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noun
- the act of circumscribing
- The act of circumscribing or the quality of being circumscribed.
- An electoral district; used often in texts treating electoral systems in Romance countries.
- Anything that circumscribes or a circumscribed area.
- (taxonomy) The definition of what does and does not belong to a given taxon, from a particular taxonomic viewpoint or taxonomic system.
verb
- (transitive, figurative) To evade doing something, especially something considered a responsibility.
- (transitive) To surreptitiously leave a rubber duck on someone's parked Jeep as an act of kindness (see Jeep ducking).
- (transitive) To lower (something) into water; to thrust or plunge under liquid and suddenly withdraw.
- (transitive) To quickly lower (the head or body), often in order to prevent it from being struck by something.
- (intransitive) To bow.
- (transitive) To lower the volume of (a sound) so that other sounds in the mix can be heard more clearly.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To enter a place for a short moment.
- (intransitive) To go under the surface of water and immediately reappear; to plunge one's head into water or other liquid.
- dip into a liquid
- avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
- submerge or plunge suddenly
- to move (the head or body) quickly downwards or away
noun
- Ellipsis of architectural duck; a building intentionally constructed in the shape of an everyday object to which it is related.
- (US, LGBTQ, prison slang) Synonym of bitch (“a man forced or coerced into a homosexual relationship, especially in prison”).
- (cricket) A batsman's score of zero after getting out. (Short for duck's egg.)
- (Midlands) Dear, mate (informal way of addressing a friend or stranger).
- (US) A cairn used to mark a trail.
- (medicine) A long-necked medical urinal for men; a bed urinal.
- A tightly-woven cotton or linen fabric, often used as sailcloth.
- (uncountable) The flesh of a duck used as food.
- One of the weights used to hold a spline in place for the purpose of drawing a curve.
- A term of endearment; pet; darling.
- (in the plural) Trousers made of such material.
- A marble to be shot at with another marble (the shooter) in children's games.
- (caving) A cave passage containing water with low, or no, airspace.
- An aquatic bird of the family Anatidae, having a flat bill and webbed feet.
- (slang) A playing card with the rank of two.
- Specifically, an adult female duck; contrasted with drake and with duckling.
- small wild or domesticated web-footed broad-billed swimming bird usually having a depressed body and short legs
- a heavy cotton fabric of plain weave; used for clothing and tents
- flesh of a duck (domestic or wild)
- (cricket) a score of nothing by a batsman
noun
- An instance of preventing (further) harm or difficulty.
- (roleplaying games) A saving throw.
- (baseball) A successful attempt by a relief pitcher to preserve the win of another pitcher on one's team.
- (professional wrestling, slang) A point in a professional wrestling match when one or more wrestlers run to the ring to aid a fellow wrestler who is being beaten.
- In various sports, a block that prevents an opponent from scoring.
- (informal) An action that brings one back out of an awkward situation.
- (computing) The act, process, or result of saving data to a storage medium.
- (sports) the act of preventing the opposition from scoring
conj
prep
verb
- (baseball) To preserve, as a relief pitcher, (a win of another pitcher's on one's team) by defending the lead held when the other pitcher left the game.
- (transitive, intransitive, computing, video games) To write a file to disk or other storage medium.
- To keep (something) safe; to safeguard.
- (informal) To avoid saying something.
- (intransitive) To economize or avoid waste.
- (transitive) To obviate or make unnecessary.
- To spare (somebody) from effort, or from something undesirable.
- (transitive) To conserve or prevent the wasting of.
- (reflexive, often with "for") To refrain from romantic or (especially in later use) sexual relationships until one is married or is with a suitable partner.
- (transitive and intransitive) To accumulate money or valuables.
- (transitive) To store for future use.
- (Christianity) To redeem or protect someone from eternal damnation.
- (sports) To catch or deflect (a shot at goal).
- To help (somebody) to survive, or rescue (somebody or something) from harm.
- accumulate money for future use
- retain rights to
- refrain from harming
- spend sparingly, avoid the waste of
- spend less; buy at a reduced price
- make unnecessary an expenditure or effort
- save from ruin, destruction, or harm
- to keep up and reserve for personal or special use
- save from sins
- record data on a computer
- bring into safety
noun
- the act of hindering or obstructing or impeding
- electrical or acoustic activity that can disturb communication
- (American football) blocking a player's path with your body
- any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome
- a policy of intervening in the affairs of other countries
- (US, law) In United States patent law, an inter partes proceeding to determine the priority issues of multiple patent applications; a priority contest.
- (chess) The interruption of the line between an attacked piece and its defender by sacrificially interposing a piece.
- (physics) An effect caused by the superposition of two systems of waves.
- A distortion on a broadcast signal due to atmospheric or other effects.
- (sports) The illegal obstruction of an opponent in some ball games.
- (linguistics) A negative or inappropriate language transfer.
- The act of interfering with something, or something that interferes.
verb
noun
verb
- To stay where one cannot be seen, conceal oneself (often in a cowardly way or with the intent of doing harm).
- To avoid an obligation or responsibility.
- To move in a stealthy or furtive way; to come or go while trying to avoid detection.
- avoid responsibilities and duties, e.g., by pretending to be ill
- move furtively
- lie in wait, lie in ambush, behave in a sneaky and secretive manner
noun
- the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof)
- (physiology) the process whereby nerves can retard or prevent the functioning of an organ or part
- (psychology) the conscious exclusion of unacceptable thoughts or desires
- the quality of being inhibited
- (chemistry, biochemistry) The process of stopping or retarding a reaction.
- (psychology) A personal feeling of fear or embarrassment that stops one behaving naturally.
- The act of inhibiting.
- (Philippines, law) A recusal.
- (law) A writ from a higher court to an inferior judge to stay proceedings.
noun
- the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof)
- An act of prohibiting, forbidding, disallowing, or proscribing something.
- the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment
- a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages
- refusal to approve or assent to
- a decree that prohibits something
- A period of time when specific socially disapproved consumables are considered controlled substances.
- A law prohibiting the manufacture or sale of alcohol.
verb
- (transitive, intransitive) To conceive (a crime, misdeed etc).
- (transitive) To trace out (a graph or diagram).
- (transitive) To mark (a point on a graph, chart, etc).
- devise the sequence of events in (a literary work or a play, movie, or ballet)
- plan secretly, usually something illegal
- make a plot of
- make a schematic or technical drawing that shows interactions among variables or how something is constructed
noun
- (narratology) The course of a story, comprising a series of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means.
- Participation in any stratagem or conspiracy.
- A secret plan to achieve an end, the end or means usually being illegal or otherwise questionable.
- A grave.
- An area or land used for building on or planting on.
- A plan; a purpose.
- Contrivance; deep reach thought; ability to plot or intrigue.
- (fandom slang, euphemistic) Attractive physical attributes of a fictional character; assets.
- A graph or diagram drawn by hand or produced by a mechanical or electronic device.
- a secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal)
- the story that is told in a novel or play or movie etc.
- a chart or graph showing the movements or progress of an object
- a small area of ground covered by specific vegetation
verb
- (intransitive) To evade, to equivocate using subterfuge; to obfuscate in a deliberate manner.
- (intransitive) To change sides or affiliation; to apostatize.
- (intransitive, rare) To flee by turning one's back.
- abandon one's beliefs or allegiances
- be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information
verb
- (intransitive) To interfere.
- To make soiled by ejaculating.
- (intransitive) To take meals with a mess.
- (transitive, often used with "up") To throw into disorder or to ruin.
- (intransitive) To belong to a mess.
- To make soiled by defecating.
- (intransitive) To eat (with others).
- (transitive) To supply with a mess.
- make a mess of or create disorder in
- eat in a mess hall
noun
- (collective) A group of iguanas.
- (cooking) A dessert of fruit and cream, similar to a fool.
- (collective) A number of persons who eat together, and for whom food is prepared in common, especially military personnel who eat at the same table.
- A set of four (from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner).
- a thing or group of things in a disagreeable, disorganised, or dirty state; hence a bad situation
- (figuratively) a person in a state of (especially emotional) turmoil or disarray; an emotional wreck
- A building or room in which mess is eaten.
- (India) a type of restaurant characterized by homely-style cooking and food.
- (US) The milk given by a cow at one milking.
- (colloquial) a large quantity or number
- (euphemistic) excrement.
- informal terms for a difficult situation
- a meal eaten in a mess hall by service personnel
- soft semiliquid food
- a state of confusion and disorderliness
- (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent
- a (large) military dining room where service personnel eat or relax
noun
- the act of obstructing
- The act of obstructing, or state of being obstructed.
- the physical condition of blocking or filling a passage with an obstruction
- any structure that makes progress difficult
- something immaterial that stands in the way and must be circumvented or surmounted
- getting in someone's way
- Something which obstructs or impedes, either intentionally or unintentionally
- The condition of having the natural powers obstructed in their usual course; the arrest of the vital functions; death.
adj
noun
verb
- (informal, transitive, criminology) To trick or lure (someone) in order to entrap them.
- (transitive) To establish someone in a business or position.
- (transitive) To matchmake; to arrange a date between two people.
- (transitive) To found; to start (a business, scheme)
- (sports, transitive) To create a goalscoring opportunity (for).
- (transitive) To arrange for an outcome; to tamper or rig.
- (transitive) To arrange logically.
- (intransitive) To level to rise in one part of a body of water, especially a shallow one, because of a storm surge caused by persistent wind.
- (boxing) To deceive an opponent and capitalize on their reactions with a certain technique or maneuver.
- (transitive) To provide the money or other support that someone needs for an important task or activity.
- (intransitive) To gel or harden.
- (transitive) To trap or ensnare.
- To profess openly; to make pretensions.
- (intransitive) To prepare or get ready.
- To cause to take flight; to flush into the air.
- (transitive) To make (someone) proud or conceited (often in passive).
- (transitive) To make ready for use.
- (transitive) To cause to happen.
- equip with sails or masts
- set up or found
- take or catch as if in a snare or trap
- put into a proper or systematic order
- place
- arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events
- begin, or enable someone else to begin, a venture by providing the means, logistics, etc.
- make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc
- arrange the outcome of by means of deceit
- get ready for a particular purpose or event
- create by putting components or members together
- produce
- erect and fasten
- construct, build, or erect
- set up for use
adj
verb
- (intransitive) To practice indirect or evasive methods; to contrive.
- (transitive, sometimes figurative) To move from one place to another; to redistribute.
- (typewriters) To move the keys of a typewriter over in order to type capital letters or special characters.
- (ergative, figurative) To change in form or character; switch.
- (computer keyboards) To switch to a character entry mode for capital letters or special characters.
- (intransitive) To use meditation or other means to change the reality that one's consciousness resides in.
- (intransitive, India) To change residence; to leave and live elsewhere.
- (transitive, computing) To manipulate a binary number by moving all of its digits left or right; compare rotate.
- (Ireland, vulgar, slang, transitive) To engage in sexual petting with.
- (intransitive) To hurry; to move quickly.
- (intransitive) To change gears (in an automobile).
- (Minecraft, video games) To crouch in game, especially if the shift key is pressed to initiate crouching.
- (Nigeria, slang) To steal or kidnap.
- (transitive, computing) To remove (the first value from an array).
- (transitive) To dispose of, remove.
- (intransitive, sometimes reflexive and figurative) To change position; to move.
- (intransitive, music) In violin-playing, to move the left hand from its original position next to the nut.
- change gears
- change place or direction
- move around
- make a shift in or exchange of
- change in quality
- move very slightly
- move and exchange for another
- use a shift key on a keyboard
- move abruptly
- move sideways or in an unsteady way
- lay aside, abandon, or leave for another
- change phonetically as part of a systematic historical change
- move from one setting or context to another
noun
- (historical) A type of women's undergarment of dress length worn under dresses or skirts, a slip or chemise.
- (music) In violin-playing, any position of the left hand except that nearest the nut.
- (computing) A control code or character used to change between different character sets.
- An act of shifting; a slight movement or change.
- (baseball) An infield shift.
- A movement to do something, a beginning.
- (construction) The extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed in courses so as to break joints.
- (computing) An instance of the use of such a code or character.
- A simple straight-hanging, loose-fitting dress.
- (US) The gear mechanism in a motor vehicle.
- A period of time in which one's consciousness resides in another reality, usually achieved through meditation or other means.
- Alternative spelling of Shift (“a modifier button of computer keyboards”).
- (British slang) be done; ruined
- (Ireland, crude slang, often with the definite article, usually uncountable) The act of kissing passionately.
- (genetics) A mutation in which the DNA or RNA from two different sources (such as viruses or bacteria) combine.
- A change of workers, now specifically a set group of workers or period of working time.
- (mining) A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.
- (computing) A bit shift.
- a qualitative change
- the act of moving from one place to another
- an event in which something is displaced without rotation
- a woman's sleeveless undergarment
- the act of changing one thing or position for another
- (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
- a crew of workers who work for a specific period of time
- the key on the typewriter keyboard that shifts from lower-case letters to upper-case letters
- a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist
- the time period during which you are at work
verb
- (transitive, figurative) To circumvent, evade or outmanoeuvre.
- (transitive) To travel around (something) physically.
- To rotate, to move in a circle.
- (intransitive) To be sufficient to be shared, to be enough for everyone.
- To go to another person's home or a public event.
- (transitive, figurative) To circulate, to move aimlessly.
- To live behaving in a certain way, doing something regularly (followed by specification).
- To pass around, to circulate.
- To physically swirl or rotate.
verb
- (intransitive) To avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment.
- (transitive) To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from.
- (transitive) To elude the observation or notice of; to not be seen or remembered by.
- (transitive, computing) To cause (a single character, or all such characters in a string) to be interpreted literally, instead of with any special meaning it would usually have in the same context, often by prefixing with another character.
- (intransitive) To get free; to free oneself.
- (computing) To halt a program or command by pressing a key (such as the "Esc" key) or combination of keys.
- be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by
- flee; take to one's heels; cut and run
- escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action
- fail to experience
- remove oneself from a familiar environment, usually for pleasure or diversion
- run away from confinement
- issue or leak, as from a small opening
noun
- (programming) The text character represented by 27 (decimal) or 1B (hexadecimal).
- (botany) A cultivated plant found growing as though wild, dispersed by some agency.
- (snooker) A successful shot from a snooker position.
- A holiday, viewed as time away from the vicissitudes of life.
- Something that has escaped; an escapee.
- Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid, or an electric current through defective insulation.
- The act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation.
- (architecture) An apophyge.
- (computing) escape key
- (manufacturing) A defective product that is allowed to leave a manufacturing facility.
- nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do
- the discharge of a fluid from some container
- the act of escaping physically
- an inclination to retreat from unpleasant realities through diversion or fantasy
- an avoidance of danger or difficulty
- a plant originally cultivated but now growing wild
- a means or way of escaping
- a valve in a container in which pressure can build up (as a steam boiler); it opens automatically when the pressure reaches a dangerous level
verb
- (figuratively) To avoid or bypass an obstacle.
- To visit numerous different places.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get, around.
- To transport oneself from place to place.
- (slang) To be sexually promiscuous.
- To move to the other side of (something, such as an obstruction) by deviating from a direct course or following a curved path.
- To circumvent the obligation and performance of a chore; to get out of.
- be a social swinger; socialize a lot
- move around; move from place to place
- avoid something unpleasant or laborious
- be released or become known; of news
verb
- (transitive) To forbid (someone) from doing something.
- (transitive) To forbid (an action or thing) by formal or legal sanction.
- (transitive, US, military) To impede (an enemy); to interrupt or destroy (enemy communications, supply lines etc).
- (transitive, Roman Catholicism) To exclude (someone or somewhere) from participation in church services; to place under a religious interdict.
- destroy by firepower, such as an enemy's line of communication
- command against
noun
- (Scots law) An injunction.
- A papal decree prohibiting the administration of the sacraments from a political entity under the power of a single person (e.g., a king or an oligarchy with similar powers). Extreme unction/Anointing of the Sick is excepted.
- an ecclesiastical censure by the Roman Catholic Church withdrawing certain sacraments and Christian burial from a person or all persons in a particular district
- a court order prohibiting a party from doing a certain activity
noun
verb
verb
- (intransitive) To violate rules in order to gain, or attempt to gain, advantage from a situation.
- (intransitive) To be unfaithful to one's spouse or partner; to commit adultery, or to engage in sexual or romantic conduct with a person other than one's partner in contravention of the rules of society or agreement in the relationship.
- (informal, intransitive) To disregard self-imposed restrictions or commitments in favour of resting or indulging oneself.
- (transitive) To deceive; to fool; to trick.
- (transitive) To avoid a seemingly inevitable thing.
- engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud
- be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage
- defeat someone through trickery or deceit
- deprive somebody of something by deceit
noun
- (uncountable) The weed cheatgrass.
- (countable) Someone who cheats.
- (card games, uncountable) A card game where the goal is to have no cards remaining in a hand, often by telling lies.
- (countable) An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception.
- (video games, countable) A hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a video game, often by entering a cheat code.
- someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
- weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat
- the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme
- a deception for profit to yourself
- weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous
noun
- The act of eluding or evading or avoiding, particularly the pressure of an argument, accusation, charge, or interrogation; artful means of eluding.
- nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do
- a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth
- the act of physically escaping from something (an opponent or a pursuer or an unpleasant situation) by some adroit maneuver
- the deliberate act of failing to pay money
verb
- (transitive) To hinder or prevent.
- (US, law, transitive) To prohibit (a person or company that has been convicted of criminal acts in connection with a government program) from future participation in that program.
- (transitive) To exclude or shut out; to bar.
- bar temporarily; from school, office, etc.
- prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; to protect from or to keep away anything undesirable; to ward off
- prevent from entering; keep out
noun
- The act by which something is foiled; prevention of success.
- (nautical) Clipping of hydrofoiling (“the action of sustained hydrodynamic lift on hydrofoils lifting the vessel hull lifted out of the water, for sustained motion across water”).
- (architecture) A foil.
- (hunting) The track of game, such as deer, in the grass.
- an act of hindering someone's plans or efforts
verb
verb
- (transitive) To act in violation of some law.
- (intransitive, construed with against) To commit an offense; to sin.
- (intransitive, of the sea) To spread over land along a shoreline; to inundate.
- (transitive) To exceed or overstep some limit or boundary.
- spread over land, especially along a subsiding shoreline
- commit a sin; violate a law of God or a moral law
- pass beyond (limits or boundaries)
- act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
noun
- the act of circumscribing
- The act of circumscribing or the quality of being circumscribed.
- An electoral district; used often in texts treating electoral systems in Romance countries.
- Anything that circumscribes or a circumscribed area.
- (taxonomy) The definition of what does and does not belong to a given taxon, from a particular taxonomic viewpoint or taxonomic system.
noun
- An instance of preventing (further) harm or difficulty.
- (roleplaying games) A saving throw.
- (baseball) A successful attempt by a relief pitcher to preserve the win of another pitcher on one's team.
- (professional wrestling, slang) A point in a professional wrestling match when one or more wrestlers run to the ring to aid a fellow wrestler who is being beaten.
- In various sports, a block that prevents an opponent from scoring.
- (informal) An action that brings one back out of an awkward situation.
- (computing) The act, process, or result of saving data to a storage medium.
- (sports) the act of preventing the opposition from scoring
conj
prep
verb
- (baseball) To preserve, as a relief pitcher, (a win of another pitcher's on one's team) by defending the lead held when the other pitcher left the game.
- (transitive, intransitive, computing, video games) To write a file to disk or other storage medium.
- To keep (something) safe; to safeguard.
- (informal) To avoid saying something.
- (intransitive) To economize or avoid waste.
- (transitive) To obviate or make unnecessary.
- To spare (somebody) from effort, or from something undesirable.
- (transitive) To conserve or prevent the wasting of.
- (reflexive, often with "for") To refrain from romantic or (especially in later use) sexual relationships until one is married or is with a suitable partner.
- (transitive and intransitive) To accumulate money or valuables.
- (transitive) To store for future use.
- (Christianity) To redeem or protect someone from eternal damnation.
- (sports) To catch or deflect (a shot at goal).
- To help (somebody) to survive, or rescue (somebody or something) from harm.
- accumulate money for future use
- retain rights to
- refrain from harming
- spend sparingly, avoid the waste of
- spend less; buy at a reduced price
- make unnecessary an expenditure or effort
- save from ruin, destruction, or harm
- to keep up and reserve for personal or special use
- save from sins
- record data on a computer
- bring into safety
noun
- the act of hindering or obstructing or impeding
- electrical or acoustic activity that can disturb communication
- (American football) blocking a player's path with your body
- any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome
- a policy of intervening in the affairs of other countries
- (US, law) In United States patent law, an inter partes proceeding to determine the priority issues of multiple patent applications; a priority contest.
- (chess) The interruption of the line between an attacked piece and its defender by sacrificially interposing a piece.
- (physics) An effect caused by the superposition of two systems of waves.
- A distortion on a broadcast signal due to atmospheric or other effects.
- (sports) The illegal obstruction of an opponent in some ball games.
- (linguistics) A negative or inappropriate language transfer.
- The act of interfering with something, or something that interferes.
verb
noun
verb
- To stay where one cannot be seen, conceal oneself (often in a cowardly way or with the intent of doing harm).
- To avoid an obligation or responsibility.
- To move in a stealthy or furtive way; to come or go while trying to avoid detection.
- avoid responsibilities and duties, e.g., by pretending to be ill
- move furtively
- lie in wait, lie in ambush, behave in a sneaky and secretive manner
noun
- the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof)
- (physiology) the process whereby nerves can retard or prevent the functioning of an organ or part
- (psychology) the conscious exclusion of unacceptable thoughts or desires
- the quality of being inhibited
- (chemistry, biochemistry) The process of stopping or retarding a reaction.
- (psychology) A personal feeling of fear or embarrassment that stops one behaving naturally.
- The act of inhibiting.
- (Philippines, law) A recusal.
- (law) A writ from a higher court to an inferior judge to stay proceedings.
noun
- the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof)
- An act of prohibiting, forbidding, disallowing, or proscribing something.
- the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment
- a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages
- refusal to approve or assent to
- a decree that prohibits something
- A period of time when specific socially disapproved consumables are considered controlled substances.
- A law prohibiting the manufacture or sale of alcohol.
noun
- the act of obstructing
- The act of obstructing, or state of being obstructed.
- the physical condition of blocking or filling a passage with an obstruction
- any structure that makes progress difficult
- something immaterial that stands in the way and must be circumvented or surmounted
- getting in someone's way
- Something which obstructs or impedes, either intentionally or unintentionally
- The condition of having the natural powers obstructed in their usual course; the arrest of the vital functions; death.
noun
verb
noun
- The act of eluding or evading or avoiding, particularly the pressure of an argument, accusation, charge, or interrogation; artful means of eluding.
- nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do
- a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth
- the act of physically escaping from something (an opponent or a pursuer or an unpleasant situation) by some adroit maneuver
- the deliberate act of failing to pay money
noun
- The act by which something is foiled; prevention of success.
- (nautical) Clipping of hydrofoiling (“the action of sustained hydrodynamic lift on hydrofoils lifting the vessel hull lifted out of the water, for sustained motion across water”).
- (architecture) A foil.
- (hunting) The track of game, such as deer, in the grass.
- an act of hindering someone's plans or efforts
verb
verb
- (transitive, figurative) To evade doing something, especially something considered a responsibility.
- (transitive) To surreptitiously leave a rubber duck on someone's parked Jeep as an act of kindness (see Jeep ducking).
- (transitive) To lower (something) into water; to thrust or plunge under liquid and suddenly withdraw.
- (transitive) To quickly lower (the head or body), often in order to prevent it from being struck by something.
- (intransitive) To bow.
- (transitive) To lower the volume of (a sound) so that other sounds in the mix can be heard more clearly.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To enter a place for a short moment.
- (intransitive) To go under the surface of water and immediately reappear; to plunge one's head into water or other liquid.
- dip into a liquid
- avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
- submerge or plunge suddenly
- to move (the head or body) quickly downwards or away
noun
- Ellipsis of architectural duck; a building intentionally constructed in the shape of an everyday object to which it is related.
- (US, LGBTQ, prison slang) Synonym of bitch (“a man forced or coerced into a homosexual relationship, especially in prison”).
- (cricket) A batsman's score of zero after getting out. (Short for duck's egg.)
- (Midlands) Dear, mate (informal way of addressing a friend or stranger).
- (US) A cairn used to mark a trail.
- (medicine) A long-necked medical urinal for men; a bed urinal.
- A tightly-woven cotton or linen fabric, often used as sailcloth.
- (uncountable) The flesh of a duck used as food.
- One of the weights used to hold a spline in place for the purpose of drawing a curve.
- A term of endearment; pet; darling.
- (in the plural) Trousers made of such material.
- A marble to be shot at with another marble (the shooter) in children's games.
- (caving) A cave passage containing water with low, or no, airspace.
- An aquatic bird of the family Anatidae, having a flat bill and webbed feet.
- (slang) A playing card with the rank of two.
- Specifically, an adult female duck; contrasted with drake and with duckling.
- small wild or domesticated web-footed broad-billed swimming bird usually having a depressed body and short legs
- a heavy cotton fabric of plain weave; used for clothing and tents
- flesh of a duck (domestic or wild)
- (cricket) a score of nothing by a batsman
verb
- (transitive, intransitive) To conceive (a crime, misdeed etc).
- (transitive) To trace out (a graph or diagram).
- (transitive) To mark (a point on a graph, chart, etc).
- devise the sequence of events in (a literary work or a play, movie, or ballet)
- plan secretly, usually something illegal
- make a plot of
- make a schematic or technical drawing that shows interactions among variables or how something is constructed
noun
- (narratology) The course of a story, comprising a series of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means.
- Participation in any stratagem or conspiracy.
- A secret plan to achieve an end, the end or means usually being illegal or otherwise questionable.
- A grave.
- An area or land used for building on or planting on.
- A plan; a purpose.
- Contrivance; deep reach thought; ability to plot or intrigue.
- (fandom slang, euphemistic) Attractive physical attributes of a fictional character; assets.
- A graph or diagram drawn by hand or produced by a mechanical or electronic device.
- a secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal)
- the story that is told in a novel or play or movie etc.
- a chart or graph showing the movements or progress of an object
- a small area of ground covered by specific vegetation
verb
- (intransitive) To evade, to equivocate using subterfuge; to obfuscate in a deliberate manner.
- (intransitive) To change sides or affiliation; to apostatize.
- (intransitive, rare) To flee by turning one's back.
- abandon one's beliefs or allegiances
- be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information
verb
- (intransitive) To interfere.
- To make soiled by ejaculating.
- (intransitive) To take meals with a mess.
- (transitive, often used with "up") To throw into disorder or to ruin.
- (intransitive) To belong to a mess.
- To make soiled by defecating.
- (intransitive) To eat (with others).
- (transitive) To supply with a mess.
- make a mess of or create disorder in
- eat in a mess hall
noun
- (collective) A group of iguanas.
- (cooking) A dessert of fruit and cream, similar to a fool.
- (collective) A number of persons who eat together, and for whom food is prepared in common, especially military personnel who eat at the same table.
- A set of four (from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner).
- a thing or group of things in a disagreeable, disorganised, or dirty state; hence a bad situation
- (figuratively) a person in a state of (especially emotional) turmoil or disarray; an emotional wreck
- A building or room in which mess is eaten.
- (India) a type of restaurant characterized by homely-style cooking and food.
- (US) The milk given by a cow at one milking.
- (colloquial) a large quantity or number
- (euphemistic) excrement.
- informal terms for a difficult situation
- a meal eaten in a mess hall by service personnel
- soft semiliquid food
- a state of confusion and disorderliness
- (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent
- a (large) military dining room where service personnel eat or relax
verb
- (informal, transitive, criminology) To trick or lure (someone) in order to entrap them.
- (transitive) To establish someone in a business or position.
- (transitive) To matchmake; to arrange a date between two people.
- (transitive) To found; to start (a business, scheme)
- (sports, transitive) To create a goalscoring opportunity (for).
- (transitive) To arrange for an outcome; to tamper or rig.
- (transitive) To arrange logically.
- (intransitive) To level to rise in one part of a body of water, especially a shallow one, because of a storm surge caused by persistent wind.
- (boxing) To deceive an opponent and capitalize on their reactions with a certain technique or maneuver.
- (transitive) To provide the money or other support that someone needs for an important task or activity.
- (intransitive) To gel or harden.
- (transitive) To trap or ensnare.
- To profess openly; to make pretensions.
- (intransitive) To prepare or get ready.
- To cause to take flight; to flush into the air.
- (transitive) To make (someone) proud or conceited (often in passive).
- (transitive) To make ready for use.
- (transitive) To cause to happen.
- equip with sails or masts
- set up or found
- take or catch as if in a snare or trap
- put into a proper or systematic order
- place
- arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events
- begin, or enable someone else to begin, a venture by providing the means, logistics, etc.
- make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc
- arrange the outcome of by means of deceit
- get ready for a particular purpose or event
- create by putting components or members together
- produce
- erect and fasten
- construct, build, or erect
- set up for use
adj
verb
- (intransitive) To practice indirect or evasive methods; to contrive.
- (transitive, sometimes figurative) To move from one place to another; to redistribute.
- (typewriters) To move the keys of a typewriter over in order to type capital letters or special characters.
- (ergative, figurative) To change in form or character; switch.
- (computer keyboards) To switch to a character entry mode for capital letters or special characters.
- (intransitive) To use meditation or other means to change the reality that one's consciousness resides in.
- (intransitive, India) To change residence; to leave and live elsewhere.
- (transitive, computing) To manipulate a binary number by moving all of its digits left or right; compare rotate.
- (Ireland, vulgar, slang, transitive) To engage in sexual petting with.
- (intransitive) To hurry; to move quickly.
- (intransitive) To change gears (in an automobile).
- (Minecraft, video games) To crouch in game, especially if the shift key is pressed to initiate crouching.
- (Nigeria, slang) To steal or kidnap.
- (transitive, computing) To remove (the first value from an array).
- (transitive) To dispose of, remove.
- (intransitive, sometimes reflexive and figurative) To change position; to move.
- (intransitive, music) In violin-playing, to move the left hand from its original position next to the nut.
- change gears
- change place or direction
- move around
- make a shift in or exchange of
- change in quality
- move very slightly
- move and exchange for another
- use a shift key on a keyboard
- move abruptly
- move sideways or in an unsteady way
- lay aside, abandon, or leave for another
- change phonetically as part of a systematic historical change
- move from one setting or context to another
noun
- (historical) A type of women's undergarment of dress length worn under dresses or skirts, a slip or chemise.
- (music) In violin-playing, any position of the left hand except that nearest the nut.
- (computing) A control code or character used to change between different character sets.
- An act of shifting; a slight movement or change.
- (baseball) An infield shift.
- A movement to do something, a beginning.
- (construction) The extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed in courses so as to break joints.
- (computing) An instance of the use of such a code or character.
- A simple straight-hanging, loose-fitting dress.
- (US) The gear mechanism in a motor vehicle.
- A period of time in which one's consciousness resides in another reality, usually achieved through meditation or other means.
- Alternative spelling of Shift (“a modifier button of computer keyboards”).
- (British slang) be done; ruined
- (Ireland, crude slang, often with the definite article, usually uncountable) The act of kissing passionately.
- (genetics) A mutation in which the DNA or RNA from two different sources (such as viruses or bacteria) combine.
- A change of workers, now specifically a set group of workers or period of working time.
- (mining) A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.
- (computing) A bit shift.
- a qualitative change
- the act of moving from one place to another
- an event in which something is displaced without rotation
- a woman's sleeveless undergarment
- the act of changing one thing or position for another
- (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
- a crew of workers who work for a specific period of time
- the key on the typewriter keyboard that shifts from lower-case letters to upper-case letters
- a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist
- the time period during which you are at work
verb
- (transitive, figurative) To circumvent, evade or outmanoeuvre.
- (transitive) To travel around (something) physically.
- To rotate, to move in a circle.
- (intransitive) To be sufficient to be shared, to be enough for everyone.
- To go to another person's home or a public event.
- (transitive, figurative) To circulate, to move aimlessly.
- To live behaving in a certain way, doing something regularly (followed by specification).
- To pass around, to circulate.
- To physically swirl or rotate.
verb
- (intransitive) To avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment.
- (transitive) To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from.
- (transitive) To elude the observation or notice of; to not be seen or remembered by.
- (transitive, computing) To cause (a single character, or all such characters in a string) to be interpreted literally, instead of with any special meaning it would usually have in the same context, often by prefixing with another character.
- (intransitive) To get free; to free oneself.
- (computing) To halt a program or command by pressing a key (such as the "Esc" key) or combination of keys.
- be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by
- flee; take to one's heels; cut and run
- escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action
- fail to experience
- remove oneself from a familiar environment, usually for pleasure or diversion
- run away from confinement
- issue or leak, as from a small opening
noun
- (programming) The text character represented by 27 (decimal) or 1B (hexadecimal).
- (botany) A cultivated plant found growing as though wild, dispersed by some agency.
- (snooker) A successful shot from a snooker position.
- A holiday, viewed as time away from the vicissitudes of life.
- Something that has escaped; an escapee.
- Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid, or an electric current through defective insulation.
- The act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation.
- (architecture) An apophyge.
- (computing) escape key
- (manufacturing) A defective product that is allowed to leave a manufacturing facility.
- nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do
- the discharge of a fluid from some container
- the act of escaping physically
- an inclination to retreat from unpleasant realities through diversion or fantasy
- an avoidance of danger or difficulty
- a plant originally cultivated but now growing wild
- a means or way of escaping
- a valve in a container in which pressure can build up (as a steam boiler); it opens automatically when the pressure reaches a dangerous level
verb
- (figuratively) To avoid or bypass an obstacle.
- To visit numerous different places.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get, around.
- To transport oneself from place to place.
- (slang) To be sexually promiscuous.
- To move to the other side of (something, such as an obstruction) by deviating from a direct course or following a curved path.
- To circumvent the obligation and performance of a chore; to get out of.
- be a social swinger; socialize a lot
- move around; move from place to place
- avoid something unpleasant or laborious
- be released or become known; of news
verb
- (transitive) To forbid (someone) from doing something.
- (transitive) To forbid (an action or thing) by formal or legal sanction.
- (transitive, US, military) To impede (an enemy); to interrupt or destroy (enemy communications, supply lines etc).
- (transitive, Roman Catholicism) To exclude (someone or somewhere) from participation in church services; to place under a religious interdict.
- destroy by firepower, such as an enemy's line of communication
- command against
noun
- (Scots law) An injunction.
- A papal decree prohibiting the administration of the sacraments from a political entity under the power of a single person (e.g., a king or an oligarchy with similar powers). Extreme unction/Anointing of the Sick is excepted.
- an ecclesiastical censure by the Roman Catholic Church withdrawing certain sacraments and Christian burial from a person or all persons in a particular district
- a court order prohibiting a party from doing a certain activity
verb
- (intransitive) To violate rules in order to gain, or attempt to gain, advantage from a situation.
- (intransitive) To be unfaithful to one's spouse or partner; to commit adultery, or to engage in sexual or romantic conduct with a person other than one's partner in contravention of the rules of society or agreement in the relationship.
- (informal, intransitive) To disregard self-imposed restrictions or commitments in favour of resting or indulging oneself.
- (transitive) To deceive; to fool; to trick.
- (transitive) To avoid a seemingly inevitable thing.
- engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud
- be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage
- defeat someone through trickery or deceit
- deprive somebody of something by deceit
noun
- (uncountable) The weed cheatgrass.
- (countable) Someone who cheats.
- (card games, uncountable) A card game where the goal is to have no cards remaining in a hand, often by telling lies.
- (countable) An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception.
- (video games, countable) A hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a video game, often by entering a cheat code.
- someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
- weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat
- the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme
- a deception for profit to yourself
- weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous
verb
- (transitive) To hinder or prevent.
- (US, law, transitive) To prohibit (a person or company that has been convicted of criminal acts in connection with a government program) from future participation in that program.
- (transitive) To exclude or shut out; to bar.
- bar temporarily; from school, office, etc.
- prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; to protect from or to keep away anything undesirable; to ward off
- prevent from entering; keep out
verb
- (transitive) To act in violation of some law.
- (intransitive, construed with against) To commit an offense; to sin.
- (intransitive, of the sea) To spread over land along a shoreline; to inundate.
- (transitive) To exceed or overstep some limit or boundary.
- spread over land, especially along a subsiding shoreline
- commit a sin; violate a law of God or a moral law
- pass beyond (limits or boundaries)
- act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises