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verb
adj
- comparative degree of many: in greater number. (Used for a discrete quantity.)
- comparative degree of much: in greater quantity, amount, or proportion. (Used for a continuous quantity.)
- (comparative of ‘much’ used with mass nouns) a quantifier meaning greater in size or amount or extent or degree; above; more than
- (comparative of ‘many’ used with count nouns) quantifier meaning greater in number
adv
- To a greater degree or extent.
- Used to form the comparative form of adjectives and adverbs.
- (now dialectal, humorous or proscribed) Used in addition to an inflected comparative form.
- (now poetic) In negative constructions: any further, any longer; any more.
- comparative of much; to a greater degree or extent
- used to form the comparative of some adjectives and adverbs, indicates that the adjective or adverb is more of something
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verb
- (transitive) To pull up by the roots; uproot.
- pull up by or as if by the roots
- (transitive) To destroy completely; to annihilate.
- (biology) To cause a population to go extinct in a particular region, but not across the entire range of the species or subspecies.
- (transitive) To surgically remove.
- surgically remove (an organ)
- destroy completely, as if down to the roots
prefix
- To do the root.
- Intensifying the root.
- hypothetical, fictional
- Uniform, or made to be the same as.
- A fellow kind of the root.
- Together: the root is done together.
- Synchronous or simultaneous with the root.
- Found with. What is found with the root.
- Belonging to the same group indicated by the root.
- Mutuality, indicating a reciprocal relationship or influence
- related to conlangs, conworlds, etc.
- To surround or adorn with
- From, coming from the root.
- When one entity is put into another, or one entity affects the other.
- constructed, artificial
- Having commonality, having the same property indicated by the root.
- Unite: to unite into a collection indicated by the root word.
verb
- (transitive) Usually followed by out or up: to dig or pull up (a plant) by the roots; to extirpate, to uproot.
- (transitive) Of a person: to say or shout (something) loudly.
- (transitive, chiefly US) Usually followed by from: to compel (someone) to leave a place; specifically (usually followed by out or up), to cause (someone) to get out of bed.
- (intransitive) Of a person: to search through belongings, a place, etc.; to rummage.
- (intransitive) Of an animal, especially cattle: to low or moo loudly; to bellow.
- (ambitransitive) Of an animal, especially a pig: to search (for something) in the ground with the snout; to root.
- (intransitive) Of a person: to speak loudly; to bellow, roar, to shout.
- (transitive) To dig or plough (earth or the ground); to till.
- (intransitive, chiefly England, regional) To snore, especially loudly.
- (intransitive, chiefly England, regional) To make a noise; to bellow, to roar, to snort.
- (ambitransitive) To use a gouge, router, or other tool to scoop out material (from a metallic, wooden, etc., surface), forming a groove or recess.
- (transitive) To completely defeat and force into disorderly retreat (an enemy force, opponent in sport, etc.).
- (transitive, figurative) Usually followed by out: to find and eradicate (something harmful or undesirable); to root out.
- (transitive) Usually followed by out or up: of a person: to search for and find (something); also (transitive) to completely empty or clear out (something).
- cause to flee
- defeat disastrously
- dig with the snout
- make a groove in
noun
- (countable) A group of (often violent) criminals or gangsters; such people as a class; (more generally) a disorderly and tumultuous crowd, a mob; hence (archaic, preceded by the), the common people as a group, the rabble.
- A lowing or mooing sound by an animal, especially cattle; a bellow, a moo.
- A loud shout; a bellow, a roar; also, an instance of loud and continued exclamation or shouting; a clamour, an outcry.
- (chiefly Scotland) A loud, resounding noise, especially one made by the sea, thunder, wind, etc.; a roar.
- (originally military) The act of completely defeating an army or other enemy force, causing it to retreat in a disorganized manner; (by extension) in politics, sport, etc.: a convincing defeat; a thrashing, a trouncing.
- (countable, law, historical) An illegal assembly of people; specifically, three or more people who have come together intending to do something illegal, and who have taken steps towards this, regarded as more serious than an unlawful assembly but not as serious as a riot; the act of assembling in this manner.
- (countable) A group of disorganized things.
- (military, also figurative) The retreat of an enemy force, etc., in this manner; also (archaic, rare), the army, enemy force, etc., so retreating.
- an overwhelming defeat
- a disorderly crowd of people
verb
- To pull up by the roots; to uproot; to extirpate.
- pull up by or as if by the roots
- (transitive, intransitive) To liberate or be liberated from a culture or its norms.
- To force (people) from their homeland to a new or foreign location.
- move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment
verb
- (transitive) To wrench out of the ground.
- (transitive) To tear into pieces.
- (transitive, figurative) To cancel or annul, or to cause the cancellation or annulment of (e.g. an agreement or contract).
- (transitive, slang, vulgar) To have intense penetrative sex with.
- (intransitive) To start shedding tears.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To succeed dramatically in (an area of endeavor) or against.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To damage.
- (transitive, slang) To brutally assault.
- tear into shreds
verb
- (transitive) To get by digging; to take from the ground; often with up.
- (mining) To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.
- (volleyball) To defend against an attack hit by the opposing team by successfully passing the ball
- To thrust; to poke.
- (figurative) To investigate, to research, often followed by out or up.
- (transitive, intransitive) To move hard-packed earth out of the way, especially downward to make a hole with a shovel. Or to drill, or the like, through rocks, roads, or the like. More generally, to make any similar hole by moving material out of the way.
- remove, harvest, or recover by digging
- remove the inner part or the core of
- get the meaning of something
- turn up, loosen, or remove earth
- thrust down or into
- work hard
- create by digging
- poke or thrust abruptly
noun
- An archeological or paleontological investigation, or the site where such an investigation is taking place.
- The occupation of digging for gold.
- (music, slang) A rare or interesting vinyl record bought second-hand.
- (medicine, colloquial) Digoxin.
- (cricket) An innings.
- A thrust; a poke.
- (volleyball) A defensive pass of the ball that has been attacked by the opposing team.
- A cutting, sarcastic remark.
- the act of digging
- the site of an archeological exploration
- an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect
- the act of touching someone suddenly with your finger or elbow
- a small gouge (as in the cover of a book)
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adj
noun
verb
- pull up by or as if by the roots
- To tear up (a plant, etc.) by the roots, or as if by the roots; to extirpate, to root up.
- move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment
- destroy completely, as if down to the roots
- (intransitive, reflexive) Of oneself or someone: to move away from a familiar environment (for example, to live elsewhere).
- (figuratively) To destroy (something) utterly; to eradicate, exterminate.
- (transitive) Of a pig or other animal: to dig up (something in the ground) using the snout; to rummage for (something) in the ground; to grub up, to root, to rout.
- (figuratively) To remove (someone or something) from a familiar circumstance, especially suddenly and unwillingly.
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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
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noun
noun
- The process of forming roots or taking roots.
- A system of roots; a secure attachment (in something); a firm grounding.
- A method of creating a new plant by getting part of an existing plant to form roots.
- The reflex a baby makes when hungry and seeking milk.
- A hole formed by a pig when it roots in the ground.
- the process of putting forth roots and beginning to grow
verb
verb
- (transitive) To bring something up and set it into a standing position; to set something up.
- (intransitive, cricket, of a wicket-keeper) To stand immediately behind the wicket so as to catch balls from a slow or spin bowler, and to attempt to stump the batsman.
- (US, military, transitive) To formally activate and commission (a unit, formation, etc.).
- (transitive) To launch, propel upwards
- (intransitive, of a thing) To last or endure over a period of time.
- (intransitive, of a person or narrative) To continue to be believable, consistent, or plausible.
- To make one's voice heard, to speak up.
- (transitive, idiomatic) (stand someone up) To avoid a prearranged meeting, especially a date, with (a person) without prior notification; to jilt or shirk.
- (intransitive) To rise from a lying or sitting position.
- (intransitive, formal) To serve in a role during a wedding ceremony.
- refuse to back down; remain solid under criticism or attack
- rise to one's feet
- be standing; be upright
- defend against attack or criticism
- resist or withstand wear, criticism, etc.
- put into an upright position
- rise up as in fear
verb
- (transitive) To bring to the surface.
- (intransitive) To rise to the surface.
- (transitive) To make (information, facts, content, etc) known.
- (transitive) To provide with a surface; to apply a surface to.
- (intransitive, figurative) To come out of hiding.
- (intransitive) To work a mine near the surface.
- (intransitive, of information, facts, content, etc) To become known or apparent; to appear or be found; to come to light.
- come to the surface
- appear or become visible; make a showing
- put a coat on; cover the surface of; furnish with a surface
noun
- (figurative) Outward or external appearance.
- The overside or upside of a flat object such as a table, or of a liquid.
- The outside hull of a tangible object.
- (crosswording) The story or image suggested by a cryptic clue, when read as a whole sentence without considering wordplay.
- (computer graphics) A portion of the display to which graphics can be rendered.
- (mathematics, geometry) The locus of an equation (especially one with exactly two degrees of freedom) in a space of more than two dimensions.
- a superficial aspect as opposed to the real nature of something
- a device that provides reactive force when in motion relative to the surrounding air; can lift or control a plane in flight
- the outermost level of the land or sea
- information that has become public
- the outer boundary of an artifact or a material layer constituting or resembling such a boundary
- the extended two-dimensional outer boundary of a three-dimensional object
adj
verb
- (transitive) To reach the bottom of something.
- (intransitive, especially LGBTQ slang) To take on the receptive role during intercourse.
- To fall to the lowest point.
- (transitive) To pour spirits into (a glass to be topped up with soda water).
- (mechanics, intransitive) To reach or strike against the bottom of something, so as to impede free action.
- (transitive, chiefly passive voice) To lie on the bottom of; to underlie, to lie beneath.
- (transitive) To furnish (something) with a bottom.
- (transitive) To establish or found (something) on or upon.
- strike the ground, as with a ship's bottom
- come to understand
- provide with a bottom or a seat
adj
noun
- (baseball) The second half of an inning, the home team's turn at bat.
- (countable, colloquial, by extension) A sexual submissive.
- (heraldry, rare) A trundle or spindle of thread.
- Spirits poured into a glass before adding soda water.
- The bed of a body of water.
- An abyss.
- (particle physics) Ellipsis of bottom quark.
- (often figuratively) The lowest part of a container.
- (uncountable, British, slang) Character, reliability, staying power, dignity, integrity or sound judgment.
- The lowest part of anything.
- (euphemistic) The buttocks or anus.
- The fundamental part; a basic aspect.
- (usually in the plural) Low-lying land near a river with alluvial soil.
- (clothing, often plural) A garment worn to cover the body below the torso.
- (nautical) Certain parts of a vessel, particularly the cargo hold or the portion of the ship that is always underwater.
- The lowest or last position in a rank.
- (now chiefly US) Low-lying land; a valley or hollow.
- (music) The bass or baritone instruments of a band.
- The remotest or innermost part of something.
- (nautical) A cargo vessel, a ship.
- A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon.
- (countable, slang, especially LGBTQ slang) A person who has a receptive role or has a preference for that role during intercourse.
- (agriculture) The working portion of a moldboard-style plow.
- the second half of an inning; while the home team is at bat
- low-lying alluvial land near a river
- a cargo ship
- a depression forming the ground under a body of water
- the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
- the lowest part of anything
- the lower side of anything
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noun
verb
- (transitive) To put forth as a bud.
- (intransitive) To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn.
- (transitive) To graft by inserting a bud under the bark of another tree.
- (intransitive) To reproduce by splitting off buds.
- (intransitive) To form buds.
- (intransitive) To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise.
- start to grow or develop
- develop buds
noun
- (informal, rare) Brother.
- (US, Canada, Australia, slang, usually in the plural) Cannabis that has been taken from the flowering part of the plant intended to be smoked.
- A small rounded body in the process of splitting from an organism, which may grow into a genetically identical new organism.
- A weaned calf in its first year, so called because the horns are then beginning to bud.
- (figuratively) Something that has begun to develop.
- (informal, chiefly Canada) Synonym of guy, term of address for a man or person.
- (US, Canada, Australia, slang, uncountable) Marijuana.
- (informal, Canada, US) Buddy, friend.
- A newly sprouted leaf or blossom that has not yet unfolded.
- a swelling on a plant stem consisting of overlapping immature leaves or petals
- a partially opened flower
verb
- (transitive) To getter.
- (transitive, informal) To understand. (compare get it)
- (impersonal, informal) Used with a pronoun subject, usually you but sometimes one, to indicate that the object of the verb exists, can occur or is otherwise typical.
- (transitive) To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.
- (imperative, informal) Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose.
- (intransitive, with various prepositions, such as into, over, or behind; for specific idiomatic senses see individual entries get into, get over, etc.) To adopt, assume, arrive at, or progress towards (a certain position, location, state).
- (transitive) To cause to do.
- (transitive) To find as an answer.
- (transitive or ditransitive) To obtain; to acquire.
- (transitive, informal) To catch out, trick successfully.
- (transitive, informal) To perplex, stump.
- (transitive, informal) To bring to reckoning; to catch (usually as a criminal); to effect retribution.
- (intransitive, catenative) (with full infinitive) To be able, be permitted, or have the opportunity (to do something desirable or ironically implied to be desirable).
- (transitive) To cause to come or go or move.
- (copulative, rather informal, followed by an adjective) To become, or cause oneself to become (often with temporary states, past participle adjectives and comparatives).
- (transitive) To hear completely; catch.
- (transitive) To receive.
- (transitive) To cause someone to laugh.
- (transitive) To measure.
- (transitive, in a perfect construction, with present-tense meaning) To have. See usage notes.
- (intransitive, catenative) (with full infinitive or gerund-participle) To begin (doing something or to do something).
- (transitive, informal) To be told; be the recipient of (a question, comparison, opinion, etc.).
- (transitive) To fetch, bring, take.
- (intransitive, informal, chiefly imperative) To go, to leave; to scram.
- (transitive) To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).
- (auxiliary, informal) Used with the past participle to form the dynamic passive voice of a dynamic verb. Compared with static passive with to be, this emphasizes the commencement of an action or entry into a state.
- (transitive) To cause to become; to bring about.
- (transitive) To become ill with or catch (a disease).
- (euphemistic) To kill.
- (transitive) To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).
- grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of
- receive as a retribution or punishment
- receive a specified treatment (abstract)
- achieve a point or goal
- suffer from the receipt of
- evoke an emotional response
- irritate
- cause to move; cause to be in a certain position or condition
- take vengeance on or get even
- acquire as a result of some effort or action
- perceive by hearing
- give certain properties to something
- overcome or destroy
- take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
- make (offspring) by reproduction
- cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner
- apprehend and reproduce accurately
- be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness
- move into a desired direction of discourse
- attract and fix
- come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
- undergo (as of injuries and illnesses)
- be a mystery or bewildering to
- leave immediately; used usually in the imperative form
- go or come after and bring or take back
- enter or assume a certain state or condition
- purchase
- succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase
- communicate with a place or person; establish communication with, as if by telephone
- reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress
- reach and board
- reach by calculation
- go through (mental or physical states or experiences)
- reach with a blow or hit in a particular spot
- come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes)
- earn or achieve a base by being walked by the pitcher
noun
- (informal) Something gotten, something gained or won; an acquisition.
- (sports, tennis) A difficult return or block of a shot.
- (Judaism) A Jewish writ of divorce.
- (UK, Ireland, regional) Synonym of git (“contemptible person”).
- Lineage.
- (Internet slang) A message or post on an online platform, particularly imageboards, with a unique identifier deemed special or rare, usually due to patterns in the ID.
- a return on a shot that seemed impossible to reach and would normally have resulted in a point for the opponent
verb
- (transitive) To make hollow; to dig out.
- (music, often with "up") To begin a vocal note slightly below the target pitch and then to slide up to the target pitch, especially in country music.
- (transitive) To lift, move, or collect with a scoop or as though with a scoop.
- (MTE, slang) To pick (someone) up
- (poker slang) To win the entire pot in a hand in which the pot was split.
- (transitive) To report on something, especially something worthy of a news article, before (someone else).
- take out or up with or as if with a scoop
- get the better of
noun
- Any cup-shaped or bowl-shaped tool, usually with a handle, used to lift and move loose or soft solid material.
- (surfing) The raised end of a surfboard.
- (automotive) An opening in a hood/bonnet or other body panel to admit air, usually for cooling the engine.
- (pinball) A hole on the playfield that catches a ball, but eventually returns it to play in one way or another.
- A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.
- A spoon-shaped surgical instrument, used in extracting certain substances or foreign bodies.
- The act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shovelling.
- A story or fact; especially, news learned and reported before anyone else.
- A special spinal board used by emergency medical service staff that divides laterally to scoop up patients.
- (music) A note that begins slightly below and slides up to the target pitch.
- (film, television) A kind of floodlight with a reflector.
- A place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow.
- The digging attachment on a front-end loader.
- The amount or volume of loose or solid material held by a particular scoop.
- (Scotland) The peak of a cap.
- street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate
- a hollow concave shape made by removing something
- a news report that is reported first by one news organization
- the quantity a scoop will hold
- a large ladle
- the shovel or bucket of a dredge or backhoe
verb
- (transitive) To fix (something) back into position.
- (transitive) To get back on (an animal, vehicle) again.
- (transitive, computing) To mount (a drive or volume) again.
- (transitive) To ascend (something) again.
- (intransitive) To go up again; to rise another time.
- (intransitive) To get back on a horse, bicycle etc.
- (transitive) To help (someone) back on a horse.
- provide with fresh horses
- mount again, as after disassembling something
- mount again
noun
verb
- (transitive, usually with "up") To unearth.
- To bring something to the surface with a dredge.
- (cooking, transitive) To sprinkle (food) with spices or seasonings, using a dredge.
- To make a channel deeper or wider using a dredge.
- search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost
- remove with a power shovel, usually from a bottom of a body of water
- cover before cooking
noun
- A dredging machine.
- Very fine mineral matter held in suspension in water.
- (uncountable) A mixture of oats and barley.
- (cooking, countable) A large shaker for sprinkling spices or seasonings during food preparation.
- The act of dredging.
- An iron frame, with a fine net attached, used in collecting animals living at the bottom of the sea.
- A dragnet for taking up oysters, etc., from their beds.
- a power shovel to remove material from a channel or riverbed
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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 sinter.
- (transitive) To break into small pieces or fragments.
- (transitive) To cut (meat etc.) into small pieces for frying.
- (intransitive, often with about, around, or away) To squander or waste time, money, or other resources; e.g. occupy oneself idly or without clear purpose, to tinker with an unimportant part of a project, to dally, sometimes as a form of procrastination.
- spend frivolously and unwisely
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- (transitive) To place in the ground.
- (transitive) To set up; to install; to instate.
- (ambitransitive) To place (a seed or plant) in soil or other substrate in order that it may live and grow.
- (transitive) To place or set something firmly or with conviction.
- (transitive) To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish.
- (transitive) To engender; to generate; to set the germ of.
- (transitive) To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of.
- (transitive) To place (an object, or sometimes a person), often with the implication of intending deceit.
- (transitive) To furnish or supply with plants.
- put or set (seeds, seedlings, or plants) into the ground
- fix or set securely or deeply
- place into a river
- put firmly in the mind
- place something or someone in a certain position in order to secretly observe or deceive
- set up or lay the groundwork for
noun
- (botany) An organism that is not an animal, especially an organism capable of photosynthesis. Typically a small or herbaceous organism of this kind, rather than a tree.
- A person, placed amongst an audience, whose role is to cause confusion, laughter etc.
- An object placed surreptitiously in order to cause suspicion to fall upon a person.
- (control theory) A system, such as a motor, whose behaviour is being regulated or controlled by a control system.
- (botany) An organism of the kingdom Plantae. Now specifically, a living organism of the Embryophyta (land plants) or of the Chlorophyta (green algae), a eukaryote that includes double-membraned chloroplasts in its cells containing chlorophyll a and b, or any organism closely related to such an organism.
- Anyone assigned to behave as a member of the public during a covert operation (as in a police investigation).
- (Australia) The equipment and work animals of a drover or other rural worker travelling through the countryside.
- (US, dialect) A young oyster suitable for transplanting.
- (ecology) Now specifically, a multicellular eukaryote that includes chloroplasts in its cells, which have a cell wall.
- An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth.
- (countable) A factory or other industrial or institutional building or facility.
- (uncountable) Machinery and other supplies and equipment, such as the kind used in heavy industry, light industry, earthmoving, or construction.
- (proscribed as biologically inaccurate) Any creature that grows on soil or similar surfaces, including plants and fungi.
- (snooker) A play in which the cue ball knocks one (usually red) ball onto another, in order to pot the second; a set.
- buildings for carrying on industrial labor
- (botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion
- an actor situated in the audience whose acting is rehearsed but seems spontaneous to the audience
- something planted secretly for discovery by another
verb
- (transitive) To devise.
- To digest in the stomach.
- (cooking) To make an infusion.
- (figurative) To heat as if by boiling.
- (figurative) To reduce or diminish.
- (cooking) To reduce, or concentrate by boiling down.
- be cooked until very little liquid is left
- extract the essence of something by boiling it
- steep in hot water
verb
- (transitive) To erect; to turn up.
- (transitive) To turn or twist something upwards or to one side; to lift or tilt (e.g. headwear) boastfully.
- (British, Ireland, transitive, slang) To copulate with; (by extension, as with fuck) to mess up, to damage, to destroy.
- (intransitive) To be prepared to be triggered by having the cock lifted.
- (transitive) To form into piles.
- (ambitransitive) To lift the cock of a firearm or crossbow; to prepare (a gun or crossbow) to be fired.
- tilt or slant to one side
- to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others
- set the trigger of a firearm back for firing
intj
noun
- (UK, Commonwealth, Ireland, derogatory, slang) A stupid, obnoxious or contemptible person.
- The bridge piece that affords a bearing for the pivot of a balance in a clock or watch.
- A cock pigeon.
- The indicator of a balance.
- A male fish, especially a salmon or trout.
- A rooster: a male gallinaceous bird, especially a male domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus).
- (slang, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, especially as term of address) A man; a fellow.
- A vane in the shape of a cock; a weathercock.
- A valve or tap for controlling flow in plumbing.
- (informal) Shuttlecock.
- A boastful tilt of one's head or hat.
- The crow of a cock, especially the first crow in the morning; cockcrow.
- A small conical pile of hay or grass.
- (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, derogatory, slang, uncountable) Nonsense; rubbish; a fraud.
- (curling) The circle at the end of the rink.
- The hammer of a firearm trigger mechanism.
- (colloquial, vulgar) A penis.
- (Southern US, where it is now rare and dated; and African-American Vernacular, where it is still sometimes used) Vulva, vagina.
- The state of being cocked; an upward turn, tilt or angle.
- The style or gnomon of a sundial.
- Abbreviation of cock-boat, a type of small boat.
- faucet consisting of a rotating device for regulating flow of a liquid
- obscene terms for penis
- the part of a gunlock that strikes the percussion cap when the trigger is pulled
- adult male chicken
- adult male bird
verb
noun
- A tool used for threshing, consisting of a long handle (handstock) with a shorter stick (swipple or swingle) attached with a short piece of chain, thong or similar material.
- A weapon which has the (usually spherical) striking part attached to the handle with a flexible joint such as a chain.
- (often plural) Part of a rotating device, often used for cutting vegetation.
- an implement consisting of handle with a free swinging stick at the end; used in manual threshing
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
noun
- (countable, obsolete except British, dialectal) The rind of bacon or pork; also, the outer covering or skin of something.
- (uncountable) Earth which grass has grown into the upper layer of; greensward, sod, turf; (countable) a portion of such earth.
- (countable) An expanse of land covered in grass; a lawn or meadow.
- (Philippines) A homosexual man.
- surface layer of ground containing a mat of grass and grass roots
verb
- (transitive) To cut one or more grooves in (the ground, etc.).
- (transitive) To pull one's brows or eyebrows together due to concentration, worry, etc.
- (transitive) To wrinkle.
- (intransitive) to become furrowed
- make wrinkled or creased
- hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove
- cut a furrow into a column
noun
noun
- The process of forming roots or taking roots.
- A system of roots; a secure attachment (in something); a firm grounding.
- A method of creating a new plant by getting part of an existing plant to form roots.
- The reflex a baby makes when hungry and seeking milk.
- A hole formed by a pig when it roots in the ground.
- the process of putting forth roots and beginning to grow
verb
verb
adj
- comparative degree of many: in greater number. (Used for a discrete quantity.)
- comparative degree of much: in greater quantity, amount, or proportion. (Used for a continuous quantity.)
- (comparative of ‘much’ used with mass nouns) a quantifier meaning greater in size or amount or extent or degree; above; more than
- (comparative of ‘many’ used with count nouns) quantifier meaning greater in number
adv
- To a greater degree or extent.
- Used to form the comparative form of adjectives and adverbs.
- (now dialectal, humorous or proscribed) Used in addition to an inflected comparative form.
- (now poetic) In negative constructions: any further, any longer; any more.
- comparative of much; to a greater degree or extent
- used to form the comparative of some adjectives and adverbs, indicates that the adjective or adverb is more of something
det
noun
pron
verb
- (transitive) To pull up by the roots; uproot.
- pull up by or as if by the roots
- (transitive) To destroy completely; to annihilate.
- (biology) To cause a population to go extinct in a particular region, but not across the entire range of the species or subspecies.
- (transitive) To surgically remove.
- surgically remove (an organ)
- destroy completely, as if down to the roots
verb
- (transitive) Usually followed by out or up: to dig or pull up (a plant) by the roots; to extirpate, to uproot.
- (transitive) Of a person: to say or shout (something) loudly.
- (transitive, chiefly US) Usually followed by from: to compel (someone) to leave a place; specifically (usually followed by out or up), to cause (someone) to get out of bed.
- (intransitive) Of a person: to search through belongings, a place, etc.; to rummage.
- (intransitive) Of an animal, especially cattle: to low or moo loudly; to bellow.
- (ambitransitive) Of an animal, especially a pig: to search (for something) in the ground with the snout; to root.
- (intransitive) Of a person: to speak loudly; to bellow, roar, to shout.
- (transitive) To dig or plough (earth or the ground); to till.
- (intransitive, chiefly England, regional) To snore, especially loudly.
- (intransitive, chiefly England, regional) To make a noise; to bellow, to roar, to snort.
- (ambitransitive) To use a gouge, router, or other tool to scoop out material (from a metallic, wooden, etc., surface), forming a groove or recess.
- (transitive) To completely defeat and force into disorderly retreat (an enemy force, opponent in sport, etc.).
- (transitive, figurative) Usually followed by out: to find and eradicate (something harmful or undesirable); to root out.
- (transitive) Usually followed by out or up: of a person: to search for and find (something); also (transitive) to completely empty or clear out (something).
- cause to flee
- defeat disastrously
- dig with the snout
- make a groove in
noun
- (countable) A group of (often violent) criminals or gangsters; such people as a class; (more generally) a disorderly and tumultuous crowd, a mob; hence (archaic, preceded by the), the common people as a group, the rabble.
- A lowing or mooing sound by an animal, especially cattle; a bellow, a moo.
- A loud shout; a bellow, a roar; also, an instance of loud and continued exclamation or shouting; a clamour, an outcry.
- (chiefly Scotland) A loud, resounding noise, especially one made by the sea, thunder, wind, etc.; a roar.
- (originally military) The act of completely defeating an army or other enemy force, causing it to retreat in a disorganized manner; (by extension) in politics, sport, etc.: a convincing defeat; a thrashing, a trouncing.
- (countable, law, historical) An illegal assembly of people; specifically, three or more people who have come together intending to do something illegal, and who have taken steps towards this, regarded as more serious than an unlawful assembly but not as serious as a riot; the act of assembling in this manner.
- (countable) A group of disorganized things.
- (military, also figurative) The retreat of an enemy force, etc., in this manner; also (archaic, rare), the army, enemy force, etc., so retreating.
- an overwhelming defeat
- a disorderly crowd of people
verb
- To pull up by the roots; to uproot; to extirpate.
- pull up by or as if by the roots
- (transitive, intransitive) To liberate or be liberated from a culture or its norms.
- To force (people) from their homeland to a new or foreign location.
- move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment
verb
- (transitive) To wrench out of the ground.
- (transitive) To tear into pieces.
- (transitive, figurative) To cancel or annul, or to cause the cancellation or annulment of (e.g. an agreement or contract).
- (transitive, slang, vulgar) To have intense penetrative sex with.
- (intransitive) To start shedding tears.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To succeed dramatically in (an area of endeavor) or against.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To damage.
- (transitive, slang) To brutally assault.
- tear into shreds
verb
- (transitive) To get by digging; to take from the ground; often with up.
- (mining) To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.
- (volleyball) To defend against an attack hit by the opposing team by successfully passing the ball
- To thrust; to poke.
- (figurative) To investigate, to research, often followed by out or up.
- (transitive, intransitive) To move hard-packed earth out of the way, especially downward to make a hole with a shovel. Or to drill, or the like, through rocks, roads, or the like. More generally, to make any similar hole by moving material out of the way.
- remove, harvest, or recover by digging
- remove the inner part or the core of
- get the meaning of something
- turn up, loosen, or remove earth
- thrust down or into
- work hard
- create by digging
- poke or thrust abruptly
noun
- An archeological or paleontological investigation, or the site where such an investigation is taking place.
- The occupation of digging for gold.
- (music, slang) A rare or interesting vinyl record bought second-hand.
- (medicine, colloquial) Digoxin.
- (cricket) An innings.
- A thrust; a poke.
- (volleyball) A defensive pass of the ball that has been attacked by the opposing team.
- A cutting, sarcastic remark.
- the act of digging
- the site of an archeological exploration
- an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect
- the act of touching someone suddenly with your finger or elbow
- a small gouge (as in the cover of a book)
verb
adj
verb
adj
noun
verb
- pull up by or as if by the roots
- To tear up (a plant, etc.) by the roots, or as if by the roots; to extirpate, to root up.
- move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment
- destroy completely, as if down to the roots
- (intransitive, reflexive) Of oneself or someone: to move away from a familiar environment (for example, to live elsewhere).
- (figuratively) To destroy (something) utterly; to eradicate, exterminate.
- (transitive) Of a pig or other animal: to dig up (something in the ground) using the snout; to rummage for (something) in the ground; to grub up, to root, to rout.
- (figuratively) To remove (someone or something) from a familiar circumstance, especially suddenly and unwillingly.
noun
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
noun
verb
- (transitive) To bring something up and set it into a standing position; to set something up.
- (intransitive, cricket, of a wicket-keeper) To stand immediately behind the wicket so as to catch balls from a slow or spin bowler, and to attempt to stump the batsman.
- (US, military, transitive) To formally activate and commission (a unit, formation, etc.).
- (transitive) To launch, propel upwards
- (intransitive, of a thing) To last or endure over a period of time.
- (intransitive, of a person or narrative) To continue to be believable, consistent, or plausible.
- To make one's voice heard, to speak up.
- (transitive, idiomatic) (stand someone up) To avoid a prearranged meeting, especially a date, with (a person) without prior notification; to jilt or shirk.
- (intransitive) To rise from a lying or sitting position.
- (intransitive, formal) To serve in a role during a wedding ceremony.
- refuse to back down; remain solid under criticism or attack
- rise to one's feet
- be standing; be upright
- defend against attack or criticism
- resist or withstand wear, criticism, etc.
- put into an upright position
- rise up as in fear
verb
- (transitive) To bring to the surface.
- (intransitive) To rise to the surface.
- (transitive) To make (information, facts, content, etc) known.
- (transitive) To provide with a surface; to apply a surface to.
- (intransitive, figurative) To come out of hiding.
- (intransitive) To work a mine near the surface.
- (intransitive, of information, facts, content, etc) To become known or apparent; to appear or be found; to come to light.
- come to the surface
- appear or become visible; make a showing
- put a coat on; cover the surface of; furnish with a surface
noun
- (figurative) Outward or external appearance.
- The overside or upside of a flat object such as a table, or of a liquid.
- The outside hull of a tangible object.
- (crosswording) The story or image suggested by a cryptic clue, when read as a whole sentence without considering wordplay.
- (computer graphics) A portion of the display to which graphics can be rendered.
- (mathematics, geometry) The locus of an equation (especially one with exactly two degrees of freedom) in a space of more than two dimensions.
- a superficial aspect as opposed to the real nature of something
- a device that provides reactive force when in motion relative to the surrounding air; can lift or control a plane in flight
- the outermost level of the land or sea
- information that has become public
- the outer boundary of an artifact or a material layer constituting or resembling such a boundary
- the extended two-dimensional outer boundary of a three-dimensional object
adj
verb
- (transitive) To reach the bottom of something.
- (intransitive, especially LGBTQ slang) To take on the receptive role during intercourse.
- To fall to the lowest point.
- (transitive) To pour spirits into (a glass to be topped up with soda water).
- (mechanics, intransitive) To reach or strike against the bottom of something, so as to impede free action.
- (transitive, chiefly passive voice) To lie on the bottom of; to underlie, to lie beneath.
- (transitive) To furnish (something) with a bottom.
- (transitive) To establish or found (something) on or upon.
- strike the ground, as with a ship's bottom
- come to understand
- provide with a bottom or a seat
adj
noun
- (baseball) The second half of an inning, the home team's turn at bat.
- (countable, colloquial, by extension) A sexual submissive.
- (heraldry, rare) A trundle or spindle of thread.
- Spirits poured into a glass before adding soda water.
- The bed of a body of water.
- An abyss.
- (particle physics) Ellipsis of bottom quark.
- (often figuratively) The lowest part of a container.
- (uncountable, British, slang) Character, reliability, staying power, dignity, integrity or sound judgment.
- The lowest part of anything.
- (euphemistic) The buttocks or anus.
- The fundamental part; a basic aspect.
- (usually in the plural) Low-lying land near a river with alluvial soil.
- (clothing, often plural) A garment worn to cover the body below the torso.
- (nautical) Certain parts of a vessel, particularly the cargo hold or the portion of the ship that is always underwater.
- The lowest or last position in a rank.
- (now chiefly US) Low-lying land; a valley or hollow.
- (music) The bass or baritone instruments of a band.
- The remotest or innermost part of something.
- (nautical) A cargo vessel, a ship.
- A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon.
- (countable, slang, especially LGBTQ slang) A person who has a receptive role or has a preference for that role during intercourse.
- (agriculture) The working portion of a moldboard-style plow.
- the second half of an inning; while the home team is at bat
- low-lying alluvial land near a river
- a cargo ship
- a depression forming the ground under a body of water
- the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
- the lowest part of anything
- the lower side of anything
verb
adj
adv
noun
verb
- (transitive) To put forth as a bud.
- (intransitive) To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn.
- (transitive) To graft by inserting a bud under the bark of another tree.
- (intransitive) To reproduce by splitting off buds.
- (intransitive) To form buds.
- (intransitive) To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise.
- start to grow or develop
- develop buds
noun
- (informal, rare) Brother.
- (US, Canada, Australia, slang, usually in the plural) Cannabis that has been taken from the flowering part of the plant intended to be smoked.
- A small rounded body in the process of splitting from an organism, which may grow into a genetically identical new organism.
- A weaned calf in its first year, so called because the horns are then beginning to bud.
- (figuratively) Something that has begun to develop.
- (informal, chiefly Canada) Synonym of guy, term of address for a man or person.
- (US, Canada, Australia, slang, uncountable) Marijuana.
- (informal, Canada, US) Buddy, friend.
- A newly sprouted leaf or blossom that has not yet unfolded.
- a swelling on a plant stem consisting of overlapping immature leaves or petals
- a partially opened flower
verb
- (transitive) To getter.
- (transitive, informal) To understand. (compare get it)
- (impersonal, informal) Used with a pronoun subject, usually you but sometimes one, to indicate that the object of the verb exists, can occur or is otherwise typical.
- (transitive) To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.
- (imperative, informal) Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose.
- (intransitive, with various prepositions, such as into, over, or behind; for specific idiomatic senses see individual entries get into, get over, etc.) To adopt, assume, arrive at, or progress towards (a certain position, location, state).
- (transitive) To cause to do.
- (transitive) To find as an answer.
- (transitive or ditransitive) To obtain; to acquire.
- (transitive, informal) To catch out, trick successfully.
- (transitive, informal) To perplex, stump.
- (transitive, informal) To bring to reckoning; to catch (usually as a criminal); to effect retribution.
- (intransitive, catenative) (with full infinitive) To be able, be permitted, or have the opportunity (to do something desirable or ironically implied to be desirable).
- (transitive) To cause to come or go or move.
- (copulative, rather informal, followed by an adjective) To become, or cause oneself to become (often with temporary states, past participle adjectives and comparatives).
- (transitive) To hear completely; catch.
- (transitive) To receive.
- (transitive) To cause someone to laugh.
- (transitive) To measure.
- (transitive, in a perfect construction, with present-tense meaning) To have. See usage notes.
- (intransitive, catenative) (with full infinitive or gerund-participle) To begin (doing something or to do something).
- (transitive, informal) To be told; be the recipient of (a question, comparison, opinion, etc.).
- (transitive) To fetch, bring, take.
- (intransitive, informal, chiefly imperative) To go, to leave; to scram.
- (transitive) To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).
- (auxiliary, informal) Used with the past participle to form the dynamic passive voice of a dynamic verb. Compared with static passive with to be, this emphasizes the commencement of an action or entry into a state.
- (transitive) To cause to become; to bring about.
- (transitive) To become ill with or catch (a disease).
- (euphemistic) To kill.
- (transitive) To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).
- grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of
- receive as a retribution or punishment
- receive a specified treatment (abstract)
- achieve a point or goal
- suffer from the receipt of
- evoke an emotional response
- irritate
- cause to move; cause to be in a certain position or condition
- take vengeance on or get even
- acquire as a result of some effort or action
- perceive by hearing
- give certain properties to something
- overcome or destroy
- take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
- make (offspring) by reproduction
- cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner
- apprehend and reproduce accurately
- be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness
- move into a desired direction of discourse
- attract and fix
- come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
- undergo (as of injuries and illnesses)
- be a mystery or bewildering to
- leave immediately; used usually in the imperative form
- go or come after and bring or take back
- enter or assume a certain state or condition
- purchase
- succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase
- communicate with a place or person; establish communication with, as if by telephone
- reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress
- reach and board
- reach by calculation
- go through (mental or physical states or experiences)
- reach with a blow or hit in a particular spot
- come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes)
- earn or achieve a base by being walked by the pitcher
noun
- (informal) Something gotten, something gained or won; an acquisition.
- (sports, tennis) A difficult return or block of a shot.
- (Judaism) A Jewish writ of divorce.
- (UK, Ireland, regional) Synonym of git (“contemptible person”).
- Lineage.
- (Internet slang) A message or post on an online platform, particularly imageboards, with a unique identifier deemed special or rare, usually due to patterns in the ID.
- a return on a shot that seemed impossible to reach and would normally have resulted in a point for the opponent
verb
- (transitive) To make hollow; to dig out.
- (music, often with "up") To begin a vocal note slightly below the target pitch and then to slide up to the target pitch, especially in country music.
- (transitive) To lift, move, or collect with a scoop or as though with a scoop.
- (MTE, slang) To pick (someone) up
- (poker slang) To win the entire pot in a hand in which the pot was split.
- (transitive) To report on something, especially something worthy of a news article, before (someone else).
- take out or up with or as if with a scoop
- get the better of
noun
- Any cup-shaped or bowl-shaped tool, usually with a handle, used to lift and move loose or soft solid material.
- (surfing) The raised end of a surfboard.
- (automotive) An opening in a hood/bonnet or other body panel to admit air, usually for cooling the engine.
- (pinball) A hole on the playfield that catches a ball, but eventually returns it to play in one way or another.
- A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.
- A spoon-shaped surgical instrument, used in extracting certain substances or foreign bodies.
- The act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shovelling.
- A story or fact; especially, news learned and reported before anyone else.
- A special spinal board used by emergency medical service staff that divides laterally to scoop up patients.
- (music) A note that begins slightly below and slides up to the target pitch.
- (film, television) A kind of floodlight with a reflector.
- A place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow.
- The digging attachment on a front-end loader.
- The amount or volume of loose or solid material held by a particular scoop.
- (Scotland) The peak of a cap.
- street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate
- a hollow concave shape made by removing something
- a news report that is reported first by one news organization
- the quantity a scoop will hold
- a large ladle
- the shovel or bucket of a dredge or backhoe
verb
- (transitive) To fix (something) back into position.
- (transitive) To get back on (an animal, vehicle) again.
- (transitive, computing) To mount (a drive or volume) again.
- (transitive) To ascend (something) again.
- (intransitive) To go up again; to rise another time.
- (intransitive) To get back on a horse, bicycle etc.
- (transitive) To help (someone) back on a horse.
- provide with fresh horses
- mount again, as after disassembling something
- mount again
noun
verb
- (transitive, usually with "up") To unearth.
- To bring something to the surface with a dredge.
- (cooking, transitive) To sprinkle (food) with spices or seasonings, using a dredge.
- To make a channel deeper or wider using a dredge.
- search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost
- remove with a power shovel, usually from a bottom of a body of water
- cover before cooking
noun
- A dredging machine.
- Very fine mineral matter held in suspension in water.
- (uncountable) A mixture of oats and barley.
- (cooking, countable) A large shaker for sprinkling spices or seasonings during food preparation.
- The act of dredging.
- An iron frame, with a fine net attached, used in collecting animals living at the bottom of the sea.
- A dragnet for taking up oysters, etc., from their beds.
- a power shovel to remove material from a channel or riverbed
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 sinter.
- (transitive) To break into small pieces or fragments.
- (transitive) To cut (meat etc.) into small pieces for frying.
- (intransitive, often with about, around, or away) To squander or waste time, money, or other resources; e.g. occupy oneself idly or without clear purpose, to tinker with an unimportant part of a project, to dally, sometimes as a form of procrastination.
- spend frivolously and unwisely
noun
verb
noun
verb
- (transitive) To place in the ground.
- (transitive) To set up; to install; to instate.
- (ambitransitive) To place (a seed or plant) in soil or other substrate in order that it may live and grow.
- (transitive) To place or set something firmly or with conviction.
- (transitive) To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish.
- (transitive) To engender; to generate; to set the germ of.
- (transitive) To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of.
- (transitive) To place (an object, or sometimes a person), often with the implication of intending deceit.
- (transitive) To furnish or supply with plants.
- put or set (seeds, seedlings, or plants) into the ground
- fix or set securely or deeply
- place into a river
- put firmly in the mind
- place something or someone in a certain position in order to secretly observe or deceive
- set up or lay the groundwork for
noun
- (botany) An organism that is not an animal, especially an organism capable of photosynthesis. Typically a small or herbaceous organism of this kind, rather than a tree.
- A person, placed amongst an audience, whose role is to cause confusion, laughter etc.
- An object placed surreptitiously in order to cause suspicion to fall upon a person.
- (control theory) A system, such as a motor, whose behaviour is being regulated or controlled by a control system.
- (botany) An organism of the kingdom Plantae. Now specifically, a living organism of the Embryophyta (land plants) or of the Chlorophyta (green algae), a eukaryote that includes double-membraned chloroplasts in its cells containing chlorophyll a and b, or any organism closely related to such an organism.
- Anyone assigned to behave as a member of the public during a covert operation (as in a police investigation).
- (Australia) The equipment and work animals of a drover or other rural worker travelling through the countryside.
- (US, dialect) A young oyster suitable for transplanting.
- (ecology) Now specifically, a multicellular eukaryote that includes chloroplasts in its cells, which have a cell wall.
- An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth.
- (countable) A factory or other industrial or institutional building or facility.
- (uncountable) Machinery and other supplies and equipment, such as the kind used in heavy industry, light industry, earthmoving, or construction.
- (proscribed as biologically inaccurate) Any creature that grows on soil or similar surfaces, including plants and fungi.
- (snooker) A play in which the cue ball knocks one (usually red) ball onto another, in order to pot the second; a set.
- buildings for carrying on industrial labor
- (botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion
- an actor situated in the audience whose acting is rehearsed but seems spontaneous to the audience
- something planted secretly for discovery by another
verb
- (transitive) To devise.
- To digest in the stomach.
- (cooking) To make an infusion.
- (figurative) To heat as if by boiling.
- (figurative) To reduce or diminish.
- (cooking) To reduce, or concentrate by boiling down.
- be cooked until very little liquid is left
- extract the essence of something by boiling it
- steep in hot water
verb
- (transitive) To erect; to turn up.
- (transitive) To turn or twist something upwards or to one side; to lift or tilt (e.g. headwear) boastfully.
- (British, Ireland, transitive, slang) To copulate with; (by extension, as with fuck) to mess up, to damage, to destroy.
- (intransitive) To be prepared to be triggered by having the cock lifted.
- (transitive) To form into piles.
- (ambitransitive) To lift the cock of a firearm or crossbow; to prepare (a gun or crossbow) to be fired.
- tilt or slant to one side
- to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others
- set the trigger of a firearm back for firing
intj
noun
- (UK, Commonwealth, Ireland, derogatory, slang) A stupid, obnoxious or contemptible person.
- The bridge piece that affords a bearing for the pivot of a balance in a clock or watch.
- A cock pigeon.
- The indicator of a balance.
- A male fish, especially a salmon or trout.
- A rooster: a male gallinaceous bird, especially a male domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus).
- (slang, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, especially as term of address) A man; a fellow.
- A vane in the shape of a cock; a weathercock.
- A valve or tap for controlling flow in plumbing.
- (informal) Shuttlecock.
- A boastful tilt of one's head or hat.
- The crow of a cock, especially the first crow in the morning; cockcrow.
- A small conical pile of hay or grass.
- (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, derogatory, slang, uncountable) Nonsense; rubbish; a fraud.
- (curling) The circle at the end of the rink.
- The hammer of a firearm trigger mechanism.
- (colloquial, vulgar) A penis.
- (Southern US, where it is now rare and dated; and African-American Vernacular, where it is still sometimes used) Vulva, vagina.
- The state of being cocked; an upward turn, tilt or angle.
- The style or gnomon of a sundial.
- Abbreviation of cock-boat, a type of small boat.
- faucet consisting of a rotating device for regulating flow of a liquid
- obscene terms for penis
- the part of a gunlock that strikes the percussion cap when the trigger is pulled
- adult male chicken
- adult male bird
verb
noun
- A tool used for threshing, consisting of a long handle (handstock) with a shorter stick (swipple or swingle) attached with a short piece of chain, thong or similar material.
- A weapon which has the (usually spherical) striking part attached to the handle with a flexible joint such as a chain.
- (often plural) Part of a rotating device, often used for cutting vegetation.
- an implement consisting of handle with a free swinging stick at the end; used in manual threshing
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
noun
- (countable, obsolete except British, dialectal) The rind of bacon or pork; also, the outer covering or skin of something.
- (uncountable) Earth which grass has grown into the upper layer of; greensward, sod, turf; (countable) a portion of such earth.
- (countable) An expanse of land covered in grass; a lawn or meadow.
- (Philippines) A homosexual man.
- surface layer of ground containing a mat of grass and grass roots
verb
- (transitive) To cut one or more grooves in (the ground, etc.).
- (transitive) To pull one's brows or eyebrows together due to concentration, worry, etc.
- (transitive) To wrinkle.
- (intransitive) to become furrowed
- make wrinkled or creased
- hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove
- cut a furrow into a column