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verb
- (transitive) To disentangle.
- (transitive, figurative) To counteract fate.
- (transitive) To unravel (something spun, knit, or woven).
- To happen; to unfold; to develop.
- To counteract or decipher a complicated web of lies, statements, arguments, traditions, etc.
- (ambitransitive) To untwist (something that is twisted or wound)
- To reveal the truth behind PR (public relations) or slanted reporting.
- (ambiintransitive) To stop (something) from spinning.
- (transitive) To unmake.
verb
- (transitive) To break the continuity of; to disconnect; to loosen; to undo; to separate.
- (intransitive) To resolve itself as by dissolution.
- (law, transitive) To annul; to rescind; to discharge or release.
- (intransitive) To be melted, changed into a fluid.
- (physical chemistry, intransitive) To be disintegrated by such immersion.
- (cinematography, intransitive) To shift from one shot to another by having the former fade out as the latter fades in.
- (typography) To separate a ligature into its component letters.
- (transitive) To disperse, drive apart a group of persons.
- (transitive) To liquify, melt into a fluid.
- (transitive) To destroy, make disappear.
- (physical chemistry, transitive) To disintegrate chemically into a solution by immersion into a liquid or other material.
- To relax by pleasure; to make powerless.
- (transitive) To terminate a union of multiple members actively, as by disbanding.
- cause to fade away
- pass into a solution
- cause to go into a solution
- become or cause to become soft or liquid
- bring the association of to an end or cause to break up
- grow less and less substantial until it disappears
- declare void
- come to an end (of a state)
- cause to lose control emotionally
- stop functioning or cohering as a unit
- lose control emotionally
noun
verb
- (transitive) To counteract or compensate for, by applying a change in the opposite direction.
- (transitive) To place out of line.
- (transitive) To form an offset in (a wall, rod, pipe, etc.).
- make up for
- create an offset in
- cause (printed matter) to transfer or smear onto another surface
- compensate for or counterbalance
- produce by offset printing
adj
adv
noun
- (architecture) A terrace on a hillside.
- An abrupt bend in an object, such as a rod, by which one part is turned aside out of line, but nearly parallel, with the rest; the part thus bent aside.
- (surveying) A short distance measured at right angles from a line actually run to some point in an irregular boundary, or to some object.
- The distance by which one thing is out of alignment with another.
- (botany) A short prostrate shoot that takes root and produces a tuft of leaves, etc.
- (programming) The difference between a target memory address and a base address.
- (c. 1555) A time at which something begins; outset.
- (international trade) A form of countertrade arrangement, in which the seller agrees to purchase within a set time frame products of a certain value from the buying country. This kind of agreement may be used in large international public sector contracts such as arms sales.
- A spur from a range of hills or mountains.
- (signal analysis) The displacement between the base level of a measurement and the signal's real base level.
- (architecture) A horizontal ledge on the face of a wall, formed by a diminution of its thickness, or by the weathering or upper surface of a part built out from it; a set-off.
- Anything that acts as counterbalance; a compensating equivalent.
- (printing, often attributive) The offset printing process, in which ink is carried from a metal plate to a rubber blanket and from there to the printing surface.
- the time at which something is supposed to begin
- a horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tips
- a natural consequence of development
- structure where a wall or building narrows abruptly
- a compensating equivalent
- a plate makes an inked impression on a rubber-blanketed cylinder, which in turn transfers it to the paper
verb
- (transitive) To cause to diverge.
- (intransitive) To go off course from; to change course; to change plans.
- (intransitive, figurative) To fall outside of, or part from, some norm; to stray.
- cause to turn away from a previous or expected course
- turn aside; turn away from
- be at variance with; be out of line with
adj
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To revert or (transitive) to restore.
- (transitive) To change a building that has been converted to a new use back to its original use; specifically to change a house that has been converted into apartments or flats back to a single-family dwelling.
- (intransitive) To undergo a deconversion from a religion, faith or belief or (transitive) to induce (someone) to reject a particular religion, faith, or belief.
noun
verb
- (transitive) To unfasten.
- To reverse the effects of an action.
- (transitive, colloquial) To unfasten the clothing of (a person).
- (figuratively) To impoverish or ruin, as in reputation; to cause the downfall of.
- cancel, annul, or reverse an action or its effect
- cause the ruin or downfall of
- deprive of certain characteristics
- cause to become loose
- remove the outer cover or wrapping of
adj
noun
verb
- (transitive) To separate.
- (intransitive, politics) To separate (races, sexes, or other groups, especially black and white people), especially by social policies that directly or indirectly keep them apart.
- (transitive) In particular, to separate and organize by characteristics.
- separate by race or religion; practice a policy of racial segregation
- divide from the main body or mass and collect
- separate or isolate (one thing) from another and place in a group apart from others
adj
noun
verb
- (transitive) To go from one side of (something) to the other.
- (transitive) To pass, as objects going in an opposite direction at the same time.
- (transitive) To make the sign of the cross over (something or someone).
- (soccer) To pass the ball from one side of the pitch to the other side.
- (transitive) To contradict (another) or frustrate the plans of.
- (biology) To cross-fertilize or crossbreed.
- (intransitive) To travel in a direction or path that will intersect with that of another.
- (rugby) To score a try.
- (cricket, reciprocally) Of both batsmen, to pass each other when running between the wickets in order to score runs.
- To mark with an X.
- (law) To conduct a cross examination; to question a hostile witness.
- To write lines of text at right angles to and over the top of one another in order to save paper.ᵂ
- (reflexive, to cross oneself) To make the sign of the cross over oneself.
- To place across or athwart; to cause to intersect.
- (transitive) To stamp or mark (a cheque) in such a way as to prevent it being cashed, thus requiring it to be deposited into a bank account.
- To lay or draw something across, such as a line.
- meet at a point
- fold so as to resemble a cross
- breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties
- trace a line through or across
- to cover or extend over an area or time period
- hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
- meet and pass
- travel across or pass over
adj
- Transverse; lying across the main direction.
- (chiefly British, Ottawa Valley) (of someone) Bad-tempered, angry, annoyed; (of words) tinged with anger.
- (nautical) Of the sea, having two wave systems traveling at oblique angles, due to the wind over shifting direction or the waves of two storm systems meeting.
- Made in an opposite direction, or an inverse relation; mutually inverse; interchanged.
- extending or lying across; in a crosswise direction; at right angles to the long axis
- annoyed and irritable
noun
- A wooden post with a perpendicular beam attached and used (especially in the Roman Empire) to execute criminals (by crucifixion).
- (boxing) A hook thrown over the opponent's punch.
- A pipe-fitting with four branches whose axes usually form a right angle.
- (figurative, from Christ's bearing of the cross) A difficult situation that must be endured.
- The act of going across; the act of passing from one side to the other
- A line across or through another line.
- (Rubik's Cube) Four edge cubies of one side that are in their right places, forming the shape of a cross.
- (surveying) An instrument for laying of offsets perpendicular to the main course.
- (Christianity) Any representation of the crucifix, as in religious architecture, burial markers, jewelry, etc.
- A monument that marks such a place. (Also common in UK or Irish place names such as Charing Cross)
- (biology) An animal or plant produced by crossbreeding or cross-fertilization.
- (Christianity) A hand gesture made in imitation of the shape of the Cross; sign of the cross.
- A place where roads intersect and lead off in four directions; a crossroad (common in UK and Irish place names such as Gerrards Cross).
- (heraldry) Any geometric figure having this or a similar shape, such as a cross of Lorraine or a Maltese cross.
- (Christianity) Alternative letter-case form of Cross (“the Crucifix, the cross on which Christ was crucified”).
- (cartomancy) The thirty-sixth Lenormand card.
- (by extension) A hybrid of any kind.
- (slang) Crossfire.
- A geometrical figure consisting of two straight lines or bars intersecting each other such that at least one of them is bisected by the other.
- (soccer) A pass in which the ball is kicked from a side of the pitch to a position close to the opponent’s goal.
- (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids
- (genetics) an organism that is the offspring of genetically dissimilar parents or stock; especially offspring produced by breeding plants or animals of different varieties or breeds or species
- a wooden structure consisting of an upright post with a transverse piece
- any affliction that causes great suffering
- a marking that consists of lines that cross each other
prep
verb
- (transitive) To put into an opposing position; to reverse.
- (transitive, colloquial) To process; to complete work on (something), especially with a view to sending it on in a finished state.
- (intransitive) To change one's opinion or attitude (especially when becoming hostile etc.).
- (intransitive) To turn so as to be facing in the opposite direction.
- (transitive) To make (a ship, airplane etc.) ready for departure.
- (intransitive) To revolve or rotate around a centre.
verb
- (transitive) To intertwine or dovetail.
- (intransitive, break dancing) To freeze one's body or a part thereof in place.
- (transitive) To fasten with a lock.
- To seize (e.g. the sword arm of an antagonist) by turning one's left arm around it, to disarm them.
- (intransitive, rugby) To play in the position of lock.
- (Internet, wiki jargon, transitive) To prevent a page from being edited by other users.
- (Internet, transitive) To modify (a thread) so that users cannot make new posts in it.
- (intransitive) To be capable of becoming fastened in place.
- To raise or lower (a boat) in a lock.
- To furnish (a canal) with locks.
- (intransitive) To become fastened in place.
- build locks in order to facilitate the navigation of vessels
- become engaged or intermeshed with one another
- pass by means through a lock in a waterway
- become rigid or immoveable
- keep engaged
- place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape
- fasten with a lock
- hold fast (in a certain state)
- hold in a locking position
noun
- (firearms) The firing mechanism.
- Something used for fastening, which can only be opened with a key or combination.
- A segment of a canal or other navigable waterway enclosed by gates, used for raising and lowering boats between levels.
- (computing, by extension) A mutex or other token restricting access to a resource.
- A device for keeping a wheel from turning.
- Something sure to be a success.
- A small quantity of straw etc.
- A tuft or length of hair, wool, etc.
- A place impossible to get out of, as by a lock.
- (Scots law, historical) A quantity of meal, the perquisite of a mill-servant.
- Complete control over a situation.
- A fastening together or interlacing; a closing of one thing upon another; a state of being fixed or immovable.
- A grapple in wrestling.
- (rugby) A player in the scrum behind the front row, usually the tallest members of the team.
- (gambling) Synonym of Dutch book.
- any wrestling hold in which some part of the opponent's body is twisted or pressured
- a strand or cluster of hair
- a mechanism that detonates the charge of a gun
- a fastener fitted to a door or drawer to keep it firmly closed
- enclosure consisting of a section of canal that can be closed to control the water level; used to raise or lower vessels that pass through it
- a restraint incorporated into the ignition switch to prevent the use of a vehicle by persons who do not have the key
verb
- (transitive) To divide in two.
- (intransitive) To be divided in two or separated.
- (intransitive) To leave the company of.
- To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion.
- To separate or disunite; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder.
- To cut hair with a parting.
- (transitive, Internet) To leave (an IRC channel).
- force, take, or pull apart
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- go one's own way; move apart
- depart for someplace
- move or break apart
adj
adv
noun
- A section of land; an area of a country or other territory; region.
- (US) The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions.
- A section of a document.
- (Judaism) In the Hebrew lunisolar calendar, a unit of time equivalent to 3⅓ seconds.
- A unit of relative proportion in a mixture.
- A distinct element of something larger.
- Share, especially of a profit.
- Position or role (especially in a play).
- A group inside a larger group.
- (US) A room in a public building, especially a courtroom.
- A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent; usually in the plural with a collective sense.
- (music) The melody played or sung by a particular instrument, voice, or group of instruments or voices, within a polyphonic piece.
- Each of two contrasting sides of an argument, debate etc.; "hand".
- 3.5 centiliters of one ingredient in a mixed drink.
- (colloquial, euphemistic) A private part; genitalia.
- A fraction of a whole.
- Duty; responsibility.
- the effort contributed by a person in bringing about a result
- a portion of a natural object
- assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group
- something determined in relation to something that includes it
- the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group
- one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole
- the melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music
- that which concerns a person with regard to a particular role or situation
- something less than the whole of a human artifact
- an actor's portrayal of someone in a play
- the extended spatial location of something
- a line of scalp that can be seen when sections of hair are combed in opposite directions
- an item that is an instance of some type
verb
adj
adv
noun
- (countable) A pattern of crossed lines.
- (countable) A mark or cross, such as the signature of a person who is unable to write.
- (countable) A kind of crossword puzzle having no clues or definitions, but only a list of words that must be fitted into the grid.
- a marking that consists of lines that cross each other
verb
- (transitive) To rein in.
- (intransitive) To crouch; to cringe.
- (transitive) To furnish (a well etc.) with a curb; to restrain (a bank of earth, etc.) by a curb.
- (transitive) To bend or curve.
- (transitive) To bring to a stop beside a curb.
- (transitive, slang) Ellipsis of curb stomp.
- (transitive) To check, restrain or control.
- (transitive) To damage vehicle wheels or tires by running into or over a pavement curb.
- keep to the curb
- lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits
- place restrictions on
noun
- A raised margin along the edge of something, such as a well or the eye of a dome, as a strengthening.
- (figurative) Something that checks or restrains; a restraint.
- A concrete margin along the edge of a road; a kerb (UK, Australia, New Zealand).
- (Canada, US) A sidewalk, covered or partially enclosed, bordering the airport terminal road system with adjacent paved areas to permit vehicles to off-load or load passengers.
- (equestrianism) A riding or driving bit for a horse that has rein action which amplifies the pressure in the mouth by leverage advantage placing pressure on the poll via the crown piece of the bridle and chin groove via a curb chain.
- A swelling on the back part of the hind leg of a horse, just behind the lowest part of the hock joint, generally causing lameness.
- an edge between a sidewalk and a roadway consisting of a line of curbstones (usually forming part of a gutter)
- a horse's bit with an attached chain or strap to check the horse
- the act of restraining power or action or limiting excess
verb
- (transitive) To perform by turns, or in succession; to cause to succeed by turns; to interchange regularly.
- (intransitive) To happen, succeed, or act by turns; to follow reciprocally in place or time; followed by with.
- (transitive, geometry) To perform an alternation (removal of alternate vertices) on (a polytope or tessellation); to remove vertices (from a face or edge) as part of an alternation.
- (intransitive) To vary by turns.
- exchange people temporarily to fulfill certain jobs and functions
- be an understudy or alternate for a role
- do something in turns
- go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions
- reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action)
adj
- (US) Other; alternative.
- Happening by turns; one following the other in succession of time or place; first one and then the other (repeatedly).
- (heraldry) Alternating; (of e.g. a pair of tinctures which a charge is coloured) succeeding in turns, or (relative to the field) counterchanged.
- (mathematics) Designating the members in a series, which regularly intervene between the members of another series, as the odd or even numbers of the numerals; every other; every second.
- (botany, of leaves) Distributed singly at different heights of the stem, and at equal intervals as respects angular divergence
- occurring by turns; first one and then the other
- every second one of a series
- of leaves and branches etc.; first on one side and then on the other in two ranks along an axis; not paired
- serving or used in place of another
noun
- That which alternates with something else; vicissitude.
- (US) A replacement of equal or greater value or function.
- (US) A substitute; an alternative; one designated to take the place of another, if necessary, in performing some duty.
- (mathematics) A proportion derived from another proportion by interchanging the means.
- someone who takes the place of another person
verb
- (transitive) To reverse (a change).
- (transitive) To cause to return to a former condition.
- (transitive) To cause (a property or rights) to return to the previous owner.
- (intransitive, Islam) To convert to Islam.
- (intransitive, biology) To return to an earlier or primitive type or state; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.
- (intransitive) To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse.
- (intransitive, originally India, now global) To reply (to correspondence, etc.).
- (transitive) To reverse a change made by (a person).
- To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.
- (intransitive) To take up again or return to a previous topic.
- (intransitive) To return to a former practice, condition, belief, etc.
- (intransitive, law) Of an estate: To return to its former owner, or to his or her heirs, when a grant comes to an end.
- (transitive, mathematics) To treat (a series, such as y=a+bx+cx²+⋯, where one variable y is expressed in powers of a second variable x), so as to find the second variable x expressed in a series arranged in powers of y.
- (intransitive) To return to the possession of.
- go back to a previous state
- undergo reversion, as in a mutation
noun
- (computing) The act of reversion (of e.g. a database transaction or source control repository) to an earlier state.
- (religion) One who reverts to that religion which one had adhered to before having converted to another.
- The skateboard maneuver of rotating the board 180 degrees or more while the wheels remain on the ground.
- (Islam, due to the belief that all people are born Muslim) A convert to Islam.
- One who, or that which, reverts.
verb
- (intransitive) To make a transition.
- (intransitive, LGBTQ) To change one's gender role or physical and sexual characteristics to conform to one's identified gender.
- (transitive) To bring through a transition; to change.
- cause to convert or undergo a transition
- make or undergo a transition (from one state or system to another)
noun
- The process of change from one form, state, style or place to another.
- (education) Professional special education assistance for children or adults in the process of leaving one educational environment or support program for another to relatively more independent living.
- (music) A change of key.
- A word or phrase connecting one part of a discourse to another.
- (genetics) A point mutation in which one base is replaced by another of the same class (purine or pyrimidine); compare transversion.
- (LGBTQ) The process or act of changing one's gender role or physical and sexual characteristics, by social, medical, or legal methods, to conform to their identified gender, rather than the sex assigned at birth.
- (some sports) A change from defense to attack, or attack to defense.
- (euphemistic) Death; passing from life into death.
- (aviation) A published procedure for instrument flight, coming between the departure and en-route phases of flight, or between en-route flight and an approach/landing procedure.
- (skating) A change between forward and backward motion without stopping.
- (music) A brief modulation; a passage connecting two themes.
- (medicine) The onset of the final stage of childbirth.
- a change from one place or state or subject or stage to another
- a passage that connects a topic to one that follows
- the act of passing from one state or place to the next
- an event that results in a transformation
- a musical passage moving from one key to another
verb
- (transitive) To free something from entanglement; to extricate or unknot.
- (intransitive) To become free or untangled.
- (transitive) To unravel; to separate into discrete components or units.
- smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb
- extricate from entanglement
- separate the tangles of
- free from involvement or entanglement
- release from entanglement of difficulty
verb
noun
- (by extension) Ellipsis of kitchen island.
- (by extension, in place names) A contiguous area of land, smaller than a continent, partially surrounded by water; a peninsula; a half-island.
- A contiguous area of land, smaller than a continent, totally surrounded by water.
- (by extension, West Midlands) A roundabout; a traffic circle.
- (grammar) A phrase from which a wh-word cannot be extracted without yielding invalid grammar.
- A bench, counter, etc., that is not connected to a wall or other furniture and which can be used from any side.
- (government) An unincorporated area wholly surrounded by one or more incorporated areas.
- An entity surrounded by other entities that are very different from itself.
- A superstructure on an aircraft carrier's deck.
- A traffic island.
- a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water
- a zone or area resembling an island
verb
- (transitive, by extension) To force termination of an ongoing process before its natural conclusion, by bypassing one or more intermediary steps.
- (transitive) To cause a short circuit in.
- (transitive, computing) To terminate a loop before the declared termination condition is met, or a conditional before all conditions have been tested for.
- (transitive, by extension) To impede or disrupt.
- (intransitive) To undergo a short circuit.
- (transitive) To bypass, especially by overhastiness.
noun
noun
- (especially mathematics) The act or process of transposing or interchanging.
- (chess) A sequence of moves resulting in a position that may also be reached by another, more common sequence.
- (European Union) An incorporation of the provisions of a European Union directive into a Member State's domestic law.
- (music) A shift of a piece of music to a different musical key by adjusting all the notes of the work equally either up or down in pitch.
- an event in which one thing is substituted for another
- (music) playing in a different key from the key intended; moving the pitch of a piece of music upwards or downwards
- the act of reversing the order or place of
- (electricity) a rearrangement of the relative positions of power lines in order to minimize the effects of mutual capacitance and inductance
- (genetics) a kind of mutation in which a chromosomal segment is transferred to a new position on the same or another chromosome
- any abnormal position of the organs of the body
- (mathematics) the transfer of a quantity from one side of an equation to the other along with a change of sign
verb
noun
- (especially mathematics) The act or process of transposing or interchanging.
- (chess) A sequence of moves resulting in a position that may also be reached by another, more common sequence.
- (European Union) An incorporation of the provisions of a European Union directive into a Member State's domestic law.
- (music) A shift of a piece of music to a different musical key by adjusting all the notes of the work equally either up or down in pitch.
- an event in which one thing is substituted for another
- (music) playing in a different key from the key intended; moving the pitch of a piece of music upwards or downwards
- the act of reversing the order or place of
- (electricity) a rearrangement of the relative positions of power lines in order to minimize the effects of mutual capacitance and inductance
- (genetics) a kind of mutation in which a chromosomal segment is transferred to a new position on the same or another chromosome
- any abnormal position of the organs of the body
- (mathematics) the transfer of a quantity from one side of an equation to the other along with a change of sign
verb
verb
- (transitive) To disentangle.
- (transitive, figurative) To counteract fate.
- (transitive) To unravel (something spun, knit, or woven).
- To happen; to unfold; to develop.
- To counteract or decipher a complicated web of lies, statements, arguments, traditions, etc.
- (ambitransitive) To untwist (something that is twisted or wound)
- To reveal the truth behind PR (public relations) or slanted reporting.
- (ambiintransitive) To stop (something) from spinning.
- (transitive) To unmake.
verb
- (transitive) To break the continuity of; to disconnect; to loosen; to undo; to separate.
- (intransitive) To resolve itself as by dissolution.
- (law, transitive) To annul; to rescind; to discharge or release.
- (intransitive) To be melted, changed into a fluid.
- (physical chemistry, intransitive) To be disintegrated by such immersion.
- (cinematography, intransitive) To shift from one shot to another by having the former fade out as the latter fades in.
- (typography) To separate a ligature into its component letters.
- (transitive) To disperse, drive apart a group of persons.
- (transitive) To liquify, melt into a fluid.
- (transitive) To destroy, make disappear.
- (physical chemistry, transitive) To disintegrate chemically into a solution by immersion into a liquid or other material.
- To relax by pleasure; to make powerless.
- (transitive) To terminate a union of multiple members actively, as by disbanding.
- cause to fade away
- pass into a solution
- cause to go into a solution
- become or cause to become soft or liquid
- bring the association of to an end or cause to break up
- grow less and less substantial until it disappears
- declare void
- come to an end (of a state)
- cause to lose control emotionally
- stop functioning or cohering as a unit
- lose control emotionally
noun
verb
- (transitive) To counteract or compensate for, by applying a change in the opposite direction.
- (transitive) To place out of line.
- (transitive) To form an offset in (a wall, rod, pipe, etc.).
- make up for
- create an offset in
- cause (printed matter) to transfer or smear onto another surface
- compensate for or counterbalance
- produce by offset printing
adj
adv
noun
- (architecture) A terrace on a hillside.
- An abrupt bend in an object, such as a rod, by which one part is turned aside out of line, but nearly parallel, with the rest; the part thus bent aside.
- (surveying) A short distance measured at right angles from a line actually run to some point in an irregular boundary, or to some object.
- The distance by which one thing is out of alignment with another.
- (botany) A short prostrate shoot that takes root and produces a tuft of leaves, etc.
- (programming) The difference between a target memory address and a base address.
- (c. 1555) A time at which something begins; outset.
- (international trade) A form of countertrade arrangement, in which the seller agrees to purchase within a set time frame products of a certain value from the buying country. This kind of agreement may be used in large international public sector contracts such as arms sales.
- A spur from a range of hills or mountains.
- (signal analysis) The displacement between the base level of a measurement and the signal's real base level.
- (architecture) A horizontal ledge on the face of a wall, formed by a diminution of its thickness, or by the weathering or upper surface of a part built out from it; a set-off.
- Anything that acts as counterbalance; a compensating equivalent.
- (printing, often attributive) The offset printing process, in which ink is carried from a metal plate to a rubber blanket and from there to the printing surface.
- the time at which something is supposed to begin
- a horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tips
- a natural consequence of development
- structure where a wall or building narrows abruptly
- a compensating equivalent
- a plate makes an inked impression on a rubber-blanketed cylinder, which in turn transfers it to the paper
verb
- (transitive) To cause to diverge.
- (intransitive) To go off course from; to change course; to change plans.
- (intransitive, figurative) To fall outside of, or part from, some norm; to stray.
- cause to turn away from a previous or expected course
- turn aside; turn away from
- be at variance with; be out of line with
adj
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To revert or (transitive) to restore.
- (transitive) To change a building that has been converted to a new use back to its original use; specifically to change a house that has been converted into apartments or flats back to a single-family dwelling.
- (intransitive) To undergo a deconversion from a religion, faith or belief or (transitive) to induce (someone) to reject a particular religion, faith, or belief.
noun
verb
- (transitive) To unfasten.
- To reverse the effects of an action.
- (transitive, colloquial) To unfasten the clothing of (a person).
- (figuratively) To impoverish or ruin, as in reputation; to cause the downfall of.
- cancel, annul, or reverse an action or its effect
- cause the ruin or downfall of
- deprive of certain characteristics
- cause to become loose
- remove the outer cover or wrapping of
adj
noun
verb
- (transitive) To separate.
- (intransitive, politics) To separate (races, sexes, or other groups, especially black and white people), especially by social policies that directly or indirectly keep them apart.
- (transitive) In particular, to separate and organize by characteristics.
- separate by race or religion; practice a policy of racial segregation
- divide from the main body or mass and collect
- separate or isolate (one thing) from another and place in a group apart from others
adj
noun
verb
- (transitive) To go from one side of (something) to the other.
- (transitive) To pass, as objects going in an opposite direction at the same time.
- (transitive) To make the sign of the cross over (something or someone).
- (soccer) To pass the ball from one side of the pitch to the other side.
- (transitive) To contradict (another) or frustrate the plans of.
- (biology) To cross-fertilize or crossbreed.
- (intransitive) To travel in a direction or path that will intersect with that of another.
- (rugby) To score a try.
- (cricket, reciprocally) Of both batsmen, to pass each other when running between the wickets in order to score runs.
- To mark with an X.
- (law) To conduct a cross examination; to question a hostile witness.
- To write lines of text at right angles to and over the top of one another in order to save paper.ᵂ
- (reflexive, to cross oneself) To make the sign of the cross over oneself.
- To place across or athwart; to cause to intersect.
- (transitive) To stamp or mark (a cheque) in such a way as to prevent it being cashed, thus requiring it to be deposited into a bank account.
- To lay or draw something across, such as a line.
- meet at a point
- fold so as to resemble a cross
- breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties
- trace a line through or across
- to cover or extend over an area or time period
- hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
- meet and pass
- travel across or pass over
adj
- Transverse; lying across the main direction.
- (chiefly British, Ottawa Valley) (of someone) Bad-tempered, angry, annoyed; (of words) tinged with anger.
- (nautical) Of the sea, having two wave systems traveling at oblique angles, due to the wind over shifting direction or the waves of two storm systems meeting.
- Made in an opposite direction, or an inverse relation; mutually inverse; interchanged.
- extending or lying across; in a crosswise direction; at right angles to the long axis
- annoyed and irritable
noun
- A wooden post with a perpendicular beam attached and used (especially in the Roman Empire) to execute criminals (by crucifixion).
- (boxing) A hook thrown over the opponent's punch.
- A pipe-fitting with four branches whose axes usually form a right angle.
- (figurative, from Christ's bearing of the cross) A difficult situation that must be endured.
- The act of going across; the act of passing from one side to the other
- A line across or through another line.
- (Rubik's Cube) Four edge cubies of one side that are in their right places, forming the shape of a cross.
- (surveying) An instrument for laying of offsets perpendicular to the main course.
- (Christianity) Any representation of the crucifix, as in religious architecture, burial markers, jewelry, etc.
- A monument that marks such a place. (Also common in UK or Irish place names such as Charing Cross)
- (biology) An animal or plant produced by crossbreeding or cross-fertilization.
- (Christianity) A hand gesture made in imitation of the shape of the Cross; sign of the cross.
- A place where roads intersect and lead off in four directions; a crossroad (common in UK and Irish place names such as Gerrards Cross).
- (heraldry) Any geometric figure having this or a similar shape, such as a cross of Lorraine or a Maltese cross.
- (Christianity) Alternative letter-case form of Cross (“the Crucifix, the cross on which Christ was crucified”).
- (cartomancy) The thirty-sixth Lenormand card.
- (by extension) A hybrid of any kind.
- (slang) Crossfire.
- A geometrical figure consisting of two straight lines or bars intersecting each other such that at least one of them is bisected by the other.
- (soccer) A pass in which the ball is kicked from a side of the pitch to a position close to the opponent’s goal.
- (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids
- (genetics) an organism that is the offspring of genetically dissimilar parents or stock; especially offspring produced by breeding plants or animals of different varieties or breeds or species
- a wooden structure consisting of an upright post with a transverse piece
- any affliction that causes great suffering
- a marking that consists of lines that cross each other
prep
verb
- (transitive) To put into an opposing position; to reverse.
- (transitive, colloquial) To process; to complete work on (something), especially with a view to sending it on in a finished state.
- (intransitive) To change one's opinion or attitude (especially when becoming hostile etc.).
- (intransitive) To turn so as to be facing in the opposite direction.
- (transitive) To make (a ship, airplane etc.) ready for departure.
- (intransitive) To revolve or rotate around a centre.
verb
- (transitive) To intertwine or dovetail.
- (intransitive, break dancing) To freeze one's body or a part thereof in place.
- (transitive) To fasten with a lock.
- To seize (e.g. the sword arm of an antagonist) by turning one's left arm around it, to disarm them.
- (intransitive, rugby) To play in the position of lock.
- (Internet, wiki jargon, transitive) To prevent a page from being edited by other users.
- (Internet, transitive) To modify (a thread) so that users cannot make new posts in it.
- (intransitive) To be capable of becoming fastened in place.
- To raise or lower (a boat) in a lock.
- To furnish (a canal) with locks.
- (intransitive) To become fastened in place.
- build locks in order to facilitate the navigation of vessels
- become engaged or intermeshed with one another
- pass by means through a lock in a waterway
- become rigid or immoveable
- keep engaged
- place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape
- fasten with a lock
- hold fast (in a certain state)
- hold in a locking position
noun
- (firearms) The firing mechanism.
- Something used for fastening, which can only be opened with a key or combination.
- A segment of a canal or other navigable waterway enclosed by gates, used for raising and lowering boats between levels.
- (computing, by extension) A mutex or other token restricting access to a resource.
- A device for keeping a wheel from turning.
- Something sure to be a success.
- A small quantity of straw etc.
- A tuft or length of hair, wool, etc.
- A place impossible to get out of, as by a lock.
- (Scots law, historical) A quantity of meal, the perquisite of a mill-servant.
- Complete control over a situation.
- A fastening together or interlacing; a closing of one thing upon another; a state of being fixed or immovable.
- A grapple in wrestling.
- (rugby) A player in the scrum behind the front row, usually the tallest members of the team.
- (gambling) Synonym of Dutch book.
- any wrestling hold in which some part of the opponent's body is twisted or pressured
- a strand or cluster of hair
- a mechanism that detonates the charge of a gun
- a fastener fitted to a door or drawer to keep it firmly closed
- enclosure consisting of a section of canal that can be closed to control the water level; used to raise or lower vessels that pass through it
- a restraint incorporated into the ignition switch to prevent the use of a vehicle by persons who do not have the key
verb
- (transitive) To divide in two.
- (intransitive) To be divided in two or separated.
- (intransitive) To leave the company of.
- To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion.
- To separate or disunite; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder.
- To cut hair with a parting.
- (transitive, Internet) To leave (an IRC channel).
- force, take, or pull apart
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- go one's own way; move apart
- depart for someplace
- move or break apart
adj
adv
noun
- A section of land; an area of a country or other territory; region.
- (US) The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions.
- A section of a document.
- (Judaism) In the Hebrew lunisolar calendar, a unit of time equivalent to 3⅓ seconds.
- A unit of relative proportion in a mixture.
- A distinct element of something larger.
- Share, especially of a profit.
- Position or role (especially in a play).
- A group inside a larger group.
- (US) A room in a public building, especially a courtroom.
- A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent; usually in the plural with a collective sense.
- (music) The melody played or sung by a particular instrument, voice, or group of instruments or voices, within a polyphonic piece.
- Each of two contrasting sides of an argument, debate etc.; "hand".
- 3.5 centiliters of one ingredient in a mixed drink.
- (colloquial, euphemistic) A private part; genitalia.
- A fraction of a whole.
- Duty; responsibility.
- the effort contributed by a person in bringing about a result
- a portion of a natural object
- assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group
- something determined in relation to something that includes it
- the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group
- one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole
- the melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music
- that which concerns a person with regard to a particular role or situation
- something less than the whole of a human artifact
- an actor's portrayal of someone in a play
- the extended spatial location of something
- a line of scalp that can be seen when sections of hair are combed in opposite directions
- an item that is an instance of some type
verb
adj
adv
noun
- (countable) A pattern of crossed lines.
- (countable) A mark or cross, such as the signature of a person who is unable to write.
- (countable) A kind of crossword puzzle having no clues or definitions, but only a list of words that must be fitted into the grid.
- a marking that consists of lines that cross each other
verb
- (transitive) To rein in.
- (intransitive) To crouch; to cringe.
- (transitive) To furnish (a well etc.) with a curb; to restrain (a bank of earth, etc.) by a curb.
- (transitive) To bend or curve.
- (transitive) To bring to a stop beside a curb.
- (transitive, slang) Ellipsis of curb stomp.
- (transitive) To check, restrain or control.
- (transitive) To damage vehicle wheels or tires by running into or over a pavement curb.
- keep to the curb
- lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits
- place restrictions on
noun
- A raised margin along the edge of something, such as a well or the eye of a dome, as a strengthening.
- (figurative) Something that checks or restrains; a restraint.
- A concrete margin along the edge of a road; a kerb (UK, Australia, New Zealand).
- (Canada, US) A sidewalk, covered or partially enclosed, bordering the airport terminal road system with adjacent paved areas to permit vehicles to off-load or load passengers.
- (equestrianism) A riding or driving bit for a horse that has rein action which amplifies the pressure in the mouth by leverage advantage placing pressure on the poll via the crown piece of the bridle and chin groove via a curb chain.
- A swelling on the back part of the hind leg of a horse, just behind the lowest part of the hock joint, generally causing lameness.
- an edge between a sidewalk and a roadway consisting of a line of curbstones (usually forming part of a gutter)
- a horse's bit with an attached chain or strap to check the horse
- the act of restraining power or action or limiting excess
verb
- (transitive) To perform by turns, or in succession; to cause to succeed by turns; to interchange regularly.
- (intransitive) To happen, succeed, or act by turns; to follow reciprocally in place or time; followed by with.
- (transitive, geometry) To perform an alternation (removal of alternate vertices) on (a polytope or tessellation); to remove vertices (from a face or edge) as part of an alternation.
- (intransitive) To vary by turns.
- exchange people temporarily to fulfill certain jobs and functions
- be an understudy or alternate for a role
- do something in turns
- go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions
- reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action)
adj
- (US) Other; alternative.
- Happening by turns; one following the other in succession of time or place; first one and then the other (repeatedly).
- (heraldry) Alternating; (of e.g. a pair of tinctures which a charge is coloured) succeeding in turns, or (relative to the field) counterchanged.
- (mathematics) Designating the members in a series, which regularly intervene between the members of another series, as the odd or even numbers of the numerals; every other; every second.
- (botany, of leaves) Distributed singly at different heights of the stem, and at equal intervals as respects angular divergence
- occurring by turns; first one and then the other
- every second one of a series
- of leaves and branches etc.; first on one side and then on the other in two ranks along an axis; not paired
- serving or used in place of another
noun
- That which alternates with something else; vicissitude.
- (US) A replacement of equal or greater value or function.
- (US) A substitute; an alternative; one designated to take the place of another, if necessary, in performing some duty.
- (mathematics) A proportion derived from another proportion by interchanging the means.
- someone who takes the place of another person
verb
- (transitive) To reverse (a change).
- (transitive) To cause to return to a former condition.
- (transitive) To cause (a property or rights) to return to the previous owner.
- (intransitive, Islam) To convert to Islam.
- (intransitive, biology) To return to an earlier or primitive type or state; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.
- (intransitive) To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse.
- (intransitive, originally India, now global) To reply (to correspondence, etc.).
- (transitive) To reverse a change made by (a person).
- To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.
- (intransitive) To take up again or return to a previous topic.
- (intransitive) To return to a former practice, condition, belief, etc.
- (intransitive, law) Of an estate: To return to its former owner, or to his or her heirs, when a grant comes to an end.
- (transitive, mathematics) To treat (a series, such as y=a+bx+cx²+⋯, where one variable y is expressed in powers of a second variable x), so as to find the second variable x expressed in a series arranged in powers of y.
- (intransitive) To return to the possession of.
- go back to a previous state
- undergo reversion, as in a mutation
noun
- (computing) The act of reversion (of e.g. a database transaction or source control repository) to an earlier state.
- (religion) One who reverts to that religion which one had adhered to before having converted to another.
- The skateboard maneuver of rotating the board 180 degrees or more while the wheels remain on the ground.
- (Islam, due to the belief that all people are born Muslim) A convert to Islam.
- One who, or that which, reverts.
verb
- (intransitive) To make a transition.
- (intransitive, LGBTQ) To change one's gender role or physical and sexual characteristics to conform to one's identified gender.
- (transitive) To bring through a transition; to change.
- cause to convert or undergo a transition
- make or undergo a transition (from one state or system to another)
noun
- The process of change from one form, state, style or place to another.
- (education) Professional special education assistance for children or adults in the process of leaving one educational environment or support program for another to relatively more independent living.
- (music) A change of key.
- A word or phrase connecting one part of a discourse to another.
- (genetics) A point mutation in which one base is replaced by another of the same class (purine or pyrimidine); compare transversion.
- (LGBTQ) The process or act of changing one's gender role or physical and sexual characteristics, by social, medical, or legal methods, to conform to their identified gender, rather than the sex assigned at birth.
- (some sports) A change from defense to attack, or attack to defense.
- (euphemistic) Death; passing from life into death.
- (aviation) A published procedure for instrument flight, coming between the departure and en-route phases of flight, or between en-route flight and an approach/landing procedure.
- (skating) A change between forward and backward motion without stopping.
- (music) A brief modulation; a passage connecting two themes.
- (medicine) The onset of the final stage of childbirth.
- a change from one place or state or subject or stage to another
- a passage that connects a topic to one that follows
- the act of passing from one state or place to the next
- an event that results in a transformation
- a musical passage moving from one key to another
verb
- (transitive) To free something from entanglement; to extricate or unknot.
- (intransitive) To become free or untangled.
- (transitive) To unravel; to separate into discrete components or units.
- smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb
- extricate from entanglement
- separate the tangles of
- free from involvement or entanglement
- release from entanglement of difficulty
verb
noun
- (by extension) Ellipsis of kitchen island.
- (by extension, in place names) A contiguous area of land, smaller than a continent, partially surrounded by water; a peninsula; a half-island.
- A contiguous area of land, smaller than a continent, totally surrounded by water.
- (by extension, West Midlands) A roundabout; a traffic circle.
- (grammar) A phrase from which a wh-word cannot be extracted without yielding invalid grammar.
- A bench, counter, etc., that is not connected to a wall or other furniture and which can be used from any side.
- (government) An unincorporated area wholly surrounded by one or more incorporated areas.
- An entity surrounded by other entities that are very different from itself.
- A superstructure on an aircraft carrier's deck.
- A traffic island.
- a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water
- a zone or area resembling an island
verb
- (transitive, by extension) To force termination of an ongoing process before its natural conclusion, by bypassing one or more intermediary steps.
- (transitive) To cause a short circuit in.
- (transitive, computing) To terminate a loop before the declared termination condition is met, or a conditional before all conditions have been tested for.
- (transitive, by extension) To impede or disrupt.
- (intransitive) To undergo a short circuit.
- (transitive) To bypass, especially by overhastiness.
noun
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