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verb
noun
- an electrical switch operated by pressing
- a specific area or icon in graphical user interface systems that is clicked or pressed in order to select a command or perform an action
- any of various plant parts that resemble buttons
- a female sexual organ homologous to the penis
- a device that when pressed will release part of a mechanism
- any artifact that resembles a button
- a round flat badge displaying information and suitable for pinning onto a garment
- a round fastener sewn to shirts and coats etc. to fit through buttonholes
- A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, such as a door.
- (aviation) The end of a runway.
- (glassblowing) The oblate spheroidal mass of glass attaching a stem to either its bowl or foot.
- A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass.
- A mechanical device designed to be pressed with a finger in order to open or close an electric circuit or to activate a mechanism.
- (generally with the) The means for initiating a nuclear strike or similar cataclysmic occurrence.
- (lutherie, bowmaking) Synonym of adjuster.
- (poker) The player who is last to act after the flop, turn and river, who possesses the button.
- (curling) The center (bullseye) of the house.
- (comedy) The final joke at the end of a comedic act (such as a sketch, set, or scene).
- The head of an unexpanded mushroom.
- A small white blotch on a cat's coat.
- (lutherie) In an instrument of the violin family, the near-semicircular shape extending from the top of the back plate of the instrument, meeting the heel of the neck.
- (slang) A button man; a professional assassin.
- A globule of metal remaining on an assay cupel or in a crucible, after fusion.
- (botany) A bud.
- (graphical user interface) An on-screen control that can be selected as an activator of an attached function.
- (television) The punchy or suspenseful line of dialogue that concludes a scene.
- (poker) A plastic disk used to represent the person in last position in a poker game; also dealer's button.
- (US) A badge worn on clothes, fixed with a pin through the fabric.
- (fencing) The soft circular tip at the end of a foil.
- (South Africa, slang) A methaqualone tablet (used as a recreational drug).
- (zoology) Pedicle; the attachment point for antlers in cervids.
- The least amount of care or interest; a whit or jot.
- (lutherie) Synonym of endbutton, part of a violin-family instrument.
- A raised pavement marker to further indicate the presence of a pavement-marking painted stripe.
- The calyx of an orange.
- (slang) The clitoris.
- The final segment of a rattlesnake's rattle.
- (clothing) A knob or disc that is passed through a loop or (buttonhole), serving as a fastener.
verb
- (transitive) To fasten with a button or buttons.
- (US, military, slang, transitive, ergative) To seal off (a military vehicle or facility).
- (ambitransitive) To conclude; to finalize; to put the finishing touches (on).
- (intransitive) To fasten all the buttons on a coat, or similar item of clothing, to keep warm.
- Alternative form of button up one's lip.
- refuse to talk or stop talking; fall silent
verb
noun
- spring-loaded doorlock that can only be opened from the outside with a key
- catch for fastening a door or gate; a bar that can be lowered or slid into a groove
- (databases) A lightweight lock to protect internal structures from being modified by multiple concurrent accesses.
- (electronics) An electronic circuit that is like a flip-flop, except that it is level triggered instead of edge triggered.
- A fastening for a door that has a bar that fits into a notch or slot, and is lifted by a lever or string from either side.
- A breastfeeding baby's connection to the breast.
noun
- The study of buttons (clothing fasteners and badges).
- (informal) The basic training required to start using a machine or piece of software: what the components of the interface are, what they do, and how to accomplish basic tasks.
- (US, military, slang) User interface
- (derogatory) An exaggerated and pointlessly pedantic systematization, especially of something trivial.
noun
adj
noun
- a hook for pulling a button through a buttonhole
- (sewing) A hook used to pull thread through the holes of a button.
- (American football) A play in which the receiver runs straight downfield, then turns back toward the line of scrimmage.
- (now chiefly historical) A hook for pulling the buttons of gloves and shoes through the buttonholes.
verb
noun
- A button which may be attached to clothing without resorting to needle and thread.
- (usually in the plural) The plant Ranunculus aconitifolius.
- (usually in the plural) feverfew, Tanacetum parthenium.
- (usually in the plural) Any one of a number of plants with daisy-like, button-shaped flowers of the genus Centaurea, especially the species Centaurea cyanus.
- an annual Eurasian plant cultivated in North America having showy heads of blue or purple or pink or white flowers
- tropical American herb having rose to red or purple flowers that can be dried without losing color
noun
verb
- (figurative) To go back or think back to a previous moment or place, or a previous point in a discourse.
- (transitive, intransitive) To wind (something) back, now especially of a cassette or a video tape, CD, DVD etc.; to go back on a video or audio recording.
- (transitive, intransitive) To wind (something) again.
- wind (up) again
verb
- attach or fasten with pins
- to hold fast or prevent from moving
- (chess) immobilize a piece
- pierce with a pin
- To enclose; to confine; to pen; to pound.
- (graphical user interface, transitive) To attach (an icon, application, message etc.) to another item so that it persists.
- (programming, transitive) To fix (an array in memory, a security certificate, etc.) so that it cannot be modified.
- (often followed by a preposition such as "to" or "on") To fasten or attach (something) with a pin.
- (backgammon) To move a piece onto a blot, preventing the piece from further movement.
- (wrestling) To pin down (someone).
- (bodybuilding, slang, ambitransitive) To inject for performance enhancement.
- (transitive) To cause an analog gauge to reach the stop pin at the high end of the range.
- (chess, usually passive voice) To cause (a piece) to be in a pin.
- Alternative form of peen.
noun
- a club-shaped wooden object used in bowling; set up in triangular groups of ten as the target
- a holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing
- when a wrestler's shoulders are forced to the mat
- flagpole used to mark the position of the hole on a golf green
- a piece of jewelry that is pinned onto the wearer's garment
- cylindrical tumblers consisting of two parts that are held in place by springs; when they are aligned with a key the bolt can be thrown
- axis consisting of a short shaft that supports something that turns
- a small slender (often pointed) piece of wood or metal used to support or fasten or attach things
- small markers inserted into a surface to mark scores or define locations etc.
- informal terms for the leg
- (engineering) A short shaft, sometimes forming a bolt, a part of which serves as a journal.
- (golf) The flagstick: the flag-bearing pole which marks the location of a hole
- A thing of small value; a trifle.
- (informal) A pinball machine.
- (wrestling, professional wrestling) The victory condition of holding the opponent's shoulders on the wrestling mat for a prescribed period of time.
- One of a row of pegs in the side of an ancient drinking cup to mark how much each person should drink.
- A cataract of the eye.
- A peg in musical instruments for increasing or relaxing the tension of the strings.
- A cylinder often of wood or metal used to fasten or as a bearing between two parts.
- (informal, in the plural) A leg.
- (bodybuilding, slang) An injection of PEDs.
- (electricity) Any of the individual connecting elements of a multipole electrical connector.
- A slender object specially designed for use in a specific game or sport, such as skittles or bowling.
- (curling) The spot at the exact centre of the house (the target area)
- A needle without an eye (usually) made of drawn-out steel wire with one end sharpened and the other flattened or rounded into a head, used for fastening.
- (chess) Either a scenario in which moving a lesser piece to escape from attack would expose a more valuable piece to being taken instead, or one where moving a piece is impossible as it would place the king in check.
- (locksmithing) A small cylindrical object which blocks the rotation of a pin-tumbler lock when the incorrect key is inserted.
- (archery) The spot at the exact centre of the target, originally a literal pin that fastened the target in place.
- (UK, brewing) A size of brewery cask, equal to half a firkin, or eighth of a barrel.
- A piece of jewellery that is attached to clothing with a pin.
- The tenon of a dovetail joint.
- A small nail with a head and a sharp point.
- (US) A simple accessory that can be attached to clothing with a pin or fastener, often round and bearing a design, logo or message, and used for decoration, identification or to show political affiliation, etc.
adj
noun
noun
- An ornate fastener for clothing consisting of an oblong button, toggle, or knot, that fits through a loop.
- (music) The part of a violin bow (or that of other similar string instruments such as the viola, cello and contrabass) located at the end held by the player, to which the horsehair is attached.
- The depression in the upper face of a pressed or handmade clay brick.
- (Canada, offensive) A French-speaking person from Quebec.
- (rail transport) The part of a railroad overhead wire used to redirect a trolley pole from one wire to another at switches.
- (derogatory, ethnic slur) A French person.
- A device used to secure stems in a floral arrangement, also called a flower frog or kenzan.
- (politics, slang, derogatory, Malaysia) Defector: politician who switches to a different political party.
- (fishing) A type of fishing lure that resembles a frog.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) Synonym of road; clipping of less common frog and toad.
- Any of a class of small tailless amphibians of the order Anura that typically hop.
- (rail transport) The part of a railway switch or turnout where the running rails cross (from the resemblance to the frog in a horse’s hoof).
- An organ on the bottom of a horse’s hoof that assists in the circulation of blood.
- A leather or fabric loop used to attach a sword or bayonet, or its scabbard, to a waist or shoulder belt.
- a decorative loop of braid or cord
- a person of French descent
- any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping; semiaquatic and terrestrial species
verb
- (ambitransitive, slang, mildly vulgar) To have sex with; fuck.
- (intransitive) To lie sprawled out like a frog; sploot.
- To hunt or trap frogs.
- (transitive, biology) To use a pronged plater to transfer (cells) to another plate.
- (ambitransitive) To unravel part of (a knitted garment), either to correct a mistake or to reclaim the thread or yarn.
- (transitive, cooking) To spatchcock (a chicken).
- To ornament or fasten a coat, etc. with frogs.
- hunt frogs for food
noun
verb
adj
- necessary or important, especially regarding food or commodities
- Fit to be sold; marketable.
- Regularly produced or manufactured in large quantities; belonging to wholesale traffic; principal; chief.
- Relating to, or being market of staple for, commodities.
- Established in commerce; occupying the markets; settled.
noun
- a short U-shaped wire nail
- paper fastener consisting of a short length of U-shaped wire that can fasten papers together
- a natural fiber (raw cotton, wool, hemp, flax) that can be twisted to form yarn
- (usually in the plural) a necessary commodity for which demand is constant
- material suitable for manufacture or use or finishing
- A basic or essential supply.
- A wire fastener, made of thin wire, used to secure stacks of paper by penetrating all the sheets and curling around.
- A wire fastener, in any of various sizes, used to secure something else by penetrating and curling.
- One of a set of U-shaped metal rods hammered into a structure, such as a piling or wharf, which serve as a ladder.
- A recurring topic, character, or item.
- A U-shaped wire fastener, made of thick wire, used to attach fence wire or other material to posts or structures.
- Unmanufactured material; raw material.
- a type of two-pronged fastener, usually metal, used for joining, gathering, or binding materials together.
- A small pit.
- (now historical) A town containing merchants who have exclusive right, under royal authority, to purchase or produce certain goods for export; also, the body of such merchants seen as a group.
- (mining) A shaft, smaller and shorter than the principal one, joining different levels.
- (by extension) Place of supply; source.
- The principal commodity produced in a town or region.
- Short fiber, as of cotton, sheep’s wool, or the like, which can be spun into yarn or thread.
- A district granted to an abbey.
noun
- (in particular, fashion) A rod-shaped button bound with slack to the fabric.
- A toggle switch.
- An appliance for transmitting force at right angles to its direction.
- (nautical) A wooden or metal pin, short rod, crosspiece or similar, fixed transversely in the eye of a rope or chain to be secured to any other loop, ring, or bight, e.g. a sea painter to a lifeboat.
- A horizontal piece of wood that is placed on a door, flat, or other wooden structure, but is not on one of the edges of the structure.
- (skydiving) A loop of webbing or a dowel affixed to the end of the steering/brake lines of a parachute providing the pilot with a means of control.
- A fastener that has flaps that align vertically to penetrate a surface and then spread out to secure the fastener in position, e.g. a molly bolt.
- a hinged switch that can assume either of two positions
- any instruction that works first one way and then the other; it turns something on the first time it is used and then turns it off the next time
- a fastener consisting of a peg or pin or crosspiece that is inserted into an eye at the end of a rope or a chain or a cable in order to fasten it to something (as another rope or chain or cable)
verb
noun
- a fastener for locking together two toothed edges by means of a sliding tab
- a quantity of no importance; thing (object:), singular, negative pronoun; pronoun, thing, singular; quantifier: negative existential
- forceful exertion
- The high-pitched sound of a small object moving rapidly through air.
- A trip on a zipline.
- Synonym of zip zap zop
- Ellipsis of zip code.
- (computing, informal) A zip file.
- (slang) Zero; nothing.
- (slang) An ounce of marijuana.
- (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) A zip fastener.
- (informal) Energy; vigor; vim.
- (programming) Synonym of convolution (“type of mapping function”).
verb
- close with a zipper
- move very fast
- (intransitive, colloquial, followed by a preposition) To move in haste (in a specified direction or to a specified place).
- (transitive, figuratively) To close as if with a zip fastener.
- (intransitive, followed by a preposition) To move rapidly (in a specified direction or to a specified place) with a high-pitched sound.
- (transitive, computing) To compress (one or more computer files) into a single and often smaller file, especially one in the ZIP format.
- (transitive) To make (something) move quickly
- (UK politics) To offer a list of alternately male and female candidates in an attempt to address the shortage of women.
- (transitive) To close with a zip fastener.
- To travel on a zipline.
- (transitive, programming) To subject to the convolution mapping function.
intj
noun
- a fastener for locking together two toothed edges by means of a sliding tab
- A pressure-sensitive plastic closure.
- A fastener used in clothing, bags, etc, comprised of two rows of teeth that are made to fit into each other by moving a slider along their length and opened again by moving the slider in the other direction.
noun
- a fastener for locking together two toothed edges by means of a sliding tab
- (slang) A scar on a person's body.
- A pressure-sensitive plastic closure, as on a Ziploc bag.
- (chiefly US, Australia) A zip fastener.
- (biochemistry) A leucine zipper.
- A zipline.
- (programming) A technique for arbitrarily traversing an aggregate data structure and updating its contents. See zipper (data structure).
- (BDSM) A string of clothes pegs or clips attached to the body and then quickly pulled off.
verb
verb
- (transitive) To pin; fasten.
- (transitive) To flatter.
- (transitive) To trim up, as trees.
- (of people, intransitive, reflexive) To spend time making oneself attractive and admiring one's appearance, e.g. in front of a mirror.
- (intransitive) To show off, posture, or smarm.
- (transitive, more generally) To improve the appearance of; groom; prettify.
- (of birds, ambitransitive) To groom; to trim or dress the feathers with the beak.
- (transitive) To comb; to make orderly.
- dress or groom with elaborate care
- pride or congratulate (oneself) for an achievement
- clean with one's bill
noun
verb
- (transitive) To fasten using a peg.
- (transitive, slang) To indicate or ascribe an attribute to.
- (slang, transitive) To engage in anal sex by penetrating with a strap-on dildo.
- (transitive) To fix a value or price.
- (transitive) To narrow the cuff openings of a pair of pants so that the legs take on a peg shape.
- (intransitive) To keep working hard at something; to peg away.
- (transitive, slang) To reach or exceed the maximum value on (a scale or gauge).
- (cribbage) To move one's pegs to indicate points scored; to score with a peg.
- (transitive, slang) To throw.
- (transitive) To affix or pin.
- (transitive, kickball) To throw a ball at (someone), to hit (someone) with a ball.
- succeed in obtaining a position
- fasten or secure with a wooden pin
- stabilize (the price of a commodity or an exchange rate) by legislation or market operations
- pierce with a wooden pin or knock or thrust a wooden pin into
noun
- (figurative) A support; a reason; a pretext.
- Ellipsis of clothes peg.
- A protrusion used to hang things on.
- (journalism) A topic of interest, such as an ongoing event or an anniversary, around which various features can be developed.
- A cylindrical wooden or metal object used to fasten or as a bearing between objects.
- (psychology) An easily recalled image that a person mentally visualizes with something else, in order to remember that other thing. See mnemonic peg system.
- (UK) A small quantity of a strong alcoholic beverage.
- A step; a degree.
- A place formally allotted for fishing
- (cribbage) A peg moved on a crib board to keep score.
- (finance) A fixed exchange rate, where a currency's value is matched to the value of another currency or measure such as gold.
- (slang) The penetration during anal sex using a strap-on dildo.
- (India) A serving of any hard spirit, particularly whisky.
- (cricket, slang) A stump.
- One of the pins of a musical instrument, on which the strings are strained.
- a prosthesis that replaces a missing leg
- a holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing
- regulator that can be turned to regulate the pitch of the strings of a stringed instrument
- small markers inserted into a surface to mark scores or define locations etc.
- informal terms for the leg
- a wooden pin pushed or driven into a surface
noun
- A loop forming an eye to a button.
- (ornithology, colloquial) A redshank or greenshank, various species of Old World wading birds in the genus Tringa having distinctly colored legs.
- The center part of a fishhook between the eye and the hook, the 'hook' being the curved part that bends toward the point.
- The metal part on a curb bit that falls below the mouthpiece, which length controls the severity of the leverage action of the bit, and to which the reins of the bridle are attached.
- (shoemaking) A metal strip strengthening the waists of shoes. (Also shankpiece.)
- A protruding part of an object, by which it is or can be attached.
- Flat-nosed pliers, used by opticians for nipping off the edges of pieces of glass to make them round.
- (golf) A poorly played golf shot in which the ball is struck by the part of the club head that connects to the shaft.
- (architecture) The space between two channels of the Doric triglyph.
- (slang) An improvised stabbing weapon, originally in prison, possibly from the strips of metal in shoes.
- The part of the leg between the knee and the ankle.
- Meat from that part of an animal.
- The main part or beginning of a period of time.
- The end or remainder, particularly of a period of time.
- (metalworking) A large ladle for molten metal, fitted with long bars for handling it.
- A straight, narrow part of an object, such as a key or an anchor; shaft; stem.
- The handle of a pair of shears, connecting the ride to the neck.
- (shoemaking) The part of the sole beneath the instep connecting the broader front part with the heel.
- the part of the human leg between the knee and the ankle
- cylinder forming the part of a bit by which it is held in the drill
- a poor golf stroke in which the heel of the club hits the ball
- a cut of meat (beef or veal or mutton or lamb) from the upper part of the leg
- the narrow part of the shoe connecting the heel and the wide part of the sole
- cylinder forming the part of a bolt between the thread and the head
- cylinder forming a long narrow part of something
- lower part of the leg extending from the hock to the fetlock in hoofed mammals
adj
verb
- (transitive, sewing) To provide (a button) with a shank (loop forming an eye).
- (shoemaking) To apply the shank to a shoe, during the process of manufacturing it.
- (slang) To remove another's trousers, especially in jest; to depants.
- (slang) To stab, especially with an improvised blade.
- (intransitive) To fall off, as a leaf, flower, or capsule, on account of disease affecting the supporting footstalk; usually followed by off.
- (transitive, chiefly tennis, soccer, gridiron football) To hit or kick the ball in an unintended direction.
- (transitive, golf) To misstrike the ball with the part of the club head that connects to the shaft.
- hit (a golf ball) with the heel of a club, causing the ball to veer in the wrong direction
verb
- fasten with a lock
- (transitive) To fasten with a lock.
- build locks in order to facilitate the navigation of vessels
- become engaged or intermeshed with one another
- pass by means through a lock in a waterway
- become rigid or immoveable
- keep engaged
- place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape
- hold fast (in a certain state)
- hold in a locking position
- (intransitive, break dancing) To freeze one's body or a part thereof in place.
- To seize (e.g. the sword arm of an antagonist) by turning one's left arm around it, to disarm them.
- (transitive) To intertwine or dovetail.
- (intransitive, rugby) To play in the position of lock.
- (Internet, wiki jargon, transitive) To prevent a page from being edited by other users.
- (Internet, transitive) To modify (a thread) so that users cannot make new posts in it.
- (intransitive) To be capable of becoming fastened in place.
- To raise or lower (a boat) in a lock.
- To furnish (a canal) with locks.
- (intransitive) To become fastened in place.
noun
- any wrestling hold in which some part of the opponent's body is twisted or pressured
- a strand or cluster of hair
- a mechanism that detonates the charge of a gun
- a fastener fitted to a door or drawer to keep it firmly closed
- enclosure consisting of a section of canal that can be closed to control the water level; used to raise or lower vessels that pass through it
- a restraint incorporated into the ignition switch to prevent the use of a vehicle by persons who do not have the key
- (firearms) The firing mechanism.
- Something used for fastening, which can only be opened with a key or combination.
- A segment of a canal or other navigable waterway enclosed by gates, used for raising and lowering boats between levels.
- (computing, by extension) A mutex or other token restricting access to a resource.
- A device for keeping a wheel from turning.
- Something sure to be a success.
- A small quantity of straw etc.
- A tuft or length of hair, wool, etc.
- A place impossible to get out of, as by a lock.
- (Scots law, historical) A quantity of meal, the perquisite of a mill-servant.
- Complete control over a situation.
- A fastening together or interlacing; a closing of one thing upon another; a state of being fixed or immovable.
- A grapple in wrestling.
- (rugby) A player in the scrum behind the front row, usually the tallest members of the team.
- (gambling) Synonym of Dutch book.
verb
noun
- A small flexible electrical conductor composed of wires insulated separately or in bundles and assembled together usually with an outer cover; the electrical cord of a lamp, sweeper ((US) vacuum cleaner), or other appliance.
- Misspelling of chord, a cross-section measurement of an aircraft wing.
- A unit of measurement for firewood, equal to 128 cubic feet (4 × 4 × 8 feet), composed of logs and/or split logs four feet long and none over eight inches diameter. It is usually seen as a stack four feet high by eight feet long.
- (figuratively) Any influence by which persons are caught, held, or drawn, as if by a cord.
- (uncountable) Any quantity of such material when viewed as a mass or commodity.
- (anatomy) Any structure having the appearance of a cord, especially a tendon or nerve.
- (countable) A long, thin, flexible length of twisted yarns (strands) of fibre (a rope, for example).
- a unit of amount of wood cut for burning; 128 cubic feet
- a light insulated conductor for household use
- a cut pile fabric with vertical ribs; usually made of cotton
- a line made of twisted fibers or threads
noun
- Either of a pair of interlocking discs commonly used in place of buttons to fasten clothing, a snap fastener.
- A stuffed and usually breaded jalapeño.
- One who or that which pops.
- (informal, uncountable) Amyl nitrate.
- (Australia) Synonym of juice box.
- A short piece of twisted string tied to the end of a whip that creates the distinctive sound when the whip is thrown or cracked.
- (informal, countable) A capsule of amyl nitrite, a recreational drug used during sex.
- (fishing) A floating lure designed to splash when the fishing line is twitched.
- A device that pops kernels of corn to produce popcorn.
- A looner (balloon fetishist) who prefers to burst balloons.
- a container for cooking popcorn
- a container of stimulant drug (amyl nitrite or butyl nitrite)
verb
- To fasten with a clip.
- (slang) To collect signatures, generally with the use of a clipboard.
- (computer graphics, video games, ambitransitive) To move (through or into) (a rendered object or barrier).
- (slang, transitive) To cheat, swindle, or fleece.
- To curtail; to cut short.
- (dialectal, informal) To strike with the hand.
- To cut, especially with scissors or shears as opposed to a knife etc.
- (slang, transitive) to grab or take stealthily.
- (computer graphics) To discard (an occluded part of a model or scene) rather than waste resources on rendering it.
- To make a clip; to cut a section of video from a film, broadcast, or other longer video.
- To grip tightly.
- (signal processing) To cut off a signal level at a certain maximum value.
- (surgery, transitive) To treat (an aneurysm) by closing it off with a physical clip.
- To hit or strike, especially in passing.
- (slang) To assassinate; to bump off.
- (American football) To perform an illegal tackle, throwing the body across the back of an opponent's leg or hitting him from the back below the waist while moving up from behind unless the opponent is a runner or the action is in close line play.
- run at a moderately swift pace
- cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
- sever or remove by pinching or snipping
- terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent
- attach with a clip
noun
- A short piece of audio (shortened version of audio clip, or alternatively clipping of audio).
- (military, colloquial) A removable magazine of a firearm.
- Something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.
- A newspaper clipping.
- (uncountable, Geordie) The condition of something, its state.
- (military) A frame containing a number of rounds of ammunition which is intended to be inserted into an internal magazine of a firearm to allow for rapid reloading.
- Something which has been clipped from a larger whole:
- The product of a single shearing of sheep.
- An act of clipping, such as a haircut.
- A section of video taken from a film, broadcast, or other longer video.
- A projecting flange on the upper edge of a horseshoe, turned up so as to embrace the lower part of the hoof; a toe clip or beak.
- (fishing, UK, Scotland) A gaff or hook for landing the fish, as in salmon fishing.
- An unspecified, but normally understood as rapid, speed or pace.
- A season's crop of wool.
- (informal) A blow with the hand (often in the set phrase clip round the ear)
- a sharp slanting blow
- an article of jewelry that can be clipped onto a hat or dress
- a metal frame or container holding cartridges; can be inserted into an automatic gun
- the act of clipping or snipping
- an instance or single occasion for some event
- any of various small fasteners used to hold loose articles together
noun
adj
verb
verb
- fasten with a crank
- rotate with a crank
- travel along a zigzag path
- bend into the shape of a crank
- start by cranking
- (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.
adj
- (used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail
- (dialectal) Hard; difficult.
- Sick; unwell.
- (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.
noun
- 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
- (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.
verb
- fasten with a buckle or buckles
- fold or collapse
- bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat
- To apply oneself to or prepare for a task or work.
- (figurative) Of a person: to (suddenly) cease resisting pressure or stress; to give in or give way, to yield.
- (obsolete except British, dialectal) To participate in some contest or labour; to join in close fight; to contend.
- (British, dialectal (especially Scotland) or humorous) To unite with someone in marriage; to marry.
- (British, dialectal (especially Scotland) or humorous) To unite (people) in marriage; to marry.
- To fasten (something) using a buckle (noun etymology 1 sense 1); hence (obsolete), to fasten (something) in any way.
- To cause (something) to bend, or to become distorted.
- Of a thing (especially a slender structure under compression): to collapse or distort under physical pressure.
- (reflexive) To apply (oneself) to, or prepare (oneself) for, a task or work; also (obsolete), to equip (oneself) for a battle, expedition, etc.
noun
- a shape distorted by twisting or folding
- fastener that fastens together two ends of a belt or strap; often has loose prong
- A metal clasp with a hinged tongue or a spike through which a belt or strap is passed and penetrated by the tongue or spike, in order to fasten the ends of the belt together or to secure the strap to something else.
- (Canada, heraldry) An image of a clasp (etymology 1 sense 1) used as the brisure of an eighth daughter.
- (by extension) Some other form of clasp used to fasten two things together.
- (countable) A distortion; a bend, bulge, or kink.
- (countable, Canada, US, baking) Usually preceded by a descriptive word: a cake baked with fresh fruit (often blueberries) and a streusel topping.
- A great conflict or struggle.
- (roofing) An upward, elongated displacement of a roof membrane, frequently occurring over deck joints or insulation, which may indicate movement of the roof assembly.
noun
- The study of buttons (clothing fasteners and badges).
- (informal) The basic training required to start using a machine or piece of software: what the components of the interface are, what they do, and how to accomplish basic tasks.
- (US, military, slang) User interface
- (derogatory) An exaggerated and pointlessly pedantic systematization, especially of something trivial.
noun
adj
noun
- a hook for pulling a button through a buttonhole
- (sewing) A hook used to pull thread through the holes of a button.
- (American football) A play in which the receiver runs straight downfield, then turns back toward the line of scrimmage.
- (now chiefly historical) A hook for pulling the buttons of gloves and shoes through the buttonholes.
verb
noun
- A button which may be attached to clothing without resorting to needle and thread.
- (usually in the plural) The plant Ranunculus aconitifolius.
- (usually in the plural) feverfew, Tanacetum parthenium.
- (usually in the plural) Any one of a number of plants with daisy-like, button-shaped flowers of the genus Centaurea, especially the species Centaurea cyanus.
- an annual Eurasian plant cultivated in North America having showy heads of blue or purple or pink or white flowers
- tropical American herb having rose to red or purple flowers that can be dried without losing color
noun
verb
- (figurative) To go back or think back to a previous moment or place, or a previous point in a discourse.
- (transitive, intransitive) To wind (something) back, now especially of a cassette or a video tape, CD, DVD etc.; to go back on a video or audio recording.
- (transitive, intransitive) To wind (something) again.
- wind (up) again
noun
- An ornate fastener for clothing consisting of an oblong button, toggle, or knot, that fits through a loop.
- (music) The part of a violin bow (or that of other similar string instruments such as the viola, cello and contrabass) located at the end held by the player, to which the horsehair is attached.
- The depression in the upper face of a pressed or handmade clay brick.
- (Canada, offensive) A French-speaking person from Quebec.
- (rail transport) The part of a railroad overhead wire used to redirect a trolley pole from one wire to another at switches.
- (derogatory, ethnic slur) A French person.
- A device used to secure stems in a floral arrangement, also called a flower frog or kenzan.
- (politics, slang, derogatory, Malaysia) Defector: politician who switches to a different political party.
- (fishing) A type of fishing lure that resembles a frog.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) Synonym of road; clipping of less common frog and toad.
- Any of a class of small tailless amphibians of the order Anura that typically hop.
- (rail transport) The part of a railway switch or turnout where the running rails cross (from the resemblance to the frog in a horse’s hoof).
- An organ on the bottom of a horse’s hoof that assists in the circulation of blood.
- A leather or fabric loop used to attach a sword or bayonet, or its scabbard, to a waist or shoulder belt.
- a decorative loop of braid or cord
- a person of French descent
- any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping; semiaquatic and terrestrial species
verb
- (ambitransitive, slang, mildly vulgar) To have sex with; fuck.
- (intransitive) To lie sprawled out like a frog; sploot.
- To hunt or trap frogs.
- (transitive, biology) To use a pronged plater to transfer (cells) to another plate.
- (ambitransitive) To unravel part of (a knitted garment), either to correct a mistake or to reclaim the thread or yarn.
- (transitive, cooking) To spatchcock (a chicken).
- To ornament or fasten a coat, etc. with frogs.
- hunt frogs for food
noun
noun
- (in particular, fashion) A rod-shaped button bound with slack to the fabric.
- A toggle switch.
- An appliance for transmitting force at right angles to its direction.
- (nautical) A wooden or metal pin, short rod, crosspiece or similar, fixed transversely in the eye of a rope or chain to be secured to any other loop, ring, or bight, e.g. a sea painter to a lifeboat.
- A horizontal piece of wood that is placed on a door, flat, or other wooden structure, but is not on one of the edges of the structure.
- (skydiving) A loop of webbing or a dowel affixed to the end of the steering/brake lines of a parachute providing the pilot with a means of control.
- A fastener that has flaps that align vertically to penetrate a surface and then spread out to secure the fastener in position, e.g. a molly bolt.
- a hinged switch that can assume either of two positions
- any instruction that works first one way and then the other; it turns something on the first time it is used and then turns it off the next time
- a fastener consisting of a peg or pin or crosspiece that is inserted into an eye at the end of a rope or a chain or a cable in order to fasten it to something (as another rope or chain or cable)
verb
noun
- a fastener for locking together two toothed edges by means of a sliding tab
- a quantity of no importance; thing (object:), singular, negative pronoun; pronoun, thing, singular; quantifier: negative existential
- forceful exertion
- The high-pitched sound of a small object moving rapidly through air.
- A trip on a zipline.
- Synonym of zip zap zop
- Ellipsis of zip code.
- (computing, informal) A zip file.
- (slang) Zero; nothing.
- (slang) An ounce of marijuana.
- (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) A zip fastener.
- (informal) Energy; vigor; vim.
- (programming) Synonym of convolution (“type of mapping function”).
verb
- close with a zipper
- move very fast
- (intransitive, colloquial, followed by a preposition) To move in haste (in a specified direction or to a specified place).
- (transitive, figuratively) To close as if with a zip fastener.
- (intransitive, followed by a preposition) To move rapidly (in a specified direction or to a specified place) with a high-pitched sound.
- (transitive, computing) To compress (one or more computer files) into a single and often smaller file, especially one in the ZIP format.
- (transitive) To make (something) move quickly
- (UK politics) To offer a list of alternately male and female candidates in an attempt to address the shortage of women.
- (transitive) To close with a zip fastener.
- To travel on a zipline.
- (transitive, programming) To subject to the convolution mapping function.
intj
noun
- a fastener for locking together two toothed edges by means of a sliding tab
- A pressure-sensitive plastic closure.
- A fastener used in clothing, bags, etc, comprised of two rows of teeth that are made to fit into each other by moving a slider along their length and opened again by moving the slider in the other direction.
noun
- a fastener for locking together two toothed edges by means of a sliding tab
- (slang) A scar on a person's body.
- A pressure-sensitive plastic closure, as on a Ziploc bag.
- (chiefly US, Australia) A zip fastener.
- (biochemistry) A leucine zipper.
- A zipline.
- (programming) A technique for arbitrarily traversing an aggregate data structure and updating its contents. See zipper (data structure).
- (BDSM) A string of clothes pegs or clips attached to the body and then quickly pulled off.
verb
noun
- A loop forming an eye to a button.
- (ornithology, colloquial) A redshank or greenshank, various species of Old World wading birds in the genus Tringa having distinctly colored legs.
- The center part of a fishhook between the eye and the hook, the 'hook' being the curved part that bends toward the point.
- The metal part on a curb bit that falls below the mouthpiece, which length controls the severity of the leverage action of the bit, and to which the reins of the bridle are attached.
- (shoemaking) A metal strip strengthening the waists of shoes. (Also shankpiece.)
- A protruding part of an object, by which it is or can be attached.
- Flat-nosed pliers, used by opticians for nipping off the edges of pieces of glass to make them round.
- (golf) A poorly played golf shot in which the ball is struck by the part of the club head that connects to the shaft.
- (architecture) The space between two channels of the Doric triglyph.
- (slang) An improvised stabbing weapon, originally in prison, possibly from the strips of metal in shoes.
- The part of the leg between the knee and the ankle.
- Meat from that part of an animal.
- The main part or beginning of a period of time.
- The end or remainder, particularly of a period of time.
- (metalworking) A large ladle for molten metal, fitted with long bars for handling it.
- A straight, narrow part of an object, such as a key or an anchor; shaft; stem.
- The handle of a pair of shears, connecting the ride to the neck.
- (shoemaking) The part of the sole beneath the instep connecting the broader front part with the heel.
- the part of the human leg between the knee and the ankle
- cylinder forming the part of a bit by which it is held in the drill
- a poor golf stroke in which the heel of the club hits the ball
- a cut of meat (beef or veal or mutton or lamb) from the upper part of the leg
- the narrow part of the shoe connecting the heel and the wide part of the sole
- cylinder forming the part of a bolt between the thread and the head
- cylinder forming a long narrow part of something
- lower part of the leg extending from the hock to the fetlock in hoofed mammals
adj
verb
- (transitive, sewing) To provide (a button) with a shank (loop forming an eye).
- (shoemaking) To apply the shank to a shoe, during the process of manufacturing it.
- (slang) To remove another's trousers, especially in jest; to depants.
- (slang) To stab, especially with an improvised blade.
- (intransitive) To fall off, as a leaf, flower, or capsule, on account of disease affecting the supporting footstalk; usually followed by off.
- (transitive, chiefly tennis, soccer, gridiron football) To hit or kick the ball in an unintended direction.
- (transitive, golf) To misstrike the ball with the part of the club head that connects to the shaft.
- hit (a golf ball) with the heel of a club, causing the ball to veer in the wrong direction
noun
- Either of a pair of interlocking discs commonly used in place of buttons to fasten clothing, a snap fastener.
- A stuffed and usually breaded jalapeño.
- One who or that which pops.
- (informal, uncountable) Amyl nitrate.
- (Australia) Synonym of juice box.
- A short piece of twisted string tied to the end of a whip that creates the distinctive sound when the whip is thrown or cracked.
- (informal, countable) A capsule of amyl nitrite, a recreational drug used during sex.
- (fishing) A floating lure designed to splash when the fishing line is twitched.
- A device that pops kernels of corn to produce popcorn.
- A looner (balloon fetishist) who prefers to burst balloons.
- a container for cooking popcorn
- a container of stimulant drug (amyl nitrite or butyl nitrite)
noun
adj
verb
verb
noun
- an electrical switch operated by pressing
- a specific area or icon in graphical user interface systems that is clicked or pressed in order to select a command or perform an action
- any of various plant parts that resemble buttons
- a female sexual organ homologous to the penis
- a device that when pressed will release part of a mechanism
- any artifact that resembles a button
- a round flat badge displaying information and suitable for pinning onto a garment
- a round fastener sewn to shirts and coats etc. to fit through buttonholes
- A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, such as a door.
- (aviation) The end of a runway.
- (glassblowing) The oblate spheroidal mass of glass attaching a stem to either its bowl or foot.
- A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass.
- A mechanical device designed to be pressed with a finger in order to open or close an electric circuit or to activate a mechanism.
- (generally with the) The means for initiating a nuclear strike or similar cataclysmic occurrence.
- (lutherie, bowmaking) Synonym of adjuster.
- (poker) The player who is last to act after the flop, turn and river, who possesses the button.
- (curling) The center (bullseye) of the house.
- (comedy) The final joke at the end of a comedic act (such as a sketch, set, or scene).
- The head of an unexpanded mushroom.
- A small white blotch on a cat's coat.
- (lutherie) In an instrument of the violin family, the near-semicircular shape extending from the top of the back plate of the instrument, meeting the heel of the neck.
- (slang) A button man; a professional assassin.
- A globule of metal remaining on an assay cupel or in a crucible, after fusion.
- (botany) A bud.
- (graphical user interface) An on-screen control that can be selected as an activator of an attached function.
- (television) The punchy or suspenseful line of dialogue that concludes a scene.
- (poker) A plastic disk used to represent the person in last position in a poker game; also dealer's button.
- (US) A badge worn on clothes, fixed with a pin through the fabric.
- (fencing) The soft circular tip at the end of a foil.
- (South Africa, slang) A methaqualone tablet (used as a recreational drug).
- (zoology) Pedicle; the attachment point for antlers in cervids.
- The least amount of care or interest; a whit or jot.
- (lutherie) Synonym of endbutton, part of a violin-family instrument.
- A raised pavement marker to further indicate the presence of a pavement-marking painted stripe.
- The calyx of an orange.
- (slang) The clitoris.
- The final segment of a rattlesnake's rattle.
- (clothing) A knob or disc that is passed through a loop or (buttonhole), serving as a fastener.
verb
- (transitive) To fasten with a button or buttons.
- (US, military, slang, transitive, ergative) To seal off (a military vehicle or facility).
- (ambitransitive) To conclude; to finalize; to put the finishing touches (on).
- (intransitive) To fasten all the buttons on a coat, or similar item of clothing, to keep warm.
- Alternative form of button up one's lip.
- refuse to talk or stop talking; fall silent
verb
noun
- spring-loaded doorlock that can only be opened from the outside with a key
- catch for fastening a door or gate; a bar that can be lowered or slid into a groove
- (databases) A lightweight lock to protect internal structures from being modified by multiple concurrent accesses.
- (electronics) An electronic circuit that is like a flip-flop, except that it is level triggered instead of edge triggered.
- A fastening for a door that has a bar that fits into a notch or slot, and is lifted by a lever or string from either side.
- A breastfeeding baby's connection to the breast.
verb
- attach or fasten with pins
- to hold fast or prevent from moving
- (chess) immobilize a piece
- pierce with a pin
- To enclose; to confine; to pen; to pound.
- (graphical user interface, transitive) To attach (an icon, application, message etc.) to another item so that it persists.
- (programming, transitive) To fix (an array in memory, a security certificate, etc.) so that it cannot be modified.
- (often followed by a preposition such as "to" or "on") To fasten or attach (something) with a pin.
- (backgammon) To move a piece onto a blot, preventing the piece from further movement.
- (wrestling) To pin down (someone).
- (bodybuilding, slang, ambitransitive) To inject for performance enhancement.
- (transitive) To cause an analog gauge to reach the stop pin at the high end of the range.
- (chess, usually passive voice) To cause (a piece) to be in a pin.
- Alternative form of peen.
noun
- a club-shaped wooden object used in bowling; set up in triangular groups of ten as the target
- a holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing
- when a wrestler's shoulders are forced to the mat
- flagpole used to mark the position of the hole on a golf green
- a piece of jewelry that is pinned onto the wearer's garment
- cylindrical tumblers consisting of two parts that are held in place by springs; when they are aligned with a key the bolt can be thrown
- axis consisting of a short shaft that supports something that turns
- a small slender (often pointed) piece of wood or metal used to support or fasten or attach things
- small markers inserted into a surface to mark scores or define locations etc.
- informal terms for the leg
- (engineering) A short shaft, sometimes forming a bolt, a part of which serves as a journal.
- (golf) The flagstick: the flag-bearing pole which marks the location of a hole
- A thing of small value; a trifle.
- (informal) A pinball machine.
- (wrestling, professional wrestling) The victory condition of holding the opponent's shoulders on the wrestling mat for a prescribed period of time.
- One of a row of pegs in the side of an ancient drinking cup to mark how much each person should drink.
- A cataract of the eye.
- A peg in musical instruments for increasing or relaxing the tension of the strings.
- A cylinder often of wood or metal used to fasten or as a bearing between two parts.
- (informal, in the plural) A leg.
- (bodybuilding, slang) An injection of PEDs.
- (electricity) Any of the individual connecting elements of a multipole electrical connector.
- A slender object specially designed for use in a specific game or sport, such as skittles or bowling.
- (curling) The spot at the exact centre of the house (the target area)
- A needle without an eye (usually) made of drawn-out steel wire with one end sharpened and the other flattened or rounded into a head, used for fastening.
- (chess) Either a scenario in which moving a lesser piece to escape from attack would expose a more valuable piece to being taken instead, or one where moving a piece is impossible as it would place the king in check.
- (locksmithing) A small cylindrical object which blocks the rotation of a pin-tumbler lock when the incorrect key is inserted.
- (archery) The spot at the exact centre of the target, originally a literal pin that fastened the target in place.
- (UK, brewing) A size of brewery cask, equal to half a firkin, or eighth of a barrel.
- A piece of jewellery that is attached to clothing with a pin.
- The tenon of a dovetail joint.
- A small nail with a head and a sharp point.
- (US) A simple accessory that can be attached to clothing with a pin or fastener, often round and bearing a design, logo or message, and used for decoration, identification or to show political affiliation, etc.
verb
adj
- necessary or important, especially regarding food or commodities
- Fit to be sold; marketable.
- Regularly produced or manufactured in large quantities; belonging to wholesale traffic; principal; chief.
- Relating to, or being market of staple for, commodities.
- Established in commerce; occupying the markets; settled.
noun
- a short U-shaped wire nail
- paper fastener consisting of a short length of U-shaped wire that can fasten papers together
- a natural fiber (raw cotton, wool, hemp, flax) that can be twisted to form yarn
- (usually in the plural) a necessary commodity for which demand is constant
- material suitable for manufacture or use or finishing
- A basic or essential supply.
- A wire fastener, made of thin wire, used to secure stacks of paper by penetrating all the sheets and curling around.
- A wire fastener, in any of various sizes, used to secure something else by penetrating and curling.
- One of a set of U-shaped metal rods hammered into a structure, such as a piling or wharf, which serve as a ladder.
- A recurring topic, character, or item.
- A U-shaped wire fastener, made of thick wire, used to attach fence wire or other material to posts or structures.
- Unmanufactured material; raw material.
- a type of two-pronged fastener, usually metal, used for joining, gathering, or binding materials together.
- A small pit.
- (now historical) A town containing merchants who have exclusive right, under royal authority, to purchase or produce certain goods for export; also, the body of such merchants seen as a group.
- (mining) A shaft, smaller and shorter than the principal one, joining different levels.
- (by extension) Place of supply; source.
- The principal commodity produced in a town or region.
- Short fiber, as of cotton, sheep’s wool, or the like, which can be spun into yarn or thread.
- A district granted to an abbey.
verb
- (transitive) To pin; fasten.
- (transitive) To flatter.
- (transitive) To trim up, as trees.
- (of people, intransitive, reflexive) To spend time making oneself attractive and admiring one's appearance, e.g. in front of a mirror.
- (intransitive) To show off, posture, or smarm.
- (transitive, more generally) To improve the appearance of; groom; prettify.
- (of birds, ambitransitive) To groom; to trim or dress the feathers with the beak.
- (transitive) To comb; to make orderly.
- dress or groom with elaborate care
- pride or congratulate (oneself) for an achievement
- clean with one's bill
noun
verb
- (transitive) To fasten using a peg.
- (transitive, slang) To indicate or ascribe an attribute to.
- (slang, transitive) To engage in anal sex by penetrating with a strap-on dildo.
- (transitive) To fix a value or price.
- (transitive) To narrow the cuff openings of a pair of pants so that the legs take on a peg shape.
- (intransitive) To keep working hard at something; to peg away.
- (transitive, slang) To reach or exceed the maximum value on (a scale or gauge).
- (cribbage) To move one's pegs to indicate points scored; to score with a peg.
- (transitive, slang) To throw.
- (transitive) To affix or pin.
- (transitive, kickball) To throw a ball at (someone), to hit (someone) with a ball.
- succeed in obtaining a position
- fasten or secure with a wooden pin
- stabilize (the price of a commodity or an exchange rate) by legislation or market operations
- pierce with a wooden pin or knock or thrust a wooden pin into
noun
- (figurative) A support; a reason; a pretext.
- Ellipsis of clothes peg.
- A protrusion used to hang things on.
- (journalism) A topic of interest, such as an ongoing event or an anniversary, around which various features can be developed.
- A cylindrical wooden or metal object used to fasten or as a bearing between objects.
- (psychology) An easily recalled image that a person mentally visualizes with something else, in order to remember that other thing. See mnemonic peg system.
- (UK) A small quantity of a strong alcoholic beverage.
- A step; a degree.
- A place formally allotted for fishing
- (cribbage) A peg moved on a crib board to keep score.
- (finance) A fixed exchange rate, where a currency's value is matched to the value of another currency or measure such as gold.
- (slang) The penetration during anal sex using a strap-on dildo.
- (India) A serving of any hard spirit, particularly whisky.
- (cricket, slang) A stump.
- One of the pins of a musical instrument, on which the strings are strained.
- a prosthesis that replaces a missing leg
- a holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing
- regulator that can be turned to regulate the pitch of the strings of a stringed instrument
- small markers inserted into a surface to mark scores or define locations etc.
- informal terms for the leg
- a wooden pin pushed or driven into a surface
verb
- fasten with a lock
- (transitive) To fasten with a lock.
- build locks in order to facilitate the navigation of vessels
- become engaged or intermeshed with one another
- pass by means through a lock in a waterway
- become rigid or immoveable
- keep engaged
- place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape
- hold fast (in a certain state)
- hold in a locking position
- (intransitive, break dancing) To freeze one's body or a part thereof in place.
- To seize (e.g. the sword arm of an antagonist) by turning one's left arm around it, to disarm them.
- (transitive) To intertwine or dovetail.
- (intransitive, rugby) To play in the position of lock.
- (Internet, wiki jargon, transitive) To prevent a page from being edited by other users.
- (Internet, transitive) To modify (a thread) so that users cannot make new posts in it.
- (intransitive) To be capable of becoming fastened in place.
- To raise or lower (a boat) in a lock.
- To furnish (a canal) with locks.
- (intransitive) To become fastened in place.
noun
- any wrestling hold in which some part of the opponent's body is twisted or pressured
- a strand or cluster of hair
- a mechanism that detonates the charge of a gun
- a fastener fitted to a door or drawer to keep it firmly closed
- enclosure consisting of a section of canal that can be closed to control the water level; used to raise or lower vessels that pass through it
- a restraint incorporated into the ignition switch to prevent the use of a vehicle by persons who do not have the key
- (firearms) The firing mechanism.
- Something used for fastening, which can only be opened with a key or combination.
- A segment of a canal or other navigable waterway enclosed by gates, used for raising and lowering boats between levels.
- (computing, by extension) A mutex or other token restricting access to a resource.
- A device for keeping a wheel from turning.
- Something sure to be a success.
- A small quantity of straw etc.
- A tuft or length of hair, wool, etc.
- A place impossible to get out of, as by a lock.
- (Scots law, historical) A quantity of meal, the perquisite of a mill-servant.
- Complete control over a situation.
- A fastening together or interlacing; a closing of one thing upon another; a state of being fixed or immovable.
- A grapple in wrestling.
- (rugby) A player in the scrum behind the front row, usually the tallest members of the team.
- (gambling) Synonym of Dutch book.
verb
noun
- A small flexible electrical conductor composed of wires insulated separately or in bundles and assembled together usually with an outer cover; the electrical cord of a lamp, sweeper ((US) vacuum cleaner), or other appliance.
- Misspelling of chord, a cross-section measurement of an aircraft wing.
- A unit of measurement for firewood, equal to 128 cubic feet (4 × 4 × 8 feet), composed of logs and/or split logs four feet long and none over eight inches diameter. It is usually seen as a stack four feet high by eight feet long.
- (figuratively) Any influence by which persons are caught, held, or drawn, as if by a cord.
- (uncountable) Any quantity of such material when viewed as a mass or commodity.
- (anatomy) Any structure having the appearance of a cord, especially a tendon or nerve.
- (countable) A long, thin, flexible length of twisted yarns (strands) of fibre (a rope, for example).
- a unit of amount of wood cut for burning; 128 cubic feet
- a light insulated conductor for household use
- a cut pile fabric with vertical ribs; usually made of cotton
- a line made of twisted fibers or threads
verb
- To fasten with a clip.
- (slang) To collect signatures, generally with the use of a clipboard.
- (computer graphics, video games, ambitransitive) To move (through or into) (a rendered object or barrier).
- (slang, transitive) To cheat, swindle, or fleece.
- To curtail; to cut short.
- (dialectal, informal) To strike with the hand.
- To cut, especially with scissors or shears as opposed to a knife etc.
- (slang, transitive) to grab or take stealthily.
- (computer graphics) To discard (an occluded part of a model or scene) rather than waste resources on rendering it.
- To make a clip; to cut a section of video from a film, broadcast, or other longer video.
- To grip tightly.
- (signal processing) To cut off a signal level at a certain maximum value.
- (surgery, transitive) To treat (an aneurysm) by closing it off with a physical clip.
- To hit or strike, especially in passing.
- (slang) To assassinate; to bump off.
- (American football) To perform an illegal tackle, throwing the body across the back of an opponent's leg or hitting him from the back below the waist while moving up from behind unless the opponent is a runner or the action is in close line play.
- run at a moderately swift pace
- cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
- sever or remove by pinching or snipping
- terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent
- attach with a clip
noun
- A short piece of audio (shortened version of audio clip, or alternatively clipping of audio).
- (military, colloquial) A removable magazine of a firearm.
- Something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.
- A newspaper clipping.
- (uncountable, Geordie) The condition of something, its state.
- (military) A frame containing a number of rounds of ammunition which is intended to be inserted into an internal magazine of a firearm to allow for rapid reloading.
- Something which has been clipped from a larger whole:
- The product of a single shearing of sheep.
- An act of clipping, such as a haircut.
- A section of video taken from a film, broadcast, or other longer video.
- A projecting flange on the upper edge of a horseshoe, turned up so as to embrace the lower part of the hoof; a toe clip or beak.
- (fishing, UK, Scotland) A gaff or hook for landing the fish, as in salmon fishing.
- An unspecified, but normally understood as rapid, speed or pace.
- A season's crop of wool.
- (informal) A blow with the hand (often in the set phrase clip round the ear)
- a sharp slanting blow
- an article of jewelry that can be clipped onto a hat or dress
- a metal frame or container holding cartridges; can be inserted into an automatic gun
- the act of clipping or snipping
- an instance or single occasion for some event
- any of various small fasteners used to hold loose articles together
verb
- fasten with a crank
- rotate with a crank
- travel along a zigzag path
- bend into the shape of a crank
- start by cranking
- (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.
adj
- (used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail
- (dialectal) Hard; difficult.
- Sick; unwell.
- (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.
noun
- 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
- (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.
noun
- (in particular, fashion) A rod-shaped button bound with slack to the fabric.
- A toggle switch.
- An appliance for transmitting force at right angles to its direction.
- (nautical) A wooden or metal pin, short rod, crosspiece or similar, fixed transversely in the eye of a rope or chain to be secured to any other loop, ring, or bight, e.g. a sea painter to a lifeboat.
- A horizontal piece of wood that is placed on a door, flat, or other wooden structure, but is not on one of the edges of the structure.
- (skydiving) A loop of webbing or a dowel affixed to the end of the steering/brake lines of a parachute providing the pilot with a means of control.
- A fastener that has flaps that align vertically to penetrate a surface and then spread out to secure the fastener in position, e.g. a molly bolt.
- a hinged switch that can assume either of two positions
- any instruction that works first one way and then the other; it turns something on the first time it is used and then turns it off the next time
- a fastener consisting of a peg or pin or crosspiece that is inserted into an eye at the end of a rope or a chain or a cable in order to fasten it to something (as another rope or chain or cable)
verb
verb
- fasten with a buckle or buckles
- fold or collapse
- bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat
- To apply oneself to or prepare for a task or work.
- (figurative) Of a person: to (suddenly) cease resisting pressure or stress; to give in or give way, to yield.
- (obsolete except British, dialectal) To participate in some contest or labour; to join in close fight; to contend.
- (British, dialectal (especially Scotland) or humorous) To unite with someone in marriage; to marry.
- (British, dialectal (especially Scotland) or humorous) To unite (people) in marriage; to marry.
- To fasten (something) using a buckle (noun etymology 1 sense 1); hence (obsolete), to fasten (something) in any way.
- To cause (something) to bend, or to become distorted.
- Of a thing (especially a slender structure under compression): to collapse or distort under physical pressure.
- (reflexive) To apply (oneself) to, or prepare (oneself) for, a task or work; also (obsolete), to equip (oneself) for a battle, expedition, etc.
noun
- a shape distorted by twisting or folding
- fastener that fastens together two ends of a belt or strap; often has loose prong
- A metal clasp with a hinged tongue or a spike through which a belt or strap is passed and penetrated by the tongue or spike, in order to fasten the ends of the belt together or to secure the strap to something else.
- (Canada, heraldry) An image of a clasp (etymology 1 sense 1) used as the brisure of an eighth daughter.
- (by extension) Some other form of clasp used to fasten two things together.
- (countable) A distortion; a bend, bulge, or kink.
- (countable, Canada, US, baking) Usually preceded by a descriptive word: a cake baked with fresh fruit (often blueberries) and a streusel topping.
- A great conflict or struggle.
- (roofing) An upward, elongated displacement of a roof membrane, frequently occurring over deck joints or insulation, which may indicate movement of the roof assembly.
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