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noun
- a machine that separates and straightens the fibers of cotton or wool
- A machine that combs wool, etc.
- a person who separates and straightens the fibers of cotton or wool
- a long curling sea wave
- Serranus cabrilla, the gaper, a fish found in European waters.
- A long, curving wave breaking on the shore.
- A person who combs wool, etc.
noun
- A manufacturing plant for paper, steel, textiles, flooring, and some other kinds of materials.
- One thousandth part in millage rates of property tax.
- (historical) A prison treadmill.
- (collectible card games) A strategy centered on depleting the opponent's deck.
- One thousandth of a US dollar, or one tenth of a cent.
- A machine used for expelling the juice, sap, etc., from vegetable tissues by pressure, or by pressure in combination with a grinding, or cutting process; any similar apparatus that otherwise processes.
- (engineering, manufacturing) Alternative form of mil (“one thousandth of an inch”).
- A milling cutter used on such a machine.
- (mining) An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained.
- (CB radio slang) A typewriter used to transcribe messages received.
- A grinding apparatus for substances such as grains, seeds, etc. (Some are small and simple, and some are large and complex.)
- (US military slang, World War I, World War II) A military prison, either guardhouse or post prison.
- (collectible card games) Discarding a card from one's deck.
- (figurative, derogatory) An institution or pseudo-institutional business awarding credentials (such as diplomas, degrees, certificates, or certifications) of either dubious value or fraudulent nature; one selling essays or other documents for the buyers (usually students) to fraudulently pass off as their own.
- A milling machine for machining of solid metal, wood, or plastic.
- The building housing such a grinding apparatus; also, any similar building that houses a similarly material activity (such as weaving, fulling, dying, etc.); the place of business comprising such a building and its outbuildings and grounds.
- A line of three matching pieces in nine men's morris and related games.
- (informal) Clipping of millimeter.
- The raised or ridged edge or surface made in milling anything, such as a coin or screw.
- The building complex housing such a plant; the place of business comprising such buildings and their grounds.
- (informal) An engine.
- A machine for grinding and polishing.
- (figurative, usually derogatory) An establishment that handles a certain type of situation or procedure routinely, or produces large quantities of an item without much regard to quality. (The notion of churning out massive amounts indiscriminately underlies the figurative metaphor.)
- (military slang, World War I, World War II) A delousing station: a cootie mill.
- (die sinking) A hardened steel roller with a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a softer metal, such as copper.
- (informal) Alternative form of mil (“million”).
- (mining) A passage underground through which ore is shot.
- machinery that processes materials by grinding or crushing
- a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing
- the act of grinding to a powder or dust
verb
- (transitive) To grind or otherwise process in a mill or other machine.
- (intransitive) To undergo hulling.
- (transitive) To roll (steel, etc.) into bars.
- (transitive) To cause to mill, or circle around.
- (intransitive, slang) To take part in a fistfight; to box.
- (transitive, collectible card games) To move (a card) from a deck to the discard pile.
- (zoology, of air-breathing creatures) To swim underwater.
- (transitive, mining) To fill (a winze or interior incline) with broken ore, to be drawn out at the bottom.
- (zoology, of a whale) To swim suddenly in a new direction.
- (transitive, Hearthstone) To destroy (a card) due to having a full hand.
- To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth.
- (transitive) To shape, polish, dress or finish using a machine.
- (intransitive, followed by around, about, etc.) To move about in an aimless fashion.
- (transitive) To engrave one or more grooves or a pattern around the edge of (a cylindrical object such as a coin).
- (transitive, slang) To beat; to pound.
- (transitive) To make (drinking chocolate) frothy, as by churning.
- roll out (metal) with a rolling machine
- produce a ridge around the edge of
- move about in a confused manner
- grind with a mill
noun
- A place where wool is washed to remove grease and impurities prior to processing.
- The removal of sediment caused by swiftly moving water.
- A place scoured out by running water, as in the bed of a stream below a waterfall.
- Diarrhoea, in livestock; scouring.
- a place that is scoured (especially by running water)
verb
- (transitive) To clean, polish, or wash (something) by rubbing and scrubbing it vigorously, frequently with an abrasive or cleaning agent.
- (intransitive) To run with speed; to scurry.
- (transitive) To search an area thoroughly.
- (transitive) To move swiftly over; to brush along.
- (transitive) To remove debris and dirt (from something) by purging; to sweep along or off by a current of water.
- (transitive, veterinary medicine) To clear the digestive tract (of an animal) by administering medication that induces defecation or vomiting; to purge.
- (ambitransitive, veterinary medicine) To (cause livestock to) suffer from diarrhoea or dysentery.
- clean with hard rubbing
- rub hard or scrub
- rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid
- examine minutely
noun
adj
- (biology) Incapable of registering a reaction or stimulus.
- Not affected by great heat.
- Obstinate and unruly; strongly opposed to something.
- (medicine) Resistant to treatment; not responding adequately to therapy.
- temporarily unresponsive or not fully responsive to a process or stimulus
- stubbornly resistant to authority or control
- not responding to treatment
noun
- The production of felt from wool.
- Felt or similar material, usually impregnated with a water-resistant material, or the application of such material, usually to a roof.
- The hobby of making objects, such as soft toys, from felt.
- The tangling of woolen fibres (such as when an article of clothing is washed at too high a temperature)
verb
noun
- a worker who teases wool
- an advertisement that offers something free in order to arouse customers' interest
- a flat at each side of the stage to prevent the audience from seeing into the wings
- someone given to teasing (as by mocking or stirring curiosity)
- an attention-getting opening presented at the start of a television show
- a particularly baffling problem that is said to have a correct solution
- a device for teasing wool
- (television, video) A brief portion of a television episode or video that is shown at the beginning, often before the main title sequence, meant to introduce the story and entice viewers to watch the rest of the episode.
- The stoker of a glassworks furnace.
- (fishing) A lure, especially one without a hook, used to attract fish to another lure or lures.
- (textiles) A person or thing that teases.
- (electricity) A shunt winding on field magnets for maintaining their magnetism when the main circuit is open.
- (marketing) A preview or part of a product released in preparation of its main advertising, typically a short film, song, or quote.
- (UK) An assistant who accompanies the 'Obby 'Oss in the May Day festivities of Padstow, Cornwall.
- One who excites a person or an animal (see gomer) sexually without fulfilment.
- (theater) A short horizontal curtain used to mask the flies and frame the top of the inner stage opening, adjustable to the desired height.
- (fishing) A lure used in addition to a bucktail used for fluke fishing.
- (UK, dialect) A kind of gull, the jaeger
- One who teases or pokes fun.
noun
- A machine for applying size to warp yarns.
- A tool for cutting undergrowth.
- One who slashes.
- One who self-injures by cutting.
- A murderer in such a film.
- (fandom slang) One who writes slash fiction and/or supports male/male ships.
- (informal, film) A horror movie with graphic blood and violence; a slasher movie.
- a weapon (a sword or dagger) used for slashing
- someone who slashes another person
noun
- A willying machine, to cleanse wool or willow.
- (countable) Canis lupus; the largest wild member of the canine subfamily.
- (figurative) Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially, want; starvation.
- A man who makes amorous advances to many women.
- (music) A wolf tone or wolf note.
- Any of several related canines that resemble Canis lupus in appearance, especially those of the genus Canis.
- A white worm which infests granaries, the larva of Nemapogon granella, a tineid moth.
- A wolf spider.
- One of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvae of several species of beetles and grain moths.
- a man who is aggressive in making amorous advances to women
- any of various predatory carnivorous canine mammals of North America and Eurasia that usually hunt in packs
- a cruelly rapacious person
verb
noun
- a textile machine for weaving yarn into a textile
- A distorted appearance of something as seen indistinctly or from afar.
- A utensil; tool; a weapon; (usually in compound) an article in general.
- The part of an oar which is between the grip or handle and the blade; the shaft.
- A frame or machine of wood or other material, in which a weaver forms cloth out of thread; a machine for interweaving yarn or threads into a fabric, as in knitting or lace making.
verb
- hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing
- appear very large or occupy a commanding position
- come into view indistinctly, often threateningly
- weave on a loom
- To appear indistinctly, e.g. when seen on the horizon or through the murk.
- (figurative) To rise and to be eminent; to be elevated or ennobled, in a moral sense.
- (figurative) To appear in an exaggerated or threatening form; (of a person or thing) to tower; (of an idea) to impressively or intimidatingly occupy the mind; (of an event) to be imminent.
noun
- A machine used in separating choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.
- (music) The main body of a harmonica containing the air chambers and to which the reed plates are attached.
- (rare) Abbreviation of combination.
- A toothed implement for grooming the hair or (formerly) for keeping it in place.
- A ctene.
- Alternative form of combe.
- The curling crest of a wave; a comber.
- (weaving) A toothed wooden pick used to push the weft thread tightly against the previous pass of thread to create a tight weave.
- The top part of a gun’s stock.
- An old English measure of corn equal to the half quarter.
- One of a pair of peculiar organs on the base of the abdomen in scorpions, with which they comb substrate.
- The toothed plate at the top and bottom of an escalator that prevents objects getting trapped between the moving stairs and fixed landings.
- A fleshy growth on the top of the head of some birds and reptiles; crest.
- The notched scale of a wire micrometer.
- A toothed plate used for creating wells in agar gels for electrophoresis.
- (algebraic geometry) A connected and reduced curve with irreducible components consisting of a smooth subcurve (called the handle) and one or more additional irreducible components (called teeth) that each intersect the handle in a single point that is unequal to the unique point of intersection for any of the other teeth.
- A toothed tool used for chasing screws on work in a lathe; a chaser.
- The collector of an electrical machine, usually resembling a comb.
- (dialectal) Alternative form of coomb.
- A structure of hexagon cells made by bees for storing honey; honeycomb.
- (by extension) A crest (of metal, leather, etc) on a piece of armor, especially on a helmet.
- A former, commonly cone-shaped, used in hat manufacturing for hardening soft fibre.
- a flat device with narrow pointed teeth on one edge; disentangles or arranges hair
- ciliated comb-like swimming plate of a ctenophore
- any of several tools for straightening fibers
- the act of drawing a comb through hair
- the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds
verb
- (transitive) To search thoroughly as if raking over an area with a comb.
- (transitive, especially of hair or fur) To groom with a toothed implement, especially a comb.
- (nautical, intransitive) To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as waves.
- (naval, transitive) To turn a vessel parallel to (the track of) (a torpedo) so as to reduce one's size as a target.
- (transitive) To separate choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.
- smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb
- straighten with a comb
- search thoroughly
noun
- A place where things are manufactured or crafted; a workshop.
- (UK, colloquial) The collective items bought (or to be bought) on a shopping trip.
- A large garage where vehicle mechanics work.
- An establishment where a barber or beautician works.
- A variety of classes taught in junior or senior high school that teach vocational skills.
- (figurative, uncountable) Discussion of business or professional affairs.
- Workplace; office. Used mainly in expressions such as shop talk, closed shop and shop floor.
- An establishment that sells goods or services to the public; originally only a physical location, but now a virtual establishment as well.
- An act of shopping, especially routine shopping for food and other domestic supplies.
- small workplace where handcrafts or manufacturing are done
- a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services
- a course of instruction in a trade (as carpentry or electricity)
verb
- (transitive, slang, chiefly UK) To report the criminal activities or whereabouts of someone to an authority.
- (transitive, slang, chiefly UK) To imprison.
- (transitive, colloquial) To investigate or evaluate as a mystery shopper.
- (transitive) To browse or purchase products from (a catalog, an internet website, etc.), mostly from home.
- (transitive, Internet slang) To photoshop; to digitally edit a picture or photograph.
- (intransitive) To visit stores or shops to browse or explore merchandise, especially with the intention of buying such merchandise.
- do one's shopping at; do business with; be a customer or client of
- shop around; not necessarily buying
- give away information about somebody
- do one's shopping
noun
- A factory farm.
- A building or other place where manufacturing takes place.
- (attributive) The original state of an electronic device, as it was when it came from the manufacturer.
- (UK, slang) A police station.
- A device or process that produces or manufactures something.
- (historical) A trading establishment, especially set up by merchants working in a foreign country.
- (programming) In a computer program or library, a function, method, etc. which creates an object.
- a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing
adj
verb
- To draw fibers out of a clump, for spinning in the production of yarn.
- (transitive, sports, US) To select a rookie player onto a professional sports team.
- (gaming) To play a collectible card game by selecting from a shared pool of cards.
- To select (someone or something) for a particular role or purpose.
- (transitive, US) To conscript (a person); to force (a person) to serve in some capacity, especially in the military.
- (ambitransitive) To follow very closely (behind another vehicle), thereby providing an aerodynamic advantage to both lead and follower and conserving energy or increasing speed.
- To select and separate an animal or animals from a group.
- (transitive) To write a first version; to make a preliminary sketch.
- To write a law.
- To draw in outline; to make a draught, sketch, or plan of, as in architectural and mechanical drawing.
- To draw out; to call forth.
- make a blueprint of
- draw up an outline or sketch for something
- engage somebody to enter the army
adj
noun
- A current of air, usually coming into a room or vehicle.
- (especially Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania) A ravine or narrow valley, especially one through which a stream (at least intermittently) flows.
- (nautical) The depth of water needed to float a particular ship; the depth from the waterline to the bottom of a vessel's hull; the depth of water drawn by a vessel.
- (American spelling, rail transport) The pulling force (tension) on couplers and draft gear during a slack (stretched) condition.
- An unsent e-mail.
- (sports, US) A system of assigning rookie players to professional sports teams.
- Liquid, especially beer or other alcohol, drawn from a cask or keg rather than a bottle or can.
- A person who has been drafted; a conscript or draftee.
- The quantity of liquid (such as water, alcohol, or medicine) drunk in one swallow.
- A small stream or tributary.
- (politics, US) A system of forcing or convincing people to take an elected position.
- An act of drinking.
- (gaming) A style of play in collectible card games, where players select from a shared pool of cards.
- A preliminary sketch or outline for a plan.
- The bevel given to the pattern for a casting, so that it can be drawn from the sand without damaging the mould.
- A dose (of medicine, alcohol, etc.).
- (US, Canada, usually with the) Conscription; the system of forcing people to serve in the military.
- A version of a written work (such as a book or paper) or drawing.
- The draw through a flue of gasses or smoke resulting from a combustion process.
- a current of air (usually coming into a chimney or room or vehicle)
- a dose of liquid medicine
- the act of moving a load by drawing or pulling
- a large and hurried swallow
- a preliminary sketch of a design or picture
- the depth of a vessel's keel below the surface (especially when loaded)
- a serving of drink (usually alcoholic) drawn from a keg
- a regulator for controlling the flow of air in a fireplace
- any of the various versions in the development of a written work
- a document ordering the payment of money; drawn by one person or bank on another
- compulsory military service
noun
- (wool manufacture) A bundle or ball of slivers of combed wool, from which the noils, or dust, have been taken out.
- (military) The First Sergeant or Master Sergeant (U.S. Marine Corps), senior enlisted man at company level.
- A framework at the top of a ship's mast to which rigging is attached.
- A child's spinning toy; a spinning top.
- (golf, billiards, racquet sports) A stroke on the top of the ball.
- The highest rank; the most honourable position; the utmost attainable place.
- The highest or uppermost part of something.
- (ropemaking) A plug or conical block of wood with longitudinal grooves on its surface, in which the strands of the rope slide in the process of twisting.
- Ellipsis of topswarm.
- (irrespective of present orientation) The part of something that is usually highest or uppermost.
- (loosely, by extension) A dominant partner in a sexual relationship.
- A lid, cap, or cover of a container.
- The part of a cut gem between the girdle, or circumference, and the table, or flat upper surface.
- (sound) Highest pitch or loudest volume.
- (LGBTQ slang) A person who penetrates or has a preference for penetrating during intercourse.
- A garment worn to cover the torso.
- (golf, billiards, racquet sports) A forward spin given to the ball by hitting it on or near the top; topspin.
- (in restaurants, preceded by a number) (A table at which there is, or which has enough seats for) a group of a specified number of people eating at a restaurant.
- (particle physics) A top quark.
- (slang, vulgar, African-American Vernacular, MLE, MTE) Fellatio; a blowjob.
- The utmost degree; the acme; the summit.
- The uppermost part of a page, picture, viewing screen, etc.
- The near end of somewhere.
- (finance) A peak price of a security during a trading period, before it begins a downward trend.
- (Philippines, usually in the plural) a shoot (eaten as a vegetable).
- (BDSM) A dominant partner in a sadomasochistic relationship or roleplay.
- (baseball) The first half of an inning, during which the home team fields and the visiting team bats.
- the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill)
- the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development
- the first half of an inning; while the visiting team is at bat
- a garment (especially for women) that extends from the shoulders to the waist or hips
- a canvas tent to house the audience at a circus performance
- a conical child's plaything tapering to a steel point on which it can be made to spin
- the greatest possible intensity
- covering for a hole (especially a hole in the top of a container)
- platform surrounding the head of a lower mast
- the upper part of anything
- the highest or uppermost side of anything
adj
adv
verb
- To put a stiffening piece or back on (a saw blade).
- To cut, break, or otherwise take off the top of (a steel ingot) to remove unsound metal.
- (dyeing) To cover with another dye.
- (of a horse) To strike the top of (an obstacle) with the hind feet while jumping, so as to gain new impetus.
- To exceed in height.
- To excel, to surpass, to beat, to exceed.
- (golf) To strike (the ball) above the centre; also, to make (a stroke, etc.) by hitting the ball in this way.
- (British, Australia, slang, reflexive) To commit suicide.
- (LGBTQ slang, transitive, intransitive) To penetrate during sexual intercourse.
- To improve (domestic animals, especially sheep) by crossing certain individuals or breeds with other superior breeds.
- To cover on the top or with a top.
- To cut or remove the top (as of a tree)
- (nautical) To raise one end of (a yard, etc.), making it higher than the other.
- (BDSM) To be the dominant partner in a BDSM relationship or roleplay.
- To be in the lead, to be at number one position (of).
- be superior or better than some standard
- be the culminating event
- reach or ascend the top of
- finish up or conclude
- cut the top off
- provide with a top or finish the top (of a structure)
- be at the top of or constitute the top or highest point
- be ahead of others; be the first
- pass by, over, or under without making contact
- strike (the top part of a ball in golf, baseball, or pool) giving it a forward spin
noun
- A machine for crimping or ruffling textile fabrics.
- A device for giving hair a wavy appearance.
- A tool used to crimp, to join two pieces of metal.
- Someone who adds pleats to fabric for clothes, drapery, etc.
- A curved board or frame over which the upper of a boot or shoe is stretched to the required shape.
- (chiefly British) A hairdresser.
- An instrument for crimping or ruffling pastry when making a pie.
- A person who crimps when climbing.
- A small climbing hold that can only be held with the tips of a person's fingers.
- a hand tool used for joining two pieces of metal or other ductile material (usually a wire and a metal plate) by deforming one or both of them to hold the other.
- a mechanical device consisting of a cylindrical tube around which the hair is wound to curl it
- someone who tricks or coerces men into service as sailors or soldiers
noun
- a textile machine having a system of revolving spikes for opening and cleaning raw textile fibers
- any of numerous deciduous trees and shrubs of the genus Salix
- The wood of these trees.
- A rotating spiked drum used to open and clean cotton heads.
- Any of various deciduous trees or shrubs in the genus Salix, in the willow family Salicaceae, found primarily on moist soils in cooler zones in the northern hemisphere.
- (baseball, slang, 1800s) The baseball bat.
- (cricket, colloquial) A cricket bat.
verb
noun
- A wince (machine used in dyeing or steeping cloth).
- (nautical) A hoisting device used for loading or unloading cargo, or for pulling in lines.
- A machine consisting of a drum on an axle, a friction brake or ratchet and pawl, and a crank handle or prime mover (often an electric or hydraulic motor), with or without gearing, to give increased mechanical advantage when hoisting or hauling on a rope or cable.
- A kick, as of an animal, from impatience or uneasiness.
- (Nigeria, slang) A witch.
- lifting device consisting of a horizontal cylinder turned by a crank on which a cable or rope winds
verb
noun
- a machine that separates and straightens the fibers of cotton or wool
- A machine that combs wool, etc.
- a person who separates and straightens the fibers of cotton or wool
- a long curling sea wave
- Serranus cabrilla, the gaper, a fish found in European waters.
- A long, curving wave breaking on the shore.
- A person who combs wool, etc.
noun
- A manufacturing plant for paper, steel, textiles, flooring, and some other kinds of materials.
- One thousandth part in millage rates of property tax.
- (historical) A prison treadmill.
- (collectible card games) A strategy centered on depleting the opponent's deck.
- One thousandth of a US dollar, or one tenth of a cent.
- A machine used for expelling the juice, sap, etc., from vegetable tissues by pressure, or by pressure in combination with a grinding, or cutting process; any similar apparatus that otherwise processes.
- (engineering, manufacturing) Alternative form of mil (“one thousandth of an inch”).
- A milling cutter used on such a machine.
- (mining) An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained.
- (CB radio slang) A typewriter used to transcribe messages received.
- A grinding apparatus for substances such as grains, seeds, etc. (Some are small and simple, and some are large and complex.)
- (US military slang, World War I, World War II) A military prison, either guardhouse or post prison.
- (collectible card games) Discarding a card from one's deck.
- (figurative, derogatory) An institution or pseudo-institutional business awarding credentials (such as diplomas, degrees, certificates, or certifications) of either dubious value or fraudulent nature; one selling essays or other documents for the buyers (usually students) to fraudulently pass off as their own.
- A milling machine for machining of solid metal, wood, or plastic.
- The building housing such a grinding apparatus; also, any similar building that houses a similarly material activity (such as weaving, fulling, dying, etc.); the place of business comprising such a building and its outbuildings and grounds.
- A line of three matching pieces in nine men's morris and related games.
- (informal) Clipping of millimeter.
- The raised or ridged edge or surface made in milling anything, such as a coin or screw.
- The building complex housing such a plant; the place of business comprising such buildings and their grounds.
- (informal) An engine.
- A machine for grinding and polishing.
- (figurative, usually derogatory) An establishment that handles a certain type of situation or procedure routinely, or produces large quantities of an item without much regard to quality. (The notion of churning out massive amounts indiscriminately underlies the figurative metaphor.)
- (military slang, World War I, World War II) A delousing station: a cootie mill.
- (die sinking) A hardened steel roller with a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a softer metal, such as copper.
- (informal) Alternative form of mil (“million”).
- (mining) A passage underground through which ore is shot.
- machinery that processes materials by grinding or crushing
- a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing
- the act of grinding to a powder or dust
verb
- (transitive) To grind or otherwise process in a mill or other machine.
- (intransitive) To undergo hulling.
- (transitive) To roll (steel, etc.) into bars.
- (transitive) To cause to mill, or circle around.
- (intransitive, slang) To take part in a fistfight; to box.
- (transitive, collectible card games) To move (a card) from a deck to the discard pile.
- (zoology, of air-breathing creatures) To swim underwater.
- (transitive, mining) To fill (a winze or interior incline) with broken ore, to be drawn out at the bottom.
- (zoology, of a whale) To swim suddenly in a new direction.
- (transitive, Hearthstone) To destroy (a card) due to having a full hand.
- To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth.
- (transitive) To shape, polish, dress or finish using a machine.
- (intransitive, followed by around, about, etc.) To move about in an aimless fashion.
- (transitive) To engrave one or more grooves or a pattern around the edge of (a cylindrical object such as a coin).
- (transitive, slang) To beat; to pound.
- (transitive) To make (drinking chocolate) frothy, as by churning.
- roll out (metal) with a rolling machine
- produce a ridge around the edge of
- move about in a confused manner
- grind with a mill
noun
- A place where wool is washed to remove grease and impurities prior to processing.
- The removal of sediment caused by swiftly moving water.
- A place scoured out by running water, as in the bed of a stream below a waterfall.
- Diarrhoea, in livestock; scouring.
- a place that is scoured (especially by running water)
verb
- (transitive) To clean, polish, or wash (something) by rubbing and scrubbing it vigorously, frequently with an abrasive or cleaning agent.
- (intransitive) To run with speed; to scurry.
- (transitive) To search an area thoroughly.
- (transitive) To move swiftly over; to brush along.
- (transitive) To remove debris and dirt (from something) by purging; to sweep along or off by a current of water.
- (transitive, veterinary medicine) To clear the digestive tract (of an animal) by administering medication that induces defecation or vomiting; to purge.
- (ambitransitive, veterinary medicine) To (cause livestock to) suffer from diarrhoea or dysentery.
- clean with hard rubbing
- rub hard or scrub
- rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid
- examine minutely
noun
adj
- (biology) Incapable of registering a reaction or stimulus.
- Not affected by great heat.
- Obstinate and unruly; strongly opposed to something.
- (medicine) Resistant to treatment; not responding adequately to therapy.
- temporarily unresponsive or not fully responsive to a process or stimulus
- stubbornly resistant to authority or control
- not responding to treatment
noun
- The production of felt from wool.
- Felt or similar material, usually impregnated with a water-resistant material, or the application of such material, usually to a roof.
- The hobby of making objects, such as soft toys, from felt.
- The tangling of woolen fibres (such as when an article of clothing is washed at too high a temperature)
verb
noun
- a worker who teases wool
- an advertisement that offers something free in order to arouse customers' interest
- a flat at each side of the stage to prevent the audience from seeing into the wings
- someone given to teasing (as by mocking or stirring curiosity)
- an attention-getting opening presented at the start of a television show
- a particularly baffling problem that is said to have a correct solution
- a device for teasing wool
- (television, video) A brief portion of a television episode or video that is shown at the beginning, often before the main title sequence, meant to introduce the story and entice viewers to watch the rest of the episode.
- The stoker of a glassworks furnace.
- (fishing) A lure, especially one without a hook, used to attract fish to another lure or lures.
- (textiles) A person or thing that teases.
- (electricity) A shunt winding on field magnets for maintaining their magnetism when the main circuit is open.
- (marketing) A preview or part of a product released in preparation of its main advertising, typically a short film, song, or quote.
- (UK) An assistant who accompanies the 'Obby 'Oss in the May Day festivities of Padstow, Cornwall.
- One who excites a person or an animal (see gomer) sexually without fulfilment.
- (theater) A short horizontal curtain used to mask the flies and frame the top of the inner stage opening, adjustable to the desired height.
- (fishing) A lure used in addition to a bucktail used for fluke fishing.
- (UK, dialect) A kind of gull, the jaeger
- One who teases or pokes fun.
noun
- A machine for applying size to warp yarns.
- A tool for cutting undergrowth.
- One who slashes.
- One who self-injures by cutting.
- A murderer in such a film.
- (fandom slang) One who writes slash fiction and/or supports male/male ships.
- (informal, film) A horror movie with graphic blood and violence; a slasher movie.
- a weapon (a sword or dagger) used for slashing
- someone who slashes another person
noun
- A willying machine, to cleanse wool or willow.
- (countable) Canis lupus; the largest wild member of the canine subfamily.
- (figurative) Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially, want; starvation.
- A man who makes amorous advances to many women.
- (music) A wolf tone or wolf note.
- Any of several related canines that resemble Canis lupus in appearance, especially those of the genus Canis.
- A white worm which infests granaries, the larva of Nemapogon granella, a tineid moth.
- A wolf spider.
- One of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvae of several species of beetles and grain moths.
- a man who is aggressive in making amorous advances to women
- any of various predatory carnivorous canine mammals of North America and Eurasia that usually hunt in packs
- a cruelly rapacious person
verb
noun
- a textile machine for weaving yarn into a textile
- A distorted appearance of something as seen indistinctly or from afar.
- A utensil; tool; a weapon; (usually in compound) an article in general.
- The part of an oar which is between the grip or handle and the blade; the shaft.
- A frame or machine of wood or other material, in which a weaver forms cloth out of thread; a machine for interweaving yarn or threads into a fabric, as in knitting or lace making.
verb
- hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing
- appear very large or occupy a commanding position
- come into view indistinctly, often threateningly
- weave on a loom
- To appear indistinctly, e.g. when seen on the horizon or through the murk.
- (figurative) To rise and to be eminent; to be elevated or ennobled, in a moral sense.
- (figurative) To appear in an exaggerated or threatening form; (of a person or thing) to tower; (of an idea) to impressively or intimidatingly occupy the mind; (of an event) to be imminent.
noun
- A machine used in separating choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.
- (music) The main body of a harmonica containing the air chambers and to which the reed plates are attached.
- (rare) Abbreviation of combination.
- A toothed implement for grooming the hair or (formerly) for keeping it in place.
- A ctene.
- Alternative form of combe.
- The curling crest of a wave; a comber.
- (weaving) A toothed wooden pick used to push the weft thread tightly against the previous pass of thread to create a tight weave.
- The top part of a gun’s stock.
- An old English measure of corn equal to the half quarter.
- One of a pair of peculiar organs on the base of the abdomen in scorpions, with which they comb substrate.
- The toothed plate at the top and bottom of an escalator that prevents objects getting trapped between the moving stairs and fixed landings.
- A fleshy growth on the top of the head of some birds and reptiles; crest.
- The notched scale of a wire micrometer.
- A toothed plate used for creating wells in agar gels for electrophoresis.
- (algebraic geometry) A connected and reduced curve with irreducible components consisting of a smooth subcurve (called the handle) and one or more additional irreducible components (called teeth) that each intersect the handle in a single point that is unequal to the unique point of intersection for any of the other teeth.
- A toothed tool used for chasing screws on work in a lathe; a chaser.
- The collector of an electrical machine, usually resembling a comb.
- (dialectal) Alternative form of coomb.
- A structure of hexagon cells made by bees for storing honey; honeycomb.
- (by extension) A crest (of metal, leather, etc) on a piece of armor, especially on a helmet.
- A former, commonly cone-shaped, used in hat manufacturing for hardening soft fibre.
- a flat device with narrow pointed teeth on one edge; disentangles or arranges hair
- ciliated comb-like swimming plate of a ctenophore
- any of several tools for straightening fibers
- the act of drawing a comb through hair
- the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds
verb
- (transitive) To search thoroughly as if raking over an area with a comb.
- (transitive, especially of hair or fur) To groom with a toothed implement, especially a comb.
- (nautical, intransitive) To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as waves.
- (naval, transitive) To turn a vessel parallel to (the track of) (a torpedo) so as to reduce one's size as a target.
- (transitive) To separate choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.
- smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb
- straighten with a comb
- search thoroughly
noun
- A place where things are manufactured or crafted; a workshop.
- (UK, colloquial) The collective items bought (or to be bought) on a shopping trip.
- A large garage where vehicle mechanics work.
- An establishment where a barber or beautician works.
- A variety of classes taught in junior or senior high school that teach vocational skills.
- (figurative, uncountable) Discussion of business or professional affairs.
- Workplace; office. Used mainly in expressions such as shop talk, closed shop and shop floor.
- An establishment that sells goods or services to the public; originally only a physical location, but now a virtual establishment as well.
- An act of shopping, especially routine shopping for food and other domestic supplies.
- small workplace where handcrafts or manufacturing are done
- a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services
- a course of instruction in a trade (as carpentry or electricity)
verb
- (transitive, slang, chiefly UK) To report the criminal activities or whereabouts of someone to an authority.
- (transitive, slang, chiefly UK) To imprison.
- (transitive, colloquial) To investigate or evaluate as a mystery shopper.
- (transitive) To browse or purchase products from (a catalog, an internet website, etc.), mostly from home.
- (transitive, Internet slang) To photoshop; to digitally edit a picture or photograph.
- (intransitive) To visit stores or shops to browse or explore merchandise, especially with the intention of buying such merchandise.
- do one's shopping at; do business with; be a customer or client of
- shop around; not necessarily buying
- give away information about somebody
- do one's shopping
noun
- A factory farm.
- A building or other place where manufacturing takes place.
- (attributive) The original state of an electronic device, as it was when it came from the manufacturer.
- (UK, slang) A police station.
- A device or process that produces or manufactures something.
- (historical) A trading establishment, especially set up by merchants working in a foreign country.
- (programming) In a computer program or library, a function, method, etc. which creates an object.
- a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing
adj
noun
- (wool manufacture) A bundle or ball of slivers of combed wool, from which the noils, or dust, have been taken out.
- (military) The First Sergeant or Master Sergeant (U.S. Marine Corps), senior enlisted man at company level.
- A framework at the top of a ship's mast to which rigging is attached.
- A child's spinning toy; a spinning top.
- (golf, billiards, racquet sports) A stroke on the top of the ball.
- The highest rank; the most honourable position; the utmost attainable place.
- The highest or uppermost part of something.
- (ropemaking) A plug or conical block of wood with longitudinal grooves on its surface, in which the strands of the rope slide in the process of twisting.
- Ellipsis of topswarm.
- (irrespective of present orientation) The part of something that is usually highest or uppermost.
- (loosely, by extension) A dominant partner in a sexual relationship.
- A lid, cap, or cover of a container.
- The part of a cut gem between the girdle, or circumference, and the table, or flat upper surface.
- (sound) Highest pitch or loudest volume.
- (LGBTQ slang) A person who penetrates or has a preference for penetrating during intercourse.
- A garment worn to cover the torso.
- (golf, billiards, racquet sports) A forward spin given to the ball by hitting it on or near the top; topspin.
- (in restaurants, preceded by a number) (A table at which there is, or which has enough seats for) a group of a specified number of people eating at a restaurant.
- (particle physics) A top quark.
- (slang, vulgar, African-American Vernacular, MLE, MTE) Fellatio; a blowjob.
- The utmost degree; the acme; the summit.
- The uppermost part of a page, picture, viewing screen, etc.
- The near end of somewhere.
- (finance) A peak price of a security during a trading period, before it begins a downward trend.
- (Philippines, usually in the plural) a shoot (eaten as a vegetable).
- (BDSM) A dominant partner in a sadomasochistic relationship or roleplay.
- (baseball) The first half of an inning, during which the home team fields and the visiting team bats.
- the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill)
- the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development
- the first half of an inning; while the visiting team is at bat
- a garment (especially for women) that extends from the shoulders to the waist or hips
- a canvas tent to house the audience at a circus performance
- a conical child's plaything tapering to a steel point on which it can be made to spin
- the greatest possible intensity
- covering for a hole (especially a hole in the top of a container)
- platform surrounding the head of a lower mast
- the upper part of anything
- the highest or uppermost side of anything
adj
adv
verb
- To put a stiffening piece or back on (a saw blade).
- To cut, break, or otherwise take off the top of (a steel ingot) to remove unsound metal.
- (dyeing) To cover with another dye.
- (of a horse) To strike the top of (an obstacle) with the hind feet while jumping, so as to gain new impetus.
- To exceed in height.
- To excel, to surpass, to beat, to exceed.
- (golf) To strike (the ball) above the centre; also, to make (a stroke, etc.) by hitting the ball in this way.
- (British, Australia, slang, reflexive) To commit suicide.
- (LGBTQ slang, transitive, intransitive) To penetrate during sexual intercourse.
- To improve (domestic animals, especially sheep) by crossing certain individuals or breeds with other superior breeds.
- To cover on the top or with a top.
- To cut or remove the top (as of a tree)
- (nautical) To raise one end of (a yard, etc.), making it higher than the other.
- (BDSM) To be the dominant partner in a BDSM relationship or roleplay.
- To be in the lead, to be at number one position (of).
- be superior or better than some standard
- be the culminating event
- reach or ascend the top of
- finish up or conclude
- cut the top off
- provide with a top or finish the top (of a structure)
- be at the top of or constitute the top or highest point
- be ahead of others; be the first
- pass by, over, or under without making contact
- strike (the top part of a ball in golf, baseball, or pool) giving it a forward spin
noun
- A machine for crimping or ruffling textile fabrics.
- A device for giving hair a wavy appearance.
- A tool used to crimp, to join two pieces of metal.
- Someone who adds pleats to fabric for clothes, drapery, etc.
- A curved board or frame over which the upper of a boot or shoe is stretched to the required shape.
- (chiefly British) A hairdresser.
- An instrument for crimping or ruffling pastry when making a pie.
- A person who crimps when climbing.
- A small climbing hold that can only be held with the tips of a person's fingers.
- a hand tool used for joining two pieces of metal or other ductile material (usually a wire and a metal plate) by deforming one or both of them to hold the other.
- a mechanical device consisting of a cylindrical tube around which the hair is wound to curl it
- someone who tricks or coerces men into service as sailors or soldiers
noun
- a textile machine having a system of revolving spikes for opening and cleaning raw textile fibers
- any of numerous deciduous trees and shrubs of the genus Salix
- The wood of these trees.
- A rotating spiked drum used to open and clean cotton heads.
- Any of various deciduous trees or shrubs in the genus Salix, in the willow family Salicaceae, found primarily on moist soils in cooler zones in the northern hemisphere.
- (baseball, slang, 1800s) The baseball bat.
- (cricket, colloquial) A cricket bat.
verb
noun
- A wince (machine used in dyeing or steeping cloth).
- (nautical) A hoisting device used for loading or unloading cargo, or for pulling in lines.
- A machine consisting of a drum on an axle, a friction brake or ratchet and pawl, and a crank handle or prime mover (often an electric or hydraulic motor), with or without gearing, to give increased mechanical advantage when hoisting or hauling on a rope or cable.
- A kick, as of an animal, from impatience or uneasiness.
- (Nigeria, slang) A witch.
- lifting device consisting of a horizontal cylinder turned by a crank on which a cable or rope winds
verb
verb
- To draw fibers out of a clump, for spinning in the production of yarn.
- (transitive, sports, US) To select a rookie player onto a professional sports team.
- (gaming) To play a collectible card game by selecting from a shared pool of cards.
- To select (someone or something) for a particular role or purpose.
- (transitive, US) To conscript (a person); to force (a person) to serve in some capacity, especially in the military.
- (ambitransitive) To follow very closely (behind another vehicle), thereby providing an aerodynamic advantage to both lead and follower and conserving energy or increasing speed.
- To select and separate an animal or animals from a group.
- (transitive) To write a first version; to make a preliminary sketch.
- To write a law.
- To draw in outline; to make a draught, sketch, or plan of, as in architectural and mechanical drawing.
- To draw out; to call forth.
- make a blueprint of
- draw up an outline or sketch for something
- engage somebody to enter the army
adj
noun
- A current of air, usually coming into a room or vehicle.
- (especially Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania) A ravine or narrow valley, especially one through which a stream (at least intermittently) flows.
- (nautical) The depth of water needed to float a particular ship; the depth from the waterline to the bottom of a vessel's hull; the depth of water drawn by a vessel.
- (American spelling, rail transport) The pulling force (tension) on couplers and draft gear during a slack (stretched) condition.
- An unsent e-mail.
- (sports, US) A system of assigning rookie players to professional sports teams.
- Liquid, especially beer or other alcohol, drawn from a cask or keg rather than a bottle or can.
- A person who has been drafted; a conscript or draftee.
- The quantity of liquid (such as water, alcohol, or medicine) drunk in one swallow.
- A small stream or tributary.
- (politics, US) A system of forcing or convincing people to take an elected position.
- An act of drinking.
- (gaming) A style of play in collectible card games, where players select from a shared pool of cards.
- A preliminary sketch or outline for a plan.
- The bevel given to the pattern for a casting, so that it can be drawn from the sand without damaging the mould.
- A dose (of medicine, alcohol, etc.).
- (US, Canada, usually with the) Conscription; the system of forcing people to serve in the military.
- A version of a written work (such as a book or paper) or drawing.
- The draw through a flue of gasses or smoke resulting from a combustion process.
- a current of air (usually coming into a chimney or room or vehicle)
- a dose of liquid medicine
- the act of moving a load by drawing or pulling
- a large and hurried swallow
- a preliminary sketch of a design or picture
- the depth of a vessel's keel below the surface (especially when loaded)
- a serving of drink (usually alcoholic) drawn from a keg
- a regulator for controlling the flow of air in a fireplace
- any of the various versions in the development of a written work
- a document ordering the payment of money; drawn by one person or bank on another
- compulsory military service
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