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verb
- To feel or show doubt or indecision; to be indecisive between choices; to vacillate.
- Chiefly of a quality or thing: to change, to fluctuate, to vary.
- To begin to weaken or show signs of weakening in resolve; to falter, to flinch, to give way.
- Of a body part such as an eye or hand, or the voice: to become unsteady; to shake, to tremble.
- To swing or wave, especially in the air, wind, etc.; to flutter.
- Of light, shadow, or a partly obscured thing: to flicker, to glimmer, to quiver.
- move or sway in a rising and falling or wavelike pattern
- pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness
- be unsure or weak
- move back and forth very rapidly
- sway from side to side
- move hesitatingly, as if about to give way
- give off unsteady sounds, alternating in amplitude or frequency
noun
- One who waves their arms, or causes something to swing or wave.
- A person who specializes in treating hair to make it wavy.
- (printing, historical) In full waver roller: a roller which places ink on the inking table of a printing press with a back and forth, waving motion.
- A state of beginning to weaken or showing signs of weakening in resolve; a falter.
- An act of moving back and forth, swinging, or waving; a flutter, a tremble.
- A state of feeling or showing doubt or indecision; a vacillation.
- A tool used to make hair wavy.
- the act of moving back and forth
- someone who communicates by waving
- the act of pausing uncertainly
verb
verb
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To vacillate between conflicting opinions, etc.
- (intransitive) To swing back and forth, especially if with a regular rhythm.
- (intransitive) To vary above and below a mean value.
- move or swing from side to side regularly
- be undecided about something; waver between conflicting positions or courses of action
verb
- (intransitive) To be confused.
- (transitive) to puzzle, perplex, baffle, bewilder (somebody); to afflict by being complicated, contradictory, or otherwise difficult to understand
- (transitive) To mix up, muddle up (one thing with another); to mistake (one thing for another).
- (transitive) To mix thoroughly; to confound; to disorder.
- mistake one thing for another
- make unclear, indistinct, or blurred
- assemble without order or sense
- be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly
- cause to feel embarrassment
verb
- (idiomatic, intransitive) To reconsider one's thoughts.
- (idiomatic, intransitive) To undo one's actions.
- (idiomatic, transitive) To provide support or the promise of support to.
- (idiomatic, intransitive, cricket) For a fielder to position himself behind the wicket (relative to a team-mate who is throwing the ball at the wicket) so as to stop the ball, and prevent overthrows.
- (idiomatic, intransitive, of a blockage) To halt the flow or movement of something.
- (idiomatic, intransitive, cricket) For the non-striker to take a few steps down the pitch, in preparation to taking a run, just as the bowler bowls the ball.
- (idiomatic, computing, transitive) To copy (data) so that it can be restored if the main copy is lost.
- (idiomatic, intransitive, informal) To fill up because of a backlog.
- (idiomatic, intransitive) To move backwards, especially for a vehicle to do so.
- (idiomatic, intransitive) If a property backs up to another property, that means it abuts or shares a border with another property.
- (idiomatic, transitive) To move a vehicle backwards.
- move backwards from a certain position
- establish as valid or genuine
- become or cause to become obstructed
- give moral or psychological support, aid, or courage to
- make a copy of (a computer file) especially for storage in another place as a security copy
verb
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To consider that.
- (intransitive) To give a satisfactory reason for; to explain.
- (intransitive) To establish the location for someone.
- (transitive) To estimate, consider (something to be as described).
- (intransitive) To give a satisfactory evaluation for (one's actions, behaviour etc.); to answer for.
- (intransitive) To cause the death, capture, or destruction of someone or something (+ for).
- Used in phrasal verbs: account for, account of, account to.
- (intransitive) To give a satisfactory evaluation for financial transactions, money received etc.
- keep an account of
- to give an account or representation of in words
- be the sole or primary factor in the existence, acquisition, supply, or disposal of something
- furnish a justifying analysis or explanation
noun
- An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.
- A reason, grounds, consideration, motive; a person's sake.
- (banking) A bank account.
- (uncountable) Profit; advantage.
- Importance; worth; value; esteem; judgement.
- A record of events; a relation or narrative.
- Authorization as a specific registered user in accessing a system.
- (accounting) A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review.
- A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; a reason of an action to be done.
- importance or value
- a record or narrative description of past events
- a formal contractual relationship established to provide for regular banking or brokerage or business services
- the quality of taking advantage
- a statement that makes something comprehensible by describing the relevant structure or operation or circumstances etc.
- grounds
- a statement of recent transactions and the resulting balance
- a short account of the news
- the act of informing by verbal report
- an itemized statement of money owed for goods shipped or services rendered
verb
noun
- A change of places; an inversion or swap.
- The sound of a regular footfall.
- (US, UK, Fiji) A sandal consisting of a rubber sole fastened to the foot by a rubber thong fitting between the toes and around the sides of the foot.
- (computing, electronics) A bistable; an electronic switching circuit that has either two stable states (switching between them in response to a trigger) or a stable and an unstable state (switching from one to the other and back again in response to a trigger), and which is thereby capable of serving as one bit of memory.
- (slang, derogatory, offensive) A person or inhabitant of the Middle East, or a Muslim nation, particularly Afghanistan.
- (US, slang, truck driving) A return trip.
- A somersault.
- (US) An instance of flip-flopping, of repeatedly changing one's stated opinion about a matter.
- an electronic circuit that can assume either of two stable states
- a backless sandal held to the foot by a thong between the big toe and the second toe
- a decision to reverse an earlier decision
- a backward somersault
verb
- (intransitive) To be considered, without much coherence, in someone's mind.
- (intransitive) Of a time or event: to come up; to happen.
- (intransitive, slang) To indulge in sexual intercourse (with).
- (intransitive, colloquial) To laugh very heartily.
- (intransitive) To move about on the ground while rotating and turning one's body.
- happen regularly
verb
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To err.
- (transitive) To cut slips from; to cut; to take off; to make a slip or slips of.
- (intransitive, aviation, of an aircraft) Clipping of sideslip (“to fly with the longitudinal axis misaligned with the relative wind”).
- (transitive) To elude or evade by smooth movement.
- (transitive) To cause to slip or slide off, or out of place.
- (transitive, hunting, falconry) To release (a dog, a bird of prey, etc.) to go after a quarry.
- (transitive) To pass (a note, money, etc.), often covertly.
- (intransitive) To move quickly and often secretively; to depart, withdraw, enter, appear, intrude, or escape as if by sliding.
- (transitive) To cause to move smoothly and quickly; to slide; to convey gently or secretly.
- (intransitive) To lose one’s traction on a slippery surface; to slide due to a lack of friction.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To move down; to slide.
- (intransitive) To move or fly (out of place); to shoot; often with out, off, etc.
- To bring forth (young) prematurely; to slink.
- (intransitive) To accidentally reveal a secret or otherwise say something unintentionally.
- (transitive, business) To cause (a schedule or release, etc.) to go, or let it go, beyond the allotted deadline.
- (transitive, cooking) To remove the skin of a soft fruit, such as a tomato or peach, by blanching briefly in boiling water, then transferring to cold water so that the skin peels, or slips, off easily.
- fall to a lower standard
- move smoothly and easily
- move out of position
- pass out of one's memory
- cause to move with a smooth or sliding motion
- insert inconspicuously or quickly or quietly
- move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner
- move stealthily
- to make a mistake or be incorrect
- pass on stealthily
- move easily
noun
- A mistake or error.
- A twig or shoot; a cutting.
- (engineering) The motion of the centre of resistance of the float of a paddle wheel, or the blade of an oar, through the water horizontally, or the difference between a vessel's actual speed and the speed it would have if the propelling instrument acted upon a solid; also, the velocity, relatively to still water, of the backward current of water produced by the propeller.
- (medicine) A one-time return to previous maladaptive behavior after cure.
- A young person (now usually with of introducing descriptive qualifier).
- (mining) A dislocation of a lead, destroying continuity.
- An outside covering or case.
- A leash or string by which a dog is held; so called from its being made in such a manner as to slip, or become loose, by relaxation of the hand.
- (nautical, aviation) A difference between the theoretical distance traveled per revolution of the propeller and the actual advance of the vessel.
- (cricket) Any of several fielding positions to the off side of the wicket keeper, designed to catch the ball after being deflected from the bat; a fielder in that position (See first slip, second slip, third slip, fourth slip and fifth slip.)
- (marine insurance) A memorandum of the particulars of a risk for which a policy is to be executed. It usually bears the broker's name and is initiated by the underwriters.
- Either side of the gallery in a theater.
- A fish, the sole.
- (nautical) A berth; a space for a ship to moor.
- (US) A long seat or narrow pew in churches, often without a door.
- (ceramics) A thin, slippery mix of clay and water.
- A woman's undergarment worn under a skirt or dress to conceal unwanted nudity that may otherwise be revealed by the skirt or dress itself; a shift.
- A slipdress.
- An escape; a secret or unexpected desertion.
- Matter found in troughs of grindstones after the grinding of edge tools.
- (electricity) The difference between the actual and synchronous speeds of an induction motor.
- A long, thin piece of something.
- A particular quantity of yarn.
- (nautical) A slipway.
- (crosswording) A newsletter produced by the setter of a cryptic clue-writing competition, containing a full list of winners and commentary on the clues.
- A number between 0 and 1 that is the difference between the angular speed of a rotating magnetic field and the angular speed of its rotor, divided by the angular speed of the magnetic field.
- An act or instance of slipping.
- (telecommunications) The positional displacement in a sequence of transmitted symbols that causes the loss or insertion of one or more symbols.
- (aviation) Clipping of sideslip.
- A small piece of paper, especially one longer than it is wide, typically a form for writing on or one giving printed information.
- a place where a craft can be made fast
- a slippery smoothness
- bed linen consisting of a cover for a pillow
- potter's clay that is thinned and used for coating or decorating ceramics
- a part (sometimes a root or leaf or bud) removed from a plant to propagate a new plant through rooting or grafting
- the act of avoiding capture (especially by cunning)
- a young and slender person
- artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material
- a woman's sleeveless undergarment
- an accidental misstep threatening (or causing) a fall
- an unexpected slide
- a minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc.
- a small sheet of paper
- a flight maneuver; aircraft slides sideways in the air
- a socially awkward or tactless act
verb
- (intransitive) To ponder or consider.
- (intransitive) To play (with) in an idle or desultory way.
- (slang, transitive) To stimulate with a sex toy.
- behave carelessly or indifferently
- manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination
- engage in an activity as if it were a game rather than take it seriously
adj
noun
- A thing of little importance or value; a trifle.
- (graffiti slang, derogatory) An inferior graffiti artist.
- (euphemistic) Ellipsis of sex toy.
- Ellipsis of toy dog.
- (slang, MLE) A gun.
- A simple, light piece of music, written especially for the virginal.
- Something to play with, especially as intended for use by a child.
- any of several breeds of very small dogs kept purely as pets
- a nonfunctional replica of something else (frequently used as a modifier)
- a device regarded as providing amusement
- an artifact designed to be played with
- a copy that reproduces a person or thing in greatly reduced size
verb
- (intransitive, originally Northern England, Scotland, colloquial) To be indecisive about something; to dither, to vacillate, to waver.
- (intransitive) To speak or write evasively or vaguely.
- (transitive) To hold horizontally and rotate (one's hand) back and forth in a gesture of ambivalence or vacillation.
- (intransitive) Of a bird: to move in a side-to-side motion while descending before landing.
- (intransitive, British, dialectal) Of a dog: to bark with a high pitch like a puppy, or in muffled manner.
- (ambitransitive) Often followed by on: to speak or write (something) at length without any clear aim or point; to ramble.
- (transitive, slang) To smash (something).
- (intransitive, aviation, road transport, colloquial) Of an aircraft or motor vehicle: to travel in a slow and unhurried manner.
- pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness
noun
- (textiles, chiefly attributively) A type of fabric woven with a honeycomb texture.
- (countable, British) In full potato waffle: a savoury flat potato cake with the same kind of grid pattern.
- (British, dialectal) The high-pitched sound made by a young dog; also, a muffled bark.
- (construction, also attributively) A concrete slab used in flooring with a gridlike structure of ribs running at right angles to each other on its underside.
- (countable) A flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern, often eaten hot with butter and/or honey or syrup.
- (colloquial) (Often lengthy) speech or writing that is evasive or vague, or pretentious.
- pancake batter baked in a waffle iron
verb
- (intransitive) To reach or release a decision.
- (intransitive) To decrease.
- (impersonal, UK) To rain.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To return from an elevated state of consciousness (especially when drug-induced) or emotion.
- (intransitive) To be passed through time.
- (intransitive) To descend, fall down, collapse.
- (intransitive, UK) To graduate from university, especially an Oxbridge university.
- (intransitive) To be demolished.
- Shortening of of come down the (pike, line, etc.) To be about to happen; to occur; to transpire.
- (intransitive, slang) To behave in a particular way.
- get sick
- move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way
- criticize or reprimand harshly
- be the essential element
- fall from clouds
verb
- (intransitive) To undulate.
- (intransitive) To be irresolute; to waver.
- (transitive) To cause to vary irregularly.
- (intransitive) To vary irregularly; to swing.
- (rare, figuratively, also literally) To rise and fall as a wave; to be tossed up and down the waves.
- move or sway in a rising and falling or wavelike pattern
- be unstable
- cause to fluctuate or move in a wavelike pattern
verb
- (intransitive) To consider, to deliberate. [with of]
- (transitive) To formally give information or notice to; to inform or counsel. [with of ‘what is communicated’]
- (transitive, formal) To provide information to a sovereign or head of state which they have previously asked for.
- (transitive) To recommend; to offer as advice.
- (Scots law) To deliver judgment after a case has been reserved for further consideration.
- (transitive) To give advice to; to offer an opinion to, as worthy or expedient to be followed.
- give advice to
- make a proposal, declare a plan for something
- inform (somebody) of something
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To make a judgment, especially after deliberation.
- (computing theory) Of a Turing machine: to return a correct answer (for some yes-or-no problem) on every possible input.
- (ambitransitive) To resolve (a contest, problem, dispute, etc.); to choose, determine, or settle.
- (transitive) To cause someone to come to a decision.
- influence or determine
- bring to an end; settle conclusively
- reach, make, or come to a decision about something
- cause to decide
verb
- (intransitive) To perceive differences.
- (transitive) To distinguish something as being different from something else; to differentiate or discriminate.
- (transitive) To perceive, recognize, or comprehend with the mind; to descry.
- (transitive) To detect with the senses, especially with the eyes.
- detect with the senses
verb
- (intransitive) To make distinctions.
- (intransitive, construed with against) To make decisions harmful to (a person or group) based on prejudice.
- (intransitive, construed with against, uncommon) To infringe upon (a person's rights) in a prejudicial manner.
- To treat or affect differently, depending on differences in traits.
- (transitive) To set apart as being different; to mark as different; to separate from another by discerning differences; to distinguish.
- recognize or perceive the difference
- distinguish
- treat differently on the basis of sex or race
adj
verb
- (intransitive) To speak or act in a manner that is intentionally ambiguous or evasive; equivocate.
- (intransitive, law) To collude, as where an informer colludes with the defendant, and makes a sham prosecution.
- (law, UK) To undertake something falsely and deceitfully, with the purpose of defeating or destroying it.
- be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information
verb
- (intransitive) To be concerned with.
- (ambitransitive) To sell, especially to sell illicit drugs.
- (transitive) To administer or give out, as in small portions.
- (intransitive) To have dealings or business.
- (intransitive) To conduct oneself, to behave.
- (intransitive) To trade professionally (followed by in).
- (intransitive, with “with”) To handle, to manage, to cope.
- (transitive) deliver damage, a blow, strike or cut. To inflict.
- (ambitransitive) To distribute cards to the players in a game.
- (transitive) To distribute among a number of recipients, to give out as one’s portion or share.
- (baseball) To pitch.
- (transitive) : To take action with regard to someone or something.
- act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression
- succeed in doing, achieving, or producing (something) with the limited or inadequate means available
- behave in a certain way towards others
- take into consideration for exemplifying purposes
- give (a specific card) to a player
- sell (especially of illegal material)
- administer or bestow, as in small portions
- do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood
- distribute cards to the players in a game
- give out as one's portion or share
- be in charge of, act on, or dispose of
- take action with respect to (someone or something)
- direct the course of; manage or control
adj
noun
- (informal) A thing, an unspecified or unidentified object.
- (in particular) A transaction offered which is financially beneficial; a bargain.
- An agreement between parties; an arrangement.
- (informal) A situation, occasion, or event.
- (card games) The distribution of cards to players; a player's turn for this.
- (uncountable) Wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir).
- (often followed by of) An indefinite quantity or amount; a lot (now usually qualified by great or good).
- A particular instance of trading (buying or selling; exchanging; bartering); a transaction.
- (countable) A plank of softwood (fir or pine board).
- (slang, of a person) A personality trait, especially a negative one, and the underlying cause of it.
- an agreement between parties (usually arrived at after discussion) fixing obligations of each
- the type of treatment received (especially as the result of an agreement)
- the act of apportioning or distributing something
- the act of distributing playing cards
- the cards held in a card game by a given player at any given time
- a plank of softwood (fir or pine board)
- wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir)
- (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent
- a particular instance of buying or selling
verb
- (intransitive) To become indistinct.
- To smear, stain or smudge.
- (copyright law) To use a sign, image, expression, etc. sufficiently close to a trademarked one that it causes confusion between them.
- To cause imperfection of vision in; to dim; to darken.
- (graphical user interface, transitive) To transfer the input focus away from.
- To make indistinct or hazy, to obscure or dim.
- to make less distinct or clear
- become glassy; lose clear vision
- make a smudge on; soil by smudging
- make dim or indistinct
- make unclear, indistinct, or blurred
- become vague or indistinct
adj
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To give one's formal opinion (on or upon something).
- (intransitive, transitive) To express an opinion; to state as an opinion; to suppose, consider (that).
- (intransitive, transitive) to suppose, consider as correct, or entertain, an opinion.
- expect, believe, or suppose
- express one's opinion openly and without fear or hesitation
noun
verb
- (idiomatic) To maintain an intermediate position between contrasting choices, opinions, etc.
- (idiomatic, US, education) To participate in the procession at a graduation ceremony; to graduate.
- To mark or secure a boundary by walking along it.
- (idiomatic) To act in a non-destructive or damaging manner, whether physically or mentally to those you hold dear and/or respect; to exercise self-control.
verb
- (intransitive, idiomatic, figuratively) To become disorganised.
- (transitive) To cut or take to pieces for scrap.
- (transitive) To break or separate into pieces.
- (transitive, intransitive, idiomatic, slang) To be or cause to be overcome with laughter.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To stop a fight; to separate people who are fighting.
- (intransitive) To break or separate into pieces; to disintegrate or come apart.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To dissolve; to part.
- (reciprocal, intransitive) To end a (usually romantic or sexual) relationship with each other.
- (transitive) To upset greatly; to cause great emotional disturbance or unhappiness in.
- (intransitive, telecommunications) Of a conversation, to cease to be understandable because of a bad connection; of a signal, to deteriorate.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) Of a school, to close for the holidays at the end of term.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To end a (usually romantic or sexual) relationship.
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- make a break in
- cause to go into a solution
- break violently or noisily; smash
- laugh unrestrainedly
- break or cause to break into pieces
- bring the association of to an end or cause to break up
- destroy the completeness of a set of related items
- separate (substances) into constituent elements or parts
- release ice
- cause to separate
- to cause to separate and go in different directions
- close at the end of a session
- set or keep apart
- take apart into its constituent pieces
- come to an end (of a state)
- disband
- suffer a nervous breakdown
- attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example
noun
verb
intj
adj
- (grammar) Intransitive.
- (now uncommon) Neutral; on neither side; neither one thing nor another.
- (literary) Sexless, nonsexual.
- (biology) Sexless: having no or imperfectly developed sex organs.
- (of an animal) Castrated; having had the reproductive organs removed.
- (grammar) Having a form which is not masculine nor feminine; or having a form which is not of common gender.
- having no or imperfectly developed or nonfunctional sex organs
- neither male nor female (of grammatical gender)
noun
- (grammar) An intransitive verb or state-of-being verb.
- A person who takes no part in a contest; someone remaining neutral.
- The act of neutering (typically an animal)
- (uncommon, sometimes offensive) One who has been neutered; eunuch.
- (grammar) The neuter gender.
- (biology) An organism, either vegetable or animal, which at its maturity has no generative organs, or but imperfectly developed ones, as a plant without stamens or pistils, as the garden Hydrangea; especially, one of the imperfectly developed females of certain social insects, as of the ant and the common honeybee, which perform the labors of the community, and are called workers.
- (grammar) A noun of the neuter gender; any one of those words which have the terminations usually found in neuter words.
- a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to inanimate objects (neither masculine nor feminine)
verb
- (transitive) To drastically reduce the effectiveness of something.
- (transitive) To make grammatically neuter.
- (transitive) To remove sex organs from an animal to prevent it from having offspring; to castrate or spay, particularly as applied to domestic animals.
- (transitive) To rid of sexuality.
- remove the ovaries of
verb
- To feel or show doubt or indecision; to be indecisive between choices; to vacillate.
- Chiefly of a quality or thing: to change, to fluctuate, to vary.
- To begin to weaken or show signs of weakening in resolve; to falter, to flinch, to give way.
- Of a body part such as an eye or hand, or the voice: to become unsteady; to shake, to tremble.
- To swing or wave, especially in the air, wind, etc.; to flutter.
- Of light, shadow, or a partly obscured thing: to flicker, to glimmer, to quiver.
- move or sway in a rising and falling or wavelike pattern
- pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness
- be unsure or weak
- move back and forth very rapidly
- sway from side to side
- move hesitatingly, as if about to give way
- give off unsteady sounds, alternating in amplitude or frequency
noun
- One who waves their arms, or causes something to swing or wave.
- A person who specializes in treating hair to make it wavy.
- (printing, historical) In full waver roller: a roller which places ink on the inking table of a printing press with a back and forth, waving motion.
- A state of beginning to weaken or showing signs of weakening in resolve; a falter.
- An act of moving back and forth, swinging, or waving; a flutter, a tremble.
- A state of feeling or showing doubt or indecision; a vacillation.
- A tool used to make hair wavy.
- the act of moving back and forth
- someone who communicates by waving
- the act of pausing uncertainly
verb
verb
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To vacillate between conflicting opinions, etc.
- (intransitive) To swing back and forth, especially if with a regular rhythm.
- (intransitive) To vary above and below a mean value.
- move or swing from side to side regularly
- be undecided about something; waver between conflicting positions or courses of action
verb
- (intransitive) To be confused.
- (transitive) to puzzle, perplex, baffle, bewilder (somebody); to afflict by being complicated, contradictory, or otherwise difficult to understand
- (transitive) To mix up, muddle up (one thing with another); to mistake (one thing for another).
- (transitive) To mix thoroughly; to confound; to disorder.
- mistake one thing for another
- make unclear, indistinct, or blurred
- assemble without order or sense
- be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly
- cause to feel embarrassment
verb
- (idiomatic, intransitive) To reconsider one's thoughts.
- (idiomatic, intransitive) To undo one's actions.
- (idiomatic, transitive) To provide support or the promise of support to.
- (idiomatic, intransitive, cricket) For a fielder to position himself behind the wicket (relative to a team-mate who is throwing the ball at the wicket) so as to stop the ball, and prevent overthrows.
- (idiomatic, intransitive, of a blockage) To halt the flow or movement of something.
- (idiomatic, intransitive, cricket) For the non-striker to take a few steps down the pitch, in preparation to taking a run, just as the bowler bowls the ball.
- (idiomatic, computing, transitive) To copy (data) so that it can be restored if the main copy is lost.
- (idiomatic, intransitive, informal) To fill up because of a backlog.
- (idiomatic, intransitive) To move backwards, especially for a vehicle to do so.
- (idiomatic, intransitive) If a property backs up to another property, that means it abuts or shares a border with another property.
- (idiomatic, transitive) To move a vehicle backwards.
- move backwards from a certain position
- establish as valid or genuine
- become or cause to become obstructed
- give moral or psychological support, aid, or courage to
- make a copy of (a computer file) especially for storage in another place as a security copy
verb
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To consider that.
- (intransitive) To give a satisfactory reason for; to explain.
- (intransitive) To establish the location for someone.
- (transitive) To estimate, consider (something to be as described).
- (intransitive) To give a satisfactory evaluation for (one's actions, behaviour etc.); to answer for.
- (intransitive) To cause the death, capture, or destruction of someone or something (+ for).
- Used in phrasal verbs: account for, account of, account to.
- (intransitive) To give a satisfactory evaluation for financial transactions, money received etc.
- keep an account of
- to give an account or representation of in words
- be the sole or primary factor in the existence, acquisition, supply, or disposal of something
- furnish a justifying analysis or explanation
noun
- An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.
- A reason, grounds, consideration, motive; a person's sake.
- (banking) A bank account.
- (uncountable) Profit; advantage.
- Importance; worth; value; esteem; judgement.
- A record of events; a relation or narrative.
- Authorization as a specific registered user in accessing a system.
- (accounting) A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review.
- A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; a reason of an action to be done.
- importance or value
- a record or narrative description of past events
- a formal contractual relationship established to provide for regular banking or brokerage or business services
- the quality of taking advantage
- a statement that makes something comprehensible by describing the relevant structure or operation or circumstances etc.
- grounds
- a statement of recent transactions and the resulting balance
- a short account of the news
- the act of informing by verbal report
- an itemized statement of money owed for goods shipped or services rendered
verb
noun
- A change of places; an inversion or swap.
- The sound of a regular footfall.
- (US, UK, Fiji) A sandal consisting of a rubber sole fastened to the foot by a rubber thong fitting between the toes and around the sides of the foot.
- (computing, electronics) A bistable; an electronic switching circuit that has either two stable states (switching between them in response to a trigger) or a stable and an unstable state (switching from one to the other and back again in response to a trigger), and which is thereby capable of serving as one bit of memory.
- (slang, derogatory, offensive) A person or inhabitant of the Middle East, or a Muslim nation, particularly Afghanistan.
- (US, slang, truck driving) A return trip.
- A somersault.
- (US) An instance of flip-flopping, of repeatedly changing one's stated opinion about a matter.
- an electronic circuit that can assume either of two stable states
- a backless sandal held to the foot by a thong between the big toe and the second toe
- a decision to reverse an earlier decision
- a backward somersault
verb
- (intransitive) To be considered, without much coherence, in someone's mind.
- (intransitive) Of a time or event: to come up; to happen.
- (intransitive, slang) To indulge in sexual intercourse (with).
- (intransitive, colloquial) To laugh very heartily.
- (intransitive) To move about on the ground while rotating and turning one's body.
- happen regularly
verb
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To err.
- (transitive) To cut slips from; to cut; to take off; to make a slip or slips of.
- (intransitive, aviation, of an aircraft) Clipping of sideslip (“to fly with the longitudinal axis misaligned with the relative wind”).
- (transitive) To elude or evade by smooth movement.
- (transitive) To cause to slip or slide off, or out of place.
- (transitive, hunting, falconry) To release (a dog, a bird of prey, etc.) to go after a quarry.
- (transitive) To pass (a note, money, etc.), often covertly.
- (intransitive) To move quickly and often secretively; to depart, withdraw, enter, appear, intrude, or escape as if by sliding.
- (transitive) To cause to move smoothly and quickly; to slide; to convey gently or secretly.
- (intransitive) To lose one’s traction on a slippery surface; to slide due to a lack of friction.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To move down; to slide.
- (intransitive) To move or fly (out of place); to shoot; often with out, off, etc.
- To bring forth (young) prematurely; to slink.
- (intransitive) To accidentally reveal a secret or otherwise say something unintentionally.
- (transitive, business) To cause (a schedule or release, etc.) to go, or let it go, beyond the allotted deadline.
- (transitive, cooking) To remove the skin of a soft fruit, such as a tomato or peach, by blanching briefly in boiling water, then transferring to cold water so that the skin peels, or slips, off easily.
- fall to a lower standard
- move smoothly and easily
- move out of position
- pass out of one's memory
- cause to move with a smooth or sliding motion
- insert inconspicuously or quickly or quietly
- move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner
- move stealthily
- to make a mistake or be incorrect
- pass on stealthily
- move easily
noun
- A mistake or error.
- A twig or shoot; a cutting.
- (engineering) The motion of the centre of resistance of the float of a paddle wheel, or the blade of an oar, through the water horizontally, or the difference between a vessel's actual speed and the speed it would have if the propelling instrument acted upon a solid; also, the velocity, relatively to still water, of the backward current of water produced by the propeller.
- (medicine) A one-time return to previous maladaptive behavior after cure.
- A young person (now usually with of introducing descriptive qualifier).
- (mining) A dislocation of a lead, destroying continuity.
- An outside covering or case.
- A leash or string by which a dog is held; so called from its being made in such a manner as to slip, or become loose, by relaxation of the hand.
- (nautical, aviation) A difference between the theoretical distance traveled per revolution of the propeller and the actual advance of the vessel.
- (cricket) Any of several fielding positions to the off side of the wicket keeper, designed to catch the ball after being deflected from the bat; a fielder in that position (See first slip, second slip, third slip, fourth slip and fifth slip.)
- (marine insurance) A memorandum of the particulars of a risk for which a policy is to be executed. It usually bears the broker's name and is initiated by the underwriters.
- Either side of the gallery in a theater.
- A fish, the sole.
- (nautical) A berth; a space for a ship to moor.
- (US) A long seat or narrow pew in churches, often without a door.
- (ceramics) A thin, slippery mix of clay and water.
- A woman's undergarment worn under a skirt or dress to conceal unwanted nudity that may otherwise be revealed by the skirt or dress itself; a shift.
- A slipdress.
- An escape; a secret or unexpected desertion.
- Matter found in troughs of grindstones after the grinding of edge tools.
- (electricity) The difference between the actual and synchronous speeds of an induction motor.
- A long, thin piece of something.
- A particular quantity of yarn.
- (nautical) A slipway.
- (crosswording) A newsletter produced by the setter of a cryptic clue-writing competition, containing a full list of winners and commentary on the clues.
- A number between 0 and 1 that is the difference between the angular speed of a rotating magnetic field and the angular speed of its rotor, divided by the angular speed of the magnetic field.
- An act or instance of slipping.
- (telecommunications) The positional displacement in a sequence of transmitted symbols that causes the loss or insertion of one or more symbols.
- (aviation) Clipping of sideslip.
- A small piece of paper, especially one longer than it is wide, typically a form for writing on or one giving printed information.
- a place where a craft can be made fast
- a slippery smoothness
- bed linen consisting of a cover for a pillow
- potter's clay that is thinned and used for coating or decorating ceramics
- a part (sometimes a root or leaf or bud) removed from a plant to propagate a new plant through rooting or grafting
- the act of avoiding capture (especially by cunning)
- a young and slender person
- artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material
- a woman's sleeveless undergarment
- an accidental misstep threatening (or causing) a fall
- an unexpected slide
- a minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc.
- a small sheet of paper
- a flight maneuver; aircraft slides sideways in the air
- a socially awkward or tactless act
verb
- (intransitive) To ponder or consider.
- (intransitive) To play (with) in an idle or desultory way.
- (slang, transitive) To stimulate with a sex toy.
- behave carelessly or indifferently
- manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination
- engage in an activity as if it were a game rather than take it seriously
adj
noun
- A thing of little importance or value; a trifle.
- (graffiti slang, derogatory) An inferior graffiti artist.
- (euphemistic) Ellipsis of sex toy.
- Ellipsis of toy dog.
- (slang, MLE) A gun.
- A simple, light piece of music, written especially for the virginal.
- Something to play with, especially as intended for use by a child.
- any of several breeds of very small dogs kept purely as pets
- a nonfunctional replica of something else (frequently used as a modifier)
- a device regarded as providing amusement
- an artifact designed to be played with
- a copy that reproduces a person or thing in greatly reduced size
verb
- (intransitive, originally Northern England, Scotland, colloquial) To be indecisive about something; to dither, to vacillate, to waver.
- (intransitive) To speak or write evasively or vaguely.
- (transitive) To hold horizontally and rotate (one's hand) back and forth in a gesture of ambivalence or vacillation.
- (intransitive) Of a bird: to move in a side-to-side motion while descending before landing.
- (intransitive, British, dialectal) Of a dog: to bark with a high pitch like a puppy, or in muffled manner.
- (ambitransitive) Often followed by on: to speak or write (something) at length without any clear aim or point; to ramble.
- (transitive, slang) To smash (something).
- (intransitive, aviation, road transport, colloquial) Of an aircraft or motor vehicle: to travel in a slow and unhurried manner.
- pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness
noun
- (textiles, chiefly attributively) A type of fabric woven with a honeycomb texture.
- (countable, British) In full potato waffle: a savoury flat potato cake with the same kind of grid pattern.
- (British, dialectal) The high-pitched sound made by a young dog; also, a muffled bark.
- (construction, also attributively) A concrete slab used in flooring with a gridlike structure of ribs running at right angles to each other on its underside.
- (countable) A flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern, often eaten hot with butter and/or honey or syrup.
- (colloquial) (Often lengthy) speech or writing that is evasive or vague, or pretentious.
- pancake batter baked in a waffle iron
verb
- (intransitive) To reach or release a decision.
- (intransitive) To decrease.
- (impersonal, UK) To rain.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To return from an elevated state of consciousness (especially when drug-induced) or emotion.
- (intransitive) To be passed through time.
- (intransitive) To descend, fall down, collapse.
- (intransitive, UK) To graduate from university, especially an Oxbridge university.
- (intransitive) To be demolished.
- Shortening of of come down the (pike, line, etc.) To be about to happen; to occur; to transpire.
- (intransitive, slang) To behave in a particular way.
- get sick
- move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way
- criticize or reprimand harshly
- be the essential element
- fall from clouds
verb
- (intransitive) To undulate.
- (intransitive) To be irresolute; to waver.
- (transitive) To cause to vary irregularly.
- (intransitive) To vary irregularly; to swing.
- (rare, figuratively, also literally) To rise and fall as a wave; to be tossed up and down the waves.
- move or sway in a rising and falling or wavelike pattern
- be unstable
- cause to fluctuate or move in a wavelike pattern
verb
- (intransitive) To consider, to deliberate. [with of]
- (transitive) To formally give information or notice to; to inform or counsel. [with of ‘what is communicated’]
- (transitive, formal) To provide information to a sovereign or head of state which they have previously asked for.
- (transitive) To recommend; to offer as advice.
- (Scots law) To deliver judgment after a case has been reserved for further consideration.
- (transitive) To give advice to; to offer an opinion to, as worthy or expedient to be followed.
- give advice to
- make a proposal, declare a plan for something
- inform (somebody) of something
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To make a judgment, especially after deliberation.
- (computing theory) Of a Turing machine: to return a correct answer (for some yes-or-no problem) on every possible input.
- (ambitransitive) To resolve (a contest, problem, dispute, etc.); to choose, determine, or settle.
- (transitive) To cause someone to come to a decision.
- influence or determine
- bring to an end; settle conclusively
- reach, make, or come to a decision about something
- cause to decide
verb
- (intransitive) To perceive differences.
- (transitive) To distinguish something as being different from something else; to differentiate or discriminate.
- (transitive) To perceive, recognize, or comprehend with the mind; to descry.
- (transitive) To detect with the senses, especially with the eyes.
- detect with the senses
verb
- (intransitive) To make distinctions.
- (intransitive, construed with against) To make decisions harmful to (a person or group) based on prejudice.
- (intransitive, construed with against, uncommon) To infringe upon (a person's rights) in a prejudicial manner.
- To treat or affect differently, depending on differences in traits.
- (transitive) To set apart as being different; to mark as different; to separate from another by discerning differences; to distinguish.
- recognize or perceive the difference
- distinguish
- treat differently on the basis of sex or race
adj
verb
- (intransitive) To speak or act in a manner that is intentionally ambiguous or evasive; equivocate.
- (intransitive, law) To collude, as where an informer colludes with the defendant, and makes a sham prosecution.
- (law, UK) To undertake something falsely and deceitfully, with the purpose of defeating or destroying it.
- be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information
verb
- (intransitive) To be concerned with.
- (ambitransitive) To sell, especially to sell illicit drugs.
- (transitive) To administer or give out, as in small portions.
- (intransitive) To have dealings or business.
- (intransitive) To conduct oneself, to behave.
- (intransitive) To trade professionally (followed by in).
- (intransitive, with “with”) To handle, to manage, to cope.
- (transitive) deliver damage, a blow, strike or cut. To inflict.
- (ambitransitive) To distribute cards to the players in a game.
- (transitive) To distribute among a number of recipients, to give out as one’s portion or share.
- (baseball) To pitch.
- (transitive) : To take action with regard to someone or something.
- act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression
- succeed in doing, achieving, or producing (something) with the limited or inadequate means available
- behave in a certain way towards others
- take into consideration for exemplifying purposes
- give (a specific card) to a player
- sell (especially of illegal material)
- administer or bestow, as in small portions
- do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood
- distribute cards to the players in a game
- give out as one's portion or share
- be in charge of, act on, or dispose of
- take action with respect to (someone or something)
- direct the course of; manage or control
adj
noun
- (informal) A thing, an unspecified or unidentified object.
- (in particular) A transaction offered which is financially beneficial; a bargain.
- An agreement between parties; an arrangement.
- (informal) A situation, occasion, or event.
- (card games) The distribution of cards to players; a player's turn for this.
- (uncountable) Wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir).
- (often followed by of) An indefinite quantity or amount; a lot (now usually qualified by great or good).
- A particular instance of trading (buying or selling; exchanging; bartering); a transaction.
- (countable) A plank of softwood (fir or pine board).
- (slang, of a person) A personality trait, especially a negative one, and the underlying cause of it.
- an agreement between parties (usually arrived at after discussion) fixing obligations of each
- the type of treatment received (especially as the result of an agreement)
- the act of apportioning or distributing something
- the act of distributing playing cards
- the cards held in a card game by a given player at any given time
- a plank of softwood (fir or pine board)
- wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir)
- (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent
- a particular instance of buying or selling
verb
- (intransitive) To become indistinct.
- To smear, stain or smudge.
- (copyright law) To use a sign, image, expression, etc. sufficiently close to a trademarked one that it causes confusion between them.
- To cause imperfection of vision in; to dim; to darken.
- (graphical user interface, transitive) To transfer the input focus away from.
- To make indistinct or hazy, to obscure or dim.
- to make less distinct or clear
- become glassy; lose clear vision
- make a smudge on; soil by smudging
- make dim or indistinct
- make unclear, indistinct, or blurred
- become vague or indistinct
adj
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To give one's formal opinion (on or upon something).
- (intransitive, transitive) To express an opinion; to state as an opinion; to suppose, consider (that).
- (intransitive, transitive) to suppose, consider as correct, or entertain, an opinion.
- expect, believe, or suppose
- express one's opinion openly and without fear or hesitation
noun
verb
- (idiomatic) To maintain an intermediate position between contrasting choices, opinions, etc.
- (idiomatic, US, education) To participate in the procession at a graduation ceremony; to graduate.
- To mark or secure a boundary by walking along it.
- (idiomatic) To act in a non-destructive or damaging manner, whether physically or mentally to those you hold dear and/or respect; to exercise self-control.
verb
- (intransitive, idiomatic, figuratively) To become disorganised.
- (transitive) To cut or take to pieces for scrap.
- (transitive) To break or separate into pieces.
- (transitive, intransitive, idiomatic, slang) To be or cause to be overcome with laughter.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To stop a fight; to separate people who are fighting.
- (intransitive) To break or separate into pieces; to disintegrate or come apart.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To dissolve; to part.
- (reciprocal, intransitive) To end a (usually romantic or sexual) relationship with each other.
- (transitive) To upset greatly; to cause great emotional disturbance or unhappiness in.
- (intransitive, telecommunications) Of a conversation, to cease to be understandable because of a bad connection; of a signal, to deteriorate.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) Of a school, to close for the holidays at the end of term.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To end a (usually romantic or sexual) relationship.
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- make a break in
- cause to go into a solution
- break violently or noisily; smash
- laugh unrestrainedly
- break or cause to break into pieces
- bring the association of to an end or cause to break up
- destroy the completeness of a set of related items
- separate (substances) into constituent elements or parts
- release ice
- cause to separate
- to cause to separate and go in different directions
- close at the end of a session
- set or keep apart
- take apart into its constituent pieces
- come to an end (of a state)
- disband
- suffer a nervous breakdown
- attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example
noun
verb
intj
adj
- (grammar) Intransitive.
- (now uncommon) Neutral; on neither side; neither one thing nor another.
- (literary) Sexless, nonsexual.
- (biology) Sexless: having no or imperfectly developed sex organs.
- (of an animal) Castrated; having had the reproductive organs removed.
- (grammar) Having a form which is not masculine nor feminine; or having a form which is not of common gender.
- having no or imperfectly developed or nonfunctional sex organs
- neither male nor female (of grammatical gender)
noun
- (grammar) An intransitive verb or state-of-being verb.
- A person who takes no part in a contest; someone remaining neutral.
- The act of neutering (typically an animal)
- (uncommon, sometimes offensive) One who has been neutered; eunuch.
- (grammar) The neuter gender.
- (biology) An organism, either vegetable or animal, which at its maturity has no generative organs, or but imperfectly developed ones, as a plant without stamens or pistils, as the garden Hydrangea; especially, one of the imperfectly developed females of certain social insects, as of the ant and the common honeybee, which perform the labors of the community, and are called workers.
- (grammar) A noun of the neuter gender; any one of those words which have the terminations usually found in neuter words.
- a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to inanimate objects (neither masculine nor feminine)
verb
- (transitive) To drastically reduce the effectiveness of something.
- (transitive) To make grammatically neuter.
- (transitive) To remove sex organs from an animal to prevent it from having offspring; to castrate or spay, particularly as applied to domestic animals.
- (transitive) To rid of sexuality.
- remove the ovaries of