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noun
- (mining) A headframe.
- A clamp that restrains a cow by the neck.
- (rail transport) A transverse structural member at the extreme end of a rail vehicle's underframe, also used on some bogies.
- The part of a lute-type string instrument, such as a guitar, that holds the tuning pegs or tensioning screws of the strings.
- A part of a machine (such as a lathe or drill) that contains the primary spindle.
- A beam that supports a bell.
- the stationary support in a machine or power tool that supports and drives a revolving part (as a chuck or the spindle on a lathe)
noun
- (mining) A vertical mine-timber supporting a set.
- A posture in which one straddles something.
- (finance) An investment strategy involving simultaneous trade with put and call options on the same security at the same strike price, giving a non-directional position sensitive to volatility.
- (poker) A voluntary raise made prior to receiving cards by the first player after the blinds.
- (military) A pair or salvo of successive artillery shots falling both in front of and behind a target.
- A part of a harness placed on the back of a beast of burden (such as a horse or donkey) to carry the weight of a load.
- the act of sitting or standing astride
- the option to buy or sell a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date; consists of an equal number of put and call options
- a gymnastic exercise performed with a leg on either side of the parallel bars
- a noncommittal or equivocal position
adv
verb
- (transitive) To be on both sides of something; to have parts that are in different places, regions, etc.
- (transitive) To consider or favor two apparently opposite sides; to be noncommittal.
- (intransitive) To stand with the ends staggered; said of the spokes of a wagon wheel where they join the hub.
- (transitive) To form a disorderly sprawl; to spread out irregularly.
- (transitive) To sit or stand with a leg on each side of something; to sit astride.
- (economics) To execute a commodities market spread.
- (military) To fire successive artillery shots in front of and behind of a target, especially in order to determine its range (the term "bracket" is often used instead).
- (poker) To place a voluntary raise prior to receiving cards (only by the first player after the blinds).
- range or extend over; occupy a certain area
- sit or stand astride of
- be noncommittal
verb
- (transitive, mining) To trace (a lode or any mineral appearance) to its head.
- (transitive) To move (a gun) laterally so that it points in a different direction.
- (intransitive) To proceed in sequence.
- (transitive, horticulture) To encourage (a plant or branch) to grow in a particular direction or shape, usually by pruning and bending.
- (transitive, machine learning) To feed data into an algorithm, usually based on a neural network, to create a machine learning model that can perform some task.
- (transitive, video games) To create a trainer (cheat patch) for; to apply cheats to (a game).
- (intransitive) To improve one's fitness.
- (intransitive) To practice an ability.
- (transitive) To teach and form (someone) by practice; to educate (someone).
- (transitive) To transport (something) by train.
- exercise in order to prepare for an event or competition
- develop (a child's or animal's) behavior by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control
- undergo training or instruction in preparation for a particular role, function, or profession
- point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards
- cause to grow in a certain way by tying and pruning it
- teach and supervise (someone); act as a trainer or coach (to), as in sports
- travel by rail or train
- create by training and teaching
- drag loosely along a surface; allow to sweep the ground
- teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment
- educate for a future role or function
noun
- (sex, slang) An act wherein series of men line up and then penetrate a person, especially as a form of gang rape.
- A trail or line of something, especially gunpowder.
- A series of electrical pulses.
- A set of interconnected mechanical parts which operate each other in sequence.
- A group of people following an important figure such as a king or noble; a retinue, a group of retainers.
- (figuratively, poetic) A group or class of people.
- The elongated back portion of a dress or skirt (or an ornamental piece of material added to similar effect), which drags along the ground.
- A series of specified vehicles (originally tramcars in a mine as usual, later especially railway carriages) coupled together.
- A long, heavy sleigh used in Canada for the transportation of merchandise, wood, etc.
- (computing) A software release schedule.
- A group of animals, vehicles, or people that follow one another in a line, such as a wagon train; a caravan or procession.
- (astronomy) A transient trail of glowing ions behind a large meteor as it falls through the atmosphere or accompanying a comet as it nears the sun; tail.
- A sequence of events or ideas which are interconnected; a course or procedure of something.
- (informal) A service on a railway line.
- The tail of a bird.
- (military) The men and vehicles following an army, which carry artillery and other equipment for battle or siege.
- A mechanical (originally steam-powered, now typically diesel or electrical) vehicle carrying a large number of passengers and freight along a designated track or path; a line of connected wagons considered overall as a mode of transport; (as uncountable noun) rail or road travel.
- A set of things, events, or circumstances that follow after or as a consequence; aftermath, wake.
- (poetic) The elongated body or form of something narrow and winding, such as the course of a river or the body of a snake.
- public transport provided by a line of railway cars coupled together and drawn by a locomotive
- wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed
- piece of cloth forming the long back section of a gown that is drawn along the floor
- a series of consequences wrought by an event
- a procession (of wagons or mules or camels) traveling together in single file
- a sequentially ordered set of things or events or ideas in which each successive member is related to the preceding
noun
- The lifting gear at the head of a mine or deep well.
- the hoist at the pithead of a mine
- (nautical) The rigging on the foresail.
- The harness that fits on a horse's head.
- (orthodontics) A type of orthodontic appliance attached to dental braces that aids in correcting severe bite problems.
- (uncountable) Anything worn on the head, such as a hat, hood, helmet, etc.
- clothing for the head
- stable gear consisting of any part of a harness that fits about the horse's head
noun
- A prop, as for the roof of a mine.
- (countable) A device, generally slender and round, used for creating holes in thin material, for driving an object through a hole in a containing object, or to stamp or emboss a mark or design on a surface.
- (piledriving) An extension piece applied to the top of a pile; a dolly.
- (uncountable) Impact.
- (countable) A hole or opening created with a punch.
- (countable) A hit or strike with one's fist.
- (uncountable) Power, strength, energy.
- (countable, rare) A blow from something other than the fist.
- (entomology) Any of various riodinid butterflies of the genus Dodona of Asia.
- A beverage, generally containing a mixture of fruit juice and some other beverage, often alcoholic.
- (countable) A mechanism for punching holes in paper or other thin material.
- (boxing) a blow with the fist
- an iced mixed drink usually containing alcohol and prepared for multiple servings; normally served in a punch bowl
- a tool for making holes or indentations
verb
- To thrust against; to poke.
- (Australia, New Zealand, slang) To light marijuana in a bong.
- (transitive) To operate (a device or system) by depressing a button, key, bar, or pedal, or by similar means.
- (transitive) To enter (information) on a device or system.
- To employ a punch to create a hole in or stamp or emboss a mark on something.
- (transitive, wine) To perform pigeage: to stamp down grape skins that float to the surface during fermentation.
- (intransitive, UK, slang) Ellipsis of punch above one's weight, especially, to date somebody more attractive than oneself.
- (transitive) To strike with one's fist.
- (transitive) To hit (a ball or similar object) with less than full force.
- To mark a ticket.
- (transitive) To make holes in something (rail ticket, leather belt, etc) (see also the verb under Etymology 2).
- (transitive) To emphasize; to give emphasis to.
- (transitive, of cattle) To herd.
- deliver a quick blow to
- make a hole into or between, as for ease of separation
- drive forcibly as if by a punch
noun
- (mining) A crossheading.
- (nautical) Forward motion, or its rate.
- (countable, transport) The interval of time or distance between the fronts of two vehicles (e.g. buses) moving in succession in the same direction, especially along the same pre-determined route.
- (uncountable, figuratively) Progress toward a goal.
- (countable) The clearance beneath an object, such as an arch, ceiling or bridge; headroom.
- A movement ahead or forward.
- forward movement
- vertical space available to allow easy passage under something
noun
- (mining) A broad-headed hammer used in bucking ore.
- (mining) One who bucks ore.
- A horse or other animal that bucks.
- (metalworking) A holder-up; one who bucks rivets, typically holding a heavy bucking bar against the bucktail of a rivet which is heated if necessary till it is soft, while the riveter (or gunner or, before mechanisation, basher) uses a rivet gun (an adjustable pneumatic hammer) fitted with a rivet set, against the factory head to provide impulses which upset the bucktail into a field head.
noun
- (mining) One of the rough pillars of stone or coal left to support the roof of a mine.
- An unimportant individual in a greater system.
- Alternative form of cogue (“wooden vessel for milk”).
- (carpentry) A projection or tenon at the end of a beam designed to fit into a matching opening of another piece of wood to form a joint.
- (historical) The hypothetical precursor ship type of the above said to be in use during the early Middle Ages, variously alleged to be Frisian or Scandinavian.
- A trick or deception; a falsehood.
- A gear; especially, a cogwheel.
- (historical) A partially clinker-built, flat-bottomed, square-rigged mediaeval ship of burden or war, with a round, bulky hull and a single mast, typically 15 to 25 meters in length, in use from ca. 1150 to 1500.
- (physics) Initialism of center of gravity
- (by extension) A small fishing boat.
- A tooth on a gear.
- a subordinate who performs an important but routine function
- tooth on the rim of gear wheel
verb
- To load (a die) so that it can be used to cheat.
- To furnish with a cog or cogs.
- To seduce, or draw away, by adulation, artifice, or falsehood; to wheedle; to cozen; to cheat.
- To plagiarize.
- To obtrude or thrust in, by falsehood or deception; to palm off.
- To cheat; to play or gamble fraudulently.
- (intransitive) Of an electric motor or generator, to snap preferentially to certain positions when not energized.
- roll steel ingots
- join pieces of wood with cogs
noun
- (mining) A rock breaker.
- (metalworking) A form of squeezer for the puddle ball.
- (paleontology) A member of the family Alligatoridae, which includes the caimans.
- (usually in the plural) An alligator-skin shoe.
- Either of two species of large amphibious reptile, Alligator mississippiensis or Alligator sinensis, in the genus Alligator within order Crocodilia, which have sharp teeth and very strong jaws and are native to the Americas and China, respectively.
- Any of various vehicles that have relatively long, low noses in front of a cab or other, usually windowed, structure.
- (printing) A kind of job press.
- (Nigeria) A dwarf crocodile (Osteolaemus tetraspis)
- leather made from alligator's hide
- either of two amphibious reptiles related to crocodiles but with shorter broader snouts
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noun
- (mining) That part of a lode adjacent to the walls on either side.
- (geology) Clay-like material found along and around a geological fault.
- (weaving) The edge of a woven fabric, where the weft (side-to-side) threads run around the warp (top to bottom) threads, creating a finished edge.
- The edge plate of a lock, through which the bolt passes
- (geology) A distinct border of a mass of igneous rock. It is usually fine-grained or glassy due to rapid cooling.
- (printing) The excess area of any printed or perforated sheet, such as the border on a sheet of postage stamps or the wide margins of an engraving.
- Any edge of fabric finished so as to prevent raveling.
- border consisting of an ornamental fringe at either end of an oriental carpet
- the edge of a fabric that is woven so that it will not ravel or fray
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noun
- (mining) The ground at the top of a shaft.
- (countable) A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital.
- (slang, uncountable) Money; profit.
- (mining) The face of the coal at which miners are working.
- (computing) A contiguous block of memory that is of fixed, hardware-dependent size, but often larger than a page and partitioning the memory such that two distinct banks do not overlap.
- A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars.
- The regular term of a court of law, or the full court sitting to hear arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at nisi prius, or a court held for jury trials. See banc
- (mining) A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level.
- (countable) In certain games, such as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw.
- (countable) A branch office of such an institution.
- (hydrology) An edge of river, lake, or other watercourse.
- (nautical, hydrology) An elevation under the sea; a shallow area of shifting sand, gravel, mud, and so forth
- (countable) A device used to store coins or currency.
- (countable) An institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs.
- (pinball) A set of multiple adjacent drop targets.
- A row or panel of items stored or grouped together.
- (countable) An underwriter or controller of a card game.
- (countable, chiefly in combination) A safe and guaranteed place of storage for and retrieval of important items or goods.
- A bench or seat for judges in court.
- (aviation) The incline of an aircraft, especially during a turn.
- (gambling, countable) The sum of money etc. which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to draw stakes and pay losses.
- (music) A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ.
- A row of keys on a musical keyboard or the equivalent on a typewriter keyboard.
- A mass of clouds.
- (rail transport) An incline, a hill.
- (geography) A slope of earth, sand, etc.; an embankment.
- a supply or stock held in reserve for future use (especially in emergencies)
- a building in which the business of banking is transacted
- sloping land (especially the slope beside a body of water)
- a flight maneuver; aircraft tips laterally about its longitudinal axis (especially in turning)
- the funds held by a gambling house or the dealer in some gambling games
- a container (usually with a slot in the top) for keeping money at home
- a slope in the turn of a road or track; the outside is higher than the inside in order to reduce the effects of centrifugal force
- a financial institution that accepts deposits and channels the money into lending activities
- an arrangement of similar objects in a row or in tiers
- a long ridge or pile
verb
- (transitive, finance) To provide banking services to.
- (intransitive, of clouds) To form a bank; to gather in masses.
- (transitive) To put into a bank.
- (transitive) To cover the embers of a fire with ashes in order to retain heat.
- (rail transport, UK) To provide additional power for a train ascending a bank (incline) by attaching another locomotive.
- (intransitive, aviation) To roll or incline laterally in order to turn.
- (transitive) To cause (an aircraft) to bank.
- (transitive) To form into a bank or heap, to bank up.
- (transitive, order and arrangement) To arrange or order in a row.
- (intransitive) To deal with a bank or financial institution, or for an institution to provide financial services to a client.
- (transitive, slang) To conceal in the rectum for use in prison.
- (transitive) To raise a mound or dike about; to enclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank.
- do business with a bank or keep an account at a bank
- cover with ashes so to control the rate of burning
- act as the banker in a game or in gambling
- have faith or confidence in
- tip laterally
- put into a bank account
- be in the banking business
- enclose with a bank
noun
- (mining) An apparatus or machine for jigging ore.
- (music) A light, brisk musical movement; a gigue.
- (fishing) A type of lure consisting of a hook molded into a weight, usually with a bright or colorful body.
- A device in manufacturing, woodworking, or other creative endeavors for controlling the location, path of movement, or both of either a workpiece or the tool that is operating upon it. Subsets of this general class include machining jigs, woodworking jigs, welders' jigs, jewelers' jigs, and many others.
- (traditional Irish music and dance) A lively dance in 6/8 (double jig), 9/8 (slip jig) or 12/8 (single jig) time; a tune suitable for such a dance. By extension, a lively traditional tune in any of these time signatures. Unqualified, the term is usually taken to refer to a double (6/8) jig.
- (traditional English Morris dance) A dance performed by one or sometimes two individual dancers, as opposed to a dance performed by a set or team.
- a device that holds a piece of machine work and guides the tools operating on it
- a fisherman's lure with one or more hooks that is jerked up and down in the water
- any of various old rustic dances involving kicking and leaping
- music in three-four time for dancing a jig
verb
- (mining) To sort or separate, as ore in a jigger or sieve.
- To trick or cheat; to cajole; to delude.
- (fishing) To fish with a jig.
- To cut or form, as a piece of metal, in a jigging machine.
- To sing to the tune of a jig.
- To skip school or be truant.
- To move briskly, especially as a dance.
- To move with a skip or rhythm; to move with vibrations or jerks.
- dance a quick dance with leaping and kicking motions
noun
- (mining) A miner's hammer.
- A sex worker's minder.
- (dialectal) A companion; mate (male or female).
- A person who is intentionally physically or emotionally cruel to others, especially to those whom they perceive as being vulnerable or of less power or privilege.
- A noisy, blustering, tyrannical person, more insolent than courageous; one who is threatening and quarrelsome.
- Any of various small freshwater or brackishwater fish of the family Eleotridae; sleeper gobies.
- (field hockey) A standoff between two players from the opposing teams, who repeatedly hit each other's hockey sticks and then attempt to acquire the ball, as a method of resuming the game in certain circumstances.
- The small scrum in the Eton College field game.
- (uncountable) Bully beef.
- A hired thug.
- a cruel and brutal fellow
- a hired thug
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- (engineering) A rock shaft.
- A skate with a curved blade, somewhat resembling in shape the rocker of a cradle.
- Any implement or machine working with a rocking motion, such as a trough mounted on rockers for separating gold dust from gravel, etc., by agitation in water.
- A musician who plays rock music.
- (informal) A rock music song.
- (military) A curved line accompanying the chevrons that denote rank, qualifying the rank with a grade.
- A rocker board.
- One who rocks something.
- A kind of electrical switch with a spring-loaded actuator.
- (UK) A member of a British subculture of the 1960s, opposed to the mods, who dressed in black leather and were interested in 1950s music.
- Someone passionate about rock music.
- A tool with small teeth that roughens a metal plate to produce tonality in mezzotints.
- A rocking horse.
- A rocking chair.
- A curved piece of wood attached to the bottom of a rocking chair or cradle that enables it to rock back and forth.
- The breve below as in ḫ.
- (surfing) The lengthwise curvature of a surfboard. (More rocker is a more curved board.)
- a curved support that permits the supported object to rock to and fro
- a performer or composer or fan of rock music
- a teenager or young adult in the 1960s who wore leather jackets and rode motorcycles
- an attendant who rocks a child in a cradle
- an ice skate with a curved blade
- a trough that can be rocked back and forth; used by gold miners to shake auriferous earth in water in order to separate the gold
- a chair mounted on rockers
noun
- (mining) A tailing.
- An object or part of an object resembling a tail in shape, such as the thongs on a cat-o'-nine-tails.
- (electrical engineering) Synonym of pigtail (“a short length of twisted electrical wire”).
- (typography) The lower loop of the letters in the Roman alphabet, as in g, q or y.
- (mathematics) All the last terms of a sequence, from some term on.
- (slang) The penis of a person or animal.
- (surgery) A portion of an incision, at its beginning or end, which does not go through the whole thickness of the skin, and is more painful than a complete incision; called also tailing.
- (slang, uncountable) Sexual intercourse.
- The back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything.
- (nautical) A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.
- A train or company of attendants; a retinue.
- (law) Limitation of inheritance to certain heirs.
- A downy or feathery appendage of certain achens, formed of the permanent elongated style.
- (chiefly in the plural) The side of a coin not bearing the head; normally the side on which the monetary value of the coin is indicated; the reverse.
- (now colloquial, chiefly US) The buttocks or backside.
- The latter part of a time period or event, or (collectively) persons or objects represented in this part.
- (anatomy) The caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to their posterior and near the anus or cloaca.
- (anatomy) The distal tendon of a muscle.
- The tail-end of any object.
- (architecture) The bottom or lower portion of a member or part such as a slate or tile.
- The feathers attached to the pygostyle of a bird.
- (kayaking) The stern; the back of the kayak.
- The rear structure of an aircraft, the empennage.
- (cricket) The lower order of batsmen in the batting order, usually specialist bowlers.
- One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.
- (entomology) A filamentous projection on the tornal section of each hind wing of certain butterflies.
- (statistics) The part of a distribution most distant from the mode.
- (astronomy) The visible stream of dust and gases blown from a comet by the solar wind.
- (chemistry) The final fraction of a distillation run, typically containing impurities and fusel oils.
- One who surreptitiously follows another.
- (music) The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.
- any projection that resembles the tail of an animal
- (usually plural) the reverse side of a coin that does not bear the representation of a person's head
- the rear part of an aircraft
- the rear part of a ship
- the posterior part of the body of a vertebrate especially when elongated and extending beyond the trunk or main part of the body
- a spy employed to follow someone and report their movements
- the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
- the time of the last part of something
adj
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- To pull or draw by the tail.
- (architecture) To hold by the end; said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; with in or into
- To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded.
- (nautical) To swing with the stern in a certain direction; said of a vessel at anchor.
- (transitive) To follow and observe surreptitiously.
- remove or shorten the tail of an animal
- remove the stalk of fruits or berries
- go after with the intent to catch
noun
- (machining, manufacturing) A turret head.
- (electronics) A tower-like solder post on a turret board (a circuit board with posts instead of holes).
- (gambling) The central conical ornament atop a spinning roulette wheel.
- (rail transport) The elevated central portion of the roof of a passenger car, with sides that are pierced for light and ventilation.
- (military) An armoured, rotating gun installation on a fort, ship, aircraft, or armoured fighting vehicle.
- (historical, military) A siege tower; a movable building, of a square form, consisting of ten or even twenty stories and sometimes one hundred and twenty cubits high, usually moved on wheels, and employed in approaching a fortified place, for carrying soldiers, engines, ladders, casting bridges, and other necessaries.
- (architecture) A little tower, frequently a merely ornamental structure at one of the corners of a building or castle.
- a small tower extending above a building
- a self-contained weapons platform housing guns and capable of rotation
noun
- A headstall.
- A protective cover for the head; a helmet.
- A headset.
- (publishing, printing) A decorative page heading used at the start of volumes or chapters.
- The top piece or part of any of various things.
- The head; the brain.
- A headdress.
- A headboard of a bed.
- the band that is the part of a bridle that fits around a horse's head
- a protective helmet for the head
noun
- (mining) A heap of dressed ore.
- (masonry) One of the faces of a hewn stone.
- (law) The whole jury.
- A soft pad beneath a saddletree to prevent chafing.
- (medicine) A group of tests or assays, a battery.
- A portion of text or other material within a book, newspaper, web page, etc. set apart from the main body or separated by a border.
- A portion of a framed structure between adjacent posts or struts, as in a bridge truss.
- (law) A document containing the names of persons summoned as jurors by the sheriff.
- A (usually) rectangular section of a surface, or of a covering or of a wall, fence etc.
- (dressmaking) A plain strip or band, as of velvet or plush, placed at intervals lengthwise on the skirt of a dress, for ornament.
- (architecture) A sunken compartment with raised margins, moulded or otherwise, as in ceilings, wainscotings, etc.
- (graphical user interface) A type of GUI widget, such as a control panel.
- (Scots law) A prisoner arraigned for trial at the bar of a criminal court.
- (masonry) A slab or plank of wood used instead of a canvas for painting on.
- (joinery) A board having its edges inserted in the groove of a surrounding frame.
- (mining) One of the districts divided by pillars of extra size, into which a mine is laid off in one system of extracting coal.
- (British, historical) A list of doctors who could provide limited free healthcare prior to the introduction of the NHS.
- A group of people gathered to judge, interview, discuss etc. as on a television or radio broadcast for example.
- (comics) An individual frame or drawing in a comic.
- sheet that forms a distinct (usually flat and rectangular) section or component of something
- (computer science) a small temporary window in a graphical user interface that appears in order to request information from the user; after the information has been provided the user dismisses the box with ‘okay’ or ‘cancel’
- a committee appointed to judge a competition
- a group of people gathered for a special purpose as to plan or discuss an issue or judge a contest etc
- a piece of cloth that is generally triangular or tapering; used in making garments or umbrellas or sails
- a soft pad placed under a saddle
- electrical device consisting of a flat insulated surface that contains switches and dials and meters for controlling other electrical devices
- (law) a group of people summoned for jury service (from whom a jury will be chosen)
verb
noun
- (mining, historical) A device for storing coal in gradually increasing piles made by building up at the point of the cone or top of the prism.
- One who trims, arranges, fits, or ornaments.
- Someone who fluctuates between opposing factions, political parties etc., according to current interest, a flip-flopper.
- (nautical) A member of the crew who trims the sails.
- (fishing) A float bearing a baited hook and line, used in fishing for pike.
- (architecture) A beam into which are framed the ends of headers in floor framing, as when a hole is to be left for stairs, or to avoid bringing joists near chimneys.
- (electronics) An adjustable electrical component.
- A device used to trim.
- (cricket) A fast, high-quality delivery by the bowler, especially one that results in a dismissal of a batter by removing the bails without hitting the stumps.
- (shipping, historical) A person employed to rearrange the coal in the hold of a vessel, so that it fills the vessel without forming a conical blockage.
- a machine that trims timber
- capacitor having variable capacitance; used for making fine adjustments
- joist that receives the end of a header in floor or roof framing in order to leave an opening for a staircase or chimney etc.
- a worker who thins out and trims trees and shrubs
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- Prunus sect. Armeniaca (better known as apricots)
- A desirable or choice thing of its kind; a prize selection; a choice appointment, assignment etc.
- An edible, fleshy stone fruit of Prunus domestica (European plum), often of a dark red or purple colour.
- Prunus mume, an Asian fruit more closely related to the apricot than the plum, usually consumed pickled, dried, or as a juice or wine; ume.
- A stone-fruit tree which bears this fruit, Prunus domestica.
- Prunus angustifolia (Chickasaw plum or sand plum)
- A dark bluish-red color/colour, the colour of some plums.
- Prunus salicina (Chinese plum or Japanese plum)
- Prunus americana (American plum)
- Prunus subcordata (Klamath plum or Oregon plum)
- (vulgar, slang, usually in the plural) A testicle.
- Prunus nigra (Canadian plum or black plum)
- Prunus spinosa (sloe)
- Prunus rivularis (creek plum or hog plum)
- Prunus cerasifera (cherry plum or myrobalan)
- (derogatory, chiefly UK) A fool, an idiot.
- Prunus ursina (bear's plum)
- Prunus hortulana (hortulan plum)
- any of numerous varieties of small to medium-sized round or oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single pit
- any of several trees producing edible oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single hard stone
- a highly desirable position or assignment
noun
- (historical) A form of steel skullcap.
- Something not understood or known.
- (Christianity, often in the plural) Any prayer spoken inaudibly and not aloud; especially, one of the prayers in the Tridentine Mass, immediately following the "orate, fratres", said inaudibly by the celebrant.
- The key or principle by which something is made clear; the knack.
- (countable) A piece of knowledge that is hidden and intended to be kept hidden.
- (uncountable) Private seclusion.
- information known only to a special group
- something that should remain hidden from others (especially information that is not to be passed on)
- something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained
adj
- Being or kept hidden.
- designed to elude detection
- having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding
- the next to highest level of official classification for documents
- not open or public; kept private or not revealed
- not openly made known
- indulging only covertly
- (of information) given in confidence or in secret
- conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods
- hidden from general view or use
- communicated covertly
- not expressed
verb
noun
- (mining) The face of a coal working.
- (mining) The front of a furnace.
- A section of clothing covering the breast area.
- (anatomy) Either of the two organs on the front of a female human's chest, which contain the mammary glands; also the analogous organs in males.
- (anatomy) The chest, or front of the human thorax.
- (swimming) The breaststroke.
- The figurative seat of the emotions, feelings etc.; one’s heart or innermost thoughts.
- A choice cut of poultry, especially chicken or turkey, taken from the bird’s breast; also a cut of meat from other animals, breast of mutton, veal, pork.
- The front or forward part of anything.
- The upper surface of a landform or body of water.
- The ventral portion of an animal’s thorax.
- the front of the trunk from the neck to the abdomen
- the part of an animal's body that corresponds to a person's chest
- either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman
- meat carved from the breast of a fowl
verb
noun
- a mine or quarry that is being or has been worked
- Method of operation.
- (usually in the plural) Operation; action.
- Fermentation.
- (countable) A train movement.
- (arithmetic) The incidental or subsidiary calculations performed in solving an overall problem.
- A place where work is carried on.
- (of bodies of water) Becoming full of a vegetable substance.
adj
- serving to permit or facilitate further work or activity
- (of e.g. a machine) performing or capable of performing
- adequate for practical use; especially sufficient in strength or numbers to accomplish something
- actively engaged in paid work
- adopted as a temporary basis for further work
- Enough to allow one to use something.
- That suffices but requires additional work; provisional.
- In paid employment.
- Used in real life; practical.
- That is or are functioning.
- Of or relating to employment.
verb
noun
- A sheet of metal that guards the front or head of something.
- (nautical) Synonym of foresheet.
- The front page of a newspaper, containing the main headlines.
- A poster or booklet containing headshots and brief descriptions of the models or actors represented by a modelling or talent agency.
- Synonym of headcloth.
- (historical) A cloth that covers the pillows at the head of a bed, protecting them from hair oils, etc.
- Synonym of coversheet.
noun
- A machine for breaking rocks, or for breaking coal at the mines.
- A small cask of liquid kept permanently in a ship’s boat in case of shipwreck.
- (electrical engineering) Ellipsis of circuit breaker.
- Ellipsis of horsebreaker.
- Something that breaks (something else).
- (colloquial) A breakdancer.
- (primarily plural) Ellipsis of car breaker, a car breaking company or its yard.
- The building in which such a machine is placed.
- (chiefly in the plural) A wave breaking into foam against the shore, or against a sandbank, or a rock or reef near the surface, considered a useful warning to ships of an underwater hazard
- (primarily plural) Ellipsis of shipbreaker, a shipbreaking company or its yard.
- a device that trips like a switch and opens the circuit when overloaded
- a quarry worker who splits off blocks of stone
- waves breaking on the shore
noun
- An enclosing frame or casing.
- (grammar) A specific inflection of a word (particularly a noun, pronoun, or adjective) depending on its function in the sentence.
- An actual event, situation, or fact.
- A cardboard box that holds (usually 24) beer bottles or cans.
- A specific matter or piece of work, specifically defined within a profession, usually in respect of a specific person and/or event; the set of tasks involved in addressing one such matter.
- (grammar, uncountable) Grammatical cases and their meanings taken either as a topic in general or within a specific language.
- (poker slang) Four of a kind.
- A suitcase.
- The outer covering or framework of a piece of apparatus such as a computer.
- (typography, by extension) The nature of a piece of alphabetic type, whether a “capital” (upper case) or “small” (lower case) letter.
- (medicine) An instance of a specific condition or set of symptoms.
- A box that contains or can contain a number of identical items of manufacture.
- (law) A legal proceeding; a lawsuit or prosecution.
- (printing, historical) A shallow tray divided into compartments or "boxes" for holding type, traditionally arranged in sets of two, the "upper case" (containing capitals, small capitals, accented) and "lower case" (small letters, figures, punctuation marks, quadrats, and spaces).
- A box, sheath, or covering generally.
- (programming) A section of code representing one of the actions of a conditional switch.
- A piece of furniture, constructed partially of transparent glass or plastic, within which items can be displayed.
- (mining) A small fissure which admits water into the workings.
- (academia) An instance or event as a topic of study.
- A piece of luggage that can be used to transport an apparatus such as a sewing machine.
- A thin layer of harder metal on the surface of an object whose deeper metal is allowed to remain soft.
- (US) A unit of liquid measure used to measure sales in the beverage industry, equivalent to 192 fluid ounces.
- a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities)
- a statement of facts and reasons used to support an argument
- bed linen consisting of a cover for a pillow
- the actual state of things
- the quantity contained in a case
- a glass container used to store and display items in a shop or museum or home
- an occurrence of something
- a special set of circumstances
- the housing or outer covering of something
- a specific state of mind that is temporary
- an enveloping structure or covering enclosing an animal or plant organ or part
- (printing) the receptacle in which a compositor has their type, which is divided into compartments for the different letters, spaces, or numbers
- a problem requiring investigation
- the enclosing frame around a door or window opening
- nouns or pronouns or adjectives (often marked by inflection) related in some way to other words in a sentence
- a person requiring professional services
- a specific size and style of type within a type family
- a portable container for carrying several objects
- a person who is subjected to experimental or other observational procedures; someone who is an object of investigation
- a comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy
adj
verb
- (transitive, informal) To survey (a building or other location) surreptitiously, as in preparation for a robbery.
- (transitive) To place (an item or items of manufacture) into a box, as in preparation for shipment.
- (transitive) To cover or protect with, or as if with, a case; to enclose.
- enclose in, or as if in, a case
- look over, usually with the intention to rob
noun
- The top of a double layer of canvas coverings that cover the presses used in mining.
- Any of various overgarments that consist primarily of a large cloth worn over the clothes.
- A decorative cloth placed over the saddlecloth and below the saddle.
- A cloth that is placed as a protective layer on top of something.
- A decorative cloth placed on top of something to give it a more refined appearance.
- A tablecloth that is laid on top of another tablecloth, usually allowing some of the lower tablecloth to show.
noun
- (countable, mining) A lode.
- (countable, nautical) A plummet or mass of lead attached to a line, used in sounding depth at sea or to estimate velocity in knots.
- A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing.
- (medicine, in the plural) X-ray protective clothing lined with lead.
- (countable) A thin cylinder of graphite used in pencils.
- (UK, countable) An insulated metallic wire for electrical devices and equipment.
- Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs.
- (horology) The action of a tooth, such as a tooth of a wheel, in impelling another tooth or a pallet.
- Information obtained by a news reporter about an issue or subject that allows him or her to discover more details.
- (electricity) The advance of the current phase in an alternating circuit beyond that of the electromotive force producing it.
- (acting) The actor who plays the main role; lead actor.
- Information obtained by a detective or police officer that allows him or her to discover further details about a crime or incident.
- A rope, leather strap, or similar device with which to lead an animal; a leash
- (nautical) The course of a rope from end to end.
- (US, journalism) The introductory paragraph or paragraphs of a newspaper, or a news or other type of article. (Sometimes spelled as lede for this usage to avoid ambiguity.)
- (marketing) Potential opportunity for a sale or transaction, a potential customer.
- (business) The person in charge of a project or a work shift etc.
- (curling) The player who throws the first two rocks for a team.
- (music) The announcement by one voice part of a theme to be repeated by the other parts.
- (uncountable, typography) Vertical space in advance of a row or between rows of text. Also known as leading.
- (slang) Bullets; ammunition.
- (countable) A roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates.
- (countable) A channel of open water in an ice field.
- Hypothesis that has not been pursued
- (music) A mark or a short passage in one voice part, as of a canon, serving as a cue for the entrance of others.
- An important news story that appears on the front page of a newspaper or at the beginning of a news broadcast
- (music) A primary synth, often composed of square, sawtooth, triangle or sine waveforms.
- (baseball) The situation where a runner steps away from a base while waiting for the pitch to be thrown.
- (uncountable) A heavy, pliable, inelastic metal element, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished; both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic number 82, symbol Pb (from Latin plumbum).
- (music) In a barbershop quartet, the person who sings the melody, usually the second tenor.
- (countable) The act of leading or conducting; guidance; direction, course
- (acting, theater) The main role in a play or film; the lead role.
- (uncountable, card games, dominoes) The act or right of playing first in a game or round; the card suit, or piece, so played
- (engineering) The axial distance a screw thread travels in one revolution. It is equal to the pitch times the number of starts.
- In a steam engine, the width of port opening which is uncovered by the valve, for the admission or release of steam, at the instant when the piston is at end of its stroke.
- (electricity) The angle between the line joining the brushes of a continuous-current dynamo and the diameter symmetrical between the poles.
- (countable) Precedence; advance position; also, the measure of precedence; the state of being ahead in a race; the highest score in an incomplete game.
- (engineering) The excess above a right angle in the angle between two consecutive cranks, as of a compound engine, on the same shaft.
- (civil engineering) The distance of haul, as from a cutting to an embankment.
- an advantage held by a competitor in a race
- an actor who plays a principal role
- the angle between the direction a gun is aimed and the position of a moving target (correcting for the flight time of the missile)
- evidence pointing to a possible solution
- the introductory section of a story
- (baseball) the position taken by a base runner preparing to advance to the next base
- an indication of potential opportunity
- a jumper that consists of a short piece of wire
- the playing of a card to start a trick in bridge
- a position of being the initiator of something and an example that others will follow (especially in the phrase ‘take the lead’)
- restraint consisting of a rope (or light chain) used to restrain an animal
- a news story of major importance
- (sports) the score by which a team or individual is winning
- the timing of ignition relative to the position of the piston in an internal-combustion engine
- thin strip of metal used to separate lines of type in printing
- a soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element; bluish white when freshly cut but tarnishes readily to dull grey
- mixture of graphite with clay in different degrees of hardness; the marking substance in a pencil
adj
verb
- (intransitive) To be a cause of. [with to]
- (intransitive) To guide or conduct, as by accompanying, going before, showing, influencing, directing with authority, etc.; to have precedence or preeminence; to be first or chief; — used in most of the senses of the transitive verb.
- (transitive, climbing) To lead climb.
- (figuratively): To direct; to counsel; to instruct.
- To guide or conduct in a certain course, or to a certain place or end, by making the way known; to show the way, especially by going with or going in advance of; to guide somebody somewhere or to bring somebody somewhere by means of instructions.
- To guide or conduct with the hand, or by means of some physical contact connection.
- (transitive, card games, dominoes) To begin a game, round, or trick, with
- Misspelling of led.
- (baseball) To step off base and move towards the next base.
- Used in phrasal verbs: lead off, lead on, lead out, lead to (“be the cause of, bring about”), lead up, lead up to.
- (intransitive) To have the highest interim score in a game.
- (intransitive) To tend or reach in a certain spatial direction, or to a certain place.
- (transitive) To go or to be in advance of; to precede; hence, to be foremost or chief among.
- To draw or direct by influence, whether good or bad; to prevail on; to induce; to entice; to allure.
- (shooting) To aim in front of a moving target, in order that the shot may hit the target as it passes.
- (intransitive) To be more advanced in technology or business than others.
- (intransitive) To be ahead of others, e.g., in a race.
- (intransitive) To proceed in front of others; to go first.
- (transitive, usually with "life") To live or experience (a particular way of life).
- To influence towards a belief, a conclusion, etc.
- (transitive, printing, historical) To place leads between the lines of.
- (transitive) To cover, fill, or affect with lead.
- To conduct or direct with authority; to have direction or charge of; to command, especially a military or business unit.
- lead, extend, or afford access
- travel in front of; go in advance of others
- cause to undertake a certain action
- take somebody somewhere
- tend to or result in
- cause something to pass or lead somewhere
- lead, as in the performance of a composition
- produce as a result or residue
- preside over
- be ahead of others; be the first
- be in charge of
- be conducive to
- stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point
- move ahead (of others) in time or space
noun
- a miner's tamping bar for ramming packing in over a blasting charge
- a worker who makes or applies stems for artificial flowers
- an algorithm for removing inflectional and derivational endings in order to reduce word forms to a common stem
- a device for removing stems from fruit (as from grapes or apples)
- a worker who strips the stems from moistened tobacco leaves and binds the leaves together into books
- (computing, linguistics) Software used to produce the stem from the inflected form of words.
noun
verb
noun
verb
noun
- (especially mining) A pointed metal tool for breaking or chiselling rock.
- (Northern England, Scotland, derogatory) A greedy and/or stupid person.
- (UK, US, dialect) A rod or stick, such as a fishing rod or a measuring rod.
- (especially UK, US, dialect) A goad, a sharp-pointed rod for driving cattle, horses, etc, or one with a whip or thong on the end for the same purpose.
- One who roams about idly; a gadabout.
- A spike on a gauntlet; a gadling.
- a sharp prod fixed to a rider's heel and used to urge a horse onward
intj
verb
noun
- (countable, mining) The surface of a mine.
- (countable, folk etymology) Asparagus; "sparrowgrass".
- (uncountable) A lawn.
- (uncountable, physics) Sharp, closely spaced discontinuities in the trace of a cathode-ray tube, produced by random interference.
- (uncountable, slang) Marijuana.
- (countable, uncountable) Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem and leaf bases that wrap around the stem, especially those grown as ground cover rather than for grain.
- (uncountable, slang) Noise on an A-scope or similar type of radar display.
- (uncountable) The outside world, especially in the phrase "touch grass".
- (countable, uncountable) The season of fresh grass; spring or summer.
- (countable) Any of the various plants that are not in the family Poaceae that resemble grasses.
- (countable, British, slang) An informer, police informer; one who betrays a group (of criminals, etc) to the authorities.
- narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay
- street names for marijuana
- bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle
- a police informer who implicates many people
verb
- (transitive or intransitive, slang) To act as a grass or informer, to betray; to report on (criminals etc) to the authorities.
- (transitive) To feed with grass.
- (transitive) To lay out on the grass; to knock down (an opponent etc.).
- (transitive) To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc.
- (transitive) To bring to the grass or ground; to land.
- (transitive) To cover with grass or with turf.
- feed with grass
- cover with grass
- give away information about somebody
- spread out clothes on the grass to let it dry and bleach
- shoot down, of birds
noun
- The headstock of a lathe, drill, etc.
- (finance) The capital raised by a company through the issue of shares; the total of shares held by an individual shareholder.
- (nautical) A bar going through an anchor, perpendicular to the flukes.
- (biology) In tectology, an aggregate or colony of individuals, such as trees, chains of salpae, etc.
- The handle of a whip, fishing rod, etc.
- Plain soap before it is coloured and perfumed.
- (figurative) The measure of how highly a person or institution is valued.
- The type of paper used in printing.
- (UK, historical) The longest part of a split tally stick formerly struck in the exchequer, which was delivered to the person who had lent the king money on account, as the evidence of indebtedness.
- The trunk and woody main stems or limbs of a tree; the base from which something grows or branches.
- A supply of anything, stored until used; especially, such a supply that is ready for use.
- (geology) A pipe (vertical cylinder of ore)
- (shipbuilding, in the plural) The frame or timbers on which a ship rests during construction.
- (especially US) A share in a company.
- A thrust with a rapier; a stoccado.
- Any of several types of security that are similar to a stock, or marketed like one.
- Any of the several species of cruciferous flowers in the genus Matthiola.
- Stock theater, summer stock theater.
- Ellipsis of film stock.
- A piece of black cloth worn under a clerical collar.
- A store or supply.
- (UK, in the plural) Red and grey bricks, used for the exterior of walls and the front of buildings.
- A bed for infants; a crib, cot, or cradle
- The price or value of the stock of a company on the stock market.
- Railroad rolling stock.
- (cooking, uncountable, countable) Broth made from meat (originally bones) or vegetables, used as a basis for stew or soup.
- Farm or ranch animals; livestock.
- The beater of a fulling mill.
- A block of wood; something fixed and solid; a pillar; a firm support; a post.
- (operations) A store of goods ready for sale; inventory.
- (linguistics) A larger grouping of language families: a superfamily or macrofamily.
- The population of a given type of animal (especially fish) available to be captured from the wild for economic use.
- (folklore) A piece of wood magically made to be just like a real baby and substituted for it by magical beings.
- (horticulture) The plant upon which the scion is grafted.
- A ski pole.
- (firearms) The part of a rifle or shotgun that rests against the shooter's shoulder.
- (card games, in a card game) A stack of undealt cards made available to the players.
- The tailstock of a lathe.
- A necktie or cravat, particularly a wide necktie popular in the eighteenth century, often seen today as a part of formal wear for horse riding competitions.
- (nautical) The axle attached to the rudder, which transfers the movement of the helm to the rudder.
- (by extension) Lineage; family; ancestry.
- persistent thickened stem of a herbaceous perennial plant
- the capital raised by a corporation through the issue of shares entitling holders to an ownership interest (equity)
- lumber used in the construction of something
- the handle end of some implements or tools
- any animals kept for use or profit
- the hereditary derivation of an individual
- a plant or stem onto which a graft is made; especially a plant grown specifically to provide the root part of grafted plants
- the merchandise that a shop has on hand
- any of several Old World plants cultivated for their brightly colored flowers
- a special variety of domesticated animals within a species
- any of various ornamental flowering plants of the genus Malcolmia
- liquid in which meat and vegetables are simmered; used as a basis for e.g. soups or sauces
- a supply of something available for future use
- an ornamental white cravat
- the reputation and popularity a person has
- a certificate documenting the shareholder's ownership in the corporation
- the handle of a handgun or the butt end of a rifle or shotgun or part of the support of a machine gun or artillery gun
adj
- (motor racing, of a race car) Having the same configuration as cars sold to the non-racing public, or having been modified from such a car.
- Of a type normally available for purchase/in stock.
- Straightforward, ordinary, just another, very basic.
- routine
- repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
- regularly and widely used or sold
verb
- To allow (cows) to retain milk for twenty-four hours or more prior to sale.
- To have on hand for sale.
- To provide with material requisites; to store; to fill; to supply.
- To put in the stocks as punishment.
- (nautical) To fit (an anchor) with a stock, or to fasten the stock firmly in place.
- supply with fish
- put forth and grow sprouts or shoots
- equip with a stock
- provide or furnish with a stock of something
- amass so as to keep for future use or sale or for a particular occasion or use
- have on hand
- supply with livestock
noun
- (mining) A crowbar.
- A person, animal, or entity which resembles another so closely as to be taken for the other; a look-alike (now usually in the phrase dead ringer).
- A ringer T-shirt.
- (games) In the game of horseshoes, the event of the horseshoe landing around the pole.
- (UK, dialect) A top performer.
- (Australia) The champion shearer of a shearing shed.
- (UK, slang) A fraudulently cloned (or cut-and-shut) motor vehicle.
- (slang) Any person or thing that is fraudulent; a fake or impostor.
- (horse racing) A horse fraudulently entered in a race using the name of another horse.
- (sports) A person highly proficient at a skill or sport who is brought in, often fraudulently, to supplement a team.
- Someone who rings, especially a bell ringer.
- (uncountable, games) A game of marbles where players attempt to knock each other's marbles out of a ring drawn on the ground.
- (UK, military, informal, in combination) An officer having the specified number of rings (denoting rank) on the uniform sleeve.
- (Australia) A stockman, a cowboy.
- (ornithology) A person who places rings or bands on a bird's leg.
- (horseshoes) the successful throw of a horseshoe or quoit so as to encircle a stake or peg
- a person who rings church bells (as for summoning the congregation)
- a person who is almost identical to another
- a contestant entered in a competition under false pretenses
noun
- (mining) A kind of pick for shaping large coal.
- (US) An item of bedroom furniture, like a low chest of drawers (bureau), often with a mirror.
- (UK) An item of kitchen furniture, like a cabinet with shelves, for storing crockery or utensils.
- A servant to royalty etc. who helps them with tasks such as dressing.
- (theater, film, television) A wardrobe assistant (who helps actors put on their costume).
- One who dresses or prepares stone.
- (UK) A football hooligan who wears designer clothing; a casual.
- (medicine) A surgeon's assistant who helps to dress wounds etc.
- A mechanical device used in ore mills for dressing (e.g., comminution, sorting, sifting).
- A mechanical device used in grain mills for bolting.
- One who dresses in a particular way.
- furniture with drawers for keeping clothes
- a cabinet with shelves
- a person who dresses in a particular way
- a wardrobe assistant for an actor
- low table with mirror or mirrors where one sits while dressing or applying makeup
noun
noun
verb
- (intransitive, of an agreement or arrangement) To be accepted or acceptable; to work.
- To take a position for the purpose of having some artistic representation of oneself made, such as a picture or a bust.
- (government, law) Of a legislative or, especially, a judicial body such as a court, to be in session.
- (government) To be a member of a deliberative body.
- (transitive) To accommodate in seats; to seat.
- (intransitive, copulative) To remain in a state of repose; to rest; to abide; to rest in any position or condition.
- (transitive, Australia, New Zealand, UK) To take, to undergo or complete (an examination or test).
- (intransitive, copulative, of a person) To be in a position in which the upper body is upright and supported by the buttocks.
- To lie, rest, or bear; to press or weigh.
- To be adjusted; to fit.
- To have position, as at the point blown from; to hold a relative position; to have direction.
- (US, ambitransitive) To babysit.
- (intransitive, of an object) To occupy a given position.
- (transitive, causative) To cause to be seated or in a sitting posture; to furnish a seat to.
- (intransitive, of a person) To move oneself into such a position.
- To cover and warm eggs for hatching, as a fowl; to brood; to incubate.
- be located or situated somewhere
- show to a seat; assign a seat for
- work or act as a baby-sitter
- be around, often idly or without specific purpose
- be in session
- take a seat
- serve in a specific professional capacity
- assume a posture as for artistic purposes
- sit and travel on the back of animal, usually while controlling its motions
- be in a position in which one's upper body is largely upright and supported by one's backside
noun
- (mining) An iron hook of a hoisting tub, to which a tackle is affixed.
- (UK, slang) A foundationer or colleger at Eton.
- (slang) An act of male masturbation.
- A type of tractor used for moving trailers.
- A sudden powerful pull.
- A trace, or drawing strap, of a harness.
- (nautical) A tugboat.
- A dog toy consisting of a rope, often with a knot in it.
- a powerful small boat designed to pull or push larger ships
- a sudden abrupt pull
verb
- (transitive) To pull hard repeatedly.
- (transitive) To pull or drag with great effort.
- (slang, ambitransitive) To masturbate.
- (transitive) To tow by tugboat.
- strive and make an effort to reach a goal
- move by pulling hard
- struggle in opposition
- pull or strain hard at
- tow (a vessel) with a tug
- carry with difficulty
- pull hard
noun
noun
- (usually as the head in compounds) A bare-bones above-ground structure meant to provide temporary cover from the elements; usually small and with no door to close.
- (often with the definite article) An animal shelter.
- A place for protection from deadly conditions outside, including military assault; usually partly or fully underground.
- (uncountable, abstract) The state of being protected or shielded.
- A place where a person or animal may find protection from the elements (especially rain, storms, or cold) sometimes as a place to sleep (such as a cave).
- A refuge, sanctuary, or (by metonymy) institution that provides temporary housing or a place to sleep for those in need or in danger.
- (uncountable) That which provides protection or cover.
- protective covering that provides protection from the weather
- a structure that provides privacy and protection from danger
- a way of organizing business to reduce the taxes it must pay on current earnings
- the condition of being protected
- temporary housing for homeless or displaced persons
verb
noun
- (mining) Any of the surfaces of rock enclosing the lode.
- An impediment to free movement.
- A structure built for defense surrounding a city, castle etc.
- A point of defeat or extinction.
- (figurative) A means of defence or security.
- Something with the apparent solidity, opacity, or dimensions of a building wall.
- Each of the substantial structures acting either as the exterior of or divisions within a structure.
- A point of desperation.
- (cycling) A very steep slope.
- (historical) The right or privilege of taking the side of the road near the wall when encountering another pedestrian; said to be taken or given.
- (chiefly dialectal) A spring of water.
- (mahjong) Face-down tiles arranged in stacked rows from which players draw new tiles.
- (nautical) A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot or wale.
- (roller derby) Two or more blockers skating together so as to impede the opposing team.
- (slang, seduction community, chiefly definite) The stage of biological aging where physical appearance and attractiveness start to deteriorate rapidly.
- (Internet) A personal notice board listing messages of interest to a particular user.
- (soccer) A line of defenders set up between an opposing free-kick taker and the goal.
- (US, slang, medicine) A doctor who tries to admit as few patients as possible.
- The butterfly Lasiommata megera.
- One of the vertical sides of a container.
- (often in combination) A barrier.
- (roleplaying games) A character that has high defenses, thereby reducing the amount of damage taken from the opponent’s attacks.
- A fictional bidder used to increase the price at an auction.
- (anatomy, zoology, botany) A dividing or containing structure in an organ or cavity.
- A rampart of earth, stones etc. built up for defensive purposes.
- an architectural partition with a height and length greater than its thickness; used to divide or enclose an area or to support another structure
- an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes
- a masonry fence (as around an estate or garden)
- a vertical (or almost vertical) smooth rock face (as of a cave or mountain)
- a difficult or awkward situation
- (anatomy) a layer (a lining or membrane) that encloses a structure
- a layer of material that encloses space
- anything that suggests a wall in structure or function or effect
intj
verb
noun
- (mining) A gallery in a coal mine running across the face of the coal.
- (nautical) The gangway from ship to shore when a ship is lying alongside a quay.
- The first tine of an antler's beam.
- The eyebrow.
- (figurative) Aspect; appearance; facial expression.
- The bony ridge over the eyes, upon which the eyebrows are located.
- The forehead.
- The projecting upper edge of a steep place such as a hill.
- (nautical) The hinged part of a landing craft or ferry which is lowered to form a landing platform; a ramp.
- the part of the face above the eyes
- the peak of a hill
- the arch of hair above each eye
verb
noun
- (mining) A headframe.
- A clamp that restrains a cow by the neck.
- (rail transport) A transverse structural member at the extreme end of a rail vehicle's underframe, also used on some bogies.
- The part of a lute-type string instrument, such as a guitar, that holds the tuning pegs or tensioning screws of the strings.
- A part of a machine (such as a lathe or drill) that contains the primary spindle.
- A beam that supports a bell.
- the stationary support in a machine or power tool that supports and drives a revolving part (as a chuck or the spindle on a lathe)
noun
- (mining) A vertical mine-timber supporting a set.
- A posture in which one straddles something.
- (finance) An investment strategy involving simultaneous trade with put and call options on the same security at the same strike price, giving a non-directional position sensitive to volatility.
- (poker) A voluntary raise made prior to receiving cards by the first player after the blinds.
- (military) A pair or salvo of successive artillery shots falling both in front of and behind a target.
- A part of a harness placed on the back of a beast of burden (such as a horse or donkey) to carry the weight of a load.
- the act of sitting or standing astride
- the option to buy or sell a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date; consists of an equal number of put and call options
- a gymnastic exercise performed with a leg on either side of the parallel bars
- a noncommittal or equivocal position
adv
verb
- (transitive) To be on both sides of something; to have parts that are in different places, regions, etc.
- (transitive) To consider or favor two apparently opposite sides; to be noncommittal.
- (intransitive) To stand with the ends staggered; said of the spokes of a wagon wheel where they join the hub.
- (transitive) To form a disorderly sprawl; to spread out irregularly.
- (transitive) To sit or stand with a leg on each side of something; to sit astride.
- (economics) To execute a commodities market spread.
- (military) To fire successive artillery shots in front of and behind of a target, especially in order to determine its range (the term "bracket" is often used instead).
- (poker) To place a voluntary raise prior to receiving cards (only by the first player after the blinds).
- range or extend over; occupy a certain area
- sit or stand astride of
- be noncommittal
noun
- The lifting gear at the head of a mine or deep well.
- the hoist at the pithead of a mine
- (nautical) The rigging on the foresail.
- The harness that fits on a horse's head.
- (orthodontics) A type of orthodontic appliance attached to dental braces that aids in correcting severe bite problems.
- (uncountable) Anything worn on the head, such as a hat, hood, helmet, etc.
- clothing for the head
- stable gear consisting of any part of a harness that fits about the horse's head
noun
- A prop, as for the roof of a mine.
- (countable) A device, generally slender and round, used for creating holes in thin material, for driving an object through a hole in a containing object, or to stamp or emboss a mark or design on a surface.
- (piledriving) An extension piece applied to the top of a pile; a dolly.
- (uncountable) Impact.
- (countable) A hole or opening created with a punch.
- (countable) A hit or strike with one's fist.
- (uncountable) Power, strength, energy.
- (countable, rare) A blow from something other than the fist.
- (entomology) Any of various riodinid butterflies of the genus Dodona of Asia.
- A beverage, generally containing a mixture of fruit juice and some other beverage, often alcoholic.
- (countable) A mechanism for punching holes in paper or other thin material.
- (boxing) a blow with the fist
- an iced mixed drink usually containing alcohol and prepared for multiple servings; normally served in a punch bowl
- a tool for making holes or indentations
verb
- To thrust against; to poke.
- (Australia, New Zealand, slang) To light marijuana in a bong.
- (transitive) To operate (a device or system) by depressing a button, key, bar, or pedal, or by similar means.
- (transitive) To enter (information) on a device or system.
- To employ a punch to create a hole in or stamp or emboss a mark on something.
- (transitive, wine) To perform pigeage: to stamp down grape skins that float to the surface during fermentation.
- (intransitive, UK, slang) Ellipsis of punch above one's weight, especially, to date somebody more attractive than oneself.
- (transitive) To strike with one's fist.
- (transitive) To hit (a ball or similar object) with less than full force.
- To mark a ticket.
- (transitive) To make holes in something (rail ticket, leather belt, etc) (see also the verb under Etymology 2).
- (transitive) To emphasize; to give emphasis to.
- (transitive, of cattle) To herd.
- deliver a quick blow to
- make a hole into or between, as for ease of separation
- drive forcibly as if by a punch
noun
- (mining) A crossheading.
- (nautical) Forward motion, or its rate.
- (countable, transport) The interval of time or distance between the fronts of two vehicles (e.g. buses) moving in succession in the same direction, especially along the same pre-determined route.
- (uncountable, figuratively) Progress toward a goal.
- (countable) The clearance beneath an object, such as an arch, ceiling or bridge; headroom.
- A movement ahead or forward.
- forward movement
- vertical space available to allow easy passage under something
noun
- (mining) A broad-headed hammer used in bucking ore.
- (mining) One who bucks ore.
- A horse or other animal that bucks.
- (metalworking) A holder-up; one who bucks rivets, typically holding a heavy bucking bar against the bucktail of a rivet which is heated if necessary till it is soft, while the riveter (or gunner or, before mechanisation, basher) uses a rivet gun (an adjustable pneumatic hammer) fitted with a rivet set, against the factory head to provide impulses which upset the bucktail into a field head.
noun
- (mining) One of the rough pillars of stone or coal left to support the roof of a mine.
- An unimportant individual in a greater system.
- Alternative form of cogue (“wooden vessel for milk”).
- (carpentry) A projection or tenon at the end of a beam designed to fit into a matching opening of another piece of wood to form a joint.
- (historical) The hypothetical precursor ship type of the above said to be in use during the early Middle Ages, variously alleged to be Frisian or Scandinavian.
- A trick or deception; a falsehood.
- A gear; especially, a cogwheel.
- (historical) A partially clinker-built, flat-bottomed, square-rigged mediaeval ship of burden or war, with a round, bulky hull and a single mast, typically 15 to 25 meters in length, in use from ca. 1150 to 1500.
- (physics) Initialism of center of gravity
- (by extension) A small fishing boat.
- A tooth on a gear.
- a subordinate who performs an important but routine function
- tooth on the rim of gear wheel
verb
- To load (a die) so that it can be used to cheat.
- To furnish with a cog or cogs.
- To seduce, or draw away, by adulation, artifice, or falsehood; to wheedle; to cozen; to cheat.
- To plagiarize.
- To obtrude or thrust in, by falsehood or deception; to palm off.
- To cheat; to play or gamble fraudulently.
- (intransitive) Of an electric motor or generator, to snap preferentially to certain positions when not energized.
- roll steel ingots
- join pieces of wood with cogs
noun
- (mining) A rock breaker.
- (metalworking) A form of squeezer for the puddle ball.
- (paleontology) A member of the family Alligatoridae, which includes the caimans.
- (usually in the plural) An alligator-skin shoe.
- Either of two species of large amphibious reptile, Alligator mississippiensis or Alligator sinensis, in the genus Alligator within order Crocodilia, which have sharp teeth and very strong jaws and are native to the Americas and China, respectively.
- Any of various vehicles that have relatively long, low noses in front of a cab or other, usually windowed, structure.
- (printing) A kind of job press.
- (Nigeria) A dwarf crocodile (Osteolaemus tetraspis)
- leather made from alligator's hide
- either of two amphibious reptiles related to crocodiles but with shorter broader snouts
intj
verb
noun
- (mining) That part of a lode adjacent to the walls on either side.
- (geology) Clay-like material found along and around a geological fault.
- (weaving) The edge of a woven fabric, where the weft (side-to-side) threads run around the warp (top to bottom) threads, creating a finished edge.
- The edge plate of a lock, through which the bolt passes
- (geology) A distinct border of a mass of igneous rock. It is usually fine-grained or glassy due to rapid cooling.
- (printing) The excess area of any printed or perforated sheet, such as the border on a sheet of postage stamps or the wide margins of an engraving.
- Any edge of fabric finished so as to prevent raveling.
- border consisting of an ornamental fringe at either end of an oriental carpet
- the edge of a fabric that is woven so that it will not ravel or fray
verb
noun
- (mining) The ground at the top of a shaft.
- (countable) A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital.
- (slang, uncountable) Money; profit.
- (mining) The face of the coal at which miners are working.
- (computing) A contiguous block of memory that is of fixed, hardware-dependent size, but often larger than a page and partitioning the memory such that two distinct banks do not overlap.
- A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars.
- The regular term of a court of law, or the full court sitting to hear arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at nisi prius, or a court held for jury trials. See banc
- (mining) A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level.
- (countable) In certain games, such as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw.
- (countable) A branch office of such an institution.
- (hydrology) An edge of river, lake, or other watercourse.
- (nautical, hydrology) An elevation under the sea; a shallow area of shifting sand, gravel, mud, and so forth
- (countable) A device used to store coins or currency.
- (countable) An institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs.
- (pinball) A set of multiple adjacent drop targets.
- A row or panel of items stored or grouped together.
- (countable) An underwriter or controller of a card game.
- (countable, chiefly in combination) A safe and guaranteed place of storage for and retrieval of important items or goods.
- A bench or seat for judges in court.
- (aviation) The incline of an aircraft, especially during a turn.
- (gambling, countable) The sum of money etc. which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to draw stakes and pay losses.
- (music) A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ.
- A row of keys on a musical keyboard or the equivalent on a typewriter keyboard.
- A mass of clouds.
- (rail transport) An incline, a hill.
- (geography) A slope of earth, sand, etc.; an embankment.
- a supply or stock held in reserve for future use (especially in emergencies)
- a building in which the business of banking is transacted
- sloping land (especially the slope beside a body of water)
- a flight maneuver; aircraft tips laterally about its longitudinal axis (especially in turning)
- the funds held by a gambling house or the dealer in some gambling games
- a container (usually with a slot in the top) for keeping money at home
- a slope in the turn of a road or track; the outside is higher than the inside in order to reduce the effects of centrifugal force
- a financial institution that accepts deposits and channels the money into lending activities
- an arrangement of similar objects in a row or in tiers
- a long ridge or pile
verb
- (transitive, finance) To provide banking services to.
- (intransitive, of clouds) To form a bank; to gather in masses.
- (transitive) To put into a bank.
- (transitive) To cover the embers of a fire with ashes in order to retain heat.
- (rail transport, UK) To provide additional power for a train ascending a bank (incline) by attaching another locomotive.
- (intransitive, aviation) To roll or incline laterally in order to turn.
- (transitive) To cause (an aircraft) to bank.
- (transitive) To form into a bank or heap, to bank up.
- (transitive, order and arrangement) To arrange or order in a row.
- (intransitive) To deal with a bank or financial institution, or for an institution to provide financial services to a client.
- (transitive, slang) To conceal in the rectum for use in prison.
- (transitive) To raise a mound or dike about; to enclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank.
- do business with a bank or keep an account at a bank
- cover with ashes so to control the rate of burning
- act as the banker in a game or in gambling
- have faith or confidence in
- tip laterally
- put into a bank account
- be in the banking business
- enclose with a bank
noun
- (mining) An apparatus or machine for jigging ore.
- (music) A light, brisk musical movement; a gigue.
- (fishing) A type of lure consisting of a hook molded into a weight, usually with a bright or colorful body.
- A device in manufacturing, woodworking, or other creative endeavors for controlling the location, path of movement, or both of either a workpiece or the tool that is operating upon it. Subsets of this general class include machining jigs, woodworking jigs, welders' jigs, jewelers' jigs, and many others.
- (traditional Irish music and dance) A lively dance in 6/8 (double jig), 9/8 (slip jig) or 12/8 (single jig) time; a tune suitable for such a dance. By extension, a lively traditional tune in any of these time signatures. Unqualified, the term is usually taken to refer to a double (6/8) jig.
- (traditional English Morris dance) A dance performed by one or sometimes two individual dancers, as opposed to a dance performed by a set or team.
- a device that holds a piece of machine work and guides the tools operating on it
- a fisherman's lure with one or more hooks that is jerked up and down in the water
- any of various old rustic dances involving kicking and leaping
- music in three-four time for dancing a jig
verb
- (mining) To sort or separate, as ore in a jigger or sieve.
- To trick or cheat; to cajole; to delude.
- (fishing) To fish with a jig.
- To cut or form, as a piece of metal, in a jigging machine.
- To sing to the tune of a jig.
- To skip school or be truant.
- To move briskly, especially as a dance.
- To move with a skip or rhythm; to move with vibrations or jerks.
- dance a quick dance with leaping and kicking motions
noun
- (mining) A miner's hammer.
- A sex worker's minder.
- (dialectal) A companion; mate (male or female).
- A person who is intentionally physically or emotionally cruel to others, especially to those whom they perceive as being vulnerable or of less power or privilege.
- A noisy, blustering, tyrannical person, more insolent than courageous; one who is threatening and quarrelsome.
- Any of various small freshwater or brackishwater fish of the family Eleotridae; sleeper gobies.
- (field hockey) A standoff between two players from the opposing teams, who repeatedly hit each other's hockey sticks and then attempt to acquire the ball, as a method of resuming the game in certain circumstances.
- The small scrum in the Eton College field game.
- (uncountable) Bully beef.
- A hired thug.
- a cruel and brutal fellow
- a hired thug
intj
verb
adj
noun
- (engineering) A rock shaft.
- A skate with a curved blade, somewhat resembling in shape the rocker of a cradle.
- Any implement or machine working with a rocking motion, such as a trough mounted on rockers for separating gold dust from gravel, etc., by agitation in water.
- A musician who plays rock music.
- (informal) A rock music song.
- (military) A curved line accompanying the chevrons that denote rank, qualifying the rank with a grade.
- A rocker board.
- One who rocks something.
- A kind of electrical switch with a spring-loaded actuator.
- (UK) A member of a British subculture of the 1960s, opposed to the mods, who dressed in black leather and were interested in 1950s music.
- Someone passionate about rock music.
- A tool with small teeth that roughens a metal plate to produce tonality in mezzotints.
- A rocking horse.
- A rocking chair.
- A curved piece of wood attached to the bottom of a rocking chair or cradle that enables it to rock back and forth.
- The breve below as in ḫ.
- (surfing) The lengthwise curvature of a surfboard. (More rocker is a more curved board.)
- a curved support that permits the supported object to rock to and fro
- a performer or composer or fan of rock music
- a teenager or young adult in the 1960s who wore leather jackets and rode motorcycles
- an attendant who rocks a child in a cradle
- an ice skate with a curved blade
- a trough that can be rocked back and forth; used by gold miners to shake auriferous earth in water in order to separate the gold
- a chair mounted on rockers
noun
- (mining) A tailing.
- An object or part of an object resembling a tail in shape, such as the thongs on a cat-o'-nine-tails.
- (electrical engineering) Synonym of pigtail (“a short length of twisted electrical wire”).
- (typography) The lower loop of the letters in the Roman alphabet, as in g, q or y.
- (mathematics) All the last terms of a sequence, from some term on.
- (slang) The penis of a person or animal.
- (surgery) A portion of an incision, at its beginning or end, which does not go through the whole thickness of the skin, and is more painful than a complete incision; called also tailing.
- (slang, uncountable) Sexual intercourse.
- The back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything.
- (nautical) A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.
- A train or company of attendants; a retinue.
- (law) Limitation of inheritance to certain heirs.
- A downy or feathery appendage of certain achens, formed of the permanent elongated style.
- (chiefly in the plural) The side of a coin not bearing the head; normally the side on which the monetary value of the coin is indicated; the reverse.
- (now colloquial, chiefly US) The buttocks or backside.
- The latter part of a time period or event, or (collectively) persons or objects represented in this part.
- (anatomy) The caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to their posterior and near the anus or cloaca.
- (anatomy) The distal tendon of a muscle.
- The tail-end of any object.
- (architecture) The bottom or lower portion of a member or part such as a slate or tile.
- The feathers attached to the pygostyle of a bird.
- (kayaking) The stern; the back of the kayak.
- The rear structure of an aircraft, the empennage.
- (cricket) The lower order of batsmen in the batting order, usually specialist bowlers.
- One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.
- (entomology) A filamentous projection on the tornal section of each hind wing of certain butterflies.
- (statistics) The part of a distribution most distant from the mode.
- (astronomy) The visible stream of dust and gases blown from a comet by the solar wind.
- (chemistry) The final fraction of a distillation run, typically containing impurities and fusel oils.
- One who surreptitiously follows another.
- (music) The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.
- any projection that resembles the tail of an animal
- (usually plural) the reverse side of a coin that does not bear the representation of a person's head
- the rear part of an aircraft
- the rear part of a ship
- the posterior part of the body of a vertebrate especially when elongated and extending beyond the trunk or main part of the body
- a spy employed to follow someone and report their movements
- the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
- the time of the last part of something
adj
verb
- To pull or draw by the tail.
- (architecture) To hold by the end; said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; with in or into
- To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded.
- (nautical) To swing with the stern in a certain direction; said of a vessel at anchor.
- (transitive) To follow and observe surreptitiously.
- remove or shorten the tail of an animal
- remove the stalk of fruits or berries
- go after with the intent to catch
noun
- (machining, manufacturing) A turret head.
- (electronics) A tower-like solder post on a turret board (a circuit board with posts instead of holes).
- (gambling) The central conical ornament atop a spinning roulette wheel.
- (rail transport) The elevated central portion of the roof of a passenger car, with sides that are pierced for light and ventilation.
- (military) An armoured, rotating gun installation on a fort, ship, aircraft, or armoured fighting vehicle.
- (historical, military) A siege tower; a movable building, of a square form, consisting of ten or even twenty stories and sometimes one hundred and twenty cubits high, usually moved on wheels, and employed in approaching a fortified place, for carrying soldiers, engines, ladders, casting bridges, and other necessaries.
- (architecture) A little tower, frequently a merely ornamental structure at one of the corners of a building or castle.
- a small tower extending above a building
- a self-contained weapons platform housing guns and capable of rotation
noun
- A headstall.
- A protective cover for the head; a helmet.
- A headset.
- (publishing, printing) A decorative page heading used at the start of volumes or chapters.
- The top piece or part of any of various things.
- The head; the brain.
- A headdress.
- A headboard of a bed.
- the band that is the part of a bridle that fits around a horse's head
- a protective helmet for the head
noun
- (mining) A heap of dressed ore.
- (masonry) One of the faces of a hewn stone.
- (law) The whole jury.
- A soft pad beneath a saddletree to prevent chafing.
- (medicine) A group of tests or assays, a battery.
- A portion of text or other material within a book, newspaper, web page, etc. set apart from the main body or separated by a border.
- A portion of a framed structure between adjacent posts or struts, as in a bridge truss.
- (law) A document containing the names of persons summoned as jurors by the sheriff.
- A (usually) rectangular section of a surface, or of a covering or of a wall, fence etc.
- (dressmaking) A plain strip or band, as of velvet or plush, placed at intervals lengthwise on the skirt of a dress, for ornament.
- (architecture) A sunken compartment with raised margins, moulded or otherwise, as in ceilings, wainscotings, etc.
- (graphical user interface) A type of GUI widget, such as a control panel.
- (Scots law) A prisoner arraigned for trial at the bar of a criminal court.
- (masonry) A slab or plank of wood used instead of a canvas for painting on.
- (joinery) A board having its edges inserted in the groove of a surrounding frame.
- (mining) One of the districts divided by pillars of extra size, into which a mine is laid off in one system of extracting coal.
- (British, historical) A list of doctors who could provide limited free healthcare prior to the introduction of the NHS.
- A group of people gathered to judge, interview, discuss etc. as on a television or radio broadcast for example.
- (comics) An individual frame or drawing in a comic.
- sheet that forms a distinct (usually flat and rectangular) section or component of something
- (computer science) a small temporary window in a graphical user interface that appears in order to request information from the user; after the information has been provided the user dismisses the box with ‘okay’ or ‘cancel’
- a committee appointed to judge a competition
- a group of people gathered for a special purpose as to plan or discuss an issue or judge a contest etc
- a piece of cloth that is generally triangular or tapering; used in making garments or umbrellas or sails
- a soft pad placed under a saddle
- electrical device consisting of a flat insulated surface that contains switches and dials and meters for controlling other electrical devices
- (law) a group of people summoned for jury service (from whom a jury will be chosen)
verb
noun
- (mining, historical) A device for storing coal in gradually increasing piles made by building up at the point of the cone or top of the prism.
- One who trims, arranges, fits, or ornaments.
- Someone who fluctuates between opposing factions, political parties etc., according to current interest, a flip-flopper.
- (nautical) A member of the crew who trims the sails.
- (fishing) A float bearing a baited hook and line, used in fishing for pike.
- (architecture) A beam into which are framed the ends of headers in floor framing, as when a hole is to be left for stairs, or to avoid bringing joists near chimneys.
- (electronics) An adjustable electrical component.
- A device used to trim.
- (cricket) A fast, high-quality delivery by the bowler, especially one that results in a dismissal of a batter by removing the bails without hitting the stumps.
- (shipping, historical) A person employed to rearrange the coal in the hold of a vessel, so that it fills the vessel without forming a conical blockage.
- a machine that trims timber
- capacitor having variable capacitance; used for making fine adjustments
- joist that receives the end of a header in floor or roof framing in order to leave an opening for a staircase or chimney etc.
- a worker who thins out and trims trees and shrubs
adj
noun
verb
noun
- (historical) A form of steel skullcap.
- Something not understood or known.
- (Christianity, often in the plural) Any prayer spoken inaudibly and not aloud; especially, one of the prayers in the Tridentine Mass, immediately following the "orate, fratres", said inaudibly by the celebrant.
- The key or principle by which something is made clear; the knack.
- (countable) A piece of knowledge that is hidden and intended to be kept hidden.
- (uncountable) Private seclusion.
- information known only to a special group
- something that should remain hidden from others (especially information that is not to be passed on)
- something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained
adj
- Being or kept hidden.
- designed to elude detection
- having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding
- the next to highest level of official classification for documents
- not open or public; kept private or not revealed
- not openly made known
- indulging only covertly
- (of information) given in confidence or in secret
- conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods
- hidden from general view or use
- communicated covertly
- not expressed
verb
noun
- (mining) The face of a coal working.
- (mining) The front of a furnace.
- A section of clothing covering the breast area.
- (anatomy) Either of the two organs on the front of a female human's chest, which contain the mammary glands; also the analogous organs in males.
- (anatomy) The chest, or front of the human thorax.
- (swimming) The breaststroke.
- The figurative seat of the emotions, feelings etc.; one’s heart or innermost thoughts.
- A choice cut of poultry, especially chicken or turkey, taken from the bird’s breast; also a cut of meat from other animals, breast of mutton, veal, pork.
- The front or forward part of anything.
- The upper surface of a landform or body of water.
- The ventral portion of an animal’s thorax.
- the front of the trunk from the neck to the abdomen
- the part of an animal's body that corresponds to a person's chest
- either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman
- meat carved from the breast of a fowl
verb
noun
- a mine or quarry that is being or has been worked
- Method of operation.
- (usually in the plural) Operation; action.
- Fermentation.
- (countable) A train movement.
- (arithmetic) The incidental or subsidiary calculations performed in solving an overall problem.
- A place where work is carried on.
- (of bodies of water) Becoming full of a vegetable substance.
adj
- serving to permit or facilitate further work or activity
- (of e.g. a machine) performing or capable of performing
- adequate for practical use; especially sufficient in strength or numbers to accomplish something
- actively engaged in paid work
- adopted as a temporary basis for further work
- Enough to allow one to use something.
- That suffices but requires additional work; provisional.
- In paid employment.
- Used in real life; practical.
- That is or are functioning.
- Of or relating to employment.
verb
noun
- A sheet of metal that guards the front or head of something.
- (nautical) Synonym of foresheet.
- The front page of a newspaper, containing the main headlines.
- A poster or booklet containing headshots and brief descriptions of the models or actors represented by a modelling or talent agency.
- Synonym of headcloth.
- (historical) A cloth that covers the pillows at the head of a bed, protecting them from hair oils, etc.
- Synonym of coversheet.
noun
- A machine for breaking rocks, or for breaking coal at the mines.
- A small cask of liquid kept permanently in a ship’s boat in case of shipwreck.
- (electrical engineering) Ellipsis of circuit breaker.
- Ellipsis of horsebreaker.
- Something that breaks (something else).
- (colloquial) A breakdancer.
- (primarily plural) Ellipsis of car breaker, a car breaking company or its yard.
- The building in which such a machine is placed.
- (chiefly in the plural) A wave breaking into foam against the shore, or against a sandbank, or a rock or reef near the surface, considered a useful warning to ships of an underwater hazard
- (primarily plural) Ellipsis of shipbreaker, a shipbreaking company or its yard.
- a device that trips like a switch and opens the circuit when overloaded
- a quarry worker who splits off blocks of stone
- waves breaking on the shore
noun
- An enclosing frame or casing.
- (grammar) A specific inflection of a word (particularly a noun, pronoun, or adjective) depending on its function in the sentence.
- An actual event, situation, or fact.
- A cardboard box that holds (usually 24) beer bottles or cans.
- A specific matter or piece of work, specifically defined within a profession, usually in respect of a specific person and/or event; the set of tasks involved in addressing one such matter.
- (grammar, uncountable) Grammatical cases and their meanings taken either as a topic in general or within a specific language.
- (poker slang) Four of a kind.
- A suitcase.
- The outer covering or framework of a piece of apparatus such as a computer.
- (typography, by extension) The nature of a piece of alphabetic type, whether a “capital” (upper case) or “small” (lower case) letter.
- (medicine) An instance of a specific condition or set of symptoms.
- A box that contains or can contain a number of identical items of manufacture.
- (law) A legal proceeding; a lawsuit or prosecution.
- (printing, historical) A shallow tray divided into compartments or "boxes" for holding type, traditionally arranged in sets of two, the "upper case" (containing capitals, small capitals, accented) and "lower case" (small letters, figures, punctuation marks, quadrats, and spaces).
- A box, sheath, or covering generally.
- (programming) A section of code representing one of the actions of a conditional switch.
- A piece of furniture, constructed partially of transparent glass or plastic, within which items can be displayed.
- (mining) A small fissure which admits water into the workings.
- (academia) An instance or event as a topic of study.
- A piece of luggage that can be used to transport an apparatus such as a sewing machine.
- A thin layer of harder metal on the surface of an object whose deeper metal is allowed to remain soft.
- (US) A unit of liquid measure used to measure sales in the beverage industry, equivalent to 192 fluid ounces.
- a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities)
- a statement of facts and reasons used to support an argument
- bed linen consisting of a cover for a pillow
- the actual state of things
- the quantity contained in a case
- a glass container used to store and display items in a shop or museum or home
- an occurrence of something
- a special set of circumstances
- the housing or outer covering of something
- a specific state of mind that is temporary
- an enveloping structure or covering enclosing an animal or plant organ or part
- (printing) the receptacle in which a compositor has their type, which is divided into compartments for the different letters, spaces, or numbers
- a problem requiring investigation
- the enclosing frame around a door or window opening
- nouns or pronouns or adjectives (often marked by inflection) related in some way to other words in a sentence
- a person requiring professional services
- a specific size and style of type within a type family
- a portable container for carrying several objects
- a person who is subjected to experimental or other observational procedures; someone who is an object of investigation
- a comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy
adj
verb
- (transitive, informal) To survey (a building or other location) surreptitiously, as in preparation for a robbery.
- (transitive) To place (an item or items of manufacture) into a box, as in preparation for shipment.
- (transitive) To cover or protect with, or as if with, a case; to enclose.
- enclose in, or as if in, a case
- look over, usually with the intention to rob
noun
- The top of a double layer of canvas coverings that cover the presses used in mining.
- Any of various overgarments that consist primarily of a large cloth worn over the clothes.
- A decorative cloth placed over the saddlecloth and below the saddle.
- A cloth that is placed as a protective layer on top of something.
- A decorative cloth placed on top of something to give it a more refined appearance.
- A tablecloth that is laid on top of another tablecloth, usually allowing some of the lower tablecloth to show.
noun
- (countable, mining) A lode.
- (countable, nautical) A plummet or mass of lead attached to a line, used in sounding depth at sea or to estimate velocity in knots.
- A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing.
- (medicine, in the plural) X-ray protective clothing lined with lead.
- (countable) A thin cylinder of graphite used in pencils.
- (UK, countable) An insulated metallic wire for electrical devices and equipment.
- Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs.
- (horology) The action of a tooth, such as a tooth of a wheel, in impelling another tooth or a pallet.
- Information obtained by a news reporter about an issue or subject that allows him or her to discover more details.
- (electricity) The advance of the current phase in an alternating circuit beyond that of the electromotive force producing it.
- (acting) The actor who plays the main role; lead actor.
- Information obtained by a detective or police officer that allows him or her to discover further details about a crime or incident.
- A rope, leather strap, or similar device with which to lead an animal; a leash
- (nautical) The course of a rope from end to end.
- (US, journalism) The introductory paragraph or paragraphs of a newspaper, or a news or other type of article. (Sometimes spelled as lede for this usage to avoid ambiguity.)
- (marketing) Potential opportunity for a sale or transaction, a potential customer.
- (business) The person in charge of a project or a work shift etc.
- (curling) The player who throws the first two rocks for a team.
- (music) The announcement by one voice part of a theme to be repeated by the other parts.
- (uncountable, typography) Vertical space in advance of a row or between rows of text. Also known as leading.
- (slang) Bullets; ammunition.
- (countable) A roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates.
- (countable) A channel of open water in an ice field.
- Hypothesis that has not been pursued
- (music) A mark or a short passage in one voice part, as of a canon, serving as a cue for the entrance of others.
- An important news story that appears on the front page of a newspaper or at the beginning of a news broadcast
- (music) A primary synth, often composed of square, sawtooth, triangle or sine waveforms.
- (baseball) The situation where a runner steps away from a base while waiting for the pitch to be thrown.
- (uncountable) A heavy, pliable, inelastic metal element, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished; both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic number 82, symbol Pb (from Latin plumbum).
- (music) In a barbershop quartet, the person who sings the melody, usually the second tenor.
- (countable) The act of leading or conducting; guidance; direction, course
- (acting, theater) The main role in a play or film; the lead role.
- (uncountable, card games, dominoes) The act or right of playing first in a game or round; the card suit, or piece, so played
- (engineering) The axial distance a screw thread travels in one revolution. It is equal to the pitch times the number of starts.
- In a steam engine, the width of port opening which is uncovered by the valve, for the admission or release of steam, at the instant when the piston is at end of its stroke.
- (electricity) The angle between the line joining the brushes of a continuous-current dynamo and the diameter symmetrical between the poles.
- (countable) Precedence; advance position; also, the measure of precedence; the state of being ahead in a race; the highest score in an incomplete game.
- (engineering) The excess above a right angle in the angle between two consecutive cranks, as of a compound engine, on the same shaft.
- (civil engineering) The distance of haul, as from a cutting to an embankment.
- an advantage held by a competitor in a race
- an actor who plays a principal role
- the angle between the direction a gun is aimed and the position of a moving target (correcting for the flight time of the missile)
- evidence pointing to a possible solution
- the introductory section of a story
- (baseball) the position taken by a base runner preparing to advance to the next base
- an indication of potential opportunity
- a jumper that consists of a short piece of wire
- the playing of a card to start a trick in bridge
- a position of being the initiator of something and an example that others will follow (especially in the phrase ‘take the lead’)
- restraint consisting of a rope (or light chain) used to restrain an animal
- a news story of major importance
- (sports) the score by which a team or individual is winning
- the timing of ignition relative to the position of the piston in an internal-combustion engine
- thin strip of metal used to separate lines of type in printing
- a soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element; bluish white when freshly cut but tarnishes readily to dull grey
- mixture of graphite with clay in different degrees of hardness; the marking substance in a pencil
adj
verb
- (intransitive) To be a cause of. [with to]
- (intransitive) To guide or conduct, as by accompanying, going before, showing, influencing, directing with authority, etc.; to have precedence or preeminence; to be first or chief; — used in most of the senses of the transitive verb.
- (transitive, climbing) To lead climb.
- (figuratively): To direct; to counsel; to instruct.
- To guide or conduct in a certain course, or to a certain place or end, by making the way known; to show the way, especially by going with or going in advance of; to guide somebody somewhere or to bring somebody somewhere by means of instructions.
- To guide or conduct with the hand, or by means of some physical contact connection.
- (transitive, card games, dominoes) To begin a game, round, or trick, with
- Misspelling of led.
- (baseball) To step off base and move towards the next base.
- Used in phrasal verbs: lead off, lead on, lead out, lead to (“be the cause of, bring about”), lead up, lead up to.
- (intransitive) To have the highest interim score in a game.
- (intransitive) To tend or reach in a certain spatial direction, or to a certain place.
- (transitive) To go or to be in advance of; to precede; hence, to be foremost or chief among.
- To draw or direct by influence, whether good or bad; to prevail on; to induce; to entice; to allure.
- (shooting) To aim in front of a moving target, in order that the shot may hit the target as it passes.
- (intransitive) To be more advanced in technology or business than others.
- (intransitive) To be ahead of others, e.g., in a race.
- (intransitive) To proceed in front of others; to go first.
- (transitive, usually with "life") To live or experience (a particular way of life).
- To influence towards a belief, a conclusion, etc.
- (transitive, printing, historical) To place leads between the lines of.
- (transitive) To cover, fill, or affect with lead.
- To conduct or direct with authority; to have direction or charge of; to command, especially a military or business unit.
- lead, extend, or afford access
- travel in front of; go in advance of others
- cause to undertake a certain action
- take somebody somewhere
- tend to or result in
- cause something to pass or lead somewhere
- lead, as in the performance of a composition
- produce as a result or residue
- preside over
- be ahead of others; be the first
- be in charge of
- be conducive to
- stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point
- move ahead (of others) in time or space
noun
- a miner's tamping bar for ramming packing in over a blasting charge
- a worker who makes or applies stems for artificial flowers
- an algorithm for removing inflectional and derivational endings in order to reduce word forms to a common stem
- a device for removing stems from fruit (as from grapes or apples)
- a worker who strips the stems from moistened tobacco leaves and binds the leaves together into books
- (computing, linguistics) Software used to produce the stem from the inflected form of words.
noun
verb
noun
verb
noun
- (especially mining) A pointed metal tool for breaking or chiselling rock.
- (Northern England, Scotland, derogatory) A greedy and/or stupid person.
- (UK, US, dialect) A rod or stick, such as a fishing rod or a measuring rod.
- (especially UK, US, dialect) A goad, a sharp-pointed rod for driving cattle, horses, etc, or one with a whip or thong on the end for the same purpose.
- One who roams about idly; a gadabout.
- A spike on a gauntlet; a gadling.
- a sharp prod fixed to a rider's heel and used to urge a horse onward
intj
verb
noun
- (countable, mining) The surface of a mine.
- (countable, folk etymology) Asparagus; "sparrowgrass".
- (uncountable) A lawn.
- (uncountable, physics) Sharp, closely spaced discontinuities in the trace of a cathode-ray tube, produced by random interference.
- (uncountable, slang) Marijuana.
- (countable, uncountable) Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem and leaf bases that wrap around the stem, especially those grown as ground cover rather than for grain.
- (uncountable, slang) Noise on an A-scope or similar type of radar display.
- (uncountable) The outside world, especially in the phrase "touch grass".
- (countable, uncountable) The season of fresh grass; spring or summer.
- (countable) Any of the various plants that are not in the family Poaceae that resemble grasses.
- (countable, British, slang) An informer, police informer; one who betrays a group (of criminals, etc) to the authorities.
- narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay
- street names for marijuana
- bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle
- a police informer who implicates many people
verb
- (transitive or intransitive, slang) To act as a grass or informer, to betray; to report on (criminals etc) to the authorities.
- (transitive) To feed with grass.
- (transitive) To lay out on the grass; to knock down (an opponent etc.).
- (transitive) To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc.
- (transitive) To bring to the grass or ground; to land.
- (transitive) To cover with grass or with turf.
- feed with grass
- cover with grass
- give away information about somebody
- spread out clothes on the grass to let it dry and bleach
- shoot down, of birds
noun
- The headstock of a lathe, drill, etc.
- (finance) The capital raised by a company through the issue of shares; the total of shares held by an individual shareholder.
- (nautical) A bar going through an anchor, perpendicular to the flukes.
- (biology) In tectology, an aggregate or colony of individuals, such as trees, chains of salpae, etc.
- The handle of a whip, fishing rod, etc.
- Plain soap before it is coloured and perfumed.
- (figurative) The measure of how highly a person or institution is valued.
- The type of paper used in printing.
- (UK, historical) The longest part of a split tally stick formerly struck in the exchequer, which was delivered to the person who had lent the king money on account, as the evidence of indebtedness.
- The trunk and woody main stems or limbs of a tree; the base from which something grows or branches.
- A supply of anything, stored until used; especially, such a supply that is ready for use.
- (geology) A pipe (vertical cylinder of ore)
- (shipbuilding, in the plural) The frame or timbers on which a ship rests during construction.
- (especially US) A share in a company.
- A thrust with a rapier; a stoccado.
- Any of several types of security that are similar to a stock, or marketed like one.
- Any of the several species of cruciferous flowers in the genus Matthiola.
- Stock theater, summer stock theater.
- Ellipsis of film stock.
- A piece of black cloth worn under a clerical collar.
- A store or supply.
- (UK, in the plural) Red and grey bricks, used for the exterior of walls and the front of buildings.
- A bed for infants; a crib, cot, or cradle
- The price or value of the stock of a company on the stock market.
- Railroad rolling stock.
- (cooking, uncountable, countable) Broth made from meat (originally bones) or vegetables, used as a basis for stew or soup.
- Farm or ranch animals; livestock.
- The beater of a fulling mill.
- A block of wood; something fixed and solid; a pillar; a firm support; a post.
- (operations) A store of goods ready for sale; inventory.
- (linguistics) A larger grouping of language families: a superfamily or macrofamily.
- The population of a given type of animal (especially fish) available to be captured from the wild for economic use.
- (folklore) A piece of wood magically made to be just like a real baby and substituted for it by magical beings.
- (horticulture) The plant upon which the scion is grafted.
- A ski pole.
- (firearms) The part of a rifle or shotgun that rests against the shooter's shoulder.
- (card games, in a card game) A stack of undealt cards made available to the players.
- The tailstock of a lathe.
- A necktie or cravat, particularly a wide necktie popular in the eighteenth century, often seen today as a part of formal wear for horse riding competitions.
- (nautical) The axle attached to the rudder, which transfers the movement of the helm to the rudder.
- (by extension) Lineage; family; ancestry.
- persistent thickened stem of a herbaceous perennial plant
- the capital raised by a corporation through the issue of shares entitling holders to an ownership interest (equity)
- lumber used in the construction of something
- the handle end of some implements or tools
- any animals kept for use or profit
- the hereditary derivation of an individual
- a plant or stem onto which a graft is made; especially a plant grown specifically to provide the root part of grafted plants
- the merchandise that a shop has on hand
- any of several Old World plants cultivated for their brightly colored flowers
- a special variety of domesticated animals within a species
- any of various ornamental flowering plants of the genus Malcolmia
- liquid in which meat and vegetables are simmered; used as a basis for e.g. soups or sauces
- a supply of something available for future use
- an ornamental white cravat
- the reputation and popularity a person has
- a certificate documenting the shareholder's ownership in the corporation
- the handle of a handgun or the butt end of a rifle or shotgun or part of the support of a machine gun or artillery gun
adj
- (motor racing, of a race car) Having the same configuration as cars sold to the non-racing public, or having been modified from such a car.
- Of a type normally available for purchase/in stock.
- Straightforward, ordinary, just another, very basic.
- routine
- repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
- regularly and widely used or sold
verb
- To allow (cows) to retain milk for twenty-four hours or more prior to sale.
- To have on hand for sale.
- To provide with material requisites; to store; to fill; to supply.
- To put in the stocks as punishment.
- (nautical) To fit (an anchor) with a stock, or to fasten the stock firmly in place.
- supply with fish
- put forth and grow sprouts or shoots
- equip with a stock
- provide or furnish with a stock of something
- amass so as to keep for future use or sale or for a particular occasion or use
- have on hand
- supply with livestock
noun
- (mining) A crowbar.
- A person, animal, or entity which resembles another so closely as to be taken for the other; a look-alike (now usually in the phrase dead ringer).
- A ringer T-shirt.
- (games) In the game of horseshoes, the event of the horseshoe landing around the pole.
- (UK, dialect) A top performer.
- (Australia) The champion shearer of a shearing shed.
- (UK, slang) A fraudulently cloned (or cut-and-shut) motor vehicle.
- (slang) Any person or thing that is fraudulent; a fake or impostor.
- (horse racing) A horse fraudulently entered in a race using the name of another horse.
- (sports) A person highly proficient at a skill or sport who is brought in, often fraudulently, to supplement a team.
- Someone who rings, especially a bell ringer.
- (uncountable, games) A game of marbles where players attempt to knock each other's marbles out of a ring drawn on the ground.
- (UK, military, informal, in combination) An officer having the specified number of rings (denoting rank) on the uniform sleeve.
- (Australia) A stockman, a cowboy.
- (ornithology) A person who places rings or bands on a bird's leg.
- (horseshoes) the successful throw of a horseshoe or quoit so as to encircle a stake or peg
- a person who rings church bells (as for summoning the congregation)
- a person who is almost identical to another
- a contestant entered in a competition under false pretenses
noun
- (mining) A kind of pick for shaping large coal.
- (US) An item of bedroom furniture, like a low chest of drawers (bureau), often with a mirror.
- (UK) An item of kitchen furniture, like a cabinet with shelves, for storing crockery or utensils.
- A servant to royalty etc. who helps them with tasks such as dressing.
- (theater, film, television) A wardrobe assistant (who helps actors put on their costume).
- One who dresses or prepares stone.
- (UK) A football hooligan who wears designer clothing; a casual.
- (medicine) A surgeon's assistant who helps to dress wounds etc.
- A mechanical device used in ore mills for dressing (e.g., comminution, sorting, sifting).
- A mechanical device used in grain mills for bolting.
- One who dresses in a particular way.
- furniture with drawers for keeping clothes
- a cabinet with shelves
- a person who dresses in a particular way
- a wardrobe assistant for an actor
- low table with mirror or mirrors where one sits while dressing or applying makeup
noun
noun
verb
- (intransitive, of an agreement or arrangement) To be accepted or acceptable; to work.
- To take a position for the purpose of having some artistic representation of oneself made, such as a picture or a bust.
- (government, law) Of a legislative or, especially, a judicial body such as a court, to be in session.
- (government) To be a member of a deliberative body.
- (transitive) To accommodate in seats; to seat.
- (intransitive, copulative) To remain in a state of repose; to rest; to abide; to rest in any position or condition.
- (transitive, Australia, New Zealand, UK) To take, to undergo or complete (an examination or test).
- (intransitive, copulative, of a person) To be in a position in which the upper body is upright and supported by the buttocks.
- To lie, rest, or bear; to press or weigh.
- To be adjusted; to fit.
- To have position, as at the point blown from; to hold a relative position; to have direction.
- (US, ambitransitive) To babysit.
- (intransitive, of an object) To occupy a given position.
- (transitive, causative) To cause to be seated or in a sitting posture; to furnish a seat to.
- (intransitive, of a person) To move oneself into such a position.
- To cover and warm eggs for hatching, as a fowl; to brood; to incubate.
- be located or situated somewhere
- show to a seat; assign a seat for
- work or act as a baby-sitter
- be around, often idly or without specific purpose
- be in session
- take a seat
- serve in a specific professional capacity
- assume a posture as for artistic purposes
- sit and travel on the back of animal, usually while controlling its motions
- be in a position in which one's upper body is largely upright and supported by one's backside
noun
- (mining) An iron hook of a hoisting tub, to which a tackle is affixed.
- (UK, slang) A foundationer or colleger at Eton.
- (slang) An act of male masturbation.
- A type of tractor used for moving trailers.
- A sudden powerful pull.
- A trace, or drawing strap, of a harness.
- (nautical) A tugboat.
- A dog toy consisting of a rope, often with a knot in it.
- a powerful small boat designed to pull or push larger ships
- a sudden abrupt pull
verb
- (transitive) To pull hard repeatedly.
- (transitive) To pull or drag with great effort.
- (slang, ambitransitive) To masturbate.
- (transitive) To tow by tugboat.
- strive and make an effort to reach a goal
- move by pulling hard
- struggle in opposition
- pull or strain hard at
- tow (a vessel) with a tug
- carry with difficulty
- pull hard
noun
noun
- (usually as the head in compounds) A bare-bones above-ground structure meant to provide temporary cover from the elements; usually small and with no door to close.
- (often with the definite article) An animal shelter.
- A place for protection from deadly conditions outside, including military assault; usually partly or fully underground.
- (uncountable, abstract) The state of being protected or shielded.
- A place where a person or animal may find protection from the elements (especially rain, storms, or cold) sometimes as a place to sleep (such as a cave).
- A refuge, sanctuary, or (by metonymy) institution that provides temporary housing or a place to sleep for those in need or in danger.
- (uncountable) That which provides protection or cover.
- protective covering that provides protection from the weather
- a structure that provides privacy and protection from danger
- a way of organizing business to reduce the taxes it must pay on current earnings
- the condition of being protected
- temporary housing for homeless or displaced persons
verb
noun
- (mining) Any of the surfaces of rock enclosing the lode.
- An impediment to free movement.
- A structure built for defense surrounding a city, castle etc.
- A point of defeat or extinction.
- (figurative) A means of defence or security.
- Something with the apparent solidity, opacity, or dimensions of a building wall.
- Each of the substantial structures acting either as the exterior of or divisions within a structure.
- A point of desperation.
- (cycling) A very steep slope.
- (historical) The right or privilege of taking the side of the road near the wall when encountering another pedestrian; said to be taken or given.
- (chiefly dialectal) A spring of water.
- (mahjong) Face-down tiles arranged in stacked rows from which players draw new tiles.
- (nautical) A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot or wale.
- (roller derby) Two or more blockers skating together so as to impede the opposing team.
- (slang, seduction community, chiefly definite) The stage of biological aging where physical appearance and attractiveness start to deteriorate rapidly.
- (Internet) A personal notice board listing messages of interest to a particular user.
- (soccer) A line of defenders set up between an opposing free-kick taker and the goal.
- (US, slang, medicine) A doctor who tries to admit as few patients as possible.
- The butterfly Lasiommata megera.
- One of the vertical sides of a container.
- (often in combination) A barrier.
- (roleplaying games) A character that has high defenses, thereby reducing the amount of damage taken from the opponent’s attacks.
- A fictional bidder used to increase the price at an auction.
- (anatomy, zoology, botany) A dividing or containing structure in an organ or cavity.
- A rampart of earth, stones etc. built up for defensive purposes.
- an architectural partition with a height and length greater than its thickness; used to divide or enclose an area or to support another structure
- an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes
- a masonry fence (as around an estate or garden)
- a vertical (or almost vertical) smooth rock face (as of a cave or mountain)
- a difficult or awkward situation
- (anatomy) a layer (a lining or membrane) that encloses a structure
- a layer of material that encloses space
- anything that suggests a wall in structure or function or effect
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- (mining) A gallery in a coal mine running across the face of the coal.
- (nautical) The gangway from ship to shore when a ship is lying alongside a quay.
- The first tine of an antler's beam.
- The eyebrow.
- (figurative) Aspect; appearance; facial expression.
- The bony ridge over the eyes, upon which the eyebrows are located.
- The forehead.
- The projecting upper edge of a steep place such as a hill.
- (nautical) The hinged part of a landing craft or ferry which is lowered to form a landing platform; a ramp.
- the part of the face above the eyes
- the peak of a hill
- the arch of hair above each eye
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- (transitive, mining) To trace (a lode or any mineral appearance) to its head.
- (transitive) To move (a gun) laterally so that it points in a different direction.
- (intransitive) To proceed in sequence.
- (transitive, horticulture) To encourage (a plant or branch) to grow in a particular direction or shape, usually by pruning and bending.
- (transitive, machine learning) To feed data into an algorithm, usually based on a neural network, to create a machine learning model that can perform some task.
- (transitive, video games) To create a trainer (cheat patch) for; to apply cheats to (a game).
- (intransitive) To improve one's fitness.
- (intransitive) To practice an ability.
- (transitive) To teach and form (someone) by practice; to educate (someone).
- (transitive) To transport (something) by train.
- exercise in order to prepare for an event or competition
- develop (a child's or animal's) behavior by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control
- undergo training or instruction in preparation for a particular role, function, or profession
- point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards
- cause to grow in a certain way by tying and pruning it
- teach and supervise (someone); act as a trainer or coach (to), as in sports
- travel by rail or train
- create by training and teaching
- drag loosely along a surface; allow to sweep the ground
- teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment
- educate for a future role or function
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- (sex, slang) An act wherein series of men line up and then penetrate a person, especially as a form of gang rape.
- A trail or line of something, especially gunpowder.
- A series of electrical pulses.
- A set of interconnected mechanical parts which operate each other in sequence.
- A group of people following an important figure such as a king or noble; a retinue, a group of retainers.
- (figuratively, poetic) A group or class of people.
- The elongated back portion of a dress or skirt (or an ornamental piece of material added to similar effect), which drags along the ground.
- A series of specified vehicles (originally tramcars in a mine as usual, later especially railway carriages) coupled together.
- A long, heavy sleigh used in Canada for the transportation of merchandise, wood, etc.
- (computing) A software release schedule.
- A group of animals, vehicles, or people that follow one another in a line, such as a wagon train; a caravan or procession.
- (astronomy) A transient trail of glowing ions behind a large meteor as it falls through the atmosphere or accompanying a comet as it nears the sun; tail.
- A sequence of events or ideas which are interconnected; a course or procedure of something.
- (informal) A service on a railway line.
- The tail of a bird.
- (military) The men and vehicles following an army, which carry artillery and other equipment for battle or siege.
- A mechanical (originally steam-powered, now typically diesel or electrical) vehicle carrying a large number of passengers and freight along a designated track or path; a line of connected wagons considered overall as a mode of transport; (as uncountable noun) rail or road travel.
- A set of things, events, or circumstances that follow after or as a consequence; aftermath, wake.
- (poetic) The elongated body or form of something narrow and winding, such as the course of a river or the body of a snake.
- public transport provided by a line of railway cars coupled together and drawn by a locomotive
- wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed
- piece of cloth forming the long back section of a gown that is drawn along the floor
- a series of consequences wrought by an event
- a procession (of wagons or mules or camels) traveling together in single file
- a sequentially ordered set of things or events or ideas in which each successive member is related to the preceding
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- Prunus sect. Armeniaca (better known as apricots)
- A desirable or choice thing of its kind; a prize selection; a choice appointment, assignment etc.
- An edible, fleshy stone fruit of Prunus domestica (European plum), often of a dark red or purple colour.
- Prunus mume, an Asian fruit more closely related to the apricot than the plum, usually consumed pickled, dried, or as a juice or wine; ume.
- A stone-fruit tree which bears this fruit, Prunus domestica.
- Prunus angustifolia (Chickasaw plum or sand plum)
- A dark bluish-red color/colour, the colour of some plums.
- Prunus salicina (Chinese plum or Japanese plum)
- Prunus americana (American plum)
- Prunus subcordata (Klamath plum or Oregon plum)
- (vulgar, slang, usually in the plural) A testicle.
- Prunus nigra (Canadian plum or black plum)
- Prunus spinosa (sloe)
- Prunus rivularis (creek plum or hog plum)
- Prunus cerasifera (cherry plum or myrobalan)
- (derogatory, chiefly UK) A fool, an idiot.
- Prunus ursina (bear's plum)
- Prunus hortulana (hortulan plum)
- any of numerous varieties of small to medium-sized round or oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single pit
- any of several trees producing edible oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single hard stone
- a highly desirable position or assignment
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