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noun
- One who intrudes and takes over.
- (derogatory, neologism) A white person.
- One who establishes a colony; one who joins a colony or is born and raised there.
- One who makes a group or place into a colony; one who establishes a colonial relationship.
- (ecology) A species that establishes itself in a new area.
- someone who helps to found a colony
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verb
- (British, prison slang) To search the ground for discarded cigarette butts that can be made into new cigarettes.
- (transitive) To fall on at once and seize; to catch while on the wing.
- (intransitive) To move swiftly, as if with a sweeping movement, especially to attack something.
- (transitive) To seize; to catch up; to take with a sweep.
- (intransitive) To fly or glide downwards suddenly; to plunge (in the air) or nosedive.
- (intransitive) To pass with pomp; to sweep.
- seize or catch with a swooping motion
- move down on as if in an attack
- move with a sweep, or in a swooping arc
noun
- a person who is pursuing and trying to overtake or capture
- a drink to follow immediately after another drink
- (slang) A person who seeks partners with HIV in order to become infected.
- (slang) A drink consumed after another of a different kind.
- One of a series of adjacent light bulbs that cycle on and off to give the illusion of movement.
- (equestrianism) A horse trained for steeplechasing; a steeplechaser.
- (slang) A chaser for overweight or obese people; a chubby chaser.
- Something or someone who chases.
- (timber industry) One who unhooks chokers from the logs at the landing.
- (taxonomy) Any dragonfly of family Libellulidae.
- A person who guards military prisoners on fatigue duty; a prison guard.
- (LGBTQ slang) A chaser for transgender people; a tranny chaser.
- Someone who chases (decorates) metal; a person who decorates metal by engraving or embossing.
- (nautical) A chase gun.
- A tool used for cleaning out screw threads, either as an integral part of a tap or die to remove waste material produced by the cutting tool, or as a separate tool to repair damaged threads.
- A long piece of flexible wire used to draw an electrical cable through a wall cavity.
- (fiction, Harry Potter) In the sport of Quidditch or Muggle quidditch, a player responsible for passing the quaffle and scoring goals with it.
noun
- An act of capturing; a seizing by force or stratagem.
- The securing of an object of strife or desire, as by the power of some attraction.
- Something that has been captured; a captive.
- The recording or storage of something for later playback.
- (computing, regular expressions) A particular match found for a pattern in a text string.
- the act of taking of a person by force
- a process whereby a star or planet holds an object in its gravitational field
- any process in which an atomic or nuclear system acquires an additional particle
- the act of forcibly dispossessing an owner of property
- the removal of an opponent's piece from the chess board
verb
- take possession of by force, as after an invasion
- (transitive) To reproduce convincingly.
- (transitive) To take control of; to seize by force or stratagem.
- (transitive, figurative) To take hold of.
- (transitive) To store (as in sounds or image) for later revisitation.
- (transitive) To remove or take control of an opponent’s piece in a game (e.g., chess, go, checkers).
- bring about the capture of an elementary particle or celestial body and causing it enter a new orbit
- attract; cause to be enamored
- succeed in representing or expressing something intangible
- succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase
- capture as if by hunting, snaring, or trapping
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- the act of pursuing in an effort to overtake or capture
- a rectangular metal frame used in letterpress printing to hold together the pages or columns of composed type that are printed at one time
- The act of one who chases another; a pursuit.
- (architecture) A trench or channel or other encasement structure for encasing (archaically spelled enchasing) drainpipes or wiring; a hollow space in the wall of a building encasing ventilation ducts, chimney flues, wires, cables or plumbing.
- (real tennis) A division of the floor of a gallery, marked by a figure or otherwise; the spot where a ball falls, and between which and the dedans the adversary must drive the ball in order to gain a point.
- (British) A large country estate where game may be shot or hunted.
- Anything being chased, especially a vessel in time of war.
- The part of a gun in front of the trunnions.
- A hunt; the act of hunting; the pursuit of game.
- (real tennis) The occurrence of a second bounce by the ball in certain areas of the court, giving the server the chance, later in the game, to "play off" the chase from the receiving end and possibly win the point.
- (nautical) Any of the guns that fire directly ahead or astern; either a bow chase or stern chase.
- (printing) A rectangular steel or iron frame into which pages or columns of type are locked for printing or plate-making.
- A groove cut in an object; a slot: the chase for the quarrel on a crossbow.
- (uncountable) A children's game where one player chases another.
- (music) A series of brief improvised jazz solos by a number of musicians taking turns.
- The cavity of a mold.
- (cycling) One or more riders who are ahead of the peloton and trying to join the race or stage leaders.
- (shipbuilding) A kind of joint by which an overlap joint is changed to a flush joint by means of a gradually deepening rabbet, as at the ends of clinker-built boats.
verb
- pursue someone sexually or romantically
- go after with the intent to catch
- cut a groove into
- cut a furrow into a column
- (transitive) To decorate (metal) by engraving or embossing.
- (transitive) To seek to attain.
- (transitive) To follow at speed.
- (transitive) To place piping or wiring in a groove encased within a wall or floor, or in a hidden space encased by a wall.
- (transitive) To consume another beverage immediately after drinking hard liquor, typically something better tasting or less harsh such as soda or beer; to use a drink as a chaser.
- (transitive, nautical) To pursue a vessel in order to destroy, capture or interrogate her.
- (transitive) To cut (the thread of a screw).
- (transitive) To groove; indent.
- (transitive, baseball) To produce enough offense to cause the pitcher to be removed.
- (transitive) To persistently pursue someone as a sexual or romantic partner.
- (transitive, cricket) To attempt to win by scoring the required number of runs in the final innings.
- (transitive, baseball) To swing at a pitch outside of the strike zone, typically an outside pitch.
- (transitive) To hunt.
noun
- the act of pursuing in an effort to overtake or capture
- a group of followers or enthusiasts
- A group of followers, attendants or admirers; an entourage.
- Vocation; business; profession.
- (with definite article, treated as singular or plural) A thing or things to be mentioned immediately after.
- (social media) An account which is followed.
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- the act of pursuing in an effort to overtake or capture
- a diversion that occupies one's time and thoughts (usually pleasantly)
- an auxiliary activity
- a search for an alternative that meets cognitive criteria
- The act of pursuing.
- A hobby or recreational activity, done regularly.
- (cycle racing) A discipline in track cycling where two opposing teams start on opposite sides of the track and try to catch their opponents.
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- An attempt to seize, bite, attack, or grab.
- (colloquial) Clipping of Snapchat (“user account on Snapchat”).
- A visual message sent through the Snapchat application.
- A quick offhand shot with a firearm; a snap shot.
- (colloquial) Something of no value.
- (uncountable) A subgenre of hip-hop music derived from crunk.
- A sudden break.
- A snap bean such as Phaseolus vulgaris.
- (colloquial) A rivet: a scrapbooking embellishment.
- A fastening device that makes a snapping sound when used.
- A quick breaking or cracking sound or the action of producing such a sound.
- (physics, humorous) jounce (the fourth derivative of the position vector with respect to time), followed by crackle and pop
- (uncountable) A crisp or pithy quality; epigrammatic point or force.
- (American football) A backward pass or handoff of a football from its position on the ground that puts the ball in play; a hike.
- (fishing) A small device resembling a safety pin, used to attach the bait or lure to the line.
- That which is, or may be, snapped up; something bitten off, seized, or obtained by a single quick movement; hence, a bite, morsel, or fragment; a scrap.
- (uncountable) A card game, primarily for children, in which players cry "snap" to claim pairs of matching cards as they are turned up.
- A tool used by riveters.
- The act of snapping the fingers; making a sound by pressing a finger against the thumb and suddenly releasing to strike the hand.
- A brief, sudden period of a certain weather; used primarily in the phrase cold snap.
- (informal) A photograph; a snapshot.
- (Linux) A package provided for the application sandboxing system snapd developed by Canonical.
- A very short period of time (figuratively, the time taken to snap one's fingers), or a task that can be accomplished in such a period.
- A thin circular cookie or similar baked good.
- A tool used by glass-moulders.
- A newsflash.
- Briskness; vigour; energy; decision.
- (slang) An insult of the kind used in the African-American verbal game of the dozens.
- The sudden release of something held under pressure or tension.
- (UK, regional) A small meal, a snack; lunch.
- (slang) Something that is easy or effortless.
- A snapper, or snap beetle.
- any undertaking that is easy to do
- tender green beans without strings that easily snap into sections
- a sudden breaking
- the tendency of a body to return to its original shape after it has been stretched or compressed
- the noise produced by the rapid movement of a finger from the tip to the base of the thumb on the same hand
- (American football) putting the ball in play by passing it (between the legs) to a back
- a crisp round cookie flavored with ginger
- a fastener used on clothing; fastens with a snapping sound
- an informal photograph; usually made with a small hand-held camera
- a spell of cold weather
- a sudden sharp noise
- the act of snapping the fingers; movement of a finger from the tip to the base of the thumb on the same hand
- the act of catching an object with the hands
adj
intj
- (Canada, US) Used in place of an expletive to express surprise, usually in response to a negative statement or news; often used facetiously.
- The cry used in a game of snap when winning a hand.
- (British, by extension) Used to express agreement.
- (British, Australia, by extension) "I've got one the same!", "Me too!"
- (British, Australia, New Zealand) Used after something is said by two people at exactly the same time.
verb
- (transitive) To cause to move suddenly and smartly.
- (intransitive, transitive) To fracture or break apart suddenly.
- (transitive) To cause something to emit a snapping sound, especially by closing it rapidly.
- (intransitive) To fit or fasten together with a snapping sound.
- (transitive) To pull apart with a snapping sound; to pop loose.
- (cricket, transitive) To catch out sharply (a batsman who has just snicked a bowled ball).
- (intransitive, computing, graphical user interface) To jump to a fixed position relative to another element.
- (intransitive) To flash or appear to flash as with light.
- (intransitive) To attempt to seize with eagerness.
- (intransitive) To give way abruptly and loudly.
- (transitive) To say abruptly or sharply.
- (intransitive) To misfire.
- (intransitive) To suffer a mental breakdown, usually while under tension.
- (social media, ditransitive) Alternative letter-case form of Snap (“to send a visual message through the Snapchat application”).
- (intransitive) To speak abruptly or sharply.
- (transitive, American football) To put (a football) in play by a backward pass or handoff from its position on the ground; to hike (a football).
- (transitive) To snap one's fingers: to make a snapping sound, often by pressing the thumb and an opposing finger of the same hand together and suddenly releasing the grip so that the finger hits against the palm; alternatively, by bringing the index finger quickly down onto the middle finger and thumb.
- (intransitive) To attempt to seize or bite with the teeth, beak, etc.
- (intransitive) To give forth or produce a sharp cracking noise; to crack.
- (transitive) To close something using a snap as a fastener.
- (transitive) To snatch with or as if with the teeth.
- (transitive) To take a photograph; to release a camera's shutter (which may make a snapping sound).
- (intransitive) To move or shift suddenly.
- cause to make a snapping sound
- record on photographic film
- bring the jaws together
- close with a snapping motion
- break suddenly and abruptly, as under tension
- make a sharp sound
- move with a snapping sound
- move or strike with a noise
- lose control of one's emotions
- separate or cause to separate abruptly
- to grasp hastily or eagerly
- utter in an angry, sharp, or abrupt tone
- put in play with a snap
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- The act of grabbing or taking possession.
- Such lashing used to temporarily immobilize the ends of a rope to prevent a knot from slipping or collapsing.
- A type of lashing or binding by a small cord.
- (chiefly in the plural) Something seized.
- the act of gripping something firmly with the hands (or the tentacles)
- small stuff that is used for lashing two or more ropes together
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- To pinch and hold; to seize.
- (transitive) To impress (seamen or soldiers); to entrap, to decoy.
- To bend or mold leather into shape.
- To press into small ridges or folds, to pleat, to corrugate.
- (electricity) To fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened.
- To style hair into a crimp, to form hair into tight curls, to make it kinky.
- To gash the flesh, e.g. of a raw fish, to make it crisper when cooked.
- (climbing) to hold using a crimp
- curl tightly
- make ridges into by pinching together
noun
- The natural curliness of wool fibres.
- (climbing) A small hold with little surface area.
- An agent who procures seamen, soldiers, etc., especially by decoying, entrapping, impressing, or seducing them.
- (usually in the plural) Hair that is shaped so it bends back and forth in many short kinks.
- (specifically, law) One who infringes sub-section 1 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1854, applied to a person other than the owner, master, etc., who engages seamen without a license from the Board of Trade.
- A fastener or a fastening method that secures parts by bending metal around a joint and squeezing it together, often with a tool that adds indentations to capture the parts.
- (climbing) A grip on such a hold.
- a lock of hair that has been artificially waved or curled
- an angular or rounded shape made by folding
- someone who tricks or coerces men into service as sailors or soldiers
verb
- seize on its way
- tap a telephone or telegraph wire to get information
- (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.
noun
- the point at which a line intersects a coordinate axis
- (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.
verb
- seize on its way
- hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of
- come to a halt, stop moving
- stop from happening or developing
- cause to end
- have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
- put an end to a state or an activity
- stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments
- render unsuitable for passage
- interrupt a trip
- (transitive) To cease; to no longer continue.
- (phonetics, transitive) To pronounce (a phoneme) as a stop.
- (transitive) To cause (something) to come to an end.
- (causative, transitive) To interrupt, prevent or end the activity of someone or something. [with direct object, along with gerund (chiefly UK) or direct object, along with from, along with gerund (chiefly US)]
- (music) To regulate the sounds of (musical strings, etc.) by pressing them against the fingerboard with the finger, or otherwise shortening the vibrating part.
- (transitive, intransitive, photography, often with "up" or "down") To adjust the aperture of a camera lens.
- (transitive) To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing.
- (intransitive) To cease moving.
- (intransitive) Not to continue.
- (intransitive) To stay; to spend a short time; to reside or tarry temporarily.
- (nautical) To make fast; to stopper.
- (transitive) To close or block an opening.
- (finance, transitive) To delay the purchase or sale of (a stock) while agreeing the price for later.
noun
- the event of something ending
- a brief stay in the course of a journey
- a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens
- a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it
- an obstruction in a pipe or tube
- the state of inactivity following an interruption
- (music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes
- the act of stopping something
- a restraint that checks the motion of something
- a punctuation mark (‘.’) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
- a spot where something halts or pauses
- (tennis) A very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce as little as possible.
- An action of stopping; interruption of travel.
- (photography) A unit of exposure corresponding to a doubling of the brightness of an image.
- (architecture) A member, plain or moulded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts.
- (physics) The squark that is the superpartner of a top quark.
- (UK dialectal) A small well-bucket; a milk-pail.
- A marking on a rabbit's hind foot.
- (music) A knob or pin used to regulate the flow of air in an organ.
- (engineering) A device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for arresting or limiting motion, or for determining the position to which another part shall be brought.
- (photography) A part of a photographic system that reduces the amount of light.
- (soccer) A save; preventing the opposition from scoring a goal
- A symbol used for purposes of punctuation and representing a pause or separating clauses, particularly a full stop, comma, colon or semicolon.
- (fencing) A coup d'arret, or stop thrust.
- (zoology) The depression in a dog’s face between the skull and the nasal bones.
- A device intended to block the path of a moving object
- That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; an obstacle; an impediment.
- (music) One of the vent-holes in a wind instrument, or the place on the wire of a stringed instrument, by the stopping or pressing of which certain notes are produced.
- The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses.
- A (usually marked) place where buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually smaller than a station.
- (photography) An f-stop.
- (linguistics) A consonant sound in which the passage of air is temporarily blocked by the lips, tongue, or glottis.
- (UK, grammar, informal) Ellipsis of full stop.
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- (intransitive) To attempt to seize something suddenly.
- (transitive, informal) To steal.
- (transitive, informal) To do something quickly in the limited time available.
- (transitive) To take or seize hastily, abruptly, or without permission or ceremony.
- (transitive) To grasp and remove quickly.
- (transitive, informal, figurative, by extension) To take (a victory) at the last moment.
- to make grasping motions
- take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom
- to grasp hastily or eagerly
noun
- A quick grab or catch.
- (weightlifting) A competitive weightlifting event in which a barbell is lifted from the platform to locked arms overhead in a smooth continuous movement.
- A piece of some sound, usually music or conversation.
- A short period.
- (aviation) Rapid, uncommanded jerking or oscillation of the ailerons of some aircraft at high Mach numbers, resulting from shock wave formation at transonic speeds.
- (vulgar slang) The vulva.
- (law) the unlawful act of capturing and carrying away a person against their will and holding them in false imprisonment
- a small fragment
- a weightlift in which the barbell is lifted overhead in one rapid motion
- obscene terms for female genitals
- the act of catching an object with the hands
verb
- seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession
- take up someone's soul into heaven
- put clothing on one's body
- make a pretence of
- take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect
- take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person
- take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities
- occupy or take on
- take to be the case or to be true; accept without verification or proof
- To adopt a feigned quality or manner; to claim without right; to arrogate.
- To receive, adopt (a person).
- To take on a position, duty or form.
- To adopt (an idea or cause).
- To authenticate by means of belief; to surmise; to suppose to be true, especially without proof.
verb
- seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession
- take possession of by force, as after an invasion
- take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority
- affect
- hook by a pull on the line
- take or capture by force
- capture the attention or imagination of
- take into your hands deliberately
- (intransitive) To bind or lock in position immovably; see also seize up.
- (transitive, law) Alternative spelling of seise (“to vest ownership of an estate in land”).
- (transitive, nautical) To bind, lash or make fast, with several turns of small rope, cord, or small line.
- (law) (with of) To cause (an action or matter) to be or remain before (a certain judge or court).
- (transitive) To take advantage of (an opportunity or circumstance).
- (transitive) To deliberately take hold of; to grab or capture.
- (ambitransitive, cooking) Of chocolate: to change suddenly from a fluid to an undesirably hard and gritty texture.
- (transitive) To take possession of (by force, law etc.).
- (transitive) To have a sudden and powerful effect upon.
- (intransitive) To lay hold in seizure, by hands or claws (+ on or upon).
- (UK, intransitive) To submit for consideration to a deliberative body.
- (intransitive) To have a seizure.
verb
- seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession
- free someone temporarily from his or her obligations
- take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person
- take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities
- take over ownership of; of corporations and companies
- take up and practice as one's own
- take up, as of debts or payments
- do over
- To assume control of something, such as a business or enterprise, and sometimes by force.
- To adopt a further responsibility or duty.
- To annex a territory by conquest or invasion; to conquer.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see take, over.
- (transitive, intransitive) To become more successful than (someone or something else).
- To relieve someone temporarily.
- To appropriate something without permission.
- To buy out the ownership of a business.
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- (colloquial) A human fingernail, particularly one extending well beyond the fingertip.
- A foot equipped with such.
- (graph theory) A tree with one internal vertex and three leaves.
- The pincer (chela) of a crustacean or other arthropod.
- A mechanical device resembling a claw, used for gripping or lifting.
- (juggling) The act of catching a ball overhand.
- A curved, pointed, horny projection on each digit of the foot of a mammal, reptile, or bird.
- (botany) A slender appendage or process, formed like a claw, such as the base of petals of the pink.
- sharp curved horny process on the toe of a bird or some mammals or reptiles
- a grasping structure on the limb of a crustacean or other arthropods
- a bird's foot
- a mechanical device that is curved or bent to suspend or hold or pull something
noun
- A person seized in order to compel another party to act (or refrain from acting) in a certain way, because of the threat of harm to the hostage.
- The condition of being held as security or to compel someone else to act or not act in a particular way.
- Something that constrains one's actions because it is at risk.
- One who is compelled by something, especially something that poses a threat; one who is not free to choose their own course of action.
- A person given as a pledge or security for the performance of the conditions of a treaty or similar agreement, such as to ensure the status of a vassal.
- a prisoner who is held by one party to insure that another party will meet specified terms
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- To lord over someone by exerting dominance, following a successful confrontation; sometimes in a subtle or snide manner.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see throw, something, in, someone, face.
- To repay an act of kindness with disappointment or betrayal.
- To reject some act in a spiteful manner.
- To raise a past transgression in order to admonish someone.
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verb
- To take fast hold of; to seize and hold firmly; to pounce upon.
- (transitive) To support.
- (transitive) To tie up a bird before cooking it.
- To strengthen or stiffen, as a beam or girder, by means of a brace or braces.
- (transitive) To secure or bind with ropes.
- tie the wings and legs of a bird before cooking it
- support structurally
- secure with or as if with ropes
noun
- (architecture) A structure made up of one or more triangular units made from straight beams of wood or metal, which is used to support a structure as in a roof or bridge.
- (historical) A padded jacket or dress worn under armour, to protect the body from the effects of friction.
- (historical) Part of a woman's dress; a stomacher.
- A bandage and belt used to hold a hernia in place.
- (nautical) The rope or iron used to keep the centre of a yard to the mast.
- An old English farming measurement. One truss of straw equalled 36 pounds, a truss of old hay equalled 56 pounds, a truss of new hay equalled 60 pounds, and 36 trusses equalled one load.
- (botany) A tuft of flowers or cluster of fruits formed at the top of the main stem of certain plants.
- (architecture) A triangular bracket.
- a framework of beams (rafters, posts, struts) forming a rigid structure that supports a roof or bridge or other structure
- (architecture) a triangular bracket of brick or stone (usually of slight extent)
- (medicine) a bandage consisting of a pad and belt; worn to hold a hernia in place by pressure
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verb
- take possession of by force, as after an invasion
- give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause
- (transitive, British, ecclesiastical, law) To annex (for example a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property).
- (transitive) To set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, especially in exclusion of all others; with to or for.
- (transitive) To take to oneself; to claim or use, especially as by an exclusive right.
adj
- suitable for a particular person or place or condition etc
- meant or adapted for an occasion or use
- Suitable to the social situation or to social respect or social discreetness; socially correct; socially discreet; well-mannered; proper.
- Suitable or fit; proper; felicitous.
- Of an action or thing: morally good; positive.
- Of an action or thing: pleasant.
noun
- One who engages in a raid; a plunderer.
- (business) A person who takes or attempts to take control of a firm against the will of current management by purchasing a controlling interest of stock and acquiring proxies.
- (military) A special forces operative; a commando.
- (military, naval) A warship which is light, maneuverable, and fast-moving.
- (informal) A person who uncovers evidence of improper behavior within governmental or private organizations.
- A law enforcement official who conducts a raid on a building in search for illicit goods.
- A warplane on an air raid.
- a corporate investor who intends to take over a company by buying a controlling interest in its stock and installing new management
- someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war)
noun
- One who intrudes and takes over.
- (derogatory, neologism) A white person.
- One who establishes a colony; one who joins a colony or is born and raised there.
- One who makes a group or place into a colony; one who establishes a colonial relationship.
- (ecology) A species that establishes itself in a new area.
- someone who helps to found a colony
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- (British, prison slang) To search the ground for discarded cigarette butts that can be made into new cigarettes.
- (transitive) To fall on at once and seize; to catch while on the wing.
- (intransitive) To move swiftly, as if with a sweeping movement, especially to attack something.
- (transitive) To seize; to catch up; to take with a sweep.
- (intransitive) To fly or glide downwards suddenly; to plunge (in the air) or nosedive.
- (intransitive) To pass with pomp; to sweep.
- seize or catch with a swooping motion
- move down on as if in an attack
- move with a sweep, or in a swooping arc
noun
- a person who is pursuing and trying to overtake or capture
- a drink to follow immediately after another drink
- (slang) A person who seeks partners with HIV in order to become infected.
- (slang) A drink consumed after another of a different kind.
- One of a series of adjacent light bulbs that cycle on and off to give the illusion of movement.
- (equestrianism) A horse trained for steeplechasing; a steeplechaser.
- (slang) A chaser for overweight or obese people; a chubby chaser.
- Something or someone who chases.
- (timber industry) One who unhooks chokers from the logs at the landing.
- (taxonomy) Any dragonfly of family Libellulidae.
- A person who guards military prisoners on fatigue duty; a prison guard.
- (LGBTQ slang) A chaser for transgender people; a tranny chaser.
- Someone who chases (decorates) metal; a person who decorates metal by engraving or embossing.
- (nautical) A chase gun.
- A tool used for cleaning out screw threads, either as an integral part of a tap or die to remove waste material produced by the cutting tool, or as a separate tool to repair damaged threads.
- A long piece of flexible wire used to draw an electrical cable through a wall cavity.
- (fiction, Harry Potter) In the sport of Quidditch or Muggle quidditch, a player responsible for passing the quaffle and scoring goals with it.
noun
- An act of capturing; a seizing by force or stratagem.
- The securing of an object of strife or desire, as by the power of some attraction.
- Something that has been captured; a captive.
- The recording or storage of something for later playback.
- (computing, regular expressions) A particular match found for a pattern in a text string.
- the act of taking of a person by force
- a process whereby a star or planet holds an object in its gravitational field
- any process in which an atomic or nuclear system acquires an additional particle
- the act of forcibly dispossessing an owner of property
- the removal of an opponent's piece from the chess board
verb
- take possession of by force, as after an invasion
- (transitive) To reproduce convincingly.
- (transitive) To take control of; to seize by force or stratagem.
- (transitive, figurative) To take hold of.
- (transitive) To store (as in sounds or image) for later revisitation.
- (transitive) To remove or take control of an opponent’s piece in a game (e.g., chess, go, checkers).
- bring about the capture of an elementary particle or celestial body and causing it enter a new orbit
- attract; cause to be enamored
- succeed in representing or expressing something intangible
- succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase
- capture as if by hunting, snaring, or trapping
noun
noun
- the act of pursuing in an effort to overtake or capture
- a rectangular metal frame used in letterpress printing to hold together the pages or columns of composed type that are printed at one time
- The act of one who chases another; a pursuit.
- (architecture) A trench or channel or other encasement structure for encasing (archaically spelled enchasing) drainpipes or wiring; a hollow space in the wall of a building encasing ventilation ducts, chimney flues, wires, cables or plumbing.
- (real tennis) A division of the floor of a gallery, marked by a figure or otherwise; the spot where a ball falls, and between which and the dedans the adversary must drive the ball in order to gain a point.
- (British) A large country estate where game may be shot or hunted.
- Anything being chased, especially a vessel in time of war.
- The part of a gun in front of the trunnions.
- A hunt; the act of hunting; the pursuit of game.
- (real tennis) The occurrence of a second bounce by the ball in certain areas of the court, giving the server the chance, later in the game, to "play off" the chase from the receiving end and possibly win the point.
- (nautical) Any of the guns that fire directly ahead or astern; either a bow chase or stern chase.
- (printing) A rectangular steel or iron frame into which pages or columns of type are locked for printing or plate-making.
- A groove cut in an object; a slot: the chase for the quarrel on a crossbow.
- (uncountable) A children's game where one player chases another.
- (music) A series of brief improvised jazz solos by a number of musicians taking turns.
- The cavity of a mold.
- (cycling) One or more riders who are ahead of the peloton and trying to join the race or stage leaders.
- (shipbuilding) A kind of joint by which an overlap joint is changed to a flush joint by means of a gradually deepening rabbet, as at the ends of clinker-built boats.
verb
- pursue someone sexually or romantically
- go after with the intent to catch
- cut a groove into
- cut a furrow into a column
- (transitive) To decorate (metal) by engraving or embossing.
- (transitive) To seek to attain.
- (transitive) To follow at speed.
- (transitive) To place piping or wiring in a groove encased within a wall or floor, or in a hidden space encased by a wall.
- (transitive) To consume another beverage immediately after drinking hard liquor, typically something better tasting or less harsh such as soda or beer; to use a drink as a chaser.
- (transitive, nautical) To pursue a vessel in order to destroy, capture or interrogate her.
- (transitive) To cut (the thread of a screw).
- (transitive) To groove; indent.
- (transitive, baseball) To produce enough offense to cause the pitcher to be removed.
- (transitive) To persistently pursue someone as a sexual or romantic partner.
- (transitive, cricket) To attempt to win by scoring the required number of runs in the final innings.
- (transitive, baseball) To swing at a pitch outside of the strike zone, typically an outside pitch.
- (transitive) To hunt.
noun
- the act of pursuing in an effort to overtake or capture
- a group of followers or enthusiasts
- A group of followers, attendants or admirers; an entourage.
- Vocation; business; profession.
- (with definite article, treated as singular or plural) A thing or things to be mentioned immediately after.
- (social media) An account which is followed.
adj
prep
verb
noun
- the act of pursuing in an effort to overtake or capture
- a diversion that occupies one's time and thoughts (usually pleasantly)
- an auxiliary activity
- a search for an alternative that meets cognitive criteria
- The act of pursuing.
- A hobby or recreational activity, done regularly.
- (cycle racing) A discipline in track cycling where two opposing teams start on opposite sides of the track and try to catch their opponents.
noun
noun
- An attempt to seize, bite, attack, or grab.
- (colloquial) Clipping of Snapchat (“user account on Snapchat”).
- A visual message sent through the Snapchat application.
- A quick offhand shot with a firearm; a snap shot.
- (colloquial) Something of no value.
- (uncountable) A subgenre of hip-hop music derived from crunk.
- A sudden break.
- A snap bean such as Phaseolus vulgaris.
- (colloquial) A rivet: a scrapbooking embellishment.
- A fastening device that makes a snapping sound when used.
- A quick breaking or cracking sound or the action of producing such a sound.
- (physics, humorous) jounce (the fourth derivative of the position vector with respect to time), followed by crackle and pop
- (uncountable) A crisp or pithy quality; epigrammatic point or force.
- (American football) A backward pass or handoff of a football from its position on the ground that puts the ball in play; a hike.
- (fishing) A small device resembling a safety pin, used to attach the bait or lure to the line.
- That which is, or may be, snapped up; something bitten off, seized, or obtained by a single quick movement; hence, a bite, morsel, or fragment; a scrap.
- (uncountable) A card game, primarily for children, in which players cry "snap" to claim pairs of matching cards as they are turned up.
- A tool used by riveters.
- The act of snapping the fingers; making a sound by pressing a finger against the thumb and suddenly releasing to strike the hand.
- A brief, sudden period of a certain weather; used primarily in the phrase cold snap.
- (informal) A photograph; a snapshot.
- (Linux) A package provided for the application sandboxing system snapd developed by Canonical.
- A very short period of time (figuratively, the time taken to snap one's fingers), or a task that can be accomplished in such a period.
- A thin circular cookie or similar baked good.
- A tool used by glass-moulders.
- A newsflash.
- Briskness; vigour; energy; decision.
- (slang) An insult of the kind used in the African-American verbal game of the dozens.
- The sudden release of something held under pressure or tension.
- (UK, regional) A small meal, a snack; lunch.
- (slang) Something that is easy or effortless.
- A snapper, or snap beetle.
- any undertaking that is easy to do
- tender green beans without strings that easily snap into sections
- a sudden breaking
- the tendency of a body to return to its original shape after it has been stretched or compressed
- the noise produced by the rapid movement of a finger from the tip to the base of the thumb on the same hand
- (American football) putting the ball in play by passing it (between the legs) to a back
- a crisp round cookie flavored with ginger
- a fastener used on clothing; fastens with a snapping sound
- an informal photograph; usually made with a small hand-held camera
- a spell of cold weather
- a sudden sharp noise
- the act of snapping the fingers; movement of a finger from the tip to the base of the thumb on the same hand
- the act of catching an object with the hands
adj
intj
- (Canada, US) Used in place of an expletive to express surprise, usually in response to a negative statement or news; often used facetiously.
- The cry used in a game of snap when winning a hand.
- (British, by extension) Used to express agreement.
- (British, Australia, by extension) "I've got one the same!", "Me too!"
- (British, Australia, New Zealand) Used after something is said by two people at exactly the same time.
verb
- (transitive) To cause to move suddenly and smartly.
- (intransitive, transitive) To fracture or break apart suddenly.
- (transitive) To cause something to emit a snapping sound, especially by closing it rapidly.
- (intransitive) To fit or fasten together with a snapping sound.
- (transitive) To pull apart with a snapping sound; to pop loose.
- (cricket, transitive) To catch out sharply (a batsman who has just snicked a bowled ball).
- (intransitive, computing, graphical user interface) To jump to a fixed position relative to another element.
- (intransitive) To flash or appear to flash as with light.
- (intransitive) To attempt to seize with eagerness.
- (intransitive) To give way abruptly and loudly.
- (transitive) To say abruptly or sharply.
- (intransitive) To misfire.
- (intransitive) To suffer a mental breakdown, usually while under tension.
- (social media, ditransitive) Alternative letter-case form of Snap (“to send a visual message through the Snapchat application”).
- (intransitive) To speak abruptly or sharply.
- (transitive, American football) To put (a football) in play by a backward pass or handoff from its position on the ground; to hike (a football).
- (transitive) To snap one's fingers: to make a snapping sound, often by pressing the thumb and an opposing finger of the same hand together and suddenly releasing the grip so that the finger hits against the palm; alternatively, by bringing the index finger quickly down onto the middle finger and thumb.
- (intransitive) To attempt to seize or bite with the teeth, beak, etc.
- (intransitive) To give forth or produce a sharp cracking noise; to crack.
- (transitive) To close something using a snap as a fastener.
- (transitive) To snatch with or as if with the teeth.
- (transitive) To take a photograph; to release a camera's shutter (which may make a snapping sound).
- (intransitive) To move or shift suddenly.
- cause to make a snapping sound
- record on photographic film
- bring the jaws together
- close with a snapping motion
- break suddenly and abruptly, as under tension
- make a sharp sound
- move with a snapping sound
- move or strike with a noise
- lose control of one's emotions
- separate or cause to separate abruptly
- to grasp hastily or eagerly
- utter in an angry, sharp, or abrupt tone
- put in play with a snap
noun
noun
- The act of grabbing or taking possession.
- Such lashing used to temporarily immobilize the ends of a rope to prevent a knot from slipping or collapsing.
- A type of lashing or binding by a small cord.
- (chiefly in the plural) Something seized.
- the act of gripping something firmly with the hands (or the tentacles)
- small stuff that is used for lashing two or more ropes together
adj
verb
noun
noun
noun
noun
noun
noun
- A person seized in order to compel another party to act (or refrain from acting) in a certain way, because of the threat of harm to the hostage.
- The condition of being held as security or to compel someone else to act or not act in a particular way.
- Something that constrains one's actions because it is at risk.
- One who is compelled by something, especially something that poses a threat; one who is not free to choose their own course of action.
- A person given as a pledge or security for the performance of the conditions of a treaty or similar agreement, such as to ensure the status of a vassal.
- a prisoner who is held by one party to insure that another party will meet specified terms
verb
noun
noun
noun
- One who engages in a raid; a plunderer.
- (business) A person who takes or attempts to take control of a firm against the will of current management by purchasing a controlling interest of stock and acquiring proxies.
- (military) A special forces operative; a commando.
- (military, naval) A warship which is light, maneuverable, and fast-moving.
- (informal) A person who uncovers evidence of improper behavior within governmental or private organizations.
- A law enforcement official who conducts a raid on a building in search for illicit goods.
- A warplane on an air raid.
- a corporate investor who intends to take over a company by buying a controlling interest in its stock and installing new management
- someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war)
verb
noun
verb
noun
verb
- To pinch and hold; to seize.
- (transitive) To impress (seamen or soldiers); to entrap, to decoy.
- To bend or mold leather into shape.
- To press into small ridges or folds, to pleat, to corrugate.
- (electricity) To fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened.
- To style hair into a crimp, to form hair into tight curls, to make it kinky.
- To gash the flesh, e.g. of a raw fish, to make it crisper when cooked.
- (climbing) to hold using a crimp
- curl tightly
- make ridges into by pinching together
noun
- The natural curliness of wool fibres.
- (climbing) A small hold with little surface area.
- An agent who procures seamen, soldiers, etc., especially by decoying, entrapping, impressing, or seducing them.
- (usually in the plural) Hair that is shaped so it bends back and forth in many short kinks.
- (specifically, law) One who infringes sub-section 1 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1854, applied to a person other than the owner, master, etc., who engages seamen without a license from the Board of Trade.
- A fastener or a fastening method that secures parts by bending metal around a joint and squeezing it together, often with a tool that adds indentations to capture the parts.
- (climbing) A grip on such a hold.
- a lock of hair that has been artificially waved or curled
- an angular or rounded shape made by folding
- someone who tricks or coerces men into service as sailors or soldiers
verb
- seize on its way
- tap a telephone or telegraph wire to get information
- (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.
noun
- the point at which a line intersects a coordinate axis
- (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.
verb
- seize on its way
- hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of
- come to a halt, stop moving
- stop from happening or developing
- cause to end
- have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
- put an end to a state or an activity
- stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments
- render unsuitable for passage
- interrupt a trip
- (transitive) To cease; to no longer continue.
- (phonetics, transitive) To pronounce (a phoneme) as a stop.
- (transitive) To cause (something) to come to an end.
- (causative, transitive) To interrupt, prevent or end the activity of someone or something. [with direct object, along with gerund (chiefly UK) or direct object, along with from, along with gerund (chiefly US)]
- (music) To regulate the sounds of (musical strings, etc.) by pressing them against the fingerboard with the finger, or otherwise shortening the vibrating part.
- (transitive, intransitive, photography, often with "up" or "down") To adjust the aperture of a camera lens.
- (transitive) To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing.
- (intransitive) To cease moving.
- (intransitive) Not to continue.
- (intransitive) To stay; to spend a short time; to reside or tarry temporarily.
- (nautical) To make fast; to stopper.
- (transitive) To close or block an opening.
- (finance, transitive) To delay the purchase or sale of (a stock) while agreeing the price for later.
noun
- the event of something ending
- a brief stay in the course of a journey
- a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens
- a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it
- an obstruction in a pipe or tube
- the state of inactivity following an interruption
- (music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes
- the act of stopping something
- a restraint that checks the motion of something
- a punctuation mark (‘.’) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
- a spot where something halts or pauses
- (tennis) A very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce as little as possible.
- An action of stopping; interruption of travel.
- (photography) A unit of exposure corresponding to a doubling of the brightness of an image.
- (architecture) A member, plain or moulded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts.
- (physics) The squark that is the superpartner of a top quark.
- (UK dialectal) A small well-bucket; a milk-pail.
- A marking on a rabbit's hind foot.
- (music) A knob or pin used to regulate the flow of air in an organ.
- (engineering) A device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for arresting or limiting motion, or for determining the position to which another part shall be brought.
- (photography) A part of a photographic system that reduces the amount of light.
- (soccer) A save; preventing the opposition from scoring a goal
- A symbol used for purposes of punctuation and representing a pause or separating clauses, particularly a full stop, comma, colon or semicolon.
- (fencing) A coup d'arret, or stop thrust.
- (zoology) The depression in a dog’s face between the skull and the nasal bones.
- A device intended to block the path of a moving object
- That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; an obstacle; an impediment.
- (music) One of the vent-holes in a wind instrument, or the place on the wire of a stringed instrument, by the stopping or pressing of which certain notes are produced.
- The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses.
- A (usually marked) place where buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually smaller than a station.
- (photography) An f-stop.
- (linguistics) A consonant sound in which the passage of air is temporarily blocked by the lips, tongue, or glottis.
- (UK, grammar, informal) Ellipsis of full stop.
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verb
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To attempt to seize something suddenly.
- (transitive, informal) To steal.
- (transitive, informal) To do something quickly in the limited time available.
- (transitive) To take or seize hastily, abruptly, or without permission or ceremony.
- (transitive) To grasp and remove quickly.
- (transitive, informal, figurative, by extension) To take (a victory) at the last moment.
- to make grasping motions
- take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom
- to grasp hastily or eagerly
noun
- A quick grab or catch.
- (weightlifting) A competitive weightlifting event in which a barbell is lifted from the platform to locked arms overhead in a smooth continuous movement.
- A piece of some sound, usually music or conversation.
- A short period.
- (aviation) Rapid, uncommanded jerking or oscillation of the ailerons of some aircraft at high Mach numbers, resulting from shock wave formation at transonic speeds.
- (vulgar slang) The vulva.
- (law) the unlawful act of capturing and carrying away a person against their will and holding them in false imprisonment
- a small fragment
- a weightlift in which the barbell is lifted overhead in one rapid motion
- obscene terms for female genitals
- the act of catching an object with the hands
verb
- seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession
- take up someone's soul into heaven
- put clothing on one's body
- make a pretence of
- take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect
- take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person
- take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities
- occupy or take on
- take to be the case or to be true; accept without verification or proof
- To adopt a feigned quality or manner; to claim without right; to arrogate.
- To receive, adopt (a person).
- To take on a position, duty or form.
- To adopt (an idea or cause).
- To authenticate by means of belief; to surmise; to suppose to be true, especially without proof.
verb
- seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession
- take possession of by force, as after an invasion
- take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority
- affect
- hook by a pull on the line
- take or capture by force
- capture the attention or imagination of
- take into your hands deliberately
- (intransitive) To bind or lock in position immovably; see also seize up.
- (transitive, law) Alternative spelling of seise (“to vest ownership of an estate in land”).
- (transitive, nautical) To bind, lash or make fast, with several turns of small rope, cord, or small line.
- (law) (with of) To cause (an action or matter) to be or remain before (a certain judge or court).
- (transitive) To take advantage of (an opportunity or circumstance).
- (transitive) To deliberately take hold of; to grab or capture.
- (ambitransitive, cooking) Of chocolate: to change suddenly from a fluid to an undesirably hard and gritty texture.
- (transitive) To take possession of (by force, law etc.).
- (transitive) To have a sudden and powerful effect upon.
- (intransitive) To lay hold in seizure, by hands or claws (+ on or upon).
- (UK, intransitive) To submit for consideration to a deliberative body.
- (intransitive) To have a seizure.
verb
- seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession
- free someone temporarily from his or her obligations
- take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person
- take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities
- take over ownership of; of corporations and companies
- take up and practice as one's own
- take up, as of debts or payments
- do over
- To assume control of something, such as a business or enterprise, and sometimes by force.
- To adopt a further responsibility or duty.
- To annex a territory by conquest or invasion; to conquer.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see take, over.
- (transitive, intransitive) To become more successful than (someone or something else).
- To relieve someone temporarily.
- To appropriate something without permission.
- To buy out the ownership of a business.
verb
verb
noun
- (colloquial) A human fingernail, particularly one extending well beyond the fingertip.
- A foot equipped with such.
- (graph theory) A tree with one internal vertex and three leaves.
- The pincer (chela) of a crustacean or other arthropod.
- A mechanical device resembling a claw, used for gripping or lifting.
- (juggling) The act of catching a ball overhand.
- A curved, pointed, horny projection on each digit of the foot of a mammal, reptile, or bird.
- (botany) A slender appendage or process, formed like a claw, such as the base of petals of the pink.
- sharp curved horny process on the toe of a bird or some mammals or reptiles
- a grasping structure on the limb of a crustacean or other arthropods
- a bird's foot
- a mechanical device that is curved or bent to suspend or hold or pull something
verb
- To lord over someone by exerting dominance, following a successful confrontation; sometimes in a subtle or snide manner.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see throw, something, in, someone, face.
- To repay an act of kindness with disappointment or betrayal.
- To reject some act in a spiteful manner.
- To raise a past transgression in order to admonish someone.
verb
- To take fast hold of; to seize and hold firmly; to pounce upon.
- (transitive) To support.
- (transitive) To tie up a bird before cooking it.
- To strengthen or stiffen, as a beam or girder, by means of a brace or braces.
- (transitive) To secure or bind with ropes.
- tie the wings and legs of a bird before cooking it
- support structurally
- secure with or as if with ropes
noun
- (architecture) A structure made up of one or more triangular units made from straight beams of wood or metal, which is used to support a structure as in a roof or bridge.
- (historical) A padded jacket or dress worn under armour, to protect the body from the effects of friction.
- (historical) Part of a woman's dress; a stomacher.
- A bandage and belt used to hold a hernia in place.
- (nautical) The rope or iron used to keep the centre of a yard to the mast.
- An old English farming measurement. One truss of straw equalled 36 pounds, a truss of old hay equalled 56 pounds, a truss of new hay equalled 60 pounds, and 36 trusses equalled one load.
- (botany) A tuft of flowers or cluster of fruits formed at the top of the main stem of certain plants.
- (architecture) A triangular bracket.
- a framework of beams (rafters, posts, struts) forming a rigid structure that supports a roof or bridge or other structure
- (architecture) a triangular bracket of brick or stone (usually of slight extent)
- (medicine) a bandage consisting of a pad and belt; worn to hold a hernia in place by pressure
noun
- An act of capturing; a seizing by force or stratagem.
- The securing of an object of strife or desire, as by the power of some attraction.
- Something that has been captured; a captive.
- The recording or storage of something for later playback.
- (computing, regular expressions) A particular match found for a pattern in a text string.
- the act of taking of a person by force
- a process whereby a star or planet holds an object in its gravitational field
- any process in which an atomic or nuclear system acquires an additional particle
- the act of forcibly dispossessing an owner of property
- the removal of an opponent's piece from the chess board
verb
- take possession of by force, as after an invasion
- (transitive) To reproduce convincingly.
- (transitive) To take control of; to seize by force or stratagem.
- (transitive, figurative) To take hold of.
- (transitive) To store (as in sounds or image) for later revisitation.
- (transitive) To remove or take control of an opponent’s piece in a game (e.g., chess, go, checkers).
- bring about the capture of an elementary particle or celestial body and causing it enter a new orbit
- attract; cause to be enamored
- succeed in representing or expressing something intangible
- succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase
- capture as if by hunting, snaring, or trapping
verb
- take possession of by force, as after an invasion
- give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause
- (transitive, British, ecclesiastical, law) To annex (for example a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property).
- (transitive) To set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, especially in exclusion of all others; with to or for.
- (transitive) To take to oneself; to claim or use, especially as by an exclusive right.
adj
- suitable for a particular person or place or condition etc
- meant or adapted for an occasion or use
- Suitable to the social situation or to social respect or social discreetness; socially correct; socially discreet; well-mannered; proper.
- Suitable or fit; proper; felicitous.
- Of an action or thing: morally good; positive.
- Of an action or thing: pleasant.
Nessuna parola corrispondente trovata. Prova una descrizione più ampia.