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noun
- The process or an instance of washing or being washed by water or other liquid.
- the erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water (as from a roadway)
- (finance, slang) A fictitious kind of sale of stock or other securities between parties of one interest, or by a broker who is both buyer and seller, and who minds his own interest rather than that of his clients.
- The quantity of clothes washed at a time.
- A thin coat of paint or metal laid on anything for beauty or preservation.
- Ten strikes, or bushels, of oysters.
- A piece of ground washed by the action of water, or sometimes covered and sometimes left dry; the shallowest part of a river, or arm of the sea; also, a bog; a marsh.
- The turbulence left in the air by a moving airplane.
- A total failure; a washout.
- The backward current or disturbed water caused by the action of oars, or of a steamer's screw or paddles, etc.
- (stagecraft) A lighting fixture that can cast a wide beam of light to evenly fill an area with light, as opposed to a spotlight.
- (nautical) The blade of an oar.
- The bow wave or wake of a moving ship, or the vortex from its screws.
- A shallow body of water.
- Ground washed away to the sea or a river.
- The breaking of waves on the shore; the onwards rush of shallow water towards a beach.
- A mixture of dunder, molasses, water, and scummings, used in the West Indies for distillation.
- A lotion or other liquid with medicinal or hygienic properties.
- In distilling, the fermented wort before the spirit is extracted.
- (television) A lighting effect that fills a scene with a chosen colour.
- Waste liquid, the refuse of food, the collection from washed dishes, etc., from a kitchen, often used as food for pigs; pigwash.
- (idiomatic) A situation in which gains and losses or advantages and disadvantages are equivalent, or in which there is no net change.
- A liquid used for washing.
- (architecture) The upper surface of a member or material when given a slope to shed water; hence, a structure or receptacle shaped so as to receive and carry off water.
- (art) A smooth and translucent painting created using a paintbrush holding a large amount of solvent and a small amount of paint.
- In arid and semi-arid regions, the normally dry bed of an intermittent or ephemeral stream; an arroyo or wadi.
- a watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other
- a thin coat of water-base paint
- the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water)
- the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon)
- garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering
- any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out
- the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller
verb
- wash by removing particles
- (intransitive) To bear without damage the operation of being washed; to be suitable for washing.
- (transitive) To cover with water or any liquid; to wet; to fall on and moisten.
- (transitive) To clean with water.
- (transitive) To cause dephosphorization of (molten pig iron) by adding substances containing iron oxide, and sometimes manganese oxide.
- (intransitive) To clean oneself with water.
- (transitive) To cover with a thin or watery coat of colour; to tint lightly and thinly.
- (intransitive) To move with a lapping or swashing sound; to lap or splash.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To be cogent, convincing; to withstand critique.
- (chemistry, transitive) To pass or extract (a gas or gaseous mixture) through or over a liquid for the purpose of purifying it, especially by removing soluble constituents.
- (mining) To separate valuable material (such as gold) from worthless material by the action of flowing water.
- (intransitive) To be eroded or carried away by the action of water.
- (mah-jong) To mix up tiles (before a new game) to make them random; to shuffle.
- (transitive) To carry away or erode by the force of water in motion.
- (transitive) To overlay with a thin coat of metal.
- move by or as if by water
- cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water
- separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals)
- to cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking
- remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap or some other cleaning agent
- cleanse (one's body) with soap and water
- admit to testing or proof
- form by erosion
- apply a thin coating of paint, metal, etc., to
- make moist
- wash or flow against
- be capable of being washed
- clean with some chemical process
noun
- the erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water (as from a roadway)
- (meteorology) The action whereby falling rainwater cleans particles from the air.
- An act of washing or cleaning the inside of something.
- someone who is unsuccessful
- the channel or break produced by erosion of relatively soft soil by water
- (mining) A place in a mine where ore has been washed away by a flow of water.
- A total failure; a disappointment.
- (aeronautics) The aerodynamic effect of a small twist in the shape of an aircraft wing.
- A sporting fixture or other event that cannot be completed because of rain.
- (British, air force slang) A destroyed aeroplane.
- (also biology) The cleaning of matter from a physiological system using a fluid; also, the fluid used for such cleaning; or the matter cleaned out from the system.
- An appliance designed to wash out the inside of something.
- (originally US, rail transport, road transport) A breach in a railway or road caused by flooding.
- A period between clinical treatments in which any medication delivered as the first treatment is allowed to be eliminated from a person's body before the second treatment begins.
- An unsuccessful person.
- The erosion of a relatively soft surface by a sudden gush of water; also, a channel produced by this action.
- An overwhelming victory; a landslide.
- (British, originally air force slang) A trainee who drops out of a training programme.
noun
- washing something by allowing it to soak
- the process of becoming softened and saturated as a consequence of being immersed in water (or other liquid)
- (slang, British) A drunkard.
- An immersion in water etc.
- (slang) A carouse; a drinking session.
- (Australia) A low-lying depression that fills with water after rain.
verb
- make drunk (with alcoholic drinks)
- leave as a guarantee in return for money
- submerge in a liquid
- fill, soak, or imbue totally
- cover with liquid; pour liquid onto
- rip off; ask an unreasonable price
- beat severely
- heat a metal prior to working it
- become drunk or drink excessively
- (originally US slang, figurative, transitive) To overcharge or swindle out of a large amount of money.
- (transitive) To immerse in liquid to the point of saturation or thorough permeation.
- (figurative, transitive) To absorb; to drain.
- (transitive) (slang, boxing) To hit or strike.
- (metallurgy, transitive) To heat (a metal) before shaping it.
- (ceramics, transitive) To hold a kiln at a particular temperature for a given period of time.
- (intransitive) To penetrate or permeate by saturation.
- (transitive) To allow (especially a liquid) to be absorbed; to take in, receive. (usually + up)
- (slang, chiefly Mormonism) To engage in penetrative sex without hip thrusting.
- (intransitive) To be saturated with liquid by being immersed in it.
noun
- washing something by allowing it to soak
- the act of making something completely wet
- the process of becoming softened and saturated as a consequence of being immersed in water (or other liquid)
- The practice of inserting a penis into a vagina and remaining stationary, without thrusting, supposedly used by some conservative Christians in lieu of traditional sexual intercourse.
- Immersion in water; a drenching or dunking.
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verb
verb
- wash by removing particles
- become quiet or still; fall silent
- cause to be quiet or not talk
- run water over the ground to erode (soil), revealing the underlying strata and valuable minerals
- become quiet or quieter
- (transitive) To appease; to allay; to soothe.
- (transitive) To make quiet.
- (transitive) To clear off soil and other materials overlying the bedrock.
- (intransitive) To become quiet.
noun
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- the act of making something completely wet
- a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually
- pork trimmings chopped and pickled and jelled
- (Caribbean) Pickled or boiled ears and feet of a pig
- A heavy blow.
- The act of sousing, or swooping.
- A pickle made with salt.
- (US, Appalachia) Pickled scrapple.
- The ear; especially, a hog's ear.
- A drunkard.
- The pickled ears, feet, etc., of swine.
- The act of sousing; a plunging into water.
- (US, Internet slang) Pronunciation spelling of source.
verb
- cook in a marinade
- cover with liquid; pour liquid onto
- immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate
- become drunk or drink excessively
- (transitive) To immerse in liquid; to steep or drench.
- (now dialectal, transitive) To strike, beat.
- (now dialectal, intransitive) To fall heavily.
- (transitive) To steep in brine; to pickle.
noun
- The act by which something is washed.
- (informal) Something or somebody that is washed up; a has-been.
- (military, slang) A meeting to gauge the success or failure of an operation or war game.
- (UK politics, slang) The period prior to dissolution of parliament, in which any remaining bills are quickly pushed through or else abandoned.
- the act of washing yourself (or another person)
- the act of washing dishes
noun
verb
- (transitive) To wash (something) quickly using water and no soap.
- (transitive) To drink and hangout with friends.
- (transitive) To swish (a liquid) around the inside of something.
- (UK, slang) To thoroughly defeat in an argument, fight or other competition.
- (transitive) To remove soap from (something) using water.
- wash off soap or remaining dirt
- rinse one's mouth and throat with mouthwash
- clean with some chemical process
noun
- A place where a precious metal found in gravel is separated from lighter material by washing.
- (countable) The action of the verb to wash
- The liquid used to wash an ore.
- (countable, often in the plural) The residue after an ore, etc, has been washed
- (stock market, finance) A fraudulent transaction in which the same stock is simultaneously bought and sold for the purpose of manipulating the market.
- (uncountable, chiefly British, New Zealand, Australia) Clothing, bedlinen or soft furnishings that have been, are currently being, or are to be washed; laundry.
- (pottery) The covering of a piece with an infusible powder, which prevents it from sticking to its supports, while receiving the glaze.
- A thin covering or coat.
- the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water)
- garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering
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verb
noun
- A trough for washing broken ore, gravel, or sand; a launder.
- (nautical) A continuous line of plates or planks running from bow to stern that contributes to a vessel's skin. (FM 55-501).
- (aviation) A type of aerodynamic surface mounted on an aircraft fuselage to fine-tune the airflow.
- (engineering) A shaped piece of wood used to level a bed or contour the shape of a mould, as for a bell
- (fluid dynamics) Also used more generally to regulate fluid flow in pipes or vents to prevent turbulence or vortexes.
- thick plank forming a ridge along the side of a wooden ship
noun
- The process by which a water softener flushes out minerals extracted from the water supply.
- Rebuilding or restructuring; large scale repair or renewal; revitalisation.
- The property of a kind of circuit, much used in radio receivers, that allows an electronic signal to be amplified many times through a feedback loop.
- (roleplaying games, fantasy) The ability to rapidly heal substantial physical damage to one's body, or to spontaneously restore hit points.
- (theology) Spiritual rebirth; the change from a carnal or material life to a pious one
- (Christianity) The renewal of the world at the second coming of Christ.
- the activity of spiritual or physical renewal
- (biology) growth anew of lost tissue or destroyed parts or organs
- forming again (especially with improvements or removal of defects); renewing and reconstituting
- feedback in phase with (augmenting) the input
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noun
- the act of wetting something by submerging it
- complete attention; intense mental effort
- a form of baptism in which part or all of a person's body is submerged
- (astronomy) the disappearance of a celestial body prior to an eclipse
- sinking until covered completely with water
- (mathematics) A smooth map whose differential is everywhere injective, related to the mathematical concept of an embedding.
- (art) A creative relationship with one's social and ecological environment as practiced by the Brooklyn Immersionists.
- Deep engagement in something.
- (education) A form of foreign-language teaching where the language is used intensively to teach other subjects to a student.
- The total submerging of a person in water as an act of baptism.
- (astronomy) The disappearance of a celestial body, by passing either behind another, as in the occultation of a star, or into its shadow, as in the eclipse of a satellite.
- (British, Ireland, informal) An immersion heater.
- One's suspension of disbelief while reading, playing a video game, etc. The experience of losing oneself in a fictional world.
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noun
verb
- To remove something by washing.
- To be removed by washing.
- (idiomatic) To lose traction while going around a turn, especially in cycling, motorsports and skiing/snowboarding.
- (idiomatic) To cancel due to bad weather.
- To wash the inside of something.
- (idiomatic) To wear away by the flow of water; to erode.
- To fail utterly at something one has attempted.
- remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap or some other cleaning agent
- deplete of strength or vitality
- drain off the color in the course of laundering
- lose color in the process of being washed
- wash free from unwanted substances, such as dirt
- prevent or interrupt due to rain
- wear or destroy by the force of water
verb
noun
- The process by which something is dried.
- (Australia) An area of waterless country.
- (US) A prohibitionist (of alcoholic beverages).
- (British, UK politics) A radical or hard-line Conservative; especially, one who supported the policies of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.
- (chiefly Australia, with "the") The dry season.
- Unsweetened ginger ale; dry ginger.
- An area with little or no rain, or sheltered from it.
- a reformer who opposes the use of intoxicating beverages
adj
- (Christianity) Of a mass, service, or rite: involving neither consecration nor communion.
- (figurative) Athirst, eager.
- (poker) Of a board or flop: Not permitting the creation of many or of strong hands.
- Free from or lacking alcohol or alcoholic beverages.
- (fine arts) Exhibiting precise execution lacking delicate contours or soft transitions of color.
- (aviation) Not using afterburners or water injection for increased thrust.
- Lacking interest, boring.
- (of a sound recording) Free from applied audio effects (especially reverb).
- In a dry spell (e.g., unemployed, slow).
- Of a bite from an animal: not containing the usual venom.
- Free from or lacking embellishment or sweetness, particularly:
- (law) Describing an area where sales of alcoholic or strong alcoholic beverages are banned.
- (wine and other alcoholic beverages, ginger ale) Low in sugar; lacking sugar; unsweetened.
- Unable to produce a liquid, as water, (petrochemistry) oil, or (agriculture) milk.
- (humor) Amusing without showing amusement.
- (chemistry) Anhydrous: free from or lacking water in any state, regardless of the presence of other liquids.
- (Malaysia, Singapore, of noodles) Mixed with sauce and not served in a soup.
- Without a usual complement or consummation; impotent.
- (masonry) Built without or lacking mortar.
- Free from or lacking moisture.
- (sciences, somewhat derogatory) Involving computations rather than work with biological or chemical matter.
- having no adornment or coloration
- having a large proportion of strong liquor
- unproductive especially of the expected results
- lacking moisture or volatile components
- not producing milk
- used of solid substances in contrast with liquid ones
- without a mucous or watery discharge
- free from liquid or moisture; lacking natural or normal moisture or depleted of water; or no longer wet
- (of food) eaten without a spread or sauce or other garnish
- lacking warmth or emotional involvement
- (of liquor) having a low residual sugar content because of decomposition of sugar during fermentation
- practicing complete abstinence from alcoholic beverages
- lacking interest or stimulation; dull and lifeless
- opposed to or prohibiting the production and sale of alcoholic beverages
- not shedding tears
- humorously sarcastic or mocking
verb
- (transitive) To dab moisture away from.
- (intransitive) To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle.
- (transitive) To install or configure with pipes.
- (US, journalism, slang) To invent or embellish (a story).
- (transitive, computing, chiefly Unix) To directly feed (the output of one program) as input to another program, indicated by the pipe character (|) at the command line.
- (intransitive) Of a queen bee: to make a high-pitched sound during certain stages of development.
- (transitive, nautical) To order or signal by a note pattern on a boatswain's pipe.
- (intransitive) To shout loudly and at high pitch.
- (transitive, slang, of a man) To have sex with a woman.
- (transitive, figuratively) To lead or conduct as if by pipes, especially by wired transmission.
- (intransitive, metallurgy) Of a metal ingot: to become hollow in the process of solidifying.
- (transitive, cooking) To create or decorate with piping (icing).
- (transitive) To hit with a pipe.
- (transitive) To convey or transport (something) by means of pipes.
- (ambitransitive) To play (music) on a pipe instrument, such as a bagpipe or a flute.
- utter a shrill cry
- trim with piping
- transport by pipeline
- play on a pipe
noun
- A type of pasta similar to macaroni.
- (especially in informal contexts) A water pipe.
- (Canada, US, colloquial, historical) The distance travelled between two rest periods during which one could smoke a pipe.
- (computing, typography) The character |.
- (music) A tube used to produce sound in an organ; an organ pipe.
- (mining) An elongated or irregular body or vein of ore.
- (computing) A mechanism that enables one program to communicate with another by sending its output to the other as input.
- (Australia, colloquial, historical) An anonymous satire or essay, insulting and frequently libellous, written on a piece of paper which was rolled up and left somewhere public where it could be found and thus spread, to embarrass the author's enemies.
- (computing, slang) A data backbone, or broadband Internet access.
- (smoking) A hollow stem with a bowl at one end used for smoking, especially a tobacco pipe but also including various other forms such as a water pipe.
- (geology) A vertical conduit through the Earth's crust below a volcano through which magma has passed, often filled with volcanic breccia.
- The contents of such a vessel, as a liquid measure, sometimes set at 126 wine gallons; half a tun.
- Decorative edging stitched to the hems or seams of an object made of fabric (clothing, hats, curtains, pillows, etc.), often in a contrasting color; piping.
- (music) A wind instrument consisting of a tube, often lined with holes to allow for adjustment in pitch, sounded by blowing into the tube.
- (lacrosse) One of the goalposts of the goal.
- A high-pitched sound, especially of a bird.
- A tubular passageway in the human body such as a blood vessel or the windpipe.
- (slang) A man's penis.
- (slang) A telephone.
- A rigid tube that transports water, steam, or other fluid, as used in plumbing and numerous other applications.
- The key or sound of the voice.
- A large container for storing liquids or foodstuffs; now especially a vat or cask of cider or wine. (See a diagram comparing cask sizes.)
- the flues and stops on a pipe organ
- a long tube made of metal or plastic that is used to carry water or oil or gas etc.
- a tube with a small bowl at one end; used for smoking tobacco
- a hollow cylindrical shape
- a tubular wind instrument
verb
- To remove (something), as if by washing away with water.
- To surround or gently touch (someone or something), as if with water.
- To bathe or wash (someone or something).
- (reflexive) To bathe or wash.
- Chiefly in sexual contexts; followed by at: to lick.
- To surround as if with water.
- Followed by into, on, or upon: to pour (water or some other liquid) with or as if with a ladle into or on someone or something; to lade, to ladle.
- Of a river or other water body: to flow along or past (a place or thing); to wash.
- Chiefly in sexual contexts: to lick (someone or something).
- wash one's face and hands
- cleanse (one's body) with soap and water
- wash or flow against
noun
noun
- A residual semi-solid material left from industrial, water treatment, or wastewater treatment processes.
- Solids separated from suspension in a liquid.
- (uncountable, music) Ellipsis of sludge metal.
- (behavioral science) Institutional policies that introduce tedium and inefficiency in processes.
- A mass of small pieces of ice on the surface of a water body.
- A sediment of accumulated minerals in a steam boiler.
- the precipitate produced by sewage treatment
- any thick, viscous matter
verb
verb
- (transitive) To spray fine droplets on, particularly of water.
- (printing, of ink) To disperse into a mist, accompanying operation of equipment at high speeds.
- (transitive, of the eyes) To be covered by tears.
- (transitive) To cover with a mist.
- (intransitive) To form mist.
- (intransitive) To rain in very fine droplets.
- spray finely or cover with mist
- become covered with mist
- make less visible or unclear
noun
noun
- an act of removing by cleansing; ridding of sediment or other undesired elements
- an abrupt or sudden removal of a person or group from an organization or place
- the act of clearing yourself (or another) from some stigma or charge
- An act or instance of purging.
- Something which or someone who purges; especially, a medicine that evacuates the intestines; a cathartic.
- A red or reddish liquid that seeps out from raw muscular meat consisting mostly of water and protein; "meat juice".
- (medicine) An evacuation of the bowels or the stomach; a defecation or vomiting.
- A forcible removal of people, for example, from political activity.
- An act or instance of the cleansing of pipes.
verb
- rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid
- rid of impurities
- oust politically
- make pure or free from sin or guilt
- eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth
- clear of a charge
- excrete or evacuate (someone's bowels or body)
- (intransitive) To have or produce frequent evacuations from the intestines, as by means of a cathartic.
- (transitive) To clean thoroughly; to rid of impurities; to cleanse.
- (transitive, intransitive, medicine) To evacuate (the bowels or the stomach); to defecate or vomit.
- (transitive, medicine) To cause someone to purge; to operate (on somebody) using a cathartic or emetic, or in a similar manner.
- (transitive) To remove by cleansing; to wash away.
- (transitive, law) To clear of a charge, suspicion, or imputation.
- (transitive) To clarify; to clear the dregs from (liquor).
- (intransitive) To become pure, as by clarification.
- (transitive) To free from sin, guilt, or burden.
- (transitive) To trim, dress, or prune.
- (transitive) To forcibly remove, for example, from political activity.
- (transitive) To forcibly remove people by an organization.
noun
- an act of removing by cleansing; ridding of sediment or other undesired elements
- the act of clearing yourself (or another) from some stigma or charge
- (chiefly politics) A removal of undesirable people.
- (premodern medicine) The removal of excess humors through bloodletting, induced vomiting, etc.
- (medicine) The removal of digested waste: defecation; defecation induced by laxatives.
- (chiefly chemistry) The cleansing of a device by flushing it with water, steam, or some other liquid or gas.
- (chiefly medicine) Vomiting; vomiting induced by purgatives.
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- (countable) A slope made up of scree at the base of a cliff, mountain, etc.
- (uncountable) Loose stony debris on a slope.
- (uncountable, by extension) Similar debris made up of broken building material such as bricks, concrete, etc.
- A harsh, high-pitched sound or cry (as of a hawk).
- (Scotland) A coarse sieve.
- a sloping mass of loose rocks at the base of a cliff
noun
- The process or an instance of washing or being washed by water or other liquid.
- the erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water (as from a roadway)
- (finance, slang) A fictitious kind of sale of stock or other securities between parties of one interest, or by a broker who is both buyer and seller, and who minds his own interest rather than that of his clients.
- The quantity of clothes washed at a time.
- A thin coat of paint or metal laid on anything for beauty or preservation.
- Ten strikes, or bushels, of oysters.
- A piece of ground washed by the action of water, or sometimes covered and sometimes left dry; the shallowest part of a river, or arm of the sea; also, a bog; a marsh.
- The turbulence left in the air by a moving airplane.
- A total failure; a washout.
- The backward current or disturbed water caused by the action of oars, or of a steamer's screw or paddles, etc.
- (stagecraft) A lighting fixture that can cast a wide beam of light to evenly fill an area with light, as opposed to a spotlight.
- (nautical) The blade of an oar.
- The bow wave or wake of a moving ship, or the vortex from its screws.
- A shallow body of water.
- Ground washed away to the sea or a river.
- The breaking of waves on the shore; the onwards rush of shallow water towards a beach.
- A mixture of dunder, molasses, water, and scummings, used in the West Indies for distillation.
- A lotion or other liquid with medicinal or hygienic properties.
- In distilling, the fermented wort before the spirit is extracted.
- (television) A lighting effect that fills a scene with a chosen colour.
- Waste liquid, the refuse of food, the collection from washed dishes, etc., from a kitchen, often used as food for pigs; pigwash.
- (idiomatic) A situation in which gains and losses or advantages and disadvantages are equivalent, or in which there is no net change.
- A liquid used for washing.
- (architecture) The upper surface of a member or material when given a slope to shed water; hence, a structure or receptacle shaped so as to receive and carry off water.
- (art) A smooth and translucent painting created using a paintbrush holding a large amount of solvent and a small amount of paint.
- In arid and semi-arid regions, the normally dry bed of an intermittent or ephemeral stream; an arroyo or wadi.
- a watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other
- a thin coat of water-base paint
- the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water)
- the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon)
- garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering
- any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out
- the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller
verb
- wash by removing particles
- (intransitive) To bear without damage the operation of being washed; to be suitable for washing.
- (transitive) To cover with water or any liquid; to wet; to fall on and moisten.
- (transitive) To clean with water.
- (transitive) To cause dephosphorization of (molten pig iron) by adding substances containing iron oxide, and sometimes manganese oxide.
- (intransitive) To clean oneself with water.
- (transitive) To cover with a thin or watery coat of colour; to tint lightly and thinly.
- (intransitive) To move with a lapping or swashing sound; to lap or splash.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To be cogent, convincing; to withstand critique.
- (chemistry, transitive) To pass or extract (a gas or gaseous mixture) through or over a liquid for the purpose of purifying it, especially by removing soluble constituents.
- (mining) To separate valuable material (such as gold) from worthless material by the action of flowing water.
- (intransitive) To be eroded or carried away by the action of water.
- (mah-jong) To mix up tiles (before a new game) to make them random; to shuffle.
- (transitive) To carry away or erode by the force of water in motion.
- (transitive) To overlay with a thin coat of metal.
- move by or as if by water
- cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water
- separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals)
- to cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking
- remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap or some other cleaning agent
- cleanse (one's body) with soap and water
- admit to testing or proof
- form by erosion
- apply a thin coating of paint, metal, etc., to
- make moist
- wash or flow against
- be capable of being washed
- clean with some chemical process
noun
- the erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water (as from a roadway)
- (meteorology) The action whereby falling rainwater cleans particles from the air.
- An act of washing or cleaning the inside of something.
- someone who is unsuccessful
- the channel or break produced by erosion of relatively soft soil by water
- (mining) A place in a mine where ore has been washed away by a flow of water.
- A total failure; a disappointment.
- (aeronautics) The aerodynamic effect of a small twist in the shape of an aircraft wing.
- A sporting fixture or other event that cannot be completed because of rain.
- (British, air force slang) A destroyed aeroplane.
- (also biology) The cleaning of matter from a physiological system using a fluid; also, the fluid used for such cleaning; or the matter cleaned out from the system.
- An appliance designed to wash out the inside of something.
- (originally US, rail transport, road transport) A breach in a railway or road caused by flooding.
- A period between clinical treatments in which any medication delivered as the first treatment is allowed to be eliminated from a person's body before the second treatment begins.
- An unsuccessful person.
- The erosion of a relatively soft surface by a sudden gush of water; also, a channel produced by this action.
- An overwhelming victory; a landslide.
- (British, originally air force slang) A trainee who drops out of a training programme.
noun
- washing something by allowing it to soak
- the process of becoming softened and saturated as a consequence of being immersed in water (or other liquid)
- (slang, British) A drunkard.
- An immersion in water etc.
- (slang) A carouse; a drinking session.
- (Australia) A low-lying depression that fills with water after rain.
verb
- make drunk (with alcoholic drinks)
- leave as a guarantee in return for money
- submerge in a liquid
- fill, soak, or imbue totally
- cover with liquid; pour liquid onto
- rip off; ask an unreasonable price
- beat severely
- heat a metal prior to working it
- become drunk or drink excessively
- (originally US slang, figurative, transitive) To overcharge or swindle out of a large amount of money.
- (transitive) To immerse in liquid to the point of saturation or thorough permeation.
- (figurative, transitive) To absorb; to drain.
- (transitive) (slang, boxing) To hit or strike.
- (metallurgy, transitive) To heat (a metal) before shaping it.
- (ceramics, transitive) To hold a kiln at a particular temperature for a given period of time.
- (intransitive) To penetrate or permeate by saturation.
- (transitive) To allow (especially a liquid) to be absorbed; to take in, receive. (usually + up)
- (slang, chiefly Mormonism) To engage in penetrative sex without hip thrusting.
- (intransitive) To be saturated with liquid by being immersed in it.
noun
- washing something by allowing it to soak
- the act of making something completely wet
- the process of becoming softened and saturated as a consequence of being immersed in water (or other liquid)
- The practice of inserting a penis into a vagina and remaining stationary, without thrusting, supposedly used by some conservative Christians in lieu of traditional sexual intercourse.
- Immersion in water; a drenching or dunking.
adv
adj
verb
noun
- the act of making something completely wet
- a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually
- pork trimmings chopped and pickled and jelled
- (Caribbean) Pickled or boiled ears and feet of a pig
- A heavy blow.
- The act of sousing, or swooping.
- A pickle made with salt.
- (US, Appalachia) Pickled scrapple.
- The ear; especially, a hog's ear.
- A drunkard.
- The pickled ears, feet, etc., of swine.
- The act of sousing; a plunging into water.
- (US, Internet slang) Pronunciation spelling of source.
verb
- cook in a marinade
- cover with liquid; pour liquid onto
- immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate
- become drunk or drink excessively
- (transitive) To immerse in liquid; to steep or drench.
- (now dialectal, transitive) To strike, beat.
- (now dialectal, intransitive) To fall heavily.
- (transitive) To steep in brine; to pickle.
noun
- The act by which something is washed.
- (informal) Something or somebody that is washed up; a has-been.
- (military, slang) A meeting to gauge the success or failure of an operation or war game.
- (UK politics, slang) The period prior to dissolution of parliament, in which any remaining bills are quickly pushed through or else abandoned.
- the act of washing yourself (or another person)
- the act of washing dishes
noun
verb
- (transitive) To wash (something) quickly using water and no soap.
- (transitive) To drink and hangout with friends.
- (transitive) To swish (a liquid) around the inside of something.
- (UK, slang) To thoroughly defeat in an argument, fight or other competition.
- (transitive) To remove soap from (something) using water.
- wash off soap or remaining dirt
- rinse one's mouth and throat with mouthwash
- clean with some chemical process
noun
- A place where a precious metal found in gravel is separated from lighter material by washing.
- (countable) The action of the verb to wash
- The liquid used to wash an ore.
- (countable, often in the plural) The residue after an ore, etc, has been washed
- (stock market, finance) A fraudulent transaction in which the same stock is simultaneously bought and sold for the purpose of manipulating the market.
- (uncountable, chiefly British, New Zealand, Australia) Clothing, bedlinen or soft furnishings that have been, are currently being, or are to be washed; laundry.
- (pottery) The covering of a piece with an infusible powder, which prevents it from sticking to its supports, while receiving the glaze.
- A thin covering or coat.
- the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water)
- garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering
verb
noun
verb
noun
- A trough for washing broken ore, gravel, or sand; a launder.
- (nautical) A continuous line of plates or planks running from bow to stern that contributes to a vessel's skin. (FM 55-501).
- (aviation) A type of aerodynamic surface mounted on an aircraft fuselage to fine-tune the airflow.
- (engineering) A shaped piece of wood used to level a bed or contour the shape of a mould, as for a bell
- (fluid dynamics) Also used more generally to regulate fluid flow in pipes or vents to prevent turbulence or vortexes.
- thick plank forming a ridge along the side of a wooden ship
noun
- The process by which a water softener flushes out minerals extracted from the water supply.
- Rebuilding or restructuring; large scale repair or renewal; revitalisation.
- The property of a kind of circuit, much used in radio receivers, that allows an electronic signal to be amplified many times through a feedback loop.
- (roleplaying games, fantasy) The ability to rapidly heal substantial physical damage to one's body, or to spontaneously restore hit points.
- (theology) Spiritual rebirth; the change from a carnal or material life to a pious one
- (Christianity) The renewal of the world at the second coming of Christ.
- the activity of spiritual or physical renewal
- (biology) growth anew of lost tissue or destroyed parts or organs
- forming again (especially with improvements or removal of defects); renewing and reconstituting
- feedback in phase with (augmenting) the input
noun
adj
verb
noun
- the act of wetting something by submerging it
- complete attention; intense mental effort
- a form of baptism in which part or all of a person's body is submerged
- (astronomy) the disappearance of a celestial body prior to an eclipse
- sinking until covered completely with water
- (mathematics) A smooth map whose differential is everywhere injective, related to the mathematical concept of an embedding.
- (art) A creative relationship with one's social and ecological environment as practiced by the Brooklyn Immersionists.
- Deep engagement in something.
- (education) A form of foreign-language teaching where the language is used intensively to teach other subjects to a student.
- The total submerging of a person in water as an act of baptism.
- (astronomy) The disappearance of a celestial body, by passing either behind another, as in the occultation of a star, or into its shadow, as in the eclipse of a satellite.
- (British, Ireland, informal) An immersion heater.
- One's suspension of disbelief while reading, playing a video game, etc. The experience of losing oneself in a fictional world.
noun
noun
noun
- A residual semi-solid material left from industrial, water treatment, or wastewater treatment processes.
- Solids separated from suspension in a liquid.
- (uncountable, music) Ellipsis of sludge metal.
- (behavioral science) Institutional policies that introduce tedium and inefficiency in processes.
- A mass of small pieces of ice on the surface of a water body.
- A sediment of accumulated minerals in a steam boiler.
- the precipitate produced by sewage treatment
- any thick, viscous matter
verb
verb
noun
- The process by which something is dried.
- (Australia) An area of waterless country.
- (US) A prohibitionist (of alcoholic beverages).
- (British, UK politics) A radical or hard-line Conservative; especially, one who supported the policies of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.
- (chiefly Australia, with "the") The dry season.
- Unsweetened ginger ale; dry ginger.
- An area with little or no rain, or sheltered from it.
- a reformer who opposes the use of intoxicating beverages
adj
- (Christianity) Of a mass, service, or rite: involving neither consecration nor communion.
- (figurative) Athirst, eager.
- (poker) Of a board or flop: Not permitting the creation of many or of strong hands.
- Free from or lacking alcohol or alcoholic beverages.
- (fine arts) Exhibiting precise execution lacking delicate contours or soft transitions of color.
- (aviation) Not using afterburners or water injection for increased thrust.
- Lacking interest, boring.
- (of a sound recording) Free from applied audio effects (especially reverb).
- In a dry spell (e.g., unemployed, slow).
- Of a bite from an animal: not containing the usual venom.
- Free from or lacking embellishment or sweetness, particularly:
- (law) Describing an area where sales of alcoholic or strong alcoholic beverages are banned.
- (wine and other alcoholic beverages, ginger ale) Low in sugar; lacking sugar; unsweetened.
- Unable to produce a liquid, as water, (petrochemistry) oil, or (agriculture) milk.
- (humor) Amusing without showing amusement.
- (chemistry) Anhydrous: free from or lacking water in any state, regardless of the presence of other liquids.
- (Malaysia, Singapore, of noodles) Mixed with sauce and not served in a soup.
- Without a usual complement or consummation; impotent.
- (masonry) Built without or lacking mortar.
- Free from or lacking moisture.
- (sciences, somewhat derogatory) Involving computations rather than work with biological or chemical matter.
- having no adornment or coloration
- having a large proportion of strong liquor
- unproductive especially of the expected results
- lacking moisture or volatile components
- not producing milk
- used of solid substances in contrast with liquid ones
- without a mucous or watery discharge
- free from liquid or moisture; lacking natural or normal moisture or depleted of water; or no longer wet
- (of food) eaten without a spread or sauce or other garnish
- lacking warmth or emotional involvement
- (of liquor) having a low residual sugar content because of decomposition of sugar during fermentation
- practicing complete abstinence from alcoholic beverages
- lacking interest or stimulation; dull and lifeless
- opposed to or prohibiting the production and sale of alcoholic beverages
- not shedding tears
- humorously sarcastic or mocking
noun
- an act of removing by cleansing; ridding of sediment or other undesired elements
- an abrupt or sudden removal of a person or group from an organization or place
- the act of clearing yourself (or another) from some stigma or charge
- An act or instance of purging.
- Something which or someone who purges; especially, a medicine that evacuates the intestines; a cathartic.
- A red or reddish liquid that seeps out from raw muscular meat consisting mostly of water and protein; "meat juice".
- (medicine) An evacuation of the bowels or the stomach; a defecation or vomiting.
- A forcible removal of people, for example, from political activity.
- An act or instance of the cleansing of pipes.
verb
- rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid
- rid of impurities
- oust politically
- make pure or free from sin or guilt
- eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth
- clear of a charge
- excrete or evacuate (someone's bowels or body)
- (intransitive) To have or produce frequent evacuations from the intestines, as by means of a cathartic.
- (transitive) To clean thoroughly; to rid of impurities; to cleanse.
- (transitive, intransitive, medicine) To evacuate (the bowels or the stomach); to defecate or vomit.
- (transitive, medicine) To cause someone to purge; to operate (on somebody) using a cathartic or emetic, or in a similar manner.
- (transitive) To remove by cleansing; to wash away.
- (transitive, law) To clear of a charge, suspicion, or imputation.
- (transitive) To clarify; to clear the dregs from (liquor).
- (intransitive) To become pure, as by clarification.
- (transitive) To free from sin, guilt, or burden.
- (transitive) To trim, dress, or prune.
- (transitive) To forcibly remove, for example, from political activity.
- (transitive) To forcibly remove people by an organization.
noun
- an act of removing by cleansing; ridding of sediment or other undesired elements
- the act of clearing yourself (or another) from some stigma or charge
- (chiefly politics) A removal of undesirable people.
- (premodern medicine) The removal of excess humors through bloodletting, induced vomiting, etc.
- (medicine) The removal of digested waste: defecation; defecation induced by laxatives.
- (chiefly chemistry) The cleansing of a device by flushing it with water, steam, or some other liquid or gas.
- (chiefly medicine) Vomiting; vomiting induced by purgatives.
adj
verb
noun
- The process or an instance of washing or being washed by water or other liquid.
- the erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water (as from a roadway)
- (finance, slang) A fictitious kind of sale of stock or other securities between parties of one interest, or by a broker who is both buyer and seller, and who minds his own interest rather than that of his clients.
- The quantity of clothes washed at a time.
- A thin coat of paint or metal laid on anything for beauty or preservation.
- Ten strikes, or bushels, of oysters.
- A piece of ground washed by the action of water, or sometimes covered and sometimes left dry; the shallowest part of a river, or arm of the sea; also, a bog; a marsh.
- The turbulence left in the air by a moving airplane.
- A total failure; a washout.
- The backward current or disturbed water caused by the action of oars, or of a steamer's screw or paddles, etc.
- (stagecraft) A lighting fixture that can cast a wide beam of light to evenly fill an area with light, as opposed to a spotlight.
- (nautical) The blade of an oar.
- The bow wave or wake of a moving ship, or the vortex from its screws.
- A shallow body of water.
- Ground washed away to the sea or a river.
- The breaking of waves on the shore; the onwards rush of shallow water towards a beach.
- A mixture of dunder, molasses, water, and scummings, used in the West Indies for distillation.
- A lotion or other liquid with medicinal or hygienic properties.
- In distilling, the fermented wort before the spirit is extracted.
- (television) A lighting effect that fills a scene with a chosen colour.
- Waste liquid, the refuse of food, the collection from washed dishes, etc., from a kitchen, often used as food for pigs; pigwash.
- (idiomatic) A situation in which gains and losses or advantages and disadvantages are equivalent, or in which there is no net change.
- A liquid used for washing.
- (architecture) The upper surface of a member or material when given a slope to shed water; hence, a structure or receptacle shaped so as to receive and carry off water.
- (art) A smooth and translucent painting created using a paintbrush holding a large amount of solvent and a small amount of paint.
- In arid and semi-arid regions, the normally dry bed of an intermittent or ephemeral stream; an arroyo or wadi.
- a watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other
- a thin coat of water-base paint
- the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water)
- the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon)
- garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering
- any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out
- the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller
verb
- wash by removing particles
- (intransitive) To bear without damage the operation of being washed; to be suitable for washing.
- (transitive) To cover with water or any liquid; to wet; to fall on and moisten.
- (transitive) To clean with water.
- (transitive) To cause dephosphorization of (molten pig iron) by adding substances containing iron oxide, and sometimes manganese oxide.
- (intransitive) To clean oneself with water.
- (transitive) To cover with a thin or watery coat of colour; to tint lightly and thinly.
- (intransitive) To move with a lapping or swashing sound; to lap or splash.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To be cogent, convincing; to withstand critique.
- (chemistry, transitive) To pass or extract (a gas or gaseous mixture) through or over a liquid for the purpose of purifying it, especially by removing soluble constituents.
- (mining) To separate valuable material (such as gold) from worthless material by the action of flowing water.
- (intransitive) To be eroded or carried away by the action of water.
- (mah-jong) To mix up tiles (before a new game) to make them random; to shuffle.
- (transitive) To carry away or erode by the force of water in motion.
- (transitive) To overlay with a thin coat of metal.
- move by or as if by water
- cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water
- separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals)
- to cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking
- remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap or some other cleaning agent
- cleanse (one's body) with soap and water
- admit to testing or proof
- form by erosion
- apply a thin coating of paint, metal, etc., to
- make moist
- wash or flow against
- be capable of being washed
- clean with some chemical process
verb
- wash by removing particles
- become quiet or still; fall silent
- cause to be quiet or not talk
- run water over the ground to erode (soil), revealing the underlying strata and valuable minerals
- become quiet or quieter
- (transitive) To appease; to allay; to soothe.
- (transitive) To make quiet.
- (transitive) To clear off soil and other materials overlying the bedrock.
- (intransitive) To become quiet.
noun
verb
- To remove something by washing.
- To be removed by washing.
- (idiomatic) To lose traction while going around a turn, especially in cycling, motorsports and skiing/snowboarding.
- (idiomatic) To cancel due to bad weather.
- To wash the inside of something.
- (idiomatic) To wear away by the flow of water; to erode.
- To fail utterly at something one has attempted.
- remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap or some other cleaning agent
- deplete of strength or vitality
- drain off the color in the course of laundering
- lose color in the process of being washed
- wash free from unwanted substances, such as dirt
- prevent or interrupt due to rain
- wear or destroy by the force of water
verb
noun
- The process by which something is dried.
- (Australia) An area of waterless country.
- (US) A prohibitionist (of alcoholic beverages).
- (British, UK politics) A radical or hard-line Conservative; especially, one who supported the policies of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.
- (chiefly Australia, with "the") The dry season.
- Unsweetened ginger ale; dry ginger.
- An area with little or no rain, or sheltered from it.
- a reformer who opposes the use of intoxicating beverages
adj
- (Christianity) Of a mass, service, or rite: involving neither consecration nor communion.
- (figurative) Athirst, eager.
- (poker) Of a board or flop: Not permitting the creation of many or of strong hands.
- Free from or lacking alcohol or alcoholic beverages.
- (fine arts) Exhibiting precise execution lacking delicate contours or soft transitions of color.
- (aviation) Not using afterburners or water injection for increased thrust.
- Lacking interest, boring.
- (of a sound recording) Free from applied audio effects (especially reverb).
- In a dry spell (e.g., unemployed, slow).
- Of a bite from an animal: not containing the usual venom.
- Free from or lacking embellishment or sweetness, particularly:
- (law) Describing an area where sales of alcoholic or strong alcoholic beverages are banned.
- (wine and other alcoholic beverages, ginger ale) Low in sugar; lacking sugar; unsweetened.
- Unable to produce a liquid, as water, (petrochemistry) oil, or (agriculture) milk.
- (humor) Amusing without showing amusement.
- (chemistry) Anhydrous: free from or lacking water in any state, regardless of the presence of other liquids.
- (Malaysia, Singapore, of noodles) Mixed with sauce and not served in a soup.
- Without a usual complement or consummation; impotent.
- (masonry) Built without or lacking mortar.
- Free from or lacking moisture.
- (sciences, somewhat derogatory) Involving computations rather than work with biological or chemical matter.
- having no adornment or coloration
- having a large proportion of strong liquor
- unproductive especially of the expected results
- lacking moisture or volatile components
- not producing milk
- used of solid substances in contrast with liquid ones
- without a mucous or watery discharge
- free from liquid or moisture; lacking natural or normal moisture or depleted of water; or no longer wet
- (of food) eaten without a spread or sauce or other garnish
- lacking warmth or emotional involvement
- (of liquor) having a low residual sugar content because of decomposition of sugar during fermentation
- practicing complete abstinence from alcoholic beverages
- lacking interest or stimulation; dull and lifeless
- opposed to or prohibiting the production and sale of alcoholic beverages
- not shedding tears
- humorously sarcastic or mocking
verb
- (transitive) To dab moisture away from.
- (intransitive) To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle.
- (transitive) To install or configure with pipes.
- (US, journalism, slang) To invent or embellish (a story).
- (transitive, computing, chiefly Unix) To directly feed (the output of one program) as input to another program, indicated by the pipe character (|) at the command line.
- (intransitive) Of a queen bee: to make a high-pitched sound during certain stages of development.
- (transitive, nautical) To order or signal by a note pattern on a boatswain's pipe.
- (intransitive) To shout loudly and at high pitch.
- (transitive, slang, of a man) To have sex with a woman.
- (transitive, figuratively) To lead or conduct as if by pipes, especially by wired transmission.
- (intransitive, metallurgy) Of a metal ingot: to become hollow in the process of solidifying.
- (transitive, cooking) To create or decorate with piping (icing).
- (transitive) To hit with a pipe.
- (transitive) To convey or transport (something) by means of pipes.
- (ambitransitive) To play (music) on a pipe instrument, such as a bagpipe or a flute.
- utter a shrill cry
- trim with piping
- transport by pipeline
- play on a pipe
noun
- A type of pasta similar to macaroni.
- (especially in informal contexts) A water pipe.
- (Canada, US, colloquial, historical) The distance travelled between two rest periods during which one could smoke a pipe.
- (computing, typography) The character |.
- (music) A tube used to produce sound in an organ; an organ pipe.
- (mining) An elongated or irregular body or vein of ore.
- (computing) A mechanism that enables one program to communicate with another by sending its output to the other as input.
- (Australia, colloquial, historical) An anonymous satire or essay, insulting and frequently libellous, written on a piece of paper which was rolled up and left somewhere public where it could be found and thus spread, to embarrass the author's enemies.
- (computing, slang) A data backbone, or broadband Internet access.
- (smoking) A hollow stem with a bowl at one end used for smoking, especially a tobacco pipe but also including various other forms such as a water pipe.
- (geology) A vertical conduit through the Earth's crust below a volcano through which magma has passed, often filled with volcanic breccia.
- The contents of such a vessel, as a liquid measure, sometimes set at 126 wine gallons; half a tun.
- Decorative edging stitched to the hems or seams of an object made of fabric (clothing, hats, curtains, pillows, etc.), often in a contrasting color; piping.
- (music) A wind instrument consisting of a tube, often lined with holes to allow for adjustment in pitch, sounded by blowing into the tube.
- (lacrosse) One of the goalposts of the goal.
- A high-pitched sound, especially of a bird.
- A tubular passageway in the human body such as a blood vessel or the windpipe.
- (slang) A man's penis.
- (slang) A telephone.
- A rigid tube that transports water, steam, or other fluid, as used in plumbing and numerous other applications.
- The key or sound of the voice.
- A large container for storing liquids or foodstuffs; now especially a vat or cask of cider or wine. (See a diagram comparing cask sizes.)
- the flues and stops on a pipe organ
- a long tube made of metal or plastic that is used to carry water or oil or gas etc.
- a tube with a small bowl at one end; used for smoking tobacco
- a hollow cylindrical shape
- a tubular wind instrument
verb
- To remove (something), as if by washing away with water.
- To surround or gently touch (someone or something), as if with water.
- To bathe or wash (someone or something).
- (reflexive) To bathe or wash.
- Chiefly in sexual contexts; followed by at: to lick.
- To surround as if with water.
- Followed by into, on, or upon: to pour (water or some other liquid) with or as if with a ladle into or on someone or something; to lade, to ladle.
- Of a river or other water body: to flow along or past (a place or thing); to wash.
- Chiefly in sexual contexts: to lick (someone or something).
- wash one's face and hands
- cleanse (one's body) with soap and water
- wash or flow against
noun
verb
- (transitive) To spray fine droplets on, particularly of water.
- (printing, of ink) To disperse into a mist, accompanying operation of equipment at high speeds.
- (transitive, of the eyes) To be covered by tears.
- (transitive) To cover with a mist.
- (intransitive) To form mist.
- (intransitive) To rain in very fine droplets.
- spray finely or cover with mist
- become covered with mist
- make less visible or unclear
noun
verb
noun
- (countable) A slope made up of scree at the base of a cliff, mountain, etc.
- (uncountable) Loose stony debris on a slope.
- (uncountable, by extension) Similar debris made up of broken building material such as bricks, concrete, etc.
- A harsh, high-pitched sound or cry (as of a hawk).
- (Scotland) A coarse sieve.
- a sloping mass of loose rocks at the base of a cliff
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