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- To attempt in an informal or uncertain manner; to fiddle.
- Often followed by about or around: to mess around, to play.
- To ponder or think, especially in an unproductive or unsystematic manner; to muse.
- To search (mullock (“mining or ore processing waste”)) for opals.
- (ambitransitive, Shetland, singing) To hum or sing (a tune) at a low pitch or volume.
- (intransitive) To search mullock for opals; to fossick.
- (chiefly jazz) To play (a musical instrument or passage of music) or to sing (a passage of music) in an improvisatory or lighthearted manner; also, to play (a series of ornamental notes) on an instrument.
- To obtain (an opal) by searching through mullock.
- (US, informal) To ponder or think about (something).
- (transitive, fishing) To catch (fish (usually very large catfish), turtles, or other aquatic animals) with the hands; also, to catch (fish) using a gaff or fishing spear; to gaff.
- (also figuratively) To clear extraneous material from (an opal).
- (intransitive, British, dialectal, informal) To engage in frivolous behavior; to fool around or waste time.
- (chiefly jazz) To play a musical instrument or to sing in an improvisatory or lighthearted manner; also, to play a series of ornamental notes on an instrument.
noun
- (informal) Ellipsis of pool noodle (“a long, slender tube or rod, extruded from buoyant foam and usually brightly coloured, used as an exercise tool or toy in swimming pools”).
- (by extension) An object which is long and thin like a noodle (sense 1).
- (furry fandom) A long and slender dragon, usually an eastern dragon.
- (Internet slang, endearing, humorous) A borzoi dog.
- (usually in the plural) A string or flat strip of pasta or other dough, usually cooked (at least initially) by boiling, and served in soup or in a dry form mixed with a sauce and other ingredients.
- (slang) The brain; the head.
- (slang) The penis.
- (chiefly jazz) An improvised passage of music played on an instrument; also, a series of ornamental notes played on an instrument; a trill.
- informal terms for a human head
- a ribbonlike strip of pasta
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- One who plays the fiddle.
- One who fiddles or tweaks.
- One who fiddles; a cheat.
- A large species of cicada, Macrotristria angularis, of eastern Australia; cherry nose.
- (nautical, slang) The capstan-house on a steamer.
- A burrowing crab of the genus Gelasimus, of many species. The male has one claw very much enlarged, and often holds it in a position similar to that in which a musician holds a fiddle.
- The common European sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucos); so called because it habitually wags its tail up and down resembling the back and forth movement of a fiddler.
- a musician who plays the violin
- someone who manipulates in a nervous or unconscious manner
- an unskilled person who tries to fix or mend
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- The discus used in ancient sports.
- The flat stone covering a cromlech.
- An ancient burial mound, synonymous with dolmen.
- A flat disc of metal or stone thrown at a target in the game of quoits.
- A ring of rubber or rope similarly used in the game of deck-quoits.
- game equipment consisting of a ring of iron or circle of rope used in playing the game of quoits
verb
- (intransitive) To fiddle; fidget; wiggle, or adjust
- (transitive) To pet.
- (transitive) To disturb (a person)
- (intransitive, US, especially of babies) To cry or be ill-humoured.
- (intransitive) To be very worried or excited about something, often too much.
- (intransitive, with over) To show affection for, especially animals.
- worry unnecessarily or excessively
- care for like a mother
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- (intransitive, chiefly humorous) To play bagpipes, a fiddle, or a pipe.
- (transitive, construction, masonry) To use a screed to produce a smooth, flat surface of concrete, plaster, or similar material; also (generally) to put down a layer of concrete, plaster, etc.
- (intransitive) To make a discordant or harsh scratching or tearing sound.
- (intransitive, Scotland) To become rent or torn.
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- (by extension) A speech or piece of writing which contains angry and extended criticism.
- A tool, usually a long strip of wood or other material, placed on a floor to be covered with concrete, a wall to be plastered, etc., as a guide for producing a smooth, flat surface.
- Chiefly in the plural form screeds: a large quantity.
- A smooth, flat layer of concrete, plaster, or similar material, especially if acting as a base for paving stones, tiles, wooden planks, etc.
- The sound of something scratching or tearing.
- A piece of writing (such as an article, letter, or list) or a speech, especially if long.
- A tool such as a long strip of wood or other material which is drawn over a wet layer of concrete, plaster, etc., to make it smooth and flat; also, a machine that achieves this effect; a screeder.
- (chiefly humorous) A (discordant) sound or tune played on bagpipes, a fiddle, or a pipe.
- a long monotonous harangue
- an accurately levelled strip of material placed on a wall or floor as guide for the even application of plaster or concrete
- a long piece of writing
verb
- play negligently on a musical instrument
- To trifle or play.
- entice through the use of music
- sing in modulation
- To twiddle.
- To make a shrill or trilling sound
- To go; to proceed without much enthusiasm.
- (UK, slang) To sell fake jewellery as genuine.
- (of two people) To move or speak in unison (like Tweedledum and Tweedledee)
- To say in a high-pitched voice.
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- (transitive, music, informal) To commence playing.
- (backgammon) To take up, or replace by a piece belonging to the opposing player; said of a single unprotected piece on a point.
- (transitive) To affect negatively.
- (transitive, US, slang) To have sex with.
- (figurative, ambitransitive) To affect someone, as if dealing a blow to that person.
- (figuratively) To attack.
- (transitive, slang) To kill a person, usually on the instructions of a third party.
- To guess; to light upon or discover.
- (intransitive, baseball) To come up to bat.
- (intransitive) To meet or reach what was aimed at or desired; to succeed, often by luck.
- (transitive, colloquial) To switch on or switch off (lights).
- (transitive, informal) To reach or achieve.
- (transitive) To activate a button or key by pressing and releasing it.
- (transitive) To administer a blow to, directly or with a weapon or missile.
- (transitive) To come into contact with forcefully and suddenly.
- (transitive, military) To attack, especially amphibiously.
- (transitive, informal) To encounter an obstacle or other difficulty.
- (transitive) To manage to touch (a target) in the right place.
- (transitive, US, slang) To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana.
- (transitive, card games) In blackjack, to deal a card to.
- (transitive, colloquial) To briefly visit.
- (transitive, bodybuilding) To work out.
- (intransitive) To strike against something.
- (transitive, bodybuilding) (of an exercise) to affect, to work a body part.
- (transitive, computing, programming) To use; to connect to.
- reach a destination, either real or abstract
- cause to experience suddenly
- hit against; come into sudden contact with
- hit the intended target or goal
- affect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely
- make a strategic, offensive, assault against an enemy, opponent, or a target
- deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument
- drive something violently into a location
- cause to move by striking
- kill intentionally and with premeditation
- hit with a missile from a weapon
- produce by manipulating keys or strings of musical instruments
- pay unsolicited and usually unwanted sexual attention to
- encounter by chance
- reach a point in time, or a certain state or level
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- (Internet) A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server.
- Something very successful, such as a song, film, or video game, that receives widespread recognition and acclaim.
- (baseball) The complete play, when the batter reaches base without the benefit of a walk, error, or fielder’s choice.
- (backgammon) A game won after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than a gammon.
- A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.
- (backgammon) A move that throws one of the opponent's men back to the entering point.
- In the game of Battleship, a correct guess at where one's opponent ship is.
- An attack on a location, person or people.
- (figuratively) A blow; a calamitous or damaging occurrence.
- A collision of a projectile with the target.
- (computing, Internet) A match found by searching a computer system or search engine
- An approximately correct answer in a test set.
- A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything.
- (colloquial) A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.
- the act of contacting one thing with another
- a connection made via the internet to another website
- a conspicuous success
- (physics) a brief event in which two or more bodies come together
- a dose of a narcotic drug
- a murder carried out by an underworld syndicate
- (baseball) when a batter strikes a pitched ball into fair territory and arrives safely on base (without an error or a fielder's choice being made by the defense)
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- (figuratively) Especially in the form to play tiddlywinks: a meaningless or unimportant activity.
- plural of tiddlywink
- (also attributively) A competitive game in which the objective is to flick as many small discs (each called a tiddlywink or wink) as possible into a container (the pot) by pressing on their edges with a larger disc (a shooter or squidger), causing them to jump up from the surface on which they are placed.
- a game in which players try to flip plastic disks into a cup by pressing them on the side sharply with a larger disk
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- the kind of playing that involves pressing the fingers on the strings of a stringed instrument to control the pitch
- fastener consisting of a narrow strip of welded metal used to join steel members
- A pad or poultice of dung or other material applied to a horse's hoof to keep it moist.
- The act of something that stops; a halt.
- (mining) A partition or door to direct or prevent a current of air.
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- Averse to work, labor or employment; lazy; slothful.
- Of no importance; useless; worthless; vain; trifling; thoughtless; silly.
- Not being used appropriately; not occupied; (of time) with no, no important, or not much activity.
- Not engaged in any occupation or employment; unemployed; inactive; doing nothing in particular.
- not having a job
- not in active use
- lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility
- silly or trivial
- not in action or at work
- without a basis in reason or fact
- not yielding a return
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- (intransitive) Of an engine: to run at a slow speed, or out of gear; to tick over.
- (transitive) To cause (an engine) to idle(3)
- (intransitive) To lose or spend time doing nothing, or without being employed in business.
- (transitive) To spend in idleness; to waste; to consume.
- be idle; exist in a changeless situation
- run disconnected or idle
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- (intransitive) To amuse oneself, to play.
- (reflexive) To divert; to amuse; to make merry.
- (intransitive) To mock or tease, treat lightly, toy with.
- (transitive) To display; to have as a notable feature.
- To assume suddenly a new and different character from the rest of the plant or from the type of the species; said of a bud, shoot, plant, or animal.
- (transitive) To represent by any kind of play.
- To practise the diversions of the field or the turf; to be given to betting, as upon races.
- wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner
- play boisterously
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- (uncountable) Gaming for money as in racing, hunting, or fishing.
- (slang, countable) A sportsman; a gambler.
- Term of endearment used by an adult for a child, usually a boy.
- (countable) A person who exhibits either good or bad sportsmanship.
- (countable) A toy; a plaything; an object of mockery.
- (countable, uncountable) Any activity that uses physical exertion or skills competitively under a set of rules that is not based on aesthetics.
- (biology, botany, zoology, countable) A plant or an animal, or part of a plant or animal, which has some peculiarity not usually seen in the species; an abnormal variety or growth. The term encompasses both mutants and organisms with non-genetic developmental abnormalities such as birth defects.
- (informal, usually singular) A friend or acquaintance (chiefly used when speaking to the friend in question)
- (slang, countable) One who consorts with disreputable people, including prostitutes.
- (countable) Somebody who behaves or reacts in an admirably good-natured manner, e.g. to being teased or to losing a game; a good sport.
- (biology) an organism that has characteristics resulting from chromosomal alteration
- verbal wit or mockery (often at another's expense but not to be taken seriously)
- the occupation of athletes who compete for pay
- a person known for the way they behave when teased or defeated or subjected to trying circumstances
- (Maine colloquial) a temporary summer resident of Maine
- someone who engages in sports
- an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition
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- (by extension) Someone who fiddles or tinkers with things.
- (mining, historical) An ostler; one who looks after the horses in a mine.
- (slang, UK, Lancashire) A friend or mate.
- A person who maintains railway lines.
- Someone whose job is to sand and grind small imperfections from metal and ceramic castings.
verb
- To play a stringed instrument with a downward plucking motion.
- To strike down; to knock down, kill, or cripple.
- To strike from above.
- To move downward in a striking motion.
- (masonry) To point (finish a joint) by pressing mortar in at the bottom.
- To go in a downward direction.
- To dismay, reject, demote, or render lowly.
- (of current or lightning) To arc to ground in a downstrike.
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- A downward plucking motion on a stringed instrument.
- A bolt of lightning that touches ground.
- A downstroke; a downward movement that terminates in striking something.
- A type of manual typewriter that causes the letters to print on the downstroke of the keys and retract as the key rises.
- A line that is drawn with a downward stroke.
- (electrical engineering) A (usually unintended) branch of current that arcs downward to ground.
- A blow by a hand or weapon that occurs with a downward striking motion.
- A variety of various devices that operates primarily by a downward striking action.
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- play the violin or fiddle
- (intransitive) To play the fiddle or violin, particularly in a folk or country style.
- (intransitive) To fidget or play; to fuss; to idly amuse oneself, to act aimlessly, idly, or frivolously, particularly out of nervousness or restlessness; see also fiddle with.
- play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly
- commit fraud and steal from one's employer
- avoid (one's assigned duties)
- play on a violin
- try to fix or mend
- manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination
- (informal, intransitive) Synonym of tinker (“to make small adjustments or improvements”); see also fiddle with.
- (informal, transitive) To fraudulently manipulate (records, accounts, etc.) in order to cheat or swindle.
noun
- (informal) An act of tinkering, playing around, or fidgeting with something.
- bowed stringed instrument that is the highest member of the violin family; this instrument has four strings and a hollow body and an unfretted fingerboard and is played with a bow
- A violinist, or fiddler, in a band.
- (informal) A workaround; a quick and less than perfect solution for some flaw or problem.
- A rack for drying pottery after glazing.
- (figurative) A clown; an unserious person entertaining a group.
- (informal) A scam; a fraud or swindle.
- (especially nautical) Any rail or device that prevents items from sliding off a table, stove, etc. in rough water.
- A violin, a small unfretted stringed instrument with four strings tuned (lowest to highest) G-D-A-E, usually held against the chin, shoulder, chest or on the upper thigh and played with a bow (see also usage notes below).
- (biology) A dock (Rumex pulcher) with leaves supposed to resemble the musical instrument.
- (usually proscribed) Any of various other bowed stringed instruments, particularly those of the violin family when played non-classically.
- A long pole pulled by a draft animal to drag loose straw, hay, etc.
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- (music) To play a stringed musical instrument by plucking and snapping.
- (intransitive) To have a trace of a regional or foreign accent.
- (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.
- pronounce with a nasal twang
- twitch or throb with pain
- cause to sound with a twang
- sound with a twang
- pluck (strings of an instrument)
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- 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.
- a sharp vibrating sound (as of a plucked string)
- exaggerated nasality in speech (as in some regional dialects)
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- (transitive) To play mischievous pranks on.
- To place (someone) on the back of another person, or on a wooden horse, chair, etc., to be flogged or punished.
- To take or carry on the back.
- (by extension) To flog.
- To sit astride of; to bestride.
- (informal) To cram (food) quickly, indiscriminately or in great volume.
- (intransitive) Synonym of horse around.
- (transitive) To provide with a horse; supply horses for.
- (transitive) To pull, haul, or move (something) with great effort, like a horse would.
- (of a male horse) To copulate with (a mare).
- provide with a horse or horses
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- (poker slang) A player who has been staked, i.e. another player has paid for their buy-in and claims a percentage of any winnings.
- (mining) A mass of earthy matter, or rock of the same character as the wall rock, occurring in the course of a vein, as of coal or ore; hence, to take horse (said of a vein) is to divide into branches for a distance.
- (slang) Heroin (drug).
- (military, sometimes uncountable) Cavalry soldiers (sometimes capitalized when referring to an official category).
- (US) An informal variant of basketball in which players match shots made by their opponent(s), each miss adding a letter to the word "horse", with 5 misses spelling the whole word and eliminating a player, until only the winner is left. Also HORSE, H-O-R-S-E or H.O.R.S.E. (see H-O-R-S-E on WikipediaWikipedia).
- A hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.
- In gymnastics, a piece of equipment with a body on two or four legs, approximately four feet high, sometimes (pommel horse) with two handles on top.
- A frame with legs, used to support something.
- (xiangqi) A xiangqi piece that moves and captures one point orthogonally and then one point diagonally.
- A breastband for a leadsman.
- (historical) A timber frame shaped like a horse, which soldiers were made to ride for punishment.
- (zoology) Any current or extinct animal of the family Equidae, including zebras and asses.
- An iron bar for a sheet traveller to slide upon.
- (slang) A large and sturdy person.
- A jackstay.
- A rope stretching along a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling the sails; footrope.
- (chess, informal) The chess piece representing a knight, depicted as a horse.
- (uncountable) The flesh of a horse as an item of cuisine.
- Any member of the species Equus ferus, including the Przewalski's horse and the extinct Equus ferus ferus.
- (prison slang) A prison guard who smuggles contraband in or out for prisoners.
- solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times
- troops trained to fight on horseback
- a padded gymnastic apparatus on legs
- a framework for holding wood that is being sawed
- a chessman shaped to resemble the head of a horse; can move two squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa)
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- (music) A stringed musical instrument, of European origin, usually with a fretted fingerboard and six strings, played with the fingers or a plectrum (guitar pick).
- (music) Any type of musical instrument of the lute family, characterized by a flat back, along with a neck whose upper surface is in the same plane as the soundboard, with strings along the neck and parallel to the soundboard.
- a stringed instrument usually having six strings; played by strumming or plucking
verb
- (intransitive) To play truant.
- (figurative) Chiefly followed by down or out: to pay (money); to plank.
- (music) To pluck and quickly release (a string of a stringed instrument); also, to play (a stringed instrument) by plucking strings; to play (a piano, etc.) by striking keys; or, to play (a note or tune) on such an instrument.
- (transitive) To be absent from (school) without permission; to be a truant.
- (also reflexive, originally Scotland) Often followed by down: to drop, set, or throw (something, or oneself) abruptly and/or heavily into or on to a surface or some other thing, making a dull sound; to plump.
- To move (something) with a sudden push.
- (music) To pluck and quickly release a string of a musical instrument; also, to play a stringed instrument by plucking strings; to play a piano, etc., by striking keys; or, to play a note or tune on such an instrument.
- (figurative) Followed by for: to choose, to opt; to plump.
- To make a brief, dull sound, such as the thud of something landing on a surface; to thud.
- (chiefly US) To hit or injure (someone or something); also, to shoot (someone or something) with a firearm.
- (originally Scotland) Often followed by down: to drop, land, or set abruptly and/or heavily into or on to a surface or some other thing with a dull sound; to plump down.
- (baseball) To pitch a ball in a way that it hits (a player).
- drop steeply
- make or move along with a sound as of a horse's hooves striking the ground
- pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion
- set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise
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- (transitive) To play a string instrument pizzicato.
- (intransitive) To pull or twitch sharply.
- (transitive) To remove feathers from (a bird).
- Of a glacier: to transport individual pieces of bedrock by means of gradual erosion through freezing and thawing.
- (transitive, music) To play (a single string on a musical instrument) by pulling and then releasing it, such as on a guitar.
- (transitive) To pull something sharply; to pull something out
- (transitive) To take or remove (someone) quickly from a particular place or situation.
- sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity
- look for and gather
- rip off; ask an unreasonable price
- pull or pull out sharply
- pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion
- strip of feathers
noun
- The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals.
- An instance of plucking or pulling sharply.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang, uncountable) Cheap wine.
- (informal, figurative, uncountable) Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence.
- the act of pulling and releasing a taut cord
- the trait of showing courage and determination in spite of possible loss or injury
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- (intransitive) To play or do something amusing.
- (transitive) To joke about; to ridicule (a trait, habit, etc.).
- (transitive, US, Southern and Western, colloquial) To challenge to a match.
- (intransitive) To engage in banter or playful conversation.
- (UK, dialect) To haggle; cheapen the price.
- (transitive) To delude or trick; to play a prank upon.
- (transitive) To tease (someone) mildly.
- be silly or tease one another
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- (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
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- (New Zealand) Any of certain members of genus Coriaria of shrubs and trees found in New Zealand, including Coriaria arborea and Coriaria pottsiana, used by the Maori to make a sweetener, but toxic when not properly prepared.
- A ballet skirt made of layered stiff but light netting.
- very short skirt worn by ballerinas
verb
- To play music on (a stringed) instrument using a bow.
- (intransitive) To bend oneself as a gesture of respect or deference.
- (ergative) To bend or curve, particularly downward.
- (transitive and intransitive) To debut.
- (transitive, figurative) To exercise powerful or controlling influence over; to bend or incline, figuratively; to humble or subdue.
- about to
- (transitive) To give a direction, indication, or command to by bowing.
- Ellipsis of bow-wow
- (intransitive) To defer (to something).
- bend one's back forward from the waist on down
- bend one's knee or body, or lower one's head
- yield to another's wish or opinion
- bend the head or the upper part of the body in a gesture of respect or greeting
- play on a stringed instrument with a bow
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- (music) A rod with horsehair (or an artificial substitute) stretched between the ends, used for playing various stringed musical instruments.
- A stringed instrument (chordophone), consisting of a stick with a single taut cord stretched between the ends, most often played by plucking.
- (nautical) A crude sort of quadrant formerly used for taking the sun's altitude at sea.
- A type of knot with two loops, used to tie together two cords such as shoelaces or apron strings, and frequently used as decoration, such as in gift-wrapping.
- (nautical) The front of a boat or ship.
- (saddlery) Two pieces of wood which form the arched forward part of a saddle tree.
- Alternative form of bao; any of several Chinese buns and breads
- (archery) A weapon made of a curved piece of wood or other flexible material whose ends are connected by a string, used for shooting arrows.
- Either of the two handles of a pair of scissors.
- Either of the arms of a pair of spectacles, running from the side of the lens to behind the wearer's ear.
- Anything bent or curved, such as a rainbow.
- Any instrument consisting of an elastic rod, with ends connected by a string, employed for giving reciprocating motion to a drill, or for preparing and arranging hair, fur, etc., used by hatters.
- Ellipsis of bow-wow
- The U-shaped piece which goes around the neck of an ox and fastens it to the yoke.
- The part of a key that is not inserted into the lock and that is used to turn the key.
- A curved bend in a rod or planar surface, or in a linear formation such as a river (see oxbow).
- A gesture, usually showing respect, made by inclining the head or bending forward at the waist; a reverence
- (rowing) The rower that sits in the seat closest to the bow of the boat.
- something curved in shape
- a decorative interlacing of ribbons
- a weapon for shooting arrows, composed of a curved piece of resilient wood with a taut cord to propel the arrow
- a slightly curved piece of resilient wood with taut horsehair strands; used in playing certain stringed instruments
- a stroke with a curved piece of wood with taut horsehair strands that is used in playing stringed instruments
- a knot with two loops and loose ends; used to tie shoelaces
- an appearance by actors or performers at the end of the concert or play in order to acknowledge the applause of the audience
- bending the head or body or knee as a sign of reverence or submission or shame or greeting
- front part of a vessel or aircraft
verb
- (ambitransitive) To play awkwardly and inharmoniously on a violin or similar instrument.
- (transitive) To injure or damage by rubbing across a surface.
- (intransitive) To draw back the right foot along the ground or floor when making a bow.
- (transitive) To remove (something) by drawing an object along in this manner.
- To express disapprobation of (a play, etc.) or to silence (a speaker) by drawing the feet back and forth upon the floor; usually with down.
- (intransitive) To occupy oneself with getting laboriously.
- (transitive) To barely manage to achieve or attain.
- (computing, transitive) To extract data by automated means from a format not intended to be machine-readable, such as a screenshot or a formatted web page.
- (transitive) To collect or gather, especially without regard to the quality of what is chosen.
- (ambitransitive) To draw (an object, especially a sharp or angular one), along (something) while exerting pressure.
- bruise, cut, or injure the skin or the surface of
- scratch repeatedly
- make by scraping
- gather (money or other resources) together over time
- cut the surface of; wear away the surface of
- bend the knees and bow in a servile manner
noun
- (heraldry) A diminutive of the bend (especially of the bend sinister) which is half its width.
- A shallow depression used by ground birds as a nest; a nest scrape.
- A broad, shallow injury left by scraping (rather than a cut or a scratch).
- (British, slang) A D and C or abortion; or, a miscarriage.
- An awkward set of circumstances.
- An intermittent shallow pond in a wetland or floodplain, often artificially created to attract birds.
- (military) A shallow pit dug as a hideout.
- (slang) A fight, especially a fistfight without weapons.
- (UK, slang) A shave.
- The sound or action of something being scraped.
- Something removed by being scraped; a thin layer of something such as butter on bread.
- a harsh noise made by scraping
- a deep bow with the foot drawn backwards (indicating excessive humility)
- an abraded area where the skin is torn or worn off
- an indication of damage
verb
- (intransitive) To play with anything; hence, to be busy about trifles.
- (transitive, mathematics) To be in an equivalence relation with.
- (transitive) To wiggle, fidget or play with; to move around.
- (transitive, computing) To flip or switch two adjacent bits (binary digits).
- manipulate, as in a nervous or unconscious manner
- turn in a twisting or spinning motion
noun
verb
- (intransitive, music) In violin-playing, to move the left hand from its original position next to the nut.
- (transitive, sometimes figurative) To move from one place to another; to redistribute.
- (typewriters) To move the keys of a typewriter over in order to type capital letters or special characters.
- (ergative, figurative) To change in form or character; switch.
- (computer keyboards) To switch to a character entry mode for capital letters or special characters.
- (intransitive) To use meditation or other means to change the reality that one's consciousness resides in.
- (intransitive, India) To change residence; to leave and live elsewhere.
- (transitive, computing) To manipulate a binary number by moving all of its digits left or right; compare rotate.
- (Ireland, vulgar, slang, transitive) To engage in sexual petting with.
- (intransitive) To practice indirect or evasive methods; to contrive.
- (intransitive) To hurry; to move quickly.
- (intransitive) To change gears (in an automobile).
- (Minecraft, video games) To crouch in game, especially if the shift key is pressed to initiate crouching.
- (Nigeria, slang) To steal or kidnap.
- (transitive, computing) To remove (the first value from an array).
- (transitive) To dispose of, remove.
- (intransitive, sometimes reflexive and figurative) To change position; to move.
- change gears
- change place or direction
- move around
- make a shift in or exchange of
- change in quality
- move very slightly
- move and exchange for another
- use a shift key on a keyboard
- move abruptly
- move sideways or in an unsteady way
- lay aside, abandon, or leave for another
- change phonetically as part of a systematic historical change
- move from one setting or context to another
noun
- (historical) A type of women's undergarment of dress length worn under dresses or skirts, a slip or chemise.
- (music) In violin-playing, any position of the left hand except that nearest the nut.
- (computing) A control code or character used to change between different character sets.
- An act of shifting; a slight movement or change.
- (baseball) An infield shift.
- A movement to do something, a beginning.
- (construction) The extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed in courses so as to break joints.
- (computing) An instance of the use of such a code or character.
- A simple straight-hanging, loose-fitting dress.
- (US) The gear mechanism in a motor vehicle.
- A period of time in which one's consciousness resides in another reality, usually achieved through meditation or other means.
- Alternative spelling of Shift (“a modifier button of computer keyboards”).
- (British slang) be done; ruined
- (Ireland, crude slang, often with the definite article, usually uncountable) The act of kissing passionately.
- (genetics) A mutation in which the DNA or RNA from two different sources (such as viruses or bacteria) combine.
- A change of workers, now specifically a set group of workers or period of working time.
- (mining) A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.
- (computing) A bit shift.
- a qualitative change
- the act of moving from one place to another
- an event in which something is displaced without rotation
- a woman's sleeveless undergarment
- the act of changing one thing or position for another
- (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
- a crew of workers who work for a specific period of time
- the key on the typewriter keyboard that shifts from lower-case letters to upper-case letters
- a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist
- the time period during which you are at work
verb
- (intransitive) To inconsequentially toy with something.
- (intransitive) To deal with something as if it were of little importance or worth.
- (intransitive) To act, speak, or otherwise behave with jest.
- (transitive) To squander or waste.
- consider not very seriously
- act frivolously
- waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently
noun
- A particular kind of pewter.
- (cooking) An English dessert made from a mixture of thick custard, fruit, sponge cake, jelly and whipped cream.
- An insignificant amount of money.
- (figurative) A very small amount (of something).
- (uncountable) Utensils made from this particular kind of pewter.
- (figurative) Anything that is of little importance or worth.
- a cold pudding made of layers of sponge cake spread with fruit or jelly; may be decorated with nuts, cream, or chocolate
- a detail that is considered insignificant
- something of small importance
noun
- (now dialectal) A fiddle.
- A group of people united or at least characterised by a common interest.
- (with definite article) The so-called lower orders of people; the populace; the vulgar.
- A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order.
- Several things collected or closely pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other.
- an informal body of friends
- a large number of things or people considered together
verb
- (transitive) To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.
- (transitive, often used with "out of" or "off") To push, to press, to shove.
- (transitive) To fill by pressing or thronging together
- (transitive) To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram.
- (intransitive) To press forward; to advance by pushing.
- (nautical, of a square-rigged ship, transitive) To carry excessive sail in the hope of moving faster.
- (nautical) To approach another ship too closely when it has right of way.
- (intransitive) To press together or collect in numbers.
- cause to herd, drive, or crowd together
- approach a certain age or speed
- to gather together in large numbers
- fill or occupy to the point of overflowing
noun
adj
adv
noun
- One who plays the fiddle.
- One who fiddles or tweaks.
- One who fiddles; a cheat.
- A large species of cicada, Macrotristria angularis, of eastern Australia; cherry nose.
- (nautical, slang) The capstan-house on a steamer.
- A burrowing crab of the genus Gelasimus, of many species. The male has one claw very much enlarged, and often holds it in a position similar to that in which a musician holds a fiddle.
- The common European sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucos); so called because it habitually wags its tail up and down resembling the back and forth movement of a fiddler.
- a musician who plays the violin
- someone who manipulates in a nervous or unconscious manner
- an unskilled person who tries to fix or mend
noun
- (figuratively) Especially in the form to play tiddlywinks: a meaningless or unimportant activity.
- plural of tiddlywink
- (also attributively) A competitive game in which the objective is to flick as many small discs (each called a tiddlywink or wink) as possible into a container (the pot) by pressing on their edges with a larger disc (a shooter or squidger), causing them to jump up from the surface on which they are placed.
- a game in which players try to flip plastic disks into a cup by pressing them on the side sharply with a larger disk
verb
noun
intj
verb
noun
- the kind of playing that involves pressing the fingers on the strings of a stringed instrument to control the pitch
- fastener consisting of a narrow strip of welded metal used to join steel members
- A pad or poultice of dung or other material applied to a horse's hoof to keep it moist.
- The act of something that stops; a halt.
- (mining) A partition or door to direct or prevent a current of air.
verb
noun
adj
- Averse to work, labor or employment; lazy; slothful.
- Of no importance; useless; worthless; vain; trifling; thoughtless; silly.
- Not being used appropriately; not occupied; (of time) with no, no important, or not much activity.
- Not engaged in any occupation or employment; unemployed; inactive; doing nothing in particular.
- not having a job
- not in active use
- lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility
- silly or trivial
- not in action or at work
- without a basis in reason or fact
- not yielding a return
verb
- (intransitive) Of an engine: to run at a slow speed, or out of gear; to tick over.
- (transitive) To cause (an engine) to idle(3)
- (intransitive) To lose or spend time doing nothing, or without being employed in business.
- (transitive) To spend in idleness; to waste; to consume.
- be idle; exist in a changeless situation
- run disconnected or idle
noun
- (by extension) Someone who fiddles or tinkers with things.
- (mining, historical) An ostler; one who looks after the horses in a mine.
- (slang, UK, Lancashire) A friend or mate.
- A person who maintains railway lines.
- Someone whose job is to sand and grind small imperfections from metal and ceramic castings.
verb
- play the violin or fiddle
- (intransitive) To play the fiddle or violin, particularly in a folk or country style.
- (intransitive) To fidget or play; to fuss; to idly amuse oneself, to act aimlessly, idly, or frivolously, particularly out of nervousness or restlessness; see also fiddle with.
- play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly
- commit fraud and steal from one's employer
- avoid (one's assigned duties)
- play on a violin
- try to fix or mend
- manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination
- (informal, intransitive) Synonym of tinker (“to make small adjustments or improvements”); see also fiddle with.
- (informal, transitive) To fraudulently manipulate (records, accounts, etc.) in order to cheat or swindle.
noun
- (informal) An act of tinkering, playing around, or fidgeting with something.
- bowed stringed instrument that is the highest member of the violin family; this instrument has four strings and a hollow body and an unfretted fingerboard and is played with a bow
- A violinist, or fiddler, in a band.
- (informal) A workaround; a quick and less than perfect solution for some flaw or problem.
- A rack for drying pottery after glazing.
- (figurative) A clown; an unserious person entertaining a group.
- (informal) A scam; a fraud or swindle.
- (especially nautical) Any rail or device that prevents items from sliding off a table, stove, etc. in rough water.
- A violin, a small unfretted stringed instrument with four strings tuned (lowest to highest) G-D-A-E, usually held against the chin, shoulder, chest or on the upper thigh and played with a bow (see also usage notes below).
- (biology) A dock (Rumex pulcher) with leaves supposed to resemble the musical instrument.
- (usually proscribed) Any of various other bowed stringed instruments, particularly those of the violin family when played non-classically.
- A long pole pulled by a draft animal to drag loose straw, hay, etc.
intj
verb
- play negligently on a musical instrument
- To trifle or play.
- entice through the use of music
- sing in modulation
- To twiddle.
- To make a shrill or trilling sound
- To go; to proceed without much enthusiasm.
- (UK, slang) To sell fake jewellery as genuine.
- (of two people) To move or speak in unison (like Tweedledum and Tweedledee)
- To say in a high-pitched voice.
noun
noun
- (now dialectal) A fiddle.
- A group of people united or at least characterised by a common interest.
- (with definite article) The so-called lower orders of people; the populace; the vulgar.
- A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order.
- Several things collected or closely pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other.
- an informal body of friends
- a large number of things or people considered together
verb
- (transitive) To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.
- (transitive, often used with "out of" or "off") To push, to press, to shove.
- (transitive) To fill by pressing or thronging together
- (transitive) To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram.
- (intransitive) To press forward; to advance by pushing.
- (nautical, of a square-rigged ship, transitive) To carry excessive sail in the hope of moving faster.
- (nautical) To approach another ship too closely when it has right of way.
- (intransitive) To press together or collect in numbers.
- cause to herd, drive, or crowd together
- approach a certain age or speed
- to gather together in large numbers
- fill or occupy to the point of overflowing
noun
adj
adv
verb
- To attempt in an informal or uncertain manner; to fiddle.
- Often followed by about or around: to mess around, to play.
- To ponder or think, especially in an unproductive or unsystematic manner; to muse.
- To search (mullock (“mining or ore processing waste”)) for opals.
- (ambitransitive, Shetland, singing) To hum or sing (a tune) at a low pitch or volume.
- (intransitive) To search mullock for opals; to fossick.
- (chiefly jazz) To play (a musical instrument or passage of music) or to sing (a passage of music) in an improvisatory or lighthearted manner; also, to play (a series of ornamental notes) on an instrument.
- To obtain (an opal) by searching through mullock.
- (US, informal) To ponder or think about (something).
- (transitive, fishing) To catch (fish (usually very large catfish), turtles, or other aquatic animals) with the hands; also, to catch (fish) using a gaff or fishing spear; to gaff.
- (also figuratively) To clear extraneous material from (an opal).
- (intransitive, British, dialectal, informal) To engage in frivolous behavior; to fool around or waste time.
- (chiefly jazz) To play a musical instrument or to sing in an improvisatory or lighthearted manner; also, to play a series of ornamental notes on an instrument.
noun
- (informal) Ellipsis of pool noodle (“a long, slender tube or rod, extruded from buoyant foam and usually brightly coloured, used as an exercise tool or toy in swimming pools”).
- (by extension) An object which is long and thin like a noodle (sense 1).
- (furry fandom) A long and slender dragon, usually an eastern dragon.
- (Internet slang, endearing, humorous) A borzoi dog.
- (usually in the plural) A string or flat strip of pasta or other dough, usually cooked (at least initially) by boiling, and served in soup or in a dry form mixed with a sauce and other ingredients.
- (slang) The brain; the head.
- (slang) The penis.
- (chiefly jazz) An improvised passage of music played on an instrument; also, a series of ornamental notes played on an instrument; a trill.
- informal terms for a human head
- a ribbonlike strip of pasta
verb
noun
verb
noun
verb
verb
noun
- The discus used in ancient sports.
- The flat stone covering a cromlech.
- An ancient burial mound, synonymous with dolmen.
- A flat disc of metal or stone thrown at a target in the game of quoits.
- A ring of rubber or rope similarly used in the game of deck-quoits.
- game equipment consisting of a ring of iron or circle of rope used in playing the game of quoits
verb
- (intransitive) To fiddle; fidget; wiggle, or adjust
- (transitive) To pet.
- (transitive) To disturb (a person)
- (intransitive, US, especially of babies) To cry or be ill-humoured.
- (intransitive) To be very worried or excited about something, often too much.
- (intransitive, with over) To show affection for, especially animals.
- worry unnecessarily or excessively
- care for like a mother
noun
verb
- (intransitive, chiefly humorous) To play bagpipes, a fiddle, or a pipe.
- (transitive, construction, masonry) To use a screed to produce a smooth, flat surface of concrete, plaster, or similar material; also (generally) to put down a layer of concrete, plaster, etc.
- (intransitive) To make a discordant or harsh scratching or tearing sound.
- (intransitive, Scotland) To become rent or torn.
adj
noun
- (by extension) A speech or piece of writing which contains angry and extended criticism.
- A tool, usually a long strip of wood or other material, placed on a floor to be covered with concrete, a wall to be plastered, etc., as a guide for producing a smooth, flat surface.
- Chiefly in the plural form screeds: a large quantity.
- A smooth, flat layer of concrete, plaster, or similar material, especially if acting as a base for paving stones, tiles, wooden planks, etc.
- The sound of something scratching or tearing.
- A piece of writing (such as an article, letter, or list) or a speech, especially if long.
- A tool such as a long strip of wood or other material which is drawn over a wet layer of concrete, plaster, etc., to make it smooth and flat; also, a machine that achieves this effect; a screeder.
- (chiefly humorous) A (discordant) sound or tune played on bagpipes, a fiddle, or a pipe.
- a long monotonous harangue
- an accurately levelled strip of material placed on a wall or floor as guide for the even application of plaster or concrete
- a long piece of writing
verb
- play negligently on a musical instrument
- To trifle or play.
- entice through the use of music
- sing in modulation
- To twiddle.
- To make a shrill or trilling sound
- To go; to proceed without much enthusiasm.
- (UK, slang) To sell fake jewellery as genuine.
- (of two people) To move or speak in unison (like Tweedledum and Tweedledee)
- To say in a high-pitched voice.
noun
verb
- (transitive, music, informal) To commence playing.
- (backgammon) To take up, or replace by a piece belonging to the opposing player; said of a single unprotected piece on a point.
- (transitive) To affect negatively.
- (transitive, US, slang) To have sex with.
- (figurative, ambitransitive) To affect someone, as if dealing a blow to that person.
- (figuratively) To attack.
- (transitive, slang) To kill a person, usually on the instructions of a third party.
- To guess; to light upon or discover.
- (intransitive, baseball) To come up to bat.
- (intransitive) To meet or reach what was aimed at or desired; to succeed, often by luck.
- (transitive, colloquial) To switch on or switch off (lights).
- (transitive, informal) To reach or achieve.
- (transitive) To activate a button or key by pressing and releasing it.
- (transitive) To administer a blow to, directly or with a weapon or missile.
- (transitive) To come into contact with forcefully and suddenly.
- (transitive, military) To attack, especially amphibiously.
- (transitive, informal) To encounter an obstacle or other difficulty.
- (transitive) To manage to touch (a target) in the right place.
- (transitive, US, slang) To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana.
- (transitive, card games) In blackjack, to deal a card to.
- (transitive, colloquial) To briefly visit.
- (transitive, bodybuilding) To work out.
- (intransitive) To strike against something.
- (transitive, bodybuilding) (of an exercise) to affect, to work a body part.
- (transitive, computing, programming) To use; to connect to.
- reach a destination, either real or abstract
- cause to experience suddenly
- hit against; come into sudden contact with
- hit the intended target or goal
- affect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely
- make a strategic, offensive, assault against an enemy, opponent, or a target
- deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument
- drive something violently into a location
- cause to move by striking
- kill intentionally and with premeditation
- hit with a missile from a weapon
- produce by manipulating keys or strings of musical instruments
- pay unsolicited and usually unwanted sexual attention to
- encounter by chance
- reach a point in time, or a certain state or level
adj
noun
- (Internet) A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server.
- Something very successful, such as a song, film, or video game, that receives widespread recognition and acclaim.
- (baseball) The complete play, when the batter reaches base without the benefit of a walk, error, or fielder’s choice.
- (backgammon) A game won after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than a gammon.
- A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.
- (backgammon) A move that throws one of the opponent's men back to the entering point.
- In the game of Battleship, a correct guess at where one's opponent ship is.
- An attack on a location, person or people.
- (figuratively) A blow; a calamitous or damaging occurrence.
- A collision of a projectile with the target.
- (computing, Internet) A match found by searching a computer system or search engine
- An approximately correct answer in a test set.
- A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything.
- (colloquial) A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.
- the act of contacting one thing with another
- a connection made via the internet to another website
- a conspicuous success
- (physics) a brief event in which two or more bodies come together
- a dose of a narcotic drug
- a murder carried out by an underworld syndicate
- (baseball) when a batter strikes a pitched ball into fair territory and arrives safely on base (without an error or a fielder's choice being made by the defense)
pron
verb
noun
verb
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To amuse oneself, to play.
- (reflexive) To divert; to amuse; to make merry.
- (intransitive) To mock or tease, treat lightly, toy with.
- (transitive) To display; to have as a notable feature.
- To assume suddenly a new and different character from the rest of the plant or from the type of the species; said of a bud, shoot, plant, or animal.
- (transitive) To represent by any kind of play.
- To practise the diversions of the field or the turf; to be given to betting, as upon races.
- wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner
- play boisterously
noun
- (uncountable) Gaming for money as in racing, hunting, or fishing.
- (slang, countable) A sportsman; a gambler.
- Term of endearment used by an adult for a child, usually a boy.
- (countable) A person who exhibits either good or bad sportsmanship.
- (countable) A toy; a plaything; an object of mockery.
- (countable, uncountable) Any activity that uses physical exertion or skills competitively under a set of rules that is not based on aesthetics.
- (biology, botany, zoology, countable) A plant or an animal, or part of a plant or animal, which has some peculiarity not usually seen in the species; an abnormal variety or growth. The term encompasses both mutants and organisms with non-genetic developmental abnormalities such as birth defects.
- (informal, usually singular) A friend or acquaintance (chiefly used when speaking to the friend in question)
- (slang, countable) One who consorts with disreputable people, including prostitutes.
- (countable) Somebody who behaves or reacts in an admirably good-natured manner, e.g. to being teased or to losing a game; a good sport.
- (biology) an organism that has characteristics resulting from chromosomal alteration
- verbal wit or mockery (often at another's expense but not to be taken seriously)
- the occupation of athletes who compete for pay
- a person known for the way they behave when teased or defeated or subjected to trying circumstances
- (Maine colloquial) a temporary summer resident of Maine
- someone who engages in sports
- an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition
verb
- To play a stringed instrument with a downward plucking motion.
- To strike down; to knock down, kill, or cripple.
- To strike from above.
- To move downward in a striking motion.
- (masonry) To point (finish a joint) by pressing mortar in at the bottom.
- To go in a downward direction.
- To dismay, reject, demote, or render lowly.
- (of current or lightning) To arc to ground in a downstrike.
adj
adv
noun
- A downward plucking motion on a stringed instrument.
- A bolt of lightning that touches ground.
- A downstroke; a downward movement that terminates in striking something.
- A type of manual typewriter that causes the letters to print on the downstroke of the keys and retract as the key rises.
- A line that is drawn with a downward stroke.
- (electrical engineering) A (usually unintended) branch of current that arcs downward to ground.
- A blow by a hand or weapon that occurs with a downward striking motion.
- A variety of various devices that operates primarily by a downward striking action.
verb
- play the violin or fiddle
- (intransitive) To play the fiddle or violin, particularly in a folk or country style.
- (intransitive) To fidget or play; to fuss; to idly amuse oneself, to act aimlessly, idly, or frivolously, particularly out of nervousness or restlessness; see also fiddle with.
- play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly
- commit fraud and steal from one's employer
- avoid (one's assigned duties)
- play on a violin
- try to fix or mend
- manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination
- (informal, intransitive) Synonym of tinker (“to make small adjustments or improvements”); see also fiddle with.
- (informal, transitive) To fraudulently manipulate (records, accounts, etc.) in order to cheat or swindle.
noun
- (informal) An act of tinkering, playing around, or fidgeting with something.
- bowed stringed instrument that is the highest member of the violin family; this instrument has four strings and a hollow body and an unfretted fingerboard and is played with a bow
- A violinist, or fiddler, in a band.
- (informal) A workaround; a quick and less than perfect solution for some flaw or problem.
- A rack for drying pottery after glazing.
- (figurative) A clown; an unserious person entertaining a group.
- (informal) A scam; a fraud or swindle.
- (especially nautical) Any rail or device that prevents items from sliding off a table, stove, etc. in rough water.
- A violin, a small unfretted stringed instrument with four strings tuned (lowest to highest) G-D-A-E, usually held against the chin, shoulder, chest or on the upper thigh and played with a bow (see also usage notes below).
- (biology) A dock (Rumex pulcher) with leaves supposed to resemble the musical instrument.
- (usually proscribed) Any of various other bowed stringed instruments, particularly those of the violin family when played non-classically.
- A long pole pulled by a draft animal to drag loose straw, hay, etc.
intj
verb
- (music) To play a stringed musical instrument by plucking and snapping.
- (intransitive) To have a trace of a regional or foreign accent.
- (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.
- pronounce with a nasal twang
- twitch or throb with pain
- cause to sound with a twang
- sound with a twang
- pluck (strings of an instrument)
noun
- 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.
- a sharp vibrating sound (as of a plucked string)
- exaggerated nasality in speech (as in some regional dialects)
verb
- (transitive) To play mischievous pranks on.
- To place (someone) on the back of another person, or on a wooden horse, chair, etc., to be flogged or punished.
- To take or carry on the back.
- (by extension) To flog.
- To sit astride of; to bestride.
- (informal) To cram (food) quickly, indiscriminately or in great volume.
- (intransitive) Synonym of horse around.
- (transitive) To provide with a horse; supply horses for.
- (transitive) To pull, haul, or move (something) with great effort, like a horse would.
- (of a male horse) To copulate with (a mare).
- provide with a horse or horses
noun
- (poker slang) A player who has been staked, i.e. another player has paid for their buy-in and claims a percentage of any winnings.
- (mining) A mass of earthy matter, or rock of the same character as the wall rock, occurring in the course of a vein, as of coal or ore; hence, to take horse (said of a vein) is to divide into branches for a distance.
- (slang) Heroin (drug).
- (military, sometimes uncountable) Cavalry soldiers (sometimes capitalized when referring to an official category).
- (US) An informal variant of basketball in which players match shots made by their opponent(s), each miss adding a letter to the word "horse", with 5 misses spelling the whole word and eliminating a player, until only the winner is left. Also HORSE, H-O-R-S-E or H.O.R.S.E. (see H-O-R-S-E on WikipediaWikipedia).
- A hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.
- In gymnastics, a piece of equipment with a body on two or four legs, approximately four feet high, sometimes (pommel horse) with two handles on top.
- A frame with legs, used to support something.
- (xiangqi) A xiangqi piece that moves and captures one point orthogonally and then one point diagonally.
- A breastband for a leadsman.
- (historical) A timber frame shaped like a horse, which soldiers were made to ride for punishment.
- (zoology) Any current or extinct animal of the family Equidae, including zebras and asses.
- An iron bar for a sheet traveller to slide upon.
- (slang) A large and sturdy person.
- A jackstay.
- A rope stretching along a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling the sails; footrope.
- (chess, informal) The chess piece representing a knight, depicted as a horse.
- (uncountable) The flesh of a horse as an item of cuisine.
- Any member of the species Equus ferus, including the Przewalski's horse and the extinct Equus ferus ferus.
- (prison slang) A prison guard who smuggles contraband in or out for prisoners.
- solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times
- troops trained to fight on horseback
- a padded gymnastic apparatus on legs
- a framework for holding wood that is being sawed
- a chessman shaped to resemble the head of a horse; can move two squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa)
verb
noun
- (music) A stringed musical instrument, of European origin, usually with a fretted fingerboard and six strings, played with the fingers or a plectrum (guitar pick).
- (music) Any type of musical instrument of the lute family, characterized by a flat back, along with a neck whose upper surface is in the same plane as the soundboard, with strings along the neck and parallel to the soundboard.
- a stringed instrument usually having six strings; played by strumming or plucking
verb
- (intransitive) To play truant.
- (figurative) Chiefly followed by down or out: to pay (money); to plank.
- (music) To pluck and quickly release (a string of a stringed instrument); also, to play (a stringed instrument) by plucking strings; to play (a piano, etc.) by striking keys; or, to play (a note or tune) on such an instrument.
- (transitive) To be absent from (school) without permission; to be a truant.
- (also reflexive, originally Scotland) Often followed by down: to drop, set, or throw (something, or oneself) abruptly and/or heavily into or on to a surface or some other thing, making a dull sound; to plump.
- To move (something) with a sudden push.
- (music) To pluck and quickly release a string of a musical instrument; also, to play a stringed instrument by plucking strings; to play a piano, etc., by striking keys; or, to play a note or tune on such an instrument.
- (figurative) Followed by for: to choose, to opt; to plump.
- To make a brief, dull sound, such as the thud of something landing on a surface; to thud.
- (chiefly US) To hit or injure (someone or something); also, to shoot (someone or something) with a firearm.
- (originally Scotland) Often followed by down: to drop, land, or set abruptly and/or heavily into or on to a surface or some other thing with a dull sound; to plump down.
- (baseball) To pitch a ball in a way that it hits (a player).
- drop steeply
- make or move along with a sound as of a horse's hooves striking the ground
- pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion
- set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise
adv
intj
noun
verb
- (transitive) To play a string instrument pizzicato.
- (intransitive) To pull or twitch sharply.
- (transitive) To remove feathers from (a bird).
- Of a glacier: to transport individual pieces of bedrock by means of gradual erosion through freezing and thawing.
- (transitive, music) To play (a single string on a musical instrument) by pulling and then releasing it, such as on a guitar.
- (transitive) To pull something sharply; to pull something out
- (transitive) To take or remove (someone) quickly from a particular place or situation.
- sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity
- look for and gather
- rip off; ask an unreasonable price
- pull or pull out sharply
- pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion
- strip of feathers
noun
- The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals.
- An instance of plucking or pulling sharply.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang, uncountable) Cheap wine.
- (informal, figurative, uncountable) Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence.
- the act of pulling and releasing a taut cord
- the trait of showing courage and determination in spite of possible loss or injury
verb
- (intransitive) To play or do something amusing.
- (transitive) To joke about; to ridicule (a trait, habit, etc.).
- (transitive, US, Southern and Western, colloquial) To challenge to a match.
- (intransitive) To engage in banter or playful conversation.
- (UK, dialect) To haggle; cheapen the price.
- (transitive) To delude or trick; to play a prank upon.
- (transitive) To tease (someone) mildly.
- be silly or tease one another
noun
verb
adj
noun
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
noun
- (New Zealand) Any of certain members of genus Coriaria of shrubs and trees found in New Zealand, including Coriaria arborea and Coriaria pottsiana, used by the Maori to make a sweetener, but toxic when not properly prepared.
- A ballet skirt made of layered stiff but light netting.
- very short skirt worn by ballerinas
verb
- To play music on (a stringed) instrument using a bow.
- (intransitive) To bend oneself as a gesture of respect or deference.
- (ergative) To bend or curve, particularly downward.
- (transitive and intransitive) To debut.
- (transitive, figurative) To exercise powerful or controlling influence over; to bend or incline, figuratively; to humble or subdue.
- about to
- (transitive) To give a direction, indication, or command to by bowing.
- Ellipsis of bow-wow
- (intransitive) To defer (to something).
- bend one's back forward from the waist on down
- bend one's knee or body, or lower one's head
- yield to another's wish or opinion
- bend the head or the upper part of the body in a gesture of respect or greeting
- play on a stringed instrument with a bow
intj
noun
- (music) A rod with horsehair (or an artificial substitute) stretched between the ends, used for playing various stringed musical instruments.
- A stringed instrument (chordophone), consisting of a stick with a single taut cord stretched between the ends, most often played by plucking.
- (nautical) A crude sort of quadrant formerly used for taking the sun's altitude at sea.
- A type of knot with two loops, used to tie together two cords such as shoelaces or apron strings, and frequently used as decoration, such as in gift-wrapping.
- (nautical) The front of a boat or ship.
- (saddlery) Two pieces of wood which form the arched forward part of a saddle tree.
- Alternative form of bao; any of several Chinese buns and breads
- (archery) A weapon made of a curved piece of wood or other flexible material whose ends are connected by a string, used for shooting arrows.
- Either of the two handles of a pair of scissors.
- Either of the arms of a pair of spectacles, running from the side of the lens to behind the wearer's ear.
- Anything bent or curved, such as a rainbow.
- Any instrument consisting of an elastic rod, with ends connected by a string, employed for giving reciprocating motion to a drill, or for preparing and arranging hair, fur, etc., used by hatters.
- Ellipsis of bow-wow
- The U-shaped piece which goes around the neck of an ox and fastens it to the yoke.
- The part of a key that is not inserted into the lock and that is used to turn the key.
- A curved bend in a rod or planar surface, or in a linear formation such as a river (see oxbow).
- A gesture, usually showing respect, made by inclining the head or bending forward at the waist; a reverence
- (rowing) The rower that sits in the seat closest to the bow of the boat.
- something curved in shape
- a decorative interlacing of ribbons
- a weapon for shooting arrows, composed of a curved piece of resilient wood with a taut cord to propel the arrow
- a slightly curved piece of resilient wood with taut horsehair strands; used in playing certain stringed instruments
- a stroke with a curved piece of wood with taut horsehair strands that is used in playing stringed instruments
- a knot with two loops and loose ends; used to tie shoelaces
- an appearance by actors or performers at the end of the concert or play in order to acknowledge the applause of the audience
- bending the head or body or knee as a sign of reverence or submission or shame or greeting
- front part of a vessel or aircraft
verb
- (ambitransitive) To play awkwardly and inharmoniously on a violin or similar instrument.
- (transitive) To injure or damage by rubbing across a surface.
- (intransitive) To draw back the right foot along the ground or floor when making a bow.
- (transitive) To remove (something) by drawing an object along in this manner.
- To express disapprobation of (a play, etc.) or to silence (a speaker) by drawing the feet back and forth upon the floor; usually with down.
- (intransitive) To occupy oneself with getting laboriously.
- (transitive) To barely manage to achieve or attain.
- (computing, transitive) To extract data by automated means from a format not intended to be machine-readable, such as a screenshot or a formatted web page.
- (transitive) To collect or gather, especially without regard to the quality of what is chosen.
- (ambitransitive) To draw (an object, especially a sharp or angular one), along (something) while exerting pressure.
- bruise, cut, or injure the skin or the surface of
- scratch repeatedly
- make by scraping
- gather (money or other resources) together over time
- cut the surface of; wear away the surface of
- bend the knees and bow in a servile manner
noun
- (heraldry) A diminutive of the bend (especially of the bend sinister) which is half its width.
- A shallow depression used by ground birds as a nest; a nest scrape.
- A broad, shallow injury left by scraping (rather than a cut or a scratch).
- (British, slang) A D and C or abortion; or, a miscarriage.
- An awkward set of circumstances.
- An intermittent shallow pond in a wetland or floodplain, often artificially created to attract birds.
- (military) A shallow pit dug as a hideout.
- (slang) A fight, especially a fistfight without weapons.
- (UK, slang) A shave.
- The sound or action of something being scraped.
- Something removed by being scraped; a thin layer of something such as butter on bread.
- a harsh noise made by scraping
- a deep bow with the foot drawn backwards (indicating excessive humility)
- an abraded area where the skin is torn or worn off
- an indication of damage
verb
- (intransitive) To play with anything; hence, to be busy about trifles.
- (transitive, mathematics) To be in an equivalence relation with.
- (transitive) To wiggle, fidget or play with; to move around.
- (transitive, computing) To flip or switch two adjacent bits (binary digits).
- manipulate, as in a nervous or unconscious manner
- turn in a twisting or spinning motion
noun
verb
- (intransitive, music) In violin-playing, to move the left hand from its original position next to the nut.
- (transitive, sometimes figurative) To move from one place to another; to redistribute.
- (typewriters) To move the keys of a typewriter over in order to type capital letters or special characters.
- (ergative, figurative) To change in form or character; switch.
- (computer keyboards) To switch to a character entry mode for capital letters or special characters.
- (intransitive) To use meditation or other means to change the reality that one's consciousness resides in.
- (intransitive, India) To change residence; to leave and live elsewhere.
- (transitive, computing) To manipulate a binary number by moving all of its digits left or right; compare rotate.
- (Ireland, vulgar, slang, transitive) To engage in sexual petting with.
- (intransitive) To practice indirect or evasive methods; to contrive.
- (intransitive) To hurry; to move quickly.
- (intransitive) To change gears (in an automobile).
- (Minecraft, video games) To crouch in game, especially if the shift key is pressed to initiate crouching.
- (Nigeria, slang) To steal or kidnap.
- (transitive, computing) To remove (the first value from an array).
- (transitive) To dispose of, remove.
- (intransitive, sometimes reflexive and figurative) To change position; to move.
- change gears
- change place or direction
- move around
- make a shift in or exchange of
- change in quality
- move very slightly
- move and exchange for another
- use a shift key on a keyboard
- move abruptly
- move sideways or in an unsteady way
- lay aside, abandon, or leave for another
- change phonetically as part of a systematic historical change
- move from one setting or context to another
noun
- (historical) A type of women's undergarment of dress length worn under dresses or skirts, a slip or chemise.
- (music) In violin-playing, any position of the left hand except that nearest the nut.
- (computing) A control code or character used to change between different character sets.
- An act of shifting; a slight movement or change.
- (baseball) An infield shift.
- A movement to do something, a beginning.
- (construction) The extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed in courses so as to break joints.
- (computing) An instance of the use of such a code or character.
- A simple straight-hanging, loose-fitting dress.
- (US) The gear mechanism in a motor vehicle.
- A period of time in which one's consciousness resides in another reality, usually achieved through meditation or other means.
- Alternative spelling of Shift (“a modifier button of computer keyboards”).
- (British slang) be done; ruined
- (Ireland, crude slang, often with the definite article, usually uncountable) The act of kissing passionately.
- (genetics) A mutation in which the DNA or RNA from two different sources (such as viruses or bacteria) combine.
- A change of workers, now specifically a set group of workers or period of working time.
- (mining) A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.
- (computing) A bit shift.
- a qualitative change
- the act of moving from one place to another
- an event in which something is displaced without rotation
- a woman's sleeveless undergarment
- the act of changing one thing or position for another
- (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
- a crew of workers who work for a specific period of time
- the key on the typewriter keyboard that shifts from lower-case letters to upper-case letters
- a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist
- the time period during which you are at work
verb
- (intransitive) To inconsequentially toy with something.
- (intransitive) To deal with something as if it were of little importance or worth.
- (intransitive) To act, speak, or otherwise behave with jest.
- (transitive) To squander or waste.
- consider not very seriously
- act frivolously
- waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently
noun
- A particular kind of pewter.
- (cooking) An English dessert made from a mixture of thick custard, fruit, sponge cake, jelly and whipped cream.
- An insignificant amount of money.
- (figurative) A very small amount (of something).
- (uncountable) Utensils made from this particular kind of pewter.
- (figurative) Anything that is of little importance or worth.
- a cold pudding made of layers of sponge cake spread with fruit or jelly; may be decorated with nuts, cream, or chocolate
- a detail that is considered insignificant
- something of small importance