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noun
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- The forming of a tub.
- Collectively, materials for tubs.
- (mining) A lining of timber or metal around a mineshaft, which is watertight, used to safely penetrate quicksand, water, etc. It can be made of various materials, such as wood, concrete, or cast iron.
- The activity of rowing in crudely-made boats.
- A hazing ritual in which the victim's head is held underwater.
- A bath taken in a tub.
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noun
- A pipe or tube that conveys water.
- (usually historical) A person who carries water from a spring or well, especially in antiquity and pre-modern era when it was a common job.
- (figuratively, colloquial) A person doing simple, ordinary work, usually in opposition to somebody considered more valuable.
- A transportation ship that is water-based.
- An arrangement of wires on which a bucket of water, raised from a well, etc., may be conveyed wherever required, as to a house.
- (cycling) A domestique.
- (astronomy, astrology) Aquarius, or a symbol for it.
verb
noun
- electronic device consisting of a system of electrodes arranged in an evacuated glass or metal envelope
- an electric railway operating below the surface of the ground (usually in a city)
- conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct objects or liquids or gases
- a hollow cylindrical shape
- (anatomy) any hollow cylindrical body structure
- An approximately cylindrical container, usually with a crimped end and a screw top, used to contain and dispense semiliquid substances.
- (Scotland, slang) An idiot.
- (surfing) A wave which pitches forward when breaking, creating a hollow space inside.
- (Canada, US, colloquial) A television. Compare cathode ray tube and picture tube.
- (Australia, slang) A tin can containing beer.
- (British, colloquial, often capitalised as Tube, a trademark) The London Underground railway system, originally referred to the lower level lines that ran in tubular tunnels as opposed to the higher ones which ran in rectangular section tunnels. (Often the tube.)
- Anything that is hollow and cylindrical in shape.
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- especially Agave amica (syn. Poliantes tuberosa), that has white flowers and grass-like leaves, used in perfumery.
- Any plant in genera Polianthes or Manfreda (syns. of Agave), now both in Agave subg. Manfreda.
- a tuberous Mexican herb having grasslike leaves and cultivated for its spikes of highly fragrant lily-like waxy white flowers
noun
- tubing that is wound in a spiral
- a transformer that supplies high voltage to spark plugs in a gasoline engine
- reactor consisting of a spiral of insulated wire that introduces inductance into a circuit
- a contraceptive device placed inside a woman's womb
- a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops
- a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals)
- (electronics) A coil of electrically conductive wire through which electricity can flow.
- (now obsolete except in phrases) A noise, tumult, bustle, or turmoil.
- (figurative) Entanglement; perplexity.
- Something wound in the form of a helix or spiral.
- (informal, slang) A wad of cash.
- Any intrauterine device (abbreviation: IUD)—the first IUDs were coil-shaped.
- A cylinder of clay.
verb
- wind around something in coils or loops
- make without a potter's wheel
- to wind or move in a spiral course
- To wind cylindrically or spirally.
- To build a pot (etc) with clay coils.
- To wind into loops (roughly) around a common center.
- To wind or reel e.g. a wire or rope into regular rings, often around a centerpiece.
noun
- A (usually tubular) covering or lining to protect a piece of machinery etc.
- (British Columbia) A serving of beer smaller than a pint, typically measuring between 12 and 16 ounces.
- Sleave; untwisted thread.
- A protective jacket or case, especially for a record, containing art and information about the contents; also the analogous leaflet found in a packaged CD.
- (electrical engineering) A double tube of copper into which the ends of bare wires are pushed so that when the tube is twisted an electrical connection is made. The joint thus made is called a McIntire joint.
- The part of a garment that covers the arm.
- A narrow channel of water.
- A tattoo covering the whole arm.
- (US) A long, cylindrical plastic bag of cookies or crackers, or a similar package of disposable drinking cups.
- the part of a garment that is attached at the armhole and that provides a cloth covering for the arm
- small case into which an object fits
verb
noun
- A tool used to strip tubing: to empty it by applying pressure to the outside of the tubing and moving that pressure along the tubing.
- Someone who removes their clothing in a sexually provocative manner, especially as a form of paid entertainment.
- A cow that has nearly stopped giving milk, so that it can be obtained from her only by stripping.
- (gambling) A playing card that has been trimmed so that a cheat can recognise it from the back.
- A chemical or tool used to remove paint, sheathing, etc. from something.
- (firearms) A stripper clip.
- (automotive, informal) A base or entry-level trim level of a car model, lacking amenities or features found in higher trim levels.
- (manufacturing) Ellipsis of stripper plate.
- an oil well whose production has declined to less than ten barrels a day
- a chemical compound used to remove paint or varnish
- a worker who strips the stems from moistened tobacco leaves and binds the leaves together into books
- a performer who provides erotic entertainment by undressing to music
noun
- (countable) A flexible tube conveying water or other fluid.
- (historical) Close-fitting trousers or breeches, reaching to the knee.
- (uncountable) A stocking-like garment worn on the legs; pantyhose, women's tights.
- socks and stockings and tights collectively (the British include underwear)
- a flexible pipe for conveying a liquid or gas
- man's close-fitting garment of the 16th and 17th centuries covering the legs and reaching up to the waist; worn with a doublet
verb
- (transitive, computing, slang) To break or destroy (a system), especially by wiping files or other content.
- (transitive) To deliver using a hose.
- (transitive) To trick or deceive.
- (transitive) To provide with hose (garment)
- (transitive) To spray as if with a hose; to spray in great quantity.
- (transitive, sports) To cause an unfair disadvantage to a player or team through poor officiating; especially, to cause a player or team to lose the game with an incorrect call.
- (transitive) To water or spray with a hose.
- water with a hose
noun
- (US) A ring of packing or a special device to render gastight and watertight the space between the tubing and bore of an oil well.
- (Australia) A packhorse.
- Clipping of meatpacker.
- (New Zealand) An object inserted to hold a space open for the purpose of alignment; a spacer or shim.
- A person whose business is to pack things; especially, one who packs food for preservation
- (LGBTQ) An artificial penis or similar object worn by a drag king, trans man, etc., inside the trousers.
- (computing) A software program that compresses code or data.
- (Nigeria) A dustpan.
- a hiker who wears a backpack
- a wholesaler in the meat-packing business
- a workman employed to pack things into containers
noun
- an enclosed conduit for a fluid
- a continuous tube formed by a row of elongated cells lacking intervening end walls
- a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance
- A pipe, tube or canal which carries gas or liquid from one place to another.
- (anatomy) A vessel for conveying lymph or glandular secretions such as tears or bile.
- An enclosure or channel for electrical cable runs, telephone cables, or other conductors.
- (botany) A tube or elongated cavity (such as a xylem vessel) for conveying water, sap, or air.
- (physics) A layer (as in the atmosphere or the ocean) which occurs under usually abnormal conditions and in which radio or sound waves are confined to a restricted path.
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- A tapered tube, designed to be forced into a matching hole in a barrel, with the outer end holding a plug cock for decanting liquid from the barrel.
- (game development) One or several systems that inject currency into the game's economy, thus controlling or preventing inflation
- (Canada, US) An exposed plumbing fitting; a tap or spigot; a regulator for controlling the flow of a liquid from a reservoir.
- a regulator for controlling the flow of a liquid from a reservoir
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noun
- a framework that supports climbing plants
- (literary) A dwelling; a picturesque country cottage, especially one that is used as a retreat.
- Either of the two highest trumps in the card games euchre and five hundred (where the joker is omitted).
- A shady, leafy shelter or recess in a garden or woods.
- One who plays any of several bow instruments, such as the musical bow or diddley bow.
- A bedroom or private apartments, especially for a woman in a medieval castle.
- (falconry) A young hawk, when it begins to leave the nest.
- A peasant; a farmer.
- (ornithology) A large structure made of grass, twigs, etc., and decorated with bright objects, used by male bower birds during courtship displays.
- A muscle that bends a limb, especially the arm.
- One who bows or bends.
- (nautical) A type of ship's anchor, carried at the bow.
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- The condensing tube of a still, often curved and wound to save space.
- (informal or poetic, loosely) A maggot or any other insect larva with similar shape and behavior.
- Anything helical, especially the thread of a screw.
- A short revolving screw whose threads drive, or are driven by, a worm wheel or rack by gearing into its teeth.
- A generally tubular invertebrate of the annelid phylum; an earthworm.
- (anatomy) A muscular band in the tongue of some animals, such as dogs; the lytta.
- More loosely, any of various tubular invertebrates resembling annelids but not closely related to them, such as velvet worms, acorn worms, flatworms, or roundworms.
- (figuratively) An internal tormentor; something that gnaws or afflicts one’s mind with remorse.
- (anatomy) The lytta.
- A contemptible or devious being.
- (cricket) A graphical representation of the total runs scored across a number of overs.
- (preceded by definite article) A dance, or dance move, in which the dancer lies on the floor and undulates the body horizontally thereby moving forwards.
- (computing) A self-replicating program that propagates through a network, differing from a virus in usually lacking any destructive effects.
- The spiral wire of a corkscrew.
- A spiral instrument or screw, often like a double corkscrew, used for drawing balls from firearms.
- (mathematics) A strip of linked tiles sharing parallel edges in a tiling.
- any of numerous relatively small elongated soft-bodied animals especially of the phyla Annelida and Chaetognatha and Nematoda and Nemertea and Platyhelminthes; also many insect larvae
- a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect
- screw thread on a gear with the teeth of a worm wheel or rack
- a software program capable of reproducing itself that can spread from one computer to the next over a network
verb
- (intransitive, figuratively) To work one's way by artful or devious means.
- (intransitive) To move with one's body dragging the ground.
- (transitive, figuratively, in “worm out of”) To drag out of, to get information that someone is reluctant or unwilling to give (through artful or devious means or by pleading or asking repeatedly).
- (transitive) To make (one's way) with a crawling motion.
- (transitive) To deworm (an animal).
- (transitive, nautical) To fill in the contlines of (a rope) before parcelling and serving.
- (often followed by out) To effect, remove, drive, draw, or the like, by slow and secret means.
- (transitive) To cut the worm, or lytta, from under the tongue of (a dog, etc.) for the purpose of checking a disposition to gnaw, and formerly supposed to guard against canine madness.
- (transitive) To clean by means of a worm; to draw a wad or cartridge from, as a firearm.
- (transitive, figuratively) To work (one's way or oneself) (into) gradually or slowly; to insinuate.
- to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling)
noun
- a long tube made of metal or plastic that is used to carry water or oil or gas etc.
- A rigid tube that transports water, steam, or other fluid, as used in plumbing and numerous other applications.
- the flues and stops on a pipe organ
- a tube with a small bowl at one end; used for smoking tobacco
- a hollow cylindrical shape
- a tubular wind instrument
- A type of pasta similar to macaroni.
- (especially in informal contexts) A water pipe.
- (Canada, US, colloquial, historical) The distance travelled between two rest periods during which one could smoke a pipe.
- (computing, typography) The character |.
- (music) A tube used to produce sound in an organ; an organ pipe.
- (mining) An elongated or irregular body or vein of ore.
- (computing) A mechanism that enables one program to communicate with another by sending its output to the other as input.
- (Australia, colloquial, historical) An anonymous satire or essay, insulting and frequently libellous, written on a piece of paper which was rolled up and left somewhere public where it could be found and thus spread, to embarrass the author's enemies.
- (computing, slang) A data backbone, or broadband Internet access.
- (smoking) A hollow stem with a bowl at one end used for smoking, especially a tobacco pipe but also including various other forms such as a water pipe.
- (geology) A vertical conduit through the Earth's crust below a volcano through which magma has passed, often filled with volcanic breccia.
- The contents of such a vessel, as a liquid measure, sometimes set at 126 wine gallons; half a tun.
- Decorative edging stitched to the hems or seams of an object made of fabric (clothing, hats, curtains, pillows, etc.), often in a contrasting color; piping.
- (music) A wind instrument consisting of a tube, often lined with holes to allow for adjustment in pitch, sounded by blowing into the tube.
- (lacrosse) One of the goalposts of the goal.
- A high-pitched sound, especially of a bird.
- A tubular passageway in the human body such as a blood vessel or the windpipe.
- (slang) A man's penis.
- (slang) A telephone.
- The key or sound of the voice.
- A large container for storing liquids or foodstuffs; now especially a vat or cask of cider or wine. (See a diagram comparing cask sizes.)
verb
- utter a shrill cry
- trim with piping
- transport by pipeline
- play on a pipe
- (intransitive) To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle.
- (transitive) To install or configure with pipes.
- (transitive) To dab moisture away from.
- (US, journalism, slang) To invent or embellish (a story).
- (transitive, computing, chiefly Unix) To directly feed (the output of one program) as input to another program, indicated by the pipe character (|) at the command line.
- (intransitive) Of a queen bee: to make a high-pitched sound during certain stages of development.
- (transitive, nautical) To order or signal by a note pattern on a boatswain's pipe.
- (intransitive) To shout loudly and at high pitch.
- (transitive, slang, of a man) To have sex with a woman.
- (transitive, figuratively) To lead or conduct as if by pipes, especially by wired transmission.
- (intransitive, metallurgy) Of a metal ingot: to become hollow in the process of solidifying.
- (transitive, cooking) To create or decorate with piping (icing).
- (transitive) To hit with a pipe.
- (transitive) To convey or transport (something) by means of pipes.
- (ambitransitive) To play (music) on a pipe instrument, such as a bagpipe or a flute.
noun
- a long tube made of metal or plastic that is used to carry water or oil or gas etc.
- a thin strip of covered cord used to edge hems
- playing a pipe or the bagpipes
- An act of making music or noise with pipes.
- (cooking) Icing extruded from a piping bag.
- The sound of musical pipes.
- A system of pipes that compose a structure; pipework.
- (sewing) An ornamentation on the edges of a garment; a small cord covered with cloth.
- (botany) propagation by cuttings
- The process of an animal just beginning to break out of its egg; precedes hatching.
- (botany) A piece cut off to be set or planted; a cutting.
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noun
- a tube in which a body fluid circulates
- a craft designed for water transportation
- an object used as a container (especially for liquids)
- (biology) A tube or canal that carries fluid in an animal or plant.
- (figurative) A person as a container of qualities or feelings.
- (nautical) Any craft designed for transportation on or in water, such as a ship, boat, or submarine.
- A container of liquid or other substance, such as a glass, goblet, cup, bottle, bowl, or pitcher.
- A craft designed for transportation through air or space.
verb
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- (transitive) To empty (tubing) by applying pressure to the outside of (the tubing) and moving that pressure along (the tubing).
- To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands".
- (intransitive) To perform a striptease.
- To remove fibre, flock, or lint from; said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.
- (transitive) To take away something from (someone or something); to plunder; to divest.
- To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.
- (transitive) To fire (a bullet or ball) from a rifle such that it fails to pick up a spin from the rifling.
- To remove the insulation from a wire/cable.
- (intransitive) To fail to pick up a spin from the grooves in a rifle barrel.
- (transitive) To remove the overlying earth from (a deposit).
- (transitive, bridge) To remove all cards of a particular suit from another player. (See also strip-squeeze.)
- (transitive) To remove or take away, often in strips or stripes.
- (transitive) To milk a cow, especially by stroking and compressing the teats to draw out the last of the milk.
- (intransitive) To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut.
- (usually intransitive) To take off clothing.
- To press out the ripe roe or milt from fishes, for artificial fecundation.
- (transitive) To remove color from hair, cloth, etc. to prepare it to receive new color.
- (transitive, agriculture) To pare off the surface of (land) in strips.
- (television, transitive) To run a television series at the same time daily (or at least on Mondays to Fridays), so that it appears as a strip straight across the weekly schedule.
- (transitive) To remove (the thread or teeth) from a screw, nut, or gear, especially inadvertently by overtightening.
- To remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).
- (transitive) To remove cargo from (a container).
- remove the surface from
- draw the last milk (of cows)
- remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely
- lay bare
- remove (someone's or one's own) clothes
- get undressed
- remove the thread (of screws)
- remove a constituent from a liquid
- remove substances from by a percolating liquid
- take away possessions from someone
- take off or remove
- strip the cured leaves from
- steal goods; take as spoils
noun
- A landing strip.
- (fencing) The playing area, roughly 14 meters by 2 meters.
- (US) A street with multiple shopping or entertainment possibilities.
- (countable) A long, thin piece of land; any long, thin area.
- (slang) A strip club.
- (finance) An investment strategy involving simultaneous trade with one call and two put options on the same security at the same strike price, similar to but more bearish than a straddle.
- A strip steak.
- (mining) A trough for washing ore.
- The act of removing one's clothes; a striptease.
- A comic strip.
- (television) A television series aired at the same time daily (or at least on Mondays to Fridays), so that it appears as a strip straight across the weekly schedule.
- (UK, soccer) The uniform of a football team, or the same worn by supporters.
- The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion.
- (usually countable, sometimes uncountable) A long, thin piece of any material; any such material collectively.
- (attributively, of games) Denotes a version of a game in which losing players must progressively remove their clothes.
- an airfield without normal airport facilities
- thin piece of wood or metal
- a sequence of drawings telling a story in a newspaper or comic book
- a relatively long narrow piece of something
- a form of erotic entertainment in which a dancer gradually undresses to music
- artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material
noun
- A coiled distillation tube.
- (equestrianism) In dressage, a winding walk across on the arena.
- (mineralogy) Any of several green/brown minerals consisting of magnesium and iron silicates that have similar layered crystal structure, whose appearance somewhat resembles a snake's skin.
- Any of several plants believed to cure snakebites.
- (historical) An early form of cannon, used in the 16th century.
- (mathematics) Any of several related cubic curves; anguinea
- (geology) An outcrop or region with soil and rock dominated by these minerals.
- A kind of firework.
adj
- Having the form or shape of a snake.
- Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of snakes.
- Of, or having attributes associated with, the serpent referred to in the book of Genesis in the Bible, such as craftiness or deceitfulness.
- Curving in alternate directions; sinuous.
- Pertaining to the serpentine subgroup of minerals.
- resembling a serpent in form
verb
noun
- A device that is used to remove blockages from the drain of a basin or tub, by suction.
- (firearms) The firing pin of a breechloader.
- A device similar to a piston but without a mechanism; a long solid cylinder used, instead of a piston or bucket, as a forcer in pumps.
- (pottery) A boiler in which clay is beaten by a wheel to a creamy consistency.
- A cafetière, through abbreviation of coffee plunger.
- The part of a cafetière that is pushed down to remove grounds from coffee.
- One who plunges; a diver.
- (military) A cavalryman.
- (pinball) The spring-loaded assembly that propels the ball onto the table.
- The sliding activator of an exploder, an electrical generator used to trigger electrical detonators such as blasting caps.
- A horse that plunges, or throws itself suddenly forward.
- The moving portion of a solenoid.
- The internal piece of a syringe that pushes out or pulls in any contents.
- hand tool consisting of a stick with a rubber suction cup at one end; used to clean clogged drains
- mechanical device that has a plunging or thrusting motion
- someone who risks losses for the possibility of considerable gains
- someone who dives (into water)
noun
- A vessel, such as a tub, in which something, such as pulverized ore suspended in a liquid, is allowed to settle.
- Someone who settles in a new location, especially one who takes up residence in a previously uninhabited place; a colonist.
- (British) The person in a betting shop who calculates the winnings.
- Someone who decides or settles something, such as a dispute.
- (colloquial) That which settles or finishes, such as a blow that decides a contest.
- A drink which settles the stomach, especially a bitter drink, often a nightcap.
- a negotiator who settles disputes
- a person who settles in a new colony or moves into new country
- a clerk in a betting shop who calculates the winnings
noun
- A pipe through which anything is drawn.
- (ichthyology) Any fish in the family Catostomidae of North America and eastern Asia, which have mouths modified into downward-pointing, suckerlike structures for feeding in bottom sediments.
- The embolus, or bucket, of a pump; also, the valve of a pump basket.
- (derogatory) A person.
- (US, slang) A person who is easily deceived, tricked or persuaded to do something; a naive or gullible person.
- (British, colloquial) A suction cup.
- A thing that works by sucking something.
- A person or animal that sucks, especially a breast or udder; especially a suckling animal, young mammal before it is weaned.
- (emphatic) Any thing or object.
- (by extension) A parasite; a sponger.
- An organ or body part that does the sucking; especially a round structure on the bodies of some insects, frogs, and octopuses that allows them to stick to surfaces.
- A small piece of leather, usually round, having a string attached to the center, which, when saturated with water and pressed upon a stone or other body having a smooth surface, adheres, by reason of the atmospheric pressure, with such force as to enable a considerable weight to be thus lifted by the string; formerly used by children as a plaything.
- An animal such as the octopus and remora, which adhere to other bodies with such organs.
- (US, informal) A lollipop; a piece of candy which is sucked.
- (informal) A person irresistibly attracted by something specified.
- (horticulture) An undesired stem growing out of the roots or lower trunk of a shrub or tree, especially from the rootstock of a grafted plant or tree.
- flesh of any of numerous North American food fishes with toothless jaws
- a drinker who sucks (as at a nipple or through a straw)
- mostly North American freshwater fishes with a thick-lipped mouth for feeding by suction; related to carps
- an organ specialized for sucking nourishment or for adhering to objects by suction
- a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of
- hard candy on a stick
- a shoot arising from a plant's roots
verb
- (horticulture, transitive) To strip the suckers or shoots from; to deprive of suckers.
- (horticulture, intransitive) To produce suckers; to throw up additional stems or shoots.
- (intransitive) To move or attach oneself by means of suckers.
- (transitive, informal) To fool someone; to take advantage of someone.
- (transitive, informal, usually with into) To lure someone.
noun
noun
noun
- The forming of a tub.
- Collectively, materials for tubs.
- (mining) A lining of timber or metal around a mineshaft, which is watertight, used to safely penetrate quicksand, water, etc. It can be made of various materials, such as wood, concrete, or cast iron.
- The activity of rowing in crudely-made boats.
- A hazing ritual in which the victim's head is held underwater.
- A bath taken in a tub.
verb
noun
- A pipe or tube that conveys water.
- (usually historical) A person who carries water from a spring or well, especially in antiquity and pre-modern era when it was a common job.
- (figuratively, colloquial) A person doing simple, ordinary work, usually in opposition to somebody considered more valuable.
- A transportation ship that is water-based.
- An arrangement of wires on which a bucket of water, raised from a well, etc., may be conveyed wherever required, as to a house.
- (cycling) A domestique.
- (astronomy, astrology) Aquarius, or a symbol for it.
noun
- tubing that is wound in a spiral
- a transformer that supplies high voltage to spark plugs in a gasoline engine
- reactor consisting of a spiral of insulated wire that introduces inductance into a circuit
- a contraceptive device placed inside a woman's womb
- a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops
- a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals)
- (electronics) A coil of electrically conductive wire through which electricity can flow.
- (now obsolete except in phrases) A noise, tumult, bustle, or turmoil.
- (figurative) Entanglement; perplexity.
- Something wound in the form of a helix or spiral.
- (informal, slang) A wad of cash.
- Any intrauterine device (abbreviation: IUD)—the first IUDs were coil-shaped.
- A cylinder of clay.
verb
- wind around something in coils or loops
- make without a potter's wheel
- to wind or move in a spiral course
- To wind cylindrically or spirally.
- To build a pot (etc) with clay coils.
- To wind into loops (roughly) around a common center.
- To wind or reel e.g. a wire or rope into regular rings, often around a centerpiece.
noun
- A (usually tubular) covering or lining to protect a piece of machinery etc.
- (British Columbia) A serving of beer smaller than a pint, typically measuring between 12 and 16 ounces.
- Sleave; untwisted thread.
- A protective jacket or case, especially for a record, containing art and information about the contents; also the analogous leaflet found in a packaged CD.
- (electrical engineering) A double tube of copper into which the ends of bare wires are pushed so that when the tube is twisted an electrical connection is made. The joint thus made is called a McIntire joint.
- The part of a garment that covers the arm.
- A narrow channel of water.
- A tattoo covering the whole arm.
- (US) A long, cylindrical plastic bag of cookies or crackers, or a similar package of disposable drinking cups.
- the part of a garment that is attached at the armhole and that provides a cloth covering for the arm
- small case into which an object fits
verb
noun
- A tool used to strip tubing: to empty it by applying pressure to the outside of the tubing and moving that pressure along the tubing.
- Someone who removes their clothing in a sexually provocative manner, especially as a form of paid entertainment.
- A cow that has nearly stopped giving milk, so that it can be obtained from her only by stripping.
- (gambling) A playing card that has been trimmed so that a cheat can recognise it from the back.
- A chemical or tool used to remove paint, sheathing, etc. from something.
- (firearms) A stripper clip.
- (automotive, informal) A base or entry-level trim level of a car model, lacking amenities or features found in higher trim levels.
- (manufacturing) Ellipsis of stripper plate.
- an oil well whose production has declined to less than ten barrels a day
- a chemical compound used to remove paint or varnish
- a worker who strips the stems from moistened tobacco leaves and binds the leaves together into books
- a performer who provides erotic entertainment by undressing to music
noun
- (countable) A flexible tube conveying water or other fluid.
- (historical) Close-fitting trousers or breeches, reaching to the knee.
- (uncountable) A stocking-like garment worn on the legs; pantyhose, women's tights.
- socks and stockings and tights collectively (the British include underwear)
- a flexible pipe for conveying a liquid or gas
- man's close-fitting garment of the 16th and 17th centuries covering the legs and reaching up to the waist; worn with a doublet
verb
- (transitive, computing, slang) To break or destroy (a system), especially by wiping files or other content.
- (transitive) To deliver using a hose.
- (transitive) To trick or deceive.
- (transitive) To provide with hose (garment)
- (transitive) To spray as if with a hose; to spray in great quantity.
- (transitive, sports) To cause an unfair disadvantage to a player or team through poor officiating; especially, to cause a player or team to lose the game with an incorrect call.
- (transitive) To water or spray with a hose.
- water with a hose
noun
- (US) A ring of packing or a special device to render gastight and watertight the space between the tubing and bore of an oil well.
- (Australia) A packhorse.
- Clipping of meatpacker.
- (New Zealand) An object inserted to hold a space open for the purpose of alignment; a spacer or shim.
- A person whose business is to pack things; especially, one who packs food for preservation
- (LGBTQ) An artificial penis or similar object worn by a drag king, trans man, etc., inside the trousers.
- (computing) A software program that compresses code or data.
- (Nigeria) A dustpan.
- a hiker who wears a backpack
- a wholesaler in the meat-packing business
- a workman employed to pack things into containers
noun
- an enclosed conduit for a fluid
- a continuous tube formed by a row of elongated cells lacking intervening end walls
- a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance
- A pipe, tube or canal which carries gas or liquid from one place to another.
- (anatomy) A vessel for conveying lymph or glandular secretions such as tears or bile.
- An enclosure or channel for electrical cable runs, telephone cables, or other conductors.
- (botany) A tube or elongated cavity (such as a xylem vessel) for conveying water, sap, or air.
- (physics) A layer (as in the atmosphere or the ocean) which occurs under usually abnormal conditions and in which radio or sound waves are confined to a restricted path.
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- A tapered tube, designed to be forced into a matching hole in a barrel, with the outer end holding a plug cock for decanting liquid from the barrel.
- (game development) One or several systems that inject currency into the game's economy, thus controlling or preventing inflation
- (Canada, US) An exposed plumbing fitting; a tap or spigot; a regulator for controlling the flow of a liquid from a reservoir.
- a regulator for controlling the flow of a liquid from a reservoir
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noun
- The condensing tube of a still, often curved and wound to save space.
- (informal or poetic, loosely) A maggot or any other insect larva with similar shape and behavior.
- Anything helical, especially the thread of a screw.
- A short revolving screw whose threads drive, or are driven by, a worm wheel or rack by gearing into its teeth.
- A generally tubular invertebrate of the annelid phylum; an earthworm.
- (anatomy) A muscular band in the tongue of some animals, such as dogs; the lytta.
- More loosely, any of various tubular invertebrates resembling annelids but not closely related to them, such as velvet worms, acorn worms, flatworms, or roundworms.
- (figuratively) An internal tormentor; something that gnaws or afflicts one’s mind with remorse.
- (anatomy) The lytta.
- A contemptible or devious being.
- (cricket) A graphical representation of the total runs scored across a number of overs.
- (preceded by definite article) A dance, or dance move, in which the dancer lies on the floor and undulates the body horizontally thereby moving forwards.
- (computing) A self-replicating program that propagates through a network, differing from a virus in usually lacking any destructive effects.
- The spiral wire of a corkscrew.
- A spiral instrument or screw, often like a double corkscrew, used for drawing balls from firearms.
- (mathematics) A strip of linked tiles sharing parallel edges in a tiling.
- any of numerous relatively small elongated soft-bodied animals especially of the phyla Annelida and Chaetognatha and Nematoda and Nemertea and Platyhelminthes; also many insect larvae
- a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect
- screw thread on a gear with the teeth of a worm wheel or rack
- a software program capable of reproducing itself that can spread from one computer to the next over a network
verb
- (intransitive, figuratively) To work one's way by artful or devious means.
- (intransitive) To move with one's body dragging the ground.
- (transitive, figuratively, in “worm out of”) To drag out of, to get information that someone is reluctant or unwilling to give (through artful or devious means or by pleading or asking repeatedly).
- (transitive) To make (one's way) with a crawling motion.
- (transitive) To deworm (an animal).
- (transitive, nautical) To fill in the contlines of (a rope) before parcelling and serving.
- (often followed by out) To effect, remove, drive, draw, or the like, by slow and secret means.
- (transitive) To cut the worm, or lytta, from under the tongue of (a dog, etc.) for the purpose of checking a disposition to gnaw, and formerly supposed to guard against canine madness.
- (transitive) To clean by means of a worm; to draw a wad or cartridge from, as a firearm.
- (transitive, figuratively) To work (one's way or oneself) (into) gradually or slowly; to insinuate.
- to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling)
noun
- a long tube made of metal or plastic that is used to carry water or oil or gas etc.
- A rigid tube that transports water, steam, or other fluid, as used in plumbing and numerous other applications.
- the flues and stops on a pipe organ
- a tube with a small bowl at one end; used for smoking tobacco
- a hollow cylindrical shape
- a tubular wind instrument
- A type of pasta similar to macaroni.
- (especially in informal contexts) A water pipe.
- (Canada, US, colloquial, historical) The distance travelled between two rest periods during which one could smoke a pipe.
- (computing, typography) The character |.
- (music) A tube used to produce sound in an organ; an organ pipe.
- (mining) An elongated or irregular body or vein of ore.
- (computing) A mechanism that enables one program to communicate with another by sending its output to the other as input.
- (Australia, colloquial, historical) An anonymous satire or essay, insulting and frequently libellous, written on a piece of paper which was rolled up and left somewhere public where it could be found and thus spread, to embarrass the author's enemies.
- (computing, slang) A data backbone, or broadband Internet access.
- (smoking) A hollow stem with a bowl at one end used for smoking, especially a tobacco pipe but also including various other forms such as a water pipe.
- (geology) A vertical conduit through the Earth's crust below a volcano through which magma has passed, often filled with volcanic breccia.
- The contents of such a vessel, as a liquid measure, sometimes set at 126 wine gallons; half a tun.
- Decorative edging stitched to the hems or seams of an object made of fabric (clothing, hats, curtains, pillows, etc.), often in a contrasting color; piping.
- (music) A wind instrument consisting of a tube, often lined with holes to allow for adjustment in pitch, sounded by blowing into the tube.
- (lacrosse) One of the goalposts of the goal.
- A high-pitched sound, especially of a bird.
- A tubular passageway in the human body such as a blood vessel or the windpipe.
- (slang) A man's penis.
- (slang) A telephone.
- The key or sound of the voice.
- A large container for storing liquids or foodstuffs; now especially a vat or cask of cider or wine. (See a diagram comparing cask sizes.)
verb
- utter a shrill cry
- trim with piping
- transport by pipeline
- play on a pipe
- (intransitive) To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle.
- (transitive) To install or configure with pipes.
- (transitive) To dab moisture away from.
- (US, journalism, slang) To invent or embellish (a story).
- (transitive, computing, chiefly Unix) To directly feed (the output of one program) as input to another program, indicated by the pipe character (|) at the command line.
- (intransitive) Of a queen bee: to make a high-pitched sound during certain stages of development.
- (transitive, nautical) To order or signal by a note pattern on a boatswain's pipe.
- (intransitive) To shout loudly and at high pitch.
- (transitive, slang, of a man) To have sex with a woman.
- (transitive, figuratively) To lead or conduct as if by pipes, especially by wired transmission.
- (intransitive, metallurgy) Of a metal ingot: to become hollow in the process of solidifying.
- (transitive, cooking) To create or decorate with piping (icing).
- (transitive) To hit with a pipe.
- (transitive) To convey or transport (something) by means of pipes.
- (ambitransitive) To play (music) on a pipe instrument, such as a bagpipe or a flute.
noun
- a long tube made of metal or plastic that is used to carry water or oil or gas etc.
- a thin strip of covered cord used to edge hems
- playing a pipe or the bagpipes
- An act of making music or noise with pipes.
- (cooking) Icing extruded from a piping bag.
- The sound of musical pipes.
- A system of pipes that compose a structure; pipework.
- (sewing) An ornamentation on the edges of a garment; a small cord covered with cloth.
- (botany) propagation by cuttings
- The process of an animal just beginning to break out of its egg; precedes hatching.
- (botany) A piece cut off to be set or planted; a cutting.
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- a tube in which a body fluid circulates
- a craft designed for water transportation
- an object used as a container (especially for liquids)
- (biology) A tube or canal that carries fluid in an animal or plant.
- (figurative) A person as a container of qualities or feelings.
- (nautical) Any craft designed for transportation on or in water, such as a ship, boat, or submarine.
- A container of liquid or other substance, such as a glass, goblet, cup, bottle, bowl, or pitcher.
- A craft designed for transportation through air or space.
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- A coiled distillation tube.
- (equestrianism) In dressage, a winding walk across on the arena.
- (mineralogy) Any of several green/brown minerals consisting of magnesium and iron silicates that have similar layered crystal structure, whose appearance somewhat resembles a snake's skin.
- Any of several plants believed to cure snakebites.
- (historical) An early form of cannon, used in the 16th century.
- (mathematics) Any of several related cubic curves; anguinea
- (geology) An outcrop or region with soil and rock dominated by these minerals.
- A kind of firework.
adj
- Having the form or shape of a snake.
- Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of snakes.
- Of, or having attributes associated with, the serpent referred to in the book of Genesis in the Bible, such as craftiness or deceitfulness.
- Curving in alternate directions; sinuous.
- Pertaining to the serpentine subgroup of minerals.
- resembling a serpent in form
verb
noun
- A device that is used to remove blockages from the drain of a basin or tub, by suction.
- (firearms) The firing pin of a breechloader.
- A device similar to a piston but without a mechanism; a long solid cylinder used, instead of a piston or bucket, as a forcer in pumps.
- (pottery) A boiler in which clay is beaten by a wheel to a creamy consistency.
- A cafetière, through abbreviation of coffee plunger.
- The part of a cafetière that is pushed down to remove grounds from coffee.
- One who plunges; a diver.
- (military) A cavalryman.
- (pinball) The spring-loaded assembly that propels the ball onto the table.
- The sliding activator of an exploder, an electrical generator used to trigger electrical detonators such as blasting caps.
- A horse that plunges, or throws itself suddenly forward.
- The moving portion of a solenoid.
- The internal piece of a syringe that pushes out or pulls in any contents.
- hand tool consisting of a stick with a rubber suction cup at one end; used to clean clogged drains
- mechanical device that has a plunging or thrusting motion
- someone who risks losses for the possibility of considerable gains
- someone who dives (into water)
noun
- A vessel, such as a tub, in which something, such as pulverized ore suspended in a liquid, is allowed to settle.
- Someone who settles in a new location, especially one who takes up residence in a previously uninhabited place; a colonist.
- (British) The person in a betting shop who calculates the winnings.
- Someone who decides or settles something, such as a dispute.
- (colloquial) That which settles or finishes, such as a blow that decides a contest.
- A drink which settles the stomach, especially a bitter drink, often a nightcap.
- a negotiator who settles disputes
- a person who settles in a new colony or moves into new country
- a clerk in a betting shop who calculates the winnings
noun
- A pipe through which anything is drawn.
- (ichthyology) Any fish in the family Catostomidae of North America and eastern Asia, which have mouths modified into downward-pointing, suckerlike structures for feeding in bottom sediments.
- The embolus, or bucket, of a pump; also, the valve of a pump basket.
- (derogatory) A person.
- (US, slang) A person who is easily deceived, tricked or persuaded to do something; a naive or gullible person.
- (British, colloquial) A suction cup.
- A thing that works by sucking something.
- A person or animal that sucks, especially a breast or udder; especially a suckling animal, young mammal before it is weaned.
- (emphatic) Any thing or object.
- (by extension) A parasite; a sponger.
- An organ or body part that does the sucking; especially a round structure on the bodies of some insects, frogs, and octopuses that allows them to stick to surfaces.
- A small piece of leather, usually round, having a string attached to the center, which, when saturated with water and pressed upon a stone or other body having a smooth surface, adheres, by reason of the atmospheric pressure, with such force as to enable a considerable weight to be thus lifted by the string; formerly used by children as a plaything.
- An animal such as the octopus and remora, which adhere to other bodies with such organs.
- (US, informal) A lollipop; a piece of candy which is sucked.
- (informal) A person irresistibly attracted by something specified.
- (horticulture) An undesired stem growing out of the roots or lower trunk of a shrub or tree, especially from the rootstock of a grafted plant or tree.
- flesh of any of numerous North American food fishes with toothless jaws
- a drinker who sucks (as at a nipple or through a straw)
- mostly North American freshwater fishes with a thick-lipped mouth for feeding by suction; related to carps
- an organ specialized for sucking nourishment or for adhering to objects by suction
- a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of
- hard candy on a stick
- a shoot arising from a plant's roots
verb
- (horticulture, transitive) To strip the suckers or shoots from; to deprive of suckers.
- (horticulture, intransitive) To produce suckers; to throw up additional stems or shoots.
- (intransitive) To move or attach oneself by means of suckers.
- (transitive, informal) To fool someone; to take advantage of someone.
- (transitive, informal, usually with into) To lure someone.
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noun
- electronic device consisting of a system of electrodes arranged in an evacuated glass or metal envelope
- an electric railway operating below the surface of the ground (usually in a city)
- conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct objects or liquids or gases
- a hollow cylindrical shape
- (anatomy) any hollow cylindrical body structure
- An approximately cylindrical container, usually with a crimped end and a screw top, used to contain and dispense semiliquid substances.
- (Scotland, slang) An idiot.
- (surfing) A wave which pitches forward when breaking, creating a hollow space inside.
- (Canada, US, colloquial) A television. Compare cathode ray tube and picture tube.
- (Australia, slang) A tin can containing beer.
- (British, colloquial, often capitalised as Tube, a trademark) The London Underground railway system, originally referred to the lower level lines that ran in tubular tunnels as opposed to the higher ones which ran in rectangular section tunnels. (Often the tube.)
- Anything that is hollow and cylindrical in shape.
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- a framework that supports climbing plants
- (literary) A dwelling; a picturesque country cottage, especially one that is used as a retreat.
- Either of the two highest trumps in the card games euchre and five hundred (where the joker is omitted).
- A shady, leafy shelter or recess in a garden or woods.
- One who plays any of several bow instruments, such as the musical bow or diddley bow.
- A bedroom or private apartments, especially for a woman in a medieval castle.
- (falconry) A young hawk, when it begins to leave the nest.
- A peasant; a farmer.
- (ornithology) A large structure made of grass, twigs, etc., and decorated with bright objects, used by male bower birds during courtship displays.
- A muscle that bends a limb, especially the arm.
- One who bows or bends.
- (nautical) A type of ship's anchor, carried at the bow.
verb
- (transitive) To empty (tubing) by applying pressure to the outside of (the tubing) and moving that pressure along (the tubing).
- To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands".
- (intransitive) To perform a striptease.
- To remove fibre, flock, or lint from; said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.
- (transitive) To take away something from (someone or something); to plunder; to divest.
- To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.
- (transitive) To fire (a bullet or ball) from a rifle such that it fails to pick up a spin from the rifling.
- To remove the insulation from a wire/cable.
- (intransitive) To fail to pick up a spin from the grooves in a rifle barrel.
- (transitive) To remove the overlying earth from (a deposit).
- (transitive, bridge) To remove all cards of a particular suit from another player. (See also strip-squeeze.)
- (transitive) To remove or take away, often in strips or stripes.
- (transitive) To milk a cow, especially by stroking and compressing the teats to draw out the last of the milk.
- (intransitive) To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut.
- (usually intransitive) To take off clothing.
- To press out the ripe roe or milt from fishes, for artificial fecundation.
- (transitive) To remove color from hair, cloth, etc. to prepare it to receive new color.
- (transitive, agriculture) To pare off the surface of (land) in strips.
- (television, transitive) To run a television series at the same time daily (or at least on Mondays to Fridays), so that it appears as a strip straight across the weekly schedule.
- (transitive) To remove (the thread or teeth) from a screw, nut, or gear, especially inadvertently by overtightening.
- To remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).
- (transitive) To remove cargo from (a container).
- remove the surface from
- draw the last milk (of cows)
- remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely
- lay bare
- remove (someone's or one's own) clothes
- get undressed
- remove the thread (of screws)
- remove a constituent from a liquid
- remove substances from by a percolating liquid
- take away possessions from someone
- take off or remove
- strip the cured leaves from
- steal goods; take as spoils
noun
- A landing strip.
- (fencing) The playing area, roughly 14 meters by 2 meters.
- (US) A street with multiple shopping or entertainment possibilities.
- (countable) A long, thin piece of land; any long, thin area.
- (slang) A strip club.
- (finance) An investment strategy involving simultaneous trade with one call and two put options on the same security at the same strike price, similar to but more bearish than a straddle.
- A strip steak.
- (mining) A trough for washing ore.
- The act of removing one's clothes; a striptease.
- A comic strip.
- (television) A television series aired at the same time daily (or at least on Mondays to Fridays), so that it appears as a strip straight across the weekly schedule.
- (UK, soccer) The uniform of a football team, or the same worn by supporters.
- The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion.
- (usually countable, sometimes uncountable) A long, thin piece of any material; any such material collectively.
- (attributively, of games) Denotes a version of a game in which losing players must progressively remove their clothes.
- an airfield without normal airport facilities
- thin piece of wood or metal
- a sequence of drawings telling a story in a newspaper or comic book
- a relatively long narrow piece of something
- a form of erotic entertainment in which a dancer gradually undresses to music
- artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material
noun
- an enclosed conduit for a fluid
- a continuous tube formed by a row of elongated cells lacking intervening end walls
- a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance
- A pipe, tube or canal which carries gas or liquid from one place to another.
- (anatomy) A vessel for conveying lymph or glandular secretions such as tears or bile.
- An enclosure or channel for electrical cable runs, telephone cables, or other conductors.
- (botany) A tube or elongated cavity (such as a xylem vessel) for conveying water, sap, or air.
- (physics) A layer (as in the atmosphere or the ocean) which occurs under usually abnormal conditions and in which radio or sound waves are confined to a restricted path.
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- especially Agave amica (syn. Poliantes tuberosa), that has white flowers and grass-like leaves, used in perfumery.
- Any plant in genera Polianthes or Manfreda (syns. of Agave), now both in Agave subg. Manfreda.
- a tuberous Mexican herb having grasslike leaves and cultivated for its spikes of highly fragrant lily-like waxy white flowers