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verb
noun
- an investigation conducted using a flexible surgical instrument to explore an injury or a body cavity
- (sciences) A small device, especially an electrode, used to explore, investigate or measure something by penetrating or being placed in it.
- (astronautics) A small, usually uncrewed, spacecraft used to acquire information or measurements about its surroundings.
- (go) A move with multiple possible answers, seeking to make the opponent choose and commit to a strategy.
- An act of probing; a prod, a poke.
- (comedy, fiction) An anal probe, a fictional instrument commonly used by aliens on abducted humans.
- (surgery) Any of various medical instruments used to explore wounds, organs, etc.
- (figuratively) Something which penetrates something else, as though to explore; something which obtains information.
- (biochemistry) Any group of atoms or molecules radioactively labeled in order to study a given molecule or other structure
- (figuratively) An investigation or inquiry.
- (aeronautics) A tube attached to an aircraft which can be fitted into the drogue from a tanker aircraft to allow for aerial refuelling.
- an exploratory action or expedition
- an inquiry into unfamiliar or questionable activities
- a flexible slender surgical instrument with a blunt end that is used to explore wounds or body cavities
verb
- (transitive) To stamp holes in; to perforate.
- (intransitive) To eagerly seize an opportunity.
- (intransitive) To leap into the air intending to seize someone or something.
- (transitive) To strike or seize with the talons; to pierce, as with the talons.
- (intransitive) To attack suddenly by leaping.
- (transitive) To sprinkle or rub with pounce powder.
- move down on as if in an attack
noun
- A sudden leaping attack.
- (historical) A type of fine powder, as of sandarac, or cuttlefish bone, sprinkled over wet ink to dry the ink after writing or on rough paper to smooth the writing surface.
- (mining) Synonym of bump (“sudden movement of underground strata”).
- (historical) Charcoal dust, or some other coloured powder for making patterns through perforated designs, used by embroiderers, lacemakers, etc.
- Cloth worked in eyelet holes.
- A punch or stamp.
- the act of pouncing
verb
- (transitive) To cause to penetrate in this way.
- (transitive, military) To send (soldiers, spies, etc.) through gaps in the enemy line.
- (intransitive, of an intravenous needle) To move from a vein, remaining in the body.
- (transitive) To cause (a liquid) to pass through something by filtration.
- (ambitransitive, medicine) To invade or penetrate a tissue or organ.
- (ambitransitive) To surreptitiously penetrate, enter or gain access to.
- (ambitransitive, of a liquid) To pass through something by filtration.
- enter a group or organization in order to spy on the members
- pass into or through by filtering or permeating
- pass through an enemy line; in a military conflict
- cause (a liquid) to enter by penetrating the interstices
noun
verb
noun
- (slang, surfing, snowboarding, skateboarding) A young or inexperienced surfer, skateboarder, or snowboarder.
- A boy serving on a ship.
- (nautical) A ring formed of a single strand of rope, laid in three times round, fastening the upper edge of a sail to its stay.
- (flags) An eyelet at the hoist end of a flag, used to fasten the flag to its halyard.
- A reinforced eyelet, or a small metal or plastic ring used to reinforce an eyelet.
- fastener consisting of a metal ring for lining a small hole to permit the attachment of cords or lines
verb
- form by probing, penetrating, or digging
- penetrate injuriously
- function as a cutting instrument
- divide a deck of cards at random into two parts to make selection difficult
- fell by sawing; hew
- refuse to acknowledge
- discharge from a group
- allow incision or separation
- record a performance on (a medium)
- hit (a ball) with a spin so that it turns in the opposite direction
- pass directly and often in haste
- stop filming
- intentionally fail to attend
- grow through the gums
- cut and assemble the components of
- lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture
- give the appearance or impression of
- make an incision or separation
- make an abrupt change of image or sound
- cut off the testicles (of male animals such as horses)
- style and tailor in a certain fashion
- form or shape by cutting or incising
- cause to stop operating by disengaging a switch
- have a reducing effect
- separate with or as if with an instrument
- reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
- pass through or across
- cut down on; make a reduction in
- make out and issue
- be able to manage or manage successfully
- turn sharply; change direction abruptly
- weed out unwanted or unnecessary things
- make a recording of
- reap or harvest
- create by duplicating data
- move (one's fist)
- shorten as if by severing the edges or ends of
- cease, stop
- dissolve by breaking down the fat of
- perform or carry out
- have grow through the gums
- To absent oneself from (a class, an appointment, etc.).
- (intransitive) To enter a queue in the wrong place.
- (transitive, cricket) To make the ball spin sideways by running one's fingers down the side of the ball while bowling it.
- (intransitive, slang) To leave abruptly.
- (intransitive) To engage in self-harm by making cuts in one's own skin.
- To perform an incision on, for example with a knife.
- To abridge or shorten a work; to remove a portion of a recording during editing.
- (slang) To wound with a knife.
- To wound or hurt deeply the sensibilities of; to pierce.
- (transitive, film) To edit a film by selecting takes from original footage.
- (intransitive) To change direction suddenly.
- To separate or omit, in a situation where one was previously associated.
- (transitive, social) To ignore as a social rebuff or snub.
- To perform (an elaborate dancing movement etc.).
- (transitive) To exhibit (a figure having some trait).
- To reduce, especially intentionally.
- (ambitransitive) To deliver a stroke with a whip or like instrument to.
- (bodybuilding) To lose body mass, aiming to keep muscle but lose body fat.
- (transitive, cricket) To deflect (a bowled ball) to the off, with a chopping movement of the bat.
- (transitive, computing) To remove (text, a picture, etc.) and place in memory in order to paste at a later time.
- (sports) To drive (a ball) to one side, as by (in billiards or croquet) hitting it fine with another ball, or (in tennis) striking it with the racket inclined.
- To castrate or geld.
- (intransitive) To intersect or cross in such a way as to divide in half or nearly so.
- (slang, intransitive) To run or hurry.
- (transitive, slang) To dilute or adulterate something, especially a recreational drug.
- (intransitive, film) To make an abrupt transition from one scene or image to another.
- (transitive, slang) To make, negotiate; to finalise, conclude; to issue.
- (transitive, intransitive) To divide a pack of playing cards into two parts, often followed by placing the two parts back together in the opposite order.
- To form or shape by cutting.
- (intransitive) To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.
- (transitive) To renounce or give up.
- To interfere, as a horse; to strike one foot against the opposite foot or ankle in using the legs.
- To divide with a knife, scissors, or another sharp instrument.
- (transitive) To stop, disengage, or cease.
adj
- (used of grass or vegetation) cut down with a hand implement or machine
- (of pages of a book) having the folds of the leaves trimmed or slit
- mixed with water
- separated into parts or laid open or penetrated with a sharp edge or instrument
- (of a male animal) having the testicles removed
- (used of rates or prices) reduced usually sharply
- with parts removed
- made neat and tidy by trimming
- fashioned or shaped by cutting
- (of a gem) Carved into a shape; not raw.
- (bodybuilding) Having muscular definition in which individual groups of muscle fibers stand out among larger muscles.
- (slang, New Zealand, formerly UK) Intoxicated as a result of drugs or alcohol.
- (participial adjective) Having been cut.
- (cricket, of a shot) Played with a horizontal bat to hit the ball backward of point.
- Reduced.
- (informal) Circumcised or having been the subject of female genital mutilation.
- (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Upset, angry; emotionally hurt.
noun
- a wound made by cutting
- in baseball; a batter's attempt to hit a pitched ball
- the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage
- a refusal to recognize someone you know
- (sports) a stroke that puts reverse spin on the ball
- a distinct selection of music from a recording or a compact disc
- a remark capable of wounding mentally
- a canal made by erosion or excavation
- a share of the profits
- the act of shortening something by chopping off the ends
- the act of penetrating or opening open with a sharp edge
- the act of cutting something into parts
- a piece of meat that has been cut from an animal carcass
- (film) an immediate transition from one shot to the next
- the style in which a garment is cut
- a step on some scale
- the act of reducing the amount or number
- an unexcused absence from class
- the division of a deck of cards before dealing
- a trench resembling a furrow that was made by erosion or excavation
- (slang, uncountable) That which is used to dilute or adulterate a recreational drug.
- (card games) The act or right of dividing a deck of playing cards.
- (slang) An insult.
- An opening of a living body resulting from cutting; an incision or wound.
- (slang) A hidden, secluded, or secure place.
- An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving.
- (card games) The card obtained by dividing the pack.
- The manner or style in which a garment, other article of clothing, or sail is fashioned.
- A decrease or deletion.
- (archaeology) A truncation, a context that represents a moment in time when other archaeological deposits were removed for the creation of some feature such as a ditch or pit.
- (Internet) A dividing line in a Tumblr post, the content below which is hidden until the reader reveals it.
- A haircut.
- (bodybuilding) A time period when one attempts to lose fat while retaining muscle mass.
- (literal, figurative) The act of cutting.
- Such a wound through human skin.
- A sleeveless vest worn by members of a motorcycle club.
- (fashion) A notch shaved into an eyebrow.
- (fencing) An attack made with a chopping motion of the blade, landing with its edge or point.
- (especially theater, film) A passage omitted or to be omitted from a play, movie script, speech, etc.
- (cricket) A batsman's shot played with a swinging motion of the bat, to hit the ball backward of point.
- (graph theory) The partition of a graph’s vertices into two subgroups.
- A skein of yarn.
- Such a passage dug for a roadway for a paved road or railroad, a canal, a runway, etc.
- A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove.
- (golf) In a stroke play competition, the early elimination of those players who have not then attained a preannounced score, so that the rest of the competition is less pressed for time and more entertaining for spectators.
- A deliberate snub, typically a refusal to return a bow or other acknowledgement of acquaintance.
- A definable part, such as an individual song, of a recording, particularly of commercial records, audio tapes, CDs, etc.
- (literal, figurative) The result of cutting.
- (film) A particular version or edit of a film.
- (sports) In lawn tennis, etc., a slanting stroke causing the ball to spin and bound irregularly; also, the spin thus given to the ball.
- A slab or slice, especially of meat.
- (rail transport) A string of railway cars coupled together, shorter than a train.
- (cricket) Sideways movement of the ball through the air caused by a fast bowler imparting spin to the ball.
- An unkind act; a cruelty.
- A share or portion of profits.
- An artificial channel for marine navigation, as distinguished from a navigable river.
- (petrochemistry) The range of temperatures used to distill a particular mixture of hydrocarbons from crude oil.
intj
noun
- A test made with a probe or sonde.
- (chiefly in the plural) Any place or part of the ocean, or other water, where a sounding line will reach the bottom.
- A measured depth of water.
- The action of the verb to sound.
- The act of inserting of a thin metal rod into the urethra of the penis for medical or sexual purposes.(See urethral sounding).
- The sand, shells, etc. brought up by the sounding lead when it has touched bottom.
- a measure of the depth of water taken with a sounding line
- the act of measuring depth of water (usually with a sounding line)
adj
verb
verb
- (transitive) To remove (something) by poking (often creating a hole in the process).
- (intransitive) To be barely visible past an obstruction or obstructions; to protrude.
- (transitive) To cause (something) to protrude or emerge.
- (intransitive) To emerge from behind, in, or under something.
- reach outward in space
verb
- (transitive) To make a hole through something.
- (intransitive) To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.
- (intransitive) To make a hole with, or as if with, a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool.
- (transitive, sports, slang) To push or drive (a boxer into the ropes, a boat out of its course, etc.).
- (transitive) To form or enlarge (something) by means of a boring instrument or apparatus.
- simple past of bear
- (intransitive) To glare (as if to drill a hole with the eyes).
- (intransitive) To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns.
- (transitive) To make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring; to force a narrow and difficult passage through.
- (colloquial) past participle of bear
- (proscribed) simple past of bare
- (transitive) To inspire boredom in somebody.
- make a hole, especially with a pointed power or hand tool
- cause to be bored
noun
- A hole drilled or milled through something, or (by extension) its diameter.
- Something dull or uninteresting.
- A sudden and rapid flow of tide occurring in certain rivers and estuaries which rolls up as a wave.
- A tool, such as an auger, for making a hole by boring.
- The place where such a well exists.
- The tunnel inside of a gun's barrel through which the bullet travels when fired, or (by extension) its diameter.
- A capped well drilled to tap artesian water.
- One who inspires boredom or lack of interest; an uninteresting person.
- Calibre; importance.
- diameter of a tube or gun barrel
- a person who evokes boredom
- a hole or passage made by a drill; usually made for exploratory purposes
- a high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary)
verb
adj
- (figuratively) Without substance; having no real or significant worth; meaningless.
- (gymnastics) Pertaining to hollow body position
- (of something solid) Having an empty space or cavity inside.
- (wine) Synonym of empty (“lacking between the onset of tasting and the finish”).
- Concave; gaunt; sunken.
- (figuratively) Insincere, devoid of validity; specious.
- (of a sound) Distant, eerie; echoing, reverberating, as if in a hollow space; dull, muffled; often low-pitched.
- as if echoing in a hollow space
- lacking in substance or character
- not solid; having a space or gap or cavity
- devoid of significance or force
adv
intj
noun
verb
adj
noun
- An opening that goes all the way through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent.
- (slang) An undesirable place to live or visit.
- (slang, rail transport) A passing loop; a siding provided for trains traveling in opposite directions on a single-track line to pass each other.
- (baseball) The rear portion of the defensive team between the shortstop and the third baseman.
- (figuratively) A weakness; a flaw or ambiguity.
- (slang) Any bodily orifice, in particular the anus.
- (archaeology, slang) An excavation pit or trench.
- (figurative) Difficulty, in particular, debt.
- (slang, derogatory) A person's mouth.
- (informal, with "the") Solitary confinement, a high-security prison cell often used as punishment.
- (golf) A subsurface standard-size hole, also called cup, hitting the ball into which is the object of play. Each hole, of which there are usually eighteen as the standard on a full course, is located on a prepared surface, called the green, of a particular type grass.
- (Ireland, Scotland, vulgar) A vagina.
- (stud poker) A card (also called a hole card) dealt face down thus unknown to all but its holder; the status in which such a card is.
- (physics) In semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively charged particle.
- (computing) A security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit.
- A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; a dent; a depression; a fissure.
- In the game of fives, part of the floor of the court between the step and the pepperbox.
- (chess) A square on the board, with some positional significance, that a player does not, and cannot in the future, control with a friendly pawn.
- (graph theory) A chordless cycle in a graph.
- (Canada, US, historical) A mountain valley.
- (golf) The part of a game in which a player attempts to hit the ball into one of the holes.
- a depression hollowed out of solid matter
- informal terms for a difficult situation
- one playing period (from tee to green) on a golf course
- an unoccupied space
- an opening deliberately made in or through something
- a fault
- an opening into or through something
- informal terms for the mouth
noun
- a medical instrument for dilating a bodily passage or cavity in order to examine the interior
- a mirror (especially one made of polished metal) for use in an optical instrument
- A lookout place.
- (medicine) A medical instrument used during an examination to dilate an orifice.
- (ornithology) A bright, lustrous patch of colour found on the wings of ducks and some other birds, usually situated on the distal portions of the secondary quills, and much more brilliant in the adult male than in the female.
- A mirror, especially one used in a telescope.
verb
- (transitive) To make a groove, hole, or mark in by scooping with or as if with a gouge.
- (intransitive) To use a gouge.
- (transitive) To cheat or impose upon; in particular, to charge an unfairly or unreasonably high price.
- (transitive, intransitive) To dig or scoop (something) out with or as if with a gouge; in particular, to use a thumb to push or try to push the eye (of a person) out of its socket.
- force with the thumb
- make a groove in
- obtain by coercion or intimidation
noun
- An incising tool that cuts blanks or forms for envelopes, gloves, etc., from leather, paper, or other materials.
- A bookbinder's tool with a curved face, used for blind tooling or gilding.
- (mining) Soft material lying between the wall of a vein and the solid vein of ore.
- A cut or groove, as left by a gouge or something sharp.
- (US, military, slang, uncountable) Information.
- (slang) A cheat, a fraud; an imposition.
- A chisel with a curved blade for cutting or scooping channels, grooves, or holes in wood, stone, etc.
- (slang) An impostor.
- (originally US, colloquial) An act of gouging.
- and edge tool with a blade like a trough for cutting channels or grooves
- the act of gouging
- an impression in a surface (as made by a blow)
verb
- pierce or penetrate
- make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
- find the solution or key to
- become punctured or penetrated
- become separated into pieces or fragments
- do a break dance
- enter someone's (virtual or real) property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- fall sharply
- separate from a clinch, in boxing
- cause to give up a habit
- weaken or destroy in spirit or body
- change directions suddenly
- exchange for smaller units of money
- undergo breaking
- give up
- interrupt a continued activity
- interrupt the flow of current in
- break a piece from a whole
- make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing
- move away or escape suddenly
- invalidate by judicial action
- destroy the completeness of a set of related items
- cease an action temporarily
- happen or take place
- render inoperable or ineffective
- emerge from the surface of a body of water
- come to an end (of an event)
- cause the failure or ruin of
- put an end to a state or an activity
- fracture a bone of
- stop operating or functioning
- diminish or discontinue abruptly
- curl over and fall apart in surf or foam, of waves
- terminate or end
- come forth or begin from a state of latency
- make submissive, obedient, or useful
- crack; of the male voice in puberty
- vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity
- destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments
- come into being
- force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up
- find a flaw in
- ruin completely
- become fractured; break or crack on the surface only
- happen
- go to pieces
- break down, literally or metaphorically
- act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
- surpass in excellence
- lessen in force or effect
- change suddenly from one tone quality or register to another
- make the opening shot that scatters the balls
- scatter or part
- be broken in
- assign to a lower position; reduce in rank
- reduce to bankruptcy
- be released or become known; of news
- fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns
- (transitive, tennis) To win a game (against one's opponent) as receiver.
- (intransitive, of a storm) To begin or end.
- (intransitive, sports) To counter-attack.
- (intransitive, of a spell of settled weather) To end.
- (intransitive) To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
- (transitive, ergative) To disclose or make known an item of news, a band, etc.
- (intransitive, of a male voice) To become deeper at puberty.
- (transitive, backgammon) To remove one of the two men on (a point).
- (transitive) To end (a connection); to disconnect.
- (intransitive, billiards, snooker, pool) To make the first shot; to scatter the balls from the initial neat arrangement.
- (intransitive) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
- (intransitive, of a voice) To alter in type due to emotion or strain: in men, generally to go up, in women, sometimes to go down; to crack.
- (specifically) To cause the shell of (an egg) to crack, so that the inside (yolk) is accessible.
- (transitive, theater) To end the run of (a play).
- (transitive) To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
- (intransitive) To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change gait.
- (intransitive) To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily; to go on break.
- (transitive) To violate; to fail to adhere to.
- (specifically) To open (a safe) without using the correct key, combination, or the like.
- (transitive) To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
- (transitive) To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
- (transitive) To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
- (intransitive, of morning, dawn, day etc.) To arrive.
- (transitive) To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
- (transitive, with for) To (attempt to) disengage and flee to; to make a run for.
- (rare, mainly historical or a misspelling) To brake.
- (copulative, informal) To suddenly become.
- (transitive) To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately) hit something else beneath.
- (transitive) To change a steady state abruptly.
- To turn an animal into a beast of burden.
- (music, slang) To B-boy; to breakdance.
- (specifically, in programming) To cause (some feature of a program or piece of software) to stop functioning properly; to cause a regression.
- (programming) To suspend the execution of a program during debugging so that the state of the program can be investigated.
- (transitive, intransitive) To crack or fracture (bone) under a physical strain.
- (intransitive) To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
- (ergative, transitive, intransitive) To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.
- (computing) To cause, or allow the occurrence of, a line break.
- (transitive) To ruin financially.
- (transitive, gaming slang) To render (a game) unchallenging by altering its rules or exploiting loopholes or weaknesses in them in a way that gives a player an unfair advantage.
- (finance, intransitive) Of prices on the stock exchange: to fall suddenly.
- (transitive, military, most often in the passive tense) To demote; to reduce the military rank of.
- (computing) To terminate the execution of a program before normal completion.
- (intransitive, of a fever) To go down, in terms of temperature, indicating that the most dangerous part of the illness has passed.
- (transitive, intransitive) To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
- (intransitive, of a sauce or emulsion) To de-emulsify.
- (transitive) To surpass or do better than (a specific number); to do better than (a record), setting a new record.
- (transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
- (intransitive, of a sound) To become audible suddenly.
- (intransitive, of a wave of water) To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
- (transitive) To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
noun
- an unexpected piece of good luck
- an abrupt change in the tone or register of the voice (as at puberty or due to emotion)
- the opening shot that scatters the balls in billiards or pool
- some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity
- a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
- an escape from jail
- a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
- (tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving
- a pause from doing something (as work)
- the act of breaking something
- any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare
- an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity
- the occurrence of breaking
- a sudden dash
- (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
- breaking of hard tissue such as bone
- (programming) Ellipsis of breakpoint.
- (music) The transition area between a singer's vocal registers; the passaggio.
- A rest or pause, usually from work.
- A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
- An interruption of continuity; departure from or rupture with.
- Alternative form of brake (“cart or carriage without a body, for breaking in horses”)
- (computing) The separation between lines, paragraphs or pages of a written text.
- (soccer) The counter-attack.
- A short holiday.
- (snooker) The number of points scored by one player in one visit to the table.
- (finance) A sudden fall in prices on the stock exchange.
- A scheduled interval of days or weeks between periods of school instruction; a holiday.
- (computing) A keystroke or other signal that causes a program to terminate or suspend execution.
- (UK, education) A time for students to talk or play between lessons.
- (geography, chiefly in the plural) An area along a river that features steep banks, bluffs, or gorges (e.g., Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, US).
- A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
- (music) A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as rhythmic dance music.
- (British, weather) A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
- An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast, or sports game.
- (surfing) A place where waves break (that is, where waves pitch or spill forward creating white water).
- An act of escaping.
- The beginning (of the morning).
- (music) A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
- A temporary split with a romantic partner.
- (tennis) A game won by the receiving player(s).
- (horse racing) The start of a horse race.
- The opening of packages of cards for a collectible card game, often for further distribution to paying customers.
- (golf) The curve imparted to the ball's motion on the green due to slope or grass texture.
- An instance of breaking something into two or more pieces.
- (equitation) A sharp bit or snaffle.
- (billiards, snooker, pool) The first shot in a game of billiards.
- (music) The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is, to move from its lower to its upper register.
verb
- (transitive) To enlarge (a hole), especially using a reamer; to bore (a hole) wider.
- (slang, vulgar, by extension from sense of enlarging a hole) To sexually penetrate in a rough and painful way.
- (transitive) To remove (material) by reaming.
- (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To cream; mantle; foam; froth.
- (transitive) To remove burrs and debris from inside (something, such as a freshly bored hole) using a tool.
- To shape or form, especially using a reamer.
- (slang) To yell at or berate.
- remove by making a hole or by boring
- enlarge with a reamer
- squeeze the juice out (of a fruit) with a reamer
noun
- (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Cream; also, the creamlike froth on ale or other liquor; froth or foam in general.
- A bundle, package, or quantity of paper, nowadays usually containing 500 sheets.
- (chiefly in the plural) An abstract large amount of something.
- a large quantity of written matter
- a quantity of paper; 480 or 500 sheets; one ream equals 20 quires
noun
- (medicine) A probe for searching a wound.
- A pavilion or portable lodge consisting of skins, canvas, or some strong cloth, stretched and sustained by poles, used for sheltering people from the weather.
- A trouser tent; a piece of fabric, etc. protruding outward like a tent.
- (Scotland) A portable pulpit set up outside to accommodate worshippers who cannot fit into a church.
- (medicine) A roll of lint or linen, or a conical or cylindrical piece of sponge or other absorbent, used chiefly to dilate a natural canal, to keep open the orifice of a wound, or to absorb discharges.
- a portable shelter (usually of canvas stretched over supporting poles and fastened to the ground with ropes and pegs)
- a web that resembles a tent or carpet
verb
- (intransitive) To form into a tent-like shape.
- (intransitive) To go camping.
- (medicine, sometimes figurative) To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent.
- (cooking) To prop up aluminum foil in an inverted "V" (reminiscent of a pop-up tent) over food to reduce splatter, before putting it in the oven.
- Synonym of fumigate.
- live in or as if in a tent
verb
noun
verb
verb
- (transitive) To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate.
- (transitive) To make and ratify; to reach; to find.
- (intransitive) To sound by percussion, with blows, or as if with blows.
- (transitive) To create an impression.
- (transitive, sometimes with out or through) To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate.
- (intransitive) To carry out a violent or illegal action.
- (transitive) To cause to ignite by friction.
- To touch; to act by appulse.
- (transitive) To punish; to afflict; to smite.
- To unfasten, to loosen (chains, bonds, etc.).
- (transitive) To hit.
- (transitive, figurative) To impinge upon.
- To affect by a sudden impression or impulse.
- (intransitive) To act suddenly, especially in a violent or criminal way.
- To make a sudden impression upon, as if by a blow; to affect with some strong emotion.
- (sports) To score a goal.
- (transitive) To give, as a blow; to impel, as with a blow; to give a force to; to dash; to cast.
- (transitive) To cause or produce by a stroke, or suddenly, as by a stroke.
- To stroke or pass lightly; to wave.
- (nautical) To haul down or lower (a flag, mast, etc.)
- (intransitive, by extension) To stop working as a protest to achieve better working conditions.
- (intransitive) To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to penetrate.
- (by extension) To capitulate; to signal a surrender by hauling down the colours.
- (intransitive) To set off on a walk or trip.
- (transitive, finance) To balance (a ledger or account).
- To hit upon, or light upon, suddenly.
- (transitive) To cause to sound by one or more beats; to indicate or notify by audible strokes. Of a clock, to announce (an hour of the day), usually by one or more sounds.
- (transitive) To impress, seem or appear to (a person).
- (masonry) To cut off (a mortar joint, etc.) even with the face of the wall, or inward at a slight angle.
- To discover a source of something, often a buried raw material such as ore (especially gold) or crude oil.
- To level (a measure of grain, salt, etc.) with a straight instrument, scraping off what is above the level of the top.
- (intransitive) To become attached to something; said of the spat of oysters.
- To infest the flesh of a living vertebrate.
- (transitive) To manufacture, as by stamping.
- To dismantle and take away (a theater set; a tent; etc.).
- (intransitive) To deliver a quick blow or thrust; to give blows.
- (transitive, fishing) To hook (a fish) by a quick turn of the wrist.
- deliver a sharp blow, as with the hand, fist, or weapon
- form by stamping, punching, or printing
- cause to experience suddenly
- hit against; come into sudden contact with
- affect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely
- make a strategic, offensive, assault against an enemy, opponent, or a target
- arrive at after reckoning, deliberating, and weighing
- hook by a pull on the line
- drive something violently into a location
- have an emotional or cognitive impact upon
- pierce with force
- cause to form (an electric arc) between electrodes of an arc lamp
- touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly
- remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line
- produce by manipulating keys or strings of musical instruments
- find unexpectedly
- smooth with a strickle
- disassemble a temporary structure, such as a tent or a theatrical set
- occupy or take on
- stop work in order to press demands
- produce by ignition or a blow
- indicate (a certain time) by striking
- attain
noun
- (cricket) The status of being the batsman that the bowler is bowling at.
- A work stoppage (or otherwise concerted stoppage of an activity) as a form of protest.
- The primary face of a hammer, opposite the peen.
- (fishing) A nibble on the bait by a fish.
- (baseball) A status resulting from a batter swinging and missing a pitch, or not swinging at a pitch when the ball goes in the strike zone, or hitting a foul ball that is not caught.
- (geology) The compass direction of the line of intersection between a rock layer and the surface of the Earth or another solid celestial body.
- The discovery of a source of something.
- (bowling) The act of knocking down all ten pins on the first roll of a frame.
- (philately) A cancellation postmark.
- (printing, historical) An imperfect matrix for type.
- (military, by extension) An attack, not necessarily physical.
- An iron pale or standard in a gate or fence.
- The strike plate of a door.
- (finance) In an option contract, the price at which the holder buys or sells if they choose to exercise the option.
- An instrument with a straight edge for levelling a measure of grain, salt, etc., scraping off what is above the level of the top; a strickle.
- (ironworking) A puddler's stirrer.
- A blow or application of physical force against something.
- (historical) An old English measure of corn equal to the bushel.
- a score in tenpins: knocking down all ten with the first ball
- a group's refusal to work in protest against low pay or bad work conditions
- a conspicuous success
- (baseball) a pitch that the batter swings at and misses, or that the batter hits into foul territory, or that the batter does not swing at but the umpire judges to be in the area over home plate and between the batter's knees and shoulders
- a gentle blow
- an attack that is intended to seize or inflict damage on or destroy an objective
adj
- Capable of penetrating; piercing.
- Used, designed to be used, or able to drill holes.
- Causing boredom or tiredness; making one feel tired and impatient.
- (chiefly Manglish) Suffering from boredom; mildly annoyed and restless through having nothing to do.
- so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness
noun
- A pit or hole which has been bored.
- (usually in the plural) One of the fragments thrown up when something is bored or drilled.
- The act or process of boring holes; such practice as an area of expertise in manufacturing.
- the act of drilling a hole in the earth in the hope of producing petroleum
- the act of drilling
verb
noun
- receptacle where something (a pipe or probe or end of a bone) is inserted
- a bony hollow into which a structure fits
- a receptacle into which an electric device can be inserted
- (electricity) An opening into which a plug or other connecting part is designed to fit (e.g. a light bulb socket).
- (computing) One endpoint of a two-way named pipe on Unix and Unix-like systems, used for interprocess communication.
- A steel apparatus attached to a saddle to protect the thighs and legs.
- (anatomy) A hollow into a bone which a part fits, such as an eye, or another bone, in the case of a joint.
- The socket head for a socket wrench.
- (computing) One endpoint of a two-way communication link, used for interprocess communication across a network.
- A hollow tool for grasping and lifting tools dropped in a well-boring.
- The hollow of a candlestick.
verb
noun
- The act of penetrating something.
- The insertion of the penis (or similar object) during sexual intercourse.
- The act of penetrating a given situation with the mind or faculties; perception, discernment.
- (marketing) The proportion of the target audience who buy or use the specified product or service.
- (blackjack) A number or fraction that represents how many cards/decks will be dealt before shuffling, in contrast to the total number of cards/decks in play.
- The act of progressing or moving forward through or into something.
- an attack that penetrates into enemy territory
- the act of entering into or through something
- the act (by a man) of inserting his penis into the vagina of a woman
- the ability to make way into or through something
- clear or deep perception of a situation
- the depth to which something penetrates (especially the depth reached by a projectile that hits a target)
verb
- (transitive) To make by digging or delving.
- (intransitive) To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height.
- (transitive) To (directly or indirectly) cause a vessel to sink, generally by making it no longer watertight.
- (intransitive) To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fail in strength.
- (ergative) To descend or submerge (or to cause to do so) into a liquid or similar substance.
- (transitive) To push (something) into something.
- (transitive, figurative) To cause to decline; to depress or degrade.
- (transitive, slang) To drink (especially something alcoholic).
- (transitive, slang) To pay absolutely.
- (transitive, snooker, pool, billiards, golf) To pot; hit a ball into a pocket or hole.
- (intransitive, figuratively, of the heart or spirit) To experience apprehension, disappointment, dread, or momentary depression.
- (intransitive) To demean or lower oneself; to do something below one's status, standards, or morals.
- fall heavily or suddenly; decline markedly
- descend into or as if into some soft substance or place
- fall or descend to a lower place or level
- pass into a specified state or condition; sink into
- embed deeply
- go under
- appear to move downward
- cause to sink
- fall or sink heavily
noun
- (graph theory) A destination vertex in a transportation network.
- A place that absorbs resources or energy.
- (theater) A stage trapdoor for shifting scenery.
- A drain for carrying off wastewater.
- A depression in land where water collects, with no visible outlet.
- A basin used for holding water for washing.
- A depression in a stereotype plate.
- (computing, programming) An object or callback that captures events.
- (game development) One or several systems that remove currency from the game's economy, thus controlling or preventing inflation.
- (uncountable) Descending motion; descent.
- (baseball) The motion of a sinker pitch.
- (geology) A sinkhole.
- (ecology) A habitat that cannot support a population on its own but receives the excess of individuals from some other source.
- (graph theory) A node in directed graph for which all of its edges go into it; one with no outgoing edges.
- A heat sink.
- (mining) An excavation smaller than a shaft.
- An abode of degraded persons; a wretched place.
- a depression in the ground communicating with a subterranean passage (especially in limestone) and formed by solution or by collapse of a cavern roof
- plumbing fixture consisting of a water basin fixed to a wall or floor and having a drainpipe
- a covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it
- (technology) a process that acts to absorb or remove energy or a substance from a system
verb
- (transitive) To open, to make an opening into; to pierce.
- (nautical, intransitive, of a submerged submarine, torpedo, or similar) To break the surface of the water.
- (transitive) To cause to turn sideways to oncoming waves, especially large or breaking waves (usually followed by to; also figurative).
- (transitive, figuratively) To begin discussion about (something).
- (transitive) To make a hole in, especially a cask of liquor, and put in a tap in order to draw the liquid.
- (intransitive)To be turned sideways to oncoming waves, especially large or breaking waves.
- bring up a topic for discussion
noun
- The stick from which candle wicks are suspended for dipping.
- A series of chisel points mounted on one piece of steel. For example, the toothed stone chisel shown here.
- Alternative spelling of brooch.
- (architecture, UK, dialect) A spire rising from a tower.
- A spit for cooking food.
- (masonry) A broad chisel for stone-cutting.
- An awl; a bodkin; also, a wooden rod or pin, sharpened at each end, used by thatchers.
- A spit-like start on the head of a young stag.
- The pin in a lock which enters the barrel of the key.
- a decorative pin worn by women
verb
- (transitive) To make something by digging.
- (transitive, sometimes figurative) To find or retrieve something buried.
- (transitive) To remove something by digging.
- (transitive, slang) To have penetrative sexual intercourse with someone.
- (intransitive, US, slang) To decamp; to leave a place hastily.
- (transitive, cricket) To block a yorker with the bottom of the bat, at the last second.
- remove, harvest, or recover by digging
- dig out from underneath earth or snow
- create by digging
verb
- (transitive) To enclose something in, or as if in, a capsule.
- (transitive) To epitomize something by expressing it as a brief summary.
- (software, object-oriented programming) To enclose objects in a common interface in a way that makes them interchangeable, and guards their states from invalid changes.
- (networking) To enclose data in packets that can be transmitted using a given protocol.
- put in a short or concise form; reduce in volume
- enclose in a capsule or other small container
verb
- (transitive) To dig or redig a trench where one already exists.
- (intransitive) To live less expensively; to economize.
- (intransitive) To take up a new defensive position.
- (transitive, military) To furnish with a retrenchment (a defensive work within a fortification).
- (intransitive) To abridge; to curtail.
- (transitive) To cut down or reduce.
- (transitive, specifically) To terminate the employment of a worker to reduce the size of a workforce; to make redundant.
- (transitive) To confine; to limit; to restrict.
- tighten one's belt; use resources carefully
- make a reduction, as in one's workforce
verb
noun
verb
adj
noun
verb
- (transitive) To pierce or puncture slightly.
- (transitive) To form by piercing or puncturing.
- (farriery) To drive a nail into (a horse's foot), so as to cause lameness.
- (intransitive) To become sharp or acid; to turn sour, as wine.
- (ambitransitive) To make or become sharp; to erect into a point; to raise, as something pointed; said especially of the ears of an animal, such as a horse or dog; and usually followed by up.
- To affect with sharp pain; to sting, as with remorse.
- (transitive, chiefly nautical) To mark the surface of (something) with pricks or dots; especially, to trace a ship’s course on (a chart).
- (transitive, hunting) To shoot without killing.
- To aim at a point or mark.
- (horticulture) Usually in the form prick out: to plant (seeds or seedlings) in holes made in soil at regular intervals.
- (transitive) To make acidic or pungent.
- (transitive) To incite, stimulate, goad.
- To fix by the point; to attach or hang by puncturing.
- cause a stinging pain
- stab or urge on as if with a pointed stick
- to stick up
- cause a prickling sensation
- to cause a sharp emotional pain
- make a small hole into, as with a needle or a thorn
- deliver a sting to
noun
- The experience or feeling of being pierced or punctured by a small, sharp object.
- (now historical) A small roll of yarn or tobacco.
- A small hole or perforation, caused by piercing.
- The footprint of a hare.
- An indentation or small mark made with a pointed object.
- (slang, vulgar) The penis.
- A feeling of remorse.
- (slang, derogatory) Someone (especially a male) who is unpleasant, rude or annoying.
- A small pointed object.
- obscene terms for penis
- the act of puncturing with a small point
- insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous
- a depression scratched or carved into a surface
verb
noun
- A binary radian.
- (US, elementary school usage) A paper fastener, a fastening device formed of thin, soft metal, such as shim brass, with a round head and a flat, split shank, which is spread after insertion in a hole in a stack of pages, in much the same way as a cotter pin or a split rivet.
- A thin, small nail, with a slight projection at the top on one side instead of a head, or occasionally with a small domed head, similar to that of an escutcheon pin.
- a small nail
verb
- (transitive) To create (a hole) by removing material with a drill (tool).
- (intransitive) To practice, especially in (or as in) a military context.
- (transitive) To cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to drain by trickling.
- (intransitive, figurative) To investigate or examine something in more detail or at a different level
- (transitive) To sow (seeds) by dribbling them along a furrow or in a row.
- (baseball) To hit someone with a pitch, especially in an intentional context.
- (ergative) To cause to drill (practice); to train in military arts.
- (transitive) To throw, run, hit or kick with a lot of power.
- (transitive) To repeat an idea frequently in order to encourage someone to remember it.
- (slang) To shoot; to kill by shooting.
- (slang, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse with; to penetrate.
- train in the military, e.g., in the use of weapons
- make a hole, especially with a pointed power or hand tool
- undergo military training or do military exercises
- teach by repetition
- learn by repetition
noun
- A row of seed sown in a furrow.
- (uncountable, music) A style of trap music with gritty, violent lyrics, originating on the South Side of Chicago.
- Any of several molluscs, of the genus Urosalpinx and others, especially the oyster drill (Urosalpinx cinerea), that make holes in the shells of their prey.
- An activity done as an exercise or practice (especially a military exercise), particularly in preparation for some possible future event or occurrence.
- An Old World monkey of West Africa, Mandrillus leucophaeus, similar in appearance to the mandrill, but lacking the colorful face.
- An agricultural implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes so formed as to contain seeds and drop them into the hole made.
- (countable, music) A single performance of drill music.
- A strong, durable cotton fabric with a strong bias (diagonal) in the weave.
- A tool or machine used to remove material so as to create a hole, typically by plunging a rotating cutting bit into a stationary workpiece.
- The portion of a drilling tool that drives the bit.
- A short and highly repeatable sports training exercise designed to hone a particular skill that may be useful in competition.
- A light furrow or channel made to put seed into, when sowing.
- similar to the mandrill but smaller and less brightly colored
- (military) the training of soldiers to march (as in ceremonial parades) or to perform the manual of arms
- a tool with a sharp point and cutting edges for making holes in hard materials (usually rotating rapidly or by repeated blows)
- systematic training by multiple repetitions
verb
noun
- An approximately cylindrical container, usually with a crimped end and a screw top, used to contain and dispense semiliquid substances.
- (Scotland, slang) An idiot.
- (surfing) A wave which pitches forward when breaking, creating a hollow space inside.
- (Canada, US, colloquial) A television. Compare cathode ray tube and picture tube.
- (Australia, slang) A tin can containing beer.
- (British, colloquial, often capitalised as Tube, a trademark) The London Underground railway system, originally referred to the lower level lines that ran in tubular tunnels as opposed to the higher ones which ran in rectangular section tunnels. (Often the tube.)
- Anything that is hollow and cylindrical in shape.
- electronic device consisting of a system of electrodes arranged in an evacuated glass or metal envelope
- an electric railway operating below the surface of the ground (usually in a city)
- conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct objects or liquids or gases
- a hollow cylindrical shape
- (anatomy) any hollow cylindrical body structure
verb
noun
- A ventilation or heating conduit.
- The long, narrow, central body of a spear, arrow, or javelin.
- (meteorology) A relatively small area of precipitation that an onlook can discern from the dry surrounding area.
- (architecture) Any column or pillar, particularly the body of a column between its capital and pedestal.
- (literary) A beam or ray of light.
- The main axis of a feather.
- One of the poles between which a draught animal is harnessed to a vehicle.
- (anatomy) The main cylindrical part of the penis.
- A vertical passage housing a lift or elevator.
- (weaving) A component of a loom which holds the heddles and is raised by treadles to create the shed.
- The chamber of a blast furnace.
- (lacrosse) The long narrow body of a lacrosse stick.
- A vertical or inclined passage sunk into the earth as part of a mine.
- (slang) An act of sexual intercourse.
- A rotating machine element used to transmit power; a driveshaft
- (by extension) Anything cast or thrown as a spear or javelin.
- an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect
- a long pointed rod used as a tool or weapon
- obscene terms for penis
- the main (mid) section of a long bone
- a revolving rod that transmits power or motion
- the hollow spine of a feather
- a long vertical passage sunk into the earth, as for a mine or tunnel
- a column of light (as from a beacon)
- a vertical passageway through a building (as for an elevator)
- a line that forms the length of an arrow pointer
- a long rod or pole (especially the handle of an implement or the body of a weapon like a spear or arrow)
- (architecture) upright consisting of the vertical part of a column
verb
- (transitive) To push or pump (something, especially fluids) into a cavity or passage.
- (transitive) To introduce or add (something that is different or foreign).
- (transitive) To introduce (something) suddenly or violently.
- (transitive, computing) To introduce (code) into an existing program or its memory space, often without tight integration and sometimes through a security vulnerability.
- (intransitive) To take or be administered something by means of injection, especially medicine or drugs.
- (transitive) To administer an injection to (someone or something), especially of medicine or drugs.
- take by injection
- force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing
- feed intravenously
- to insert between other elements
- give an injection to
- to introduce (a new aspect or element)
verb
- (transitive) To open up a hole in, usually by means of a sudden and imprecise method (such as an explosion).
- (transitive) To make an impression on, by making a loud blast or din.
- (bodybuilding, slang) To have a period of full dosage of PEDs as opposed to reducing them during a cruise period.
- (transitive) To blight or wither.
- (transitive) To curse; to damn.
- (transitive) To bring destruction or ruin on; to destroy.
- (transitive) To criticize or reprimand severely; to verbally discipline or punish.
- (transitive, informal) To play (music) very loudly out of a speaker.
- (transitive, intransitive, slang, African-American Vernacular) To shoot; to attack or shoot (someone or a place).
- (soccer) To shoot; kick the ball in hope of scoring a goal.
- (intransitive) To make a loud noise.
- (biology, informal, transitive) To run a nucleotide sequence (for nucleic acids) or an amino acid sequence (for proteins) through a BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool).
- (transitive, science fiction) To shoot, especially with an energy weapon (as opposed to one which fires projectiles).
- (transitive) To shatter, as if by an explosion.
- make a strident sound
- apply a draft or strong wind to to
- hit with great force
- use explosives on
- create by using explosives
- criticize harshly or violently
- shrivel or wither or mature imperfectly
- make with or as if with an explosion
- shatter as if by explosion
- fire a shot; release
intj
noun
- An explosive charge for blasting.
- (cytology) An immature or undifferentiated cell (e.g., lymphoblast, myeloblast).
- A verbal attack or punishment; a severe criticism or reprimand.
- (figuratively, informal) A good time; an enjoyable moment.
- An explosion, especially for the purpose of destroying a mass of rock, etc.
- A forcible stream of gas or liquid from an orifice, for example from a bellows, the tuyeres of a blast furnace, a person's mouth, etc.
- (countable) A loud, sudden sound.
- (marketing) A promotional message sent to an entire mailing list.
- The continuous blowing to which one charge of ore or metal is subjected in a furnace.
- A flatulent disease of sheep.
- A sudden pernicious effect, as if by a noxious wind, especially on animals and plants; a blight.
- A hit of a recreational drug from a pipe.
- The exhaust steam from an engine, driving a column of air out of a boiler chimney, and thus creating an intense draught through the fire; also, any draught produced by the blast.
- (bodybuilding, slang) A period of full dosage of PEDs as opposed to a period of reduced intake.
- A violent gust of wind (in windy weather) or apparent wind (around a moving vehicle).
- (uncountable, broadcasting) Unwanted noise from a microphone.
- intense adverse criticism
- a sudden very loud noise
- a strong current of air
- a very long fly ball
- a highly pleasurable or exciting experience
- an explosion (as of dynamite)
verb
- penetrate
- pass through (a barrier)
- break out
- (intransitive, sports) To penetrate the defence of the opposition.
- (intransitive) To gain popularity.
- (transitive) To make or force a way through (a barrier).
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see break, through.
- (colloquial) To cross a perceptual threshold during the use of certain psychedelics in which one experiences drug-induced reverie or hallucinations.
verb
- penetrate
- continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.)
- succeed in reaching a real or abstract destination after overcoming problems
- attain success or reach a desired goal
- To be communicated or expressed successfully.
- (with an object preceded by the preposition for or with) To not let somebody down, keep or fulfil one's word or promise; to deliver (something).
- To come into a room or other space through a door or passageway.
- (intransitive, slang) To provide information on something; to confess.
- (idiomatic) To survive, to endure.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To succeed; to survive and overcome struggles.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see come, through.
noun
adj
- tending to penetrate; having the power of entering or piercing
- That can or does physically penetrate something; piercing, penetrating.
- having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions
- (sports) That can penetrate opposition defences.
- Displaying insight or discrimination; acute; penetrating.
- Pertaining to sexual activity involving penetration by the penis (or similar object).
verb
noun
verb
- (transitive) To pierce (something) with any long, pointed object.
- (transitive, heraldry) To place two coats of arms side by side on the same shield (often those of two spouses upon marriage).
- (ambitransitive) To enclose or fence with stakes.
- (ambitransitive) To pierce with a pale; to put to death by fixing on a sharp stake.
- kill by piercing with a spear or sharp pole
- pierce with a sharp stake or point
verb
- To put (a screw or other object) in or through another thing.
- (poker) To force (an opponent) to place all their poker chips in the pot (that is, to go all in) by wagering all of one's own chips.
- (informal) To ask or beg for (something) to be given for free; to cadge, to scrounge; also, to ask or beg (someone) to give something for free.
- To cut an external screw thread into (a bolt or rod) to create a screw.
- To draw off (a liquid) from a container or other source; also, to draw off a liquid from (a container or other source).
- (medicine, informal) To drain off fluid from (a person or a body cavity) by paracentesis.
- (chiefly US, informal) To choose or designate (someone) for a duty, an honour, membership of an organization, or a position.
- (slang) To shoot (someone or something) with a firearm.
- (slang, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse with (someone).
- (combat sports) To submit to an opponent, chiefly by indicating an intention to do so by striking a hand on the ground several times; to tap out.
- Often followed by at or on: to strike lightly with a clear sound; also, to make a sharp noise through this action.
- (communication, chiefly law enforcement) To connect a listening and/or recording device to (a communication cable or device) in order to listen in secretly on telephone calls or other communications; also, to secretly listen in on and/or record (a telephone call or other communication).
- (transitive) To lightly touch a touchscreen, usually an icon or button, to activate a function.
- Of a bell, a drum, etc.: to make a sharp noise, often as a signal.
- (slang) Also in the form tap on the shoulder: to arrest (someone).
- To break into or open up (a thing) so as to obtain something; to exploit, to penetrate; tap into.
- To furnish (a container, etc.) with a tap (noun etymology 1 sense 2.2) so that liquid can be drawn.
- To click on something, usually a device.
- (graphical user interface) To invoke a function on an electronic device such as a mobile phone by touching (a button, icon, or specific location on its touch screen).
- To strike (someone or something), chiefly lightly with a clear sound, but sometimes hard.
- To walk by striking the ground lightly with a clear sound.
- (combat sports) To force (an opponent) to submit, chiefly by indicating their intention to do so by striking a hand on the ground several times; to tap out.
- (British, dialectal or US) To repair (an item of footwear) by putting on a new heel or sole, or a piece of material on to the heel or sole.
- To (lightly) touch (a finger, foot, or other body part) on a surface, often repeatedly.
- To deplete (something); to tap out.
- To act as a tapster; to draw an alcoholic beverage from a container.
- (horticulture) To remove a taproot from (a plant).
- (board games, card games) To turn over (a playing card or playing piece) to remind players that it has already been used in that round.
- To cut an internal screw thread in (a hole); also, to cut (an internal screw thread) in a hole, or to create an internally threaded hole in (something).
- (transitive) To lightly and repeatedly touch (a person or one or more body parts) as part of various forms of psychological treatment.
- make a solicitation or entreaty for something; request urgently or persistently
- draw (liquor) from a tap
- tap a telephone or telegraph wire to get information
- cut a female screw thread with a tap
- draw from or dip into to get something
- pierce in order to draw a liquid from
- dance and make rhythmic clicking sounds by means of metal plates nailed to the sole of the dance shoes
- furnish with a tap or spout, so as to be able to draw liquid from it
- make light, repeated taps on a surface
- strike lightly
- draw from; make good use of
- walk with a tapping sound
noun
- A device used to listen in secretly on telephone calls or other communications.
- (graphical user interface) An act of touching a button, icon, or specific location on the touch screen of an electronic device such as a mobile phone to invoke a function.
- (informal, minimizer, chiefly in the negative) The smallest amount of work; a stroke of work.
- A conical peg or pin used to close and open the hole or vent in a container.
- (British) Ellipsis of taphouse or taproom (“place where alcoholic beverages are served on tap”).
- (British, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering) A connection made to an electrical or fluid conductor without breaking it; a tapping.
- (uncountable, dance) Ellipsis of tap dance.
- A secret interception of telephone calls or other communications using such a device; also, a recording of such a communication.
- (medicine, informal) A procedure that removes fluid from a body cavity; paracentesis.
- (British, dialectal or US) A piece of leather or other material fastened upon the bottom of an item of footwear when repairing the heel or sole; also (England, dialectal) the sole of an item of footwear.
- (phonetics) A single muscle contraction in vocal organs causing a consonant sound; also, the sound so made.
- (dance) One of the metal pieces attached to the sole of a tap dancer's shoe at the toe and heel to cause a tapping sound.
- A light blow or strike with a clear sound; a gentle rap; a pat; also, the sound made by such a blow or strike.
- (firearms, slang) A shot fired from a firearm.
- (mechanics) A cylindrical tool used to cut an internal screw thread in a hole, with cutting edges around the lower end and an upper end to which a handle is fitted to turn the tool.
- An object with a tapering conical form like a tap (etymology 1 sense 1); specifically, ellipsis of taproot (“long, tapering root of a plant”).
- A hollow device used to control the flow of a fluid, such as an alcoholic beverage from a cask, or a gas or liquid in a pipe.
- (finance) A situation where a borrowing government authority issues bonds over a period of time, usually at a fixed price, with volumes sold on a particular day dependent on market conditions.
- (India, chiefly East India) A malarial fever.
- Liquor drawn through a tap (etymology 1 sense 2.2); hence, a certain kind or quality of liquor; also (figurative, informal), a certain kind or quality of any thing.
- a light touch or stroke
- a plug for a bunghole in a cask
- the sound made by a gentle blow
- a tool for cutting female (internal) screw threads
- a gentle blow
- a faucet for drawing water from a pipe or cask
- a small metal plate that attaches to the toe or heel of a shoe (as in tap dancing)
- the act of tapping a telephone or telegraph line to get information
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- A smaller thing set into a larger thing, such as a small picture inside a larger one.
- (telecommunications) A modular microphone that can be removed from a telephone handset without disassembly.
- A small piece of material used to strengthen a garment.
- Anything inserted.
- (mining) An opening partway down a shaft, giving access to the intermediate levels.
- a small picture inserted within the bounds or a larger one
- a piece of material used to strengthen or enlarge a garment
- an artifact that is inserted or is to be inserted
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verb
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- (transitive) To poke, probe, feel, or fondle with a finger or fingers.
- (transitive, sex) To use the fingers to penetrate or sexually stimulate one's own or another person's vulva, vagina, or anus.
- (transitive) To identify or point out; to blame for something.
- (transitive, Internet) To query (a user's status) using the Finger protocol.
- (transitive, music) To provide instructions in written music as to which fingers are to be used to produce particular notes or passages.
- (transitive) To report to or identify for the authorities; to inform on.
- (transitive, music) To use specified finger positions in producing notes on a musical instrument.
- indicate the fingering for the playing of musical scores for keyboard instruments
- search for on the computer
- feel or handle with the fingers
- examine by touch
noun
- (aviation) Synonym of jet bridge: the narrow elevated walkway connecting a plane to an airport.
- (historical) Synonym of digit: former units of measure notionally based on its width but variously standardized, (especially) the English digit of ¹⁄₁₆ foot (about 1.9 cm).
- (fashion) A part of a glove intended to cover a finger.
- (originally US) An informal measure of alcohol based on its height in a given glass compared to the width of the pourer's fingers while holding it.
- Something similar in function or agency to the human finger, (usually) with regard to touching, grasping, or pointing.
- (US, rare slang) A criminal who scouts for prospective victims and targets or who performs reconnaissance before a crime.
- (botany) Various protruding plant structures, as a banana from its hand.
- (historical) The teeth parallel to the blade of a scythe, fitted to a wooden frame called a crade.
- Something similar in shape to the human finger, particularly:
- The projections of a reaper or mower which similarly separate the stalks for cutting.
- One of the slender bony structures before the pectoral fins of gurnards and sea robins (Triglidae).
- (especially in the phrase 'give someone the finger') An obscene or insulting gesture made by raising one's middle finger towards someone with the palm of one's hand facing inwards.
- One of the supporting structures of wings in birds, bats, etc. evolved from earlier toes or fingers.
- (cooking) Finger-shaped pieces of food.
- (computing theory) A leaf in a finger tree data structure.
- (figurative) That which points; an indicator, as of guilt, blame, or suspicion.
- (historical) A unit of length notionally based on the length of an adult human's middle finger, standardized as 4½ inches (11.43 cm).
- (nautical) Clipping of finger pier (“a shorter, narrower pier projecting from a larger dock”).
- (UK slang) A person.
- (vulgar) An act of fingering (inserting a finger into someone's vagina or rectum for sexual pleasure).
- (chemistry) A tube extending from a sealed system, or sometimes into one in the case of a cold finger.
- (radio) Any of the individual receivers used in a rake receiver to decode signal components.
- Something similarly extending, (especially) from a larger body, particularly:
- (zoology) Similar or similar-looking extremities in other animals, particularly:
- (informal, rare) Someone skilled in the use of their fingers, (especially) a pickpocket.
- (historical) Synonym of digit: ¹⁄₁₂ the observed diameter of the sun or moon, (especially) with regard to eclipses.
- (anatomy) A slender jointed extremity of the human hand, (often) exclusive of the thumb.
- (US, rare slang) An informer to the police, (especially) one who identifies a criminal during a lineup.
- The lower, smaller segment of an arthropod claw.
- any of the terminal members of the hand (sometimes excepting the thumb)
- one of the parts of a glove that provides covering for a finger or thumb
- the length of breadth of a finger used as a linear measure
verb
- (transitive) To press (something with a sharp point) into something else.
- (transitive) To place, set down (quickly or carelessly).
- (intransitive) To persist.
- (transitive) To fix on a pointed instrument; to impale.
- (intransitive) To remain loyal; to remain firm.
- (transitive, now only in dialects) To stab.
- (transitive, gymnastics, aviation, sports) To perform (a landing or a shot) perfectly.
- (intransitive) Of snow, to remain frozen on landing.
- To hit with a stick.
- (transitive, joinery) To run or plane (mouldings) in a machine, in contradistinction to working them by hand. Such mouldings are said to be stuck.
- (intransitive, blackjack, chiefly UK) To stand pat: to cease taking any more cards and finalize one's hand.
- (botany, transitive) To propagate plants by cuttings.
- (carpentry) To cut a piece of wood to be the stick member of a cope-and-stick joint.
- (intransitive, US, slang) To have sexual intercourse with.
- (transitive) To furnish or set with sticks.
- (transitive) To tolerate, to endure, to stick with.
- (intransitive) To jam; to stop moving.
- (intransitive) To become or remain attached; to adhere.
- (transitive) To attach with glue or as if by gluing.
- fasten with an adhesive material like glue
- pierce with a thrust using a pointed instrument
- cover and decorate with objects that pierce the surface
- be loyal to
- fasten into place by fixing an end or point into something
- stick to firmly
- be in a certain place and not leave
- come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation
- be a mystery or bewildering to
- fasten with or as with pins or nails
- saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous
- pierce or penetrate or puncture with something pointed
- be a devoted follower or supporter
- put, fix, force, or implant
- endure
- be or become fixed
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- A small, thin branch from a tree or bush; a twig; a branch.
- (slang) Vigorous driving of a car; gas.
- (US) A timber board, especially a two by four (inches).
- (military) The structure to which a set of bombs in a bomber aircraft are attached and which drops the bombs when it is released. The bombs themselves and, by extension, any load of similar items dropped in quick succession such as paratroopers or containers.
- (slang) A bar (counter where drinks are served).
- (nautical) A mast or part of a mast of a ship; also, a yard.
- (golf) The pole bearing a small flag that marks the hole.
- (fishing) The amount of fishing line resting on the water surface before a cast; line stick.
- (boardsports) A board as used in board sports, such as a surfboard, snowboard, or skateboard.
- (horse racing) The short whip carried by a jockey.
- (figurative) A negative stimulus or a punishment. (This sense derives from the metaphor of using a stick, a long piece of wood, to poke or beat a beast of burden to compel it to move forward.)
- (uncountable) That which sticks (remains attached to another surface).
- (US, colloquial, uncountable) Vehicles, collectively, equipped with manual transmissions.
- (baseball) General hitting ability.
- (carpentry) The vertical member of a cope-and-stick joint.
- A standard rectangular strip of chewing gum.
- (sports, generically) A long thin implement used to control a ball or puck in sports like hockey, polo, and lacrosse.
- A relatively long, thin piece of wood, of any size.
- (field hockey or ice hockey) The potential accuracy of a hockey stick, implicating also the player using it.
- Any roughly cylindrical (or rectangular) unit of a substance.
- (golf) The long-range driving ability of a golf club.
- (aviation, uncountable) Use of the stick to control the aircraft.
- A cudgel or truncheon (usually of wood, metal or plastic), especially one carried by police or guards.
- (slang) A cigarette (usually a tobacco cigarette, less often a marijuana cigarette).
- (video games) A joystick.
- (US, slang, uncountable) The cue used in billiards, pool, snooker, etc.
- (computing) A memory stick.
- (US, colloquial) A manual transmission, a vehicle equipped with a manual transmission, so called because of the stick-like, i.e. twig-like, control (the gear shift) with which the driver of such a vehicle controls its transmission.
- (uncountable) The tendency to stick (remain stuck), stickiness.
- A cane or walking stick (usually wooden, metal or plastic) to aid in walking.
- (slang) A handgun.
- (computing) Any of the eight 16-character groups making up the 128 characters of the 7-bit ASCII character set.
- (countable) A thrust with a pointed instrument; a stab.
- (slang) Vigor; spirit; effort, energy, intensity.
- The game of pool, or an individual pool game.
- (chiefly Canada, US) A small rectangular block, with a length several times its width, which contains by volume one half of a cup of shortening (butter, margarine or lard).
- (baseball) The potential hitting power of a specific bat.
- (figuratively) A piece (of furniture, especially if wooden).
- (jazz, slang) The clarinet.
- (slang, uncountable) Corporal punishment, beatings
- (British, figurative) Criticism or ridicule, often in the expressions "get a lot of stick", "get some stick", "come in for some stick", etc.
- (aviation) The control column of an aircraft; a joystick. (By convention, a wheel-like control mechanism with a handgrip on opposite sides, similar to the steering wheel of an automobile, can also be called the "stick", although "yoke" or "control wheel" is more commonly seen.)
- (US military slang, World War I) An aircraft’s propeller.
- A bunch of something wrapped around or attached to a stick.
- (motor racing) The traction of tires on the road surface.
- a small thin branch of a tree
- a long implement (usually made of wood) that is shaped so that hockey or polo players can hit a puck or ball
- a long thin implement resembling a length of wood
- a rectangular quarter pound block of butter or margarine
- threat of a penalty
- an implement consisting of a length of wood
- a lever used by a pilot to control the ailerons and elevators of an airplane
- marijuana leaves rolled into a cigarette for smoking
- informal terms for the leg
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- (transitive) To make a breach in.
- (transitive) To violate or break.
- (intransitive, of a whale or other sea creature) To leap out of the water.
- (intransitive) To suffer a breach.
- (law, informal, transitive, usually passive) To charge, convict or take legal action against someone due to not meeting a legal obligation.
- (transitive, nautical, of the sea) To break into a ship or into a coastal defence.
- make an opening or gap in
- act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
noun
- The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.
- (figurative) A difference in opinions, social class, etc.
- (law) A breaking or infraction of a law, or of any obligation or tie; violation; non-fulfillment.
- A gap or opening made by breaking or battering, as in a wall, fortification or levee / embankment; the space between the parts of a solid body rent by violence.
- A breaking of waters, as over a vessel or a coastal defence; the waters themselves.
- A breaking up of amicable relations, a falling out.
- A breaking out upon; an assault.
- a failure to perform some promised act or obligation
- an opening (especially a gap in a dike or fortification)
- a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
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- To conduct an extremely thorough investigation into an aspect or aspects of a construct, to discover a deeper and/or wider understanding of it, implying that a previous investigation is known to have been inadequate, inconclusive, limited, or absent an element believed to exist.
- To carry out a subanalysis
noun
- A test made with a probe or sonde.
- (chiefly in the plural) Any place or part of the ocean, or other water, where a sounding line will reach the bottom.
- A measured depth of water.
- The action of the verb to sound.
- The act of inserting of a thin metal rod into the urethra of the penis for medical or sexual purposes.(See urethral sounding).
- The sand, shells, etc. brought up by the sounding lead when it has touched bottom.
- a measure of the depth of water taken with a sounding line
- the act of measuring depth of water (usually with a sounding line)
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- a medical instrument for dilating a bodily passage or cavity in order to examine the interior
- a mirror (especially one made of polished metal) for use in an optical instrument
- A lookout place.
- (medicine) A medical instrument used during an examination to dilate an orifice.
- (ornithology) A bright, lustrous patch of colour found on the wings of ducks and some other birds, usually situated on the distal portions of the secondary quills, and much more brilliant in the adult male than in the female.
- A mirror, especially one used in a telescope.
noun
- (medicine) A probe for searching a wound.
- A pavilion or portable lodge consisting of skins, canvas, or some strong cloth, stretched and sustained by poles, used for sheltering people from the weather.
- A trouser tent; a piece of fabric, etc. protruding outward like a tent.
- (Scotland) A portable pulpit set up outside to accommodate worshippers who cannot fit into a church.
- (medicine) A roll of lint or linen, or a conical or cylindrical piece of sponge or other absorbent, used chiefly to dilate a natural canal, to keep open the orifice of a wound, or to absorb discharges.
- a portable shelter (usually of canvas stretched over supporting poles and fastened to the ground with ropes and pegs)
- a web that resembles a tent or carpet
verb
- (intransitive) To form into a tent-like shape.
- (intransitive) To go camping.
- (medicine, sometimes figurative) To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent.
- (cooking) To prop up aluminum foil in an inverted "V" (reminiscent of a pop-up tent) over food to reduce splatter, before putting it in the oven.
- Synonym of fumigate.
- live in or as if in a tent
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noun
- an investigation conducted using a flexible surgical instrument to explore an injury or a body cavity
- (sciences) A small device, especially an electrode, used to explore, investigate or measure something by penetrating or being placed in it.
- (astronautics) A small, usually uncrewed, spacecraft used to acquire information or measurements about its surroundings.
- (go) A move with multiple possible answers, seeking to make the opponent choose and commit to a strategy.
- An act of probing; a prod, a poke.
- (comedy, fiction) An anal probe, a fictional instrument commonly used by aliens on abducted humans.
- (surgery) Any of various medical instruments used to explore wounds, organs, etc.
- (figuratively) Something which penetrates something else, as though to explore; something which obtains information.
- (biochemistry) Any group of atoms or molecules radioactively labeled in order to study a given molecule or other structure
- (figuratively) An investigation or inquiry.
- (aeronautics) A tube attached to an aircraft which can be fitted into the drogue from a tanker aircraft to allow for aerial refuelling.
- an exploratory action or expedition
- an inquiry into unfamiliar or questionable activities
- a flexible slender surgical instrument with a blunt end that is used to explore wounds or body cavities
noun
- receptacle where something (a pipe or probe or end of a bone) is inserted
- a bony hollow into which a structure fits
- a receptacle into which an electric device can be inserted
- (electricity) An opening into which a plug or other connecting part is designed to fit (e.g. a light bulb socket).
- (computing) One endpoint of a two-way named pipe on Unix and Unix-like systems, used for interprocess communication.
- A steel apparatus attached to a saddle to protect the thighs and legs.
- (anatomy) A hollow into a bone which a part fits, such as an eye, or another bone, in the case of a joint.
- The socket head for a socket wrench.
- (computing) One endpoint of a two-way communication link, used for interprocess communication across a network.
- A hollow tool for grasping and lifting tools dropped in a well-boring.
- The hollow of a candlestick.
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- The act of penetrating something.
- The insertion of the penis (or similar object) during sexual intercourse.
- The act of penetrating a given situation with the mind or faculties; perception, discernment.
- (marketing) The proportion of the target audience who buy or use the specified product or service.
- (blackjack) A number or fraction that represents how many cards/decks will be dealt before shuffling, in contrast to the total number of cards/decks in play.
- The act of progressing or moving forward through or into something.
- an attack that penetrates into enemy territory
- the act of entering into or through something
- the act (by a man) of inserting his penis into the vagina of a woman
- the ability to make way into or through something
- clear or deep perception of a situation
- the depth to which something penetrates (especially the depth reached by a projectile that hits a target)
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- (transitive) To make a hole through something.
- (intransitive) To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.
- (intransitive) To make a hole with, or as if with, a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool.
- (transitive, sports, slang) To push or drive (a boxer into the ropes, a boat out of its course, etc.).
- (transitive) To form or enlarge (something) by means of a boring instrument or apparatus.
- simple past of bear
- (intransitive) To glare (as if to drill a hole with the eyes).
- (intransitive) To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns.
- (transitive) To make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring; to force a narrow and difficult passage through.
- (colloquial) past participle of bear
- (proscribed) simple past of bare
- (transitive) To inspire boredom in somebody.
- make a hole, especially with a pointed power or hand tool
- cause to be bored
noun
- A hole drilled or milled through something, or (by extension) its diameter.
- Something dull or uninteresting.
- A sudden and rapid flow of tide occurring in certain rivers and estuaries which rolls up as a wave.
- A tool, such as an auger, for making a hole by boring.
- The place where such a well exists.
- The tunnel inside of a gun's barrel through which the bullet travels when fired, or (by extension) its diameter.
- A capped well drilled to tap artesian water.
- One who inspires boredom or lack of interest; an uninteresting person.
- Calibre; importance.
- diameter of a tube or gun barrel
- a person who evokes boredom
- a hole or passage made by a drill; usually made for exploratory purposes
- a high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary)
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noun
- an investigation conducted using a flexible surgical instrument to explore an injury or a body cavity
- (sciences) A small device, especially an electrode, used to explore, investigate or measure something by penetrating or being placed in it.
- (astronautics) A small, usually uncrewed, spacecraft used to acquire information or measurements about its surroundings.
- (go) A move with multiple possible answers, seeking to make the opponent choose and commit to a strategy.
- An act of probing; a prod, a poke.
- (comedy, fiction) An anal probe, a fictional instrument commonly used by aliens on abducted humans.
- (surgery) Any of various medical instruments used to explore wounds, organs, etc.
- (figuratively) Something which penetrates something else, as though to explore; something which obtains information.
- (biochemistry) Any group of atoms or molecules radioactively labeled in order to study a given molecule or other structure
- (figuratively) An investigation or inquiry.
- (aeronautics) A tube attached to an aircraft which can be fitted into the drogue from a tanker aircraft to allow for aerial refuelling.
- an exploratory action or expedition
- an inquiry into unfamiliar or questionable activities
- a flexible slender surgical instrument with a blunt end that is used to explore wounds or body cavities
verb
- (transitive) To stamp holes in; to perforate.
- (intransitive) To eagerly seize an opportunity.
- (intransitive) To leap into the air intending to seize someone or something.
- (transitive) To strike or seize with the talons; to pierce, as with the talons.
- (intransitive) To attack suddenly by leaping.
- (transitive) To sprinkle or rub with pounce powder.
- move down on as if in an attack
noun
- A sudden leaping attack.
- (historical) A type of fine powder, as of sandarac, or cuttlefish bone, sprinkled over wet ink to dry the ink after writing or on rough paper to smooth the writing surface.
- (mining) Synonym of bump (“sudden movement of underground strata”).
- (historical) Charcoal dust, or some other coloured powder for making patterns through perforated designs, used by embroiderers, lacemakers, etc.
- Cloth worked in eyelet holes.
- A punch or stamp.
- the act of pouncing
verb
- (transitive) To cause to penetrate in this way.
- (transitive, military) To send (soldiers, spies, etc.) through gaps in the enemy line.
- (intransitive, of an intravenous needle) To move from a vein, remaining in the body.
- (transitive) To cause (a liquid) to pass through something by filtration.
- (ambitransitive, medicine) To invade or penetrate a tissue or organ.
- (ambitransitive) To surreptitiously penetrate, enter or gain access to.
- (ambitransitive, of a liquid) To pass through something by filtration.
- enter a group or organization in order to spy on the members
- pass into or through by filtering or permeating
- pass through an enemy line; in a military conflict
- cause (a liquid) to enter by penetrating the interstices
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noun
- (slang, surfing, snowboarding, skateboarding) A young or inexperienced surfer, skateboarder, or snowboarder.
- A boy serving on a ship.
- (nautical) A ring formed of a single strand of rope, laid in three times round, fastening the upper edge of a sail to its stay.
- (flags) An eyelet at the hoist end of a flag, used to fasten the flag to its halyard.
- A reinforced eyelet, or a small metal or plastic ring used to reinforce an eyelet.
- fastener consisting of a metal ring for lining a small hole to permit the attachment of cords or lines
verb
- form by probing, penetrating, or digging
- penetrate injuriously
- function as a cutting instrument
- divide a deck of cards at random into two parts to make selection difficult
- fell by sawing; hew
- refuse to acknowledge
- discharge from a group
- allow incision or separation
- record a performance on (a medium)
- hit (a ball) with a spin so that it turns in the opposite direction
- pass directly and often in haste
- stop filming
- intentionally fail to attend
- grow through the gums
- cut and assemble the components of
- lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture
- give the appearance or impression of
- make an incision or separation
- make an abrupt change of image or sound
- cut off the testicles (of male animals such as horses)
- style and tailor in a certain fashion
- form or shape by cutting or incising
- cause to stop operating by disengaging a switch
- have a reducing effect
- separate with or as if with an instrument
- reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
- pass through or across
- cut down on; make a reduction in
- make out and issue
- be able to manage or manage successfully
- turn sharply; change direction abruptly
- weed out unwanted or unnecessary things
- make a recording of
- reap or harvest
- create by duplicating data
- move (one's fist)
- shorten as if by severing the edges or ends of
- cease, stop
- dissolve by breaking down the fat of
- perform or carry out
- have grow through the gums
- To absent oneself from (a class, an appointment, etc.).
- (intransitive) To enter a queue in the wrong place.
- (transitive, cricket) To make the ball spin sideways by running one's fingers down the side of the ball while bowling it.
- (intransitive, slang) To leave abruptly.
- (intransitive) To engage in self-harm by making cuts in one's own skin.
- To perform an incision on, for example with a knife.
- To abridge or shorten a work; to remove a portion of a recording during editing.
- (slang) To wound with a knife.
- To wound or hurt deeply the sensibilities of; to pierce.
- (transitive, film) To edit a film by selecting takes from original footage.
- (intransitive) To change direction suddenly.
- To separate or omit, in a situation where one was previously associated.
- (transitive, social) To ignore as a social rebuff or snub.
- To perform (an elaborate dancing movement etc.).
- (transitive) To exhibit (a figure having some trait).
- To reduce, especially intentionally.
- (ambitransitive) To deliver a stroke with a whip or like instrument to.
- (bodybuilding) To lose body mass, aiming to keep muscle but lose body fat.
- (transitive, cricket) To deflect (a bowled ball) to the off, with a chopping movement of the bat.
- (transitive, computing) To remove (text, a picture, etc.) and place in memory in order to paste at a later time.
- (sports) To drive (a ball) to one side, as by (in billiards or croquet) hitting it fine with another ball, or (in tennis) striking it with the racket inclined.
- To castrate or geld.
- (intransitive) To intersect or cross in such a way as to divide in half or nearly so.
- (slang, intransitive) To run or hurry.
- (transitive, slang) To dilute or adulterate something, especially a recreational drug.
- (intransitive, film) To make an abrupt transition from one scene or image to another.
- (transitive, slang) To make, negotiate; to finalise, conclude; to issue.
- (transitive, intransitive) To divide a pack of playing cards into two parts, often followed by placing the two parts back together in the opposite order.
- To form or shape by cutting.
- (intransitive) To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.
- (transitive) To renounce or give up.
- To interfere, as a horse; to strike one foot against the opposite foot or ankle in using the legs.
- To divide with a knife, scissors, or another sharp instrument.
- (transitive) To stop, disengage, or cease.
adj
- (used of grass or vegetation) cut down with a hand implement or machine
- (of pages of a book) having the folds of the leaves trimmed or slit
- mixed with water
- separated into parts or laid open or penetrated with a sharp edge or instrument
- (of a male animal) having the testicles removed
- (used of rates or prices) reduced usually sharply
- with parts removed
- made neat and tidy by trimming
- fashioned or shaped by cutting
- (of a gem) Carved into a shape; not raw.
- (bodybuilding) Having muscular definition in which individual groups of muscle fibers stand out among larger muscles.
- (slang, New Zealand, formerly UK) Intoxicated as a result of drugs or alcohol.
- (participial adjective) Having been cut.
- (cricket, of a shot) Played with a horizontal bat to hit the ball backward of point.
- Reduced.
- (informal) Circumcised or having been the subject of female genital mutilation.
- (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Upset, angry; emotionally hurt.
noun
- a wound made by cutting
- in baseball; a batter's attempt to hit a pitched ball
- the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage
- a refusal to recognize someone you know
- (sports) a stroke that puts reverse spin on the ball
- a distinct selection of music from a recording or a compact disc
- a remark capable of wounding mentally
- a canal made by erosion or excavation
- a share of the profits
- the act of shortening something by chopping off the ends
- the act of penetrating or opening open with a sharp edge
- the act of cutting something into parts
- a piece of meat that has been cut from an animal carcass
- (film) an immediate transition from one shot to the next
- the style in which a garment is cut
- a step on some scale
- the act of reducing the amount or number
- an unexcused absence from class
- the division of a deck of cards before dealing
- a trench resembling a furrow that was made by erosion or excavation
- (slang, uncountable) That which is used to dilute or adulterate a recreational drug.
- (card games) The act or right of dividing a deck of playing cards.
- (slang) An insult.
- An opening of a living body resulting from cutting; an incision or wound.
- (slang) A hidden, secluded, or secure place.
- An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving.
- (card games) The card obtained by dividing the pack.
- The manner or style in which a garment, other article of clothing, or sail is fashioned.
- A decrease or deletion.
- (archaeology) A truncation, a context that represents a moment in time when other archaeological deposits were removed for the creation of some feature such as a ditch or pit.
- (Internet) A dividing line in a Tumblr post, the content below which is hidden until the reader reveals it.
- A haircut.
- (bodybuilding) A time period when one attempts to lose fat while retaining muscle mass.
- (literal, figurative) The act of cutting.
- Such a wound through human skin.
- A sleeveless vest worn by members of a motorcycle club.
- (fashion) A notch shaved into an eyebrow.
- (fencing) An attack made with a chopping motion of the blade, landing with its edge or point.
- (especially theater, film) A passage omitted or to be omitted from a play, movie script, speech, etc.
- (cricket) A batsman's shot played with a swinging motion of the bat, to hit the ball backward of point.
- (graph theory) The partition of a graph’s vertices into two subgroups.
- A skein of yarn.
- Such a passage dug for a roadway for a paved road or railroad, a canal, a runway, etc.
- A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove.
- (golf) In a stroke play competition, the early elimination of those players who have not then attained a preannounced score, so that the rest of the competition is less pressed for time and more entertaining for spectators.
- A deliberate snub, typically a refusal to return a bow or other acknowledgement of acquaintance.
- A definable part, such as an individual song, of a recording, particularly of commercial records, audio tapes, CDs, etc.
- (literal, figurative) The result of cutting.
- (film) A particular version or edit of a film.
- (sports) In lawn tennis, etc., a slanting stroke causing the ball to spin and bound irregularly; also, the spin thus given to the ball.
- A slab or slice, especially of meat.
- (rail transport) A string of railway cars coupled together, shorter than a train.
- (cricket) Sideways movement of the ball through the air caused by a fast bowler imparting spin to the ball.
- An unkind act; a cruelty.
- A share or portion of profits.
- An artificial channel for marine navigation, as distinguished from a navigable river.
- (petrochemistry) The range of temperatures used to distill a particular mixture of hydrocarbons from crude oil.
intj
verb
- (transitive) To remove (something) by poking (often creating a hole in the process).
- (intransitive) To be barely visible past an obstruction or obstructions; to protrude.
- (transitive) To cause (something) to protrude or emerge.
- (intransitive) To emerge from behind, in, or under something.
- reach outward in space
verb
- (transitive) To make a hole through something.
- (intransitive) To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.
- (intransitive) To make a hole with, or as if with, a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool.
- (transitive, sports, slang) To push or drive (a boxer into the ropes, a boat out of its course, etc.).
- (transitive) To form or enlarge (something) by means of a boring instrument or apparatus.
- simple past of bear
- (intransitive) To glare (as if to drill a hole with the eyes).
- (intransitive) To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns.
- (transitive) To make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring; to force a narrow and difficult passage through.
- (colloquial) past participle of bear
- (proscribed) simple past of bare
- (transitive) To inspire boredom in somebody.
- make a hole, especially with a pointed power or hand tool
- cause to be bored
noun
- A hole drilled or milled through something, or (by extension) its diameter.
- Something dull or uninteresting.
- A sudden and rapid flow of tide occurring in certain rivers and estuaries which rolls up as a wave.
- A tool, such as an auger, for making a hole by boring.
- The place where such a well exists.
- The tunnel inside of a gun's barrel through which the bullet travels when fired, or (by extension) its diameter.
- A capped well drilled to tap artesian water.
- One who inspires boredom or lack of interest; an uninteresting person.
- Calibre; importance.
- diameter of a tube or gun barrel
- a person who evokes boredom
- a hole or passage made by a drill; usually made for exploratory purposes
- a high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary)
verb
adj
- (figuratively) Without substance; having no real or significant worth; meaningless.
- (gymnastics) Pertaining to hollow body position
- (of something solid) Having an empty space or cavity inside.
- (wine) Synonym of empty (“lacking between the onset of tasting and the finish”).
- Concave; gaunt; sunken.
- (figuratively) Insincere, devoid of validity; specious.
- (of a sound) Distant, eerie; echoing, reverberating, as if in a hollow space; dull, muffled; often low-pitched.
- as if echoing in a hollow space
- lacking in substance or character
- not solid; having a space or gap or cavity
- devoid of significance or force
adv
intj
noun
verb
adj
noun
- An opening that goes all the way through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent.
- (slang) An undesirable place to live or visit.
- (slang, rail transport) A passing loop; a siding provided for trains traveling in opposite directions on a single-track line to pass each other.
- (baseball) The rear portion of the defensive team between the shortstop and the third baseman.
- (figuratively) A weakness; a flaw or ambiguity.
- (slang) Any bodily orifice, in particular the anus.
- (archaeology, slang) An excavation pit or trench.
- (figurative) Difficulty, in particular, debt.
- (slang, derogatory) A person's mouth.
- (informal, with "the") Solitary confinement, a high-security prison cell often used as punishment.
- (golf) A subsurface standard-size hole, also called cup, hitting the ball into which is the object of play. Each hole, of which there are usually eighteen as the standard on a full course, is located on a prepared surface, called the green, of a particular type grass.
- (Ireland, Scotland, vulgar) A vagina.
- (stud poker) A card (also called a hole card) dealt face down thus unknown to all but its holder; the status in which such a card is.
- (physics) In semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively charged particle.
- (computing) A security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit.
- A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; a dent; a depression; a fissure.
- In the game of fives, part of the floor of the court between the step and the pepperbox.
- (chess) A square on the board, with some positional significance, that a player does not, and cannot in the future, control with a friendly pawn.
- (graph theory) A chordless cycle in a graph.
- (Canada, US, historical) A mountain valley.
- (golf) The part of a game in which a player attempts to hit the ball into one of the holes.
- a depression hollowed out of solid matter
- informal terms for a difficult situation
- one playing period (from tee to green) on a golf course
- an unoccupied space
- an opening deliberately made in or through something
- a fault
- an opening into or through something
- informal terms for the mouth
verb
- (transitive) To make a groove, hole, or mark in by scooping with or as if with a gouge.
- (intransitive) To use a gouge.
- (transitive) To cheat or impose upon; in particular, to charge an unfairly or unreasonably high price.
- (transitive, intransitive) To dig or scoop (something) out with or as if with a gouge; in particular, to use a thumb to push or try to push the eye (of a person) out of its socket.
- force with the thumb
- make a groove in
- obtain by coercion or intimidation
noun
- An incising tool that cuts blanks or forms for envelopes, gloves, etc., from leather, paper, or other materials.
- A bookbinder's tool with a curved face, used for blind tooling or gilding.
- (mining) Soft material lying between the wall of a vein and the solid vein of ore.
- A cut or groove, as left by a gouge or something sharp.
- (US, military, slang, uncountable) Information.
- (slang) A cheat, a fraud; an imposition.
- A chisel with a curved blade for cutting or scooping channels, grooves, or holes in wood, stone, etc.
- (slang) An impostor.
- (originally US, colloquial) An act of gouging.
- and edge tool with a blade like a trough for cutting channels or grooves
- the act of gouging
- an impression in a surface (as made by a blow)
verb
- pierce or penetrate
- make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
- find the solution or key to
- become punctured or penetrated
- become separated into pieces or fragments
- do a break dance
- enter someone's (virtual or real) property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- fall sharply
- separate from a clinch, in boxing
- cause to give up a habit
- weaken or destroy in spirit or body
- change directions suddenly
- exchange for smaller units of money
- undergo breaking
- give up
- interrupt a continued activity
- interrupt the flow of current in
- break a piece from a whole
- make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing
- move away or escape suddenly
- invalidate by judicial action
- destroy the completeness of a set of related items
- cease an action temporarily
- happen or take place
- render inoperable or ineffective
- emerge from the surface of a body of water
- come to an end (of an event)
- cause the failure or ruin of
- put an end to a state or an activity
- fracture a bone of
- stop operating or functioning
- diminish or discontinue abruptly
- curl over and fall apart in surf or foam, of waves
- terminate or end
- come forth or begin from a state of latency
- make submissive, obedient, or useful
- crack; of the male voice in puberty
- vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity
- destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments
- come into being
- force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up
- find a flaw in
- ruin completely
- become fractured; break or crack on the surface only
- happen
- go to pieces
- break down, literally or metaphorically
- act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
- surpass in excellence
- lessen in force or effect
- change suddenly from one tone quality or register to another
- make the opening shot that scatters the balls
- scatter or part
- be broken in
- assign to a lower position; reduce in rank
- reduce to bankruptcy
- be released or become known; of news
- fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns
- (transitive, tennis) To win a game (against one's opponent) as receiver.
- (intransitive, of a storm) To begin or end.
- (intransitive, sports) To counter-attack.
- (intransitive, of a spell of settled weather) To end.
- (intransitive) To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
- (transitive, ergative) To disclose or make known an item of news, a band, etc.
- (intransitive, of a male voice) To become deeper at puberty.
- (transitive, backgammon) To remove one of the two men on (a point).
- (transitive) To end (a connection); to disconnect.
- (intransitive, billiards, snooker, pool) To make the first shot; to scatter the balls from the initial neat arrangement.
- (intransitive) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
- (intransitive, of a voice) To alter in type due to emotion or strain: in men, generally to go up, in women, sometimes to go down; to crack.
- (specifically) To cause the shell of (an egg) to crack, so that the inside (yolk) is accessible.
- (transitive, theater) To end the run of (a play).
- (transitive) To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
- (intransitive) To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change gait.
- (intransitive) To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily; to go on break.
- (transitive) To violate; to fail to adhere to.
- (specifically) To open (a safe) without using the correct key, combination, or the like.
- (transitive) To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
- (transitive) To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
- (transitive) To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
- (intransitive, of morning, dawn, day etc.) To arrive.
- (transitive) To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
- (transitive, with for) To (attempt to) disengage and flee to; to make a run for.
- (rare, mainly historical or a misspelling) To brake.
- (copulative, informal) To suddenly become.
- (transitive) To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately) hit something else beneath.
- (transitive) To change a steady state abruptly.
- To turn an animal into a beast of burden.
- (music, slang) To B-boy; to breakdance.
- (specifically, in programming) To cause (some feature of a program or piece of software) to stop functioning properly; to cause a regression.
- (programming) To suspend the execution of a program during debugging so that the state of the program can be investigated.
- (transitive, intransitive) To crack or fracture (bone) under a physical strain.
- (intransitive) To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
- (ergative, transitive, intransitive) To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.
- (computing) To cause, or allow the occurrence of, a line break.
- (transitive) To ruin financially.
- (transitive, gaming slang) To render (a game) unchallenging by altering its rules or exploiting loopholes or weaknesses in them in a way that gives a player an unfair advantage.
- (finance, intransitive) Of prices on the stock exchange: to fall suddenly.
- (transitive, military, most often in the passive tense) To demote; to reduce the military rank of.
- (computing) To terminate the execution of a program before normal completion.
- (intransitive, of a fever) To go down, in terms of temperature, indicating that the most dangerous part of the illness has passed.
- (transitive, intransitive) To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
- (intransitive, of a sauce or emulsion) To de-emulsify.
- (transitive) To surpass or do better than (a specific number); to do better than (a record), setting a new record.
- (transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
- (intransitive, of a sound) To become audible suddenly.
- (intransitive, of a wave of water) To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
- (transitive) To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
noun
- an unexpected piece of good luck
- an abrupt change in the tone or register of the voice (as at puberty or due to emotion)
- the opening shot that scatters the balls in billiards or pool
- some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity
- a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
- an escape from jail
- a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
- (tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving
- a pause from doing something (as work)
- the act of breaking something
- any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare
- an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity
- the occurrence of breaking
- a sudden dash
- (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
- breaking of hard tissue such as bone
- (programming) Ellipsis of breakpoint.
- (music) The transition area between a singer's vocal registers; the passaggio.
- A rest or pause, usually from work.
- A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
- An interruption of continuity; departure from or rupture with.
- Alternative form of brake (“cart or carriage without a body, for breaking in horses”)
- (computing) The separation between lines, paragraphs or pages of a written text.
- (soccer) The counter-attack.
- A short holiday.
- (snooker) The number of points scored by one player in one visit to the table.
- (finance) A sudden fall in prices on the stock exchange.
- A scheduled interval of days or weeks between periods of school instruction; a holiday.
- (computing) A keystroke or other signal that causes a program to terminate or suspend execution.
- (UK, education) A time for students to talk or play between lessons.
- (geography, chiefly in the plural) An area along a river that features steep banks, bluffs, or gorges (e.g., Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, US).
- A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
- (music) A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as rhythmic dance music.
- (British, weather) A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
- An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast, or sports game.
- (surfing) A place where waves break (that is, where waves pitch or spill forward creating white water).
- An act of escaping.
- The beginning (of the morning).
- (music) A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
- A temporary split with a romantic partner.
- (tennis) A game won by the receiving player(s).
- (horse racing) The start of a horse race.
- The opening of packages of cards for a collectible card game, often for further distribution to paying customers.
- (golf) The curve imparted to the ball's motion on the green due to slope or grass texture.
- An instance of breaking something into two or more pieces.
- (equitation) A sharp bit or snaffle.
- (billiards, snooker, pool) The first shot in a game of billiards.
- (music) The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is, to move from its lower to its upper register.
verb
- (transitive) To enlarge (a hole), especially using a reamer; to bore (a hole) wider.
- (slang, vulgar, by extension from sense of enlarging a hole) To sexually penetrate in a rough and painful way.
- (transitive) To remove (material) by reaming.
- (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To cream; mantle; foam; froth.
- (transitive) To remove burrs and debris from inside (something, such as a freshly bored hole) using a tool.
- To shape or form, especially using a reamer.
- (slang) To yell at or berate.
- remove by making a hole or by boring
- enlarge with a reamer
- squeeze the juice out (of a fruit) with a reamer
noun
- (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Cream; also, the creamlike froth on ale or other liquor; froth or foam in general.
- A bundle, package, or quantity of paper, nowadays usually containing 500 sheets.
- (chiefly in the plural) An abstract large amount of something.
- a large quantity of written matter
- a quantity of paper; 480 or 500 sheets; one ream equals 20 quires
verb
noun
verb
verb
- (transitive) To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate.
- (transitive) To make and ratify; to reach; to find.
- (intransitive) To sound by percussion, with blows, or as if with blows.
- (transitive) To create an impression.
- (transitive, sometimes with out or through) To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate.
- (intransitive) To carry out a violent or illegal action.
- (transitive) To cause to ignite by friction.
- To touch; to act by appulse.
- (transitive) To punish; to afflict; to smite.
- To unfasten, to loosen (chains, bonds, etc.).
- (transitive) To hit.
- (transitive, figurative) To impinge upon.
- To affect by a sudden impression or impulse.
- (intransitive) To act suddenly, especially in a violent or criminal way.
- To make a sudden impression upon, as if by a blow; to affect with some strong emotion.
- (sports) To score a goal.
- (transitive) To give, as a blow; to impel, as with a blow; to give a force to; to dash; to cast.
- (transitive) To cause or produce by a stroke, or suddenly, as by a stroke.
- To stroke or pass lightly; to wave.
- (nautical) To haul down or lower (a flag, mast, etc.)
- (intransitive, by extension) To stop working as a protest to achieve better working conditions.
- (intransitive) To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to penetrate.
- (by extension) To capitulate; to signal a surrender by hauling down the colours.
- (intransitive) To set off on a walk or trip.
- (transitive, finance) To balance (a ledger or account).
- To hit upon, or light upon, suddenly.
- (transitive) To cause to sound by one or more beats; to indicate or notify by audible strokes. Of a clock, to announce (an hour of the day), usually by one or more sounds.
- (transitive) To impress, seem or appear to (a person).
- (masonry) To cut off (a mortar joint, etc.) even with the face of the wall, or inward at a slight angle.
- To discover a source of something, often a buried raw material such as ore (especially gold) or crude oil.
- To level (a measure of grain, salt, etc.) with a straight instrument, scraping off what is above the level of the top.
- (intransitive) To become attached to something; said of the spat of oysters.
- To infest the flesh of a living vertebrate.
- (transitive) To manufacture, as by stamping.
- To dismantle and take away (a theater set; a tent; etc.).
- (intransitive) To deliver a quick blow or thrust; to give blows.
- (transitive, fishing) To hook (a fish) by a quick turn of the wrist.
- deliver a sharp blow, as with the hand, fist, or weapon
- form by stamping, punching, or printing
- cause to experience suddenly
- hit against; come into sudden contact with
- affect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely
- make a strategic, offensive, assault against an enemy, opponent, or a target
- arrive at after reckoning, deliberating, and weighing
- hook by a pull on the line
- drive something violently into a location
- have an emotional or cognitive impact upon
- pierce with force
- cause to form (an electric arc) between electrodes of an arc lamp
- touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly
- remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line
- produce by manipulating keys or strings of musical instruments
- find unexpectedly
- smooth with a strickle
- disassemble a temporary structure, such as a tent or a theatrical set
- occupy or take on
- stop work in order to press demands
- produce by ignition or a blow
- indicate (a certain time) by striking
- attain
noun
- (cricket) The status of being the batsman that the bowler is bowling at.
- A work stoppage (or otherwise concerted stoppage of an activity) as a form of protest.
- The primary face of a hammer, opposite the peen.
- (fishing) A nibble on the bait by a fish.
- (baseball) A status resulting from a batter swinging and missing a pitch, or not swinging at a pitch when the ball goes in the strike zone, or hitting a foul ball that is not caught.
- (geology) The compass direction of the line of intersection between a rock layer and the surface of the Earth or another solid celestial body.
- The discovery of a source of something.
- (bowling) The act of knocking down all ten pins on the first roll of a frame.
- (philately) A cancellation postmark.
- (printing, historical) An imperfect matrix for type.
- (military, by extension) An attack, not necessarily physical.
- An iron pale or standard in a gate or fence.
- The strike plate of a door.
- (finance) In an option contract, the price at which the holder buys or sells if they choose to exercise the option.
- An instrument with a straight edge for levelling a measure of grain, salt, etc., scraping off what is above the level of the top; a strickle.
- (ironworking) A puddler's stirrer.
- A blow or application of physical force against something.
- (historical) An old English measure of corn equal to the bushel.
- a score in tenpins: knocking down all ten with the first ball
- a group's refusal to work in protest against low pay or bad work conditions
- a conspicuous success
- (baseball) a pitch that the batter swings at and misses, or that the batter hits into foul territory, or that the batter does not swing at but the umpire judges to be in the area over home plate and between the batter's knees and shoulders
- a gentle blow
- an attack that is intended to seize or inflict damage on or destroy an objective
verb
- (transitive) To make by digging or delving.
- (intransitive) To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height.
- (transitive) To (directly or indirectly) cause a vessel to sink, generally by making it no longer watertight.
- (intransitive) To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fail in strength.
- (ergative) To descend or submerge (or to cause to do so) into a liquid or similar substance.
- (transitive) To push (something) into something.
- (transitive, figurative) To cause to decline; to depress or degrade.
- (transitive, slang) To drink (especially something alcoholic).
- (transitive, slang) To pay absolutely.
- (transitive, snooker, pool, billiards, golf) To pot; hit a ball into a pocket or hole.
- (intransitive, figuratively, of the heart or spirit) To experience apprehension, disappointment, dread, or momentary depression.
- (intransitive) To demean or lower oneself; to do something below one's status, standards, or morals.
- fall heavily or suddenly; decline markedly
- descend into or as if into some soft substance or place
- fall or descend to a lower place or level
- pass into a specified state or condition; sink into
- embed deeply
- go under
- appear to move downward
- cause to sink
- fall or sink heavily
noun
- (graph theory) A destination vertex in a transportation network.
- A place that absorbs resources or energy.
- (theater) A stage trapdoor for shifting scenery.
- A drain for carrying off wastewater.
- A depression in land where water collects, with no visible outlet.
- A basin used for holding water for washing.
- A depression in a stereotype plate.
- (computing, programming) An object or callback that captures events.
- (game development) One or several systems that remove currency from the game's economy, thus controlling or preventing inflation.
- (uncountable) Descending motion; descent.
- (baseball) The motion of a sinker pitch.
- (geology) A sinkhole.
- (ecology) A habitat that cannot support a population on its own but receives the excess of individuals from some other source.
- (graph theory) A node in directed graph for which all of its edges go into it; one with no outgoing edges.
- A heat sink.
- (mining) An excavation smaller than a shaft.
- An abode of degraded persons; a wretched place.
- a depression in the ground communicating with a subterranean passage (especially in limestone) and formed by solution or by collapse of a cavern roof
- plumbing fixture consisting of a water basin fixed to a wall or floor and having a drainpipe
- a covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it
- (technology) a process that acts to absorb or remove energy or a substance from a system
verb
- (transitive) To open, to make an opening into; to pierce.
- (nautical, intransitive, of a submerged submarine, torpedo, or similar) To break the surface of the water.
- (transitive) To cause to turn sideways to oncoming waves, especially large or breaking waves (usually followed by to; also figurative).
- (transitive, figuratively) To begin discussion about (something).
- (transitive) To make a hole in, especially a cask of liquor, and put in a tap in order to draw the liquid.
- (intransitive)To be turned sideways to oncoming waves, especially large or breaking waves.
- bring up a topic for discussion
noun
- The stick from which candle wicks are suspended for dipping.
- A series of chisel points mounted on one piece of steel. For example, the toothed stone chisel shown here.
- Alternative spelling of brooch.
- (architecture, UK, dialect) A spire rising from a tower.
- A spit for cooking food.
- (masonry) A broad chisel for stone-cutting.
- An awl; a bodkin; also, a wooden rod or pin, sharpened at each end, used by thatchers.
- A spit-like start on the head of a young stag.
- The pin in a lock which enters the barrel of the key.
- a decorative pin worn by women
verb
- (transitive) To make something by digging.
- (transitive, sometimes figurative) To find or retrieve something buried.
- (transitive) To remove something by digging.
- (transitive, slang) To have penetrative sexual intercourse with someone.
- (intransitive, US, slang) To decamp; to leave a place hastily.
- (transitive, cricket) To block a yorker with the bottom of the bat, at the last second.
- remove, harvest, or recover by digging
- dig out from underneath earth or snow
- create by digging
verb
- (transitive) To enclose something in, or as if in, a capsule.
- (transitive) To epitomize something by expressing it as a brief summary.
- (software, object-oriented programming) To enclose objects in a common interface in a way that makes them interchangeable, and guards their states from invalid changes.
- (networking) To enclose data in packets that can be transmitted using a given protocol.
- put in a short or concise form; reduce in volume
- enclose in a capsule or other small container
verb
- (transitive) To dig or redig a trench where one already exists.
- (intransitive) To live less expensively; to economize.
- (intransitive) To take up a new defensive position.
- (transitive, military) To furnish with a retrenchment (a defensive work within a fortification).
- (intransitive) To abridge; to curtail.
- (transitive) To cut down or reduce.
- (transitive, specifically) To terminate the employment of a worker to reduce the size of a workforce; to make redundant.
- (transitive) To confine; to limit; to restrict.
- tighten one's belt; use resources carefully
- make a reduction, as in one's workforce
verb
noun
verb
adj
noun
verb
- (transitive) To pierce or puncture slightly.
- (transitive) To form by piercing or puncturing.
- (farriery) To drive a nail into (a horse's foot), so as to cause lameness.
- (intransitive) To become sharp or acid; to turn sour, as wine.
- (ambitransitive) To make or become sharp; to erect into a point; to raise, as something pointed; said especially of the ears of an animal, such as a horse or dog; and usually followed by up.
- To affect with sharp pain; to sting, as with remorse.
- (transitive, chiefly nautical) To mark the surface of (something) with pricks or dots; especially, to trace a ship’s course on (a chart).
- (transitive, hunting) To shoot without killing.
- To aim at a point or mark.
- (horticulture) Usually in the form prick out: to plant (seeds or seedlings) in holes made in soil at regular intervals.
- (transitive) To make acidic or pungent.
- (transitive) To incite, stimulate, goad.
- To fix by the point; to attach or hang by puncturing.
- cause a stinging pain
- stab or urge on as if with a pointed stick
- to stick up
- cause a prickling sensation
- to cause a sharp emotional pain
- make a small hole into, as with a needle or a thorn
- deliver a sting to
noun
- The experience or feeling of being pierced or punctured by a small, sharp object.
- (now historical) A small roll of yarn or tobacco.
- A small hole or perforation, caused by piercing.
- The footprint of a hare.
- An indentation or small mark made with a pointed object.
- (slang, vulgar) The penis.
- A feeling of remorse.
- (slang, derogatory) Someone (especially a male) who is unpleasant, rude or annoying.
- A small pointed object.
- obscene terms for penis
- the act of puncturing with a small point
- insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous
- a depression scratched or carved into a surface
verb
noun
- A binary radian.
- (US, elementary school usage) A paper fastener, a fastening device formed of thin, soft metal, such as shim brass, with a round head and a flat, split shank, which is spread after insertion in a hole in a stack of pages, in much the same way as a cotter pin or a split rivet.
- A thin, small nail, with a slight projection at the top on one side instead of a head, or occasionally with a small domed head, similar to that of an escutcheon pin.
- a small nail
verb
- (transitive) To create (a hole) by removing material with a drill (tool).
- (intransitive) To practice, especially in (or as in) a military context.
- (transitive) To cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to drain by trickling.
- (intransitive, figurative) To investigate or examine something in more detail or at a different level
- (transitive) To sow (seeds) by dribbling them along a furrow or in a row.
- (baseball) To hit someone with a pitch, especially in an intentional context.
- (ergative) To cause to drill (practice); to train in military arts.
- (transitive) To throw, run, hit or kick with a lot of power.
- (transitive) To repeat an idea frequently in order to encourage someone to remember it.
- (slang) To shoot; to kill by shooting.
- (slang, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse with; to penetrate.
- train in the military, e.g., in the use of weapons
- make a hole, especially with a pointed power or hand tool
- undergo military training or do military exercises
- teach by repetition
- learn by repetition
noun
- A row of seed sown in a furrow.
- (uncountable, music) A style of trap music with gritty, violent lyrics, originating on the South Side of Chicago.
- Any of several molluscs, of the genus Urosalpinx and others, especially the oyster drill (Urosalpinx cinerea), that make holes in the shells of their prey.
- An activity done as an exercise or practice (especially a military exercise), particularly in preparation for some possible future event or occurrence.
- An Old World monkey of West Africa, Mandrillus leucophaeus, similar in appearance to the mandrill, but lacking the colorful face.
- An agricultural implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes so formed as to contain seeds and drop them into the hole made.
- (countable, music) A single performance of drill music.
- A strong, durable cotton fabric with a strong bias (diagonal) in the weave.
- A tool or machine used to remove material so as to create a hole, typically by plunging a rotating cutting bit into a stationary workpiece.
- The portion of a drilling tool that drives the bit.
- A short and highly repeatable sports training exercise designed to hone a particular skill that may be useful in competition.
- A light furrow or channel made to put seed into, when sowing.
- similar to the mandrill but smaller and less brightly colored
- (military) the training of soldiers to march (as in ceremonial parades) or to perform the manual of arms
- a tool with a sharp point and cutting edges for making holes in hard materials (usually rotating rapidly or by repeated blows)
- systematic training by multiple repetitions
verb
noun
- An approximately cylindrical container, usually with a crimped end and a screw top, used to contain and dispense semiliquid substances.
- (Scotland, slang) An idiot.
- (surfing) A wave which pitches forward when breaking, creating a hollow space inside.
- (Canada, US, colloquial) A television. Compare cathode ray tube and picture tube.
- (Australia, slang) A tin can containing beer.
- (British, colloquial, often capitalised as Tube, a trademark) The London Underground railway system, originally referred to the lower level lines that ran in tubular tunnels as opposed to the higher ones which ran in rectangular section tunnels. (Often the tube.)
- Anything that is hollow and cylindrical in shape.
- electronic device consisting of a system of electrodes arranged in an evacuated glass or metal envelope
- an electric railway operating below the surface of the ground (usually in a city)
- conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct objects or liquids or gases
- a hollow cylindrical shape
- (anatomy) any hollow cylindrical body structure
verb
noun
- A ventilation or heating conduit.
- The long, narrow, central body of a spear, arrow, or javelin.
- (meteorology) A relatively small area of precipitation that an onlook can discern from the dry surrounding area.
- (architecture) Any column or pillar, particularly the body of a column between its capital and pedestal.
- (literary) A beam or ray of light.
- The main axis of a feather.
- One of the poles between which a draught animal is harnessed to a vehicle.
- (anatomy) The main cylindrical part of the penis.
- A vertical passage housing a lift or elevator.
- (weaving) A component of a loom which holds the heddles and is raised by treadles to create the shed.
- The chamber of a blast furnace.
- (lacrosse) The long narrow body of a lacrosse stick.
- A vertical or inclined passage sunk into the earth as part of a mine.
- (slang) An act of sexual intercourse.
- A rotating machine element used to transmit power; a driveshaft
- (by extension) Anything cast or thrown as a spear or javelin.
- an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect
- a long pointed rod used as a tool or weapon
- obscene terms for penis
- the main (mid) section of a long bone
- a revolving rod that transmits power or motion
- the hollow spine of a feather
- a long vertical passage sunk into the earth, as for a mine or tunnel
- a column of light (as from a beacon)
- a vertical passageway through a building (as for an elevator)
- a line that forms the length of an arrow pointer
- a long rod or pole (especially the handle of an implement or the body of a weapon like a spear or arrow)
- (architecture) upright consisting of the vertical part of a column
verb
- (transitive) To push or pump (something, especially fluids) into a cavity or passage.
- (transitive) To introduce or add (something that is different or foreign).
- (transitive) To introduce (something) suddenly or violently.
- (transitive, computing) To introduce (code) into an existing program or its memory space, often without tight integration and sometimes through a security vulnerability.
- (intransitive) To take or be administered something by means of injection, especially medicine or drugs.
- (transitive) To administer an injection to (someone or something), especially of medicine or drugs.
- take by injection
- force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing
- feed intravenously
- to insert between other elements
- give an injection to
- to introduce (a new aspect or element)
verb
- (transitive) To open up a hole in, usually by means of a sudden and imprecise method (such as an explosion).
- (transitive) To make an impression on, by making a loud blast or din.
- (bodybuilding, slang) To have a period of full dosage of PEDs as opposed to reducing them during a cruise period.
- (transitive) To blight or wither.
- (transitive) To curse; to damn.
- (transitive) To bring destruction or ruin on; to destroy.
- (transitive) To criticize or reprimand severely; to verbally discipline or punish.
- (transitive, informal) To play (music) very loudly out of a speaker.
- (transitive, intransitive, slang, African-American Vernacular) To shoot; to attack or shoot (someone or a place).
- (soccer) To shoot; kick the ball in hope of scoring a goal.
- (intransitive) To make a loud noise.
- (biology, informal, transitive) To run a nucleotide sequence (for nucleic acids) or an amino acid sequence (for proteins) through a BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool).
- (transitive, science fiction) To shoot, especially with an energy weapon (as opposed to one which fires projectiles).
- (transitive) To shatter, as if by an explosion.
- make a strident sound
- apply a draft or strong wind to to
- hit with great force
- use explosives on
- create by using explosives
- criticize harshly or violently
- shrivel or wither or mature imperfectly
- make with or as if with an explosion
- shatter as if by explosion
- fire a shot; release
intj
noun
- An explosive charge for blasting.
- (cytology) An immature or undifferentiated cell (e.g., lymphoblast, myeloblast).
- A verbal attack or punishment; a severe criticism or reprimand.
- (figuratively, informal) A good time; an enjoyable moment.
- An explosion, especially for the purpose of destroying a mass of rock, etc.
- A forcible stream of gas or liquid from an orifice, for example from a bellows, the tuyeres of a blast furnace, a person's mouth, etc.
- (countable) A loud, sudden sound.
- (marketing) A promotional message sent to an entire mailing list.
- The continuous blowing to which one charge of ore or metal is subjected in a furnace.
- A flatulent disease of sheep.
- A sudden pernicious effect, as if by a noxious wind, especially on animals and plants; a blight.
- A hit of a recreational drug from a pipe.
- The exhaust steam from an engine, driving a column of air out of a boiler chimney, and thus creating an intense draught through the fire; also, any draught produced by the blast.
- (bodybuilding, slang) A period of full dosage of PEDs as opposed to a period of reduced intake.
- A violent gust of wind (in windy weather) or apparent wind (around a moving vehicle).
- (uncountable, broadcasting) Unwanted noise from a microphone.
- intense adverse criticism
- a sudden very loud noise
- a strong current of air
- a very long fly ball
- a highly pleasurable or exciting experience
- an explosion (as of dynamite)
verb
- penetrate
- pass through (a barrier)
- break out
- (intransitive, sports) To penetrate the defence of the opposition.
- (intransitive) To gain popularity.
- (transitive) To make or force a way through (a barrier).
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see break, through.
- (colloquial) To cross a perceptual threshold during the use of certain psychedelics in which one experiences drug-induced reverie or hallucinations.
verb
- penetrate
- continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.)
- succeed in reaching a real or abstract destination after overcoming problems
- attain success or reach a desired goal
- To be communicated or expressed successfully.
- (with an object preceded by the preposition for or with) To not let somebody down, keep or fulfil one's word or promise; to deliver (something).
- To come into a room or other space through a door or passageway.
- (intransitive, slang) To provide information on something; to confess.
- (idiomatic) To survive, to endure.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To succeed; to survive and overcome struggles.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see come, through.
verb
noun
verb
- (transitive) To pierce (something) with any long, pointed object.
- (transitive, heraldry) To place two coats of arms side by side on the same shield (often those of two spouses upon marriage).
- (ambitransitive) To enclose or fence with stakes.
- (ambitransitive) To pierce with a pale; to put to death by fixing on a sharp stake.
- kill by piercing with a spear or sharp pole
- pierce with a sharp stake or point
verb
- To put (a screw or other object) in or through another thing.
- (poker) To force (an opponent) to place all their poker chips in the pot (that is, to go all in) by wagering all of one's own chips.
- (informal) To ask or beg for (something) to be given for free; to cadge, to scrounge; also, to ask or beg (someone) to give something for free.
- To cut an external screw thread into (a bolt or rod) to create a screw.
- To draw off (a liquid) from a container or other source; also, to draw off a liquid from (a container or other source).
- (medicine, informal) To drain off fluid from (a person or a body cavity) by paracentesis.
- (chiefly US, informal) To choose or designate (someone) for a duty, an honour, membership of an organization, or a position.
- (slang) To shoot (someone or something) with a firearm.
- (slang, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse with (someone).
- (combat sports) To submit to an opponent, chiefly by indicating an intention to do so by striking a hand on the ground several times; to tap out.
- Often followed by at or on: to strike lightly with a clear sound; also, to make a sharp noise through this action.
- (communication, chiefly law enforcement) To connect a listening and/or recording device to (a communication cable or device) in order to listen in secretly on telephone calls or other communications; also, to secretly listen in on and/or record (a telephone call or other communication).
- (transitive) To lightly touch a touchscreen, usually an icon or button, to activate a function.
- Of a bell, a drum, etc.: to make a sharp noise, often as a signal.
- (slang) Also in the form tap on the shoulder: to arrest (someone).
- To break into or open up (a thing) so as to obtain something; to exploit, to penetrate; tap into.
- To furnish (a container, etc.) with a tap (noun etymology 1 sense 2.2) so that liquid can be drawn.
- To click on something, usually a device.
- (graphical user interface) To invoke a function on an electronic device such as a mobile phone by touching (a button, icon, or specific location on its touch screen).
- To strike (someone or something), chiefly lightly with a clear sound, but sometimes hard.
- To walk by striking the ground lightly with a clear sound.
- (combat sports) To force (an opponent) to submit, chiefly by indicating their intention to do so by striking a hand on the ground several times; to tap out.
- (British, dialectal or US) To repair (an item of footwear) by putting on a new heel or sole, or a piece of material on to the heel or sole.
- To (lightly) touch (a finger, foot, or other body part) on a surface, often repeatedly.
- To deplete (something); to tap out.
- To act as a tapster; to draw an alcoholic beverage from a container.
- (horticulture) To remove a taproot from (a plant).
- (board games, card games) To turn over (a playing card or playing piece) to remind players that it has already been used in that round.
- To cut an internal screw thread in (a hole); also, to cut (an internal screw thread) in a hole, or to create an internally threaded hole in (something).
- (transitive) To lightly and repeatedly touch (a person or one or more body parts) as part of various forms of psychological treatment.
- make a solicitation or entreaty for something; request urgently or persistently
- draw (liquor) from a tap
- tap a telephone or telegraph wire to get information
- cut a female screw thread with a tap
- draw from or dip into to get something
- pierce in order to draw a liquid from
- dance and make rhythmic clicking sounds by means of metal plates nailed to the sole of the dance shoes
- furnish with a tap or spout, so as to be able to draw liquid from it
- make light, repeated taps on a surface
- strike lightly
- draw from; make good use of
- walk with a tapping sound
noun
- A device used to listen in secretly on telephone calls or other communications.
- (graphical user interface) An act of touching a button, icon, or specific location on the touch screen of an electronic device such as a mobile phone to invoke a function.
- (informal, minimizer, chiefly in the negative) The smallest amount of work; a stroke of work.
- A conical peg or pin used to close and open the hole or vent in a container.
- (British) Ellipsis of taphouse or taproom (“place where alcoholic beverages are served on tap”).
- (British, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering) A connection made to an electrical or fluid conductor without breaking it; a tapping.
- (uncountable, dance) Ellipsis of tap dance.
- A secret interception of telephone calls or other communications using such a device; also, a recording of such a communication.
- (medicine, informal) A procedure that removes fluid from a body cavity; paracentesis.
- (British, dialectal or US) A piece of leather or other material fastened upon the bottom of an item of footwear when repairing the heel or sole; also (England, dialectal) the sole of an item of footwear.
- (phonetics) A single muscle contraction in vocal organs causing a consonant sound; also, the sound so made.
- (dance) One of the metal pieces attached to the sole of a tap dancer's shoe at the toe and heel to cause a tapping sound.
- A light blow or strike with a clear sound; a gentle rap; a pat; also, the sound made by such a blow or strike.
- (firearms, slang) A shot fired from a firearm.
- (mechanics) A cylindrical tool used to cut an internal screw thread in a hole, with cutting edges around the lower end and an upper end to which a handle is fitted to turn the tool.
- An object with a tapering conical form like a tap (etymology 1 sense 1); specifically, ellipsis of taproot (“long, tapering root of a plant”).
- A hollow device used to control the flow of a fluid, such as an alcoholic beverage from a cask, or a gas or liquid in a pipe.
- (finance) A situation where a borrowing government authority issues bonds over a period of time, usually at a fixed price, with volumes sold on a particular day dependent on market conditions.
- (India, chiefly East India) A malarial fever.
- Liquor drawn through a tap (etymology 1 sense 2.2); hence, a certain kind or quality of liquor; also (figurative, informal), a certain kind or quality of any thing.
- a light touch or stroke
- a plug for a bunghole in a cask
- the sound made by a gentle blow
- a tool for cutting female (internal) screw threads
- a gentle blow
- a faucet for drawing water from a pipe or cask
- a small metal plate that attaches to the toe or heel of a shoe (as in tap dancing)
- the act of tapping a telephone or telegraph line to get information
verb
adj
noun
- A smaller thing set into a larger thing, such as a small picture inside a larger one.
- (telecommunications) A modular microphone that can be removed from a telephone handset without disassembly.
- A small piece of material used to strengthen a garment.
- Anything inserted.
- (mining) An opening partway down a shaft, giving access to the intermediate levels.
- a small picture inserted within the bounds or a larger one
- a piece of material used to strengthen or enlarge a garment
- an artifact that is inserted or is to be inserted
verb
noun
verb
noun
verb
- (transitive) To poke, probe, feel, or fondle with a finger or fingers.
- (transitive, sex) To use the fingers to penetrate or sexually stimulate one's own or another person's vulva, vagina, or anus.
- (transitive) To identify or point out; to blame for something.
- (transitive, Internet) To query (a user's status) using the Finger protocol.
- (transitive, music) To provide instructions in written music as to which fingers are to be used to produce particular notes or passages.
- (transitive) To report to or identify for the authorities; to inform on.
- (transitive, music) To use specified finger positions in producing notes on a musical instrument.
- indicate the fingering for the playing of musical scores for keyboard instruments
- search for on the computer
- feel or handle with the fingers
- examine by touch
noun
- (aviation) Synonym of jet bridge: the narrow elevated walkway connecting a plane to an airport.
- (historical) Synonym of digit: former units of measure notionally based on its width but variously standardized, (especially) the English digit of ¹⁄₁₆ foot (about 1.9 cm).
- (fashion) A part of a glove intended to cover a finger.
- (originally US) An informal measure of alcohol based on its height in a given glass compared to the width of the pourer's fingers while holding it.
- Something similar in function or agency to the human finger, (usually) with regard to touching, grasping, or pointing.
- (US, rare slang) A criminal who scouts for prospective victims and targets or who performs reconnaissance before a crime.
- (botany) Various protruding plant structures, as a banana from its hand.
- (historical) The teeth parallel to the blade of a scythe, fitted to a wooden frame called a crade.
- Something similar in shape to the human finger, particularly:
- The projections of a reaper or mower which similarly separate the stalks for cutting.
- One of the slender bony structures before the pectoral fins of gurnards and sea robins (Triglidae).
- (especially in the phrase 'give someone the finger') An obscene or insulting gesture made by raising one's middle finger towards someone with the palm of one's hand facing inwards.
- One of the supporting structures of wings in birds, bats, etc. evolved from earlier toes or fingers.
- (cooking) Finger-shaped pieces of food.
- (computing theory) A leaf in a finger tree data structure.
- (figurative) That which points; an indicator, as of guilt, blame, or suspicion.
- (historical) A unit of length notionally based on the length of an adult human's middle finger, standardized as 4½ inches (11.43 cm).
- (nautical) Clipping of finger pier (“a shorter, narrower pier projecting from a larger dock”).
- (UK slang) A person.
- (vulgar) An act of fingering (inserting a finger into someone's vagina or rectum for sexual pleasure).
- (chemistry) A tube extending from a sealed system, or sometimes into one in the case of a cold finger.
- (radio) Any of the individual receivers used in a rake receiver to decode signal components.
- Something similarly extending, (especially) from a larger body, particularly:
- (zoology) Similar or similar-looking extremities in other animals, particularly:
- (informal, rare) Someone skilled in the use of their fingers, (especially) a pickpocket.
- (historical) Synonym of digit: ¹⁄₁₂ the observed diameter of the sun or moon, (especially) with regard to eclipses.
- (anatomy) A slender jointed extremity of the human hand, (often) exclusive of the thumb.
- (US, rare slang) An informer to the police, (especially) one who identifies a criminal during a lineup.
- The lower, smaller segment of an arthropod claw.
- any of the terminal members of the hand (sometimes excepting the thumb)
- one of the parts of a glove that provides covering for a finger or thumb
- the length of breadth of a finger used as a linear measure
verb
- (transitive) To press (something with a sharp point) into something else.
- (transitive) To place, set down (quickly or carelessly).
- (intransitive) To persist.
- (transitive) To fix on a pointed instrument; to impale.
- (intransitive) To remain loyal; to remain firm.
- (transitive, now only in dialects) To stab.
- (transitive, gymnastics, aviation, sports) To perform (a landing or a shot) perfectly.
- (intransitive) Of snow, to remain frozen on landing.
- To hit with a stick.
- (transitive, joinery) To run or plane (mouldings) in a machine, in contradistinction to working them by hand. Such mouldings are said to be stuck.
- (intransitive, blackjack, chiefly UK) To stand pat: to cease taking any more cards and finalize one's hand.
- (botany, transitive) To propagate plants by cuttings.
- (carpentry) To cut a piece of wood to be the stick member of a cope-and-stick joint.
- (intransitive, US, slang) To have sexual intercourse with.
- (transitive) To furnish or set with sticks.
- (transitive) To tolerate, to endure, to stick with.
- (intransitive) To jam; to stop moving.
- (intransitive) To become or remain attached; to adhere.
- (transitive) To attach with glue or as if by gluing.
- fasten with an adhesive material like glue
- pierce with a thrust using a pointed instrument
- cover and decorate with objects that pierce the surface
- be loyal to
- fasten into place by fixing an end or point into something
- stick to firmly
- be in a certain place and not leave
- come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation
- be a mystery or bewildering to
- fasten with or as with pins or nails
- saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous
- pierce or penetrate or puncture with something pointed
- be a devoted follower or supporter
- put, fix, force, or implant
- endure
- be or become fixed
adj
noun
- A small, thin branch from a tree or bush; a twig; a branch.
- (slang) Vigorous driving of a car; gas.
- (US) A timber board, especially a two by four (inches).
- (military) The structure to which a set of bombs in a bomber aircraft are attached and which drops the bombs when it is released. The bombs themselves and, by extension, any load of similar items dropped in quick succession such as paratroopers or containers.
- (slang) A bar (counter where drinks are served).
- (nautical) A mast or part of a mast of a ship; also, a yard.
- (golf) The pole bearing a small flag that marks the hole.
- (fishing) The amount of fishing line resting on the water surface before a cast; line stick.
- (boardsports) A board as used in board sports, such as a surfboard, snowboard, or skateboard.
- (horse racing) The short whip carried by a jockey.
- (figurative) A negative stimulus or a punishment. (This sense derives from the metaphor of using a stick, a long piece of wood, to poke or beat a beast of burden to compel it to move forward.)
- (uncountable) That which sticks (remains attached to another surface).
- (US, colloquial, uncountable) Vehicles, collectively, equipped with manual transmissions.
- (baseball) General hitting ability.
- (carpentry) The vertical member of a cope-and-stick joint.
- A standard rectangular strip of chewing gum.
- (sports, generically) A long thin implement used to control a ball or puck in sports like hockey, polo, and lacrosse.
- A relatively long, thin piece of wood, of any size.
- (field hockey or ice hockey) The potential accuracy of a hockey stick, implicating also the player using it.
- Any roughly cylindrical (or rectangular) unit of a substance.
- (golf) The long-range driving ability of a golf club.
- (aviation, uncountable) Use of the stick to control the aircraft.
- A cudgel or truncheon (usually of wood, metal or plastic), especially one carried by police or guards.
- (slang) A cigarette (usually a tobacco cigarette, less often a marijuana cigarette).
- (video games) A joystick.
- (US, slang, uncountable) The cue used in billiards, pool, snooker, etc.
- (computing) A memory stick.
- (US, colloquial) A manual transmission, a vehicle equipped with a manual transmission, so called because of the stick-like, i.e. twig-like, control (the gear shift) with which the driver of such a vehicle controls its transmission.
- (uncountable) The tendency to stick (remain stuck), stickiness.
- A cane or walking stick (usually wooden, metal or plastic) to aid in walking.
- (slang) A handgun.
- (computing) Any of the eight 16-character groups making up the 128 characters of the 7-bit ASCII character set.
- (countable) A thrust with a pointed instrument; a stab.
- (slang) Vigor; spirit; effort, energy, intensity.
- The game of pool, or an individual pool game.
- (chiefly Canada, US) A small rectangular block, with a length several times its width, which contains by volume one half of a cup of shortening (butter, margarine or lard).
- (baseball) The potential hitting power of a specific bat.
- (figuratively) A piece (of furniture, especially if wooden).
- (jazz, slang) The clarinet.
- (slang, uncountable) Corporal punishment, beatings
- (British, figurative) Criticism or ridicule, often in the expressions "get a lot of stick", "get some stick", "come in for some stick", etc.
- (aviation) The control column of an aircraft; a joystick. (By convention, a wheel-like control mechanism with a handgrip on opposite sides, similar to the steering wheel of an automobile, can also be called the "stick", although "yoke" or "control wheel" is more commonly seen.)
- (US military slang, World War I) An aircraft’s propeller.
- A bunch of something wrapped around or attached to a stick.
- (motor racing) The traction of tires on the road surface.
- a small thin branch of a tree
- a long implement (usually made of wood) that is shaped so that hockey or polo players can hit a puck or ball
- a long thin implement resembling a length of wood
- a rectangular quarter pound block of butter or margarine
- threat of a penalty
- an implement consisting of a length of wood
- a lever used by a pilot to control the ailerons and elevators of an airplane
- marijuana leaves rolled into a cigarette for smoking
- informal terms for the leg
verb
noun
verb
- (transitive) To make a breach in.
- (transitive) To violate or break.
- (intransitive, of a whale or other sea creature) To leap out of the water.
- (intransitive) To suffer a breach.
- (law, informal, transitive, usually passive) To charge, convict or take legal action against someone due to not meeting a legal obligation.
- (transitive, nautical, of the sea) To break into a ship or into a coastal defence.
- make an opening or gap in
- act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
noun
- The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.
- (figurative) A difference in opinions, social class, etc.
- (law) A breaking or infraction of a law, or of any obligation or tie; violation; non-fulfillment.
- A gap or opening made by breaking or battering, as in a wall, fortification or levee / embankment; the space between the parts of a solid body rent by violence.
- A breaking of waters, as over a vessel or a coastal defence; the waters themselves.
- A breaking up of amicable relations, a falling out.
- A breaking out upon; an assault.
- a failure to perform some promised act or obligation
- an opening (especially a gap in a dike or fortification)
- a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
verb
noun
verb
- To conduct an extremely thorough investigation into an aspect or aspects of a construct, to discover a deeper and/or wider understanding of it, implying that a previous investigation is known to have been inadequate, inconclusive, limited, or absent an element believed to exist.
- To carry out a subanalysis
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adj
- Capable of penetrating; piercing.
- Used, designed to be used, or able to drill holes.
- Causing boredom or tiredness; making one feel tired and impatient.
- (chiefly Manglish) Suffering from boredom; mildly annoyed and restless through having nothing to do.
- so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness
noun
- A pit or hole which has been bored.
- (usually in the plural) One of the fragments thrown up when something is bored or drilled.
- The act or process of boring holes; such practice as an area of expertise in manufacturing.
- the act of drilling a hole in the earth in the hope of producing petroleum
- the act of drilling
verb
adj
- tending to penetrate; having the power of entering or piercing
- That can or does physically penetrate something; piercing, penetrating.
- having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions
- (sports) That can penetrate opposition defences.
- Displaying insight or discrimination; acute; penetrating.
- Pertaining to sexual activity involving penetration by the penis (or similar object).