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noun
verb
- determine the length of
- make right or correct
- convert into direct current
- reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; separate from extraneous matter or cleanse from impurities
- bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one
- set straight or right
- (transitive) To correct or amend (a mistake, defect etc.).
- (transitive, mathematics) To determine the length of a curve included between two limits.
- (transitive) To produce (as factitious gin or brandy) by redistilling bad wines or strong spirits (whisky, rum, etc.) with flavourings.
- (transitive, geodesy, historical) To adjust (a globe or sundial) to prepare for the solution of a proposed problem.
- (transitive) To restore (someone or something) to its proper condition; to straighten out, to set right.
- (transitive, electronics) To convert (alternating current) into direct current.
- (transitive) To remedy or fix (an undesirable state of affairs, situation etc.).
- (transitive, chemistry) To purify or refine (a substance) by distillation.
noun
- either extremity of something that has length
- one of two places from which people are communicating to each other
- the last section of a communication
- a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold
- the point in time at which something ends
- the final stage or concluding parts of an event or occurrence
- (American football) a position on the line of scrimmage, designating players at each end of the defensive line
- (football) the person who plays at one end of the line of scrimmage
- a boundary marking the extremities of something
- the surface at either extremity of a three-dimensional object
- the state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it
- the part you are expected to play
- a final state
- a final part or section
- One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet.
- That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap.
- The terminal point of something in space or time.
- (American football) The position at the end of either the offensive or defensive line, a tight end, a split end, a defensive end.
- (in the plural, slang, African-American Vernacular) Money.
- The most extreme point of an object, especially one that is longer than it is wide.
- (curling) A period of play in which each team throws eight rocks, two per player, in alternating fashion.
- (by extension, often with "the") Death.
- (cricket) One of the two parts of the ground used as a descriptive name for half of the ground.
- Result.
- (mathematics) An ideal point of a graph or other complex. See End (graph theory)
- (by extension) The cessation of an effort, activity, state, or motion.
- A purpose, goal, or aim.
verb
- be the end of; be the last or concluding part of
- bring to an end or halt
- put an end to
- have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
- (intransitive) To conclude; to bring something to an end.
- (transitive) To finish, terminate.
- (intransitive, ergative) To come to an end.
noun
- either extremity of something that has length
- electronic equipment consisting of a device providing access to a computer; has a keyboard and display
- station where transport vehicles load or unload passengers or goods
- a contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves
- A rate charged on all freight, regardless of distance, and supposed to cover the expenses of station service, as distinct from mileage rate, generally proportionate to the distance and intended to cover movement expenses.
- An electric contact on a battery.
- A storage tank for bulk liquids (such as oil or chemicals) prior to further distribution.
- (computing theory) A terminal symbol in a formal grammar.
- (computing) A device for entering data into a computer or a communications system and/or displaying data received, especially a device equipped with a keyboard and some sort of textual display.
- A harbour facility where ferries embark and disembark passengers and load and unload vehicles.
- (telecommunications) The apparatus to send and/or receive signals on a line, such as a telephone or network device.
- A building in an airport where passengers transfer from ground transportation to the facilities that allow them to board airplanes.
- A rail station where service begins and ends; the end of the line. For example: Grand Central Terminal in New York City.
- A town lying at the end of a railroad, in which the terminal is located; more properly called a terminus.
- (computing) A computer program that emulates a physical terminal.
- (electricity, electronics) The end of a line (wire, cable, etc) where signals or power are either transmitted or received, or a point along the length of a line where the signals or power are made available to apparatus; the hardware attached to the line in this spot, which allows connections to be fastened.
- (biology) The end ramification (of an axon, etc.) or one of the extremities of a polypeptide.
adj
- causing or ending in or approaching death
- being or situated at an end
- of or relating to or situated at the ends of a delivery route
- relating to or occurring in a term or fixed period of time
- occurring at or forming an end or termination
- Appearing at the end; top or apex of a physical object.
- Occurring at the end of a word, sentence, or period of time, and serves to terminate it
- Fatal; resulting in death.
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adj
noun
adj
adv
noun
- (music) A tempo in which the rhythm is emphasized so that it seems to have half as many metric divisions (e.g. emphasizing the start of every other bar rather than every bar).
- (sometimes attributive) Half or approximately half the number of hours usually worked in a specified period.
- (sports) The interval between the two halves of a sports match.
- (physics) The time taken for a physical quantity to halve the difference between its present value and its final value.
verb
- To protrude in relatively long, narrow sections.
- (music, ambitransitive) On a wind instrument, to articulate a note by starting the air with a tap of the tongue, as though by speaking a 'd' or 't' sound (alveolar plosive).
- (transitive, slang, vulgar) To lick, penetrate or manipulate with the tongue during flirting or oral sex.
- (transitive) To manipulate with the tongue.
- To join by means of a tongue and groove.
- lick or explore with the tongue
- articulate by tonguing, as when playing wind instruments
noun
- The power of articulate utterance; speech generally.
- Any similar organ, such as the lingual ribbon, or odontophore, of a mollusk; the proboscis of a moth or butterfly; or the lingua of an insect.
- (figuratively) An individual point of flame from a fire.
- Any large or long physical protrusion on an automotive or machine part or any other part that fits into a long groove on another part.
- (geology) A division of formation; A layer or member of a formation that pinches out in one direction.
- A small sole (type of fish).
- In a shoe, the flap of material that goes between the laces and the foot (so called because it resembles a tongue in the mouth).
- (synecdochic, usually in the plural) A person speaking in a specified manner.
- (religion, often in the plural) Glossolalia.
- A long, narrow strip of land, projecting from the mainland into a sea or lake.
- The pole of a towed or drawn vehicle or farm implement (e.g., trailer, cart, plow, harrow), by which it is pulled; for example, the pole of an ox cart, to the end of which the oxen are yoked.
- The flexible muscular organ in the mouth that is used to move food around, for tasting and that is moved into various positions to modify the flow of air from the lungs in order to produce different sounds in speech.
- (nautical) A short piece of rope spliced into the upper part of standing backstays, etc.; also, the upper main piece of a mast composed of several pieces.
- The clapper of a bell.
- A manner of speaking, often habitually.
- (countable, uncountable) Such an organ, as taken from animals and used for food (especially from cows).
- (metonymic) A language.
- (music) A reed.
- A projection, or slender appendage or fixture.
- (flags) The middle protrusion of a triple-tailed flag.
- metal striker that hangs inside a bell and makes a sound by hitting the side
- the tongue of certain animals used as meat
- a manner of speaking
- a narrow strip of land that juts out into the sea
- a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity
- a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language
- any long thin projection that is transient
- the flap of material under the laces of a shoe or boot
noun
- a section of something that is long and narrow
- the linear extent in space from one end to the other; the longest dimension of something that is fixed in place
- size of the gap between two places
- continuance in time
- the property of being the extent of something from beginning to end
- (mathematics) Distance between the two ends of a line segment.
- (horse racing) The length of a horse, used to indicate the distance between horses at the end of a race.
- (theater) A unit of script length, comprising 42 lines.
- (bridge) The number of cards held in a particular suit.
- Part of something that is long; a physical piece of something.
- Duration.
- (cricket) The distance down the pitch that the ball bounces on its way to the batsman.
- (figuratively) Total extent.
- The distance measured along the longest dimension of an object.
- (wine) The amount of time for which the taste of wine lingers on the palate after swallowing or spitting it out, measured in caudilies.
- (slang) A penis.
adj
- measured lengthwise
- of or in or along or relating to a line; involving or having a single dimension
- (of a leaf shape) long and narrow
- of a circuit or device having an output that is proportional to the input
- designating or involving an equation whose terms are of the first degree
- (botany, of leaves) Long and narrow, with nearly parallel sides.
- (media, of video and audio) Delivered or delivering on a fixed schedule, as opposed to on-demand.
- (of a function between vector spaces) An additive, homogeneous mapping; that is, a function f:V→W is linear if it distributes over vector addition (f( mathbf v+ mathbf w)=f( mathbf v)+f( mathbf w)) and respects scalar multiplication (f(c mathbf v)=cf( mathbf v)). If V and W are vector spaces over a field K, f may also be called a K-linear map. See also linear map on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Of or relating to lines.
- (physics) A type of length measurement involving only one spatial dimension (as opposed to area or volume).
- Made, or designed to be used, in a step-by-step, sequential manner.
- Having the form of a line; straight or roughly straight; following a direct course.
- (of a function over a module) A module homomorphism; that is, a group homomorphism that commutes with scalar multiplication. See also Module homomorphism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- (of a polynomial) Having degree one; that is, being of the form a_1x_1+a_2x_2+⋯+a_nx_n+b, where each x_i is a variable. See also Linear polynomials on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- (of a polynomial equation) Involving only linear polynomials. See also Linear equation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
noun
adj
- measured lengthwise
- executed or initiated by running
- (of e.g. a machine) performing or capable of performing
- of advancing the ball by running
- (of fluids) moving or issuing in a stream
- continually repeated over a period of time
- Having a continuous design or pattern.
- (medicine) Discharging pus.
- Flowing; easy; cursive.
- (medicine, of a nose) Discharging snot or mucus.
- Consecutive (much more commonly expressed by an adverb; see below).
- (botany) Extending by a slender climbing or trailing stem.
- Moving or advancing at a run.
- Of a horse, having a running gait; not a trotter or pacer.
- Continuous; ongoing; keeping along step by step.
- Present, current.
noun
- the act of participating in an athletic competition involving running on a track
- the state of being in operation
- (American football) a play in which a player attempts to carry the ball through or past the opposing team
- the act of administering or being in charge of something
- the act of running; traveling on foot at a fast pace
- The activity of running as a form of exercise, as a sport, or for any other reason.
- The action of the verb to run.
- That which runs or flows; the quantity of a liquid which flows in a certain time or during a certain operation.
- The discharge from an ulcer or other sore.
- (physics) The dependence of measured value, typically a coupling constant, on the energy scale at which it is probed due to higher-order interaction terms and associated renormalization issues becoming relevant; metaphorically, the "running" of the measurement from its limiting macroscopic value.
- (colloquial) The act of running errands.
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verb
adj
- having length, breadth and thickness
- financially dependable
- of definite shape and volume; firm; neither liquid nor gaseous
- uninterrupted in space; having no gaps or breaks
- providing abundant nourishment
- acting together as a single undiversified whole
- characterized by good substantial quality
- meriting respect or esteem
- of one substance or character throughout
- not soft or yielding to pressure
- of the same color throughout
- of a substantial character and not frivolous or superficial
- impenetrable for the eye
- of good quality and condition; solidly built
- entirely of one substance with no holes inside
- (of time) Entire, complete.
- (of drawn lines) Continuous; unbroken; not dotted or dashed.
- Hearty; filling.
- (of an object or substance) That can be picked up or held, having a texture, and usually firm. Unlike a liquid, gas or plasma.
- Large in size, quantity, or value.
- (slang) Excellent, of high quality, or reliable.
- Of a single color throughout.
- Sound; not weak.
- (US, politics, slang) United; without division; unanimous.
- (of volumes of materials) Measured as a single solid, as the volumes of individual pieces added together without any gaps.
- Worthy of credit, trust, or esteem; substantial; not frivolous or fallacious.
- (typography) Written as one word, without spaces or hyphens.
- Strong or unyielding.
- United.
- (of rain) Continuous and heavy.
- Financially well off; wealthy.
- Lacking holes, hollows or admixtures of other materials.
noun
- matter that is solid at room temperature and pressure
- the state in which a substance has no tendency to flow under moderate stress; resists forces (such as compression) that tend to deform it; and retains a definite size and shape
- a three-dimensional object, structurally rigid, usually resistant to changes of shape or volume
- (geometry) A three-dimensional figure (as opposed to a surface, an area, or a curve).
- (in the plural) Food which is not liquid-based.
- (informal) A favor.
- An article of clothing which is of a single color throughout.
- (chemistry) A substance in the fundamental state of matter that retains its size and shape without need of a container (as opposed to a liquid or gas).
adv
noun
- One sixteenth of an inch.
- One twelfth of an inch.
- a mark that is long relative to its width
- A sentence of dialogue, especially in a play, movie, or the like.
- (geometry) An infinitely extending one-dimensional figure that has no curvature; one that has length but not breadth or thickness.
- A procession, either physical or conceptual, which results from the application or effect of a given rationale or other controlling principles of belief, opinion, practice, or phenomenon.
- A written or printed row of letters, words, numbers, or other text, especially a row of words extending across a page or column, or a blank in place of such text.
- The longer fiber(s) of flax.
- (geography) A circle of latitude or of longitude, as represented on a map.
- A long tape or ribbon marked with units for measuring; a tape measure.
- (graph theory) An edge of a graph.
- (cricket) The horizontal path of a ball towards the batsman (see also length).
- (genetics) A population of cells derived from a single cell and containing the same genetic makeup.
- A verse (in poetry).
- (geography, 'the line' or 'equinoctial line') The equator.
- Course of conduct, thought, occupation, or policy; method of argument; department of industry, trade, or intellectual activity.
- A rope, cord, string, thread, or cable, of any thickness.
- Any of an ill-defined set of units of length, varying according to the country, discipline, industry, and date of application, commonly with no indication of the intended magnitude:
- A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen; any path, curved or straight.
- (soccer) The goal line.
- (South Korean idol fandom) A group of people born in a certain year (liners).
- (fencing) The position in which the fencers hold their swords.
- One fortieth of an inch.
- The exterior limit of a figure or territory: a boundary, contour, or outline; a demarcation.
- (music) One of the straight horizontal and parallel prolonged strokes on and between which the notes are placed.
- (geometry, informal) A line segment; a continuous finite segment of such a figure.
- A set of products or services sold by a business, or by extension, the business itself.
- (Australian rules football) A set of positions in a team which play in a similar position on the field; in a traditional team, consisting of three players and acting as one of six such sets in the team.
- A hose, tube, or pipe, of any size.
- A threadlike crease or wrinkle marking the face, hand, or body; hence, a characteristic mark.
- (historical) A maxwell, a unit of magnetic flux.
- (engineering) Proper relative position or adjustment (of parts, not as to design or proportion, but with reference to smooth working).
- (military, nautical) Ellipsis of line of battle.
- (perfusion line) a set composed of a spike, a drip chamber, a clamp, a Y-injection site, a three-way stopcock and a catheter.
- The official, stated position (or set of positions) of an individual or group, particularly a political or religious faction.
- A more-or-less straight sequence of people, objects, etc., either arranged as a queue or column and often waiting to be processed or dealt with, or arranged abreast of one another in a row (and contrasted with a column), as in a military formation.
- The wire connecting one telegraphic station with another, a telephone or internet cable between two points: a telephone or network connection.
- (informal) A portion or serving of a powdery recreational drug, especially cocaine, formed into a line on a flat surface in preparation for snorting.
- (stock exchange) A number of shares taken by a jobber.
- A letter, a written form of communication.
- (slang) Information about or understanding of something. (Mostly restricted to the expressions get a line on, have a line on, and give a line on.)
- (baseball, slang, 1800s, with "the") The batter's box.
- A series or succession of ancestors or descendants of a given person; a family or race; compare lineage.
- (historical) A tsarist-era Russian unit of measure, approximately equal to one tenth of an English inch, used especially when measuring the calibre of firearms.
- (medicine, colloquial) A vascular catheter.
- (advertising) Ellipsis of agate line (one fourteenth of an inch).
- (especially military) A trench or rampart, or the non-physical demarcation of the extent of the territory occupied by specified forces.
- That which was measured by a line, such as a field or any piece of land set apart; hence, allotted place of abode.
- A clothesline.
- (automotive) A particular path taken by a vehicle when driving a bend or corner in the road.
- Lineament; feature; figure (of one's body).
- (music) A series of notes forming a certain part (such as the bass or melody) of a greater work.
- (ice hockey) A group of forwards that play together.
- A lie or exaggeration, especially one told to gain another's approval or prevent losing it.
- Direction, path.
- (military) The regular infantry of an army, as distinguished from militia, guards, volunteer corps, cavalry, artillery, etc.
- A connected series of public conveyances, as a roadbed or railway track; and hence, an established arrangement for forwarding merchandise, etc.; a railroad line, railway line, Elizabeth Line etc.
- the road consisting of railroad track and roadbed
- a slight depression or fold in the smoothness of a surface
- a pipe used to transport liquids or gases
- (often plural) a means of communication or access
- a commercial organization serving as a common carrier
- text consisting of a row of words written across a page or computer screen
- a formation of people or things one beside another
- a fortified position (especially one marking the most forward position of troops)
- the hereditary derivation of an individual
- a conceptual separation or distinction
- the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
- persuasive but insincere talk that is usually intended to deceive or impress
- a particular kind of product or merchandise
- a conductor for transmitting electrical or optical signals or electric power
- a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence
- the maximum credit that a customer is allowed
- mechanical system in a factory whereby an article is conveyed through sites at which successive operations are performed on it
- a spatial location defined by a real or imaginary unidimensional extent
- a course of reasoning aimed at demonstrating a truth or falsehood; the methodical process of logical reasoning
- a single frequency (or very narrow band) of radiation in a spectrum
- space for one line of print (one column wide and 1/14 inch deep) used to measure advertising
- a connected series of events or actions or developments
- acting in conformity
- in games or sports; a mark indicating positions or bounds of the playing area
- a short personal letter
- something (as a cord or rope) that is long and thin and flexible
- a length (straight or curved) without breadth or thickness; the trace of a moving point
- a formation of people or things one behind another
- a telephone connection
verb
- (transitive) To fill or supply (something), as a purse with money.
- (transitive) To form a line along.
- (rail transport) To align (one or more switches) to direct a train onto a particular track.
- (transitive) To track (wild bees) to their nest by following their line of flight.
- (transitive) To place (objects) into a line (usually used with "up"); to form into a line; to align.
- (transitive) To place persons or things along the side of for security or defense; to strengthen by adding; to fortify.
- (transitive) To mark with a line or lines; to cover with lines.
- (transitive) To measure.
- (transitive) To cover the inner surface of (something), originally especially with linen.
- (intransitive, baseball) To hit a line drive; to hit a line drive which is caught for an out. Compare fly and ground.
- fill plentifully
- make a mark or lines on a surface
- cover the interior of
- mark with lines
- reinforce with fabric
- be in line with; form a line along
adv
adj
- (of a relative other than a sibling) Related through one common grandparent or ancestor rather than two.
- Consisting of some indefinite portion resembling a half; approximately a half, whether more or less; partial; imperfect.
- (of a sibling) Having one parent (rather than two) in common.
- Consisting of a half (½, 50%).
- consisting of one of two equivalent parts in value or quantity
- (of siblings) related through one parent only
- partial
intj
noun
- (sports) One of two equal periods into which a game is divided.
- (numismatic slang) Clipping of half-dollar.
- (sports) abbreviated form for half marathon.
- (British) half a pint of beer or cider. (Refusing a pint) Just a half, thank you. (Offering to top up a pint glass) Do you want a half in that? (Minimizing the amount of drink taken) A swift half at the Pear Tree.
- (liquor trade) A barrel measure of 27 gallons (half a hogshead).
- Any of the three terms at Eton College, for Michaelmas, Lent, and summer.
- One of two usually roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided, or considered as divided.
- (sports) One of the two opposite parts of the playing field of various sports, in which each starts the game.
- (slang) A half sibling.
- (preceded by “a” or a number) The fraction obtained by dividing 1 by 2.
- one of two divisions into which some games or performances are divided: the two divisions are separated by an interval
- one of two equal parts of a divisible whole
prep
prefix
- Medium in size.
- (anatomy) Referring to the mesentery.
- Quasi or partial.
- (anatomy) Mesial in location, position, or direction: towards the midline of the body.
- The middle of a time period, or medium in duration.
- Between a macro- scale and micro- scale in scope or analysis.
- Intermediate between two properties or characteristics.
- Moderate, medium in quantity.
- (chemistry) Designating an achiral member of a group of diastereoisomers that has at least one chiral member.
- Middle or centre in location/position.
- Normal, average, or typical.
- Between.
- (dentistry) The forward side of a tooth.
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pron
noun
- half the width of an em
- a whimsically eccentric person
- someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction
- usually large hard-shelled seed
- one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens
- a small (usually square or hexagonal) metal block with internal screw thread to be fitted onto a bolt
- (slang) A crazy person.
- (US, slang) Monthly expense to keep a venture running.
- (firearms) The tumbler of a gunlock.
- (music, lutherie) On stringed instruments such as guitars and violins, the small piece at the peghead end of the fingerboard that holds the strings at the proper spacing and, in most cases, the proper height.
- (poker, attributive) The best possible hand of a certain type. Compare nuts (“the best possible hand available”).
- (US, slang) The amount of money necessary to set up some venture; set-up costs.
- (vulgar, slang, uncountable) Semen, ejaculate, cum.
- (typography slang) En, a unit of measurement equal to half of the height of the type in use.
- (US, slang) A stash of money owned by an extremely rich investor, sufficient to sustain a high level of consumption if all other money is lost.
- (vulgar, slang, chiefly plural) A testicle, often used in the plural form.
- (colloquial) An extreme enthusiast.
- (climbing) A shaped piece of metal, threaded by a wire loop, which is jammed in a crack in the rockface and used to protect a climb. (Originally, machine nuts [sense #2] were used for this purpose.)
- (slang) The head. [from 19th c.]
- (hardware) A piece of hardware, typically metal and typically hexagonal or square in shape, with a hole through it having internal screw threads, intended to be screwed onto a threaded bolt or other threaded shaft.
- (vulgar, slang, countable) Orgasm, ejaculation; especially release of semen; cumshot
- Alternative form of nuth (“Indian nose ring”).
- (botany, strictly) Such a fruit that is indehiscent.
- (food, loosely) Any of various hard-shelled seeds or hard, dry fruits from various families of plants.
- (nautical) A projection on each side of the shank of an anchor, to secure the stock in place.
- (archaic except in combination with a modifier) A small rounded cake or cookie.
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adj
noun
- any of the minute blood vessels connecting arterioles with venules
- a tube of small internal diameter; holds liquid by capillary action
- (anatomy) Any of the small blood vessels (from 5 to 10 micrometres/micrometers (μm) in diameter) that connect arteries to veins (They are the smallest blood vessels in the body: they convey blood between the arterioles and venules).
- (physics, chemistry) A tube or channel having a very small internal diameter, through which liquid can rise or be drawn by capillary action.
adj
verb
- make long or longer by pulling and stretching
- To become long or longer, for example, by being pulled or stretched; to become elongated.
- (botany) Of a plant part: to grow long; also, to have a long and slender or tapering form.
- To make (something) long or longer, for example, by pulling or stretching; to make (something) elongated; to extend, to lengthen.
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noun
- An English unit of length equal to 1/12 of a foot or 2.54 cm, conceived as roughly the width of a thumb.
- a unit of length equal to one twelfth of a foot
- A depth of one inch in a glass, used as a rough measurement of alcoholic beverages.
- (Scotland, Ireland) A small island; an islet.
- Any of various similar units of length in other traditional systems of measurement.
- (Scotland, Ireland) A meadow, pasture, field, or haugh.
- (meteorology) A depth of one inch on the ground, used as a measurement of rainfall.
- (figuratively) Any very short distance.
- a unit of measurement for advertising space
adj
verb
- (Hong Kong, colloquial) to burn (to insult); to speak in a cocky and cheeky manner
- To deal out by inches; to give sparingly.
- To drive by inches, or small degrees.
- (intransitive, followed by a preposition) To advance very slowly, or by a small amount (in a particular direction).
- advance slowly, as if by inches
noun
- a unit of length
- a series of things depending on each other as if linked together
- (chemistry) a series of linked atoms (generally in an organic molecule)
- anything that acts as a restraint
- a series of (usually metal) rings or links fitted into one another to make a flexible ligament
- a necklace made by stringing objects together
- a linked or connected series of objects
- (business) a number of similar establishments (stores or restaurants or banks or hotels or theaters) under one ownership
- a series of hills or mountains
- A livery collar, a chain of office.
- (algebraic topology, homological algebra, more generally) An element of a group (or module) in a chain complex.
- A unit of length, exactly equal to 22 yards, which is 4 rods or 100 links, and approximately equal to 20.12 metres; the length of a Gunter's surveying chain; the length of a cricket pitch.
- That which confines, fetters, or secures; a bond.
- A series of stores or businesses with the same brand name.
- A series of interconnected things.
- (weaving) The warp threads of a web.
- (British) A sequence of linked house purchases, each of which is dependent on the preceding and succeeding purchase (said to be "broken" if a buyer or seller pulls out).
- (surveying) A series of interconnected links of known length, used as a measuring device.
- A series of interconnected rings or links usually made of metal.
- (surveying) A long measuring tape.
- (mathematics, set theory, order theory) A totally ordered set, especially a totally ordered subset of a poset.
- (nautical, in the plural) Iron links bolted to the side of a vessel to bold the dead-eyes connected with the shrouds; also, the channels.
- (algebraic topology, originally) A formal sum of cells in a CW complex of a certain dimension k (in which case the formal sums are called k'''-chains); a formal sum of simplices or cubes of a certain dimension in a simplical complex or cubical complex (respectively).
- (organic chemistry, physical chemistry) A number of atoms in a series, which combine to form a molecule.
verb
- fasten or secure with chains
- connect or arrange into a chain by linking
- (computing) To be chained to another data item.
- (transitive, computing, rare, associated with Acorn Computers) To load and automatically run (a program).
- (intransitive) To link multiple items together.
- (figurative) To connect as if with a chain, due to dependence, addiction, or other feelings
- (computing) To relate data items with a chain of pointers.
- (transitive) To measure a distance using a 66-foot long chain, as in land surveying.
- (figurative) To obligate.
- (transitive) To secure someone with fetters.
- (transitive) To fasten something with a chain.
- (transitive) To obstruct the mouth of a river etc with a chain.
adj
- Being the normal or standard size for its type.
- (US) (of an automobile) Large; specifically, designed to be comfortable for long-distance driving with six occupants and their luggage.
- (art) (of a representational artwork or model) Being the same size as the original.
- (Canada, US) The size of a full bed.
- being of the same size as an original
noun
- an addition to the length of something
- the act of lengthening something
- the quality of being elongated
- The state of being lengthened.
- That which lengthens out; a continuation.
- The ratio of the extension of a material to the length of the material prior to stretching.
- (astronomy) The angular distance of a planet from the sun.
- A removal to a distance; a withdrawal; a being at a distance; a distance.
- The act of lengthening.
noun
- an addition to the length of something
- the spreading of something (a belief or practice) into new regions
- a string of characters beginning with a period and followed by one or more letters; the optional second part of a PC computer filename
- an addition that extends a main building
- act of stretching or straightening out a flexed limb
- the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; the class of objects that an expression refers to
- an additional telephone set that is connected to the same telephone line
- the ability to raise the working leg high in the air
- amount or degree or range to which something extends
- a mutually agreed delay in the date set for the completion of a job or payment of a debt
- act of expanding in scope; making more widely available
- an educational opportunity provided by colleges and universities to people who are not enrolled as regular students
- That property of a body by which it occupies a portion of space (or time, e.g. "spatiotemporal extension").
- The act of extending; a stretching out; enlargement in length, breadth, or time; an increase.
- (weightlifting) An exercise in which an arm or leg is straightened against resistance.
- (fencing) A simple offensive action, consisting of extending the weapon arm forward.
- (logic) The set of tuples of values that, used as arguments, satisfy the predicate.
- (mathematics, group theory, of a group G by a group H) A short exact sequence 1→H→E→G→1, or the group E therein.
- (medicine) The operation of stretching a broken bone so as to bring the fragments into the same straight line.
- A part of a building that has been added onto the original.
- (ring theory, of an ideal in the domain of a ring homomorphism) The ideal in the codomain generated by the image of the given ideal under the given homomorphism.
- (telecommunications) A numerical code used to indicate a specific telephone in a telecommunication network.
- (computing) An optional software component that adds functionality to an application.
- (computing) Ellipsis of file extension.
- (linguistics, semantics) semantic widening, broadening of meaning
- An outgrowth; a part of something that extends its capabilities.
- (education) University programs that are targeted at the broader (usually adults) community whose participants are not full-time enrolled students.
- (mathematics, homological algebra, of an object A by an object B in an abelian category) A short exact sequence 0→B→E→A→0, or the object E therein.
- The state of being extended.
- (semantics) Capacity of a concept or general term to include a greater or smaller number of objects; — correlative of intension.
- (cosmetics, chiefly in the plural) Clipping of hair extension, nail extension, or eyelash extension.
- (banking, finance) A written engagement on the part of a creditor, allowing a debtor further time to pay a debt.
- (grammar) A kind of derivative morpheme applied to verbs in Bantu languages.
adj
- Having length, but no width, height or depth.
- (figuratively) Lacking personal depth and substance; conceited, vain, shallow, superficial.
- (figuratively) Lacking depth or believability; flat.
- relating to a single dimension or aspect; having no depth or scope
- of or in or along or relating to a line; involving or having a single dimension
noun
adj
- currently fashionable
- holding office
- directed or bound inward
- In fashion; popular.
- (of fire or fuel) (British, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand) Burning; ablaze.
- (not comparable) Located indoors, especially at home or at one's office or place of work.
- Of the tide, at or near its highest level.
- Having been collected or received.
- (not comparable) Located inside something.
- Inserted or fitted into something.
- (sports, of the ball or other playing implement) Falling or remaining within the bounds of the playing area.
- (informal) Having a favourable position, such as a position of influence or expected gain, in relation to another person.
- Incoming.
- Having familiarity or involvement with somebody.
- (cricket) Currently batting.
- Having used, consumed , or invested a certain amount.
- (nautical, of the sails of a vessel) Furled or stowed.
- (law) With privilege or possession; used to denote a holding, possession, or seisin
adv
- to or toward the inside of
- At or towards the interior of a defined space, such as a building or room.
- After the beginning of something.
- Towards the speaker or other reference point.
- So as to be enclosed or surrounded by something.
- (in combination, after a verb) Denotes a gathering of people assembled for the stated activity, sometimes, though not always, suggesting a protest.
prep
- Pertaining to; with regard to.
- Part of; a member of; out of; from among.
- Contained by; inside.
- Wearing (an item of clothing).
- Surrounded by; among; amidst.
- (grammar, phonetics) Characterized by.
- Used to indicate a language, script, tone, etc. of a text, speech, etc.
- Within (a certain elapsed time); by the end of.
- Indicates, connotatively, a place-like form of someone's (or something's) personality, as his, her or its psychic and physical characteristics.
- By (doing something); indicating action causing an effect or achieving a purpose.
- Indicating an order or arrangement.
- Denoting a state of the subject.
- Expressing abstract containment.
- At the end of (a period of time).
- Within the bounds or limits of.
- Into.
- (of something offered or given in an exchange) In the form of, in the denomination of.
- During (a period of time).
noun
adj
- Longer in length or extension; elongated.
- (typography, of a typeface) Wider than usual.
- Stretched out or pulled out; expanded.
- Lasting longer; protracted.
- Having a large scope or range; extensive.
- fully extended or stretched forth
- large in spatial extent or range or scope or quantity
- relatively long in duration; tediously protracted
- beyond the literal or primary sense
- drawn out or made longer spatially
verb
adj
- Having a length and width that are different; not square or circular.
- (bookmaking) Having the horizontal axis of a page longer than the vertical; In landscape orientation.
- Roughly rectangular or elliptical.
- deviating from a square or circle or sphere by being elongated in one direction
- (of a leaf shape) having a somewhat elongated form with approximately parallel sides
noun
verb
adj
noun
- a meal that is well prepared and greatly enjoyed
- a haphazard distribution in all directions
- the expansion of a person's girth (especially at middle age)
- a conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures
- decorative cover for a bed
- two facing pages of a book or other publication
- farm consisting of a large tract of land along with facilities needed to raise livestock (especially cattle)
- process or result of distributing or extending over a wide expanse of space
- act of extending over a wider scope or expanse of space or time
- a tasty mixture to be spread on bread or crackers or used in preparing other dishes
- (geometry) An unlimited expanse of discontinuous points.
- The act of spreading.
- A piece of material used as a cover (such as a bedspread).
- (gambling) The difference between the teams' final scores at the end of a sport match.
- (debating slang) An act or instance of spreading (speedreading).
- Two facing pages in a book, newspaper etc.
- A numerical difference.
- (trading, finance) The purchase of one delivery month of one commodity against the sale of that same delivery month of a different commodity.
- An expanse of land.
- A large meal, especially one laid out on a table.
- (finance) The difference between the prices of two similar items.
- A large tract of land used to raise livestock; a cattle ranch.
- (cartomancy) A layout, pattern or design of cards arranged for a reading.
- (trading, economics, finance) The difference between the price of a futures month and the price of another month of the same commodity.
- (business, economics) The difference between the wholesale and retail prices.
- (trading) The difference between bidding and asking price.
- (statistics) A measure of how far the data tend to deviate from the average.
- (bread, etc.) Any form of food designed to be spread, such as butters or jams.
- Excessive width of the trails of ink written on overly absorbent paper.
- The surface in proportion to the depth of a cut gemstone.
- (prison slang, uncountable) Food improvised by inmates from various ingredients to relieve the tedium of prison food.
- An item in a newspaper or magazine that occupies more than one column or page.
- Something that has been spread.
- (trading) An arbitrage transaction of the same commodity in two markets, executed to take advantage of a profit from price discrepancies.
- (trading, finance) The purchase of a futures contract of one delivery month against the sale of another futures delivery month of the same commodity.
- (military) A set of multiple torpedoes launched on side-by-side, slowly-diverging paths toward one or more enemy ships.
verb
- cause to become widely known
- cover by spreading something over
- become distributed or widespread
- move outward
- become widely known and passed on
- strew or distribute over an area
- distribute or disperse widely
- spread out or open from a closed or folded state
- distribute over a surface in a layer
- spread across or over
- (transitive) To stretch out, open out (a material etc.) so that it more fully covers a given area of space.
- (transitive) To disseminate; to cause to proliferate, to make (something) widely known or present.
- (transitive) To smear, to distribute in a thin layer.
- (transitive) To cover (something) with a thin layer of some substance, as of butter.
- (intransitive, transitive, debating slang) To speedread; to recite one's arguments at an extremely fast pace.
- (transitive) To disperse, to scatter or distribute over a given area.
- (intransitive) To proliferate; to become more widely present, to be disseminated.
- (intransitive) To take up a larger area or space; to expand, be extended.
- (intransitive, slang) To open one’s legs, especially for sexual favours.
- To prepare; to set and furnish with provisions.
- (transitive) To extend (individual rays, limbs etc.); to stretch out in varying or opposing directions. simple past and past participle of spread
adj
- Having a small width; not wide; having opposite edges or sides that are close, especially by comparison to length or depth.
- Scrutinizing in detail; close; accurate; exact.
- (figuratively) Restrictive; without flexibility or latitude.
- Parsimonious; niggardly; covetous; selfish.
- Having a small margin or degree.
- (phonetics) Formed (as a vowel) by a close position of some part of the tongue in relation to the palate; or (according to Bell) by a tense condition of the pharynx; distinguished from wide.
- Of little extent; very limited; circumscribed.
- Contracted; of limited scope; bigoted
- (computing) Of or supporting only those text characters that can fit into the traditional 8-bit representation.
- lacking tolerance or flexibility or breadth of view
- not wide
- very limited in degree
- characterized by painstaking care and detailed examination
- limited in extent or scope
noun
verb
- (transitive, programming) To convert to a data type that cannot hold as many distinct values.
- (of a person or eyes) To partially lower one's eyelids in a way usually taken to suggest a defensive, aggressive or penetrating look.
- (intransitive) To get narrower.
- (knitting) To contract the size of, as a stocking, by taking two stitches into one.
- (transitive) To reduce in width or extent; to contract.
- define clearly
- become tight or as if tight
- become more focused on an area of activity or field of study
- make or become more narrow or restricted
adj
- of relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite or in cross section
- very narrow
- not dense
- (of sound) lacking resonance or volume
- lacking spirit or sincere effort
- relatively thin in consistency or low in density; not viscous
- lacking substance or significance
- lacking excess flesh
- (aviation) Of a route: relatively little used.
- Scarce; not close, crowded, or numerous; not filling the space.
- (golf) Describing a poorly played golf shot where the ball is struck by the bottom part of the club head. See fat, shank, toe.
- Lacking body or volume; small; feeble; not full.
- Of low viscosity or low specific gravity.
- Very narrow in all diameters; having a cross section that is small in all directions.
- Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite.
- Poor; scanty; without money or success.
- Having little body fat or flesh; slim; slender; lean; gaunt.
- Slight; small; slender; flimsy; superficial; inadequate; not sufficient for a covering.
adv
verb
- make thin or thinner
- lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture
- lose thickness; become thin or thinner
- take off weight
- To remove some plants or parts of plants in order to improve the growth of what remains.
- To dilute.
- (intransitive) To become thin or thinner.
- (transitive) To make thin or thinner.
noun
prep
adv
noun
adv
conj
verb
noun
- either extremity of something that has length
- one of two places from which people are communicating to each other
- the last section of a communication
- a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold
- the point in time at which something ends
- the final stage or concluding parts of an event or occurrence
- (American football) a position on the line of scrimmage, designating players at each end of the defensive line
- (football) the person who plays at one end of the line of scrimmage
- a boundary marking the extremities of something
- the surface at either extremity of a three-dimensional object
- the state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it
- the part you are expected to play
- a final state
- a final part or section
- One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet.
- That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap.
- The terminal point of something in space or time.
- (American football) The position at the end of either the offensive or defensive line, a tight end, a split end, a defensive end.
- (in the plural, slang, African-American Vernacular) Money.
- The most extreme point of an object, especially one that is longer than it is wide.
- (curling) A period of play in which each team throws eight rocks, two per player, in alternating fashion.
- (by extension, often with "the") Death.
- (cricket) One of the two parts of the ground used as a descriptive name for half of the ground.
- Result.
- (mathematics) An ideal point of a graph or other complex. See End (graph theory)
- (by extension) The cessation of an effort, activity, state, or motion.
- A purpose, goal, or aim.
verb
- be the end of; be the last or concluding part of
- bring to an end or halt
- put an end to
- have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
- (intransitive) To conclude; to bring something to an end.
- (transitive) To finish, terminate.
- (intransitive, ergative) To come to an end.
noun
- either extremity of something that has length
- electronic equipment consisting of a device providing access to a computer; has a keyboard and display
- station where transport vehicles load or unload passengers or goods
- a contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves
- A rate charged on all freight, regardless of distance, and supposed to cover the expenses of station service, as distinct from mileage rate, generally proportionate to the distance and intended to cover movement expenses.
- An electric contact on a battery.
- A storage tank for bulk liquids (such as oil or chemicals) prior to further distribution.
- (computing theory) A terminal symbol in a formal grammar.
- (computing) A device for entering data into a computer or a communications system and/or displaying data received, especially a device equipped with a keyboard and some sort of textual display.
- A harbour facility where ferries embark and disembark passengers and load and unload vehicles.
- (telecommunications) The apparatus to send and/or receive signals on a line, such as a telephone or network device.
- A building in an airport where passengers transfer from ground transportation to the facilities that allow them to board airplanes.
- A rail station where service begins and ends; the end of the line. For example: Grand Central Terminal in New York City.
- A town lying at the end of a railroad, in which the terminal is located; more properly called a terminus.
- (computing) A computer program that emulates a physical terminal.
- (electricity, electronics) The end of a line (wire, cable, etc) where signals or power are either transmitted or received, or a point along the length of a line where the signals or power are made available to apparatus; the hardware attached to the line in this spot, which allows connections to be fastened.
- (biology) The end ramification (of an axon, etc.) or one of the extremities of a polypeptide.
adj
- causing or ending in or approaching death
- being or situated at an end
- of or relating to or situated at the ends of a delivery route
- relating to or occurring in a term or fixed period of time
- occurring at or forming an end or termination
- Appearing at the end; top or apex of a physical object.
- Occurring at the end of a word, sentence, or period of time, and serves to terminate it
- Fatal; resulting in death.
verb
noun
- a section of something that is long and narrow
- the linear extent in space from one end to the other; the longest dimension of something that is fixed in place
- size of the gap between two places
- continuance in time
- the property of being the extent of something from beginning to end
- (mathematics) Distance between the two ends of a line segment.
- (horse racing) The length of a horse, used to indicate the distance between horses at the end of a race.
- (theater) A unit of script length, comprising 42 lines.
- (bridge) The number of cards held in a particular suit.
- Part of something that is long; a physical piece of something.
- Duration.
- (cricket) The distance down the pitch that the ball bounces on its way to the batsman.
- (figuratively) Total extent.
- The distance measured along the longest dimension of an object.
- (wine) The amount of time for which the taste of wine lingers on the palate after swallowing or spitting it out, measured in caudilies.
- (slang) A penis.
noun
- One sixteenth of an inch.
- One twelfth of an inch.
- a mark that is long relative to its width
- A sentence of dialogue, especially in a play, movie, or the like.
- (geometry) An infinitely extending one-dimensional figure that has no curvature; one that has length but not breadth or thickness.
- A procession, either physical or conceptual, which results from the application or effect of a given rationale or other controlling principles of belief, opinion, practice, or phenomenon.
- A written or printed row of letters, words, numbers, or other text, especially a row of words extending across a page or column, or a blank in place of such text.
- The longer fiber(s) of flax.
- (geography) A circle of latitude or of longitude, as represented on a map.
- A long tape or ribbon marked with units for measuring; a tape measure.
- (graph theory) An edge of a graph.
- (cricket) The horizontal path of a ball towards the batsman (see also length).
- (genetics) A population of cells derived from a single cell and containing the same genetic makeup.
- A verse (in poetry).
- (geography, 'the line' or 'equinoctial line') The equator.
- Course of conduct, thought, occupation, or policy; method of argument; department of industry, trade, or intellectual activity.
- A rope, cord, string, thread, or cable, of any thickness.
- Any of an ill-defined set of units of length, varying according to the country, discipline, industry, and date of application, commonly with no indication of the intended magnitude:
- A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen; any path, curved or straight.
- (soccer) The goal line.
- (South Korean idol fandom) A group of people born in a certain year (liners).
- (fencing) The position in which the fencers hold their swords.
- One fortieth of an inch.
- The exterior limit of a figure or territory: a boundary, contour, or outline; a demarcation.
- (music) One of the straight horizontal and parallel prolonged strokes on and between which the notes are placed.
- (geometry, informal) A line segment; a continuous finite segment of such a figure.
- A set of products or services sold by a business, or by extension, the business itself.
- (Australian rules football) A set of positions in a team which play in a similar position on the field; in a traditional team, consisting of three players and acting as one of six such sets in the team.
- A hose, tube, or pipe, of any size.
- A threadlike crease or wrinkle marking the face, hand, or body; hence, a characteristic mark.
- (historical) A maxwell, a unit of magnetic flux.
- (engineering) Proper relative position or adjustment (of parts, not as to design or proportion, but with reference to smooth working).
- (military, nautical) Ellipsis of line of battle.
- (perfusion line) a set composed of a spike, a drip chamber, a clamp, a Y-injection site, a three-way stopcock and a catheter.
- The official, stated position (or set of positions) of an individual or group, particularly a political or religious faction.
- A more-or-less straight sequence of people, objects, etc., either arranged as a queue or column and often waiting to be processed or dealt with, or arranged abreast of one another in a row (and contrasted with a column), as in a military formation.
- The wire connecting one telegraphic station with another, a telephone or internet cable between two points: a telephone or network connection.
- (informal) A portion or serving of a powdery recreational drug, especially cocaine, formed into a line on a flat surface in preparation for snorting.
- (stock exchange) A number of shares taken by a jobber.
- A letter, a written form of communication.
- (slang) Information about or understanding of something. (Mostly restricted to the expressions get a line on, have a line on, and give a line on.)
- (baseball, slang, 1800s, with "the") The batter's box.
- A series or succession of ancestors or descendants of a given person; a family or race; compare lineage.
- (historical) A tsarist-era Russian unit of measure, approximately equal to one tenth of an English inch, used especially when measuring the calibre of firearms.
- (medicine, colloquial) A vascular catheter.
- (advertising) Ellipsis of agate line (one fourteenth of an inch).
- (especially military) A trench or rampart, or the non-physical demarcation of the extent of the territory occupied by specified forces.
- That which was measured by a line, such as a field or any piece of land set apart; hence, allotted place of abode.
- A clothesline.
- (automotive) A particular path taken by a vehicle when driving a bend or corner in the road.
- Lineament; feature; figure (of one's body).
- (music) A series of notes forming a certain part (such as the bass or melody) of a greater work.
- (ice hockey) A group of forwards that play together.
- A lie or exaggeration, especially one told to gain another's approval or prevent losing it.
- Direction, path.
- (military) The regular infantry of an army, as distinguished from militia, guards, volunteer corps, cavalry, artillery, etc.
- A connected series of public conveyances, as a roadbed or railway track; and hence, an established arrangement for forwarding merchandise, etc.; a railroad line, railway line, Elizabeth Line etc.
- the road consisting of railroad track and roadbed
- a slight depression or fold in the smoothness of a surface
- a pipe used to transport liquids or gases
- (often plural) a means of communication or access
- a commercial organization serving as a common carrier
- text consisting of a row of words written across a page or computer screen
- a formation of people or things one beside another
- a fortified position (especially one marking the most forward position of troops)
- the hereditary derivation of an individual
- a conceptual separation or distinction
- the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
- persuasive but insincere talk that is usually intended to deceive or impress
- a particular kind of product or merchandise
- a conductor for transmitting electrical or optical signals or electric power
- a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence
- the maximum credit that a customer is allowed
- mechanical system in a factory whereby an article is conveyed through sites at which successive operations are performed on it
- a spatial location defined by a real or imaginary unidimensional extent
- a course of reasoning aimed at demonstrating a truth or falsehood; the methodical process of logical reasoning
- a single frequency (or very narrow band) of radiation in a spectrum
- space for one line of print (one column wide and 1/14 inch deep) used to measure advertising
- a connected series of events or actions or developments
- acting in conformity
- in games or sports; a mark indicating positions or bounds of the playing area
- a short personal letter
- something (as a cord or rope) that is long and thin and flexible
- a length (straight or curved) without breadth or thickness; the trace of a moving point
- a formation of people or things one behind another
- a telephone connection
verb
- (transitive) To fill or supply (something), as a purse with money.
- (transitive) To form a line along.
- (rail transport) To align (one or more switches) to direct a train onto a particular track.
- (transitive) To track (wild bees) to their nest by following their line of flight.
- (transitive) To place (objects) into a line (usually used with "up"); to form into a line; to align.
- (transitive) To place persons or things along the side of for security or defense; to strengthen by adding; to fortify.
- (transitive) To mark with a line or lines; to cover with lines.
- (transitive) To measure.
- (transitive) To cover the inner surface of (something), originally especially with linen.
- (intransitive, baseball) To hit a line drive; to hit a line drive which is caught for an out. Compare fly and ground.
- fill plentifully
- make a mark or lines on a surface
- cover the interior of
- mark with lines
- reinforce with fabric
- be in line with; form a line along
noun
prep
pron
noun
- half the width of an em
- a whimsically eccentric person
- someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction
- usually large hard-shelled seed
- one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens
- a small (usually square or hexagonal) metal block with internal screw thread to be fitted onto a bolt
- (slang) A crazy person.
- (US, slang) Monthly expense to keep a venture running.
- (firearms) The tumbler of a gunlock.
- (music, lutherie) On stringed instruments such as guitars and violins, the small piece at the peghead end of the fingerboard that holds the strings at the proper spacing and, in most cases, the proper height.
- (poker, attributive) The best possible hand of a certain type. Compare nuts (“the best possible hand available”).
- (US, slang) The amount of money necessary to set up some venture; set-up costs.
- (vulgar, slang, uncountable) Semen, ejaculate, cum.
- (typography slang) En, a unit of measurement equal to half of the height of the type in use.
- (US, slang) A stash of money owned by an extremely rich investor, sufficient to sustain a high level of consumption if all other money is lost.
- (vulgar, slang, chiefly plural) A testicle, often used in the plural form.
- (colloquial) An extreme enthusiast.
- (climbing) A shaped piece of metal, threaded by a wire loop, which is jammed in a crack in the rockface and used to protect a climb. (Originally, machine nuts [sense #2] were used for this purpose.)
- (slang) The head. [from 19th c.]
- (hardware) A piece of hardware, typically metal and typically hexagonal or square in shape, with a hole through it having internal screw threads, intended to be screwed onto a threaded bolt or other threaded shaft.
- (vulgar, slang, countable) Orgasm, ejaculation; especially release of semen; cumshot
- Alternative form of nuth (“Indian nose ring”).
- (botany, strictly) Such a fruit that is indehiscent.
- (food, loosely) Any of various hard-shelled seeds or hard, dry fruits from various families of plants.
- (nautical) A projection on each side of the shank of an anchor, to secure the stock in place.
- (archaic except in combination with a modifier) A small rounded cake or cookie.
verb
intj
noun
- An English unit of length equal to 1/12 of a foot or 2.54 cm, conceived as roughly the width of a thumb.
- a unit of length equal to one twelfth of a foot
- A depth of one inch in a glass, used as a rough measurement of alcoholic beverages.
- (Scotland, Ireland) A small island; an islet.
- Any of various similar units of length in other traditional systems of measurement.
- (Scotland, Ireland) A meadow, pasture, field, or haugh.
- (meteorology) A depth of one inch on the ground, used as a measurement of rainfall.
- (figuratively) Any very short distance.
- a unit of measurement for advertising space
adj
verb
- (Hong Kong, colloquial) to burn (to insult); to speak in a cocky and cheeky manner
- To deal out by inches; to give sparingly.
- To drive by inches, or small degrees.
- (intransitive, followed by a preposition) To advance very slowly, or by a small amount (in a particular direction).
- advance slowly, as if by inches
noun
- a unit of length
- a series of things depending on each other as if linked together
- (chemistry) a series of linked atoms (generally in an organic molecule)
- anything that acts as a restraint
- a series of (usually metal) rings or links fitted into one another to make a flexible ligament
- a necklace made by stringing objects together
- a linked or connected series of objects
- (business) a number of similar establishments (stores or restaurants or banks or hotels or theaters) under one ownership
- a series of hills or mountains
- A livery collar, a chain of office.
- (algebraic topology, homological algebra, more generally) An element of a group (or module) in a chain complex.
- A unit of length, exactly equal to 22 yards, which is 4 rods or 100 links, and approximately equal to 20.12 metres; the length of a Gunter's surveying chain; the length of a cricket pitch.
- That which confines, fetters, or secures; a bond.
- A series of stores or businesses with the same brand name.
- A series of interconnected things.
- (weaving) The warp threads of a web.
- (British) A sequence of linked house purchases, each of which is dependent on the preceding and succeeding purchase (said to be "broken" if a buyer or seller pulls out).
- (surveying) A series of interconnected links of known length, used as a measuring device.
- A series of interconnected rings or links usually made of metal.
- (surveying) A long measuring tape.
- (mathematics, set theory, order theory) A totally ordered set, especially a totally ordered subset of a poset.
- (nautical, in the plural) Iron links bolted to the side of a vessel to bold the dead-eyes connected with the shrouds; also, the channels.
- (algebraic topology, originally) A formal sum of cells in a CW complex of a certain dimension k (in which case the formal sums are called k'''-chains); a formal sum of simplices or cubes of a certain dimension in a simplical complex or cubical complex (respectively).
- (organic chemistry, physical chemistry) A number of atoms in a series, which combine to form a molecule.
verb
- fasten or secure with chains
- connect or arrange into a chain by linking
- (computing) To be chained to another data item.
- (transitive, computing, rare, associated with Acorn Computers) To load and automatically run (a program).
- (intransitive) To link multiple items together.
- (figurative) To connect as if with a chain, due to dependence, addiction, or other feelings
- (computing) To relate data items with a chain of pointers.
- (transitive) To measure a distance using a 66-foot long chain, as in land surveying.
- (figurative) To obligate.
- (transitive) To secure someone with fetters.
- (transitive) To fasten something with a chain.
- (transitive) To obstruct the mouth of a river etc with a chain.
noun
- an addition to the length of something
- the act of lengthening something
- the quality of being elongated
- The state of being lengthened.
- That which lengthens out; a continuation.
- The ratio of the extension of a material to the length of the material prior to stretching.
- (astronomy) The angular distance of a planet from the sun.
- A removal to a distance; a withdrawal; a being at a distance; a distance.
- The act of lengthening.
noun
- an addition to the length of something
- the spreading of something (a belief or practice) into new regions
- a string of characters beginning with a period and followed by one or more letters; the optional second part of a PC computer filename
- an addition that extends a main building
- act of stretching or straightening out a flexed limb
- the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; the class of objects that an expression refers to
- an additional telephone set that is connected to the same telephone line
- the ability to raise the working leg high in the air
- amount or degree or range to which something extends
- a mutually agreed delay in the date set for the completion of a job or payment of a debt
- act of expanding in scope; making more widely available
- an educational opportunity provided by colleges and universities to people who are not enrolled as regular students
- That property of a body by which it occupies a portion of space (or time, e.g. "spatiotemporal extension").
- The act of extending; a stretching out; enlargement in length, breadth, or time; an increase.
- (weightlifting) An exercise in which an arm or leg is straightened against resistance.
- (fencing) A simple offensive action, consisting of extending the weapon arm forward.
- (logic) The set of tuples of values that, used as arguments, satisfy the predicate.
- (mathematics, group theory, of a group G by a group H) A short exact sequence 1→H→E→G→1, or the group E therein.
- (medicine) The operation of stretching a broken bone so as to bring the fragments into the same straight line.
- A part of a building that has been added onto the original.
- (ring theory, of an ideal in the domain of a ring homomorphism) The ideal in the codomain generated by the image of the given ideal under the given homomorphism.
- (telecommunications) A numerical code used to indicate a specific telephone in a telecommunication network.
- (computing) An optional software component that adds functionality to an application.
- (computing) Ellipsis of file extension.
- (linguistics, semantics) semantic widening, broadening of meaning
- An outgrowth; a part of something that extends its capabilities.
- (education) University programs that are targeted at the broader (usually adults) community whose participants are not full-time enrolled students.
- (mathematics, homological algebra, of an object A by an object B in an abelian category) A short exact sequence 0→B→E→A→0, or the object E therein.
- The state of being extended.
- (semantics) Capacity of a concept or general term to include a greater or smaller number of objects; — correlative of intension.
- (cosmetics, chiefly in the plural) Clipping of hair extension, nail extension, or eyelash extension.
- (banking, finance) A written engagement on the part of a creditor, allowing a debtor further time to pay a debt.
- (grammar) A kind of derivative morpheme applied to verbs in Bantu languages.
noun
adj
- currently fashionable
- holding office
- directed or bound inward
- In fashion; popular.
- (of fire or fuel) (British, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand) Burning; ablaze.
- (not comparable) Located indoors, especially at home or at one's office or place of work.
- Of the tide, at or near its highest level.
- Having been collected or received.
- (not comparable) Located inside something.
- Inserted or fitted into something.
- (sports, of the ball or other playing implement) Falling or remaining within the bounds of the playing area.
- (informal) Having a favourable position, such as a position of influence or expected gain, in relation to another person.
- Incoming.
- Having familiarity or involvement with somebody.
- (cricket) Currently batting.
- Having used, consumed , or invested a certain amount.
- (nautical, of the sails of a vessel) Furled or stowed.
- (law) With privilege or possession; used to denote a holding, possession, or seisin
adv
- to or toward the inside of
- At or towards the interior of a defined space, such as a building or room.
- After the beginning of something.
- Towards the speaker or other reference point.
- So as to be enclosed or surrounded by something.
- (in combination, after a verb) Denotes a gathering of people assembled for the stated activity, sometimes, though not always, suggesting a protest.
prep
- Pertaining to; with regard to.
- Part of; a member of; out of; from among.
- Contained by; inside.
- Wearing (an item of clothing).
- Surrounded by; among; amidst.
- (grammar, phonetics) Characterized by.
- Used to indicate a language, script, tone, etc. of a text, speech, etc.
- Within (a certain elapsed time); by the end of.
- Indicates, connotatively, a place-like form of someone's (or something's) personality, as his, her or its psychic and physical characteristics.
- By (doing something); indicating action causing an effect or achieving a purpose.
- Indicating an order or arrangement.
- Denoting a state of the subject.
- Expressing abstract containment.
- At the end of (a period of time).
- Within the bounds or limits of.
- Into.
- (of something offered or given in an exchange) In the form of, in the denomination of.
- During (a period of time).
noun
noun
adv
conj
verb
verb
- determine the length of
- make right or correct
- convert into direct current
- reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; separate from extraneous matter or cleanse from impurities
- bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one
- set straight or right
- (transitive) To correct or amend (a mistake, defect etc.).
- (transitive, mathematics) To determine the length of a curve included between two limits.
- (transitive) To produce (as factitious gin or brandy) by redistilling bad wines or strong spirits (whisky, rum, etc.) with flavourings.
- (transitive, geodesy, historical) To adjust (a globe or sundial) to prepare for the solution of a proposed problem.
- (transitive) To restore (someone or something) to its proper condition; to straighten out, to set right.
- (transitive, electronics) To convert (alternating current) into direct current.
- (transitive) To remedy or fix (an undesirable state of affairs, situation etc.).
- (transitive, chemistry) To purify or refine (a substance) by distillation.
verb
- To protrude in relatively long, narrow sections.
- (music, ambitransitive) On a wind instrument, to articulate a note by starting the air with a tap of the tongue, as though by speaking a 'd' or 't' sound (alveolar plosive).
- (transitive, slang, vulgar) To lick, penetrate or manipulate with the tongue during flirting or oral sex.
- (transitive) To manipulate with the tongue.
- To join by means of a tongue and groove.
- lick or explore with the tongue
- articulate by tonguing, as when playing wind instruments
noun
- The power of articulate utterance; speech generally.
- Any similar organ, such as the lingual ribbon, or odontophore, of a mollusk; the proboscis of a moth or butterfly; or the lingua of an insect.
- (figuratively) An individual point of flame from a fire.
- Any large or long physical protrusion on an automotive or machine part or any other part that fits into a long groove on another part.
- (geology) A division of formation; A layer or member of a formation that pinches out in one direction.
- A small sole (type of fish).
- In a shoe, the flap of material that goes between the laces and the foot (so called because it resembles a tongue in the mouth).
- (synecdochic, usually in the plural) A person speaking in a specified manner.
- (religion, often in the plural) Glossolalia.
- A long, narrow strip of land, projecting from the mainland into a sea or lake.
- The pole of a towed or drawn vehicle or farm implement (e.g., trailer, cart, plow, harrow), by which it is pulled; for example, the pole of an ox cart, to the end of which the oxen are yoked.
- The flexible muscular organ in the mouth that is used to move food around, for tasting and that is moved into various positions to modify the flow of air from the lungs in order to produce different sounds in speech.
- (nautical) A short piece of rope spliced into the upper part of standing backstays, etc.; also, the upper main piece of a mast composed of several pieces.
- The clapper of a bell.
- A manner of speaking, often habitually.
- (countable, uncountable) Such an organ, as taken from animals and used for food (especially from cows).
- (metonymic) A language.
- (music) A reed.
- A projection, or slender appendage or fixture.
- (flags) The middle protrusion of a triple-tailed flag.
- metal striker that hangs inside a bell and makes a sound by hitting the side
- the tongue of certain animals used as meat
- a manner of speaking
- a narrow strip of land that juts out into the sea
- a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity
- a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language
- any long thin projection that is transient
- the flap of material under the laces of a shoe or boot
adv
adj
- (of a relative other than a sibling) Related through one common grandparent or ancestor rather than two.
- Consisting of some indefinite portion resembling a half; approximately a half, whether more or less; partial; imperfect.
- (of a sibling) Having one parent (rather than two) in common.
- Consisting of a half (½, 50%).
- consisting of one of two equivalent parts in value or quantity
- (of siblings) related through one parent only
- partial
intj
noun
- (sports) One of two equal periods into which a game is divided.
- (numismatic slang) Clipping of half-dollar.
- (sports) abbreviated form for half marathon.
- (British) half a pint of beer or cider. (Refusing a pint) Just a half, thank you. (Offering to top up a pint glass) Do you want a half in that? (Minimizing the amount of drink taken) A swift half at the Pear Tree.
- (liquor trade) A barrel measure of 27 gallons (half a hogshead).
- Any of the three terms at Eton College, for Michaelmas, Lent, and summer.
- One of two usually roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided, or considered as divided.
- (sports) One of the two opposite parts of the playing field of various sports, in which each starts the game.
- (slang) A half sibling.
- (preceded by “a” or a number) The fraction obtained by dividing 1 by 2.
- one of two divisions into which some games or performances are divided: the two divisions are separated by an interval
- one of two equal parts of a divisible whole
prep
adj
noun
adj
noun
adj
adv
noun
- (music) A tempo in which the rhythm is emphasized so that it seems to have half as many metric divisions (e.g. emphasizing the start of every other bar rather than every bar).
- (sometimes attributive) Half or approximately half the number of hours usually worked in a specified period.
- (sports) The interval between the two halves of a sports match.
- (physics) The time taken for a physical quantity to halve the difference between its present value and its final value.
adj
- measured lengthwise
- of or in or along or relating to a line; involving or having a single dimension
- (of a leaf shape) long and narrow
- of a circuit or device having an output that is proportional to the input
- designating or involving an equation whose terms are of the first degree
- (botany, of leaves) Long and narrow, with nearly parallel sides.
- (media, of video and audio) Delivered or delivering on a fixed schedule, as opposed to on-demand.
- (of a function between vector spaces) An additive, homogeneous mapping; that is, a function f:V→W is linear if it distributes over vector addition (f( mathbf v+ mathbf w)=f( mathbf v)+f( mathbf w)) and respects scalar multiplication (f(c mathbf v)=cf( mathbf v)). If V and W are vector spaces over a field K, f may also be called a K-linear map. See also linear map on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Of or relating to lines.
- (physics) A type of length measurement involving only one spatial dimension (as opposed to area or volume).
- Made, or designed to be used, in a step-by-step, sequential manner.
- Having the form of a line; straight or roughly straight; following a direct course.
- (of a function over a module) A module homomorphism; that is, a group homomorphism that commutes with scalar multiplication. See also Module homomorphism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- (of a polynomial) Having degree one; that is, being of the form a_1x_1+a_2x_2+⋯+a_nx_n+b, where each x_i is a variable. See also Linear polynomials on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- (of a polynomial equation) Involving only linear polynomials. See also Linear equation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
noun
adj
- measured lengthwise
- executed or initiated by running
- (of e.g. a machine) performing or capable of performing
- of advancing the ball by running
- (of fluids) moving or issuing in a stream
- continually repeated over a period of time
- Having a continuous design or pattern.
- (medicine) Discharging pus.
- Flowing; easy; cursive.
- (medicine, of a nose) Discharging snot or mucus.
- Consecutive (much more commonly expressed by an adverb; see below).
- (botany) Extending by a slender climbing or trailing stem.
- Moving or advancing at a run.
- Of a horse, having a running gait; not a trotter or pacer.
- Continuous; ongoing; keeping along step by step.
- Present, current.
noun
- the act of participating in an athletic competition involving running on a track
- the state of being in operation
- (American football) a play in which a player attempts to carry the ball through or past the opposing team
- the act of administering or being in charge of something
- the act of running; traveling on foot at a fast pace
- The activity of running as a form of exercise, as a sport, or for any other reason.
- The action of the verb to run.
- That which runs or flows; the quantity of a liquid which flows in a certain time or during a certain operation.
- The discharge from an ulcer or other sore.
- (physics) The dependence of measured value, typically a coupling constant, on the energy scale at which it is probed due to higher-order interaction terms and associated renormalization issues becoming relevant; metaphorically, the "running" of the measurement from its limiting macroscopic value.
- (colloquial) The act of running errands.
adv
prep
verb
adj
- having length, breadth and thickness
- financially dependable
- of definite shape and volume; firm; neither liquid nor gaseous
- uninterrupted in space; having no gaps or breaks
- providing abundant nourishment
- acting together as a single undiversified whole
- characterized by good substantial quality
- meriting respect or esteem
- of one substance or character throughout
- not soft or yielding to pressure
- of the same color throughout
- of a substantial character and not frivolous or superficial
- impenetrable for the eye
- of good quality and condition; solidly built
- entirely of one substance with no holes inside
- (of time) Entire, complete.
- (of drawn lines) Continuous; unbroken; not dotted or dashed.
- Hearty; filling.
- (of an object or substance) That can be picked up or held, having a texture, and usually firm. Unlike a liquid, gas or plasma.
- Large in size, quantity, or value.
- (slang) Excellent, of high quality, or reliable.
- Of a single color throughout.
- Sound; not weak.
- (US, politics, slang) United; without division; unanimous.
- (of volumes of materials) Measured as a single solid, as the volumes of individual pieces added together without any gaps.
- Worthy of credit, trust, or esteem; substantial; not frivolous or fallacious.
- (typography) Written as one word, without spaces or hyphens.
- Strong or unyielding.
- United.
- (of rain) Continuous and heavy.
- Financially well off; wealthy.
- Lacking holes, hollows or admixtures of other materials.
noun
- matter that is solid at room temperature and pressure
- the state in which a substance has no tendency to flow under moderate stress; resists forces (such as compression) that tend to deform it; and retains a definite size and shape
- a three-dimensional object, structurally rigid, usually resistant to changes of shape or volume
- (geometry) A three-dimensional figure (as opposed to a surface, an area, or a curve).
- (in the plural) Food which is not liquid-based.
- (informal) A favor.
- An article of clothing which is of a single color throughout.
- (chemistry) A substance in the fundamental state of matter that retains its size and shape without need of a container (as opposed to a liquid or gas).
adv
adj
noun
- any of the minute blood vessels connecting arterioles with venules
- a tube of small internal diameter; holds liquid by capillary action
- (anatomy) Any of the small blood vessels (from 5 to 10 micrometres/micrometers (μm) in diameter) that connect arteries to veins (They are the smallest blood vessels in the body: they convey blood between the arterioles and venules).
- (physics, chemistry) A tube or channel having a very small internal diameter, through which liquid can rise or be drawn by capillary action.
adj
verb
- make long or longer by pulling and stretching
- To become long or longer, for example, by being pulled or stretched; to become elongated.
- (botany) Of a plant part: to grow long; also, to have a long and slender or tapering form.
- To make (something) long or longer, for example, by pulling or stretching; to make (something) elongated; to extend, to lengthen.
adj
verb
adj
- Being the normal or standard size for its type.
- (US) (of an automobile) Large; specifically, designed to be comfortable for long-distance driving with six occupants and their luggage.
- (art) (of a representational artwork or model) Being the same size as the original.
- (Canada, US) The size of a full bed.
- being of the same size as an original
adj
- Having length, but no width, height or depth.
- (figuratively) Lacking personal depth and substance; conceited, vain, shallow, superficial.
- (figuratively) Lacking depth or believability; flat.
- relating to a single dimension or aspect; having no depth or scope
- of or in or along or relating to a line; involving or having a single dimension
adj
- Longer in length or extension; elongated.
- (typography, of a typeface) Wider than usual.
- Stretched out or pulled out; expanded.
- Lasting longer; protracted.
- Having a large scope or range; extensive.
- fully extended or stretched forth
- large in spatial extent or range or scope or quantity
- relatively long in duration; tediously protracted
- beyond the literal or primary sense
- drawn out or made longer spatially
verb
adj
- Having a length and width that are different; not square or circular.
- (bookmaking) Having the horizontal axis of a page longer than the vertical; In landscape orientation.
- Roughly rectangular or elliptical.
- deviating from a square or circle or sphere by being elongated in one direction
- (of a leaf shape) having a somewhat elongated form with approximately parallel sides
noun
verb
adj
noun
- a meal that is well prepared and greatly enjoyed
- a haphazard distribution in all directions
- the expansion of a person's girth (especially at middle age)
- a conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures
- decorative cover for a bed
- two facing pages of a book or other publication
- farm consisting of a large tract of land along with facilities needed to raise livestock (especially cattle)
- process or result of distributing or extending over a wide expanse of space
- act of extending over a wider scope or expanse of space or time
- a tasty mixture to be spread on bread or crackers or used in preparing other dishes
- (geometry) An unlimited expanse of discontinuous points.
- The act of spreading.
- A piece of material used as a cover (such as a bedspread).
- (gambling) The difference between the teams' final scores at the end of a sport match.
- (debating slang) An act or instance of spreading (speedreading).
- Two facing pages in a book, newspaper etc.
- A numerical difference.
- (trading, finance) The purchase of one delivery month of one commodity against the sale of that same delivery month of a different commodity.
- An expanse of land.
- A large meal, especially one laid out on a table.
- (finance) The difference between the prices of two similar items.
- A large tract of land used to raise livestock; a cattle ranch.
- (cartomancy) A layout, pattern or design of cards arranged for a reading.
- (trading, economics, finance) The difference between the price of a futures month and the price of another month of the same commodity.
- (business, economics) The difference between the wholesale and retail prices.
- (trading) The difference between bidding and asking price.
- (statistics) A measure of how far the data tend to deviate from the average.
- (bread, etc.) Any form of food designed to be spread, such as butters or jams.
- Excessive width of the trails of ink written on overly absorbent paper.
- The surface in proportion to the depth of a cut gemstone.
- (prison slang, uncountable) Food improvised by inmates from various ingredients to relieve the tedium of prison food.
- An item in a newspaper or magazine that occupies more than one column or page.
- Something that has been spread.
- (trading) An arbitrage transaction of the same commodity in two markets, executed to take advantage of a profit from price discrepancies.
- (trading, finance) The purchase of a futures contract of one delivery month against the sale of another futures delivery month of the same commodity.
- (military) A set of multiple torpedoes launched on side-by-side, slowly-diverging paths toward one or more enemy ships.
verb
- cause to become widely known
- cover by spreading something over
- become distributed or widespread
- move outward
- become widely known and passed on
- strew or distribute over an area
- distribute or disperse widely
- spread out or open from a closed or folded state
- distribute over a surface in a layer
- spread across or over
- (transitive) To stretch out, open out (a material etc.) so that it more fully covers a given area of space.
- (transitive) To disseminate; to cause to proliferate, to make (something) widely known or present.
- (transitive) To smear, to distribute in a thin layer.
- (transitive) To cover (something) with a thin layer of some substance, as of butter.
- (intransitive, transitive, debating slang) To speedread; to recite one's arguments at an extremely fast pace.
- (transitive) To disperse, to scatter or distribute over a given area.
- (intransitive) To proliferate; to become more widely present, to be disseminated.
- (intransitive) To take up a larger area or space; to expand, be extended.
- (intransitive, slang) To open one’s legs, especially for sexual favours.
- To prepare; to set and furnish with provisions.
- (transitive) To extend (individual rays, limbs etc.); to stretch out in varying or opposing directions. simple past and past participle of spread
adj
- Having a small width; not wide; having opposite edges or sides that are close, especially by comparison to length or depth.
- Scrutinizing in detail; close; accurate; exact.
- (figuratively) Restrictive; without flexibility or latitude.
- Parsimonious; niggardly; covetous; selfish.
- Having a small margin or degree.
- (phonetics) Formed (as a vowel) by a close position of some part of the tongue in relation to the palate; or (according to Bell) by a tense condition of the pharynx; distinguished from wide.
- Of little extent; very limited; circumscribed.
- Contracted; of limited scope; bigoted
- (computing) Of or supporting only those text characters that can fit into the traditional 8-bit representation.
- lacking tolerance or flexibility or breadth of view
- not wide
- very limited in degree
- characterized by painstaking care and detailed examination
- limited in extent or scope
noun
verb
- (transitive, programming) To convert to a data type that cannot hold as many distinct values.
- (of a person or eyes) To partially lower one's eyelids in a way usually taken to suggest a defensive, aggressive or penetrating look.
- (intransitive) To get narrower.
- (knitting) To contract the size of, as a stocking, by taking two stitches into one.
- (transitive) To reduce in width or extent; to contract.
- define clearly
- become tight or as if tight
- become more focused on an area of activity or field of study
- make or become more narrow or restricted
adj
- of relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite or in cross section
- very narrow
- not dense
- (of sound) lacking resonance or volume
- lacking spirit or sincere effort
- relatively thin in consistency or low in density; not viscous
- lacking substance or significance
- lacking excess flesh
- (aviation) Of a route: relatively little used.
- Scarce; not close, crowded, or numerous; not filling the space.
- (golf) Describing a poorly played golf shot where the ball is struck by the bottom part of the club head. See fat, shank, toe.
- Lacking body or volume; small; feeble; not full.
- Of low viscosity or low specific gravity.
- Very narrow in all diameters; having a cross section that is small in all directions.
- Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite.
- Poor; scanty; without money or success.
- Having little body fat or flesh; slim; slender; lean; gaunt.
- Slight; small; slender; flimsy; superficial; inadequate; not sufficient for a covering.
adv
verb
- make thin or thinner
- lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture
- lose thickness; become thin or thinner
- take off weight
- To remove some plants or parts of plants in order to improve the growth of what remains.
- To dilute.
- (intransitive) To become thin or thinner.
- (transitive) To make thin or thinner.