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noun
- (printing) The inside margin of a page.
- (mining) The roof of a horizontal underground passage.
- (swimming) Clipping of backstroke.
- (slang, uncountable) Effort, usually physical.
- (sports) In some team sports, a position behind most players on the team.
- (figuratively) The upper part of a natural object which is considered to resemble an animal’s back.
- (slang, uncountable) Large and attractive buttocks.
- A support or resource in reserve.
- Area behind, such as the backyard of a house or the rear storeroom of a retail store.
- The reverse side; the side that is not normally seen.
- The side of a blade opposite the side used for cutting.
- Among leather dealers, one of the thickest and stoutest tanned hides.
- A ferryboat.
- The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly.
- The part of something that goes last.
- The backrest, the part of a piece of furniture which receives the human back.
- (nautical) The keel and keelson of a ship.
- (figurative) The part of a piece of clothing which covers the back.
- A non-alcoholic drink (often water or a soft drink), to go with hard liquor or a cocktail.
- The side of any object which is opposite the front or useful side.
- The spine and associated tissues.
- The edge of a book which is bound.
- A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc.
- That which is farthest away from the front.
- (football) a person who plays in the backfield
- the part of a garment that covers the back of your body
- (American football) the position of a player on a football team who is stationed behind the line of scrimmage
- the protective covering on the front, back, and spine of a book
- the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord
- the part of something that is furthest from the normal viewer
- the posterior part of a human (or animal) body from the neck to the end of the spine
- the side that goes last or is not normally seen
- a support that you can lean against while sitting
adj
- (comparable, phonetics) Pronounced with the highest part of the body of the tongue toward the back of the mouth, near the soft palate (most often describing a vowel).
- At or near the rear.
- Not current.
- (predicative) Returned or restored to a previous place or condition.
- Situated away from the main or most frequented areas.
- Moving or operating backward.
- In arrears; overdue.
- located at or near the back of an animal
- of an earlier date
- related to or located at the back
adv
- In a manner that impedes.
- To a later point in time. See also put back.
- Towards, into or in the past.
- In a direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing or normally pointing.
- Away from someone or something; at a distance.
- So as to shrink, recede or move aside, or cause to do so.
- (not comparable) To or in a previous condition or place.
- (not comparable) In a reciprocal manner; in return.
- (postpositive) Earlier, ago.
- In a direction opposite to the usual or desired direction of movement or progress, physically or figuratively.
- Away from the front or from an edge.
- in or to or toward a former location
- in reply
- at or to or toward the back or rear
- in repayment or retaliation
- in or to or toward a past time
- in or to or toward an original condition
verb
- (transitive) To push or force backwards.
- (law, of a justice of the peace) To sign or endorse (a warrant, issued in another county, to apprehend an offender).
- (transitive) To support.
- (MLE, transitive) To draw from behind the back (a knife etc.) (as also back out).
- (intransitive) To go in the reverse direction.
- (nautical, of the wind) To change direction contrary to the normal pattern; that is, to shift anticlockwise in the northern hemisphere, or clockwise in the southern hemisphere.
- (UK, of a hunting dog) To stand still behind another dog which has pointed.
- To row backward with (oars).
- (nautical, of a square sail) To brace the yards so that the wind presses on the front of the sail, to slow the ship.
- To make a back for; to furnish with a back.
- To adjoin behind; to be at the back of.
- (nautical, of an anchor) To lay out a second, smaller anchor to provide additional holding power.
- (Nigeria, transitive) To carry an infant on one’s back.
- To write upon the back of, possibly as an endorsement.
- be in back of
- travel backward
- establish as valid or genuine
- place a bet on
- give support or one's approval to
- strengthen by providing with a back or backing
- shift to a counterclockwise direction
- support financial backing for
- be behind; approve of
- cause to travel backward
noun
- A rim or margin of something.
- In sheet metal design, a rim or edge folded back on itself to create a smooth edge and to increase strength or rigidity.
- (sewing) The border of an article of clothing doubled back and stitched together to finish the edge and prevent it from fraying.
- An utterance or sound of the voice like "hem", often indicative of hesitation or doubt, sometimes used to call attention.
- the utterance of a sound similar to clearing the throat; intended to get attention, express hesitancy, fill a pause, hide embarrassment, warn a friend, etc.
- the edge of a piece of cloth; especially the finished edge that has been doubled under and stitched down
intj
verb
- To make the sound expressed by the word hem; to hesitate in speaking.
- (transitive) To put hem on an article of clothing, to edge or put a border on something.
- (sewing, intransitive) To make a hem.
- (transitive) To shut in, enclose, confine; to surround something or someone in a confining way.
- fold over and sew together to provide with a hem
- utter ‘hem’ or ‘ahem’
noun
- the space left between the margin and the start of an indented line
- an order for goods to be exported or imported
- A requisition or order for supplies, sent to the commissariat of an army.
- A certificate, or intended certificate, issued by the government of the United States at the close of the Revolution, for the principal or interest of the public debt.
- A stamp; an impression.
- A cut or notch in the margin of anything, or a recess like a notch.
verb
- set in from the margin
- cut or tear along an irregular line so that the parts can later be matched for authentication
- make a depression into
- notch the edge of or make jagged
- bind by or as if by indentures, as of an apprentice or servant
- (typography) To begin (a line or lines) at a greater or lesser distance from the margin. See indentation, and indention. Normal indent pushes in a line or paragraph. "Hanging indent" pulls the line out into the margin.
- (historical) To cut the two halves of a document in duplicate, using a jagged or wavy line so that each party could demonstrate that their copy was part of the original whole.
- To dent; to stamp or to press in; to impress
- (intransitive) To be cut, notched, or dented.
- (transitive) To notch; to jag; to cut into points like a row of teeth
- (military, India, Singapore, dated elsewhere) To make an order upon; to draw upon, as for military stores.
noun
- the space left between the margin and the start of an indented line
- a concave cut into a surface or edge (as in a coastline)
- the act of cutting into an edge with toothlike notches or angular incisions
- the formation of small pits in a surface as a consequence of corrosion
- (law) A division unit of a piece of law distinguished by its indentation or by a dash.
- A notch or recess, in the margin or border of anything.
- The act of indenting or state of being indented.
- (typography) The act of beginning a line or series of lines at a little distance within the flush line of the column or page, as in the common way of beginning the first line of a paragraph.
- A recess or sharp depression in any surface.
- A measure of the distance from the flush line.
noun
- the space left between the margin and the start of an indented line
- a contract binding one party into the service of another for a specified term
- a concave cut into a surface or edge (as in a coastline)
- formal agreement between the issuer of bonds and the bondholders as to terms of the debt
- An indentation; a recess.
- (law) A contract relating to lending (typically for issuing a bond), a real estate transaction, or a bankruptcy that imposes additional conditions on one or both parties.
- (law, often in the plural) A document, written as duplicates separated by indentations, specifying either of the above contracts.
- (law) A contract which binds a person to work for another, under specified conditions, for a specified time (often as an apprentice).
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noun
verb
noun
- a small margin
- the property of being narrow; having little width
- an inclination to criticize opposing opinions or shocking behavior
- a restriction of range or scope
- (uncountable) The state of being narrow.
- (countable) A constriction; a narrow passage or place; an instance or aspect of being narrow, or having a limited scope or extent.
noun
noun
- a rectangular drawing
- the quantity contained in a box
- separate partitioned area in a public place for a few people
- evergreen shrubs or small trees
- a (usually rectangular) container; may have a lid
- any one of several designated areas on a ball field where the batter or catcher or coaches are positioned
- private area in a theater or grandstand where a small group can watch the performance
- a blow with the hand (usually on the ear)
- the driver's seat on a coach
- a predicament from which a skillful or graceful escape is impossible
- (baseball) The rectangle in which the batter stands.
- (music, slang) A musical instrument, especially one made from boxwood.
- (fencing) A device used in electric fencing to detect whether a weapon has struck an opponent, which connects to a fencer's weapon by a spool and body wire. It uses lights and sound to notify a hit, with different coloured lights for on target and off target hits.
- (geometry, by extension) A rectangular object in any number of dimensions.
- (slang) A cell used for solitary confinement.
- A cuboid container and its contents; as much as fills such a container.
- A cuboid space; a cuboid container, often with a hinged lid.
- (Australia) An evergreen tree of the genus Lophostemon (for example, box scrub, Brisbane box, brush box, pink box, or Queensland box, Lophostemon confertus).
- (juggling) A pattern usually performed with three balls where the movements of the balls make a boxlike shape.
- A compartment to sit inside in an auditorium, courtroom, theatre, or other building.
- The wood from a box tree: boxwood.
- A blow with the fist.
- (lacrosse, informal) Ellipsis of box lacrosse (“indoor form of lacrosse”).
- (rail transport) Ellipsis of signal box.
- (colloquial, chiefly UK, Ireland) Short for squeeze box (“accordion or concertina”)
- Ellipsis of horsebox (“container for transporting horses”).
- (cricket) A hard protector for the genitals worn inside the underpants by a batsman or close fielder.
- (colloquial, chiefly Southern US) A stringed instrument with a soundbox, especially a guitar.
- A compartment or receptacle for receiving items.
- (automotive) Ellipsis of gearbox.
- A numbered receptacle at a newspaper office for anonymous replies to advertisements; see also box number.
- (slang, preceded by the) The television.
- Any of various evergreen shrubs or trees of genus Buxus, especially common box, European box, or boxwood (Buxus sempervirens) which is often used for making hedges and topiary.
- (figuratively) A predicament or trap.
- (slang) A prison cell.
- (aviation) A diamond-shaped flying formation consisting of four aircraft.
- A compartment (as a drawer) of an item of furniture used for storage, such as a cupboard, a shelf, etc.
- (automotive) Ellipsis of stashbox.
- (Australia) Various species of Eucalyptus trees are popularly called various kinds of boxes, on the basis of the nature of their wood, bark, or appearance for example, drooping box (Eucalyptus bicolor), shiny-leaved box (Eucalyptus tereticornis), black box, or ironbark box trees.
- A rectangle: an oblong or a square.
- (motor racing) An area in the pit where the car is repaired and refueled.
- (genetics) One of two specific regions in a promoter.
- (soccer) The penalty area.
- (computing, slang) A computer, or the case in which it is housed.
- The driver’s seat on a horse-drawn coach.
- (engineering) A cylindrical casing around the axle of a wheel, a bearing, a gland, etc.
- (slang) A gym dedicated to the CrossFit exercise program.
- A small rectangular shelter.
- (cricket) Synonym of gully (“a certain fielding position”).
- (euphemistic) A coffin.
- (slang, vulgar) The vagina.
verb
- put into a box
- hit with the fist
- engage in a boxing match
- (transitive) To strike with the fists; to punch.
- (motor racing) To enter the pit.
- (transitive) To mix two containers of paint of similar colour to ensure that the color is identical.
- (transitive) Usually followed by in: to surround and enclose in a way that restricts movement; to corner, to hem in.
- (transitive, object-oriented programming) To place a value of a primitive type into a casing object.
- (transitive, boxing) To fight against (a person) in a boxing match.
- (transitive, agriculture) To make an incision or hole in (a tree) for the purpose of procuring the sap.
- (transitive, architecture) To enclose with boarding, lathing, etc., so as to conceal (for example, pipes) or to bring to a required form.
- (transitive) To place inside a box; to pack in one or more boxes.
- (transitive, engineering) To furnish (for example, the axle of a wheel) with a box.
- (intransitive, stative, boxing) To participate in boxing; to be a boxer.
- (transitive, graphic design, printing) To enclose (images, text, etc.) in a box.
noun
- (typography) Initialism of right margin.
- Initialism of Resident Magistrate.
- Initialism of Routemaster, a type of London bus.
- Abbreviation of room; often visible on moving boxes.
- (military) Initialism of radio material.
- (religion) Initialism of religious movement.
- Initialism of rural municipality.
- Initialism of regional municipality.
- Initialism of ring modulation.
- (historical) Initialism of reichsmark.
- (historical) Initialism of Roman month.
- (Mormonism) Initialism of returned missionary.
name
verb
verb
- draw a line around
- restrict or confine within limits
- to draw a geometric figure around another figure so that the two are in contact but do not intersect
- To draw a line around; to encircle.
- (geometry) To draw the smallest circle or higher-dimensional sphere that has (a polyhedron, polygon, etc.) in its interior.
- To limit narrowly; to restrict.
verb
noun
noun
- A line marking the boundary of an object figure.
- A sketch or drawing in which objects are delineated in contours without shading.
- The outer shape of an object or figure.
- A general description of some subject.
- A preliminary plan for a project.
- A statement summarizing the important points of a text.
- (fishing) A setline or trotline.
- (film) A prose telling of a story intended to be turned into a screenplay; generally longer and more detailed than a treatment.
- a schematic or preliminary plan
- a sketchy summary of the main points of an argument or theory
- the line that appears to bound an object
verb
- (transitive, software compilation) To optimize for size by replacing repeated code fragments with function calls.
- (transitive) To draw an outline of; to describe.
- (transitive) To summarize.
- describe roughly or briefly or give the main points or summary of
- draw up an outline or sketch for something
- trace the shape of
adj
- Drawn, pictorial.
- (geology) Having a texture that resembles writing, commonly created by exsolution, devitrification and immiscibility processes in igneous rocks.
- Explicit, vivid, descriptive, often in relation to depictions of sex or violence.
- relating to or presented by a graph
- describing nudity or sexual activity in graphic detail
- written or drawn or engraved
- of or relating to the graphic arts
- evoking lifelike images within the mind
noun
noun
- a drawing of the outline of an object; filled in with some uniform color
- an outline of a solid object (as cast by its shadow)
- An illustrated outline filled in with a solid color(s), usually only black, and intended to represent the shape of an object without revealing any other visual details; a similar appearance produced when the object being viewed is situated in relative darkness with brighter lighting behind it; a profile portrait in black, such as a shadow appears to be.
- (fashion) The outline of a garment as it appears on the wearer.
verb
noun
- A line that is drawn with a downward stroke.
- A downward plucking motion on a stringed instrument.
- A bolt of lightning that touches ground.
- A downstroke; a downward movement that terminates in striking something.
- A type of manual typewriter that causes the letters to print on the downstroke of the keys and retract as the key rises.
- (electrical engineering) A (usually unintended) branch of current that arcs downward to ground.
- A blow by a hand or weapon that occurs with a downward striking motion.
- A variety of various devices that operates primarily by a downward striking action.
adj
adv
verb
- To strike down; to knock down, kill, or cripple.
- To strike from above.
- To move downward in a striking motion.
- To play a stringed instrument with a downward plucking motion.
- (masonry) To point (finish a joint) by pressing mortar in at the bottom.
- To go in a downward direction.
- To dismay, reject, demote, or render lowly.
- (of current or lightning) To arc to ground in a downstrike.
adj
- Written in the margin of a book.
- (economics, not comparable) Pertaining to changes resulting from a unit increase in production or consumption of a good.
- (of land) Barely productive.
- Of a value, or having a characteristic that is of a value, that is close to being unacceptable or leading to exclusion from a group or category.
- (not comparable) Of, relating to, or located at or near a margin or edge; also figurative usages of location and margin (edge).
- (sociology) Marginalized.
- (geography) Sharing a border; geographically adjacent.
- (politics, chiefly UK, Australia, New Zealand, of a constituency) Subject to a change in sitting member with only a small change in voting behaviour, this usually being inferred from the small winning margin of the previous election.
- producing at a rate that barely covers production costs
- just barely adequate or within a lower limit
- at or constituting a border or edge
- of questionable or minimal quality
noun
noun
- a boundary marking the extremities of something
- one of two places from which people are communicating to each other
- the last section of a communication
- a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold
- the point in time at which something ends
- the final stage or concluding parts of an event or occurrence
- (American football) a position on the line of scrimmage, designating players at each end of the defensive line
- (football) the person who plays at one end of the line of scrimmage
- the surface at either extremity of a three-dimensional object
- the state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it
- the part you are expected to play
- either extremity of something that has length
- a final state
- a final part or section
- One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet.
- That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap.
- The terminal point of something in space or time.
- (American football) The position at the end of either the offensive or defensive line, a tight end, a split end, a defensive end.
- (in the plural, slang, African-American Vernacular) Money.
- The most extreme point of an object, especially one that is longer than it is wide.
- (curling) A period of play in which each team throws eight rocks, two per player, in alternating fashion.
- (by extension, often with "the") Death.
- (cricket) One of the two parts of the ground used as a descriptive name for half of the ground.
- Result.
- (mathematics) An ideal point of a graph or other complex. See End (graph theory)
- (by extension) The cessation of an effort, activity, state, or motion.
- A purpose, goal, or aim.
verb
- be the end of; be the last or concluding part of
- bring to an end or halt
- put an end to
- have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
- (intransitive) To conclude; to bring something to an end.
- (transitive) To finish, terminate.
- (intransitive, ergative) To come to an end.
adj
- having an irregular outline
- worn out from stress or strain
- being or dressed in clothes that are worn or torn
- Rough; shaggy; rugged.
- (computing) Of a data structure: having uneven levels.
- (music) Performed in a syncopated manner, especially in ragtime.
- Wearing tattered clothes.
- Harsh-sounding; having an unpleasant noise
- Faulty; lacking in skill, reliability, or organization.
- In tatters, having the texture broken.
- Having rough edges; jagged or uneven
- (typography, of a block of type) Not justified; having an uneven vertical margin.
verb
noun
- The outlines of a drawing as opposed to color, shading, and texture.
- Images that consist of distinct straight and curved lines placed against a (usually plain) background, without gradations in shade (darkness) or hue (color).
- (printing, graphic design) Artwork to be reproduced with one solid color, contrasted with artwork having tone or shading (halftones), or full color (color separations).
noun
- In a drawing, picture, etc., that part of the surface, as of paper or canvas, which is within the frame or the border or margin. In a frame, the open space, the opening.
- (often in the plural) A device used in aiming a projectile, through which the person aiming looks at the intended target.
- (now colloquial) a great deal, a lot; frequently used to intensify a comparative.
- Something seen.
- A small aperture through which objects are to be seen, and by which their direction is settled or ascertained.
- Mental view; opinion; judgment.
- The act of seeing; perception of objects by the eye; view.
- (in the singular) The ability to see.
- (often in the plural) Something worth seeing; a spectacle, either good or bad.
- a range of mental vision
- an instance of visual perception
- a place of interest, especially to visitors
- the range of vision
- the act of looking or seeing or observing
- the ability to see; the visual faculty
- (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent
- anything that is seen
verb
- (transitive, intransitive) To observe or aim (at something) using a (gun) sight.
- (transitive) To observe through, or as if through, a sight, to check the elevation, direction, levelness, or other characteristics of, especially when surveying or navigating.
- (transitive) To apply sights to; to adjust the sights of.
- (transitive) To see; to get sight of (something); to register visually.
- catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes
- take aim by looking through the sights of a gun (or other device)
noun
- The point in a perspective drawing at which parallel lines receding from an observer seem to converge.
- The situation in which, place where, or point in time when some object or phenomenon is no longer observable or notable.
- the point beyond which something disappears or ceases to exist
- the appearance of a point on the horizon at which parallel lines converge
noun
- A decorative border.
- (botany) The peristome or fringe-like appendage of the capsules of most mosses.
- (by extension) A border or edging.
- (UK) Synonym of bangs: hair hanging over the forehead, especially a hairstyle where it is cut straight across.
- (golf) The area around the green
- Non-mainstream theatre.
- (also attributive) Those members of a political party, or any social group, holding extremist or unorthodox views.
- The periphery of an area, especially a town or city.
- A group of people situated on the periphery of a larger community.
- (television, radio) A daypart that precedes or follows prime time.
- (Australia) Used attributively with reference to Aboriginal people living on the edge of towns etc.
- (also figurative) A marginal or peripheral part.
- (physics) A light or dark band formed by the diffraction of light.
- a social group holding marginal or extreme views
- one of the light or dark bands produced by the interference and diffraction of light
- a part of the city far removed from the center
- the outside boundary or surface of something
- a border of hair that is cut short and hangs across the forehead
- an ornamental border consisting of short lengths of hanging threads or tassels
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verb
- (transitive, mathematics) To be in an equivalence relation with.
- (transitive) To wiggle, fidget or play with; to move around.
- (intransitive) To play with anything; hence, to be busy about trifles.
- (transitive, computing) To flip or switch two adjacent bits (binary digits).
- manipulate, as in a nervous or unconscious manner
- turn in a twisting or spinning motion
noun
- A decorative strip around the edge of something.
- a strip forming the outer edge of something
- a line that indicates a boundary
- (British, uncountable) Border morris or border dancing.
- The outer edge of something.
- (computing) A string that is both a prefix and a suffix of another particular string.
- A strip of ground in which ornamental plants are grown.
- The line or frontier area separating political or geographical regions.
- a decorative recessed or relieved surface on an edge
- the boundary of a surface
- the boundary line or the area immediately inside the boundary
verb
- (transitive) To lie on, or adjacent to, a border of.
- (transitive) To form a border around; to bound.
- (intransitive) To touch at a border (with on, upon, or with).
- (transitive) To put a border on something.
- (intransitive) To approach; to come near to; to verge (with on or upon).
- enclose in or as if in a frame
- lie adjacent to another or share a boundary
- form the boundary of; be contiguous to
- provide with a border or edge
- extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle
noun
- A single stroke on a drawing or a picture.
- The ability to perform a task well; aptitude.
- (slang) An act of borrowing or stealing something; a request for money.
- (Australian rules football) A disposal of the ball during a game, i.e. a kick or a handball.
- A little bit; a small amount.
- Form; standard of performance.
- (chiefly Australia) touch football (a variant of rugby league that does not involve tackling)
- The part of a sports field beyond the touchlines or goal-lines.
- (shipbuilding) The broadest part of a plank worked top and but, or of one worked anchor-stock fashion (that is, tapered from the middle to both ends); also, the angles of the stern timbers at the counters.
- (uncountable, in set phrases) A relationship of close communication or understanding.
- (bell-ringing) A set of changes less than the total possible on seven bells, i.e. less than 5,040.
- An act of touching, especially with the hand or finger.
- The faculty or sense of perception by physical contact.
- The children's game of tag.
- The style or technique with which one plays a musical instrument.
- A distinguishing feature or characteristic.
- (music) The particular or characteristic mode of action, or the resistance of the keys of an instrument to the fingers.
- (slang) The extent to which a person is interested or affected; the amount of outlay on something.
- the event of something coming in contact with the body
- the feel of mechanical action
- the faculty by which external objects or forces are perceived through contact with the body (especially the hands)
- deftness in handling matters
- a slight attack of illness
- the act of soliciting money (as a gift or loan)
- a slight but appreciable amount
- the act of putting two things together with no space between them
- a communicative interaction
- a distinguishing style
- a suggestion of some quality
- the sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin
verb
- (intransitive) Of a ship or its passengers: to land, to make a short stop (at).
- (transitive, slang) To obtain money from, usually by borrowing (from a friend).
- To have sexual intercourse with
- (nautical) To keep the ship as near (the wind) as possible.
- (transitive) To make intimate physical contact with a person.
- (transitive) To make physical contact with; to bring the hand, finger or other part of the body into contact with.
- (transitive, now historical) To lay hands on (someone suffering from scrofula) as a form of cure, as formerly practised by English and French monarchs.
- (transitive) To affect emotionally; to bring about tender or painful feelings in.
- (transitive, in negative constructions) To be on the level of; to approach in excellence or quality.
- To try; to prove, as with a touchstone.
- (transitive) To cause to be briefly in physical contact with something.
- To perform, as a tune; to play.
- (nautical) To bring (a sail) so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.
- (intransitive) To make physical contact with a thing.
- (transitive) To physically disturb; to interfere with, molest, or attempt to harm through contact.
- (transitive, Scottish history) To give royal assent to by touching it with the sceptre.
- To strike; to manipulate; to play on.
- (transitive) To begin to consume, or otherwise use.
- (transitive) To come into (involuntary) contact with; to meet or intersect.
- (intransitive) To come into physical contact, or to be in physical contact.
- (intransitive) To deal with in speech or writing; briefly to speak or write (on or upon something).
- (transitive, reflexive or rarely intransitive) To sexually excite with the fingers; to finger or masturbate.
- (transitive) To imbue or endow with a specific quality.
- (transitive, always passive) To disturb the mental functions of; to make somewhat insane; often followed with "in the head".
- (transitive) To physically affect in specific ways implied by context.
- (transitive, computing) To mark (a file or document) as having been modified.
- To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush.
- (intransitive, nautical) To be brought, as a sail, so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.
- To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly.
- (transitive) To come close to; to approach.
- (transitive) To concern, to have to do with.
- color lightly
- cause to be in brief contact with
- to extend as far as
- comprehend
- make a more or less disguised reference to
- consume
- be in direct physical contact with; make contact
- tamper with
- make physical contact with, come in contact with
- affect emotionally
- have an effect upon
- perceive via the tactile sense
- deal with; usually used with a form of negation
- be relevant to
- be equal to in quality or ability
noun
- An outline, boundary or border, usually of curved shape.
- (figurative) A general description giving the most important points.
- (linguistics) a speech sound which behaves as a single segment, but which makes an internal transition from one quality, place, or manner to another.
- A line on a map or chart delineating those points which have the same altitude or other plotted quantity: a contour line or isopleth; (metonymically) the landform or its surface.
- any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline)
- a feature (or the order or arrangement of features) of anything having a complex structure
- a line drawn on a map connecting points of equal height
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- (photography) The characteristic of a camera lens, either by deficiency in design or by mismatch of the lens with the film format, that produces an image smaller than the film's frame with a crudely focused border. Photographers may deliberately choose this characteristic for a special effect.
- (printing) A decorative design, originally representing vine branches or tendrils, at the head of a chapter, of a manuscript or printed book, or in a similar position.
- (architecture) A running ornament consisting of leaves and tendrils, used in Gothic architecture.
- (by extension) A short story or anecdote that presents a scene or tableau, or paints a picture.
- (automotive) A small sticker affixed to a vehicle windscreen to indicate that tolls have been paid.
- (philately) The central pictorial image on a postage stamp.
- (computer graphics) A hardware deficiency (even occurring in most expensive models) of a computer display wherein the picture slants towards a colour or brightness towards the edges especially if viewed from an angle.
- (by extension) Any small borderless picture in a book, especially an engraving, photograph, or the like, which vanishes gradually at the edge.
- (photography) Any effect in a photographic picture where qualities vanish towards the edges.
- a photograph whose edges shade off gradually
- a small illustrative sketch (as sometimes placed at the beginning of chapters in books)
- a brief literary description
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- (art, photography) A decorative border around a picture used to inset and center the contents of a frame.
- (pyrometallurgy) The molten metal sulfide phases typically formed during smelting of copper, nickel, and other base metals.
- An instrument for producing a dull, lustreless surface.
- (film) A background, often painted or created with computers
- the property of having little or no contrast; lacking highlights or gloss
- a mixture of sulfides that forms when sulfide metal ores are smelted
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- To mark a drawing or document for correction or modification.
- (Canada, US, urban studies) To deny or complicate access to services (such as banking, insurance, or healthcare) to residents in specific, often racially determined, areas.
- (audio engineering) To achieve audio levels that will cause clipping (indicated by red in an audio meter).
- (automotive) To run an internal combustion engine to its maximum or maximum recommended speed.
- To operate a device at one or more redlines.
- discriminate in selling or renting housing in certain areas of a neighborhood
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- (printing) The inside margin of a page.
- (mining) The roof of a horizontal underground passage.
- (swimming) Clipping of backstroke.
- (slang, uncountable) Effort, usually physical.
- (sports) In some team sports, a position behind most players on the team.
- (figuratively) The upper part of a natural object which is considered to resemble an animal’s back.
- (slang, uncountable) Large and attractive buttocks.
- A support or resource in reserve.
- Area behind, such as the backyard of a house or the rear storeroom of a retail store.
- The reverse side; the side that is not normally seen.
- The side of a blade opposite the side used for cutting.
- Among leather dealers, one of the thickest and stoutest tanned hides.
- A ferryboat.
- The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly.
- The part of something that goes last.
- The backrest, the part of a piece of furniture which receives the human back.
- (nautical) The keel and keelson of a ship.
- (figurative) The part of a piece of clothing which covers the back.
- A non-alcoholic drink (often water or a soft drink), to go with hard liquor or a cocktail.
- The side of any object which is opposite the front or useful side.
- The spine and associated tissues.
- The edge of a book which is bound.
- A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc.
- That which is farthest away from the front.
- (football) a person who plays in the backfield
- the part of a garment that covers the back of your body
- (American football) the position of a player on a football team who is stationed behind the line of scrimmage
- the protective covering on the front, back, and spine of a book
- the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord
- the part of something that is furthest from the normal viewer
- the posterior part of a human (or animal) body from the neck to the end of the spine
- the side that goes last or is not normally seen
- a support that you can lean against while sitting
adj
- (comparable, phonetics) Pronounced with the highest part of the body of the tongue toward the back of the mouth, near the soft palate (most often describing a vowel).
- At or near the rear.
- Not current.
- (predicative) Returned or restored to a previous place or condition.
- Situated away from the main or most frequented areas.
- Moving or operating backward.
- In arrears; overdue.
- located at or near the back of an animal
- of an earlier date
- related to or located at the back
adv
- In a manner that impedes.
- To a later point in time. See also put back.
- Towards, into or in the past.
- In a direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing or normally pointing.
- Away from someone or something; at a distance.
- So as to shrink, recede or move aside, or cause to do so.
- (not comparable) To or in a previous condition or place.
- (not comparable) In a reciprocal manner; in return.
- (postpositive) Earlier, ago.
- In a direction opposite to the usual or desired direction of movement or progress, physically or figuratively.
- Away from the front or from an edge.
- in or to or toward a former location
- in reply
- at or to or toward the back or rear
- in repayment or retaliation
- in or to or toward a past time
- in or to or toward an original condition
verb
- (transitive) To push or force backwards.
- (law, of a justice of the peace) To sign or endorse (a warrant, issued in another county, to apprehend an offender).
- (transitive) To support.
- (MLE, transitive) To draw from behind the back (a knife etc.) (as also back out).
- (intransitive) To go in the reverse direction.
- (nautical, of the wind) To change direction contrary to the normal pattern; that is, to shift anticlockwise in the northern hemisphere, or clockwise in the southern hemisphere.
- (UK, of a hunting dog) To stand still behind another dog which has pointed.
- To row backward with (oars).
- (nautical, of a square sail) To brace the yards so that the wind presses on the front of the sail, to slow the ship.
- To make a back for; to furnish with a back.
- To adjoin behind; to be at the back of.
- (nautical, of an anchor) To lay out a second, smaller anchor to provide additional holding power.
- (Nigeria, transitive) To carry an infant on one’s back.
- To write upon the back of, possibly as an endorsement.
- be in back of
- travel backward
- establish as valid or genuine
- place a bet on
- give support or one's approval to
- strengthen by providing with a back or backing
- shift to a counterclockwise direction
- support financial backing for
- be behind; approve of
- cause to travel backward
noun
- A rim or margin of something.
- In sheet metal design, a rim or edge folded back on itself to create a smooth edge and to increase strength or rigidity.
- (sewing) The border of an article of clothing doubled back and stitched together to finish the edge and prevent it from fraying.
- An utterance or sound of the voice like "hem", often indicative of hesitation or doubt, sometimes used to call attention.
- the utterance of a sound similar to clearing the throat; intended to get attention, express hesitancy, fill a pause, hide embarrassment, warn a friend, etc.
- the edge of a piece of cloth; especially the finished edge that has been doubled under and stitched down
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- To make the sound expressed by the word hem; to hesitate in speaking.
- (transitive) To put hem on an article of clothing, to edge or put a border on something.
- (sewing, intransitive) To make a hem.
- (transitive) To shut in, enclose, confine; to surround something or someone in a confining way.
- fold over and sew together to provide with a hem
- utter ‘hem’ or ‘ahem’
noun
- the space left between the margin and the start of an indented line
- an order for goods to be exported or imported
- A requisition or order for supplies, sent to the commissariat of an army.
- A certificate, or intended certificate, issued by the government of the United States at the close of the Revolution, for the principal or interest of the public debt.
- A stamp; an impression.
- A cut or notch in the margin of anything, or a recess like a notch.
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- set in from the margin
- cut or tear along an irregular line so that the parts can later be matched for authentication
- make a depression into
- notch the edge of or make jagged
- bind by or as if by indentures, as of an apprentice or servant
- (typography) To begin (a line or lines) at a greater or lesser distance from the margin. See indentation, and indention. Normal indent pushes in a line or paragraph. "Hanging indent" pulls the line out into the margin.
- (historical) To cut the two halves of a document in duplicate, using a jagged or wavy line so that each party could demonstrate that their copy was part of the original whole.
- To dent; to stamp or to press in; to impress
- (intransitive) To be cut, notched, or dented.
- (transitive) To notch; to jag; to cut into points like a row of teeth
- (military, India, Singapore, dated elsewhere) To make an order upon; to draw upon, as for military stores.
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- the space left between the margin and the start of an indented line
- a concave cut into a surface or edge (as in a coastline)
- the act of cutting into an edge with toothlike notches or angular incisions
- the formation of small pits in a surface as a consequence of corrosion
- (law) A division unit of a piece of law distinguished by its indentation or by a dash.
- A notch or recess, in the margin or border of anything.
- The act of indenting or state of being indented.
- (typography) The act of beginning a line or series of lines at a little distance within the flush line of the column or page, as in the common way of beginning the first line of a paragraph.
- A recess or sharp depression in any surface.
- A measure of the distance from the flush line.
noun
- the space left between the margin and the start of an indented line
- a contract binding one party into the service of another for a specified term
- a concave cut into a surface or edge (as in a coastline)
- formal agreement between the issuer of bonds and the bondholders as to terms of the debt
- An indentation; a recess.
- (law) A contract relating to lending (typically for issuing a bond), a real estate transaction, or a bankruptcy that imposes additional conditions on one or both parties.
- (law, often in the plural) A document, written as duplicates separated by indentations, specifying either of the above contracts.
- (law) A contract which binds a person to work for another, under specified conditions, for a specified time (often as an apprentice).
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- a small margin
- the property of being narrow; having little width
- an inclination to criticize opposing opinions or shocking behavior
- a restriction of range or scope
- (uncountable) The state of being narrow.
- (countable) A constriction; a narrow passage or place; an instance or aspect of being narrow, or having a limited scope or extent.
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- a rectangular drawing
- the quantity contained in a box
- separate partitioned area in a public place for a few people
- evergreen shrubs or small trees
- a (usually rectangular) container; may have a lid
- any one of several designated areas on a ball field where the batter or catcher or coaches are positioned
- private area in a theater or grandstand where a small group can watch the performance
- a blow with the hand (usually on the ear)
- the driver's seat on a coach
- a predicament from which a skillful or graceful escape is impossible
- (baseball) The rectangle in which the batter stands.
- (music, slang) A musical instrument, especially one made from boxwood.
- (fencing) A device used in electric fencing to detect whether a weapon has struck an opponent, which connects to a fencer's weapon by a spool and body wire. It uses lights and sound to notify a hit, with different coloured lights for on target and off target hits.
- (geometry, by extension) A rectangular object in any number of dimensions.
- (slang) A cell used for solitary confinement.
- A cuboid container and its contents; as much as fills such a container.
- A cuboid space; a cuboid container, often with a hinged lid.
- (Australia) An evergreen tree of the genus Lophostemon (for example, box scrub, Brisbane box, brush box, pink box, or Queensland box, Lophostemon confertus).
- (juggling) A pattern usually performed with three balls where the movements of the balls make a boxlike shape.
- A compartment to sit inside in an auditorium, courtroom, theatre, or other building.
- The wood from a box tree: boxwood.
- A blow with the fist.
- (lacrosse, informal) Ellipsis of box lacrosse (“indoor form of lacrosse”).
- (rail transport) Ellipsis of signal box.
- (colloquial, chiefly UK, Ireland) Short for squeeze box (“accordion or concertina”)
- Ellipsis of horsebox (“container for transporting horses”).
- (cricket) A hard protector for the genitals worn inside the underpants by a batsman or close fielder.
- (colloquial, chiefly Southern US) A stringed instrument with a soundbox, especially a guitar.
- A compartment or receptacle for receiving items.
- (automotive) Ellipsis of gearbox.
- A numbered receptacle at a newspaper office for anonymous replies to advertisements; see also box number.
- (slang, preceded by the) The television.
- Any of various evergreen shrubs or trees of genus Buxus, especially common box, European box, or boxwood (Buxus sempervirens) which is often used for making hedges and topiary.
- (figuratively) A predicament or trap.
- (slang) A prison cell.
- (aviation) A diamond-shaped flying formation consisting of four aircraft.
- A compartment (as a drawer) of an item of furniture used for storage, such as a cupboard, a shelf, etc.
- (automotive) Ellipsis of stashbox.
- (Australia) Various species of Eucalyptus trees are popularly called various kinds of boxes, on the basis of the nature of their wood, bark, or appearance for example, drooping box (Eucalyptus bicolor), shiny-leaved box (Eucalyptus tereticornis), black box, or ironbark box trees.
- A rectangle: an oblong or a square.
- (motor racing) An area in the pit where the car is repaired and refueled.
- (genetics) One of two specific regions in a promoter.
- (soccer) The penalty area.
- (computing, slang) A computer, or the case in which it is housed.
- The driver’s seat on a horse-drawn coach.
- (engineering) A cylindrical casing around the axle of a wheel, a bearing, a gland, etc.
- (slang) A gym dedicated to the CrossFit exercise program.
- A small rectangular shelter.
- (cricket) Synonym of gully (“a certain fielding position”).
- (euphemistic) A coffin.
- (slang, vulgar) The vagina.
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- put into a box
- hit with the fist
- engage in a boxing match
- (transitive) To strike with the fists; to punch.
- (motor racing) To enter the pit.
- (transitive) To mix two containers of paint of similar colour to ensure that the color is identical.
- (transitive) Usually followed by in: to surround and enclose in a way that restricts movement; to corner, to hem in.
- (transitive, object-oriented programming) To place a value of a primitive type into a casing object.
- (transitive, boxing) To fight against (a person) in a boxing match.
- (transitive, agriculture) To make an incision or hole in (a tree) for the purpose of procuring the sap.
- (transitive, architecture) To enclose with boarding, lathing, etc., so as to conceal (for example, pipes) or to bring to a required form.
- (transitive) To place inside a box; to pack in one or more boxes.
- (transitive, engineering) To furnish (for example, the axle of a wheel) with a box.
- (intransitive, stative, boxing) To participate in boxing; to be a boxer.
- (transitive, graphic design, printing) To enclose (images, text, etc.) in a box.
noun
- (typography) Initialism of right margin.
- Initialism of Resident Magistrate.
- Initialism of Routemaster, a type of London bus.
- Abbreviation of room; often visible on moving boxes.
- (military) Initialism of radio material.
- (religion) Initialism of religious movement.
- Initialism of rural municipality.
- Initialism of regional municipality.
- Initialism of ring modulation.
- (historical) Initialism of reichsmark.
- (historical) Initialism of Roman month.
- (Mormonism) Initialism of returned missionary.
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- A line marking the boundary of an object figure.
- A sketch or drawing in which objects are delineated in contours without shading.
- The outer shape of an object or figure.
- A general description of some subject.
- A preliminary plan for a project.
- A statement summarizing the important points of a text.
- (fishing) A setline or trotline.
- (film) A prose telling of a story intended to be turned into a screenplay; generally longer and more detailed than a treatment.
- a schematic or preliminary plan
- a sketchy summary of the main points of an argument or theory
- the line that appears to bound an object
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- (transitive, software compilation) To optimize for size by replacing repeated code fragments with function calls.
- (transitive) To draw an outline of; to describe.
- (transitive) To summarize.
- describe roughly or briefly or give the main points or summary of
- draw up an outline or sketch for something
- trace the shape of
noun
- a drawing of the outline of an object; filled in with some uniform color
- an outline of a solid object (as cast by its shadow)
- An illustrated outline filled in with a solid color(s), usually only black, and intended to represent the shape of an object without revealing any other visual details; a similar appearance produced when the object being viewed is situated in relative darkness with brighter lighting behind it; a profile portrait in black, such as a shadow appears to be.
- (fashion) The outline of a garment as it appears on the wearer.
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- A line that is drawn with a downward stroke.
- A downward plucking motion on a stringed instrument.
- A bolt of lightning that touches ground.
- A downstroke; a downward movement that terminates in striking something.
- A type of manual typewriter that causes the letters to print on the downstroke of the keys and retract as the key rises.
- (electrical engineering) A (usually unintended) branch of current that arcs downward to ground.
- A blow by a hand or weapon that occurs with a downward striking motion.
- A variety of various devices that operates primarily by a downward striking action.
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- To strike down; to knock down, kill, or cripple.
- To strike from above.
- To move downward in a striking motion.
- To play a stringed instrument with a downward plucking motion.
- (masonry) To point (finish a joint) by pressing mortar in at the bottom.
- To go in a downward direction.
- To dismay, reject, demote, or render lowly.
- (of current or lightning) To arc to ground in a downstrike.
noun
- a boundary marking the extremities of something
- one of two places from which people are communicating to each other
- the last section of a communication
- a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold
- the point in time at which something ends
- the final stage or concluding parts of an event or occurrence
- (American football) a position on the line of scrimmage, designating players at each end of the defensive line
- (football) the person who plays at one end of the line of scrimmage
- the surface at either extremity of a three-dimensional object
- the state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it
- the part you are expected to play
- either extremity of something that has length
- a final state
- a final part or section
- One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet.
- That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap.
- The terminal point of something in space or time.
- (American football) The position at the end of either the offensive or defensive line, a tight end, a split end, a defensive end.
- (in the plural, slang, African-American Vernacular) Money.
- The most extreme point of an object, especially one that is longer than it is wide.
- (curling) A period of play in which each team throws eight rocks, two per player, in alternating fashion.
- (by extension, often with "the") Death.
- (cricket) One of the two parts of the ground used as a descriptive name for half of the ground.
- Result.
- (mathematics) An ideal point of a graph or other complex. See End (graph theory)
- (by extension) The cessation of an effort, activity, state, or motion.
- A purpose, goal, or aim.
verb
- be the end of; be the last or concluding part of
- bring to an end or halt
- put an end to
- have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
- (intransitive) To conclude; to bring something to an end.
- (transitive) To finish, terminate.
- (intransitive, ergative) To come to an end.
noun
- The outlines of a drawing as opposed to color, shading, and texture.
- Images that consist of distinct straight and curved lines placed against a (usually plain) background, without gradations in shade (darkness) or hue (color).
- (printing, graphic design) Artwork to be reproduced with one solid color, contrasted with artwork having tone or shading (halftones), or full color (color separations).
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- In a drawing, picture, etc., that part of the surface, as of paper or canvas, which is within the frame or the border or margin. In a frame, the open space, the opening.
- (often in the plural) A device used in aiming a projectile, through which the person aiming looks at the intended target.
- (now colloquial) a great deal, a lot; frequently used to intensify a comparative.
- Something seen.
- A small aperture through which objects are to be seen, and by which their direction is settled or ascertained.
- Mental view; opinion; judgment.
- The act of seeing; perception of objects by the eye; view.
- (in the singular) The ability to see.
- (often in the plural) Something worth seeing; a spectacle, either good or bad.
- a range of mental vision
- an instance of visual perception
- a place of interest, especially to visitors
- the range of vision
- the act of looking or seeing or observing
- the ability to see; the visual faculty
- (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent
- anything that is seen
verb
- (transitive, intransitive) To observe or aim (at something) using a (gun) sight.
- (transitive) To observe through, or as if through, a sight, to check the elevation, direction, levelness, or other characteristics of, especially when surveying or navigating.
- (transitive) To apply sights to; to adjust the sights of.
- (transitive) To see; to get sight of (something); to register visually.
- catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes
- take aim by looking through the sights of a gun (or other device)
noun
- The point in a perspective drawing at which parallel lines receding from an observer seem to converge.
- The situation in which, place where, or point in time when some object or phenomenon is no longer observable or notable.
- the point beyond which something disappears or ceases to exist
- the appearance of a point on the horizon at which parallel lines converge
noun
- A decorative border.
- (botany) The peristome or fringe-like appendage of the capsules of most mosses.
- (by extension) A border or edging.
- (UK) Synonym of bangs: hair hanging over the forehead, especially a hairstyle where it is cut straight across.
- (golf) The area around the green
- Non-mainstream theatre.
- (also attributive) Those members of a political party, or any social group, holding extremist or unorthodox views.
- The periphery of an area, especially a town or city.
- A group of people situated on the periphery of a larger community.
- (television, radio) A daypart that precedes or follows prime time.
- (Australia) Used attributively with reference to Aboriginal people living on the edge of towns etc.
- (also figurative) A marginal or peripheral part.
- (physics) A light or dark band formed by the diffraction of light.
- a social group holding marginal or extreme views
- one of the light or dark bands produced by the interference and diffraction of light
- a part of the city far removed from the center
- the outside boundary or surface of something
- a border of hair that is cut short and hangs across the forehead
- an ornamental border consisting of short lengths of hanging threads or tassels
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- (transitive, mathematics) To be in an equivalence relation with.
- (transitive) To wiggle, fidget or play with; to move around.
- (intransitive) To play with anything; hence, to be busy about trifles.
- (transitive, computing) To flip or switch two adjacent bits (binary digits).
- manipulate, as in a nervous or unconscious manner
- turn in a twisting or spinning motion
noun
- A decorative strip around the edge of something.
- a strip forming the outer edge of something
- a line that indicates a boundary
- (British, uncountable) Border morris or border dancing.
- The outer edge of something.
- (computing) A string that is both a prefix and a suffix of another particular string.
- A strip of ground in which ornamental plants are grown.
- The line or frontier area separating political or geographical regions.
- a decorative recessed or relieved surface on an edge
- the boundary of a surface
- the boundary line or the area immediately inside the boundary
verb
- (transitive) To lie on, or adjacent to, a border of.
- (transitive) To form a border around; to bound.
- (intransitive) To touch at a border (with on, upon, or with).
- (transitive) To put a border on something.
- (intransitive) To approach; to come near to; to verge (with on or upon).
- enclose in or as if in a frame
- lie adjacent to another or share a boundary
- form the boundary of; be contiguous to
- provide with a border or edge
- extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle
noun
- A single stroke on a drawing or a picture.
- The ability to perform a task well; aptitude.
- (slang) An act of borrowing or stealing something; a request for money.
- (Australian rules football) A disposal of the ball during a game, i.e. a kick or a handball.
- A little bit; a small amount.
- Form; standard of performance.
- (chiefly Australia) touch football (a variant of rugby league that does not involve tackling)
- The part of a sports field beyond the touchlines or goal-lines.
- (shipbuilding) The broadest part of a plank worked top and but, or of one worked anchor-stock fashion (that is, tapered from the middle to both ends); also, the angles of the stern timbers at the counters.
- (uncountable, in set phrases) A relationship of close communication or understanding.
- (bell-ringing) A set of changes less than the total possible on seven bells, i.e. less than 5,040.
- An act of touching, especially with the hand or finger.
- The faculty or sense of perception by physical contact.
- The children's game of tag.
- The style or technique with which one plays a musical instrument.
- A distinguishing feature or characteristic.
- (music) The particular or characteristic mode of action, or the resistance of the keys of an instrument to the fingers.
- (slang) The extent to which a person is interested or affected; the amount of outlay on something.
- the event of something coming in contact with the body
- the feel of mechanical action
- the faculty by which external objects or forces are perceived through contact with the body (especially the hands)
- deftness in handling matters
- a slight attack of illness
- the act of soliciting money (as a gift or loan)
- a slight but appreciable amount
- the act of putting two things together with no space between them
- a communicative interaction
- a distinguishing style
- a suggestion of some quality
- the sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin
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- (intransitive) Of a ship or its passengers: to land, to make a short stop (at).
- (transitive, slang) To obtain money from, usually by borrowing (from a friend).
- To have sexual intercourse with
- (nautical) To keep the ship as near (the wind) as possible.
- (transitive) To make intimate physical contact with a person.
- (transitive) To make physical contact with; to bring the hand, finger or other part of the body into contact with.
- (transitive, now historical) To lay hands on (someone suffering from scrofula) as a form of cure, as formerly practised by English and French monarchs.
- (transitive) To affect emotionally; to bring about tender or painful feelings in.
- (transitive, in negative constructions) To be on the level of; to approach in excellence or quality.
- To try; to prove, as with a touchstone.
- (transitive) To cause to be briefly in physical contact with something.
- To perform, as a tune; to play.
- (nautical) To bring (a sail) so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.
- (intransitive) To make physical contact with a thing.
- (transitive) To physically disturb; to interfere with, molest, or attempt to harm through contact.
- (transitive, Scottish history) To give royal assent to by touching it with the sceptre.
- To strike; to manipulate; to play on.
- (transitive) To begin to consume, or otherwise use.
- (transitive) To come into (involuntary) contact with; to meet or intersect.
- (intransitive) To come into physical contact, or to be in physical contact.
- (intransitive) To deal with in speech or writing; briefly to speak or write (on or upon something).
- (transitive, reflexive or rarely intransitive) To sexually excite with the fingers; to finger or masturbate.
- (transitive) To imbue or endow with a specific quality.
- (transitive, always passive) To disturb the mental functions of; to make somewhat insane; often followed with "in the head".
- (transitive) To physically affect in specific ways implied by context.
- (transitive, computing) To mark (a file or document) as having been modified.
- To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush.
- (intransitive, nautical) To be brought, as a sail, so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.
- To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly.
- (transitive) To come close to; to approach.
- (transitive) To concern, to have to do with.
- color lightly
- cause to be in brief contact with
- to extend as far as
- comprehend
- make a more or less disguised reference to
- consume
- be in direct physical contact with; make contact
- tamper with
- make physical contact with, come in contact with
- affect emotionally
- have an effect upon
- perceive via the tactile sense
- deal with; usually used with a form of negation
- be relevant to
- be equal to in quality or ability
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- An outline, boundary or border, usually of curved shape.
- (figurative) A general description giving the most important points.
- (linguistics) a speech sound which behaves as a single segment, but which makes an internal transition from one quality, place, or manner to another.
- A line on a map or chart delineating those points which have the same altitude or other plotted quantity: a contour line or isopleth; (metonymically) the landform or its surface.
- any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline)
- a feature (or the order or arrangement of features) of anything having a complex structure
- a line drawn on a map connecting points of equal height
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- (art, photography) A decorative border around a picture used to inset and center the contents of a frame.
- (pyrometallurgy) The molten metal sulfide phases typically formed during smelting of copper, nickel, and other base metals.
- An instrument for producing a dull, lustreless surface.
- (film) A background, often painted or created with computers
- the property of having little or no contrast; lacking highlights or gloss
- a mixture of sulfides that forms when sulfide metal ores are smelted
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- To mark a drawing or document for correction or modification.
- (Canada, US, urban studies) To deny or complicate access to services (such as banking, insurance, or healthcare) to residents in specific, often racially determined, areas.
- (audio engineering) To achieve audio levels that will cause clipping (indicated by red in an audio meter).
- (automotive) To run an internal combustion engine to its maximum or maximum recommended speed.
- To operate a device at one or more redlines.
- discriminate in selling or renting housing in certain areas of a neighborhood
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- draw a line around
- restrict or confine within limits
- to draw a geometric figure around another figure so that the two are in contact but do not intersect
- To draw a line around; to encircle.
- (geometry) To draw the smallest circle or higher-dimensional sphere that has (a polyhedron, polygon, etc.) in its interior.
- To limit narrowly; to restrict.
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- the space left between the margin and the start of an indented line
- an order for goods to be exported or imported
- A requisition or order for supplies, sent to the commissariat of an army.
- A certificate, or intended certificate, issued by the government of the United States at the close of the Revolution, for the principal or interest of the public debt.
- A stamp; an impression.
- A cut or notch in the margin of anything, or a recess like a notch.
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- set in from the margin
- cut or tear along an irregular line so that the parts can later be matched for authentication
- make a depression into
- notch the edge of or make jagged
- bind by or as if by indentures, as of an apprentice or servant
- (typography) To begin (a line or lines) at a greater or lesser distance from the margin. See indentation, and indention. Normal indent pushes in a line or paragraph. "Hanging indent" pulls the line out into the margin.
- (historical) To cut the two halves of a document in duplicate, using a jagged or wavy line so that each party could demonstrate that their copy was part of the original whole.
- To dent; to stamp or to press in; to impress
- (intransitive) To be cut, notched, or dented.
- (transitive) To notch; to jag; to cut into points like a row of teeth
- (military, India, Singapore, dated elsewhere) To make an order upon; to draw upon, as for military stores.
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- (photography) The characteristic of a camera lens, either by deficiency in design or by mismatch of the lens with the film format, that produces an image smaller than the film's frame with a crudely focused border. Photographers may deliberately choose this characteristic for a special effect.
- (printing) A decorative design, originally representing vine branches or tendrils, at the head of a chapter, of a manuscript or printed book, or in a similar position.
- (architecture) A running ornament consisting of leaves and tendrils, used in Gothic architecture.
- (by extension) A short story or anecdote that presents a scene or tableau, or paints a picture.
- (automotive) A small sticker affixed to a vehicle windscreen to indicate that tolls have been paid.
- (philately) The central pictorial image on a postage stamp.
- (computer graphics) A hardware deficiency (even occurring in most expensive models) of a computer display wherein the picture slants towards a colour or brightness towards the edges especially if viewed from an angle.
- (by extension) Any small borderless picture in a book, especially an engraving, photograph, or the like, which vanishes gradually at the edge.
- (photography) Any effect in a photographic picture where qualities vanish towards the edges.
- a photograph whose edges shade off gradually
- a small illustrative sketch (as sometimes placed at the beginning of chapters in books)
- a brief literary description
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- Drawn, pictorial.
- (geology) Having a texture that resembles writing, commonly created by exsolution, devitrification and immiscibility processes in igneous rocks.
- Explicit, vivid, descriptive, often in relation to depictions of sex or violence.
- relating to or presented by a graph
- describing nudity or sexual activity in graphic detail
- written or drawn or engraved
- of or relating to the graphic arts
- evoking lifelike images within the mind
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- Written in the margin of a book.
- (economics, not comparable) Pertaining to changes resulting from a unit increase in production or consumption of a good.
- (of land) Barely productive.
- Of a value, or having a characteristic that is of a value, that is close to being unacceptable or leading to exclusion from a group or category.
- (not comparable) Of, relating to, or located at or near a margin or edge; also figurative usages of location and margin (edge).
- (sociology) Marginalized.
- (geography) Sharing a border; geographically adjacent.
- (politics, chiefly UK, Australia, New Zealand, of a constituency) Subject to a change in sitting member with only a small change in voting behaviour, this usually being inferred from the small winning margin of the previous election.
- producing at a rate that barely covers production costs
- just barely adequate or within a lower limit
- at or constituting a border or edge
- of questionable or minimal quality
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- having an irregular outline
- worn out from stress or strain
- being or dressed in clothes that are worn or torn
- Rough; shaggy; rugged.
- (computing) Of a data structure: having uneven levels.
- (music) Performed in a syncopated manner, especially in ragtime.
- Wearing tattered clothes.
- Harsh-sounding; having an unpleasant noise
- Faulty; lacking in skill, reliability, or organization.
- In tatters, having the texture broken.
- Having rough edges; jagged or uneven
- (typography, of a block of type) Not justified; having an uneven vertical margin.