To smoke marijuana in a small confined area, such as the inside of a car, until it is full of smoke, thereby intensifying the drug's effects.
noun
- A type of machine for bending sheet metal. (See wikipedia.)
- That part of a carriage, as of a movable battery, or engine, which enables it to turn.
- A carriage for transporting shooting parties and their equipment.ᵂ
- (textiles) A tool used for breaking flax or hemp.
- (chiefly nautical) The handle of a pump.
- A baker’s kneading trough.
- (military) An ancient engine of war analogous to the crossbow and ballista.
- An enclosure to restrain cattle, horses, etc.
- Bracken (Pteridium spp.).
- (now historical) A type of torture instrument.
- A device used to slow or stop the motion of a wheel, or of a vehicle, usually by friction (although other resistive forces, such as electromagnetic fields or aerodynamic drag, can also be used); also, the controls or apparatus used to engage such a mechanism such as the pedal in a car.
- (agriculture) A large, heavy harrow for breaking clods of earth after ploughing; a drag.
- (figuratively) Something used to retard or stop some action, process etc.
- A thicket, or an area overgrown with briers etc.
- (engineering) An apparatus for testing the power of a steam engine or other motor by weighing the amount of friction that the motor will overcome; a friction brake.
- A frame for confining a refractory horse while the smith is shoeing it.
- A cart or carriage without a body, used in breaking in horses.ᵂ
- Any fern in the genus Pteris.
- The act of braking, of using a brake to slow down a machine or vehicle
- any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants
- a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle
- large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan
- anything that slows or hinders a process
- an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant
verb
noun
- Any piece of equipment made for a particular purpose, especially a mechanical or electrical one.
- (Ireland) An improvised explosive device, home-made bomb
- (computer hardware) A peripheral device; an item of hardware.
- (law) An image used in whole or in part as a trademark or service mark.
- (crosswording) Any specific class of wordplay element in a cryptic crossword.
- (rhetoric) A technique that an author or speaker uses to evoke an emotional response in the audience; a rhetorical device.
- (printing) An image or logo denoting official or proprietary authority or provenience.
- A project or scheme, often designed to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice. 1602, Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor. "This is our device,/ That Falstaff at that oak shall meet with us."
- any clever maneuver
- any ornamental pattern or design (as in embroidery)
- something in an artistic work designed to achieve a particular effect
- an emblematic design (especially in heraldry)
- an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose
noun
- Especially, a machine that converts mechanical energy into electrical energy.
- (mathematics) An element of a group that is used in the presentation of the group: one of the elements from which the others can be inferred with the given relators.
- (music) The principal sound or sounds by which others are produced; the fundamental note or root of the common chord; -- see also generating tone.
- (programming) A subordinate piece of code which, given some initial parameters, will generate multiple output values on request.
- (geometry) One of the lines of a ruled surface; more generally, an element of some family of linear spaces.
- A piece of apparatus, equipment, etc, to convert or change energy from one form to another.
- (chemistry) An apparatus in which vapour or gas is formed from a liquid or solid by means of heat or chemical process, as a steam boiler, gas retort etc.
- (music) An interval that is repeatedly stacked to obtain other pitches in tuning systems or scales.
- someone who originates or causes or initiates something
- an apparatus that produces a vapor or gas
- an electronic device for producing a signal voltage
- engine that converts mechanical energy into electrical energy by electromagnetic induction
noun
- Any mechanical device used to position something.
- The part of a control valve used to control the opening or closing of the actuator based on electric, or pneumatic signals.
- That which positions.
- a device used to control the opening or closing of the actuator based on electric, or pneumatic signals.
- (computer science) the actuator that moves a read/write head to the proper data track
noun
- (engineering) The drive wheel in any kind of machinery.
- Any person who leads or directs.
- (UK, journalism) The first, or the principal, editorial article in a newspaper; a leading or main editorial article; a lead story.
- One having authority to direct.
- A pipe for conducting rain water from a roof to a cistern or to the ground.
- (mining) A branch or small vein, not important in itself, but indicating the proximity of a better one.
- (printing) A type having a dot or short row of dots upon its face.
- (printing, in the plural) A row of dots, periods, or hyphens, used in tables of contents, etc., to lead the eye across a space to the right word or number.
- A person or organization that leads in a certain field in terms of excellence, success, etc.
- One who goes first.
- (meteorology) The path taken by electrons from a cloud to ground level, determining the shape of a bolt of lightning.
- (nautical) A block of hard wood pierced with suitable holes for leading ropes in their proper places.
- (botany) A fast-growing terminal shoot of a woody plant.
- One who leads a political party or group of elected party members; sometimes used in titles.
- (music) A performer who leads a band, choir, or a section of an orchestra.
- The dominant animal in a pack of animals, such as wolves or lions.
- (film, printing) A piece of material at the beginning or end of a reel or roll to allow the material to be threaded or fed onto something, as a reel of film onto a projector or a roll of paper onto a rotary printing press.
- (fishing) A section of line between the main fishing line and the snell of a hook, intended to be more resistant to bites and harder for a fish to detect than the main fishing line.
- (music, UK) The first violin in a symphony orchestra; the concertmaster.
- (fishing) A net for leading fish into a pound, weir, etc.
- Either of the two front horses of a team of four in front of a carriage.
- (marketing) A loss leader or a popular product sold at a normal price.
- An animal placed in advance of others, especially on a team of horse, oxen, or dogs.
- a person who rules or guides or inspires others
- a featured article of merchandise sold at a loss in order to draw customers
noun
- a powered machine for cutting or shaping or finishing metals or other materials
- (machining, manufacturing) A tool, typically a power-driven machine and typically stationary, used especially for machining (removing hard material via cutting, grinding, or other subtractive processes) and (more broadly) for any mix of subtractive, forming/stamping, or additive work.
noun
- The part of a machine that supplies the material to be operated upon.
- Something supplied continuously.
- (social media, often after a possessive determiner) content intended for consumption by scrolling or swiping, especially as a home page and from multiple publishers followed or algorithmically curated
- (countable) A gathering to eat, especially in large quantities.
- The forward motion of the material fed into a machine.
- (uncountable) Food given to (especially herbivorous) non-human animals.
- (UK, Australia, New Zealand, colloquial, countable) A meal.
- (syndication or aggregation): antichronological sequence of posts or articles from a single source, especially as consumable on a platform other as originally published.
- A straight man who delivers lines to the comedian during a performance.
- food for domestic livestock
verb
- (transitive) To supply with something.
- (transitive) To give (someone or something) food to eat.
- (transitive) To graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle.
- (transitive, figurative) To satisfy, gratify, or minister to (a sense, taste, desire, etc.).
- (transitive) To give to a machine to be processed.
- (transitive, sports) To pass to.
- simple past and past participle of fee
- (transitive, syntax, of a syntactic rule) To create the syntactic environment in which another syntactic rule is applied; to be applied before (another syntactic rule).
- (transitive, phonology, of a phonological rule) To create the environment where another phonological rule can apply; to be applied before (another rule).
- (intransitive) To eat (usually of animals).
- (transitive) To supply (a machine) with something to be processed.
- (ditransitive) To give (someone or something) to (someone or something else) as food.
- introduce continuously
- move along, of liquids
- gratify
- take in food; used of animals only
- serve as food for; be the food for
- profit from in an exploitatory manner
- support or promote
- feed into; supply
- provide as food
- provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to
- give food to
noun
- Any piece of machinery that pulls something.
- (UK, rail transport) A British Rail Class 37 locomotive.
- (aviation) An aeroplane where the propeller is located in front of the fuselage.
- (agriculture) A vehicle used in farms e.g. for pulling farm equipment and preparing the fields.
- (agriculture) A movable coop without a floor to allow for free ranging.
- (US) A truck (or lorry) for pulling a semi-trailer or trailer.
- a truck that has a cab but no body; used for pulling large trailers or vans
- a wheeled vehicle with large wheels; used in farming and other applications
verb
noun
- machinery and equipment developed from engineering or other applied sciences
- the discipline dealing with the art or science of applying scientific knowledge to practical problems
- the application of the knowledge and usage of tools (such as machines or utensils) and techniques to control one's environment
- The combined application of science and art in practical ways in industry, as for example in designing new machines.
- (uncountable, academic) The study of or a collection of techniques.
- Machines or equipment thus designed.
- (countable) Any useful skill or mechanism that humans have developed or invented (including in prescientific eras).
- (countable, figurative) Any useful trait that has evolved in any organism.
noun
- An enclosure housing machinery or a motor.
- The compartment that holds passengers on a dirigible, hot-air balloon, or other aerostat; a gondola.
- (electrical engineering) The part between the rotor and tower of a wind turbine.
- A separate streamlined enclosure mounted on an aircraft to house, originally, an engine, and now also cargo or crew.
- A hollow boat-shaped structure.
- (nautical) The submersed providers of buoyancy of a SWATH-hulled boat.
- (road transport) A streamlined enclosure on the body or dashboard of a motor vehicle.
- a streamlined enclosure for an aircraft engine
noun
- (engineering) One of the steps of a cone pulley.
- An act of lifting or raising.
- (measurement) The difference in elevation between the upper pool and lower pool of a waterway, separated by lock.
- (UK dialectal, chiefly Scotland) The sky; the heavens; firmament; atmosphere.
- (shoemaking) A layer of leather in the heel of a shoe.
- The amount or weight to be lifted.
- A rise; a degree of elevation.
- (historical slang) A thief.
- (UK, Australia, New Zealand, India, puristic elsewhere) Mechanical device for vertically transporting goods or people between floors in a building.
- (figurative) An improvement in mood.
- (UK dialectal, chiefly Scotland) Air.
- The space or distance through which anything is lifted.
- (nautical) A rope leading from the masthead to the extremity of a yard below, and used for raising or supporting the end of the yard.
- An upward force; especially, the force (generated by wings, rotary wings, or airfoils) that keeps aircraft aloft.
- (category theory) A morphism which some given morphism factors through; i.e. given a pair of morphisms f:X→Y and g:Z→Y, a morphism h such that f=g∘h. (In this case h is said to be a lift of f via Z or via g).
- Permanent construction with a built-in platform that is lifted vertically.
- (horology) That portion of the vibration of a balance during which the impulse is given.
- (broadcasting) A shorter extract from a commercial/advertisement, able to be used on its own.
- (dance) The lifting of a dance partner into the air.
- A liftgate.
- The act of transporting someone in a vehicle; a ride; a trip.
- the act of giving temporary assistance
- a wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground
- transportation of people or goods by air (especially when other means of access are unavailable)
- the act of raising something
- one of the layers forming the heel of a shoe or boot
- the component of the aerodynamic forces acting on an airfoil that opposes gravity
- a powered conveyance that carries skiers up a hill
- the event of something being raised upward
- a ride in a car
- plastic surgery to remove wrinkles and other signs of aging from your face; an incision is made near the hair line and skin is pulled back and excess tissue is excised
- lifting device consisting of a platform or cage that is raised and lowered mechanically in a vertical shaft in order to move people from one floor to another in a building
- a device worn in a shoe or boot to make the wearer look taller or to correct a shortened leg
verb
- To collect, as moneys due; to raise.
- To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing.
- (transitive, slang) To steal.
- To elevate or improve in rank, condition, etc.; often with up.
- (category theory, transitive) Given morphisms f and g with the same target: To produce a morphism which the given morphism factors through (i.e. a morphism h such that f=g∘h; cf. lift n.etymology 1 18)
- (transitive) To cause to move upwards.
- (transitive, slang) To source directly without acknowledgement; to plagiarise.
- (ambitransitive) To raise or rise.
- (transitive, slang) To arrest (a person).
- (intransitive, especially Scotland) To disperse, to break up.
- (finance) To buy a security or other asset previously offered for sale.
- (transitive) To remove (a ban, restriction, etc.).
- (programming) To transform (a function) into a corresponding function in a different context.
- (hunting, transitive) To take (hounds) off the existing scent and move them to another spot.
- (transitive) To alleviate, to lighten (pressure, tension, stress, etc.)
- (informal, intransitive) To lift weights; to weight-lift.
- raise in rank or condition
- take illegally
- take off or away by decreasing
- call to stop the hunt or to retire, as of hunting dogs
- perform cosmetic surgery on someone's face
- raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help
- put an end to a situation
- move upwards
- rise upward, as from pressure or moisture
- remove (hair) by scalping
- move upward
- pay off (a mortgage)
- take (root crops) out of the ground
- cancel officially
- rise up
- invigorate or heighten
- raise from a lower to a higher position
- remove from a surface
- take hold of something and move it to a different location
- take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property
- remove from a seedbed or from a nursery
- fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by other means
- make audible
- make off with belongings of others
noun
- a simple machine that gives a mechanical advantage when given a fulcrum
- a flat metal tumbler in a lever lock
- a rigid bar pivoted about a fulcrum
- Specifically, a bar of metal, wood or other rigid substance, used to exert a pressure, or sustain a weight, at one point of its length, by receiving a force or power at a second, and turning at a third on a fixed point called a fulcrum. It is usually named as the first of the six mechanical powers, and is of three kinds, according as either the fulcrum F, the weight W, or the power P, respectively, is situated between the other two, as in the figures.
- (mechanics) A rigid piece which is capable of turning about one point, or axis (fulcrum), and in which are two or more other points where forces are applied; — used for transmitting and modifying force and motion.
- A small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device (like a switch or a button).
- (mechanics) A bar, as a capstan bar, applied to a rotatory piece to turn it.
- (mechanics) An arm on a rock shaft, to give motion to the shaft or to obtain motion from it.
- (rare) A levee.
verb
- to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open
- (chiefly UK, finance) To increase the share of debt in the capitalization of a business.
- (transitive) To move with a lever.
- (figuratively, transitive) To use (something) like a lever (in an abstract sense).
- (figuratively, transitive) To use, operate or move (something) like a lever (physically).
verb
- (mechanical engineering) To undershoot when changing gears.
- (economics) To raise the price to consumers by less than an underlying cost increase that results from rising taxes.
- To move too small an amount or not to move something far enough.
- (sports) To position defensive players too far in a particular direction.
noun
- (mineralogy) The amount of displacement in the layers in a crystal lattice that places the layers too close together.
- An unfitted undergarment that covers the torso.
- (sports) The strategy or act of positioning defensive players extra far toward the offense's weak side.
- (mechanical engineering) A misalignment resulting from failure to shift gears far enough.
- (geology) An underhang caused by seismic shift.
- A change that results in something being not being moved far enough or too few things being moved.
verb
- (mechanical engineering) To overshoot when changing gears.
- To move too great an amount or move something too far.
- (sports) To position defensive players too far in a particular direction.
- (horticulture) To replant or repot too soon or too often.
- (economics) To raise the price to consumers by more than an underlying cost increase that results from rising taxes.
noun
- (mineralogy) The amount of displacement in the layers in a crystal lattice that places the layers too far apart for molecular bonding.
- A work period that extends significantly beyond the normal eight-hour shift; An instance of involuntary overtime.
- (sports) The strategy or act of positioning defensive players extra far toward the offense's strong side, leaving portions of the field or court undefended.
- A change that results in something being moved too far or too many things being moved.
- (geology) An overhang caused by seismic shift.
- (mechanical engineering) A misalignment resulting from shifting gears too far.
- An unfitted woman's overgarment.
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noun
- (politics, chiefly US) The system of special interest groups that supports a political party, especially in urban areas.
- Especially, the group that controls a political or similar organization; a combination of persons acting together for a common purpose, with the agencies which they use.
- (poetry) Supernatural agency in a poem, or a superhuman being introduced to perform some exploit.
- (computing) A computer.
- A device that directs and controls energy, often in the form of movement or electricity, to produce a certain effect.
- (historical) A contrivance in the Ancient Greek theatre for indicating a change of scene, by means of which a god might cross the stage or deliver a divine message; the deus ex machina.
- (figuratively) A person or organisation that seemingly acts like a machine, being particularly efficient, single-minded, or unemotional.
- (telephony, abbreviation) An answering machine or, by extension, voice mail.
- any mechanical or electrical device that transmits or modifies energy to perform or assist in the performance of human tasks
- an efficient person
- a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine
- an intricate organization that accomplishes its goals efficiently
- a device for overcoming resistance at one point by applying force at some other point
- a group that controls the activities of a political party
adj
- (not comparable, metalworking, construction, of a fastener) Able to be fixed without access to one end.
- (not comparable) Unable to see, or only partially able to see.
- (horticulture) Abortive; failing to produce flowers or fruit.
- Unintelligible or illegible.
- (not comparable) Without any prior knowledge.
- (not comparable) Closed at one end; having a dead end; exitless.
- (comparable) Failing to recognize, acknowledge or perceive.
- (LGBTQ, slang) Uncircumcised.
- (Of a pimple) not having a well-defined head.
- (not comparable, of a place) Having little or no visibility.
- (sciences) Using blinded study design, wherein information is purposely limited to prevent bias.
- (in certain phrases, chiefly in the negative) Smallest or slightest.
- (not comparable) Having no openings for light or passage; both dark and exitless.
- (not comparable) Unconditional; without regard to evidence, logic, reality, accidental mistakes, extenuating circumstances, etc.
- unable to see
- not based on reason or evidence
- unable or unwilling to perceive or understand
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noun
- A destination sign mounted on a public transport vehicle displaying the route destination, number, name and/or via points, etc.
- (poker) A forced bet: the small blind or the big blind.
- (baseball, slang, 1800s) No score.
- A movable covering for a window to keep out light, made of cloth or of narrow slats that can block light or allow it to pass.
- A hiding place.
- A place where people can hide in order to observe wildlife.
- (poker) A player who is forced to pay such a bet.
- Something to mislead the eye or the understanding, or to conceal some covert deed or design; a subterfuge, deception.
- (rugby, colloquial) The blindside.
- (military) A blindage.
- a protective covering that keeps things out or hinders sight
- a hiding place sometimes used by hunters (especially duck hunters)
- something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity
- people who have severe visual impairments, considered as a group
verb
- (transitive) To make temporarily or permanently blind.
- To darken; to obscure to the eye or understanding; to conceal.
- To cover with a thin coating of sand and fine gravel, for example a road newly paved, in order that the joints between the stones may be filled.
- (informal, obsolete except when paired, especially eff and blind) To curse, swear, use foul language
- render unable to see
- make blind by putting the eyes out
- make dim by comparison or conceal
adj
- (mechanical engineering, of a position or setting) Neutral.
- Insignificant.
- Having no validity; "null and void".
- (genetics, of a mutation) Causing a complete loss of gene function; amorphic.
- Absent or non-existent.
- (mathematics) Of or comprising a value of precisely zero.
- (mathematics) Of the null set.
- lacking any legal or binding force
noun
- (computing) The attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
- (computing) The null character; the ASCII or Unicode character (␀), represented by a zero value, which indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
- One of the beads in nulled work.
- (statistics) The null hypothesis.
- Zero quantity of expressions; nothing.
- A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
- Something that has no force or meaning.
- a quantity of no importance; thing (object:), singular, negative pronoun; pronoun, thing, singular; quantifier: negative existential
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noun
adj
- (engineering) Intentionally designed so as not to impart motion or power.
- (of another person) So hated or offensive as to be absolutely shunned, ignored, or ostracized.
- Without interest to one of the senses; dull; flat.
- (not comparable) Broken or inoperable.
- (usually not comparable) Devoid of living things; barren.
- (usually not comparable) No longer living; deceased. (Also used as a noun.)
- Experiencing pins and needles (paresthesia).
- (of a place) Lacking usual activity; unexpectedly quiet or empty of people.
- (not comparable) No longer used or required.
- Past, bygone, vanished.
- (not comparable) Exact; on the dot.
- (not comparable) Full and complete (usually applied to nouns involving lack of motion, sound, activity, or other signs of life).
- (not comparable, sports) Not in play.
- (rare, especially religion, often with "to") Indifferent to; having no obligation toward; no longer subject to or ruled by (sin, guilt, pleasure, etc).
- (literal or hyperbolic) Doomed; marked for death; as good as dead.
- (of a battery) Unable to emit power, being discharged (flat) or faulty.
- (not comparable, baseball, slang, 1800s) Tagged out.
- Unproductive; fallow.
- (linguistics) Of a syllable in languages such as Thai and Burmese: ending abruptly.
- (acoustics) Constructed so as not to reflect or transmit sound; soundless; anechoic.
- Without emotion; impassive.
- (not comparable, golf, of a golf ball) Lying so near the hole that the player is certain to hole it in the next stroke.
- (law) Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property.
- (hyperbolic) Dying of laughter.
- Stationary; static; immobile or immovable.
- (hyperbolic) Figuratively, not alive; lacking life.
- Utterly exhausted.
- (not comparable, of a machine, device, or electrical circuit) Completely inactive; currently without power; without a signal; not live.
- Expresses shock, second-hand embarrassment, etc.
- unerringly accurate
- out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown
- drained of electric charge; discharged
- not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heat
- no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life
- physically inactive
- lacking resilience or bounce
- devoid of physical sensation; numb
- no longer having force or relevance
- (followed by ‘to’) not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive
- the complete stoppage of an action
- devoid of activity
- not circulating or flowing
- not surviving in active use
- lacking acoustic resonance
- not yielding a return
- very tired
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noun
- (bodybuilding, colloquial) Clipping of deadlift.
- (UK) (usually in the plural) Sterile mining waste, often present as many large rocks stacked inside the workings.
- (often with "the") Time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense.
- (with "the") Those who have died: dead people.
- people who are no longer living
- a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense
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adj
- Related to mechanics (the design and construction of machines).
- Using mechanics (the design and construction of machines): being a machine.
- (of a person) Acting as if one were a machine: lifeless or mindless.
- Related to mechanics (the branch of physics that deals with forces acting on matter).
- (figurative) As if performed by a machine: lifeless, mindless, thoughtless, automatic.
- Relating to the mechanics of a game.
- Done by machine.
- (informal) Handy with machines.
- relating to or concerned with machinery or tools
- relating to or governed by or in accordance with mechanics
- using (or as if using) mechanisms or tools or devices
noun
- (science fiction) A robot or mechanical creature.
- One who does manual labor, especially one who is similar to Shakespeare's rude mechanicals
- (cycling) An instance of equipment failure.
- (music) A stop on an organ that is operated by a hand or foot control rather than having to be manually set up in advance.
- (advertising) Manually created layout of artwork that is camera ready for photographic reproduction.
- (engineering) A mechanical engineer.