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noun
verb
noun
- A string.
- A small brook or rivulet.
- (figurative) An element in a composite whole; a sequence of linked events or facts; a logical thread.
- (broadcasting) A series of programmes on a particular theme or linked subject.
- (electronics) A group of wires, usually twisted or braided.
- (British dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A passage for water; gutter.
- An individual length of any fine, string-like substance.
- A street.
- (informal) Synonym of track.
- (genetics) A nucleotide chain.
- (formal) A specialization of a senior high school track.
- The shore or beach of the sea or ocean.
- Each of the strings which, twisted together, make up a yarn, rope or cord.
- a very slender natural or synthetic fiber
- a poetic term for a shore (as the area periodically covered and uncovered by the tides)
- line consisting of a complex of fibers or filaments that are twisted together to form a thread or a rope or a cable
- a necklace made by stringing objects together
- a pattern forming a unity within a larger structural whole
verb
- (baseball) To cause the third out of an inning to be made, leaving a runner on base.
- (transitive, figuratively) To leave (someone) in a difficult situation; to abandon or desert.
- (transitive) To break a strand of (a rope).
- (transitive, grammar) To leave an element (e.g., an adposition) without its complement adjacent to it.
- (transitive, nautical) To run aground; to beach.
- (transitive) To form by uniting strands.
- leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue
- bring to the ground
- drive (a vessel) ashore
noun
- The string of a musical instrument.
- (engineering) A horizontal member of a truss.
- (aeronautics) The distance between the leading and trailing edge of a wing, measured in the direction of the normal airflow.
- (graph theory) An edge that is not part of a cycle but connects two vertices of the cycle.
- (rail transport) A section of subsidiary railway track that interconnects two primary tracks that cross at different levels, to permit traffic to flow between them.
- (music) A harmonic set of three or more notes that is heard as if sounding simultaneously.
- (nautical) An imaginary line from the luff of a sail to its leech.
- (geometry) A line segment between two points of a curve.
- (anatomy) A cord.
- (computing) A keyboard shortcut that involves two or more distinct keypresses, such as Ctrl+M followed by P.
- a combination of three or more notes that blend harmoniously when sounded together
- a straight line connecting two points on a curve
verb
verb
- (transitive, music) To press down the string behind a fret.
- (transitive) To make rough, to agitate or disturb; to cause to ripple.
- (transitive) To decorate or ornament, especially with an interlaced or interwoven pattern, or (architecture) with carving or relief (raised) work.
- (transitive, music) # To fit frets on to (a musical instrument).
- (intransitive) To be anxious, to worry.
- (transitive) To cut through with a fretsaw, to create fretwork.
- (intransitive) To be agitated; to rankle; to be in violent commotion.
- (transitive) To form a pattern on; to variegate.
- (transitive) In the form fret out: to squander, to waste.
- (ambitransitive) To gnaw; to consume, to eat away.
- (intransitive, brewing, wine) To have secondary fermentation (fermentation occurring after the conversion of sugar to alcohol in beers and wine) take place.
- (ambitransitive) To be chafed or irritated; to be angry or vexed; to utter peevish expressions through irritation or worry.
- (transitive) To chafe or irritate; to worry.
- To bind, to tie, originally with a loop or ring.
- (ambitransitive) To mine by agitating or eating away at (ore in the bank of a river).
- (intransitive) To be worn away; to chafe; to fray.
- cause annoyance in
- worry unnecessarily or excessively
- provide (a musical instrument) with frets
- become or make sore by or as if by rubbing
- carve a pattern into
- gnaw into; make resentful or angry
- wear away or erode
- cause friction
- remove soil or rock
- be agitated or irritated
- be too tight; rub or press
- decorate with an interlaced design
noun
- Agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or some other cause; a rippling on the surface of water.
- Agitation of the mind marked by complaint and impatience; disturbance of temper; irritation.
- (rare) A channel or passage created by the sea.
- (Northumbria) A fog or mist at sea, or coming inland from the sea.
- (mining, in the plural) The worn sides of riverbanks, where ores or stones containing them accumulate after being washed down from higher ground, which thus indicate to miners the locality of veins of ore.
- (music) One of the pieces of metal, plastic or wood across the neck of a guitar or other string instrument that marks where a finger should be positioned to depress a string as it is played.
- A channel, a strait; a fretum.
- (heraldry) A saltire interlaced with a mascle.
- An ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines, often in relief.
- Herpes; tetter (“any of various pustular skin conditions”).
- an ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines (often in relief)
- agitation resulting from active worry
- a spot that has been worn away by abrasion or erosion
- a small bar of metal across the fingerboard of a musical instrument; when the string is stopped by a finger at the metal bar it will produce a note of the desired pitch
verb
- sound the strings of (a stringed instrument)
- make a rhythmic sound
- sound with a monotonous hum
- To cause a steady rhythmic vibration, usually by plucking.
- To furnish with thrums; to insert tufts in; to fringe.
- To make a monotonous drumming noise.
- (nautical) To insert short pieces of rope-yarn or spun yarn in.
noun
- a thrumming sound
- (figurative) A spicy taste; a tang.
- (botany) A threadlike part of a flower; a stamen.
- Any short piece of leftover thread or yarn; a tuft or tassel.
- (anatomy) A bundle of minute blood vessels, a plexus.
- (chiefly in the plural) A fringe made of such threads.
- (mining) A shove out of place; a small displacement or fault along a seam.
- The ends of the warp threads in a loom which remain unwoven attached to the loom when the web is cut.
- (nautical) A mat made of canvas and tufts of yarn.
- (nautical, chiefly in the plural) Small pieces of rope yarn used for making mats or mops.
- (botany) A tuft, bundle, or fringe of any threadlike structures, as hairs on a leaf, fibers of a root.
- A thrumming sound; a hum or vibration.
adj
noun
- A musical instrument mentioned in the Psalms, having ten strings and thought to resemble a lute or psaltery.
- (music) A set of ten pitches used to create a musical mode.
- Anything having ten parts, especially something of mystical Christian significance.
- (historical, music) An Ancient Greek musical instrument with ten strings, resembling the harp.
noun
- (lutherie) Lengths of fine silk, metal wire, or whalebone wrapped tightly around the stick of the bow of a string instrument adjacent to the leather part of the bow grip at the heel.
- (accounting) A form of fraud in which payments in the accounts are repeatedly delayed between periods, or diverted between customers, to conceal a theft.
- The process of forming a lap or fleece of fibrous material for the carding-machine.
- A kind of machine blanket or wrapping material used by calico printers.
- The rubbing or polishing of a metal surface.
- (firearms) The process of rubbing away the lands, or metal between the grooves of a rifled gun, to increase the bore.
- The gentle, rhythmic sound of water splashing against a solid surface.
- covering with a design in which one element covers a part of another (as with tiles or shingles)
verb
adj
- of a stringed instrument; sounded by stroking with a bow
- Having a bow (rod for playing stringed instruments).
- have legs that curve outward at the knees
- forming or resembling an arch
- showing an excessively deferential manner
- Having been played by a bow (rod for playing stringed instruments).
- Bent or curved.
- (in combination) Equipped with a bow (weapon).
verb
noun
- (music) One of the lowest strings on an archlute, theorbo, chitarrone, or similar bass lute-family instrument, usually unfrettable.
- (music) The musical octave.
- (music) A tonal grouping of the flue pipes of a pipe organ.
- A harmonious outpouring of sound.
- (by extension, literary) The range or scope of something, especially of notes in a scale, or of a particular musical instrument.
- either of the two main stops on a pipe organ
adj
- Of string or something stringlike: full of, or tied up, in knots.
- Complicated or tricky; complex, difficult.
- Of an austere or hard nature; rugged.
- Of a part of the body, a tree, etc.: full of knots (knobs or swellings); gnarled, knobbly.
- tangled in knots or snarls
- highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious
- used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots
- making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe
noun
- A stringed instrument, with strings stretched across a sounding board, usually trapezoidal, played by plucking on the strings (traditionally with a quill) or by tapping on them (in the case of the hammer dulcimers).
- a stringed instrument used in American folk music; an elliptical body and a fretted fingerboard and three strings
- a trapezoidal zither whose metal strings are struck with light hammers
noun
- One of the pins of a musical instrument, on which the strings are strained.
- (figurative) A support; a reason; a pretext.
- Ellipsis of clothes peg.
- A protrusion used to hang things on.
- (journalism) A topic of interest, such as an ongoing event or an anniversary, around which various features can be developed.
- A cylindrical wooden or metal object used to fasten or as a bearing between objects.
- (psychology) An easily recalled image that a person mentally visualizes with something else, in order to remember that other thing. See mnemonic peg system.
- (UK) A small quantity of a strong alcoholic beverage.
- A step; a degree.
- A place formally allotted for fishing
- (cribbage) A peg moved on a crib board to keep score.
- (finance) A fixed exchange rate, where a currency's value is matched to the value of another currency or measure such as gold.
- (slang) The penetration during anal sex using a strap-on dildo.
- (India) A serving of any hard spirit, particularly whisky.
- (cricket, slang) A stump.
- a prosthesis that replaces a missing leg
- a holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing
- regulator that can be turned to regulate the pitch of the strings of a stringed instrument
- small markers inserted into a surface to mark scores or define locations etc.
- informal terms for the leg
- a wooden pin pushed or driven into a surface
verb
- (transitive, slang) To indicate or ascribe an attribute to.
- (slang, transitive) To engage in anal sex by penetrating with a strap-on dildo.
- (transitive) To fix a value or price.
- (transitive) To narrow the cuff openings of a pair of pants so that the legs take on a peg shape.
- (intransitive) To keep working hard at something; to peg away.
- (transitive, slang) To reach or exceed the maximum value on (a scale or gauge).
- (cribbage) To move one's pegs to indicate points scored; to score with a peg.
- (transitive, slang) To throw.
- (transitive) To affix or pin.
- (transitive) To fasten using a peg.
- (transitive, kickball) To throw a ball at (someone), to hit (someone) with a ball.
- succeed in obtaining a position
- fasten or secure with a wooden pin
- stabilize (the price of a commodity or an exchange rate) by legislation or market operations
- pierce with a wooden pin or knock or thrust a wooden pin into
noun
- A stringed instrument with only one string.
- A bass note on a piano that has a single string.
- A musical instrument for experimenting with the mathematical relations of musical sounds, consisting of a single string stretched between two bridges, one or both of which can be moved, and which stand upon a graduated rule for the purpose of changing and measuring the length of the part of the string between them.
noun
- The scroll-shaped decoration at the tip of a fiddle.
- The furled fronds of a young fern, sometimes harvested for food consumption.
- A similar scroll-shaped ornament on a ship's bow.
- tall fern of northern temperate regions having graceful arched fronds and sporophylls resembling ostrich plumes
- New World fern having woolly cinnamon-colored spore-bearing fronds in early spring later surrounded by green fronds; the early uncurling fronds are edible
verb
noun
- A fretted stringed instrument, similar to the guitar, having a bowl-shaped body or soundbox; any of a wide variety of chordophones with a pear-shaped body and a neck whose upper surface is in the same plane as the soundboard, with strings along the neck and parallel to the soundboard.
- A packing ring, as of rubber, for fruit jars, etc.
- Thick sticky clay or cement used to close up a hole or gap, especially to make something air-tight.
- (brickmaking) A straight-edged piece of wood for striking off superfluous clay from earth.
- a substance for packing a joint or coating a porous surface to make it impervious to gas or liquid
- chordophone consisting of a plucked instrument having a pear-shaped body, a usually bent neck, and a fretted fingerboard
noun
- a sharp vibrating sound (as of a plucked string)
- exaggerated nasality in speech (as in some regional dialects)
- The sharp, quick sound of a vibrating tight string, for example, of a bow or a musical instrument.
- (vulgar, slang) An annoying or stupid person; especially, a recalcitrant.
- A sharp, pungent taste or flavor; sometimes, a disagreeable one specifically.
- A trace of a regional or foreign accent in someone's voice.
- (music) A particular sharp vibrating sound characteristic of electric guitars.
- (phonetics) The sound quality that appears in the human voice when the epilaryngeal tube is narrowed.
verb
- pluck (strings of an instrument)
- pronounce with a nasal twang
- twitch or throb with pain
- cause to sound with a twang
- sound with a twang
- (intransitive) To have a trace of a regional or foreign accent.
- (music) To play a stringed musical instrument by plucking and snapping.
- (intransitive) To have a nasal sound.
- (ambitransitive) To produce or cause to produce a sharp vibrating sound, like a tense string pulled and suddenly let go.
noun
- A kind of hooked instrument for untwisting old cordage.
- One who leaps.
- Synonym of jumper (“person who attempts suicide by jumping from a height”).
- (chess) A piece, like the knight, which moves a fixed distance, and ignores pieces in the way.
- A person whose birthday falls on 29 February, and thus only occurs in leap years.
- someone who bounds or leaps (as in competition)
noun
- (music) The end of a bow of a stringed instrument that is not held.
- (Australia) A prediction of the winning team in a football game by a participant in a footy tipping competition.
- (African-American Vernacular) A kick or phase; one's current habits or behaviour.
- A piece of metal, fabric or other material used to cover the top of something for protection, utility or decoration.
- A thin, boarded brush made of camel's hair, used by gilders in lifting gold leaf.
- (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, by extension) A recycling centre.
- The act of deflecting with one's fingers, especially the fingertips
- A piece of private or secret information, especially imparted by someone with expert knowledge about sporting odds, business performance etc.
- (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) Rubbish thrown from a quarry.
- (slang) the glans penis
- The extreme end of something, especially when pointed; e.g. the sharp end of a pencil.
- An act of tipping up or tilting.
- (African-American Vernacular) A particular arena or sphere of interest; a front.
- (Australia) A prediction about the outcome of something.
- (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) An area or a place for dumping something, such as rubbish or refuse, as from a mine; a heap (see tipple); a dump.
- (colloquial) A very untidy place.
- A gratuity; a small amount of money left for a bartender, waiter, taxi driver or other service worker as a token of appreciation, often calculated as a percentage of the bill.
- A piece of stiffened lining pasted on the inside of a hat crown.
- A piece of advice.
- Synonym of eartip (“part of earbuds”).
- A tram for expeditiously transferring coal.
- (chiefly in the plural) A small piece of meat.
- a relatively small amount of money given for services rendered (as by a waiter)
- the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill)
- an indication of potential opportunity
- a V shape
- the extreme end of something; especially something pointed
verb
- (Australia) To enter a prediction of the winning team of a football game, as part of a footy tipping competition.
- To cause the contents of a container to be emptied out by tilting it.
- (US, transitive) To pour a libation or a liquid from a container, particularly from a forty of malt liquor.
- (ergative) (To cause) to be, or come to be, in a tilted or sloping position; (to cause) to become unbalanced.
- (thieves' cant) To give, pass.
- (ergative) (To cause) to become knocked over, fall down or overturn.
- To give a small gratuity to, especially to an employee of someone who provides a service.
- (Australia) To predict something having a particular outcome.
- To give a piece of private information to; to inform (someone) of a clue, secret knowledge, etc.
- (transitive) To provide with a tip; to cover the tip of.
- (transitive) To dump (refuse).
- (transitive) To deflect with one′s fingers, especially one′s fingertips.
- cause to tilt
- walk on one's toes
- give insider information or advise to
- remove the tip from
- mark with a tip
- give a tip or gratuity to in return for a service, beyond the compensation agreed on
- cause to topple or tumble by pushing
- strike lightly
- to incline or bend from a vertical position
noun
- The part of a lute-type string instrument, such as a guitar, that holds the tuning pegs or tensioning screws of the strings.
- (mining) A headframe.
- A clamp that restrains a cow by the neck.
- (rail transport) A transverse structural member at the extreme end of a rail vehicle's underframe, also used on some bogies.
- A part of a machine (such as a lathe or drill) that contains the primary spindle.
- A beam that supports a bell.
- the stationary support in a machine or power tool that supports and drives a revolving part (as a chuck or the spindle on a lathe)
noun
verb
noun
- A string.
- A small brook or rivulet.
- (figurative) An element in a composite whole; a sequence of linked events or facts; a logical thread.
- (broadcasting) A series of programmes on a particular theme or linked subject.
- (electronics) A group of wires, usually twisted or braided.
- (British dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A passage for water; gutter.
- An individual length of any fine, string-like substance.
- A street.
- (informal) Synonym of track.
- (genetics) A nucleotide chain.
- (formal) A specialization of a senior high school track.
- The shore or beach of the sea or ocean.
- Each of the strings which, twisted together, make up a yarn, rope or cord.
- a very slender natural or synthetic fiber
- a poetic term for a shore (as the area periodically covered and uncovered by the tides)
- line consisting of a complex of fibers or filaments that are twisted together to form a thread or a rope or a cable
- a necklace made by stringing objects together
- a pattern forming a unity within a larger structural whole
verb
- (baseball) To cause the third out of an inning to be made, leaving a runner on base.
- (transitive, figuratively) To leave (someone) in a difficult situation; to abandon or desert.
- (transitive) To break a strand of (a rope).
- (transitive, grammar) To leave an element (e.g., an adposition) without its complement adjacent to it.
- (transitive, nautical) To run aground; to beach.
- (transitive) To form by uniting strands.
- leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue
- bring to the ground
- drive (a vessel) ashore
noun
- The string of a musical instrument.
- (engineering) A horizontal member of a truss.
- (aeronautics) The distance between the leading and trailing edge of a wing, measured in the direction of the normal airflow.
- (graph theory) An edge that is not part of a cycle but connects two vertices of the cycle.
- (rail transport) A section of subsidiary railway track that interconnects two primary tracks that cross at different levels, to permit traffic to flow between them.
- (music) A harmonic set of three or more notes that is heard as if sounding simultaneously.
- (nautical) An imaginary line from the luff of a sail to its leech.
- (geometry) A line segment between two points of a curve.
- (anatomy) A cord.
- (computing) A keyboard shortcut that involves two or more distinct keypresses, such as Ctrl+M followed by P.
- a combination of three or more notes that blend harmoniously when sounded together
- a straight line connecting two points on a curve
verb
noun
- A musical instrument mentioned in the Psalms, having ten strings and thought to resemble a lute or psaltery.
- (music) A set of ten pitches used to create a musical mode.
- Anything having ten parts, especially something of mystical Christian significance.
- (historical, music) An Ancient Greek musical instrument with ten strings, resembling the harp.
noun
- (lutherie) Lengths of fine silk, metal wire, or whalebone wrapped tightly around the stick of the bow of a string instrument adjacent to the leather part of the bow grip at the heel.
- (accounting) A form of fraud in which payments in the accounts are repeatedly delayed between periods, or diverted between customers, to conceal a theft.
- The process of forming a lap or fleece of fibrous material for the carding-machine.
- A kind of machine blanket or wrapping material used by calico printers.
- The rubbing or polishing of a metal surface.
- (firearms) The process of rubbing away the lands, or metal between the grooves of a rifled gun, to increase the bore.
- The gentle, rhythmic sound of water splashing against a solid surface.
- covering with a design in which one element covers a part of another (as with tiles or shingles)
verb
noun
- (music) One of the lowest strings on an archlute, theorbo, chitarrone, or similar bass lute-family instrument, usually unfrettable.
- (music) The musical octave.
- (music) A tonal grouping of the flue pipes of a pipe organ.
- A harmonious outpouring of sound.
- (by extension, literary) The range or scope of something, especially of notes in a scale, or of a particular musical instrument.
- either of the two main stops on a pipe organ
noun
- A stringed instrument, with strings stretched across a sounding board, usually trapezoidal, played by plucking on the strings (traditionally with a quill) or by tapping on them (in the case of the hammer dulcimers).
- a stringed instrument used in American folk music; an elliptical body and a fretted fingerboard and three strings
- a trapezoidal zither whose metal strings are struck with light hammers
noun
- One of the pins of a musical instrument, on which the strings are strained.
- (figurative) A support; a reason; a pretext.
- Ellipsis of clothes peg.
- A protrusion used to hang things on.
- (journalism) A topic of interest, such as an ongoing event or an anniversary, around which various features can be developed.
- A cylindrical wooden or metal object used to fasten or as a bearing between objects.
- (psychology) An easily recalled image that a person mentally visualizes with something else, in order to remember that other thing. See mnemonic peg system.
- (UK) A small quantity of a strong alcoholic beverage.
- A step; a degree.
- A place formally allotted for fishing
- (cribbage) A peg moved on a crib board to keep score.
- (finance) A fixed exchange rate, where a currency's value is matched to the value of another currency or measure such as gold.
- (slang) The penetration during anal sex using a strap-on dildo.
- (India) A serving of any hard spirit, particularly whisky.
- (cricket, slang) A stump.
- a prosthesis that replaces a missing leg
- a holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing
- regulator that can be turned to regulate the pitch of the strings of a stringed instrument
- small markers inserted into a surface to mark scores or define locations etc.
- informal terms for the leg
- a wooden pin pushed or driven into a surface
verb
- (transitive, slang) To indicate or ascribe an attribute to.
- (slang, transitive) To engage in anal sex by penetrating with a strap-on dildo.
- (transitive) To fix a value or price.
- (transitive) To narrow the cuff openings of a pair of pants so that the legs take on a peg shape.
- (intransitive) To keep working hard at something; to peg away.
- (transitive, slang) To reach or exceed the maximum value on (a scale or gauge).
- (cribbage) To move one's pegs to indicate points scored; to score with a peg.
- (transitive, slang) To throw.
- (transitive) To affix or pin.
- (transitive) To fasten using a peg.
- (transitive, kickball) To throw a ball at (someone), to hit (someone) with a ball.
- succeed in obtaining a position
- fasten or secure with a wooden pin
- stabilize (the price of a commodity or an exchange rate) by legislation or market operations
- pierce with a wooden pin or knock or thrust a wooden pin into
noun
- A stringed instrument with only one string.
- A bass note on a piano that has a single string.
- A musical instrument for experimenting with the mathematical relations of musical sounds, consisting of a single string stretched between two bridges, one or both of which can be moved, and which stand upon a graduated rule for the purpose of changing and measuring the length of the part of the string between them.
noun
- The scroll-shaped decoration at the tip of a fiddle.
- The furled fronds of a young fern, sometimes harvested for food consumption.
- A similar scroll-shaped ornament on a ship's bow.
- tall fern of northern temperate regions having graceful arched fronds and sporophylls resembling ostrich plumes
- New World fern having woolly cinnamon-colored spore-bearing fronds in early spring later surrounded by green fronds; the early uncurling fronds are edible
noun
- a sharp vibrating sound (as of a plucked string)
- exaggerated nasality in speech (as in some regional dialects)
- The sharp, quick sound of a vibrating tight string, for example, of a bow or a musical instrument.
- (vulgar, slang) An annoying or stupid person; especially, a recalcitrant.
- A sharp, pungent taste or flavor; sometimes, a disagreeable one specifically.
- A trace of a regional or foreign accent in someone's voice.
- (music) A particular sharp vibrating sound characteristic of electric guitars.
- (phonetics) The sound quality that appears in the human voice when the epilaryngeal tube is narrowed.
verb
- pluck (strings of an instrument)
- pronounce with a nasal twang
- twitch or throb with pain
- cause to sound with a twang
- sound with a twang
- (intransitive) To have a trace of a regional or foreign accent.
- (music) To play a stringed musical instrument by plucking and snapping.
- (intransitive) To have a nasal sound.
- (ambitransitive) To produce or cause to produce a sharp vibrating sound, like a tense string pulled and suddenly let go.
noun
- A kind of hooked instrument for untwisting old cordage.
- One who leaps.
- Synonym of jumper (“person who attempts suicide by jumping from a height”).
- (chess) A piece, like the knight, which moves a fixed distance, and ignores pieces in the way.
- A person whose birthday falls on 29 February, and thus only occurs in leap years.
- someone who bounds or leaps (as in competition)
noun
- (music) The end of a bow of a stringed instrument that is not held.
- (Australia) A prediction of the winning team in a football game by a participant in a footy tipping competition.
- (African-American Vernacular) A kick or phase; one's current habits or behaviour.
- A piece of metal, fabric or other material used to cover the top of something for protection, utility or decoration.
- A thin, boarded brush made of camel's hair, used by gilders in lifting gold leaf.
- (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, by extension) A recycling centre.
- The act of deflecting with one's fingers, especially the fingertips
- A piece of private or secret information, especially imparted by someone with expert knowledge about sporting odds, business performance etc.
- (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) Rubbish thrown from a quarry.
- (slang) the glans penis
- The extreme end of something, especially when pointed; e.g. the sharp end of a pencil.
- An act of tipping up or tilting.
- (African-American Vernacular) A particular arena or sphere of interest; a front.
- (Australia) A prediction about the outcome of something.
- (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) An area or a place for dumping something, such as rubbish or refuse, as from a mine; a heap (see tipple); a dump.
- (colloquial) A very untidy place.
- A gratuity; a small amount of money left for a bartender, waiter, taxi driver or other service worker as a token of appreciation, often calculated as a percentage of the bill.
- A piece of stiffened lining pasted on the inside of a hat crown.
- A piece of advice.
- Synonym of eartip (“part of earbuds”).
- A tram for expeditiously transferring coal.
- (chiefly in the plural) A small piece of meat.
- a relatively small amount of money given for services rendered (as by a waiter)
- the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill)
- an indication of potential opportunity
- a V shape
- the extreme end of something; especially something pointed
verb
- (Australia) To enter a prediction of the winning team of a football game, as part of a footy tipping competition.
- To cause the contents of a container to be emptied out by tilting it.
- (US, transitive) To pour a libation or a liquid from a container, particularly from a forty of malt liquor.
- (ergative) (To cause) to be, or come to be, in a tilted or sloping position; (to cause) to become unbalanced.
- (thieves' cant) To give, pass.
- (ergative) (To cause) to become knocked over, fall down or overturn.
- To give a small gratuity to, especially to an employee of someone who provides a service.
- (Australia) To predict something having a particular outcome.
- To give a piece of private information to; to inform (someone) of a clue, secret knowledge, etc.
- (transitive) To provide with a tip; to cover the tip of.
- (transitive) To dump (refuse).
- (transitive) To deflect with one′s fingers, especially one′s fingertips.
- cause to tilt
- walk on one's toes
- give insider information or advise to
- remove the tip from
- mark with a tip
- give a tip or gratuity to in return for a service, beyond the compensation agreed on
- cause to topple or tumble by pushing
- strike lightly
- to incline or bend from a vertical position
noun
- The part of a lute-type string instrument, such as a guitar, that holds the tuning pegs or tensioning screws of the strings.
- (mining) A headframe.
- A clamp that restrains a cow by the neck.
- (rail transport) A transverse structural member at the extreme end of a rail vehicle's underframe, also used on some bogies.
- A part of a machine (such as a lathe or drill) that contains the primary spindle.
- A beam that supports a bell.
- the stationary support in a machine or power tool that supports and drives a revolving part (as a chuck or the spindle on a lathe)
verb
- (transitive, music) To press down the string behind a fret.
- (transitive) To make rough, to agitate or disturb; to cause to ripple.
- (transitive) To decorate or ornament, especially with an interlaced or interwoven pattern, or (architecture) with carving or relief (raised) work.
- (transitive, music) # To fit frets on to (a musical instrument).
- (intransitive) To be anxious, to worry.
- (transitive) To cut through with a fretsaw, to create fretwork.
- (intransitive) To be agitated; to rankle; to be in violent commotion.
- (transitive) To form a pattern on; to variegate.
- (transitive) In the form fret out: to squander, to waste.
- (ambitransitive) To gnaw; to consume, to eat away.
- (intransitive, brewing, wine) To have secondary fermentation (fermentation occurring after the conversion of sugar to alcohol in beers and wine) take place.
- (ambitransitive) To be chafed or irritated; to be angry or vexed; to utter peevish expressions through irritation or worry.
- (transitive) To chafe or irritate; to worry.
- To bind, to tie, originally with a loop or ring.
- (ambitransitive) To mine by agitating or eating away at (ore in the bank of a river).
- (intransitive) To be worn away; to chafe; to fray.
- cause annoyance in
- worry unnecessarily or excessively
- provide (a musical instrument) with frets
- become or make sore by or as if by rubbing
- carve a pattern into
- gnaw into; make resentful or angry
- wear away or erode
- cause friction
- remove soil or rock
- be agitated or irritated
- be too tight; rub or press
- decorate with an interlaced design
noun
- Agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or some other cause; a rippling on the surface of water.
- Agitation of the mind marked by complaint and impatience; disturbance of temper; irritation.
- (rare) A channel or passage created by the sea.
- (Northumbria) A fog or mist at sea, or coming inland from the sea.
- (mining, in the plural) The worn sides of riverbanks, where ores or stones containing them accumulate after being washed down from higher ground, which thus indicate to miners the locality of veins of ore.
- (music) One of the pieces of metal, plastic or wood across the neck of a guitar or other string instrument that marks where a finger should be positioned to depress a string as it is played.
- A channel, a strait; a fretum.
- (heraldry) A saltire interlaced with a mascle.
- An ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines, often in relief.
- Herpes; tetter (“any of various pustular skin conditions”).
- an ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines (often in relief)
- agitation resulting from active worry
- a spot that has been worn away by abrasion or erosion
- a small bar of metal across the fingerboard of a musical instrument; when the string is stopped by a finger at the metal bar it will produce a note of the desired pitch
verb
- sound the strings of (a stringed instrument)
- make a rhythmic sound
- sound with a monotonous hum
- To cause a steady rhythmic vibration, usually by plucking.
- To furnish with thrums; to insert tufts in; to fringe.
- To make a monotonous drumming noise.
- (nautical) To insert short pieces of rope-yarn or spun yarn in.
noun
- a thrumming sound
- (figurative) A spicy taste; a tang.
- (botany) A threadlike part of a flower; a stamen.
- Any short piece of leftover thread or yarn; a tuft or tassel.
- (anatomy) A bundle of minute blood vessels, a plexus.
- (chiefly in the plural) A fringe made of such threads.
- (mining) A shove out of place; a small displacement or fault along a seam.
- The ends of the warp threads in a loom which remain unwoven attached to the loom when the web is cut.
- (nautical) A mat made of canvas and tufts of yarn.
- (nautical, chiefly in the plural) Small pieces of rope yarn used for making mats or mops.
- (botany) A tuft, bundle, or fringe of any threadlike structures, as hairs on a leaf, fibers of a root.
- A thrumming sound; a hum or vibration.
adj
verb
noun
- A fretted stringed instrument, similar to the guitar, having a bowl-shaped body or soundbox; any of a wide variety of chordophones with a pear-shaped body and a neck whose upper surface is in the same plane as the soundboard, with strings along the neck and parallel to the soundboard.
- A packing ring, as of rubber, for fruit jars, etc.
- Thick sticky clay or cement used to close up a hole or gap, especially to make something air-tight.
- (brickmaking) A straight-edged piece of wood for striking off superfluous clay from earth.
- a substance for packing a joint or coating a porous surface to make it impervious to gas or liquid
- chordophone consisting of a plucked instrument having a pear-shaped body, a usually bent neck, and a fretted fingerboard
noun
- a sharp vibrating sound (as of a plucked string)
- exaggerated nasality in speech (as in some regional dialects)
- The sharp, quick sound of a vibrating tight string, for example, of a bow or a musical instrument.
- (vulgar, slang) An annoying or stupid person; especially, a recalcitrant.
- A sharp, pungent taste or flavor; sometimes, a disagreeable one specifically.
- A trace of a regional or foreign accent in someone's voice.
- (music) A particular sharp vibrating sound characteristic of electric guitars.
- (phonetics) The sound quality that appears in the human voice when the epilaryngeal tube is narrowed.
verb
- pluck (strings of an instrument)
- pronounce with a nasal twang
- twitch or throb with pain
- cause to sound with a twang
- sound with a twang
- (intransitive) To have a trace of a regional or foreign accent.
- (music) To play a stringed musical instrument by plucking and snapping.
- (intransitive) To have a nasal sound.
- (ambitransitive) To produce or cause to produce a sharp vibrating sound, like a tense string pulled and suddenly let go.
adj
- of a stringed instrument; sounded by stroking with a bow
- Having a bow (rod for playing stringed instruments).
- have legs that curve outward at the knees
- forming or resembling an arch
- showing an excessively deferential manner
- Having been played by a bow (rod for playing stringed instruments).
- Bent or curved.
- (in combination) Equipped with a bow (weapon).
verb
adj
- Of string or something stringlike: full of, or tied up, in knots.
- Complicated or tricky; complex, difficult.
- Of an austere or hard nature; rugged.
- Of a part of the body, a tree, etc.: full of knots (knobs or swellings); gnarled, knobbly.
- tangled in knots or snarls
- highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious
- used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots
- making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe