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noun
- The act of cutting into a substance.
- (soccer) A cut-back
- A cut, especially one made by a scalpel or similar medical tool in the context of surgical operation; the scar resulting from such a cut.
- a depression scratched or carved into a surface
- the cutting of or into body tissues or organs (especially by a surgeon as part of an operation)
noun
- the act of cutting something into parts
- a wound made by cutting
- in baseball; a batter's attempt to hit a pitched ball
- the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage
- a refusal to recognize someone you know
- (sports) a stroke that puts reverse spin on the ball
- a distinct selection of music from a recording or a compact disc
- a remark capable of wounding mentally
- a canal made by erosion or excavation
- a share of the profits
- the act of shortening something by chopping off the ends
- the act of penetrating or opening open with a sharp edge
- a piece of meat that has been cut from an animal carcass
- (film) an immediate transition from one shot to the next
- the style in which a garment is cut
- a step on some scale
- the act of reducing the amount or number
- an unexcused absence from class
- the division of a deck of cards before dealing
- a trench resembling a furrow that was made by erosion or excavation
- (slang, uncountable) That which is used to dilute or adulterate a recreational drug.
- (card games) The act or right of dividing a deck of playing cards.
- (slang) An insult.
- An opening of a living body resulting from cutting; an incision or wound.
- (slang) A hidden, secluded, or secure place.
- An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving.
- (card games) The card obtained by dividing the pack.
- The manner or style in which a garment, other article of clothing, or sail is fashioned.
- A decrease or deletion.
- (archaeology) A truncation, a context that represents a moment in time when other archaeological deposits were removed for the creation of some feature such as a ditch or pit.
- (Internet) A dividing line in a Tumblr post, the content below which is hidden until the reader reveals it.
- A haircut.
- (bodybuilding) A time period when one attempts to lose fat while retaining muscle mass.
- (literal, figurative) The act of cutting.
- Such a wound through human skin.
- A sleeveless vest worn by members of a motorcycle club.
- (fashion) A notch shaved into an eyebrow.
- (fencing) An attack made with a chopping motion of the blade, landing with its edge or point.
- (especially theater, film) A passage omitted or to be omitted from a play, movie script, speech, etc.
- (cricket) A batsman's shot played with a swinging motion of the bat, to hit the ball backward of point.
- (graph theory) The partition of a graph’s vertices into two subgroups.
- A skein of yarn.
- Such a passage dug for a roadway for a paved road or railroad, a canal, a runway, etc.
- A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove.
- (golf) In a stroke play competition, the early elimination of those players who have not then attained a preannounced score, so that the rest of the competition is less pressed for time and more entertaining for spectators.
- A deliberate snub, typically a refusal to return a bow or other acknowledgement of acquaintance.
- A definable part, such as an individual song, of a recording, particularly of commercial records, audio tapes, CDs, etc.
- (literal, figurative) The result of cutting.
- (film) A particular version or edit of a film.
- (sports) In lawn tennis, etc., a slanting stroke causing the ball to spin and bound irregularly; also, the spin thus given to the ball.
- A slab or slice, especially of meat.
- (rail transport) A string of railway cars coupled together, shorter than a train.
- (cricket) Sideways movement of the ball through the air caused by a fast bowler imparting spin to the ball.
- An unkind act; a cruelty.
- A share or portion of profits.
- An artificial channel for marine navigation, as distinguished from a navigable river.
- (petrochemistry) The range of temperatures used to distill a particular mixture of hydrocarbons from crude oil.
adj
- (used of grass or vegetation) cut down with a hand implement or machine
- (of pages of a book) having the folds of the leaves trimmed or slit
- mixed with water
- separated into parts or laid open or penetrated with a sharp edge or instrument
- (of a male animal) having the testicles removed
- (used of rates or prices) reduced usually sharply
- with parts removed
- made neat and tidy by trimming
- fashioned or shaped by cutting
- (of a gem) Carved into a shape; not raw.
- (bodybuilding) Having muscular definition in which individual groups of muscle fibers stand out among larger muscles.
- (slang, New Zealand, formerly UK) Intoxicated as a result of drugs or alcohol.
- (participial adjective) Having been cut.
- (cricket, of a shot) Played with a horizontal bat to hit the ball backward of point.
- Reduced.
- (informal) Circumcised or having been the subject of female genital mutilation.
- (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Upset, angry; emotionally hurt.
verb
- penetrate injuriously
- function as a cutting instrument
- divide a deck of cards at random into two parts to make selection difficult
- form by probing, penetrating, or digging
- fell by sawing; hew
- refuse to acknowledge
- discharge from a group
- allow incision or separation
- record a performance on (a medium)
- hit (a ball) with a spin so that it turns in the opposite direction
- pass directly and often in haste
- stop filming
- intentionally fail to attend
- grow through the gums
- cut and assemble the components of
- lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture
- give the appearance or impression of
- make an incision or separation
- make an abrupt change of image or sound
- cut off the testicles (of male animals such as horses)
- style and tailor in a certain fashion
- form or shape by cutting or incising
- cause to stop operating by disengaging a switch
- have a reducing effect
- separate with or as if with an instrument
- reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
- pass through or across
- cut down on; make a reduction in
- make out and issue
- be able to manage or manage successfully
- turn sharply; change direction abruptly
- weed out unwanted or unnecessary things
- make a recording of
- reap or harvest
- create by duplicating data
- move (one's fist)
- shorten as if by severing the edges or ends of
- cease, stop
- dissolve by breaking down the fat of
- perform or carry out
- have grow through the gums
- To absent oneself from (a class, an appointment, etc.).
- (intransitive) To enter a queue in the wrong place.
- (transitive, cricket) To make the ball spin sideways by running one's fingers down the side of the ball while bowling it.
- (intransitive, slang) To leave abruptly.
- (intransitive) To engage in self-harm by making cuts in one's own skin.
- To perform an incision on, for example with a knife.
- To abridge or shorten a work; to remove a portion of a recording during editing.
- (slang) To wound with a knife.
- To wound or hurt deeply the sensibilities of; to pierce.
- (transitive, film) To edit a film by selecting takes from original footage.
- (intransitive) To change direction suddenly.
- To separate or omit, in a situation where one was previously associated.
- (transitive, social) To ignore as a social rebuff or snub.
- To perform (an elaborate dancing movement etc.).
- (transitive) To exhibit (a figure having some trait).
- To reduce, especially intentionally.
- (ambitransitive) To deliver a stroke with a whip or like instrument to.
- (bodybuilding) To lose body mass, aiming to keep muscle but lose body fat.
- (transitive, cricket) To deflect (a bowled ball) to the off, with a chopping movement of the bat.
- (transitive, computing) To remove (text, a picture, etc.) and place in memory in order to paste at a later time.
- (sports) To drive (a ball) to one side, as by (in billiards or croquet) hitting it fine with another ball, or (in tennis) striking it with the racket inclined.
- To castrate or geld.
- (intransitive) To intersect or cross in such a way as to divide in half or nearly so.
- (slang, intransitive) To run or hurry.
- (transitive, slang) To dilute or adulterate something, especially a recreational drug.
- (intransitive, film) To make an abrupt transition from one scene or image to another.
- (transitive, slang) To make, negotiate; to finalise, conclude; to issue.
- (transitive, intransitive) To divide a pack of playing cards into two parts, often followed by placing the two parts back together in the opposite order.
- To form or shape by cutting.
- (intransitive) To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.
- (transitive) To renounce or give up.
- To interfere, as a horse; to strike one foot against the opposite foot or ankle in using the legs.
- To divide with a knife, scissors, or another sharp instrument.
- (transitive) To stop, disengage, or cease.
intj
noun
- the act of cutting something into parts
- an excerpt cut from a newspaper or magazine
- the act of diluting something
- a part (sometimes a root or leaf or bud) removed from a plant to propagate a new plant through rooting or grafting
- removing parts from hard material to create a desired pattern or shape
- the act of shortening something by chopping off the ends
- the act of penetrating or opening open with a sharp edge
- the activity of selecting the scenes to be shown and putting them together to create a film
- a piece cut off from the main part of something
- the division of a deck of cards before dealing
- (countable, UK) An open passage at a level lower than the surrounding terrain, dug for a canal, railway, or road to go through.
- (countable) A newspaper clipping.
- (uncountable, cinematography, sound engineering) The editing of film or other recordings.
- (countable) An abridged selection of written work, often intended for performance.
- (countable) A section removed from a larger whole.
- (countable, horticulture) A leaf, stem, branch, or root removed from a plant and cultivated to grow a new plant.
- (uncountable, machining) The process of bringing metals to a desired shape by chipping away the unwanted material.
- (uncountable, psychology) The act of cutting one's own skin as a symptom of a mental disorder; self-harm.
- (countable, uncountable) The action of the verb to cut.
adj
verb
noun
- The act of snipping; cutting a small amount off of something.
- A piece cut out by snipping.
- the act of clipping or snipping
- (onomatopoeia) An act or sound of snipping, the sound produced by scissors.
- (definite, the snip, euphemistic) A vasectomy.
- A single cut with scissors, clippers, or similar tool.
- (informal) Something acquired for a low price; a bargain.
- (informal) A small or weak person, especially a young one.
- A small amount of something; a pinch.
- A white marking on a horse's muzzle, between the nostrils.
- a small piece of anything (especially a piece that has been snipped off)
verb
- (informal) To perform a vasectomy.
- (Internet) To remove the irrelevant parts of quotations in the reply message.
- To cut with short sharp actions, as with scissors.
- (informal) To circumcise.
- To speak or say in a snippish manner.
- To break off; to snatch away.
- To reduce the price of a product, to create a snip.
- cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
- sever or remove by pinching or snipping
verb
- To bite so hard as to remove something from its source.
- (transitive, idiomatic, sometimes followed by on) To accept or commit oneself to a task, project, notion, or responsibility, especially one which presents challenges.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To acquire, especially in an abrupt or forceful manner.
- bite off with a quick bite
noun
- A harsh scraping or cutting; a grating.
- (Canada, education) A student of a particular grade (used with the grade level).
- (systematics) A taxon united by a level of morphological or physiological complexity that is not a clade.
- A rating.
- (Canada, US, Philippines, education) A level of primary and secondary education.
- (medicine) The degree of malignity of a tumor expressed on a scale.
- A slope (up or down) of a roadway or other passage
- (geometry) In a linear system of divisors on an n-dimensional variety, the number of free intersection points of n generic divisors.
- A degree or level of something; a position within a scale; a degree of quality.
- An area that has been flattened by a grader (construction machine).
- The level of the ground.
- (mathematics) A gradian.
- (linguistics) Degree (any of the three stages (positive, comparative, superlative) in the comparison of an adjective or an adverb).
- (Philippines, ophthalmology) An eyeglass prescription.
- (chiefly Canada, US, Philippines) Performance on a test or other evaluation(s), expressed by a number, letter, or other symbol; a score.
- a position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality
- a variety of cattle produced by crossbreeding with a superior breed
- a number or letter indicating quality (especially of a student's performance)
- a relative position or degree of value in a graded group
- the gradient of a slope or road or other surface
- a degree of ablaut
- the height of the ground on which something stands
- one-hundredth of a right angle
- a body of students who are taught together
verb
- (linguistics) To describe, modify or inflect so as to classify as to degree.
- (sewing) To remove or trim part of a seam allowance from a finished seam so as to reduce bulk and make the finished piece more even when turned right side out.
- (chiefly Canada, US) To assign scores to the components of an academic test, or to overall academic performance.
- (intransitive) To pass imperceptibly from one grade into another.
- To organize in grades.
- To flatten, level, or smooth a large surface, especially with a grader.
- To apply classifying labels to data (typically by a manual rather than automatic process).
- (patternmaking) To increase or decrease the dimensions of a garment pattern from the initial base size in such a way that the overall proportions of the silhouette are maintained across all sizes.
- assign a grade or rank to, according to one's evaluation
- determine the grade of or assign a grade to
- assign a rank or rating to
- level to the right gradient
noun
- The act of biting.
- (printing) A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening between the type and paper.
- The hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing to be lifted, or the hold which one part of a machine has upon another.
- (television) Ellipsis of sound bite.
- (slang) Something unpleasant.
- (slang) A cut, a proportion of profits; an amount of money.
- (figuratively, uncountable) incisiveness, provocativeness, exactness.
- A small meal or snack.
- (slang) An act of plagiarism.
- (figuratively, uncountable) Aggression.
- (cricket) The turn that a spin bowler imparts to a pitch.
- A piece of food of a size that would be produced by biting; a mouthful.
- The swelling of one's skin caused by an insect's mouthparts or sting.
- The wound left behind after having been bitten.
- a strong odor or taste property
- a small amount of solid food; a mouthful
- (angling) an instance of a fish taking the bait
- a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin
- a light informal meal
- a portion removed from the whole
- a wound resulting from biting by an animal or a person
- wit having a sharp and caustic quality
- the act of gripping or chewing off with the teeth and jaws
verb
- (transitive) To cut into something by clamping the teeth.
- to grip, cut off, or tear with or as if with the teeth or jaws
- (intransitive, of a fish) To bite a baited hook or other lure and thus be caught.
- (intransitive) To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent.
- (intransitive, figurative) To accept something offered, often secretly or deceptively, to cause some action by the acceptor.
- (transitive, informal, vulgar) To perform oral sex on. Used in invective.
- (transitive) To hold something by clamping one's teeth.
- (intransitive) To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing.
- (intransitive) To take or keep a firm hold.
- (transitive) To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to.
- (intransitive) To have significant effect, often negative.
- (intransitive) To take hold; to establish firm contact with.
- (intransitive, African-American Vernacular, slang) To plagiarize, to imitate.
- (intransitive) To attack with the teeth.
- (stative, slang) To lack quality; to be worthy of derision; to suck.
- (intransitive, transitive, of an insect) To sting.
- (intransitive, chiefly in the negative) To behave aggressively; to reject advances.
- (transitive, sometimes figurative) To cause sharp pain or damage to; to hurt or injure.
- cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort
- penetrate or cut, as with a knife
- deliver a sting to
noun
- the act of cutting something off
- shedding of flowers and leaves and fruit following formation of scar tissue in a plant
- The act or process of cutting off.
- (rhetoric) A figure of speech employed when a speaker having begun to say a thing stops abruptly
- (botany) The natural separation of a part at a predetermined location, such as a leaf at the base of the petiole.
verb
noun
- A timber bolted to a row of piles to secure them together and in position.
- A horizontal timber used for supporting or retaining earth.
- The texture of a piece of fabric.
- (nautical) A horizontal ridge or ledge on the outside planking of a wooden ship. (See gunwale, chainwale)
- A ridge or streak produced on skin by a cane or whip.
- A ridge or low barrier.
- (Scotland, Northern England) Something selected as being the best, preference; choice; choosing.
- A ridge on the outside of a horse collar.
- A raised rib in knitted goods or fabric, especially corduroy.
- thick plank forming a ridge along the side of a wooden ship
- a raised mark on the skin (as produced by the blow of a whip); characteristic of many allergic reactions
noun
- The point of a blade or similar item where it begins to bite or penetrate.
- (automotive) The point where the clutch engages when the pedal is released.
- The level of aggravation that causes someone or something to lash out or bite.
- (figuratively) The point or set of circumstances when a particular action can begin or a critical transition can occur.
- (more generally) The precise position at which a control mechanism as been moved just enough to cause a device to operate.
- The location where something is bitten.
- The position of the jaw where the upper and lower teeth meet during a bite
noun
- the act of clipping or snipping
- a sharp slanting blow
- an article of jewelry that can be clipped onto a hat or dress
- a metal frame or container holding cartridges; can be inserted into an automatic gun
- an instance or single occasion for some event
- any of various small fasteners used to hold loose articles together
- A short piece of audio (shortened version of audio clip, or alternatively clipping of audio).
- (military, colloquial) A removable magazine of a firearm.
- Something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.
- A newspaper clipping.
- (uncountable, Geordie) The condition of something, its state.
- (military) A frame containing a number of rounds of ammunition which is intended to be inserted into an internal magazine of a firearm to allow for rapid reloading.
- Something which has been clipped from a larger whole:
- The product of a single shearing of sheep.
- An act of clipping, such as a haircut.
- A section of video taken from a film, broadcast, or other longer video.
- A projecting flange on the upper edge of a horseshoe, turned up so as to embrace the lower part of the hoof; a toe clip or beak.
- (fishing, UK, Scotland) A gaff or hook for landing the fish, as in salmon fishing.
- An unspecified, but normally understood as rapid, speed or pace.
- A season's crop of wool.
- (informal) A blow with the hand (often in the set phrase clip round the ear)
verb
- run at a moderately swift pace
- cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
- sever or remove by pinching or snipping
- terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent
- attach with a clip
- (slang) To collect signatures, generally with the use of a clipboard.
- (computer graphics, video games, ambitransitive) To move (through or into) (a rendered object or barrier).
- (slang, transitive) To cheat, swindle, or fleece.
- To curtail; to cut short.
- (dialectal, informal) To strike with the hand.
- To fasten with a clip.
- To cut, especially with scissors or shears as opposed to a knife etc.
- (slang, transitive) to grab or take stealthily.
- (computer graphics) To discard (an occluded part of a model or scene) rather than waste resources on rendering it.
- To make a clip; to cut a section of video from a film, broadcast, or other longer video.
- To grip tightly.
- (signal processing) To cut off a signal level at a certain maximum value.
- (surgery, transitive) To treat (an aneurysm) by closing it off with a physical clip.
- To hit or strike, especially in passing.
- (slang) To assassinate; to bump off.
- (American football) To perform an illegal tackle, throwing the body across the back of an opponent's leg or hitting him from the back below the waist while moving up from behind unless the opponent is a runner or the action is in close line play.
noun
- the act of clipping or snipping
- an excerpt cut from a newspaper or magazine
- cutting down to the desired size or shape
- (countable, linguistics) A short form (of a longer word) created by removing syllables, often terminal ones.
- (uncountable, linguistics) A process of word formation involving shortening by removal of syllables, often terminal ones.
- (countable) A piece of something removed by clipping.
- The act by which something is clipped (in any sense).
- (uncountable, signal processing) The process of cutting off a signal level that rises above a certain maximum level.
- (uncountable, computer graphics) The use of a mask to hide part of an object or image.
- (uncountable, American football, Canadian football) Falling, rolling, or throwing one's body on the back of an opponent's legs after approaching from behind.
- (countable, journalism) An article clipped from a newspaper (especially) or from a magazine.
verb
verb
- To make scratches or cuts on.
- (horticulture) To remove thatch (build-up of organic matter on the soil) from a lawn, to dethatch.
- To break up, loosen, or roughen the surface of a field or road or a hard surface.
- To scratch, etch, burn, or cut designs into one's skin as a form of body modification.
- (uncommon) To frighten; to scare, to terrify.
- (figurative) To harrow the feelings.
- (horticulture) To damage the testa (seed coat) of a seed by cutting, scraping, chemicals, hot water, or fire to allow permeation of water and faster germination.
- scratch the surface of
- puncture and scar (the skin), as for purposes or tribal identification or rituals
- break up
verb
noun
- sharp curved horny process on the toe of a bird or some mammals or reptiles
- a grasping structure on the limb of a crustacean or other arthropods
- a bird's foot
- a mechanical device that is curved or bent to suspend or hold or pull something
- (colloquial) A human fingernail, particularly one extending well beyond the fingertip.
- A foot equipped with such.
- (graph theory) A tree with one internal vertex and three leaves.
- The pincer (chela) of a crustacean or other arthropod.
- A mechanical device resembling a claw, used for gripping or lifting.
- (juggling) The act of catching a ball overhand.
- A curved, pointed, horny projection on each digit of the foot of a mammal, reptile, or bird.
- (botany) A slender appendage or process, formed like a claw, such as the base of petals of the pink.
noun
adj
verb
noun
- The act of cutting off the top of something.
- (fishing) The tail of an artificial fly.
- Any food item added on top of another, such as sprinkles on ice cream or pepperoni on pizza.
- (nautical) Either of the cables that support the ends of a spar or boom.
- (nautical) The act of raising one extremity of a spar higher than the other.
- a flavorful addition on top of a dish
verb
adj
verb
- To make (one's way) through or while taking small bites.
- To make (a hole in something) through small bites.
- Chiefly followed by into or to: to cause (something) to be in a certain state through small bites.
- Chiefly followed by at, away, or on: to take a small, quick bite, or several of such bites; to eat (at frequent intervals) with small, quick bites.
- Chiefly followed by at: to show slight interest in something, such as a commercial opportunity or a proposal.
- To remove (small pieces) from glass, tile, etc., with a tool; also, to remove small pieces from (glass, tile, etc.) with a tool.
- To take a small, quick bite, or several of such bites, of (something).
- Followed by away at: to reduce or use up gradually; to eat.
- To lightly bite (a person or animal, or part of their body), especially in a loving or playful manner; to nip.
- (road transport) Synonym of tramline (“of a vehicle: to tend to follow the contours of the ground with its wheels”).
- (cricket, informal) Followed by at: of a batter: to make an indecisive attempt to bat a ball bowled outside the off stump.
- To lightly bite, especially in a loving or playful manner.
- Followed by away, off, etc.: to remove (something) through small bites.
- bite off very small pieces
- eat intermittently; take small bites of
- bite gently
noun
- (figurative) A slight show of interest in something, such as a commercial opportunity or a proposal.
- An act of taking a small, quick bite, or several of such bites, especially with the front teeth; the bite or bites so taken.
- (computing) A unit of memory equal to half a byte, or chiefly four bits.
- A light bite of a person or animal, or part of their body, especially one which is loving or playful; a nip.
- An amount of food that is or can be taken into the mouth through a small bite; a small mouthful.
- gentle biting
- a small byte
noun
- a wound made by cutting
- a strong sweeping cut made with a sharp instrument
- a trench resembling a furrow that was made by erosion or excavation
- (slang) Poor-quality beer, usually watered down.
- (slang, chiefly UK, Antarctica) Rubbish, particularly on board a ship or aircraft.
- (slang, UK, now vulgar) Something low quality.
- (slang, vulgar) A vulva.
- A deep cut.
- (slang) Unused film or sound during film editing.
- (slang, uncountable, offensive, derogatory) A woman.
- (slang, UK, now vulgar) Nonsense.
verb
adj
noun
- a wound made by cutting
- an open tract of land in a forest that is strewn with debris from logging (or fire or wind)
- a punctuation mark (‘/’) used to separate related items of information
- a strong sweeping cut made with a sharp instrument
- (vulgar, slang) The vulva.
- (Scotland) A large quantity of watery food such as broth.
- (botany) A deep taper-pointed incision in a plant.
- A deep cut or laceration, as made by an edged weapon or whip.
- (fashion) A slit in an outer garment, usually exposing a lining or inner garment of a contrasting color or design.
- A swift, broad cutting stroke, especially one made with an edged weapon or whip.
- (eastern US, uncommon) A slash pine, which grows in such (swampy) areas.
- (eastern US) A swampy area; a swamp.
- (idiomatic, by extension) The conjunctions and or also (during a conversation).
- (UK) Alternative form of slatch: a deep trough of finely-fractured culm or a circular or elliptical pocket of coal.
- (US and Canada) The loose woody debris remaining from a slash; the trimmings left while preparing felled trees for removal.
- (UK, slang, vulgar, rare) Piss; urine.
- (originally US, typography) The slash mark: the punctuation mark ⟨/⟩.
- (UK, slang, vulgar) A piss: an act of urination.
- (sports) A wide striking motion made with an implement such as a cricket bat, hockey stick, or lacrosse stick.
- (figuratively) A sharp reduction in resources allotted.
- (US and Canada) A clearing in a forest, particularly one made by logging, fire, or other violent action.
- (often proscribed) Any similar typographical mark, such as the backslash ⟨\⟩.
- (fandom slang) Slash fiction; fan fiction focused on homoerotic pairing of fictional characters.
verb
- move or stir about violently
- beat severely with a whip or rod
- cut open
- cut drastically
- cut with sweeping strokes; as with an ax or machete
- (Scotland, intransitive) To work in wet conditions.
- To produce a similar wound with a savage strike of a whip.
- (fashion) To create slashes in a garment.
- (ice hockey) To strike swiftly and laterally with a hockey stick, usually across another player's arms or legs.
- (cricket) To swing wildly at the ball.
- To crack a whip with a slashing motion.
- (figuratively) To reduce sharply.
- To strike violently and randomly, particularly:
- (intransitive, UK, slang) To piss, to urinate.
- (intransitive, fandom slang) To write slash fiction.
- (US, Canada) To clear land, (particularly forestry) with violent action such as logging or brushfires or (agriculture, uncommon) through grazing.
- To cut with a swift broad stroke of an edged weapon.
- (figuratively) To criticize cuttingly.
- To move quickly and violently.
adv
conj
noun
- a wound made by cutting
- a golf shot that curves to the right for a right-handed golfer
- a share of something
- a thin flat piece cut off of some object
- a spatula for spreading paint or ink
- a serving that has been cut from a larger portion
- A plate of iron with a handle, forming a kind of chisel, or a spadelike implement, variously proportioned, and used for various purposes, as for stripping the planking from a vessel's side, for cutting blubber from a whale, or for stirring a fire of coals; a slice bar; a peel; a fire shovel.
- A piece of pizza, shaped like a sector of a circle.
- (golf) A shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the right. See fade, hook, draw.
- A salver, platter, or tray.
- (cricket) A kind of cut shot where the bat makes an obtuse angle with the batter.
- A thin, broad piece cut off.
- (Australia, New Zealand, UK) Any of a class of heavy cakes or desserts made in a tray and cut out into squarish slices.
- (falconry) A hawk's or falcon's dropping which squirts at an angle other than vertical. (See mute.)
- That which is thin and broad.
- A knife with a thin, broad blade for taking up or serving fish; also, a spatula for spreading anything, as paint or ink.
- One of the wedges by which the cradle and the ship are lifted clear of the building blocks to prepare for launching.
- (colloquial) An amount of anything.
- (printing) A removable sliding bottom to a galley.
- (British) A snack consisting of pastry with savoury filling.
- (medicine) A section of image taken of an internal organ using MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), CT (computed tomography), or various forms of x-ray.
- (programming) A contiguous portion of an array.
- A broad, thin piece of plaster.
verb
- make a clean cut through
- hit a ball and put a spin on it so that it travels in a different direction
- hit a ball so that it causes a backspin
- cut into slices
- (transitive, golf) To hit a shot that slices (travels from left to right for a right-handed player).
- (transitive, tennis) To hit the ball with a stroke that causes a spin, resulting in the ball swerving or staying low after a bounce.
- (transitive, rowing) To angle the blade so that it goes too deeply into the water when starting to take a stroke.
- (transitive) To clear (e.g. a fire, or the grate bars of a furnace) by means of a slice bar.
- (transitive) To cut into slices.
- (transitive, badminton) To hit the shuttlecock with the racket at an angle, causing it to move sideways and downwards.
- (transitive, soccer) To kick the ball so that it goes in an unintended direction, at too great an angle or too high.
- (transitive) To cut with an edge using a drawing motion.
adj
verb
- (of a surface) To get such scratches.
- (music) To produce a distinctive sound on a turntable by moving a vinyl record back and forth while manipulating the crossfader (see also scratching).
- (ambitransitive) To dig or excavate with the claws.
- To write or draw hastily or awkwardly; scrawl.
- To rub a surface with a sharp object, especially by a living creature to remove itching with nails, claws, etc.
- Hence, to remove, ignore, or delete.
- To dig or scrape (a person's skin) with claws or fingernails in self-defense or with the intention to injure.
- To cross out, strike out, strike through some text on a page.
- To mark a surface with a sharp object, thereby leaving a scratch (noun).
- (billiards) To commit a foul in pool, as where the cue ball is put into a pocket or jumps off the table.
- (swimming, athletics) To announce one's non-participation in a race or sports event part of a larger sports meeting that one was previously signed up for, usually in lieu of another event at the same meeting.
- To rub the skin with rough material causing a sensation of irritation; to cause itching.
- To irritate someone's skin with one's unshaven beard when kissing.
- scrape or rub as if to relieve itching
- postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled
- gather (money or other resources) together over time
- cause friction
- remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line
- cut the surface of; wear away the surface of
- carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface
adj
- (sports) (of a player) Of a standard high enough to play without a handicap, i.e. to compete without the benefit of a variation in scoring based on ability.
- (computing) Relating to a scratchpad, a data structure or recording medium attached to a machine for testing or temporary use.
- For or consisting of preliminary or tentative, incomplete, etc. work.
- Hastily assembled, arranged or constructed, from whatever materials are to hand, with little or no preparation
noun
- A foul in pool, as where the cue ball is put into a pocket or jumps off the table.
- Poor handwriting; especially, illegibly so.
- (music) A genre of Virgin Islander music, better known as fungi.
- A feed, usually a mixture of a few common grains, given to chickens.
- A starting line (originally and simply, a line scratched in the ground), as in boxing.
- A technical error of touching or surpassing the starting mark prior to the official start signal in the sporting events of long jump, discus, hammer throw, shot put, and similar. Originally the starting mark was a scratch on the ground but is now a board or precisely indicated mark.
- (in the plural) Minute, but tender and troublesome, excoriations, covered with scabs, upon the heels of horses which have been used where it is very wet or muddy.
- (meiosis) A minor injury.
- A disruption, mark or shallow cut on a surface made by scratching.
- (cycling) The last riders to depart in a handicap race.
- An act of scratching the skin to alleviate an itch or irritation.
- Nothing, zero. Used especially in card games or sports, but also expressions like "from scatch".
- (now historical) A scratch wig.
- (horse racing) A horse withdrawn from a race prior to the start.
- (slang) Money; especially, cash.
- a harsh noise made by scraping
- a line indicating the location of the start of a race or a game
- an abraded area where the skin is torn or worn off
- informal terms for money
- (golf) a handicap of zero strokes
- a competitor who has withdrawn from competition
- an indication of damage
- a depression scratched or carved into a surface
- dry mash for poultry
- poor handwriting
noun
verb
noun
- The loose material that comes from something being grated.
- The sound made by something that grates against something else.
- (nautical, in the plural) The strong wooden lattice used to cover a hatch, admitting light and air; also, a movable lattice used for the flooring of boats.
- A barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air.
- A frame of iron bars to hold a fire.
- An optical system of close equidistant and parallel lines or bars, especially lines ruled on a polished surface, used for producing spectra by diffraction.
- a frame of iron bars to hold a fire
- a barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air
- optical device consisting of a surface with many parallel grooves in it; disperses a beam of light (or other electromagnetic radiation) into its wavelengths to produce its spectrum
adj
verb
noun
- the act of bringing near or bringing together especially the cut edges of tissue
- an approximate calculation of quantity or degree or worth
- an imprecise or incomplete account
- the quality of coming near to identity (especially close in quantity)
- (uncountable, countable) The act, process or result of approximating, as:
- (mathematics) An imprecise solution or result that is adequate for a defined purpose.
- (medicine) The act of bringing together the edges of tissue to be sutured.
- (linguistics) The act of producing a near-simulation of the pronunciation of a foreign language for a loanword therefrom, or any given pronunciation resulting from that act.
noun
adj
- Of or relating to the molar teeth, or to grinding.
- (physics) Of or relating to a complete body of matter as distinct from its molecular or atomic constituents.
- (chemistry) Of, relating to, or being a solution containing one mole of solute per litre of solution.
- designating a solution containing one mole of solute per liter of solution
- containing one mole of a substance
- pertaining to large units of behavior
- of or pertaining to the grinding teeth in the back of a mammal's mouth
verb
- To peel; to make by removing the skin.
- (transitive) To medicate with pills; to administer pills to.
- (transitive, Internet slang) To persuade or convince someone of something.
- (intransitive, textiles) Of a woven fabric surface, to form small matted balls of fiber.
- To form into the shape of a pill.
- To be peeled; to peel off in flakes.
noun
- (strictly) Such an object that is of solid constitution (usually of compressed, bonded powder) rather than a capsule (with a shell containing loose powder or liquid).
- (slang) A comical or entertaining person.
- Something offensive, unpleasant or nauseous which must be accepted or endured.
- (firearms, slang) A bullet (projectile).
- (textiles) A small piece of any substance, for example a ball of fibers formed on the surface of a textile fabric by rubbing.
- (baseball slang) A baseball.
- (slang) A contemptible, annoying, or unpleasant person.
- (informal, uncountable, definite, i.e. used with "the") Contraceptive medication, usually in the form of a pill to be taken by a woman; an oral contraceptive pill.
- (graphical user interface) A rounded rectangle containing a brief text caption indicating the tag or category that an item belongs to.
- (broadly) A small, usually round or cylindrical object designed for easy swallowing, usually containing some sort of medication.
- (now UK regional) An inlet on the coast; a small tidal pool or bay. Pill can occur in the name of such an inlet.
- a unpleasant or tiresome person
- something unpleasant or offensive that must be tolerated or endured
- a contraceptive in the form of a pill containing estrogen and progestin to inhibit ovulation and so prevent conception
- something that resembles a tablet of medicine in shape or size
- a dose of medicine in the form of a small pellet
noun
- Someone or something that slices.
- A slicing cucumber.
- A broad, flat knife.
- A piece of software that converts a model into a series of thin layers for 3D printing.
- (cooking) A machine that cuts meats, also named a deli slicer.
- (computing) A kind of data filter used in data visualization.
- a machine for cutting; usually with a revolving blade
- knife especially designed for slicing particular foods, as cheese
- a golfer whose shots typically curve right (for right-handed golfers)
noun
verb
verb
- To remove by pinching, biting, or cutting with two meeting edges of anything; to clip.
- To taunt.
- (slang, vulgar) To have erect nipples.
- To blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor of; to destroy.
- (informal) To make a quick, short journey or errand, usually a round trip.
- (Scotland, Northern England) To squeeze or pinch.
- To benumb [e.g., cheeks, fingers, nose] by severe cold.
- To catch and enclose or compress tightly between two surfaces, or points which are brought together or closed; to pinch; to close in upon.
- To annoy, as by nipping.
- sever or remove by pinching or snipping
- give a small sharp bite to
- squeeze tightly between the fingers
noun
- A small amount of food or drink, (particularly) a small amount of liquor.
- (nautical) A short turn in a rope.
- (Manitoba, Northwestern Ontario) A hamburger.
- A blast; a killing of the ends of plants by frost.
- Briskly cold weather.
- A small cut, or a cutting off the end.
- (papermaking) The place of intersection where one roll touches another
- A pinch with the nails or teeth.
- A biting sarcasm; a taunt.
- A seizing or closing in upon; a pinching
- (mining) A more or less gradual thinning out of a stratum.
- (slang, vulgar, chiefly in the plural) A nipple, usually of a woman.
- A playful bite.
- the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth
- a small drink of liquor
- a small sharp bite or snip
- a tart spicy quality
- the property of being moderately cold
noun
- A tool with nails or blades, that can be pressed on (not unlike a stapler) to puncture the meat.
- (biochemistry) Any substance added to meat, especially papain, before cooking in order to make it more tender.
- A tool similar to a potato masher used for tenderizing
- A form of mallet used to beat meat before cooking.
- a substance (as the plant enzyme papain) applied to meat to make it tender
verb
noun
- (US, Pennsylvania, Appalachia, Blue Ridge) A mush of pork scraps, particularly head parts, and cornmeal or flour, which is boiled and poured into a mold, where the rendered gelatinous broth from cooking jells the mixture into a loaf.
- A tool for scraping.
- scraps of meat (usually pork) boiled with cornmeal and shaped into loaves for slicing and frying
noun
adj
- (of food) Difficult to cut or chew.
- (of a person or animal) Rugged or physically hardy.
- (of a material) Strong and resilient; sturdy.
- (of questions, etc.) Difficult or demanding.
- Rowdy or rough.
- (of a person) Stubborn or persistent; capable of stubbornness or persistence.
- (of weather, etc.) Harsh or severe.
- (material science) Undergoing plastic deformation before breaking.
- Strict, not lenient.
- violent and lawless
- feeling physical discomfort or pain (‘tough’ is occasionally used colloquially for ‘bad’)
- unfortunate or hard to bear
- not given to gentleness or sentimentality
- very difficult; severely testing stamina or resolution
- resistant to cutting or chewing
- making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe
- physically toughened
- substantially made or constructed
intj
noun
verb
noun
- The act of cutting into a substance.
- (soccer) A cut-back
- A cut, especially one made by a scalpel or similar medical tool in the context of surgical operation; the scar resulting from such a cut.
- a depression scratched or carved into a surface
- the cutting of or into body tissues or organs (especially by a surgeon as part of an operation)
noun
- the act of cutting something into parts
- a wound made by cutting
- in baseball; a batter's attempt to hit a pitched ball
- the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage
- a refusal to recognize someone you know
- (sports) a stroke that puts reverse spin on the ball
- a distinct selection of music from a recording or a compact disc
- a remark capable of wounding mentally
- a canal made by erosion or excavation
- a share of the profits
- the act of shortening something by chopping off the ends
- the act of penetrating or opening open with a sharp edge
- a piece of meat that has been cut from an animal carcass
- (film) an immediate transition from one shot to the next
- the style in which a garment is cut
- a step on some scale
- the act of reducing the amount or number
- an unexcused absence from class
- the division of a deck of cards before dealing
- a trench resembling a furrow that was made by erosion or excavation
- (slang, uncountable) That which is used to dilute or adulterate a recreational drug.
- (card games) The act or right of dividing a deck of playing cards.
- (slang) An insult.
- An opening of a living body resulting from cutting; an incision or wound.
- (slang) A hidden, secluded, or secure place.
- An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving.
- (card games) The card obtained by dividing the pack.
- The manner or style in which a garment, other article of clothing, or sail is fashioned.
- A decrease or deletion.
- (archaeology) A truncation, a context that represents a moment in time when other archaeological deposits were removed for the creation of some feature such as a ditch or pit.
- (Internet) A dividing line in a Tumblr post, the content below which is hidden until the reader reveals it.
- A haircut.
- (bodybuilding) A time period when one attempts to lose fat while retaining muscle mass.
- (literal, figurative) The act of cutting.
- Such a wound through human skin.
- A sleeveless vest worn by members of a motorcycle club.
- (fashion) A notch shaved into an eyebrow.
- (fencing) An attack made with a chopping motion of the blade, landing with its edge or point.
- (especially theater, film) A passage omitted or to be omitted from a play, movie script, speech, etc.
- (cricket) A batsman's shot played with a swinging motion of the bat, to hit the ball backward of point.
- (graph theory) The partition of a graph’s vertices into two subgroups.
- A skein of yarn.
- Such a passage dug for a roadway for a paved road or railroad, a canal, a runway, etc.
- A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove.
- (golf) In a stroke play competition, the early elimination of those players who have not then attained a preannounced score, so that the rest of the competition is less pressed for time and more entertaining for spectators.
- A deliberate snub, typically a refusal to return a bow or other acknowledgement of acquaintance.
- A definable part, such as an individual song, of a recording, particularly of commercial records, audio tapes, CDs, etc.
- (literal, figurative) The result of cutting.
- (film) A particular version or edit of a film.
- (sports) In lawn tennis, etc., a slanting stroke causing the ball to spin and bound irregularly; also, the spin thus given to the ball.
- A slab or slice, especially of meat.
- (rail transport) A string of railway cars coupled together, shorter than a train.
- (cricket) Sideways movement of the ball through the air caused by a fast bowler imparting spin to the ball.
- An unkind act; a cruelty.
- A share or portion of profits.
- An artificial channel for marine navigation, as distinguished from a navigable river.
- (petrochemistry) The range of temperatures used to distill a particular mixture of hydrocarbons from crude oil.
adj
- (used of grass or vegetation) cut down with a hand implement or machine
- (of pages of a book) having the folds of the leaves trimmed or slit
- mixed with water
- separated into parts or laid open or penetrated with a sharp edge or instrument
- (of a male animal) having the testicles removed
- (used of rates or prices) reduced usually sharply
- with parts removed
- made neat and tidy by trimming
- fashioned or shaped by cutting
- (of a gem) Carved into a shape; not raw.
- (bodybuilding) Having muscular definition in which individual groups of muscle fibers stand out among larger muscles.
- (slang, New Zealand, formerly UK) Intoxicated as a result of drugs or alcohol.
- (participial adjective) Having been cut.
- (cricket, of a shot) Played with a horizontal bat to hit the ball backward of point.
- Reduced.
- (informal) Circumcised or having been the subject of female genital mutilation.
- (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Upset, angry; emotionally hurt.
verb
- penetrate injuriously
- function as a cutting instrument
- divide a deck of cards at random into two parts to make selection difficult
- form by probing, penetrating, or digging
- fell by sawing; hew
- refuse to acknowledge
- discharge from a group
- allow incision or separation
- record a performance on (a medium)
- hit (a ball) with a spin so that it turns in the opposite direction
- pass directly and often in haste
- stop filming
- intentionally fail to attend
- grow through the gums
- cut and assemble the components of
- lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture
- give the appearance or impression of
- make an incision or separation
- make an abrupt change of image or sound
- cut off the testicles (of male animals such as horses)
- style and tailor in a certain fashion
- form or shape by cutting or incising
- cause to stop operating by disengaging a switch
- have a reducing effect
- separate with or as if with an instrument
- reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
- pass through or across
- cut down on; make a reduction in
- make out and issue
- be able to manage or manage successfully
- turn sharply; change direction abruptly
- weed out unwanted or unnecessary things
- make a recording of
- reap or harvest
- create by duplicating data
- move (one's fist)
- shorten as if by severing the edges or ends of
- cease, stop
- dissolve by breaking down the fat of
- perform or carry out
- have grow through the gums
- To absent oneself from (a class, an appointment, etc.).
- (intransitive) To enter a queue in the wrong place.
- (transitive, cricket) To make the ball spin sideways by running one's fingers down the side of the ball while bowling it.
- (intransitive, slang) To leave abruptly.
- (intransitive) To engage in self-harm by making cuts in one's own skin.
- To perform an incision on, for example with a knife.
- To abridge or shorten a work; to remove a portion of a recording during editing.
- (slang) To wound with a knife.
- To wound or hurt deeply the sensibilities of; to pierce.
- (transitive, film) To edit a film by selecting takes from original footage.
- (intransitive) To change direction suddenly.
- To separate or omit, in a situation where one was previously associated.
- (transitive, social) To ignore as a social rebuff or snub.
- To perform (an elaborate dancing movement etc.).
- (transitive) To exhibit (a figure having some trait).
- To reduce, especially intentionally.
- (ambitransitive) To deliver a stroke with a whip or like instrument to.
- (bodybuilding) To lose body mass, aiming to keep muscle but lose body fat.
- (transitive, cricket) To deflect (a bowled ball) to the off, with a chopping movement of the bat.
- (transitive, computing) To remove (text, a picture, etc.) and place in memory in order to paste at a later time.
- (sports) To drive (a ball) to one side, as by (in billiards or croquet) hitting it fine with another ball, or (in tennis) striking it with the racket inclined.
- To castrate or geld.
- (intransitive) To intersect or cross in such a way as to divide in half or nearly so.
- (slang, intransitive) To run or hurry.
- (transitive, slang) To dilute or adulterate something, especially a recreational drug.
- (intransitive, film) To make an abrupt transition from one scene or image to another.
- (transitive, slang) To make, negotiate; to finalise, conclude; to issue.
- (transitive, intransitive) To divide a pack of playing cards into two parts, often followed by placing the two parts back together in the opposite order.
- To form or shape by cutting.
- (intransitive) To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.
- (transitive) To renounce or give up.
- To interfere, as a horse; to strike one foot against the opposite foot or ankle in using the legs.
- To divide with a knife, scissors, or another sharp instrument.
- (transitive) To stop, disengage, or cease.
intj
noun
- the act of cutting something into parts
- an excerpt cut from a newspaper or magazine
- the act of diluting something
- a part (sometimes a root or leaf or bud) removed from a plant to propagate a new plant through rooting or grafting
- removing parts from hard material to create a desired pattern or shape
- the act of shortening something by chopping off the ends
- the act of penetrating or opening open with a sharp edge
- the activity of selecting the scenes to be shown and putting them together to create a film
- a piece cut off from the main part of something
- the division of a deck of cards before dealing
- (countable, UK) An open passage at a level lower than the surrounding terrain, dug for a canal, railway, or road to go through.
- (countable) A newspaper clipping.
- (uncountable, cinematography, sound engineering) The editing of film or other recordings.
- (countable) An abridged selection of written work, often intended for performance.
- (countable) A section removed from a larger whole.
- (countable, horticulture) A leaf, stem, branch, or root removed from a plant and cultivated to grow a new plant.
- (uncountable, machining) The process of bringing metals to a desired shape by chipping away the unwanted material.
- (uncountable, psychology) The act of cutting one's own skin as a symptom of a mental disorder; self-harm.
- (countable, uncountable) The action of the verb to cut.
adj
verb
noun
- The act of snipping; cutting a small amount off of something.
- A piece cut out by snipping.
- the act of clipping or snipping
- (onomatopoeia) An act or sound of snipping, the sound produced by scissors.
- (definite, the snip, euphemistic) A vasectomy.
- A single cut with scissors, clippers, or similar tool.
- (informal) Something acquired for a low price; a bargain.
- (informal) A small or weak person, especially a young one.
- A small amount of something; a pinch.
- A white marking on a horse's muzzle, between the nostrils.
- a small piece of anything (especially a piece that has been snipped off)
verb
- (informal) To perform a vasectomy.
- (Internet) To remove the irrelevant parts of quotations in the reply message.
- To cut with short sharp actions, as with scissors.
- (informal) To circumcise.
- To speak or say in a snippish manner.
- To break off; to snatch away.
- To reduce the price of a product, to create a snip.
- cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
- sever or remove by pinching or snipping
noun
- A harsh scraping or cutting; a grating.
- (Canada, education) A student of a particular grade (used with the grade level).
- (systematics) A taxon united by a level of morphological or physiological complexity that is not a clade.
- A rating.
- (Canada, US, Philippines, education) A level of primary and secondary education.
- (medicine) The degree of malignity of a tumor expressed on a scale.
- A slope (up or down) of a roadway or other passage
- (geometry) In a linear system of divisors on an n-dimensional variety, the number of free intersection points of n generic divisors.
- A degree or level of something; a position within a scale; a degree of quality.
- An area that has been flattened by a grader (construction machine).
- The level of the ground.
- (mathematics) A gradian.
- (linguistics) Degree (any of the three stages (positive, comparative, superlative) in the comparison of an adjective or an adverb).
- (Philippines, ophthalmology) An eyeglass prescription.
- (chiefly Canada, US, Philippines) Performance on a test or other evaluation(s), expressed by a number, letter, or other symbol; a score.
- a position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality
- a variety of cattle produced by crossbreeding with a superior breed
- a number or letter indicating quality (especially of a student's performance)
- a relative position or degree of value in a graded group
- the gradient of a slope or road or other surface
- a degree of ablaut
- the height of the ground on which something stands
- one-hundredth of a right angle
- a body of students who are taught together
verb
- (linguistics) To describe, modify or inflect so as to classify as to degree.
- (sewing) To remove or trim part of a seam allowance from a finished seam so as to reduce bulk and make the finished piece more even when turned right side out.
- (chiefly Canada, US) To assign scores to the components of an academic test, or to overall academic performance.
- (intransitive) To pass imperceptibly from one grade into another.
- To organize in grades.
- To flatten, level, or smooth a large surface, especially with a grader.
- To apply classifying labels to data (typically by a manual rather than automatic process).
- (patternmaking) To increase or decrease the dimensions of a garment pattern from the initial base size in such a way that the overall proportions of the silhouette are maintained across all sizes.
- assign a grade or rank to, according to one's evaluation
- determine the grade of or assign a grade to
- assign a rank or rating to
- level to the right gradient
noun
- The act of biting.
- (printing) A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening between the type and paper.
- The hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing to be lifted, or the hold which one part of a machine has upon another.
- (television) Ellipsis of sound bite.
- (slang) Something unpleasant.
- (slang) A cut, a proportion of profits; an amount of money.
- (figuratively, uncountable) incisiveness, provocativeness, exactness.
- A small meal or snack.
- (slang) An act of plagiarism.
- (figuratively, uncountable) Aggression.
- (cricket) The turn that a spin bowler imparts to a pitch.
- A piece of food of a size that would be produced by biting; a mouthful.
- The swelling of one's skin caused by an insect's mouthparts or sting.
- The wound left behind after having been bitten.
- a strong odor or taste property
- a small amount of solid food; a mouthful
- (angling) an instance of a fish taking the bait
- a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin
- a light informal meal
- a portion removed from the whole
- a wound resulting from biting by an animal or a person
- wit having a sharp and caustic quality
- the act of gripping or chewing off with the teeth and jaws
verb
- (transitive) To cut into something by clamping the teeth.
- to grip, cut off, or tear with or as if with the teeth or jaws
- (intransitive, of a fish) To bite a baited hook or other lure and thus be caught.
- (intransitive) To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent.
- (intransitive, figurative) To accept something offered, often secretly or deceptively, to cause some action by the acceptor.
- (transitive, informal, vulgar) To perform oral sex on. Used in invective.
- (transitive) To hold something by clamping one's teeth.
- (intransitive) To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing.
- (intransitive) To take or keep a firm hold.
- (transitive) To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to.
- (intransitive) To have significant effect, often negative.
- (intransitive) To take hold; to establish firm contact with.
- (intransitive, African-American Vernacular, slang) To plagiarize, to imitate.
- (intransitive) To attack with the teeth.
- (stative, slang) To lack quality; to be worthy of derision; to suck.
- (intransitive, transitive, of an insect) To sting.
- (intransitive, chiefly in the negative) To behave aggressively; to reject advances.
- (transitive, sometimes figurative) To cause sharp pain or damage to; to hurt or injure.
- cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort
- penetrate or cut, as with a knife
- deliver a sting to
noun
- the act of cutting something off
- shedding of flowers and leaves and fruit following formation of scar tissue in a plant
- The act or process of cutting off.
- (rhetoric) A figure of speech employed when a speaker having begun to say a thing stops abruptly
- (botany) The natural separation of a part at a predetermined location, such as a leaf at the base of the petiole.
noun
- The point of a blade or similar item where it begins to bite or penetrate.
- (automotive) The point where the clutch engages when the pedal is released.
- The level of aggravation that causes someone or something to lash out or bite.
- (figuratively) The point or set of circumstances when a particular action can begin or a critical transition can occur.
- (more generally) The precise position at which a control mechanism as been moved just enough to cause a device to operate.
- The location where something is bitten.
- The position of the jaw where the upper and lower teeth meet during a bite
noun
- the act of clipping or snipping
- a sharp slanting blow
- an article of jewelry that can be clipped onto a hat or dress
- a metal frame or container holding cartridges; can be inserted into an automatic gun
- an instance or single occasion for some event
- any of various small fasteners used to hold loose articles together
- A short piece of audio (shortened version of audio clip, or alternatively clipping of audio).
- (military, colloquial) A removable magazine of a firearm.
- Something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.
- A newspaper clipping.
- (uncountable, Geordie) The condition of something, its state.
- (military) A frame containing a number of rounds of ammunition which is intended to be inserted into an internal magazine of a firearm to allow for rapid reloading.
- Something which has been clipped from a larger whole:
- The product of a single shearing of sheep.
- An act of clipping, such as a haircut.
- A section of video taken from a film, broadcast, or other longer video.
- A projecting flange on the upper edge of a horseshoe, turned up so as to embrace the lower part of the hoof; a toe clip or beak.
- (fishing, UK, Scotland) A gaff or hook for landing the fish, as in salmon fishing.
- An unspecified, but normally understood as rapid, speed or pace.
- A season's crop of wool.
- (informal) A blow with the hand (often in the set phrase clip round the ear)
verb
- run at a moderately swift pace
- cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
- sever or remove by pinching or snipping
- terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent
- attach with a clip
- (slang) To collect signatures, generally with the use of a clipboard.
- (computer graphics, video games, ambitransitive) To move (through or into) (a rendered object or barrier).
- (slang, transitive) To cheat, swindle, or fleece.
- To curtail; to cut short.
- (dialectal, informal) To strike with the hand.
- To fasten with a clip.
- To cut, especially with scissors or shears as opposed to a knife etc.
- (slang, transitive) to grab or take stealthily.
- (computer graphics) To discard (an occluded part of a model or scene) rather than waste resources on rendering it.
- To make a clip; to cut a section of video from a film, broadcast, or other longer video.
- To grip tightly.
- (signal processing) To cut off a signal level at a certain maximum value.
- (surgery, transitive) To treat (an aneurysm) by closing it off with a physical clip.
- To hit or strike, especially in passing.
- (slang) To assassinate; to bump off.
- (American football) To perform an illegal tackle, throwing the body across the back of an opponent's leg or hitting him from the back below the waist while moving up from behind unless the opponent is a runner or the action is in close line play.
noun
- the act of clipping or snipping
- an excerpt cut from a newspaper or magazine
- cutting down to the desired size or shape
- (countable, linguistics) A short form (of a longer word) created by removing syllables, often terminal ones.
- (uncountable, linguistics) A process of word formation involving shortening by removal of syllables, often terminal ones.
- (countable) A piece of something removed by clipping.
- The act by which something is clipped (in any sense).
- (uncountable, signal processing) The process of cutting off a signal level that rises above a certain maximum level.
- (uncountable, computer graphics) The use of a mask to hide part of an object or image.
- (uncountable, American football, Canadian football) Falling, rolling, or throwing one's body on the back of an opponent's legs after approaching from behind.
- (countable, journalism) An article clipped from a newspaper (especially) or from a magazine.
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- The act of cutting off the top of something.
- (fishing) The tail of an artificial fly.
- Any food item added on top of another, such as sprinkles on ice cream or pepperoni on pizza.
- (nautical) Either of the cables that support the ends of a spar or boom.
- (nautical) The act of raising one extremity of a spar higher than the other.
- a flavorful addition on top of a dish
verb
adj
noun
- a wound made by cutting
- a strong sweeping cut made with a sharp instrument
- a trench resembling a furrow that was made by erosion or excavation
- (slang) Poor-quality beer, usually watered down.
- (slang, chiefly UK, Antarctica) Rubbish, particularly on board a ship or aircraft.
- (slang, UK, now vulgar) Something low quality.
- (slang, vulgar) A vulva.
- A deep cut.
- (slang) Unused film or sound during film editing.
- (slang, uncountable, offensive, derogatory) A woman.
- (slang, UK, now vulgar) Nonsense.
verb
adj
noun
- a wound made by cutting
- an open tract of land in a forest that is strewn with debris from logging (or fire or wind)
- a punctuation mark (‘/’) used to separate related items of information
- a strong sweeping cut made with a sharp instrument
- (vulgar, slang) The vulva.
- (Scotland) A large quantity of watery food such as broth.
- (botany) A deep taper-pointed incision in a plant.
- A deep cut or laceration, as made by an edged weapon or whip.
- (fashion) A slit in an outer garment, usually exposing a lining or inner garment of a contrasting color or design.
- A swift, broad cutting stroke, especially one made with an edged weapon or whip.
- (eastern US, uncommon) A slash pine, which grows in such (swampy) areas.
- (eastern US) A swampy area; a swamp.
- (idiomatic, by extension) The conjunctions and or also (during a conversation).
- (UK) Alternative form of slatch: a deep trough of finely-fractured culm or a circular or elliptical pocket of coal.
- (US and Canada) The loose woody debris remaining from a slash; the trimmings left while preparing felled trees for removal.
- (UK, slang, vulgar, rare) Piss; urine.
- (originally US, typography) The slash mark: the punctuation mark ⟨/⟩.
- (UK, slang, vulgar) A piss: an act of urination.
- (sports) A wide striking motion made with an implement such as a cricket bat, hockey stick, or lacrosse stick.
- (figuratively) A sharp reduction in resources allotted.
- (US and Canada) A clearing in a forest, particularly one made by logging, fire, or other violent action.
- (often proscribed) Any similar typographical mark, such as the backslash ⟨\⟩.
- (fandom slang) Slash fiction; fan fiction focused on homoerotic pairing of fictional characters.
verb
- move or stir about violently
- beat severely with a whip or rod
- cut open
- cut drastically
- cut with sweeping strokes; as with an ax or machete
- (Scotland, intransitive) To work in wet conditions.
- To produce a similar wound with a savage strike of a whip.
- (fashion) To create slashes in a garment.
- (ice hockey) To strike swiftly and laterally with a hockey stick, usually across another player's arms or legs.
- (cricket) To swing wildly at the ball.
- To crack a whip with a slashing motion.
- (figuratively) To reduce sharply.
- To strike violently and randomly, particularly:
- (intransitive, UK, slang) To piss, to urinate.
- (intransitive, fandom slang) To write slash fiction.
- (US, Canada) To clear land, (particularly forestry) with violent action such as logging or brushfires or (agriculture, uncommon) through grazing.
- To cut with a swift broad stroke of an edged weapon.
- (figuratively) To criticize cuttingly.
- To move quickly and violently.
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noun
- a wound made by cutting
- a golf shot that curves to the right for a right-handed golfer
- a share of something
- a thin flat piece cut off of some object
- a spatula for spreading paint or ink
- a serving that has been cut from a larger portion
- A plate of iron with a handle, forming a kind of chisel, or a spadelike implement, variously proportioned, and used for various purposes, as for stripping the planking from a vessel's side, for cutting blubber from a whale, or for stirring a fire of coals; a slice bar; a peel; a fire shovel.
- A piece of pizza, shaped like a sector of a circle.
- (golf) A shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the right. See fade, hook, draw.
- A salver, platter, or tray.
- (cricket) A kind of cut shot where the bat makes an obtuse angle with the batter.
- A thin, broad piece cut off.
- (Australia, New Zealand, UK) Any of a class of heavy cakes or desserts made in a tray and cut out into squarish slices.
- (falconry) A hawk's or falcon's dropping which squirts at an angle other than vertical. (See mute.)
- That which is thin and broad.
- A knife with a thin, broad blade for taking up or serving fish; also, a spatula for spreading anything, as paint or ink.
- One of the wedges by which the cradle and the ship are lifted clear of the building blocks to prepare for launching.
- (colloquial) An amount of anything.
- (printing) A removable sliding bottom to a galley.
- (British) A snack consisting of pastry with savoury filling.
- (medicine) A section of image taken of an internal organ using MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), CT (computed tomography), or various forms of x-ray.
- (programming) A contiguous portion of an array.
- A broad, thin piece of plaster.
verb
- make a clean cut through
- hit a ball and put a spin on it so that it travels in a different direction
- hit a ball so that it causes a backspin
- cut into slices
- (transitive, golf) To hit a shot that slices (travels from left to right for a right-handed player).
- (transitive, tennis) To hit the ball with a stroke that causes a spin, resulting in the ball swerving or staying low after a bounce.
- (transitive, rowing) To angle the blade so that it goes too deeply into the water when starting to take a stroke.
- (transitive) To clear (e.g. a fire, or the grate bars of a furnace) by means of a slice bar.
- (transitive) To cut into slices.
- (transitive, badminton) To hit the shuttlecock with the racket at an angle, causing it to move sideways and downwards.
- (transitive, soccer) To kick the ball so that it goes in an unintended direction, at too great an angle or too high.
- (transitive) To cut with an edge using a drawing motion.
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- The loose material that comes from something being grated.
- The sound made by something that grates against something else.
- (nautical, in the plural) The strong wooden lattice used to cover a hatch, admitting light and air; also, a movable lattice used for the flooring of boats.
- A barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air.
- A frame of iron bars to hold a fire.
- An optical system of close equidistant and parallel lines or bars, especially lines ruled on a polished surface, used for producing spectra by diffraction.
- a frame of iron bars to hold a fire
- a barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air
- optical device consisting of a surface with many parallel grooves in it; disperses a beam of light (or other electromagnetic radiation) into its wavelengths to produce its spectrum
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- the act of bringing near or bringing together especially the cut edges of tissue
- an approximate calculation of quantity or degree or worth
- an imprecise or incomplete account
- the quality of coming near to identity (especially close in quantity)
- (uncountable, countable) The act, process or result of approximating, as:
- (mathematics) An imprecise solution or result that is adequate for a defined purpose.
- (medicine) The act of bringing together the edges of tissue to be sutured.
- (linguistics) The act of producing a near-simulation of the pronunciation of a foreign language for a loanword therefrom, or any given pronunciation resulting from that act.
noun
adj
- Of or relating to the molar teeth, or to grinding.
- (physics) Of or relating to a complete body of matter as distinct from its molecular or atomic constituents.
- (chemistry) Of, relating to, or being a solution containing one mole of solute per litre of solution.
- designating a solution containing one mole of solute per liter of solution
- containing one mole of a substance
- pertaining to large units of behavior
- of or pertaining to the grinding teeth in the back of a mammal's mouth
noun
- Someone or something that slices.
- A slicing cucumber.
- A broad, flat knife.
- A piece of software that converts a model into a series of thin layers for 3D printing.
- (cooking) A machine that cuts meats, also named a deli slicer.
- (computing) A kind of data filter used in data visualization.
- a machine for cutting; usually with a revolving blade
- knife especially designed for slicing particular foods, as cheese
- a golfer whose shots typically curve right (for right-handed golfers)
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verb
noun
- A tool with nails or blades, that can be pressed on (not unlike a stapler) to puncture the meat.
- (biochemistry) Any substance added to meat, especially papain, before cooking in order to make it more tender.
- A tool similar to a potato masher used for tenderizing
- A form of mallet used to beat meat before cooking.
- a substance (as the plant enzyme papain) applied to meat to make it tender
noun
verb
- To bite so hard as to remove something from its source.
- (transitive, idiomatic, sometimes followed by on) To accept or commit oneself to a task, project, notion, or responsibility, especially one which presents challenges.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To acquire, especially in an abrupt or forceful manner.
- bite off with a quick bite
verb
noun
- A timber bolted to a row of piles to secure them together and in position.
- A horizontal timber used for supporting or retaining earth.
- The texture of a piece of fabric.
- (nautical) A horizontal ridge or ledge on the outside planking of a wooden ship. (See gunwale, chainwale)
- A ridge or streak produced on skin by a cane or whip.
- A ridge or low barrier.
- (Scotland, Northern England) Something selected as being the best, preference; choice; choosing.
- A ridge on the outside of a horse collar.
- A raised rib in knitted goods or fabric, especially corduroy.
- thick plank forming a ridge along the side of a wooden ship
- a raised mark on the skin (as produced by the blow of a whip); characteristic of many allergic reactions
verb
- To make scratches or cuts on.
- (horticulture) To remove thatch (build-up of organic matter on the soil) from a lawn, to dethatch.
- To break up, loosen, or roughen the surface of a field or road or a hard surface.
- To scratch, etch, burn, or cut designs into one's skin as a form of body modification.
- (uncommon) To frighten; to scare, to terrify.
- (figurative) To harrow the feelings.
- (horticulture) To damage the testa (seed coat) of a seed by cutting, scraping, chemicals, hot water, or fire to allow permeation of water and faster germination.
- scratch the surface of
- puncture and scar (the skin), as for purposes or tribal identification or rituals
- break up
verb
noun
- sharp curved horny process on the toe of a bird or some mammals or reptiles
- a grasping structure on the limb of a crustacean or other arthropods
- a bird's foot
- a mechanical device that is curved or bent to suspend or hold or pull something
- (colloquial) A human fingernail, particularly one extending well beyond the fingertip.
- A foot equipped with such.
- (graph theory) A tree with one internal vertex and three leaves.
- The pincer (chela) of a crustacean or other arthropod.
- A mechanical device resembling a claw, used for gripping or lifting.
- (juggling) The act of catching a ball overhand.
- A curved, pointed, horny projection on each digit of the foot of a mammal, reptile, or bird.
- (botany) A slender appendage or process, formed like a claw, such as the base of petals of the pink.
noun
- The act of biting.
- (printing) A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening between the type and paper.
- The hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing to be lifted, or the hold which one part of a machine has upon another.
- (television) Ellipsis of sound bite.
- (slang) Something unpleasant.
- (slang) A cut, a proportion of profits; an amount of money.
- (figuratively, uncountable) incisiveness, provocativeness, exactness.
- A small meal or snack.
- (slang) An act of plagiarism.
- (figuratively, uncountable) Aggression.
- (cricket) The turn that a spin bowler imparts to a pitch.
- A piece of food of a size that would be produced by biting; a mouthful.
- The swelling of one's skin caused by an insect's mouthparts or sting.
- The wound left behind after having been bitten.
- a strong odor or taste property
- a small amount of solid food; a mouthful
- (angling) an instance of a fish taking the bait
- a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin
- a light informal meal
- a portion removed from the whole
- a wound resulting from biting by an animal or a person
- wit having a sharp and caustic quality
- the act of gripping or chewing off with the teeth and jaws
verb
- (transitive) To cut into something by clamping the teeth.
- to grip, cut off, or tear with or as if with the teeth or jaws
- (intransitive, of a fish) To bite a baited hook or other lure and thus be caught.
- (intransitive) To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent.
- (intransitive, figurative) To accept something offered, often secretly or deceptively, to cause some action by the acceptor.
- (transitive, informal, vulgar) To perform oral sex on. Used in invective.
- (transitive) To hold something by clamping one's teeth.
- (intransitive) To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing.
- (intransitive) To take or keep a firm hold.
- (transitive) To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to.
- (intransitive) To have significant effect, often negative.
- (intransitive) To take hold; to establish firm contact with.
- (intransitive, African-American Vernacular, slang) To plagiarize, to imitate.
- (intransitive) To attack with the teeth.
- (stative, slang) To lack quality; to be worthy of derision; to suck.
- (intransitive, transitive, of an insect) To sting.
- (intransitive, chiefly in the negative) To behave aggressively; to reject advances.
- (transitive, sometimes figurative) To cause sharp pain or damage to; to hurt or injure.
- cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort
- penetrate or cut, as with a knife
- deliver a sting to
verb
- To make (one's way) through or while taking small bites.
- To make (a hole in something) through small bites.
- Chiefly followed by into or to: to cause (something) to be in a certain state through small bites.
- Chiefly followed by at, away, or on: to take a small, quick bite, or several of such bites; to eat (at frequent intervals) with small, quick bites.
- Chiefly followed by at: to show slight interest in something, such as a commercial opportunity or a proposal.
- To remove (small pieces) from glass, tile, etc., with a tool; also, to remove small pieces from (glass, tile, etc.) with a tool.
- To take a small, quick bite, or several of such bites, of (something).
- Followed by away at: to reduce or use up gradually; to eat.
- To lightly bite (a person or animal, or part of their body), especially in a loving or playful manner; to nip.
- (road transport) Synonym of tramline (“of a vehicle: to tend to follow the contours of the ground with its wheels”).
- (cricket, informal) Followed by at: of a batter: to make an indecisive attempt to bat a ball bowled outside the off stump.
- To lightly bite, especially in a loving or playful manner.
- Followed by away, off, etc.: to remove (something) through small bites.
- bite off very small pieces
- eat intermittently; take small bites of
- bite gently
noun
- (figurative) A slight show of interest in something, such as a commercial opportunity or a proposal.
- An act of taking a small, quick bite, or several of such bites, especially with the front teeth; the bite or bites so taken.
- (computing) A unit of memory equal to half a byte, or chiefly four bits.
- A light bite of a person or animal, or part of their body, especially one which is loving or playful; a nip.
- An amount of food that is or can be taken into the mouth through a small bite; a small mouthful.
- gentle biting
- a small byte
verb
- (of a surface) To get such scratches.
- (music) To produce a distinctive sound on a turntable by moving a vinyl record back and forth while manipulating the crossfader (see also scratching).
- (ambitransitive) To dig or excavate with the claws.
- To write or draw hastily or awkwardly; scrawl.
- To rub a surface with a sharp object, especially by a living creature to remove itching with nails, claws, etc.
- Hence, to remove, ignore, or delete.
- To dig or scrape (a person's skin) with claws or fingernails in self-defense or with the intention to injure.
- To cross out, strike out, strike through some text on a page.
- To mark a surface with a sharp object, thereby leaving a scratch (noun).
- (billiards) To commit a foul in pool, as where the cue ball is put into a pocket or jumps off the table.
- (swimming, athletics) To announce one's non-participation in a race or sports event part of a larger sports meeting that one was previously signed up for, usually in lieu of another event at the same meeting.
- To rub the skin with rough material causing a sensation of irritation; to cause itching.
- To irritate someone's skin with one's unshaven beard when kissing.
- scrape or rub as if to relieve itching
- postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled
- gather (money or other resources) together over time
- cause friction
- remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line
- cut the surface of; wear away the surface of
- carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface
adj
- (sports) (of a player) Of a standard high enough to play without a handicap, i.e. to compete without the benefit of a variation in scoring based on ability.
- (computing) Relating to a scratchpad, a data structure or recording medium attached to a machine for testing or temporary use.
- For or consisting of preliminary or tentative, incomplete, etc. work.
- Hastily assembled, arranged or constructed, from whatever materials are to hand, with little or no preparation
noun
- A foul in pool, as where the cue ball is put into a pocket or jumps off the table.
- Poor handwriting; especially, illegibly so.
- (music) A genre of Virgin Islander music, better known as fungi.
- A feed, usually a mixture of a few common grains, given to chickens.
- A starting line (originally and simply, a line scratched in the ground), as in boxing.
- A technical error of touching or surpassing the starting mark prior to the official start signal in the sporting events of long jump, discus, hammer throw, shot put, and similar. Originally the starting mark was a scratch on the ground but is now a board or precisely indicated mark.
- (in the plural) Minute, but tender and troublesome, excoriations, covered with scabs, upon the heels of horses which have been used where it is very wet or muddy.
- (meiosis) A minor injury.
- A disruption, mark or shallow cut on a surface made by scratching.
- (cycling) The last riders to depart in a handicap race.
- An act of scratching the skin to alleviate an itch or irritation.
- Nothing, zero. Used especially in card games or sports, but also expressions like "from scatch".
- (now historical) A scratch wig.
- (horse racing) A horse withdrawn from a race prior to the start.
- (slang) Money; especially, cash.
- a harsh noise made by scraping
- a line indicating the location of the start of a race or a game
- an abraded area where the skin is torn or worn off
- informal terms for money
- (golf) a handicap of zero strokes
- a competitor who has withdrawn from competition
- an indication of damage
- a depression scratched or carved into a surface
- dry mash for poultry
- poor handwriting
verb
- To peel; to make by removing the skin.
- (transitive) To medicate with pills; to administer pills to.
- (transitive, Internet slang) To persuade or convince someone of something.
- (intransitive, textiles) Of a woven fabric surface, to form small matted balls of fiber.
- To form into the shape of a pill.
- To be peeled; to peel off in flakes.
noun
- (strictly) Such an object that is of solid constitution (usually of compressed, bonded powder) rather than a capsule (with a shell containing loose powder or liquid).
- (slang) A comical or entertaining person.
- Something offensive, unpleasant or nauseous which must be accepted or endured.
- (firearms, slang) A bullet (projectile).
- (textiles) A small piece of any substance, for example a ball of fibers formed on the surface of a textile fabric by rubbing.
- (baseball slang) A baseball.
- (slang) A contemptible, annoying, or unpleasant person.
- (informal, uncountable, definite, i.e. used with "the") Contraceptive medication, usually in the form of a pill to be taken by a woman; an oral contraceptive pill.
- (graphical user interface) A rounded rectangle containing a brief text caption indicating the tag or category that an item belongs to.
- (broadly) A small, usually round or cylindrical object designed for easy swallowing, usually containing some sort of medication.
- (now UK regional) An inlet on the coast; a small tidal pool or bay. Pill can occur in the name of such an inlet.
- a unpleasant or tiresome person
- something unpleasant or offensive that must be tolerated or endured
- a contraceptive in the form of a pill containing estrogen and progestin to inhibit ovulation and so prevent conception
- something that resembles a tablet of medicine in shape or size
- a dose of medicine in the form of a small pellet
verb
- To remove by pinching, biting, or cutting with two meeting edges of anything; to clip.
- To taunt.
- (slang, vulgar) To have erect nipples.
- To blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor of; to destroy.
- (informal) To make a quick, short journey or errand, usually a round trip.
- (Scotland, Northern England) To squeeze or pinch.
- To benumb [e.g., cheeks, fingers, nose] by severe cold.
- To catch and enclose or compress tightly between two surfaces, or points which are brought together or closed; to pinch; to close in upon.
- To annoy, as by nipping.
- sever or remove by pinching or snipping
- give a small sharp bite to
- squeeze tightly between the fingers
noun
- A small amount of food or drink, (particularly) a small amount of liquor.
- (nautical) A short turn in a rope.
- (Manitoba, Northwestern Ontario) A hamburger.
- A blast; a killing of the ends of plants by frost.
- Briskly cold weather.
- A small cut, or a cutting off the end.
- (papermaking) The place of intersection where one roll touches another
- A pinch with the nails or teeth.
- A biting sarcasm; a taunt.
- A seizing or closing in upon; a pinching
- (mining) A more or less gradual thinning out of a stratum.
- (slang, vulgar, chiefly in the plural) A nipple, usually of a woman.
- A playful bite.
- the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth
- a small drink of liquor
- a small sharp bite or snip
- a tart spicy quality
- the property of being moderately cold
verb
noun
- (US, Pennsylvania, Appalachia, Blue Ridge) A mush of pork scraps, particularly head parts, and cornmeal or flour, which is boiled and poured into a mold, where the rendered gelatinous broth from cooking jells the mixture into a loaf.
- A tool for scraping.
- scraps of meat (usually pork) boiled with cornmeal and shaped into loaves for slicing and frying
adj
- (of food) Difficult to cut or chew.
- (of a person or animal) Rugged or physically hardy.
- (of a material) Strong and resilient; sturdy.
- (of questions, etc.) Difficult or demanding.
- Rowdy or rough.
- (of a person) Stubborn or persistent; capable of stubbornness or persistence.
- (of weather, etc.) Harsh or severe.
- (material science) Undergoing plastic deformation before breaking.
- Strict, not lenient.
- violent and lawless
- feeling physical discomfort or pain (‘tough’ is occasionally used colloquially for ‘bad’)
- unfortunate or hard to bear
- not given to gentleness or sentimentality
- very difficult; severely testing stamina or resolution
- resistant to cutting or chewing
- making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe
- physically toughened
- substantially made or constructed