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noun
noun
- A pinch with the nails or teeth.
- a small sharp bite or snip
- A small amount of food or drink, (particularly) a small amount of liquor.
- (nautical) A short turn in a rope.
- (Manitoba, Northwestern Ontario) A hamburger.
- A blast; a killing of the ends of plants by frost.
- Briskly cold weather.
- A small cut, or a cutting off the end.
- (papermaking) The place of intersection where one roll touches another
- A biting sarcasm; a taunt.
- A seizing or closing in upon; a pinching
- (mining) A more or less gradual thinning out of a stratum.
- (slang, vulgar, chiefly in the plural) A nipple, usually of a woman.
- A playful bite.
- the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth
- a small drink of liquor
- a tart spicy quality
- the property of being moderately cold
verb
- To taunt.
- (slang, vulgar) To have erect nipples.
- To blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor of; to destroy.
- (informal) To make a quick, short journey or errand, usually a round trip.
- (Scotland, Northern England) To squeeze or pinch.
- To benumb [e.g., cheeks, fingers, nose] by severe cold.
- To remove by pinching, biting, or cutting with two meeting edges of anything; to clip.
- To catch and enclose or compress tightly between two surfaces, or points which are brought together or closed; to pinch; to close in upon.
- To annoy, as by nipping.
- sever or remove by pinching or snipping
- give a small sharp bite to
- squeeze tightly between the fingers
noun
- a small sharp bite or snip
- a squeeze with the fingers
- a sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action
- a slight but appreciable amount
- a painful or straitened circumstance
- the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)
- an injury resulting from getting some body part squeezed
- (slang) An arrest.
- An awkward situation of some kind (especially money or social) which is difficult to escape.
- The narrow part connecting the two bulbs of an hourglass.
- An organic herbal smoke additive.
- (physics) A magnetic compression of an electrically conducting filament.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A steep incline; a very steep section of road.
- A close compression of anything with the fingers.
- The action of squeezing a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
- A metal bar used as a lever for lifting weights, rolling wheels, etc.
- A small amount of powder or granules, such that the amount could be held between fingertip and thumb tip.
verb
- irritate as if by a nip, pinch, or tear
- cut the top off
- make ridges into by pinching together
- squeeze tightly between the fingers
- make off with belongings of others
- (hunting) To take hold; to grip, as a dog does.
- To squeeze between two objects.
- (figurative) To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve.
- To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch.
- (of animals) To seize; to grip; to bite.
- (slang, transitive) To steal, usually something inconsequential.
- To squeeze a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
- (intransitive) Of clothing, to be uncomfortably tight in specific spots.
- (slang, transitive) To arrest or capture.
- To squeeze between the thumb and forefinger.
- (nautical) To sail so close-hauled that the sails begin to flutter.
- (horticulture) To cut shoots or buds of a plant in order to shape the plant, or to improve its yield.
noun
noun
- A tine or snag of an antler.
- An individual element in a larger whole; a particular detail, thought, or quality.
- Each of the marks or strokes written above letters, especially in Semitic languages, to indicate vowels, stress etc.
- (video games, board games) A unit of various numerical parameters used in a game, e.g. health, experience, stamina, mana.
- (sports, video games, board games) A unit of scoring in a game or competition.
- A purpose or objective, which makes something meaningful.
- Each of the main directions on a compass, usually considered to be 32 in number; a direction.
- (economics) A unit used to express differences in prices of stocks and shares.
- (music) A dot or mark used to designate certain tones or time. In ancient music, it distinguished or characterized certain tones or styles (points of perfection, of augmentation, etc.). In modern music, it is placed on the right of a note to raise its value, or prolong its time, by one half.
- (falconry) The perpendicular rising of a hawk over the place where its prey has gone into cover.
- Ellipsis of percentage point.
- A peninsula or promontory.
- (by extension) An operational or public leadership position in a risky endeavor.
- (UK) An electric power socket.
- (historical) A string or lace used to tie together certain garments.
- Ellipsis of point man.
- (archaeology) A spearhead or similar object hafted to a handle.
- (lacrosse, ice hockey, countable, uncountable) The position of the player of each side who stands a short distance in front of the goalkeeper.
- (now only in phrases) A tenth; formerly also a twelfth.
- (heraldry) One of the "corners" of the escutcheon: the base (bottom center) unless a qualifier is added (point dexter, point dexter base, point sinister, point sinister base), generally when separately tinctured. (Compare terrace, point champaine, enté en point.)
- (typography) A unit of measure equal to 1/12 of a pica, or approximately 1/72 of an inch (exactly 1/72 of an inch in the digital era).
- The attitude assumed by a pointer dog when he finds game.
- (UK) A unit of measure for rain, equal to 0.254 mm or 0.01 of an inch.
- (mathematics) A decimal point (now especially when reading decimal fractions aloud).
- (cricket, countable, uncountable) A fielding position square of the wicket on the off side, between gully and cover.
- (fencing) A movement executed with the sabre or foil.
- (mathematics, sciences) A zero-dimensional mathematical object representing a location in one or more dimensions; something considered to have position but no magnitude or direction.
- A particular moment in an event or occurrence; a juncture.
- A topic of discussion or debate; a proposition; a count
- A full stop or other terminal punctuation mark.
- Pointedness of speech or writing; a penetrating or decisive quality of expression.
- (heraldry, by extension) An ordinary similar to a pile (but sometimes shorter), extending upward from the base. (Often termed a point pointed.)
- A focus of conversation or consideration; the main idea.
- (nautical) A short piece of cordage used in reefing sails.
- (usually in the plural) An area of contrasting colour on an animal, especially a dog; a marking.
- (by extension) A note; a tune.
- (navigation, nautical) A unit of bearing equal to one thirty-second of a circle, i.e. 11.25°.
- (hunting) A spot to which a straight run is made; hence, a straight run from point to point; a cross-country run.
- (nautical) The difference between two points of the compass.
- (automotive, chiefly in the plural) Either of the two metal surfaces in a distributor which close or open to allow or prevent the flow of current through the ignition coil. There is usually a moving point, pushed by the distributor cam, and a fixed point, and they are built together as a unit.
- Any projecting extremity of an object.
- (rail transport, UK, in the plural) A railroad switch.
- A distinguishing quality or characteristic.
- (baseball, countable, uncountable) The position of the pitcher and catcher.
- Lace worked by the needle.
- The gesture of extending the index finger in a direction in order to indicate something.
- The sharp tip of an object.
- A specific location or place, seen as a spatial position.
- The act of pointing, as of the foot downward in certain dance positions.
- (backgammon) Each of the twelve triangular positions in either table of a backgammon board, on which the stones are played.
- An object which has a sharp or tapering tip.
- The position at the front or vanguard of an advancing force.
- Something tiny, as a pinprick; a very small mark.
- a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process
- any of 32 horizontal directions indicated on the card of a compass
- a promontory extending out into a large body of water
- a linear unit used to measure the size of type; approximately 1/72 inch
- a wall socket
- the unit of counting in scoring a game or contest
- a V-shaped mark at one end of an arrow pointer
- an instant of time
- sharp end
- the dot at the left of a decimal fraction
- a brief version of the essential meaning of something
- one percent of the total principal of a loan; it is paid at the time the loan is made and is independent of the interest on the loan
- a geometric element that has position but no extension
- a distinguishing or individuating characteristic
- a style in speech or writing that arrests attention and has a penetrating or convincing quality or effect
- a V shape
- an outstanding characteristic
- a contact in the distributor; as the rotor turns its projecting arm contacts them and current flows to the spark plugs
- an isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole
- a punctuation mark (‘.’) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
- the precise location of something; a spatially limited location
- a very small circular shape
- the property of a shape that tapers to a sharp tip
- the object of an activity
- a distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list
- the gun muzzle's direction
intj
verb
- (intransitive) To indicate a probability of something.
- (transitive, Internet) To direct requests sent to a domain name to the IP address corresponding to that domain name.
- (transitive) To direct or encourage (someone) in a particular direction.
- To give a point to; to sharpen; to cut, forge, grind, or file to an acute end.
- (transitive, computing) To direct the central processing unit to seek information at a certain location in memory.
- (transitive, mathematics) To separate an integer from a decimal with a decimal point.
- (ambitransitive, masonry) To repair mortar.
- (intransitive) To extend the index finger in the direction of something in order to show where it is or to draw attention to it.
- (stone-cutting) To cut, as a surface, with a pointed tool.
- (transitive, masonry) To fill up and finish the joints of (a wall), by introducing additional cement or mortar, and bringing it to a smooth surface.
- (intransitive, nautical) To sail close to the wind.
- (transitive, sometimes figurative) To direct toward an object; to aim.
- (intransitive, hunting) To indicate the presence of game by a fixed and steady look, as certain hunting dogs do.
- (medicine, of an abscess) To approximate to the surface; to head.
- (intransitive) To draw attention to something or indicate a direction.
- (transitive) To mark with diacritics.
- (intransitive) To face in a particular direction.
- be a signal for or a symptom of
- direct the course; determine the direction of travelling
- mark with diacritics
- be positionable in a specified manner
- sail close to the wind
- indicate the presence of (game) by standing and pointing with the muzzle
- direct into a position for use
- repair the joints of bricks
- mark (Hebrew words) with diacritics
- mark (a psalm text) to indicate the points at which the music changes
- indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively
- give a point to
- intend (something) to move towards a certain goal
- be oriented
noun
noun
- A tooth on a gear.
- An unimportant individual in a greater system.
- Alternative form of cogue (“wooden vessel for milk”).
- (carpentry) A projection or tenon at the end of a beam designed to fit into a matching opening of another piece of wood to form a joint.
- (historical) The hypothetical precursor ship type of the above said to be in use during the early Middle Ages, variously alleged to be Frisian or Scandinavian.
- (mining) One of the rough pillars of stone or coal left to support the roof of a mine.
- A trick or deception; a falsehood.
- A gear; especially, a cogwheel.
- (historical) A partially clinker-built, flat-bottomed, square-rigged mediaeval ship of burden or war, with a round, bulky hull and a single mast, typically 15 to 25 meters in length, in use from ca. 1150 to 1500.
- (physics) Initialism of center of gravity
- (by extension) A small fishing boat.
- a subordinate who performs an important but routine function
- tooth on the rim of gear wheel
verb
- To load (a die) so that it can be used to cheat.
- To furnish with a cog or cogs.
- To seduce, or draw away, by adulation, artifice, or falsehood; to wheedle; to cozen; to cheat.
- To plagiarize.
- To obtrude or thrust in, by falsehood or deception; to palm off.
- To cheat; to play or gamble fraudulently.
- (intransitive) Of an electric motor or generator, to snap preferentially to certain positions when not energized.
- roll steel ingots
- join pieces of wood with cogs
adj
noun
verb
- catch on a snag
- get by acting quickly and smartly
- hew jaggedly
- (slang, Native American) To have noncommittal sexual relations.
- (slang, transitive) To obtain or pick up, especially in a quick or surreptitious way.
- To catch or tear (e.g. fabric) upon a rough surface or projection.
- (UK, dialect) To cut the snags or branches from, as the stem of a tree; to hew roughly.
- (fishing) To fish by means of dragging a large hook or hooks on a line, intending to impale the body (rather than the mouth) of the target.
- To damage or sink (a vessel) by collision; said of a tree or branch fixed to the bottom of a navigable body of water and partially submerged or rising to just beneath the surface.
noun
- a dead tree that is still standing, usually in an undisturbed forest
- a sharp protuberance
- an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart
- an unforeseen obstacle
- A stump or base of a branch that has been lopped off; a short branch, or a sharp or rough branch.
- (informal, uncommon) Acronym of sensitive new age guy.
- One of the secondary branches of an antler.
- A tree, or a branch of a tree, fixed in the bottom of a river or other navigable water, and rising nearly or quite to the surface, by which boats are sometimes pierced and sunk.
- A misnaged, an opponent to Chassidic Judaism (more likely modern, for cultural reasons).
- A tooth projecting beyond the others; a broken or decayed tooth.
- (figuratively) A problem or difficulty with something.
- (by extension) Any sharp protuberant part of an object, which may catch, scratch, or tear other objects brought into contact with it.
- (Australia, informal, colloquial) A sausage.
- A dead tree that remains standing.
- A pulled thread or yarn, as in cloth; a tear.
- (Australian rules football, slang) A goal.
noun
noun
noun
- A thread used to clean the gaps between the teeth.
- (UK) A small stream of water.
- Raw silk fibres.
- A body feather of an ostrich.
- Fluid glass floating on iron in the puddling furnace, produced by the vitrification of oxides and earths which are present.
- (Northern England, Scotland) The common rush (Juncus effusus).
- (British) Spun sugar or cotton candy, especially in the phrase "candy floss".
- The fibres covering a corncob etc.; the loose downy or silky material inside the husks of certain plants, such as beans.
- A dance move in which the dancer repeatedly swings their arms, with clenched fists, from the back of their body to the front, on each side.
- Any thread-like material having parallel strands that are not spun or wound around each other.
- a soft thread for cleaning the spaces between the teeth
- a soft loosely twisted thread used in embroidery
verb
noun
- A ratchet wrench.
- (US, slang, derogatory) A person, usually a female, who acts or behaves in a ghetto, unseemly, or indecorous way or manner.
- (cryptography) A mechanism for generating a new unique key for each message by moving forward in a sequence.
- A noisemaker or musical instrument where sound is generated by a board striking against a rotating gear.
- A mechanism composed of a ratchet wheel, or ratch and pawl.
- (finance) Ellipsis of full ratchet.
- A pawl, click, or detent for holding or propelling a ratchet wheel, or ratch, etc.
- (by extension) A procedure or regulation that goes in one direction, usually up.
- mechanical device consisting of a toothed wheel or rack engaged with a pawl that permits it to move in only one direction
adj
verb
noun
noun
verb
noun
- One of the handles projecting from a scythe snath.
- A piece of a roasted, hulled cocoa bean.
- A small and pointed thing or part; a point; a prong.
- (now dialectal) A bird's beak.
- The tip of a pen or tool that touches the surface, transferring ink to paper.
- Bits of trapped dust or other foreign material that form imperfections in painted or varnished surfaces.
- The shaft of a wagon.
- horny projecting mouth of a bird
- the writing point of a pen
verb
noun
- One of the teeth of a pinion, especially when small.
- A sheet of any substance beaten or rolled until very thin.
- A flat section used to extend the size of a table.
- (programming, x86) A particular value of the EAX register when a program runs the CPUID instruction; each leaf represents a different category of information returned about the processor.
- (plural leaves or leafs) A moveable panel, e.g. of a bridge or door, originally one that hinged but now also applied to other forms of movement.
- (publishing, bookbinding, advertising) A sheet of a book, magazine, etc. (consisting of two pages, one on each face of the leaf).
- Anything resembling the leaf of a plant.
- The layer of fat supporting the kidneys of a pig, leaf fat.
- (slang, uncountable) Cannabis.
- (botany) A foliage leaf or any of the many and often considerably different structures it can specialise into.
- One of the individual flat or curved strips of metal, typically made of spring steel, that make up a leaf spring.
- (4chan slang, Internet slang, humorous, sometimes pejorative, plural leafs) A Canadian person.
- The usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants.
- (computing, mathematics) In a tree, a node that has no descendants.
- (in the plural) Tea leaves.
- the main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants
- a sheet of any written or printed material (especially in a manuscript or book)
- hinged or detachable flat section (as of a table or door)
verb
- (intransitive) To produce leaves; put forth foliage.
- (informal, transitive, uncommon) To play a prank on someone by throwing a large clump or collection of leaves at them.
- (transitive) To divide (a vegetable) into separate leaves.
- look through a book or other written material
- produce leaves, of plants
- turn over pages
noun
- A tooth on a sprocket wheel (compare sprocket and cog).
- (derogatory) An insolent youth; a mere child.
- One of several wooden strips to prevent wear on a windlass on a clipper-era ship.
- A young offspring of a various carnivores (canid, ursid, felid, pinniped), especially of a dog or a wolf, the young of a bear or similar mammal (lion, tiger, seal); a pup, wolf cub.
- young of any of various canines such as a dog or wolf
intj
verb
noun
noun
- something resembling the tooth of an animal
- a means of enforcement
- toothlike structure in invertebrates found in the mouth or alimentary canal or on a shell
- one of a number of uniform projections on a gear
- hard bonelike structures in the jaws of vertebrates; used for biting and chewing or for attack and defense
- (algebraic geometry) An irreducible component of a comb that intersects the handle in exactly one point, that point being distinct from the unique point of intersection for any other tooth of the comb.
- (figurative) Liking, fondness (compare toothsome).
- (animation) The rough surface of some kinds of cel or other films that allows better adhesion of artwork.
- A hard, calcareous structure present in the mouth of many vertebrate animals, generally used for biting and chewing food.
- (zoology) A projection or point in other parts of the body resembling the tooth of a vertebrate animal.
- Of a rope, the stickiness when in contact with another rope as in a knot.
- (botany) A pointed projection from the margin of a leaf.
- A sharp projection on the blade of a saw or similar implement.
- A projection on the edge of a gear that meshes with similar projections on adjacent gears, or on the circumference of a cog that engages with a chain.
verb
noun
- The metallic end of a pocketknife handle.
- A large cushion or pillow, usually cylindrical in shape.
- (military, historical) A block of wood on the carriage of a siege gun, upon which the breech of the gun rests when arranged for transportation.
- A short, horizontal structural timber between a post and a beam for enlarging the bearing area of the post and/or reducing the span of the beam.
- A pad, quilt, or anything used to hinder pressure, support part of the body, or make a bandage sit easy upon a wounded part; a compress.
- The perforated plate in a punching machine on which anything rests when being punched.
- The part of a knife blade that abuts upon the end of the handle.
- (architecture) The rolls forming the ends or sides of the Ionic capital.
- A beam in the middle of a railway truck, supporting the body of the car.
- (figurative) That which supports or promotes; a catalyst.
- (vehicles, agriculture) A small spacer located on top of the axle of horse-drawn wagons that gives the front wheels enough clearance to turn.
- A wide-bladed cold chisel designed to split and shape bricks.
- a pillow that is often put across a bed underneath the regular pillows
verb
noun
- The snipe itself.
- (architecture) The shaft of a column.
- The basal part, more specifically known as the oviscape, of the ovipositor of an insect.
- The cry of the snipe when flushed.
- (architecture) The apophyge of a shaft.
- (botany) A leafless stalk growing directly out of a root, bulb, or subterranean structure.
- The basal segment of an insect's antenna (i.e. the part closest to the body).
- erect leafless flower stalk growing directly from the ground as in a tulip
- (architecture) upright consisting of the vertical part of a column
noun
noun
- Something that scoops.
- The avocet, a bird that scoops up the mud to obtain food.
- (aviation, firefighting, informal) A type of air tanker waterbomber airplane, which is capable of landing on water, and directly scooping up water to fill its tanks, by skimming the water's surface with scoops delopyed.
- A person who scoops.
- An engraver's tool.
- A journalist who obtains a scoop, or exclusive.
noun
- A tooth in the upper jaw.
- (footwear) The Y-shaped strap on flip-flops.
- The upper portion of something.
- A stimulant, such as amphetamine, that increases energy and decreases appetite.
- (Taoism) A spiritual passageway through which consciousness can reach a higher dimension.
- Anything that cheers one up.
- (shoemaking) The piece of material that forms the top part of a shoe or boot above the sole.
- An upper berth or bunk.
- A senior student.
- A denture or retainer for the teeth in the upper jaw.
- That which is higher, contrasted with the lower.
- Someone with higher social standing
- the higher of two berths
- a central nervous system stimulant that increases energy and decreases appetite; used to treat narcolepsy and some forms of depression
- piece of leather or synthetic material that forms the part of a shoe or boot above the sole that encases the foot
adj
- Situated on higher ground, further inland, or more northerly.
- (education) Of or pertaining to a secondary school.
- At a higher level, rank or position.
- (geology, of strata or geological time periods) Younger, more recent.
- the topmost one of two; upper
- superior in rank or accomplishment
- higher in place or position
adj
noun
- A piece cut out by snipping.
- The act of snipping; cutting a small amount off of something.
- (onomatopoeia) An act or sound of snipping, the sound produced by scissors.
- (definite, the snip, euphemistic) A vasectomy.
- A single cut with scissors, clippers, or similar tool.
- (informal) Something acquired for a low price; a bargain.
- (informal) A small or weak person, especially a young one.
- A small amount of something; a pinch.
- A white marking on a horse's muzzle, between the nostrils.
- the act of clipping or snipping
- a small piece of anything (especially a piece that has been snipped off)
verb
- (informal) To perform a vasectomy.
- (Internet) To remove the irrelevant parts of quotations in the reply message.
- To cut with short sharp actions, as with scissors.
- (informal) To circumcise.
- To speak or say in a snippish manner.
- To break off; to snatch away.
- To reduce the price of a product, to create a snip.
- cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
- sever or remove by pinching or snipping
noun
- Anything resembling a human heel in shape; a protuberance; a knob.
- (anatomy) The rear part of the foot, where it joins the leg.
- (usually in the plural) A high-heeled shoe.
- (specifically, US) The obtuse angle of the lower end of a rafter set sloping.
- The rear part of a sock or similar covering for the foot.
- (nautical) The junction between the keel and the stempost of a vessel; an angular wooden join connecting the two.
- The part of a shoe's sole which supports the foot's heel.
- The part of a carding machine's flat nearest the cylinder.
- (card games) The cards set aside for later use in a patience or solitaire game.
- The part of the palm of a hand closest to the wrist.
- (informal, synecdochic) A contemptible, unscrupulous, inconsiderate, or thoughtless person.
- (metallurgy) Material stored in a smelting furnace between batches
- (firearms) The back, upper part of the stock.
- The lower end of the bit (cutting edge) of an axehead, as opposed to the toe (upper end).
- (US) The base of a bun sliced in half lengthwise.
- (carpentry) The short side of an angled cut.
- (US, Ireland, Scotland, Australia) A crust end-piece of a loaf of bread.
- The last or lowest part of anything.
- (music) The thickening of the neck of a stringed instrument where it attaches to the body.
- (nautical) The act of inclining or canting from a vertical position; a cant.
- (architecture) The lower end of a timber in a frame, as a post or rafter.
- (golf) The part of a club head's face nearest the shaft.
- (by extension, slang, professional wrestling) A headlining wrestler regarded as a "bad guy," whose ring persona embodies villainous or reprehensible traits and demonstrates characteristics of a braggart and a bully.
- the lower end of a ship's mast
- someone who is morally reprehensible
- (golf) the part of the clubhead where it joins the shaft
- one of the crusty ends of a loaf of bread
- the bottom of a shoe or boot; the back part of a shoe or boot that touches the ground and provides elevation
- the back part of the human foot
verb
- (chiefly nautical) To incline to one side; to tilt.
- (transitive) To arm with a gaff, as a cock for fighting.
- (US, intransitive) At Yale University, to work as a heeler or student journalist.
- (American football, transitive) To make (a fair catch) standing with one foot forward, the heel on the ground and the toe up.
- To cause to follow at somebody’s heels (transitive).
- To follow at somebody's heels; to chase closely.
- (rare, now especially in the phrase "heel in") Alternative form of hele (“cover; conceal”).
- (transitive) To perform by the use of the heels, as in dancing, running, etc.
- (golf, transitive) To hit (the ball) with the heel of the club.
- To add a heel to, or increase the size of the heel of (a shoe or boot).
- To kick with the heel.
- follow at the heels of a person
- put a new heel on
- strike with the heel of the club
- tilt to one side
- perform with the heels
noun
noun
- A pinch with the nails or teeth.
- a small sharp bite or snip
- A small amount of food or drink, (particularly) a small amount of liquor.
- (nautical) A short turn in a rope.
- (Manitoba, Northwestern Ontario) A hamburger.
- A blast; a killing of the ends of plants by frost.
- Briskly cold weather.
- A small cut, or a cutting off the end.
- (papermaking) The place of intersection where one roll touches another
- A biting sarcasm; a taunt.
- A seizing or closing in upon; a pinching
- (mining) A more or less gradual thinning out of a stratum.
- (slang, vulgar, chiefly in the plural) A nipple, usually of a woman.
- A playful bite.
- the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth
- a small drink of liquor
- a tart spicy quality
- the property of being moderately cold
verb
- To taunt.
- (slang, vulgar) To have erect nipples.
- To blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor of; to destroy.
- (informal) To make a quick, short journey or errand, usually a round trip.
- (Scotland, Northern England) To squeeze or pinch.
- To benumb [e.g., cheeks, fingers, nose] by severe cold.
- To remove by pinching, biting, or cutting with two meeting edges of anything; to clip.
- To catch and enclose or compress tightly between two surfaces, or points which are brought together or closed; to pinch; to close in upon.
- To annoy, as by nipping.
- sever or remove by pinching or snipping
- give a small sharp bite to
- squeeze tightly between the fingers
noun
- a small sharp bite or snip
- a squeeze with the fingers
- a sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action
- a slight but appreciable amount
- a painful or straitened circumstance
- the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)
- an injury resulting from getting some body part squeezed
- (slang) An arrest.
- An awkward situation of some kind (especially money or social) which is difficult to escape.
- The narrow part connecting the two bulbs of an hourglass.
- An organic herbal smoke additive.
- (physics) A magnetic compression of an electrically conducting filament.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A steep incline; a very steep section of road.
- A close compression of anything with the fingers.
- The action of squeezing a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
- A metal bar used as a lever for lifting weights, rolling wheels, etc.
- A small amount of powder or granules, such that the amount could be held between fingertip and thumb tip.
verb
- irritate as if by a nip, pinch, or tear
- cut the top off
- make ridges into by pinching together
- squeeze tightly between the fingers
- make off with belongings of others
- (hunting) To take hold; to grip, as a dog does.
- To squeeze between two objects.
- (figurative) To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve.
- To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch.
- (of animals) To seize; to grip; to bite.
- (slang, transitive) To steal, usually something inconsequential.
- To squeeze a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
- (intransitive) Of clothing, to be uncomfortably tight in specific spots.
- (slang, transitive) To arrest or capture.
- To squeeze between the thumb and forefinger.
- (nautical) To sail so close-hauled that the sails begin to flutter.
- (horticulture) To cut shoots or buds of a plant in order to shape the plant, or to improve its yield.
noun
noun
- A tine or snag of an antler.
- An individual element in a larger whole; a particular detail, thought, or quality.
- Each of the marks or strokes written above letters, especially in Semitic languages, to indicate vowels, stress etc.
- (video games, board games) A unit of various numerical parameters used in a game, e.g. health, experience, stamina, mana.
- (sports, video games, board games) A unit of scoring in a game or competition.
- A purpose or objective, which makes something meaningful.
- Each of the main directions on a compass, usually considered to be 32 in number; a direction.
- (economics) A unit used to express differences in prices of stocks and shares.
- (music) A dot or mark used to designate certain tones or time. In ancient music, it distinguished or characterized certain tones or styles (points of perfection, of augmentation, etc.). In modern music, it is placed on the right of a note to raise its value, or prolong its time, by one half.
- (falconry) The perpendicular rising of a hawk over the place where its prey has gone into cover.
- Ellipsis of percentage point.
- A peninsula or promontory.
- (by extension) An operational or public leadership position in a risky endeavor.
- (UK) An electric power socket.
- (historical) A string or lace used to tie together certain garments.
- Ellipsis of point man.
- (archaeology) A spearhead or similar object hafted to a handle.
- (lacrosse, ice hockey, countable, uncountable) The position of the player of each side who stands a short distance in front of the goalkeeper.
- (now only in phrases) A tenth; formerly also a twelfth.
- (heraldry) One of the "corners" of the escutcheon: the base (bottom center) unless a qualifier is added (point dexter, point dexter base, point sinister, point sinister base), generally when separately tinctured. (Compare terrace, point champaine, enté en point.)
- (typography) A unit of measure equal to 1/12 of a pica, or approximately 1/72 of an inch (exactly 1/72 of an inch in the digital era).
- The attitude assumed by a pointer dog when he finds game.
- (UK) A unit of measure for rain, equal to 0.254 mm or 0.01 of an inch.
- (mathematics) A decimal point (now especially when reading decimal fractions aloud).
- (cricket, countable, uncountable) A fielding position square of the wicket on the off side, between gully and cover.
- (fencing) A movement executed with the sabre or foil.
- (mathematics, sciences) A zero-dimensional mathematical object representing a location in one or more dimensions; something considered to have position but no magnitude or direction.
- A particular moment in an event or occurrence; a juncture.
- A topic of discussion or debate; a proposition; a count
- A full stop or other terminal punctuation mark.
- Pointedness of speech or writing; a penetrating or decisive quality of expression.
- (heraldry, by extension) An ordinary similar to a pile (but sometimes shorter), extending upward from the base. (Often termed a point pointed.)
- A focus of conversation or consideration; the main idea.
- (nautical) A short piece of cordage used in reefing sails.
- (usually in the plural) An area of contrasting colour on an animal, especially a dog; a marking.
- (by extension) A note; a tune.
- (navigation, nautical) A unit of bearing equal to one thirty-second of a circle, i.e. 11.25°.
- (hunting) A spot to which a straight run is made; hence, a straight run from point to point; a cross-country run.
- (nautical) The difference between two points of the compass.
- (automotive, chiefly in the plural) Either of the two metal surfaces in a distributor which close or open to allow or prevent the flow of current through the ignition coil. There is usually a moving point, pushed by the distributor cam, and a fixed point, and they are built together as a unit.
- Any projecting extremity of an object.
- (rail transport, UK, in the plural) A railroad switch.
- A distinguishing quality or characteristic.
- (baseball, countable, uncountable) The position of the pitcher and catcher.
- Lace worked by the needle.
- The gesture of extending the index finger in a direction in order to indicate something.
- The sharp tip of an object.
- A specific location or place, seen as a spatial position.
- The act of pointing, as of the foot downward in certain dance positions.
- (backgammon) Each of the twelve triangular positions in either table of a backgammon board, on which the stones are played.
- An object which has a sharp or tapering tip.
- The position at the front or vanguard of an advancing force.
- Something tiny, as a pinprick; a very small mark.
- a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process
- any of 32 horizontal directions indicated on the card of a compass
- a promontory extending out into a large body of water
- a linear unit used to measure the size of type; approximately 1/72 inch
- a wall socket
- the unit of counting in scoring a game or contest
- a V-shaped mark at one end of an arrow pointer
- an instant of time
- sharp end
- the dot at the left of a decimal fraction
- a brief version of the essential meaning of something
- one percent of the total principal of a loan; it is paid at the time the loan is made and is independent of the interest on the loan
- a geometric element that has position but no extension
- a distinguishing or individuating characteristic
- a style in speech or writing that arrests attention and has a penetrating or convincing quality or effect
- a V shape
- an outstanding characteristic
- a contact in the distributor; as the rotor turns its projecting arm contacts them and current flows to the spark plugs
- an isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole
- a punctuation mark (‘.’) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
- the precise location of something; a spatially limited location
- a very small circular shape
- the property of a shape that tapers to a sharp tip
- the object of an activity
- a distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list
- the gun muzzle's direction
intj
verb
- (intransitive) To indicate a probability of something.
- (transitive, Internet) To direct requests sent to a domain name to the IP address corresponding to that domain name.
- (transitive) To direct or encourage (someone) in a particular direction.
- To give a point to; to sharpen; to cut, forge, grind, or file to an acute end.
- (transitive, computing) To direct the central processing unit to seek information at a certain location in memory.
- (transitive, mathematics) To separate an integer from a decimal with a decimal point.
- (ambitransitive, masonry) To repair mortar.
- (intransitive) To extend the index finger in the direction of something in order to show where it is or to draw attention to it.
- (stone-cutting) To cut, as a surface, with a pointed tool.
- (transitive, masonry) To fill up and finish the joints of (a wall), by introducing additional cement or mortar, and bringing it to a smooth surface.
- (intransitive, nautical) To sail close to the wind.
- (transitive, sometimes figurative) To direct toward an object; to aim.
- (intransitive, hunting) To indicate the presence of game by a fixed and steady look, as certain hunting dogs do.
- (medicine, of an abscess) To approximate to the surface; to head.
- (intransitive) To draw attention to something or indicate a direction.
- (transitive) To mark with diacritics.
- (intransitive) To face in a particular direction.
- be a signal for or a symptom of
- direct the course; determine the direction of travelling
- mark with diacritics
- be positionable in a specified manner
- sail close to the wind
- indicate the presence of (game) by standing and pointing with the muzzle
- direct into a position for use
- repair the joints of bricks
- mark (Hebrew words) with diacritics
- mark (a psalm text) to indicate the points at which the music changes
- indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively
- give a point to
- intend (something) to move towards a certain goal
- be oriented
noun
noun
- A tooth on a gear.
- An unimportant individual in a greater system.
- Alternative form of cogue (“wooden vessel for milk”).
- (carpentry) A projection or tenon at the end of a beam designed to fit into a matching opening of another piece of wood to form a joint.
- (historical) The hypothetical precursor ship type of the above said to be in use during the early Middle Ages, variously alleged to be Frisian or Scandinavian.
- (mining) One of the rough pillars of stone or coal left to support the roof of a mine.
- A trick or deception; a falsehood.
- A gear; especially, a cogwheel.
- (historical) A partially clinker-built, flat-bottomed, square-rigged mediaeval ship of burden or war, with a round, bulky hull and a single mast, typically 15 to 25 meters in length, in use from ca. 1150 to 1500.
- (physics) Initialism of center of gravity
- (by extension) A small fishing boat.
- a subordinate who performs an important but routine function
- tooth on the rim of gear wheel
verb
- To load (a die) so that it can be used to cheat.
- To furnish with a cog or cogs.
- To seduce, or draw away, by adulation, artifice, or falsehood; to wheedle; to cozen; to cheat.
- To plagiarize.
- To obtrude or thrust in, by falsehood or deception; to palm off.
- To cheat; to play or gamble fraudulently.
- (intransitive) Of an electric motor or generator, to snap preferentially to certain positions when not energized.
- roll steel ingots
- join pieces of wood with cogs
noun
noun
noun
noun
- A thread used to clean the gaps between the teeth.
- (UK) A small stream of water.
- Raw silk fibres.
- A body feather of an ostrich.
- Fluid glass floating on iron in the puddling furnace, produced by the vitrification of oxides and earths which are present.
- (Northern England, Scotland) The common rush (Juncus effusus).
- (British) Spun sugar or cotton candy, especially in the phrase "candy floss".
- The fibres covering a corncob etc.; the loose downy or silky material inside the husks of certain plants, such as beans.
- A dance move in which the dancer repeatedly swings their arms, with clenched fists, from the back of their body to the front, on each side.
- Any thread-like material having parallel strands that are not spun or wound around each other.
- a soft thread for cleaning the spaces between the teeth
- a soft loosely twisted thread used in embroidery
verb
noun
- A ratchet wrench.
- (US, slang, derogatory) A person, usually a female, who acts or behaves in a ghetto, unseemly, or indecorous way or manner.
- (cryptography) A mechanism for generating a new unique key for each message by moving forward in a sequence.
- A noisemaker or musical instrument where sound is generated by a board striking against a rotating gear.
- A mechanism composed of a ratchet wheel, or ratch and pawl.
- (finance) Ellipsis of full ratchet.
- A pawl, click, or detent for holding or propelling a ratchet wheel, or ratch, etc.
- (by extension) A procedure or regulation that goes in one direction, usually up.
- mechanical device consisting of a toothed wheel or rack engaged with a pawl that permits it to move in only one direction
adj
verb
noun
noun
verb
noun
- One of the handles projecting from a scythe snath.
- A piece of a roasted, hulled cocoa bean.
- A small and pointed thing or part; a point; a prong.
- (now dialectal) A bird's beak.
- The tip of a pen or tool that touches the surface, transferring ink to paper.
- Bits of trapped dust or other foreign material that form imperfections in painted or varnished surfaces.
- The shaft of a wagon.
- horny projecting mouth of a bird
- the writing point of a pen
verb
noun
- One of the teeth of a pinion, especially when small.
- A sheet of any substance beaten or rolled until very thin.
- A flat section used to extend the size of a table.
- (programming, x86) A particular value of the EAX register when a program runs the CPUID instruction; each leaf represents a different category of information returned about the processor.
- (plural leaves or leafs) A moveable panel, e.g. of a bridge or door, originally one that hinged but now also applied to other forms of movement.
- (publishing, bookbinding, advertising) A sheet of a book, magazine, etc. (consisting of two pages, one on each face of the leaf).
- Anything resembling the leaf of a plant.
- The layer of fat supporting the kidneys of a pig, leaf fat.
- (slang, uncountable) Cannabis.
- (botany) A foliage leaf or any of the many and often considerably different structures it can specialise into.
- One of the individual flat or curved strips of metal, typically made of spring steel, that make up a leaf spring.
- (4chan slang, Internet slang, humorous, sometimes pejorative, plural leafs) A Canadian person.
- The usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants.
- (computing, mathematics) In a tree, a node that has no descendants.
- (in the plural) Tea leaves.
- the main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants
- a sheet of any written or printed material (especially in a manuscript or book)
- hinged or detachable flat section (as of a table or door)
verb
- (intransitive) To produce leaves; put forth foliage.
- (informal, transitive, uncommon) To play a prank on someone by throwing a large clump or collection of leaves at them.
- (transitive) To divide (a vegetable) into separate leaves.
- look through a book or other written material
- produce leaves, of plants
- turn over pages
noun
- A tooth on a sprocket wheel (compare sprocket and cog).
- (derogatory) An insolent youth; a mere child.
- One of several wooden strips to prevent wear on a windlass on a clipper-era ship.
- A young offspring of a various carnivores (canid, ursid, felid, pinniped), especially of a dog or a wolf, the young of a bear or similar mammal (lion, tiger, seal); a pup, wolf cub.
- young of any of various canines such as a dog or wolf
intj
verb
noun
noun
- something resembling the tooth of an animal
- a means of enforcement
- toothlike structure in invertebrates found in the mouth or alimentary canal or on a shell
- one of a number of uniform projections on a gear
- hard bonelike structures in the jaws of vertebrates; used for biting and chewing or for attack and defense
- (algebraic geometry) An irreducible component of a comb that intersects the handle in exactly one point, that point being distinct from the unique point of intersection for any other tooth of the comb.
- (figurative) Liking, fondness (compare toothsome).
- (animation) The rough surface of some kinds of cel or other films that allows better adhesion of artwork.
- A hard, calcareous structure present in the mouth of many vertebrate animals, generally used for biting and chewing food.
- (zoology) A projection or point in other parts of the body resembling the tooth of a vertebrate animal.
- Of a rope, the stickiness when in contact with another rope as in a knot.
- (botany) A pointed projection from the margin of a leaf.
- A sharp projection on the blade of a saw or similar implement.
- A projection on the edge of a gear that meshes with similar projections on adjacent gears, or on the circumference of a cog that engages with a chain.
verb
noun
- The metallic end of a pocketknife handle.
- A large cushion or pillow, usually cylindrical in shape.
- (military, historical) A block of wood on the carriage of a siege gun, upon which the breech of the gun rests when arranged for transportation.
- A short, horizontal structural timber between a post and a beam for enlarging the bearing area of the post and/or reducing the span of the beam.
- A pad, quilt, or anything used to hinder pressure, support part of the body, or make a bandage sit easy upon a wounded part; a compress.
- The perforated plate in a punching machine on which anything rests when being punched.
- The part of a knife blade that abuts upon the end of the handle.
- (architecture) The rolls forming the ends or sides of the Ionic capital.
- A beam in the middle of a railway truck, supporting the body of the car.
- (figurative) That which supports or promotes; a catalyst.
- (vehicles, agriculture) A small spacer located on top of the axle of horse-drawn wagons that gives the front wheels enough clearance to turn.
- A wide-bladed cold chisel designed to split and shape bricks.
- a pillow that is often put across a bed underneath the regular pillows
verb
noun
- The snipe itself.
- (architecture) The shaft of a column.
- The basal part, more specifically known as the oviscape, of the ovipositor of an insect.
- The cry of the snipe when flushed.
- (architecture) The apophyge of a shaft.
- (botany) A leafless stalk growing directly out of a root, bulb, or subterranean structure.
- The basal segment of an insect's antenna (i.e. the part closest to the body).
- erect leafless flower stalk growing directly from the ground as in a tulip
- (architecture) upright consisting of the vertical part of a column
noun
noun
- Something that scoops.
- The avocet, a bird that scoops up the mud to obtain food.
- (aviation, firefighting, informal) A type of air tanker waterbomber airplane, which is capable of landing on water, and directly scooping up water to fill its tanks, by skimming the water's surface with scoops delopyed.
- A person who scoops.
- An engraver's tool.
- A journalist who obtains a scoop, or exclusive.
noun
- A tooth in the upper jaw.
- (footwear) The Y-shaped strap on flip-flops.
- The upper portion of something.
- A stimulant, such as amphetamine, that increases energy and decreases appetite.
- (Taoism) A spiritual passageway through which consciousness can reach a higher dimension.
- Anything that cheers one up.
- (shoemaking) The piece of material that forms the top part of a shoe or boot above the sole.
- An upper berth or bunk.
- A senior student.
- A denture or retainer for the teeth in the upper jaw.
- That which is higher, contrasted with the lower.
- Someone with higher social standing
- the higher of two berths
- a central nervous system stimulant that increases energy and decreases appetite; used to treat narcolepsy and some forms of depression
- piece of leather or synthetic material that forms the part of a shoe or boot above the sole that encases the foot
adj
- Situated on higher ground, further inland, or more northerly.
- (education) Of or pertaining to a secondary school.
- At a higher level, rank or position.
- (geology, of strata or geological time periods) Younger, more recent.
- the topmost one of two; upper
- superior in rank or accomplishment
- higher in place or position
noun
- A piece cut out by snipping.
- The act of snipping; cutting a small amount off of something.
- (onomatopoeia) An act or sound of snipping, the sound produced by scissors.
- (definite, the snip, euphemistic) A vasectomy.
- A single cut with scissors, clippers, or similar tool.
- (informal) Something acquired for a low price; a bargain.
- (informal) A small or weak person, especially a young one.
- A small amount of something; a pinch.
- A white marking on a horse's muzzle, between the nostrils.
- the act of clipping or snipping
- a small piece of anything (especially a piece that has been snipped off)
verb
- (informal) To perform a vasectomy.
- (Internet) To remove the irrelevant parts of quotations in the reply message.
- To cut with short sharp actions, as with scissors.
- (informal) To circumcise.
- To speak or say in a snippish manner.
- To break off; to snatch away.
- To reduce the price of a product, to create a snip.
- cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
- sever or remove by pinching or snipping
noun
- Anything resembling a human heel in shape; a protuberance; a knob.
- (anatomy) The rear part of the foot, where it joins the leg.
- (usually in the plural) A high-heeled shoe.
- (specifically, US) The obtuse angle of the lower end of a rafter set sloping.
- The rear part of a sock or similar covering for the foot.
- (nautical) The junction between the keel and the stempost of a vessel; an angular wooden join connecting the two.
- The part of a shoe's sole which supports the foot's heel.
- The part of a carding machine's flat nearest the cylinder.
- (card games) The cards set aside for later use in a patience or solitaire game.
- The part of the palm of a hand closest to the wrist.
- (informal, synecdochic) A contemptible, unscrupulous, inconsiderate, or thoughtless person.
- (metallurgy) Material stored in a smelting furnace between batches
- (firearms) The back, upper part of the stock.
- The lower end of the bit (cutting edge) of an axehead, as opposed to the toe (upper end).
- (US) The base of a bun sliced in half lengthwise.
- (carpentry) The short side of an angled cut.
- (US, Ireland, Scotland, Australia) A crust end-piece of a loaf of bread.
- The last or lowest part of anything.
- (music) The thickening of the neck of a stringed instrument where it attaches to the body.
- (nautical) The act of inclining or canting from a vertical position; a cant.
- (architecture) The lower end of a timber in a frame, as a post or rafter.
- (golf) The part of a club head's face nearest the shaft.
- (by extension, slang, professional wrestling) A headlining wrestler regarded as a "bad guy," whose ring persona embodies villainous or reprehensible traits and demonstrates characteristics of a braggart and a bully.
- the lower end of a ship's mast
- someone who is morally reprehensible
- (golf) the part of the clubhead where it joins the shaft
- one of the crusty ends of a loaf of bread
- the bottom of a shoe or boot; the back part of a shoe or boot that touches the ground and provides elevation
- the back part of the human foot
verb
- (chiefly nautical) To incline to one side; to tilt.
- (transitive) To arm with a gaff, as a cock for fighting.
- (US, intransitive) At Yale University, to work as a heeler or student journalist.
- (American football, transitive) To make (a fair catch) standing with one foot forward, the heel on the ground and the toe up.
- To cause to follow at somebody’s heels (transitive).
- To follow at somebody's heels; to chase closely.
- (rare, now especially in the phrase "heel in") Alternative form of hele (“cover; conceal”).
- (transitive) To perform by the use of the heels, as in dancing, running, etc.
- (golf, transitive) To hit (the ball) with the heel of the club.
- To add a heel to, or increase the size of the heel of (a shoe or boot).
- To kick with the heel.
- follow at the heels of a person
- put a new heel on
- strike with the heel of the club
- tilt to one side
- perform with the heels
verb
- catch on a snag
- get by acting quickly and smartly
- hew jaggedly
- (slang, Native American) To have noncommittal sexual relations.
- (slang, transitive) To obtain or pick up, especially in a quick or surreptitious way.
- To catch or tear (e.g. fabric) upon a rough surface or projection.
- (UK, dialect) To cut the snags or branches from, as the stem of a tree; to hew roughly.
- (fishing) To fish by means of dragging a large hook or hooks on a line, intending to impale the body (rather than the mouth) of the target.
- To damage or sink (a vessel) by collision; said of a tree or branch fixed to the bottom of a navigable body of water and partially submerged or rising to just beneath the surface.
noun
- a dead tree that is still standing, usually in an undisturbed forest
- a sharp protuberance
- an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart
- an unforeseen obstacle
- A stump or base of a branch that has been lopped off; a short branch, or a sharp or rough branch.
- (informal, uncommon) Acronym of sensitive new age guy.
- One of the secondary branches of an antler.
- A tree, or a branch of a tree, fixed in the bottom of a river or other navigable water, and rising nearly or quite to the surface, by which boats are sometimes pierced and sunk.
- A misnaged, an opponent to Chassidic Judaism (more likely modern, for cultural reasons).
- A tooth projecting beyond the others; a broken or decayed tooth.
- (figuratively) A problem or difficulty with something.
- (by extension) Any sharp protuberant part of an object, which may catch, scratch, or tear other objects brought into contact with it.
- (Australia, informal, colloquial) A sausage.
- A dead tree that remains standing.
- A pulled thread or yarn, as in cloth; a tear.
- (Australian rules football, slang) A goal.
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