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adj
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verb
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- become bloated or swollen or puff up
- make bloated or swollen
- (intransitive) To become distended; to swell up.
- (intransitive, veterinary medicine) To get an overdistended rumen, talking of a ruminant.
- To increase to an excessive amount.
- To fill soft substance with gas, water, etc.; to cause to swell.
- To fill with vanity or conceit.
- To cause to become distended.
noun
adj
- Panting and out of breath.
- Distended, swollen, or inflated.
- (automotive) Given a hot rod blower.
- Under the influence of drugs, especially marijuana.
- Having failed.
- (of glass) Formed by blowing.
- Covered with the eggs and larvae of flies; flyblown.
- being moved or acted upon by moving air or vapor
- breathing laboriously or convulsively
verb
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To lose all energy, enthusiasm or happiness; to flag.
- (intransitive) To hang downward; to sag.
- (intransitive, figurative) To proceed downward, or toward a close; to decline.
- (transitive) To allow to droop or sink.
- (intransitive) To slowly become limp; to bend gradually.
- become limp
- droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness
- hang loosely or laxly
adj
- Sick; unwell.
- (dialectal) Hard; difficult.
- (informal) Strange; weird; odd.
- Full of spirit; brisk; lively; sprightly; overconfident; opinionated.
- (nautical, of a ship) Liable to capsize because of poorly stowed cargo or insufficient ballast.
- (dialectal) Bent; twisted; crooked; distorted; out of repair.
- (used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail
noun
- (informal) An amateur in science or other technical subjects who persistently advocates flawed theories.
- A fit of temper or passion.
- (now chiefly dialectal) An ailment, ache.
- (rare) A twist or turn in speech; word play consisting in a change of the form or meaning of a word.
- Clipping of crankshaft.
- A twist or turn of the mind; caprice; whim;
- (US, slang) Synonym of methamphetamine.
- (slang) The penis.
- The act of converting power into motion, by turning a crankshaft.
- (informal) An ill-tempered or nasty person.
- A bent piece of an axle or shaft, or an attached arm perpendicular, or nearly so, to the end of a shaft or wheel, used to impart a rotation to a wheel or other mechanical device; also used to change circular into reciprocating motion, or reciprocating into circular motion.
- a whimsically eccentric person
- a hand tool consisting of a rotating shaft with parallel handle
- a bad-tempered person
- an amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant
verb
- (intransitive) To be running at a high level of output or effort.
- (transitive) To turn by means of a crank.
- (intransitive, of a crank or similar) To turn.
- (transitive) To cause to spin via other means, as though turned by a crank.
- (intransitive) To act in a cranky manner; to behave unreasonably and irritably, especially through complaining.
- (intransitive) To turn a crank.
- fasten with a crank
- rotate with a crank
- travel along a zigzag path
- bend into the shape of a crank
- start by cranking
adj
- Having difficulty breathing; gasping.
- That makes one hold one's breath (with excitement etc.).
- Having a somewhat hysterical tone, using over-emotive language.
- Having no wind; still, calm or airless.
- Not breathing; dead or apparently so.
- not breathing or able to breathe except with difficulty
- tending to cause suspension of regular breathing
- appearing dead; not breathing or having no perceptible pulse
adj
- Nauseated; having an urge to vomit.
- (slang) Extremely bad (bad enough to make one ill). Generally used indirectly with to be.
- (Appalachia) Bad-tempered.
- (slang, chiefly hip-hop) Sublime, with the connotation of being so in a singularly creative way.
- Unpropitious, unkind, faulty, not up to reasonable standard.
- Indicative of unkind or malevolent intentions; harsh, cruel.
- Unwell in terms of health or physical condition; sick.
- resulting in suffering or adversity
- distressing
- presaging ill fortune
- affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function
- indicating hostility or enmity
adv
noun
noun
- A heavy or helpless collapse; a slouching or drooping posture; a period of poor activity or performance, especially an extended period.
- (slang by extension) A period when a person goes without the expected amount of sex or dating.
- (UK, dialect) A boggy place.
- (Scotland) The noise made by anything falling into a hole, or into a soft, miry place.
- (geology) A form of mass wasting in which a coherent mass of loosely consolidated materials or a rock layer moves a short distance down a slope.
- (Scotland) The gross amount; the mass; the lump.
- A measure of the fluidity of freshly mixed concrete, based on how much the concrete formed in a standard slump cone sags when the cone is removed.
- A cobbler-like dessert cooked on a stove.
- (geology, loosely) A crater or depression (an area where the ground slumps) which forms as a result of such wasting. (A large crater is colloquially called a megaslump.)
- a noticeable deterioration in performance or quality
- a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment
verb
- (intransitive) To collapse heavily or helplessly.
- (transitive) To lump; to throw together messily.
- (intransitive) To decline or fall off in activity or performance.
- (intransitive) To slouch or droop.
- To fall or sink suddenly through or in, when walking on a surface, as on thawing snow or ice, a bog, etc.
- (transitive, slang) To cause to collapse; to hit hard; to render unconscious; to kill.
- fall heavily or suddenly; decline markedly
- assume a drooping posture or carriage
- fall in value
- fall or sink heavily
noun
verb
noun
- an involuntary spasm of ineffectual vomiting
- (geology) a horizontal dislocation
- the act of raising something
- the act of lifting something with great effort
- throwing something heavy (with great effort)
- an upward movement (especially a rhythmical rising and falling)
- (rare, only used attributively as in "heave line" or "heave horse") Broken wind in horses.
- (cricket) A forceful shot in which the ball follows a high trajectory
- An effort to vomit; retching.
- An upward motion; a rising; a swell or distention, as of the breast in difficult breathing, of the waves, of the earth in an earthquake, etc.
- (countable) An effort to raise something, such as a weight or one's own body, or to move something heavy.
- (nautical) The measure of extent to which a nautical vessel goes up and down in a short period of time.
- A horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at an intersection with another lode.
verb
- make an unsuccessful effort to vomit; strain to vomit
- lift or elevate
- breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted
- move or cause to move in a specified way, direction, or position
- bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat
- rise and move, as in waves or billows
- utter a sound, as with obvious effort
- throw with great effort
- (intransitive) To make an effort to raise, throw, or move anything; to strain to do something difficult.
- (transitive) To utter with effort.
- (intransitive) To rise and fall.
- (transitive, mining, geology) To displace (a vein, stratum).
- (intransitive) To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound.
- (transitive) To lift with difficulty; to raise with some effort; to lift (a heavy thing).
- (transitive, nautical) To pull up with a rope or cable.
- (ambitransitive, nautical) To move in a certain direction or into a certain position or situation.
- (transitive) To throw, cast.
- (intransitive) To retch, to make an effort to vomit; to vomit.
noun
verb
- make an unsuccessful effort to vomit; strain to vomit
- eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth
- (transitive, intransitive, loosely) To vomit; to make or experience a successful effort to vomit.
- (dialectal) Alternative form of reach.
- (transitive, intransitive) To make or experience an unsuccessful effort to vomit; to strain or spasm, as if to vomit; to gag or nearly vomit.
noun
- An emaciated person.
- The covering, or outside part, of a nut.
- (architecture) Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in, as the shell of a house.
- The hard calcareous covering of a bird egg.
- A garment, usually worn by women, such as a shirt, blouse, or top, with short sleeves or no sleeves, that often fastens in the rear.
- (nautical, rigging) The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve.
- (nautical) The watertight outer covering of the hull of a vessel, often made with planking or metal plating.
- A concave rough cast-iron tool in which a convex lens is ground to shape.
- (figuratively) The empty outward form of someone or something.
- (music) A string instrument, as a lyre, whose acoustical chamber is formed like a shell.
- In formal debating, a set of proposed rules to be followed, with set penalties for violating them.
- A psychological barrier to social interaction.
- (figuratively) The outward form independent of what is inside.
- (British, education) One or more school grades within secondary education, at certain public schools.
- The thin coating of copper on an electrotype.
- (chemistry) A set of atomic orbitals that have the same principal quantum number.
- (music) The body of a drum; the often wooden, often cylindrical acoustic chamber, with or without rims added for tuning and for attaching the drum head.
- One of the outer layers of skin of an onion.
- An engraved copper roller used in print works.
- The calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates.
- The conjoined scutes that constitute the "shell" (carapace) of a tortoise or turtle.
- (UK, slang) A person's ear.
- (geology) The accreted mineral formed around a hollow geode.
- (nautical) A light boat whose frame is covered with thin wood, impermeable fabric, or water-proofed paper; a racing shell or dragon boat.
- (computing) An operating system software user interface, whose primary purpose is to launch other programs and control their interactions; the user's command interpreter. Shell is a way to separate the internal complexity of the implementation of the command from the user. The internals can change while the user experience/interface remains the same.
- (weaponry) A hollow, usually spherical or cylindrical projectile fired from a siege mortar or a smoothbore cannon. It contains an explosive substance designed to be ignited by a fuse or by percussion at the target site so that it will burst and scatter at high velocity its contents and fragments. Formerly called a bomb.
- (business) A legal entity that has no operations.
- (in the plural) Husks of cacao seeds, a decoction of which is sometimes used as a substitute or adulterant for cocoa and its products such as chocolate.
- (by extension) Any mollusk having such a covering.
- (figuratively) A person otherwise diminished.
- The overlapping hard plates comprising the armor covering the armadillo's body.
- (weaponry) The casing of a self-contained single-unit artillery projectile.
- (weaponry) The cartridge of a breechloading firearm; a load; a bullet; a round.
- (phonology) The onset and coda of a syllable.
- A coarse or flimsy coffin; a thin interior coffin enclosed within a more substantial one.
- A pod containing the seeds of certain plants, such as the legume Phaseolus vulgaris.
- An unmarked vehicle for carrying corpses from a crime scene.
- (entomology) The exoskeleton or wing covers of certain insects.
- (engineering) A gouge bit or shell bit.
- a rigid covering that envelops an object
- the hard largely calcareous covering of a mollusc or a brachiopod
- a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)
- the hard usually fibrous outer layer of some fruits especially nuts
- hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles
- the housing or outer covering of something
- the exterior covering of a bird's egg
- a very light narrow racing boat
- ammunition consisting of a cylindrical metal casing containing an explosive charge and a projectile; fired from a large gun
- the material that forms the hard outer covering of many animals
verb
- (topology) To form a shelling.
- To form shallow, irregular cracks (in a coating).
- (computing, intransitive) To switch to a shell or command line.
- (cricket, slang, transitive) To drop (the ball).
- (intransitive) To cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk.
- (intransitive) To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc.
- (informal) To disburse or give up money, to pay. (Often used with out).
- To bombard, to fire projectiles at, especially with artillery.
- To remove the outer covering or shell of something.
- remove from its shell or outer covering
- use explosives on
- create by using explosives
- fall out of the pod or husk
- come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
- look for and collect shells by the seashore
- remove the husks from
- hit the pitches of hard and regularly
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noun
verb
noun
adj
- Sluggish; slow-moving.
- Showing a lack of effort or care.
- Droopy.
- (computing theory) Employing lazy evaluation; not calculating results until they are immediately required.
- Unwilling to do work or make an effort; disinclined to exertion.
- (optometry) Of an eye, squinting because of a weakness of the eye muscles.
- Causing or characterised by idleness; relaxed or leisurely.
- (of a cattle brand) Turned so that (the letter) is horizontal instead of vertical.
- moving slowly and gently
- disinclined to work or exertion
noun
verb
verb
- To make sluggish.
- (intransitive, of a bullet) To become reduced in diameter, or changed in shape, by passing from a larger to a smaller part of the bore of the barrel.
- (transitive) To load with a slug or slugs.
- To take part in casual carpooling; to form ad hoc, informal carpools for commuting, essentially a variation of ride-share commuting and hitchhiking.
- To drink quickly; to gulp; to down.
- (transitive) To hit very hard, usually with the fist.
- be idle; exist in a changeless situation
- strike heavily, especially with the fist or a bat
noun
- A hard blow, usually with the fist.
- A solid block or piece of roughly shaped metal.
- A counterfeit coin, especially one used to steal from vending machines.
- (regional) A stranger picked up as a passenger to enable legal use of high occupancy vehicle lanes.
- (journalism) A title, name or header, a catchline, a short phrase or title to indicate the content of a newspaper or magazine story for editing use.
- (television editing) A black screen used to separate broadcast items.
- (herpetology) An infertile egg of a reptile.
- A motile pseudoplasmodium formed by amoebae working together.
- (web development, SEO) The last part of a clean URL, the displayed resource name, similar to a filename.
- A discrete mass of a material that moves as a unit, usually through another material.
- (US, slang, District of Columbia) A hitchhiking commuter.
- A ship that sails slowly.
- (rail transport) An accessory to a diesel-electric locomotive, used to increase adhesive weight and allow full power to be applied at a lower speed. It has trucks with traction motors, but lacks a prime mover, being powered by electricity from the mother locomotive, and may or may not have a control cab.
- Any of many gastropod mollusks, having no (or only a rudimentary) shell.
- (screenwriting) A block of text at the beginning of a scene that sets up the scene's location, characters, etc.
- A bullet or other projectile fired from a firearm; in modern usage, generally refers to a shotgun slug.
- A shot of a drink, usually alcoholic.
- (physics, rare) The imperial (English) unit of mass that accelerates by 1 foot per second squared (1 ft/s²) when a force of one pound-force (lbf) is exerted on it.
- (letterpress typography) A piece of type metal imprinted by a linotype machine; also a black mark placed in the margin to indicate an error; also said in application to typewriters; type slug.
- any of various terrestrial gastropods having an elongated slimy body and no external shell
- (boxing) a blow with the fist
- a projectile that is fired from a gun
- an amount of an alcoholic drink (usually liquor) that is poured or gulped
- a unit of mass equal to the mass that accelerates at 1 foot/sec/sec when acted upon by a force of 1 pound; approximately 14.5939 kilograms
- a counterfeit coin
- a strip of type metal used for spacing
- an idle slothful person
adj
- Stagnant; not moving or flowing.
- Performed from an erect position.
- Erect, not cut down.
- Remaining in force or status.
- Not transitory; not liable to fade or vanish; lasting.
- Not movable; fixed.
- executed in or initiated from a standing position
- permanent
- (of fluids) not moving or flowing
- having a supporting base
- (of persons) on the feet; having the torso in an erect position supported by straight legs
- not created for a particular occasion
noun
- (law) The right of a party to bring a legal action, based on the relationship between that party and the matter to which the action relates.
- The act of a person who stands, or a place where someone stands.
- (sports) The position of a team in a league or of a player in a list.
- Duration.
- (figurative) Position or reputation in society or a profession.
- (British) Room in which to park a vehicle or vehicles
- an ordered listing of scores or results showing the relative positions of competitors (individuals or teams) in a sporting event
- the act of assuming or maintaining an erect upright position
- social or financial or professional status or reputation
verb
noun
- a condition marked by dizziness and nausea and weakness caused by depletion of body fluids and electrolytes
- An illness caused by overheating and excessive sweating, characterised by nausea, headache, thirst, weakness, and high body temperature; prognosis is good if cooling and hydration are pursued promptly.
noun
verb
noun
verb
- (transitive) To encircle with, or as if with a belt.
- (intransitive) To jeer.
- (transitive) To bind with a flexible rope or cord.
- (transitive, chiefly reflexive) To prepare (oneself) for an action.
- (nautical, intransitive) (of a vessel towing another) To be pulled on sideways by its towline, putting it at risk of capsizing.
- (transitive) To jeer at.
- bind with something round or circular
- put a girdle on or around
- prepare oneself for a military confrontation
adj
- Showing signs of stress or strain; not relaxed.
- Pulled taut, without any slack.
- (phonetics, of a vowel) Produced with relative constriction of the vocal tract.
- Characterized by strain (on the nerves, emotions, etc). (Compare charged.)
- taut or rigid; stretched tight
- in or of a state of physical or nervous tension
- pronounced with relatively tense tongue muscles (e.g., the vowel sound in ‘beat’)
noun
- (linguistics, uncountable) The property of indicating the point in time at which an action or state of being occurs or exists.
- (grammar, countable, proscribed) A verb form or construction indicating a combination of tense, aspect, and mood.
- (grammar, countable, proscribed) A grammatical aspect.
- (linguistics, grammar, countable) An inflected form of a verb that indicates tense.
- a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time
verb
noun
- excessive accumulation of blood or other fluid in a body part
- excessive crowding
- (medicine) Blocking up of the capillary and other blood vessels, etc., in any locality or organ (often producing other morbid symptoms); local hypermic, active or passive.
- Edema, water retention, swelling, enlargement of a body part because of fluid retention in tissues and vessels.
- (medicine) An excess of mucus or fluid in the respiratory system; congestion of the lungs, or nasal congestion.
- An accumulation or buildup, the act of gathering into a heap or mass.
- An excess of traffic; usually not a complete standstill of traffic, so usually not synonymous with traffic jam.
adj
- irritable as if suffering from indigestion
- suffering from or suggesting a liver disorder or gastric distress
- relating to or containing bile
- Peevishly ill-humored, irritable or bad tempered; irascible.
- (pathology) Suffering from real or supposed liver disorder, especially excessive secretions of bile.
- Resembling bile, especially in color.
- Of or pertaining to something containing or consisting of bile.
noun
adj
- (by extension) Constituting a symptom or indication; characteristic, indicative.
- (medicine) Of a treatment, that only affects the symptoms of a disease without targeting the underlying cause.
- (medicine) Relating to symptomatics.
- (pathology) Showing symptoms.
- relating to or according to or affecting a symptom or symptoms
- characteristic or indicative of a disease
noun
verb
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To lose all energy, enthusiasm or happiness; to flag.
- (intransitive) To hang downward; to sag.
- (intransitive, figurative) To proceed downward, or toward a close; to decline.
- (transitive) To allow to droop or sink.
- (intransitive) To slowly become limp; to bend gradually.
- become limp
- droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness
- hang loosely or laxly
noun
- A heavy or helpless collapse; a slouching or drooping posture; a period of poor activity or performance, especially an extended period.
- (slang by extension) A period when a person goes without the expected amount of sex or dating.
- (UK, dialect) A boggy place.
- (Scotland) The noise made by anything falling into a hole, or into a soft, miry place.
- (geology) A form of mass wasting in which a coherent mass of loosely consolidated materials or a rock layer moves a short distance down a slope.
- (Scotland) The gross amount; the mass; the lump.
- A measure of the fluidity of freshly mixed concrete, based on how much the concrete formed in a standard slump cone sags when the cone is removed.
- A cobbler-like dessert cooked on a stove.
- (geology, loosely) A crater or depression (an area where the ground slumps) which forms as a result of such wasting. (A large crater is colloquially called a megaslump.)
- a noticeable deterioration in performance or quality
- a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment
verb
- (intransitive) To collapse heavily or helplessly.
- (transitive) To lump; to throw together messily.
- (intransitive) To decline or fall off in activity or performance.
- (intransitive) To slouch or droop.
- To fall or sink suddenly through or in, when walking on a surface, as on thawing snow or ice, a bog, etc.
- (transitive, slang) To cause to collapse; to hit hard; to render unconscious; to kill.
- fall heavily or suddenly; decline markedly
- assume a drooping posture or carriage
- fall in value
- fall or sink heavily
noun
verb
noun
- an involuntary spasm of ineffectual vomiting
- (geology) a horizontal dislocation
- the act of raising something
- the act of lifting something with great effort
- throwing something heavy (with great effort)
- an upward movement (especially a rhythmical rising and falling)
- (rare, only used attributively as in "heave line" or "heave horse") Broken wind in horses.
- (cricket) A forceful shot in which the ball follows a high trajectory
- An effort to vomit; retching.
- An upward motion; a rising; a swell or distention, as of the breast in difficult breathing, of the waves, of the earth in an earthquake, etc.
- (countable) An effort to raise something, such as a weight or one's own body, or to move something heavy.
- (nautical) The measure of extent to which a nautical vessel goes up and down in a short period of time.
- A horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at an intersection with another lode.
verb
- make an unsuccessful effort to vomit; strain to vomit
- lift or elevate
- breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted
- move or cause to move in a specified way, direction, or position
- bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat
- rise and move, as in waves or billows
- utter a sound, as with obvious effort
- throw with great effort
- (intransitive) To make an effort to raise, throw, or move anything; to strain to do something difficult.
- (transitive) To utter with effort.
- (intransitive) To rise and fall.
- (transitive, mining, geology) To displace (a vein, stratum).
- (intransitive) To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound.
- (transitive) To lift with difficulty; to raise with some effort; to lift (a heavy thing).
- (transitive, nautical) To pull up with a rope or cable.
- (ambitransitive, nautical) To move in a certain direction or into a certain position or situation.
- (transitive) To throw, cast.
- (intransitive) To retch, to make an effort to vomit; to vomit.
noun
verb
- make an unsuccessful effort to vomit; strain to vomit
- eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth
- (transitive, intransitive, loosely) To vomit; to make or experience a successful effort to vomit.
- (dialectal) Alternative form of reach.
- (transitive, intransitive) To make or experience an unsuccessful effort to vomit; to strain or spasm, as if to vomit; to gag or nearly vomit.
noun
- An emaciated person.
- The covering, or outside part, of a nut.
- (architecture) Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in, as the shell of a house.
- The hard calcareous covering of a bird egg.
- A garment, usually worn by women, such as a shirt, blouse, or top, with short sleeves or no sleeves, that often fastens in the rear.
- (nautical, rigging) The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve.
- (nautical) The watertight outer covering of the hull of a vessel, often made with planking or metal plating.
- A concave rough cast-iron tool in which a convex lens is ground to shape.
- (figuratively) The empty outward form of someone or something.
- (music) A string instrument, as a lyre, whose acoustical chamber is formed like a shell.
- In formal debating, a set of proposed rules to be followed, with set penalties for violating them.
- A psychological barrier to social interaction.
- (figuratively) The outward form independent of what is inside.
- (British, education) One or more school grades within secondary education, at certain public schools.
- The thin coating of copper on an electrotype.
- (chemistry) A set of atomic orbitals that have the same principal quantum number.
- (music) The body of a drum; the often wooden, often cylindrical acoustic chamber, with or without rims added for tuning and for attaching the drum head.
- One of the outer layers of skin of an onion.
- An engraved copper roller used in print works.
- The calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates.
- The conjoined scutes that constitute the "shell" (carapace) of a tortoise or turtle.
- (UK, slang) A person's ear.
- (geology) The accreted mineral formed around a hollow geode.
- (nautical) A light boat whose frame is covered with thin wood, impermeable fabric, or water-proofed paper; a racing shell or dragon boat.
- (computing) An operating system software user interface, whose primary purpose is to launch other programs and control their interactions; the user's command interpreter. Shell is a way to separate the internal complexity of the implementation of the command from the user. The internals can change while the user experience/interface remains the same.
- (weaponry) A hollow, usually spherical or cylindrical projectile fired from a siege mortar or a smoothbore cannon. It contains an explosive substance designed to be ignited by a fuse or by percussion at the target site so that it will burst and scatter at high velocity its contents and fragments. Formerly called a bomb.
- (business) A legal entity that has no operations.
- (in the plural) Husks of cacao seeds, a decoction of which is sometimes used as a substitute or adulterant for cocoa and its products such as chocolate.
- (by extension) Any mollusk having such a covering.
- (figuratively) A person otherwise diminished.
- The overlapping hard plates comprising the armor covering the armadillo's body.
- (weaponry) The casing of a self-contained single-unit artillery projectile.
- (weaponry) The cartridge of a breechloading firearm; a load; a bullet; a round.
- (phonology) The onset and coda of a syllable.
- A coarse or flimsy coffin; a thin interior coffin enclosed within a more substantial one.
- A pod containing the seeds of certain plants, such as the legume Phaseolus vulgaris.
- An unmarked vehicle for carrying corpses from a crime scene.
- (entomology) The exoskeleton or wing covers of certain insects.
- (engineering) A gouge bit or shell bit.
- a rigid covering that envelops an object
- the hard largely calcareous covering of a mollusc or a brachiopod
- a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)
- the hard usually fibrous outer layer of some fruits especially nuts
- hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles
- the housing or outer covering of something
- the exterior covering of a bird's egg
- a very light narrow racing boat
- ammunition consisting of a cylindrical metal casing containing an explosive charge and a projectile; fired from a large gun
- the material that forms the hard outer covering of many animals
verb
- (topology) To form a shelling.
- To form shallow, irregular cracks (in a coating).
- (computing, intransitive) To switch to a shell or command line.
- (cricket, slang, transitive) To drop (the ball).
- (intransitive) To cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk.
- (intransitive) To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc.
- (informal) To disburse or give up money, to pay. (Often used with out).
- To bombard, to fire projectiles at, especially with artillery.
- To remove the outer covering or shell of something.
- remove from its shell or outer covering
- use explosives on
- create by using explosives
- fall out of the pod or husk
- come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
- look for and collect shells by the seashore
- remove the husks from
- hit the pitches of hard and regularly
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- a condition marked by dizziness and nausea and weakness caused by depletion of body fluids and electrolytes
- An illness caused by overheating and excessive sweating, characterised by nausea, headache, thirst, weakness, and high body temperature; prognosis is good if cooling and hydration are pursued promptly.
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- (transitive) To encircle with, or as if with a belt.
- (intransitive) To jeer.
- (transitive) To bind with a flexible rope or cord.
- (transitive, chiefly reflexive) To prepare (oneself) for an action.
- (nautical, intransitive) (of a vessel towing another) To be pulled on sideways by its towline, putting it at risk of capsizing.
- (transitive) To jeer at.
- bind with something round or circular
- put a girdle on or around
- prepare oneself for a military confrontation
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- excessive accumulation of blood or other fluid in a body part
- excessive crowding
- (medicine) Blocking up of the capillary and other blood vessels, etc., in any locality or organ (often producing other morbid symptoms); local hypermic, active or passive.
- Edema, water retention, swelling, enlargement of a body part because of fluid retention in tissues and vessels.
- (medicine) An excess of mucus or fluid in the respiratory system; congestion of the lungs, or nasal congestion.
- An accumulation or buildup, the act of gathering into a heap or mass.
- An excess of traffic; usually not a complete standstill of traffic, so usually not synonymous with traffic jam.
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- (by extension) Constituting a symptom or indication; characteristic, indicative.
- (medicine) Of a treatment, that only affects the symptoms of a disease without targeting the underlying cause.
- (medicine) Relating to symptomatics.
- (pathology) Showing symptoms.
- relating to or according to or affecting a symptom or symptoms
- characteristic or indicative of a disease
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- become bloated or swollen or puff up
- make bloated or swollen
- (intransitive) To become distended; to swell up.
- (intransitive, veterinary medicine) To get an overdistended rumen, talking of a ruminant.
- To increase to an excessive amount.
- To fill soft substance with gas, water, etc.; to cause to swell.
- To fill with vanity or conceit.
- To cause to become distended.
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- To make sluggish.
- (intransitive, of a bullet) To become reduced in diameter, or changed in shape, by passing from a larger to a smaller part of the bore of the barrel.
- (transitive) To load with a slug or slugs.
- To take part in casual carpooling; to form ad hoc, informal carpools for commuting, essentially a variation of ride-share commuting and hitchhiking.
- To drink quickly; to gulp; to down.
- (transitive) To hit very hard, usually with the fist.
- be idle; exist in a changeless situation
- strike heavily, especially with the fist or a bat
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- A hard blow, usually with the fist.
- A solid block or piece of roughly shaped metal.
- A counterfeit coin, especially one used to steal from vending machines.
- (regional) A stranger picked up as a passenger to enable legal use of high occupancy vehicle lanes.
- (journalism) A title, name or header, a catchline, a short phrase or title to indicate the content of a newspaper or magazine story for editing use.
- (television editing) A black screen used to separate broadcast items.
- (herpetology) An infertile egg of a reptile.
- A motile pseudoplasmodium formed by amoebae working together.
- (web development, SEO) The last part of a clean URL, the displayed resource name, similar to a filename.
- A discrete mass of a material that moves as a unit, usually through another material.
- (US, slang, District of Columbia) A hitchhiking commuter.
- A ship that sails slowly.
- (rail transport) An accessory to a diesel-electric locomotive, used to increase adhesive weight and allow full power to be applied at a lower speed. It has trucks with traction motors, but lacks a prime mover, being powered by electricity from the mother locomotive, and may or may not have a control cab.
- Any of many gastropod mollusks, having no (or only a rudimentary) shell.
- (screenwriting) A block of text at the beginning of a scene that sets up the scene's location, characters, etc.
- A bullet or other projectile fired from a firearm; in modern usage, generally refers to a shotgun slug.
- A shot of a drink, usually alcoholic.
- (physics, rare) The imperial (English) unit of mass that accelerates by 1 foot per second squared (1 ft/s²) when a force of one pound-force (lbf) is exerted on it.
- (letterpress typography) A piece of type metal imprinted by a linotype machine; also a black mark placed in the margin to indicate an error; also said in application to typewriters; type slug.
- any of various terrestrial gastropods having an elongated slimy body and no external shell
- (boxing) a blow with the fist
- a projectile that is fired from a gun
- an amount of an alcoholic drink (usually liquor) that is poured or gulped
- a unit of mass equal to the mass that accelerates at 1 foot/sec/sec when acted upon by a force of 1 pound; approximately 14.5939 kilograms
- a counterfeit coin
- a strip of type metal used for spacing
- an idle slothful person
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- Panting and out of breath.
- Distended, swollen, or inflated.
- (automotive) Given a hot rod blower.
- Under the influence of drugs, especially marijuana.
- Having failed.
- (of glass) Formed by blowing.
- Covered with the eggs and larvae of flies; flyblown.
- being moved or acted upon by moving air or vapor
- breathing laboriously or convulsively
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- Sick; unwell.
- (dialectal) Hard; difficult.
- (informal) Strange; weird; odd.
- Full of spirit; brisk; lively; sprightly; overconfident; opinionated.
- (nautical, of a ship) Liable to capsize because of poorly stowed cargo or insufficient ballast.
- (dialectal) Bent; twisted; crooked; distorted; out of repair.
- (used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail
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- (informal) An amateur in science or other technical subjects who persistently advocates flawed theories.
- A fit of temper or passion.
- (now chiefly dialectal) An ailment, ache.
- (rare) A twist or turn in speech; word play consisting in a change of the form or meaning of a word.
- Clipping of crankshaft.
- A twist or turn of the mind; caprice; whim;
- (US, slang) Synonym of methamphetamine.
- (slang) The penis.
- The act of converting power into motion, by turning a crankshaft.
- (informal) An ill-tempered or nasty person.
- A bent piece of an axle or shaft, or an attached arm perpendicular, or nearly so, to the end of a shaft or wheel, used to impart a rotation to a wheel or other mechanical device; also used to change circular into reciprocating motion, or reciprocating into circular motion.
- a whimsically eccentric person
- a hand tool consisting of a rotating shaft with parallel handle
- a bad-tempered person
- an amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant
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- (intransitive) To be running at a high level of output or effort.
- (transitive) To turn by means of a crank.
- (intransitive, of a crank or similar) To turn.
- (transitive) To cause to spin via other means, as though turned by a crank.
- (intransitive) To act in a cranky manner; to behave unreasonably and irritably, especially through complaining.
- (intransitive) To turn a crank.
- fasten with a crank
- rotate with a crank
- travel along a zigzag path
- bend into the shape of a crank
- start by cranking
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- Having difficulty breathing; gasping.
- That makes one hold one's breath (with excitement etc.).
- Having a somewhat hysterical tone, using over-emotive language.
- Having no wind; still, calm or airless.
- Not breathing; dead or apparently so.
- not breathing or able to breathe except with difficulty
- tending to cause suspension of regular breathing
- appearing dead; not breathing or having no perceptible pulse
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- Nauseated; having an urge to vomit.
- (slang) Extremely bad (bad enough to make one ill). Generally used indirectly with to be.
- (Appalachia) Bad-tempered.
- (slang, chiefly hip-hop) Sublime, with the connotation of being so in a singularly creative way.
- Unpropitious, unkind, faulty, not up to reasonable standard.
- Indicative of unkind or malevolent intentions; harsh, cruel.
- Unwell in terms of health or physical condition; sick.
- resulting in suffering or adversity
- distressing
- presaging ill fortune
- affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function
- indicating hostility or enmity
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- Sluggish; slow-moving.
- Showing a lack of effort or care.
- Droopy.
- (computing theory) Employing lazy evaluation; not calculating results until they are immediately required.
- Unwilling to do work or make an effort; disinclined to exertion.
- (optometry) Of an eye, squinting because of a weakness of the eye muscles.
- Causing or characterised by idleness; relaxed or leisurely.
- (of a cattle brand) Turned so that (the letter) is horizontal instead of vertical.
- moving slowly and gently
- disinclined to work or exertion
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- Stagnant; not moving or flowing.
- Performed from an erect position.
- Erect, not cut down.
- Remaining in force or status.
- Not transitory; not liable to fade or vanish; lasting.
- Not movable; fixed.
- executed in or initiated from a standing position
- permanent
- (of fluids) not moving or flowing
- having a supporting base
- (of persons) on the feet; having the torso in an erect position supported by straight legs
- not created for a particular occasion
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- (law) The right of a party to bring a legal action, based on the relationship between that party and the matter to which the action relates.
- The act of a person who stands, or a place where someone stands.
- (sports) The position of a team in a league or of a player in a list.
- Duration.
- (figurative) Position or reputation in society or a profession.
- (British) Room in which to park a vehicle or vehicles
- an ordered listing of scores or results showing the relative positions of competitors (individuals or teams) in a sporting event
- the act of assuming or maintaining an erect upright position
- social or financial or professional status or reputation
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- Showing signs of stress or strain; not relaxed.
- Pulled taut, without any slack.
- (phonetics, of a vowel) Produced with relative constriction of the vocal tract.
- Characterized by strain (on the nerves, emotions, etc). (Compare charged.)
- taut or rigid; stretched tight
- in or of a state of physical or nervous tension
- pronounced with relatively tense tongue muscles (e.g., the vowel sound in ‘beat’)
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- (linguistics, uncountable) The property of indicating the point in time at which an action or state of being occurs or exists.
- (grammar, countable, proscribed) A verb form or construction indicating a combination of tense, aspect, and mood.
- (grammar, countable, proscribed) A grammatical aspect.
- (linguistics, grammar, countable) An inflected form of a verb that indicates tense.
- a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time
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- irritable as if suffering from indigestion
- suffering from or suggesting a liver disorder or gastric distress
- relating to or containing bile
- Peevishly ill-humored, irritable or bad tempered; irascible.
- (pathology) Suffering from real or supposed liver disorder, especially excessive secretions of bile.
- Resembling bile, especially in color.
- Of or pertaining to something containing or consisting of bile.