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- (cryptography) Initialism of elliptic-curve cryptography.
- (television) Initialism of electronic camera coverage.
- (law) Initialism of export control and customs.
- (medicine) Initialism of emergency cardiovascular care.
- (computing) Initialism of error correcting/correction code.
- (telecommunication) a coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors
name
noun
- (mathematics) Initialism of elliptic curve method.
- (military) Initialism of Electronic countermeasure.
- (materials science) Abbreviation of engineered cellular magmatic.
- (astronomy) Abbreviation of extra-cluster medium.
- Initialism of engine control module.
- (medicine) Initialism of extracellular matrix.
- (grammar) Initialism of exceptional case-marking.
- (computing) Initialism of enterprise content management.
- electronic warfare undertaken to prevent or reduce an enemy's effective use of the electromagnetic spectrum
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adj
verb
- form a curve
- bend one's back forward from the waist on down
- change direction
- bend a joint
- cause (an object) to assume a crooked or angular form
- turn from a straight course, fixed direction, or line of interest
- (intransitive) To be inclined; to direct itself.
- (transitive, music) To smoothly change the pitch of a note.
- (transitive) To force to submit.
- (transitive) To adapt or interpret to for a purpose or beneficiary.
- (transitive) To cause to change direction.
- (transitive, nautical) To tie, as in securing a line to a cleat; to shackle a chain to an anchor; make fast.
- (intransitive) To become curved.
- (intransitive) To change direction.
- (intransitive) To bow in prayer, or in token of submission.
- (transitive) To apply to a task or purpose.
- (intransitive, usually with "down") To stoop.
- (transitive) To cause (something) to change its shape into a curve, by physical force, chemical action, or any other means.
- (intransitive) To submit.
- (intransitive) To apply oneself to a task or purpose.
- (intransitive, nautical) To swing the body when rowing.
noun
- a circular segment of a curve
- A curve.
- an angular or rounded shape made by folding
- curved segment (of a road or river or railroad track etc.)
- movement that causes the formation of a curve
- diagonal line traversing a shield from the upper right corner to the lower left
- (in the plural, medicine, underwater diving, with the) A severe condition caused by excessively quick decompression, causing bubbles of nitrogen to form in the blood; decompression sickness.
- (nautical, in the plural) The thickest and strongest planks in a ship's sides, more generally called wales, which have the beams, knees, and futtocks bolted to them.
- (nautical, in the plural) The frames or ribs that form the ship's body from the keel to the top of the sides.
- (music) A glissando, or glide between one pitch and another, especially one accomplished by bending a string (such as on guitar).
- (mining) Hard, indurated clay; bind.
- In the leather trade, the best quality of sole leather; a butt; sometimes, half a butt cut lengthwise.
- (heraldry) One of the honourable ordinaries formed by two diagonal lines drawn from the dexter chief to the sinister base; it generally occupies a fifth part of the shield if uncharged, but if charged one third.
- Any of the various knots which join the ends of two lines.
verb
- form a curve
- exhibit the strength of
- contract
- bend a joint
- cause (an object) to assume a crooked or angular form
- (transitive, slang) To boast or brag about; to flaunt (something).
- (transitive) To repeatedly bend one of one's joints.
- (intransitive) To tighten the muscles for display of size or strength.
- (transitive) To move part of the body using one's muscles.
- (transitive, chiefly physics or biomechanics) To bend something.
- (intransitive, slang) To flaunt one's superiority; to show off.
noun
- the act of flexing
- (countable) An act of flexing.
- (uncountable, chiefly UK, Ireland) Any flexible insulated electrical wiring.
- (uncountable) Flexibility, pliancy.
- (countable, geometry) A point of inflection.
- (countable) A flexible insulated electrical cord.
- (uncountable) Flexible ductwork, typically flexible plastic over a metal wire coil to shape a tube.
- (countable, slang) An act or instance of flaunting something; a boast or brag; something considered impressive.
noun
- an undulating curve
- (physics) a movement up and down or back and forth
- wavelike motion; a gentle rising and falling in the manner of waves
- A wavy appearance or outline; waviness.
- A wavelike curve; a smooth and regular rise and fall.
- An instance or act of undulating.
- A wavelike motion of the air; electromagnetic radiation.
- (music) A tremulous tone produced by a peculiar pressure of the finger on a string.
noun
- an undulating curve
- a movement like that of a sudden occurrence or increase in a specified phenomenon
- (physics) a movement up and down or back and forth
- a persistent and widespread unusual weather condition (especially of unusual temperatures)
- something that rises rapidly
- a hairdo that creates undulations in the hair
- the act of signaling by a movement of the hand
- one of a series of ridges that moves across the surface of a liquid (especially across a large body of water)
- A loose back-and-forth movement, as of the hands.
- A shape that alternatingly curves in opposite directions.
- (video games, by extension) One of the successive swarms of enemies sent to attack the player in certain games.
- Any of a number of species of moths in the geometrid subfamily Sterrhinae, which have wavy markings on the wings.
- A moving disturbance in the level of a body of liquid; an undulation.
- (figurative) A sudden, but temporary, uptick in something.
- (poetic) The ocean.
- (usually "the wave") A group activity in a crowd imitating a wave going through water, where people in successive parts of the crowd stand and stretch upward, then sit.
- (logistics) Any of a series of orders to be fulfilled in one short interval of time, planned as part of wave picking.
- (figurative) A movement or trend in popular culture.
- (physics) A moving disturbance in the energy level of a field.
verb
- twist or roll into coils or ringlets
- set waves in
- signal with the hands or nod
- move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion
- move or swing back and forth
- (intransitive, ergative) To move like a wave, or by floating; to waft.
- (intransitive) To move one's hand back and forth (generally above the shoulders) in greeting or departure.
- (transitive) To style (the hair) so as to produce a wavy texture.
- (transitive, metonymic) To signal (someone or something) with a waving movement.
- (intransitive, baseball) To swing and miss at a pitch.
- To generate a wave.
- (intransitive) To move back and forth repeatedly and somewhat loosely.
- (transitive) To cause to move back and forth repeatedly.
- (intransitive) To have an undulating or wavy form.
- (transitive, metonymic) To call attention to, or give a direction or command to, by a waving motion, as of the hand; to signify by waving; to beckon; to signal; to indicate.
- (transitive) To raise into inequalities of surface; to give an undulating form or surface to.
adj
noun
- Argyrogramma signata (green semi-looper)
- Chrysodeixis acuta (tomato semi-looper)
- Chrysodeixis chalcites (groundnut semi-looper)
- Anomis flava (cotton semi-looper)
- Oxyodes scrobiculata (longan semi-looper)
- Anomis sabulifera (jute semi-looper)
- Achaea janata (castor semi-looper)
- Trigonodes hyppasia (triangles)
noun
adj
- (physics, quantum mechanics, of a process) Involving the slow change of the Hamiltonian of a system from its initial value to a final value.
- (physics, thermodynamics, of a process) Without gain or loss of heat (and thus with no change in entropy, in the quasistatic approximation).
- occurring without loss or gain of heat
noun
adj
noun
- (uncountable, semiotics) Reproduction of a sign with fidelity.
- (uncountable, economics) Period (as opposed to lifetime) utility.
- (uncountable) Happiness; (countable) an instance of this.
- (uncountable) An apt and pleasing style in speech, writing, etc.; (countable) an apt and pleasing choice of words.
- (uncountable, rare) Good luck; success; (countable) An instance of unexpected good luck; a stroke of luck; also, a lucky characteristic.
- (countable) Something that is either a source of happiness or particularly apt.
- pleasing and appropriate manner or style (especially manner or style of expression)
- state of well-being characterized by emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy
noun
adj
- Of a leaf: having a (certain number of) leaflets.
- (geology) Synonym of foliated (“of a rock: having a structure of thin layers”).
- (geometry) Of a curve: having two infinite branches with a common asymptote, and a leaf-shaped loop.
- Shaped like or otherwise resembling a leaf; leaflike.
- Of or relating to leaves.
- Of a plant: having leaves.
- ornamented with foliage or foils
- (especially of metamorphic rock) having thin leaflike layers or strata
- (often used as a combining form) having or resembling a leaf or having a specified kind or number of leaves
verb
- To add numbers to (a folio or leaf, or all the folios or leaves, of a book); also, to add numbers to the folios or leaves of (a book); to folio, to page, to paginate.
- (botany) Of a plant: to produce leaves.
- (architecture) To decorate (an architectural feature, as an arch or window) with foils (“small arcs in the traceries of arches, windows, etc.”).
- To split into layers or leaves.
- To spread (glass) with a thin coat of mercury and tin, or other substances forming a foil, to create a mirror; to foil, to silver.
- hammer into thin flat foils
- coat or back with metal foil
- decorate with leaves
- grow leaves
- number the pages of a book or manuscript
noun
- a circular segment of a curve
- a long staff with one end being hook shaped
- someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime
- A bent or curved part; a curving piece or portion (of anything).
- A bishop's standard staff of office.
- A bending of the knee; a genuflection.
- A specialized staff with a semi-circular bend (a "hook") at one end used by shepherds to control their herds.
- A pothook.
- An artifice; a trick; a contrivance.
- A person who steals, lies, cheats or does other dishonest or illegal things; a criminal.
- A bend; turn; curve; curvature; a flexure.
- (music) A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.
verb
adj
noun
- a circular segment of a curve
- a time period for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else)
- (sports) a division of a game during which one team is on the offensive
- a movement in a new direction
- a short performance that is part of a longer program
- (game) the activity of doing something in an agreed succession
- the act of turning away or in the opposite direction
- the act of changing or reversing the direction of the course
- a favor for someone
- taking a short walk out and back
- an unforeseen development
- turning or twisting around (in place)
- A fit or a period of giddiness.
- A movement of an object about its own axis in one direction that continues until the object returns to its initial orientation.
- (geometry) A unit of plane angle measurement based on this movement.
- A change in temperament or circumstance.
- A change of direction or orientation.
- A deed done to another; an act of kindness or malice.
- The transition from one period or era to another.
- One's chance to make a move in a game having two or more players.
- A walk to and fro.
- (soccer) An instance of going past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
- (UK, finance, historical) The profit made by a stockjobber, being the difference between the buying and selling prices.
- A chance to use (something) shared in sequence with others.
- A figure in music, often denoted ~, consisting of the note above the one indicated, the note itself, the note below the one indicated, and the note itself again.
- (rope) A pass behind or through an object.
- A single loop of a coil.
- (poker) The fourth communal card in Texas hold 'em.
- Character; personality; nature.
- A spell of work, especially the time allotted to a person in a rota or schedule.
- (cricket) A sideways movement of the ball when it bounces (caused by rotation in flight).
- The time required to complete a project.
- (circus, theater, especially physical comedy) A short skit, act, or routine.
verb
- accomplish by rotating
- to break and turn over earth especially with a plow
- to send or let go
- pass to the other side of
- twist suddenly so as to sprain
- to change orientation or direction
- move around an axis or a center
- get by buying and selling
- channel one's attention, interest, thought, or attention toward or away from something
- let (something) fall or spill from a container
- alter the functioning or setting of
- undergo a transformation or a change of position or action
- cause to change or turn into something different;assume new characteristics
- shape by rotating on a lathe or cutting device or a wheel
- cause to move around or rotate
- pass into a condition gradually, take on a specific property or attribute; become
- become officially one year older
- go sour or spoil
- change to the contrary
- cause to move around a center so as to show another side of
- have recourse to or make an appeal or request for help or information to
- change color
- undergo a change or development
- cause (an object) to assume a crooked or angular form
- cause to move along an axis or into a new direction
- direct at someone
- (transitive, roleplaying games) To magically or divinely repel undead.
- (intransitive) To change the color of the leaves in the autumn.
- To change fundamentally; to metamorphose.
- (transitive, fantasy) To change (a person) into a vampire, werewolf, zombie, etc.
- (by extension) To give form to; to shape or mould; to adapt.
- (intransitive, fantasy) To transform into a vampire, werewolf, zombie, etc.
- (professional wrestling) To change personalities, such as from being a face (good guy) to heel (bad guy) or vice versa.
- To undergo the process of turning on a lathe.
- To be nauseated; said of the stomach.
- (transitive) To shape (something) symmetrically by rotating it against a stationary cutting tool, as on a lathe.
- (ambitransitive) To make or become giddy; said of the head or brain.
- (transitive, usually with over) To complete.
- (transitive, soccer) Of a player, to go past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
- (intransitive) To change one's direction of travel.
- To sicken; to nauseate.
- (transitive) To direct or impel (something) into a place.
- (transitive) To twist or sprain.
- (obstetrics) To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.
- (transitive, cricket) Of a bowler, to make (the ball) move sideways off the pitch when it bounces.
- (intransitive) To sour or spoil; to go bad.
- (intransitive, of a body, person, etc) To move about an axis through itself.
- (transitive, figuratively) To navigate through a book or other printed material.
- (transitive) To position (something) by folding it, or using its folds.
- To hinge; to depend.
- (transitive) To make acid or sour; to ferment; to curdle.
- (reflexive) To change one's course of action; to take a new approach.
- To rebel; to go against something formerly tolerated.
- (intransitive, cricket) Of a ball, to move sideways off the pitch when it bounces.
- (copulative) To become (often used with colors, clear sudden changes, weather and ages).
- (transitive, slang, sometimes offensive) To change the sexual orientation or gender of another person, or otherwise awaken a sexual preference.
- (transitive) To make (money); turn a profit.
- (transitive) To change the direction or orientation of, especially by rotation.
noun
- a circular segment of a curve
- any clever maneuver
- social dancing in which couples vigorously twist their hips and arms in time to the music; was popular in the 1960s
- a jerky pulling movement
- the act of rotating rapidly
- a sharp strain on muscles or ligaments
- a hairdo formed by braiding or twisting the hair
- an unforeseen development
- a sharp bend in a line produced when a line having a loop is pulled tight
- a miniature whirlpool or whirlwind resulting when the current of a fluid doubles back on itself
- turning or twisting around (in place)
- an interpretation of a text or action
- the act of winding or twisting
- A distortion to the meaning of a passage or word.
- The spiral course of the rifling of a gun barrel or a cannon.
- A type of thread made from two filaments twisted together.
- (preceded by definite article) A modern dance popular in Western culture in the late 1950s and 1960s, based on rotating the hips repeatedly from side to side. See Twist (dance) on Wikipedia for more details.
- A twisting force.
- A material for gun barrels, consisting of iron and steel twisted and welded together.
- The form given in twisting.
- Anything twisted, or the act of twisting.
- An unexpected turn in a story, tale, etc.
- (slang) A girl, a woman.
- A rotation of the body when diving.
- A roll or baton of baked dough or pastry in a twisted shape.
- A strong individual tendency or bent; inclination.
- The degree of stress or strain when twisted.
- Ellipsis of hair twist.
- A sudden bend (or short series of bends) in a road, path, etc.
- A sliver of lemon peel added to a cocktail, etc.
- A sprain, especially to the ankle.
- (countable, uncountable) A small roll of tobacco.
verb
- to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling)
- form into a spiral shape
- do the twist
- twist suddenly so as to sprain
- form into twists
- extend in curves and turns
- twist or pull violently or suddenly, especially so as to remove (something) from that to which it is attached or from where it originates
- practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive
- turn in the opposite direction
- cause (an object) to assume a crooked or angular form
- To distort or change the truth or meaning of words when repeating.
- (transitive) To coax.
- To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.
- (transitive) To cause to rotate.
- To turn the ends of something, usually thread, rope etc., in opposite directions, often using force.
- To join together by twining one part around another.
- (card games) In the game of blackjack (pontoon or twenty-one), to be dealt another card.
- (reflexive) To wind into; to insinuate.
- (intransitive) To dance the twist (a type of dance characterised by twisting one's hips).
- To turn a knob etc.
- (intransitive, of a path) To wind; to follow a bendy or wavy course; to have many bends.
- To form a twist (in any of the above noun meanings).
- To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture of parts.
- To injure (a body part) by bending it in the wrong direction.
noun
- A curve, in general.
- (narratology) Ellipsis of story arc.
- (mathematics) A continuous mapping from a real interval (typically [0, 1]) into a space.
- (graph theory) A directed edge.
- (geometry) A continuous part of the circumference of a circle (circular arc) or of another curve.
- A band contained within parallel curves, or something of that shape.
- (astronomy) That part of a circle which a heavenly body appears to pass through as it moves above and below the horizon.
- (electrics) A flow of current across an insulating medium; especially a hot, luminous discharge either between two electrodes or as lightning.
- (film) An arclight.
- (by extension, Internet slang) A period or phase in a person's life.
- (basketball, slang) The three-point line.
- something curved in shape
- a continuous portion of a circle
- electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field
verb
noun
adj
- (mathematics) Of or pertaining to a broad field of mathematics that originates from the problem of calculating arc lengths of an ellipse.
- (botany, of leaves) Oval, with a short or no point.
- (linguistics) Of, or showing ellipsis; having a word or words omitted; elliptical.
- (geometry) Of or pertaining to an ellipse.
- (mathematics, in combination, of certain functions, equations and operators) That has coefficients satisfying a condition analogous to the condition for the general equation for a conic section to be of an ellipse.
- (of a leaf shape) in the form of an ellipse
- rounded like an egg
- characterized by extreme economy of expression or omission of superfluous elements
noun
noun
- (algebraic geometry) The coordinate of the point at which a curve intersects an axis.
- An interception of a missile.
- (marketing) A form of market research where consumers are intercepted and interviewed in a retail store or mall.
- An interception of a radio broadcast or a telephone call.
- the point at which a line intersects a coordinate axis
verb
- (transitive, sports) To gain possession of (the ball) in a ball game.
- To perform an aeronautical action in which a fighter approaches a suspicious aircraft to escort it away from a prohibited area, or approaches an enemy aircraft to shoot it down.
- (transitive) To stop, deflect or divert (something in progress or motion).
- (transitive, American football) Of a defensive player: to steal a pass thrown by the opposing team, gaining possession of the ball.
- (transitive, mathematics) To take or comprehend between.
- tap a telephone or telegraph wire to get information
- seize on its way
noun
- a signature that validates something
- the act of endorsing
- a promotional statement (as found on the dust jackets of books)
- formal and explicit approval
- a speech seconding a motion
- An amendment or annotation to an insurance contract or other official document (such as a driving licence).
- Sponsorship, in means of money, by a company, business or enterprise.
- (aviation) An instructor's signed acknowledgement of time practising specific flying skills.
- (education, certification) Permission to carry out a specific skill or application in a field in which the practitioner already has a general licence.
- Support from an important, renowned figure of a media (celebrity, politics, sports, etc.), to get back up.
- The act or quality of endorsing
noun
- a curve that reverses the direction of something
- the action of perverting something (turning it to a wrong use)
- an aberrant sexual practice
- The action of perverting someone or something; humiliation; debasement.
- Distortion or corruption of the original course, meaning, or state of something.
- The state of being perverted; depravity; vice.
- (geometry) Tendril perversion.
- A sexual practice considered abnormal; sexual deviance.
noun
- (cryptography) Initialism of elliptic-curve cryptography.
- (television) Initialism of electronic camera coverage.
- (law) Initialism of export control and customs.
- (medicine) Initialism of emergency cardiovascular care.
- (computing) Initialism of error correcting/correction code.
- (telecommunication) a coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors
name
noun
- (mathematics) Initialism of elliptic curve method.
- (military) Initialism of Electronic countermeasure.
- (materials science) Abbreviation of engineered cellular magmatic.
- (astronomy) Abbreviation of extra-cluster medium.
- Initialism of engine control module.
- (medicine) Initialism of extracellular matrix.
- (grammar) Initialism of exceptional case-marking.
- (computing) Initialism of enterprise content management.
- electronic warfare undertaken to prevent or reduce an enemy's effective use of the electromagnetic spectrum
name
noun
- an undulating curve
- (physics) a movement up and down or back and forth
- wavelike motion; a gentle rising and falling in the manner of waves
- A wavy appearance or outline; waviness.
- A wavelike curve; a smooth and regular rise and fall.
- An instance or act of undulating.
- A wavelike motion of the air; electromagnetic radiation.
- (music) A tremulous tone produced by a peculiar pressure of the finger on a string.
noun
- an undulating curve
- a movement like that of a sudden occurrence or increase in a specified phenomenon
- (physics) a movement up and down or back and forth
- a persistent and widespread unusual weather condition (especially of unusual temperatures)
- something that rises rapidly
- a hairdo that creates undulations in the hair
- the act of signaling by a movement of the hand
- one of a series of ridges that moves across the surface of a liquid (especially across a large body of water)
- A loose back-and-forth movement, as of the hands.
- A shape that alternatingly curves in opposite directions.
- (video games, by extension) One of the successive swarms of enemies sent to attack the player in certain games.
- Any of a number of species of moths in the geometrid subfamily Sterrhinae, which have wavy markings on the wings.
- A moving disturbance in the level of a body of liquid; an undulation.
- (figurative) A sudden, but temporary, uptick in something.
- (poetic) The ocean.
- (usually "the wave") A group activity in a crowd imitating a wave going through water, where people in successive parts of the crowd stand and stretch upward, then sit.
- (logistics) Any of a series of orders to be fulfilled in one short interval of time, planned as part of wave picking.
- (figurative) A movement or trend in popular culture.
- (physics) A moving disturbance in the energy level of a field.
verb
- twist or roll into coils or ringlets
- set waves in
- signal with the hands or nod
- move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion
- move or swing back and forth
- (intransitive, ergative) To move like a wave, or by floating; to waft.
- (intransitive) To move one's hand back and forth (generally above the shoulders) in greeting or departure.
- (transitive) To style (the hair) so as to produce a wavy texture.
- (transitive, metonymic) To signal (someone or something) with a waving movement.
- (intransitive, baseball) To swing and miss at a pitch.
- To generate a wave.
- (intransitive) To move back and forth repeatedly and somewhat loosely.
- (transitive) To cause to move back and forth repeatedly.
- (intransitive) To have an undulating or wavy form.
- (transitive, metonymic) To call attention to, or give a direction or command to, by a waving motion, as of the hand; to signify by waving; to beckon; to signal; to indicate.
- (transitive) To raise into inequalities of surface; to give an undulating form or surface to.
noun
- Argyrogramma signata (green semi-looper)
- Chrysodeixis acuta (tomato semi-looper)
- Chrysodeixis chalcites (groundnut semi-looper)
- Anomis flava (cotton semi-looper)
- Oxyodes scrobiculata (longan semi-looper)
- Anomis sabulifera (jute semi-looper)
- Achaea janata (castor semi-looper)
- Trigonodes hyppasia (triangles)
noun
adj
- (physics, quantum mechanics, of a process) Involving the slow change of the Hamiltonian of a system from its initial value to a final value.
- (physics, thermodynamics, of a process) Without gain or loss of heat (and thus with no change in entropy, in the quasistatic approximation).
- occurring without loss or gain of heat
noun
adj
noun
- (uncountable, semiotics) Reproduction of a sign with fidelity.
- (uncountable, economics) Period (as opposed to lifetime) utility.
- (uncountable) Happiness; (countable) an instance of this.
- (uncountable) An apt and pleasing style in speech, writing, etc.; (countable) an apt and pleasing choice of words.
- (uncountable, rare) Good luck; success; (countable) An instance of unexpected good luck; a stroke of luck; also, a lucky characteristic.
- (countable) Something that is either a source of happiness or particularly apt.
- pleasing and appropriate manner or style (especially manner or style of expression)
- state of well-being characterized by emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy
noun
adj
- Of a leaf: having a (certain number of) leaflets.
- (geology) Synonym of foliated (“of a rock: having a structure of thin layers”).
- (geometry) Of a curve: having two infinite branches with a common asymptote, and a leaf-shaped loop.
- Shaped like or otherwise resembling a leaf; leaflike.
- Of or relating to leaves.
- Of a plant: having leaves.
- ornamented with foliage or foils
- (especially of metamorphic rock) having thin leaflike layers or strata
- (often used as a combining form) having or resembling a leaf or having a specified kind or number of leaves
verb
- To add numbers to (a folio or leaf, or all the folios or leaves, of a book); also, to add numbers to the folios or leaves of (a book); to folio, to page, to paginate.
- (botany) Of a plant: to produce leaves.
- (architecture) To decorate (an architectural feature, as an arch or window) with foils (“small arcs in the traceries of arches, windows, etc.”).
- To split into layers or leaves.
- To spread (glass) with a thin coat of mercury and tin, or other substances forming a foil, to create a mirror; to foil, to silver.
- hammer into thin flat foils
- coat or back with metal foil
- decorate with leaves
- grow leaves
- number the pages of a book or manuscript
verb
- form a curve
- bend one's back forward from the waist on down
- change direction
- bend a joint
- cause (an object) to assume a crooked or angular form
- turn from a straight course, fixed direction, or line of interest
- (intransitive) To be inclined; to direct itself.
- (transitive, music) To smoothly change the pitch of a note.
- (transitive) To force to submit.
- (transitive) To adapt or interpret to for a purpose or beneficiary.
- (transitive) To cause to change direction.
- (transitive, nautical) To tie, as in securing a line to a cleat; to shackle a chain to an anchor; make fast.
- (intransitive) To become curved.
- (intransitive) To change direction.
- (intransitive) To bow in prayer, or in token of submission.
- (transitive) To apply to a task or purpose.
- (intransitive, usually with "down") To stoop.
- (transitive) To cause (something) to change its shape into a curve, by physical force, chemical action, or any other means.
- (intransitive) To submit.
- (intransitive) To apply oneself to a task or purpose.
- (intransitive, nautical) To swing the body when rowing.
noun
- a circular segment of a curve
- A curve.
- an angular or rounded shape made by folding
- curved segment (of a road or river or railroad track etc.)
- movement that causes the formation of a curve
- diagonal line traversing a shield from the upper right corner to the lower left
- (in the plural, medicine, underwater diving, with the) A severe condition caused by excessively quick decompression, causing bubbles of nitrogen to form in the blood; decompression sickness.
- (nautical, in the plural) The thickest and strongest planks in a ship's sides, more generally called wales, which have the beams, knees, and futtocks bolted to them.
- (nautical, in the plural) The frames or ribs that form the ship's body from the keel to the top of the sides.
- (music) A glissando, or glide between one pitch and another, especially one accomplished by bending a string (such as on guitar).
- (mining) Hard, indurated clay; bind.
- In the leather trade, the best quality of sole leather; a butt; sometimes, half a butt cut lengthwise.
- (heraldry) One of the honourable ordinaries formed by two diagonal lines drawn from the dexter chief to the sinister base; it generally occupies a fifth part of the shield if uncharged, but if charged one third.
- Any of the various knots which join the ends of two lines.
noun
- a circular segment of a curve
- a long staff with one end being hook shaped
- someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime
- A bent or curved part; a curving piece or portion (of anything).
- A bishop's standard staff of office.
- A bending of the knee; a genuflection.
- A specialized staff with a semi-circular bend (a "hook") at one end used by shepherds to control their herds.
- A pothook.
- An artifice; a trick; a contrivance.
- A person who steals, lies, cheats or does other dishonest or illegal things; a criminal.
- A bend; turn; curve; curvature; a flexure.
- (music) A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.
verb
adj
noun
- a circular segment of a curve
- a time period for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else)
- (sports) a division of a game during which one team is on the offensive
- a movement in a new direction
- a short performance that is part of a longer program
- (game) the activity of doing something in an agreed succession
- the act of turning away or in the opposite direction
- the act of changing or reversing the direction of the course
- a favor for someone
- taking a short walk out and back
- an unforeseen development
- turning or twisting around (in place)
- A fit or a period of giddiness.
- A movement of an object about its own axis in one direction that continues until the object returns to its initial orientation.
- (geometry) A unit of plane angle measurement based on this movement.
- A change in temperament or circumstance.
- A change of direction or orientation.
- A deed done to another; an act of kindness or malice.
- The transition from one period or era to another.
- One's chance to make a move in a game having two or more players.
- A walk to and fro.
- (soccer) An instance of going past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
- (UK, finance, historical) The profit made by a stockjobber, being the difference between the buying and selling prices.
- A chance to use (something) shared in sequence with others.
- A figure in music, often denoted ~, consisting of the note above the one indicated, the note itself, the note below the one indicated, and the note itself again.
- (rope) A pass behind or through an object.
- A single loop of a coil.
- (poker) The fourth communal card in Texas hold 'em.
- Character; personality; nature.
- A spell of work, especially the time allotted to a person in a rota or schedule.
- (cricket) A sideways movement of the ball when it bounces (caused by rotation in flight).
- The time required to complete a project.
- (circus, theater, especially physical comedy) A short skit, act, or routine.
verb
- accomplish by rotating
- to break and turn over earth especially with a plow
- to send or let go
- pass to the other side of
- twist suddenly so as to sprain
- to change orientation or direction
- move around an axis or a center
- get by buying and selling
- channel one's attention, interest, thought, or attention toward or away from something
- let (something) fall or spill from a container
- alter the functioning or setting of
- undergo a transformation or a change of position or action
- cause to change or turn into something different;assume new characteristics
- shape by rotating on a lathe or cutting device or a wheel
- cause to move around or rotate
- pass into a condition gradually, take on a specific property or attribute; become
- become officially one year older
- go sour or spoil
- change to the contrary
- cause to move around a center so as to show another side of
- have recourse to or make an appeal or request for help or information to
- change color
- undergo a change or development
- cause (an object) to assume a crooked or angular form
- cause to move along an axis or into a new direction
- direct at someone
- (transitive, roleplaying games) To magically or divinely repel undead.
- (intransitive) To change the color of the leaves in the autumn.
- To change fundamentally; to metamorphose.
- (transitive, fantasy) To change (a person) into a vampire, werewolf, zombie, etc.
- (by extension) To give form to; to shape or mould; to adapt.
- (intransitive, fantasy) To transform into a vampire, werewolf, zombie, etc.
- (professional wrestling) To change personalities, such as from being a face (good guy) to heel (bad guy) or vice versa.
- To undergo the process of turning on a lathe.
- To be nauseated; said of the stomach.
- (transitive) To shape (something) symmetrically by rotating it against a stationary cutting tool, as on a lathe.
- (ambitransitive) To make or become giddy; said of the head or brain.
- (transitive, usually with over) To complete.
- (transitive, soccer) Of a player, to go past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
- (intransitive) To change one's direction of travel.
- To sicken; to nauseate.
- (transitive) To direct or impel (something) into a place.
- (transitive) To twist or sprain.
- (obstetrics) To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.
- (transitive, cricket) Of a bowler, to make (the ball) move sideways off the pitch when it bounces.
- (intransitive) To sour or spoil; to go bad.
- (intransitive, of a body, person, etc) To move about an axis through itself.
- (transitive, figuratively) To navigate through a book or other printed material.
- (transitive) To position (something) by folding it, or using its folds.
- To hinge; to depend.
- (transitive) To make acid or sour; to ferment; to curdle.
- (reflexive) To change one's course of action; to take a new approach.
- To rebel; to go against something formerly tolerated.
- (intransitive, cricket) Of a ball, to move sideways off the pitch when it bounces.
- (copulative) To become (often used with colors, clear sudden changes, weather and ages).
- (transitive, slang, sometimes offensive) To change the sexual orientation or gender of another person, or otherwise awaken a sexual preference.
- (transitive) To make (money); turn a profit.
- (transitive) To change the direction or orientation of, especially by rotation.
noun
- a circular segment of a curve
- any clever maneuver
- social dancing in which couples vigorously twist their hips and arms in time to the music; was popular in the 1960s
- a jerky pulling movement
- the act of rotating rapidly
- a sharp strain on muscles or ligaments
- a hairdo formed by braiding or twisting the hair
- an unforeseen development
- a sharp bend in a line produced when a line having a loop is pulled tight
- a miniature whirlpool or whirlwind resulting when the current of a fluid doubles back on itself
- turning or twisting around (in place)
- an interpretation of a text or action
- the act of winding or twisting
- A distortion to the meaning of a passage or word.
- The spiral course of the rifling of a gun barrel or a cannon.
- A type of thread made from two filaments twisted together.
- (preceded by definite article) A modern dance popular in Western culture in the late 1950s and 1960s, based on rotating the hips repeatedly from side to side. See Twist (dance) on Wikipedia for more details.
- A twisting force.
- A material for gun barrels, consisting of iron and steel twisted and welded together.
- The form given in twisting.
- Anything twisted, or the act of twisting.
- An unexpected turn in a story, tale, etc.
- (slang) A girl, a woman.
- A rotation of the body when diving.
- A roll or baton of baked dough or pastry in a twisted shape.
- A strong individual tendency or bent; inclination.
- The degree of stress or strain when twisted.
- Ellipsis of hair twist.
- A sudden bend (or short series of bends) in a road, path, etc.
- A sliver of lemon peel added to a cocktail, etc.
- A sprain, especially to the ankle.
- (countable, uncountable) A small roll of tobacco.
verb
- to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling)
- form into a spiral shape
- do the twist
- twist suddenly so as to sprain
- form into twists
- extend in curves and turns
- twist or pull violently or suddenly, especially so as to remove (something) from that to which it is attached or from where it originates
- practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive
- turn in the opposite direction
- cause (an object) to assume a crooked or angular form
- To distort or change the truth or meaning of words when repeating.
- (transitive) To coax.
- To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.
- (transitive) To cause to rotate.
- To turn the ends of something, usually thread, rope etc., in opposite directions, often using force.
- To join together by twining one part around another.
- (card games) In the game of blackjack (pontoon or twenty-one), to be dealt another card.
- (reflexive) To wind into; to insinuate.
- (intransitive) To dance the twist (a type of dance characterised by twisting one's hips).
- To turn a knob etc.
- (intransitive, of a path) To wind; to follow a bendy or wavy course; to have many bends.
- To form a twist (in any of the above noun meanings).
- To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture of parts.
- To injure (a body part) by bending it in the wrong direction.
noun
- A curve, in general.
- (narratology) Ellipsis of story arc.
- (mathematics) A continuous mapping from a real interval (typically [0, 1]) into a space.
- (graph theory) A directed edge.
- (geometry) A continuous part of the circumference of a circle (circular arc) or of another curve.
- A band contained within parallel curves, or something of that shape.
- (astronomy) That part of a circle which a heavenly body appears to pass through as it moves above and below the horizon.
- (electrics) A flow of current across an insulating medium; especially a hot, luminous discharge either between two electrodes or as lightning.
- (film) An arclight.
- (by extension, Internet slang) A period or phase in a person's life.
- (basketball, slang) The three-point line.
- something curved in shape
- a continuous portion of a circle
- electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field
verb
noun
adj
- (mathematics) Of or pertaining to a broad field of mathematics that originates from the problem of calculating arc lengths of an ellipse.
- (botany, of leaves) Oval, with a short or no point.
- (linguistics) Of, or showing ellipsis; having a word or words omitted; elliptical.
- (geometry) Of or pertaining to an ellipse.
- (mathematics, in combination, of certain functions, equations and operators) That has coefficients satisfying a condition analogous to the condition for the general equation for a conic section to be of an ellipse.
- (of a leaf shape) in the form of an ellipse
- rounded like an egg
- characterized by extreme economy of expression or omission of superfluous elements
noun
noun
- (algebraic geometry) The coordinate of the point at which a curve intersects an axis.
- An interception of a missile.
- (marketing) A form of market research where consumers are intercepted and interviewed in a retail store or mall.
- An interception of a radio broadcast or a telephone call.
- the point at which a line intersects a coordinate axis
verb
- (transitive, sports) To gain possession of (the ball) in a ball game.
- To perform an aeronautical action in which a fighter approaches a suspicious aircraft to escort it away from a prohibited area, or approaches an enemy aircraft to shoot it down.
- (transitive) To stop, deflect or divert (something in progress or motion).
- (transitive, American football) Of a defensive player: to steal a pass thrown by the opposing team, gaining possession of the ball.
- (transitive, mathematics) To take or comprehend between.
- tap a telephone or telegraph wire to get information
- seize on its way
noun
- a signature that validates something
- the act of endorsing
- a promotional statement (as found on the dust jackets of books)
- formal and explicit approval
- a speech seconding a motion
- An amendment or annotation to an insurance contract or other official document (such as a driving licence).
- Sponsorship, in means of money, by a company, business or enterprise.
- (aviation) An instructor's signed acknowledgement of time practising specific flying skills.
- (education, certification) Permission to carry out a specific skill or application in a field in which the practitioner already has a general licence.
- Support from an important, renowned figure of a media (celebrity, politics, sports, etc.), to get back up.
- The act or quality of endorsing
noun
- a curve that reverses the direction of something
- the action of perverting something (turning it to a wrong use)
- an aberrant sexual practice
- The action of perverting someone or something; humiliation; debasement.
- Distortion or corruption of the original course, meaning, or state of something.
- The state of being perverted; depravity; vice.
- (geometry) Tendril perversion.
- A sexual practice considered abnormal; sexual deviance.
verb
- form a curve
- bend one's back forward from the waist on down
- change direction
- bend a joint
- cause (an object) to assume a crooked or angular form
- turn from a straight course, fixed direction, or line of interest
- (intransitive) To be inclined; to direct itself.
- (transitive, music) To smoothly change the pitch of a note.
- (transitive) To force to submit.
- (transitive) To adapt or interpret to for a purpose or beneficiary.
- (transitive) To cause to change direction.
- (transitive, nautical) To tie, as in securing a line to a cleat; to shackle a chain to an anchor; make fast.
- (intransitive) To become curved.
- (intransitive) To change direction.
- (intransitive) To bow in prayer, or in token of submission.
- (transitive) To apply to a task or purpose.
- (intransitive, usually with "down") To stoop.
- (transitive) To cause (something) to change its shape into a curve, by physical force, chemical action, or any other means.
- (intransitive) To submit.
- (intransitive) To apply oneself to a task or purpose.
- (intransitive, nautical) To swing the body when rowing.
noun
- a circular segment of a curve
- A curve.
- an angular or rounded shape made by folding
- curved segment (of a road or river or railroad track etc.)
- movement that causes the formation of a curve
- diagonal line traversing a shield from the upper right corner to the lower left
- (in the plural, medicine, underwater diving, with the) A severe condition caused by excessively quick decompression, causing bubbles of nitrogen to form in the blood; decompression sickness.
- (nautical, in the plural) The thickest and strongest planks in a ship's sides, more generally called wales, which have the beams, knees, and futtocks bolted to them.
- (nautical, in the plural) The frames or ribs that form the ship's body from the keel to the top of the sides.
- (music) A glissando, or glide between one pitch and another, especially one accomplished by bending a string (such as on guitar).
- (mining) Hard, indurated clay; bind.
- In the leather trade, the best quality of sole leather; a butt; sometimes, half a butt cut lengthwise.
- (heraldry) One of the honourable ordinaries formed by two diagonal lines drawn from the dexter chief to the sinister base; it generally occupies a fifth part of the shield if uncharged, but if charged one third.
- Any of the various knots which join the ends of two lines.
verb
- form a curve
- exhibit the strength of
- contract
- bend a joint
- cause (an object) to assume a crooked or angular form
- (transitive, slang) To boast or brag about; to flaunt (something).
- (transitive) To repeatedly bend one of one's joints.
- (intransitive) To tighten the muscles for display of size or strength.
- (transitive) To move part of the body using one's muscles.
- (transitive, chiefly physics or biomechanics) To bend something.
- (intransitive, slang) To flaunt one's superiority; to show off.
noun
- the act of flexing
- (countable) An act of flexing.
- (uncountable, chiefly UK, Ireland) Any flexible insulated electrical wiring.
- (uncountable) Flexibility, pliancy.
- (countable, geometry) A point of inflection.
- (countable) A flexible insulated electrical cord.
- (uncountable) Flexible ductwork, typically flexible plastic over a metal wire coil to shape a tube.
- (countable, slang) An act or instance of flaunting something; a boast or brag; something considered impressive.